He wakes up with a rasping gasp and immediately sits up and starts coughing.
What... the fuck?
"Like, if you step off this branch and off the next one down and so on and so on, you don't actually get to the ground. I got lost for a while in one of these trying that."
"Well, it keeps going for a long time. It's only like ten minutes if you get to the trunk first."
"Mm-hm."
It smells really strongly of cherry blossom in here. It smells like real flower petals, not like extracts and perfumes and artificial fragrances, but it smells like it a lot, so much that a biological person, were any of those to wander through here, might feel faint. But Junko, making a line in the wood behind her with her dragging sword except when she lifts it to react to a feint from one of the momonga that's hiding in the pink flowers, isn't impaired at all by the thickness in the air.
The petals are so pink, but the sky isn't a far away optical phenomenon, it's all around them. They're in a tree and the tree is in the sky and the sky is blue and they're breathing the sky and it smells like flowers.
Yutaka does not vibe with shrieking whenever something surprises him so he holds it in but he feels the impulse a lot more often than he cares to admit. And it doesn't help that this place is so weird and creepy; it feels like he's in some kind of dream that shifts between dream and nightmare and it's fucking him up.