diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6b73d79..9dd0bc5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@poppinss/colors": "4.1.0-2",
-    "emphasize": "^6.0.0",
-    "pretty-repl": "^4.0.0",
     "string-width": "^6.1.0"
   },
   "author": "virk,julien-r44,adonisjs",
diff --git a/src/colorizer.ts b/src/colorizer.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index a4352a8..0000000
--- a/src/colorizer.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * @adonisjs/repl
- *
- * (c) AdonisJS
- *
- * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
- * file that was distributed with this source code.
- */
-
-import { Sheet, emphasize } from 'emphasize'
-import useColors from '@poppinss/colors'
-import { Colors } from '@poppinss/colors/types'
-
-/**
- * Maps the token types to the colors
- */
-const sheet = (colors: Colors): Sheet => ({
-  'comment': (s) => colors.gray(s),
-  'quote': (s) => colors.gray(s),
-
-  'keyword': (s) => colors.cyan(s),
-  'addition': (s) => colors.cyan(s),
-
-  'number': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-  'string': (s) => colors.green(s),
-  'meta meta-string': (s) => colors.cyan(s),
-  'literal': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-  'doctag': (s) => colors.cyan(s),
-  'regexp': (s) => colors.red(s),
-
-  'attribute': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-  'attr': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-  'variable': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-  'template-variable': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-  'class title': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-  'function title': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-  'type': (s) => colors.yellow(s),
-
-  'symbol': (s) => colors.green(s),
-  'bullet': (s) => colors.magenta(s),
-  'subst': (s) => colors.magenta(s),
-  'meta': (s) => colors.magenta(s),
-  'meta keyword': (s) => colors.magenta(s),
-  'link': (s) => colors.magenta(s),
-
-  'built_in': (s) => colors.cyan(s),
-  'deletion': (s) => colors.red(s),
-
-  'emphasis': (s) => colors.italic(s),
-  'strong': (s) => colors.bold(s),
-  'formula': (s) => colors.inverse(s),
-})
-
-export function colorizer() {
-  const colors = useColors.ansi()
-  const colorSheet = sheet(colors)
-
-  const highlight = (s: string) => emphasize.highlight('ts', s, colorSheet).value
-  highlight.colorizeMatchingBracket = (s: string) => colors.bgBlue(s)
-
-  return highlight
-}
diff --git a/src/repl.ts b/src/repl.ts
index 7447645..292be31 100644
--- a/src/repl.ts
+++ b/src/repl.ts
@@ -8,11 +8,9 @@
  */
 
 import useColors from '@poppinss/colors'
-import { REPLServer, Recoverable } from 'node:repl'
-import prettyRepl from 'pretty-repl'
+import { REPLServer, Recoverable, start as startRepl } from 'node:repl'
 import stringWidth from 'string-width'
 import { inspect, promisify as utilPromisify } from 'node:util'
-import { colorizer } from './colorizer.js'
 import { Handler, ContextOptions, Compiler } from './types.js'
 
 /**
@@ -348,14 +346,12 @@ export class Repl {
   start() {
     this.#printWelcomeMessage()
 
-    this.server = prettyRepl.start({
+    this.server = startRepl({
       prompt: '> ',
       input: process.stdin,
       output: process.stdout,
       terminal: process.stdout.isTTY && !Number.parseInt(process.env.NODE_NO_READLINE!, 10),
       useGlobal: true,
-      // @ts-ignore
-      colorize: colorizer(),
     })
 
     /**