Now you can be sure.

At this time, the [dream] is the scene on the first page of Shiina Miyo's album.

I just don't know how to get out of [the dream].

At the end of the entrance ceremony, Yu Narumi walked over to Shiina again.

The girl's eyes were full of confusion, and she lowered her head and did not speak to him.

Because of Narumi Yu's last reminder, Shiina still didn't fall this time - from this point the difference between Shiina and the others in [Dream] is obvious.

Only the two of them realized that they had turned back time once.

Back in the classroom, he sat in the penultimate row by the window.

"The ......"

"I'm sorry, I'm sitting in the wrong place, sorry."

"Thank you......"

Same girl, same tone.

He stood up, didn't sit back in his proper position, and stood quietly at the back of the classroom waiting for the bell to ring.

……

Jingle bell~~

The bell rings for about five seconds before it comes to an abrupt halt, and the scene changes back to the gymnasium where the entrance ceremony choirs the school song.

It seems that if a certain condition is not met, [dreams] will continue to cycle forever......

This condition must be related to Shiina Miao.

"Don't blame yourself, Shiina-san." After the entrance ceremony, he ran to Shiina Miyo and said in a gentle voice, "It can also help me remember what happened before, which can be regarded as a great help." ”

“……”

The short-haired girl, who was twenty centimeters shorter than him, lowered her head.

"If I continue to pretend like this, I'm afraid this [dream] will never end, even if it helps me remember, it won't be recalled so many times, right? ...... who will have nightmares"

If we had to find a close scientific explanation for this [dream] ability.

This [dream] that came through the sketch was completely observed for Shiina Miyo.

Shiina Miyo created this [dream] and knows everything in [dream].

In [Dream], she is the Laplace Demon, and the whole [Dream] is a recalculation of the past.

But this assumption is clearly untenable......

The word "dream" and the word "science" have nothing to do with the drawing.

Just as the unobserved situation of Chisaka Imadegawa can be explained by Schrödinger's cat, any event in the world can be linked to a scientific theory just by looking for similarities.

But it's completely different in nature.

"Sorry...... Narumi mulberry ...... I don't know why it was suddenly like this......" Shiina Weiyang grabbed Narumi Yu's sleeve.

Underneath the overwhelmed emotions are uneasiness and fear.

Compared to Yu Narumi, who has a lot of experience with surreal events, it is obviously impossible for Shiina Weiyang, who has encountered this kind of thing for the first time, to be as calm as him.

"Maybe Shiina-san's desire for me to regain my memory is too strong." Narumi Yu let her pull her sleeve, not knowing whether to hold the girl's little hand with her backhand to comfort her.

“…… Is it? ”

"Thank you."

The students around them looked at them with strange eyes.

It's the first day to come to school, why are you already rolling up your sleeves?

It's a bit excessive, isn't it?

"Hmm......"

A simple girl blushes easily, and a cute girl will be cuter when she blushes.

The crimson spread from the tender face to the root of the ear, and the Shiina Weiyang "angrily" turned his head,

"It's too cunning......"

Exit the gymnasium and walk through the hallway to the entrance of the stairs on the first floor of the school building.

"Huh?"

Narumi stopped for a moment, and Shiina Miyo, who had been tugging at his sleeve, also stopped and looked at him suspiciously.

"Shiina-san, let's fall again, the same as the one a year ago."

If all of this is the same as the people and things that happened a year ago, then it should be the same direction as the original event.

Shiina Miyo, who fell down the stairs a year ago, should also fall down the stairs in this situation.

"Huh? Why ......"

The girl's little face was full of astonishment.

"Restore memories." Narumi Yu felt that he was a little excessive, as if he was deliberately bullying Shiina Weiyang, "At this time a year ago, I sent you to the infirmary after you fell, right?" ”

In any case, the pain [in the dream] is real.

For his idea, he had to make Shiina Weiyang fall down the stairs, and even he felt that it was too much.

"Hmm...... If you want to help Narumi San......" Shiina nodded and thought for a while, a little embarrassed, "But...... If you fall on purpose, it's still different from before, right? ”

"Shouldn't the point be that it hurts?"

"It's all right...... If I can help Narumi-san. ”

After a few more seconds, Shiina Miyo thought of a solution.

The girl closed her eyes and summoned up the courage to climb the stairs.

"One... Two...... Seven... Eight... Yikes! ”

When he stepped on the tenth staircase, Shiina only stepped on the edge of the staircase, and his center of gravity was unstable and fell.

The buttocks fell heavily to the ground, and the elbows supporting the body made contact with the edges of the steps, cracking the skin, and the blood that leached out stained the sleeves of the sailor suit with a dark red stain of blood.

"Do you need me to hold you?"

Narumi Yu, who was only watching from the bottom of the stairs, frowned and felt uncomfortable.

Obviously, I could reach out and catch each other, but I had to watch from the sidelines. Who's to say it's in [dreams], but it's still very uncomfortable.

"Hug?!"

"Shiina-san's arm can't use its strength right now, right?"

Even though it looked like it was just a bruise, Shiina didn't take any precautions even though he knew he was going to fall, and his elbow hit the steps continuously.

"Hmm...... I was able to walk on my own......"

The girl's face turned red again, and she tried to stand up with her hands on the floor, but found that as Narumi Yu said, her arms were completely powerless for a while.

Narumi Yu didn't say more, and simply stretched out his hand to pick up Shiina Weiyang's waist.

"Wooh!!" Shiina Weiyang screamed in surprise, subconsciously trying to break free, but her body was temporarily unable to respond to her command, so she could only let Narumi wrap her waist and thighs around her with a flushed face.

The girl's body is soft, like a marshmallow. The petite body is very light, and Narumi Yu, whose physical strength is only 3 points, is only a little difficult to pick up.

Narumi tried her best to speed up and rushed to the health room with her in her arms.

Along the way, he attracted a lot of people's attention, staring at Shiina Weiyang's head a little hot, and in a panic, he buried his face in Narumi Yu's shoulder, and his entire upper body was tightly attached.

“……”

……

"Huh?"

"Here we are."

It wasn't until Shiina Weiyang was put on the bed in the health room by Narumi that she realized what she had just done, and she was anxious to explain to Narumi Yu, incoherently, and finally apologized,

"Ahh That one! No! I'm sorry! I! Woo......"

"Arms."

The health teacher was not there, and Narumi Yu had already taken the disinfectant swab and other things, took one of Shiina's hands, and slowly withdrew the sleeve above the elbow, exposing the wound.

"Hmm......"

"It may hurt a little, be patient a little."

"Oh......"

The feeling of being close to the girl's soft body was very comfortable, and even made him can't help but think about it. Shiina Weiyang has a faint body fragrance as simple as the spring sun, and now some of it remains on his body.

Narumi Yu focused on treating Shiina Miyo's wounds, but the soft touch of the girl in his arms holding him tightly still lingered in his mind.

The heartbeat is slightly accelerating.

The infirmary fell silent, and an indescribably subtle atmosphere filled the air.

"Thank you, Narumi-san......"

"Hmm."

"And ...... The letter"

The picture freezes, and the words that Shiina Mio said half of are like a reflection in the water torn by the wind, shattering and dissipating along with the picture.

Narumi looked up from the table and found that she had returned to her bedroom.

The album that he pressed under his arm was spread out on the page of [April 2], but the sketches on the blank paper were nowhere to be seen.

The alarm clock placed in front of the desk, the second hand turns again and again, and the hour hand points to "11".

It was late at night outside the window, the sky was overcast, and there was not a single star to be seen.