Hope ~After Dystopia~ - Chapter 1

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*For the official chapter, see Chapter 1: Nyte and the Masked.*

**Nyte and the Masked** (밤 의 가면을 쓴, *Bam ui Gamyeon-eul Sseun,* lit. *Night and the Masked*), known in Japanese as **Night of Masked** (ヨル・ノ・マスク, *Yoru no Masuku*), is the first chapter of Yuhun's Wattpad fan-fiction, Hope ~After Dystopia~. It was published on April 10th, 2021, signaling the official release of Hope ~After Dystopia~ on Wattpad.

It is possible that this chapter, along with the others, is getting a revamp.

It is succeeded by chapter 2.

## Major Events

* The main antagonist of Hope ~After Dystopia~, Nyte, makes her debut.
* Shadower, Darkener, Bitterheart and Rascal, Nyte's right-hand Masked goons and the other four major antagonists of Hope ~After Dystopia~, also make their debuts.
* Nyte believes that it is all over because the Masked succeeded in driving the Seven Spirits of the Tree of Language away and corrupting the Tree of Language itself; however, Shadower reminds Nyte that the Seven Spirits are still alive and trying to exile the despair, much to Nyte's chagrin. It also leaves Nyte in a slight shock that she'd forgotten temporarily about the Spirits.
* Nyte and her right-hand Masked goons decide to begin hatching a plan to defeat and destroy the Masked, which gets Darkener, Rascal and Bitterheart excited and fired up.

## Characters

* Nyte (debut)
* Shadower (debut)
* Darkener (debut)
* Bitterheart (debut)
* Rascal (debut)
* Seven Spirits of the Tree of Language (mentioned only)

## Chapter

[MAJOR SPOILER WARNING]

*It is over.*

Nyte felt satisfied. She knew nothing would stop her, the other four leaders, and her followers, called the Masked, from plunging the world into eternal despair. Walking down the corridor, she ran into one of the other four leaders of the Masked. He seemed to shiver in his mask.

"Shadower," Nyte adressed. "What's the matter? The world is in eternal despair."

Shadower cleared his throat. "It might not be for long. "Of all things to forget, we forgot the one thing we shouldn't: the fact that the Seven Spirits are still alive, fighting to exile the despair." He seemed slightly intimidated by the idea he'd just stated. "If we don't finish them off, they could still kill us and drive hate away."

Nyte gasped. "Thank you for reminding me." She realised that even though the Tree of Language was corrupted, the Seven Spirits could still purify the Tree's core, which would make it easier for them to drive hate away. She still remembered the names of the Spirits as if the battle was yesterday. *JiU, SuA, Siyeon, Handong, Yoohyeon, Dami and Gahyeon.* Though none of them died, Nyte and the Masked had forced the Seven Spirits into hiding. "What should we do? Now that I've just remembered, I've no idea what we should do to stop them."

Shadower raised a hand. "Maybe, we can send some of the Masked to track down and kill the Spirits." He sighed. "But it won't be easy."

Nyte couldn't believe that she'd forgotten about the Seven Spirits. They were extremely powerful, for a group significantly smaller than the Masked. *What should I do? We are powerful...but the Seven Spirits may still have the power to destroy us.*

The other three leaders of the Masked-Darkener, Rascal and Bitterheart- walked up to Nyte. "Did I hear that we're hatching a plan?" Darkener asked. "Ooh, I'm excited!" He began sounding more serious. "Even though the Seven Spirits could still kill us all." They went and sat down at a table.

"And I thought that they would give in to the negativity." Rascal laughed. "They've all got strong minds not to. But this time, they won't be so lucky."

"Tell 'em, Rascal!" Bitterheart exclaimed. "That's right! We'll win this time. For sure. Because no one else besides them can resist the eternal despair that is to come soon! No one can!"

And so, they began hatching their plan to defeat the Seven Spirits of the Tree of Language- for good.

*Or so they thought.*

## Trivia

* This is Hope ~After Dystopia~'s shortest chapter, being only 419 words long.
* This is currently the only chapter of Hope ~After Dystopia~ focused on the main antagonists.
* This chapter was updated with slight changes on November 24th, 2021.