106 – Hell (1)
Why, hasn’t everyone had that experience at least once?
An experience where you wake up from a dream, but the memory of the dream you vaguely remember is so good that you close your eyes and try to sleep again.
Becoming a hero in a fantasy world, enjoying a harem, or becoming rich and doing whatever you want.
Dreaming of new things you have never experienced in your daily life, of living a life of happiness that will never come true, and going back to sleep to experience just a little bit of that convenience – that is the kind of experience.
“……”
When I open my eyes and wake up, I see a familiar room.
And when you get out of bed, open the door and go out –
“■■ Ah. “Are you awake?”
“You woke up late. “Eat breakfast.”
Your mother greets you with a pot in hand, and your father sitting at the table. A family preparing to eat the breakfast prepared with a truly friendly smile.
“What, why are you so late?”
“Let’s go quickly. “If I keep doing this, I’ll be late for school!”
And when you sit at the table and finish eating with your family and go out – your friends greet you with their backpacks on and waving as if they were waiting for you.
“Where is Jihyeon? “The guy who was waiting so desperately for ■■.”
“I guess he went to school first today? “Be fully prepared or something.”
“Ah… Confession today – boobooup.”
“What is this guy trying to say?”
So we went to school together, attended classes, and time passed in this peaceful atmosphere.
“…■■ Hey. “I have something to tell you. Would you like to come out to the rooftop for a moment?”
“Oh my, Jihyun… That’s a duel challenge…”
She forms a relationship with her childhood friend who approached her with her face blushing as if she was embarrassed.
“-Actually. “I’ve had you for a long time…!”
Just such a daily life. A daily life without envy, jealousy, superpowers or fights, which is natural to you in a way – but not natural to him.
A world where we live happily without being ignored by anyone and without any shortcomings in body or mind.
-What do you think? Don’t you want to continue living in a place like this?
Think about it. Always getting hurt and suffering for people who don’t even recognize me.
A peaceful daily life spent with people who like you every time without such things, the time of living in such a place forever is-
Really, it’s the best?
“-Damn.”
A happy dream ends up being just a dream.
Bloody enemy-
“At least remember the name properly when making it.”
When I raise my hand once while scolding a voice that I cannot possibly listen to, a crack appears in the calm clear sky.
Rorrr!
This place is a dream. The moment you realize this, the cracks in the world that pretended to be one world gradually begin to grow in size – and finally begin to collapse.
It’s as if you wake up the moment you realize it’s a dream, and when you wake up, all the scenery you saw there disappears in an instant and you return to the dreary reality.
The dream space that was trying to hide its identity and deceive people by pretending to be real collapses and gradually begins to be overwritten by the scenery of reality.
…Do you really want to go back to the dreary reality?
“You have to speak clearly.”
A dream is just a dream, and even if I open my eyes to the world I am returning to –
“At least, it’s not reality here either.”
Even the world I opened my eyes to is just a world in a game.
It really is beyond rescue. If it’s severe, it’s severe.
“Close your mouth.”
If that’s what you said – where on earth is reality for you? And-
Hyunwoo swore at the woman’s voice resounding in his head and quietly closed his eyes –
If you think so, why on earth do you have affection for the NPC in the game?
“……”
I tried to ignore the last vague question and opened my eyes again.
“Whoa…”
When I open my eyes again, the sight I see is the cold concrete floor I saw just before falling into the dream.
When you raise your head, what you see is a lot of people lying on the ground and a flower garden dyed purple.
And when you look to the side – you see a corpse running towards you, and a silver blade shining in its hand.
Chaaa!
Pain felt when reaching forward.
When the blade, shining in the reflection of the sunlight, pierced the palm, red blood dripped and soaked the floor.
“…It hurts.”
It hurts. Since I blocked the guy’s sword with a hand that wasn’t even a prosthetic, it would be natural in a way-
“Yeah… It hurts.”
Because there is no way you can feel pain in a dream, because the pain is enough to make you realize that this is reality – rather, it feels like your head is clearing.
Well, that was the intention from the beginning.
Wood-dud-duk-
When the ability was used, the blade began to crack and shattered.
The guy who was trying to push me with force while stabbing his palm deep, must have remembered my ability and hastily let go of the handle and stepped back – but there was no way I would just watch that happen, right?
Wow!
When I ran towards the guy who was at a distance behind me and swung my sword, the guy took out his gun and tried to aim it, but because he was cut off from his shoulder, the arm holding the gun just rolled around on the floor, gushing out blood.
“…You bastard!”
“-That voice. “At least he’s not the leader, right?”
“…Ugh!”
Although it is clearly a male corpse, the voice coming out of its mouth is that of a young woman.
In that case, the leader of the evil brigade would have been at least not in this place, or would have moved to deal with his archenemy.
I don’t know if it was because he found out about it, or because he didn’t care but was pushed back – but he was definitely embarrassed.
The balance of the body is broken due to an injury. Unnatural movements. Naturally twisted steps.
I clung to the heavily wounded man who was hesitating backwards, raised my sword, and slashed it straight at his neck.
Chaaa!
Tuk. Degururu-
A head separated from the body and rolling on the ground with blood gushing out.
The attack, which was in vain, ended in vain, and the dead guy – no, the guy who was already dead didn’t move any more.
“Whoa…”
As soon as I confirmed that fact, I brushed my bangs from my forehead and sighed deeply, then turned my back and looked back.
“…For some reason, they targeted me first.”
The scene behind me, which I couldn’t even see due to the sudden attack, was truly miserable.
There are three guys with holes in their heads. It’s so disgusting to explain that they died – five people who turned into mummies.
There are pools of blood around those corpses, and if you move your gaze to the side, what you see is a reddish round sphere.
“That’s right. “I told you to take care of Su-ah, but they are taking care of you in reverse.”
That red thing that keeps moving as if protecting something is none other than a prison of blood created by Su-ah.
It’s not about trapping something, it’s about protecting themselves – but what do you think? If it’s resolved well, that’s it.
Even though it doesn’t look like he’s woken up yet, at least there’s no risk of being killed by someone like he did just now, right?
Just being able to protect myself from this nightmare-eating garden is not a bad result.
“…Who am I worried about?”
The person in danger right now is none other than me.
“…f*ck.”
When I turn my back on the signs of popularity behind me, what I see is a lot of people.
These are not the assassins we dealt with just now.
Those guys are probably moving around somewhere, but there are probably enough heroes who wake up quickly, so at least they won’t have time to pinpoint my location and come find me.
…Well, the people I see in front of me right now are not much different from those guys.
“Tsk.”
The roses that should be on their heads are everywhere, and they move like zombies with only the roots and stems remaining.
A middle-aged man and woman who are presumed to be a married couple, a boy running in front of them, a hero with a somewhat familiar face, etc.
The gender, age, and occupation are different, but the sight of them all staggering towards each other is almost believable even if it is an apocalypse.
“…How many people have you killed?”
Not having roses means being trapped forever in the world of dreams.
The fact that their chests are pierced and bleeding means that even if this situation ends well and they are released in the dream, they will eventually die from the wounds in reality.
In some ways, the ability to clearly reveal the twisted nature of the Dream Eater, which is worse than those who control corpses – the Nightmare Eater.
A special move that appears in the game when more than two-thirds of the blood is gone. It is the worst wide-area CC that takes everyone into a dream and confuses them mentally, and in reality, stuns them as a group –
“Kaaa!”
“It’s not deja vu. “Why are there so many people controlling other bastards?”
It is truly the worst technique, making allies for the woman who supports the church of her dreams on her own.
“Crrr-“
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“It’s noisy.”
Of course it feels bad, but in the end, to me, it’s just a so-so technique.
Chaaa!
Since they are already dead, you can just cut them down without hesitation.
If they were to fall victim to this ability – I don’t want to even imagine it, but they are all mentally strong, so it will work out somehow.
The best thing to do in the first place is not to bring those who cannot endure this-
“…Tsk.”
…Okay. The correct answer is not to bring it at all.
In particular, it was best not to bring in those who had had a not-so-good past. But I- Why did you come here with these guys?
“…There’s no way I didn’t think of this?”