freenovelworld Chapter 308: Deus Ex Machina!
Chapter 308: Deus Ex Machina!
Like Jetton, Touma Kaito has also been stuck in a dream dilemma recently.
He has been dreaming recently that he has become a screenwriter for a special effects drama.
The story written by the screenwriter is exactly what he experienced, and it is called "Ultraman Max"
In his dreams, the life and death separations he experienced in reality and the magnificent scenes he saw were all just cold words typed out by the screenwriter.
He could clearly feel that he was living in a man-made world, and everything was proceeding according to a predetermined route.
At the Titan Base, Kaito walked down the corridor with dark circles under his eyes. He looked like he was about to fall asleep again, but he was still muttering, "Is this really a dream?"
"What's wrong with you?" Ruixi walked up to Kaito, who looked a little surprised.
"Your mental state is so bad, if you can't do it, just take a few days off. Don't force yourself." Kenjiro walked to Kaito, concerned about his teammate.
"No problem, how can a person be defeated by a dream? Everything in a dream must be fake." Kaito yawned and tried to put on a relaxed expression.
"Not necessarily. People often say 'What you think about during the day, you dream about at night'. Dreams and the real world are still connected." Sheen's teammate passed by and continued.
"So I had that dream because I always felt that reality was an illusion?" Kaito rubbed his forehead.
"At least you're not the first one to think so. I feel the same way." Team member Ruixi smiled.
Kenshiro agrees: "Yes, huge monsters that only existed in fantasy appear, and aliens invade."
"And we are fighting this kind of enemy. If we had said this a few decades ago, people around us would have thought we were crazy."
"The good news is we're not crazy, the bad news is the world is crazy."
"Everyone has experienced this, so I feel relieved." With the guidance of his teammates, Kaito's tense nerves relaxed a little, even though he felt that the situation in his dream was unbelievably real.
Mizuki patted Team Member Kaito's back twice and said, "That's right. There's nothing important to do these two days. We'll ask Captain Hijikata for leave for you. Kaito, you should go back and rest."
Kaito: "But..."
Mizuki was concerned for Kaito's mental state: "No, but, you had those strange dreams, it must be because monsters have appeared frequently recently. We are too busy, so you need to rest."
"That `s a deal."
"Okay then." Looking at Team Member Ruixi's serious face, Kaito smiled and nodded, preparing to go back to take a nap.
……
The DASH team's lounge at Titan Base.
Lying on the bed, Touma Kaito frowned and sweat broke out on his forehead. It was obvious that he had a nightmare.
In this dream world, he pushed open a door, and inside was a dark and cramped room filled with various monster statues.
There is a large table in the middle of the room. Under the dim light, you can see a woman carefully shaping a new model.
"Kaito Touma." After the intruder appeared, the woman in the house was very calm. While concentrating on the work at hand, she greeted him.
"You know me?" Kaito asked.
"I heard that you are an expert in fighting monsters, so I have a question to ask you." The woman looked up, her face expressionless, and she looked at Kaito with her lifeless dead fish eyes.
Kaito nodded enthusiastically, "Go ahead."
A hint of anticipation appeared in the woman's dead eyes. "I want the monster to win for once. I'm sure you can imagine a good monster."
Kaito asked, "What's the monster's name?"
"Asking for a name first makes it easier to build a story around key words. It sounds a bit like a genius playwright," the woman said jokingly. "I'm thinking of turning Deus ex Machina into a name, like 'Madeus.'"
Kaito: "Deus ex Machina?"
"You look like you don't really understand anything. I need to explain it to you." The woman was still pondering the statue in her hand.
"It can be directly translated as the God of Mechanical Devices. It's a technique used in ancient Greek drama. When some problems are difficult to solve, a god with absolute power appears to force the story to a conclusion."
"Isn't it very similar to what you experienced?" A playful smile appeared on the woman's expressionless face.
"However, when faced with a problem that humans cannot solve, Max becomes the god with absolute power."
"Don't you think monsters need a god like that, too?"
"So, please help me, what kind of power does the monster have that can directly end the story."
Kaito was about to refuse: "I..."
The woman didn't give him a chance to refuse: "Please!"
Kaito thought for a long time before saying, "From the perspective of a monster enemy... inorganic and unpredictable monsters are the most terrifying, like a dream."
"A monster that feeds on dreams and uses them to strengthen itself must be very powerful. It's an abstract, indescribable terror."
Hearing Kaito's suggestion, the woman who shaped the clay monster rolled the clay into a ball and said, "Yume, that's a good idea."
……
In another world, playwright Hasunuma Yume's superior also commented: "Yume, that's a good idea."
"A monster that feeds on dreams, a deus ex machina of monsters, Hasunuma, I look forward to the day when you finish writing the script."
"At your current rate of progress, one more dream should be enough."
"waiting for your good news."
……
Half a day later, the dizzy Touma Kaito woke up from his dream again.
I walked to the window and it was almost dark.
"I slept for half a day again."
Just as he finished speaking, he heard hurried footsteps in the base.
"What happened?" Kaito walked out of the room and stopped Ruixi who was in a hurry in the corridor.
Ruixi replied, "The monster scanner is responding, we'll check it out now."
"I'll go too." Kaito said without hesitation.
Facing Ruixi's skeptical gaze, Kaito was very firm: "I have rested enough, let me go with you."
"But your mental state seems to be worse. Did you see the devil in your dream this time?" Kenshiro teased.
"There is still a way to defeat the devil. If the things in the dream exist in reality, the world will be destroyed." Kaito smiled bitterly, very stiffly.
So, at Kaito's strong request, he set off with the team.
And this time his enemy was exactly the one he least wanted to see.
under night.
Kaito stared blankly at the irregularly shaped ball in the sky.
The shape of the ball was exactly the same as the clay ball he had seen in the woman's hand in his dream.
The Demon God, born in the darkness of night and dreams, and the Deus Ex Machina, who possesses absolute power and can bring about the ending of the story, appear!
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