Update: 23/12/2023
Note: Translation By Microsoft.
Chapter 5: Dream, Nightmare... or souvenir?
A young Mikoto was confused, he didn't know where he was because next to him was an adult man dressed in a set of priest's clothes, he has long hair down to his neck of dark brown, his eyes the same color, but with a dead tone there was no emotion in those eyes.
In front of him was a strange person with an outfit that he didn't know how to describe it, he looked like a jester, his long nails made him a little disgusted with his very pale skin as if it were that of a dead man, he had a strange style of long black and white hair where the ends wore as if they were bells. His smile was that of a predator waiting for its prey, and next to him he saw someone almost like him.
He was taller than him, his light red hair a shade like maple in autumn, his brown eyes looking disdainfully at the priest as if he were an enemy all his life, he was dressed somewhat peculiarly.
He was wearing dark baggy trousers, his black sandals hooked with a samurai armor calf protector, on his thigh he carried a small leather bag, his belt was a white cloth, on the upper part of his body he was almost naked, only a red shoulder pad with black print and borders covered his left breastplate, A red wristband cloth on her right wrist where her hand gripped a white cape where a beautiful floral design gleamed inside.
I didn't know where he was, but he tried to think more logically, maybe he was in a lucid dream since what he was seeing felt so real, he could even move since he had moved closer to look in more detail at the person, he thought looked like him.
The only thing that could be differentiated would be his hair that had no points, brown eyes as well as his character, he looked more like the attitude of a grumpy old man, by the way he talked to the priest.
Suddenly, he experienced an intense pressure that ran through his entire body, a suffocating heaviness that left him paralyzed and almost out of breath.
He began to calm down and then drew incredible willpower to move his body and look at who was behind him to discover the cause of his paralysis.
I leave you amazed when you see who was the cause, or more clearly the cause; She was a beautiful woman with a voluminous albino hair with golden orange tips the same color as her eyes, she has a strange outfit, consisting of a fur-adorned cloak with a gray hooded cloak, a multitude of ribbons and streamers, two cylindrical bracelets, and a giant crown. It also has a small golden horn growing on the right side of its forehead and two silver metal horns floating around its head. Most of his clothing floats in the air, such as the bands around his arms and the two metal "horns."
(N/A: all the outfit came out on the English Wikipedia, I won't even try to describe her clothes, I get dizzy.)
The person raised his right hand, with mysterious marks on the back, and opened his mouth.
"I have merged your beings with divine entities. I entrust you with the task of putting an end to this war against the people of Chaldea. The time has come for the conclusion of humanity, and to achieve this we must abandon the games and act seriously. Attack Chaldea; When you enter a Lostbelt, the wisest thing to do is to head towards its main base, which provides support to the Master known as Ritsuka Fujimaru, I will send other apostles as decoys to take advantage of this opportunity. They are absolute orders; I don't want denials from them especially to you S̸͈̅ë̶̤́ṉ̶͝j̶̦̚i̶̡͋ ̶͓̕M̷͎͝u̷̼̇r̴̡̋a̴̝͋m̸̝͝ȁ̶̠s̵̛̫ä̸̢́."
Of the marks on the back one began to shine and then disappeared, but also something important happened, the name of the person with red hair sounded distorted, I could not understand what his name was.
"Hahaha, it's fun to watch S̸͈̅ë̶̤́ṉ̶͝j̶̦̚i̶̡͋ ̶͓̕ get scolded!"
The pale person replied laughing at the person who couldn't hear his name well, the priest also let out a choked laugh, they seemed to be making fun of him.
"Tch, the boy this body belongs to is the real drawback. If it weren't for his desire to be a hero of justice and to watch what I do with his body, he wouldn't give up his fight to regain control. It's really annoying."
I speak with annoyance, I began to think about what the albino person said about the decoy, even if he says that it is a decoy, he would also talk about it being an attack for that group called Chaldea, which would mean an attack on the front as well as the rear, a sandwich was the attack.
The scenery had suddenly changed, it was a catastrophic scene.
There was a large construction already destroyed, seeing the surroundings I was on top of a mountain perhaps, since the construction had pillars of great height reaching to the floor of the mountain.
I started walking inside the empty and destroyed building, maybe I can find some answers.
Arriving inside I was guided further inside for more information as there was nothing outside, it looked like I had passed by a dining room, as I could see some circular metal bases and pieces of column of chairs, further away parts of the kitchen that had been destroyed could also be seen as a knife, Spatula, pots, and unusable food on the floor.
As I went deeper into what looked like a base, I came to a room with several papers on the floor buried with parts of the walls and ceilings, grabbing some papers to read if there is any important information.
—Mhmm... Chaldea... So, this is the base they were to attack... but where are they?
There was no trace of those three people I saw in the previous scenario.
I started going out in case they are still fighting, but outside this place called Chaldea.
Coming to the outside coming out as fast as I could my legs, I arrived at the same place where I had appeared, I need to get away from this place since there was no one.
I took out my wings to fly around in search of something or someone in case those three people haven't left.
Moving several meters away and flying higher to have a better view around in case I get lucky and find faster.
A minute later, something supernatural happened.
A few meters from where I am, a golden cup with a strange black mud appeared in the sky. The cup spun around letting the contents of the black mud fall, I turned my gaze to the ground to see where the mud fell.
I finally found one of the three people in the previous scenario.
The reddish-haired man was standing there, also watching the black mud from the cup fall to his location.
He didn't move and let the black mud fall on his body.
A very strange situation, I can think.
With my wings I descended as fast as possible to where the man buried in the black mud, since his silhouette showed that he was still there.
Arriving another supernatural thing happened.
The man buried in mud began to disappear, specks of light could be seen flying in one direction and then disappearing.
—What... shoot...
That was confusing... Even the mud continues to spread to any part of this mountain.
Thmp-Thmp
My heart started beating faster, my body felt heavy, even my breathing was more erratic.
—I won't let your filthy existence destroy this world.
The albino woman was upstairs but farther away from my location.
A hand raised pointing to the black mud.
And suddenly I feel skin tingling as a white light fell completely into the mud that had spread on the mountain.
I looked at where that attack was coming from, and I was surprised.
—That... It's crazy...
The pillar of white light came from space...
The pillar of light had disappeared beside the muddy mountain and the golden cup in the sky.
There was nothing in front of me, just a big hole about 60 meters around.
I looked down, seeing only the emptiness of that hole.
It was certain death for me, I'm lucky I'm just a ghost in this... dream...
This is no longer a dream... It's more than a dream... someone's memory?
But who...
Plaf! Plaf!
—What the hell!
Several human hands suddenly appeared holding me.
—Let me go!
I started struggling to get out of their grips, but no matter how hard I struggled they wouldn't let go, seriously what the hell is going on.
I felt like my body was swallowed by something, human arms were submerged in the air to a place unknown to me.
Everything was happening so fast that I couldn't understand anything.
Now I was in a place where I saw only infinite darkness and the human arms that held me.
—Now what's going to happen?
Answering my uncertainty, a dark silhouette had emerged from the dark ground.
Where the gloom of the dark silhouette was a strange yellow circle glowing in the dark with Roman numerals and clock hands doing their job, strange as that was; it was an eye.
As I managed to see parts of the silhouette as double pigtails as if it were her hair with a servant's headdress glowing red, several strands of hair falling down the sides of her "face" and behind that dark silhouette a glowing clock, allowing me to see the above.
"You shouldn't have seen that."
A deep voice was heard releasing a killing intent tingling my skin and body with fear.
I was getting worse and worse.
I need to escape from this place, but the truth is that there was no way to escape; I was surely in the territory of this scummy silhouette.
It's pretty sure he won't let me get away.
I need a miracle... A miracle to escape.
Disappear!
The dark silhouette suddenly disappeared.
Now I have no idea where it will appear, the human arms also disappeared; It's more likely that he will show up near me and kill me because of the sudden freedom he gave me.
It chilled!
I attacked my back where I felt the presence of the silhouette to see that it was missing.
"Your fear is your downfall."
Tch, shit.
He appeared in the air as he released an attack on my back.
I'm going to die, damn.
—Not on my damn guard bitch!
That surprised me, the voice sounded just like mine.
I watched as the silhouette disappeared away from the katana attack.
I took a good look at who saved me to get another surprise.
It was relatively me.
—Hey, don't think it's you, you forget who lives inside you!
Ah.
—Sengo Muramasa.
—That same one.
—I'd ask you how you're here, but it's not important right now when there's someone dangerous.
—You're quite right there, by the way, here.
He threw me a katana that had appeared out of nowhere.
—This is so stupid; I don't see a chance of beating her even if we both fought that thing together.
—It's not for you to fight.
Hey?
—Then what is it for?
I looked at Sengo confused, as he suddenly didn't understand his actions.
—Very easy, for you to stab yourself and try your luck if you wake up from sleep to get out of this place.
—Oh, I understand. Then I'll do it now-
—I don't think that's a good idea.
—Mhmm... I see, this place is that thing's territory, so it would be useless to stab myself.
—Hahaha, you got it. If she had wanted to kill you, she would have easily done so outside this strange place without the need to bring you in.
Perfectly understanding everything, but there is still a drawback... And that was escaping from here.
— I'll take care of that, but it will surely be 1 or 2 seconds of your chance to escape from this place, since apparently it can disappear and appear in an instant.
— Well, I'll count down in my mind to complete the plan.
Sengo nodded.
That thing's one eyehad narrowed, staring at us intently at what we were going to do.
3...
2...
1...
Now!
—I keep an eye on that thing!
Sengo said while with his katana he cut behind me and began to see a small gap enough for me to escape, without thinking twice I used all my strength to propel myself and escape quickly from this place.
I can't be thinking now what Sengo did to make me escape.
Chills!
Although I was close to escaping through the gap, my peripheral vision saw perfectly that thing that was about 30 cm from my body.
It all felt like going in slow motion, I was looking at that thing and also at Sengo who was going to attack him so that I could escape.
That thing had stretched out an arm to catch me, I strained my eyes magically without thinking about it now for fear that I got caught.
I could feel the blood flow going at a speed it wasn't supposed to go.
My whole body had been activated as a defense mechanism by the sudden fear of being caught.
Each time his arm approached at an alarming rate.
My hair, as well as body hair, stood on end instantly when that thing's arm was closest to grabbing me, it's about 10 cm away.
Sengo wore a look of terror.
Although he was also getting close in attacking that thing.
With my perception and accelerated processing, I was able to see everything slow in this situation where I was getting closer and closer to passing the gap as well as being caught and Sengo trying to save me, passing only 0.70 centisecond(cs) to complete 1 second of managing to escape to the breach.
0.80 (cs) I was closer to getting in and over the gap.
0.83 (cs) that closest thing to catching me.
0.85 (cs) Sengo near that thing to stop its advance.
0.90 (cs) My head came into the gap letting me see the light on the other side.
0.92 (cs) I feel like he's gripping my shirt.
0.94 (cs) The grip on my t-shirt had been released.
0.98 (cs) I feel like nail edges cutting my calf.
1 second my body had finally broken through the gap.
I found myself falling 20 meters from the sky to the surface of an arid and dry land with an incessant rise of a fire.
Various weapons such as knives, spears, shields, maces, bows, swords were also observed, and the lists of weapons continued throughout this burning desert place.
Sigh. —Now where the hell am I?
Chills!
Damn, another dangerous place.
—I don't have time to find out where I am, it's time to wake up.
With the katana given by Sengo I brought my hands to the hilt to raise it and stick it in my right leg to escape from this place.
—Mhmm... I feel the presence of someone in front of me, but I don't see anyone.
I heard a voice behind me that ended up stopping my action.
It's super dangerous whoever is on my back, I didn't feel any movement of approaching or traces of magic in the air in case I flew or teleported.
—It doesn't matter, all I have to do is destroy this place to remove whatever is invisible.
That set off an alarm in my head and I looked behind me to see what the person who threatened to destroy everything was like.
Today was a day of surprises, to be honest.
What I was seeing was a three-headed humanoid dragon, all of its skin was incredibly white.
He was wearing white baggy pants with red trim and print, on his shoulder he wore a red flag as a cape, I also managed to look at something like shadow as if they were wings under the cape, surely attached to his back.
Crack!
The three-headed humanoid dragon leapt into the sky and from where he stood, the ground cracked to an exaggerated level as if a wrecking ball had destroyed the ground with all its force.
The dragon had prepared an attack stance that was aimed at where I was, his right fist began to glow; Even at a distance, I could feel the heat of that attack.
—He really wants to get rid of this place.
I murmured dumbfounded.
—Avesta!
A large attack of white light was approaching me, I didn't want to look at the result of the damage that its attack can generate.
I grabbed the katana and stabbed myself as fast as possible to my stomach to cause more pain to wake me up quickly from this strange situation.
Before I woke up, I could see how the whole location was trapped by that attack, estimating maybe 100 km², the same size as Gremory territory.
I felt my skin crawl with fear just imagining the catastrophe that dragon could achieve if it reached the underworld.
Because of my fear, I ended up coming up with a thought that kept repeating itself in my head.
That dragon should never come to this place.