When Bologue awoke again, the familiar gray-white ceiling greeted his eyes. Turning his head, he saw the open window, with a breeze carrying the scent of flowers into the ward.
Bologue immediately recognized this familiar place; it was the Border Sanatorium.
What's going on?
Bologue remembered being at the Sublimation Furnace Core for the ascension ritual, and then...
An intense pain surfaced in his mind, and then those mad and bizarre memories surged back like a tide; Bologue could see those cracked and fragmented memories, with the figure of the Astronaut fading, blurring within them.
Ah...that damn Devil, Bologue saw him!
Bologue tried to recall other information, but apart from the Astronaut saying "End the disputes" and that strange chess game, Bologue couldn't remember anything else.
