It was still that clearing near the Black-Corner Region. Half a month had passed since the sudden appearance of the relic trial.
For everyone who had originally taken part in the trial, those half months felt like a dream.
And they had not even been the protagonists of that dream!
No matter what, simply making it out of the relic had already been no easy feat. Though they could not remember what exactly had happened inside...
After all the trial-takers gradually left the relic, which had now returned to calm, a slender white figure silently appeared in the clearing...
After looking around, a question mark slowly appeared on the flawless, handsome face of the figure in white...
After a moment of silence, he moved again.
The young man lightly waved his hand, and an exceptionally stable spatial rift gently appeared before him.
Facing the unusually gentle rift, the young man hesitated for a second before stepping into it...
With the young man's departure, the clearing once again returned to its usual tranquility...
Birdsong rang out now and then. A creature that could barely be considered a squirrel cocked its fluffy tail as it faced a pile of unnamed fruits, struggling with a difficult choice...
"Chirp chirp!"
At last, after who knew how long, the squirrel finally picked out a large, white, exceptionally plump... fruit!
Just as the squirrel happily hopped about while holding up the white fruit, an unusually calm spatial rift appeared behind it at some unknown point...
And Mr. Squirrel, still rejoicing over his satisfactory choice, had no idea that a figure dressed as a groom had appeared behind him!
The figure held a length of fine red silk in his right hand and supported an exquisite, ornate festive embroidered ball in his left. A large red flower