(This isn’t right, is it?! Is she seriously expecting me to complete this fucking nightmare!?)

Ryuga looks quite shocked by the things that he sees. There are small platforms with a massive gap between them, three planks that are scattered around this stage and it seems that the planks are holding on a thread. The moment someone steps on them, it will fall. Even further, one can see axes swinging left and right. At the end of the other side, there is the first butterfly key that Ryuga can obtain.

“Oh, let me remind you Aragi Ryuga if you die in there that just means you will die in real life this time. So be careful of what you do in there.”

Myra says to Ryuga from outside the television.

“Are you seriously kidding me?” Ryuga takes a deep breath and then shouts, “WHAT IN THE FUCKING FUCK IS THIS WORLD?!”

Team Deadly Field’s training room,

Jau and Mizuki are training together while Clayton and Ellie are practicing their own thing.

Clayton is training to use his enhancement more times per day.

Ellie on the other end is trying to use her hair abilities.

Ellie looks at the note that Ryuga left on the wall of their training room.

The note that Ryuga left had certain things written on it.

“Jau doesn’t need much work. She is strong as she is. The only thing she needs to focus on is to fight with the team.”

Ryuga left that message for Jau.

“Ellie must focus on using her limiter ability more often. It’s a very powerful limiter ability if used correctly. I think I know why Ellie doesn’t use that ability much. It’s because she is afraid to hurt someone but that’s fine. Just focus on controlling that power of yours Ellie and you will be just fine.”

That was the message that Ryuga left for Ellie.

“Clayton, you have to be the backbone of our team. Your enhancement needs to improve and I know you can do it. Instead of 15 enhancing per day, how about at least 50 per day by the time I get back. Knowing you, I know you can do it.”

Clayton seemed quite happy to follow Ryuga’s message.

“Finally, Captain Tachibana, I want you to watch over them, train them, make them stronger until I come back. I hope you can do that for me, cap!”

The final message was for Mizuki.

“What’s on your mind, Mizuki?”

Jau asks Mizuki.

“Well…You see…I am worried about, Aragi…I mean, does he really think that training under the Earthen Princess is the best idea?”

Mizuki asks Jau.

“Earthen Princess? Isn’t that the daughter of Time Protector?”

Clayton asks Mizuki.

“Yeah, Earthen Princess is the daughter of Time Protector.”

Mizuki says with a disappointed tone.

“Well, isn’t that great?! She is the daughter of one of the greatest Heroes of all time.”

Ellie says with a smile.

“That’s not great. Especially not great after knowing what she has done to people with her Second Key.”

Mizuki says.

“Hmm?”

Jau looks confused.

“Earthen Princess’s Second Key can be considered a childish yet one of the most dangerous Second Key in the whole world.”

Mizuki says.

“Video Game Creator, the Second Key where she controls the world of a video game, she induces challenges, she decides whether you are dead or alive. No one has ever completed her games.”

Mizuki looks concerned.

Everyone in the room starts laughing even Clayton had a little chuckle.

“What’s with you all?”

Mizuki looks quite surprised by everyone’s reaction.

“You weren’t there when I saw Ryuga stand up against Akuma Jin.”

Clayton says with a smile.

“Yeah, you weren’t there, when I saw him fight my brother and stand against my father.”

Ellie says with a smile.

“Same here, you weren’t there, when he threw away my pride just to rescue me from Ryan Arkwet.”

Jau says with a smile.

“That doesn’t say anything about how he can beat The Earthen Princess’s Second Key!”

Mizuki looked quite angry.

“It does actually.”

Clayton says.

“What?!”

Mizuki looks surprised.

“It just says that if there is someone who can do the impossible then it is none other than Ryuga himself. He is just a human, with no abilities, no special powers, and yet, he makes the impossible look possible. That is why I believe in him. I believe that he will come back to us, unscathed.”

Clayton says with a smile.

Ryuga looks at the stage and takes a deep breath,

(I shouldn’t let this get to my head. I have seen worse.)

Ryuga looks at the platforms, planks, and axes that are swinging around.

(I have to complete this within 12 hours. The reason that she says this is because people get scared and think twice before entering this platforming challenge. They do mistakes and massive ones when they panic costing them their life.)

Ryuga looks around.

(If I do this platforming puzzle calmly, it will take me about 3 to 4 hours at max.)

Ryuga takes his step forward,

“Alright! Let’s go!”

Ryuga makes the first jump on a platform.

“Three platforms in front of me, why would you give me three platforms Miss Myra? There must be some reason to why you gave it to me.”

Ryuga looks below at the wood of the platform.

“Oh?!”

Ryuga smirked as he figured something out.

(Two platforms are floating, only one is made of wood, which means…)

Ryuga jumps to the floating platform on the right. The platform close to him had wood crumbles.

“I knew it.”

Ryuga says.

“Well, well, it seems that you got a challenger, Myra.”

The same Elf that met Ryuga outside comes inside to meet Myra.

“Ecio, I didn’t expect you to show up.”

Myra says to the buff Elf.

“In all these years, there was only one challenger who actually beat your game.”

Ecio says to Myra.

“What are you trying to imply?”

Myra asks Ecio.

“I am trying to say, it’s always the people who are your student who beat that game of yours. More like, you saved that student of yours back then.”

Ecio says to Myra.

“But Myra, will you save this student of yours if he is in danger?”

Ecio asks Myra.

“I won’t. He came to me well knowing that I don’t take students anymore. So, if he dies, it’s his fault.”

Myra replies.

Ecio sighs,

“No one has ever completed your Glitchland Myra, he will die too if he goes there and…He doesn’t seem to be a bad guy. Save him if necessary.”

Ecio says to Myra.

“No.”

Myra says.

“Why are you so insistent on saving him?”

Myra asks Ecio.

“It’s because he reminds me of a certain person I met a long time ago.”

Ecio says with a smile.

Ecio leaves Myra’s place.

Outside Myra’s place,

Ecio whispers to himself, “Shotgun, that is your son, isn’t he?”

Ecio smiles.

After hopping from one platform to another,

Ryuga sees that there is no more platform in front of him, in fact, it’s a plank that is hanging by a thread.

He knows that the moment he jumps on the plank, the plank will move towards his weight.

At this moment, Ryuga really needs time to think and he has all the time in the world.

Ryuga sits on the top of the platform and starts thinking as the clock's timer constantly keeps ticking down.