/POP Sana/
His senses become normal again. That dream felt so real for him, the near-death experience still made him terrified. After all, his world is still better than the PGR world. This makes him fall in love even more with living a normal life in this world. A normal life with normal things is just a dream again. But he found himself still trapped in this dream. His mother stands in front of him in this room again. Sana feels an uncanny sensation. Because of this feeling, he is too scared to look at Alice now. His body trembles with fear.
Lata: "Because ****" his mother starts to distort in some way.
[My father? he is... a nightmare torment for me, the more I remember about him the more hurt I become, I wish I was never his son. He never showed his love to me. I just remember now. He is still not dead. This dream is trying to manipulate me in some way, I need to be careful. After facing Luna Lord, I don't have any feeling to fear anything in this world anymore]
He moves closer to his mother. A grotesquely distorted face. Sana tries to hear it but no matter how hard he tries, he still feels confused, like he can't hear what she says, as if her words are forbidden for him to know. His heartbeat becomes very fast, his body still scared of this feeling.
Suddenly Sana feels something off. He starts to hear the click click of the clock hand on the wall. His body feels uncanny when he realizes something while looking at the clock. It has golden and some green things mixed together. The design looks very weird and makes Sana feel… uncomfortable. The sound makes Sana...
[I never saw that before. I used to hate clocks in my past life, but it's here. It's always annoying and brings bad luck for me. But every Vietnam family has their own clocks. Is this thing related to my culture? but I hate it, it never stops working. But why do I still have this bad feeling, normally I would be happy it's still working rather than stopped right]
Sana looks back at Alice in fear, but Alice has disappeared, nowhere to be seen. He in a scared voice calls her name "Alice, Alice, Alice, where are you, darling, darling,.."
His skin is covered in a thick sheen of cold sweat, shivering violently from sheer terror.
The weird clock still "click,... click,.. click click click clickclickclick..."
It starts becoming louder. Sana is terrified, his breath heavy and then he moves closer to clearly see the clock and then he realizes it had stopped working a long time ago but the sound still continues "CLICK CLICK CLICK,..." His heart freezes... "..."
And then everything around him starts to change all the room become dark and then the clock glows in an Eldritch green color. Sana grins his hands tighter, his nails digging into the skin. Blood drops onto the ground. His body feels threatened and prepares to fight something.
While Alice wakes up from the dream, she looks at Sana in deep sleep. Her face shows worry: "What's happening to my love?" she tilts her head while sweeping aside her hair to look more clearly at her beloved.
In the dream, Sana finds himself in an ancient maze... everything around only has one color, white, only the gate leading into that maze exists. The maze has ancient walls covered in green moss. Sana feels something calling himself to come toward that uncanny gate immediately.
"Why is this dream so fast? What is happening to me?" His voice full of fear while looking around to find another way to escape.
[I hate dreams, I wish I would never have another dream like this,.. this is truly a torment to exist in this world]
Sana looks around, but no matter how much he tries to run, to hit his head against the wall nothing can make him feel his body, like he can't feel any pain or suffering in this world.
[No, no this can't be real,.. no, no,..] Sana's true nightmare? It's becoming immortal.
[This is the worst nightmare I have ever feared in my life, how can I overcome this shit, can my mental illness overcome this again. But why is it so hard, so painful, is this a challenge for me, why, why, am I always the only one who must suffer like this. This life is fucking unfair, unacceptable. I wish I could destroy this galaxy]
No choice, Sana goes through that gate in fear.. He closes his eyes while opening the gate and walking through it.
Time passes. Sana is really trapped in this place for so long. He tries everything he can to figure it out, but still nothing changes. The result is always the same dead-end road.
Sana looks stressed and afraid of this trap. Even in this dream, he doesn't feel tired or hungry, but his mind can't bear it... Sana is about to give up, but Alice's face appears in his mind. With a determined face, he says to himself: "No, don't give up, I won't make Luna cry about me again, I must become stronger to be a true man to protect Alice, maybe in the future there will be more problems in our life but I can't give up on myself. NEVER GIVE UP PLEASE"
More time passes. The maze doesn't have any monsters or traps. It is just an endless road leading nowhere. But Sana doesn't give up. While his feet still keep moving even though his eyes look hollow right now "..."
1 month passes. His mind is broken while he lies on the ground, looking at a fake sky with only one color of light. He breathes heavily, his eyes tired after long days without sleep. Sana doesn't want to sleep because he is scared this maze might change his position or something... after all, his illusions become worse. Emotionless toward everything around him. Death or life doesn't matter anymore. Unknownly calling her name while pointing his hand at the fake sky "Alice, Alice, I miss you, miss your smile, miss your tease, your scent, huhuh"
Sana cries out, these tears make him stronger. He stands up and continues...
5 months passed in the dream. Sana slowly came to a new place. His face shocked: "A desert… how long does this shit take to end?" This desert doesn't burn him, make him thirsty, or anything else can't affect him.
[Maybe becoming immortal is not bad, but I still don't like the deal of being like this, I want to be free by death]
Sana has a strong will because he had faced the scariest thing in the world Luna Lord so this dream doesn't make him give up on this torment of existence. He has never come to a desert in his real life, so he really enjoys lying on the sand while looking at the sun. His eyes don't hurt anymore. But he really hates the sun...
His voice trembles with fear "That clock again, I'm in that weird clock, so mysterious"
He stands up again and continues moving forward with a determined face while his mind keeps imagining what he will do when he gets out of this place with Alice. He even smiles alone while continuing to move in this lonely world. No sound, no feelings, just endless meaninglessness of the universe.
...
5 years passed in the dream world. Sana emotionlessly came to a new place.
His face calm, emotionless: "A big ocean?"
[In the previous life, I'm the Ruler of the Deep. Nothing can stop me. But this ocean makes me nostalgic about my childhood in Vietnam]
While swimming in this infinite, ink-dark abyss his face shows hurt and pain from his old memories. Even though he can't see anything he just keeps moving with imagination. He doesn't have the mind to feel nostalgic about his tragic childhood.
...
50 years passed.
Sana looked at the volcano. "..."
He holds his hand while wading through dense, molten lava. "Alice, wait for me, I will come back," he says in a cool voice.
...
500 years passed.
Sana looked at ???
His face shocked: "What is happening to this world?, how long again I want to die so badly to meet my honey Alice"
[I never thought I could overcome this painful silent world in 500 years, sometimes I feel like I lost my memories with Alice, but I keep repeating these memories with her deep in my soul,..]
Sana with an angry face "Nothing can stop me even being immortal."
He keeps moving forward to end this meaningless journey. His eyes burn with fire. "I WILL BURN THIS CURSE OF EXISTENCE!" His palm holds burning lava. While the dark ocean under his order prepares for the final chapter of the endless galaxy.