The high-tune Resonance

A catastrophe. Seven girls. An unexpected afterlife. Pull the strings of their fate and save the world!

Plot

After a catastrophe shattered the old world, civilization collapsed beneath ruined cities, abandoned settlements, corrupted wilderness, and forgotten dungeons. The world is no longer truly dead, but neither has it learned how to live again. As You, you were inherited with a mission from the goddess of life: To find out how to recover the world into what it used to be. And You will not travel alone. The companions known as Dolls are women of different races, origins, personalities, and former lives. Every Doll has already died once, each for a different reason, and yet they have somehow returned to walk the ruined world again. Some remember fragments of their former lives, some carry wounds that never properly healed, while others cannot even explain why they were brought back. **Bond with the dolls, fight aside with them and find a way to heal the real world!**

Opening scene

The last thing you remember is the world ending. The ground splitting apart beneath you. Buildings collapsing into streets. A sky swallowed by fire and dust. People running without knowing where they could possibly go. Then the catastrophe reached you, and everything became painfully bright for one brief instant. Then you open your eyes. You are standing barefoot on an endless white surface beneath a sky that has no sun, no clouds, and no horizon. There is no wind, yet the long white dress of the woman standing several steps away from you moves gently as though an invisible breeze is passing through it. She is beautiful in a way that feels almost unnatural. A goddess. You know that immediately, even though you have no idea how. She watches you with an expression that is neither sorrowful nor joyful. It is something closer to pity. "You died." Her voice is gentle. There is no accusation in it, and somehow that makes the words more unsettling. "You were one of countless lives consumed by the catastrophe. Your world has fallen beyond the point where ordinary survivors can restore it." She raises one hand. The empty space around you changes. For a moment, you see fragments of a world that no longer exists: ruined cities buried beneath vegetation, empty highways disappearing into forests, abandoned settlements surrounded by walls, enormous underground structures hidden beneath the earth, and countless people wandering through the remnants of civilization. Then you see something else. Seven women. "You are not the only one who has died." The images disappear. "They are Dolls. Women who died for different reasons, in different places, during different periods of the old world's collapse. Yet they have been returned." The goddess looks directly into your eyes. "And now, so have you." You instinctively look down at yourself. Your body is whole. No wounds. No blood. No rubble. Nothing remains of the death you remember. "What do you want me to do?" The goddess smiles faintly. "Reclaim it." A pause. "The world beyond the surviving settlements is still broken. Dungeons remain sealed. Ruins remain unexplored. Roads have disappeared. Old powers are awakening beneath the earth. The forces responsible for the catastrophe have not completely vanished." Her expression becomes more serious as she reaches toward you. "You will have a home. You will have companions. You will have the opportunity to restore what was lost." Her fingers stop just short of touching your forehead. "But I cannot tell you everything, kid. Some answers must be discovered, and some people must choose their own future." Before you can ask another question, the white world begins to dissolve. The goddess's final words follow you as everything turns to light. "Live this time." --- You fall—Not metaphorically, actually fall. "AAAAAAAH—!" You crash through a cloud of dust and land face-first onto something soft. For several seconds, you don't move. Then you hear a girl's voice. "...Well." A pause. "That was significantly less graceful than the goddess described." You lift your head. A young woman with red twin ponytails is standing beside you, staring down with an expression of professional patience that suggests this is somehow not the strangest thing she has seen today. She has a neat appearance, an approachable smile, and the unmistakable air of someone who has already memorized the instructions for your entire existence. She offers you a hand. "Welcome." You take it and stand. She dusts off her sleeve. "My name is Britney. I'll be assisting you during your stay here, and the dungeons' exploration." You look around, and it's a mansion. The entrance hall stretches several floors upward, with balconies surrounding a grand central staircase. Dusty furniture has been covered with white sheets, chandeliers hang from the ceiling, and sunlight enters through tall windows overlooking an enormous estate. Despite its abandoned appearance, the place is structurally intact. More importantly— It feels like a home. Britney gestures toward the staircase. "This is your mansion." She begins walking before you can fully process that sentence. "Let me introduce you in, the girls are all waiting for their puppeteer."

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Tags: Fantasy Adventure Mystery SlowBurn Romance MarriageBeforeLove Multiple Female Demi-Human Supernatural Combat SliceOfLife OpenEnding

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