"Since we don't need to worry about the Dreamland, why did you suddenly bring it up?"
Gray Porcelain tilted his head and asked curiously.
Angel was about to answer when Rabbit Girl muttered beside him, "You're so dumb. If there's a Dreamland version, then there must be a non-Dreamland version too."
"A non-Dreamland version?" Gray Porcelain froze.
"Yes." Rabbit Girl nodded. "And the non-Dreamland version made me figure something out..."
They had discussed a question before. The Text Panel clearly stated that only a "perfect clear" could completely conclude a stage.
But what counted as a "perfect clear"?
Didn't this stage have only one objective: hunt Nereid?
And when hunting a Demonic Beast, what was there to be perfect or imperfect about it? As long as they succeeded, wasn't that enough?
At first, she had wondered whether a so-called "perfect" clear meant hunting Nereid without taking any damage.
But later, she felt something was off.
Nereid itself was a "mechanic monster." Every one of its skills could kill them in a single blow.
In other words, they either followed the mechanics and cleared it without taking damage, or waited to be instantly killed and failed outright.
There was no second option.
Under such circumstances, any successful clear of Nereid would surely be a no-damage clear. If that was the case, why distinguish between perfect and imperfect clears at all?
They had failed to reach an answer even before entering the Sandbox Wonderland.
Until now, when Angel mentioned the existence of a "Dreamland version," Rabbit Girl suddenly thought of one possibility:
—Could this so-called perfect clear mean clearing Nereid in the non-Dreamland version of the stage?
Rabbit Girl voiced her thoughts.
Gray Porcelain considered it carefully and felt it was possible, but it was still merely a guess out of thin