Although people who contracted Nightmare Disease would not die, and were unlikely to meet a gruesome death in the dream world, a Horrific Being had once appeared in their dreams.
Anyone who had experienced it firsthand never wanted to feel that indescribable terror again.
Thus, information about Nightmare Disease remained restricted. There were no detailed accounts of its dreams online, as though none of it had ever happened.
The online dream forum was no exception. An AI checked whether the person using the terminal was an officially registered Nightmare Disease patient. Anyone who was not a patient could not enter the forum.
As a result, those who knew nothing about it could not learn the contents of the nightmares online. They could only contract Nightmare Disease by speaking to someone who knew about them in real life.
The little girl before her might have accidentally overheard her family discussing the nightmares, then entered the dream world in her sleep.
Looking at the trembling little girl, who lacked even basic knowledge of life in the dream world, Clementine sighed. She could only play babysitter, taking off the girl's linen clothes and laying them on the rocks by the shore.
"This is the dream world, not a game. You need to treat it as a second reality. Any common sense you need in real life still applies here," Clementine said earnestly.
She noticed that the little girl was rather afraid of her. Perhaps her appearance was a little strange, since she was using a Fishman character.
But she could not switch bodies and enter the dream again anytime soon. She could only wake up when her gaming pod woke her.
Afraid the little girl would not take her seriously, Clementine deliberately kept chattering in her ear, teaching her basic everyday knowledge.
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