-----
In the time Maria and her group were fighting the Nightmare Demon of Childhood, the other groups here were all trapped within an even larger dome-shaped Nightmare Realm, where they were subjected to terrifying trials and challenges to survive. What's worse, mostly everyone had been teleported into some deadly area when they appeared there, making things incredibly hard to even survive.
Maria was afraid something had happened, and it did, as she was delivered the news that three students ended up dying, all three of them were students she and her friends and family had grown a bit attached to, as they were the participants of the tournament they battled against.
Arthur, in specific, and Celes as well, looked the saddest, as two students they had become friends with ended up dying, they were unable to even save them, but they found their corpses, with large holes in their chests.
