Chapter 43 – District 1 (T2) (16)
8. District 1 (2 tracks) (16)
[The fear is trying to subdue the spirits of the brave warriors.]
[Shay mentality -4]
[Kaya mentality -5]
[Eugene mentality -3]
“…”
There are no signs of getting to 1-8 yet. But I stopped walking. No, I had to stop.
While walking down the aisle, my mentality went black.
Mentality –100, which he had been so vigilant and cared for, has broken through to that critical point.
Ah.
It’s catastrophic.
[Shay’s mentality has exceeded -100.]
[Terror overtakes Shay.]
[Shay resists the encroachment of fear.]
Messages I never wanted to see came to my mind.
“Goddess…”
Shay, who had been silently searching for the goddess as she stood tall, knelt down on her and crouched over her. She was what Shay was resisting fear for.
‘The probability of Shay awakening is 9%… Even if it’s a longer terror.’
Still, you have to wish for it.
The moment when Shay completely goes crazy, that is, the moment when he is consumed with fear in the expression of The Long Terror.
Kaya, who was next to her, would also be affected by it, and her mentality would be torn, and she too would be consumed by fear. Then it will be my turn.
Okay. Expected The sea that I was determined to do.
But…
————–!
A terrible sound runs through my mind.
[Shay failed to resist.]
[Shay is overcome with fear.]
[Shay suffers from insanity ‘lethargy’.]
The moment you see Shay’s collapsed after failing to resist, along with three lines of messages that inorganically convey a hopeless situation as if there is no such thing as ‘maybe?’
“Ah…”
[Watching her colleague end up consumed by fear.]
[The small hopes that have been sprouted are trampled on, and the fear that has been suppressed is running amok.]
[Kaya Mentality – 20]
[Eugene mentality – 18]
Dominoes fell.
Sue-
[Kaya’s mentality has exceeded -100.]
[Terror overtakes Kaya.]
[Kaya resists the encroachment of fear.]
Even before checking the message about Shay’s insanity, ‘lethargy’. As if she could afford to see it, the fear that colored Shay moved to Kaya right next to her.
Of course, Kaya, whose mentality was -93, couldn’t escape the shock, and she also naturally collapsed to -100.
Unlike Shay, who resisted by kneeling down and praying with her body curled up, Kaya stood firm as she looked at me.
Kaya, who kept muttering her incomprehensible words with her unfocused, blurry eyes as if she was looking at me, her gaze at the void around me. She then collapsed and trembled madly like her seizure victim, until the seizure stopped unnaturally as if she had died.
[Kaya failed to resist.]
[Kaya is overcome with fear.]
Kaya also failed to resist.
[Kaya suffers from insanity ‘obsession’.]
She too was consumed by fear.
“Compared to my abilities… The dream was too big… Lol…”
“Leader… Leader… Leader… !”
Haha.
It’s a piece of shit.
[I witnessed my colleague finally being engulfed in fear.]
[The small hopes that have been sprouted are trampled on, and the fear that has been suppressed is running amok.]
[Shay Mentality – 19]
[Eugene Mentality – 19]
Hey. I’m already over -100. You don’t even need to tell me this.
[Eugene’s mentality has exceeded -100.]
[Fear overtakes Eugene.]
[Eugene resists the encroachment of fear.]
“Ah… Deja vu or…”
She experienced near death-like sensations and quickly lost consciousness.
**
‘Ah. It’s here again.’
Like when she first reached near death, she blinked quickly. And I tried to move her limbs. It was dark everywhere like then, but unlike then, I could see my body in a blur. I was able to move my body normally.
Other than that difference, this place wasn’t unfamiliar.
“Can’t it be, do I have to walk all the way again?”
Perhaps this is my mental world or a place similar to a nightmare that I reached after hitting the fearsome bird’s special move in the first playthrough 1-2.
“If it’s the same as back then, I don’t think resistance will be impossible.”
Once walked forward. The road was as single as it was back then, so there was no room for hesitation. There was still nothing to be seen around.
‘What did Shay and Kaya see?’
Did you see something similar to the nightmare you had in the Horror Box room? Or did he receive a different kind of mental attack like I did now?
If you look at the lethargy and obsession due to insanity… I think I know at least part of it, though. In particular, Kaya’s eyes that I saw before I passed out were a little, no, very frightening.
‘Let’s think about me first.’
Walked walked on I thought about how it was the other day, but even then I couldn’t remember anything other than walking for quite a while. In fact, I couldn’t remember clearly the things, emotions, or pain I experienced then. I just remember walking for a long time, seeing something desperate, whispering something over and over again to make me suffer.
Still, no matter what lies on this road now, I couldn’t be more hopeless than the current situation, so I didn’t have the confidence to despair more.
No matter what kind of fucking words he tried to annoy me, seduce me, and subdue me, I was confident that I would not give up as long as I had a clear goal of leading my friends to the end and seeing the end of the dungeon.
If only this is the encroachment of fear, then a hundred more… It wasn’t until, but I even thought that I could endure about three times.
[Your goal is like picking stars in the sky.]
“What!?”
Suddenly a voice began to be heard.
[Even if it is the fate of mortals like you to constantly struggle toward an impossible goal, wouldn’t it be too miserable to keep going?]
“Fuck it is impossible!”
How many rounds have I cleared! Of course, this dlc and the highest difficulty are the first, but still!
[Embrace your fear. Conform Acknowledge the natural and fundamental emotions you must have as a mortal. Then a new destiny will unfold before you.]
“Shut up! Are you telling me to be that idiot who screams fear all day? Is that a new destiny? Don’t be bored, this chew! “
[What you see, who do not accept and do not believe, is only a small part of it.]
“Because I’m not curious and I don’t want to believe it! If you’re going to say nonsensical things like that, get out of here! No! Get me out of here!”
The voice just said what it had to say and disappeared. Like a madman, he shouted into the air and became angry.
‘Okay. This could be that bastard’s operation. It’s debilitating and exasperating. Let’s never get caught up in it. Let’s not get carried away. Let’s just think about walking to the end. Let’s persevere.’
As she kept repeating calm and relaxation in her head, she was still quiet this time. Still, I wasn’t offended. The moment I was relieved thinking that it would be okay at this point, I had a strong feeling that that fucking voice would haunt me again.
I felt exhausted and exhausted quickly, but I was still fine.
If it hadn’t been for a sudden appearance in front of my eyes where there was nothing but a vaguely visible single road.
“Where is this mongrel crawling in? Doesn’t it go off?”
“Bread…”
“Do you know that money is sweet? I have nothing to sell you, so get out of here! Before reporting!”
A gray-haired girl holding coins with her head down and a bakery owner screaming.
Hair color and eye color, and a beautiful yet youthful face that seems to have grown a lot but is unrecognizable. It was Kaya.
‘Young Kaya… No way. Past?’
I wondered why Kaya’s past came out all of a sudden, but that was just the beginning.
“Tsk tsk. Say it, say it. Seeing how much damage the elves are doing, how did you even think of sticking with that bastard?”
“You can only look at my face. I must have fallen in love with your face and seduced you. Like a prostitute.”
“Even the elf who passed on for saying that is an idiot.”
“If there’s something cheap, I’ll take care of it and go, what are you going to do if you find it?”
Even though the child is listening, the pad lip comes and goes openly without paying attention at all.
If love that transcends race is a crime, the only crime committed against the villagers is that young couple. Young Kaya, the fruit of that love, quickly became a filth with her asshole father and prostitute mother.
“Hey! Your father was an elf?”
“…”
“Aren’t you going to answer me?”
“… Huh.”
“You fucking bitch!”
Jab-!
Three boys of her age slapped young Kaya on the cheek. The boys clenched their teeth and trampled on young Kaya, who collapsed while holding onto her cheek.
“Evil! Aww!”
“We! Daddy!”
“Ah!”
“To the elf! He died!”
“Aww…”
“My dad too!”
“My dad too!”
The anger of the three boys who lost their father in the war with the elves was unleashed on the young Kaya, who had nothing to do with it. The young Kaya, who had no one on his side, had nowhere to complain, and all he could do was crouch down and cover her vitals as best he could.
“…”
When I came to my senses, my lips were bleeding. I must have clenched my teeth and even bit my lip without realizing it.
‘Let’s not see. It’s not right to look at the past you wanted to hide in this way.’
I tried to avert my eyes from the infinitely realistic fantasy unfolding before my eyes. But when I looked away, the fantasy unfolded again.
Where do you turn your eyes? See it unconditionally. If you want to walk this road, you can’t pass by without looking.
I felt such malice.
‘Until Kaya tells me, I can’t believe that illusion. There’s also a possibility that it’s a plausible, stimulating, false fantasy to sway my reason.’
If you’re going to force me to give you false fantasies that will upset me, I’ll close my eyes.
I closed my eyes and started moving forward. But I couldn’t even take five steps.
Even with my eyes closed, I saw the fantasy more vividly in my head.
“Fucking bastard, f***ing bastard, worm bastard… !”
Anger erupted into swearing. It was for mind control.
“Okay. Let’s see who wins. Do you think I’ll wink an eye? It’s just a fantasy, right? Didn’t that actually happen? To make you angry? Are you going to whisper again in that gap?”
Anger will fly. Even if I believed it to be a lie, I couldn’t help but feel sick when I saw my colleague in pain right in front of me.
But the fear bastard touched me awkwardly. Again, my vigilance only increased. I tried to smile.
‘Since this happened, let’s get through it quickly.’
I walked quickly. Then the illusion passed by. Kaya being beaten on a fictitious day, a Korean keyboard warrior tearing down with an emotionless face after being verbally abused, and shedding tears while rummaging through a trash can…
I walked as fast as I could without seeing it, but I couldn’t see it at all. Still, the ‘thickness’ of the illusion quickly became thin, as if this grit and ignoring it and walking quickly didn’t work.
‘Once I cross that fantasy section, it’s over!’
I was depressed and angry at the same time. However, it was over soon. An insidious fear bastard, only willing to shake people’s minds with other people’s weaknesses. Stupid kid. District 3, no, is it now District 4? It might take a while, but just wait. I’m going to break the head someday.
With a slightly lighter heart, I tried to pass the illusion as before.
“You… Is it true that you are following the nun?”
Kaya, who had grown considerably from her first vision, shook her head startled. But as much as she had grown, men who could no longer be called her boys surrounded her and glared at her.
In that gaze… There was a different kind of ‘desire’ that wasn’t there before.
‘No way. No I don’t think so… ?’
I shouldn’t stop, but my footsteps stopped without my knowledge.
“For a mongrel like you to disappear on its own, it’s something the village would welcome with both hands up…”
The talking man’s gaze scanned Kaya’s entire body.
“Where did you hear that? Hybrids are sterile.”
Kaya shuddered and slumped behind her, and the men closed their encirclement, laughing heartily.
“This bastard———!!!!”
Even though I know it’s an illusion that only I can see.
Even if you believe it’s a lie.
I had no choice but to run.
