Kurogane rolled his eyes after a moment, the child looking bewildered and rather jumpy, and looked away, lifting his eyes to the suspicious tower-dweller once again.

So he claimed he could only control his own dreams then, huh? And it did seem that this was indeed who Taiki kept in contact with as the man recognized him in turn. But how did he know the manjuu too then?

"Wait a second, you know this guy too!? From a dream?" the man demanded of the white bouncy blob. If that was the case then they all must have had their dreams run together! "How is that even possible - that we all dreamed the same dreams?" he grouched. It had certainly never happened to him before now, that was for sure.