After school this afternoon, Keisuke Aoi didn't go to the activity room.

Fujiko Hoshino vaguely seemed to hear his voice, and she was holding the book in her hand, and when she came back to her senses, she forgot where she had read.

She got up and stood by the window and looked out into the playground in the distance.

The afternoon sun shone obliquely, leaving a colorful path of light on the glass, and she pulled the window open again, and the dry, warm wind outside suddenly swept her cheeks and hair.

"Ah......h

Fujiko Hoshino raised her hand to block the sunlight, and then squinted a little comfortably, enjoying the temperature of the moment.

"Pass!"

"Here!"

She looked towards the football field in the distance, where there was a large crowd of onlookers, and it was hard not to notice.

Then, she saw that the only member of the club who was supposed to come to the club to participate in the event was wearing a blue player's vest running wildly on the green field.

Seokisuke ran at a high speed and swept towards the opponent's penalty area from midfield.

Regardless of the fact that his hairstyle was blown by the wind, from a distance, he couldn't see his current expression and appearance.

"Qing Gyu-kun! Come on! ”

“fight！”

He played with dexterity and struck past two of the club's defenders before volleying widely.

"Bang!"

Fujiko Hoshino's gaze crashed into the net along with the black and white football.

Immediately the stadium burst into cheers like a wave.

Fujiko Hoshino stretched out her hands and used her thumb and forefinger to put together a box, facing the sunlight to bring Keisuke Aoi into the center of the box.

Later, in the "photo frame", there were Arisugawa waving his hands and cheering, and Shiraishi Chizuru standing outside the subway network.

Keisuke Aoi is like a huge black hole, attracting their gaze firmly.

"A bunch of ...... Monkey. ”

She slowly lowered her hand and waved it at the setting sun.

- Another day is about to pass.

The sun sets, the stars appear, and there may be faint clouds floating in the sky, skimming over the moon until dawn comes.

“……”

Fujiko Hoshino took a cool bath, dried her hair, and lay back on the bed, falling into a deep sleep.

She had a dream in a long time, in which she walked through a flourishing forest, and the cold moonlight passed through the treetops and fell to the earth, giving everything a pale silvery sheen.

In the jungle, fireflies are flying, and the shadow of a deer passes by.

She strolled on the straw mat and walked all the way to a pool of water.

She involuntarily stopped, and the reflection of the stars and moonlight on the surface of the water without any waves was beautiful and intoxicating.

With her gaze, the pool water lit up little by little, as if there were also fireflies in the water lit up with light spots, illuminating the entire pond water one by one.

She saw swimming fish swimming in schools among the aquatic weeds, and crabs burrowing into the mud and sand in panic......

"Will you listen to me?"

Suddenly, a warm, clear voice sounded in her ears.

She jerked back, but there was no one in the dark jungle.

"Who?"

"Listen to me."

"Listen to me."

"Listen to me......"

The source of the sound is actually in the water!

She suddenly looked at the pool again, and in the middle of the pool, in the last lit area, a huge corpse was lying quietly, as if it were an island in the middle of the pool.

In the half-sunken skull, vines grew out of the hollow eye sockets, bearing moon-white petals, clusters after clusters, emitting a hazy fluorescence.

"Ahh

Hoshino stepped back in horror, completely forgetting that it was just a dream because it was a real dream.

She fled backwards as quickly as she could, fireflies flying everywhere, and the difficulty lit her way.

But no matter how hard she tried, the road in front of her continued to darken, as if she was about to fall into the abyss and fall into the eyes of the corpse if she made a mistake next.

"Whew...... Whoop......"

She gasped violently, a fire burning in her lungs, and finally she tripped over an exposed rhizome and rolled down the slope of the straw mat.

Never mind......

Just give it up.

It's okay to die this way.

She lay on the lawn down the slope, feeling the pain coming from her body, so thought.

After a few breaths, footsteps rang out beside her, and then the hazy moon shadow in the sky was blocked by a nasty, familiar face.

His expression was playful and gloating, and his malicious smile made people want to punch him.

"President, are you alright?"

Do you look like you don't have a problem?

But......

Fujiko Hoshino suddenly woke up and realized that it was just a dream.

She sat up and slowly wiped the sweat from her forehead.

There was silence in the sweltering room, and the whole campus was quiet and peaceful.

"Is the air conditioner broken?"

The chaebol daughter muttered to herself, walked into the bathroom barefoot, brushed her hair with some wet hair, and took a cold shower to wash away the heat and sweat on her body.

It was late at night, and she didn't bother to call someone to come over to repair it, so she simply took a thin blanket from the cabinet and went to the sofa outside to deal with it for the night.

The air conditioner outside was still running steadily, and Fujiko Hoshino was busy for a while before lying down again, but there was no sleepiness for a while. 33

She was thinking back to the dream just now, although the details of the dream had been automatically forgotten after waking up, but some important pictures were firmly remembered by her.

Why do you dream like that out of thin air?

She thought for a moment and looked at the string of wooden beads on her wrist, which was the instrument of control that Sakura Tetsuya had given her in the afternoon.

He said that it was a very precious treasure, and that each bead was equivalent to a high-level guardian technique.

"It should be because of this thing......"

She pressed the back of her hand to her forehead with one hand, and pressed the palm of her hand against her heart with the other, feeling a slight tingling, and the low and warm voice echoed in her ears like an auditory hallucination.

"Will you listen to me?"

And is this the voice that only you can hear?

The sound coming from inside this string of wooden beads?

What the hell is this thing?

She took off the bracelet and placed it in the drawer of her desk, along with the pistol.

Since it was Yozakura Tetsu who also handed over the beads to herself, then Hoshino Fujiko believed that there should be no danger, but when such an accident occurred, she couldn't be sure if it was related to the curse she was carrying.

The moonlight outside the window poured in and fell on the desk between himself and Sei Keisuke, and the cold tones seemed to sink the room into the underwater world, isolated and dark and cold.

Little by little, the cold invaded the whole body.

Fujiko Hoshino stood in front of the table, stroked her cheek, and looked at the "Asuka Collection" on the corner of the table, imagining whether her face was as cold as the moonlight at this time.

But no matter how much she thought and tried to divert attention, she also had to think about one question-

Why does Keisuke Aoi appear at the end of the dream?

Some people died, but not completely......