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Shiori Hachiya looked up and saw the word "banana" on the sign, along with a simple drawing of a banana.

Pushing open the door to the coffee shop, the wind chimes hanging on the door made a series of crisp sounds, and a sweet aroma of baking wafted in.

"Welcome~" Hearing the familiar voice, Shiori Hachiya looked in the direction from which the voice came and saw the bright smiling face of a girl with golden twin tails.

Nana Oba, wearing an apron, looked over with a smile.

After seeing Shiori Hachiya's face clearly, the stage girl was momentarily stunned before a look of understanding appeared on her face.

In this rebooted timeline, the Dream Weaver is just an ordinary dream police officer, her abilities vastly different from her counterpart in the previous timeline. Logically, she shouldn't know Nana Ohba.

But the dream weaver who appeared here... gave Nana Ohba a rather subtle feeling.

The Dream Weaver, who descends silently into the night like a dream, remains unseen by anyone until she pushes open the door to this café. And once the door is open, her form is ethereal, possessing a semi-transparent quality.

Even now, after the world line has been restarted, the dream world is still an independent dimension separate from this world. Shiori Hachiya's life, which had already formed a closed loop, will not be completely changed because of this. Even now, after Kita Kirihara completed the world and restarted it again, she is recognized as part of the dream world's rules and thus preserved.

In other words, on this timeline, there exists both vigilante Shiori Hachiya and dream weavers who have completely integrated themselves into the dream.

Conceptually, they are the same person, but they retain different levels of abilities and memories.

The Dream Weaver is Shiori Hachitani's deeper consciousness, and only descends on nights when Shiori uses her abilities.

Shiori Hachiya, who still retains memories of the previous timeline, smiles at her long-lost friend: "Long time no see, banana."

Nana Ohba, who was tidying up her desk, couldn't help but smile back with mixed feelings: "Miss Hachiya, we have natto cake tonight."

"Yay!" Shiori Hachiya, who had been trying to maintain her expert demeanor, couldn't contain herself when she heard about natto cake and immediately beamed with joy. "I haven't had it in ages!"

Five minutes later, Shiori Hachiya sat opposite Nana Oba, happily stuffing a rather uniquely flavored dessert into her mouth.

"Waaah... Banana, you really have no idea what kind of life I'm living... Kita Kirihara is a workaholic himself, and he still makes me work overtime day and night..." Shiori Hachiya suddenly became melancholic as she ate, opening up her floodgates of complaints, "Although neither she nor I are overworked now, I still want to come out and hang out with you guys..."

Shiori Hachiya is part of the rules of the dream world, which is a small world relatively independent of this world. Therefore, although her activities are restricted, she is still more free than the consciousness of the current world.

Because the previous world consciousness had overreached, and this fragile world could not withstand too much interference, the new world consciousness, after finding a way to patch up the loopholes, chose to take another path to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

The successor imposed more constraints on himself, using most of himself as material to build a rule system that was autonomous enough to operate and that no one could interfere with, modeled after other worlds. After that, he fell into a short slumber.

Before falling into a deep sleep, it manually dealt with some things and instilled half-true, half-false memories into the remaining part of itself before returning it to this world.

Most of the character cards previously held by Kita Kirihara have also returned to their original forms.

The return to the original body manifests in the memory of the inner demon character card appearing in the original owner's mind. Strictly speaking, these negative emotions are also a part of the original owner's power, but they are given to Kita Kirihara for use.

After Kita Kirihara was returned, the memories from that time appeared in the original owner's mind.

The person standing in front of Shiori Hachiya now is Nana Ohba, who was talking to Shiori Hachiya earlier, and is also a stage girl who has graduated from Seisho Music Academy.

Because of the cross-world passage established by Kita Kirihara, it was convenient for Ōba Nana to meet with her classmates in her spare time. In addition, she was not very at ease with the current director, so she would often come here to visit Kita Kirihara.

Banana Cafe is currently the temporary location of Silver Garden. Nana Oba occasionally opens her shop here, but the cafe is only open to specific customers, so it is not very busy on weekdays and is mostly used for gatherings.

Guests like Shiori Hachiya are able to find their way here through their special channels.

“It’s a good thing that the director doesn’t remember anything.” Nana Oba poured herself a glass of juice. As she stirred it with the straw, ice cubes hit the side of the glass. She rested her chin on one hand and said in a flat tone, “It would be a real headache if she acted like that before.”

Shiori Hachiya chuckled at Nana Ohba's reaction.

It seems that Banana still harbors some resentment towards Kita Kirihara for acting without consulting her first.

Although the character cards knew about Kita Kirihara's plan, they were still somewhat unhappy about being repatriated without saying a word.

But come to think of it...aren't all the characters who can get along with Kita Kirihara the type who do everything themselves...?

Shiori Hachiya ultimately didn't say those words aloud.

She came here mainly to talk to Nana Ohba, whom she hadn't seen in a long time, and it would be even better if they could complain about Kita Kirihara's unreliability together.

"Although she won't regain her memory anytime soon, if Ms. Hachiya goes too far, the director in the sky will still be able to hear her, right?" Nana Ohba reminded her.

The image of Kita-Kirihara in the sky... Shiori Hachitani almost burst out laughing.

However, this statement is not wrong; isn't world consciousness located in the heavens?

"I know, I know, she's my boss after all." Shiori Hachiya mimed zipping up her pants and said with a grin, "There are only two of us in the office to begin with, it would be terrible if she made things difficult for me."

Nana Ohba didn't think Shiori Hachiya would back down, so she could only show a helpless expression.

The two sat and chatted for a while, and then it was almost dawn. Shiori Hachiya glanced at the sky and realized it was time for her to leave, so she got up to say goodbye.

She said, "Next time, if the performance is in the evening, I will definitely go see it, banana."

P.S.: I fell asleep in the early hours of the morning!!!

Ugh, it's so hot!

There should be another side story for "Revue Starlight" today; updates will likely be this afternoon or evening.