I inherited the legacy of the crumb boss

Nightmare, who was praised by Aque, showed what could be called a "happy" expression.

He felt that being praised by A Que was equivalent to being favored by her.So he knelt in front of Ah Que, closed her palms when she reached out to him, and let her hand rest on his palm.

Ah Que was a little surprised by his boldness, but he didn't say anything.

Like humans, they are warm-blooded animals, and birds generally have a higher body temperature than humans.Nightmare closed her hands and held her hands in her own.

When making these movements, Nightmare has been watching Aque's face.

He just raised his eyelids, without displeasure or rejection.

This seemed to encourage him, so he held A Que's hand and pressed it to his cheek.

The cool cheek rubbed against her palm, and the long-lost warmth made Nightmare feel a little dazed.

The ghost who doesn't know her true identity just feels her uniqueness from the bottom of his heart.

When reporting the process of action to her, Nightmare said that he likes to see human beings struggling in pain after their happiness is shattered, and those distorted expressions always make him immersed in it.

So he will always let people enter the ideal dream first, and then fall into a nightmare in their happiest moment.Such sudden changes always make those humans suffer, and their pain and wailing are the most beautiful voices in Nightmare's ears.

He also said similar things last time, and Aque pointed out that his thinking was incorrect.Now that she heard these remarks again, she did not refute him.

This made Nightmare vaguely aware of something - when the new ghost king is in a good mood, he will be extra tolerant to the "ghosts" he recognizes.

Such as Shangxianzhilu, Fallen Princess and Taro the prostitute.Another example is Winding No. [-], Tong Mo.

Nightmare knows that she will always pamper those ghosts who can please her.And it's easy to please her—just be useful.

So Nightmare also added that happy dreams will wear down human will, making them have no doubt that the dream is reality. It is precisely because of this that no one can wake up from the nightmare.

He has the prudence that Tong Mo doesn't have, and the strategy that the Luo Ji brothers and sisters don't have.

But there is still a gap between him and those ghosts, the gap between the ghost of the lower string and the ghost of the upper string.

Even the brothers and sisters of Luo Ji, who are the last ghosts of the upper string, have a power that is unmatched by the ghosts of the lower string.

The nightmare of one of the bottom strings will never be satisfied with staying in the bottom string forever.So he will always try his best to seize every opportunity, just like he crawled from an ordinary ghost to one of the lower strings.

Ah Que was in a good mood at this time, and casually replied, "It's an interesting statement."

The casual praise is also a kind of recognition for him, mainly because everything has gone too smoothly recently, and Aque, who is not angry, has an unbelievably good temper.

Whether it is a subordinate tentatively kneeling in front of her and holding her hand, or intentionally or unintentionally mentioning her another subordinate in front of her.

From Nightmare's point of view, the relationship between Tong Mo and her is probably the same as the relationship between her and the former ghost king.

In fact, not only Nightmare, other ghosts also think the same way, but they usually restrain their thoughts and instinctively fear the coercion from blood.

Ah Que considers himself a very principled ghost king with a bottom line, and if he says he won't engage with his subordinates, he really won't.But having said that, the subordinates had some kind of idea, which is actually inseparable from her "approachable".

Connivance and laxity will make people have thoughts that they shouldn't have.Just as Luo Ji always speaks ill of her from the bottom of her heart, Tong Mo always thinks about how she "falls in love" with the former ghost king, and even tries to reproduce such a relationship.

After all, in Tong Mo's view, Ah Que is also a heartless monster, but she can feel the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys of human beings, it must be because she has a lover.

Tong Mo also wanted to experience such feelings.

What Tong Mo's real thoughts are, Nightmare actually has no intention of knowing.He simply believes that if he wants to have more powerful power, he must be more valued by the ghost king.

So when Ah Que made a certain request, he didn't raise half a word of doubt or objection.

Even her request is obviously a bit weird in terms of facts.

"Let me see your vampire skills."

This is what Aque said to him. She said that Nightmare is her most important subordinate, so, "Come and prove to me the value of your existence."

Useless "ghosts" are not eligible for rewards, and useless "ghosts" don't even need to have them to survive.

Nightmare stared into her eyes, even after the blood ghost technique was activated, she still did not close her eyes.

As a sleeping ghost, Nightmare can use his blood ghost technique to awaken the dream that human beings most desire, so as to immerse human beings in beautiful dreams and fall into a deep sleep in reality.

This kind of ability, even when acting on Ah Que, also played a role.

The only difference is that human beings can't distinguish between dreams and reality, and their subconscious will make them ignore all unreasonable factors.And Aque entered his dreamland soberly.

Perhaps, she thought, this might be a way to understand herself.

Before the vampire technique was activated, Aque also thought about what he would dream.Maybe it was a free and unconstrained life before being crusaded by "Heaven", or maybe it was becoming a "friend" with Abe Seimei, sitting with him on the verandah where you can see the cherry blossoms in the garden.

Seriously speaking, for Aque, those are real happiness that existed before.

But none of those imagined pictures appeared.

——*——

When the dream is real to a certain extent, it is no different from reality.

Nightmare's blood ghost technique cannot create a complete dream, and can only center on the owner of the dream, and create everything around him.

When Ah Que opened his eyes, his gaze happened to meet a pair of red plum-colored pupils.

The young man has crow-black curly long hair, tied loosely behind his back. He is wearing a black coat, and his skin is pale and bloodless.

But he does have a beautiful and handsome face, even if that face is full of gloomy expressions.

He was always unhappy, his brows were deeply frowned, and his eyes were as red as blood.

Aque heard the sound of birds chirping, it was her own sound.

Or rather, "it".

It was a very strange dream that surprised her herself.

Even if it has something to do with Wu Mi, Aque felt that it should be her time as "God Daique".

At that time, Wu Mi would still smile at her with a gentle and refined appearance, hug her when she ran over from a distance and threw herself into his arms, and hold her hand when she reached out.

"It's cold."

Aque would put his palms in his own and warm them with his own body temperature, although this was only a short and useless action.

But she felt that she should be happy.

If you really want to say "happiness", this period of time is enough to be called "happiness" no matter what angle you look at.

But the dream that appeared in the subconscious was not at this time.

From outside the thin paper barrier door came the continuous singing of cicadas, and the boy at the low table was still watching her silently, his gaze was beyond the birdcage.

Thump, thump.

Aque heard the sound of heart beating.

The person she fell in love with at first sight was a boy who never seemed to be happy and never smiled.

——*——

Aque, who escaped from the dream, blinked, Nightmare was still kneeling in front of her, holding her hand and watching her.

Nightmare didn't enter her dream world and didn't ask her what she dreamed about.

He just said, "Did you dream what you wanted to dream about?"

Ah Que was quiet for a while, probably just woke up, so she was still in a vague trance, "I dreamed about it, it happened a long time ago."

Long ago she appeared for the first time in her true "form" to a human, and that human put her in a cage.

That was the first time she experienced the feeling of losing her freedom.

If you move a little, you will bump into the cage, and you will be confined in a narrow and cramped space. What you feel when you breathe is not grass and trees but soup.

Bitter, sultry and depressing.

The young man lowered his eyelids and drank the bitter soup with gloomy eyes.

He is always loathing everything, hating everything, and his eyes are full of unwillingness and displeasure.

But he would always hang the cage containing the bird in the room, and stick his fingers through the cracks in the cage. His fingertips were cold all year round.

Aque tilted his head to look at him, his small, fluffy body was in a mess.

His eyes were not full of love, but full of malice.

It was a young man who would touch her small head with his fingertips, and slowly push her head down to the bottom of the cage.

Thinking of this past, Ah Que's palm was still stuck to his cheek by Nightmare.

She frowned, and exerted a little effort with her hands.

The black-haired Sleeping Ghost was pinned to the floor, with one side of his cheek against the palm of Aque, and the other against the wooden floor.

Naruto, who has always been good at reading her face, has already shrunk into the distant room and locked herself.

Nightmare, who doesn't know how to look at faces, has experienced the treatment of those tool ghosts before.

Blood splashed on Ah Que's face, and she finally let go of Nightmare, but her right hand was covered in blood, dripping from her fingertips, and the spreading blood soaked a large area of ​​the ground.

She touched her face with her bloodless hand, and under her feet, one of the lower strings was slowly recovering.

"I thought I wouldn't be angry anymore." Ah Que said suddenly, "But when I really think about it, I still feel very angry."

Once a person dies, fate will also disappear. This kind of saying is actually incorrect.

Kamitai Sparrow still remembers when Onimai Tsuji was alive, and also when he died.

It turns out that people do change, and the current "Junguo" is not at all like the "Wu Mi" she has seen, the person who lives in her heart.

"Are you angry?"

After the recovery was over, Nightmare's face remained unchanged, as if nothing had happened, she was still saying that she wanted to see his value.

"Did I make you angry?"

"It's not you," Komojiro said softly, "it's someone else."

Dislike is deeper than liking, and change is easier than invariance.

Aque closed the book he had flipped through, put a feather in the title page, and carefully wrapped it in paper.

Nightmare watched her quietly.

"I'm going out for a while," she said.