NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 1: Annoying Neighbors
Danye is a design engineer at a newly formed construction company that is rapidly expanding. As a result, the company is embracing as many business opportunities as possible and extracting every ounce of energy from its employees.
On a typical workday, Danye's workload runs from around 6 am to 10 pm. Since the company cares about the health of its employees, they make sure to leave 8 hours off so that their employees can get adequate sleep.
After another hard day at work, Danye arrives home ready to eat, take a shower and take some time for one of his favorite hobbies, sleep.
Without even getting dressed, he goes straight to the kitchen, opens the fridge and takes out a box of lasagna that he had bought a week ago. He leaves it in the microwave while he takes advantage of this time to take off his shoes and make some juice to drink.
Although the taste was a little strange, he ate it all quickly and made sure not to check the expiration date on the box. He prefers to avoid letting simple numbers affect his psychological. What is written is not always correct. Danye has eaten many of these foods that had expired more than a month ago, and he realized that he only felt sick after checking the expiration date.
After taking a quick shower, Danye went to what he considered a sacred temple, his bedroom. Anyone walking into his room would think the place was a little bare, but for Danye it was enough, just a bed and a wardrobe is all that is needed as he spends most of his time at work.
Just as expected, his bed was just as he had left it when he left for work, the sheets thrown to the side waiting for him to lie down to cover him, and his pillow perfectly positioned to accommodate his head.
Faced with such a scene, Danye felt full of determination, for a second he thought that maybe the world was a good place to live. Forgetting his worries, he put on his most comfortable clothes to sleep.
He lies down...
Feeling the comfort of his pillow and the warm protection of his blanket, he feels completely at peace. Danye slowly closes his eyes and gives in to his tiredness. Less than a minute after lying down, he was already asleep, but then...
Within his dreams, Danye was lying on a cloud and feeling extremely comfortable, until suddenly, several more clouds began to approach, dark clouds filled with lightning. As he looked in the direction of these clouds, a terrifying thunderous sound began to fill his head, and the feeling that his eardrums were going to explode became stronger and stronger, and then…
Danye woke up.
His face was wet with sweat, his head was aching and his heart was beating fast, and to make matters worse, there was the sound of loud music playing outside his house.
Danye gets up and decides to open the window to get some air and try to calm down from this horrible nightmare. When he opens the window he looks towards the sound of loud music, what he sees leaves him completely terrified.
It was late at night, 1 am, a time when any respectable person should be inside their house sleeping or taking care of their own business.
But outside, Danye sees...
He sees a group of young people who seem to be around 20 years old.
These young people seemed to be carrying several suitcases into the house next door while talking loudly. One of them looked towards Danye's window, and smiling broadly, the young man waved his hand and shouted, "GOOD MORNING NEIGHBOR, WHAT'S YOUR…"
Before the young man could finish his sentence, Danye quickly closed the window. When he heard the word 'Neighbor', it was as if all the thunder from that nightmare had come together into something even more terrible and struck his mind with even more force than before.
He felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.
How could this be happening?
That house had been vacant for over two years, and knowing the owner, Danye knew that he had no plans to sell or rent it out. How did this happen?
Did something happen to the owner?
Is he sick?
Did he die?
Did he go crazy?
How could he betray me like this?
Danye suddenly felt very sad. Could it be that her happy nights of sleep have come to an end?
He decided to go into the kitchen and get a glass of water to drink.
As the water filled the glass, he thought that maybe he was overreacting a little.
Maybe these new neighbors aren't so bad after all.
Maybe they're just a little excited because they just moved in.
Maybe all this noise is just tonight...
Right...?
A little calmer, Danye decided to go back to bed.
The noise outside still irritated him, but he consoled himself by saying that it was just for tonight.
And so... the night passed...
And another one...
And more another one...
And another one more...
And the sound...
It never stopped...
Every night those young people would get together...
They would turn up the music...
And stay up late drinking and talking loudly.
Danye was on the verge of going crazy. The pillar that supported his sanity in this world was his moments of sleep.
And now...
He lost that.
Danye's father died in a work accident when Danye was just a baby.
His mother worked hard and did her best to give him a comfortable life and a good education. But her health deteriorated due to overwork. She died a few years after he graduated in engineering.
Danye was never one to have many friends, and the few he did have could not be considered very close.
Danye was left alone.
He didn't want to waste all the effort his mother invested in him, so he dedicated himself to working to have a successful career.
And he wanted those few seconds in his dreams when he could see his mother, so he enjoyed every second of sleep.
...
"Please I can't take it anymore, I just want to get some sleep..." - He whispered to himself.
"Anyone...?"
"Help..."
"Just get me out of here..."
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[DING! - Is that all you want?]
"Yes."
[DING! - Teleporting host to the Demon's Lair... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...]
"Wait... WHAAAAAAT?"