HeliosR - Gothic Halloween of Ghosts Event story - Chapter 24
Translation of chapter 24 of the event ‘Gothic Halloween of Ghosts’ from ‘Helios Rising Heroes’.
Ren: ….Sorry for the wait.
Victor: Ren… I hadn’t been waiting that long, it's the appointed time we promised to meet after all.
Victor: More importantly…. have you come to a conclusion?
Ren: ……
Victor: Perhaps I’ve been too hasty. I was convinced you also weren’t the type to enjoy meaningless small talk.
Ren: Yeah, I’m not. I didn’t reach out to you for some idle talk
Ren: As for what we’ve been talking about..... I’m not interested in getting involved with your experiments in any way, shape or form next time.
Victor: Oh my, that’s what it came to…. That’s beyond my prediction
Victor: I went out of my way to bring the drug with me… Isn’t it fine that it’ll solve your problem?
Ren: It doesn’t matter. …..Rather, there’s a solution without needing to rely on you.
Victor: Is that so?
Victor: ……. Ah now I understand, you’ve thought to go to someone else instead.
Ren: Yeah. It might be irrational of me but, there’s a person besides you capable of helping with my problem.
Victor: ….Good grief. Then I suppose I’ll have to give up now, if this is what it came to.
Victor: Very well. Have you brought that jack-o’-lantern trinket with you?
Ren: ….?
Victor: That amulet I gave to you that fends off so-called evil spirits.
Ren: It’s right here…
Victor: Fufu, you did as I told you to and carried it with you. Was this somewhat useful to you?
Ren: Yeah, I’ve informed you about it before. Though, for some reason it stopped being effective halfway through...
Victor: I see…
Ren: Oi…. What are you taking out of it now?
Victor: A fragment of substance. It’s a level 1 and small, but this pit-sized core is capable of being plenty useful.
Victor: Regarding its trait, it has the ability to make the target person experience nightmares.
Victor: Although I said nightmares, it’s also effective while you’re awake since it can also manifest said imagery outside of a state where you’re asleep.
Victor: Things you hate, things you’re frightened of… what one considers to be a ‘nightmare’ depends on each person.
Ren: ….What?
Victor: I’ve obtained it from the first time you came to me for a consultation, I had taken my measuring instruments out at once to research your person.
Victor: Which resulted into discovering that this fragment was stuck on one of the soles of your outdoor shoes.
Ren: ….!
Victor: Your initial prediction at first was correct. The source of this strange phenomenon was indeed caused by substance.
Victor: I realized it and thought that I had to make use of this circumstance.
Victor: After keeping an eye on you, I collected the substance when you had collapsed, and instead of it I’ve given you this jack-o’-lantern trinket.
Victor: While acting as if I was cooperating I took the necessary data, and when it was the right time, in return I inserted the substance in the trinket.
Ren: This entire time…. I was being tricked….
Victor: Indeed. If I were to say that it wasn’t deception, I’d be lying.
Ren: …………
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notes:
victor @ ren