Or so he thought, Iustus was not in his room but in another place completely, the place seemed quite gloomy and humid, only a few candles illuminated the surroundings, it felt like he wa still in a dream but his body was here this time and he could feel his surroundings.
He could feel the coldness of this place and the rough stone surfaces all around, he questioned whether this was a dream or not but the strange feeling of suspension seemed to indicate that it was one.
Getting closer and closer, he felt like he could hear a catterpillar walking around, in the way it was walking around at least, the sound it was making didn't sound anything like the bug, it sounded somewhat soft and much wider than the thin legs of a catterpillar.
Iustus tried to quietly get out of its way as he heard it heading toward him, this may be a dream but the fact that he wasn't in some sort of ethereal state made him feel like what was within the dream could potentially see him.
As it was about to go right by, the sound immediately stopped, Iustus had hidden in a dark area to avoid detection and could thus, not see anything either.
His only indication that the bug thing was here was the hot breath he felt right in his face.
Iustus tried to jump back but he felt hands grabbing him all over his body as he suddenly lifted up.
"Ah, you little critter... You dare intrude upon my dreamland? Without even being a woman, heeeeh?" the things voice was strangely soothing, in spite of the vile voice it had.
"What is that? What are you? Who are you? What is your name? Why do you have traces of virtue in you? Did you bring him here? You did right? Did you?!"
The hands grip tightened as Iustus found out the hard way that he was powerless in this dream, as was awfully common in dreams.
"What a drag! What a pain!" the thing gritted its teeth with a loud grinding noise.
"Oh! I know! Why don't you stay here with me? It has been so long since I had a friend to assist me!" it sounded disgustingly joyful about that prospect.
"Mmh? No? You don't wanna? I haven't even told you what it was that I did in this wonderful dream! Is it because it is so damp here? I just prefer this sort of environment! Come on, before he gets here, let's have some fun! Together!"
"Ahaha! I am called Lust or is that someone else's name nowadays? Is it? Tell me about it! Are they half as fun as I am? Answer me! You didn't meet them personally? Oh, from that Gregory's behavior, I can tell they know what they are doing, that's good, it's great!" it appeared like Lust was just reading his mind and didn't actually want any answer coming from him, he was holding Iustus's throat quite strongly after all.
As Lust started moving around while carrying the young hero, Iustus understood a few things as they went by a few faint lights, firstly, this Lust was clearly an abomination, he seemed absurdly large in size and had way too many hands, the noises he had been hearing before was the sound of human-like limbs against the ground.
Human limbs arranged like that of a catterpillar, this was stuff of nightmares, not dreams.
"I hear you, you know? You think so loudly! I could hear you from so far awayyyy~"
"They all think that at first, but don't worry, after some time, they all learn to enjoy my presence!"
"I'll introduce you to my world! I can see that you have yet to step into it, how strange is that? At your age? Back in my time, people like you would all be clerics and such, a few of them that is!"
'Does he never stops talking?!' thought Iustus as he tried to wriggle out of his grip but Lust just had too many hands, he was held in place without any hope of breaking free.
As he was about to say less than savory things, the room they were in suddenly lit up completely blinding both Iustus and the sin, although Lust eyeballs started igniting.
"Damn bastard..!" yelled out the ancient sin as he threw Iustus away.
Once the light settled a bit, Iustus was able to see the full body of Lust and he had to admit he was happy the current one was 'just' a person, this wasn't something Iustus could have envisioned in his head at all.
His body was long, with long arms sprouting out on the whole length of it, he must have been at least ten meters long but despite that, he could hold his whole body up on only two of those arms as he stood up, his body moving around like that of a snake in the air.
He didn't know if the he was just that strong or if his body was just light.
Still, this work of horror wasn't even nearly the worst thing about this, its head was fairly normal looking, as far a pinkish, devilish heads go at least.
Small horns rested on the top of his head in the shape of a crown, his long dark hair, dragged across the ground even as he stood up.
His back was covered in tentacles that definitely didn't look just like tentacles, he could clearly see the white liquid seeping out from the majority of them, it wasn't only his back, his stomach was also covered in them and the very end of it, there was no doubt about it, that was a phallus.
On the other end of the room, a handsome man dressed in a similar manner to Patience stood, his hair were pure white and his eyes shiny enough that Iustus could clearly see their golden radiance from where he stood.
"You damn invader! It's already over! You already won! What are you doing here?! Answer! Respond! Justify your presence here!"
The man completely ignored Lust's words and instead turned to Iustus.
"Do not worry child, it's only a dream" he said, making Lust's even more furious.
"Only a dream?! This is a dreamworld you uncultured swine! I can access people's dream and am even able to live on eternally here! Show some damn respect Chastity!"
"I shall not" flatly responded the virtue.
Iustus just watched as the Lust prepared to clash with Chastity.
"Despicable!"