Madman in a Fantasy World – Chapter 53

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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-Kyaaaaaak!!!

The first thing I heard was someone’s scream.

Who is yelling at night?

Yui’s eyes opened and she saw a strange scene.

‘Huh…?’

It wasn’t the place where she was.

The nice inn room and comfortable bed was nowhere to be seen.

But it wasn’t an entirely unfamiliar place.

‘W-what is this…’

It was the Count’s territory.

The place where she first met Luke.

The buildings were now all burned, so she couldn’t recognize the original form of the Count’s territory, but she could still tell where it was.

After all, it hasn’t been too long since she was in the Count’s territory.

The only territory with a beach that she knew of was the Count’s territory.

‘A dream…?’

Even just looking at what was in her vision, it was full of burning buildings and people being killed by vampires.

That incongruous sight made it look like a dream.

Because all the vampires except herself had been killed by Luke the day the mansion burned down.

And the Count’s territory that she knew was not a place like this.

But it felt too real to just think that it was a dream.

The feeling of the hot air from the flames, the feeling of her body moving.

Everything was too vivid.

Besides…

‘Even if it’s a dream, I don’t like it…’

She realized that it wasn’t reality but a nightmare.

But not many people can just go “Ah, it’s just a dream.” and move on.

A nightmare was designed to torment people, so it would bring out a person’s traumas, bad memories, or the things they hated the most that they had subconsciously hidden away.

Even a person with a strong mental fortitude couldn’t look at that and feel nothing.

If someone who hated bugs had a lucid dream, in which they were alone in a room surrounded by walls and bugs were pouring down from the walls.

Would that person be able to calmly think, “It’s just a dream, so it’s okay?”

Absolutely not.

Just like that, a nightmare was something that you were aware of but couldn’t do anything about.

Yui’s gaze suddenly fell down.

She had been looking around earlier, so she didn’t realize that she was holding something in her hands.

What she saw was a corpse with an arm missing underneath her, and she was holding what was thought to be the corpse’s arm with both hands.

‘Hic…!’

Yui was so startled that she wanted to fall down, but her body didn’t move as she wanted it to.

Rather, as if the owner of the body wasn’t her, her body moved on its own and tore off the limb’s joint.

Then, blood splattered all over Yui’s face.

Seeing the blood dripping from the broken joints, Yui was suddenly filled with a thirst.

Many may know that the process of a vampire drinking blood is sucking it from their opponent’s neck with their teeth.

But that’s not the reality of it.

If blood is their staple food, how could they satiate their thirst with sucking it with their teeth?

If someone is severely dehydrated from thirst, and there’s a cup of cold, iced water in front of them, would they insert a straw in and drink?

No, they wouldn’t.

Like that, vampires used a method that was fast and allowed them to consume a large amount.

The best method was tearing off a limb’s joint, like her body was doing, or twisting the limb to squeeze the blood out.

Yui’s body raised the arm without her consent and drank the blood that flowed out of it.

‘N-no…!’

But against her will, her throat convulsed and the blood passed through her esophagus.

Yui felt a sense of fullness, and she felt the strength returning to her body along with a refreshing feeling.

Even though she knew that she was a frog in a well, in this moment, she felt like an omnipotent god.

Then, she got up and began to wander through the Count’s territory.

What was she trying to do?

She tried her hardest to control her body, but it didn’t go as planned.

Even so, Yui’s body kept wandering through the houses.

Breaking down the doors of the buildings with blood magic, and rummaging through the insides.

It was as if she was searching for something.

After raiding about four houses.

-Hiccup!

The sound of a hiccup from somewhere.

Her eyes headed towards the source of the sound.

The source of the sound was a large wardrobe nearby, big enough for a person to go inside.

When she opened the wardrobe, there was a girl and a woman who was assumed to be her mother hugging the girl.

People who were hiding, unable to escape.

“P-please, just spare my child!”

The woman, tightly hugging her child, said.

Yui herself desperately wanted to save them, but her body didn’t agree.

Her brain started to recognize the woman and child in front of her not as “people”, but as “food”.

The form gradually changed from human to a clump of blood, which was a terrifying sight to even herself.

And like that, her hand stretched towards the woman and girl.

The woman tightly embraced the child and trembled as she closed her eyes.

Seeing that, the corner of Yui’s mouth rose sharply as if she were tearing her face.

Her body, which enjoyed killing people and feeling pleasure from seeing someone cowering in fear.

A personality that was distinctly different from Yui herself. It was so terrifying to her that it made her shiver.

‘Please…! Stop…!’

But she wouldn’t stop.

Just as her elongated nails were about to touch the woman’s head.

“Stop!”

Someone came.

The voice wasn’t familiar, but it wasn’t one she was unfamiliar with.

It was the people she saw before.

The man who said he had to kill her and his companions.

The atmosphere was different than the last time she saw them, but it was definitely them.

Then, the hand that was reaching out to the woman stopped and Yui’s body turned around.

There were three human-shaped blood clumps there.

Her brain, which had learned the taste of blood, had recognized them as “food” and not “intruders”.

“Oh my? It seems the food is fighting back these days?”

That short provocation was the end of their conversation.

Arthur charged and swung his sword, and she jumped back, creating a pillar of blood to block it.

As his companion evacuated the woman and the child, the battle became more intense.

The windows shattered and glass shards scattered on the floor because of the explosions caused by magic, and what was once a peaceful home was gradually losing all of its traces.

Even as her body was fighting, Yui was staring at the glass shards.

The reflection of herself in the glass shards on the ground.

Her body was small like that of a young girl, but her eyes were not the sapphire blue eyes that she knew, but the red eyes that she had always seen on Luke, and blood was smeared around her mouth, creating a ghastly sight.

‘Ah…’

Then, she remembered.

What would have happened if Luke hadn’t come back then?

Even though she didn’t want to admit it, she would have ended up like she is now.

The longer the fight went on, the more wounds her body gained.

She was cut by the shiny blade, and burned and frozen by the magic of his companions.

And finally.

*Thud!*

“Guh…!”

She groaned as she crashed into the wall.

Clink, clink.

The sound of stepping on glass shards and the sound of wood echoed from ahead.

Is this how she’s going to die?

As she slowly raised her head from the floor.

“Yui, I think it would be fun to kill you. Slurp.”

“H-hiek…!!! I’m sorry!!!”

With a terrifying face smiling at her and the words her body remembered, Yui’s eyes opened sharply.

“Ah…”

As expected.

It was a nightmare.

For a moment, she felt relieved.

However…

‘Why did I suddenly have such a terrible nightmare?’

Did something happen?

Yui slowly got off the bed and left the room.

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The first person Yui met after leaving the room was Luna.

The rooms were on either side of a hallway, so when she opened the door, she would naturally meet Luna.

“Ah…! Luna!”

“Yui, you’re safe.”

“Y-yes…?”

“You had a nightmare too, right?”

“Ah, did you, Luna?”

“Yes. It seems that someone deliberately made us have a nightmare. You must have also realized that and escaped from your nightmare, right?”

“Ah, yes… well… something like that.”

Yui thought she might not have been able to escape if it wasn’t for the last scene, but she decided to keep it to herself for now.

“Oh? But where’s Luke?”

“Since he’s not here, it seems he hasn’t escaped from his nightmare yet.”

Honestly, Luna and Yui wondered if that man even had nightmares.

Nightmares that forcefully brought out a weakness or trauma.

Given Luke’s personality, it’s hard to imagine him having any weakness or trauma, but he still hasn’t woken up?

“Then, let’s go help him immediately!”

“Yes.”

Luna and Yui headed for the room where Luke was.

When they opened the door, they saw Luke lying neatly on the bed, and just as Luna was about to wake him up.

“Sa, Save me!!!!!!”

A woman with horns came out of Luke’s stomach.

“A demon…!”

“Hiek…!”

Leaving aside the heavy and unpleasant dark magical power, just her appearance was that of something that wasn’t human.

Dark and gloomy wings, and horns that resembled those of a goat sprouting from her head, from wherever you saw her, she was a demon.

If the root cause of this incident was a demon, it wasn’t something they couldn’t understand.

Demons were the embodiment of absurdity.

She was still only partially out, her upper body was out, but not her lower body.

If they were going to kill her, they had to do it now.

Just as Luna, filled with anger from the nightmare, was about to grip her sword the other way.

“I, I don’t want to anymore!!! Just kill meeeeee!!!!!!”

The demon woman began to flail.

Even though she was the cause of this incident, she didn’t seem to know why she was reacting like this.

And somehow, she looked terrified.

“O dildo Manga?”

Then, along with a man’s voice they had never heard before, someone suddenly popped out, grabbed the demon woman by her horn, and dragged her in.

“Kyaaa, kyaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!”

He held onto the demon woman’s horns and dragged her back into his stomach.

The man’s face that was briefly seen.

His eyes were deeply shadowed with dark circles and his lips stretched into a grotesque smile, a face that made Luna forget her anger and feel a chill down her spine.

“”…?””

After a brief commotion, silence returned to the room.

Luna and Yui, who were watching the scene, could only stand there blankly, having forgotten what they were about to do.

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