Japanese Terrorist: What? I'll fight Hellstar!

Cthulhu-themed works are quite popular in Japan, the most famous of which is "Saya no Uta".

Amamiya Rin strongly suspected that this Night Demon was also from some bizarre horror work.

It might still be a romance story, since they've completely transformed the characters' appearances into those of a little girl.

However, Amamiya Rin really couldn't remember which work it was.

"Haiyore! Nyaruko-san"? Obviously not. Nyaruko is Nyaruko, and Yama is Yama. At most, they are different incarnations of Nyarlathotep.

As for the others... Cthulhu Mythos themes are mostly mainstream works. Adapting Night Demons into cute girls is obviously anime/manga. In this category, he only knows Nyaruko and Saya. However, Nyaruko doesn't fit the art style of this world. As for Saya... maybe she's already in some hospital in this world.

There's nothing we can do about it.

It was already difficult for him to recall the Night Demon and Nyarlathotep, after all, more than a hundred years had passed, and many memories had become blurred during his long dream life. The only thing he had specifically recorded in his notebook was the plot of Junji Itō's manga series.

If it weren't for the giant spider uttering a series of names of the Night Demon, seeing the Night Demon's gaze, sensing a strange sense of chaos in its voice, and noticing that the Night Demon never appears in bright places...

Without so many clues, he wouldn't be able to guess the Night Demon's identity.

However... here's the problem.

The Cthulhu Mythos—it seems there are works based on the Cthulhu Mythos in this world, right?

Yu Gonglin gently rubbed his brows with his index and middle fingers, feeling his confusion growing stronger.

A world where Cthulhu Mythos works and authors exist, and where the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods of the Cthulhu Mythos appear.

I just don't understand it. Every time he roughly figured out the truth about the world, more mysteries would appear.

However, now is not the time to investigate the child's true identity.

Now is not even the time to be afraid.

Because he sensed something else!

An indescribable tremor swept through the entire room, and a terrifying rage descended without warning. The dimensional barrier between reality and illusion was morbidly distorted under this great force. Everything in the room lost its color and turned into a deathly gray-white. The edges of objects blurred and dissolved, as if swallowed by an invisible chaos.

The air was icy cold, filled with the foul stench of damp, decaying earth and murky dust from the void—an aura utterly unbearable to the mortal mind. An amorphous fissure opened in the void, revealing a vast web woven from countless withered, dry spiderwebs.

Deep within the giant net was a bloated, deformed, and terrifying body covered in stiff hair. Its eight legs stretched out like withered trees, and its face bore a bizarre, almost human-like, terrifying expression. Its murky eyes stared at Amamiya Rin and the Night Demon. That inhuman gaze was a cosmic terror that directly eroded the soul, enough to drive any mortal insane in an instant.

"Brother, bad guys are coming! Quick, grab my hand, we need to run away!"

The child in the shadows called out urgently to Amamiya Rin.

The childish voice, like the whispers of countless insects, burrowed directly into Amamiya Rin's consciousness, carrying an anxious urging.

Amamiya Rin's limbs began to go numb, his vision distorted and overlapped, and countless spider silks and distorted illusions flickered before his eyes, but his expression remained unmoved by the chaotic scenery and the Night Demon's urging.

"Why run away? I performed the summoning ritual for Him. Just like that spider said, as long as you become His follower, you can freely travel between dreams and reality through the web He has woven."

Amamiya Rin turned her head to look at the girl in the shadows and asked calmly.

He also vaguely remembered the identity of the so-called Dream God. In the Cthulhu Mythos, there exists a spider god who continuously weaves a giant web that spans the rift between reality and dreams. Legend has it that when this web is completed, it will trigger the end of the world, but He is also one of the few Great Old Ones who can communicate with humans.

In the real world, Native Americans have a talisman called the dreamcatcher. They use it to capture beautiful dreams and let nightmares disappear with the morning sun. They believe that the night air is filled with all kinds of dreams, and only the dreamcatcher can filter them and bring them into a beautiful dreamland.

The person who created the dreamcatcher was named Spider Woman, who was originally the prototype of this spider god. However, in the worldview of the Cthulhu Mythos, Spider Woman became the name given to the spider god by the Native Americans.

While the exact nature of the Spider God in this world is uncertain, both of His prototypes have instances of communicating normally with humans.

In any case, he is at least more trustworthy than Nyarlathotep, that god of amusement.

"It won't work, brother. You've been fooled. That guy is a workaholic. If an ordinary wizard wants to become His follower, He will allow that wizard to move freely during his short life. After that wizard has lived out his life, which is too short for a god, he must help Him weave that giant net that spans the rift between reality and dreams. He is not allowed to rest until the weaving is completed."

The girl standing in the shadows seemed to shake her head, her tone serious yet slightly teasing.

"But you are different. Your qualifications as a Dream Messenger are too high. If it were you, from the moment you became a spider-human, you would have to devote yourself to endless work. Even corporate slaves have time to rest. If you were working for that guy, you wouldn't even have time to rest."

Is what she said true or false?

Amamiya Rin subconsciously looked at the spider god with a human face.

Although Nyarlathotep is the embodiment of lies and deception, Amamiya Rin believes that she is not lying this time, after all, the spider god she criticized is just out of sight, still looking furious.

If I lie, I'll be pointed out immediately, right?

However... it feels a bit off.

The Spider God was clearly furious, but He did not approach.

The distance between the two remained unchanged in Amamiya Rin's eyes, but he could sense that the Spider God was moving forward... So that's how it is, is it a change in time and space?

As such, space has long been distorted into an absurd shape, and time is also quietly stagnating and misaligning. The arrival of the Spider God has been infinitely delayed, and a higher, more chaotic being has quietly altered everything.

Amamiya Rin's heart stirred slightly, but his expression remained unchanged. He said to the Night Demon Loli, "It's alright. His messenger is a being who can reason and communicate normally. I think as an employee, we can also fight for some benefits."

"It's no use, brother. Just like a corporate slave doesn't have the right to negotiate with the boss. His primary goal is to complete his work, and he won't accept any requests that would postpone the work..."

While trying to persuade Amamiya Rin, the Night Demon Loli kept her head down.

She seemed to be thinking, or perhaps she had made a significant decision. After a moment, she looked up, her face still shrouded in shadow, but her voice became serious.

"Okay, brother, what you want is the ability to materialize dreams, right? The ability to transform dreams into reality that an individual is willing to believe is not a rare ability. It's not just that guy who can give you this ability. I can too. Hold my hand and run away with me. I will give you the ability to materialize dreams."

"Why? Why should you help me?"

Amamiya Rin asked calmly.

He wasn't in a hurry at all. This Night Demon was too focused on his own agenda and clearly didn't intend to hand him over to the Spider God. The most anxious people right now were probably the Night Demon and that Spider God... what was his name again? He'd check the information later.

"Hmm? That kind of thing is too complicated. If I had to say, I really love my brother. My brother is very important to me when he's alive. If he's dead or becomes something else, then he's meaningless."

The Night Demon Loli tilted her head, her childlike and innocent voice easily winning people's hearts and making them believe what she said.

However, Amamiya Rin's mind was clear. The Night Demon Loli's words fell into his heart like a light drizzle on a lake, without causing any ripples.

Can we trust Nyarlathotep's words?

Of course not!

However, whatever Nyarlathotep's hidden purpose, her words reveal a part of the truth.

Becoming someone else meant nothing to Nyarlathotep; she wanted to leave with her as she was now.

Amamiya Rin calmly pondered, carefully recalling her memories of the Cthulhu Mythos and Nyarlathotep.

It's too blurry... What exactly does Nyarlathotep want to do?

Even if he could recall those memories, it wouldn't be of any use, would it? The Nyarlathotep before him might not be exactly the same as the Cthulhu Mythos, just as the image and behavior logic of Hellstar and the Judgment Star, which served as its prototype, are different. After all, this is a world where Cthulhu Mythos works and authors exist.

"Hurry, it's too late, that bad guy is coming!"

At this moment, the real space twisted wildly like melting wax, and the Spider God, who existed in different dimensions, seemed to have closed the distance. The Night Demon Loli standing by the wall also became anxious, urging Amamiya Rin with a concerned and worried voice.

If we don't compromise, I'll flip the table.

Amamiya Rin realized the Night Demon Loli's decision.

Without the slightest hesitation, he strode out of the candlelight and walked towards the Night Demon Lolita by the wall.

Even when you get close enough to be face-to-face, less than a meter apart, you still can't see clearly.

The Night Demon Lolita, who was so close, was still shrouded in darkness. Amamiya Rin could only see her outline and clothing, but not her face. Even the small hand that was reaching out to him was still pitch black.

The only thing that matches the image of the Night Demon is that it is a huge black entity... Now it is not huge, only black.

Amamiya Rin reached out and grabbed Night Demon's hand. The moment they made contact, a violent burning sensation exploded from his palm.

The touch wasn't that of a child's palm at all, but something sticky, cold, and constantly wriggling. It was like living mercury, or a liquid composed of countless fine particles, which began to erode his skin from the moment he gripped it.

Amamiya Rin could feel the tissue on the surface of her palm dissolving, as if it were being slowly poured with strong acid, or as if it were being scorched inch by inch by invisible flames. Her skin was dissolving layer by layer, revealing the flesh and blood underneath.

However, Amamiya Rin remained unfazed. He gripped Night Demon's hand tightly, and his body did not tremble in the slightest.

"Hehehe, brother, get ready, it's time for us to go."

The Night Demon Loli smiled.

The laughter was soft, like the night wind blowing through a narrow alley, carrying a certain satisfied joy.

Then, the invisible chasm between reality and the dream world was bridged by the touch of that dark figure.

The dark purple sky, shrouded in chaotic dreams, seeped into every inch of stagnant air, quietly merging Amamiya Rin and that indescribable being into one.

All the lights in the room were turned off, except for the spider webs of Atlas Nakya, which glowed with a deathly gray-white light and were covered with cold dust that seemed to belong to another world.

The outline of reality melts away like a faded ancient scroll, the boundaries of walls, floors, doors and windows twist into bizarre deformities, and a maddening silence surges up from the depths of the void. Countless fragments of dreams, never before seen by humankind, float silently all around, like shadowy figures adrift in the deep sea.

The child, transformed from the Night Demon, took Amamiya Rin's hand with his hand shrouded in darkness. The next moment, a gentle yet terrifying sense of descent swept over him.

Like falling into a bottomless abyss of sleep, the physical body is abandoned in the dimension of the real world, while the soul and spirit are gently lifted up by the silent infinity.

They traversed the gray spiderweb that spanned the universe, passed through layers upon layers of dream curtains woven from fantasies, swept past the chaotic orbs of light that floated between waking and sleeping, and past the silent, mocking phantoms on the edge of the dream world.

Unbeknownst to them, a moment beyond the comprehension of mortal calendars passed, and the shackles of reality shattered completely.

Amamiya Rin finally stepped into that world that humans could only enter while asleep, without falling asleep.

Yu Gonglin's feet landed steadily on the familiar asphalt road.

He looked around and everything before him was exactly the same as Tokyo in reality. The buildings stood silently at night, the warm light of the convenience store spilled through the shop windows, the empty zebra crossings, the silhouettes of the roadside trees, the vending machines on the street corners gleaming coldly, and even the curve of the evening breeze sweeping through the streets and the mottled marks on the walls were all completely identical to the city where he lived in his daily life.

No, that's not right. The city that overlaps isn't the city of his daily life... it's the city shaped by his and countless other Tomie's shared consciousness during his dream life over the past century.

Guided by the Night Demon Loli, the dream world they entered seemed no different from ordinary dream worlds.

"It looks like it."

Seemingly aware of Amamiya Rin's thoughts, the Night Demon Loli, holding Amamiya Rin's hand, gestured for him to look up.

Amamiya Rin looked up, and in that instant, he noticed the difference.

The sky is filled with more and brighter stars than the mortal world, and the constellations are arranged differently from those on earth. The Milky Way presents a dazzling silver band of light, and sometimes strange nebulae drift by, emitting soft colored light. A dreamlike moon with an ethereal milky white halo hangs in the night sky, and the edge of the moon is wrapped in a pale blue mist.

The ground environment was no different from his past dreams, but the sky belonged to a realm outside his dreams.