Eight years ago]

Memories of Ji Shen】

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Her name is Alice Charlotte.

She is the only remaining daughter of the Charlotte family.

Charlotte's family knew her father very well, and they met my family on a cruise ship.

At that time, it was as if my parents were engaged to them, and Alice was my fiancée.

Although Charlotte's parents have been killed and Alice's six younger sisters are missing, her father took time out to visit Alice in England during the summer vacation.

He took me with him and told me to play with Alice.

My first accosting was ignored by Alice.

The second time, the first time, she ignored me.

People in the neighborhood said that this child was very strange, had autism, and would sit on the cherry blossom trees on the high slope of the ranch with her knees in her arms and look into the distance every day, and she didn't know what she was looking at.

After a few failed conversations, I gave up on being friends with Alice, until one day, my father found me.

He begged me to treat Alice as if she were my fiancée and treat her well, and I was reluctant at first, but after my father's persuasion, I learned that Alice waited all day on the hillside where she could see the horizon because of her father's agreement about the border, perhaps out of sympathy, relief, or appreciation for her parents' agreement to wait for her parents after death, and I decided to accept her.

"Hello, Demon King Alice, I'm the Dark Moon Brave, let's find the realm together-"

I climbed the high slope and walked up to Alice, reintroducing myself in a way she hadn't expected.

"You know the border, too?"

And the demon king Alice also introduced herself this time, and she really took an interest in me and became friends with me.

For the next few days, Alice and I would sit together on our knees under the cherry blossom trees on the high slope, looking out at the horizon in the distance, longing to find the so-called boundary line from the other end of the horizon.

"Now, Brother God, when will we find the border?"

Alice sat next to me and turned her head to me and asked.

"I don't know, maybe it's going to be a long, long time."

I put it this way.

"Is it a long, long time...... Mom and Dad will be lonely at the other end of the border..."

Alice lowered her head in such a frustration and buried her head in her knees, with an expression of almost crying.

"It's okay, I'll accompany Alice, accompany Alice to find the border, forever and ever."

I comforted her.

When Alice heard my words, her delicate body trembled slightly, and her eyes glistened with tears.

She raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and—

- "Well, thank you, Brother God. ”

She smiled.

A sweet smile bloomed at the corner of her mouth.

She smiled like a normal cute girl, I had never seen her smile so beautifully, the cherry blossoms behind her fell into her background, and her smile was like an angel.

............

During the days I was with Alice, I spent a lot of time with her in her search for the border.

Sometimes we sat together on our knees under the cherry blossom trees on the high slope of the pasture and looked at the borderline, and sometimes I took her little hand and ran into the distance to find the border.

The day was over, and then we went back to sleep.

Alice lived in a small cabin down the hillside, and I lived in a tent not far from Alice.

One night, I was a little tired after a long day of running, but somehow I couldn't sleep, so I walked out of the tent in my pajamas and a coat.

Walking on the grass of the pasture, I walked carefully in my coat and crossed a path to the side of Alice's cabin.

"Woo woo woo ....."

Well?

I heard a low sob, as if it was a girl crying.

Alice?

Confused, I slowly approached Alice's cabin.

- "Don't! No! Don't kill me! No! ”

And what Alice said next made me stunned.

She panicked, as if someone was going to kill her!

This is....

"Alice!"

I didn't hesitate and rushed straight into her cabin.

He slammed the door open and entered the cabin where Alice was.

"Woooooooooo

Alice sat on the bed with her knees crossed, her body trembling in her defensive, her eyes blank and frightened.

I looked around, but there was no one around.

"Alice, tell my brother what happened, what's wrong?"

I walked up and sat down beside her, put my arms around her shoulders and asked her, and she was still trembling, tears streaming from her eyes.

"Brother... Brother..."

She called my name in fear, and her cold little hands grabbed my hand as if it were grasping at a life-saving straw.

"What's wrong?"

I tried to calm my eagerness and tone a little softer, and I asked Alice.

"Nightmare.... Alice has nightmares. ”

Alice leaned into my arms, we were wrapped in the quilt, and her tears were streaming down her cheeks as she said this to me.

"Huh?"

I caressed her back and comforted her, calming her fears as I tried to understand what she was talking about nightmares.

"Ever since that time when Mom and Dad were killed by the bad guys, and the bad guys did some strange experiment on Alice, Alice has been having nightmares all day long....."

Alice said to me crying.

Villain? Is it the bad guy who my father said would wipe out Alice's family? They actually experimented on Alice, which caused Alice to have nightmares all the time.......

"What kind of nightmare has Alice been having?"

I asked Alice with some concern.

"Alice doesn't dream herself, Alice does very real nightmares for other people......"

Alice said to me with tears in her eyes.

"I can't dream? Doing a very real nightmare? ”

I was slightly stunned, what does this mean?

I remember the heroine of the famous Alice in Wonderland] would have the same nightmare every night, and I had some guesses that Alice's dreams would take her to a fairy tale every night, wouldn't it?

So what exactly is it?

I waited for Alice to speak, to tell me about her dreams—

"Every time Alice dreamed, many children died in Alice's dreams, and Alice watched them like bystanders, some were run over by cars on the streets of London, some died of illness in their own hospital beds, some were caught and killed by the bad guys..... The scene of the death of each child is the same as the real one in front of Alice, very detailed, very detailed, they all say that the faces of the people dreamed of in the dream are blurry, but Alice looks at their faces are not blurry at all, I can remember the appearance of each of them....."

Alice held her face, shook her head in fear, and said this to me.

Dreaming of every child's death? It's a fantasy for me, why, why is Alice able to do this?

I was a little strange, but I didn't want to doubt Alice, so I just said this to Alice.

"Alice, sleep obediently, Brother God has been sleeping with Alice these days, and with me by his side, he is not afraid of nightmares."

I said this to Alice, and Alice nodded obediently.

"Thank you, Brother God."

She smiled happily and slipped into the covers.

And I'm still a little puzzled, so, did Alice really dream of real-world children dying one by one, why did she have these dreams, and what was the connection between this and the bad guy who wiped out their family?

I was a little confused, but I didn't know.

Just looking at Alice's lovely and peaceful sleeping face in another part of the bed, I was able to calm down.