Consciousness filters in slowly, tendrils of awareness gradually reconnecting to her senses through the dull headache pulsing inside her skull. Her limbs feel heavy '

No, not heavy.

If anything, her limbs feel

light.

But ' not in a good way. Her body feels too-light and near-weightless in a way that makes something even as simple as sitting up an impossibility, in her current state. Shiki's first reaction is to push herself upright, but her body refuses to obey her command.

' She can't move.

Confusion only lasts for the briefest of instants, before the memories come flooding back in.

The meeting with Daisaku-sama and Ima-san. Confirming Gojo Kansuke as the traitor. Satoru-niichan leaving them to hunt the man down, then Kiyohira-sensei deciding to look for Gojo Kikuhime afterwards '

The room filled with cloying incense. Kiyohira-sensei falling unconscious, the loud

thud