Self-Awareness And Determination

「――Hi! Gah――!」

Once my consciousness returned, I jumped up vigorously onto my feet.

「Oi Gil, are you okay?」

Those eyes. Those partly open eyelids. They were looking at me with a shocked face.

This place was the huge meeting room in Ket Nya. Every leader of various tribes was gathered in this place. If that was the

case, that might be another one of prophetic dreams…

Maybe because I felt relieved, I felt all power drained from my body. And due to how nauseated that dream was, I ended up

vomiting on the floor. I kept vomiting till it felt like I vomited all the content in my stomach.

After the feeling akin to a storm had passed, I finally managed to get a grip on myself.

The meeting had to be suspended for one hour due to the sudden interruption now resumed.

「Gil, did you see another prophetic dream?」

Chigi asked with grim face.

「Uhn…」

Though I nodded at him, part of myself had always been wondering if everything that I saw was truly just a prophetic dream?

Having seen such a dream repeatedly was already abnormal.

Firstly, the dream felt too realistic to be a dream. Though I assumed that it was a mere dream since it looked extremely

realistic like when I dreamed of that lowlife but, was it so realistic to the point of reproducing my sense of pain too? For me, it

looks like reality instead of a mere dream. The pain was too realistic for that to be dismissed.

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Secondly, it was far too long to be a dream. When I asked Chigi and co, they told me that I just suddenly passed out during

the meeting. When Chigi shook my body awake, I suddenly woke up on my own. In short, I passed out for less than five

minutes. Too short to be able to make me dream.

Thirdly, the end of the nightmare was coincidence with the moment of my death. If it really was a prophetic dream, I didn't

have to die to wake up.

Lastly, the most suspicious thing of all. Namely, since when did I saw that prophetic dream?

The end of my memories was after I got caught by Urokonu and tortured till I died. Even if I passed out during the meeting,

there was something off about this situation. I simply dismissed this problem as a prophetic dream all this time but, I might

come to understand the nature of this ability after the same things repeated again, and again in a short time.

In short, I've died time and time again and then returned to the past. If that was what happened, then everything that

happened would make sense.

「What did you see this time?」

「The worst situation…」

I told them about my experience.

「Yeah, that's the worst for sure.」

I nodded in agreement with Chigi who muttered while crossing his arms.

「Yeah, those guys put up a barrier, meaning that we can't pass the northwest area, or should I say that all northern area of

the city has already become their territory.」

「Even if you tell me that, not just anyone can pass through that steep cliff!」

Yes. I knew about it from Urokonu herself in the last moment of my life back then. Even if we ran to the south, they could still

capture Shar and use her as a sacrifice for their ceremony. The escape plan had only managed to buy us some time. Since

that was the case――

「That's why we have to travel between the gaps of their barriers!」

In the end, there was no talk about trying to meet that strongest existence. Since that was the case, we had to give

everything we had at our disposal. Naturally, if a weak and diminutive me tried to outwit them, the only option was trial and

error.

The reason why I chose this method was not because I am a masochist who feels pleasure from pain. I hate pain, and I don't

want to be hurt either. But, if it was for Shar, such things were trivial to me. I would do anything to protect everyone from such

evil.

Yes, the moment I realized that I felt as if a weight lifted from my shoulders.

「I will move on my own from now on. I will leave the matter of persuading everyone to the rest of you!」

「But, if your dream is true, even if everyone escaped they will――」

Hearing Chigi's protest,

「I'll buy as much time as possible for you!」 

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I rushed out of the meeting room as soon as I declared so. Either way, we wouldn't be able to survive if we couldn't find the

gap in their barrier. Naturally, I might die this time too and have to repeat again. But, waiting on my butt would only result in

everyone's death, and that was the last thing I wanted to see.

（I will do it!）

Encouraging myself again, I started the journey towards the nightmarish death again