Paradoxon: Fix In Posterum
The Fix 78
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Nero opened his two eyes spontaneously as the memory after memory was suddenly re-present in his memory.
Rei opened his eyes slowly and looked at Nero there. He took his face away from Nero, and looked at him closely.
"R-rei.." muttered Nero while looking at Rei before him. Rei flashed his smile when he heard Nero say his name.
"Thank God you remember everything" Rei said.
"How did you get here?"
"long story. The important thing now is, we have to go home. Your friends are waiting."
"A-ah, but how do we get home?"
"That's easy. Now, let's get up." Rei got up, extended his hand towards Nero and helped him up.
Nero's focus was severed instantly as his two beads caught the figure of Louis now standing beside Rei.
"Wait... Rei, who is this?" Nero asked as he turned to look at Louis beside Rei.
"Oh, it's Louis."
"L-louis?"
"Nl." Rei nodded his head. "He's the one who helped me get into this world and helped save you" he said.
"really?"
"Yes." Yeah."
"Then, thank you for helping me," Nero smiled at Louis there.
"Not a problem" Louis said.
"alright. Let's get out of here" said Rei, who was later joined by Louis and Nero.
Rei, Nero, and Louis walk towards the direction where Nero's grandmother's house is. They stepped down the garden behind his house.
"But Rei, how do I get out of here?" Nero asked with a curious look on his face staring at Rei. He spontaneously stopped his footsteps.
"I told you it was easy. You just have to fight what's scared of you."
"What's my fear?" Beo Nero frowned, trying to digest every sentence that had just thrown from Rei's mouth.
"Yes. He knows what your biggest fear is, so he's making you experience all of this. He wants to keep you trapped in the world he's created."
"Him?" Nero repeated with a confused face.
"Yes. The one who got you stuck in this world. The dream fog controller."
"Dream fog controller? What're those?'
"It was an evol power capable of making one trapped in the world created by it. The world was created based on the fears of those who experienced it."
"Ooh. I see," Nero nodded his head. "But how can I fight this fear?"
"Your fear is of losing Nata, your older sister. And so you have to be able to fight it. In a few minutes, all this will be back to normal. You're gonna go back to your grandmother's house and meet her. And that's when you have to fight your fear of losing it. Fear was left behind by him. Youunderstand?"
"Fear of being abandoned by him?" Repeat Nero in a soft voice. "Ooh yeah. I get it."
"good. I know you're a quick-witted and easy-to-understand person who means what I say."
"But... How do you know about my sister, Nat?"
"I can tell because I have a special power of evolution that allows me to know what I didn't know. Therefore, I can find out all about you."
"Oh. It's worth knowing everything about me, Dean and the others."
"That's how it is" Rei responded.
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"How's it?" William asked Elvina.
"His breathing is back to normal" Elvina said.
"really? Thank goodness," Dean smiled faintly hearing her. Now he and the others can feel more relieved.
"But why haven't they returned yet? It's been a while since Rei left" Taz said.
"It seems Rei is still trying to make Nero realize that the world he is walking in is an illusion. And Rei is probably now trying to resuscitate Nero to come home," muttered Elvina as she looked at Rei's handsome face still there.
"I hope they wake up soon" Marko murmured.
"Yes. I hope so, too" said William.
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"Nero's?" Call her.
For a moment Nero was silent, trying to clarify the voice he heard vaguely.
"This voice... Nat's voice?" Nero was silent, still in the condition of his two eyes.
"Nero! Be aware!"
Once again Nero could hear Nata's voice calling out to him. Slowly the two hands of the woman moved shaking her body.
"Nero!" Call again.
"Wait.. wasn't I with Rei? Then why am I suddenly with Nat?"
"Is it possible... Is it as it was? What did Rei say?"
"If it's true, then it's time for me to be free" Nero said.
Meanwhile in his taste, Nata who began to move pump his chest with both hands.
"Uhuk-uhuk," Nero coughed, taking out some of the water he swallowed.
"Ah, thank goodness you're conscious" Nata murmured with a smile.
Nero opened his eyes slowly, and the first thing he saw was Nata who was now looking at him with a smile.
"Nat.." said Nero.
"Wake up" Nata helped Nero to sit there.
"Wait.this is not what Rei expected. She said I'd be at Grandma's, but... I'm still at the lake?" Its inner.
"Thank God you're sober. I really feel anxious because you are sinking with me" said Nata.
"Drowned? Ooh. I get it. He repeated it when I drowned, so I assumed that what I experienced when I met Rei was a dream. This time I won't be fooled again by your tricks, "inner Nero.
"Nero! You why? Why are you daydreaming? Are you all right?" Nata asked who was still looking at him. Nero looked at him sharply.
"You're not Nat!" Nero Murmuring.
"Huh?"
"You're not Nata!" Nero.
"W-what do you mean? It's me, Nata. Your brother! Why are you talking like that?"
"You're not the real Nata Zoilos! You're just an illusion!"
"H-huh? Whatchu mean? Why are you talking like that?"
"This time I won't be fooled again by your tricks!" Nero got up from there, walked quickly leaving Nata who now began to stand staring at him.
"But who cares?" His screams that managed to make Nero's steps came to a halt.
Nata stood there, staring at Nero who was standing on his back.
"As long as I am by your side, accompany you, take care of you, and always be with you. No matter if I'm real or fake and whether we live in the real world or not, isn't that enough? Isn't what you wanted a long time ago is that I've always been there with you? Isn't this what you want? Always with me?" Nata said back there.
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