238 The Night Before the Storm 3 (1/2)

Ian's party always pursued hardcore hunting.

As the break, which were always around 10 minutes long, grew longer, Kaka, who sat leisurely found it strange.

”Yo, Bbookbbook.”

”Why did you call me bbook.”

”Haven't we been resting for too long?”

”You do have a point bbook. I feel like 15 minutes have already passed bbook.”

Kaka glanced at Ian, who sat in the corner and quietly meditated(?), as he opened his mouth again.

”The owner dude is acting a little weird.”

”What's weird bbook?”

”He's sitting there completely still without the slightest movement. To be honest, I'm saying that ever since our break time went longer than 5 minutes, our owner dude isn't being his normal self.”

Bbookbbook nodded his head.

”That's true bbook. Now that you mention it, it is weird bbook.”

Kaka scratched his head as he kicked up from the ground with all his strength and jumped up.

To be honest, rather than kicking up from the ground, he pretended to jump, but his body was already floating.

”Since something is unsettling about this, shall I try waking up the owner?”

”…!”

Bbookbbook and Kaka were suspicious that Ian's condition was not normal because their break time was 5 minutes longer.

If they were Familiars of normal users, they wouldn't have had any suspicions and would have enjoyed their break, however, unfortunately, they were already trained to Ian's hunting pattern already.

”Then… I'm going to go try waking him up once, okay?”

Bbookbbook's pupils trembled slightly.

”Bbook… Are you seriously going to wake him up bbook?”

”Hmm…”

”Bbakbbak and Karceus are going to hate you, Kaka bbook.”

He said that because Ian waking up meant nothing different from the fact that hunting would start again.

”Still, it can't be helped. What if the owner dude is sick somewhere?”

A small sigh slipped past Bbookbbook's mouth.

”Whew, I guess it really can't be helped then bbook. Then go try waking him up once bbook.”

Kaka, who gained a little bit more confidence at Bbookbbook's permission(?), wagged his short, fluffy tail as he flew towards Ian.

And floating up so that he was in front of Ian's face, he began to dilly-dally.

”Owner dude, are you sleeping?”

However, Ian was just silent.

”You're not sick anywhere, are you? Just give me a response and then you can go back to sleep again. There's no need for you to completely get back up again.”

It seemed that he couldn't hear Kaka's proposal at all, as Ian meditated in a completely still state without even a quiver, and Kaka, who felt something was weird about him, stared intensely at Ian's closed eyes.

'Hmm, what is going on?'

Kaka slowly grew closer to Ian until he was right in front of Ian's eyes.

However, just then, Kaka's body suddenly began to shine a white light.

'What, what the hell? This…!”

And Kaka, who discovered the change in his body, was soon able to figure out what kind of phenomenon this was.

”Is… This a momentary awakening?”

And shortly after, as Kaka looked at Ian again, he was able to see a pitch black smoke rise up from around Ian's body.

That was, to be honest, a phenomenon that only Kaka could see.

'This is definitely the ability of the night hag! To think that I would actually be able to manifest this ability!'

And in front of Kaka and Ian's eyes, a system message simultaneously popped up.

Ring-!

• Inherent Ability 'Greedy Night Hag' has been awoken to the next level.

• From now on, 'Kaka' can go into the dreams of others at a low success rate.

As if Kaka was possessed by something, he was sucked in towards the pitch-black fog that was rising up around Ian.

Following that, another message additionally popped up.

• 'Kaka' is entering User 'Ian's dream.

A new world began to unravel in front of Kaka's eyes.

* * *

The 'Greedy Night Hag', one of Kaka's inherent abilities, was an ability that allowed him to pull out one item that he wanted from a dream.

And that was a fact that Kaka was aware of more than anybody else.

'It's a dream. This is definitely the owner dude's dream.'

In the dream, Kaka was floating above a wide site in the air.

And below him, tons of soldiers and knights, as well as combat mercenaries and magicians formed a large army.

'What the hell? Is the owner dude dreaming of a war?'

Kaka thought that he was currently inside Ian's dream using the ability of the night hag, but to be more specific, the world that Kaka was currently in was not Ian's dream.

The place that Kaka was in was the world of the 'Record of the Devildom War' that was connected to Ian's mental world.

Into an outlook on the world that happened a thousand years ago, which was shared with all the users along with a world message, Kaka was also sucked in on an impulse.

And it may be obvious, but Kaka, who would have had no way to know that was the case, began to diligently understand the situation in the dream.

'I need to grab the most valuable item within here before I leave!'

If Ian were to wake up from his dream, Kaka would also be thrown out of this world by force.

He needed to find the most valuable and rare item that was also still something that he really liked before that.

'Euh, why of all the dreams that he could have dreamt, he's dreaming of something like this, this owner dude! I thought something was weird when he did nothing but battle without rest like a demon who was holding a grudge as they couldn't fight…'

Kaka recalled his owner's face as he grumbled internally.

This was because in this current situation, where he needed to leave after grabbing the most valuable and rarest item possible, a war environment like this was of no help at all.

Exactly what kind of rare item was he supposed to find and carry out in a war like this?

'Still, there's no way of knowing when I'll have a chance like this ever again.'

Kaka began to flap his wings with all of his might.

It was unknown as to whether his flight speed itself actually quickened from him flapping his wings fast, but still, whenever he became hasty, Kaka always moved his wings quickly.

'Speaking of which, from what I remember, the skill of the night hag is displayed only when you are not conscious of the fact that you are in a dream world, but is that not applied when you go into someone else's dream?'

Normally, when a night hag came out of a dream with an item, they were not able to recognize that it was a dream.

It could be considered the same thing as when most normal people dream, they don't realize that the situation is a dream.