As Koutarou was worried about his new problem. Yurika was worried about her ever-repeating nightmare. In her nightmare, she was walking around in a dark place, ended up in accident and suffered as death came for her. And it wasn't just once, but a total of three times. First, she ran out of food and starved to death. Next, she ran out of strength as she was being chased by some kind of beast. And finally, she was blown up by a bomb.
“Why is it always meeeeee!!”
As red flames extended in front of Yurika, she woke up.
“Eh, huh...?”
“What's wrong, Yurika?”
“M-Maki-chan?!”
Maki who was nearby stared at Yurika with her eyes wide open. She had been surprised by Yurika's sudden shout. The same was true for everyone nearby.
“A-Actually, I had a scary dream”
Since it wasn't really anything to hide, Yurika honestly answered.
“To think you'd be able to dream in a noisy place like this... you're quite the bigwig, Nijino Yurika”
Kiriha smiled happily. It was a very Yurika-esque reason.
“That's not what you call a bigwig, she's just an idiot”
“Sanae-sama, isn't that going a little too far...”
Sanae was dumbfounded. Ruth tried to follow up on Sanae, but she had a wry smile on her face. After all, Ruth was dumbfounded as well.
“So Yurika-chan, what kind of scary dream was it?”
Shizuka enjoyed disturbances as long as they were small enough, and she looked at Yurika with her eyes full of curiosity. She couldn't help but wonder what kind of dream she had.
“Well, I'm walking around a dark place, and terrible things happen to me and I die. And three times at that...”
“Terrible things... like food poisoning?”
Sanae's guess was food poisoning. Considering how Yurika spent her life, that was the only thing she could image.
“No! I starved to death, was eaten alive and blown up!”
“They're kind of the same thing”
“They're completely different!!”
Yurika's face turned red as she objected. In the past, she would have just gotten angry that she was being made out to look like an idiot, but she was different now. She didn't want the boy she loved to misunderstand, which gave birth to a powerful sense of embarrassment. That's why Yurika desperately wanted to correct their misunderstanding.
“Oh yeah, there was a game like that...”
The only one that showed a different reaction from the rest of the group was Theia. She seemed convinced of something and nodded repeatedly.
“A game? What are you talking about?”
That word seemed to catch Yurika's attention. That's why she temporarily forgot about her embarrassment and asked Theia for an explanation.
“There was a cavern exploration game that Koutarou and I used to play, remember?”
“Ah!”
As Theia pointed that out, Yurika remembered something.
It was quite a while back, but there was a time when Theia and Koutarou were playing a game where they explored a vast labyrinth while arguing.
“In that game, something similar happened to what you described”
“Really?”
“Yes. 「Yurika」 ran out of healing items and was left to die. I think 「Yurika A」 was killed by a monster. And 「Yurika B」―”
“I remember now!”
Sanae clapped her hands together with a smile.
“Theia was haphazardly controlling 「Yurika B」 and she walked into a trap and blew up!”
“Ha?!”
At that moment Yurika clearly remembered that time.
The game in question was extremely difficult, and required the player to create many characters and challenge it several times. But halfway through, Theia gave up on thinking of names as it was becoming a hassle, and named the characters after the people in room 106. The name Theia used for magicians was 「Yurika」. But Theia's play style was very rough on magicians and they would often die. After that, she created two more new characters, naming them 「Yurika A」 and 「Yurika B」. A total of three Yurikas were created.
Yurika remembered that all three Yurikas had all died violently. But since it was too much of a pain for Theia, she never recovered their bodies to revive them. She did give it a try once, but it didn't work out. After that, she reached the ending, and nobody had touched the game ever since.
That's why the three Yurikas’ corpses were still left unclaimed in the cold labyrinth despite the world having regained its peace.