Before the Endless Dream Ends/Story/Cooperation

The Captain finds himself in a foggy environment which faded to reveal a bloody red world. He is walking towards the sound of sobbing without anything else to determine his location or distance traveled. He later encounters a mysterious voice that offers to help lead him out of what is revealed to be a dream. The voice instructs the Captain to close his eyes and fall backwards as if he were falling into a bed. The Captain comes to his senses in the dream space and makes contact with the mysterious voice, who is revealed to be Rita. After some twists and turns, Rita eventually leads him out of the dream.
The Captain finally wakes up on the Hyperion, and is introduced to Bronie and Delta, who offers him something to drink. The Captain looks around the room and finds a chessboard, and is then reminded of Kongming. He asks for her whereabouts, revealing a complicated expression on Bronie’s face. Believing Rita would be able to provide a better explanation for him, Rita arrives along with a purple-haired girl hiding behind her. Rita then leads Captain and the others to the therapy room where a little girl is found sound asleep and hooked up to a monitor, who is then introduced as TeRiRi, a magic girl Rita and the others ran into on the Captain’s assigned mission. They bought her onboard the Hyperion, believing it to be safer than that bubble universe. Bronie then introduces the Captain to the puple-haired girl, Sirin, who is a magic girl like TeRiRi. TeRiRi tried to use the Miracle Stone to wake up her partner, but was met with failure many times. Delta explains that the Miracle Stone is believed to be a seed of evil which will eventually corrupt the magic girl holding it and turn her into a Dark Lord, as well as the Ether Anchor of that bubble universe. Delta explains her intentions to retrieve the stone after Sirin uses it to awaken TeRiRi. Rita explains that during the search for the Miracle Stone, they found there might be a third party involved in the incident, and that she appeared to be observing the numerous incarnations of Theresa from other bubble universes and might have even established contact, according to the dream particles. Rita inquires Delta as to whether she came into contact with the Theresa codenamed “Luna” during the time she was working for “the master on that ship”, to which she dodges the question with indifference.
Changing the topic back to dream particles, Rita explains that they are generated while Magic Girls are dreaming. They can’t be seen by ordinary people, and contain authentic memories. She suggests Luna might have left behind some traces after coming in contact with the Magic Girls. Bronie then jumps in, saying that there were no traces of invasion to be found when Kongming went missing, and that Luna might be involved.
The Captain recalls the slip he saw under the chessboard that says "Those who can see through the game shall survive. Those who can follow their heart shall prevail.", which appears to have been written down in a hurry, and he wonders when and why Kongming would write this. Rita asks him whether he would keep searching for Luna or Kongming, leaving Captain in a dilemma. She says that he doesn’t have to decide immediately and should rest first. Sirin breaks her long silence and asks Captain about TeRiRi, and doubts he could do anything to fix the situation. The Captain decides to move the conversation to the bridge away from TeRiRi, who is resting. Sirin makes an outburst and tries to leave after Bronie told her there’s nothing that can be done to help TeRiRi since the Miracle Stone only reacts to Magic Girls. Bronie tries to go after her but is stopped by Delta, saying she’ll calm down and eventually return.
The Captain attempts to console Sirin, stating that he is an ambitious, yet powerless individual that hates himself and is dependent on others, yet finds that there are things that can only be handled by himself. He promises that he won’t turn his back on TeRiRi, but needs Sirin’s cooperation. The Captain instructs Sirin to first take a deep breath and organize her info after freeing herself from her emotions. Next he breaks down the problem and suggests that more clues could be obtained if the Theresas’ coordinates are located using the dream particles. Sirin wonders whether such a thing is possible to which Bronie confirms, saying one of them has already been found. Bronie came up with the idea while trying and failing to contact her old friends after Kongming went missing. Thinking the program is broken, she entered information extracted from the dream particles by Rita, and a result came up. 
The Captain asks Bronie to look after TeRiRi on the Hyperion and keep analyzing the data to locate the other Theresas, while he takes the rest of the team to investigate the first bubble universe. Sirin asks Bronie to inform her if anything goes wrong after leaving TeRiRi with her, then turns around and pleads the Captain to save TeRiRi.
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