Chapter 44 – District 1 (T2) (17)
8. District 1 (2 tracks) (17)
It didn’t matter if the scene the vision had shown actually happened or if it was made up by a horror bastard. It also didn’t matter if I could apply physical force to the illusion.
Not being able to see Kaya suffer in a different way. That was important. I’ve been patient with it until now, but I asked myself why I couldn’t tolerate it right now… I couldn’t tell.
Just.
I was angry. Whopping.
Even knowing that the Kaya in the fantasy wouldn’t recognize me. My trembling body and eyes seemed to be asking for help from someone.
And I feel like those eyes are looking at me.
It sounds like you’re asking me for help.
So she couldn’t stand it.
Angry to the point of my head, I jumped into my fantasy without hesitation.
“THE FUCK!!!!!”
However, my intention and will were not important. As I approached, the fantasy receded as well.
I ran faster without thinking about stamina arrangement. Of course, the fantasy receded even faster. They kept a distance that seemed like they couldn’t touch each other to make them even more angry and burst into tantrums. It was about to go crazy and jump.
In the meantime, the fantasy continued. Hesitantly backing away, Kaya, blocked by the wall behind her, bit her lip. One of the men slipped away to watch, and one of the two grabbed Kaya’s wrist.
“… Let this go.”
“This?”
Aww-!
“Ah!”
“Be cheeky.”
Kaya in the fantasy has never rebelled since she was a child. I have no way of knowing if she intuitively knew that if she rebelled, she would return to greater violence, or if she did it because she realized that no one was on her side. She still is. Even when she was violently grabbed by the wrist, even when slapped on the cheek, she did not resist.
But the moment the man who slapped her grabbed her by the collar.
“… No.”
“Now, what did you say, you mongrel bitch?”
“I put up with everything else… That’s not enough.”
“Under.”
Kaya was the first to rebel. The men seemed quite perplexed, perhaps seeing Kaya’s rejection for the first time. But that’s only for a moment. It was Kaya who had nothing more than her words of denial, and it was her fuel to the men’s fiery behavior.
“What if you say no? Uh? Uh? Uh?”
The man laughed as if it was absurd and stabbed Kaya in the chest with the tip of his index finger. Kaya covered her breasts with her arms, resisting her hand trying to undress her.
“Under… Speaking of mongrel, it’s a woman for fodder.”
The face of the man who had been arguing became increasingly grim. Displeasure soared, as if a puppy who did not know how to rebel showed his teeth. Power entered the man’s hands. Kaya resisted with all her might, but when a man, another man who was just watching, joined in, her wrists were quickly restrained.
“Under. Aside from the dull hair color, his face and body are to be expected.”
“Hey. If you’re going to do it, do it quickly. It won’t do you any good to stay here too long.”
“Tsk.”
“Please, stop…”
Poo-!
“Aww…”
One man held onto Kaya’s hands, while the other continued to strike her in the stomach. Kaya’s beating was over when she lost her half-consciousness, then touched her clothes.
“Don’t do it! I told you not to! You scumbags!!!”
It was an unreachable scream. Tears flowed incessantly, as if the tear duct had failed. She was in pain, and her appearance was very miserable. Seeing that, I was also in pain and my heart was miserable.
Whether or not my mind watching it, the moment the man in the fantasy ripped Kaya’s top half off and the necklace hanging around her neck was revealed.
“Under! Look at them pretending to be church members just because they are following the nun. Do you know what you can be?”
“Sister Kaya.”
The man laughed and tried to tear off the necklace, but the voice of a third person who was not present broke the mood in an instant.
Sister.
The only person who could use these words was a nun from the Order of Raella who came periodically.
The atmosphere changed rapidly.
In a small rural village far from the capital, the Church’s ripple power was stronger than that of the royal family, and they knew very well that no matter how far away they were from the countryside, they could not treat people of the Church carelessly. Didn’t the members of the church treat people from another world a bit in the first place?
That’s why the men clicked their tongues and looked at them, then quietly backed away.
“Sister. I was looking for you.”
“…”
“Sister.”
The nun silently straightened Kaya’s clothes. She and she gently hugged. Kaya wept from her hugged posture.
Seeing Kaya’s tears, I collapsed onto the floor. It’s a relief, it’s a relief, he spat out a meaningless cry into the air. Her face was already full of tears.
But the fantasy did not end there. Both the body and mind were exhausted, but there was no time to sit down. I didn’t want to see more. Had to get out quickly. First of all, I moved forward with gratitude to that unknown nun.
[Is there a coincidence? Does inevitability exist?]
I completely passed the phantasmagoria where Kaya came out. At that moment, her voice broke through again.
[Can you understand the horror that woman must have experienced?]
[Can you understand that you brought out the fear she had been trying to bury?]
[The deeper she digs, the more often and more severely her underlying fears will haunt her.]
[Nevertheless, will you break her inside by putting her under the yoke of being her companion until the end?]
“Shut up. It’s something you just have to do if you don’t play tricks.”
[Selfish and incomprehensible. By truly reaching the end of this place, what do you think the fear will be?]
“At least there will be no more of this damn city that has been exploited and prospered because it has not adapted to its fears. There will be no more disgusting worshipers and no more pitiful scapegoats.”
[In the end, it’s futile. Fear exists everywhere, and it exists in everyone. Because it is the most primal and instinctive emotion. You humans don’t think that this place, called a dungeon, was created for the first time and alone.]
“What… ?”
Did I hear wrong? It can’t be.
“Okay, what I said earlier. What do you mean. What do you mean!”
[No. 666.]
“What the fuck, what is this all of a sudden?”
[The number of times you have conquered fear.]
I’ve been standing still In an instant, goosebumps broke out all over his body.
I instinctively understood.
“You, you bastard… You. You… !”
[Even so much conquest, the fear does not disappear. Mortals are everywhere in this world. Everyone has different standards and thresholds for feeling fear. That’s why, no matter how wild you are here, in the end it’s just futile.]
“Nonsense! It’s as soon as it is.
[If you have hope, the fall will be that much bigger, and that becomes food for fear. Even at this moment, the negative emotions that your colleagues are feeling are prolonging the fear. You can, believe me, follow me. Because of you who said that.]
It was dizzying. I closed my eyes and opened them. But it was still I covered my ears. It was useless.
[Do not resist. Everything is useless at the end.]
“Shut up…”
[It is a foolish act to clear the sea by hand.]
“Shut up… !”
[Give up.]
[For colleagues who are still trembling in fear.]
Didn’t respond at all.
[It’s selfish.]
[Your colleagues will think differently than you do.]
My teammates are strong. Even if you are consumed by fear now, you can recover. The will that my colleagues showed me was never light. If the ground hardens after the rain, if only we could break through District 1 and return to Salem.
[It is no different from the way the warriors are treated as tools.]
[If you really care about your colleagues, it would be right to let them go.]
If only I could leave all of these as somewhat painful experiences and memories.
[Give up.]
It was clear that we would be one step closer to the name Heroes Against Terror.
“I can’t give up. No. I will not.”
[Give up.]
“Dungeons will reappear, and the fear will not go away? Then just squeeze in there! Shut up! If, like you said, it’s going to happen again anyway! If it won’t disappear!”
Before I knew it, I was running.
“Whatever I do! Whatever you do with your friends! You fucking bastard, masturbate while voyeuring insiniously there!!!!!”
Something swept past me quickly. At first glance, it seemed that there were pieces of heavy armor that had been smashed, and that there were also fragments of a greatsword that had been split in two. I think I heard screams, and I thought I could hear the sound of a whip or the smell of burning flesh. Under the circumstances, it seemed like a fantasy related to Shay, but…
I gritted it and ignored it. Seeing Shay in this situation now, it seemed that she really couldn’t hold on. So I ignored it and ran. I felt like I was going to run out of breath, but I kept running. She didn’t even squint, she just looked straight ahead and ran.
No more, what I see here can’t piss me off.
How far will the baby to eat? .
I am still the captain who leads the corps of warriors against fear. It was immutable. Until now, and in the future.
At some point, even a voice that sounded like shit. There was no illusion. The end of the long, single road that seemed to have no end was beginning to appear. I scraped my strength all the way to the bottom of the floor and moved forward.
“This…”
At the end of the road, an old book was lying there. I picked up a book with nothing written on the cover. I cautiously flipped through the cover, thinking that the rustling thing would break if I applied a little force.
「666 victories and 6003 defeats.」
This book had no title.
「If there is only one thing in common that can be found in the countless victories and defeats that have been repeated about 6,700 times.」
It contained the longer terror play record so far.
“That’s right, at least until the end, I didn’t give up.”
“And now, the 6670th will be no different from that.”
“Even if things change.”
“I (Hendrick)”
“Leading the braves against fear”
“Because it’s the captain.”
At the end, my story was written in the present progressive tense.
“… Haha. Haha.”
A laugh came out. Watched for a while You’ve done a lot, even if you want to… It reminded me of the feelings I had when I was on Earth playing The Long Terror.
Terrified, surprised, cheering, annoyed, angry, cursing, fist clenched, unable to breathe, engrossed, depressed… I never cried because of the atmosphere of the game, but I think I had a lot of emotions while being with the warriors in the game.
And beyond the fourth wall, this moment when I truly become their captain, breathe with them, fight with them, and face their fears with them.
Now.
“At first glance, it seems that I couldn’t score 10% with just one game difference…”
I made a promise once again.
“Even if it’s inconvenient, I have to fill it up by 10%, so.”
Shit- shit- shit-
The black world cracked open, and light began to enter.
“Get out of my body. Damn it is a fear of horror horror. “
**
[Eugene succeeds in resisting.]
[Eugene awakens after defeating the fear that tried to encroach on him.]
[Eugene suffers from insanity, ‘Indomitable’.]
The world has brightened. No, technically it was still dark, but relatively bright.
Then I saw Kaya and Shay staring blankly at me.
[I have awakened through the spirit of ‘indomitable’ that never breaks no matter how many times I fall.]
[The mentality level is restored to -50.]
[All existing debuffs are removed.]
[Max HP increases by 10%.]
[Defense increases by 10%.]
[The rate of mentality decline is reduced by 20%.]
[Increases the mentality of allies slightly with a certain probability.]
[Disabled by entering death or killing the area boss.]
Okay. Hey guys.
I’m your captain, and I’m back as a savior.
“Everyone calm down. Let’s go. From now on.”
Kaya and Shay blankly nodded.
