Who is...Reimu Hakurei?
Obviously she is a shrine maiden. The one who protects humanity from the Youkai.
But who IS she?
Some would say she's a hypocrite who invites Youkai more than she slays them. Others would say she's a kind and caring person who watches over all. Others know her more for her abrasive tongue and brutal honesty. Others have seen only her greedy and mischievous side.
There are many interpretations for the one called Reimu Hakurei...None of which are actually wrong in the long run. As the Eternal Shrine Maiden of Gensokyo, I have watched over her growth with vested interest from afar, ever since she was a little girl.
She didn't grow up with parents. Nobody knows what happened to them, and that is yet again something with many interpretations to unravel. Yet despite no parentage, Reimu performed her duties as a shrine maiden to the best of her ability. She wasn't perfect, but she wasn't terrible either. She did the necessary amount of work and nothing more.
She was one of the ones responsible for the creation of the Spell Card Rules, albeit moreso as the one to sign off on them more than being involved in writing the rules.
She used them to great effect to defeat the vampire, Remilia Scarlet, on Gensokyo's first Incident. She then later went on to defeat Yuyuko, returning the essence of Spring to the world. During that whole affair, we met directly for the first time. We butted heads from the very start, but after a couple tea parties she warmed up a little bit more to my presence.
In fact, when it came to the Incident of the Eternal Night, the two of us worked together to unravel its mystery. Unfortunately, had she not got so caught up fighting her friend Marisa over a misunderstanding of events, perhaps she would have solved that Incident and not the Vampire and her maid.
But make no mistake. When it comes to Incidents there is little that can get in her way. She defeated one of the Four Devas of the Mountain, talked back to the Yama of Gensokyo, and even made her way to the Heavens above just to find the perpetrator who wrecked her shrine.
Throughout it all Reimu remained practically the same. She never really got any stronger, her talent was just simply that good from the start. Though I do admit I had to give her a gentle shove one time in order to get her to get better at summoning gods...You know, for my "invasion" of the moon plan and what-not.
Taunting her worth is certainly one way to get her motivated, as the Moriya Shrine readily found out upon their arrival in Gensokyo. Alternately, she has sometimes stumbled onto Incidents with nothing but intuition as her guide, such as when she discovered the trouble going on Underground, or when she realized that Buddhists and Taoists were seeking to free their masters from captivity.
Though it wasn't long after where she fell victim to her own greed and took part in the battle over which religion is superior in Gensokyo. Even if she ultimately ended up solving the Incident surrounding that, it did leave a bit of a sour note in the people's minds.
Then she went on to solve the Incident of the Miracle Mallet, the Urban Legends, and even cast away the Lunarians' mortal foe Junko from the Lunar Capital with little trouble whatsoever.
She's solved many Incidents, but despite all that she's done she only has enough food and money to get by day-to-day, has very few people she admits to being friends, and her odd behavior can be seen as quite the turn off. Yet she doesn't care at all what people think of her, for she will always protect Gensokyo first and foremost. Not because she was forced into the role, but because she knows that its the right thing to do.
And it appears even Death itself won't stop her from putting up her dukes and combatting one final Incident, huh, Reimu?
Chapter 17: The Fall of Red
The air was silent with the feel of an unnatural winter permeating the sky around the Hakurei Shrine. Alex stood up and stared straight at the white dressed Reimu, who stilled her eyes upon the body of her fallen friend and let her eyelids sag shut, the bottom of her eyes looking tired and wrinkled.
"You put up with so much of my selfishness until now..." She whispered with an unshaken belief that Marisa's departed soul would hear her voice. Then she closed her eyes all the way and uttered a solemn "I'm sorry..."
Alex's body shook. He'd seen many a spirit in his lifetime but nothing like this. There was not a single spark of life to this phantasm, and yet her body wasn't the least bit seethrough. Reimu was straddling the line between life and death, and had ascended to a plain of existence beyond what her mortality could allow. Without exercising a single bit of her power, the mere act of her raising her head sent a shiver down his spine.
He shook his head and leaned a bit forward with a growl of disdain, "You have some nerve showing up like this..."
He flared his eyes open all the way and thrust his open left hand down at Marisa, "She thought you were dead! She fought her hardest for you! And NOW you come back?!"
"I am still dead. My presence here doesn't change that." Reimu responded softly with her eyes shut and a partial frown on her face.
Alex knew he was wasting his time trying to yell at her. It was a gut reaction, an expected result of his immense confusion at how she's here...With that ghastly look. He shook his head some more, trying to rid himself of the chill her presence brought forth, and tried to make sense of all this.
"How are you even here?" He started with, "Sukuna-"
"Killed me with the Miracle Mallet. By pure accident, mind you. I hold no grudge against her for that..."
Speaking without a hint of anger or malice...Was this really Reimu Hakurei? Her voice was so soft and angelic, it alone brought some ease to Alex's puzzled heart.
"No. That body, those clothes, that voice...Its unmistakenably her!" Alex screamed to awaken his mind ensnared by the serenity of her honeyed words.
Reimu grabbed the elbow of her sleeve in one hand and hung both arms down by her waist as she twisted to the left and kept her eyes off Alex completely. Winds from the great beyond rustled the rims of her dress like the leaves on a tree as she spoke with a shiver in her voice.
"It was...frightening to say the least. To die so suddenly, without a word...My spirit was left adrift in a sea of nothingness, unable to be judged or passed on due to your actions here..." Still she was without malice. Her words were neutral, a simple utterance to the truth to be precise.
"It felt like an eternity of waiting for the end to come, but...In truth, only a few minutes had come to pass," Reimu closed her eyes and her hair swayed beside her face, "I realized that in death, time becomes immaterial. And without a place to go, neither Heaven nor Hell, you could do whatever you want. The only constraint is the limits of your mind..."
Alex blinked a few times in surprise and then closed his eyes and muttered, "I think I get it now..."
"Yes..." Reimu interrupted fluidly, as though their minds had merged as one, "Without the flow of time to hold me back, I was able to train my shrine maiden powers to their full potential. And with my ability to fly, even the afterlife could not prevent my return."
Reimu waved her right hand up at Alex's body, obscuring it behind her palm alone as she remarked, "I watched you fight each and every person left in Gensokyo and came to an obvious conclusion..."
Alex grit his teeth and snarked in an amused tone, "Lemme guess, that I am the enemy?"
"That you cannot be killed."
Alex slowly raised his head and looked upon the shrine maiden's ghastly face as her eyes narrowed with a bit of scorn. Her power started to be released as white, wavy heat that glowed like the stars above, and as she clenched her hand into her fist she stated, "The way your powers work, that time-wielding stone, your sheer tenacity...Everything was stacked in your favor from the very start. Nobody ever had a chance of stopping you."
"...Tsk," Alex bit his teeth down and spat to the wind before muttering, "Yeah, I bet that'll make their souls rest easy knowing that bit of info now won't it?"
"They fought hard and bravely for this opportunity. Their deaths were the only way to move forward."
Alex's eyes flared open and he dug his feet into the ground until it began to crack, his body engorged with flames, "Don't you ever say that in front of me again! They fought and fought and for what?! Yukari's dream, and little else!"
He lashed his arm out to the left and tucked the other into his pocket, "They won't be remembered by her! All she's ever cared about is this rotten piece of land! And now you have the nerve to spit in their faces by telling them all that they made a necessary sacrifice?! FUCK YOU!"
Reimu closed her eyes and let out a sigh, "I get why you'd think that way. But I am not making light of their deaths, nor am I commending them for dying. Its just a matter of fact that because they put their lives on the line, I was able to determine what to do."
"The wish made upon the mallet was for someone to come and stop you..." Reimu's eyes opened narrowly, the crimson glint of her irises peering through Alex's body, "That doesn't necessarily mean killing you, now does it?"
Alex squeezed his fists tightly together and bit his teeth down as he thrust his left hand forward and yelled, "Tell me Reimu! I want to know...! Was Marisa telling the truth?! Would you have helped me stop Yukari if I came to you first?!"
"...Gensokyo's safety comes first. Given the circumstances at that moment, I don't know whose side I would have taken."
"That's not an answer!" Alex roared as he got fired up.
"You don't deserve an answer!" Reimu roared back with a ferocity to shake the sky. Alex's flames died out and he reigned his body in a bit, the bottoms of his fists trembling as he tucked them into his pockets.
The shrine maiden closed her eyes and remarked, "The hands on the clock cannot be rewound. Gensokyo's fate has been determined. You made yourself its jury, judge, and executioner..."
She flared her eyes open and the heat surrounding her body evaporated the very air, creating a mirage like veil. She then poised her eyes at Alex's face and proclaimed, "My decision is made. This isn't about Humans or Youkai anymore...If you get past me, you'll raze entire worlds to the ground in pursuit of your 'justice'. I WON'T let you do that. Everyone who has died...I have become one with their souls! They are all shouting the same thing...To see you struck down!"
Alex swung his right arm out and widened his eyes with his sword drawn as Reimu firmly proclaimed, "Alex Whiter...The Phoenix of Destruction...In the memory of what Gensokyo used to be...I, Reimu Hakurei, will-"
Alex lunged forth and slashed down the center of Reimu's body. She stood still, the blade passing through harmlessly as Alex widened his eyes and slowly drew himself back. The shrine maiden scoffed and sneered, "Is. That. All?"
She then raised her hand up and blew Alex back to the center of the path leading up to the shrine with a soundless white blast. She levitated off the ground and approached the roof of the shrine in a few seconds flat. Alex shook his head and watched as the skies of Gensokyo twisted and turned, enveloping all but the grounds of the shrine in this distorted vortex.
"This shall TRULY be the last Spell Card Duel in Gensokyo's history! And you shall know defeat in no less than six cards. Now...come at me with your best! You shall face me on my terms, Phoenix of Destruction!"
Alex snarled his teeth against his lips and kicked off the ground to meet her on even ground. He threw his sword to the ground and dispelled it, then raised his empty hands up by his shoulders and squeezed the fire around him between his fists.
"If I said it once I'll say it again..." He screamed at the top of his lungs, "Until Yukari is burnt to ash, I won't let any one of you stop me! If you want to die again for this cause Reimu Hakurei then you're more than welcome to!"
"I pity you...But nothing more..." Reimu closed her eyes and drew her right hand down by her hip. She raised it aloft and during its gentle glide the limb left afterimages in its wake. She summoned her yin-yang orbs and softly spoke, "You cannot defeat me. Your journey ends here."
SPIRIT OF GENSOKYO: I
"Now...Enough talk!" Reimu swung both her arms out and hundreds of bright orange seals flew forth from her sleeves. They weaved together into a tightly knit square wall and started to advance upon Alex.
He looked around for any way past, but found it had wedged itself perfectly between the confines of the vortex. As it drew closer, an opening formed in the bottom left corner and Alex flew straight towards it. He had milliseconds to get on by before one of the yin-yang orbs shunted itself through the hole.
He zipped to the right and shifted his gaze upon a second wall, realizing that Reimu hadn't yet called out a Spell Card. But make no mistake about it. This was Danmaku. Reimu was just finally utilizing the gaps between Spell Card to her advantage.
Alex had little time to find the second gap in the upper right corner of the wall let alone fly towards it. A second yin-yang orb flew through it and pinched his leg into the walls of the gap as he grazed on by. He tumbled out towards the middle overlooking the next wall and flew to the upper left where the next hole lied.
The yin-yang orb that flew through had a similar vibe to the first, and that was because it was the same one. It had simply made its way through a hazy rift to arrive back here. Or perhaps...it didn't need to move "back" at all. Alex started noticing that the cracks in the ground were the same size and shape as he remembered leaving them as before, and formulated that he was making little progress.
The walls were coming at such a high frequency that his brain had only enough time to process where the holes were, and thus his body took too long to get through them. When he attempted to make his way through a fourth wall, he failed to reach the exit in time, and the yin-yang orb sealed the way shut when it passed on by.
Alex made a hasty retreat, losing much needed progress. He found another opening in the upper left. Though as the orb passed through it it left behind a flurry of red spirit orbs to pester Alex on his way to it. He did make it out and started relying on instinct to get through the holes. If he failed to hit his mark, then he'd just take the loss and keep going. Ramming through a wall wouldn't be enough to defeat him, he believed.
Yet as luck would prove once more, he managed to pass through the holes without so much as a scratch on him. He wound up face-to-face with Reimu, who summoned the yin-yang orbs back to her side and summoned a Spell Card to her chest with merely a glancing thought.
She closed her eyes and the card broke apart, sending its wistful energies throughout the vortex. Alex attacked her with a hefty deluge of fireballs and managed to hit his mark every time. But he only managed to do so for three seconds before she widened her eyes and knocked him back to the edge of the shrine grounds with a bright white shockwave.
The vortex broke apart, but now the shrine was gone. In its place was a silent void, amidst it floating a sea of cherry blossom trees, with the towering Ayakashi planted in the center of it. The two drifted towards the front of the Ayakashi and, upon reaching their destination, a giant scarlet moon rose up from behind it and bathed the pristine pink blossoms in a crimson hue. The atmosphere was something out of a nightmare, but fixated entirely in reality.
Reimu's eyes shone as she finally declared the Spell Card's name, "Memoir of Denial 'Perfect Embodiment of Scarlet Blossoms'."
And she wasted little time in showing off what this card could do. Alex sped a few feet forward in an instant and pounded the air with his palms to strike her with lightning, but she merely drifted aside it and started to send curved, scarlet arrowheads out from her body in droves.
They homed in on his location with scarily precise accuracy. Alex had to evade them at the last possible second, lest they shift their path and bolt for his hips.
Petals fell from atop the Ayakashi and swayed to-and-fro on their way to the ground. They layered the whole battlefield with their tiny selves and provided an obstacle to Alex's evasion, for they too counted as Danmaku.
Alex rushed for Reimu and went for point-blank fireballs. She narrowly dodged away and the heat brushed up against her dress. She fired off more of the arrows and weaved around to the front of the Ayakashi, looking straight up towards the top.
A single scarlet bat and pink butterfly danced in circles before the moonlight, growing ever larger as they descended towards Alex. He blinked for a moment, and could have sworn he saw the shadow of Remilia and Yuyuko's silhouettes reflected upon the moon's surface.
The dancing fliers arrived next to Alex and started to dance around him, sticking to his presence like glue no matter how fast he zipped around. They released a steady string of Danmaku in their wake and it pulled inward towards Alex's, forcing him to move up and down more than he'd wish just to avoid being hit.
His fireballs connected with the flighty Reimu on occasion, but not enough for Alex's satisfaction. He switched from fire to roaring electricity, and weaved a series of lightning bolts through the air with gaps too thimble for her to make it through. When she was trapped between the lightning, Alex pegged her with fireballs, then repeated the process after the first lightning left his sight.
Reimu narrowed her eyes and kept grazing between the lightning as best she could. She tucked her arms against her hips and glided around the air like the graceful underwater dolphin, and never relented on her attacks.
Where there was a will there was a way, and eventually Alex saw the need to tighten the gaps between the lightning to put an end to her slippery endeavors. Reimu just hastened the release of her attacks in response, as too did the petals and butterfly and bat do the same.
Alex kicked up the pace and zipped around the battlefield at a breakneck speed to mystify Reimu. One second he was a few feet away, the next he was on the opposite side of the battlefield. He punched out a fireball every moment he stopped, but by going this fast he also let those flying pests around him spread Danmaku all across the sky.
In an attempt to play tricky, he was merely screwing himself over. And he knew it. The fact that he did brought a bit of a smile to Reimu's face, revealing once more that mischievous side of her that had appeared to been made dormant.
In a brief fit of anger, Alex lashed his right arm up and sent a scar of fire as tall as the Ayakashi hurtling towards Reimu. She widened her eyes and took its assault without blinking. She positioned herself upright as the Spell Card broke, the visage of the past crumbling away to dust as they were flung once more into the vortex.
"Can you truly afford to spend this much power on this game?" Reimu inquired with a calm, somewhat teasing voice.
Alex squeezed his flaming fist shut and scowled. Unlike the rest of the denizens of Gensokyo, he has had to rely on his own energy to create Danmaku in lieu of not having any Spell Cards. And he hadn't gotten much time, if any at all, to recooperate after dueling Marisa.
Nevertheless he squinted his eyes shut and chuckled, "I have energy to spare. You'll never tire me out with these cheap knock-offs of other people's cards."
"Then how about some more of my Danmaku?" Reimu swung her arms back and flung her yin-yang orbs at the roof of the shrine. They bounced off and started ricocheting around the vortex, leaving behind hundreds of glowing paper seals that interconnected like the links in a chain.
The orbs formed a set of diamonds then returned to Reimu, where with a snap of the fingers she sent the seals flying towards Alex. They moved slow enough that it was easy to pass between them and arrive in the center of the battlefield. He cracked a smirk and threw some fireballs and the stationary shrine maiden, who sent the orbs off once more.
They bounced around left to right and right to left, creating slanted lines with barely a feet worth of space between them. Alex squeezed his gut in and almost had the orbs ramming into his front and back, but still wound up surrounded. He flew up and let the seals follow him around a bit. But when he saw his opening, he dove straight down between the seals and planted his feet firmly on the ground.
The orbs bounced towards the sides of the vortex but swirled around and around. Where they'd stop? Only Reimu knows. They filled the entire perimeter with paper seals, and their glow made the atmosphere feel positively empyreal.
The orbs returned to Reimu's sides and started firing red spirit orbs throughout the confines of the vortex. The seals compressed down slowly, leaving less space for Alex to manuever around with each waking moment. Finally, when the tunnel was only as big as he was tall, the seals dispersed to the winds and Reimu placed her hands atop the orbs.
She looked over at Alex and saw the first signs of fatigue manifest as a slow pant. He raised his hands up and punched fireballs at her as she closed her eyes and summoned another Spell Card. This time when she unleashed its power, Alex was able to brace himself completely.
The vortex parted and the two found themselves floating down a foggy river, the sides riddled with tall bamboo stalks. The waters were dark with blood, and there was a lone boat ferrying itself along its surface. Reimu opened her eyes and looked no worse for the wear as she muttered this card's name, "Visionary of Anger 'Imperishable Phantasmagoria'!"
Alex looked down at the uneasy waters and saw them bubbling all around. That was just moments before towering Rods of Remorse shot up from underneath the surface, skewering the skies before him with a certain, realistic fury to them.
A sweat trickled down the back of his neck, as he felt a judgmental presence lingering behind him. He glanced back for a moment but not a moment further, for he realized that his body was being forced forward against his will. Bamboo reeds shot out from behind the towering rods to cut off most of his route, and one of them managed to scrape the front of his gut as he winded between them.
Reimu kept ahead of the towers and spread her seals out in waves between the gaps of bamboo. Alex sped up to try and get ahead of the bamboo, but even when punching it at top speed he couldn't make an inch of progress.
Death and the Eternal put their touch into this Spell Card, hoping to deliver a coup de grace to him from beyond the grave. But Alex merely scoffed at their wasted efforts and started hurtling fireballs out at Reimu. The bamboo shot out to intercept most of them, while Reimu's didn't bat an eye at those of them that did manage to make it through.
Alex thrust his arms at the bamboo off the riverside and ripped them out, snapping each one in two. He levitated them over the towers and thrust them down at Reimu, each one breaking down to splinters against her body.
Alex felt a peculiar sensation from his feet. It was wet like water, but cold like death. He looked down and saw that the boat was following him like a magnet and spraying foggy Danmaku up similarly to how a fountain would behave.
Rising up to get away was a terrible idea, as that just made the fountain rise and widen to account for this. Not only that, the towers rose after him.
Reimu was playing hardball with him. Not that he should have expected otherwise, but it certainly made things more troublesome than they were worth. He'd just have to act fast and keep up the pressure with the bamboo shoots lest the fountain prove to be his undoing.
The shrine maiden kept up her attacks for another twenty seconds before Alex's ceaseless bombardment caused this Spell Card to break. She closed her eyes and muttered aloud, "Two down...I suppose this has served as a fine warm-up."
"Don't give me that crap. If this is your last stand then go all-out Reimu Hakurei!" Alex yelled with his fists raised and his body burning bright with flames.
"But the question is...Do you deserve to see me go all-out?" She pondered with a subdued grin as she raised her right hand up.
With a quick glint of light, a ring of see-through white orbs dipsered throughout the perimeter of the vortex, leaving behind glowing dots every few feet. These dots fired thin strands of light that wove together with the others to create this finite, webbed nebula.
Reimu then flicked her right wrist out and blinding comets of light streaked along the lights at lightspeed, switching up which way they traveled with every ring of dots they happened upon. Alex didn't have the time of day to react to them all and just focused on avoiding the closest one.
He arrived in the center of the web and concentrated his fire on Reimu. He was feeling more tired than he was moments ago but hadn't lost the sight in his eyes quite yet. It was crystal clear the six glyphs that Reimu surrounded herself with, which shot interconnected grey paper seals at each other to form a six-pointed star before sending all the seals plus more flying in all directions.
Reimu glided to the right and repeated the process with the orbs as Alex continued to attack. She certainly made it easy for him, even if her Danmaku was doing more harm to him than his was to her. Just like with Marisa, Alex felt the longer this duel dragged out, the harder it was to break the shrine maiden's Spell Cards.
Nevertheless, after repeating her pattern a couple more times she floated on over to the center of the vortex above her shrine and knocked Alex back with a shockwave upon summoning her third Spell Card.
The battlefield shifted to yet another sight that was both familiar yet at the same time different. This time they were hovering over Suwa Lake atop the Youkai Mountain. Though, it wasn't fair to call it a lake in the traditional sense of the word.
The lake was composed of red fire of the hottest kind, much like what he saw Underground. The skies were orange, gloomy, and there was this giant black sun floating overhead with a ring of fire surrounding it. The clouds were gone, replaced with soot and smoke of the vilest calibur.
Alex looked away from the sun with an unflinching resolve and started bouncing fireballs towards Reimu, who spun clockwise above the lake, much like he found himself doing not long after. As he started to adjust the trajectory of his attacks the shrine maiden announced this card's name, "Bargaining for Faith 'Faith in Animism'!"
The lake started to bubble over with oil as six onibashira rose out from the perimeter to greet the two. But these were no ordinary onibashira. Carved into their tough as steel frames were the names of every last person that lived in Gensokyo, and died upon this day. And to make certain that Alex understood this, they were all written in English.
Alex's eyes trembled and he shifted his attention upon Reimu to keep attacking her with fireballs. She didn't fire a shot in retaliation, and left that up to the onibashira.
They released hordes of vengeful spirits that combed the perimeter of the lake on their way inward, passing through Alex's body and releasing their anger upon him. The guilt in his heart rose through his body like a plume of magma and made him cough, dropping his concentration bits at a time.
The vengeful spirits collided in the very center of the lake and burst into a shockwave of Danmaku shaped like a six-pointed star, each point connected to a different onibashira. Alex firmed his body and the fire in his heart boiled over into his aura, increasing the intensity of the fireballs he tossed.
Reimu closed her eyes and drifted along her merry way, leaving the spirits to do her dirty work for her. But they were enjoying every second of misery and pain they inflicted upon Alex, so being used as Danmaku was more joy than sorrow.
Alex paid attention to the onibashira that continued to rise. He felt heat rising towards the center of the sky above the lake, and suspected that there was still more to this Spell Card than meets the eye. He kept up the pace of his attack, his arms becoming complete blurs from how fast he fired.
But Reimu seemed adamant to not surrender this Spell Card until everything she had to offer had been purveyed. When the onibashira stood fifty feet tall, a ceremonial gong went off, its deep, penetrating echo spreading for miles out.
The rising heat manifested as a massive nuclear sun centered between all the tops of the onibashira. It released its power as a thick rain of fire, melting down the peerless steel with ease. Alex became further perplexed by the immense heat conjoining with the vengeful spirits' waltz, but lucky for him he only had to last this out just a little bit longer.
But what ended up being a few seconds felt ten times longer. Reimu's Spell Card broke and they returned to the vortex, where Alex hung his head slightly and started having trouble keeping his arms up by his hips. A few sweatdrops trickled down the sides of his face, while Reimu looked as clean as ever.
The shrine maiden opened her eyes and gazed upon with a brief "Hmph". She then raised her hand up and remarked with a stern voice, "You're halfway there. But you will not make it through the rest unscathed."
Alex narrowed his eyes as his irises turned a fierce shade of red.
"I told you when we first met didn't I? There are certain laws you have to follow in Gensokyo...and for breaking them all, a fate worse than death awaits you, Phoenix of Destruction!"
Alex squeezed his fists and declared, "You were a fool to come back! Cause there is no such thing as a second afterlife!"
He reached up towards his forehead and drew his sword from a large wreath of fire, then swung it down by his hip. He wore a bitter scowl as he murmured without emotion, "I deny that woman's dream...Just as I deny your very existence, 'Reimu Hakurei'!"
Reimu squinted her eyes and gently nodded her head, "Very well...Then I will show you everything I've got, and deny your destruction from this world for good!"
Next Time: The Last Dreamer