Chapter 131 “Breaking free from the dream”
Duncan watched the nervous hound with a friendly smile. He could tell there was a misunderstanding between himself and the other party. In that case, it was better to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
But just before he was about to speak, he suddenly saw the flickering blood light in Dog’s eyes. Although he could not see any emotional changes from the bone skull, he seed to be able to feel the fierce and turbulent mood of this dark hound.
In the next second, he heard Dog’s stamring voice co out: “You… You’re the ‘Mr. Duncan’ we’ve been dealing with these past two days?”
Duncan was taken aback by the comnt since he didn’t introduce himself to the hound. Glancing down at Shirley and the chain connecting the pair, he’s sure they didn’t speak just now. So, that leaves only one answer: they’re able to communicate through so sort of information-sharing ability.
“It’s ,” Duncan said gently, “do you need to explain anything? Or do you have sothing you want to know?”
“No!” Dog almost scread, and his whole body was squirming, “We don’t need to know any ‘knowledge’ or ‘truth’. We have no intention of prying into your secrets!”
“…… I always feel that there is still so misunderstanding between us, but it appears to be getting more difficult to clear things up.” Duncan sighed, shaking his head in a helpless manner, “Forget it, let’s use ti to build up so mutual trust between us. As for now, I have sothing I want to know.”
Dog hung his head down: “You… please speak.”
Duncan frowned. He was actually very curious as to why his main body, who was famous in the real world, had such a great influence among demons. In his impression, the deep sea was a “place” that’s very close to the subspace. If going by that logic, a shadow demon shouldn’t hold such intense fear towards him, the mobile natural disaster of the sea.
However, it now seems that the demons, who are themselves “dangerous existences” to humans, are just as afraid of losing their holand as humans do, which puzzled him.
However, before he figures out this problem, he must first resolve this nightmare inside Shirley’s dream world.
“I want to know about this dream,” Duncan said, his gaze falling on Shirley, “I know it’s a painful mory for you, and if you don’t want to say it, you can refuse.”
“…… There’s nothing I don’t want to say,” Shirley just shook her head slightly, “I should thank you. If you hadn’t interrupted this nightmare, I would’ve kept suffering…. As you can see, that’s what I went through eleven years ago.”
“Fire eh…” Duncan nodded, then shifted his attention back to Dog, “What I saw was your first ‘encounter’ with Shirley, right?”
Dog flinched sideways to avoid contact: “I was just a common shadow demon at the ti.”
“Then how did you suddenly gain a ‘heart’?” Duncan asked curiously, “As far as I can tell, you almost killed Shirley back there.”
“…… I don’t know,” Dog fell silent for a few seconds, shaking his ugly skull in a loss. “When I first beca self-aware, Shirley was already dying on the ground.”
Duncan took in a deep breath and deepened his gaze at the hound, then eyed the chain linking the guy with half of Shirley’s body.
“After that, both of you beca fused together?”
“Sort of,” Shirley murmured, hanging her head and hiding the expression under her hair.
“Actually, I don’t rember exactly what happened during this period. I was only six years old at the ti, and then I spent a long while afterward just surviving through each day…. If you’re really curious about how I got into this relationship with a shadow demon who almost killed , you can grab a psychiatrist and hypnotize . Maybe…”
“You don’t have to.” Shirley’s words were suddenly interrupted, and then she felt a large palm resting on top of her head.
It felt so warm to the touch….
“Sorry, I’m not trying to reveal your scars. I just want to know the details from eleven years ago.” Duncan gently soothed the girl’s head, understanding the question may be unpleasant for the child. “You should know that it wasn’t just the sun fragnt that appeared eleven years ago, but also countless cultists that ravaged the city. Theoretically, it should have been a mber of the Annihilation Sect who summoned the dark hounds.”
Shirley raised her head in a daze, only to be brought back to attention by Duncan’s continuing deduction: “A demonic creature from the deep sea suddenly acquired its own consciousness, which in itself is a mutation. Have you ever considered this mutation might be the inducent of a certain thing back then?”
Shirley blinked, a little slow in grasping the aning, “The sun fragnt?”
“I’m not sure… No one knows what form or power the sun fragnts have, but in the teachings propagated by the suntists are that it doesn’t give humanity to other items or things.” Duncan shook his head, “So what caused Dog to gain a sense of awareness may be sothing other than the sun fragnt… sothing else entirely.”
“You an that there may be more than just the sun fragnts that appeared in Pland eleven years ago?!” Shirley finally woke up from her confused daze, her eyes widening in shock.
“Just a little theory,” Duncan patted Shirley lightly on the shoulder before withdrawing his hand, “I always felt that sothing was wrong with the whole story. A big contradiction in the matter. If the sun fragnt is a holy relic pointing to the Suntists, its power should be straightforward according to the descriptions of those lunatics. But the chaos eleven years ago didn’t fit into that box. According to the docunts leaked by the officials, the cultists they captured included Annihilators and Enders. Why would mbers of the other cults get involved if the incident was caused by the Suntists?”
“Of course, it can also be explained that the power of the sun fragnts is so great that even people who do not believe in the sun god are affected, making them go crazy on the sa day. But this can’t explain the strange phenonon like Dog here.”
“Now, let’s go further than that. Looking at it from the above angle, there are too many suspicious points that we’ve overlooked. This includes the veiled curtain hanging over the ‘fire’ and the fact that the mory remained inside you and Nina’s mind. How can only a select few rember the weird phenona in the sixth block…. We’ve always attributed the cause of all things to the sun fragnt, but is that really true? Can you honestly believe the sun fragnt is that omnipotent?”
Duncan expressed the doubts in his heart, and so of the doubts actually arose before today’s event. However, it was only after seeing the change in Dog from eleven years ago that he’s beco firr in his theory.
The fire eleven years ago may have been caused by the sun fragnt, but there was definitely sothing else at play in the whole event!
Shirley still didn’t fully catch onto the whole theory. She was actually not very good at thinking about these complex things. In her stunned state, Dog’s voice rang rapidly: “Shirley, are you okay? Did he just touch your head to release a curse? Are you still sane? You…”
“I’m okay,” Shirley replied with a whine, “Dog, you’re too nervous~”
“Nonsense, how can I not be nervous! You had direct contact with a source of corruption that can turn any sane person mad!” Dog’s ntal voice flew into dread, “How are you feeling?”
Shirley thought about it and touched the top of her head unsurely. From as far as she could rember, the last ti soone stroked her hair like this was when she was still a child. Back then, her mom used to do this a lot before putting her to bed.
“It’s warm….” She spoke softly in a trance.
Dog was dumbfounded: “Shirley, sothing is really wrong with your brain now.”
“…… You shut up!”
Duncan didn’t know what Dog and Shirley were talking about in their internal link, but he had sothing else he wanted to check out. Glancing up at the dim window with the reddish hue, he asked: “What’s out there?”
“Huh?” Shirley didn’t react in ti and blurted this out.
Duncan raised his hand and pointed to the window: “Outside the room, what’s out there?”
“I… I don’t know,” Shirley blinked, suddenly realizing that she’s never once stepped outside this room where the nightmare haunted her. “I never thought about it. Every ti I dream, I am stuck in this room…”
“But now you’re free,” Duncan walked to the door and swung around. To the girl, his words were no different from a temptation, “Don’t you want to try, see what’s at the edge of your dream?”
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