Prologue: Dreams? Reality?
"Hmm...... It felt as if I was dreaming about something terrible. ”
Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Mu Xiu woke up from his confusion, and then subconsciously reached out to block the dazzling reflection that was reflected from the window from somewhere, just shining on his face.
In his vision, which was still a little vague but was rapidly becoming clearer, there was a somewhat familiar but more unfamiliar scene...... It seems that the scene you see now is a little different than before you went to bed?
"Still ...... Dreaming......"
Mu Xiu raised his head in confusion and looked around. He was greeted by a brightly lit classroom, surrounded by people dressed as students in their seats, talking to their classmates in front of them, or playing in the hallways and hallways. The blackboard on the podium was written with words that felt strange and familiar to her, and a small girl was struggling to tiptoe, wiping the blackboard as if to prepare for the next class.
Outside, the sky was clear, the crisp wind swayed the lush foliage, the white clouds dotted the blue sky, and the downstairs aisle was filled with students walking around in twos and threes.
He was now sitting in the penultimate seat near the classroom window, staring blankly at it all.
The noisy voices around me, the touch of the cool wind outside the window, and the scent of shampoo from the girl studying quietly next to me...... Everything is so real, without the slightest sense of illusion and dreaminess.
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Mu Xiu was originally just an ordinary student, now nineteen years old, studying in a high school. It's also in a cruel dimension called "reality", and there are no angels who fall from the sky, no shrine maidens who can be brought home for 100,000 yen, and no non-scientific things such as gods and angels......
Of course, if this is not how cruel it is, the reason why it is cruel is because he himself lay in the bed of the central hospital for more than half a year after a previous catastrophic car accident, because of a ruptured spleen, heart and lung failure, internal diaphragm hemorrhage, and ruptured arterial blood vessels...... To be honest, doctors have said that it is already a medical miracle that he can be rescued from an injury like this.
And if he can stand up with his own will in the future after being rescued, it will be a miracle among miracles.
However, not only was Mu Xiu now standing well, but he could not even see that he had been seriously injured in unimaginable proportions, which was enough to prove that he had become a concrete example of a miracle that could be called an impossible miracle. It's just that he did pay enough price in that accident, such as missing the college entrance examination and leaving serious pathological visual hallucinations.
Visual hallucinations are a type of hallucination, and the main symptom is that you can see a simple and unformed image, such as a flash of light, or you can see the whole scene or scene.
The image seen can be blurry, unclear, or vivid and vivid. It can be common or weird. Pathologic visual hallucinations are more common in schizophrenia if they are conscious, and delirium or hazy if they are impaired in consciousness.
The doctor told Mu Xiu that this kind of hallucination is often related to his own desires, so the hallucinations will appear in the person, thing or thing he wants to see.
However, the boy was skeptical, he didn't think that those irregular hallucinations would be what he wanted to see, as if it was already another strange world. But he himself was not able to find any reasonable explanation, and could only blame it on the consequences of the concussion caused by the strong impact he received at the beginning, and it was already great luck that he did not become a vegetative person.
Since then, he has been experiencing so-called hallucinations from time to time, seeing things that others can't see.
Over time, what could barely be explained as an illusion at first developed into an indescribable "anomaly". The illusions that Mu Xiu saw gradually transitioned from simple flashes, unformed strings, and bizarre visions at the beginning, to more specific and clear things, such as UFOs or legendary ghosts......
In the end, it is no longer limited to a single existence, but a grander, the vast light and shadow of the world.
Until today, these illusions have become real -
As if the two photographs were washed out on top of each other, he suddenly saw that the surrounding environment showed signs of "otherworldlyness", various scenery began to become transparent, and then another scene appeared on top of the real world.
Then the boy saw a new world, but he was just used to it and didn't pay much attention to it, and by the time he realized that this time the degree of "otherworldliness" seemed to be more astonishing than any previous time, it was too late.
New colors and sights spread, and overlapping worlds cover the real world...... When that peculiar transparency disappeared, all that was left was that special new world, and Mu Xiu found himself in the middle of it.
- It was like a dream, and he thought it must be the reason why he hadn't woken up yet.
"Cold ...... Quiet, calm down, in short, calm down first and find a time machine. ”
In the toilet, washing his face with cold water in front of the wash basin, Mu Xiu looked at himself in the mirror and showed an ugly smile.
Let the cold water from the faucet rush against your hands, feel the real touch, the cold water flowing through your skin.
He was now almost certain that he was not dreaming, nor was he "sick" as before—to be exact, this time it was more serious—but that he had traveled to another world. The specific reason is still unclear, but he didn't feel the slightest sense of surprise, only felt a chill in his heart, and the only thought in his mind was whether he couldn't go back.
The bell has just rang, and now the school has started.
But Mu Xiu didn't plan to go back to the original classroom, he just kept looking at himself in the mirror, and his face was very ugly. It took about ten minutes before he turned around and walked out, and then wandered around aimlessly, constantly going upstairs and downstairs, passing through the windows of one classroom after another. His heart was extremely anxious, and he always wanted to shout and vent, but he endured it with reason......
He hopes to get evidence to deny all this, hoping that this is just a reality show for the whole person, and when he can't help it, the director and crew will come out and tell him the truth of all this.
But the result was that his heart became colder and colder, and his reason did not want to believe such a thing, but instinctively believed it.
These are true.
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I don't know how long it has been since he lost his soul, but when he came back to his senses, he had already found that he had left the corridor that seemed empty because of the class and walked to the atrium.
Mu Xiu subconsciously looked around, although he was still at a loss, he was still shocked by this luxurious school. In fact, he faintly felt that something was wrong just now, but now after he walked out, he felt this grandeur more intuitively, and he realized that the impact was not something that could be felt in the classroom.
The wide, flat avenue, paved entirely with smooth marble, leads to the gate in the distance, flanked by dense forests and green vegetation, and the aristocratic academy buildings are scattered all around, and not far away there is what is supposed to be the tallest bell tower in the vicinity.
“…… How big is this school? He smiled wryly, "Doesn't this school need to be operated at a cost?" ”
"And......" Mu Xiu perked up slightly, and then looked around. It always feels familiar. ”
What exactly this place was, he didn't know yet. But the only thing that is certain is that this time he was "sick" very severely, and the result was that before he even reacted, the illusions he saw completely replaced the real world. Although it was crossed, Mu Xiu didn't have much joy, but the whole person panicked, his heart was half cold, and he was just stunned to think about whether it was possible for him to go back.
Now he is standing firmly on the land of another world, this is the reality.
Mu Xiu, who is slowly accepting the reality, has not completely changed from fear, confusion, apprehension, and anxiety psychologically...... and so on, but he also knew that it was the most undesirable thing for him to lose his soul like this now. Since it has been temporarily confirmed that there is no way back, it is necessary to make a new decision quickly.
"The first thing to do is to figure out the situation...... I just appeared directly in the classroom, and the classmates around me didn't express too much surprise at me, so theoretically, whether it was a direct crossing or a soul piercing to replace someone's existence, I should have a legal identity......"
After thinking about it, he finally made up his mind, turned around and walked back in the same direction.
"Also, the words on the blackboard before seemed to be in Japanese? The others must be speaking Japanese, and I seem to be able to understand the meaning of these words, so this should be the 11th area of some parallel world? ”
But then another question arises, why can I understand and understand Japanese? I looked in the mirror in the toilet just now, and it seems that my body is still the same as before, not like a soul wearing.
Thinking like this, Mu Xiu returned to the door of his original classroom as slowly as possible.
During class, the doors of each classroom were closed, so now he was standing in front of the closed door, hesitating to push open the door and break into the classroom where the class was being held. He himself is not the kind of person who does not have the courage to talk to the teacher and accept the attention of his classmates, but now it is a completely unfamiliar scene after all, and the so-called teachers and classmates are strangers who don't know each other at all.
The worst thing is that it is likely that you don't know each other, and the other party knows you......
When he thought of the confused glances and curious questions that his teachers and classmates who should know him in theory, but had no impression at all, he felt that the muscles on his face were inexplicably stiff and completely uncontrollable. He raised his hand and rubbed his face vigorously, wanting to relax as much as possible, listening to the sound of the lecture inside, hesitating whether to open the door directly to face what he had to face, instead of standing here stupidly all the time......
I should have gone in and talked, right?
Stand like this...... How long are you going to stand?
Anyway, let's go in first, it's impossible to run away all the time......
Hard-headed, Mu Xiu stretched out his hand and was about to hold the doorknob, but the next moment, the bell representing the end of class had directly echoed in the campus, and at the same time, the door of the classroom was opened from the inside.
A tall, short-haired woman with a book walked out, probably the teacher of this class or something. She was pulling open the door and walking out, and at the same time turned back to tell the students in the classroom something, and almost collided with Mu Xiu outside the door.
"Oops! I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... Eh, Mu Xiu, why are you outside the classroom? ”
After the female teacher stood firm, she first apologized with a smile at the first time, but after seeing Mu Xiu clearly, her eyes were suddenly full of doubts:
"Could it be...... Skipping class? This is not good, although your grades are very good, but as an exchange student, if the attendance rate is less than 70%, you will be expelled from the school and apply to the Immigration Bureau to cancel the visa ......"
"Katsura ...... Guixue Road? ”
Seeing the female teacher's appearance clearly, Mu Xiu stood in place in a daze, as if he had seen something unbelievable.