MAIN STORY CHAPTER 2-05 | ARTSTY DREAMS
—overview :
We discover Mr. Raymond to have 39 years old (which is weird because they treat him as an old grandfather while saying he's got the health of a young man but anyway...). While Zayne requests aid for the unconscious man, MC is suddenly entranced by a painting in his room.
"A stunning oil painting hangs on the wall opposite of the sofa. It depicts a brilliantly blue sea with cascading white waves. Each brush stroke feels alive as if countless fairies are jumping out of the water. At the edge of the sea, the water is gradually stained crimson like something is being torn apart, swallowed and coalescing into a blood clot."
Unable to detect Metaflux from the painting but still finding it magnetic somehow, MC quickly tries to resonate with it. That's when she sees a vision.
"I come back to my senses when I realize I'm standing in the ocean. I turn around and spot a girl by the shore, the lower half of her body submerged in the water. Strange. It's almost like she's crying and laughing at the same time. The swirling fog carries a faint, ethereal melody on the sea breeze. It sounds like a song, yet is also a lament. I can't help but move toward her. but the fog becomes increasingly dense and everything begins to blur. A chilling cold gradually surrounds me."
That's when Zayne tells us to "snap out of it", pulling us back from the trance. We conclude that the painting had, yes, Metaflux in it and was probably what caused the hallucinations on both MC and Mr. Raymond. An helicopter arrives to rescue the collector and Zayne decides to leave with the patient, suggesting MC to take care of herself while he's not around. After he's gone, MC uses her Hunter's Watch to request special treatment for the painting using her location and mission code (HM-U-0048-3015) as coordinates.