A set of gray eyes opened.

Isaac had slowly begun to regain his consciousness.

As he looked around in confusion and puzzlement, he slowly began to remember due to his flaw.

All his memories came crashing down like a wave.

The state of grogginess and confusion vanished instantaneously.

Isaac looked around at the alarm.

Many questions flow through his mind that he cannot truly get an answer to at the moment.

Yet as he looked around he saw three people laying on the floor.

One was a young woman with silver hair.

Another was a small cute young man with black hair and a disheveled appearance.

And the other was a young woman as well with blonde hair.

Yeah, unlike the two others who were close to him yet kept their distance.

The blonde-haired young woman was squeezing him like a teddy bear.

Nephis, Sunny, and Cassia.

Yet, as he kept looking, he couldn't find the last person.

'It seems she is dead'.

Electra had been exposed to too much water and her flame body had become utterly extinguished.

She had died before she could truly reach the castle within the forgotten shore.

"Your nightmare is over".

Isaac whispered.

Looking around, it had not been that long ever since he passed out.

They still have it, made it towards the castle, or even met Athena.

All that could wait, however.

The mysterious dream that he had just now made him tremble.

Not only was it completely out of nowhere.

What frightened him the most was the fact that he could not remember all of it.

His flaw which did not allow him to forget...

Became completely and utterly useless.

Some small parts he could remember, but others were too fuzzy.

Isaac sighed.

He was not in the mood of scaring himself at the moment.

He needed to analyze what happened.

How was he able to escape the tentacle creature?

Where did all that power come from?

What should he do from here on out?

He already had an answer to two of the three questions.

The first one was rather simple he had gained the strength to momentarily escape the reach of the creature.

The second, however, was much more innate...

Literally.

He had remembered one of his many abilities or his innate ability.

[Acetic] was an ability that allowed him to store his emotions.

He would slowly accumulate it, and then once it reached its boiling point he could use it.

Before he did not understand what the ability did or how he could use his stored emotions.

But after what happened with the tentacle creature, he finally understood.

He also understood the reason why he had been so cold and distant, willing to use the others and manipulate them to his whims.

Innate abilities are passive in nature.

It was active without the individual's knowledge.

As such Isaac's emotions have been suppressed ever since his First Nightmare.

That is why he was able to calculate everything so ruthlessly.

Even now he was coldly calculating and evaluating how this ability affected him.

And it seemed to overwhelming fear underwater he felt was his true emotion.

That was what happened when [Acetic] was not active.

As long as [Acetic] was active, he could always think upon levelheaded thoughts.

But when [Acetic] was full.

His emotions would return to normal.

Looking back upon his choices it all made sense.

Why would he not panic after coming to a new world filled with so many monstrosities that could kill him just by a glance?

Why did he not miss his old world where all his friends and family were?

It was all due to his innate ability to suppress his emotions.

And it seems that when it reached its limit, it flowed into his body as the thing he desired the most at that one moment.

Isaac sighed.

Too many revelations had come at one time and he was exhausted.

Laying back down, he began to slowly close his eyes.

As his consciousness slowly began to fade away into the peaceful embrace of sleep he thought of his past life.

Yet it was weird....

His old world where he came from felt like an illusionary dream.