Roy Sleepwalks into the Zoldyck Estate × A Father and Son Make Peace
There are things we should do, and things we shouldn't do.
Ghosts eat people, and people can eat ghosts; in fact, humans are even more venomous than ghosts.
Roy received the notification from the panel, gazed at the night sky, and breathed a sigh of relief. That night, he left the Demon Slayer world and, without lingering, returned directly to the Hunter world.
This battle, in a way, was both swift and slow, with most of the time spent traveling.
Roy's consciousness drifted back to the Sea of Cognition. This time, instead of rushing to "awaken," he stepped forward to the Dream Passage leading to "reality," paused for a moment, lost in thought...
What is the Dream Passage? What is a dream? What is the "Generalized Gate of Dreams" that Roy learned from the Enmu? Roy has traveled back and forth between Hunter x Hunter and Demon Slayer so many times, but he has never seriously thought about this question.
When Roy fell into the trap of the Blood Demon Art of the Enmu... [Whisper of Forced Sleep], and was willingly hypnotized by the Enmu, entering his dream world, Roy suddenly realized... that people's dreams are interconnected, like bubbles, floating in the "collective" subconscious sea of "humans" and even "Wise Species" demons, such as the Kiriko family!
In other words... "Dreams" or "Visualization objects," and the panel he obtained based on his rebirth and transmigration, are all [products] manifested from the vast ocean of the "collective" subconscious, based on his cognition.
Because individuals differ, and the "objects of Visualization" they anchor themselves to differ, various forms of [Nen Ability] arise. Because... the ocean of the subconscious is also part of nature, it is through [God] the theft of nature's authority that the [collective] subconscious ocean is seized, and the capacity of others is taken and imposed upon oneself...
At this moment, Roy vaguely felt that he had touched upon a sliver of the truth of the [dream].
Since the subconscious is an interconnected ocean, then one should be able to swim freely in it.
"Hiss..." A snore echoed in the Kukuroo Mountain at 3:30 in the morning...
At this moment, the Zoldyck Ancient Castle, the Butler Villa halfway up the mountain, and even the guard post at the gate were filled with all sorts of people of different positions and identities, sleeping soundly, including even the Magic Beast Mike lying deep in the forest...
Roy had an epiphany. While trapped in a dream, he attempted to Dream Parasite with another dream... A hazy, gray "Nen Qi membrane" immediately appeared before his eyes. He focused on the Dream Passage... Suddenly, the colorful Dream Passage extended, branched, and several more passages appeared, leading to unknown places...
Roy watched this scene quietly, remained silent for a moment, and then walked towards one of the passageways.
It turned out this was Mike's dream... Roy stood like an observer outside its Unconscious Realm, watching silently for a while, then turned and left. A short while later, he chose another Dream Passage and entered...
In the vast, white expanse of a new "Unconscious Realm," before Roy even got close, he heard the sound of a whip cracking. He vaguely saw a chubby boy wielding a whip, relentlessly lashing a Sun-Earring Boy who was bound like a dumpling and hung up.
The Sun-Earring Boy cried and begged for mercy, "Milluki... please, stop hitting me, please stop... I'm not your brother, you're the brother..."
Roy rushed over and peeked out. The person wailing was actually Illumi... no, it should be the Milluki that Illumi had imagined... He realized, this guy was just fantasizing...
Roy was both amused and exasperated. He noticed Milluki grinning widely, chuckling with glee. He silently retreated and entered another Dream Passage... This time, he made a startling discovery...
The third person's "Unconscious Realm" was no longer a blank white expanse; the entire space was now tinged with a heart-red hue, a pinkish, ambiguous atmosphere permeating the air. Curious, Roy went inside and was immediately stunned, and then...
With a dark expression, he hastily retreated from Illumi's dream, immediately deciding that he would definitely follow Milluki the next morning, hang him under the willow tree, and give him a good beating!
What a piece of trash! Give it a little sunshine and it'll take it all!
The Sun-Earring Boy shook his head, forcing himself to shake off the unbearable image, and simply chose the fourth Dream Passage and entered. This time he saw Gotoh... Then, the fifth, Kurajing... The Six Paths, Kastro, where he saw him pinning Gotoh to the ground and beating him up... The seventh, Zee... Then, Tsubone... Luke...
One Dream Passage after another appeared before his eyes, Roy gradually came to his senses...
The small ocean of the "collective" subconscious that I roam through through "Dream Parasite" is still limited by geographical relationships in "reality," concentrated in a small area centered around Zoldyck Ancient Castle, with obvious "geographical distance" limitations!
In other words... [Dream Parasite] is not Infinite expansive; it must also adhere to the "Law of Equivalent Exchange."
With a sudden realization, Roy walked to the fork in the road again, only to find that there were only three paths ahead. He didn't enter any of them, pondered for a moment, and then stepped onto the right-hand path. As he drew closer, he suddenly noticed a lamp lit ahead, under which a person was reclining on a tiger-skin sofa, Browse in a book...
It was Father Silva.
"Rustling..." The pages turned, revealing the title page, which read, "How to Cultivate Intimacy with Children"...
Silva's silver hair cascaded down the sofa like a waterfall, and his usually serious expression, illuminated by the soft lighting, revealed a rare hint of tenderness... For a fleeting moment, it gave Roy a strange sense of...
He wasn't like his usual taciturn, aloof father who always wore the words "Keep Out" on his face. For a moment, he was stunned...
"It was just a dream..." the Sun-Earring Boy Youyou after a moment, then stood silently at the entrance of the passage for a while before turning to leave... But then, "Son..."
A soft call echoed in his ears, following the Sun-Earring Boy's departing figure.
Roy paused, then turned around abruptly.
Under the lamplight, Silva closed his book, smiled, and slowly opened his arms to him. "Come here, come to Daddy."
Roy:
My thoughts exploded!
It's like a server being suddenly overloaded with hundreds of millions of messages, unable to handle the current situation. Outwardly, this manifests as... people staring blankly at Silva, their brains completely shutting down!
What did he call me?
"No, he actually laughed?"
He stood up.
He walked over.
he...
"Wah -Silva came up to Roy, pulled him into a tight embrace, and stroked his head..."
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