After school this afternoon, Qing Keisuke did not go to the activity room.
Hoshino Fujiko vaguely seemed to hear his voice. She held the book and was in a daze for a while. When she came back to her senses, she forgot where she had read.
She stood up and stood by the window, looking towards the playground in the distance.
The afternoon sun shone slantly, leaving colorful light paths on the glass. She opened the window again, and the dry and warm outdoor wind suddenly blew over her cheeks and hair.
"ah……"
Hoshino Fujiko raised her hands to shield her eyes from the sun, and then squinted her eyes with some comfort, enjoying the warmth of this moment.
"Pass the ball!"
"here!"
She looked towards the football field in the distance, where a large crowd of onlookers had gathered, and it was difficult not to notice.
Then, she saw the only member who was supposed to come to the club to participate in activities, wearing a blue player's vest and running wildly on the green field.
Aoi Keisuke ran quickly, rushing from the midfield towards the opponent's penalty area.
Regardless of the fact that his hair was messed up by the wind, his current expression and appearance could not be clearly seen from a distance.
"Qinggui-kun! Charge!"
"fight!"
With his nimble feet, he passed two football department defenders with a flick of his shoulder, and then volleyed with his big foot.
"boom!"
Fujiko Hoshino's eyes followed the black and white football into the net.
The stadium immediately burst into cheers like a wave of cheers.
Hoshino Fujiko stretched out his hands, formed a box with his thumb and index finger, and brought Keisuke Aoi into the center of the box facing the sun.
Then the "photo frame" showed Arisukawa waving her hands and cheering, and Chizuru Shiraishi standing outside the subway net of the venue.
Aoi Keisuke was like a huge black hole, firmly attracting their attention.
"A group of...monkeys."
She slowly put down her hand and waved towards the setting sun.
——Another day is about to pass.
The sun sets, the stars appear, and there may be light clouds floating in the sky, passing by the moon, until dawn comes.
"..."
Hoshino Fujiko took a cold bath, dried her hair, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep.
She had a dream that she had not seen for a long time. In the dream, she was walking through a prosperous forest. The cold moonlight passed through the treetops and fell to the earth, giving everything a light silvery luster.
In the jungle, there were fireflies fluttering and the shadow of a deer passing by in the distance.
She strolled on the straw mat until she reached a pool of water.
She stopped involuntarily, and the rippleless water surface reflected the stars and moonlight, which was so beautiful and intoxicating.
Following her gaze, the water in the pool lit up little by little, as if there were fireflies in the water shining brightly, illuminating the entire pool one by one.
She saw fish swimming in schools in the water plants, and crabs burrowing into the sand in panic...
"Will you listen to me?"
Suddenly, a warm and clear voice sounded in her ears.
She turned around suddenly, but there was no one in the dark jungle.
"who?"
"Listen to me."
"Listen to me."
"Listen to me..."
The source of the sound is actually in the water!
She suddenly looked towards the pool water. In the center of the pool water, in the last area that was lit, a huge corpse was quietly crawling there, as if it was an isolated island in the middle of the pool water.
In the half-sunk head, vines grew out of the hollow eye sockets, producing moon-white petals in clusters, emitting a hazy fluorescence.
"ah!"
Hoshino Fujiko backed away in horror, completely forgetting that this was just a dream because of this real dream.
She ran away quickly, fireflies flying everywhere, illuminating her path forward.
But no matter how hard she tried, the road in front of her kept getting darker, as if her next wrong move would lead to her falling into the abyss, into the eyes of a corpse.
"Huchi...huchi..."
She panted violently, as if there was a fire burning in her lungs. Finally, she tripped over an exposed root and rolled down the slope of the straw mat.
never mind……
Just give up.
Just die like this.
She was lying on the lawn at the bottom of the slope, feeling the pain coming from her body, and thought so.
After a few breaths, footsteps sounded beside her, and then the hazy moonlight in the sky was blocked by an annoying, familiar face.
His expression was playful, gloating, and his malicious smile made people want to punch him.
"President, are you okay?"
Do you seem to have no problem with yourself?
but……
Hoshino Fujiko suddenly woke up and realized that it was just a dream.
She sat up and slowly wiped the sweat from her forehead.
There was silence in the stuffy room, and the entire campus was quiet and peaceful.
"Is the air conditioner broken?"
The wealthy daughter of a rich man murmured to herself, walked into the bathroom barefoot, ruffled her wet hair, and took a cold shower to wash away the heat and sweat from her body.
It was already late at night, and she was too lazy to call someone to come over to fix it. She simply took a thin blanket from the cabinet and went to the sofa outside to spend the night.
The air conditioner outside was still running steadily. Fujiko Hoshino worked for a while before lying down again, but for a while he no longer felt sleepy. 33
She was thinking about the dream she had just had. Although the details of the dream had been automatically forgotten after she woke up, some important scenes were firmly remembered by her.
Why would I have such a dream out of thin air?
She thought for a while and looked at the string of wooden beads on her wrist, which was the control tool that Tetsuya Yezakura gave her in the afternoon.
He said it was a very precious treasure, and each bead was equivalent to an advanced protective spell.
"It should be because of this thing..."
She put the back of one hand against her forehead and the palm of the other hand against her heart, feeling a slight sting. The low and gentle voice echoed in her ears like an auditory hallucination.
"Will you listen to me?"
And is this a sound that only you can hear?
The sound coming from this string of wooden beads?
What on earth is this?
She took off the bracelet and put it in the desk drawer along with the pistol.
Since it was Tetsuya Yozakura who handed this string of beads to her, Hoshino Fujiko believed that there would be no danger. However, when such an incident occurred, she could not be sure whether it was related to the curse she was carrying.
The moonlight from the window spilled in and fell on his and Qing Keisuke's desks. The cold colors seemed to sink the room into an underwater world, isolated, dark and cold.
The cold gradually invaded the whole body.
Hoshino Fujiko stood in front of the table, caressing his cheek, looking at the "Asuka Collection" placed on the corner of the table, imagining whether his face at this time was as deserted as the moonlight.
But no matter what she thought and how she tried to divert her attention, she had to think about a question——
Why does Aoi Keisuke appear at the end of the dream?