I nearly fainted.
I was almost proud of myself for managing to remain conscious.
The thing flowing endlessly out of me did not look like anything that should emerge from a human body.
No, it looked like something that should never appear anywhere in the world.
Countless eyes were embedded in its grotesque form.
Eyes of different colors looked at me.
Beyond the revulsion and goosebumps, one thought arose before all others.
‘Is he going to travel around like that from now on?’
I did not want to carry that thing inside me, but neither could I release something with that appearance into the world.
Laughter came from the entity I believed to be Dominic.
“I’m sorry. I had to disguise myself as an item in order to leave Mournveil.”
Dominic was the culprit behind the 9,999 items.
Having fought for my life to reach the True Ending, it was painful to know I had lost my opportunity to receive an item.
‘Was that Recognition error because of Dominic, too?’
If Dominic turning himself into an item had caused the System to classify him as belonging to me, it would explain why my Recognition briefly soared to an unbelievable value.
In any case, that was not the immediate problem.
The greatest issue was that I would now have to travel with… this… thing.
I looked up at it as…