Release

"What the...?"

You noticed that her formerly smooth skin began to crack, her skin was no longer perfect, it was as if she had been stretched, thrown into boiling water and then thrown into a freezer. Taking her hand the material immediately broke off and crumbled.

"What...? The suit..."

You immediately rushed to her mask. It began to crack too. You grabbed the edge of the mask and pulled on it lightly. The mask, in turn, cracked into two halves. You hesitated to finally separate them. Almost all of her beige hadatai turned to ashes exposing her lighter skin, the room was dark and you couldn't see more. The pieces of the mask that had broken off also scattered into small pieces. Finally a wisp of her hair fell out from under the mask.

"???"

You touched a strand of her hair.

"She was a blonde..."

Determined to remove the front of the mask, feeling like Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, you slowly embraced her artificial face. Carefully separating it from the rest you saw HER face. You opened your mouth in surprise, and almost dropped the face part back onto her face. A lovely and painfully familiar face was looking at you, as if it had come off an anime or even a visual novella itself.

"Ka... go... me?"

You gently ran your hands along her cheek. It appeared very soft and tender as if she were a baby.

"But what... But how? But why?! Kate! Where is Kate?"

No matter how she looked it wasn't Kate. The face belonged entirely to Kagome, the shape of her breasts had changed and were slightly larger than hers, her crotch was surprisingly shaved, but such details were omitted in the visual novella. You clutched your head and didn't know what to do when she woke up.

You didn't even notice how her entire set had crumbled into ashes, leaving not even a hint that there had once been a costume here, along with the mask. As the last speck of dust disappeared, she whimpered and wrapped one hand around her forehead. She slowly opened her eyes and her next question, voiced sweetly enough but with notes of steel, sowed panic in your heart.

"Where am I?"

And after she looked at you... she frowned.

"Who. Are. You..."