The Situation on Each Front

Krrrummm--!

"Hmm...?"

Ariel rose from the sofa at the sudden roar.

"Ugh!"

At the same time, an unbearable pain began rising from deep within her heart—or rather, her soul.

It was not ordinary pain.

Ariel instinctively sensed that this pain did not come from her body, but from her soul.

'Is this... the price?'

Her mind awakened at once, though it was still hazy. But she knew this pain was the price of seeing another worldline—in other words, a parallel world.

Of course, she had not seen that other worldline because she wanted to, and one might think it unfair that she had to suffer the pain of having her soul twisted because of it...