"Mm..."
"Which one should I choose...?"
Although she'd already decided to be the second to take part in this round of Gift Games, after Reverse Sixteen had finished, now that she was the one looking at the dazzling array of options, at the tens or even hundreds of thousands of scripts and all the different worlds, Kudou Asuka quickly found herself suffering from a serious case of indecision.
"So many choices!"
"There are so many options..."
"How should I put it?"
"I want to choose all of them, but..."
"I still can't help feeling a little nervous?"
And so she stood there muttering to herself as she browsed aimlessly.
"..."
Reverse Sixteen didn't pay Asuka any mind. He didn't try to hurry her along, either. He just sat on the sofa with his arms folded and his eyes closed, seemingly pondering and absorbing what he'd just gained from that world.
For everyone else, only a little over an hour had passed. But for him, he'd truly experienced more than a hundred years!
Although, after "waking up," it had felt like a dream—distant and unreal—whenever he thought back on it, everything seemed incredibly vivid. He even remembered many, many details with perfect clarity, so he needed to reflect, think, and mull it all over.
"..."
Across the room, Bai Yasha wasn't paying much attention, either.
She was just secretly watching Reverse Sixteen, observing the strange change in him, and occasionally glancing at the dazzling holographic options Asuka had brought up. That was all.
As for what she was thinking at that moment, no one could say.
"Asuka?"
"Why don't you..."
"Try using the search function to look for a world you know and have always wanted to visit?"
"Like a manga, a movie, a novel, or even a short story?"
After