POV Morphée

  It's been a week since Wan first set foot on my estate, but it's also been a week since we've met and rubbed shoulders in the same house.

  Morphée: So what was the reason for this express meeting of the castle's residents?

  We were all seated around a large table, Wan had invoked the residents' express meeting, something he'd just invented.

  Wan: before .... why did you put your dolls and statues on the chairs?

  Morphée: we're all here!

  I say "we" because I've put the statues and dolls I've sewn and built to help me cope with loneliness, on the chairs around me.

  Morphée: you said "all the residents"!

  Wan: °I should have just asked her to come, instead of trying to sound dramatic...°

  Morphée: so why am I here!

  Wan: °at least she understands that it's her I want to talk to° you haven't forgotten what I said when I arrived?

  Morphée: (reflective) hmmm ....

  Wan: °she forgot.... maybe...?°

  Morpheus: ha! that: "what I'm talking about right now is a curse from another world"?

  Wan: no..., I'm talking about the exchange

  Morphée: the exchange...? ah yes, the exchange...

  That's why he came, to make an exchange with me, after which he'll leave me alone.

  Wan: it's been a week, the deadline's passed, so let's talk about the exchange.

  Morphée : j-...I'm listening

  Wan: I've come to offer you freedom

  Morphée : la-... freedom?

  POV Wan

  Wan: °Freedom, in IT0 Morpheus mentions its term many times°

  "I'd love to be free"; "if only freedom would accept me too...".

  "I'd love to be set free"; 'if only freedom would accept me too...'; 'this is where we say goodbye..., have fun without me, and never lose your freedom', Morpheus mentions his term many times, so I think we can conclude that she thinks this seal was a bad idea and wants to be set free.

  Morpheus: ..... I really didn't understand everything, but .... it makes me curious..., how are you going to do it?... After all, it's a seal of mythical rank...

  Wan: Well..., °it's thanks to her that I'm going to be able to free her°.

  To destroy or break a seal of mythic rank, you need to have a technique, an item or an unsealing skill of the same level and, above all, master it well. Except that I don't currently have any of these things.

  So how do I go about it?

  [Current number of tokens: 124]

  Thanks to this week with Morphée, but also to Hoe and Savio, I've managed to get more than 53 extra tokens. I asked the system if it could give me a mythic rank unsealing gift in exchange for tokens and it replied that gifts don't have a specific rank, I then asked the same thing but for abilities and there it replied that yes it was possible.

  Wan: °it's a bit of a shame to waste so many tokens just for that, but I need magic power at all costs, tokens are .... not easy to get but it's not as limited as creating magic power°

  Morphée: so how are you going to do it?

  Wan: I have ... the ability to unseal in a minute.

  Morphée: (opens her mouth to speak, but then closes it again without saying anything) ..... I'm not going to ask you how, but ....

  She's hesitant, that's not all since I mentioned the exchange I have the impression that there are a few things that have changed in her behavior...., does she know what I'm going to ask....., if I could see her facial expression clearly I could understand but .... I've got the blindfold on.

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  Wan: °it's nothing..., she must just be a little taken aback by finally getting unsealed°

  There's no way she'll refuse, I've come to offer her a freedom she's wanted for hundreds of years, no even a thousand years but she's wanted it for a long time so she won't refuse I'm sure.

  Morphée: haa.... (breath) I don't feel like it

  Wan: °voilà j'avais dit quoooooiiiiii.....° hmmm ... pardon?

  Morphée: (gets up abruptly) I said I didn't accept! (leaves)

  Wan: ...-----

  There's been a problem with my calculations..., as usual I'd like to say it's impossible on my part but...., the fact that I'd just been refused proved otherwise...

  I then tried to talk to her again a little later in the day, at first she was all happy and you could hear it clearly in her voice, but then when I mentioned again the fact of unsealing it in exchange for one of her treasures, she quickly became irritated and left quite annoyed and you could hear it in her footsteps.

  So 2 days followed like this, she kept dodging me and when I luckily managed to talk to her she spoke to me for a bit before having a flashback and leaving annoyed.

  2 days later

  Wan: °I'm going to bet on it° (cooking)

  What I'm cooking certainly doesn't come close to Olympian cuisine, but if we take into account that she hasn't tasted Olympian food for a long time and doesn't know how to cook, then I should be able to bribe her with a good dish.

  30 minutes later

  Morpheus: (sitting on a chair) hmm you cooked... (still seems annoyed) I hope it's good

  Wan: I don't really know why you're upset, but one of my older sisters once told me that "a meal always helps to clarify the thoughts and relationships between 2 people".

  Morpheus: hrrmm

  She let out the same sound as a cat being pissed off, a kind of self-defense system. Then I heard the sound of her metal cutlery hitting her plate, she was eating, but silently, something was wrong, she usually talked a lot, but really a lot and all the while being playful, and when I made fun of her she was a bit grumpy but let it go quickly.

  Wan: you know that instead of just letting me know in some non-explicit way that I've done something wrong, you could just tell me about it, so that I'll understand...

  Morpheus: hmmm!

  Wan: °and she's the one who's lived hundreds of thousands of years...°

  I have the stupid impression that almost all the "adults" I know are as mature as I was when I was 5.

  Morpheus: hrrrrrrrgg!

  Wan: Morphée, ... is this the first time I've used your name to speak to you directly, if I'm not mistaken?

  Morphée: ou-....yes this is the first time..

  Well, she stopped her self-defense purring quite easily, that's something.

  Wan: what's wrong?

  I might as well be direct, after all I'm the one who's soaked to the skin, I can't spoil this week I've just had by failing to get what I came for in the first place.

  Morphée: nothing! humpf

  Wan: .... It's a real shame that this is the last time we'll meet and talk, and that it's going to turn out this way.

  Morpheus: (coughs, almost chokes) huff, C'-....j-...

  She couldn't find the words, so I heard her inhale sharply and then exhale at length.

  Morpheus: I don't want to be unsealed..., what I want is...

  She doesn't want to be unsealed?..., does she even know that, apart from me, no one else will come in the future to save her? I'm literally her last option to get the "freedom" she's been dreaming of.

  Morphée: what I want is...-

  Wan: saying it all at once is easier than just waiting to feel the "right moment"

  Morphée: what I want is.... (strikes a pose)

  Wan: °she's doing it on purpose..., I literally just told her to say it all at once and....°

  I would have blown if she hadn't been facing me.

  Morpheus: WHAT I WANT IS FOR YOU TO STAY WITH ME SO I WON'T EVER BE ALONE AGAIN!!!!

  Her scream probably reached over 1700 decibels, the decibels usually produced by jet engines, except that here it was very high-pitched and I took it head-on, even though I was less than 3 meters from her.

  Wan: ...... °......°

  My ears started bleeding immediately afterwards, I heard a high-pitched noise that kept echoing in my mind, my head was spinning and my vision was a bit blurry, I tried to get up from my chair but I could barely stand on my 2 legs and I fell because I had no strength left, and it was all over my body, all semblance of strength had left me, my blindfold even fell off and then I saw Morphée running towards me as if worried and the last thing I saw was Morphée's troubled and worried face hiding the windows of the system.

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  I couldn't understand what she was saying, it was inaudible, the noise in my ears was taking up all the space and it was starting to sound much louder with each passing second.

  Wan: vr-.....aiment be-....lle (falls unconscious)

  These were the last words I said after plunging against my will into a rather deep sleep, which in itself was rather amusing considering that I fell asleep right next to the one who deals with the dreams of all beings.

  ????? later

  My sleep was refreshing, it's been a really long time since I slept so well, in fact my last sleep was just under 3 weeks ago since I'd slept, since I murdered Baron Tsuhre after all, it's not because I have things like remorse of course, I've never had any regrets or remorse after killing, and this isn't where it's going to start, it's just that . ... I don't know, it's like Morpheus I haven't found any interest in sleep lately, and thanks to my constitution stat which has increased given that I ingested the limit seed, sleeping was no longer something I had or felt the need for, but as I told Morpheus, sleep really is an amazing thing so when I feel like sleeping, I'll sleep

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  Wan: ######### °the noise persists...°

  That incredibly powerful, high-pitched noise was surely accompanied by magical power, she probably screamed with magical power unconsciously, but now whether it was my fault for pushing her to scream or whether it was her simply wanting to release what she had inside her, I don't know and I don't need an answer that would get me nowhere.

  Wan: °the noise is less loud.... it's already that I imagine°

  I was lying on a bed, I didn't have the blindfold anymore, my clothes weren't the same either, I was currently wearing pyjamas with white bottoms and a white top, something basic after all; the bed was rather large and had transparent curtains, the sheets and comforter were also white (descriptive picture at the end) and it proved to me once again that it really was a European-style castle, in fact I was rather curious as to why she didn't seal herself in an Ancient Greek castle, but my thought didn't go further than the 'curiosity' stage, it's the kind of question I might ask when there's a long awkward silence, the kind of question that serves to break the ice.

  Wan: (straightens up with some difficulty)

  I still had almost no strength at all, just managing to sit up on a bed I was already lying on.

  Wan: ########## °he really doesn't want to stop...°

  The noise was less loud, but still present, and it didn't let me have any rest, it was like playing a match but without stopping, in the long run it became unplayable.

  Wan: °and even that aside.... I feel like I've got something on my legs....° (raises his head a bit to see his legs)

  On my legs there were the 2 arms and the head of what could be Morpheus, to tell the truth if it's her, then it's the first time I've seen her clearly well even then I can't really see her, she has her eyes closed, when I fainted following her scream my vision wasn't very clear, so I can't remember her face clearly, but one thing was for sure she's very beautiful.

  Wan: °she still has the nerve to sleep on my legs°.

  Some people would have found this scene a little cute, but I don't. She could be the most beautiful girl in all possible and unimaginable dimensions, and I still wouldn't care, so she's surely one of the top 10 most beautiful people in all existing dimensions, and she's certainly not tenth.

  Wan: hey

  Morpheus: (sleeping)

  Wan : wake up to-... wake up

  I'd almost been on first-name terms with her, I could have been on first-name terms with her, but I didn't see the need.

  Morphée : (sleep)

  Wan: °and she was the one who said she didn't feel the need to sleep...° hey hoooo wake upiii

  Still no answer, well if she wants to play it like that we'll play it like that

  Wan: 3 .... 2 .... 1 .... ok you want to play well let's play

  I was on first-name terms with her, but she's asleep so she didn't hear me.

  Morphée: (still asleep)

  Wan: (pulls Morpheus' cheek)

  Morpheus: (still sleeping)

  Wan: .... (slaps Morphée's face)

  Morpheus: (startles, but remains slumped over Wan's legs) Haaa!

  Wan: not a moment too soon

  Morphée: (with a tear in his eye, a sad childish pout) haaa! Why did you tapeeeer me!!!

  Wan: please move your head and arms away from my legs

  Morphée: you woke me up for this! Do you even know how many people dream that I'm even touching them! (still slumped on Wan's legs)

  Wan: °she's laughing at me I hope....° (raises his legs)

  I lifted my legs and Morpheus received a blow - through the sheet - from his knee in his jaw which made him bite his tongue.

  Morphée: (in pain) a?e! a?e a?e a???e! pourquoi -a fait za, ze me zuis m'bit la langche (entrainment de tenir sa machoire)

  Wan: you have a bed

  Morphée: -es dezzus!

  Wan: haaa... so this is your bed.... You brought me back to your bed.....

  Morphée : -uiiii!!!

  Wan: ...a real pervert after all

  Morpheus: ! Mais qu'ezz que -u dit !!!!!!!!!

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