I! Cleaner!

See what I'm most afraid of?

After hearing the words of the Nightmare King and looking at his face reflected in the mirror crown on its head, Leon's pupils could not help but expand slightly.

You cannot show your memories to others under any circumstances! Whether it's the existence of the badge system or the fact that he is a time traveler, it is the kind of secret that must not be leaked!

Especially the latter!

Once this secret was leaked out and people from the General Administration took notice, after thinking about the "soul from the unknown world" in the warning given by the Watch Palace, even if Director Scorpio could arrive within five minutes, his career as a cleaner would probably be ruined. It’s coming to an end too!

Faced with the sudden emergency, Leon, who originally wanted to wait until [Wine Fairy] expired and then use the Archer's Mark and [Dream Invader] to struggle, suddenly did not care about leaving any trump cards and directly activated [Dream Invasion] Those who are prepared to fight to the death.

However, although the [Dream Invader] is an abnormal object made with the weapon of the Lord of Dreams, and its status is not low, it is still not enough to face the Nightmare King who has come in person.

Even though Leon relied on the enhancement of the shooter's mark to barely lock onto the Nightmare King's consciousness, before he could drag the Nightmare King into the dreamland, the Nightmare King's skinny head strangely split horizontally from the middle, neatly. split into two.

"hehe."

Accompanied by a sneer with a hint of contempt, the countless nightmares that made up the body of the Nightmare King flowed rapidly, and like a crab shedding its shell, directly along the cracked part, a new self was shed from the old body.

"You don't think you can use the same method on me a second time, do you?"

After playing with the old body that was captured by the [Dream Invader], and his eyes gradually became confused, he looked at Leon, who looked a little annoyed in front of him, and the Nightmare King, who looked slightly happy, and said mockingly:

"The secret technique of Sagittarius Palace is really amazing. It can even make you, a third-level cleaner, perform at a level comparable to that of a director for a short period of time. I was caught off guard and almost let you escape from my hands.

It's a pity that no matter how good the thing is, it ultimately depends on who is using it. If the person using this thing is the Sagittarius Director himself, it will be useless no matter how hard I struggle, I will be dragged directly into the dream.

But with the strength of your soul, you cannot lock my main consciousness at all. You can only capture hundreds of irrelevant nightmares at most. There are as many scattered nightmares as there are in the river, so what can I do to you? "

"..."

…

"Okay, after struggling like this, you should give up."

He took off the mirror crown from his old empty body and put it on his head again. The gray fog giant stretched out his bluish-gray skinny fingers and wiped the mirror surface of the crown with his fingertips, making a hoarse and malicious voice. , broke into Leon's eardrums unreasonably.

"Come on! In the name of the Lord of Nightmares, I command you to open your heart and show me your deepest fears!"

Following the shouts of the Nightmare King, the scorching sun hanging high above the head flickered several times, and then seemed to be moved from midsummer to late autumn, from the blazing white that burned the eyes to the orange and weak at the turn of autumn and winter. The ground was sprinkled with light that was not very warm.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding yellow sand quietly faded away, and with Lyon standing motionless as the center, the endless sea of ​​sand quickly dissipated, turning into a dilapidated ward filled with coughs and the pungent smell of medicine.

On the somewhat dirty bed at the edge of the ward, a sickly girl with a face that was almost bloodless, turned her head slightly and said in a soft but slightly stubborn voice:

"Brother, how about...just leave me alone?"

"..."

So what he fears most is just the death of his family?

After looking at the thin girl on the hospital bed, and then at the distorted face of Leon in front of the hospital bed, the Nightmare King, who had been a little excited just now, suddenly flashed a strong look of disappointment in his eyes.

Although the sense of fear is very strong, and the strong unwillingness and resentment are also very interesting, but this level of fear and nightmares, I simply don't want to see too much, and I can't arouse the slightest interest at all.

boring.

Looking at the nothing new nightmare in front of him, the Nightmare King, who had replaced part of the boundless desert with the deepest fear in Leon's heart, couldn't help but clicked his tongue in displeasure.

It seems that his ability to face eternal torture indifferently is not really fearless, but it is probably the effect of some kind of abnormality.

For this guy who almost got himself into trouble, he originally thought that his deepest fear would be something interesting, but was that all it turned out to be? This is really...

Um? What is he going to do?

Seeing Leon rushing out of the ward with a distorted face, clutching the knife he picked up, as if he wanted to do something, the Nightmare King finally regained his interest and took the initiative to change his body to a height similar to that of an ordinary person. Followed all the way.

Then, everything that happened two months ago was repeated without much change.

"Is anyone here? I'm here to apply!"

"What are you looking at? Have you never seen a demon?"

"Didn't I make it clear to you? A normal person like you is not suitable to join the Cleanup Bureau."

"Please wait!"

"My powers of observation are very special! I can distinguish some special things. If I have direct contact, I can also get some relevant information immediately!"

"Well, that sheep is a 'special thing', so let's start talking about it now."

After the red-haired director proposed the "question", facing the last straw in front of him, Leon, who had already risked everything, took a deep breath and touched the black goat with a trembling arm, but...

"?!!!"

No? Why not?

Finding that the situation was different from what he thought, Leon's face suddenly showed a deep fear, and an incomparable panic spread, as if a cold hand was tightly grasping his heart.

It should be there! It should be there!

As long as I touch it with my hand, something will pop out and tell me the information about the abnormal object. Why is there nothing now? !

"Heh, it turns out to be a lunatic."

After shaking her head in disappointment, the red-haired woman with a blurred face drove him away with cold eyes:

"Go away! This is not the place you should come to!"

"But...but I clearly..."

"Go away! I only said it once! Humph! What a waste of time!"

"..."

Under the interested gaze of the Nightmare King, Leon was driven out of the Cleanup Bureau in a state of dismay, with his head hanging blankly, and moving back to the hospital step by step like a zombie.

After emptying all the money on his body and trying his best to delay for more than a week, he still couldn't raise enough money for medicine. At the insistence of the sick girl, Leon had to carry her back home, who coughed all night and couldn't even fall asleep.

Then, everything was just as the sick girl proposed at the beginning. When the coughing all night stopped, in order to continue to receive the girl's pension, Leon had to throw her body into the sewage river at night, pretending that she was still alive to defraud the pension.

But less than a month later, this little calculation was discovered by the military officials who came to check, and they were fined more. The family's life became worse and worse, and they became more and more pale and thin.

The following year, a fever broke out in the capital. The two children, who had been malnourished for a long time and had weak constitutions, finally couldn't survive in the absence of medical care and medicine. The small home that used to be crowded finally became completely empty...

...

That's it.

Looking at Leon, who was sitting on the small bed with a hunched back, stroking an old photo album with numb eyes, the King of Nightmares raised his eyebrows slightly and finally understood what he feared the most.

If he didn't have the qualifications to become a cleaner and couldn't join the Cleanup Bureau, he could only lose everything bit by bit and inevitably like this nightmare.

So if he wanted to torture him, he didn't need to physically destroy him. It would be enough to block his original memory and let him relive it all endlessly.

Oh, I didn't expect it to be so simple.

After waving his hand to dispel the dream reflected from the deepest part of Leon's heart by using the [Mirror Crown of Worry], he changed everything around him back to the endless desert.

Looking at the real Leon who had been silent since the dream Leon rushed out of the hospital, and seemed to have suffered a huge blow, the Nightmare King couldn't help but curl his lips and commented with a happy face:

"Although your fear is a bit ordinary, it is still interesting overall... Hehe, I have already thought of how to punish you for offending me.

Listen, I declare that you will be... What are you going to do?"

"I want to give you a big gift."

Crushed the bottle containing the [Dream Eater Armor], and stuffed all the remaining beetles into the empty shell body that the Nightmare King had shed before.

In the puzzled look of the Nightmare King, Leon took out the [Unfair Snake Contract] expressionlessly and exchanged it for a bright red hair from the red-haired director outside.

Then, this empty shell filled with the [Dream-Eating Armor] that was eating naturally disappeared from his hands and appeared in the night sky of the capital filled with countless nightmares.

"From now on, no one can even dream!!!"