There was a clock floating in the air, extremely large... Larger than any building I have seen in my lifetime. Lolita was silent. She looked at me, but was silent... What was she going to say before? I wanted to know. Badly.

Before I could speak, however, large tendrils shot from the back of the clock. What seemed to be infinite in amount, they all bent and pivoted into different directions. They were solid and metallic, extremely skinny compared to the big ass floating clock.

After a while, the tendrils seemed to make some sort of cage... it seemed. From the sea of white emerged a large door that shined with a great light. 3 horizontal rectangular prisms floated upward to make stairs that weren't connected to each other. The stairs were about as large as a house in height. "Um. Okay. How the FUCK do we get up there?"

Lolita smiled and opened her umbrella, "My omnipotent umbrella changes into bat wings~!"

I sighed, "... Seriously? Where did you even GET that?"

She averted her gaze from mine, smiling cutely, "Um... A thrift store...? Magical gypsy...? Internet...?"

I sighed again. "Well, whatever. I'm guessing we have to open that huge door. It's just a matter of how?" The instant I asked how, from the back of the clock spurted the gargantuan god-like thing. It was a pale marble color, having nothing but an upper torso from the waste up. It was quite muscular and wore 2 large gloves, in one hand was a huge, silver mallet. ts face could not be seen, for it had a hood over its face, shrouding it in a shadowy blackness. A singular yellow eye pierced through hte darkness on the left side of its face (from what I could tell). The hood was also a tattered cape that flowed like a shadow, but eventually faded out into oblivion. It had several gears in its chest.

Naturally, from all the video games, I knew that it was the guardian of the place and it would open the door when I did some sort of task. It spoke, "I am the guardian, Chrono, of this place, the Temple of Time. Only I can open these doors when you complete one task."

... I fucking knew it. Almost verbatim. Damnshit. Better ask it the task... "What is this task, Chrono?"

Chrono raised its mallet. "You must answer one question... Do you understand?"

Do I understand? "I understood a while ago, Chrono. My feelings, my thoughts, myself... Reality, Insanity, Love, Pain, Hate, Happiness... Life, Death, Past, Present... Myself. I understand it. To the extent I need to. No one understands themselves completely, but in retrospect, you aren't supposed to. I am fine with that. So yes. I do understand. understand what I need to."

Lolita sighed dreamily at my words, saying under her breath, "so true..."

Chrono squinted his visible eye and the door opened, "You may pass, Khrona... Nice name, by the way." The door opened and Lolita extended her umbrella outward, forming into extravagant bat wings. One flap brought us to the top of the first stair, another to the second, and a final flap to reach the third.

She continued to walk, but before I entered I had to inquire, "Hey... Chrono. There's something that I was oblivious to until just now... What is the purpose of the Temple of Time inside of me?"

Chrono chuckled, "This place... Is of your memories. This gate is a dimensional spectrum that allows you clairvoyance over your memories, among other things. The Temple of Time held the Door of Clarity confined until now... Though be warned, your fate is ultimately sealed..."

I nodded. "I see. Well. It is all for the better. I embrace death's call with open arms."

Chrono closed his eye and dropped his head. "Enter the door..."

I nodded once again and entered the door. The experience with Chrono made it clear to me that my fate was always sealed by death, no matter how soon it may be. The demon... I was fated to come within myself. Fated to meet Lolita. Fated to understand... Fated to die. After entering the door, I could see nothing. Darkness, but light at the same time.