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『DREAM-EATER』has challenged you to a PvP!

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『DREAM-EATER』
has challenged you to a PvP!


Huh,

excuse me,
what?


I groaned,
pulling myself up--

oh, I was lying down?
wait, where am I?


The world was black.


Darkness was the walkway,
the abyss was the sky.


The stars sprinkled a canopy
over her head,

but nothing else
was in sight.


My phone shone that neon beam
that irritated my eyes,
but chimed

and stubbornly proved to me
that I had to be aware of this.


"Dream-Eater," 
I read,
"another sucky name."


Wait, didn't I go to bed?

I remembered now--
I came home three hours ago,

had dinner a while ago,
and went straight to sleep.


So where the hell am I?


I'm not in bed..


"Fuck,"
I realized,
and checked through

my phone--


I couldn't go to my
contacts-- 

I couldn't press home.


There was just that map on
the dumb screen,

that was pitch black
save for two dots in the center.


The blue dot was probably me--

And apparently, right
in front of me,
marked by a red dot--

Was the player
called

'Dream-Eater'.


╔═══════════════╗

『DREAM-EATER』

uses
「Fang of the Fenrir」

╚═══════════════╝


I swore again.

I didn't remember
accepting the PvP.


no-- there wasn't a choice?
I couldn't reject this battle?


I felt
an excruciating

tear

rip through her shoulder.


As if something
had just bitten off
a chunk of it.


I couldn't stop
the scream that just

dragged itself out
of my throat.

It was a searing,
burning flare,

shredding every nerve,
severing every bone.



Maybe I was exaggerating--

But the pain shot right through
my mind, burning
into my brain and
lingering as phantom agony
throbbing at my muscles.

For a second I could think of
nothing but the pain.



╔═══════════════╗

『RULEKEEPER』

takes 500p damage!

╚═══════════════╝



And through this, the phone

blinked happily,
flickered gleefully,
continued foolishly.


This was a dream, right?


Why did it hurt?
Why wasn't it ending?
Where is this?
Who was that?
What just happened?


This was just a dream,

I tried to convince myself,
because right now, I'm--


My body is fighting
a PvP with a stranger.


And even though
they only chose moves
with a single press
of a button--


The pain was real.

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