From the introduction: For those characters who have traveled through Kakita paintings before, the jump through Kumpei's painting is terrifyingly different. The time travelers will find themselves hovering in a breathless, lightless limbo. Nothing they can do gives them any form of sensory input, for they are outside of time. The samurai will feel an irrational fear, even those with Death Trance, but their conscious selves probably won't understand why.