(...The details of this Nightmare are just too terrible!)
Amamiya Rin complained frantically in his heart, yet a wave of primitive and savage desire, originating from the Goblin's body, surged up like a volcanic eruption.
This intense impulse interfered with his own consciousness, mixing with the fear of flight, the anger of being threatened, and the desire to vent after this endless torture.
(Anyway, it's just a Nightmare. It doesn't matter what I do in a dream, right?)
Amamiya Rin stepped onto Momonogi Kana's lower abdomen, a hideous expression surfacing on his face.
In the real world, Morita Hospital, inside Room 504.
Hashimoto Ayaka, Mikami Yui, Hatano Yua, and Momonogi Kana, who were slumped by Amamiya Rin's bedside, suddenly experienced a physical anomaly.
Their breathing rhythm fell into chaotic disarray.
Hashimoto Ayaka's brows knitted tightly together, and a suppressed moan of pain spilled from her throat.
Mikami Yui's body twitched slightly; a look of pain flashed across her sleeping face, and fine cold sweat seeped from her forehead.
Hatano Yua's neck arched back slightly, her throat bulging, and her breathing became somewhat rapid.
Momonogi Kana's legs tensed up, her toes curled, and her body arched unnaturally.
Suddenly, the four bodies convulsed violently, as if struck by high-voltage electricity at the same time!
Their backs arched sharply, their heads and necks stiffly threw back, and their limbs twitched uncontrollably.
It was simply as if they were suffering inhumane torture.
However, their bodies were unharmed. All five people in the room were sleeping, and no one had laid a finger on them.
Suddenly, the four bodies lying by the hospital bed jerked violently at the same time.
Like drowning people violently gasping for air, the four women instantly broke free from the deep Nightmare.
"Hah...!"
"Haa...!"
Four pairs of eyes snapped open. Their pupils constricted instantly before dilating rapidly, filled with lingering terror, intense pain, and a blank emptiness.
Cold sweat soaked the hair on their foreheads and the clothes on their backs, bringing waves of icy clamminess.
A sense of weakness swept over them like a raging tide.
Sixty days!
5,184,000 seconds!
They had fought a bitter battle against Amamiya Rin in the dream's Goblin's Nest for such a long time!
The laws of the Nightmare bound their selves, leaving them only able to passively endure Amamiya Rin's assault.
That prolonged mental torture made it so that upon waking, their bodies felt as if they had been hollowed out and then roughly stuffed back together, leaving behind indescribable exhaustion and pain, as well as a consciousness scattered by countless impacts.
After a good while, their dull gazes slowly focused, and their scattered consciousness gradually gathered.
Their eyes turned toward Amamiya Rin on the hospital bed.
In that moment, a light mixed with anger, humiliation, and killing intent exploded from those four originally hollow pairs of eyes!
The mental breakdown and torture from the sixty-day Nightmare was deeply branded into their shared consciousness like a red-hot iron.
At this moment, their emotions toward Amamiya Rin consisted only of killing intent, and a deeply hidden fear.
Even now that they were awake, they could still feel intense phantom pain in twelve organs throughout their bodies.
"This devil!"
"He actually dared to...!"
"Kill him!"
"I'm not clean anymore!"
Their shared thinking churned violently due to extreme emotions. That phantom pain, which was almost enough to drive one mad, made the four women's killing intent stronger than ever before.
Hashimoto Ayaka's eyes became incredibly vicious. Almost relying entirely on a surge of hatred, she squeezed strength from her exhausted and limp body, raising a still-trembling hand to grab at Amamiya Rin.
She wanted to immediately, instantly destroy this man who had brought them endless Nightmares and humiliation!
However, just then, Amamiya Rin also opened his eyes. His bloodshot pupils stared at Hashimoto Ayaka, and he shouted angrily.
"Get lost!"
A massive and firm will, like an invisible giant hammer, smashed ruthlessly into the depths of their common consciousness through the [Khala] that connected the five of them!
Hashimoto Ayaka's movements froze instantly, her arm solidifying in mid-air, unable to advance another inch!
"...Can't move?!"
"His consciousness...!"
"What is going on?!"
Emotions of shock and anger were instantly replaced by even greater horror.
They could clearly feel that Amamiya Rin's forceful will was like a solid rampart, savagely blocking their movements and killing intent.
"Truly foolish. You chose the worst way to kill someone."
The corners of Amamiya Rin's mouth hooked up into a cold smile.
"We are both parts of the [Khala]. There is no rule that only your consciousness can influence me, while my consciousness cannot influence you."
In fact, when Hashimoto Ayaka and the other three woke up, Amamiya Rin had also awakened.
He remained composed simply to look for a way to break the deadlock.
The fact that the four-person group could enter his dream meant that the [Khala] had also linked his brain.
As long as he concentrated, he could faintly perceive four extremely similar consciousnesses—so alike that no difference could be picked out—interwoven together like four strands of silk braided into one.
He could even sense the thoughts of Hashimoto Ayaka and the others.
However, likely due to the connection being too brief, the differences in thinking patterns, and perhaps the long duration of the dream causing a delay in this linked thinking, he could not feel the physical sensations of Hashimoto Ayaka's group one hundred percent.
After all, men and women have differences in brain volume, frontal cortex, and hippocampus.
For instance, while Hashimoto Ayaka and the others would have weak legs and collapsed bodies due to sixty days of torture, Amamiya Rin could sense their feelings but could not empathize physically due to his different brain.
This also resulted in his mental state being better than that of the four women.
Although there were four of them, their consciousnesses had been completely assimilated, losing their individuality. They looked like four people, but in reality, they were just one.
The strength of willpower could not achieve a sum of 1+1+1+1=4.
On the contrary, because of their shared empathy, they endured four times the devastation in the Nightmare just now.
Amamiya Rin was different. Although the two Nightmares, totaling ninety days of torture, were painful, they had also tempered his mental resilience to a certain extent. His current willpower firmly surpassed Hashimoto Ayaka's group.
(Dammit! I must live! I must live!)
His desire to survive was like a raging fire in a steel furnace, burning incomparably hot. This fire incinerated the killing intent of the four women in one breath and, in turn, dominated their bodies.
The fear of the Nightmare and reality overlapped at this moment, and the bodies of Hashimoto Ayaka and the others began to tremble uncontrollably again.
"What exactly... are you?"
Their gazes were filled with dread.
But the deeper emotions were undoubtedly regret and panic.
A cripple bedridden with illness, yet his Dream World was so bizarre—this was something no one could have imagined.
To save that little bit of compensation money, they had actually taken the initiative to reach out and grab a deadly poisonous snake! How could they not regret this?
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