"During those days, I had many strange and bizarre dreams.
"Besides battlefields of slaughter and temple explorations, the dream I had most often was studying that mural covered in Shining Arrows with my brother in the secret cave on the back mountain of our hometown.
"Yet in those dreams, there were not just the two of us, but three—one of them was the Ancient Dream Saintess.
"Strangely enough, in the dream, I did not find it odd in the slightest that an unfamiliar girl had appeared in the secret cave my brother and I shared.
"No, she was not an 'unfamiliar girl' at all. In the dream, I seemed to naturally regard the Ancient Dream Saintess as my elder sister, as though Mother had given birth to three children from the very beginning. Everything was so natural, so seamless, without a single flaw.
"I remembered that in the dream, the Ancient Dream Saintess explored the mysteries of the mural together with my brother and me.
"She was far smarter than either my brother or me. Every time she offered an opinion about the mural, it made us suddenly see the light, as though the plug blocking our minds had been pulled out.
"Thus, we trained together in the dream. Things we could not understand during the day became clear at a single touch in the dream. Combat skills we could never grasp no matter how hard we practiced by day quickly became second nature in the dream, under the Ancient Dream Saintess's smiling encouragement and hand-in-hand instruction.
"In short, the dreams I had over those days were more real and vivid than any dream I had ever had before. Even after dawn came and I slowly woke, everything from the dream remained crystal clear in my mind for a long