episode_0089

Rattling! Rattling!

An open train with open sides and ceiling, similar to something found in an amusement park, moves powerfully along a curved track.

“……”

I was quite embarrassed, but I looked around to understand the situation.

“It’s a dream… right?”

I don’t know why, but I had that feeling.

Even so, we couldn’t deny the possibility that he had been transported to another dimension while he was sleeping, so we called in the constellation community.

“hmm…”

I scrolled down and took a quick look, but fortunately I didn’t see anything special.

[G-088 Title: Oh, I missed it. What should I do with this?]

[G-666 Title: Some bastard took advantage of my trials without permission and stole my power. Who is it? From what I can see, he has been taking it continuously, but when he says good things, he should turn himself in.]

“……”

I clicked on these two posts without realizing it, but since the photos weren’t uploaded, I decided to look into the details later.

Rattling! Rattling!

The wind hitting the side of my face was quite strong.

The shaking of the unstable train causes the entire body to tremble and the creaking noise is so clear that it incites anxiety.

“It’s too vivid to be a dream… Is this actually real? Were you kidnapped while you were sleeping?”

Rattling! Rattling!

The train with the funny monkey head moving steadily along the track.

However, for some reason, the surrounding scenery, except for the tracks and trains, was blurry and I couldn’t tell what was what.

Just like the dreams I usually have.

“Hmph…! Breathe!”

I tried to push the safety bar that held my body in place, but as expected, it wouldn’t budge.

“Rael!”

Rael also does not appear.

“This too is a dream.”

Since the summoning ability is an ability presumed to be the power of the 666 Constellations, it has almost no limitations or restrictions.

It is safe to assume that a summons will never fail, be invalidated, or be destroyed as long as you want it whenever and wherever you want.

Although I have never tested it in a dream, the fact that it is not summoned even when its name is called seems to prove that the current situation is a dream.

“…Then what should we do now?”

I absently pulled out the knowledge in my head.

‘Monkey Train’ is a fairly famous ghost story.

A ghost story in the form of an experience in which the main character on a train in a dream arrives at [Sashimi Station], [Cut-out Station], etc., and the passengers die one after another, and when it is finally the main character’s turn, he manages to wake up from the dream and avoid the crisis.

“But I’m the only one?”

I looked around, but all I saw were empty seats.

Individual seats arranged in an orderly row.

There were ten seats in total and I was sitting in the fourth seat from the front.

However, there was one strange thing: the seats were facing sideways.

If a person was sitting, the distance between the seats would be close enough that the shoulders of the person on either side would be touching.

Shush! Shoo shoo shoo!

“uh…?”

“……”

At that time, the monkey train, which had no one on board except me, suddenly became full.

Suddenly, the summoned people appeared fixed to the safety bar.

“……”

“……”

However, even though they were suddenly summoned, they did not make a fuss or scream.

He just stared straight ahead with lifeless eyes and a doll-like expression, as if he had been possessed by something.

It seemed like he was breathing, but his body was motionless, like he was dead.

“Uh…there?”

“……”

“……”

To my right and towards the head of the monkey train sat a long-haired woman in a formal skirt, and to my left sat a man wearing a fluorescent vest and safety boots, but they also showed no reaction when I spoke to them or shook their bodies.

“What the hell is this…”

I couldn’t understand the situation and was about to remain blank, when the announcement came again.

[We will soon arrive at the sashimi station]

“Huh!? W-what!? Where am I!?”

At that time, the man sitting in the back seat came to his senses.

“W-What!? A train? An amusement park!?”

“Hey! Calm down!”

I didn’t know the situation, but I spoke to the panicked middle-aged man.

Maybe it was a fictional character in a dream, so one way would be to quietly watch, but the panicked reaction was so vivid that I couldn’t leave it alone.

“W-what! Who are you!? Where are you!?”

“Just calm down for now. I don’t know exactly what’s going on, but…”

“Why is everyone else like this? Hey! Hey!?”

I unconsciously raised my voice as he shook the body of the person next to me and shouted.

“Calm down! First of all, let me ask you, do you know the ghost story called ‘Monkey Train’? We’re in a similar situation right now…!”

“No, what are you talking about all of a sudden!? Is this some kind of hidden camera? Or kidnapping? Stop this right now! What on earth are you doing with this person? Manager or CEO, come out! I’ll give you a proper reason today!”

Seeing him shouting indignantly all the way through his head, I don’t think conversation will work.

“……”

Well, he looks like an ordinary person, so even if we communicate, we won’t be able to overcome this situation.

“Seup, hoo…”

If the ‘monkey train’ I know is true, that person will be the victim of [Sashimi Station].

It must be protected. certainly.

“…?”

I felt doubtful about such thoughts that suddenly arose.

Intense emotions were pulling on my will and consciousness, as if I had been given some kind of mission.

We must protect that person who was dragged in without knowing anything. Must be saved.

“…Seup, hooo…”

I calmly controlled my mind.

It seems that the influence of [Cries of Despair, Pain, and Grief] and [Basaglia’s Holy Grail] has reached deep into my mind.

“……”

However, there is no disagreement that people must be saved.

If you can get it, get it.

But I won’t save it by sacrificing everything.

I just do my best as much as I can.

That’s all the favor I can do.

“Do you want to save that person? Han-gil.”

“huh!?”

I turned around at the sound of an unfamiliar voice coming from close range, and saw a woman in a suit skirt who had been expressionless like a doll just a moment ago, turning to look at me and smiling.

“Hello. Nice to meet you. I am a dispatcher from Pandora of Salvation. I am a member of the ‘Marchen Walker’ team. Please remember me.”

“…Oh, that was it.”

Just like the ‘Rescue Restaurant’, this too was an attack from Pandora of Salvation.

No, but the attack methods are very diverse.

Is it a dream after that damn restaurant?

“What do you want?”

“Hehe. Nothing much. All you have to do is sign this contract.”

Sarah.

The contract presented was something I had seen once in the previous episode.

A contract to purchase each point for 300 million won.

“You’re not using any mental attacks this time?”

“Because the scouter was captured. That means we withstood his mental attack, so we gave up on that part a long time ago.”

“…Aren’t dreams a mental attack?”

“It’s a little different. Huhu, you don’t know anything? I was a little nervous when I heard you hired a scouter, but I don’t think there was any need for that.”

“……”

As I looked at her with a frown, she pointed at the middle-aged man who was still yelling.

“That person is a kind of hostage. If you want to save him, you had better sign quietly. Oh, of course, Mr. Han-gil’s life won’t be safe either.”

“…So. What you’re saying is.”

In order not to explode with anger, I took a deep breath.

“Are you saying that except for you and me, all the other passengers are innocent ordinary people?”

At my words, she smiled playfully, as if teasing me.

“Yes, that’s right. Is there any problem? Oh, just for your information, this ‘shell’ of me is also a hostage? I just took over this woman’s body through a means similar to possession. So there’s no use in killing me.”

As she spoke with a bright smile, I was filled with sincere anger and pity.

iced coffee.

“God, please punish this fool…”

“Huh? God? Mr. Han-gil, do you believe in a religion? What kind of religion is it? Is it a religion from another dimension?”

I shook my head at her, whose eyes suddenly sparkled.

“I know there is a being similar to God, but I don’t believe in religion.”

It’s just that when I came to my senses, I was unconsciously chanting that.

“Hmm? You seem like a strange person.”

“Should you just do it? What are you going to do if I don’t sign the contract?”

“Then, without hesitation, we should kill them all!”

[We have arrived at the sashimi-making station.]

Kiiing!

Immediately after she finished speaking, the ‘monkey train’ suddenly stopped, as if it had been waiting.

“Kkiii!”

“Keeek!”

“Keeek!”

Then, small men wearing deep hoods holding sharp knives in one hand jumped out and rushed towards the middle-aged man in the back seat.

“Huh!? W-what! What are these? Get away! Get away from me!”

“Tsk…!”

Damn it!

“Aaaah!? Geez, that’s gross!”

Immediately after I took out [Cry of Despair, Pain, and Grief] and [Mystic Eyes of Condemnation], the woman who was watching me screamed and trembled.

“What are you doing to surprise me like this!? I’m mad!”

Sigh!

When she snapped her fingers, other expressionless passengers suddenly came to their senses.

“Uh, what…?”

“Aaagh!? What’s going on!? Where am I!?”

“Aaaah!”

“W-what are those!?”

As soon as they woke up, the passengers panicked when they saw Soin approaching with a knife.

I grit my teeth without realizing it.

Because it was too close.

To prevent passengers from getting caught up, the number of spouts must be drastically reduced.

However, then it may not have enough power.

If there were only a few, we could easily erase them, but their number continued to increase at this very moment, and there were already over 20 of them.

“Aaaah! Aaaah! Go away! Go away!”

A powerful scream that has direction and yet condenses all power is needed.

But is that really possible?

“Ugh…!”

There is no time to worry.

Crack! Knock knock!

I focused my attention with my hands raised as if to say, “Let everything happen.”

I’ve tried controlling the strange and disgusting snout many times before.

So, at least the shape is…!

Squat! Knock knock!

“…Eh?”

The snout that protrudes from the back of the hand twists its body several times and then clearly swells larger than the hand.

Squat! Whoops!

The snout, which was made up of a body made of red flesh, quickly expanded like a balloon, and in the end, it looked like a huge, dark red, ominous tumor was attached to it.

Is this really happening? So easy?

Is it because it’s in a dream?

“W-what is that!? Ugh, that’s gross! It doesn’t go away with my power! Is that even a skill!?”

Looking at the reaction of the woman chattering loudly next to me, it seems that it has nothing to do with the dream.

“…perhaps.”

It may be the effect of passing the summary test and raising my level of existence to another level.

Thanks to this, my horizons have broadened, and I may have been able to embrace my skills more deeply.

No, it will. That’s the only thing I can guess right now.

“Whatever it is, it’s good for me.”

I grinned and pointed my grotesque, disgusting, huge snout that seemed like it could swallow the entire head in one mouth at the dwarfs.

And, without hesitation, he let out a scream.

“Kkkk!!”

“Kwiik!?”

“Keek!?”

“Krrr!”

As if several spouts had been put together, a loud, loud scream swept through the surroundings sequentially like a laser, even with directionality.

“W-what, what…!?”

The small people whose souls and karma were shattered by the influence of the [Mystic Eye of Condemnation] disappeared on the spot, not even leaving a body behind.

“Huh, huh…!?”

“Monster, monster…?”

“What on earth happened…!”

“A dream, it must be a dream. Something like this…”

After examining the condition of the astonished passengers, I put in my skills.

Fortunately, no one seemed to be injured.

“Is this the end? Is this too easy?”

“……”

She opened her mouth in surprise, but then burst into laughter and snapped her fingers.

“……”

“……”

“……”

“……”

“……”

Then, all the passengers who were moving and shouting lively just a moment ago look straight ahead with emotionless faces, as if they were dead.

“It’s interesting. There was a reason why the scouter was captured. But, is this my territory? I’m looking forward to how long I can hold out.”

“……”

The monkey train that had been stopped started again.