Don't use Type-Moon references in Oregairu!

With that thought in mind, Rohan Kishibe poured more magic into the rainbow bridge, constructing spells to enhance it.

Although it was indeed a case of better late than never, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was on the other end, still sensed something was different.

"It was like being captured by a huge gravitational source and about to fall into it completely, but now it seems like it's on a buffer rocket, using recoil to change its descent speed? Although it still looks like it's going to miss its target..." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked up at the warm point of light that resembled a tiny star and gave a bitter smile.

However, to his surprise, his regret seemed to awaken something that had been dormant all along.

That faintly glowing star shone like a supernova explosion. Then, the star fell.

That light, which had always hung above the vast dream, was like a tiny star that resisted it, but resolutely transformed into a comet that fell from the sky, chasing after the rainbow bridge that had fallen into the deep and great dream.

"You're such an idiot."

Fujimaru Ritsuka gave a genuine wry smile, then opened her arms and felt the familiar weight.

"Hehehe, Officer Fujimaru is such a big idiot! He can even drive crookedly!" The voice that hadn't been heard for several hours rang out in Fujimaru Ritsuka's arms.

Ms. Luna buried her head in Fujimaru Ritsuka's arms, rubbing against him like a cat seeing catnip: "But it's not entirely your fault."

"It's all the fault of autonomous driving!"

"It's all the fault of Onion Nightmare!"

The two fell silent for a moment, looked at each other, and then laughed at the same time.

"What the heck is self-driving?! Is this some weird joke people in the real world are playing?"

"If you ask me, you've met him several times and you still don't know Kishibe Rohan's name. Besides, he has slicked-back hair, not onion hair!" Fujimaru Ritsuka wiped away the tears of laughter from the corner of her eye, her face full of regret—why wasn't there a tape recorder in the dream? It's such a pity that we couldn't record it for Kishibe Rohan and Artoria.

"It's just onions! It's just onions! Humph, after all, I, Luna, have never seen any real vegetables." Luna shrank back in relief, now wearing the outfit that Fujimaru Ritsuka had bought for her.

Fujimaru Ritsuka also quieted down, enjoying the tranquility of their reunion.

The rainbow bridge continued to fall, seemingly not yet fully immersed in the dream. Luna bit her lip and pulled away from his embrace: "I'd better take you back first. If you really get into [my] dream, it will be really hard to get out."

"...How should I send it?"

"Anyway, I have a plan." Luna turned her head and poked the rainbow bridge with her toe with a guilty look.

"Alright, alright, stop fooling around. If you keep fooling around, the Rainbow Bridge won't even get us there before you poke a hole in it." Fujimaru Ritsuka pulled her over and vigorously ruffled her smooth blonde hair.

"Actually, it must have taken a lot of energy for you to take me out, right?"

Luna was enjoying Fujimaru Ritsuka's head patting when she was suddenly asked a question, and she casually replied, "It's nothing, it's just possible that I'll be completely 'yes'!"

She quickly covered her mouth with her hand, her eyes full of grievance: Why did you sneak up on me!

Seeing her pitiful look, Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and refused her suggestion: "That's why I can't let you do something like that. I still want to go shopping with you..."

"...It's already hard to go out again, so it doesn't matter." Luna pouted and secretly poked the Rainbow Bridge a few times with her toe.

Rainbow Bridge: Big brother, stop poking it, or it will leak out (referring to the endogenous tissue).

Enveloped in rainbow-colored light, the two finally felt the impact. After a deliberately suppressed tremor, they entered this enormous dream.

The rainbow bridge's expression twisted into a strange shape with rainbow light, as if it were expressing exhaustion, and then began to shrink continuously, turning into a small arch bridge that bounced onto Fujimaru Ritsuka's palm.

It's like this little guy suddenly gained sentience?

Fujimaru Ritsuka and Luna exchanged a surprised glance, then stared at it.

It twisted shyly in Fujimaru Ritsuka's palm, as if embarrassed by being stared at, but then it curved and elongated into the shape of a human mouth: "Hey hey hey~ Can you hear me~ I'm Kishibe Rohan."

"Ugh~~ How disgusting!" Luna interrupted Fujimaru Ritsuka before she could answer.

"Heh heh heh, so we've reunited? Very good, very good~ As expected of...the one!" Rohan Kishibe mumbled a word, then raised his voice, "Anyway, I feel much more at ease with her here! Fujimaru, if you want to come back, I suggest you find a way to feed it something good here to replenish the Rainbow Bridge's energy, otherwise it will be difficult for it to leave. I've exhausted all my magic power and can only temporarily improve the Rainbow Bridge's quality."

"...Isn't this plane crash your fault?" Fujimaru Ritsuka sneered.

"Shh...don't be so loud~ As a famous cartoonist, I owe you a favor! How about I give you a sneak peek at the original manuscript instead?"

"What a shameless onion-headed succubus!"

"Shut up, Luna! Don't call me that!" Rohan Kishibe said resentfully, then lowered his voice, "What do you want from me, Fujimaru?"

"Give me your current vision and let me see how my dream is going."

"...I advise you not to be reckless. If you really wake her up, neither of us will be in good shape." Rohan Kishibe said meaningfully.

Fujimaru Ritsuka pondered for a moment and said, "I understand. I'll owe it to you for now and we'll talk about it when I get back safely."

"Okay!"

The opening and closing mouth transformed back into a rainbow arch, and then Fujimaru Ritsuka and Luna watched as the little guy clung to the edge of their palms, making nauseous vomiting gestures.

"You've worked hard... becoming that guy's mouth." Fujimaru Ritsuka read mercilessly, seeing right through the little guy's flattery.

Although it was indeed effective, didn't you see Luna looking worried and wanting to sneak over and tease the little guy?

Fujimaru Ritsuka pretended not to notice Luna's actions, shoved the little guy into the front pocket of her shirt, and then pulled the eager Luna along: "Let it play with you later, let's explore this place first, it's really spectacular..."

It was truly spectacular; even from a dreamlike perspective, everything they were seeing now was so real, intricate, and fantastical.

Around them were enormous ferns as tall as several stories, as well as towering coniferous trees... According to Fujimaru Ritsuka's extracurricular knowledge, within their field of vision, there existed plants from the Carboniferous period to the Cenozoic era, and they were not clearly separated but mixed together.

As for animals, the situation was similar. Jurassic pterosaurs eyed the giant Carboniferous dragonflies flying beneath them, Cretaceous Rexosaurus set its sights on the succulent flesh of the Cenozoic mammoth, and saber-toothed tigers and giant millipedes obediently squatted to one side, waiting for the leftovers after the big bosses had finished eating.

Throughout countless eras, countless kinds of plants and animals have lived vibrantly on this land, fighting and battling for the chance to survive.

"All creatures compete freely under the frosty sky? No, it's a more ferocious, more indescribable struggle for survival, a true survival of the fittest, not just the survival of the fittest." Fujimaru Ritsuka pulled Luna high up on a nearby tree, and the aura they exuded made the other animals wary and avoid the area.

Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't care, and neither did Luna. She was fully confident that she could send these guys to their deaths when they were courting death.

Whether it was a question, a desire to understand Fujimaru Ritsuka, or simply a desire to talk, Luna tugged at Fujimaru Ritsuka's sleeve: "Officer Fujimaru, what do you mean by that?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka pointed to the Tyrannosaurus Rex ferociously tearing at its prey in the distance: "See its belly? And the amount of food it's eating. It's not hungry at all; it had already eaten quite a bit before."

"Let me see... It really is! Otherwise, it wouldn't be so picky about food." Luna exclaimed in surprise. She saw the Rex Tyrannosaurus Rex leisurely tear open the mammoth's belly, then select the plump internal organs and casually eat a few bites.

Then this guy left the wreckage behind without looking back.

The saber-toothed tiger and the giant millipede cautiously approached, but before they could even enjoy the leftovers, a tremendous rumble of the earth resounded once more, and the Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared again.

Its eyes widened, filled with cruelty and bestiality, as it wildly seized the giant millipede that hadn't had time to escape and tore it to pieces once again.

The slightly more agile saber-toothed tiger, however, would quickly disappear into the dense vegetation with a few pieces of meat in its mouth.

"This... what a cunning and wicked guy." Luna felt that something was wrong with this scene, but she just couldn't figure it out.

At this point, Fujimaru Ritsuka revealed the answer: "In nature, even apex predators in a particular region or even a large area would not engage in such pointless brutality. For example, a tiger occupying a mountaintop will attack a pack of wolves that enters its hunting range, but it would never consider a carnivorous insect like a praying mantis. To a 18-meter-tall Tyrannosaurus Rex, a giant millipede that is only 3 meters long and has a small appetite is just a praying mantis in its eyes."

"While that's an exaggeration, it's somewhat close. And in the absence of competition in the food ecosystem, the Rescue Tyrannosaurus Rex actively attacked other animals multiple times, violating too many natural laws. You have to understand that even for the king of predators, being injured is not an easy thing to deal with."

Luna nodded, seemingly understanding, "So there's something strange about it?"

"Yes...look!" Fujimaru Ritsuka pointed over there; there was something new happening.

After circling around, the Rescue Tyrannosaurus Rex angrily ran off to provoke a Deinosuchus sunbathing by the river.

Right before their eyes, a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a 13-meter-long Deinosuchus were engaged in a life-or-death struggle. The former paid the price of losing a forelimb and suffering multiple serious injuries before finally managing to tear off the Deinosuchus's neck.

Even with blood still dripping from its head, the Tyrannosaurus Rex carried the severed head and slowly disappeared into the depths of the jungle.

"...Are you crazy?!" Fujimaru Ritsuka, an amateur paleontologist, widened her eyes. "This injury...it's affecting her balance. She'll probably get killed soon enough..."

Now that things had come to this, he couldn't hold back any longer. He gripped Luna's shoulders with both hands and stared intently at her.

"W-What? Let me make this clear beforehand, I won't agree to a confession so soon. Unless we go on three more dates, no, two more dates, I might consider it."

"Who, who would confess to you?!" Fujimaru Ritsuka awkwardly adjusted herself. "I wanted to ask you, whose dream is this anyway?"

“Don’t back down…” Luna muttered to herself, then thought back carefully, “That Onion said that some things shouldn’t be so straightforward. To put it simply, it’s [my].”

"【who I am?"

"Hmm, let me think which name I can say? Ah, the prototype is something like Arcueid Brun."

Fujimaru Ritsuka finally remembered something: "Goodness, so Tsukihime R is out, huh?"

"I don't understand, but something feels off... Let me think, this is a more accurate way to put it—it's 'reproduction'!!"

First, blood sacrifice to the blood god, skull offering to the skull seat.

"Give birth to my ass! Are you a stage girl? Besides, that word doesn't even fit!"

Perhaps because the memory was too distant, Fujimaru Ritsuka thought for a long time before recalling Arcueid the White Princess. It could only be said that it was all Kinoko Nasu's fault for slacking off for so long, causing him to have long forgotten about it. But this phrase, "reproduction..." seems to be entirely the fault of Rohan Kishibe's work.

"Hmph~ I think it's quite fitting... At least I don't know anything about Arcueid's past. I am who I am, while Luna is a reproduction of the original~~~"

Luna was struggling to express herself clearly, gesturing wildly as if she wanted to convey her meaning, but she just couldn't come up with anything.

"Yes, yes~~ I know, you mean that you are now similar to those girls standing on the stage, and you are very different from your original self. You are a renewed self, right?" Fujimaru Ritsuka asked uncertainly.

Luna put her hands on her hips, a little embarrassed: "You seem to know a lot about me~~ Oh no, Officer Fujimaru knows me so well, does he have ulterior motives towards me?"

"If you really want to say there is, then it's not that there isn't."

"Um!" Luna blushed instantly and stammered as she changed the subject, "Um... um! Shouldn't we follow that short-armed monster to see what's going on? Maybe we'll find some clues."

Noticing the girl's bright red earlobes, Fujimaru Ritsuka's mischievous thoughts kept popping up. She quietly leaned over and blew a breath: "Okay, let's go."

"Eek!" Luna covered her ears and jumped to the top of another tree three meters away, crossing her arms in an X shape. "Stop! Stop! Officer Big Bad Wolf, don't come within two meters of me! You mean-spirited guy~~"

"Okay, I'll do as you say. Let's go."

"I'll lead the way, you follow behind me, and don't get too close."

"Just a little bit closer, that'll do."

"Get away from me!"

Luna frantically leaped between tall trees and giant ferns, while Fujimaru Ritsuka grinned mischievously, pretending to speed up so she could stand beside her. Surprisingly, Luna heard the increasingly rapid sounds behind her, yet she didn't increase her escape speed.

Strolling across the ancient land, and leaping happily among the trees with the boy who suddenly entered her life, Luna always felt very light, as if she were about to float away.

Her past was as blank as a piece of paper; her understanding of the world consisted only of movies and comics sent by a dream demon that never seemed human. But Officer Fujimaru showed her what a truly warm relationship was like.

How wonderful! I wish I could freeze this moment, for you are so beautiful.

"careful!"

It wasn't until a gasp that Luna was jolted out of her trance.