[Vampire Knight] Briar

【Human beings cannot escape death, and only human beings know that their own death will come eventually.Our existence is to be aware of the limitation of the time we have left, to be sure of our mission, and to be determined to move forward. 】

——Heidegger (being to death)

I couldn't hold back my curiosity, so I quietly walked to the door and gently opened a crack.

There were three people confronting each other inside the door.I know two of them, the one with his back to me was the one who was going to kill me a few days ago, Jiu Lanshu.As for the other two people, one of them is a male who looks somewhat similar to Jiu Lanshu, probably also from the Jiu Lan family?And in his hands, he held a girl hostage.

The girl was held in his hand like a chick, struggling with her head lowered, her long black hair fell down, blocking her face, making me wonder who she was.

"Finally, there is a flower that blooms only for you." The man holding the girl looked a bit evil, his left and right eyes were blue and the other red, and he grinned, which was a bit coquettish Feel. "But one day, she will be devoured and withered? Just like this...is it okay?" He forced the girl to raise her head, and then bit the girl's fragile neck.

that girl! ! !It's Yuuki!

she! !was eaten! ! !

Why!Can Jiulan Shu watch Jiulan Youji being eaten by that 'monster' in such a cold-blooded way? ! !

Isn't he her brother and fiance?

I covered my mouth tightly to prevent myself from making a sound.

I can't beat him, I know.

But I have to know, does Jiu Lanshu really love her like You Ji said?Yuuki is already my friend, and I can't watch her be in danger in the real world.

If this dream world is an early warning for me.At least I need to know why, why is Jiu Lanshu so indifferent?If I can hear the key information or evidence from the conversation below... I can make Yuki believe me and make her be wary of Jiulanshu.

Therefore, instead of fleeing from that door, I quietly opened it a little more, carefully observing every move of the two remaining people inside the door.

I have to say that the world inside this door is completely opposite to the world where I met the Youth League, yet it looks very similar.

On the contrary, the world of my youth group was once pitch-black, but the world where Jiu Lanshu resides is filled with white light, as if there had never been darkness.

However, both worlds are empty.Nothing.Except for the 'creatures' in front of me, the others didn't even have a decorative pattern.

"...You really are an existence that only gathers the filthy parts of me, Li Tu..." Jiu Lanshu's voice did not show the sadness of losing a loved one, and there was not even a trace of fluctuation.He said to the pure-blood standing opposite him, whose mouth was covered with blood and only Yuuki's blood-stained clothes remained in his hand, "I understand, so don't ask me the same thing again and again. You, that is myself."

Following Jiu Lanshu's words, the pure-blood opposite him laughed loudly.Immediately, that strange pureblood disappeared?The person holding You Ji's blood-stained shirt in his hand... turned into... Jiu Lanshu himself? ! ! !

I watched Jiu Lanshu kneel down slowly on the ground, on the pool of blood left by 'You Ji' being swallowed.

He didn't cry, and his face was expressionless, but his whole body exuded a kind of heartfelt, thick despair.

After a long time, he slowly closed his eyes, lowered his head gently, and kissed the pool of blood devoutly.

Then, I heard another person's voice, as if it came from outside the dream. "My lord... my lord!..."

Jiu Lanshu must have heard it too, because he suddenly raised his head, looked around, and met my gaze.

I saw him looking at me with a somewhat stunned and disbelieving expression.I was also there in a daze, feeling overwhelmed by the peeping and being discovered.

Fortunately, soon, before Jiu Lanshu could do anything more, his figure dissipated before my eyes like fog, and the door in front of me also slowly closed, disappearing without a trace.

I know, this is a dream.

Fortunately, people often don't remember what happened in their dreams.What happened in the dream will be forgotten when you wake up.Like the morning dew, it disappears.

Jiu Lanshu... why did he become like this?

I still remember the boy who once made my heart beat when I was a child.

His eyes were clear, and although his demeanor was distant, he looked noble and gentle.I still remember the shy and timid expression that the eldest lady Liujia in Zaoyuan saw him for the first time; and the proud expression on Lan Tangying's face when she talked about him.

Although nearly ten years have passed, they were all old friends that I couldn't forget when I was a child.

Whether you like it or hate it.But I have to say, if there is anything that makes me feel nostalgic for Japan, it can only be them.

For no reason, I suddenly felt very sad.

The pure-blood king who shyly longed to make friends with Lan Tangying, now looks like a desperate beast in his dream.Even someone like me who is not very familiar with him can feel the loneliness and exhaustion emanating from his soul.

But I can't help him.

I haven't forgotten that Jiu Lanshu once wanted to kill me.

I don't know why he wants to do this, let alone forgive or not.

Because, he is nothing more than a 'child of other people' who I didn't have much intersection with when I was a child.The intersection I have with him is only because my "bad friend" Lan Tangying is his fanboy, and my "opponent" Zaoyuan Ryuka is his fangirl, and I act recklessly because of my face. Made some 'brainless' moves.

I have no reason to meddle in his affairs.I don't even know what happened to him at all.

So, I can't help him.

Qing Tuan seemed to sense my sorrow, it jumped down from my shoulders, suddenly became very big, and then rolled with its tail, rolling me into its soft belly hair.It hugged me with all four feet in the air, and brushed away the broken hair on my forehead with its long, pointed kiss.

Being disturbed by it like this, the unknown sadness in my heart dissipated a lot at once.

Look, how well my youth group is raised by me!The fur is smooth and smooth, and there is no sign of weakness or scars from the past.

But... I don't seem to have entered Kaoru's dream before, what kind of door belongs to him...?

I thought so, but I also said it to myself.

There was a "bang", as if Cinderella's magic at twelve o'clock had finally failed, and Qingtuan, in front of me, turned into Kaoru Iris, who was still coaxing me to sleep in the real world just now, wearing the same pajamas.

I stared blankly at him for a long time, and he also held me in his arms in the same way, with the same movements as the "little green monster" that belonged to me just now.

"Qing... Qing Tuaner?" I reached out and tried to poke his cheek.

He seemed to have reacted suddenly, and replied docilely, "Yes."

Then, he got up from the ground and pulled me up from the ground by the way. "I wanted to tell you a long time ago, every time you open these 'mental doors' so recklessly, even sometimes, I'm not by your side. Such behavior is very dangerous, don't do it again in the future. "

"Ah, good." I was still dumbfounded and didn't react.Why did the little monster I raised in my dream turn into Iris Kaoru in the blink of an eye?

"Also, sometimes your habit of running around without wearing shoes has not changed. Will the spiritual world not get sick? Next time, remember to make yourself a pair of shoes and a windbreaker."

"Okay, Mommy Iris." The familiar nagging words of Iris Kaoru made me answer subconsciously.When I answered the exit, I realized that I had said the wrong thing.

Kaoru Iris didn't react to being offended.

Instead, he leaned closer to me, his dark green eyes stared straight at my dark green pupils: "Liang, you like Jiu Lanshu so much? Obviously, I am also very beautiful." His eyes are so It turned dark red in an instant, with the familiar coquettishness and grievance in my eyes, exactly the same as that clingy 'little thing' today.

I feel that I have been bewitched by his beauty, he looks so 'beautiful', I really want to...so I tiptoe, close to his lips...

"Iris Kaoru!" When I was about to kiss him, his eyes turned green again, I was in a trance, and immediately woke up, and then pushed him away from me. "You control my mind again?!"

"No, Liang." He suddenly became nervous, "I never controlled your thoughts. I just induced you, but I finally gave up. I was just...just jealous. When you were young, you and Jiu Lanshu I confess, so, do you also like him now?"

"How much have you lied to me? Qingtuan? Iris? Iris Kaoru? Which name should I call you?"

"It's all right." Iris Kaoru straightened his expression slightly. "I didn't mean to lie to you, I've always been your youth group."

"Your ability is very special. It is to control the realm of the mind connected with the dream." Iris Kaoru said, "When you first saw me, I was still in the form of a 'monster'. At that time, you This form has a deep subjective bias.

"Later, when you reappeared in my spiritual realm, you thought that I should be like the 'Youth Tuan'.

"However, you can change the existence form of other people's "spiritual realm". Therefore, in front of you, I was restricted by you to look like a youth. And just now, you hoped to meet me as Iris Kaoru, That's why I appeared in front of you in my real appearance."

"The realm of the mind? Isn't... isn't this a dreamland?" I always thought this was the world of dreams.

Iris Kaoru shook her head: "Dreams are the entrance to the realm of the mind. The corridor we are in now can be said to be the world of dreams. But behind each door is a personal inner world. The appearance in the world, That's what he looks like inside."

"For example, when you first met me here, my heart was devastated. I was indeed ready to die alone. Because in my heart, I was that ugly, bruised and empty monster.

"But you brought light into my world. You saved me, healed the wounds in my heart, and brought color to my world.

"Your every move, your words, tell me little by little how beautiful this world is.

"Through your eyes, I finally see the beauty of life and what it's like to feel happiness.

"From then on, protecting you has become the meaning of my existence."

"I am indeed Kaoru Iris, and I am one of the ancestors of the Iris family.

"The reason why your father is willing to keep me by your side is because the day I was summoned back to this world, that is, the day you were just born, I signed a vow with you.

"The content of the oath is that as long as you exist, I will serve you and not do anything harmful to you. Therefore, it is impossible for me to achieve the condition of 'destroying the Scarlet House'. As long as you are in the Scarlet House, I will always be The sharpest sword belonging to the Hizakura family.

"So I asked Fei Yingshi to find someone to seal my pure-blood identity, in order to better protect me by your side. The condition for unlocking the seal is your blood, a lot of blood. If you are not willing, unless you kill the master , otherwise it would be impossible to get so much blood.

"I remember that the day you were born was sunny, and the calamus outside the window bloomed large tracts of purple flowers. Scarlet Sakura asked me what pseudonym I will use in the future. I told him, let's call it calamus. That's my right Thank you for being born into this world."

"But I... didn't I meet you after I was born? Why have you been guarding me since I was born?" I still have a question.

"When I was awakened, I took the only small piece of fluorescence in my spiritual realm out of that dark world." Kaoru Kaoru said to me: "I wanted to keep that piece of light that would never go out, Accompanied by my little light source, I returned to the colorful world. But unexpectedly, that piece of light flew directly into your body.

"At that time, I just wanted to see, what would that child who carried the light in my heart that I have always refused to abandon me be like when he grows up?

"I didn't have the desire to live at all, but I thought, at least I must protect this child from growing up. So, I signed a vow with you, who was just born."

"Later," Kaoru Kaoru put me in his arms again, with a voice full of intimacy and happiness: "That child saved me from a world of nothingness and loneliness. She was the most precious gift this world gave me. treasure."

"I love you, Ryo." He put his head lightly on my shoulder and whispered in my ear, more like a sigh. "I love you."

He just hugged me like this, until I slowly reached out and wrapped my arms around his waist, closed my eyes, and felt his breath with peace of mind.

"I love you too, Kaoru."

I've finally confessed honestly, the strongest feelings I have deep down inside of me.