Nick came back less than an hour later and threw the corpse towards the Screaming Coffin.
This time, he had killed a guy who had been stalking the home of a young girl.
Nick hadn't bothered checking what the guy was doing exactly. He had just seen him creep around the home and look at the young girl through a crack in the wall while touching himself down below.
That was enough context for Nick, and he had killed him.
Killing this man felt different from all the other times in the sense that Nick actually felt something.
However, what he felt wasn't strong.
It was just that Nick's chest had tightened a bit as he did the deed.
Yet, the disgust and apathy he felt for that man outweighed the little bit of empathy he felt for him.
After Nick fed the Screaming Coffin, he walked out of the Containment Unit and checked up on the Dreamer's Containment Unit.