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However unfortunate it might be, Tatsuya Shiba's efforts would prove fruitless.
The materials of the pocket dimension they were trapped in didn't bend to the same rules his world did, and rather than the dissolved materials staying static, the scattered matter of the wall bent inward on itself.
With it, the painting of Caesar vanished--was sucked in?--and a strange vacuum pulled on Tatsuya's clothes.
For a moment, it seemed as if the wall was about to suck him in, but it must have changed its mind. It belched at him before solidifying.
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