Before the Endless Dream Ends/Story/"Sirin" Miracle?

Sirin is engaged in her magic studies before being interrupted by her inner voice, who has taken on the guise of TeRiRi. “TeRiRi” questions her motivations and expresses doubt towards Sirin’s abilities. Sirin angrily casts aside the words thrown at her and approaches “TeRiRi” when suddenly her image began to twist and blur, and the magical illusion broke like a soap bubble, sending Sirin back to reality.

A lackadaisical girl shows up, and wants to see the Ether Anchor in Sirin’s possession, since she needs it to complete her mission. Sirin wonders whether the intel she received was fake and that the stone in her possession isn’t an Ether Anchor at all, but the lackadaisical girl denies it, saying that there aren’t many things that look like an Ether Anchor in the bubble universe besides the stone, and that it’s also different from others she has seen as the one in her possessed by Sirin appears to contain no energy at all. Sirin explains its significance, stating that it is a seed known as the Miracle Stone, the Dark Lord’s original form. It was extensively researched by Sirin’s friends, Vollerei and Broboli. The Dark Lord had receded back into the Miracle Stone after Sirin’s friends had sacrificed themselves to defeat it with the use of Forbidden Magic. Vollerei’s consciousness became trapped and corrupted by the stone, cursing her to become the next Dark Lord. She had been resisting the Dark Lord’s power with her own, forming a delicate balance that was on the verge of being broken until TeRiRi had intervened, dragging her into a deep slumber.

As Sirin was contemplating to herself, something fell out of one of the books, which had turned out to be half a semitransparent bookmark that the lackadaisical girl had picked up and returned to Sirin. She remarks that Sirin’s temper reminds her of a frustrated sheep, annoying Sirin before she promptly left the room. She immediately returns, reminding Sirin that someone would like to take her to go see the real master of Hyperion, and leaves the room again.

After having her train of thought broken, Sirin returns to her magic practice.

### Prologue

**Characters Present****Sirin****Lackadaisical Girl****Start**

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Sirin**Phew…**
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Sirin**(I pushed myself too hard. Even magic of this level needs my full attention to sustain…)**
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TeRiRi**“Even magic of this level needs my full attention to sustain. I must be an idiot.”**
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Sirin**What did you say?**
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TeRiRi**Just your inner voice speaking.**
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TeRiRi**“It’ll be fine if I do nothing at all. That way I won’t waste my life which the seniors traded with theirs.”**
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TeRiRi**“TeRiRi had it coming. She just had to find the Miracle Stone.”**
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Sirin**That’s not what I’m thinking! I regret not going with you to the Dark Castle. I…**
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Sirin**(No, there’s no need to explain. That’s not really TeRiRi. The illusion only repeats what happened. No way it would say this.)**
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Sirin**What are you exactly?**
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“TeRiRi”**You should ask yourself. Who can know you better than yourself?**
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“TeRiRi”**You know very well among the four, the weakest one wasn’t TeRiRi. It was you.**
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Sirin**I… why does it matter? I can accomplish whatever they could!**
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“TeRiRi”**Oh really? If that mighty magical girl Sirin is gone, can you still do it?**
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“TeRiRi”**Humph~ “Idiot Sirin is weeping baby who can only follow the others and doesn’t deserve to be a magical girl~”**
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Sirin**Shut up!**
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**She stood up abruptly and walked to TeRiRi, but the image before her began to twiist and blur.**
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**The illusion sustained by magic broke like a soap bubble, and she was sent back to reality.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**The look on your face… you fought with yourself? Your magic practice failed? And why would you practice in such a torturing way?**
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Sirin**Go away. I don’t have time to chat.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Ah, I don’t want to look at your grumpy face either, but I need to watch the Ether Anchor nevertheless.**
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**She touched the sheenless gem in Sirin’s with her tail.**
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Sirin**Don’t touch it.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Didn’t you call it a worthless stone? Why care about it?**
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Lackadaisical Girl**After all the time you spent studying it, maybe it can’t wake up TeRiRi at all. Why don’t you hand the rock to me and I can complete my mission?**
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Sirin**The intel you received… it was fake, right? Could it be that this stone is no Ether Anchor at all?**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Possible, but not probable. After all, in that bubble universe, there aren’t many things that look like the Ether Anchor besides this rock.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**But it’s indeed different from the Ether Anchors I came in contact before. There’s no energy in it. It’s like a battery without juice.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**What about you? You’ve been staring at it everyday. Any clue?**
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**Sirin shook her head.**
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Sirin**It should contain powerful energy, but it’s not that simple.**
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Sirin**These books were left by Vollerei and Broboli, and in them are what they found out about the Dark Lord. You can check them out.**
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**It seemed the books were once carefully kept but later forgotten.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**… The seed? Parasitic? Is it some kind of botanic research?**
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Sirin**They wrote it in a discreet way. Back then, I thought they grew some sort of strange plant. Now I know the “seed” refers to the Miracle Stone, the Dark Lord’s original form.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**And?**
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Sirin**Vollerei used the Forbidden Magic and defeated the Dark Lord at the cost of her own life. Having lost its power the Dark Lord receded into a seed, the Miracle Stone.**
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Sirin**The seed of evil imprisoned Vollerei’s consciousness and corrupted it, making it into the next Dark Lord.**
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Sirin**Only she kept a small portion of her own power to fight against the evil, until the balance was broken at that moment.**
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**The girl with a tail suddenly recalled the soft and warm breeze when she was falling from the tower.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Would taking the stone away from the bubble universe end the cycle?**
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Sirin**No. As long as the Miracle Stone exits [*sic*] (expected: exists) the Dark Lord won’t perish.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**But you said the balance was broken and the Dark Lord should be coming into being. How come nothing has happened?**
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Sirin**Because there’s still balance in the seed.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Wait, so it was TeRiRi? That’s why she sunk into a deep slumber.**
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**Sirin stared blankly at the pages.**
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Sirin**Why did they do this, knowing they couldn’t defeat the Dark Lord once and for all?**
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Sirin**The [*sic*] (expected: They) bet everything on this rock, for a miracle?**
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Lackadaisical Girl**…**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Your thing dropped.**
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Sirin**The tailed girl handed the seimitransparent slip to Sirin.**
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**(A bookmark?)**
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**Half a bookbark to be precise.**
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**As if torn apart, it only had the upper part. And Sirin couldn’t remember what the other half was like.**
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**Once colorful, it was now dull with the magic gone.**
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**The tailed girl sighed looking at Sirin lost in thought.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**I’m not used to you being like this.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Your temper hasn’t improved at all since back in the woods, but now you look like a… frustrated sheep~**
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Sirin**You…**
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**The door was quickly shut.**
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Sirin**Hey, stop right there!**
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**The door was opened again.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Nice, you’re much better now.**
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Lackadaisical Girl**Oh right, she told you to go to the bridge in an hour. Said she’d take you to see the real master of Hyperion.**
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**The door was quickly shut again.**
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Sirin**Tsk, she broke my train of thought.**
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Sirin**Where was I? I should continue practicing.**
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