"That son of a bitch is a lot more annoying than I thought" - Yue said with a frown as she watched a new fragment of the creature being calcined, though the monster was much more attentive.
[Dream Eater (HP: 70%)]
"Half an hour, and we've only knocked it down 30% of its total HP" - Cloud muttered as he clicked his tongue.
After figuring out what they had to do in order to defeat the creature, the situation had become much easier. They now just had to find the right moment to explode the creature and send its fragments flying, at which point they would destroy them so that they would not return to their original self, thus permanently damaging the monster, the problem was that the [Dream Eater] was now much more cautious with its movements, and could also regenerate some fragments slowly, which meant that they were in a battle against the clock. Catching it off guard was also proving to be a problem, because the hundreds of eyes it had, meant that thing had no blind spots.
"Lyutillis," Cloud said quietly.
The elf princess looked at Cloud curiously before receiving a mental message and nodding.
Meiru gave her a look full of curiosity, but said nothing because maybe this was a surprise strategy.
"Let's continue," Cloud said seriously as he signalled for an attack.
Shizuku started jumping up and down the walls as she tried to get as close as possible to the monster, who quickly used its slimy tentacles to try to trap the girl because it knew it was not a good idea to let her get close to its core.
During the last half hour of combat, she had managed to get close enough to put a detonator in his body, which exploded after a few seconds causing him enormous pain. And while he was resisting this attack, the vampiress had exploded another part of his body. The dragon woman was also a problem, her magical breath ignoring his resistance, however, the most dangerous of all was that irregular fuck.
The [Dream Devourer] was beginning to lose patience, which is why he decided to put all his concentration into his most powerful attack. All of his eyes started to glow a deep crimson colour, which made Cloud make all the girls retreat behind him,
[Morpheus' illusion!] roared the monster as the huge rocky hall was invaded by a huge red glow.
Cloud closed his eyes because the light was too strong for his eyes, which the other girls also did.
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"Son, what are you still doing sleeping? It's about time you got up for school."
Cloud's eyebrow began to twitch slightly as he began to open his eyes, noticing how the sun was hitting him directly in the face - "Damn sun..."
"Are you still sleeping?" - A female voice asked.
"No, I'm awake now, mum" - Cloud replied as he shook his head, only to frown because he felt something weird was going on. He slowly looked at the source of the voice, only to feel his mind stop for a few seconds at the sight of a nostalgic person.
"What's wrong son?" - the woman asked, only to watch in surprise as tears ran down her son's cheeks - "Son!"
"Huh? Why am I crying?" - Cloud muttered as he touched his cheeks and felt the warm liquid coming from his eyes.
The woman quickly ran to her son's side and started touching his body, as if she was looking for the reason for her baby's pain - "Are you okay?"
"Y-Yes" - Cloud replied as he wiped away tears and looked closely at his mother, her face haggard with age, the wrinkles gained from years of stress from working tirelessly to give her enough financial stability to live a normal life.
"That's good to hear" - sighed the woman with a small smile - "Now get up, the girls will be here any minute."
"Girls?" - Cloud repeated as he frowned.
"Yes, Yue-chan and the others, they're coming to pick you up to go to class" - replied the woman with a small smile - "Now get ready, son."
Cloud frowned again because that feeling that there was something wrong, was getting stronger and stronger.
"Son?" - The woman asked as she frowned because her baby was acting weird this day.
"Mom... Do you remember what our cat's name was when we lived with Grandma?" - Cloud asked seriously.
"What's with that question, son?" - replied the woman as she gave him a blank look, though she quickly let out a sigh - "Which one, Lucky or Snowball?"
"The girl I liked in high school?" - Cloud asked as he narrowed his eyes.
"Nicole," replied his mother as she folded her arms, "If you've stopped playing a thousand questions, get ready because the girls will be here shortly."
Cloud kept frowning because those answers were correct, though there was still something he felt he was ignoring, something important.
"Son?" - The woman asked as she came back into the room when she saw that her son was still not in the dining room eating his breakfast - "Are you still in bed?"
Cloud looked up, confused at the whole situation.
No matter how hard he thought about it, there didn't seem to be anything amiss despite his gut telling him that he was still ignoring a huge detail.
"Seriously... Do I really have to help you dress like you did when you were a kid?" - The woman asked as she shook her head - "Seriously, you're too old for this kind of game, Cloud."
The blond's pupils dilated when he heard this as he felt his heart pounding. He quickly jumped up from his bed and stood on his guard, glaring at the woman fiercely as he finally recognized the detail he had been ignoring all this time, one that was so important that he now felt like a fool for not noticing it before. This woman had always referred to him as "son", she had at no point said his real name, and when she finally did, she said the name his actual name, and not his original name, which made no sense, because his mother never knew the man called "Cloud Strife".
"What did you call me?" - Cloud asked as he looked at his mother apprehensively.
"Cloud, that's your name" - the woman replied simply, though she quickly sensed that something strange was going on, more so when she noticed how the blond seemed to be getting angrier and angrier - "Cloud? Son? What are you planning to do? Are you going to beat me like your father did?"
"Enough!" - Cloud roared as he shook the room.
It was at that moment that the woman realized she had screwed up, though her confused expression seemed to be asking about how Cloud had discovered her.
"I don't know how you managed to get into my head with my mental barrier, but you made a big mistake by taking on my mother's appearance, you son of a bitch," Cloud growled as he summoned a fire spear.
"How did you find me out?" - asked the woman in a distorted voice - "My copy was perfect, this is your deepest dream".
"It is, but that doesn't mean your illusion was perfect" - replied Cloud as he tightened the fiery grip of his spear - "Everything was going relatively well, but you said something that you should..."
[And what was that?] - asked the woman with slight curiosity, after all, this was the first time someone managed to get out of her most powerful illusion.
"My name" - Cloud replied neutrally as he lunged at the beast that was taking the form of his mother - "She doesn't know about this identity."
[I see... I guess I should have done more research, though, that pesky mental barrier was blocking your darkest secrets] - said the woman as she let out a laugh and let herself be pierced by her opponent's spear.
Cloud's expression changed slightly because even though he knew that this woman was not his real mother, hurting her had caused him much more psychological damage than he thought - "Why didn't you dodge this attack?"
[Let's just say you reacted the way I expected...] - the woman replied as she continued to laugh madly - [How does it feel to kill your mother with your bare hands?]
Cloud's expression darkened as he watched the monster continue to laugh with blood running down his lips.
[What? Did I hit the nail on the head?] - asked the woman, though her expression changed as she felt the fire spear sink deeper and deeper into her body - [Ugh...].
"You're right, I killed my mother with my own hands... but..." - Cloud muttered as he shot a hate-filled glare at the woman - "This isn't the first time I've done it..."
The woman began to vomit blood when she heard this as she felt everything around her go dark, though not before letting out a final laugh, as if she had been the victorious one.
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