When Kira awoke she realized that she was in a straight jacket in what looked to be a psychiatric institution, and when Ren awoke he realized that he was wearing prison garb with a ball and chain attached to his ankle and a pair of handcuffs. What they both noticed was that they seemed to be back to themselves.
Then they noticed that on the other side of their respective cells sat a long nosed man that had long black eyebrows, wide eyes, and an eerie perpetual smile, ears that came to a point and a bald head with hair further down and he seemed to be behind a wooden desk.
There were also two girls that looked to be pretty young dressed in blue warden outfits and white hair, one wearing a hat with the letters O.Y.O.O and having her hair in a braid with an eyepatch embroidered with a V over her left eye and the other wearing a hat with the letters X.M.R.N and having their hair in a couple of buns with an eyepatch mirroring the other.
"Ah… Welcome to the Velvet Room my dear Tricksters." The strange man said, putting his hand out. Ren then looked around and saw that there was someone else in the room with him. "You're Kira… right?" He asked her. Only then did she actually notice him and she nodded before responding. "You must be Ren, Nice to meet you!"
"So you've come to, Inmates," one of the girls said snarkily. "The two of you in reality are currently both fast asleep, You are only experiencing this as a dream" the other girl added. "You are both in the presence of our master. Stand up straight!" The first girl ordered. Both Kira and Ren looked up to the man.
"Welcome, I am pleased to make your acquaintance. This place exists between Dream and Reality, Mind and Matter." The man said before continuing. "It is a room that only those who are bound by a "contract" may enter. I am Igor, the master of this place, remember it well. I summoned the two of you to speak of important matters, it involves your lives as well."
"Important matters?" The two of them asked in unison before the man nodded and looked around the room. "Still this is a surprise… The state of this room reflects the state of your own hearts. To think a Prison and a Psychiatric Ward would appear as such. You two truly are prisoners of fate."
He chuckled before continuing "In the near future there is no mistake the ruin awaits." Ren raised his eyebrows before asking "Ruin?" Meanwhile Kira decided to say something different "Are you kidding me?" One of the girls on the other side of the bars then moved in front of Kira's door and hit her hand with the baton she was holding, which caused her to promptly shut up.
"I speak of the end to everything. However there is a means to oppose such a fate. You must be "rehabilitated" towards freedom…That is your only means to avoid ruin… Do you have the resolve to challenge the distortion of worlds?" The two teenagers glanced at each other before Ren spoke up. "I don't know about you but I'd rather avoid ruin." Kira nodded and answered "As would I."
"Then allow me to observe the path of your rehabilitation" he said looking at Ren before turning to Kira. "Ah, pardon me for not introducing the others. To the left is Caroline" he motioned to the girl with the braid in her hair before continuing "to the right is Justine" he said motioning to the girl wearing buns closest to Kira. "They serve as wardens here."
"Hmph, try and struggle as hard as you like." Justine snapped angrily at Kira before Caroline said to Ren. "The duty as wardens is to protect inmates. We are also your collaborators… That is if you remain obedient." Once the girls were finished with their rather rude introduction Igor spoke up again.
"I shall explain the roles of these two at another occasion. Now then, it seems the night is waning… It is almost time. Take your time to slowly come to understand this place. We will surely meet again, eventually…" Igor said before an alarm started blaring and then Ren woke up.