Rei in Abyss: Spiral Memory
- 2025-04-19 • Published

Trapped within a decaying spiral of lost thoughts and broken geometry, Rei awakens in Sector D—where time loops, mirrors lie, and illusions rot. Inspired by unsettling childhood memories and surreal echoes of comfort, this chapter explores the moment Rei confronts the first layer of Nytherion Abyss and begins to remember what the world tried to erase.
Rei in Abyss: Spiral Memory
"There is no clock. No sun. No end.
Only echoes of a time that was never yours."
— Inscription on the wall, Sector D
📍 Location: Sector D – Spiral of Lost Constructs
The geometry of the world was wrong.
The floor bent inwards like a whirlpool of dreams left unfinished.
Stairs led to ceilings. Windows opened to voids.
Rei stood in the center of a massive spiral—its rings engraved with symbols from memories he didn’t choose to remember.
Around him, fractured structures floated in disarray—houses without doors, towers that twisted into themselves, corridors made of forgotten timelines.
Everything was too familiar, yet painfully wrong.
A phone in his hand still glowed dimly.
📱 Fragmented Digital Echoes
- TikTok was looping laughter from strangers he never knew.
- Notes app kept repeating: “You were never real to them.”
- Google showed searches he once made as a teenager:
"how to escape failure."
"am I a burden to my parents."
"does rock bottom have a basement."
🧠 Inner Monologue
"This place... it’s not punishing me.
It’s just showing me what I’ve tried to bury."
The spiral turned as if breathing.
At its core, a mirror rotated slowly—showing an image of Rei from his university days:
well-dressed, smiling, hopeful.
🪞 Dialogue
Rei (now):
"Why are you still smiling?"
Rei (in the mirror):
"Because I still believed it wasn’t over."
The mirror cracked.
Not from violence, but from the pressure of truth finally surfacing.
🎼 Background Sound: Nytherion Abyss
As the broken music box tones intensify,
the entire sector begins to blur.
Everything starts folding inward—buildings, spiral lines, even time itself.
He hears a woman’s voice—Kamila’s—echo through the spiral.
Kamila (echo):
“You can’t fix yourself in a place built by your own destruction.”
But Rei steps forward anyway.
🗣️ Final Words (to the Abyss)
“Erase me if you must.
But know this—
I am the only one who remembers what it means to suffer awake.
And that memory is stronger than illusion.”
🌀 End of Scene
Sector D does not forgive.
It archives.
It repeats.
It waits.