When I was born, my mother gave me a divination once, the only time.

When I was very young, I remember my mom and dad arguing a few times, but I don't know why. When I grew up, this made me even more confused about what the quarrel between my mother and my father was about.

When I was 5 years old, in the middle of the night, the dream demon infected my dreams, blood, red blood, I saw my mother covered in red blood, and then in front of me, the red blood gradually subsided, and my mother's body gradually dissipated. I cried but didn't dare to take a step closer to my mother. I was so young that I was so frightened by the image that I could only cry out loud.

At this time, I felt my father pick me up and rush out of the wooden house, and when I opened my little eyes that were still holding tears, I saw that the wooden house was already on fire. I cried even harder, screaming for my mother. And my dad was holding me, outside the cabin, and he didn't rush in to save her. I hate him, I hate him for not being able to protect his family, I hate him for being cowardly and afraid of death and not daring to rush into the fire. And I couldn't break free of his strong arms. But soon the fire receded, as if the wooden house had never been exposed to the fire, and it stood intact in its original place, not even a trace of blackening existed. But I never saw my mother again.

My dad put me back in my bed and just said sorry that my dad wasn't brave enough. No more explanations. Maybe he thinks I'm too young to understand. But in the next 15 years, when I asked my dad about that night in different ways, he was always silent, or at most sorry.

That night, I sat on the edge of my bed and refused to sleep. In the darkness of the night, quietly, I could hear my father open the door and walk out. In front of my door, there was something, and my little eyes were staring at it. I didn't know what it was, it stood there and said softly: "Don't be afraid, I'm a dream demon, but I won't hurt you, I want to help you devour the dream you just had, for you, that dream is too cruel, but the energy of that dream is too strong, I can't devour it." Saying that, he walked to the window, I saw his calm face through the moonlight, his appearance was very cold, not at all like the dream demon I imagined, I saw a horizontal scar under his left eye, but this did not affect his cold appearance, the scar, it looked like a new injury.

I asked him, "What's wrong with your face?"

He said, "It's fine, it's just a minor injury."

Then he said, "Sign a contract with me, your mother is gone, and I will protect you in the future." ”

He's a dream demon, but I'm not afraid of him, maybe he's too gentle when he talks to me, and I don't hate him. But I still said, "I still have my dad here, and my dad will protect me." ”

The Dream Demon said, "No one knows how big this forest is, and the contract will take me wherever you are, as long as you summon me."

I thought for a moment, ran to the outside room to get the knife, stretched out my little hand, cut the palm of my hand, and ran back to the house, signaling him to stretch out his hand, we crossed our left hands, and I recited the spell spell in my mouth: "I am the man of the contract, the gods and ghosts do not bless, the contract with the lord of the dream demon, and I am lodged with him, and he blesses me safely until death, and the evidence of the contract is behind my ears, like the mark of his new wound." ”

After that, I had a horizontal scar on the back of my left ear, just like the one under his left eye. By the time I left the forest at the age of 20, I never had any nightmares again.

Many days later, my father found the evidence of the contract behind my ear and was amazed that I had done the contract ceremony alone, and that he had never taught me any sorcerer's magic.

My father was surprised and asked me what the contract I had signed with.

I told him he was a dream demon, and my dad didn't say anything. With a wave of his hand, Gokihara appeared, and Dad didn't even use the summoning spell, just waved his hand and completed the summoning.

Gogihara tells us that dream demons are harmless, mostly loyal, and looking for the same master for all generations. I thought to myself, it seems that this is not the first time that Dream Demon and I have signed a contract. It's just that it's a different me. Gokihara continued, but the dream demon devouring the nightmare is itself a dark creature, although it will not harm the master, but because it is too dark, it will affect the darkness in the master's heart.

Dad looked at Mori Gokihara, Gokihara looked at me hesitantly: "Little guy, the forest is full of life and will dominate your heart from being eroded by darkness, do you want to sign a contract with me to restrain the influence of the dream demon." ”

I pouted, "No, I don't want to restrain him, there is no clause in our contract that I want to restrain him." ”

Wukihara also pouted and looked at his father helplessly. Dad didn't say anything and let Gogihara go back.

But 20 years later, I still don't understand how I signed a contract with Gogihara when I was 5 years old, and what method my father used. I still don't know.

The Dream Demon has always called me a little one, but I think the name of the Dream Demon is too terrifying, and because he is looking for me to be the master all over the world, I asked him what I used to call him. Dream Demon smiled and said: "Sure enough, you in every life will ask me this question, and in every life before you, you call me Blackpool."

Because my mother died like she suddenly disappeared. I've always wondered if my mom is dead. So I used to raise my head at night and try to use astrology to divinate the past, but without the guidance of the soothsayer's mother, I couldn't do anything. And my father is an absolute witch doctor and warlock, and he doesn't have too much research and study of divination. But I often divined myself, trapped in this cabin. I don't understand what that means.

I refused to learn any spells from my father, who knew so many spells, but he still didn't save my mother in that fire.

Until the day I was 20 years old, my father said that he wanted me to inherit the forest, and I refused him, I didn't want to be trapped in this forest for the rest of my life, although I never walked out of the end of this forest. This forest is as far as the eye can see, and it took me 2 months to find the edge of this forest, and in the end, it was Gogihara who brought me back to the wooden house. Gogihara said with a smile, this forest is boundless and endless.

I asked Gogihara why it was just me and my dad in the forest, and there was no one else.

Gogihara touched my head and said, "Your father will explain it to you later."

I'm not going to ask any more questions.

I was afraid that my father would force me to sign an inheritance deed, because he now had only me as a son, so I ran away. But I had no idea that as early as when I was 5 years old, he had Gogihara sign an inheritance contract with me through other means.

My escape was unexpected. I was just thinking about escaping from this forest, and then I met the gatekeeper tree of this forest, and he asked me why I wanted to escape, and I told him that I didn't want to be trapped in this forest that I hated for the rest of my life. I hated the wooden house, I remembered the image of my mother being engulfed in flames, and I hated my father's cowardice and indifference to the fire.

The gatekeeper tree said that this forest is a world, and there is no place to go in this world, but the portal will take me to an unknown world, and no one knows what it will be like there. But he can record the location of my entry into the unknown world, and leave a hidden portal, and when I want to come back, I can come back as long as I find the location to enter the unknown world. But he will only help me once, no matter what that unknown world is like, whether I like it or not, when I come back, he will not open the portal again. Because it is against the law of the master of the forest. And nothing can be taken away, both tangible and intangible. I will remember the forest, I will remember the location of the portal, I will remember my parents, but I will not remember everything in the forest.

This means that I want to go to the unknown world naked, and the contract signed in the forest world will be invalid in the unknown world. Even if you are a warlock, you won't remember the contract you signed. Because I can only take the things of this world with the permission of the forest master, and now, we are breaking the law.

I just wanted to escape, and I agreed without much thought.

I escaped from the forest where I had lived for 20 years.

(To be continued)