As Annan's voice fell.

Outside the captain's room where he and the white-haired boy were, the huge, ice-blue pupils finally shone on them and stopped moving.

For some reason, Annan had a clear understanding in his heart.

He didn't move, just calmly accepted the light.

The ice-blue light shone behind Annan, casting a long projection, just enveloping the "Danton" crouching on the ground.

- Sure enough.

Annan's "self-scrutinizing" gaze does not hurt Annan today.

The damage he had suffered in the nightmare before began to be made up.

And as Annan's breath gradually became stable, the "Denton" opposite Annan gradually curled up, and his breath became weaker and weaker.

The seven Fear Fragments were collected by Annan.

There is a proverb in this world that a person will only be unlucky seven times in a row at most. Because "seven" is a number of luck and accidents - he has only seven opportunities to shoot directly at Annan.

After seven times, the "accident" is over.

Now it's Annan's home turf.

The self-looking eye in the sky is a firewall-like mechanism.

It exists to find and kill the invaders in the realm of consciousness called "Denton".

And this "Denton" is actually a kind of "Trojan horse" - he combines Annan's memories, and naturally part of it belongs to Annan's emotions, and part of it belongs to Annan's will.

He would be judged as the "changed Annan".

Originally, he would not be swept away by the eye of "self-esteem".

In the previous time when Denton invaded the minds of other people, he had never failed to use this method once.

However, only Annan is different.

- Annan has great confidence and affirmation in his own form and his own heart.

Annan was so sure in his heart that he would never change...... In other words, Annan already knew the direction of his change.

Even if there is only a little impurity in the middle, it will be destroyed by Annan immediately.

…… This firmness and rigor of oneself is simply not like a human being.

"You've failed."

Annan raised his eyebrows, put his hands in his pockets and looked down at "Denton": "Do you know why you failed?" ”

"The chef doesn't look at the recipe and looks at the art of war?"

"Denton" subconsciously responded.

"-Oh-oh, it's me!"

However, Annan was not surprised or stunned by this, but stretched out his hand and applauded him very excitedly and happily: "Good reception!" ”

“…… Aren't you going to kill me? ”

"Denton" raised his head from the shadows and looked at Annan with a complicated gaze: "Now you can do it." ”

"I can."

Annan replied, "But I don't believe you.

"I don't believe you're going to die so easily just if I'm killing you here—I'm going to destroy you cleaner and more completely."

With Annan's voice, the world around him trembled again.

The world has changed again.

The captain's cabin gradually collapsed and was flattened. The three-dimensional world gradually dissolves into a flat surface, and then into a high mountain.

The ice-blue pupil became even larger, even between heaven and earth.

But this time, with Annan plunged into the new world...... And the "Denton" itself.

He was defenseless in the face of the anti-guest Annan and was fixed on the beheading table.

The shape of the first station was exactly the same as that Annan had seen from the Pale Princess.

It is the judgment seat that cuts off the immortal.

- It's enough to put an end to everything.

"You modify other people's memories without authorization for your own selfish desires."

Annan's voice rumbled in the sky.

"You steal someone else's status and identity.

"You bully the weak, and you play with and bewitch the will of others.

"You live by 'seizing' and 'stealing' by hand...... You're a thief of the mind, Denton. ”

"What is this, to judge me?"

"Denton" couldn't help but laugh, "But that's what the Soul Reaver School is all about. I've been educated like this since I was a child.

"It's all 'all for one.'" Individuals are weak and limited, and they can't do anything on their own, and they must be good at using the strength of others in order to survive in this world and go higher'.

"Since the purpose is to take advantage of others, is the shell moral and meaningful?"

It was Annan's sophistic style.

Confusing concepts as a knife and searching for the essence as a spear.

But Annan himself was not pulled by his nose.

Because this in itself is the wisdom that belongs to Annan.

Indeed, there is nothing wrong with using the power of others to achieve one's own ends. It is also a choice in life. ”

Surprisingly, Annan did not deny this.

He only replied softly: "It's just that you are accustomed to stealing for a living, and to a life that is within reach, and you will make your soul lazy, unenterprising, and unchangeable;

"If you think you are the strong, and you play with the fate and heart of the weak, you will become arrogant and no longer cautious;

"If you don't respect other people's past, you will make your will weak and your heart less resilient.

"For every challenge you've faced in the past, you've chosen the most despicable and easiest answer. And this skipping class will eventually send you to the hell you have created with your own hands. ”

— that is, now, now, here.

"Your failure is inevitable. Even if they don't run into me, they will run into other people. And at the end of the day, you're going to fail.

"—because you're a loser in the first place, that's why you're here with me."

Exactly.

- Failure.

All the fears that Denton instilled in Annan were of all kinds, different scenarios, different types of failures.

Ultimately, it's because Denton himself has a strong fear of failure.

Because he's a complete loser himself.

And he was deeply afraid of his own defeat, of Bernardino who had defeated him with unstoppable force...... This fear is deeply engraved in the brain and remains unresolved to this day.

The fear of being recognized.

The fear of power neutralization.

Fear of indecision.

Fear of powerlessness.

Fear of self-sacrifice.

The fear of repeated failures.

and, facing the fear of death.

- Ahhhh

I see.

Everything is understood.

Denton took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

It's not ...... Annan's fears.

It was his own fear, a nightmare.

- Because Annan's memories and Denton's memories were confused after he absorbed them all.

Although it is necessary to murder Annan and trap his heart...... But Denton instinctively created a nightmare of his own fear.

That's why there are some levels, and Annan passed them so easily.

It's not that his dream control is too weak.

Rather, it is because the fear of failure in his own heart has not yet dissipated.

"yes, I failed......"

Denton smiled bitterly and slowly lowered the head from the decapitation table.

He has been playing with dreams for decades, but he is not as good as Annan, who is not even a Soul Snatcher, has a thorough grasp of people's hearts.

That's, really, how ......

At the moment of his life-and-death decision, the high-hanging, cordless decapitation blade above his head fell with a whirl.

Easily, cut off Denton's neck.

"—what an irony."

No mind-reading required.

Annan calmly followed Denton's last words and said so.

The world in front of him instantly turned into darkness.

Nightmares: A Dream Within a Dream –

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