"What's wrong? Am I not beautiful?"
Freya let go of the towel she was holding tightly in her hands and let it fall to the ground naturally due to gravity.
"Beautiful." Aisen answered affirmatively, but with a wry smile, he replied, "But I can't muster the energy. Maybe I'm too tired?"
Freya put her arms around Eisen's neck and licked his earlobe.
"Relax, we are so familiar with each other, what's the big deal?"
Freya was almost hanging on Eisen, and such close contact made Eisen's calm mind become agitated.
Freya's hair had the scent of lavender, the scent of a fresh bath.
Aisen groaned and gently pushed Freya away. Then he unconsciously knelt on the ground and curled up according to his body instinct.
The pain made it almost impossible for Eisen to breathe. He opened his eyes wide and opened his mouth, but he was too painful to scream.
The veins on Aisen's neck were exposed one by one, and his eyes turned red almost instantly, with blood vessels occupying most of the whites of his eyes.
Such a sudden change caught Freya off guard. Who could have thought that Eisen would suddenly fall to the ground like a shrimp.
Freya was not a doctor, and she didn't know what to do at this moment, so she was in a hurry to pour water and pat the back.
Eisen waved his hands with difficulty, politely declining Freya's various good intentions. This was not something that could be solved by drinking water or patting the back.
"Why is it getting more and more painful!" Eisen roared in his heart.
Panic, astonishment, surprise, anger and other emotions appeared in Aisen's heart one after another, but because the pain continued to hit Aisen's nerves like an endless wave, Aisen fainted when he reached the limit of endurance. ①
Eisen thought he would wake up in Freya's bed, but found himself in the same dream again.
This dream has a strange continuity. Even if there are several hours of wakefulness between them, what happens in the dream is just like pausing the relevant time and space. As long as Eisen falls asleep again, he will inevitably enter this dream.
In the last dream, a large number of rats appeared in front of Eisen, and in front of Eisen who was unable to move in the dream, they turned into a meat paste-like liquid in an incomprehensible way to form an image of Eisen.
There was no expression on Eisen's face, which must have been made of rat meat paste, nor any fluctuations in emotion, and he didn't even make any movements.
It just stared at Eisen, like a child observing an ant living in a glass house.
No matter how Eisen called it, it didn't move at all, and didn't care at all as the numerous mice ran around it.
Eisen's spirit body was already covered with wounds after being bitten by a large number of rats, but those rats still seemed to be hungry. Each of them had a fierce look in their eyes and looked at Eisen's spirit body with an unsatisfied look.
Eisen has found the source of his pain in reality. The lower half of his spiritual body has been eaten by rats, including his legs, leaving only bones.
Eisen laughed at himself, "Is this what the Orientals call cause and effect?"
The rat Aisen, who was standing opposite Aisen's spirit body, showed a creepy smile, snapped his fingers, and disappeared into the dark space with many other rats.
In the entire dark space, Eisen was the only one left floating in the air, and the boundless darkness swallowed up Eisen's mind.
When Eisen woke up again, he found himself lying on Freya's bed.
Freya had put on her pajamas but fell asleep on the table, for she was afraid that she would turn over in her sleep and crush Eisen, who seemed to be unwell.
Eisen tried to prop himself up and sit up, but his lower body didn't respond at all.
His legs seemed to have lost all feeling and did not move at all.
“Hahahahahaha.”
Eisen laughed maniacally.
The laughter woke up Freya who was lightly sleeping. Freya stretched and then looked at Eisen who was laughing wildly in confusion.
"What's wrong with you?"
Freya asked doubtfully.
"I laugh at myself. It's really ridiculous. Hahahaha."
Aisen laughed but tears flowed at the same time.
His mentality has collapsed due to the series of nightmares, and even his reality has been affected by the dreams.
He didn't know that this was a strong psychological suggestion, and the culprit was Youdekao who was waiting to watch the show from a distance.
Yudkao's series of arrangements were perfect. In reality, he used drugs to make Eisen enter a state of neurasthenia and hallucinations. Then the weakened version of the yellow seal on the ceiling broke down Eisen's mental defenses. In addition, the dosage of drugs taken by Eisen caused a qualitative change.
But what Yudekao didn't expect was that the process would be so fast, that's because Yudekao didn't expect Eisen to go to find Freya.
Freya is a woman who is born with mental sensitivity. Some of the scenes she observes in her dreams are actually information from the outside world.
That is information that is revealed to the world by some people either accidentally or intentionally.
Despite this, very few people know Freya's secret, and the Mysterious Investigation Bureau happens to be the organization that knows this secret.
When investigating the six-bearded fish case, Jobtran was told that an oil painting of an old man was related to the case. In fact, that painting was one of Freya's early works that were auctioned off.
The mysterious investigation bureau therefore learned of Freya's extraordinaryness, and used its forces to disguise an auction to actively contact Freya, and sent insiders to buy the paintings at the auction.
Money is worthless to the Mysterious Investigation Bureau, they can have as much as they want; the Mysterious Investigation Bureau has always been generous in terms of funding. Except for some scarce materials like mithril, which are subject to restrictions, every investigator has considerable authority over other common materials.
In order to demonstrate the authenticity of the auction, insiders will often pretend that the auction is very competitive and that the item is sold at a low price, so that the price can be different each time.
This operation made the relatively simple Freya never suspicious, and the mysterious investigation bureau felt more relieved after finding out that the funds were flowing to support the Holy Light Society and Arkham Welfare Institute.
Both of them are subordinate organizations of the Investigation Bureau, but they are independent agencies on the surface.