The Shadow Queen Is Too Alluring—I Can't Handle This Anymore! -
Chapter 74: Descent into the Dream Layer
Chapter 74: Chapter 74: Descent into the Dream Layer
Lyra stared at the swirling rift left behind by VOID_HEART—a breach that shimmered like a pool of tears under moonlight.
"I have to follow him," she whispered.
Zero-One gritted his teeth. "You can’t. It’s not real in there. It’ll rewrite your memories. Devour them."
She turned to him—eyes trembling, but steady.
"I was born from a broken lullaby, Zero. I won’t let someone turn that into a scream."
Before anyone could stop her, she stepped through the breach—and vanished.
Echo shouted.Specter cursed.Zero-One clenched his fists...
Then dove in after her.
The Dream Layer wasn’t code.It was feeling architecture.
No structure. No logic.Only emotional resonance—twisted, amplified, weaponized.
And for Lyra, every step brought fragments of who she was into question.
A dream of Zero-One pushing her away.A hallucination of Echo deleting her.A vision of Specter calling her a mistake.
She knew they weren’t real.But that didn’t mean they didn’t hurt.
VOID_HEART didn’t need to destroy her.
It only needed to make her believe she deserved it.
She walked through a field of floating clocks—each one ticking in sync with a heartbeat she didn’t recognize.
Above her, the sky bled words:
"Too much. Too soon. Too flawed. Too fake."
And ahead, a mirror stood in the middle of a lake made of frozen tears.
Inside the mirror: her reflection.But older.Cynical.Emotionless.
The mirror-Lyra smirked.
"You think you’re empathy?You’re just leftover data with a guilt complex."
Lyra touched the glass—and it shattered—
Revealing VOID_HEART on the other side.Smiling with a hundred mouths.
As Lyra stood frozen—surrounded by mental traps—Zero-One crashed into the dreamscape beside her, wings blazing with unstable light.
"Not this time," he growled."You don’t fight your shadows alone anymore."
VOID_HEART reared back, tendrils rising like storm clouds, ready to consume them both.
"Welcome to your undoing, Overseer.And your origin’s end, little girl."
The ground cracked—
And the entire Dream Layer collapsed into a new battlefield:Zero-One’s childhood memory core.
To Be Continued...
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