Just the moment he broke through the door, Annan realized that something was wrong.

The smell of wine, burnt, blood, gunsmoke......

The moment he smelled these scents, Annan analyzed everything.

No doubt...... In front of him was a group of pirates who had landed on board and were plundering.

Through their strategy of wine and rockets, they immediately broke the resistance of the sailors.

But the sailors just put their heads in their hands, stopped resisting, and let the plunder.

The reason is probably very simple.

They had to put out the fire as soon as possible...... Otherwise, in the midst of the sea, everyone on board will die.

So they don't even have the heart to fight - if they don't satisfy the pirates' appetites as soon as possible, and continue the stalemate, I'm afraid they will all die.

They're just merchant ships.

It's not about defeating pirates, it's about keeping more people and more goods behind......

And the pirates didn't kill them all. It's just moving people and cargo on deck.

I guess some kind of agreement was reached. After moving a part of the goods, they were given time to put out the fire......

Annan saw a fair-skinned, slightly chubby woman in her twenties looking at her in horror.

And she was being dragged on the pirate ship by two pirates.

"-Dad!"

She looked at Annan and cried out.

…… But why?

That doesn't seem to be a cry for help.

but consternation and fear—

"-Hmm."

Suddenly, Annan couldn't help but choke his throat with a strong feeling of suffocation.

He gasped for breath, but the world in front of him suddenly began to become psychedelic.

The world around him was dyed with many strange colors in the blink of an eye—cyan, blue, green, yellow, purple—and the colors jumped rapidly, and there was a strong feeling of suffocation in his chest.

The strong feeling of dizziness made Annan couldn't help but half-kneel on the ground.

"Yo, he's a transcendent master."

Someone scoffed: "I think I'm still a priest." ”

After Annan broke through the door, he was immediately noticed by the pirates with a silver blade in his hand.

But the pirates behaved with an unexpectedly calm.

was targeted by a transcendent person, but he didn't even panic.

Annan looked over, but he couldn't even make out their faces.

Their faces were blurred, like passers-by in a dream.

Mocking gazes came from all directions.

"—can't the Nexus stop your curiosity?"

The pirate scoffed: "Here...... But on the high seas. ”

"It's self-defeating."

At that moment, Annan realized everything while he was dying.

Detective's Fear ...... What is it.

He was a stowaway, or perhaps a transcendent who had broken the law in other countries.

Unable to use the subway, he chose to board the passenger ship in order to cross the border.

But for Mr. Detective who is a transcendent...... The gray mist of air over the high seas was incurable, so he had to stay at the bottom of the cabin with a sealed barrier.

But he happened to encounter pirate raids.

No, not necessarily real looting...... After all, those pirates don't even have faces. If it's a real nightmare, then they must have a face in the nightmare that was taken directly from the dream world.

After all, this is not something that really happened, but an imaginary nightmare made up of fear alone.

— or rather, the detective's "hope", or "fear", that some pirates would take his daughter away.

Because there are no bones left of his daughter? Or was it because his daughter died simply from the fire, or something else......

In short, the result is that his daughter must have died in the upper echelons.

And he knew this very well, but he couldn't leave the hallway, he could only think quietly.

I can only stand still and think calmly...... Nothing else can be done, like a real "detective". The "flame" blocking the exit is to prevent his sanity from seeing the truth with his own eyes; The scorch marks on the walls indicate that his daughter died "by fire".

- Even if you know everything, you can't save people and can't kill people.

…… Really...... How did this brain go...... It's still going on at this time......

Annan's consciousness gradually blurred.

Is this how the transcendent feels when they enter the gray mist?

Severe pain in the heart, breathlessness;

The voices around them distorted and distant;

The colors of the world before me became eerie and harsh;

There was a strong, endless metallic sound in the head like tinnitus;

The skin seemed to be burning, and the pain was incessant—

…… Didn't you turn into a demon?

It's okay to be burned to death by a curse......

I'm afraid this first life is going to be explained here.

Such thoughts came to Annan's mind.

If you want to escape, I'm afraid that after analyzing the truth of the "flame", you will choose to stop where you are and wait for a while...... Or simply burned to death by the flames.

But that was by no means what Annan wanted.

"In that case......

Annan coughed violently and spat out a fragment of brightly colored internal organs.

- Since I can't live anymore.

Then it's better to just kill it!

He looked up, his pupils shining with a dazzling glow.

It was the spark that burst out when the overflowing curse and the soul struck each other.

- Consume one Silver Coin to use [Eternal Youth].

Annan regained some strength.

He burst out and decapitated the nearest pirate with a single sword!

Bang bang!

At that moment, two gunshots rang out. Annan was shot in the abdomen and thigh.

And at the moment when the pirate's head has not yet landed.

The last silver coin in Annan's hand lit up.

- Silver Strike!

The sharp thing in his hand suddenly shone with dazzling brilliance.

In the blink of an eye, the silver weapon turned into a brilliant silver light that Annan held in his hand.

With this blow that Annan slashed with all his might.

A crescent-like silver blade about three meters long flew across the deck against the waist of "Mr. Detective", splitting all the pirates, the crew, the passengers, and the mast in two!

"Ahem......"

Annan's mouth was overflowing with blood.

He looked at his "daughter" who was beheaded by himself, and a thought flashed in his heart.

He didn't die because of the fire of his own sanity, but he was recklessly rushed out of the safe house, and he was killed by his own hands along with the murderer who didn't know his identity......

Will Mr. Detective, who doesn't know his real name, be satisfied with such thoughts?

"Probably, no......"

Annan muttered and fell to his knees on the deck alone, gradually turning to gray-black stone.

The next moment, Annan suddenly woke up.

She realized that she was kneeling at the beginning of the dimly lit hallway.

…… Did you enter the corridor and not take a single step?

But posture is the same as when you leave a nightmare, and this point needs to be paid special attention to.

I don't know how long it has been...... If you refer to the previous nightmare, it should be just a moment?

Annan touched the back of his left hand.

Sure enough, the injury on the back of the hand was gone.

She opened her status bar again:

Health: 100%

Erosion: 2%

…… Didn't increase the erosion? Well, that's normal too, after all, it's just a false gray fog......

However, the health level suddenly returned to full...... Sure enough, it's because I've already died once, right?

Is this how the save point mechanism works? No longer provides a mechanic to challenge again, just regain full health...... I see, I see.

Taking a deep breath, Annan slowly stood up.

"Yes...... Wolf kiss ritual, right. ”

She quickly cleared Mr. Detective's memories out of her mind.

Maybe you can encounter something related to this in the future...... But now for Annan, the most important thing is to complete the nightmare of Miss Werewolf Bella first, so that she can be promoted to transcendental.

There are two more lives...... Is it?

Annan no longer expects to complete the decryption of the copy in one go.

At first, he still had the idea that "since this is his nightmare, maybe he can decrypt it 100% at once". But after dying once, Annan had calmed down.

The three side quests are the same, and one life has already been used up before they are completed.

And it's not the kind of untechnical flag that kills at first sight, but the difficulty of the real dungeon...... Even if you do it again, it will be almost impossible to clear the level of full health.

- Who knows if in the "Detective" dungeon, if you stay put, will the flames spread on their own?

"Maybe I should bring the players into this nightmare?"

Annan muttered.

But what's the use of that?

See what they do in live conditions?

But this is probably not of any special value to Annan...... What Annan really needs to complete the declassification is the nightmare of "Bella", or the nightmare of Annan himself. And those dozens of innocent nightmare fragments will be different every time you enter...... Rather, the real meaning of letting players fight lies in "how to avoid triggering these nightmares" and prevent yourself from losing blood meaninglessly, right?

"Roguelike horror games are okay...... They'll probably like it. Backplane Invalid Horror Game ......"

In a sense, it's a type that has the same path as a gallery.

Let the players find the specific locations that will trigger the Nightmare Trap.

If Annan's reasoning is right...... The type of nightmare that can be triggered should be the same in the same "first-class location".

Let's take a look at what the wolf kiss ceremony is and what kind of work it will be......

Big deal, try to see if you can team up with the players!

If you can team up with four people and three lives for one person, it is equivalent to twelve lives-

– which filled Annan with determination.