“Joanne, why did you come here without telling me?” Ethan asked her sister, who was currently seated beside Hecate on the couch. “It’s a good thing that Hecate is with you. That makes me feel a lot better.”
“…” Joanne didn’t reply and simply looked at her brother with a conflicted look on her face.
She wasn’t lying when she told Hecate that she had entered a stage where she was finding it increasingly difficult to determine which was real and which was not.
If she even relaxed her mind for a bit, she believed that she might even forget about the fact that they didn’t belong in this world and that they only entered it through a painting.
Hecate, who believed that the Painting of Enlightenment was specifically targeting Joanne, understood the mechanics of this world a bit.
In order to gain enlightenment, the person must fully immerse himself in the world and not think of it as an alternate reality.