Time passed in a dead silence, minute by minute.

Just as the girl was getting more and more nervous, and felt that her mother's gaze was getting more and more piercing, she heard a long sigh of chagrin—

"Tomorrow Na...... I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, is it because mom put too much pressure on you before? ”

Kyoko Yuki stopped turning the page in her hand, closed the book, and then said with some helplessness and sadness.

There is also a hint of indescribable anger in it, not at others, but at oneself, angry at one's own incompetence as a mother.

In terms of women, Kyoko Yuuki is very tall, and although she is thin, she has a large skeleton and does not make people feel weak. His dark brown hair was neatly parted in the middle and fit just over his shoulders.

Although the face is quite upright, the high bridge of the nose and the deep, short wrinkles at the corners of the mouth give a cold impression.

Maybe it's because she deliberately wanted to create this impression, after all, she relied on sharp words and ruthless political skills to defeat all the competitors in the department, and she just became a full professor not long ago.

However, it wasn't until after her daughter's accident that she suddenly realized how failed she was as a mother, and recently she has begun to reflect on it seriously.

- Of course, humans are such creatures, and this reflection did not last long, and after the situation seemed to be over, she quickly returned to her old ways.

If it goes on like this, maybe Kyoko Yuki will be like the original trajectory of fate, and as a matter of course, she is ready to continue to plan and arrange her daughter's life, choose a school for her, arrange a marriage contract or something.

But now...... Seems to have happened again?

Inexplicably brought back an ancient book from the library, and then said that the library was in the dream she had been having all these days? In other words, she has been dreaming all the time, and she still thinks that she has brought back books from her dreams?

It is impossible for ordinary people to believe such a dream-like thing, and as a sane university professor, Kyoko Yuki naturally knows better, but she is afraid that her daughter has a mental problem.

This made her angry and anxious, and at the same time deeply blamed herself, wondering if she was really incompetent, and she didn't know how to learn the lessons that had just passed?

"Mom, I know what you're thinking, but listen to me, it's all true, I didn't lie to you......"

Is that really the reaction? Yuuki Asuna was in a hurry, and hurriedly opened her mouth to explain.

But it was okay not to explain, and as soon as she explained, she found that her mother's gaze on her became more abnormal...... With a "pop" in her heart, she quickly stopped saying a word, and quickly turned her brain.

Oh no, you shouldn't be in a hurry and desperately want to defend yourself, you can't do this next, you have to follow the steps you thought of at the beginning.

"Tomorrow Na...... completely unaware of Tomorrowa's inner entanglement, and Kyoko Yuki thinks about how to have a good conversation with her daughter.

"Mom, please listen to me first, okay?" Although she knew that this was rude, the girl knew that she had to interrupt the other person's words, otherwise she would fall into her mother's lecture.

It was a rhythm that she couldn't cope with at all, just like in the past, when she was eating, she would be severely scolded by her mother if she accidentally spilled the soup or had vegetables that she didn't eat.

Immediately after that, she could only keep her head down and continue to eat mechanically, letting her mother's words continue to chatter in her ears, trying to pretend to be sincerely listening to the teachings.

“……”

“……”

The mother who was interrupted frowned, and then finally sighed. Then she closed her eyes again and leaned back in her chair with the tips of her left fingers against her temples.

This way of silence is a technique for Kyoko Yuki to make the other party realize that she is in a superior position. As long as she makes this kind of action in the research room, she will feel flustered even if the other party is a man.

But after a long silence, she spoke: "...... You say, I'll listen. ”

Asuna Yuuki closed her eyes slightly, thought for a moment, and then spoke very seriously, "I know that no matter what I say, you won't believe it, Mom, but I want to reiterate that I know very well what I'm talking about. ”

"I also suspected that I was hallucinating, having visual hallucinations, paranoia, etc., and I wasn't really sure about it until today, and the proof is the book you have in your hand, and I brought it out of there."

"Please don't speak, Mom, I know what you're trying to say, but I'm not completely out of things to convince you...... I didn't think I would be able to convince you by talking to myself. ”

"......" Kyoko Yuuki had a strange face, she opened her mouth several times and was interrupted by her daughter, and she was a little suspicious that the other party had memorized the manuscript before she came back.

It's just that my daughter speaks very methodically, not emotionally incoherent, wanting to overwhelm others with momentum, and once the other party doesn't believe or doubt herself, she will immediately lose control of her emotions.

It also seems normal, and she can understand how ridiculous what she says, and understand why others don't believe it...... Doesn't seem like a big problem, right?

Kyoko Yuki gave plenty of patience and waited for her daughter to come up with evidence that would convince her.

The girl didn't delay much, so she took out her mobile phone and quickly opened an interface:

"I've tried bringing my phone in before and it worked...... I was going to take a picture of that place and bring it back. But it's weird there, and there doesn't seem to be a way to record it in this way, so the photos I took were all blank. ”

"Wait, is it just because it's blank, so you think it's evidence that can be used to convince me of such a ridiculous thing?" Mother raised an eyebrow.

It's so easy to take a few photos of nothing, and if such a ridiculous logic can be true, anyone can fake a few of these photos and say that they have photographed aliens and UFOs!

I just got the picture anyway, but I don't know why it's blank...... But I did get it, and that's the evidence, and if you don't admit it, you don't trust me.

"I'm not so ......stupid," the chestnut-haired, straight-haired girl whispered, then handed over her phone, "I just wanted to say that everything in that place is so weird in nature, including this book I brought out. ”

“……”

“……”

Stunned for a moment, Kyoko Yuki understood what her daughter meant, and then she frowned unhappily, didn't take the phone, just waved her hand:

"Tomorrow, I think you may need to go to rest, I won't force you to do anything anymore, I'll contact a psychiatrist tomorrow......"

"Mom! Trust me – okay! ”

Loudly interrupted her mother's words, but the girl could not restrain the slight tremor in her voice, although she tried to express her strong will in her eyes as much as possible.

"Even if you decided from the beginning that you didn't want to believe me, why didn't you take a few seconds to test it?"

Obviously, it only takes a few seconds, and I don't even want to do it, so I just want to deny it directly?! I really can't understand that adults are all such self-righteous characters?

Obviously, it only needs to be verified, and it doesn't take much time and effort at all, and the effort to confirm it is not even a blow.

But it seems that as long as it is something they have identified, it is impossible to accept other explanations, and even to verify it is impatient and unnecessary?!

Although she had known that she would definitely encounter such a thing, and she felt that she was mentally prepared, but now the girl still felt an irrepressible anxiety in her chest, extremely depressed and annoyed.

"You're ......!!" The mother's eyes widened in surprise, and deep wrinkles immediately appeared on her brow and the corners of her mouth, as if she wanted to get angry habitually, and severely reprimanded her impolite daughter.

But she didn't know what she thought, she suppressed it, just frowned deeply, and took the phone that Yuuki Assuna handed over.

Extremely impatient, she flipped through a few blank photos, then switched to photo mode, and casually and perfunctorily pointed the camera at the books on the table.

Isn't that it? It's really weird, and there's obviously nothing in the picture......

Wait - nothing?

Kyoko Yuki was stunned for a moment, then stood up the next moment, staring at the ancient book on the table, and then looked at the screen displayed on her phone. There was nothing but the desk and the corner of the keyboard next to it, and the book was nowhere to be seen.

Her eyes widened, and she reached out her other hand in disbelief to shake it under the camera, and then her pupils contracted violently.

"That's what it looks like......"

For some reason, the girl felt a little relieved when she saw her mother's shocked performance.

"You can see it, you can touch it, but whether it's a mobile phone or a special camera, there's no way to capture it, if you don't believe it, you can try again......"

Kyoko Yuuki pursed her lips vigorously and didn't speak, she stood up in silence and began to try all the tools she could find, including her mobile phone, the DV at home, and the camera on her computer.

I found that everything was normal, but I couldn't reflect the book...... It is as if it does not reflect light, but only the human eye can see it.

After about ten minutes, Kyoko Yuki couldn't hide the surprise on her face, she sat down a little weakly, and said, "I...... I'll call your dad and tell me what's going on before he comes back. ”

……

……

“…… The city is forever bathed in the setting sun, and time is frozen at that time at dusk, and it will not move forward. The two girls also inadvertently told me that light is the magic of time......"

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, close to twelve o'clock, in the living room of Yuuki's house, there was a long-lost situation of a family of three parents and daughters talking.

It's just that it's not happy, and it's the daughter who is telling something seriously, and the parents are listening carefully with solemn faces...... They couldn't help but be careless, and Shozo Yuuki, who was urgently called home by his wife, used the company's local laboratory to do a rough experiment.

It was found that except for the book of direct observation by the human eye, any indirect observation method is not possible, and infrared imaging is useless.

Even the temperature could not be measured, as if it were a calorific substance that was grossly counterintuitive...... Or is it not material at all, but a common hallucination of all three of them?

Are you kidding!

"Well, let's first assume that what Assuna said is true, after all, we have all seen the inconsistencies of this book, and she didn't go out today, and the surveillance at home can prove it......"

When his daughter stopped slightly, Shozo Yuki pressed his temples with a headache and said with a solemn expression.

"And she also said that she will definitely enter that place again in the next two days, and then we will only have to see if she can bring back another book or something, and we will know it completely."

"But......" Mother opened her mouth, almost subconsciously trying to refute the absurdity, but fell silent again.

There were some things she didn't want to believe, unless she was sure that everything in the family was wrong, and that the problem was online.

"The main question now is whether our daughter will be in danger, and if we can't prevent this from happening, we can't be sure if something will happen."

Yuuki Shozo ignored his wife, just frowned and muttered to himself, then turned his head to look at the girl sitting on the single sofa on the other side.

"Is there really no danger in that place?"

"I ...... I don't see any threat at this time, unless my identity is revealed. Yuuki Assuna bit her lower lip, "But that place, it seems...... It seems that there are still lords. ”

"What?"

"I heard from them, both of them were knights, serving the Most High King." The girl whispered, "And there is a girl who claims to be the first knight of the king. ”

"Knighted Knight? Was it the previous social class that could get fiefs? ”

The man asked in some surprise, what era is this, and there is still such a feudal system?

"No, it seems to be a kind of title, but also a kind of rank, according to them, it seems that it is necessary to become a hero, and have the strength to fight the dragon head-on to obtain such an honor......"