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Chapter 155 – Things I Can’t Give Up (10) If You Like, Please Remember This
I deactivated Escape from Reality and returned to the boss room in the post-collapse Okutama Lake dungeon.
I deactivate the long-pending incantation for the wide-area annihilation spell.
“…Eh, what was that just now…?”
It was Honoka-chan who raised her voice in confusion.
To Honoka-chan, who can read my mind, it must have looked like my consciousness suddenly switched.
There was no need to come back.
All I had to do was use the level 3 Escape skill in the other dimension.
Whether they would understand if I used it or not was irrelevant.
The problem itself would go away.
Still, the reason I came back might be because I’ve grown fond of these guys over the past few months.
Even if it’s meaningless, I wanted to at least say goodbye.
I talk to them.
“I think I found a solution.”
The three of them open their eyes wide at my words.
“Well, it’s not guaranteed to work.”
“…Wh-what are you saying all of a sudden?!”
Haruhara lashes out.
“…How do you suggest we resolve this situation? It seems like we’re stuck, no matter how you look at it.”
It was Sayuki who asked.
“That’s right. This situation is indeed a dead end. We can’t do anything about it.”
“Then…”
“Hey, what would you do if there was a wall in front of you that you just couldn’t get over?”
The three of them looked at each other in response to my sudden question.
“Like I said… what’s with this all of a sudden?”
“No, I just wanted to ask.”
“Even if you ask me what to do… I can only say that there are some walls that cannot be overcome.”
Sayuki answers, understanding that I’m not asking this as a joke.
“If it can’t be crossed, then you could go around it, find a shortcut or find a ladder and climb over it. But it’s all just a metaphor.”
“What if you can’t even do that?”
“Then you have no choice but to give up. Are you really going to try to convince me now?”
“That’s not what I meant.”
“So you’re saying that we should join forces and find a solution together?”
“I’m sorry, that’s not what I meant. I have someone waiting for me, and I can’t afford to spend years trying to find a solution.”
“Why don’t you look for someone who knows how to get over the wall?”
This is Honoka-chan’s opinion.
I see; that’s an idea I wouldn’t have come up with as a lone wolf.
“That’s not a bad idea, but there are some things that no one can understand.”
Even the God of this world doesn’t understand it.
“If there’s nothing you can do about it… there’s always the option of accepting it and living happily ever after. You don’t have to try to climb over all the walls that are in your way. If you can be with the person you love, isn’t that enough?”
Honoka-chan says.
“…I’m a lucky guy in this world.”
“Eh?”
“No, I’m just saying that if I have a girlfriend like Honoka-chan, that’s probably good too.”
“T-Then…”
“Don’t worry, I’ll leave this world behind properly. Well, that’s not exactly…”
“You mean you found a way to return to your original world? Why are you talking about that all of a sudden? What does that have to do with what we talked about?”
“Well, it’s probably just my own self-satisfaction. What do you do when you hit a wall you can’t get over? And what if you can’t even choose to spend the rest of your life happily in front of that wall?”
“So you’re saying that you can’t change reality, but you can’t accept it either?”
Sayuki’s eyebrows furrow slightly.
“That is… the death of the mind. If you really can’t accept reality with all your heart, then there is no other choice but to die.”
“So that’s how you feel, Sayuki.”
I mutter to myself.
“Huh?”
“No, that’s nothing. There are people who have decided to take their own lives to reject a reality they can’t accept. But you can’t just jump to that kind of ultimate decision.”
“So what do you suggest?”
“In such a situation… you escape. You escape without thinking about the consequences, even if other people laugh at you. After all, you’ve got nothing to lose.”
I remembered the skill I confirmed in the other dimension: Level 3 Escape skill.
Skill──────────────────
Escape
S.Lv1: Allows you to escape from battle.
S.Lv2: Allows you to escape reality.
【NEW!】S.Lv3: Allows you to escape from difficulties.
【NEW!】S.Lv3 “Escape from Difficulty”
Conditions for use:
You must realize from the bottom of your heart that the situation you are in is completely unsolvable.
Special Notes:
When you use the skill of Escape from Difficulty to travel back in time, the causal factors that belong to you will remain in their most recent state.
However, since the recognition of causal factors is a heavy burden on the human soul, if you spend too much time traveling back in time, the causal factors that belong to you will wear out.
Also, you cannot go back in time to a point that is not directly related to the “difficulty” you have recognized.
It is possible to escape the same difficulties over and over again, but each time you do, your soul becomes more and more defeated, and your sense of self-affirmation is permanently diminished. The only way to restore your diminished sense of self-affirmation is to overcome the same type of difficulty.
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Well, there are a lot of things I want to pick apart.
First of all, the specific details of the abilities are not explained.
Even the conditions of use in the explanation are not very clear.
Compared to the abilities and skills of the job world, the skills of the skill world tend to be tightly defined and poorly explained.
The way to use abilities and skills is intuitive, but the only clue to skills is the explanation.
I wish they would at least give a minimal explanation.
And as usual, the downsides are too dangerous.
I can’t stand to have my already low self-esteem permanently lowered.
I’ve just started to come out of my shell and finally start to climb out of the depths.
From the content of the explanation, it seems that there is no punishment for escaping from the same difficulties only once.
As for “realizing from the bottom of your heart that the situation you’re in is completely unsolvable,” I’ve thought about it a lot in space and time, and I’ve come back to it.
I already feel that it should work now.
As for the effect… I guess I’ll just have to try it to find out.
“Our Yuto wouldn’t say something like that.”
Haruhara says with a frown.
“Then I guess that means he forgot about it. If he gets into trouble, he can just run away. Tell that to Yuto. I’m sure he knew what to do when he was a kid, but he seems to have forgotten somewhere along the way.”
Apparently, when I was in junior high, Serika was having trouble with the relationships in her club, and I told her to escape.
“Don’t worry. Everyone’s life isn’t as perfect as it looks from the outside. There are always other ways, even if you’ve escaped.”
“So you think you’re older and have more life experience?”
“Well, I don’t know about that…”
I said with a wry smile.
I guess I was a bit preachy.
“See you. If you like, remember this―don’t give up and just escape.”
With that, I activated Escape from Difficulty.
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