"This is Tokyo, it's beautiful."

In the afternoon, in Tokyo Bay, the sea breeze blew across Jasmine's cheeks, blowing a strand of black hair on her cheeks, and she smiled and leaned on the handrail of the seaside, pointing to the wind-blown waters outside Tokyo Bay and shouting loudly.

Fisher sat in the public seat behind her on the sea trail, smiling at her back.

The hustle and bustle around him was slightly sideways by the youthful shouts in JK clothes, but they quickly turned all their attention back to the ever-increasing pace and the phone between their shoulders and ears, and the conversation was all about "stocks" and "work".

Fisher slowly withdrew his gaze, but his heart could not fully indulge in the comfortable time in front of him, he was inevitably distracted, and there was always a premonition in his heart that danger was constantly approaching.

But Jasmine in front of her didn't notice it at all, she looked around at the beautiful scenery, but suddenly saw a little girl with a yellow face and thin muscles, wearing a shabby primary school uniform and a watermelon hat standing not far away, looking at her quietly.

Following the peaceful afternoon sunshine, the little girl's face was blurred, and before Jasmine could see clearly, the little girl suddenly turned her head and pointed over there, and whispered to Jasmine in a somewhat hoarse childish voice,

"Over there. Taiyaki."

Before Jasmine could react, the little girl turned around, revealing the small loose bag behind her, and ran over to it.

“.“

Jasmine stared blankly, and when she came back to her senses, the little girl vanished like a hallucination, replaced by a faint smell of food on the tip of her nose

That's the taste of taiyaki.

So, Jasmine quickly ran back from the guardrail, gently reached out and grabbed Fisher's sleeve, and said to him,

"Mr. Fisher, I know there's a delicious taiyaki shop over there, let's go and try it together, okay?"

"Taiyaki? What is that? ”

"It's a delicious thing, let's go."

Fisher raised an eyebrow, but still stood up as Jasmine had said, and followed her down the bustling street.

Jasmine took Fisher's hand and watched her black eyes flicker slightly, then skillfully bypassed the road in the seaside park and through the traffic lights into the shopping street, and then the smell of the food became strong and wafted above the street.

"Mr. Fisher, here."

"Here it is. Borrowed"

There was a crowd of people who came to play on the shopping street, and Jasmine vaguely saw the little girl running in front again, and when she looked up, she saw the little girl looking east and west with longing and timidity.

It wasn't until the breeze blew and the smell of food came that Jasmine watched the little girl in the watermelon hat and the small schoolbag slow down, and then stopped in front of a shop.

Jasmine saw that the little girl had touched her somewhat shriveled belly and covered it with her two little hands, as if she was afraid of an embarrassing noise from the place.

Jasmine saw that the little girl raised her head, revealing her yellow, thin cheeks, and stared at the shop in front of her with a pair of longing eyes, which emitted a faint steam and warm light, and her throat swelled slightly.

After the owner of the taiyaki seller had filled the food of the previous customer, he noticed the elementary school student standing on the street looking at the shop, so he asked kindly,

Jasmine saw that the little girl pursed her lips, and there was some embarrassment on her face, and she hurriedly looked down at a line of text written with a water-based pen in her hand, and then swallowed a mouthful of saliva again, and shook her head resolutely at the shopkeeper.

Her thin little fingers were entangled in front of her lower abdomen as if protective, and it was because of this that Jasmine could vaguely see a crooked line of writing on the side of the little girl's arm with a water-based pen.

"Asuka Karasawa will never be hungry."

“.”

Jasmine's pupils shrank, and the whole sight seemed to be dyed with a faint scarlet, but it was at this moment that the shopkeeper's voice suddenly sounded, making everything restore.

"Would you like to buy one, little girl?"

"Jasmine?"

"Huh?"

Jasmine blinked, and looked up at the store in front of her, staring at her in confusion.

She looked back with hindsight, only to see the line of guests behind her and the concerned eyes of Fisher beside her.

Unconsciously, a layer of fine cold sweat broke out in the palm of her hand.

Fisher lowered his gaze a little, felt her small movements, and took the initiative to open his mouth to the store,

"Let's have one, boss, I'm in trouble."

"Okay, thank you for your patronage, please wait!"

Jasmine opened her mouth and watched as Fisher handed over the bills from her wallet, and then led her to the side to wait.

"What's wrong just now, are you a little uncomfortable?"

"I don't know, it's just." Jasmine's little face was a little pale, but she smiled reluctantly, and said to Fisher, "It seems that my head hurts a little"

Jasmine's face was not very good-looking, but she still looked intermittently in the other direction of the street corner, as if she was looking for something in that direction.

"The sea bream is ready."

Fisher noticed this, but he still took the taiyaki cooked by the boss next to him first, took the steaming taiyaki back to Jasmine's eyes, and asked quietly,

"Has Jasmine ever eaten this here, otherwise how would you know that there is such a delicious restaurant here?"

"Huh? Probably not," Jasmine said with a smile as she blinked, clutching her chest, "but it should smell good." ”

"Yes."

Fisher picked up a bamboo skewer and placed a round-bellied tayaki in front of Jasmine's mouth, watching her open her mouth a little wider and swallow it into her belly.

"Whew."

In an instant, the warm, crispy film shattered in her mouth, and the smell of the sticky red bean filling took over all of her taste buds.

Jasmine's eyes widened, and her cheeks puffed like hamsters, slowly chewing and savoring all the flavors.

“.”

"Is it delicious?"

Jasmine's eyes widened, she nodded stupidly, then raised her hand, touched her cheek, and suddenly muttered to herself,

"That's what it tastes like."

Fisher also put one in his mouth, tasted the sweet feeling, and then sat on the edge of the bustling commercial street, watching the people come and go.

Just eating, a passerby caught a glimpse of Fisher and Jasmine, who were sitting in place and eating taiyaki, and suddenly said to them with a smile,

"Hello, remember to go home before dark."

“？”

Fisher raised his eyes with a puzzled expression, and saw the passer-by who had said this and walked away with a blank face.

Before Fisher could figure out what was happening, another passer-by came up and said to Fisher and Jasmine,

"Hello, remember to go home before dark."

“.”

Jasmine blinked, stood up, and looked at the sun that was gradually setting westward, Fisher smiled and said,

"Let's go, Mr. Fisher, it's getting dark soon, let's go to the hotel."

“.” Fisher was slightly stunned, but instead of standing up, he looked at Jasmine and asked, "What if I don't go home at night?" ”

"How. I don't know. But everybody says so, and if you don't do it, something terrible will happen. ”

Jasmine was momentarily speechless by Fisher's questioning, and after a second of pause, she explained to Fisher the same way.

Fisher just looked at Jasmine in front of him, then slowly stood up, looked at himself and Jasmine as he walked around, and repeated to Fisher and Jasmine one by one,

"Hello, remember to go home before dark."

“.”

Sentence after sentence, at first just one or two passers-by said this, and then, I don't know if they saw Fisher and Jasmine motionless, the passers-by opened their mouths more and more, until everyone who passed by looked at them and repeated the same words to them in the same tone.

"Hello, remember to go home before dark."

Jasmine behind her reached out with some fear and grabbed Fisher's sleeve, and said to him cautiously,

"Teacher Fisher, look. Everybody says so, or we'll go back to the hotel now."

Fisher looked at the taiyaki in his hand, and combined with Jasmine's strange reaction just now, he seemed to gradually realize something.

Tokyo, Tokyo

If Jasmine wanted to do those things when she was learning English because she wanted her mind to do the tricks, how did she come to think that she had to go home at night when she came to Tokyo?

That's right, whether it's coming here for taiyaki or the idea of being sure to go home at night.

They all come from Asuka Karazawa.

Only Asuka lived in Tokyo during her childhood, and there must be traces of her life here.

As a child, it's normal to think about going home at night.

However, Asuka is different from other children, Fisher has heard her tell a short story from her childhood, although it is not detailed, but Fisher at least knows that the mother who Asuka Karasawa has followed since childhood is not good to her

So why, is the idea of having to go home at night so ingrained?

Could it be that it was her mother's order to go home?

Or rather, what is the penalty for not going home?

Fisher's steps did not move, but as the sun in the sky gradually sank in the west, and the orange-red color on the horizon, the palm behind him, which tugged at Fisher's sleeve, trembled more and more.

Fisher came back to her senses and turned her head to look, only to find that Jasmine's face was close to pale, and she looked straight at Fisher, with pleading in her eyes,

"Mr. Fisher, let's go to the hotel, shall we?"

“.”

Her pleading voice softened Fisher's heart, and he knew that he could avoid her sad gaze if he followed Jasmine's wishes.

But Fisher also knew clearly that this sadness came from Jasmine's soul and Asuka's past.

Like a wound that hurts to the touch, in order not to touch it and cause pain, is it right to ignore it and not treat it and pretend that it doesn't exist?

Isn't that the essence of this dream?

Even if you don't consider the real critical situation, if this dream is really that perfect, then why does Jasmine, who is already in a sweet dream, still dodge it, or does she look so frightened?

Fisher took a deep breath, he lowered his head, picked up a bamboo skewer and stuffed the last taiyaki in the paper box into Jasmine's mouth, and then said,

"Okay, let's go after eating this one, okay?"

"Hmm!"

Hearing Fisher's response, Jasmine finally smiled and happily ate the taiyaki into her mouth as if a big rock had fallen from her heart.

Not.

It's the matcha flavor that she doesn't like

After eating, Fisher grabbed Jasmine's palm and led her towards the outside of the shopping street.

When passing through the crowd, Jasmine vaguely saw the hotel sign hanging on the street sign next to her, and hurriedly stretched out her hand to remind Fisher,

"Look, Mr. Fisher, there's an inn over there."

“.”

But Fisher in front of him just walked forward with Jasmine, and at the same time, he whispered,

"These guys are talking about 'going home at night,' and the hotel shouldn't be 'home,' right, Jasmine?"

"Huh? Do you want to take the bus back to Kyoto now? Didn't you say that you would be able to play here for many days? ”

"Yes, that's home too."

Fisher sighed, and had already walked to the door of the commercial street with Jasmine, he finally turned around, stared at Jasmine in front of him tightly, and said to her,

"But, Jasmine, there's a home here in Tokyo, right?"

"Huh?"

"Think about it, we'll go there now."

Jasmine's eyes widened, and she froze in place for a moment.

At this moment, the sunset in the sky drooped a dazzling afterglow, slapping obliquely on the bricks on the ground, and the voice of the little girl wearing a watermelon hat who was standing in a daze not far away was clear.

She must have been out of school for a while, but she had been hanging around here, wandering around in circles.

I smelled the delicious taiyaki and was about to be hungry, but because I didn't have any money in my pocket, I had to run away quickly, and I used "magic" to force myself not to think about the delicious taiyaki.

She suddenly remembered that the little girl's school was nearby, and her own home was nearby, but why didn't she want to go home for a few hours after school, but wandered outside?

Because that home was cold, she didn't want to go back.

But why do you have to go back before the night, obviously there is no one at home for a lot of time.

"Hey, give me the inside scoop, Mr. Maeda. If I were told any stock, I would do anything."

"Oh? Are you really willing to do anything? ”

"Really, really, look, Mr. Maeda, my house is right in front."

"Oh, that's it."

"Mom!"

The childlike voice was like a thunderclap, causing Jasmine's pupils to shrink suddenly, and at the same time, the orange sunset above the sky began to change color little by little, gradually turning into an extremely terrifying scarlet.

"You have a baby?"

"Hey, this, this kid doesn't. Mr. Maeda! ”

"Mom"

"Smack!"

"You guy! It's all your fault! Why don't you come home after school! What to hang out at home! ”

"Smack!"

"I'm going to know soon, do you know who he is? That's from the Ministry of Finance, you're really."

"Smack!"

"You listen to me, Asuka Karazawa, if I find out that you don't go home and hang around outside at night, I'll kill you, do you believe it or not?"

"Smack!"

The watermelon hat flew to the ground, and the figure of the little girl who was pulled by the woman's hair and screamed with her slender arms drooping spread out little by little in Jasmine's pupils.

Before evening, be sure to go home

Before evening, be sure to go home

Before evening, be sure to go home

"Teacher Fischer wants. It's going to be night."

Jasmine in front of her suddenly trembled all over, and instead covered her cheeks in pain, sobbing and muttering.

Fisher, who was holding her cold arm, gradually sensed that something was wrong, and he frowned and looked at the sky, only to see that the whole sky was stained with blood.

The setting sun in the west was also like a bloodshot pupil, emitting a hysterical roar, and a woman's echo was heard,

"Why. Don't go home. Bright. Day. incense."

Fisher took Jasmine's hand tightly and pulled her into his arms, and when he turned his head, he saw that all the pedestrians in all directions had almost the same appearance.

Or, a man in a navy blue suit, suit pants and leather shoes.

Or, a woman in a long purple dress with intricate jewelry.

But both men and women, except for the clothes on their bodies, their skin was all black, as if they were nothing, repeating the same movements.

The man shook off the hand of the woman next to him and turned away with a speechless face, gradually dissolving on the ground, while the woman next to him stretched out her hand to try to hold it to no avail, clenched her fists, and her body squirming all over her body, fangs and claws, swelled little by little, turning into an extremely terrifying monster.

"Why. Don't go home."

"Woo woo Fisher teacher quick. Hurry home. Over there."

"Why don't you go home?!!"

The voices of the countless women overlapped and gradually became as sharp as an electric drill drilling into the eardrums, and Fisher frowned and quickly carried Jasmine on his back, sprinting in the direction she was struggling to point.

In that direction, there are towers about a few hundred meters apart, separated by a street.

"Whew!!"

Behind him, in the commercial streets, high-rise buildings, and various buildings, there were densely drilled female figures that roared like cockroaches and the opposite sex, wearing the same clothes, and making the same sharp sound at the same time, making Fisher's eardrums explode.

"Why. Don't go home?! ”

"I am"

Although Fisher expected this to cause Jasmine's dreams to be unstable, he never expected Jasmine. Or that Hyaka reacted so violently.

It was only from the overlapping roars behind him, from his own head that was about to explode, that Fisher could get a glimpse of the little girl's childhood.

"You listen to me, Asuka Karazawa, if I find out that you don't go home and hang around outside at night, I'll kill you, do you believe it or not?"

"Smack!"

"Smack!"

Jasmine clutched her head on Fisher's back in extreme pain, but no matter how she closed her eyes, the little girl who had been slapped on the cheek in the sunset, but remained indifferent, and the figure of the little girl who did not respond like a doll went crazy and burrowed into her head, making her extremely uncomfortable.

She gasped, instinctively pulling the pen from her bosom, then stretched out her arm to write something on it.

Only in this way can the pain be relieved

"Asuka Karasawa never hurts"

"What are you doing, Jasmine?"

Fisher was already running to the door of the tower, but he found that there was more than one entrance, and when he turned around, he saw Jasmine behind him, who was in a trance and didn't know where he had gotten a knife, and was about to carve something on his arm.

He gritted his teeth and opened the knife that Jasmine was holding, and then looked at Jasmine, who was still stunned, and he shouted,

"Calm down, Jasmine, it's useless!"

But every time I do it, I don't feel bad.

No, is that me

Is it Jasmine or the little girl?

Myself

"Mr. Fischer, I"

Fisher's call brought Jasmine back to her senses, as if her perspective was struggling to separate from the figure of the little girl who had been beaten.

"We're going into this building, Jasmine, hold on!"

"Well, Mr. Fisher!"

Jasmine hurriedly patted her face and grabbed the placket of Fisher's clothes tightly, and Fisher was just an ordinary person's physique at the moment, and he was constantly gasping for breath all the way.

Behind him, the countless black monsters chasing after him on the walls, on the street lamps, and on the road were already about to catch up with Fisher and Jasmine, and many of those who were close had already stretched their hideous claws into Jasmine's skirt.

But at the last moment, when Fisher gritted his teeth and rushed into the first floor of the tower, the door of the tower was like a barrier like a moat, causing the pursuing monsters to turn into powder in an instant.

"Ahhhh

"Why. Don't go home."

The terrible roar behind him came to an abrupt end, and Fisher's legs went limp and he almost didn't fall to the ground, but he still reached out and clung to the wall next to him to prevent him from falling.

He gasped for a few breaths, and when he looked back, he saw that all the supernatural phenomena outside had disappeared, as if those fanged and clawed monsters had never existed, leaving the scarlet sunset hanging upside down in the air, staring coldly at the whole of Tokyo.

Fisher let out a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground with the soft Jasmine behind him.

He touched her pale and cold little face and asked softly,

"Are you alright, Jasmine?"

"I'm fine, what happened to Mr. Fisher? Why am I suddenly so uncomfortable and still feel so uncomfortable. Why is it okay to get here?"

“.”

Fisher's brow furrowed, and he glanced at the dimly lit tower hall beside him, which was resplendent and looked very high-end, but a little dirt that had not been cleaned for a long time was faintly visible under the gilded scales on the surface.

And from the brilliance of the golden reflection, the jasmine behind Fisher seemed to overlap with the figure of a woman with the same black hair, as if one was not the other.

In the mirror-like smooth wall, the figure of the black-haired woman gently raised her hand and pointed in the direction of the elevator, and Jasmine also seemed to be sensed, pointed to that side, and said to Fisher,

"Mr. Fisher seems to be heading in the direction of the house that went over there."

"Okay."

Fisher listened to Jasmine's trance-like voice behind him, and he seemed to realize.

He was getting closer and closer to the reality of his dreams.

"Woo, Mr. Heller, look, the sky above is so red!"

If you're afraid, take my hand."

At the same moment, outside the tower, Helaire smiled and touched Renee's head, then stretched out another hand that was not holding the paper bag, and said to Renee.

"So where do we go now?"

"Well, I think you'll have to change your attitude first, silly boy."

Helaire didn't move, but touched her chin and looked at Renee in front of her, and then she stretched out her hand and pointed at Renee at this moment,

"It's right to straighten your waist, straighten your back, and raise your head, we're here to catch a traitor, why do you like to keep your head down so much?"

"Hey, wait a minute, I'm just here to show my heart. Moreover, Teacher Fisher shouldn't be with Jasmine first, how can it be called a rape? ”

"If you are together first, you can't call it a traitor?"

“？”

Hellaire reached out and pinched Renee's face, not knowing why she had become so honest in her dream, so she asked,

"Say, what are we doing in Tokyo?"

"Catch the traitor?"

"It's too quiet to hear."

"Catch the traitor!"

"Again, I can't hear you."

"Catch the traitor!!"

Looking at Renee, who was extremely excited in front of him, Helaire covered his mouth and laughed, and then gently stretched out his hand to hold her hand, and then walked to the tall tower contentedly, and did not forget to encourage Renee as he walked,

"That's right, muster up courage, you know, Renee-san, let's go up too, the place we want to go is in that tower."

"Uh-huh!" (End of chapter)