Madman in a Fantasy World

52. nightmare(1)

“···me!”

It was a familiar voice.

But at the same time, it was a familiar voice.

Where is the voice coming from…?

The thought didn’t last long.

“Luna···!”

“·······?”

“Wake up, Luna! How long will you sleep! The sun has already risen in the middle of the sky!”

When Luna was forced to wake up rubbing her eyes due to her drowsy consciousness.

In her eyes, someone who shouldn’t be reflected was shining.

“mom···?”

A trembling voice escaped from her mouth.

“Huh? Why?”

Seeing her mother give her a warm smile that she had seen before, Luna was perplexed about what was going on.

Soon, I scanned the surroundings with the pupil where the earthquake occurred.

wooden walls and floors.

There was a bed he had seen many times in a small room, and he was sitting on it.

It was a dwarf room where no symbol of wealth could be found, but it was a place that had the warmth he remembered.

‘······It must have been an inn.’

Her last memory is of going to the inn with Luke who finished the request and sleeping in each room.

But when I opened my eyes, I was in the same situation as I am now.

when she’s wandering in confusion

Once again, the beautiful lips of the woman standing in front of Luna opened.

“Oh, look at him? Did you have any scary dreams?”

“dream···?”

Was what had happened really been a dream…?

“How many frightening dreams could a child’s face have turned so pale…”

When the woman’s hand touched Luna’s cheek and her thumb stroked it, strangely, the part they touched was her face, but warmth spread throughout her body.

Was it all a dream…?

Yes… this is reality.

Something like a future where the whole family dies… can’t be real, right?

I just had a scary dream. A very scary dream.

Thinking that everything that had happened was a dream, tears began to flow from her eyes.

The person I missed so much, the person I thought I couldn’t meet even though I missed it.

It is alive and breathing right in front of your eyes.

“mom···.”

Luna, who was hugged by the woman in front of her eyes, shed tears that she had never shown in front of others.

“Huh… Mom…!”

“Yes, yes…”

So Luna sobbed in her arms while being stroked by the woman for a while.

***

Five minutes that seemed like five hours passed, and the woman wiped away Luna’s reddened eyes with her thumb.

“Are you okay now?”

“···Yes.”

“Then wake up and eat. Daddy and Damian are already waiting.”

Dad. Damian.

It was…

The ones who died in the nightmare were not only my mother, but also my father and younger brother. It was the whole family.

“If you knew, would you wake up soon?”

“Yes···.”

The woman went down first, and Luna, who was sitting on the bed, got up late and changed her clothes.

Stepping on the creaky wooden stairs, I quickly descended to the first floor and took in the living room.

The place I always wanted to see and miss was full of precious people.

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Mom putting soup in a dish.

Dad carrying the bowl of food to the table.

A younger brother carrying a spoon and chopsticks.

Luna was blankly capturing the scene in her field of vision.

At that time, Damian’s gaze reached Luna.

“Ah! Why are you here now! It’s too much to goof around alone!”

her precious little brother.

It was as I knew.

She smiled and apologized and approached the table.

“Sorry. I overslept.”

“Are you awake?”

“Yes. Dad. Good night.”

Luna helped set the tableware by moving her feet as fast as she overslept.

Breakfast was the meat soup my mom made, which I always enjoyed, a salad made with simple vegetables, and bread.

“”I’ll eat well~””

Eating a spoonful of steaming soup.

Inadvertently, Luna almost shed tears again.

It wasn’t luxurious ingredients or rare exotic food.

Do you think they were food that you will never think of and never eat again.

Without saying anything, he moved his spoon as if possessed by something.

“Wow… are you that hungry? Do you want to eat mine too?”

“No, it’s okay. You eat a lot. So you’re taller than me.”

“I thought about it, but are you making fun of me for being short?”

Damian wasn’t small.

It’s just that Luna is unusually tall among women.

“But, is it true?”

“What?”

The bickering that you often see among siblings, mom, dad, and younger siblings. The table was full of laughter.

After such a pleasant mealtime.

Luna, along with her father and younger brother, packed hunting tools and stood at the entrance simply armed with leather armor.

The two greeted each other as they walked through the door.

“”I’m coming.””

After the siblings greeted each other.

“Honey. I’ll be back.”

“Have a safe trip.”

After the parents of the siblings greeted each other from behind, they left the house.

Then, what came into her field of vision were the buildings that could be seen at a glance, and the people she always saw.

An unnamed village far from the kingdom of beasts.

That was the place where Luna’s family lived.

It wasn’t crowded with big buildings or many people, but the people were kind and Luna herself had an attachment to the town, so she didn’t regret anything.

“Hey~ Dael. Are you going hunting today?”

The uncle who lives next door.

He was a grateful person who traveled back and forth by carriage from this small village to Suinguk, procuring supplies that were lacking in the village.

He was close with his father, with an easy-going personality.

“”Mister, hello.””

When the brother and sister bowed their heads together, the man greeted them with a bright smile.

“Come~ Luna, Damian. Good morning~”

Dael, the father of the siblings, talked to the man as if passing by.

“Sure. If I don’t go, who will feed my family?”

“That’s right. Be careful when you go. I’ve been hearing a lot of bad rumors lately.”

“Kuh-kuh. Who cares about who?”

“Yeah, there’s nothing funnier than a porter worrying about a hunter.”

In addition, there were frequent meetings while going out of the village, befitting a village where communication was frequent.

“Are you going hunting today too? Here, bring a lunch box and eat it when you’re hungry.”

“Dael, I’d like to get some vegetables at the end of the day. They’re fresh vegetables I just picked today.”

“Be careful and go home. If something happens, you’ll have to run away right away, okay?”

The lady I’ve met since I was little, the grandmother from the house across the street who farms, and the man who stands guard at the entrance.

They were all people who had been buried in the past.

All of them were alive.

The smile on Luna’s lips didn’t stop.

Dael asked a question to Luna, who was excited and smirked at the corner of her mouth, not knowing how to go down.

“Something pleasant happened. Did the flowers of laughter bloom today?”

“Whoops… I had a nightmare.”

“Ah, a nightmare…?”

“Yes!”

“That, so…?”

Dael was at a loss for words at the sight of Luna smiling brightly, saying that she had a nightmare.

Could it be that his daughter has become strange?

He was a bit suspicious.

“Dad! There!”

It was then. Damian’s ears perked up once, then quietly pointed in one direction.

In that direction, a large bear stood on its feet, clutching a tree.

“Good job.”

“lol···.”

“Is it Damian’s turn today?”

“Yes!”

Dael’s occupation is a hunter.

He was the only hunter in the village, earning money by hunting monsters and wild beasts from the forest.

Luna and Damian were helping Dael to gradually improve their skills, and every day, Luna and Damian took turns hunting and improving their skills.

Today, it was Damian’s turn.

Unlike his older sister, Luna, Damian was in a warrior position with a one-handed sword and a buckler.

“Bears are stronger than weak monsters like goblins, so be careful.”

“All right!”

Damian went around the bear’s blind spot and ducked through the bushes.

And just like Luna did, she made a foothold with wind magic and jumped behind the bear in an instant.

-Cheak-!

“Coooooooooo!!”

Damian’s first attack landed on the bear’s back, and blood flowed out.

The cutting power of wind over a sharp sword was beyond imagination, but it was too much to slash a bear with a one-handed sword.

The wounded bear immediately turned around and launched a counterattack, and Damian quickly evaded this time using the wind as a springboard.

“Ugh… I’m nervous.”

“Dad’s like that too. I think I’ll keep losing my liver.”

Damian doesn’t have much of an age gap with Luna.

Because Damian was a man, his basic strength might be higher than Luna’s, but Luna was always ahead of him when it came to mana handling.

In case of emergency, Luna and Dael were preparing to be put in immediately.

Fortunately, Damian succeeded in hunting the bear by himself.

However, because there were still many things to improve, Damian’s top was wet with sweat, and since the control of magic power was still immature, it seemed that he had used a lot of magic power by using it indiscriminately.

“Damian has already finished today.”

“How about it. Now I’m not behind my sister?”

“You are still far away.”

“Tch. Is it okay if I lose a little?”

After that, they hunted in the forest for several hours, with Luna and Damian assisting Dael in hunting.

Hunting wild animals like wild boars, hunting rare monsters like goblins.

when a certain amount of time has passed.

Dael and the siblings headed back to the village.

road to the village.

Luna felt something unpleasant, but thought it was because of her mood and erased the discomfort from her mind.

-bang!!

As you approach the village, you hear a crash.

The sound reminded Luna of the cause of this discomfort.

origin of the case.

The memories she had forgotten… or, more precisely, the memories she wanted to forget surfaced on the surface.

Luna let out a sigh as if possessed.

“Ahhh···.”

At that time, Dael, who was next to him, felt an unspoken incident happening in the village and shouted.

“Luna! Damian! Dad will go first, so hide somewhere!”

With that one word spat out, Dael quickly headed for the village.

“Oh, no!”

Luna, who was watching the scene, belatedly tried to follow, but her younger brother, Damian, blocked it and returned to failure.

“Hey, wait a minute sister! Daddy told you to hide!”

“Let go! We have to go quickly! If we don’t help, everyone will die!”

If you don’t go fast, everyone will die. The same devastation happens.

I was lost in the happiness of a stupid moment.

Even though I knew it, I thought it was a dream and didn’t take any measures.

He was still a bystander.

After shaking off Damian’s arm with all her might, Luna ran toward the village with all her might without looking back.

The trees in my eyes fell behind me, and the town began to come into my field of vision.

As if the peace of just a few hours ago had become the eve of the storm.

Disaster came like a tidal wave.

burning village.

A sentry man fighting an intruder.

Bodies strewn all over the place.

The town covered in green and brown.

It had been painted over with red paint.

And a familiar shape at the end of the field of view.

It was Luna’s father, Dael.

Across from Dael was an intruder holding his mother hostage.

A mother with a knife in her throat.

Even Dael, who was stronger than Luna, was helpless.

In a familiar scene somewhere, an unforgettable scene comes to mind again even if you want to forget it.

The next scene was a series of memories, as if it were a planned play.

“Luna···.”

Dael looked back and his eyes were full of Luna.

The gaze filled with sadness and affection that I had seen once in the past.

Those eyes that I never wanted to see again.

it is reproduced again.

“Run away…”

That was Dael’s last line on this stage.

Dael, who surrendered for the sake of his family, was brutally slashed by intruders’ swords and died in front of Luna.

That wasn’t all.

Even Luna’s mother, Luna, was killed on the spot, saying that older prisoners were not sold.

‘Why aren’t you moving!!!! Why!!!!!!!’

Why can’t I move while watching him die right in front of me!!

Because this is a play with a fixed ending?

Because you are one of the puppets in the play?

Either way, there was nothing Luna could do.

“Nu, sister…”

The voice from behind Luna was the last device on the stage.

In Luna’s field of vision, she creaked back and saw Damian with her face slumped to the floor and chained by several men.

“Damian!”

It seems that even her calling her sister was included in the script.

And.

“Huh? She’s pretty? I think I’ll make some money if I sell it.”

The one presumed to be the leader of the intruder came out and recited a line.

I could fight to fight.

However, I couldn’t weigh my younger brother’s life against the necks of those scumbags.

In the end, Luna had no choice but to kick the shackles without doing anything.

But was that a mistake?

“What should I do with this guy?”

“Hmm? Male prisoners? Most of our customers are male, so who would buy it? It’s Jim, so just kill it.”

“All right.”

The intruder’s sharp blade touched Damian’s neck.

“My sister…!”

“Damian! Damian!!!!!!”

Please don’t do it, I’ll do anything, so I’d rather use you as a slave.

I cried out earnestly, but

-Suddenly!

“Ah… ah ah…!!”

The ending of this stage has not changed.

why do i have to do this

why are they doing this

I didn’t bother trying to understand.

It was just unfair.

“What did we do wrong!!”

Why do we suffer so much when we are living well?

They were all kind and nice people.

Those in the past tense were no longer people of this world.

Because everyone died except for himself.

The play is now over.

In the middle of a burning town where time seems to have stopped, Luna was sitting alone.

A familiar voice rang in Luna’s ears as she sat absentmindedly.

-Why are you doing that? Rise up quickly and avenge us…

-Nuna… it hurts… make them the same…”

-Luna, avenge your family. Don’t forgive the damn human.

Even when I feel like giving up everything.

In an instant, disgust rose and Luna’s teeth clenched.

“…don’t disparage other people’s families.”

Even in the waves of disgust that crash without a break.

This one thought is as clear as it is.

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My family doesn’t talk like that.

Who are you to arbitrarily turn our family into revenge demons?

I’ve never heard of such a vivid nightmare.

It is clear that someone deliberately induced it.

Whoever wakes up from this nightmare, I will definitely kill the culprit of this nightmare.

Luna’s fingernails dug into her flesh and clenched her fists until blood flowed.

Then, one by one, incontinence appeared in my field of vision.

Soon after, I heard the sound of something breaking.

***

When Luna opened her eyes, she was on the bed at the inn in her last memory.

No matter how strong the memory is, the memory of the nightmare followed him to reality and tormented him.

It would have been better if it was a dream I couldn’t remember.

“·······.”

What caught her eyes, a pair of daggers resting on the bedside table.

Promising to avenge her however she wanted, Luna left the room with her sword in hand.