From beginning to end, Toby had been describing his own bravery and fearlessness.
The more he spoke, the more fired up and impassioned he became, as though he had completely forgotten the aggrieved look he had shown earlier.
Yet Angel and Gloria listened very carefully. After all, Toby had never spoken of what he had experienced in the Heart House before.
Though Toby might have exaggerated somewhat in his retelling, it was not hard to see from his account just how perilous this tribulation had been.
Layer upon layer of traps, hidden currents surging wave after wave, and the harassment of all manner of Demonic Beasts made Gloria sigh inwardly. If Angel had not used that Bright Dream Trial method back then, Toby might not even have had a one-percent chance of success.
Toby spent over half an hour recounting his heroic deeds. Finally, when he reached the end of his tribulation, his expression shifted from pride back to grievance.
"...Chirp-Chirp!" I had clearly already reached the final platform! I could have easily defeated the Extreme Grudge Intent—I'd practiced it countless times! But who knew that some monster, some unknown existence, would beat me to it!
Toby was so furious that the feathers on his head stood on end. He leapt from Angel's shoulder onto the table and paced in circles across its surface, his eyes blazing with rage.
"Is that why you're angry and upset?" Gloria asked after a long while.
Toby nodded aggrievedly.
Gloria: "..." Wasn't he focusing on the wrong thing?! What he should have cared about was who that existence that had spoken to him actually was, not that it had stolen his first kill!
Though Gloria was ranting wildly in her heart, she looked at Toby's pitiful little expression and still offered a token bit