After Annan helped Benjamin up, it was obvious that Benjamin was silent a lot.

Or maybe it's a lot calmer?

Picking up the lamp, Benjamin continued to pull Annan forward. But he didn't look for another topic, just concentrated on finding a way.

…… Benjamin: Did this find something?

Obviously, at the beginning, he never stopped talking to Evelyn......

Although in Annan's opinion, the child was looking for a very awkward topic - he talked about Evelyn's fortress with the same interest as if he had been talking about new military equipment with his girlfriend who was an art student......

I don't know how the real Evelyn will respond.

Just keep smiling and listening quietly?

“…… Hey? ”

Benjamin made a puzzled voice: "Why is this door open......"

The last time he was here, it seemed like it was a locked ......?

“…… What's wrong? ”

Annan's heart tightened slightly, and he asked softly, "Where is this?" ”

He had noticed that in front of them was his first "birthplace", that is, the "prison".

"I remember this...... The teacher has spoken. ”

Benjamin frowned slightly, trying to recall: "This seems to be ...... A place to store the body. ”

“…… Corpse? ”

Annan was stunned.

Isn't it a prison?

Benjamin snorted and asked with some concern, "Are you afraid?" I'm afraid I won't look at it. ”

“…… Will there still be a corpse inside? ”

"Definitely not."

Benjamin replied, "The Church of the Silver Lord has already been cleaned up once. ”

"That'...... I want to see it. ”

Annan made a very soft sound.

Benjamin was silent for a moment, then held Annan's hand a little tighter.

"Okay."

Young Benjamin replied briefly.

He led Annan to the "prison" and raised the green chandelier in his hand.

It was only at this time that Annan finally saw the environment inside the "prison" clearly-

It is a public bathhouse-like public space that is much larger than Annan originally imagined.

In the middle of the hollow-shaped room, a low wall once covered with inscriptions, which have now been violently crossed with swords. The low wall is just over a meter high, just over half the height of the room.

And around the low wall in the middle, every two meters or so, there is a chain hanging down with some familiar "handcuffs". In the whole room, there are about twenty such "chains and handcuffs" facilities.

Annan's initial location was only the "location" closest to the door.

“…… What is it? ”

Annan asked subconsciously.

Benjamin did know what it was.

"Do you know the Half-Dead Daughter?"

Benjamin replied in a low voice, "The priests of the Pale Princess are not living...... And although they are pastors, they do not have their place in the tide of paleness.

"For they are both the living and the dead; Neither the living nor the dead - the pale tide, accepting only the dead to join. If they want to participate in the Pale Tide, they can only fix themselves here. ”

Benjamin said, subconsciously walking over to the shackle closest to the door, the same shackle that had captured Evelyn's wrist in her dream.

Pointing to the shackles, he explained to Annan, or "Evelyn," very carefully but absentmindedly: "They will put their necks or wrists here, and then release their souls—the teacher said that a half-dead daughter can leave her body." But if they leave their bodies for too long, they will never go back...... They are no longer half-dead daughters, but homeless ghosts.

"And you see...... There are subtle blades here. If the ring is under heavy pressure, the blade will gradually pierce out over time, causing them to feel more and more intense pain.

"When the half-dead woman feels the growing pain in her body, she does not linger on the pale tide, but immediately returns to her body. The body is the home of the soul. ”

“…… Is it like a grandfather clock? ”

Annan asked.

He knew that in this era, there was already a table clock that could be timed.

Benjamin nodded, "Yes." In fact, it is the kind of timer that can be timed for a period of time...... The one I showed you! It doesn't go like a normal pocket watch, but it can be precisely timed, and when it is opened and released, it will flow backwards, and at 0:00 it will make a dinging sound - it is said that transformation wizards have this thing in order to make experiments ...... Hmm, sorry. ”

Realizing that he was talking and going off topic again, Benjamin's words came to an abrupt end.

But Annan has already obtained very critical information -

For the half-dead daughter, the body is ...... A home for the soul?

He immediately remembered his main quest in the dream world.

Go home......

At that moment, Annan's pupils shrank slightly.

- In the dream world, Annan will hear the song of the rewind from the reflection in the lake.

- Every time I die, I come back to reality from my dreams.

- The mission requires that Evelyn be kept physically intact in her dreams.

- To complete the task of sacrifice, it can only be completed in reality.

And......

The Pale Princess is also known as the Unbound Daughter, and her priests, the half-dead daughters, cannot fall in love with anyone.

Among them are themselves.

…… Benjamin, of course, is also included.

Annan subconsciously glanced at Benjamin.

He probably understood.

"Evelyn" may have been dead for a while, that so-called dream...... It should be the essence of the church that the soul of the half-dead daughter saw after leaving the body.

Ordinary people will be seriously ill when they just see the pale tide once, and they will immediately run back to the house, let alone Evelyn, who is obsessed with watching the whole dance of the pale princess up close.

She was probably dead by then.

But apparently, the pale princess was interested in her pure soul.

Just as the Skeleton Princesses allow the dead "Elle" to relive for a while...... "Evelyn" may be the "Elle" of the Pale Princess. Today, Evelyn is half a half-dead daughter. That's why she can hear the voices of the undead, that's why she faints from time to time and enters another world in her dreams......

For Evelyn, this is a "prophetic dream".

But instead of seeing the future, she entered the "real pale church" in a state of soul!

Therefore, if she smashes open the "prison door" in the spirit world, she will also open the door in the real world.

The statue of the fallen soldier at the door may also be because the "David" in the dream violently moved it away-

Evelyn suddenly asked Benjamin to accompany her to the Pale Chapel, probably because the ceremony of her transformation into a half-dead daughter had to be completed by Benjamin for the final step.

Evelyn fell into the water and down the stairs, perhaps because she instinctively refused to do so—she wanted Benjamin to get out of here.

But if Benjamin did leave here, she would not be reborn as a half-dead daughter—she would not be able to follow the "dancer under the moon", and she would be completely dead when she returned home.

That's why, in reality, Annan was given the task of "not being able to go home"!

Because if she renounces the sacrificial ritual, she will lose the pale princess's favor and turn into a corpse.

This may have been the original ending for Evelyn.

If she really loved Benjamin, with her pure heart that could be noticed by the pale princess, she would not be willing to let Benjamin cut off her own head.

Therefore, the main quest that Annan got actually refers to the "next main quest".

He should have to go through the "dream world" a few more times before he can get the "real" main quest that finally gets him out of the nightmare!

…… That being the case, there is only one question left.

- Who the hell is this, whose nightmare?

(End of chapter)