Chapter 14

It was also difficult. ‘What the hell is pressing on me?’ It was huge and heavy. It’s like something big and heavy enough to fill the entire room. Does such a thing exist? ‘If you just open your eyes…’

Pia struggled to open her eyelids. Then my fingers moved very slightly. ‘It’s all right… it’s all over… As her fingers moved a little, her eyes, which had not even blinked until then, opened a little.

What is that?!’ However, Pia was startled by the bizarre shape that came under her slightly opened eyelids. A huge, black mist filled the room and roared above me. It was a terrifying yet bizarre shape that I had never seen in my life. ‘Monster, monster, monster…!? Clearly the form is fog, but the weight that weighed on me was too heavy. The fear of being crushed under the monster and suffocating like this flooded in. ‘Ugh, someone help…me!’

I wanted to scream for help but no voice came out. On the first day at Depodil House, I liked that I got to know Leon, but to die under such a bizarre monster. This could not be. I also survived the epidemic. ‘My bookstore…!’ ‘My 40,000 bill…!’ ‘My spring balcony…!’ ‘I have only read one book in the library. I couldn’t…!” I screamed inwardly, but the black mist came to weigh on Pia more and more. ‘Ughh, I can’t breathe… Breath… Breath…!”

As she became increasingly unable to breathe, Pia’s face turned white. ‘Okay, it’s over…over…’ The moment I thought I was really dead, “Ugh!” Suddenly, air rushed into her mouth, and Pia’s eyes widened. “Ouch!” Pia jumped up screaming and looked around. There was nothing around. There wasn’t even that black mist. Instead, the pyjamas she was wearing got wet with sweat and stuck to her skin.

“dream?” When I wiped my forehead, the back of my hand was wet. “It was a dream…” Maybe I had a disturbing dream because my bed had changed. It wasn’t a tragic dream, it was almost a nightmare, but fortunately it was a dream nonetheless. “Yes. There can be no such monster.” It’s been a nightmare from day one. It didn’t feel right, but it could have been a nightmare caused by an unfamiliar environment, in addition to relaxing after a long journey in a wagon.