I Became a Mental Health Care Patient in the Apocalyptic Era

Episode 23-The Nightmare

The Nightmare was quite a famous monster.

He came to attack the academy’s dormitory, but the monster has already attacked more than ten places.

Where the nightmare passed, it left scars like a nightmare.

There were no casualties, but it gave a great psychological shock to all who suffered from the nightmare.

This is the reason why coming to block the dormitory is more profitable than eating essence when playing Apocalypse Escape.

When a nightmare completely sweeps through the dormitory, the mentality of the children collapses tremendously.

If you look at it numerically, it’s 10% tidy, but if you think that this is swayed by one event, it’s a really huge figure.

In addition to that, you can increase your affinity and help you overcome nightmares while getting a small mental buff, so unless you have a high level of physical ability who can dramatically increase the effect of essence, preventing nightmares is a priority.

Of course, since I don’t have the potential to stop nightmares by myself, I asked for help from Lee Seo-yeon, who has a bad feeling about nightmares.

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Guys like Yang Ga-hyun can save them from suffering from nightmares and increase their favorability considerably, but Lee Seo-yeon usually has a strong mentality, so the increase in favorability that way wasn’t that great.

“Nightmare… You mean?”

After Lee Seo-yeon calmed her mana, she looked down at me.

Even though she didn’t feel the momentum strong enough to stiffen her body like before, her face was filled with subtle anger.

“How did you know that the nightmare appeared?”

“Something like black smoke appeared in a corner of the dorm and I looked up some books and they said it was the famous nightmare.”

“Whoa…”

Lee Seo-yeon sighed lightly.

“Why are you telling me that? If a nightmare-like monster appears, wouldn’t it be best to tell the dean?”

“It’s not like a child like you doesn’t know the characteristics of nightmares, right?”

Nightmare is very sensitive to the strong.

If someone as strong as the dean were to inspect the dormitory, they’d run away.

Of course, it could achieve the goal of expelling the nightmare, but it was clear that there would be another victim.

“Are you saying you’re going to get caught?”

“Oh, because it doesn’t seem to have matured properly yet.”

The ecology of the nightmare was really simple.

First of all, settle down in a place where a lot of people gather.

Then, while showing nightmares to those people, he slowly builds up his strength.

With the power cultivated in that way, it leaves a huge psychological scar on everyone who exists in that space, then disappears and moves toward a crowded place again.

In fact, if you don’t catch the nightmare here, nightmares will continue to occur in other places, and the combat power of mankind as a whole will decline.

Even if it looks very trivial, it was a very important part because the difference of a single point can gather and determine whether or not you can clear the game.

“Are you serious? Our opponent is a nightmare. Do you think we can catch a nightmare that even veteran heroes couldn’t catch?”

“Rather, I couldn’t catch it because I was a veteran. Nightmare reacts very sensitively to the strong.”

As I crossed her arms and looked at her, she let out a big sigh.

“Okay. Speaking of black smoke, it seems like it’s still in its infancy, so let’s join forces.”

Seoyeon Lee held out her hand to me.

She took her hand and shook it lightly and she stood up from her seat with a serious expression.

“There’s no time to be still. Nightmares grow day by day. If we don’t put the brakes on now, we might not even have a chance to stop them.”

-Wheek.

Something fell from her hip.

“Ah…”

As soon as she checked the piece of cloth that had landed on her ground, Lee Seo-yeon really quickly picked it up and put it into her pocket.

“It’s big.”

‘Is that my handkerchief?’

Previously, I didn’t recognize it because I wasn’t interested in it, but this time it was so openly dropped that I could see what kind of fabric it was.

Blowing her nose on my handkerchief, I had some sense of it from the time she brought it to me, but I didn’t know she really had it like that.

“Don’t worry about your personal stuff, let’s research a method for nightmares.”

“Yes, I see…”

Yes, he must have taken it because he needed my handkerchief.

Asking for her handkerchief now would only make them feel awkward, so I just let out a sigh and nodded to her.

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“These days my body is sluggish.”

Yang Ga-hyun stretched out.

When a nightmare first strikes, it touches a person’s unconscious.

Although they do have nightmares, they do not notice that the nightmare has appeared because it occurs in a part that people do not remember.

Since she is the size of Yang Ga-hyun, she can notice the difference in how tired her body is. Ordinary people can never know that a nightmare is passing by.

“Why are you wearing sunglasses again?”

“Cool.”

Even an extremely strong person like Gahyun Yang can notice the aftermath of a nightmare, but conversely, a weak being like me can also notice the aftermath of a nightmare.

No matter how lightly I touched it, my body was so weak that the dark circles settled down the next day.

Yang Ga-hyeon questioned the sluggishness of her body, and the class ended with me wearing sunglasses.

“Instructor, I don’t think I’ll be able to come to the academy for a while.”

Meanwhile, Park Soo-hyun was preparing to eat the essence.

It wasn’t something I was concerned about, as Park Soo-hyun, who lost her life by roasting the instructor, had to prepare herself.

“Let’s go.”

Without being surprised by Park Soo-hyun’s withdrawal from the academy, Lee Seo-yeon and I were also planning to skip additional education.

It was nominally intended to review what was learned in regular classes, but in reality it was not a review, but a discussion on how to prevent nightmares.

I knew how to catch a nightmare, so I just had to follow it, but I took the time to convince Lee Seo-yeon of it.

“What is it? Where are you guys going?”

“I think sharing information with the cadets at least once in a while will help improve their skills.”

“I’m coming too!”

“Get permission from the instructor and join us tomorrow~”

As a result of discussing with Lee Seo-yeon, whether to be together with Yang Ga-hyun, Yang Ga-hyun decided to be excluded from catching nightmares.

Nightmare is a guy who takes great care of his own life, so the more beings that try to catch him, the higher the chance of running away.

What we wanted to do was catch nightmares, not drive them away, so we needed to limit the number of people as much as possible.

“The way to catch a nightmare is really, really simple.”

“What’s so simple?”

“It’s when the nightmare is at its weakest that it manifests itself.”

Right now it was a nightmare attacking the cadets from the realm of the unconscious, but if the time comes when it is judged that it will be able to overcome the minds of all cadets, the time will come when it will invade the cadets’ minds on a large scale.

If that period is a period with an average value of 20, stimulate the nightmare and attack the other cadets at about 12. Can

You might question how to make nightmares reveal their power when they are at their weakest, but my brainy brothers have calculated all of them and found a way, so all I have to do is follow them.

“How do you know that?”

“Trust me because there is a way.”

“Whoa… I see.”

It was a bit unexpected.

I thought that if my opponent was Yang Ga-hyun, there was a high enough chance that he would follow me just by listening to me, but I didn’t know that Lee Seo-yeon would immediately say okay without hearing any evidence.

“Still, I would like you to give me a word in advance. At least I need some time to prepare my mind.”

“Yes, I understand.”

That was the end of the story worth talking about.

What is the pattern of her nightmares, exactly when will they happen and these are strange things I know because she couldn’t communicate them to her.

In the end, we returned to our respective dormitories, only talking about our studies.

-Shhhhh

As I fell asleep on the bed in the dormitory, I saw nothing but complete darkness.

‘Is this Lee Joo-eun’s dream?’

She knew it was a dream she would forget anyway, but the thought that she could see Lee Ju-eun’s past through nightmares made her heart race.

Moving slowly, I saw a small boy crouching in the empty black space.

“Hey… Hey…”

The child cried very sadly.

She smiled sadly as if everything in this world was scary.

As I stared at him, countless trials passed by him.

The person he considered a friend betrayed him, and he was beaten and kicked out while begging.

As countless things went by, the boy cried more and more loudly.

“Huh!”

Then the boy reacted very violently and shivered.

-Kwajik!

From the boy’s gaze, the heads of the two men and women were blown off by the monster.

His parents were killed by a monster.

That was the biggest fear a boy had.

-Kwajik! Kwajik!

Since then, the same scene has been repeated over and over again.