Hearing Stelle say this, Acheron's eyes widened slightly.
She neither spoke nor interrupted, because the gray-haired girl before her had not finished.
A serious expression appeared on Stelle's face, and she said, "Little Fish and I discussed this business of having sweet dreams before, and our conclusion was that it was impossible.
"After all, you can't keep dreaming without doing anything else. Your physical needs will wake you up, no matter how wonderful the dream is. When you're hungry, you need to eat; when you're thirsty, you need to drink; when your bowels are full, you need to relieve yourself. These are all essential to an individual's survival in reality.
"Unless you're dead, but then you won't dream anymore.
"Besides, even if you really became a spiritual life-form, that dream certainly wouldn't be as wonderful as you described.
"As long as individual consciousness still exists, society keeps developing, and civilization keeps stumbling forward, conflict and division will never stop. As long as living beings can still experience emotions, it will never be possible to exclude feelings of superiority.
"So this question is meaningless, because its premise is completely impossible."
For a moment, Acheron was stunned, unsure what to say.
Although Stelle had been very earnest throughout her answer, the answer itself was really rather... realistic and rational to quite an extent.
Just how bored were she and this person she called Little Fish in their everyday lives? Did people really think about things like this when they had nothing else to do?
Even someone as composed as Acheron was left a little dumbfounded by Stelle's "scientific and rigorous" answer.
No matter when it was or whom they faced, people whose minds went off on tangents would always do something that caught others off guard.
Meanwhile, Siberian Duck, who was playing