"And then?"

Melly propped her chin in her hands and listened to the story told by Renzi with relish.

"Later?" Usami Hasuko picked up the straw and took a big sip of the Coke in the cup, and continued:

"Later, the werewolf named Caiodis and the tanuki monster named Eryan Yuzo, the two of them came together to exchange the tanuki for the prince and defeated the attacking vampires. ”

"And then?"

"And then, and then it'll be dawn!"

As she spoke, Hasuko shook the Coke cup with only ice cubes left and tossed it into a plastic tray full of empty bags and chicken bones. Melly sat across from her, smiling and eating.

The two were in a Golden Arches restaurant at this time, chatting about their adventure some time ago. said it was "chatting", but in fact, it was just Lianzi talking there alone, and Melly was watching her brag from the sidelines, which was quite happy.

After all, he is one of only two people who have slept with the whole mutation, and who is the other one? is the one with an eight in his name, very old, with a lot of makeup, and always smiling, who looks old-fashioned all day long, and who points fingers in front of young people like the old members of the club but doesn't do practical things?

"Hey, hey, hey......"

"Why are you smiling so well, Melly?"

"Oh, no!"

After Lianzi's reminder, Melly hurriedly put away her silly smile, but her face was still full of joy.

"I just think," said Melly, "you're pretty busy while I'm sleeping!"

"Who do you think this is due to?" Lianzi hugged her arms and said a little helplessly, "If those vampires didn't get your power, they wouldn't have been able to cause any trouble at all, and we wouldn't have to be so tired." ”

When Melly looked at her like this, she tilted her neck, opened her big innocent eyes, and asked with a look of ignorance:

"Is it my fault?"

"Of course!"

"Hey!"

"Hey...... What a ghost!"

Looking at Melly's innocent and slightly mischievous smile like a six-year-old child, Lianzi couldn't help but shake her head - funny, angry, but after all, she couldn't attack, she could only rely on her for everything. After waking up, Melly's personality seems to be different from before, and Lianzi can't tell what is different.

Broadly speaking, it just feels different. It's not that I'm getting naïve, it's that I ...... She has become like an optimistic old child who looks down on everything and returns to her true nature after a hundred years of ups and downs, not arrogant, impatient, and always greets the new day with the most perfect smile. Although she was originally a girl as soft as water, she was still like an ordinary person before.

Now she can always bring people a feeling of "inhuman", or "beyond people".

Lianzi only hopes that this is her own heart.

"Speaking of which, Lotus Seed...... " Melly said with a smile as she looked at Lotus Seed's troubled expression, "You know, when I was in a coma, I had a long, long, and quite interesting dream. ”

"Dreams?"

As soon as she heard this word, Lianzi immediately adjusted her sitting posture, pricked up her ears, and entered the mode of focusing on the test points in the last lesson of the semester.

Past experience taught her that Melly's dreams had to be studied carefully.

"Are you dreaming of Gensokyo again?" asked Hasuko.

"Yes!" Melly nodded vigorously, "I met a very homely, very dark, but surprisingly kind-hearted prop shop owner, and he took me to a place called the 'Red Devil Pavilion'. It was the vampire's abode, a rather luxurious European-style manor. ”

"I met all sorts of people and youkai somewhere, like a doorman who slept standing up, a maid lady who could stop time, and a vampire sister with a rather exaggerated personality. By the way, I almost lost my life while playing with that 'sister', hehe...... How's that, that's interesting, isn't it?"

"It's not something 'interesting', is it?" Hasuko raised an eyebrow, "What about later?"

"Then there were zombies in Gensokyo, just like the living dead in the movie, and I hid behind the window and watched the monsters fight the dead, and I was terrified. But that sister didn't care about the outside situation, and insisted that I play cards with her. Ah, yes!"

"When I was sleeping in a dream, I had another dream...... I mean, I dreamed that I had a dream. ”

"Is that what is called a 'dream within a dream'?" said Renzi for her.

"That's right, that's it!" Melly nodded, the smile on her face was long gone, and her whole person looked serious, "In that dream, I dreamed that I was wearing quite mature underwear, and my figure became very strong......"

"Spring dreams, this is!" Hasuko interjected.

"No, listen to me!" said Merry, waving her hand several times before she continued:

"In my dream, I was lying on a bunk on the floor, covered with a quilt, and my body was quite tired, as if I had just been awakened in the middle of my sleep. With great difficulty, I climbed up from the mattress, looked around, and found myself in an unfamiliar Japanese-style bedroom. The doors and windows of the room were closed and dim, and the layout and decoration were like nothing I had ever seen before. ”

"And then?" said Lianzi, who was a little absorbed in her hearing, and unconsciously urged.

And then I sat on the bunk, unable to move at all, and my mind went blank, as if I wasn't myself. I don't know how long it took for me to suddenly open my mouth and say a word. ”

"What?"

"'Long time no see, Melly, how are you doing?'"

"Huh?"

Renzi was shocked, and so did Melly, who said this.

"Weird, isn't it?" said Melly, "I can't possibly say that to myself, but I just said it." The dream was very vague in general, but this sentence was so clear that I could remember the voice and intonation clearly, as if the whole dream existed to convey this sentence. ”

But, again...... Huh?"

Lianzi slapped her head and suddenly stood up from her seat, as if her mouth had suddenly opened.

"What's wrong, lotus seed?"

"No...... I just remembered one thing...... I just told you about it, right? That's when I took the key I asked for from my predecessor and sneaked into Nalan Yu's house. ”

Lianzi said, sat back slowly, and continued:

"At that time, didn't I get a call from someone I don't know? As soon as the guy on the phone came up, he said, 'I know who you are and what you want,' and gave me the boot code of Nalan Twilight's mobile phone. ”

Speaking of this, Lianzi's voice lowered a lot, and her expression became a little mysterious. Melly nodded, and listened to her continue:

"The guy's last words were, 'Say hello to Melly for me.'" ”

"Huh?"

Melly's eyes widened and she couldn't say a word. Lianzi turned her head, glanced around a few times, and after making sure that no one was looking this way, she leaned closer to her face, covered her mouth with her hand, and whispered:

"Melly, I feel like someone is watching us. I don't know where those eyes were, or how they hid themselves so well, but I could feel a cold gaze on the back of my head. It's like being targeted by a sniper, you know what I mean, Melly?"

"It gives me chills. ”