Dreams, and virtual worlds, and virtual dream worlds -- it sounds like a lot of us have experience with things that could... be something like this? I still don't know whether to call the Alices magic, even if everything they do seems like it...

[Niko's perked up a little at the mention of dreams, dreamworlds and machines -- particularly the latter, maybe because it's more in line with technology than with all the frou-frou of monsters and mages and so forth.]

And-- And they said time was weird here, right? Sakuraba-san and Allen-kun. [a glance at Allen] ... How long did you use the Somnium, Okiura-san?