. . . . they heard a strange voice from the bushes . . . .
"What was that?" Sutaro said.
Then she went to check. . .
And from the bushes, a boar appears and tried to attack Sutaro, but Tobi rushed and picked her up.
Then more boars came, but this time they are bigger and stronger, it seems that the boars have gathered around them.
3 of them around Ash, all of them jumped at him but he burned one until it turned into ashes, and dodged the other 2 attacks, he noticed that the boar that he burned is recovering, which made him realize that these boars are not natural, "the boars are controlled by an eye owner" he said.
Then ream built a wall using her plants, after that Ash stated that it wouldn't take a long time before they get in and that they need to find a way to beat them.
"So, if they can recover from that much damage, we can't beat them, we need to find the eye owner" Tobi commented.
"Well, that's what I would say if these were normal boars if the owner had the same eye as mine, I'm pretty sure that his one should be at least level 4 or even 5, and there is only one person that has the Dobotsugo" Sutaro answered.
*****
Then, the boars broke in and they continued fighting.
One boar tried to jump on Sutaro but she dodged it and then she summoned a bear but the boar bit the bear a fatal bite, then she summoned a tiger, it also died.
this proves their assumption, these boars are indeed summoned by someone since they are really strong.
Ash then attacked the boars and started running to distract them, "I'll distract them, go find the person controlling them" he said.
They do not seem to accept that decision, but it's too late Ash is already gone.
*****
Ash is now running to distract the boars but he discovered that running will make him get tired faster, "I'll get tired if I keep running faster than if I just fought them" he thought.
So he stopped running and began to use his fire to burn them until Tobi and the others find the summoner, he used his fire to make a circle of fire every time a boar revived himself he gets burned again and that was Ash's plan for now.
. . . Near the camp . . .
"So how can we find the summoner," Tobi asked.
"He's not far, that's what we know, you can't summon something this strong from far away," Sutaro answered.
*****
Then, they searched and searched and searched, from north, west, south, and east of the camp there was nothing but trees and bushes, they started doubting that the boars were summoned by someone, "maybe they were just boars," Tobi complained.
Until. . .
Until they heard a scream, the sound of Ash.
So they rushed to see what happened, and what they found was not expected.
They were not able to find the summoner.
But he was able to find them. . .
*****
A masked man, small in size, big in the smile, is holding Ash from his neck, "HAHA! Tobi, you've arrived, do you know me? I'm fear if have forgotten my name" the masked man laughed.
"Do you know him?" Sutaro questioned.
"No," Tobi answered "who are you, and why are you attacking us?" he spoke with the masked man.
"Come on now, it's me your friend, I was always with you, maybe I wasn't helping but I was there anyway," the Masked man said arrogantly.
"How dare you call yourself a friend, you coward" Ash growled.
"Ho ho, I didn't know you could speak" the masked man chuckled.
"Damn you, coward, if are so confident in your skills you should've attacked like a real man and not from behind" Ash growled again.
"You are getting annoying" the masked man spoke and then he chocked Ash so hard that his head was chopped off and he died. . .
*****
"What? what happened? he died. . .?" Sutaro said in shock as this was hard for them to accept.
Ream couldn't fathom what happened she fell on her knees and started crying.
Then the masked man disappeared and then appeared behind Ream, "you are also annoying" he said then he blew up her head with a single punch because of how powerful it was.
Tobi realized that this is not the time for crying then proceeded the fly as fast as he can after taking Sutaro.
"What are you don't? they are still there" Sutaro sobbed.
"You mean their bodies are still there they are dead we can't do anything," Tobi said.
"You heartless monster, let go of me," Sutaro sobbed
"Sutaro, I understand what you feel, I love them as much as you do, but we can't do anything, it's too late," Tobi sobbed.
"I don't care" then she bit him and fell but she summoned a big eagle and started flying to search for the masked man.
"Where is he?" She said after she realized what happened and understood what Tobi meant by "we can't do anything", as it is not the time to cry because we are in danger.
Although, she wanted revenge.
*****
"I'm here" the masked man chuckled then he blew up Sutaro's head.
Then he followed Tobi.
"We are alone now, finally," the masked man mocked.
"Who are you? and why are you doing this?" Tobi growled.
"I told you, I'm your friend, your old friend, as for the second question, I wanted to talk to my friend," the masked said.
Then he took his mask off.
His face is identical to Tobi's.
"What is that supposed to mean," confused Tobi said.
Then the now-not-masked-man said, "I'm your fear, you ran away from me and now, your friends are dead, and that's what I mean by saying friend, I was with you when you were born and I'm here with you and I will always be with you,".
Then Tobi tried to attack him, and, he failed, the other Tobi spoke "You're not ready yet," then he killed the original Tobi.
. . .
Tobi screamed, "What happened, why am I here? oh it's a nightmare" confused, Tobi said.
"Tobi, the breakfast is ready," Tobi's mom Interrupted.
"breakfast? this early in the morning?" Tobi questioned then he looked at his phone, "whaaaat? 8 am??" Then Tobi rushed to get out of bed to eat breakfast.
"Wait this feels similar to what happened in that nightmare, I've been here before, what a coincident,".
Then the same things happened, he found his camping equipment ready he met his friends, they went to the forest the took 9 hours to get to the tree so they decide to camp there.
And through these times everything was similar to Tobi's Dream which made him worry a little bit
. . . They heard a weird sound from the bushes . . .
"I'll check that," Tobi said, then he proceeded to go to check what was in the bushes, "well, just like the dream this also happened this means that it might be true".
Then just like what he anticipated, it was a boar.
This made Tobi realize that this was not a nightmare. it was a prophecy he thought
So before Ash could run to distract the boars, Tobi stopped him "you shouldn't do that" he said.
"How did you know I was going to do that?"
After fighting for hours, the four are exhausted, they can't fight any longer, they are wounded and are bleeding, so they lost and the boars ate them.
Tobi screamed "What happened, why am I he- this is not a nightmare, it's real"
So this time Tobi just sat in his room refusing to leave.
His parents tried to talk to him but he insisted on not leaving the room.
Then Tobi looked from his window and he saw the city burning and everyone in it including his friends.
After that, he heard Fear's voice screaming "why are you hiding from me, coward?'.
After that Fear destroyed Tobi's house and killed Tobi.
"I need to kill Fear, but can I?' he said.
After continuing this loop 5 more times, Tobi lost all meaning in life, he's miserable, mentally exhausted, and depressed, from seeing his friend dying over and over again, to being tortured by Fear.
Then he remembered his dad's words "everything you see there, is nothing but a dream".
"I need to stop being a coward and get out of this loop, this is ridiculous" he spoke
Tobi stopped for a moment to analyze what happened.
"He was weaker the first time we fought him, and then he became stronger, this means that there is got to be something that affects his power," Tobi said then he remembered the name of the energy book, "wait, fear? he said that he was my fear and the first time we fought him I didn't fear him as much as the other times, this means. . .".
*****
The loop started again.
After Tobi woke up, this time he is not afraid of Fear as he understood how this game works, so he flew then shouted "Fear, where are you?".
"I'm here, coward" Fear appeared in front of Tobi.
"Good," Tobi said.
you can see how worried Fear was by the look on his face, he is not pleased.
So Fear tried to punch Tobi, but Tobi dodge it and punched Fear in his belly, "that's so much easier" he said.
As the fight continues, Fear seems to only get weaker and weaker and Tobi is getting more and more confident until everything stopped.
*****
"Hey you, you're finally awake, you were trying to cross the bord- wait this is the wrong sentence," Bernard said, "Hey, you've made it whoooooooo yeah, now that's my son,".
"Thank you," Tobi said.
"Now you need to rest we'll see what you learned tomorrow," Bernard said.