How could this have happened? You were just fighting Mahito, and then a second Mahito appeared from the staircase. Then Nobara...

"Aces~! I'm on a roll!" Mahito cheered from the sidelines, which broke your already wavering train of thought as you looked down at your deceased friend. Nobara laid dead at your feet, the left side of her face unrecognizable through the blood. Her eye rested horrifically on the cold tile that you stood upon.

Despite what you so desperately wanted to believe, this was no dream. The pain you felt was very real. Just as really as all of the death and blood you'd seen today.

It was far too real.