"Yun, why don't we rest a bit and practice your magic?"
"…"
"Floor 90"
The floor bosses were getting more trickier abilities. But the dungeon itself didn't feel like it was built to challenge a person at all. As easy as a dress up game, just choose something that looked nice and it works. Though the mind abilities were difficult to deal with. However, I already have an ability to deal with mind abilities now.
Moreover, the reason it was so easy was because of Insight. Knowing everything in the present was useful.
A homunculus jumped at me. It vaporised and the gooey remains fell to the forest floor continuing to melt the ground underneath. It was a pink forest like the second floor had been a blue forest. Even the homunculus earlier didn't look ugly. It looked like a beaver or a zaraa with golden scales and white huge feathers lined between its skeleton.
A stream of gold appeared before me. Clearly it was water.
A passing wind carried the words the system said once ago. "Yun the scenery is so beautiful."
I put a finger in the stream and sat in silence, head hung heavy. Was this beautiful?
The tip of the fingers grew roots and burrowed into the earth below. All the while purple streaks appeared in the stream.
Hmmm
This was right, yes this was right. But what was right? I don't know.
Upon tilting my head the sun at the edges of tree tops caught my eye. For a moment it felt like a crime to destroy something so beautiful. But ultimately being bothered by something as meaningless as beauty was the real laughing part.
The purple in the stream disappeared.
So the boss was in the open and this was his ability.
I sprung up. My senses were ringing. But how were they planning to attack me?
My hair turned pink.
The already beautiful forest appeared like it had cast away a layer of dust. The trees beautiful, the golden stream dazzling and wonderful, the clouds in the sky like a dream. Why did I want to destroy it again?
Wait, is that a unicorn between the trees?
Wait for me!
The unicorn turned to me and the sun shone on its Snow White mane.
"Where have the sweet dreams gone? Where have the wonder gone?
Here you will find peace and your fading dreams will come true
Sweet will you be as you were, happy will you be as you hoped"
I cried and hugged the boss.
"Yun? Wake up, that's the boss."
"Yes he is. What a wonderful boss."
But the word boss doesn't suit him. It lacks.
Jiji cut my thought, "Yun, you've been brainwashed. You're supposed to kill him."
"No Jiji,"
It's not brainwashing. If it had been, I could've stopped it. This is different. I've been reborn.
The system came to silence. Was he wondering? I do not know what he is thinking. But I don't hate him anymore.
***
In the middle of the pink forest Yun sat playing with bizarre creatures looking like they'd stepped out from a fantasy. Little small fairies sprung around her.
For the first time he felt so happy that he could burst. Before, when she was alive, he could never be as happy when she smiled. But now he almost could.
Which was the dilemma. To let her stay or go forward as she'd wished. Or maybe perhaps she'd want to stay here where she can finally be happy.
If she stayed here, she'd be safe. Yun who was just one of the insect put in a jar to select the strongest would be safe. The goddess though she may be kind enough to listen to his begging to go back to Yun didn't care a single bit about her. He on the other hand didn't have the right to care, but there was no one else except him by her now. Her parents, brother, and the grandpa and grandmothers at the hospital, nor the nurses who loved her were here anymore.
Yun would have to face the others being raised on the last floor. She was in no condition to do so. Aside from being at a disadvantage because she didn't evolve, she was also the one in the worst mental state. Yun… Yun who was like a floating balloon about to be swept away, lost forever in the blue sky. With just a push she seemed to be about to pop.
If he'd known about the contest earlier, who would've pushed her more. But she hated being pushed anyway. Even if Yun didn't get out from this state, she was in the perfect state to persuade her to practice her magic and come up with ways to use the floor boss abilities. No, in fact even in this state, Yun could still destroy the floor accidentally she didn't necessarily need to be brought out.
"Yun" the system called out tentatively.
"What is it?" She smiled.
Jiji, for the first time felt so happy that he could burst.
"Let's, let's learn magic."
"Okay"