Night — Inside the Dream
The room was quiet.
Nir sat outside the door, leaning against the wall. His eyes were half-closed, but he was not asleep.
Inside the room—
Kim was still.
The tears had dried on his cheek.
But inside his mind…
there was no sleep.
This was not a dream.
He was standing once more at the edge of the mountain.
But the sky did not exist.
The stars were extinguished.
The world beneath him was not a village—
but an endless void.
The Abyss.
This time…
it was not merely darkness.
It was moving.
Breathing.
Then—
Something opened within it.
An eye.
Not an eye of flesh.
Not light.
A massive black circle with a pale white pupil at its center.
It opened fully.
And looked at him.
Not around him.
At him.
A voice emerged—
not from outside,
but from within his chest:
"Kim."
He did not tremble.
He did not step back.
He said calmly:
"So… you were real."
The eye did not blink.
"I have been watching you for a long time."
The air around him froze.
"When you killed."
"When you rebelled."
"When you shattered fate."
"And when you wished… you had never been born."
Silence.
Then—
The eye widened further.
"You do not fear death."
"You fear… being worthless."
Kim clenched his fist.
The system appeared automatically.
Warning: Unclassified source
Entity outside concepts
Classification: Impossible
The Abyss laughed.
But the laughter was not a sound.
It was a sudden dimming of light.
"Your system does not know me."
The eye drew closer.
The void began swallowing the ground beneath his feet.
"I am what remains… when the story ends."
"I am the emptiness that devours heroes after the applause fades."
It gazed at him with terrifying depth.
"You are now without fate."
"Without enemy."
"Without purpose."
Silence.
Then it whispered:
"Come to me."
"Give me your sovereignty."
"And I will grant you rest."
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Outside the Dream
Kim's body on the bed began to tremble.
The air in the room grew heavier.
The stars outside the window dimmed for a moment.
Nir noticed immediately.
He opened the door quickly.
"Kim?"
But as he approached—
He saw a faint black shadow forming over Kim's chest.
Like a closed eye… trying to open.
Inside the Dream
The Abyss extended a shadow toward him.
It was not an attack.
It was an invitation.
"You are tired."
"You want to fall."
"And I… catch those who fall."
Kim looked directly into the eye.
And for the first time—
He felt something he had never felt before any ruler.
Not fear.
But—
Temptation.
Absolute rest.
No war.
No system.
No responsibility.
Just… nothingness.
The system inside his mind began to fracture.
Seed of Possibility unstable
Negative emotions affecting reality
Probability of new concept formation: Abyss
The eye whispered:
"Let me be your new fate."
A long silence.
Kim closed his eyes.
And remembered:
His mother.
Nir smiling.
Beath laughing.
The child he saved on the mountain.
He slowly opened his eyes.
And looked at the eye without trembling.
He said one sentence:
"You are looking at me…"
He stepped forward.
The void recoiled slightly.
"But I… see you."
For the first time—
The eye trembled.