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I was in a room that I have never seen before.
A white wall.
A white ceiling.
A white door.
A white light.
There are no windows.
There nothing here.
I’m alone.
“Where is this place?”
I murmured.
That’s when I noticed something.
I can’t hear my own voice.
I tried firing my gun but I can’t hear the gunshots.
Is this another hallucination.
Probably so.
However the nature is different from before.
I couldn’t grasp a clear understanding of the enemy’s intention.
What on Earth is Osiris trying to do?
“Onii-chan.”
“!?”
Suddenly, my name was called.
Even though I haven’t heard any sounds or signs of people until now.
I readied my gun while turning around.
There stood.
“Tenka!”
“Onii-chan.”
A bright smile.
A voice call out to me.
That is clearly Tenka.
But…..
“Why…….Why do you look like that?”
Tenka over there looks very young.
She still looks quite young, but something it’s different.
The Tenka in front of me who was much younger than before was the same five-year-old Tenka when we were separated ten years ago.
“What’s wrong, Onii-chan?”
Tenka tiled her head.
“What Osiris…………..Why are you showing me this?”
I can’t make sense of the enemy’s objective.
When I’m fretting,
“What’s this, Onii-chan?”
Tenka reached out her hand and stick her finger into the muzzle of the gun.
“!”
“Ow!”
I instinctively withdrew my gun.
“What are you doing, Onii-chan?”
Tenka complained while putting her finger in her mouth.
“Oh, sorry………”
I apologized without thinking.
I’m still dumbfounded.
This is an illusion.
I keep trying to persuade myself.
(Balor? Hey, Balor.)
I called out to the devil but to no avail.
Is my mind completely trapped in this illusion?
So this is Osiris’ special trial.
What on earth is she going to do with me?
Then,
“Onii-chan.”
The phantom Tenka called out to me once again.
I should have ignored her but I end up turning towards her.
“Why do you fight, Onii-chan?”
Tenka inquired.
This is an illusion as expected.
There is no way a young Tenka would ask such a a question.
However, her voice unexpectedly intruded deep into me in this silent room.
To the point that even if I want to ignore it, I couldn’t.
“It’s to take you………to take Tenka back.”
That’s why I ended up answering like that.
‘Take back? From what?”
“It was the gods that put us through this.”
“Are you going to beat them?”
“Yeah.”
“Are you going to rescue me?”
“Yeah.”
“Then――”
Tenka spread out both her hands.
“――Save me.”
At that moment.
The white room collapses with a rattle.
“!?”
This time it was a familiar landscape.
Ten years ago, the Mythical Proxy war.
The day the city that I lived in was reduced to ruins.
The day I failed to save Tenka.
*Bam!*
Something fell on top of the pile of rubble.
This looked familiar too.
The god who stole Tenka from me ten years ago.
Zeus.
“That’s nice.”
Zeus smiled and pointed at Tenka.
‘Give it to me.”
“…..!”
It was the same line as that day.
Zeus rob Tenka from me, just like that time.
This is an illusion.
I knew it’s an illusion.
But.
But……!
“Stop messing with me!”
I pointed the muzzle at Zeus automatically.
My deep hatred that came from within me made it impossible to stand to see Zeus stealing Tenka again.
However.
“Huh?”
Zeus’ figure disappeared
The next moment, his arms stabbed my chest.
“Gah!”
“I said I want it. Shut up and hand it over.”
Zeus whispered in my ears as i coughed blood.
The arrogant god’s treatment towards humans.
[————!]
Even now I couldn’t protect Tenka from Zeus that day———I felt like I was told that and something inside me snapped.
“Gaaahhhhh!”
I howled.
By this time, I had already lost my mind.
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