147 – 148. It’s not a dream.
White room
White ceiling
White duvet
White clothes
“…….Ugh…”
There are no windows.
There is also no watch.
There is no way to know the situation outside.
Total isolation.
An empty space where it is difficult to even breathe.
A spirit that gradually begins to corner itself.
“Eup… Ugh…”
The limbs were bound with something like chains and the mouth was gagged.
The freedom of the body was taken away. The mind is isolated.
‘──Haaa…’
Close your eyes.
Take your breath slowly.
Calm down your emotions.
Keep your sanity.
Minerva worked backwards to figure out what situation she was in.
‘Perhaps this is…’
Asylum.
It is also a place where seriously ill patients are imprisoned.
Not even a place where only patients are imprisoned…
‘Probably a place to imprison the Awoken’
Every time I tried to generate power, the chains locked on my wrists and ankles sank my divinity.
It feels as if you are forcibly suppressing your strength. Let’s forcefully resist that feeling and raise our divinity–
─Chijijijik…!
“Turn it off…!!”
A pain that goes up through the chain.
A pain like being struck by lightning.
Concentration is released from the pain that humans cannot resist and cannot get used to, and the muscles of the whole body become paralyzed for an instant.
‘…What should I do…?’
No answer.
I couldn’t answer.
The limbs were tied and the power sealed.
There is nothing you can do on your own.
‘Mr. Chrono…’
Is Chrono okay?
Maybe it’s not okay. It will be very painful and difficult.
Perhaps they are confined in the same space as they are now, and are being tortured with their limbs bound.
‘Something…Some way…!’
No.
Nothing.
There was nothing Minerva could do.
Her All she was allowed to do was worry in her heart and be anxious about her current situation.
In the end, worry becomes regret
Regret leads to reminiscence
“…… Ugh…”
Reminiscing soon led to self-reflection.
‘I was too hasty’
I was too impatient with the feeling that Chrono was lost and that Chrono was trapped.
My opponent is none other than my father—the guild leader of Athena’s guild.
The idea of just shouting at a person like that into a broadcast camera was too young and foolish.
‘If only I could go back…’
What should I have done at that time?
‘First of all…’
Make a phone call.
To whom? To Mars.
Mars is the successor to the Ares Guild.
There is Chrono’s lover.
As such, if you inform them that Chrono is in danger, they will immediately come and help you.
‘Then…’
Merck.
Gather her information through her.
A friend with a bit of a bad hobby, but her ability is outstanding.
If you bring the Athena Guild key or master key and hand it over, you will be able to figure out everything about the Athena Guild.
If you know where Chrono is and where he is trapped, then it’s a matter of a second.
There’s no way I can save Chrono and return to my normal life again.
“────”
Father.
Dad.
He, the guild leader of the Athena Guild, will stop us.
I was able to easily guess that fact through the script that my father gave me.
He is a person who lives for the guild and by the guild.
A person who can use even his own daughter as a marketing tool for the guild and erase Chrono’s existence.
As such, I will do my best to cover up the truth, and I will not be able to overcome it alone.
‘Maybe it’s going to be difficult even with Merck?’
Even if Merck steals information, it is a problem.
Even if the corruption of the Athena Guild is uncovered, if no one responds to it, the information will become empty and meaningless.
I was able to know that fact through the people in front of the camera at the broadcasting station.
I tried my best to tell the truth, but the people I thought were the public were actually members of the Athena Guild.
Unanswered truth disappears behind lies
The uninterested sincerity is buried in front of stimulating material.
She was able to realize that, that fact, that reality about him.
Good experience. Knowledge that can become fertilizer in the future.
However, it is a useless thing that cannot be used right away.
‘To persuade people…’
…It’s impossible for me.
Minerva knows.
She always came forward as a leader and the next guild leader of the Athena Guild, but the reason they followed was not because of my own leadership, but because of her father’s shadow.
It was never a result that could have come out by persuading them.
Rather, to talk about that kind of “Personality” That persuades people…
‘…Yuno suits her much better’
I felt as if I had made it through the midterm exam.
She is a person who knows how to be considerate of others, and to that extent, she also has the inclination to convince others.
If Yuno is sincere in persuading someone, she will be persuaded even if it is because of her heart.
‘At least it’s much more likely than me.’
And the role of leading the public persuaded in that way is probably—
‘──Chrono’
Minerva remembered.
Queen Siren’s subjugation.
The Moment of Hero Birth.
A man who stepped forward alone and swindled everyone when everyone else was retreating.
‘Chrono will definitely attract everyone’s response’
The ability to light a small fire into a large flame.
The Chrono I saw that day was at least a person much more suited to being a ‘leader’ than he was.
‘If that’s the case, sure’
The public goes over
People fall
At the end of my heart
The appearance of the guild collapsing.
“……Huh…”
In a half-collapsed guild
A father who denies reality with a haggard expression.
And if you imagine Chrono leaving himself next to him as if it was nothing in front of him like that…
“Uhhhhh…!”
I love it.
Minerva reveled in the delusions that had grown in his head.
That’s the price of enjoying yourself in delusion for a long time
“…….Ew”
Real Grasping
“About… Awesome”
The ensuing anger
And
‘…….I can’t do anything.’
Self loathing.
Minerva was no longer gagged.
Just keep his eyes closed. He just lay still and exhaled.
‘I don’t know how to do anything’
‘I can’t do anything’
A hatred of oneself that gradually deepens.
Rage against me for my incompetence.
From noble mtl dot com
‘I’m not as active as Mars’
‘The technology is not as good as Merck’
Cutting yourself down, cutting yourself down, struggling with the pain that follows
‘I don’t have a good personality like Yuno’
‘I don’t have as much leadership as Chrono’
Compare, blame yourself
Swearing, insulting, and coming after that——
‘I——I really don’t know how to do anything…’
A feeling of exhaustion.
The feeling of releasing something from her hand.
The collapse that follows. A feeling of emptiness. An indescribable, bizarre pleasure that makes your body tremble.
‘A fool…A fool…A coward who entrusts everything to others’
It’s not the warm, happy, pleasure I felt in Chrono’s arms.
‘……Asshole’
It’s cold, it’s cool, and my back is shaking.
The pleasure of being sucked into a deep, cold swamp.
Brain’s defense instinct to protect itself from intense self-loathing.
Minerva smiled madly at the strange, empty feeling of happiness that had engendered.
‘An idiot… An idiot…. Only accepting help, wanting others to do it…!’
Hot steam fills your eyes. Hot teardrops.
The body temperature gradually gets colder as it flows down the cheek.
‘…………..’
My body temperature is getting cold.
My head goes blank.
A human with a cold body temperature.
A person who doesn’t think.
The word to describe it is——corpse.
‘……………..’
A dead person.
A decaying body, mind and soul.
And
“Does this work? Is this really a scam?”
‘…………..?’
Voice.
The voice of Chrono.
“Minerva you… I’m sorry. I’ll release you soon.”
‘…………..’
Is it hallucination?
Is it a hallucination?
Chrono appeared before my eyes.
Chrono raised the sword in his hand and opened the chains around his wrists and ankles ──
“──f*ck, why is this coming out here?”
I couldn’t cut it.
Is the blade not cutting, or is there another problem?
Krono, who was still agonizing over the chains, aimed a gun at the chains and shot them.
─Geeing…!
“…That’s it.”
‘…….Ah’
Vibration felt in the wrist.
The feeling of freeing your hands.
But I know. Minerva knows.
‘It’s a dream, this’
Because if you shoot, the gunshots have to go off.
However, the gun shot by Chrono seemed to use a silencer, no, no sound at all.
I shot a gun, but I can’t hear it?
It’s a contradiction.
“Let’s go home now, Mai!”
“Two are heavy…”
A blonde beautiful girl listened to Chrono’s command and turned into a white horse.
It’s a contradiction.
“If everyone stops now…Wait a minute, but if the child stops, how are you going to take him?
─Pur-Rung…Pu-Hing!
“A scythe? With a scythe, what…That was possible!”
─Purrureung…
A man is talking to a horse.
It’s a contradiction.
“Minerva, bear with it even if it stings a little.”
“───Ah…”
My hand hurts as if something had cut it.
It hurts.
It is the feeling of being sick.
It is not a contradiction.
‘…Isn’t this a dream?’
“Manipulates the time of the vane opponent… It can also be used in this way.”
“………..”
The world turns gray.
Chrono hugs me.
Get on top of the horse and come out.
A prince on a white horse.
I was held in his arms.
A gray world.
People around me just stopped.
‘…It’s a dream after all.’
Perhaps he bumped into a wall while sleeping or his wrist was clamped by a chain.
“Let’s go back now. Use up all the time left!”
“Ah…”
Chrono took me in his arms and ran.
Suuuk ── narrowing of the field of view.
A feeling as if the space is being folded.
“──Kkeuuu…
“………”
When I open my eyes again
I was in an unfamiliar house, not in a hospital room.
“Then now… First of all, take a break.”
“Ah…”
Chrono took me in his arms and carried me onto the bed.
The back view of covering the blanket and leaving.
“Wait…”
“…?”
It’s a dream
Even if it’s a dream
Minerva wanted to convey these words.
“…I’m sorry.”
Maybe it’s impossible in real life
“I’m sorry I couldn’t save you…”
Still, even here in my dreams
Minerva apologized to Chrono with all her heart.
“…I’m sorry.”
With those words, Chrono closed the door and disappeared.
In a dark room. A strange but cozy bed. A comforter with a nice scent.
“…Chrono is…”
“Even in my dreams…Still Kronone…”
Minerva buried her face in the blanket and slowly closed her eyes.
As an aside
“This is not a dream.”
“….. Huh?”
The blonde girl I saw earlier.
Mai speaks to her.
“So don’t rub too much. This is Mai’s favorite blanket.”
“…………”
I have a little bit of detail in my dream
Minerva buried her face in the covers again and closed her eyes.
‘Smells nice…’
Is a good fabric softener used in the hospital room?
As I try to close my eyes, intoxicated with the calming, uplifting scent
───f*ck!
“Aww…!”
A pain in the forehead.
As soon as she got her body up and covered her forehead with both hands, the beautiful girl in front of her spoke.
“Pets also have upper and lower water!”
“….???”
Is this really a dream?
Minerva then gave strength to her body and stood up from her seat.
“…Uh…?”
Gravity.
The opposite s*x.
Reality gradually grasped.
At the same time, the room door opens and Chrono enters.
“Mai, what are you doing to Anne who is sleeping?”
“You covet seniors for juniors.”
“Do you want to do that to a patient?”
“Cheey…..”
“……Ahh…”
Realism gradually returns.
Finish, says Minerva.
“Chrono…?”
“Huh? Why? Is there anything else that makes you uncomfortable?”
“Is this a real Chrono?”
“…Have you given morphine instead of intravenous drip at the hospital? Why is the child’s condition…Uh, uh…?!”
Chrono
Chrono Chrono Chrono──
“──Chrono!!!”
“Wow…?!”
Minerva embraced Chrono with all her might.
Minerva felt Chrono’s warmth in her chest, and finally opened her mouth to speak.
“It’s not a dream… It’s not…!”
“….???”
Chrono, who was in his arms, looked bewildered.