CH 87

[The dusty church door swung open, and a woman with greasy blond hair strode into the chapel.

She walked slowly, step by bloody footstep, down the stairs.

On the wall behind the altar[1], a dilapidated sculpture of something spurned all over Planet Clay stood quietly—the statue of the Light God.

Karina looked at the Light God with a sullen expression, clenching Samael’s Staff. “Please protect your faithful lambs.” She saluted the statue with a pious air.

Her companions were dead, and everything she had done led up to this one moment.

Rumble—

The hidden door opened.

The stench of long-decayed flesh rushed out of the room inside, floating around the pitch black entrance like the void to hell.

As the Holy Sect spread throughout the world, and Morris inherited Samael’s power, he grew more and more powerful—no one could resist his nightmarish influence.

More and more people died; they needed someone to rise up against the demon.

Karina took out some preserved holy water and resolutely stared into the dark hollow ahead.

The only way to destroy Morris was to douse his body with holy water—sending him to eternal damnation.

While walking towards the door, Karina didn’t realize that the statue she’d just saluted was crumbling.

Behind her, sitting in a row of dusty pews, was a blond man covered in burn scars.

His lips curved up into a brutally cruel smirk.

Here’s my final surprise to you, jiejiejiejie, I hope you like it! 】

——From《Nightmare 2》

Al thought for a moment, and asked, “Did you trick Morris into going to the church?”

“You’d better not lie.” Al smiled, but held a beautifully futuristic gun at the ready.

In the plot, Zhou Yu and Johnny tricked Morris into entering the church’s underground hall, which indirectly caused his death.

As a result, neither of them died with intact corpses.

Trick Morris?

Zhou Yu’s gaze flickered, gears turning in his brain, but eventually ignorantly admitted timidly, “Yes, I did.”

Having roughly understood the content of the visions he’d seen, Zhou Yu subconsciously felt that what they were asking about was precisely that.

His gut feeling was that lying to these people would relax their vigilance towards him.

Al frowned slightly, soon relaxing to his original indifference.

Was he overthinking it?

The goal of the mission this time was different from what it had been in the past. The identities directly applied to them affected the progress of the plot, which in turn triggered a series of domino effects and would eventually lead to unpredictable events.

The reincarnation group had already discussed this issue.

Based on this, some changes in the natives’ actions were to be accounted for.

This small, twig-like cannon fodder couldn’t be the main culprit behind the current plot change.

He was being too cynical.

With this in mind, Al shoved down the anxiety in his heart and stopped probing Zhou Yu for information.

“It’s already been a minute, I hope you’ve all hidden—jiejiejie!”

Just as the room was quieting, Morris’s mocking voice floated in from outside the room.

Hearing this voice, Zhou Yu froze for a moment before reverting to a calmer state.

No matter what Morris became, he would always be the Morris that he loved[2]… his Morris.

Thoom! Thoom!

Heavy footfalls approached the small door from the end of the hallway.

BACRACK!!!

In the next second, the door of the room beside them was completely shattered to bits, accompanied by an inhuman: “Graauuuuggrh!!!”

“Ahhhhhh!!!! No!”

Earthshaking screams rang through the corridor.

Judging from the sound, the monster was playing with its prey like a cat, bashing them into the walls and tearing up the hallway until the unfortunate human lost all vital signs.

Blood gradually soaked into the carpet from the carnage outside.

Zhou Yu, who was closest to the door, looked at the wet rug under his feet and blankly backed up.

The sound of the feasting monster’s crunching echoed endlessly; the room holding Zhou Yu was as silent as a tomb.

Zhou Yu leaned against the wall, listening to the footsteps of the monster outside, no panic visible on his perpetually pale visage.

He looked so bored, twiddling his fingers and thumbs while the others in the room gave the unusually calm 18 year-old weird glances.

This absolute and tenuous silence lasted until the sounds the monster made faded away.

For a long while, nobody moved until Al twitched his mouth and looked at Zhou Yu, preparing to say something.

“You—“

The youth ignored him, emerald green eyes floating around before they darted up to the ceiling.

Creakkk—

The ceiling suddenly made a noise, and a few drops of dark liquid slipped from the gap between the wooden boards and fell onto the sofa.

Al turned his head to look at the red cloth next to him, swallowing back what he wanted to ask Zhou Yu with a gloomy expression.

“Come on!”

Fwoom!

Suddenly, the floor above them collapsed, and countless black, hairy and malformed rats poured down from the ceiling.

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The fast-acting Al turned his left arm into a robotic prosthetic and released a huge energy beam from the palm of his hand, destroying some of the black-furred rodents that rushed the group.

“Squeak—squeak!”

However, the rushing tides of disgusting vermin seemed endless. Even as Al kept releasing energy beams, the numbers didn’t dwindle.

As a last resort, they had to open the bespelled door and rush out of the room.

With the mentality of sitting still to watch the show, Zhou Yu was also dragged by the red-haired girl via his collar and pulled outside.

Milo glared at the stunned-looking native like she was seeing a pile of garbage. “Do you want to commit suicide?! Damn! You wish! Unless Captain gives me the order to end you, be good and follow quietly!

The dark-haired and green-eyed teenager was dragged by Milo to the end of the corridor, near the stairs and almost to the point of falling over the banister.

Milo looked at the seals on the door that were being viciously gnawed by rats and spit in disgust, “See? You garbage! If you didn’t come out, you‘d be chewed to bits!”

The native was still useful to the Captain.

Therefore, Milo, to whom the Captain’s needs were always first, planned to scare the native first, so that he wouldn’t end up being a hindrance.

Looking at the rats who weren’t malicious towards him, Zhou Yu icily thanked her. “Thank you for your care.” Although it wasn’t necessary.

Knowing that this was just a dream, Zhou Yu wasn’t nervous or afraid at all. Now he didn’t even want to act scared, it just felt boring.

After hearing this, Milo was so annoyed that her delicate little face distorted.

“Who cares about you? I’m warning you! You—”

“Okay, Milo, we still have work to do.” Al soothed the seething Milo and coldly turned to Zhou Yu. “Have you seen a tall, brown-haired man recently?”

Al was absolutely sure that Zhou Yu had been brought to the villa by Warren.

He just wasn’t clear on whether or not Warren was dead or alive—more importantly, Samael’s Staff was in Warren’s hands.

That item was incredibly necessary at this point.

Zhou Yu blinked and replied rather indifferently: “I haven’t seen anyone like that before.”

The cold muzzle of a laser gun shoved against his temple.

Milo’s gaze was very cold while she hissed, “Do you, want, to die?”

She would always be merciless towards those who dared offend her beloved captain.

Zhou Yu was pressed nearly to the point of falling over the railing by Milo, but his emerald green eyes still didn’t hold the slightest fear.

Al looked at the skinny male native for a while, before issuing with a gentle smile: “If that’s the case—Milo, kill him.”

Disobedient natives were still useful dead, killing this one would at least add some points to Milo’s comparatively lower score in the group.

“Ahhhh! Save me!!!”

At this moment, a middle-aged man with a beer belly scrambled over from the upper floor and ran down the corridor with a shrill scream.

“Roar—”

The ox-headed monster followed closely, and when it saw the reincarnators standing in the corridor, it suddenly roared in excitement.

“Wow~ What a coincidence, a perfect score! You can eat…enjoy it…” Morris was back.

Pitch getting lower and lower for an unknown reason, Morris’s voice rang with something akin to the anxiety and panic of a lost child losing his favorite toy.

Panic?

No, it was his misunderstanding, it should be vengeful excitement over seeing someone who had caused his death.

Al frowned, and clenched his left hand, which was about to release an energy beam, and looked at Milo behind him.

“Milo, don’t kill him yet.”

Although Milo was puzzled, she still obediently unclamped the hand squeezing Zhou Yu’s throat.

Zhou Yu didn’t notice the change at all, he just stared at the monster.

From his perspective, you could clearly see a figure next to the monster that gradually showed its presence.

That’s—Morris.

Zhou Yu actually felt a little awkward.

After all, he had promised beforehand that he would never come to this villa in any way.

But he broke his promise after just a few hours.

Zhou Yu’s thin lips twitched a few times and still couldn’t greet Morris.

He felt ashamed that Morris put his trust in him.

Beside the monster, Morris seemed even more broken than the guilt-filled Zhou Yu.

The blond teen never thought he would show his best friend such a cruel side of himself.

His friend had the preconceived notion that he was kind, and would even argue that he was being too kind.

Morris has always been smiling—to the point that one might call it an obsession.

Yes… he was obsessed with the feeling of his friends caring for him.

Therefore, in order to get the attention of his friends, he behaved increasingly gently.

Whoever they were, he would help— even if they had insulted him previously.

From childhood, no one cared whether he got hurt or not.

They only cared that he had the same great kindness that his mother Emily had.

Therefore, from a very young age, he learned to wear a mask, forcing himself to do nice things for people he had never really met in order to gain others’ attention.

He had once mistaken that feeling as being adored.

Sadly, he knew better.

But after he met Zhou Yu and they became best friends, he made up his mind that even if he had to act the rest of his life, he was willing.

If Heaven could tie his best friend to his side forever, even if he(M) had to turn into a fool for a lifetime, how good would that be?

But … God didn’t fulfill even his trivial request—

Morris’s blue eyes glimmered and he refused to meet Zhou Yu’s gaze.

He was afraid, afraid to see any fear from Zhou Yu.

That would be the last straw, the one that would break him completely.

After waking up from beyond the grave, he had been constantly suffering.

For this reason, he didn’t have the courage to look at his friend; he was indeed a coward.

He’d thought about it countless times.

If a friend knew his true face, would they still like him?

Would they still be as close as before?

Would his Zhou Yu leave him with the same disgusted expression everyone else had?

Would Zhou Yu find new friends, ones better than him?

Would he be replaced?

No, he wouldn’t allow anyone to get between them, they had to stay together—forever!

Due to the dark possessiveness in his heart, Morris’s bearing grew even gloomier, a cruel and tyrannical atmosphere floating around him. The specter was nearly ready to tear apart anything that approached.

Seeing Morris like that, Al became even more sure of the guess in his heart.

He yanked the silent boy in front of him and said respectfully to Morris: “Master Morris, we ask you to forgive our past sins. This is what we caught for atonement—”

“An accomplice to your murder—Zhou Yu!”

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