(POV-Shin)
Despite diving the dungeon floor uneventful, we manage not to get bored and reached floor 999.
-[Dragon Language Magic] Skill Acquired-
-[Dragon's Strength][Phoenix Heart] Unique Skills Acquired-
-[Flame Emperor] and [Blue Emperor] were just added as your familiars.-
I summoned the two and introduced their selves to us as Sei(Flame Emperor) and Aoi(Blue Emperor).
"Shin."(Takeru)
He interrupted us with solemn expression.
"Touch that engraved circle on the wall in front of us. It will lead you to the first step of walking through the path where your destiny lies."(Takeru)
I traced the magic circle with deep nostalgia...
"Welcome to imaginary room, Sacred(Shin) Thousand Songs(Sengaku)"(Takeru)
(A/N: Shin Sengaku can also be translated to God's Thousand Songs, Thousand Godly Songs, True Thousand Songs, Thousand True Songs, and Thousand Love Songs)
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(POV-Narrator)
"Gaa--!!"(Shin)
Shin's body convulsed fiercely and he screamed out a screamless endless pain. He fainted but the convulsion doesn't subsides even for a bit.
[S,Shin!!!](All)
"He is really worthy enough. To think he is able to hold his voice."(Takeru)
He spoke in matter-of-factly tone. Shira, no, all of the girls that cared for him glared at him.
"WHAT?! DID!! YOU DO TO ONII-CHAN?!"(Shira)
Shira roared full of hostility and bloodlust ready to kill him. As if screaming all the voice she have towards the perpetrator of this incident.
"This is the first trial to get the first gem. Trial of Reality. He will experience all physical and mental pains, tortures, hardships and despairs the whole multiverse suffered from the beginning of time up until to all possible futures. I enchanted him with ability to increase his thought process and perfect memory to make sure all can be felt in real time in compressed 6 hours. If he doesn't die that means he will reach the next trial and have qualifications to take hold of the first gem."(Takeru)
He coldly replied as if he doesn't care what will happen to him.
"You should have atleast informed us about this, Takeru-dono."(Rafael)
"That will defeat the purpose. I will not stake out our only one chance of victory out of someone else's feelings. Even it is a comrade. I will not commit the same mistake I did when I was King Solomon."(Takeru)
He flatly stated his own opinion of what he did.
"Shin-kun's breathing return to normal!!"(Rin)
"Impossible!!! The magic is perfect! That means-!!"(Takeru)
Rin shed tears crying with cheerful smile on her face.
"Shin-kun did his best for everyone!! He managed to carry all the pain that was, is, and will exists!! I believed he can!! And he answered me splendidly!!!"(Rin)
Tears blurred her eyes and both cheeks are so wet with her own tears but she never wiped those tears on her face. Because she believed those tears are the proof of their bonds to him. That all her efforts she did to bring him on her journey to the world was worth it. He who was once rejected by the world was now able to accept it all fully-its good and its bad- without hesitation.
"Unbelievable... He exceeded even my expectations...? I see... Hahaha... So he is truly the personification of hope itself!!! To bring forth this kind of miracle that should be impossible!? As expected of you boy!"(Takeru)
They lie him on a comfortable bed and they decided to wait for him to wake up.
"... It is already six hours."(Yumina)
"Indeed. Trial of Illusions just started. This time his heart, soul, and spirit will be honeyed, poisoned and comforted by all good things in this multiverse have on his dream."(Takeru)
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(POV-Shin)
I woke up.
"Was that just a bad dream?"(Shin)
If there is something that surpasses the hellish nightmare that thing must be it.
"Good morning, young master. Master, madam, and young miss are already waiting for you."(Hinako)
"... I see, I understand. Sorry for my tardiness. Can you help me prepare?"(Shin)
I eat normally with my family and chat with the maids. With Rin. With the neighbors. With my friends. with my teachers. Yet... yet, yet... I can't helped but feel uncomfortable to this. As if something that doesn't fit in. As if something is wrong. As if something is strange.
"Shin-kun, do you feel unwell?"(Rin)
"N,nothing..."(Shin)
"That face tells me otherwise though. Want to tell me?"(Rin)
"I feel like I don't belong on this world or the other way around as if large chunk of me is gone. As if this is just an illusion..."(Shin)
"Fufufu!! You're being chuunibyou again don't you?"(Rin)
"Idiot, I'm serious."(Shin)
Her teasing grin vanished and she smiles at me softly.
"But you said before to me, like how there are different perspectives for different people of how time is moving, same to reality. There is no illusion."(Rin)
"-There is no illusion. What you perceive, even illusion, is reality. Splitting them apart is a folly that adults made because they cowered to the cruelty of the world had. The reason they can't easily perceive what is truly the truth even it is so obvious to us kids..."(Shin)
I smile softly at her and kissed her. I pat her head and stand up.
"Thanks Rin. Even you are not my Rin I lived with, you never changed at all."(Shin)
"Ehehe~ Because your Rin will do the same right~? To guide and support Shin-kun."(Rin)
This world vanished.
-Soul Skill Released-
-Ultimate Skill Released-
-Converting to comprehensible language... succeeded.-
-[Power of God-Hod the Splendor(Praise)] Soul Skill Acquired-
-Deliberating...[Hod the Splendor] contains (Spiritual Body)(Commendation)(Knowledge)(Glory)(Fame). Explanation, undetermine.-
-[Divine Wisdom] Ultimate Skill Acquired-
-Deliberating... [Divine Wisdom] contains [Infinitesimal Computation][Divine Analyzer] and [Divine Healing]-
-[Dungeon Master] Title Acquired-