I Became a Mental Health Care Patient in the Apocalyptic Era

Episode 24-Nightmare (2)

“I’m definitely not feeling well.”

Yang Ga-hyeon muttered as if he wanted me to listen.

Of course, the nightmare will be a little stronger than yesterday, so it will be more difficult, but the only people who still notice it will be people at the level of Yang Ga-hyun.

In the first place, the Nightmare struggles to have as little impact on humans as possible before it uses its power properly.

“Are you okay?”

“Uh. It’s okay.”

“I’m glad.”

Yang Ga-hyun’s face, which had been making a frown until just now, brightened in an instant.

“But did Park Soo-hyun really not come out of the academy?”

“Uh, he says there’s a way he can grow to the point where he could skip the academy for a week or so?”

“A week is not a short amount of time, but I think it would be better to just come to the academy if it’s not a big deal.”

“Because the choice is up to Park Soo-hyun.”

A nightmare was overtaking the dormitory, but the academy was quiet.

If someone collapsed or complained of lethargy in a group, they would naturally suspect the existence of a nightmare, but it was rather quiet.

Like that, the day ended as usual.

It was so routine that it gave me goosebumps.

-Losing parents to a monster

-I have been hurt by many people since I was young.

After the daily routine was over, I stayed in the library to clean up Lee Joo-eun’s wounds.

Anyway, when the time comes for the nightmare to reveal its teeth, I will count the nights so I won’t suffer directly from the nightmare, but when I enter that character’s nightmare to save another character, the nightmare will attack me violently. .

When I was playing as Park Soo-hyun, I knew roughly everything about Park Soo-hyun’s past and pain, and even if I didn’t know it, I just had to memorize it and clear it.

Only then will we be able to stop the Nightmare’s attack.

There are about three days left until the nightmare is summoned.

During that time, we need to learn as much as possible about Lee Ju-eun’s scars.

– Chime to the girl I liked as a child. Not kicked in confession, but kicked.

-He was beaten by a kid who was 3 years younger than himself and took everything he had.

As the days passed, the number of scars on Lee Joo-eun that I could remember increased and became more and more detailed.

The nightmare didn’t bring out more scars, it only increased the number of pains I could remember as I struggled to remember them.

When the day came to invoke such a nightmare, I even came to know the feelings of Lee Ju-eun, who must have felt the pain.

“Hey, Lee Seo-yeon.”

“Why are you calling me?”

“Nothing.”

At my words, Lee Seo-yeon lightly shrugged her shoulders while stiffening her expression.

This was a signal.

A sign that today will bring nightmares.

Lee Seo-yeon expressed great doubt about how to summon nightmares at will, but I didn’t tell him how to summon nightmares in detail.

Nevertheless, seeing that she doesn’t say anything, it must mean that Lee Seo-yeon has strong faith in me.

‘It’s not that simple.’

Put yourself in the shoes of a nightmare and try to figure out when is the best time to attack the cadets.

The best thing to do is to attack after your power has grown enough, but is that all?

I left the academy as soon as my regular education time was over.

I told you that I will not receive additional training today, so there is no problem.

“Whoa…”

I walked the same way and reached a small building about 1km away from the academy.

It was a small building without any peculiarities, but the secret of the academy is hidden in this building.

‘Actually, secrets aren’t that important.’

I already knew what secrets the academy had.

So the content of the secret was not important.

It’s just that the secret is hidden here.

It is very important to know why the academy hides its secrets in a place where so many people pass by, but it is not important right now.

-Thump!!!

I kicked the signboard of the building with all my body strength.

‘Isn’t this enough?’

When it was kicked by a player, it was smashed in one shot, but Jueun Lee’s body seems to have its limits.

“Whoa…”

-Thump!!!

This time, I bumped into the signboard as if rushing.

It was a signboard that looked like there was nothing wrong with my torso, but who did it?

If you knock, it will open.

If you hit this too, it will break.

– Kung! Thud!

As I was constantly bumping into the signboard, cracks slowly began to appear on the signboard.

-Kung!!

After beating for almost an hour, the signboard was smashed.

“Whoa… Whoa…”

Before I knew it, I looked down at the broken signboard, wiping the sweat.

After confirming that the signboard had been completely destroyed, I immediately turned around and left the spot.

That signboard was a kind of safety device that the academy made to hide their secrets.

In addition to the signboard, there were countless safety devices, but the signboard was the easiest to break, so I only broke the signboard.

Only one of the many safety devices has been broken, but there will probably be an uproar on the academy side.

It will take a year to figure out who broke the signboard, to fix the signboard again, and to figure out if other safety devices are broken or if information inside is leaked.

To be exact, it would take about one night.

‘This is enough bait.’

Among the instructors at the academy, there weren’t that many who commuted.

Most of them were living in the instructor’s quarters set aside at the academy.

Therefore, even if something happened in the dormitory, the instructors were able to intervene immediately.

In the case of a monster that is so good at hiding that it is a nightmare, it is difficult for ordinary instructors to notice its existence, but if you are the dean who always sleeps in the dean’s office, you may be able to notice the nightmare that is trying to properly damage the students even if you cannot catch the usual nightmare. The probability is very high.

But the dean won’t be there tonight.

Because I need to fix the sign I smashed.

Actually, it doesn’t take a lot of time to fix a sign.

What really takes up a lot of time is leaking information that might have happened.

Honestly, I should have known by the time I was knocking down the signboard, but while I was destroying it, someone nearby might have done something strange to the building?

The secrets hidden there were so heavy that one had to scan the entire building with only one broken signboard.

The editorial was long, but it is said that nightmares are monsters with thoughts, so they will think of it as a golden opportunity now without the dean.

It’s not that the nightmare has such an incredibly advanced intelligence, but it’s a situation where the momentum that I always felt around me has disappeared, so of course it will move.

This is not my prediction, it is statistically proven to be 100%.

“Whoa…”

As soon as I got back to the dormitory, I washed up and lay down on the bed.

By now, the dean must be swearing at me a lot.

I really couldn’t rule out the possibility of breaking the signboard for no reason, so I’m not arguing why I broke it right away, but after more time passed, a protest came from the academy, and they would press me like why did I break the signboard of a building that was fine.

Lying on the bed, I looked at Lee Joo-eun’s weaknesses that I had organized so far.

-Losing parents to a monster

There were numerous detailed horrors, but the biggest scar to Lee Joo-eun was, of course, losing her parents to the monster.

The shock of my childhood was so great that it remained thick at the level of trauma, so the nightmares also persistently pursued this area.

It was the most frequent nightmare and the most painful wound.

In other words, you just have to deal with it well.

-Smart

While looking at the paper like that, Lee Ju-eun kept organizing her feelings, when she heard the sound of a door.

‘Is it Lee Seo-yeon?’

“Who are you?”

“I am.”

It was also Lee Seo-yeon.

-Kiik

“Is it true that a nightmare is coming today?”

Lee Seo-yeon whispered while wearing her pajamas and holding a pillow.

That figure caused a slight gap and was quite cute.

“Oh, I’ll come over today.”

“Then let’s wait together. I almost fell asleep alone.”

“Have you ever practiced not sleeping?”

“I’ve done it armed, but she’s never in her pajamas.”

I sighed and opened the door wide.

“Why did a person who said he didn’t like him bring a pillow?”

“I just brought it because I feel comfortable holding it. Wouldn’t it be better for both of us to hold a pillow than to hold Lee Joo-eun?”

I lay down on her bed without answering her as she spoke with her impudent face.

“What if I lie down and go to sleep?”

“Don’t worry. I don’t know anything else, but I’m a confident person in one thing I don’t sleep.”

“Why don’t you just talk instead of lying still?”

“Talk? Good.”

I sat right on her bed and looked at Lee Seo-yeon.