Chapter 50: Post-Game
'Ugh...where am I...?' Vahn asked himself, opening his eyes to find nothing but darkness in all directions. He could feel his body and limbs, but there was no ground beneath his feet and nothing to touch, making him wonder if he had, once again, died, this time for keeps.
Catching Vahn off guard and causing him to tense, a distinctly husky and feminine voice responded, "What you see before you is your essence...a reflection of yourself and your potential..."
'But there's nothing here...' noted Vahn, speaking from what he perceived were his lips, but the words echoed within his head and through the vast, seemingly all-encompassing emptiness.
"You're mistaken..." responded the voice, followed by a pair of colossal crimson eyes appearing from within the darkness, their distance difficult to ascertain. All Vahn knew for certain was that they were massive...like staring up at the moon at night but larger and closer...
"This place represents everything that ever was and will be," explained the voice. "It may appear empty, but it is from nothingness that endless possibilities originate. And once you grasp that concept, there is nothing you cannot do—no possibility you cannot create..."
"Who are you...?" asked Vahn, vaguely aware that he could suddenly see himself, his body emitting light that gradually illuminated the true form of the crimson-eyed entity. His consciousness abruptly started to fade, but before it did, the figure of an incomprehensibly large wolf with midnight-blue fur, a white underbelly, and peculiar markings on its forehead came into view.
"We are thee, separate but forever one..." responded the colossal wolf, lying down and resting its head atop its crossed paws. It said something more, but despite his best efforts to remain conscious and make out what was said, Vahn collapsed forward, feeling something modest but familiar against his face and something soft and fluffy wrapping around his head before he invariably succumbed to the serenity of oblivion...
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Waking with a start, Vahn nearly shot to a seated position but suppressed the urge as he noticed that Rias and Akeno were borrowing his shoulders, both naked as the day they were born, and Konkeo sleeping atop him, her head resting on his chest.