I Became a Mental Health Care Patient in the Apocalyptic Era

Episode 25-Nightmare (3)

“I don’t know if Lee Joo-eun came to know about it, but I have a personal grudge against the nightmare.”

Lee Seo-yeon said, hugging her pillow tightly.

The way she held her pillow and looked at me was like a pictorial, but her eyes were demonic.

If you look at her from the bottom up, you will only think that she is cute, but should I say it is an image that makes your heart stop the moment you see her ferocious eyes?

“I didn’t know. I just went looking for you because I thought you would be the most helpful in catching nightmares. I guess Yang Ga-hyun…”

“He’s a bit hot-tempered and has a quick temper. If he had asked Ga-hyeon Yang, he would have already been exposed to everything by Nightmare.”

Lee Seo-yeon smiled cynically.

“If you look closely, nightmares are so stupid. If you pay a little attention to what kind of resistance your prey are resisting instead of reacting only to external forces, you won’t be caught by humans like us.”

“Isn’t it good for us that our opponents are stupid? I feel great right now. I have this opportunity to kill one of my life’s nemesis.”

Lee Seo-yeon’s eyes were very sharp.

My body shuddered involuntarily at the intimidating look in my eyes that threatened to kill the nightmare at all costs.

I honestly don’t think her spirit is scary, but she knows her strength in the visceral realm, so it feels like her body trembles by itself.

“Whoa… I’m sorry. I think I scared you for nothing.”

Lee Seo-yeon’s expression immediately relaxed.

It was only a misunderstanding that she was frightened, but she had no intention of letting go.

Because there were times when it was more beneficial for people to look weak than to look strong.

“But is it true that nightmares attack us even when we are awake?”

“They will attack.”

Nightmares are not fools.

There is no way to attack someone who is awake when their own body can be threatened.

If there are people who are awake when the nightmare attacks, it uses its authority to put them all to sleep before attacking others.

Most of the people who have been attacked by nightmares so far are already asleep, so this detailed information has not been revealed, but if you play the game once and are interested in nightmares, you can get this much information.

There are two reasons why I am awake even though nightmares will put us to sleep anyway.

One is that nightmares use even a small amount of force to defeat us, and the second is that if you fall asleep in a situation where you have the mind to prepare for a nightmare, you can get out of it very quickly.

That’s why it’s up.

‘With Lee Seo-yeon, she should be able to escape her nightmares.’

Yang Ga-hyun may not know it, but Lee Seo-yeon can block it as long as she is prepared.

If you don’t feel like waking up, you’ve come to my room, so I’ll have to wake you up myself.

“By the way, how on earth does Lee Joo-eun deal with her meals?”

“Don’t worry, I’m taking care of it myself.”

As long as there are grass growing on the ground and fruits hanging from trees, you can easily get enough food for a day.

Looking at Lee Seo-yeon with this in mind, he nodded as if he understood.

After that, we talked for several hours.

Even if it was a lot of stories, it was just a story using the common denominator between the cadets, but maybe it was because I was still young, I was able to spend enough time with just those stories.

As a bonus, she was able to gain closeness with Lee Seo-yeon, so she didn’t waste her time.

“I keep falling asleep.”

“It’s already 2 in the morning.”

Now is the time for the nightmare to attack.

Cadets living in the academy dorms go to bed quite early.

I have friends who train at dawn, and most of them train for more than 12 hours a day and intensive training for more than 2 hours, so even if I want to sleep late, I can’t stand it well.

Even not sleeping can increase if you practice, but there is no need to practice such things on ordinary days, because there are also the following days.

“If you fall asleep and the nightmare attacks you, stop it desperately, okay?”

“If I fall asleep, won’t Lee Ju-eun wake me up?”

“In that moment, the nightmare…”

A sudden need for sleep overtook me.

What I saw from the rapidly growing eyelids was Lee Seo-yeon collapsing to the side.

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“Whoa…”

Lee Joo-eun was able to get out of the nightmare attack in an instant.

Lee Joo-eun’s level of pain has already been fully analyzed.

She was able to defeat the nightmare in an instant and wake up as long as it wasn’t even her own pain in the first place.

“Ugh…”

Unlike Lee Joo-eun, who woke up from a nightmare in less than a minute, Lee Seo-yeon was fighting her own nightmare. Her

She listened to Lee Joo-eun’s advice and prepared for her nightmares, but the scars she received when she was young could haunt her with the appearance of her nightmares.

Lee Joo-eun did not interfere with her suffering as she turned her body around.

She was confident that she would be able to overcome it on her own.

She had the belief that if some other, greater being was digging into her wounds, she wouldn’t just succumb to nightmares.

After about 10 minutes passed, Lee Seo-yeon stood up holding her waist.

“Haa… Haa…”

“Are you awake?”

Lee Seo-yeon was momentarily annoyed at Lee Ju-eun’s casual questioning, but luckily she was able to calm the irritation well.

‘After all, I’m not a normal human…’

What a nightmare touches is a person’s greatest pain.

Seeing Lee Ju-eun waiting for her overcoming her pain much faster than he did, Lee Seo-yeon even felt her respect.

“The nightmare is probably on the 1st floor. Go and hit and hit and fight.”

“What is Lee Joo-eun trying to do?”

“Wake up Yang Ga-hyun and come.”

At Lee Ju-eun’s words, she nodded her head saying that Lee Seo-yeon knew.

Since she was already attacked by a nightmare, there was no harm in waking Yang Ga-hyun and bringing her.

Since two people would be more helpful than one, and three people would be more helpful than two people, it was very reasonable to wake up Yang Ga-hyeon.

“It’s a card key.”

“Are you Gahyun Yang?”

When Lee Seo-yeon nodded her head and said, she laughed as if Lee Joo-eun was dumbfounded.

“Why are you holding this?”

“We are close in our own way.”

At Lee Seo-yeon’s words, which seemed like even a mouse wouldn’t believe it, she nodded and moved to Yang Ga-hyun’s bedroom.

Because of the nightmare, everyone fell asleep and the emergency lock was activated, so I couldn’t use the elevator, so I walked up to Yang Ga-hyun’s room.

-Ppiririk

Entering Yang Gahyeon’s room through the card key, I saw Yang Gahyeon moaning on the bed in the neatly arranged room.

Only 15 minutes had passed since I was attacked by the nightmare, and the entire bed was drenched in sweat.

There was thick black smoke above Yang Ga-hyeon, which meant that he was being attacked by a nightmare.

Lee Joo-eun approached the black smoke without hesitation.

Lee Joo-eun, who was touched by the black smoke, collapsed.

‘Fortunately, it seems that I entered Yang Ga-hyun’s dream.’

Looking around, I saw a place where many swords were stuck in people.

In the center of the countless corpses, a small girl was shaking with her head bowed down.

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”

Leaving the trembling and muttering girl alone for a while, Lee Joo-eun looked around.

The quickest and best way to save Yang Ga-hyeon was not to appease the shivering girl, but to drive away the nightmare.

‘It’s stuck over there…’

Things would have been much easier if they were a little farther away, but the nightmare was hanging over Yang Ga-hyun’s head.

Lee Joo-eun sighed deeply and approached Yang Ga-hyeon.

– Kii Ik!!!

As he approached, the nightmare that looked like a centipede glared at Lee Joo-eun with its red eyes shining.

The moment the nightmare glared at him, Lee Joo-eun’s past was revealed, but there was no blow to him.

Because it was a wound that had already been overcome.

Seeing Lee Ju-eun approaching him with an expressionless expression, the nightmare panicked and began to use his strength more.

If Lee Joo-eun was a normal human being, he would have just shown the pain of the past in more detail, but perhaps because of the peculiarity of being possessed, another past began to appear to him due to the nightmare.

It was the same as the little boy crying.

However, unlike Lee Ju-eun, the boy did not lose his parents.

In the boy’s memory, the faces of his parents did not remain.

His childhood was always poor, and it was just a past where he was exploited by bad adults.

As if it had found his true pain, the nightmare used more power to illuminate the boy, but he didn’t mind.

That past is a past that has already been overcome.

Because he lacked so much, he had a stronger longing, so he didn’t even hate his childhood.

-Kieek?

In response to the unexpected reaction, the nightmare reflected the future after that.

The boy grew up slowly.

The boy, who had a lofty dream since childhood, made an effort to match that dream.

He had many failures and many betrayals, but he never fell down or gave up.

He moved forward with the single purpose of achieving his dream somehow.

Failure couldn’t hurt.

For him, failure was just an experience that allowed him to grow.

Through all his experiences, he achieved one success and achieved the goal he so longed for.

‘You’re going to find my pain in the past?’

I met the wrong person.

He has lived his life so hard that he thinks he couldn’t live harder than this.

Although he may have regretted his failed choices, he did not regard the time as wasted.

Countless people wanted to return to the past and change themselves, but he never had the thought of wanting to go back to the past.

Because he always did his best.

Even if he went back to the past, he didn’t have the confidence to work harder than he did then.

Especially now that I have achieved the goal I set when I was young and become lazy.

His body began to glow slowly.

He was a human who had already accomplished one karma.

He has already overcome all his pain.

He had a strong sense of pride throughout his life.

The nightmare in his soul, which could not find even a crack, escaped Yang Ga-hyun’s dream in fright.

‘It would have been more frightening if I had shown the future of being torn to death by a kid like Yang Ga-hyun.’

He took a few more steps and crouched down in front of Yang Ga-hyun.

“Now wake up kid. No nightmares.”

As he spoke while stroking the girl’s hair, the girl raised her head to look at him.

He realized that the man in the dream was not wearing a scarf until the girl saw his face.