Chapter -7: Ch34. Nightmare
Nikolai smiled wickedly.
"I like the way it sounds, Silence. But why? You don't speak?" He scoffed.
"Can't show my face or my voice, right?"
Nikolai's eyes went wide.
"You REALLY didn't speak? You're crazier than I thought, Kurt!" Then he laughed wholeheartedly. "But I'm glad you could save the man, even though he was a trash bag. A life is a life, right?"
Kurt nodded while Nikolai took so paper towels and handed to him, so he could clean his nose and mouth, red with blood.
"Also, Nikolai..." Kurt looked at him seriously, as he was turning to leave Kurt's room. "I need to ask you sothing."
Nikolai stood silent, looking at Kurt.
"I saw so boxes in the basent, filled with what I thought were pots of flowers, herbs and other things like that. What are you going to do with them?"
"Oh, that? They were already here when I arrived, so I was thinking of selling them to a gardener or sothing." Kurt started laughing at the idea. "Why are you laughing?"
"Nothing. It's just that selling poison to a gardener wouldn't be so good." He coughed while laughing.
"Poison?" Nikolai looked at Kurt with wide eyes. "How do you know that?"
"It's one of the skills I acquired because of this system." Kurt paused when the thought struck him. "Which reminds of sothing, but mind if we talk about it while going to the basent?"
Nikolai nodded and led the way as they talked.
"So, sothing strange occurred during the fight with Leblanc, and it reminded of when Quintus almost killed ."
And as they went down the stairs, Kurt told Nikolai about everything that happened when he fought Quintus and was left for dead inside a barrel in the bottom of the docks.
"So you 'did' awaken, then? But I thought this system of yours was so kind of a friendly thing or whatever. Why would it bug on you like that? And two tis, like one wasn't enough."
"I don't know, and I probably lost my only chance of understanding it."
His tone beca darker as Nikolai looked at him, a question mark beaming in his brow.
"Evellyn, the girl who will beco this person in the future, the Red Oracle. She's a mber of the Shadow Guild, and I killed their leader, so yeah..."
"You really believe that?" Nikolai's tone was strangely doubtful when he asked, and Kurt noticed it.
"Nikolai... When you were alive in the previous version of my life, we hung out for years, like, we spent the rest of our childhood 'and' ten years after that, we were still around each other. If there's one thing I learned about you, is that no matter in which version of my life I am, you're always the best when it cos to gut feeling. So... Do you really not believe that she sees as a villain even now?"
"Kurt, Kurt, Kurt... My little brother of the sa age, if what you told about her is certain, then she 'is' an oracle, right? So she can see past, present 'and' future. And if she can see all this things, who can guarantee that she didn't see you and your situation when she told you about this... Crystal thingy?"
Kurt thought about it, but beca silent until they reached the basent.
Kurt showed Nikolai the boxes, but when Kurt himself looked at them again, the system window that showed their nas and utilities was full of glitches.
"What the fuck?"
"What?" Nikolai frowned at Kurt.
"Nothing, just the system window. It's glitched. Probably still bugged from before. Anyway, I rember so of the contents of the boxes are deadly plants, so I was thinking-"
"You don't even have to ask!" Nikolai gave a big smile. "They're yours, after all, you're helping establish my business without getting into more trouble than the necessary, and you're also helping people by hunting those monitoring division suki down. What else can I say?"
Kurt smiled and let out a big sigh.
"I was thinking of moving down here, too. In order to turn this place into a laboratory."
"I'll ask my n to reorganize all this stuff and move your things down here, then. Now, how about so Italian?"
"Sounds wonderful." Kurt nodded. 'How can Nikolai be so young and still have all this hunger for the luxuries in life?'
He laughed inwardly, following Nikolai outside.
***
After dinner, Kurt went to his room and laid his head in the pillow, mulling over everything that happened during the day.
And when he least noticed, he fell asleep.
***
When Kurt opened his eyes, there was a black sky over his head with no stars, and below, a red liquid vastness surrounded him.
"Where am I?"
Kurt felt a slight sense of familiarity, but strangely, the feeling also carried an urgent sense of danger.
He tried moving forward, but the more he walked, the more the red liquid would rise above him, so he tried walking backwards, with the sa result.
It seed as though no matter what he did, the red substance would irrevocably swallow him whole, so he breathed in deeply, and waited for that to happen.
When it did, it was dark under the liquid, but Kurt didn't feel like he was under water. The sensation was more oppressive, more overwhelming.
His heart beat faster, but he chose to overco the fear for that unknown situation.
'It's just a dream...'
He looked around, trying to see sothing and noticed a faint, black glow towards what seed to be the bottom of that strange sea, so he swam harder and harder, in order to reach that black light.
Only that when he paid closer attention, it seed like he wasn't the only one moving there.
The black light was moving towards him too.
And before he could try to move away from whatever that was, he saw his surroundings getting darker, followed by an impressive and overwhelming force grabbing him.
Kurt couldn't breathe and couldn't speak, so he could only wait for whatever that thing was, to reveal its form.
But it didn't.
It only squeezed Kurt tighter and tighter, until he couldn't not scream, filling his insides with that strange, red liquid.
"YOU... CANNOT... OVERPOWER... THE...-"
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