Chapter 14 - 14 - Omphalophobia (2/2)
Suddenly, those three men grabbed their ears and began to look on the frightened sides. Sona used one of the techniques she most liked to use in her old world, [Heart Darkness], this technique took the darkest and scariest thing a person had in their heart and put it against themselves.
It was a technique that took her several centuries to develop, but for Sona, it was worth every second she invested in the technique.
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The first man, a fat man with a hairy body and a gold watch, looked away and out of nowhere, a woman holding a child appeared to him, ”It was he, officer. When the man heard what the woman said, and saw at a glance some policemen coming towards him, his heart started to accelerate even more and he started running trying to escape from these supposed policemen.
If they were just a normal woman and child, there would be no problem, what frightened the man was that the woman and the child had car tire marks all over their bodies.
One night he was driving drunk, on a high-speed bend, he didn't see a woman carrying a child and a bag with some shopping back home and passed over them. Frightened, he lowered the glass to see how they were and to his horror, the two were dead. The man didn't want to take responsibility and quickly accelerated to leave. Every time he remembers these two people, the guilt begins to erode him and he gets scared thinking about the possibility of being caught.
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The second man, a thin man who was smoking a cigarette with a malicious look on his face toward Madison, suddenly felt his breathing become heavier. Placing his hands on his neck, the man saw a black spot pass into his hands while a strange smoke was leaking from his skin. He had been smoking for over 40 years, the biggest fear he had was of lung cancer, and now, seeing the strange thing happening to him, he knelt on the floor and started crying thinking he was going to die.
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While that was happening to others, the third man was frightened by something completely different. In his vision, everyone started taking off their shirts and turning to him. At first, he thought it was just something strange that people were doing, but when he saw people start to stew and empty their bellies, his body started to sweat cold and his hands started to shake.
Scared, he turned to look at other people and did the worst thing he could have done at that moment, he looked at Madison. She also had her stomach out and what he saw made him almost piss on the spot. Her navel was deformed because she was pregnant.
This man had Omphalophobia, an intrinsic fear of navels. When he saw the bellybuttons surrounding him and unwittingly looked at Madison's pregnant belly buŧŧon, his body started to shake and he passed out there on the ground.
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Sona seeing what was the fear of this last man can't stop laughing alone, she had used this technique on many people, but this one without a shadow of a doubt was the person who had the strangest reaction she's ever seen in her whole life.
When she was laughing, a voice woke her up. ”Hey Angela, your turn is coming up.”