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[Data collected… Parsing files…]

A man floated through the darkness, surrounded by nothing but empty black space stretching endlessly in every direction.

His black hair was clean but unkempt, with messy strands falling across his forehead. A few torn pieces of clothing barely covered his otherwise naked body, exposing the defined muscles of an almost perfect physique that looked as though it had been carved from stone.

With his eyes closed and his features relaxed, he would have looked dead if not for the gentle rise and fall of his chest. He seemed perfectly comfortable, sleeping as peacefully in the empty darkness as he would in the best bedroom he could find.

[Checking parameters… Vitality levels normal…]

[Consciousness scan complete… No response detected.]

A woman's voice kept speaking inside his head, making his closed eyelids twitch slightly.