"…Can I at least see who I will be with in the nightmares?" Hachiman deadpans at the woman, who shrugs with a smirk.
"Sure." She snaps then moves out of the way so that tar-like liquids slowly ooze out from each of the screens.
He cringes as he sees the liquid, from the screen of "Living Complex", in front of him slowly take the form of a normal high school female with pink eyes and waist-long white hair, styled in a side ponytail, though he squints his eyes at her.
"…She looks normal?" He asks while glancing at the other liquids that have taken the form of various females then blankly stares at the woman.
The woman mischievously smiles, "Go touch her." She points at the normal looking high school girl, who motionlessly stands in place with a blank look.
Hachiman narrows his eyes, "Yeah no. I'm guessing that she got something that can help me in the… Flesh world."
She pouts, "Damn it, why couldn't you just entertain me? Anyway." She snaps her finger and the high school girl slowly turns into something else.
From the ends of her mouth, the lines extend to her head and slowly open to reveal rows of sharp teeth that look like they can bite a person's head off. She brings a hand to stick into the newly revealed mouth and lifts it up that forces her right eye to look upwards while her left eye still blankly stares. Then her upper front part of clothes slowly changes into sharp and weird looking teeth that almost resemble a diamond shape. In the middle of her chest lies something that resembles a mouth with even more sharp teeth.
He widens his eyes and his cheeks puff up then he vomits onto the floor, "Awww, don't ruin my floors you damn human!" He ignores the whining voice of the woman as he frightfully looks at the abomination in front of him.
"What the- what the fuck is that?!"
She pouts even bigger, "Rude! Don't be mean to her and she is called the Disjointed Viscera! Or Viscera for short. She is a creature that you can consider human when she's in her more human looking state outer shell. She is also a fragment of the whole that split off from the mass and gained something that can be considered sapient, though it's up to you to teach her how to be human."
The woman fake coughs, "Now, she can't be killed or incapacitated, even temporarily, so easily due to her less than human nature, got fine control of her own body that she can manipulate to be in a form made up off jagged bones and sharpened claws anywhere of her body to defend herself or you, also means that she can become whoever you want her to be, down to the exact physical detail and their mannerisms to the point you can't distinguish them apart without hints."
Hachiman shakes his head, "Nope. Nope. I will never pick this one."
"Awww, why not? She's basically what you call a baby. You can teach her all about how to be human and she will become your most loyal companion!"
"Nope. Next."
He quickly moves to the female next to Viscera, who almost looks sad in her eyes, "Who is she?" He asks the woman while stopping right in front of a female with golden eyes and neck-length black hair, wearing a blue hood that covers her entire body and her back hair, staring right at him. He feels a shiver running through his spine.
The woman glances at her, "Ah, the Leviathan Spawn, or Levia for short. She's a distant cousin to the sea creature in the water nightmare that you have to hunt. Though, she decided that she wants to husbandoing you rather than eat you whole like her cousin."
"…What?"
The woman shrugs, "Anyway, she is arrogant to the core with the strength to back her up, always believing herself to be superior to you in every single way and she will never back down from an argument nor take no for an answer. Luckily for you, she considers your opinion in all things that concern land since she is no tyrant."
"She can hold her own on land but her strength lies in the water since she can swim almost as fast as her cousin, rip apart an orca in two, and other stuff that she'll tell you. Oh yeah, she encourages you to be brave, suppress your fear, and will help you overcome obstacles by charging through them, even though it's debatable if that will help you much."
"…Alright."
"How boring of your reaction. Now, let us move on to the next one." She pouts as she slowly walks to the female next to Levia, who keeps staring at Hachiman with unblinking eyes.
"The Obscure Landlord. She is the apparent owner of the apartment with no name to speak of and offers you none to call her by, though I think she just wants you to name her since she's what you call a tsundere."
The female with green eyes and waist-long blue hair, styled into a small bun at the middle of her head and two horns protruding out of her head, wearing a business-like outfit, twitch as she looks at the woman and him.
Hachiman notices the twitch and nervously asks, "Um… All of them aren't… Alive right now, right?" He gulps as he glances at all of them.
The woman blinks then puts a finger to her lip, "Whatever gave you the idea that they aren't alive?"
His face rapidly becomes white and he feels his mouth drying, "Y-you mean that they can understand me?"
The woman smiles, "Yep. Good job on figuring it out." She rapidly claps her hands.
Hachiman quickly goes over to Viscera and gets into a dogeza, "I am sorry about my rude remarks!"
The woman laughs as she watches his action, "What are you apologizing for? Don't you remember that she can be considered a human baby?"
"I am not taking the chance of somebody that can literally chew me into red paste that she can't understand me and won't develop a grudge against me."
She scoffs, "Fine, be that way. Let me explain that the Obscure Landlord has minor control over your perception of time inside the nightmare, meaning that she can speed it up by eight times or slow it down to one fourth of what your normal perception. Also, she can stop time altogether for ten seconds once per nightmare."
He slowly gets up while nervously looking at Viscera, "Are we good, um, Viscera? You won't eat me right?"
The woman rolls her eyes then snaps her finger, prompting him to appear next to her, "Come on, we still got six left. I know that time doesn't move in here but I would very much like to not waste my patience."
She grabs him and walks to the next female, "The Night Stalker, or Nista. She only appears at night, and only in front of you, also this one is only interested in leading you away from the dangers of the night and to safety. I am pretty sure you can guess from her name but her favorite hobby includes stalking you from afar and observing you from up close, uncomfortably so."
Hachiman gulps as he looks at the female with black eyes and shoulder-length green hair with what looks like stitches extending from the ends of her mouth, wearing a black hood that covers her entire body and back head, creepily smiling at him.
The woman sighs, "She is somebody of few words and speaks only rarely. Though, she already knows what is the best course of action in any situation and it's easy to mistake her affection for something more malevolent if you don't know her well enough."
"…So she's a loner?"
The woman tilts her head as she looks at him, "A loner? Why yes, you can call her a loner. Anyway, she specializes in speed and stealth, so escaping from threats becomes easy for her. To put it into perspective, she can outrun every waifu here in an obstacle-filled straight run and hide from all kinds of threats if they have no prior knowledge of her. She can teach you how to be undetectable to anything that would hurt you, though I hope you don't mind dying a few times if she believes that you need to so that you can learn or to acquire information for the next attempt in conquering the nightmare."
"Now, the Insectoid Housewife… Or what she calls herself, Kina. Born from the memories of what you always wanted when you were a child, mixed with the fear of the infestation of vermin, she is the result and will welcome you with a flutter of her wings every time you visit her nightmare."
He blinks as he stares at the tall female of what looks to be a white colored moth, with purple eyes that stare at him with compassion in them, wearing a yellow long-sleeve shirt, a pink apron, and black pants, and smiles at him.
The woman snaps her finger, "She has the power over your childhood memories and can help you access memories that are locked away, deep in your mind. Which, translates to understanding the fabric of the nightmare more closely, and allows a very minor form of probability manipulation. Though, she is more a pacifist kind and doesn't know how to conquer the nightmare but she won't allow any harm to come upon you… Or let the nightmare enter reality before her."
"Alright, now this one is called Scion Of Death, called Scion, and yes, she is the harbinger of the apocalypse. This cheerful and kind, if somewhat smug harbinger of the apocalypse will basically bring the end of the world but you can delay her for a while."
He grimaces as he looks at the female with ruby eyes and breast-length purple hair, styled into two long strands that are tied by ribbon, with two large horns protruding from the side of her head, wearing red glasses, white hood that covers her upper body and back head, black pants, smugly smiles at him.
"Her powers are linked to you via a system of sacrifice inside of the nightmare, aka you would need to harm yourself so that her powers can be unlocked. The more gruesome, permanent, visible injuries, the more powerful she becomes."
Hachiman shakes his head, "Sorry, I don't want to be responsible for ending the world." He bows at Scion before moving away from her, prompting her to twitch.
"New-Age Mendicant, or Mendi. A young woman who travels the world as a way to harness her powers as a caster of old magic. She can perform some impressive parlor tricks, though her specialty lies in the art of apotropaic warding, which is magic directed towards holding off evil in all its permutations."
He raises an eyebrow as he looks at the female with green eyes and red hair that is covered by her latex goth clothes. She blankly looks at him with a small smile, "…Wait, you said she travels the world? As in Earth?"
"Not your Earth but the Earth in the nightmare. Her powers require your utmost belief for it to be effective or else she'll be limited in her options in the nightmare. Enough doubt and anxiety will cause her enchantments to come undone and you don't want it to happen in a very unfortunate time right? She also carries charms that can repel those bearing malicious intentions to you and her, at least for a while depending on the strength of the opponent."
"The last two here, and here is the Trioptic Scorpion. She resembles the creepy crawlies that are common in the depths of the cave, though she is kind and considerate to you who can neither see in the dark nor navigate narrow passageways with ease. Fun fact, she considers your human body to be terribly frail and tries to help you out, even with tasks that don't really require help."
Hachiman steps back as he looks at the very tall female that resembles a scorpion, with her eyes closed and 3 insect-like eyes in the middle of her forehead wide open and shoulder-length dirty yellow hair, wearing a purple dress that only covers her front and back part of body. She tilts her head and lightly smiles at him.
"If you haven't guessed yet, she's blind. But she got those three compound eyes at her forehead that gives her visual information, also allows her to switch between normal, night, and thermal vision at will. In addition to that her feelers are sensitive to minute changes in the atmosphere."
"…Ok." He slowly backs away while keeping his eyes on the scorpion female, "Who's the last one?"
"Ah, the Waifish Urchin. A girl who is basically in the midst of her adolescence, she claims to have lived all her life in the tunnels alongside the dweller. Due to living in near absolute isolation from birth, she is positively overjoyed to meet someone that looks harmless, though your eyes might scare her off. And she is a coward at heart, fearful of others and unwilling to charge into danger due to long years of running away but at least she got minor powers of divination for being a coward."
Hachiman blankly stares at the female with white eyes and butt-long black hair, wearing rag clothes that make her look like a beggar, who fearfully looks at him with pursed lip. He slowly raises a hand to her before freezes as he hears a cough coming from behind him.
"And finally we are done with the brief introduction of your waifu… You know what, I'll let you have a taste of what each nightmare will be like. Your reactions will be the payment for all the troubles you caused me."