When Killer opened his eyes, he couldn't feel anything... or truthfully, feel everything that is so painful he became numb. Under his tired stare, his soul was proudly floating in this familiar inverted crimson heart form. It looked so natural like this, but Killer was internally terrified. It hurt, but Killer managed to pass over his own pain to ask :
"How is Nightmare?!"
Dust weirdly stared at Killer, who is painfully sitting, asking himself why he asked that. He found Killer passed out in the middle of the corridor, his soul floating above him with this new form Dust never saw. This is Killer he found on the floor, so why would he care about Nightmare?
Killer raised his hand to point his inverted soul with his index, raising his now showing white lifeless pupils to the dusted Sans. A memory struck Dust in the back of his head, remembering him he had asked the opened soul how he ended up like that.
"When Nightmare found me in my AU, he decided to curse me so I wouldn't kill myself." Had said Killer with a grateful smile. Dust had never seen someone this happy to be cursed. "Plus, the demon child can't taunt me anymore, I'm free!"
This souvenir came back like a bullet in Dust's mind as he finally understood what Killer implied by asking how their boss was doing, he burst out of the room to look out for their boss. He met Cross's path and stopped to speak with him, asking if he saw Nightmare and if not, go take care of Killer as he looked for their boss.
The monochrome went to Killer's room as Dust told him with a puzzled look, more questions in his head than answers. He found the skeleton with opened sockets, murmuring at the emptiness. Cross swore Killer was having a conversation but with who? He sat on the border of the bed but Killer did not flinch an inch, thought he had a slight movement of the head.
Nightmare was nowhere to be found and a kind of alert state is raising in the castle. The HQ of the crisis reunion was Killer's room, the target souled killer had to explain what happened. The skeleton was acting strangely, staring everywhere and having spasms.
Killer began to explain by revealing to Horror and Cross the curse Nightmare had put to him because of his Chara in his head. He shortly spoke about his madness and suicidal thoughts that led to this curse, still acting strangely, and so he's linked to Nightmare's core magic. He continued, explaining the difference between spells and curses, meaning the curse will be on until Nightmare's death or total loss of powers.
Everybody began to understand what was happening. Killer cut the stress out stating that Nightmare is hidden in the castle in a secret room. Everyone was strangely looking at the killer which he rolled his pupils and said:
"I was looking for him since a few days because I felt the curse twitching, my soul began to hurt again and I'm hallucinating again. I found him in a weird state in a corridor of the east aisle, I think it's where I blacked out because Night had a crise, I heard him scream before I hit the floor under my pain. I know the cursed had been lifted there."
Horror freaked out when he understood Nightmare was dead. He was his savior and he didn't want to lose that. The smaller dusted sans beside him spoke.
"You are very calm for someone who got his demon child back in his head." said Dust.
"I' m telling you this not knowing if I'm currently hallucinating and speaking to ghosts or if you're really there because you and Cross have the demon's child eyes and their fucking smile. Also I can see your brother and Cross's Chara. Much cooler than mine."
Everyone was speechless by a bit everything that had been said. Dust looked at his brother that is pretty sure Killer can see him indeed, XChara was proud of being cooler than Killer's own maniac but Cross was much more worried like Horror. Killer finally lifted his cover to let see numerous fresh stabs on his legs, all along.
