[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

45#Thousand animal skin

Kise Ryota was walking home alone.On the empty road, the sound of only one person's footsteps inexplicably sends chills down the spine.He subconsciously quickened his pace, but the next second, his movements suddenly froze.

The following footsteps caught up unhurriedly, Huang Lai felt the hairs all over his body explode in an instant, he hurriedly quickened his pace, but the footsteps also accelerated, approaching step by step.

Kise Ryota ran wildly.

Cold sweat rolled down his back, a feeling of being stared at by a beast made him dare not look back.

"Student Huang Se?"

The girl's delicate voice stopped Kise Ryota.

Kise raised his hand to wipe off the sweat from his forehead, took a deep breath before turning around with a smile.

"What, it's Ito-san."

The girl nodded stiffly, with her hands behind her back, her fingers crossed and twisted back and forth.She timidly peeked at Huang Lai's expression from under her bangs, and quickly looked away.

"...Well, I saw Kise-san, so I came to say hello..."

Kise nodded, but for some reason, her shoulders still couldn't relax.He clenched his hands unconsciously by his side, as if he was a little strange about his own reaction, he tried to walk towards Ito.

"Did Ito-san go back alone? It's so late, it's a little unsafe. I'll see you off." Kise smiled, and suddenly remembered the conversation in the coffee shop today, "Speaking of it, every time I go there Did you make the coffee when you were here?"

"Eh...?" The girl's face turned red all of a sudden, her eyes wandered from side to side but she didn't dare to look at Kise Ryota's face, "I... that... um... I did it... Kise-san... ...do you still like...?"

"I like it very much." Kise smiled, "I rarely drink such delicious coffee."

"Yes, is that so..." The girl tugged at the hem of her skirt in a panic, "It's good that you, Kise-san like it..."

Kise Ryota smiled and looked at the girl in front of him.But I thought casually in my heart-what is her name?

Mai Ito?Eri Ito?

Oh yes, neither.

Her name is Mei Ito.

Poor, bullied Mei. —Who ever said that name to him?

Ah, it's Manna.

"...Kise-san, can't you forget Mana?"

Hearing Mei Ito's question, Kise realized that he had just pronounced the name.The girl lowered her head as if she had been hurt, and then raised her head again after a while, showing a smile that was uglier than crying.

"It's no wonder... After all, it's Mana..." Mei's eyes gradually covered with mist, and she rubbed it with her hands awkwardly, "Actually, I know, Kise-san likes Mana... ...I know. At that time, on the rooftop, when Kise-san was hugging Mana, I saw it."

Kise Ryota's smile went cold, he looked at Mei Ito expressionlessly, and after a while, he asked in a low voice.

"you saw it?"

The girl pursed her lips tightly and nodded vigorously.

"At that time, Kise-san, who pulled Mana who was about to commit suicide from the railing and hugged her tightly...you don't know what kind of eyes you look at Mana, do you?...But I see It's here." She bit her lip and laughed hard, but her tears fell disobediently, "Kise-san, do you like Mana very, very much?"

"..."

Kise Ryota just pursed his lips in disgust.

"But, one can't just live for the past, Kise-san." The girl hurriedly wiped her tears with her hands, and continued with a sob, "This, if this is the case, Kise-san will be very sad..."

"... Ha. 'One can't just live for the past'...?" Kise Ryota repeated the sentence with a sneer, "Don't say it as if you have walked out of your father's affairs, Ito-san .”

Mei Ito's eyes widened suddenly.

At this moment-

——Darkness, splashed.

A tooth-chilling creaking sound sounded behind the two of them, as if a group of arthropods were climbing over the wall, the rustling sound diffused from the shadows, and there was a cold and fishy smell in the heterogeneous cold air. The stench of the beast is flowing.Kise Ryota felt a chill running down his spine, and almost without thinking he reached out his hand to protect Mei Ito, but the girl's eyes widened and she stared behind him in horror, her throat trembling silently.

"... Kise, Kise-san... your back...!?"

Don't need her to remind.

Kise Ryota, already felt it.

The stinky and cold beast's breath sprayed on the back of his neck, where the muscles were as stiff as if they were going to burst, and the cold sweat was covered with the blown hair.

In the dead silence, Kise gave a stiff, shapeless smile to the girl in front of him, and silently made mouth movements——

【run----------------! ! ! ! ! ! ! 】

Tears of terror filled the girl's eye sockets, and from her constricted pupils, Kise could see the bloody mouth of the beast whose face couldn't be seen clearly behind it——

"<My pain, burn the world——!!!>"

Accompanied by the sound of the paperclip on the bandage crashing to the wall, a bright knife flashed across, and blood spattered——

Amidst the shrieking female voice, the blazing flames and the wailing screams of wild beasts soared into the sky! ! !

Kise hugged the girl in front of him without hesitation, and rolled forward violently, avoiding the flames that exploded behind him, he raised his head, and saw a black gothic lolita through the swaying flames Tokitsuki Yukino, who was wearing a long dress, breathed a sigh of relief.

Yukino patrolled and surrounded the place with cold eyes, and more and more "beasts" gathered, gritted her teeth hard, cursed something in a low voice, put the red utility knife on her arm again, and cut off with all her strength——

"<————————————————————————————————————————————————— Burning!!!>”

The girl groaned in pain, and her back arched because of the pain, but she still cast her eyes of hatred on the group of beasts, and poured blood like red hot liquid iron towards the group of beasts!

The scorching flames exploded like a whirlpool!With the help of Xue Nao's pain, the flames burned the solid walls, but the beasts howled in this sea of ​​flames, but they kept coming up——

Tokitsuki Yukino's face was ugly, and at the same time, the girl undead lying behind her let out a giggle.

"It's useless, my lovely little sister.Do you still remember the accident of <Rose Princess (Sleeping Beauty)>?The same goes for the pack of beasts. "Funao smiled maliciously, "Until [Princess] was rescued by [King], she couldn't take off that layer of [Thousand Beast Skin]. 』

"……To shut up!"

However, Feng Nao continued with a smile.

『How about asking <Alice> for help?You also understand that, for [Can't Stop]'s misfortune, only his broken chapters are the most useful. 』

"No need!" Xue Nai stared at the beasts that kept rushing up in front of her eyes with hatred, "I can do it alone!"

"Then—" Funono smiled coquettishly, and lightly pressed Yukino's shoulder, "<My stupid and poor sister.Do you want to give all your body, mind and pain to me? ＞』

Xue Nai's expression was distorted, she closed her eyes forcefully, and then responded.

"—<here>!"

In an instant, all the wounds on Xue Nai's arm burst open!The girl's body folded violently due to the severe pain, and let out a heart-piercing scream——

--then.

The flames engulfed everything.

In this flaming hell, a girl who looked like a witch at the stake suddenly appeared.With an extremely similar face to Tokitsuki Yukino, the queen of flames - Tokitsuki Funo.Her black gothic lolita dress fluttered in the heat, her black hair danced with sparks, her arms outstretched, and she smiled wildly and intoxicated amidst the flames and howls that burned everything.

『What a pitiful and lovely princess. Kazano leisurely stretched out her fingers, and the flames devoured the beasts rushing behind Kise with her movements, "Your face has a rather miserable look."It's a pity, the king you chose is an ordinary person with no ability, and will be swallowed up by the beasts following you, okay? 』

She smiled and looked at the girl hiding behind Kise.Mei Ito.

"It's a pity that I can't burn you, before the group of wild beasts that imprison you and protect you die—thousands of wild beasts have turned into thousands of animal skins that protect you, and can be preserved forever even if they die , so——” She picked up the hem of her skirt, spun around on the spot a few times, and called the boy behind her in a chant-like tone, “It’s your turn to play, <Alice>. 』

In the flames, the boy came.

With a delicate and gentle face, even on this occasion, the young man who still gave off an endless sense of innocence showed a troubled smile.

"I'm sorry." He gave Ito Mei a guilty look, "Without your permission, please ask someone to investigate your matter—Ito-san, after the death of his mother...he was violated by his father."

An extremely miserable look appeared on the girl's face.

"……Do not say……"

Bai Ye Cangyi showed pained eyes, but he continued firmly.

"Suffering from that kind of torture for a long time, to the point of almost breaking down, I escaped from home with the help of my friend, and got her blessing. But a year ago... your friend, Kuroko Mana, died in a car accident You lost your protection and were taken back home by your father, and you couldn’t even go to school. It’s like a thousand animal skins that were captured after escaping from the kingdom—only in your story, the two Kings are all the same character."

"Shut up——!!!!!!"

"Your fear and the nightmare bubble merged to create this bubble disaster called 'Thousand Beast Skins'—"

"I told you to shut up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Amid the girl's shrill screams, Bai Ye Cangyi closed his eyes in pain, and when he opened them again, his eyes were almost bursting with despair.

"Hey, Ito-kun—<What is the real you?>"

Bai Ye Cangyi shouted out his fragmented poem>, and released the fragment named <Alice Awakened>—as long as he understands and rejects the other party’s fragment, the abandoned person will disappear with the nightmare— -Ability.Bai Ye Cangyi, who is the least willing to reject others, and who can't let anyone ignore him-the biggest nightmare.

"<You can do whatever you want. Only you know your true form. No one can restrain you---change it>!!!"

The moment he uttered those words——

Accompanied by the loud bang of the bubble bursting.

Mei Ito was in Kise Ryota's unbelievable sight.

Turned into countless 'alien' collapse.

Thousands of beasts were wiped out at this moment.

——The dream of a thousand animal skins was shattered.

Bai Ye Cangyi looked at the scene in front of him silently, for some reason, he was clearly the creator of this situation, but he showed a deathly numb expression.

The pain was so extreme that I couldn't even make a sound, it was numb.

Kise Ryo felt too inexplicably that Bai Ye Cangyi was in so much pain that he didn't even have the energy to cry.

then.

Bai Ye Cangyi turned his head quietly, and called softly towards the entrance of the alley——

"Saki."

A girl with many colored hairpins pinned to her short hair ran over in a panic, and stood still in front of Cang Yi, panting.

"Bai, classmate Bai Ye?"

Bai Ye Soi stared at Kise Ryota with apologetic eyes.

"I'm sorry, Kise-san, we have to do this—our existence must be kept secret, and it's better for you not to remember these things."

He patted Sa Ji on the shoulder under Kise's puzzled and wary eyes, and said to her in a low voice——

"Use 'Eating Harm' on him."

"Ah?...Ah! Yes!!!"

After Sa Ji answered in a panic, she reached out and pulled out an earplug from her right ear.

Then, countless red bugs crawled out of her ears, covering Sa Ji's neck, shoulders, and arms in an instant, and flocked to Kise Ryota in the blink of an eye.

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When Kise Ryota woke up, he felt dizzy in his head.

"Uh..." He stretched out his hand and rubbed his head, looking at the surrounding environment strangely, "Where am I...?"

The strange boy in front of him helped him to sit up, and asked about his physical condition with concern.

"Student, are you okay?"

"I feel a little dizzy... May I ask you?"

The boy in the moss-green school uniform has a delicate and soft face, and when he smiles, he has a different kind of harmlessness.Behind him, an unbelievably beautiful girl was holding her arms and looking at this side coldly. A girl with short hair timidly pulled at the hem of her dress. The colorful hairpin pinned on the girl's short hair gave a vivid impression.Huang Lai's eyes swept over the three of them one by one, and for some reason, the dizziness suddenly increased.

The young man supported him intimately and smiled at him.

"We just passed by here and saw you passed out here... Is there anything else wrong with you?"

"Probably because the team has been too tired from training recently." Kise Ryota shrugged and put the question behind her, and reached out to the boy, "Thank you for helping me."

"It's nothing..." The young man smiled awkwardly, "Then, let's go first."

The boy stood up and silently nodded at the two girls.

—he forgot all about it.

Sa Ji's broken chapter <Food Harm> can devour other people's memories.It seems that this time the memory is also cleared as successfully as before.

Everything today is destined not to remain in Kise Ryota's memory.

Kise Ryota watched the back of the three leaving, although he always felt that there was something awkward, but he only smiled suspiciously at himself.

Picking up his schoolbag from the ground, he walked towards home again.

"Ahh... Do you want to go to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow? It's really troublesome. Well, I'd better go and ask my sister to ask for a leave of absence." While thinking about it, he showed no haze "However, I always feel that I have forgotten something, is it an illusion? Or did I forget my homework at school?"

The temperature in the alley dropped silently.

"Hey...it's so cold."

Kise touched his arm, frowned and continued walking.

"The recent temperature change is really strange..."

The next second, he suddenly fell silent.

Something grabbed his foot.

He hesitated, and slowly lowered his head——

A pale, blood-stained hand was gently wrapping around his shoulder in a wrapping gesture.A hideous bloody handprint was printed on his silver-gray uniform.Scarlet red.

Behind him, there was something coldly approaching.

A bloody voice, in his ear, exhaled coldly.

"Hey, Mr. Liang."

Familiar, yet so resentful voice.

"...Why didn't you save me?"

Kise Ryota's pupils suddenly tightened.

——The nightmare belonging to Thousand Beast Skins is over.

——The nightmare that belongs to him has only just begun.