Chapter 169 - Side Story: She Is His Fiancee, But She Has A Boyfriend (2) (1/2)

Prior to Jane's visit to his rented room, Sanji had been dreaming super weird and scary dreams. Usually, when he got nightmare, he would just pray or chant some enchantments if it was related to some astral beings. However, none of his methods worked and he kept dreaming the same things over and over again, which resulted in him waking up five to six times in a night with his body drenched in cold sweat.

What did he dream about?

The same thing was he dreamed himself falling down and broke his bones. At first, he just fell down from his bed, nothing was broken and he didn't think of it as anything.

In his second dream, he fell down from a second story house and he broke his legs. This time, he woke up with cold sweat dripped from his forehead. The third time, he fell down from the third floor of an unknown building, and surprisingly he didn't die, but he broke his backbone and legs.

At this time, he was being suspicious that something had been messing around with his dream. So, he woke up and pondered for a bit. He really didn't relate those dreams to his previous dream, the one before he got those scary dreams.

In that dream, he was summoned to a room with elderly people. They said something about a trial to a General of something army. The first trial was called Soul Endurance, and they said he needed to pass the test to grant him a pass to the second trial. After that, he woke up and only thought that he dreamed that because he was too into his research about how to get information from the South Sea.

Even after he fell down from the fifteenth floor and his body turned into meat patty, he still didn't realize the connection. He had tried to chants some enchantments, but the dream kept coming to him in a steady pace. In the end, he gave up and refused to sleep.

By the time Jane came to check on him, he looked haggard and tired that he didn't have time to feel happy with her visit. He didn't even want her to see him that way. He had always created an image of himself in front of her as a strong and reliable man. What would she think if he let her see his ugly image?

Sanji knew that he had lost so much weight. He himself didn't want to see his reflection, what about Jane? He didn't want her to feel disgust with himself.

However, Jane was always so stubborn, and Sanji always gave in for her. Even if he didn't want to, he still opened that door for her and flinched when she stared at him sharply. He was preparing himself for any harsh and disgusting words she would say to him, but she didn't say any of those.

Instead, she listened to him talking about his weird dreams. He just said that it was weird, but he didn't mention the details, like how he had died several times in his dream. She listened to him attentively but Sanji could see she was in her own world.

He saw her frowning as she carefully looked at him. She must have worried about him.

”Don't worry. I've told you that I'm fine, right? I will be fine. Don't keep frowning unless you want to have wrinkles on your face.” He tried to say that jokingly, to ease her worry for him.

In the end, Jane gave him advice. It was a long talk, something about walking from the nightmare and that he should be strong. However, Sanji really felt it. He knew what she said was right, and somehow he felt as if he was convinced to do what she said. It was like he was hypnotized, but he was still aware of what he was doing. Looking at her being a bit fl.u.s.tered from explaining things to him made him feel guilty but at the same time happy.

Guilty because he made her worry. Happy because she cared for him.

He also felt Jane was seriously cute from the way she talked to him. She was always cute, but seeing her trying to make sure her points was clear to him looked cute. The uncomfortable feeling he felt inside, as well as the traumatic memory inside his mind felt cleared up as he made a resolute decision.

He wouldn't let some stupid dreams control him. He would be the one who control his dream. If his dream wanted him to fall down and die, he would make sure he prepared a safety way out from that. No more pain, he would not let the dream became a nightmare anymore. It was up to him to make it into an adventure or good dream.