Japanese Terrorist: What? I'll fight Hellstar!

(Is it a nightmare? Amamiya Rin's nightmare?)

(We can't control our bodies anymore!)

(After all, it's a dream.)

(People in dreams shouldn't realize they're dreaming.)

(Amamiya Rin is very special!)

(Are we hunting down Amamiya Rin?)

(That's good. If we can erase his mind from nightmares, we won't need to connect with his brain. After all, the structure and way of thinking of men are very different from women's.)

(Kill him!)

(Kill him!)

(Kill him!)

As their bodies relentlessly pursued Amamiya Rin, the voices of the four women echoed in their connected minds.

After realizing their situation, they became excited, and their eyes were filled with murderous intent.

Although they couldn't control their bodies, driven by this murderous intent, their attacks became even more ferocious.

(Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Stop! Stop it now!)

However, Amamiya Rin didn't even have the right to scream; she could only wail inwardly.

Unable to speak, unable to move, unable to resist, unable to dodge.

All he could do was let his consciousness follow his body, passively enduring the attacks like a puppet, frantically fleeing through this despairing forest.

The wounds accumulated under the four men's attacks, and green blood soaked his entire body. He was clearly so badly injured that he could have died suddenly, but he just couldn't fall down and die.

(Because it was a dream?)

This ability to remain immortal in dreams became the cruelest punishment at this moment.

He suddenly realized that this kind of uncontrollable dream was not a cheat code at all, since he couldn't control what kind of dreams he had.

Amamiya Rin desperately tried to regain control of her body, even if it was just to make the goblin's body turn a corner and dodge an attack.

But all he received in response was uncontrollable muscle spasms and even more intense pain.

Just as Amamiya Rin's consciousness was about to be overwhelmed by endless pain and despair, he suddenly noticed an extremely subtle anomaly.

The goblin's body... seemed to be responding to his strong will, producing a tiny, insignificant delay?

Amamiya Rin tried her best to dodge the fireball. Although she was still blown away by the aftershock of the explosion, the fireball that should have hit her torso seemed to have only burned her arm.

(……illusion?)

(No! It's not an illusion!)

Amamiya Rin felt a sense of stagnation, as if rusty gears were being forced to turn.

This goblin body seemed to actually respond faintly to his strong will!

(Is it because of them?)

Amamiya Rin looked with difficulty at the four women whose movements were synchronized. Their attacks continued, their expressions were blank, and only their eyes were full of ruthlessness, unlike the other NPCs who were natural from the outside in.

(Did their intrusion change the nightmare?)

Amamiya Rin wasn't sure about the underlying principles, but he knew that the time to turn the tide had come!

"Gawoo!"

Amamiya Rin let out an unintelligible roar and, using the control she had just gained, stumbled and fled in a direction from her memory—the nest of these lowly goblins.

A dark, damp underground cave with many branching paths!

Four figures pursued relentlessly, but unbeknownst to them, the other adventurers had vanished without a trace, leaving only Hashimoto Ayaka and her three companions still chasing after Amamiya Rin.

Furthermore, their speed slowed down.

The four were much slower than before. Fireballs and beams of light grazed past Amamiya Rin, only managing to scratch his shoulders. Leg winds and sword blades followed closely, but always missed by a few centimeters.

(Something's wrong... I've gotten stronger, and they've gotten weaker...)

Amamiya Rin realized this situation while fleeing.

Although the reason is unclear, it is undoubtedly a good thing for him.

Good things kept happening one after another. The entrance to the cave could be seen from afar. Amamiya Rin was overjoyed and pushed her spirit even harder, urging the goblin's body to tumble and crawl into the entrance of the lair.

The four people behind did not hesitate and filed in, chasing after him into the dark cave.

The cave was even darker, with jagged rocks, numerous branching paths, and a strong stench of decay and blood.

Amamiya Rin knew this place inside and out—thanks to this long nightmare, he was forced to become familiar with every inch of this land.

He deliberately chose to crawl through narrow, low passages, forcing his pursuers behind him to bend over, greatly reducing their speed, and causing the distance between them to grow ever wider.

If they were normal people, they would have left the cave immediately in this situation. Hashimoto Ayaka, Mikami Yui, Hata Yua, and Momono Kaede all thought the same thing.

However, their bodies wouldn't obey them, only moving forward, unable even to turn back.

This unusual environment gave Kara, who commanded the four women, a sense of foreboding.

In the dark and gloomy cave, Amamiya Rin hid in a pit in the rock wall. He curled up and calmly watched four figures pass through the narrow passage ahead.

Hashimoto Ayaka, Mikami Yui, and Hata Yua walked past one after another, while the last one to fall was Momono Kaede, who held a crystal staff and whose robe had a very low-cut neckline.

A fierce glint flashed in Amamiya Rin's eyes. He raised the rough wooden stick and smashed it hard against the back of Momono Kaede's head!

Before Momonoki Kaede could even utter a muffled groan, she was struck hard on the back of the head.

A strong wave of dizziness overwhelmed her consciousness, and her body slumped forward, the crystalline staff in her hand falling to the ground with a clatter.

"!"

"!"

"!"

Almost at the same moment, Hashimoto Ayaka, Mikami Yui, and Hata Yua, who were struggling to move forward in the narrow passage ahead, suddenly froze. As if struck on the back of the head by an invisible hammer, a strong sense of dizziness and pain surged through their shared nerve connection, distorting their movements and almost causing them to fall to the ground.

(We're injured!)

(Our bodies were knocked unconscious.)

(Amamiya Rin is behind!)

(Turn back!)

(No! I can't control my body!)

Suffering from dizziness, the four people cried out in pain, but there was nothing they could do about it.

They could feel the power of the nightmare weakening their own, as if... they had become one of the protagonists of the nightmare.

Twistedness, despair, and pain—this long nightmare has now befallen not only Amamiya Rin but also them.

Amamiya Rin wouldn't let this opportunity slip by.

A hideous grin spread across the goblin's ugly face. He roughly grabbed the unconscious Momono Kaede's ankle and dragged her forcefully behind a more secluded rock recess.

Behind the groove was a small dead end, filled with the musty and fishy smell unique to goblin lairs.

Amamiya Rin looked at Momono Kaede lying on the ground. Her simple mage robe, which used very little fabric, was now in a mess, with large patches of white exposed in the dim light, creating a glaring contrast with the dirty environment around her.