Time in a collapsing world

[Puzzled female voice: Huh? Why are you sleeping here? 】

[Silent male voice:...]

[Reluctant female voice: What is your name? 】

[Indifferent male voice:...]

[Excited female voice: There is no name... Then, let me choose one for you! 】

[Helpless male voice: No, I have a name. 】

[Disappointed female voice: Hmm~What is it? 】

[Male voice forced to make a temporary name:...Li. 】

……

Li had a dream.

In a daze, he saw a strange yet familiar scene.

There was a boy and a girl. The boy was sitting on top of a mountain of corpses of giant beasts, looking confused. The girl was standing under the pile of corpses, showing no fear. Their mouths were opening and closing as if they were having a conversation.

The boy is him... Then who is this girl?

I can't see clearly, but she looks so familiar... I've definitely seen her somewhere.

Before he could close the distance between the picture and the girl, the scene in the dream gradually became blurry... This was the rhythm of waking up from a dream.

Tsk, this is what happens when the critical moment comes...

Really unpleasant.

……

"Dilili!"

The sun shone on Li's face, causing him to be unable to open his eyes for a long time.

...Did you not close the curtains last night?

Li smashed the alarm clock that had been beeping with her fist, blaming it for not being able to see the follow-up.

Rubbing his eyes, Li turned over and pushed his right hand towards the bed board, trying to support his body, but it came up empty. Unexpectedly, Li's head suddenly hit the bed board, and his right arm... He was completely submerged in it. From an outsider's perspective, Li now looked like a disabled person who had lost his right hand.

Does he have the ability to activate?

Li opened his eyes, but the scene in front of him shocked him. Many "foreign objects" were blocked in front of his eyes. They were familiar but slightly different. This time, the "foreign objects" were no longer as indescribable as before. Instead, they became colorful balls, large or small, filling Li's entire field of vision, making it impossible to see the original scene in the room.

It's like... these "foreign objects" have become more concrete.

"Li, today's breakfast is..." Kosmo's voice paused.

"...What happened to your hand?"

"Oh, exercise your abilities." Li supported the bed board with his left hand, "pulled" his right hand out of the bed, and followed the sound.

As expected, Kosmo's body was completely blocked by various balls, but he himself was not aware of it. He even walked to Li's bed and handed today's breakfast on the bedside table to Li.

"...You're a little strange today." Kosmo's voice came from behind the pile of balls. This scene... was terrifying.

"Is there a day when I'm not weird?" Li said casually, and based on his feeling, he took the dinner plate from Kosmo's hand with his left hand and put it on his lap.

Looking at the various balls placed on the legs, if you look carefully you can still see a bit of the shapes of dinner plates and sandwiches.

Li tried to touch them with her left hand, but it went directly through them. Judging from the touch, her fingers should have been inserted into the sandwich.

"...Li?" Kosmo didn't understand what he was up to.

"That's part of the training."

Li took back his left hand, slurped the food crumbs on his fingers, and then tried to stretch out his right hand. This time he grabbed a white ball, but within a few seconds of being held by him, The orb gradually faded until it became transparent.

【life】

This is the information Li sensed from this ball.

"?"

What do you mean?

"Snapped!"

There was a sound of breaking porcelain in his ears, and the shards cut his skin.

Li couldn't see her own "blood", and could only see a string of extremely small purple and blood-red balls flowing out from between the gaps in the large flesh-colored balls that symbolized her arms.

Did the plate break?

Li had some guesses.

"Kosmo, what's going on now?"

With his vision blocked, Li had no choice but to ask Kosma, a normal person, for confirmation.

"...The plate was broken." Kosmo looked at Li in surprise, but still answered honestly.

"How did it break?"

"...It broke inexplicably." Kosmo couldn't explain. After all, the plate went from complete to shattered in just a few seconds.

"Yeah……"

Li tried to discuss with Kosmo, "Kosmo, how about...you go out first?"

"Okay." Kosmo knew that Li might have something of his own to do, so he didn't want to watch from the side, but walked to the door without saying a word.

"...I will come back to clean up those debris at night."

"No, I'll take care of it myself."

What a good boy... Is this why Gratius likes him so much?

Li felt that she needed to learn from Kosmo.

"Click——"

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Li also started his own experiment.

[Understand and extract]

He sat cross-legged on the bed, his eyes scanning back and forth among the many spheres, and his mental power was highly concentrated. Li wanted to distinguish them, at least not to extract some important things. He asked Cosmo to leave for this reason, to prevent accidental injury. friendly forces.

【————】

not enough.

【born---】

carry on.

【life】

That's it.

Spotting a small black shadow in mid-air that should be an insect, Li pinched the black ball... no, it should be said to be a particle, because it was too small.

There was no force, he was here for testing, and it would not be good if he accidentally crushed the test subject to death.

Even if this concept is extracted, this thing will not survive.

As expected, when the particle was separated by Li, the small black figure covered in small balls in the air suddenly seemed to have lost all power, falling rapidly and fell onto Li's quilt.

"How do I turn it off...?" Li was worried again. No matter how he opened and closed his eyes, this time the world still did not return to its original appearance.

Do you want to insert your own eyes?

No, no, self-harm should be considered a ploy, think of other methods first...

Li thought for a while, then got out of bed and went to the bathroom according to her past memories.

Turning on the faucet, Li poured water on his face, soaking his eyes. The scene in front of him suddenly became unstable. Just like last time, all the balls in front of him disappeared without a trace in a few flashes. .

"Ok?"

Li just felt relieved, but found that something seemed wrong with herself in the mirror?

His eyes changed, the whites of his eyes turned black, the pupils turned white, and there was a black spot in the center, just like the moon covering the sun during a total solar eclipse, empty and weird.

Not only that, through the mirror, Li saw clearly that his eyes seemed to have a consciousness of their own, and he was looking at himself in front of the mirror sarcastically.

"..."

Li was silent for a while, then without hesitation stretched out two fingers and thrust them into his eyes.

"Ouch——!"

Li screamed in pain. He felt that the moment of inserting the eye was much more painful than cutting off the thigh!

But it’s not a loss, at least after recovering his vision, Li’s eyes have returned to normal.

The moment before inserting his own eyes, he clearly saw the frightened look in his own eyes.

This blow was not easy for it either.