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Chapter 6 - Chapter 6: The Nightmare City - II

When Aron saw the dreadful clown, he almost froze on the spot and started feeling waves of fear and despair rising inside his heart, just as Aron was about to step back and run away, the terrifying eerie clown suddenly disappeared, as if he was never there in the first place. But Aron didn't let his guard down. Suddenly he heard the sound of the melody and drumbeats which he had heard previously, getting closer and closer.

When he turned around to see what this sound was all about, as saw two rows of the same giant floating mouth he had previously seen, with countless sharp pointy fangs protruding from it, and 8 pairs of long skeletal arms, with each of its hands controlling 8 medium-built humanoid skeletons with thin almost invisible strings.

Among them four of the skeletons were playing Taiko drums (Traditional Japanese drums) while the other four were dancing and performing all sorts of acrobatics, each of the skeletons had a long black flag with a picture of different face cards of the Poker attached to their spines, like the Ace of Hearts, Queen of Spades and so on. 

At some distance behind them appeared two rows of white faceless female Hina dolls with typical Japanese bob-cut hairstyles, each wearing luxurious red kimonos and moving animatedly, the row on the left was playing Shamisen while the other row was playing Biwa. (Shamisen and Biwa are both traditional Japanese string instruments)

There was also a pink humanoid female 9-tail fox standing in the middle of the two rows of faceless Hina dolls, wearing a golden kimono, and singling some sort of traditional folklore in a completely alien language, which did sound similar to Japanese.

Then a group of dragonflies with rainbow colors appeared in the air and started creating and spreading pink mist from their chitin wings…in response to which the crowd of bizarre citizens started cheering in renewed fervor.

In the middle of all this, a 3-foot-tall humanoid rabbit walked in, standing on its 2 small hind legs with its hands behind its back like an authoritative figure. He wore a luxurious black and blue kimono and a circular black Kasa hat resting on his head, with 2 slits for his long rabbit ears. 

He had an ominous-looking katana attached to his waist, constantly releasing an eerie dark aura around it. Lastly, he had a tiny little scar mark on his right eye, that made it look extremely Fierce and Cool!

The rabbit was slowly walking on the streets along with the ongoing parade members with his hands behind his back and his eyes closed, Aron had to say, that this Mr.Rabbit looked pretty damn cool.

But just then, the rabbit suddenly opened his sharp crimson-red eyes and looked at him who was standing pretty far away from the crowd He stared at him for a while, but then looked away and once again continued to follow the Parade.

Aron was caught off guard by the sudden attention of the rabbit in black and blue kimono, and after a while started pondering about it….

 'It seems that ordinary Nightmare citizens or creatures are not able to see me or sense my presence…..but some of them can see and sense me.'

'Is there a difference between different Nightmare creatures? Like a level? Hmm…That must be the case….Considering Low-level Nightmare creatures can be oblivious to my presence but meanwhile, higher-level ones can indeed see and sense me... and from the looks of it, the wretched Clown and this rabbit must be high-level Nightmare creatures….'

'This is not looking good at all, the clown is an evil wicked existence that loves to kill or torture me….I am not sure about this rabbit but thankfully it decided to just ignore me for now…I need to leave! Now!'

'The wretched clown has already seen me, I must leave before he decides to come for me….'

when he was about to turn around and walk away, suddenly

"Attention Citizens of the Nightmare Realm! Bow your head and praise the Almighty Shogun, her Majesty's Pearless presence is now gracing you!!"

He heard the rabbit loudly announcing something in the same alien language with a profound low voice, which was totally uncharacteristic of its appearance.

Aron then saw from afar, a group of 2-meter-tall headless muscular humanoid stone creatures with a large single vertical eye located in the center of their chest, carrying a giant mikoshi carriage on their large broad rocky shoulders. The mikoshi carriage was 10 meters tall and 8 meters wide and made out of unknown purple gold material which was emitting a faintly discernible pint mist in the air.

The carriage looked extremely luxurious and was surrounded by thing silky red curtains. But one could easily discern the giant figure sitting inside the carriage from the outside.

Aron was only able to make out the faint silhouette of a giant woman sitting in the carriage before a dreadful and enormous pressure gradually started descending on the entire area surrounding the carriage, as it moved closer and closer.

Aron was still far away from the Mikoshi carriage but was already on his knees from the overwhelming pressure. The rabbit from earlier was now standing near the carriage and appeared totally unaffected by the dreadful pressure exerted by the giant women sitting inside the carriage. 

The aura and pressure exerted by the woman sitting inside the carriage to whom the rabbit referred as Shogun was dreadful and earth-shattering, Aron felt fear from the very button of his soul, like he was in the presence of an Ancient primordial monster, whose level of existence was beyond his wildest imagination.

As the Mikoshi carriage carrying the giant women sitting inside continued to move forward, the enormous pressure continued to increase gradually, meanwhile, Aron who was already on his knees and heavily panting, saw the citizens of the Nightmare City bowing towards the carriage and were also on their knees.

Gathering all of his might he tried to stand again, fighting the invisible pressure and the nerve-wreaking fear that was stirring his heart, after a while, he was finally able to stand albeit with a lot of difficulty and trembling feet. He started moving towards the place from where he had appeared, not daring to stay in this place any longer.

As he walked further and further away from the range of the carriage, the pressure on him also gradually decreased, and after a while, the pressure bearing over him was now fully gone. Heaving a sigh of relief, Aron continued to move not letting his guard down. In a short while, he was able to see a door not too far away from his position, he recognized the door in an instant because it was the door of the room where the talent test was taking place.

Just as he was about to rush towards the door, all of a sudden, the wicked clown that he had seen earlier, appeared right in front of him, smiling at him eerily from ear to ear, and staring at him with those beastly golden eyes with deep amusement and malice. 

Then he raised his pale right hand with long black sharp nails in front of his face, and with a flick of his fingers, a tiny purple-black flame flared out of nowhere, floating above his index finger. He then gazed at the purple-black flames and whispered something, in response to which the flames instantly transformed into a flaming purple-black poker card with purple-black flames blazing over its edges, more specifically, it transformed into A blazing Joker Card.

The Purple black Joker card had the image of a dancing clown over it, which had a similar appearance to that of the wicked Clown who was holding the card right now. When Aron saw that card, he felt the hair on his body stand, and his anxiety shot off the roof.

Gathering all of his strength and courage he took a step back, turned around, and started running away, meanwhile looking at Aron run like that, the wicked clown started laughing hysterically.

Hearing the clown laugh like a maniac, Aron further increased his running speed and started looking for a place to hide from the creepy maniac. Just as he was running at full speed, the hysterical laughter suddenly came to a halt, when Aron turned his head to take a quick look, all he saw were 2 pairs of beastly golden eyes appearing right in front of his face.

Suddenly, a terrifying pressure landed on him, making him feel like he was teleported to the bottom of the ocean, as if a mountain was bearing on him, freezing him motionless in his current running position. Meanwhile, the creepy clown who had abruptly appeared in front of him looked at him with the same eerie smile and said "DID YOU MISS MEEEEEEE?!?!"

Aron who was currently frozen on the spot wasn't able to move his eyes or even blink, all he could do was stand there waiting to be tortured and brutally murdered, feeling despair and helplessness from the bottom of his soul.

Meanwhile, the clown raised the purple-black joker card in front of Aron's face and said with a high pitch smoky voice "I HAVE A GIFT FOR YOU MY DEEEAR ARON-CHAN!!!, DO YOU KNOW WHAAAAT THIS IIIISSSS" he brought the card right before Aron's eyes and continued "THIS IS THE TICKET TO MY FREEDOM AND A TICKET FOR OUR RAISE!! HAHAHAHAH!!" 

Suddenly he pressed the top end of the card against Aron's chest vertically. But thankfully Aron was wearing the Star Fragment pendent and the card actually came in contact with the Star Fragment burning through arons shirt with its purple-black blazing flames.

The moment the blazing card came in contact with the Star Fragment, the world seemed to have lost its color, and Time flow seemed to have been stopped. At the same time, the Star fragment hanging from Aron's neck started flickering violently in a dark light, but the next instant it began to glow progressively in a dark light suddenly releasing a terrifying space-time ripple and causing the space-time around the area to distort.

At the same time, the Joker card blazing in purple-black flames slowly starts to get swallowed by the Star Fragment until it's fully gone.

Meanwhile, Aron who was frozen in time was oblivious to all of this, but the same couldn't be said for the Clown, even in the Time Stasis the clown was able to move. As soon as the clown felt the terrifying space-time ripple he directly vanished from the spot, reappearing several meters away from Aron and the Star Fragment with a look of amusement playing in his bright golden eyes.

Meanwhile, right after the Star fragment swallows the Joker card, a small spatial rift starts opening right below the Star fragment, expanding at an incredible speed. As soon as the spatial rift was formed it started sucking everything around it like a black hole.

Aron was the first to be sucked inside the spatial rift, followed by the streets, buildings, and everything around it.

Meanwhile, the clown who was not too far away from the spatial rift just stands there totally unaffected by anything, looking at everything unfold with a look of amusement and joy. "IT'S BEEN FAR TOO LONG SINCE SOMETHING SOOO INTERESTING HAPPENED!! LET'S ALL HAVE FUN!!" said the clown as he directly jumped inside the spatial rift as if it were a water slide…..

Meanwhile, Aron who was inside the Spatial rift came to his senses, he felt as if he was floating in space, but as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw countless overlapping abstract lines, countless warped and overlapping stars, planets, and even galaxies moving past at light speed. Just looking at the sight made his brain overload, his head threatening to burst like a watermelon, unable to bear any more his brain shut down and he fainted…..