[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

44#Chapter Grimm's Fairy Tales

"<My pain, burn the world--!!!>"

Accompanied by the girl's shout, the fierce hot wind hit Kise's back and knocked him to the ground!The blazing flames exploded behind him, enveloping the alien monster in an instant, and swept up with astonishing momentum amidst the monster's shrill and unhuman howls, the stench of burnt meat wafted through the mouth. Floating in the alley——

——When Kise turned around, this was what he saw.

The whole body of the burning monster was quickly carbonized, rampaging in the narrow alley, and from time to time hit a ferocious scorched mark on the wall. Behind it, a girl in a black gothic lolita dress was icy and full of murder. Staring intently at this side.

In the next second, with the rattling sound of the utility knife being pushed out of the scabbard, the girl once again pressed the blade on the criss-crossed arm, and pulled it violently along with the blood——

"————————————————<burning>!!!"

The dripping blood, like molten iron, burned through the concrete floor under her feet with a sizzling sound, and transparent flames gushed out in swirls, engulfing the burning monster in an instant.

"Hi———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————!"

The monster let out a final hiss, was swallowed by the flames, and turned into dust and ashes.

The girl watched it burnt to the ground with cold and disgusted eyes.

Then, she turned her cold gaze to Kise Ryota.

"Hey--"

Not caring about her arm that was still bleeding, she raised her foot and walked towards Kise Ryota, the black leather boots made a hard sound when they stepped on the ground, and the red utility knife in her hand was still dripping blood——

"You guy..."

"Student Yukino???"

A boy's call came from the alley, the girl stopped, and the moment she turned her head to look——

Kise Ryota suddenly rushed out to the other side of the alley.

***

——What exactly is that?

On the afternoon when he escaped from the alley, Kise sat on a chair in the classroom, thinking about this question.

Just recalling the feeling of being stood behind by "that thing" at that time, goosebumps rushed out.

Kise Ryota didn't have enough calmness to think about it until now, what is that thing, and...

Who is that girl.

'Although she doesn't look like a good person, as far as the result is concerned... she actually saved me, right? '

Frightened by the girl's perverted and murderous behavior, the young Kise boy who ran away couldn't help but feel guilty.

'Maybe she's the one exorcising this kind of thing?super powers?Warrior in the dark?Mafia with special abilities? ...oh no the last one must be because I watched too many home tutors. '

Recalling the scene where the blood was burning, Kise Ryota couldn't treat the girl as a normal person anyway - the blood of a normal person cannot burn through the cement board.

'However, it should be over, right? '

Kise Ryo thought too uncertainly.

--finished?

--of course not.

When Kise Ryota saw the two people standing at the school gate, his whole body froze.

The boy in the moss-green school uniform walked towards him with a embarrassed smile. Not far behind him, a slender, cold, and almost unbelievably beautiful girl was standing there, with a black lace bow that was incompatible with the old-fashioned sailor uniform. It was tied up high, giving people a different sense of strangeness, and she was staring at Kise coldly with those ice-like eyes.

That was the goth girl who appeared in the alley this morning.

Kise took a step back involuntarily, and when he was about to run away, the boy had already walked in front of him, looking at him in embarrassment.

"...That, classmate?" The boy who gave a harmless impression scratched his hair, and said a little embarrassedly, "We are not bad people, are we?"

"Uh……"

Seeing Kise's guarded look, the boy shifted his gaze a bit, and still reached out to him.

"My name is Bai Ye Cangyi, and the one over there is Tokitsuki Yukino. If I have to say, we are people similar to 'psychic power users'." He smiled embarrassedly, "It's not easy to talk here. It's convenient, may I have a chat with the coffee shop at the door? In order to better deal with the 'thing' you encountered at noon today."

—Psychic.

[Come on, Mr. Liang. 】

Kise Ryota stretched out his hand subconsciously, and caressed the place on his back that had been touched before.The cold touch still seemed to remain there, he lowered his eyes, and after a while, he smiled at the boy in front of him.

"Alright then, Bai Ye-san."

——Hey, Mana.

"I'll go with you."

—Are you still crying now?

***

"If the two of you are psychics..." Ryota Kise sat in the seat where he and Kuroko sat in the morning, and looked up at the three people opposite him, "Do you believe that there is still a soul after death? ?”

For some reason, Tokitsuki Yukino's face became ugly.And the boy named Baiye Cangyi looked up at Yukino's back, then nodded to Kise.

"...Well, we believe it. If you ask this question, has anything unusual happened in your life recently?"

"Actually recently... I saw a friend who had passed away for a year." Kise Ryota stretched out his hand to support his forehead, "It should be said that it wasn't just me, my teammates who were present at the time also saw it."

Kise told Shirao Aoi what he saw Kuroko Mana in the Central Gymnasium.When talking about not only him and his teammates, but also several old classmates from other schools seeing the dead girl, Tokitsuki Yukino frowned more and more.It happened that the waitress brought the drinks ordered by the three of them, Kise stopped his words, got up to take the coffee handed by the other party, and smiled at the waitress.

"I'll be fine, Ito-san."

The petite and lovely waitress showed a timid smile to Kise, then handed him the tray, her hands were mixed together cautiously, standing by the table, secretly looking at Tokitsuki Yukino with a pair of big maroon eyes.

"Well, are these two your friends, Kise-san?" She bit her lip, her eyes swept over the two of Bai Ye Cangyi, "...I mean...it seems like I haven't met them before look..."

Huang Lai was stunned, then raised his hand unconsciously to touch his forehead, showing a bright smile.

"Well, it's a new friend." He handed the tray back to the waitress, took out a Fukuzawa Yukichi from his pocket and put it on, "Here, Ito-san."

"Too, too many, Kise-san..."

"The extra money is a tip." Kise Ryota blinked at her, "Thank you Ito-san for taking care of me for so long."

The girl blushed slightly, and lowered her head while holding the tray, and after a soft reply, she secretly glanced at Huang Lai from under her bangs, her cheeks turned even redder.

"Then I'll go first, Kise-san... I hope you have a nice day."

"Thank you, Ito-san too."

Tokitsuki Yukino looked at the back of the leaving girl and narrowed her eyes slightly.

"She is?"

"A classmate in our middle school failed to go to high school due to family reasons, and is now working in this shop." Kise took a sip of coffee, "Because they are all classmates, so I will take care of her a little more... Even so Said, usually she takes care of me more, ah, sure enough."

After stirring the coffee cup with a small silver spoon, a cat's paw marshmallow was scooped out, and Ryota Kise smiled.

"Is it marshmallow today?"

However, Bai Ye Cangyi's face changed slightly.

"Well, may I ask, when you drink coffee here, does that student Ito put something in your cup every time? Does she also make your coffee by herself?"

Kise nodded in confusion.

"She put the things... But coffee, shouldn't it be?"

Bai Ye Cangyi pursed his lips, and turned his eyes to the back of Yukino, for some reason, his face became more and more ugly.

"... Haichang High School, is there any activity recently?"

Kise Ryota turned his gaze to the campus gate, and saw a few students hanging strings of balloons on a high stand, and he smiled without any haze.

"Oh, that, there is a cultural festival recently, Haichang's repertoire is a three-day masquerade party. You can come if you are interested, and students from other schools are also very welcome."

"……yes?"

Bai Ye Cangyi became silent, and silently tightened his hands under the table.

***

"Fufu...that child doesn't have the aura of <Nightmare Bubble>. 』

After Kise Ryota left, the undead girl who had been lying on Tokitsuki Yukino's body with the same face giggled.She is Yukino's long-dead sister——Tokitsuki Funo, and she is also the source of all Yukino's "nightmare".

Nightmare Bubble.

The moment she heard these four words, Xue Nai's face became more and more ugly.

——In this world, somewhere, God is sleeping.

——At a certain moment, God had a nightmare.God is omniscient and saw [all the horrors of this world] once in a dream.God is omnipotent, so he separated and discarded the huge nightmare containing "all the horrors of this time".The discarded nightmare sank to the bottom of the ocean of consciousness, turned into foam, and then split into countless small bubbles, floating up bit by bit.

—to float up, toward our consciousness.

——That is, the nightmare bubble.

"So, he has nothing to do with this incident?" Xue Nai said impatiently, "It was just an accident to break into there?"

"I didn't say that, my sister. ”Funno giggled, “Although he doesn't have <foam> on him, he must be being targeted.Hey, <Alice> also found out, right? 』

Bai Ye Cangyi raised his head when he heard the words, showing a troubled smile.

"Ah... I can probably guess."

His worried eyes followed Kise Ryota's leaving back.

"The role he played in this <Bubble Disaster> is probably... <King>."

——The <Nightmare Bubble> that surfaced in our consciousness, merged into our consciousness, mixed with the inherent fear of the individual.

——So, when this <Nightmare Bubble> was enlarged by our consciousness, the nightmare overflowed the container and leaked into reality.

——In this way, our nightmare mixed with God's nightmare became reality.

———It’s because of it, it’s a disaster.