11 – Trial of Wisdom

“Ugh…”

I’m awake…

‘It feels like I had… a really long dream…’

I remember most, if not all, of what happened there, The marketplace for these Replica Watches UK has additionally elevated drastically in the last 3 to 4 years.so it seems that my monologue about it feeling like a dream after the Trial ended wasn’t a lie.

Not only me, but Stella, Uriel, and Evan next to me were also getting up, as if they had just woken up.

“What happened…?”

“Ugh… my body… doesn’t hurt…?” “…”

Everyone looked around at their bodies as they woke up.

Well, thanks to some ancient technology or whatever, I clearly remember falling from a high place in my last memory, but when I woke up, there wasn’t a single scratch on my body.

Only…

‘I can’t see…’

I could see clearly in the dream.

Now I can’t see anything, and I can’t even hear the sounds of things.

The only reason I can hear their voices is because I can read the Thought- forms flowing out, which makes me realize how comfortable I was in the

dream and how dreamlike the time I spent there was.

It’s not just my imagination that I already want to go back to the dream world.

…

Right, the dream.

Some might say.

If you can’t escape that world forever, wouldn’t it be better to live and die in that world until you die of old age? Of course, if you don’t know how to escape the Trial and don’t strengthen your will to defeat the Demon King, you will live there forever, but.

In the end, I won’t be able to return to normal.

If I live and die there forever, nothing will change.

The world without the Hero and Saintess will eventually be destroyed by the invading Demon King Army.

For example, if you were to take all the people in the world to a world where there is no pain, no separation, no conflict, and everyone can live happily, the key point is how many people would accept it.

There are definitely people who would be happy.

But didn’t it appear in some movie that the humans who lived in such a world eventually went crazy and all died?

In the end, nothing will change.

More than anything…

‘If I stay there as Evan’s girlfriend, I’ll even get married and have kids!’ I was originally a man.

I’m already upset that I’ve entered this body in a reality based on a game, but to fall into a fantasy there and live a lifetime of marriage, having kids, laughing, and dying of old age.

Don’t talk nonsense.

I will definitely go back.

My goal is more important than having such dreams.

I didn’t go through two and a half years of enjoyable suffering, no, real suffering, to face such a bad ending!

‘A dream…’

Come to think of it, it really feels like a dream. I’m sure I was with Evan at the end.

In a Ferris wheel, too… ‘Did I tell him my story?’

About why I didn’t end the Trial even though I could have ended it a long time ago, and why I kept trying to stay in the Trial.

I think I revealed my true feelings inside, not the Saintess Aria, which I’m usually acting as.

I think I did, but I’m a little vague about exactly what we talked about. ‘I think we had a pretty important conversation.’

It feels like a dream.

It’s just like a dream, I remember in detail what we talked about at that time, but it feels like it didn’t happen in reality.

How should I put it, it can be explained as something that I will forget if I don’t try to remember it and write it down somewhere after a certain amount of time.

What did I say at the end…

‘I… like… you… did I say that…?’

…

…

…

Wait, what?

‘What on earth did I say…?!’

Now that I think about it, did I tell Evan that I liked him back then?! Only then did I realize what had happened, and I screamed inwardly. What on earth did I say?!

Of course, liking Evan doesn’t mean liking him as a man!

It’s just… the words came out without me realizing it because I saw the upright and cool side of my favorite character, a character in the game, and I haven’t liked him all along.

Aside from the fact that I wouldn’t have acted that way if I really liked him, even though I’ve been living in this body for quite a while, there’s no way I would like a man.

Even if he’s one of my favorite characters who has saved me many times, there’s no way that could happen…

No matter what! It can never happen!

I shook my head wildly in my mind.

Even so, I couldn’t shake off my anxiety and looked at Evan with a worried heart.

I felt like I had to check right away how I felt about Evan. Fortunately, even when I looked at Evan, there was nothing strange… Strange…

Hmm.

‘Should I call this fortunate…’

I can’t see Evan’s face because I can’t see right now.

I’m still seeing with Holy Power detection, but as I said before, it doesn’t look like a real person…

It’s literally feeling, so a beauty trap doesn’t work on me. “Aria…? Aria!”

As I was sighing with half relief and half doubt, Evan, who was holding his head and looking around, turned to me, made a surprised expression as soon as he saw me, rushed to me in a fluster, and shook me back and forth.

“Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?!” “Wow, Evan only takes care of his girlfriend.” “That’s right~☆”

“…Huh?”

“Huh?”

Stella and Uriel giggled at each other and then shuddered.

At their reactions, Evan and I also turned our heads and looked at Stella and Uriel.

What… did they just say? Girlfriend?

“Girlfriend… and what was that tone just now…”

“Me too… something’s wrong… it feels like it wasn’t me…” “…”

“W-What’s going on…?”

Evan looked back at me with a bewildered look and asked. I wonder.

I want to know that too…

Well, even so, if I make a rough guess based on what I know now, the most likely possibility is that the person who was not recognized by the Trial entered the Trial and received a role and lived as if they were sleeping and dreaming.

We were able to enter the Trial with a clear sense of self thanks to being recognized by the dungeon, so we only feel a little dazed and our memories are jumbled up when we first wake up, but we remember what happened inside like a lucid dream, but the two of them are different from us.

Actually, I wanted to be recognized.

In the game, you could just form a party and enter, and it would give a huge amount of experience to the entire party, and you could just eat it up.

Now I can’t even tell if I’ve received experience or not.

Anyway, the fact that they came inside with us instead of being completely rejected means that they were recognized to some extent, but I don’t know if that means they received experience and a foundation for growth was created.

If it were in the game, I could just check it numerically, but this is reality, so that’s impossible.

So… what I mean is that Stella and Uriel at that time were both the same Stella and Uriel we knew, so they unknowingly used that tone at that time.

Even though they think of it as a dream now, they were dragged into the Trial and assimilated for quite a long time, so it’s not strange that they acted like that.

Anyway, we were talking to each other and discussing the current general situation.

Kugugung!

“W-What is it?!”

[Congratulations on overcoming the Trial of Wisdom, Hero.] “Isn’t this the voice… the same voice as before?”

[You did not abandon everything in that world and abandon your duty.]

“…”

Evan stood up silently.

“In the end, it’s all just an illusion, all meaningless.” Mental growth, the Trial of Wisdom is in charge of that. “I will win it with my own hands.”

Evan has grown one step further as a Hero.

And it wasn’t just Evan who grew.

[All the achievements and experiences you have achieved will be your nourishment.]

Magic began to be felt around us, just like when we fell earlier.

[I hope… you will have that will and defeat the Demon King.]

The dungeon’s voice was the last thing it said, and the magic circle engraved under the ground shone.

“I’ll do it. Definitely.”

Soon, the wavelength of Holy Power that was grasping the surroundings was cut off and it went dark.