Nightmare Mythos

"Ahhhh!"

His body and strength aren't even evolving or being enhanced. It was more like his very soul was being crushed and turning something anew. It was being reconstructed by something that tried to invade his whole being, and might even replace the real 'Cesar'.

His name, mind, and even identity were at risk.

Cesar couldn't do a single thing since he was enduring the pain that coursed through his body.

"Guhhhh!"

Trying to stop it as much as possible, Cesar heard the eye's clear voice speaking in his mind.

"Hey, now. Why are you struggling? Give in! Give in!"

"Are you— Are you fucking kidding me?!" Cesar's saliva spread all around the place as he struggled even to give an answer before he replied, his thoughts incoherent, "My body, my rules! Get the hell out of me, you parasite!"

"P-p-p—"

The eye that latched itself into his left seemed to snap in anger as well and repeatedly shouted at Cesar's mind.

"Parasite?!"

The eye seemed to have gone feral.

"You lowly piece of shit! I've kept up with you this whole time only because you are the only thing I could use! Don't overvalue yourself too much, Cesar. What about the deal we made, huh?! Did you already forget what we just talked about a few days ago?"

'Talk? I don't know shit about some eye whom I talked to a few days ago. There's only one being that talked inside my head throughout almost the entirety of my journey here and it is…'

Suddenly, just as he was about to continue his thoughts, a sense of understanding entered Cesar that made him ignore half of the pain while simultaneously think for himself.

It was probably because this new voice was oddly familiar… or was it any new at all?

This voice, even if it sounded energetic and hyper, its manner of speech is no different from the previous voice that dwell in his head that sounds cool and even. Besides, the Eyes of Deceit was something he had seen before… even got to use it for himself.

It came from the Architect of the Mansion, Deceit, an Origin Entity amongst the other Nightmares that were on that meeting table.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

It was no-brainer that the Eyes of Deceit had to be Deceit himself. The voice saying it was a weak and old Nightmare might be a prank he pulled off to lower Cesar's guard. However, when talking about a Nightmare, a creature he loathed, there's no way it was some weak being, considering that it was part of a species of Entity any human knowledge has no awareness of.

Besides, now that he had thought about this very intently, Cesar who wanted to laugh couldn't help but find a striking similarity between Deceit and Cedeit.

'They almost fucking the same!'

One just had to replace the 'D' in Deceit with the 'C' of Cedeit and even a dumb person can tell that they are pretty much the same if put into context.

Cesar almost wanted to let out a deranged laugh at this realization as he shouted, "Cedeit?! Don't tell me this is you?!"

"Well, took you long enough, little punk!" Deceit, who is exactly Cedeit, answered in an irritated tone, "What, after all the goodwill I gave you, this is what you returned to me? What about the deal we made two agreed with, huh?!"

Cesar who is exactly talking about the deal they made when they were facing being wiped out by Nicotara, ignored it all together as he replied meekly, "D-deal? I don't remember such a thing…"

"You punk…! You are acting as if we didn't do it! Stop messing around with me!" Deceit shouted in a more irritated tone, "The Void is coming to all of us, don't you understand? There's no way you got a change of heart after all the things I did for you, right? How—"

"It's because you're a Nightmare,"

The moment Deceit heard of that reason coming from Cesar's mouth, he grew silent.

Cesar was the type of person who didn't hide his hate for these creatures each time he had any chance to express them. Deceit can even understand where he was coming from after what their species did to this world which basically destroyed anything that has been once from humanity.

But then he had to rethink again.

Who was really Cesar?

He was a human who took risks with few certainties here and there and didn't mind using any arsenal he possessed.

He's a calculative, objective-oriented person, and lastly, a very cunning person such as him.

That's why Cesar's tone which sounded sad at first was nothing but a mere deception to hide his true intention.

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And as if Deceit was right with his judgment of Cesar, the human suddenly shouted in an irritated tone.

"Hello no! Did you really think I would willingly give my body to someone even if you showed me some goodwill? Nah, you stoop too low, Deceit. You aren't the same benevolent being that screamed authority at that table. If you were, you wouldn't have been in this pathetic state!"

Deceit this time grew silent.

Cesar who seemed to be saying all these things intentionally was trying to hurt Deceit's ego which was working as the pain that was happening throughout his body lessened. Thinking that he'd get out of his clutches, he suddenly heard him speaking in a cold tone.

"Sparrow,"

Cesar suddenly felt every hair on his body stand on end, feeling heavy pressure that didn't amount to anything he'd ever experienced. It was as if an invisible hand tightened around his throat, leaving him no way to escape.

"Just who do you think you're talking to?"

Cesar shivered.

"I've been considerate of a lowly human like you but enough. If you can't hold a deal of someone that has given so many chances, then I'll force myself into you even if you'll agonize over insufferable damage that might affect your entire being,"

Deceit paused, "I'll count to three. If you still haven't surrendered your body, we will both die. Anyone else in the library will die as well. No one will ever get out of here alive,"

Cesar was about to speak when Deceit finally started counting.

"One,"

Cesar wanted to open his mouth but Deceit was a second faster.

"Two,"

Finally, worried that he might reach the last count, Cesar voiced out loudly.

"W-wait! Just wait!"

Deceit took a pause before Cesar retorted back with a counteroffer.

"I want to strike another deal with you,"

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