"No—!"
Li Boli jolted upright with a scream!
However...
Huff! Huff!
Huff!
Gasping for breath, with cold sweat soaking her forehead and body, she was stunned to realize that she seemed to still be alive?
Then she realized she seemed to have returned to the arena where she'd started?
All she could see was that same enormous, imposing ancient arena, so unfamiliar it made her feel a little suffocated. All around her were the same towering, mottled, crumbling stone walls. Even the faint dark-red stains between the paving stones—the ones that looked like dried blood—were exactly as she'd seen them before?
"This..."
"Is this a dream...?"
"I'm not dead?"
"I wasn't eaten?"
Once she'd managed to calm down a little, she forced herself to endure her fear and trembling and tried to reassure herself.
"But..."
"If it was really just a dream, why did it hurt so much...?"
But very soon, she felt that what she'd just gone through didn't seem like a dream.
She knew that dreams weren't supposed to hurt under normal circumstances, but everything she'd just experienced had been so painful, so terrifying, so real.
Just that pain, that sensation of touch, made it feel unlike a dream!
She had to say, everything that had just happened was even more terrifying than a virtual reality game with its pain settings cranked up to one hundred percent!
However...
Before she could figure it out, her body suddenly stiffened, and her blood seemed to freeze.
"..."
The reason was that she'd seen it again: that terrifying giant bear was standing just dozens of meters away, its head tilted as it fixed her with a spine-chilling, savage grin?
"No!"
"That's impossible!"
The incredulous cry escaped her lips. Li Boli staggered to her feet and backed away, her body beginning to