[Net King] Extreme day

dream.

What is a dream?

When my grandfather died in fifth grade, I tried to dream about him and tell him how much I and my grandmother missed him, but I failed.

I don't remember when, only people who no longer exist appear in my dreams.I was so used to seeing these people that I didn't even think about how abnormal it was not to be able to dream of real people.

Yes, I can only seem to dream of death.

Regardless of whether those people were dead when they appeared in my dream, the end must be the same, they will eventually become people who did not exist.

So, is Kosaki dead too?

People who have died never initiate the conversation about their own death.Don't know, don't know, don't remember, they seem to be in a kind of chaos, only the subconscious is driving them to look for me.

So what do I do when I want to find them.

Tezuka and I came to the place where Koizumi was buried.

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

A biting chill permeated the cemetery at night, whether it was the branches being blown by the wind or the sound of feet stepping on the grass, it was like the ethereal murmurs of ghosts.

"It can only be done."

I came to the tombstone of Huang Quanshu, squatted down and touched the ground with my hands.

"If someone sees me sleeping here during the day, it will definitely cause trouble... only when there is no one around now."

"Even if there is no one now, you are doing an extremely weird thing."

I know.Who would go to sleep in a cemetery?But this is also impossible.I don't know any witchcraft to summon the dead, and the only way I can see the dead is to sleep.I want to see Huang Quanshu, but I don't know how to meet her, the only thing I can do is to get as close to her as possible.

"It would be great if I could dream of her smoothly."

I was already sitting on the ground, and the ground felt hard and cold to the touch.The grass and trees nearby were rustling, and I looked at the tombstone of Huangquanshu and took a deep breath.

"Come into my dreams...if you can hear. I need you to tell me what I want to know."

Then, I reached out and touched the stele.Only the feeling of being cold, nothing else.

Tezuka took the sleeping pills and mineral water that I had prepared in advance, because it was impossible for me to fall asleep quickly in such a place where I should not sleep, so I had to use the power of medicine to help me fall asleep as soon as possible.

I took the mineral water bottle and sleeping pills from Tezuka, and quickly took two pills.After taking the medicine, I lay down slowly, lying on the side of Huangquanshu's tombstone.

Tezuka came to my side and squatted down.

"I'll be right here with you," he said. "When you can't come back, I will definitely wake you up."

Tezuka's expression was as rigid as usual, but there was a hint of worry in his words.

"It'll be fine," I told him, "don't worry."

Tezuka offered to accompany me here.When I said this absurd and terrible idea, Tezuka did not question or object.

I know very well that what I do is incomprehensible, and it is not surprising that I am even regarded as a lunatic.But Tezuka never saw me that way.Even my biological parents may find it difficult to do this.

On the day I confessed my secret to Tezuka, Tezuka looked more serious than usual.He is a rational and serious person. After that, he read many books and materials about dreams, but he still failed to find any information that could reasonably explain my phenomenon.

Still, Tezuka didn't say decisively that he believed me, or that he didn't believe me.He never said superfluous words, he just showed his attitude with his actions.

He believes in the truth.What he wants to see is the truth.

I folded my hands over my chest and took another deep breath.Just when I was about to close my eyes, Tezuka moved his body and lay down beside me.

"Hey...how are you?"

I turned my head, and Tezuka was lying beside me, using the same posture as me, with his eyes closed calmly.

He always forgot to take off his glasses when he lay down, even now.

"Good night." Tezuka's voice came from very close to his ear, "Have a good dream."

He is here.Lying beside me.There are no more words to describe this sense of security. Tezuka and I are lying in this cemetery, lying under the dark night sky, waiting for death or the truth to come.

Swish, swish, swish.

At first, there was only the sound of the wind.

Gradually, there was no sound of the wind, and even the sound of my own breathing could not be heard.

I wanted to make sure Tezuka was still awake, so I turned my head slightly to look at his face.

However, the face lying next to me, the face that caught my eyes, and was close at hand, was not Tezuka's face.

As if shrouded in a layer of fog, the face of the black-haired girl loomed in the night.I unconsciously opened my mouth to say something, but at this moment, I found that I couldn't speak, couldn't make any sound.

"I know you're looking for me."

The black-haired girl lying next to me sent a psychic voice into my ears.

Her pupils are like her black hair, a color as rich as ink that cannot be melted.The girl stared straight at me, and for a moment, I felt as if I was being swallowed up by her.

"Our time is limited, there are dangers everywhere... I will disappear soon, and before that, I must tell you about Kosaki."

And, of course, my cause of death, she added.

I had a premonition that the girl in front of me was Huang Quanshujin, and I also had a premonition that she was about to say something very important, and I even had a premonition of the ubiquitous danger she said.But the strange thing is that when she said these words, we were like friends lying together chatting and talking, and we didn't feel any violation at all.

"Xiaosaki appeared after I became the head of the tennis department, just like what you are currently experiencing, she appeared as a friend, she will chat with you, talk to you, win your favor, and let you relax your guard. What excuse did she use to become intimate with you? That's right, the person she likes, Tezuka Kunimitsu."

If the person who was talking to me in front of me was Sumire Huangizumi, then where did Tezuka who was lying next to me just now go?By the way, this is a dream, because it is a dream, so Tezuka will not appear here.

Tezuka probably wouldn't have heard what Huang Quanshu said.

"I don't like Tezuka. It's only because of Kosaki that I have to pay attention to him. What exactly does Kosaki want from me? Of course it's not friendship. The purpose is obvious from the beginning-she likes Tezuka. I He is the head of the women's tennis club, Tezuka is the head of the men's tennis club, and we are classmates, there is no chance to get close to him, that's why Kosaki came to me."

"So, will Kosaki really be satisfied because I report Tezuka's activities to her every day? That's impossible. Even if Tezuka and I become lovers, it's just me and has nothing to do with Kosaki. Even if So what if Tezuka knows about Kosaki? Kosaki doesn’t exist, and she will never be able to walk to Tezuka’s side and touch him like we did.”

"Saki wants to control me, she wants me to like Tezuka as much as she does. Unfortunately, I can't do it, I can't force myself to like him, no matter how much Kosaki tells me about him. As a result, Xiaosaki became very angry, and I began to have nightmares, waking up again and again from nightmares. My head hurts, and I couldn't concentrate in class during the day. "

In Huang Quanshu's thick black pupils, there was a painful ripple.

"Who is Xiaosaki, why does she appear in my dreams, why does she have the ability to make me lose my memory and affect my real life? To be honest, I didn't completely trust her. I searched a lot about witchcraft. and books of folklore...then I found something like this."

"The succubus, that is a kind of demon that appeared in Greek mythology. It is said that the succubus is both male and female. They will appear when you are asleep. They manipulate dreams, seduce and deceive you, in order to achieve ulterior motives. ...For succubi, dreamers and their dreams are the most needed food for succubus.”

"Kosaki seems to be just an ordinary high school girl. As for her identity and motivation, she tries to get as close as possible to the ghost of a poor girl who was killed innocently and has not yet fulfilled her wish. But is this really the case? I believe her It's not that simple...but just when I wanted to further investigate her true identity, I died."

Huang Quanshu's eyes returned to a whirlpool-like, hollow and lifeless state.

"It was Kosaki who killed me. Because of the worsening insomnia, I could only take sleeping pills to make myself fall asleep. But the sleeping pills didn't help much, and I could only convince myself that I could fall asleep by constantly increasing the dose …the result was that one day my dose got out of hand and I never woke up.”

"Am I dead? Seems like I'm dead, like I'm not dead, after all I'm telling you everything right now. I'm pretty sure Kosaki is influencing my judgment, she's trying to reform me, she wants to have complete control over me... When I failed to do what she wanted, she used nightmares and insomnia to break me down and erase me from the world."

"So, I disappeared, and then Xiaosaki found you. To use an inappropriate metaphor, Xiaosaki is like a parasite, looking for her host everywhere. No, compared to a parasite, Xiaosaki should It's even more terrifying, because at most the parasites just suck up your nutrients and let you die, but Xiaosaki wants to replace you and me, and become you and me."

Instead of you and me, be you and me.

"That's right...that's Kosaki's true face. Kosaki didn't exist, there was no such thing as Kosaki, and there's no way to talk about her identity or her death, because she never existed in the first place. Because it didn't exist from the beginning, Xiaosaki can only appear in your dreams in that way. We are real living people, we have a beating heart and a body with blood flowing, and Xiaosaki thinks All I want is this... a living body."

"How can we get our bodies? We have our own consciousness, and we control our actions by our own consciousness, and the way to replace us is naturally to replace our consciousness. The reason why I resist Xiaosaki is because I don't Like Tezuka, my consciousness and Xiaosaki's consciousness are contrary to each other, but what if I fall in love with Tezuka? If I agree with Xiaosaki's consciousness, the me in the dream and the me in reality will merge into one, and I will My actions will follow my consciousness, and my body will follow my consciousness, which is Xiaosaki's consciousness...From then on, it will be time for Xiaosaki to take over this body instead of us."

Creepy.It was as if the blood in his whole body had been frozen, his hands and feet felt cold and he couldn't move.

Koizumi Sumire... the girl who was killed by Kosaki.He was killed because he resisted Kosaki's consciousness, and he was killed because he didn't like Tezuka.Isn't Huang Quanshu's end the end that I will usher in sooner or later?If you resist, you will be killed, if you obey, your body will be taken away. Do I really have no choice?

Am I the next Huang Quanshu... Or, Huang Quanshu is the other me.

"The target Xiaosaki is looking for is someone who is similar to herself, and she thinks she can reach a consensus with her. But she is wrong, I am not her ideal target...Compared to me, you are a more qualified person .”

Am I the same as Huang Quanshu?

Are we the same kind of people.

We who can see Kosaki, aren't we all residents of Jihiru?

"I am a failure, and you are the body with the greatest possibility of success. Because... only you and Xiaosaki are exactly the same."

The surrounding fog began to become more and more dense.An ominous black appeared in the mist, and the image of the Huangquan tree gradually became blurred.

"As I said... time is running out, I will disappear soon. I can't help you and Tezuka, I can only warn you... don't fall asleep, only when you are awake will you not be caught by her Control, must be awake... must not fall asleep... don't let her have the opportunity to get into your dreams..."

Huang Quanshu's body became more and more transparent and blurred until it almost completely merged into the black mist.

I wanted to yell her name, I wanted to yell to wait, but the sound couldn't get through anyway.In the end, only Huang Quanshu's black pupils remained in my line of sight, which were so deep that they couldn't see to the bottom.

The Huangquan tree was gone, and she was engulfed in fog.It was like I was strapped to a hard plasterboard, trying to struggle but couldn't, trying to scream but nothing.The black mist is approaching me, it is engulfing everything around in an infinitely expanding way, I have a premonition that it is about to give birth to something terrifying, I feel scared, so I close my eyes tightly.

I pray.

please wake me up...

Please let me wake up...

I kept, kept praying.

——"Is there night?"

A familiar voice sounded beside my ear.

"Come back here—there's a night!"

In an instant, the black mist dissipated, and the dazzling light broke through everything.I opened my eyes suddenly, and found that I was still lying under the quiet night sky, my clothes were soaked in sweat, and my hands were cold and numb.

"Wake up, it's night. Get up, it's night."

The person who keeps calling my name is Tezuka.As he promised, he never took a step away from my side, and was here from the beginning to the end.

I suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of exhaustion. This feeling was not caused by the fear brought by the truth, but the despair and helplessness conveyed by the Huangquan tree at the moment when it was engulfed by the black mist, which made it hard for me to let go.

I sat up from the ground, the first thing I did was not to scream or run away, but turned around and threw myself into Tezuka's arms.

I hugged him and trembled for a long time, and I seemed to gradually begin to understand Huang Quanshu's mood.Huang Quanshu said that she has no love for Tezuka, but she understands that Tezuka is innocent, and she ran desperately to Tezuka's dream to warn him before finally disappearing, which shows that she knows very well what kind of person Tezuka is.

I can't do anything for Huang Quanshu, but I know she must be a person who can distinguish between good and evil.The kind Huang Quanshu and the kind Tezuka, why did the original pure and beautiful mood, just the pure and precious mood of liking someone, become a weapon used by Xiaosaki to hurt others?

And me, how do I feel about Tezuka?I already know Kosaki's purpose, why can't I fulfill her and let her use my body to become Tezuka's lover?In this way, there is no need for Xiaosaki to harm other people, she will get what she wants and fulfill her long-cherished wish.

I am not afraid of death, because I have been used to seeing death since I was a child.If I was swallowed into the darkness like a yellow spring tree, maybe I could have a peaceful sleep that I have never had before, just like all ordinary people, dreaming about the person I like, dreaming about the thing I like, doing something A fairy tale dream.

I longed for such a permanent and peaceful sleep.However, in the end I still couldn't do it.

I can not do it.

"Kosaki...maybe she really likes you Tezuka..."

Tezuka let me hold onto his sleeve without saying a word.

"However, I don't want to lose to Kosaki... I want to go to the library with Tezuka to read, I want to watch you run on the side of the court, I want to see the day when you become the main pick and set foot on the field again... If Kosaki If I did all of this instead of me, I would definitely be very lonely... I would definitely be very unwilling... I would definitely be so lonely that I would want to cry..."

I have never been afraid of dreaming, until this moment I have a feeling of incomparable fear.

"Do you know what the polar day looks like...? It's the kind of life that is obviously living in a city with buildings everywhere, but there is no one around, no breath of life, walking on the empty streets in broad daylight, that The loneliness where no one can hear you, no one can see you, no one can embrace you..."

That's why I regard Kosaki as my only friend.

Because the only one who can hear me, see me, and keep me from being alone is Kosaki.

"However, since meeting Tezuka, the situation has changed...I often secretly think, maybe I can really be friends with Tezuka, maybe Tezuka can understand my strangeness...Maybe, Tezuka won't see me as a monster ... I hope that if one day I die before Tezuka, I can also appear in Tezuka's dreams like those who appear in my dreams... In this way, I can still see Tezuka instead of only alone……"

There was a hard, cool touch on my forehead.Those looked like Tezuka's glasses.

"You won't be like Huangquanshu." There was warmth in his steady voice that made me almost cry, "I will never allow such a thing to happen a second time."

The rustling sound of the wind blowing the branches came back to my ears, and the dark clouds in the sky slowly dissipated, revealing a thin and curved moon.

Under the faint moonlight, Tezuka and I supported each other, feeling the warmth of the life that really lived here that we hadn't seen for a long time.

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