"Ruriki-"

I heard a voice calling me. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Ruriki!"

I called again, this time the voice was a bit rough, and I couldn't tell which direction it was coming from, but I knew it was Momoi's voice.

- But I can't see him.

Before, at the moment when Chiba asked us, "Who sees the red window", in just a few seconds, I blinked, and the situation suddenly changed without warning...

The "calamity" scene appeared again, this time more visually striking than the "illusion" just now, and I couldn't tell from what angle I was looking at everything in front of me.

There was a deep red between the sky and the earth, there was no classroom, no people, no everything, no light, or I don't know where the light source came from, in short, everything in front of me was clearly visible... You can see the boundless blood red, like a blood in the sky, everything is submerged without a trace, and I don't even feel that this place has a edge, the outline of a space that should be, there is no here, it is a kind of emptiness that makes people not know where they are, there is no direction, as if someone has painted a large piece of paper with a pen covered with red paint, and I, thrown into this mass of color—this is the feeling, I can't feel where my body is, what is the use of consciousness and thinking to convey such a picture...

Where is this?

Why is this happening?

Why am I here?

With the doubt, my heart was pounding wildly, and I gradually saw that there were many black spots in the red, wriggling and spreading... Slowly connected together to form a piece, like a black wave in a sea of blood, gradually approaching me...

I didn't know where to hide, it seemed like there was nowhere to hide, just as I crouched down and hugged myself together... I heard Momoi call me - "Ruriki..."

I don't know how many times I screamed, I couldn't answer him, my throat seemed to be locked, and the "black wave" was getting closer and closer to me, and when I could see it clearly, I realized that it was countless figures, constantly gushing out from somewhere...

They have no faces, just blurred black shadows, cloudy outlines, more like some kind of glued sticky stuff wrapped together to form the shape of a basic person, and also emit a creepy rancid stench...

Before I knew it, I noticed that I was surrounded by these things, crawling towards me, and when they got closer, they began to collapse, corrode, and melt into puddles of disgusting, unrecognizable shapes... And just like that, keep getting closer, keep melting...

I held my head so hard that I didn't dare to look at anything, and I didn't know what unimaginable things I was going to endure in the next moment... I don't have the extra strength to be afraid, my body has lost the function of "calling for help", and no one can save me, it's like... Having fallen into hell... No, wait a minute, I think I hear something muttering when those things are approaching me...

"Lily of the valley puppet..."

"Lily of the valley puppet..."

――What?

... I?

I am...?

"Ruri-hi!"

It seems like someone screamed at me with all their might... Suddenly, it was as if something had shattered, a feeling of breaking my shell, and my consciousness gradually expanded, expanded, and began to approach reality from a certain "crazy" vortex.

I'm awake!

I half-leaned into the crook of Dr. Sennan's arm, and when I opened my eyes, the three of them looked clear and clear into my pupils.

"Nozomi... Thank goodness you woke up, you suddenly fainted just now, I'm so worried about you again..."

Dr. Sennan said, looking at me.

"Just now..."

I muttered in my mouth, just... In their eyes, I fainted, but in my opinion, I clearly remember every detail that happened, I didn't forget it at all, I didn't lose any of my memories.

"Ruriki, you haven't lost your memory, have you?"

Momoi looked at me anxiously, and Chiba Nori, who was next to him, also looked worried.

"Nope."

I replied in the affirmative, and that's when I realized that a few of us were in our own classroom, with the lights flickering above me, and I sat back in my chair and recalled some of the details of "that scene."

The moment I saw those black shadows, I remember as if I had been hit by some powerful wave, and there was a pain that struck me, jumping from my waist to my brain, as if an electric current was hitting me directly, I was like... The feeling of being invaded by something...

"Ruriki, did you see any strange sights just now?"

Chiba Nori's expression was unnatural and he asked me, I should say that it wasn't like asking a question, it was more like some kind of confirmation.

I nodded, and then said everything I had just seen thoroughly, and after speaking, Chiba Noria looked at me in horror and was speechless for a long time.

"What...?"

I felt that something was wrong with him and that something terrible was happening...

"Ruriki, can I shake your hand?"

Norito Chiba's voice even trembled a little... What's going on? Why does he want to look at me like that? It was like some unfathomable "phenomenon" coming back to me...

I looked at him and slowly stretched out my right hand.

As if to send a message through this action.

We shook each other's hands... In an instant, I was delivering a message to him at the same time that he was also delivering a message to me, a lethal message.

Norito Chiba stared at me with wide eyes in horror, and when he let go of his hand... There was a mark in my palm that I hadn't seen before.

I can't express the strange shape of the imprint, like a child's scribbled symbol, showing a faint red, as if it was imprinted.

His expression and the imprints on his palms were illustrating an extremely terrible truth.

I think Chiba Norishi had used the same method to confirm someone's identity before, so that's when he knew the answer, just like he confirmed me at this time...

A word silently appeared in my heart-

"I am, Suzu, Lan, puppet."

My heart began to beat wildly, and there was vomiting, shortness of breath, severe dizziness, nerves in my whole body were aching, I suddenly knelt on the ground, my palms pressed my heart, and the discomfort at this time was incomparable... If I had to say anything... It's like... Sense of near-death.

"Nozomi—"

Dr. Sennan helped me up.

"Go to the hospital."

I shook his hand away, and from his overly frightened expression I realized that I must be looking to him like a stranger he didn't know. With my vision blurred, I saw that Dr. Morinan seemed to be about to call or something, and along with the ringing in my ears, I heard Momoi keep asking Norishi Chiba, "What happened..."

The three of them looked and sounded more and more indistinct, but I could still vaguely hear a few words...

"Ruriki, what are you doing here?"

"Nozomi... Stop..."

"Ruriki..."

"Hold her..."

... In the end, I couldn't hear anything, and before I knew it, I was running away to a subway that was going somewhere, and I looked up at the road map, and one of the stops was where I usually get off when I go home.

I'm on my way home.

In this way, the escape and getting into the car just now were all consciously moving, but I didn't know at all, as if there were two souls controlling the same body, I found an empty seat where no one was sitting down, the pain all over my body had disappeared, and like all normal people who were not sick, the state at this time was so good that it couldn't be better, perception, nerves, memory, everything entered a state of calm.

――Why did I suddenly become a lily of the valley puppet?

Just as I was about to get to the bottom of this fact, I looked around carefully again, only to realize that as a lily of the valley puppet, the "world" in front of me turned out to be like this...

(I've been moving recently, so I can only change it, and I'll resume the second shift after moving in a few days, and I'll apologize to all of you who read the book, and bow three times!! ）