This Hero and Power.

What the hell? Where am I?

It's… freezing! I can't breathe! My entire body feels heavy, like I'm being held down by unfathomably large weights!

As I struggled, I felt a sensation on my back. I can't describe it, but this feels familiar.

[We meet again, like I said we would. It is good to see you once more.]

The voice… or at least, I believe it's a voice, spoke with words that held no sound. Their words etched themselves into my mind, like letters on a paper.

[I have been observing you for quite some time now. I have been thinking that you're a rather interesting specimen…]

I wanted to talk, but nothing would come out.

[Do not worry. Time outside of this place does not move. Your conflict has been paused momentarily so that I may offer you a deal.]

I stopped struggling.

What do they mean by "deal?"

[What I mean, Kenji Fujima, is that you have been craving power, correct?]

So they can read my mind…?