"F-Fang Li...?"
Emilia's somewhat bewildered voice quietly rang out.
But Fang Li ignored Emilia and, with a somewhat forceful attitude, led her into the trial's tomb chamber.
Then, Fang Li stopped walking. Still holding Emilia's hand, he suddenly spoke.
"You're here, aren't you? Echidna!"
The name that came from Fang Li's lips made Emilia's eyes widen.
Yet Fang Li still paid no attention to that and continued speaking to the entire tomb chamber.
"I know you're definitely watching all of this."
Fang Li spoke those words in an indifferent tone.
"I won't waste time on nonsense. Pull Emilia and me into the dream together, and recreate the scene I've recalled in my mind. If you do that, we'll call it even for what happened between us before."
Fang Li's voice echoed clearly through the tomb chamber, bringing with it an indescribably oppressive feeling.
Just as Emilia could not help but prepare to speak, a voice rang out in both Fang Li's and Emilia's minds at the same time.
"Very well. Although I find that filthy presence over there exceedingly unpleasant, since it is your request, I shall show sufficient respect and grant your wish."
It was clearly a response to Fang Li.
Then...
"Bzzzz—!"
Amid a strange ripple, Fang Li and Emilia simultaneously lost consciousness and entered a dream.
"..."
When Emilia opened her eyes again, everything before her completely overturned the Half-Elf girl's understanding of the world.
"Open your eyes and look carefully."
Fang Li stood beside Emilia, just as he had in the tomb chamber. Holding her hand, he spoke in an even voice.
"This is my life."
That was right.
What unfolded before Emilia was Fang Li's life up to this point—or rather, everything he had experienced up to this point.
More precisely, it should have