"Anyway, so how much time has passed?"
He felt like he had been stuck here for ages with no signs of anyone coming to check on him.
[An hour and 10 mins.]
"That's it?"
Realising not even half an hour had passed since he was trapped in here, he couldn't help but feel slightly tired.
"You got any in-built TV or something like that in you?"
Even though he knew that even if that feature were available, he wouldn't be able to see it.
But he still asked as being stuck like this in a dark room is so boring for him.
[Nope.]
"Man, how about music?"
[Nope.]
"So any form of entertainment?"
[Nope.]
"Man…"
With nothing to do, he decided to just sleep for a bit as it was a lot better than doing nothing in this darkness.
'Hope someone comes soon.'
With the hope of someone coming to release him soon, he closed his eyes and started to fall asleep.
[So when are you going to sleep?]
But a few minutes later, he heard Iris' voice and instead of sleeping, he was still awake.
"I can't."
Sighing, he couldn't help lamenting his lack of tiredness.
With nothing else to do now, he once again decided to ask questions to Iris.
"Hey, why am I so calm right now though? Especially with the situation I am in right now?"
He remembered in the animes, that whenever the main character was in danger or situation like this, they would usually be mentally fucked and have some development.
'Could be due to a skill too.'
He also considered that probability as he remembered seeing such skills various times in those anime.
[Cause you are like that.]
But Iris's answer was something he didn't expect.
"What do you mean?"
[Try to think how you usually are and that's your answer.]
Hearing that, he tried to remember various times when he was emotional but didn't find many except during his childhood, in the illusion.
'That edit.'
Now that he thinks about it, he couldn't understand why he got so angry over such a simple thing.
"Hey, why did I have such an emotional response to that edit?"
He could understand the illusions and his past emotional outburst but not that, so the most likely reason he came to was.
'External meddling.'
[Not sure.]
"What do you mean?"
It was weird to see Iris being confused instead of giving such a vague response.
[As I said, I am not sure because it was not from my side.]
"If you say so."
Accepting, he thought about what really affected his emotions then as he didn't really like when someone controlled that aspect of his.
'First got to survive to know that.'
He could try to find who it was but that comes later, as the current predicament he was in right now didn't allow him to do anything like that for now.
"Also how do you know what happened in my past life?"
He found it kind of weird as he was not the one they were supposed to get because of the lack of knowledge about the story.
So it was weird for them to spy on his past life but surprisingly he got his answer easier than he expected.
[I checked your memory of how you came and don't worry, I didn't see anything else.]
"Aren't you pretty considerate?"
Even though it was annoying to have his memory checked without his consent, at least it was not something he held dear to him.
[I know.]
"You are supposed to say thanks for the praise."
[Thanks.]
"Hmm."
Nodding his head, he now thought about whether to ask the question he had in mind right now.
'Well, worrying about it will only make it worse.'
"So, was my past life real?"
[What do you mean?]
"You know how I was stuck in an illusion just now, so was my past life an illusion too."
After asking that, he couldn't help but feel a bit sick in his stomach.
Right now he was in a state of wanting to know the answer while also not wanting to hear it.
[Honestly, I don't know but I believe it's most likely to be real.]
Even after hearing this, he still had some doubts while also feeling of not getting the answer that he wanted.
"Wish it was not real."
"Wish what?"
Suddenly he heard a feminine voice from his right side and looked towards it.
What he was was a pair of two red lights glowing in this dark room.
"Who, no what even are you?"
"Will answer that later, but first what did you wish for?"
Slowly those red lights which were most likely her eyes, started to come closer and closer towards his face.
But surprisingly, he couldn't make out her face at all which made him realise that those eyes were a bit more than just special.
"Hey no need to be enchanted by my beautiful face, I mean you can be as it's so beautiful after all but first answer my question."
She was so close to him now that he could hear her breathing.
But hearing her words, he couldn't help but look at her with a blank gaze.
"You know I can't see your face?"
"Oh! Silly me, but you can be enchanted by my beautiful face once you get out."
'What is this situation even?'
Looking away from those red eyes, he couldn't help but feel that he was in a dream or something.
But hearing the second part, he looked at her again and realized what her identity was.
"Are you the one that captured me?"
"Hmm, maybe I did? Or maybe I didn't? But first, you got to answer me."
Now she came even closer to him and he could almost feel her face touching her face.
Pulling a bit further away from her, he decided to fabricate a lie to that question.
"Well, I wish to get out of here, now you answer me."
"Oh pretty simple wish, and yup I captured you here."
Looking back at her, even though he couldn't see it due to darkness, he could feel her smiling.