paranoianovel Chapter 1222: What Happened Outside
Chapter 1222: What Happened Outside
chapter 1222: what happened outside
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while maria, emily, and alma were engulfed by sofia's fractured nightmare realm, the rest of the people outside the bathroom seemed to have remained mostly intact. the shockwave of nightmare energy was powerful, enough to quickly force them to step back, the school also entered in panic as everyone started running, cracks appeared in the ceiling and walls, as the there was a black curtain in the girl's bathroom, an entrance to this nightmare realm.
"what the hell happened?!" asked partner. "maria! where is she?!"
"this is a nightmare realm! wait, partner, don't go in without a plan!" lucifer grabbed partner before she was to go inside. "calm down! maria is very strong; i doubt she'll face any difficulties anyways."
"but i'm worried!" partner cried. "aren't you?!"
"i am but calm down!" sighed lucifer, trying to hold down partner who was constantly kicking and punching him to let her go.
"what is this? how did this appear out of nowhere though!" said emeraldine. "not only maria but i feel like sofia, emily, and alma disappeared inside too! will they be alright with only maria? w-what if they get separated!"
"this is indeed dangerous... maybe we could split and send a small group inside?" nia wondered. "i'm worried! this world is so strange and confusing... nightmares appearing out of nowhere, that's not something that even in yggdrasil happens!"
"hmm... calm down, nia," said jonathan. "maria actually never left us... look."
"huh?"
everyone suddenly glanced into their shadows, which quickly began to combine to form the appearance of maria but made of shadows!
"calm down everyone, i'm fine for now!" "maria?!"
they gasped in shock and disbelief, and also relief she was okay, and that they could talk with her like this too! it was never something they guessed she could do but now that they thought about it, seemed pretty obvious.
"i left a soul and a body ego here," she said. "this is my shadow soul ego; the body ego is with the kids right now. like this we can communicate even when i'm far away! pretty cool, right?"
"yeah but i'm glad you're ok! is nothing bad happening there?!" asked nia, panicking and hyperventilating.
"alright then..." sighed partner. "but please take care! ok?"
"i'm fine, it's not like i'll leave though, this soul ego will remain here!" said maria. "ah, we found some sort of weird labyrinth now... huh, this place's sure weird. wait, what's that?!"
maria suddenly seemed to panic, making everyone in front of her panic even more!
"m-maria?! what is it!" jonathan cried.
"ah, nothing, haha, it was just a creepy shadow- woaaah!"
everyone started sweating a lot at maria's reactions to what was happening in the nightmare
realm, she quickly created a projection of what she was seeing.
"ok, how's this then? only you can see it anyways," maria said. "i made it using illusion and mind-bending skills and spells! pretty neat, right? it's like a projection of what i'm seeing into your heads, with live commentary!"
"t-this is really weird..." lucifer muttered.
"wow, so that's how it looks inside?" wondered partner.
"maria, what was that shadow?! be careful!" emeraldine said.
"don't worry, i'll be fine," said maria. "looks like this whole labyrinth is being guarded by weird shadow-like nightmares... i might require the help of some undead and beatriz, huh?" as if they were watching a youtuber playing a game with live commentary, the group glanced at maria's adventures with nervousness clear in their eyes.
only maria was taking this easy, everyone else was too worried!
soon enough professors and other authorities arrived, and they had to explain to them what
happened.
however, due to maria's request, they skipped the part where sofia was the one that made this nightmare realm...