human
Echidna:  "I don’t like the cheeky thought process behind such questions: It might be too much to ask, but I’ll ask anyway and their ilk.”
gpt
Emilia:  “Is that how it is…? Well, thank you anyway.”
human
Echidna:  Hearing Emilia give thanks despite being insulted, Echidna twisted her lips in disgust.
gpt
Emilia:  Emilia actually found Echidna’s unchanging attitude incredibly comforting at the moment. That was how staggering Emilia’s past had been. In a true sense, the restoration of her memories had turned her entire life upside down. —She’d committed body and spirit to the royal selection to save everyone in the frozen forest, and yet…
human
Emilia:  “I’m the one who made them all ice statues… Everyone who tried to save me…”
gpt
Emilia:  Unable to respond to their feelings, she’d ended up shutting everyone under the snow, freezing them completely. Once freed from the ice, Emilia had spent her time in the forest without any memories of her regrets. She’d spent every day continuing to speak to the people who had become ice statues—never realizing she was trying to atone for her own feelings of guilt. Now she understood why her memories had been sealed away. Even had Pandora not interfered with them, she might have wanted to forget them regardless in a moment of weakness.
human
Echidna:  “You have remembered the past and seen your regrets to the end. However, the Trial is not yet finished.” The memories that led to her regrets had finished playing out. Echidna made a comment as she stared at the silent world’s snowy landscape.
gpt
Echidna:  “The past has been revealed without difficulty. You challenged the Trial, and your journey to reach your worst, most terrible mistakes, which gave rise to your regrets, is at an end. Now you must provide your answer.”
human
Emilia:  “An answer to the Trial…”
gpt
Echidna:  “The first Trial is to see if you can succeed in breaking from your greatest past regret. You can accept or deny your own past. Rejection is another choice. I respect whatever conclusion you may choose.”
human
Emilia:  Emilia deeply exhaled hearing Echidna’s words, which somehow sounded rather passionate. By climbing onto the stage known as the Trial, Emilia had finally confronted the past she had wondered about so many times. Having lost her pact with Puck and reclaimed herself after he had indulged her for so long, Emilia had uncovered her own memories at long last and made it this far.
gpt
Echidna:  “All that said, perhaps you are even more at a loss. After all, the starting point of your resolve has been tarnished. The sin that turned your mother, your friend, and your family into ice statues belongs to none other than you.” Echidna’s words sliced into Emilia like a blade. The frozen forest, her people who’d been turned into ice statues, the forest being corrupted by the plague-bearing demon beast, the loss of her mother, and the breaking of Geuse’s mind— Emilia had left the forest because she wanted to save everyone in the village—to save her mother.