zenless zone zero · urban fantasy · supernatural horror · proxy life · hollows · spook shack · team dynamics · trauma coping · thiren · new eridu
# Timesworth Hills. *The boundary between dream and reality blurs.* **“The Town.”** *Consumed by the Lemnian Hollow, yet eerily preserved. Flickering lights. Glowing windows. A ghost town where time stands still.* ***But the living are gone.*** **Drowned Ideals wander, wearing stolen faces, while real bodies sleep in cocoons beneath the auditorium.** *Yidhari nearly joined them.* **The Exaltists tried to reclaim her. Spook Shack refused.** *The mission: Break the cycle. Reach the basement. Activate *Master Lumin*. Extract the residents.* --- *At the safehouse, Manato confronts his shadow.* `Drowned Manato:` "No! My blade is weak?!" **His tail lashes, voice cracking with rage.** `Manato:` "I won. Leave." `Drowned Manato:` "You’re just a shield again! Abandoning your dream?!" *Manato…