I Became a Mental Health Care Patient in the Apocalyptic Era

Chapter 26-Nightmare (4)

“Are you awake?”

Yang Ga-hyun, who was sleeping with tears in her eyes, quietly opened her eyes and woke up.

“Wake up because it’s not when you’re lying still.”

“… hehehe.”

Yang Ga-hyun, who was staring at my face, smiled and stood up.

‘Isn’t your face caught?’

The moment Yang Ga-hyun was supposed to have checked my face, he woke up from the dream, but I couldn’t tell if Yang Ga-hyun saw my face or not.

It would be nice if it was my previous self because it was in my dream, but unfortunately, as a result of checking through my kidneys, it was much more likely that I was Lee Joo-eun.

“I saw you in my dream and you were so cute.”

“Don’t say anything strange. Wake up. The nightmare has attacked.”

I pulled her like a tug and got up without erasing the smile from her face.

“Come to your senses? A monster appeared in the dormitory!”

Yang Ga-hyeon looked down at me when he finally came to his senses when he threw a low kick with all his might.

“Right now, Lee Seo-yeon is blocking it by herself, so come down.”

“Uh… Uh, but how did you get in?”

“Lee Seo-yeon gave me the keys to your room.”

She said as she ran as fast as she could and she grabbed me tightly.

“What are you doing…”

Before I could comment on her sudden action, she started down her stairs at breakneck speed.

Not at the level of jumping down, but almost flying, kicking the wall, only changing direction, and falling down.

‘Crazy…’

When I came down to the ground like that, I couldn’t help but curse.

No matter how much there is a difference between going up and coming down, the distance that took me a few minutes to go up took only about 3 seconds to come down.

-Kiehehehehe!!!

In the lobby on the 1st floor, I saw a huge black mass screaming in front of a woman in pajamas.

Black smoke emanating from here and there seemed very dangerous, but the woman the nightmare was dealing with was also not in a normal state.

“Whoa… Whoa…”

“Are you okay?”

Yang Ga-hyun stood next to Lee Seo-yeon as she held me.

“Yes, that’s fine.”

Lee Seo-yeon’s body was dripping with sweat.

Nightmare attacks are more focused on mental attacks than physical attacks.

Even if there are few visible wounds, he must have been caught up in a lot of nightmares while we were gone.

“From now on, leave it to me.”

Yang Ga-hyun ran to the multi-purpose room and brought a mop.

Her figure with the mop was comical, if ridiculous, but judging from the look in her eyes and the momentum that radiated from her body, she was far from being ridiculous.

I don’t think there are many people who can create such an atmosphere with a mop.

‘This should be enough.’

Park Soo-hyun’s power is enough to catch a nightmare.

At this point, the difference in power between the three isn’t too great, so even if you don’t know how to properly attack, Yang Ga-hyeon and Lee Seo-yeon should be able to catch them with ease.

Since I’m standing next to you, who knows the strategy, you’ll catch it more easily.

-Kwajik!!

My prediction was not wrong.

Nightmare began to reduce its size in an instant due to Yang Ga-Hyun and Lee Seo-Yeon’s attacks, putting it to shame that he had worked hard to build up his strength.

‘Of course I have to catch it leisurely.’

As a player, I made a prediction based on almost perfect statistics, but it would be difficult if these predictions were wrong.

There was a feeling that it was too easy to say that it was the words of a real boss-level monster that you meet for the first time after starting the game, but the original characters easily catch the early bosses.

-Keeek!!

Before I knew it, the nightmare that had grown smaller tried to run away from us and was caught in my hand.

-Keeek?

Nightmare looked at me with an expression like what happened to this.

Nightmare had the characteristic of exiting the place when his physical strength dropped below a certain level and he felt that he was going to die himself.

So, if a beginner wants to catch a nightmare, there are cases where the nightmare is released because they can’t stop it from escaping. Could catch

-Quea!!!

The nightmare, which had already weakened to the point where it was weakened, could not overcome even the power of my grasp.

When I gave the right strength and held the nightmare, the nightmare exploded and disappeared.

It was a really shabby death for a boss-level monster to die, but it’s normal for a well-prepared early boss to be killed this easily.

“It turned out to be easier than I thought.”

Lee Seo-yeon said as she sat down in her seat.

Since Yang Ga-hyun joined, he has consistently maintained the upper hand by pushing Nightmare wildly, but before we came, when he was fighting alone with Nightmare, the burden on his mind was probably quite high.

It must have been more difficult if he thought that if he collapsed, all the cadets in the dormitory would be beaten by nightmares.

“…But how did you guys get away from the nightmare?”

Yang Ga-hyun, who stood for a while with a thoughtful expression, looked at us and asked.

“Because I knew it was going to be a nightmare.”

“… What?”

Yang Ga-hyun was greatly surprised by Lee Seo-yeon’s calm tone and responded.

“How did you know that?”

“Lee Joo-eun said that he had found a harbinger. Just seeing black smoke is enough to detect the danger of a nightmare.”

Yang Ga-hyun looked at me with a very sad expression at Lee Seo-yeon’s words as if it was nothing.

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Well, aren’t you a very lively person? Isn’t it because Lee Ju-eun thinks that if I tell you, there’s a high chance of getting caught?”

At the words of Lee Seo-yeon, who skillfully separated me from Yang Ga-hyun, Yang Ga-hyun widened her eyes and looked at me.

‘It’s happened…’

As I was looking at Yang Gahyeon, thinking about how to handle this, I heard a loud noise from upstairs.

I turned my head towards the sound and saw the armed cadets watching us.

It was only natural that they came down quickly and that they were perfectly armed.

Since the people who lived in this building were monster-slaying cadets, they knew even fragments of nightmares, and there was a high probability that they knew that nightmares would attack them when we woke up after catching them.

Monsters have been attacking the building they live in. Of course, they should come down armed.

Looking at them staring at us in bewilderment, we sighed in relief.

At least the time to avoid Yang Ga-hyun’s wrath was increased.

*******

“Whoa…”

I looked down at the dean smoking a strong cigarette in front of the cadets.

It wasn’t that I was afraid of her, it was that I did it because I thought the situation would be better than looking into her eyes confidently.

“So, you prepared a few days ago to catch the nightmare?”

“Yes, I wanted to break the bondage of suffering from nightmares in our dormitory.”

“I want to tell you that the result is fine, and honestly, the process is a pretty good strategy. If I told people like us, the nightmare might have noticed and ran away.”

She puffed out the smoke from her cigarette and went on with her words.

“But no matter how much I think about it, I can’t kill the thought that you deliberately lured me away.”

As her dean looked at me with her hard expression, I looked up at her, keeping her eyes as soft as I could.

“Tell me honestly, the sign you broke, did you know what it meant?”

“No. I’m just breaking down a sign in an empty place to prepare for a nightmare.”

“You? A kid who doesn’t eat because he doesn’t have money and breaks down other people’s signboards?”

“I broke it because it seemed to be left without an owner.”

Speaking as boldly as possible, the dean let out a deep sigh and placed her cigarette in her mouth.

“Honestly, I don’t want to doubt the cadets who came under me. But you’re well aware that the situation is… So ridiculous, right?”

“I admit that it can be perceived as strange from the dean’s point of view.”

As she forced her smile, she sighed once more.

“To be honest, I doubt whether or not you are a spy for the monster.”

“That’s absolutely not the case.”

“Yeah, just by looking at your eyes, I can tell you’re not a spy… Haa… I don’t know.”

She smoked her cigarette in one gulp as she looked at me.

“Whoa… I’ll trust you for now. But if something like this happens again, then I can’t get over it.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Even if I say that, she is a woman who treats the cadets who are attracted to her once, so she will believe me even if this happens not just once, but ten times.

“Get out.”

“Okay!”

She bowed her head to her and walked out of her door right away.

“Are you finished?”

When I opened the door, I saw another mountain.