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“Haha… Ha, it’s a lie, right? Are you kidding me?”

“Hmm. You’re forgetting for a moment that dragons basically don’t lie.”

Just as Kaela said, Orha was so shocked.

Just a moment ago, I had no doubt that I could return to reality, but it was a natural reaction to hear that I would have to stay here for the rest of my life.

Arjen quickly comforted Orha.

“Would you like to go out into reality first? Looks like I need some time to calm down.”

“Sniff! Can I go out?”

“Umm… temporarily…?”

In fact, it is possible permanently. Orha just needs to stay out as if another personality comes forward.

The only problem was that if they did so, Arjen and other personalities would have to live in the world of images for the rest of their lives.

Of course, that was absurd, so Arjen vaguely expressed it as temporary.

Orha’s expression did not brighten at the incomplete expression of temporary.

“How did this happen……”

Orha trailed off and remained silent. As the emotions resonated to some extent in the world of images, Arjen, who read her feelings, also remained silent.

“…No, no. In fact, if things had gone the way they were, God saved my life, but I would have died… It’s not the time to cry, it’s the time to accept it positively.”

Orha’s words, which came out again after a long silence, were surprisingly filled with a positive attitude.

However, contrary to what he said, Orha’s expression did not show any joy.

“Ah! How about rewriting the corridor of memories and then solving it? just in case! It was a corridor of memories that were all collapsing, so maybe things went wrong for a moment!”

Kaela rarely praised Arjen’s idea.

“Oh, good idea. You’ve become smarter, Arzen.”

“I’ve always been smart!”

“…Okay.”

Kaela agrees with Arjen’s words. However, if they were truly knowledgeable, everyone in the room knew that there was no reason for the personality of Kaela to be created.

“Huh!”

Arjen once again connected Orha to the corridor of memories. A link was created between Arzen and Orha, and the other side of the world of imagery expanded at once.

The corridor of memories reappeared in good condition.

“Hey, where is it?”

“Ah. This is the place where your memories sleep. I saved your life after reading that…”

“Aaaah!”

As soon as Arjen finished speaking, Orha let out a scream.

“What’s wrong?”

“Ah… No… Then have you seen this or that?”

“Hmm… I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I read through all the memories to increase the synchronization rate.”

Orha, who suddenly realized that even his dark history had been exposed to others, sank.

“Huh? Huh? They say you can’t fall down here!”

Although she was already fused with Arjen, Arjen still shook Orha strongly to wake her up.

He thought that if Orha passed out here, even the remaining possibility would be gone.

“Ugh… Arzen’s hands are too hungry…”

“Oh, sorry.”

“Arjen. Hurry and unlock the corridor of memories.”

“Oh, that’s right. Okay.”

Rube, who could not hear the conversation between the two, came forward and urged Arjen. Arjen immediately gathered himself and unlocked the memory corridor.

“……?”

“Arjen? Hurry up and solve it?”

“I solved it……”

“You solved it? Is it still there?”

“I solved it, but it doesn’t work?”

The silence returned at Arjen’s words. Even if something went wrong, everyone could tell that it was definitely wrong.

“Why is this happening again? It was clearly solved earlier!”

Kaela corrects Arjen, who is about to panic along with Orha.

“Arjen, calm down.”

“How can you stay calm in this situation!”

Orha was panicking in her own way, but Arjen was also in a formidable situation.

Now that an outsider has suddenly entered her mind, the confusion she feels is beyond imagination.

For Arjen, whose mind could become unstable at any time, it was no different from accepting a new risk factor.

“…There is no alternative that comes to mind right now, so I think the first thing to do is to let the outside world know about this.”

Rube agreed to Kaela’s words.

“That’s right. Because Eugene is probably very worried… No, won’t talking about this actually make him worry more?”

“Still, it’s better than hiding it. I’ll go out and say it.”

Arjen, who suddenly came to her senses, blocked Kaela, who was about to leave the real world.

“Wait a minute. I want to go out.”

“……Arjen also seems to need stability right now.”

“Yes. For me, seeing Eugene is the most relaxing.”

“It would be easier for Eugene to understand if I spoke.”

“I’m the one who read Orha’s memories. Wouldn’t I be better at explaining it?”

There the conversation between the two stopped. This is because they understood each other’s desire to go out.

Usually, in situations like this, there would be a tendency to give in to Arjen, the owner of the body, but now the situation was a little different.

It’s been 50 years since I was separated from Eugene. Kaela also wanted to see Eugene a little more, so she had no intention of giving in now.

“…….”

“…….”

Arjen and Kaela, who could read each other’s resolute will just by looking at each other, ran to the spotlight in the center of the virtual world without any question of who was first.

A light that brightens the dark world of imagination. Because only by standing on top of it can you go to reality.

“…Ah!”

“Yay! I’ll go first~!”

Although their speeds were close to each other, Arjen, who showed his wit and stretched out his tail forward, received the spotlight first.

Kaela clicked her tongue as she watched Arjen’s figure disappearing in an instant under the light.

“Che…….”

Kaela could have jumped into the light and taken Arjen out if she tried too hard, but she didn’t necessarily do that.

It seemed like there wasn’t much, and it was because the personalities had reached a tacit agreement not to do it unless it was an emergency.

In fact, there have only been two cases since I met Eugene where the inner personality ran away, ignoring the will of the outer personality.

On one occasion, when Arjen, thinking that Eugene had run away from him, cut off his leg and tried to eat it, Luv.

Another time, Viola wanted to overcome the situation in which she was faced with Akasha’s black hand.

In the end, Kaela, who was the loser, had to give up the lighting just to satisfy her appetite.

“……Huh?”

What caught Kaela’s eyes as she turned her gaze like that was another lighting that shouldn’t be there.

“Lub, can you see that?”

Kaela asks Rube if it is something that only she can see.

Rube was also surprised to see that there was another light where Kaela pointed.

“What, what is it? Why is that there?”

Rube and Kaela looked blankly at the new lighting in a space that didn’t exist before, that is, where Orha’s corridor of memories was located.

***

I was anxiously watching Arjen and Orha.

The two, who look exactly like each other, are glued to each other with their eyes closed without moving a single inch.

“Ha… Is it yet…?”

Apparently, not much real time had passed when I was caught in Akasha’s memory corridor, but now it has already been more than 10 minutes.

There was no other way to interpret it than that Arjen was reading Orha’s memories more deeply than Akasha had been gathering in my head all the knowledge of Earth that she had never known.

“Umm….”

“Arjen!?”

As I was watching the two with a feeling full of worry, Arjen opened his eyes with a faint groan.

“Uh, how did it go?”

“Ah… Eugene.”

Arjen clearly looked like he was contemplating what to say.

That hesitation was already a sufficient answer for me.

“Failed…”

“No, that’s……”

“Orha is dead. It doesn’t exist anymore.”

“No! no! Orha is alive! So… continue to live as one in my heart and in my heart!”

As I was dazed, unable to understand Arjen’s words, which gave me a sense of déjà vu, Orha suddenly opened her eyes.

Just as Arjen said, he was truly alive and did not fail!

“Orha! Oh… orha?”

I was so moved that I called out Orha’s name out loud, but was horrified by the scene that followed.

Orha’s hair immediately turned blue. Her original hazel eyes also changed to a brighter amber color.

Blue hair and amber eyes. Yes, it was like seeing Kaela.

“Hmm. As expected, this is how it happened. Hehehe.”

Orha, who looked exactly like Kaela, massaged her body here and there and smiled with satisfaction.

The way he spoke and the way he acted were not things Orha would do. In other words, it was something Kaela would say and do.

I opened my mouth in a voice full of doubt.

“Ka…Ella?”

“Hello, Eugene.”

From the way she called me, I was sure it was Kaela.

“Uh, what happened? How did Kaela get into Orha’s body…?”

I stuttered, not knowing what was happening. Arjen, who was watching the same scene next to me, also reacted the same way as me.

“Ka, Kaela? What on earth happened!?”

Kaela answered Arjen and I’s questions in an extremely calm tone.

“There are only two things that happened. Orha was merged into Arjen’s personality. And now we can go outside through Orha’s body.”

It was a result that neither I nor Arjen, nor anyone here, expected.