FINALISTS

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At this moment, we already arrived inside of the castle.

While walking, we kept looking around admiring the view. After some time, we arrived at a hall with many doors, after which the woman suddenly stopped again, before speaking once again,"you can choose any room here, you're free to do anything you want after this, roam around and try to discover different places in my castle, that's what makes it fun, if you need me,I'll be at the main hall", right after she said this, she began walking away, when I noticed this, I immediately said,"umm... Ma'am..." but just as I was about to continue, the woman stopped walking and turned around, after which she said with a smile,"Please just call me Airi, I am not that old as you think I am, actually if we're talking about age, I am not much that different from you, What's your age?". 

When I heard her question, I answered,"17".

"I am 17 as well, well that is if you put me in your world,and besides, it's really weird being called Ma'am, so just call me Airi okay?". When I heard this, I nodded my head and said,"Um... Airi, may I ask why you brought us here to this place instead of the inner layer? I mean, won't we be losing time?". When Airi heard my question, she smiled and said,"I'm sure that the map shown to you didn't include the details of the inner layer, am I right?".  When I heard this, I nodded my head and said,"indeed the inner layer was not included, I thought that it was quite weird and that it was just a mistake at first, but now I'm sure that it was on purpose, may I ask the reason for this?".

When Airi heard me, she smiled and said, "The reason why the inner layer was not shown was because there really was no inner layer".

When I first heard this, I had a puzzled look on my face, and when Airi saw me, she laughed lightly and explained, "The reason for this is because the so called inner layer... is this place".

When I heard this I was surprised, but after a few moments, Airi continued,"This place is where the final test shall occur. All participants who had succeeded will be ending up at this place. The two of you thought that it was quite easy coming here, well that was because I led you here, which is the reason why you didn't receive any obstruction. The others will be transported to different islands, after which they will have to pass through them and go from island to island just to reach here, you probably saw the floating islands outside right? well that is where the second test is happening. When the final bell rings, all who did not reach this place or arrived will be considered to have been failed. Seven bells already rang, this means that there is only ten hours left on the clock for the others to cross the islands. Now do the two of you see how lucky you are in getting the approval of that yellow guy and receiving his medal?".

When I heard Airi's explanation, I managed to understand a lot of things, and the current situation. I nodded my head and said my thanks to her. After awhile she turned around and left, after some time, Airi's figure can no longer be seen. Haruka and I entered a random room together, upon entering, the first thing we saw was a room full of decorations, a king sized bed, and a lot more things. It looked like a princess's room or even more luxurious. Haruka and I walked towards the bed and casually sat down as we began talking with each other.

At this time, we began to get bored so we decided to roam around,we began walking towards the direction we came from,after walking for some time, the both of us arrived outside once again. Even though we saw the islands before, we still couldn't help but marvel at the beautiful sight of this place. After some time, we began walking towards the edge of the island we were currently residing at. After some time, we finally arrived and casually sat down beside the edge.
We would sometimes lay on our belly and look down on the cliff and see white clouds, sometimes we would lay back and watch the floating islands, the sight was really beautiful.

At this moment when Haruka and I were laying down on the grass together, we suddenly heard bells ringing. "Looks like there is only five hours remaining huh? are there really no other people? wait... Don't tell me that only the both of us are the ones who passed?!" said haruka.

When I heard this, I just said,"How about we go back for now? Lets go and check on Airi". When Haruka heard my words, she nodded her head and after which she took the lead and began running towards the location of the castle.

At this moment, Haruka and I arrived at the entrance of the castle, when we arrived, we noticed that Airi was standing right in front of the entrance. After noticing this, I walked up to her and began to talk, "Hey, airi... what are you doing here? is there something wrong?".

Just as I asked, Airi smiled and said, "Another pair finally arrived, why not come with me and welcome them to this place". When we heard this, we nodded our head in agreement, after which she began leading us to a certain place of the island. After some time, we finally arrived at the edge of the island, we saw a bridge hanging, while clouds were blocking our view, which makes it hard to look at, this bridge was connected to many other islands, such a waste. When we arrived, the three of us began talking to each other when we noticed that the pair had not yet arrived, we began talking among ourselves. After some time, we finally noticed two silhouette of people,  after some time, we were finally able to see clearly, the two was pair,  a man and a girl. The girl was very beautiful, not everybody noticed this because she was always overshadowed by the beauty of Haruka, but the girl did not take this as an insult. The man was quite handsome and had quite a well toned body.

After some time, they finally arrived in front of us, when the two of them saw us, they smiled and said to us,"Seems like the both of us were not the first to finish huh?". At this moment, Airi suddenly spoke, " Congratulations for the both of you for passing the second place". When the both of them heard this, they smiled and nodded their head to airi while saying thank you, after which they went to our side.

Just as we were about to turn around and leave, we noticed that airi was still standing there motionless looking at the bridge. When we looked at the bridge, we also saw another two silhouette of a man and a girl.

When we saw this, we stopped in our steps and waited to see who it was who just arrived. After a few moments, the silhouettes became clearer by the second. When we saw who it was that arrived, we were all surprised,"Sora and Yue?!". The ones who just arrived were none other than Sora and yue, the two companions  Toshiro had in the very beginning. After a few moments, they finally arrived in front of us,"Yo, TOSHI! Seems like you and haruka made it earlier than us huh?
HM? seems like even the lovebirds made it", said sora when he saw the other pair who just arrived.

When the girl heard this, she turned her head and after which her face became red as a tomato, as for the guy, he lightly coughed and said,"*Cough* Sora, you just came from the second test, why not go ahead and rest, it's not good to have little rest while being so talkative". When sora heard this, he had an awkward smile on his face as he scratched the back of his head.

After some time, We all returned to the castle, just as we arrived outside the entrance, the final bell rang signalling that the 45 hours has ended. We all entered the castle, after which Airi suddenly spoke,"All six of you, may you all please follow me to the main hall".

When we heard this, we all looked at each other before nodding our head and followed behind her.  

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