"This..."
Just as Yang Yi was about to say the cake tasted bad, Beta spoke first. "Your tastes have changed back again? Then it looks like I'll need to prepare more cakes."
Beta found nothing strange about it, as though something similar had happened before.
Then she took a slice of strawberry cake from the refrigerator too and began eating.
In fact, Beta had prepared these strawberry cakes as desserts for herself, though for some reason they had ended up in Charles's room.
Yang Yi paid it no mind.
It was a good thing she hadn't noticed anything unusual. Otherwise, if she pursued the matter, she might awaken into a Dream Demon.
He ate the rest of his cake in one bite, recalling a few things at the same time.
Back when he woke from the previous nightmare, he seemed to have been eating strawberry cake too.
Thinking about it now, that might also have been a test of his memories. If Yang Yi had chosen not to eat it, he might have been sent off to have his memories wiped again right then.
And Beta's words just now proved that Charles's tastes had undergone a major change.
That was very rare, since adults' tastes seldom changed, let alone suddenly reversed-unless... the person had been replaced.
Yang Yi's breath suddenly caught as he recalled more information.
When he checked the phone in the last nightmare, Charles's personal account had contained the words: "The person who returned from Miskatonic University was me."
So Charles was very likely replaced at some point. It probably had something to do with that university.
In that case, Miskatonic University is pretty dangerous. I'll have to keep an eye on it.
Yang Yi made a mental note, but soon he craved another bite. Too lazy to