My Demons - Chapter 227



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My Villains Episode 227

47. Nightmare (9)

For a moment, I thought I had fallen asleep while feeling floating. We were thrown out of the black passage, just like we had been before.

Cole and I quickly got into position and landed on the ground, but-

“ Q ” Hayla twisted and fell forward.

Fortunately, I didn’t fall face down on the floor, but I fell pretty hard and I’m worried that my knee may have been damaged.

By the way, there’s another kid whose stats aren’t up to par. If you have 15 points of agility, you may not be a superhuman, but you will be at the level of an athlete… … .

” are you okay?”

Hayla remained silent for a moment while lying on her stomach. It looks like it hurts a lot.

While I was helping her up, Cole was looking around with sharp eyes. It was a quiet space, like a suburban mansion or Tawj Den.

“It’s another strange place.”

“… … “I see.”

The place we fell into was a large room.

The first thing I noticed was six or seven chairs. A neatly designed steel chair that can seat three people side by side.

On all four walls, which were finished in dark gray, there was a turned-off television and various picture frames hanging. Most of them were pictures containing information about diseases in dogs and cats, and there were also posters with the phrase ‘Have you registered your animal?’ written in large letters, and a picture of a middle-aged man in a white coat hugging a golden retweet river on the lawn.

in short… … .

“I don’t think it’s Middle World this time either.”

Hayla, who was helping me, seemed a little surprised by the exotic, no, otherworldly scene unfolding around her.

“Poi, is this your dream?”

” maybe.”

“Where am I?”

“… … Uh, I’m not sure.”

I added quickly, scratching my eyebrows at her staring gaze.

“It’s rare for people to remember their dreams one by one.”

“Are you saying you don’t remember?”

“Well, something like that… …

As I vaguely spoke, Hayla quietly looked up at me and nodded, saying, ‘Yes, I am.’

Meanwhile, Kol was approaching the only door panel and listening closely. For a moment, he looked back at us and whispered in a low voice.

“There is no pretense of popularity.”

W Ugh

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I tapped his shoulder to stop the call and then tried to listen. He heard nothing as he said, so he slowly turned the doorknob.

After the small squeak of the hinge, the first thing I saw was the logo engraved on the wall in front.

Under the logo symbolizing a dog, a cat, and a heart, it was written ‘Saepum Animal Medical Center.’ I slowly leaned out and looked at the door plate, and found that the room we were in was the guardian waiting room.

As I had already guessed as I looked at the picture frames in the room, this was an animal hospital.

It’s also a very familiar place, having been there a few times since it’s close to where I live.

The hospital lobby and the street seen through the front window were empty and empty.

Although it is not a busy area, it is a neighborhood with a considerable floating population, but it feels strange to see no people or cars at all in broad daylight.

“It’s okay to come out. “There is nothing.”

Cole and Hayla, who came to the lobby under my guidance, could not hide their confusion.

“••••••her.”

Although these two have very calm personalities, the streets of modern Korea seen outside the window must be a completely different world.

How could medieval people living in the Middle World not be surprised when they saw six-lane roads paved with asphalt, trees lined up along the road, and electronic signs with flashing phrases such as ‘seat belts for all seats’?

Of course, the highlight was different.

“••••••and.”

Hayla, who approached the front window, shook her head and let out an exclamation. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen her express her admiration out loud.

“What is that?”

“It’s a kind of house.”

Hayla, looking up at the 19-story apartment building, blinked and asked again.

“Who lives there?”

“… … well. “I’m curious too.”

Leaving behind Kol and Hayla, who were looking at the street with shocked faces, I looked inside the hospital again.

“••••••Hmm.”

This dream was completely different from the suburban mansion.

The memories of being trapped in that mansion were dormant beneath my consciousness, but the memories related to this animal hospital and the neighborhood were relatively clear.

But why did I fall into this animal hospital?

With that question in mind, I walked slowly.

Starting with the guardian waiting room in the far corner, I looked through the restroom, treatment room, hospitalization room, and director’s office one by one, but there was nothing special.

Next was the treatment room.

As I was opening the heavy slide door, I thought I heard a breathing sound. It was a sound so small and faint that I thought it was an auditory hallucination.

I immediately stiffened and pulled out Hrunting first. Even though I pulled it out slowly, my hand trembled slightly, so the sword squeak rang.

The eerie sound made me pause a little, but my mind quickly calmed down when I saw the milky blade with faint black lines. It was reassuring to have in my hands a mysterious sword that could cut down even a ghost with a single blow.

The treatment room was narrow.

‘It was a very ordinary structure with two chairs facing each other around an ivory table bent into a V shape.

I took a quick look around the room, but it was empty. There doesn’t seem to be any space for people to hide.

As I was about to turn around, wondering if I had heard wrong, there was something that caught my eye. Lying in the corner of the treatment room was a brown kennel, commonly called a ‘carrier’.

“……2”

It’s not unusual for a veterinary hospital to have a kennel, but it feels odd. So, I approached cautiously and squatted down in front of the door with the iron bars.

Sigh.

“Wow, I’m surprised.”

I almost fell flat on my ass at the sudden noise I heard from inside the kennel.

When I looked again, there was a small kitten inside the kennel, with its whiskers standing upright, barking at me.

The sight of a creature half the size of my palm with its ears folded back and teeth the size of narrow grains exposed is not threatening, but rather cute.

“••••••what.”

However, the tangerine-colored stripes are somehow familiar to the eye. I think I’ve seen the maple-leaf-shaped white hair between the eyes somewhere.

As I was tilting my head, the kitten that was cowering in the corner of the kennel suddenly stopped yapping.

Then, it came close to the iron bars, scratched the lock with its front paws, and cried, ‘Meow, meow.’

“Uh, do you want me to open it?”

Aeoong-

After hesitating for a moment after hearing the dog’s earnest cry, I opened the kennel door. The kitten quickly ran out and struggled to climb up my leg.

“Uh, hey, my fingernail is hurt.”

I quickly took off the guy who was scratching the shin pads I got from defeating the ‘living armor’ a few days ago and took him into my arms.

As if the cat wasn’t satisfied with that, it scratched my chest and climbed up my body, licking my chin and lips.

“It hurts, hey, stop.”

He smiled heartily and stroked his soft fur, and I was able to recognize his identity through that touch.

“hey. “Are you a rice cooker?”

I don’t know if you understood what I said.

It was crying loudly, rubbing its forehead against its uvula, biting its chin, and rubbing its tail and buttocks against its forearms… … It wasn’t just an ordinary mess.

Bobpuri is a cat I picked up in front of my living room about 7 or 8 years ago.

It had no mother and all its siblings were dead nearby, so I brought it home and took care of it, but it fell ill and crossed the rainbow bridge.

They said they couldn’t provide proper treatment because they didn’t have tens of thousands of won. Perhaps that memory remained so strong that it appeared in the realm of dreams like this.

“What should I do? “Can I just take him with me like this?” Oh my. While I was wandering around for a while, enjoying my reunion with Bappuri, something strange happened.

“……uh?”

The small body, which was about half the size of my palm, began to swell. At the same time, the hand that was stroking the animal was covered in yellow fur.

“Hey, wait a minute. “This is not it.”

For a moment, my eyes became dark. It reminded me of the nurse whose neck had stretched as long as a neck and Chief Heo whose body had grown as big as a house.

“Oh, this,” I just fidgeted and hugged the rice bowl.

Experience tells me that it would be best to twist its neck before it turns into some hideous monster.

“X-arm, you have to say something that makes sense.”

Of course, that was impossible. In the end, unable to do anything, I screamed outside the treatment room.

“Heyla! call!”

“Phoenix?” By the time the two people who had been frantically scanning the street rushed to the treatment room, the food had already grown to almost the size of a human body. Almost all of his hair had fallen out, leaving his white skin exposed.

“uh?”

… … White skin? A cat monster with white skin?

Wait a minute, I think I experienced something similar to this once…

“Uh, huh?”

The hair had completely fallen out, revealing a naked woman.

Black hair that barely reached her shoulders, half-opened eyes as if she were drunk, and tight nose and lips.

“… … Mung, Chiya?”

Before I knew it, the baby cheese tabby was gone, and a bundle of oriental assassins was in my arms.

“Ahhh,”

The guy didn’t seem to notice that his appearance had changed, and was rubbing himself against my neck, chest, and forearms in a trance… … .

“••••••Uh, um,”

I’ve felt this before, but the lump doesn’t match my youthful appearance, uh, what should I say, my insides are full. Anyway, that’s it.

For a guy like that to hug me so close and twist my body without even a single layer of clothing on, well, it’s embarrassing, but at the same time…

Grumble-

I was holding the bundle in a daze, but when I heard the sound of the slide door opening behind me, I quickly turned around. And then, with his back to the door, he shouted.

“Wait a minute, Cole!”

“Yes, what’s going on?”

“Don’t come in, but search the other rooms.”

“yes? that is… …

Cole, who continued to question, opened his mouth wide.

“……a bunch, seed’?”

I think I noticed an arm wrapped around my neck, a small head sticking out over my shoulder, and my calves shaking alternately as if splashing in the water.

“No, what kind of situation is this?”

“Stop talking nonsense, go get some clothes for him.”

“Uhm, I understand.”

By the time Cole left in a hurry and Hayla entered the treatment room, Munchi had also come to his senses.

“… … “Uh, uh, huh?”

After regaining focus, he looked at his body and me in turn, and his face turned red.

Then, the cute ears, slender neck, concave collarbone, and even the shoulders with small scars bloomed red.

“Eh, zenme, poi.”

“… … Calm down. “My face is going to explode.”

“Ah, why is this?”

Munchi, whose face showed confusion, surprise, and disappointment, just stuttered like a person who had lost the ability to speak.

Then, when I glanced away, he closed his mouth and held me close. It was not a gesture to satisfy self-interest like before, but a gesture that could not bear shame.

As a joke, I said, ‘Hey, why are you so embarrassed? It’s already behind the Longville stronghold… … ‘ I wanted to say something, but

Heyla, who was leaning against the doorway of the treatment room with an expressionless face, didn’t know what to say, so I decided to just keep quiet.

Fortunately, Cole came back in less than 10 minutes, retrieving a bundle of clothes and all the equipment. When I asked him where he found it, he pointed with his hand to a room on one side.

… … Dog grooming salon? No, why did you do that?

Mungchi is fully armed, wearing a light linen top and bottom, a short robe that barely touches the thighs, light suede boots, vambraces with small crossbows, and a sword belt with a ‘cloud sword’ and a ‘blinking dagger’.

“……Ah……

Both cheeks and the nape of the neck were still stained bright red. I watched him quietly, then smiled and stroked his hair.

“Hey, don’t be so shy. “I didn’t see anything.”

“••••••yes.”

It seems that even outright lies are not very comforting. That’s strange, was he always this shy?

After roughly resolving the situation, I looked back at the group. Everyone looked embarrassed about being dropped into modern Korea, no, a different world, so I put on a confident expression.

“Now let’s move.”

“Do you have any plans?”

“huh. “There is a place that I can roughly guess.”

As I left the hospital with Hrunting in tow, the other three quickly followed suit.

Walking down a six-lane road lined with high-rise apartments, shopping malls, shoe stores, bus stops, and street trees would have been an unimaginable experience for Middle World residents.

Still, Munchi, Hayla, and Kol maintained their composure. In particular, Mungchi looked around as if he was curious, but seemed to be alert like a cat on the hunt.

Well, Mungchi is from another world, Dongbang. Although the surrounding scenery is amazing, it is probably not enough to cause panic.

After crossing the railroad crossing, I entered the alley and walked for about 5 minutes before the officetel building where I lived came into view.

“••••••Hmm.”

Looking at the convenience store across the street, it seems like it was at least 5 years ago. Around that time, a gym was built over there.

As I pretended to be calm while being aware of my confused companions, I felt like I was really calming down. Or maybe it’s because it’s a familiar neighborhood so I feel comfortable.

“This way.”

“… … to,”

I narrowed my eyes as I looked at the entrance to the officetel. Having entered an unfamiliar world, I felt reluctant to enter a narrow building.

“Where am I?”

“… … uh. “I don’t know.”

I shrugged my shoulders and gave a vague answer to Hayla’s question.

“Should I just say I have a feeling that I should go this way? “I think it’s like this because it’s a dream world.”

It was a rough remark, but… … .

Well, what can I do? I don’t know anything about the realm of dreams, so I guess I’ll just have to do it.

Since I couldn’t take the elevator with my nervous companions, I chose the stairs.

We arrived in front of room 506 without incident, except that Hayla sprained her ankle when the landing light suddenly turned on while going up from the 2nd to the 3rd floor.

“••••••also.”

The visit to room 506 was pitch black. It is the same color that colors the gate of a suburban mansion.

Leaving the group behind for a moment, he slowly approached the door and raised his hand.

When the Death King’s scaled carapace touched the black metallic surface,

Gugugung-

Black energy dispersed with a short roar. Then, as if waiting, the door to room 506 suddenly opened.

“… … Oh, Seungsu.”

What appeared were two men.

There was one man who looked to be in his late 50s, and another man who looked to be in his 40s.

The former, a man about my father’s age, smiled brightly.

“If I had known it would be there soon, I would have waited at the door. As you get older,

“I just got in a hurry.”

“I told the person watching the security that it was Seungsu’s father. “I don’t mean it in a bad way, so I hope you don’t feel offended.”

When two men appeared in a world where there was no one and started talking incomprehensible words, Mungchi looked extremely nervous.

Fortunately, the quick-witted Cole quickly stopped the guy, so he didn’t seem to take any rash action.

I fiddled with the handle of the Hrunting and opened my mouth.

“What are you doing here?”

“Hehe, why would I come looking for Seungsu? “I came to look for my daughter.”

“But you can’t just come into someone else’s house on your own.”

“We’ve only seen each other once or twice, so how can we become strangers? huh?”

He’s still a pissed off guy.

As I quietly shut my mouth, this time a young man came forward.

“I am very worried because he disappeared without contacting me even though he is not alone. Have you contacted Hee-won by any chance?”

I looked at the guy who was speaking informally, and smiled.

“Yes, I contacted you.”

“Oh really? “Do you even know where it is?”

“They said they would wait for me in the underworld.”

The two men’s faces immediately distorted. When the distortion was about to exceed the range of facial expressions, I quickly added.

“just joke.”

“… … “You ignorant bastard, there are things you can say and things you can’t say.”

“It’s in the cafe in front of here. “I’m just on the way back from what we were talking about.”

The two men made eye contact. The facial features that had been grotesquely twisted are returning to their original form.

I made a quick gesture towards them.

“Let’s go. “I will guide you.”

“… … Um, I guess so.”

Heewon’s father took the lead, leaving behind him, and Heewon’s husband followed behind.

The moment they passed me,

I swung Hrunting.

Sucker enemy!

“Sigh,”

A startled Cole gasped, and the heads of the two middle-aged men fell to the floor, spurting blood.

“… … after.”

“Phoenix, this is,”

“I did what was natural.”

He roughly brushed off the blood on Hrunting and smiled. My heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was going to jump out of my mouth, but it still didn’t feel that bad.

“They were the bastards that had to be hunted down.”

Gugugugung-

There was a loud noise again.

This time it was several times bigger than before, and it continued.

At that time, a black disk appeared as if to hide my messy living room. I stroked my bangs with a hand trembling from the exhilaration.

“Come on, let’s go.”

When I turned around, the group quickly followed, and Hayla and Kol followed suit and jumped into the black disk.