“Orion….”

His eyes moved inside the eyelids but he continued to sleep.

“Orion….”

What's this voice?

For a moment, Orion couldn't tell if it was a dream or real. His brows furrowed as he subconsciously decided it was a dream and was about to fall back into deep sleep when he heard it again, and this time, it was laced with a trace of amusement.

“Wow, you're really that autistic, huh?”

‘Hey, I'm not autistic!’ Orion thought back but didn't say a word. In fact, he couldn't even if he tried.

“Sure, and I'm not invisible to you,” said the voice again.

Wait, this voice was actually talking to him? Orion tilted his imaginary head in confusion.

“Of course, I'm talking to you, sunshine. I'll be talking to you, in fact, for a very very long time. You cannot get rid of me now.”

“....”

Orion frowned as a hint of discomfort filled his heart.

What the heck was this? No, it was better to fall back asleep than to talk to some kind of weird imagination.

“Wow, you're not just autistic but also dumb.”

Orion chose to ignore this stupid voice for the time being. You have all had voices in your heads from birth, don't you? The kind of voices that are especially annoying and blaming you for every small mistake, constantly either criticising you or praising you? Yes, he guessed that voice was probably it.

Maybe he should just go to sleep.

“If you dare to fall asleep again, I'll never allow you to wake up.”

“Okay, okay,” Orion finally decided to give in to this imaginary voice and said, helplessly, “Who are you? What do you want?” He paused and added, “You're my voice. So forget I asked the first question.”

After speaking in his head to the voice, he felt he was stupid as heck. Who the hell talks to voices in their heads unless they are stupid?

“Uh, Gods?” The voice spoke. “Gods do that all the time. Or… used to.”

“I ain't a God.” Orion paused again and felt irritated in the depths of his heart, “Why am I talking to this voice again?!”

“Alright, it seems like I should show you instead of telling you.” The voice finally returned to normal without having a hint of amusement or flirty tone. “Once you reach that dream, your task will be to merge with me.”

“....Huh?” Orion was confused as heck.

Merging? What the heck?

Before he could understand what was going on, his consciousness started feeling fuzzy. This was the second time he felt like he was about to fall back into a sense of deep sleep.

As he was about to lose himself into the depths of darkness, there was only one thought floating in his head: Why was it happening again?!

But of course, this time it was only momentary. He was close to falling into deep sleep when his consciousness abruptly woke up once again, and not just woke up, but he felt himself hard, extremely hard, so hard that he found it painful a bit down there.

But that wasn't the thing that shocked him the most. His hardened thingy was surrounded tightly by something and it was coupled with a sound of sobbing of a male voice, not full of pleasure but of extreme pain.

Orion: “....”

What kind of situation was this?

Where was he…?

No, it was probably his dream, wasn't it? He should just close his eyes and he would wake up. That's right, it should be him feeling fuzzy to the point of hallucinating in real life. After all, he probably hadn't done it for a very very long time, so that's why his mind created such a scenario for hallucinating. It was just his biological need that yearned to be fulfilled. That's it. There's nothing more than this to it.

This, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. But the more he stayed in that state of being, the more his focus turned towards the wall that surrounded his thing. His breathing ragged and mind turned hazy. He swallowed, feeling as if he were standing close to a volcano, which was about to burst out of the mountain top.

He felt as if he were walking on a sword, although it made him feel adventurous but at the same time, it was dangerous to the point of hurting.

“C…Can you just release it?” A voice…. Quite familiar, spoke to him. “How much time are you going to take….?”

That voice….

Orion's brows furrowed. His entire focus was already hazes around that thick, firm, and extremely tight wall around his thing. Couple it with the kind of situation he was in, he was absolutely not in the kind of situation where his brain liked thinking rationally.

With an unfocused gaze, he looked at the whitish and soft back of a young man that faced him in a doggy pose, arched back, so beautiful that he felt he was wondering if he was hallucinating about heavens this time. After a while of looking dazed, he heard the man's voice once again, “Orion…. What's going on? Are you stuck again…?”

Stuck?

Orion blinked, a hint of embarrassment flushed km his cheeks the moment he realized what phrase meant. For a moment, he forgot all about his confusion and instantly said, “No.”

Stuck? Please, he was perfectly fine. He knew how to masturbate once in a while, and that his thing wouldn't be stuck or anything. He knew….

Wait, that's not the point!

He looked at the person's back and belatedly realized he was inside the butthole of a man!

A man!

All the confusion and dream like haze transformed into shock of fucking a person of the same gender as he instantly pulled his hands away.

Sure, he was from a futuristic world where Alphas, Omega, and Betas lived happily ever after, but he was among those rare Alpha species who wanted a female Omega rather than a male. Despite knowing female Omega rarely bred children, he still couldn't imagine himself fucking a tender and soft man.

Never.

So… What the fuck was happening?! Why was he suddenly in this situation?!

His thoughts reverted to the previous one when he was still wondering about whether or not he was hallucinating.

Yes, definitely hallucinating! This couldn't be true!

“Hey, what are you doing?” The man finally had a touch of irritation in his voice as he said, “You know what, we are done here. If you're not going to man up and actually do it, just tell me. I wouldn't continue to expect things from you.”

After saying that, he instantly detached himself from Orion, but because he moved so suddenly and because the process of sex wasn't very smooth, a jolt of pain thrashed throughout the anus area as it looked slightly injured as if he had gotten a fisher.

The man shrieked in pain as he laid on the bed for a few seconds, gasping for breath.

Throughout the time, Orion, who had also been suffering from immense hardness and pain, felt as if a fishbone was stuck in his throat.

He wanted to release, he wanted to fuck someone, just anyone! He was so damn hard right now! But looking at the person curling up on the bed with a butthole covered in blood… he didn't know what to do.

Someone, just someone, explain something to him!

Just as he was wondering he had probably gone mad or was doubting his sense of existence, a female, robotic voice echoed into his consciousness.

“Host Orion Stars, welcome to the dream 101973XPM.” The female voice paused and said, “I'll give you a brief into what's happening. You're currently trapped in the space between life and death, a space which is frequently visited by humans and all those sleeping entities on all life planets. This is your…. Wait, why does the data show this is your first visit? Strange.

“Everyone dreams, and whenever you dream, one of the system's like me contacts them and registers their identity into the server for future reference. So why…. Why has there been no data about you except for your name?”

The female voice was merely a robotic system. So after analyzing for a while, it came to a conclusion the next second. “Oh, your data has been deleted. It probably was caused by a bug, which we will fix. Anyways, welcome to this dream world. I presume you made a wish or had a need to be fulfilled before you fell asleep, no?

“That's why you're here, to fulfil your wish through these dreamy realms. Since this is your first time, I'm assuming it is your first time because of the protocol since there's no data, I'll walk you through the rules. Do you want me to continue with the rules or do you want to learn about the dream purpose that pulled you into this dream? You can choose one of these options.”

The female robot stopped speaking for a while, and when she didn't receive a single response, she hesitated and asked again, “Orion?”

At the time, the hazed and dazed Orion just realized something when listening to the robotic voice. He knew who he felt the man's voice, the man whom he was ‘fucking’ earlier into a bloody mess, sounded too familiar.

It was the same voice that had awakened him and flirted with him earlier! And after flirting, that voice left him with a strange task to merge with him….?

When he thought of that person’s confident and amusing tone and when he compared it with the curled up man's voice….

Impossible! How could these two be the same person?!

But their voices were the same… as if the same person were speaking in two different tones… as if someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder were here speaking in different identities with the same time!

Orion couldn't help but he stunned at this realization.

“Orion, are you listening?”

“....listening.” Orion finally understood after the robotic voice repeated the introduction again and he asked, “What are the rules?”

“Rules are simple. Fulfill your dream purpose, or else you will be stuck in this dream world without a way out.”

Orion was curious now that he understood what was going on with him. “Are these rules the same for everyone?”

“Yes,” said the robotic voice, “that's why some people find it hard to wake up.”

“What if they were forced awake?” Orion frowned because he remembered forcing himself to wake up despite wanting to sleep several times.

“Their lifeline is reduced by a year.” The female voice stated, more like, bombarded that statement in a casual, indifferent tone. 

But to Orion, it felt like he was utterly shocked by the revelation!

Throughout his life, all he did was take his sleep and dreams for granted! And as a result….

“Yes, that's why you're in a state between life and death, more so appropriate than others. Other dreamers have a way out, but not you. Once you fail to fulfil your dream purpose, you will actually die while being stuck in this dream realm for life, probably forever.”

Orion felt a chill down his spine upon hearing those words.

If he failed to fulfil his dream purpose, he would be stuck here for…. forever?!