I knew as soon as he said the trial was in his room it would be Dragon Quest. That's the most Arthur trial Arthur could think of. I remember I tried to brute force the final boss in III too because my hero got leveled up to 99 on the Pachi board. Didn't work, so I made a sage and went back. That...
The lady in black is a regular human who crossed the tear in space, and she stayed on the other side so long that she became the way she is. She was also a former pillar.