Field of Vision (5)

After the girl left.

I sat in the chapel, clutching my throbbing head as I thought.

Let's set aside for now the identity of the girl called the Princess of the Black Tower and the nature of the Reality Recognition Value.

The thing confusing me the most was...

The status window.

And the ending.

Until now, I had thought endings were something very bad. Moving on to the next cycle hadn't seemed like a good thing.

Even the first cycle was like that.

Because I reached the Nonhuman Ending in the first cycle, Guhanak descended in the second cycle.

In other words, once I reached an ending, I could no longer continue and had to move on to the next cycle, ultimately causing the difficulty of that next cycle to rise exponentially...