After dinner, Yurika sat herself down in front of the TV and grasped the console's controller with a strained look. Next to her was Sanae. The two of them were going to challenge the game in question.
“How does it look?”
“Ah, the save data is still there!!”
Yurika pointed at the TV screen with a big smile.
Since the game was very old, there was no guarantee that the save data from when Theia was playing it would remain. But fortunately, the game's battery was still alive, and the save data remained.
“That's good. But Yurika, why are you doing this? Couldn't you just erase the data and make it like it never happened?”
“Because, isn't it really scary knowing that three of your corpses are lying in an underground labyrinth?”
“... Why?”
Sanae simply tilted her head to the side in a confused fashion and blinked repeatedly. Having been a ghost until recently, she didn't really understand.
“I feel like it's a bad sign. That's why I don't want to erase the data until I've revived them or properly buried them”
“Hmm, I kinda understand what you're trying to say. Good luck, Yurika”
“Yes”
Yurika was going to recover her own corpses lying in the underground labyrinth. Even though it was a game, she didn't feel alright knowing that three of her own corpses were left behind. And since Yurika was cowardly, knowing that this game was resting right below her, in other words, the lower half of the wardrobe, she couldn't sleep well. She began thinking of the inside of the dark wardrobe as a part of the labyrinth. That said, if she erased the save data and that didn't solve her problems, she would never be able to recover. That's why she wanted to find her corpses and either revive them or bury them.
“Now that I think about it, this game was quite hard...”
Theia who was staring at Yurika's back as she started the game up mumbled. Since she had played it before, she still had some attachment to it.
“You beat the last boss, right?”
Koutarou joined in and stared at Yurika's back.
“Yes. Even though the enemy was closing in, he was casually drinking tea with his subordinates”
When Theia was playing the game, Koutarou had helped her out. Because of that, the two of them had traversed most of the underground labyrinth together. They were just like what Yurika and Sanae now were.
“But in the end, I didn't get to fight the rare monster”
“That's all based on luck. There's nothing you could do”