"Hmm!"

Awakened in the middle of the night, Sharon sat up from bed, her chest rising and falling violently.

Soaked in sweat and the room around her dark, she gasped hard, stiffly and slowly turning her head to look around.

Beside him, Bai Heqing, who had already tortured his spirit to the extreme in the past few days, was sleeping quietly.

[It's so beautiful when you're asleep.] 】

Sharon looked at him, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and she subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch his face.

But the next moment, as if she suddenly remembered something, her pupils constricted, she got up suddenly, ran to the bathroom barefoot, and vomited incessantly.

[She did it, she really did it......]

"Kokarsuma~"

I don't know if it was an auditory hallucination or something, but Sharon suddenly heard a voice behind her that was all too familiar to her.

There was a hint of playfulness in the softness of the voice, and it was impossible not for her not to remember.

"Sister Keiko?!"

Sharon jerked her head back, only to find Keiko Hatoyama standing at the door of the bathroom, looking at her with a smile.

"Sister Keiko! You ......"

No, this is not Keiko Hatoyama.

Sharon's words came to an abrupt end, and the excitement that had just risen in her heart dissipated in an instant.

Keiko Hatoyama is no longer there, and she knows that better than anyone else, having attended the funeral just yesterday.

"What's wrong? Don't know me anymore? ”

Keiko Hatoyama crouched down and kept her eyes level with Sharon, still with a smiling expression on her face.

"You, you're not Sister Keiko, Sister Keiko, she...... It's gone. ”

Looking at the extremely familiar face in front of her, Sharon, who was kneeling on the ground, subconsciously shrank back, but still tried to keep herself calm.

What's going on here?

Is it a dream? She's still dreaming?

Or is she hallucinating because she misses Keiko's sister too much?

Or, or! This is Miss Okino's prank again?!

"What, obviously I deliberately came back to see little Karasuma, but it turned out to be like I didn't know each other, even if we were good friends, I would feel hurt......"

Keiko Hatoyama raised her hand and touched her face, and there was also a sad expression on her face, but immediately, as if she understood something, she nodded, raised her index finger, and said with a smile:

"Ah, I see! It's because Karasuma-chan feels guilty about me, right? ”

"I didn't!" Kokarsuma subconsciously replied loudly, but for some reason, her tone didn't seem to be as firm as her voice.

"Don't lie to me~" Keiko Hatoyama held her face and continued to smile: "You also know it, little Karasuma, Sister Keiko, I'm the best at seeing through other people's lies, whether you are lying or not, what you think in your heart, I can see it at a glance." ”

"No, it's not! I ......"

"Now, Karasuma, you and Xiaoqing are making rapid progress, although I said that I want you to take care of Xiaoqing, but you have been together for just a few days since I left, which really makes me a little envious......"

"No, Sister Keiko, listen to me, I'm ......"

"What is not?!"

As Sharon's mood fluctuated, suddenly, the expression of this "Keiko Hatoyama" in front of her became extremely hideous, which was an expression that Kokarsuma had never seen on her face before.

"You're still in bed, aren't you?! Even I haven't done it yet, how dare you do it?! ”

"No, it's not ......"

Little by little, the terrifying "Keiko Hatoyama" in front of her slowly approached her while questioning.

Infinite guilt, pain, and fear suddenly welled up in her chest, and Sharon couldn't say anything, just shook her head desperately, and kept shrinking into the corner of the bathroom.

"Ah, I know, you've always liked Xiaoqing, right? It started a long time ago, right? Do you think I can't see it? ”

"No wonder, you know that I will definitely die before you, that's why you are squeezed between me and Xiaoqing with a dead face, just so that one day when I die, you can stand by his side naturally, isn't it?!"

"No, it's not! I do like him, but I've never wanted to interfere with you, Sister Keiko, and I've never said these things to him! Not really! Not a word! ”

"Of course you won't! Xiaoqing, you don't know how sharp he is! You yourself know that your little tricks will definitely not be able to fool his eyes! If he finds out, it will destroy the 'good sister' character you have worked so hard to manage for so many years, isn't it?

So, I'm going to die anyway, you might as well wait, use me, and use Xiaoqing to take advantage of him when he is most vulnerable, and take advantage of his identity as a 'good sister' to completely possess him, right?! ”

"No...... I just want to...... Just save him......"

Cowering in the corner, she kept retreating under the verbal attack of "Keiko Hatoyama", Sharon covered her ears trembling and shook her head desperately.

But even so, the "Keiko Hatoyama" in front of her still didn't let her go, her voice seemed to have some kind of terrifying magic, no matter how hard she covered her ears, it could reach her ears very clearly.

"Ah, I really didn't expect that you, the little Karasuma I trusted so much, would be such a vicious person...... You say, are you really worthy of me by doing this? ”

"Don't say it...... Sister Keiko, please don't talk about it......"

"Really."

As if she couldn't hear her prayers at all, the voice of "Keiko Hatoyama" sounded softly in her ears.

"If I knew that little Karasuma was this kind of person, I should have killed you when I attacked that old Karasuma...... You say, don't you? ”

"Don't ......"

Sharon is caught in a whirlpool that is difficult to cross in the dark.

“……”

Sharon vanished.

This was discovered by Shirakawa Kiyoshi when he woke up the next morning.

The room was quiet, he thought at first that Sharon had just woken up early and gone out, but all the contact information could not contact her, and everyone around said that they had not seen her, and it was not until she did not come back that night that Bai Heqing finally determined this.

She really disappeared.

So, what is the reason?

It's not hard to think about it.

Bai Heqing just sat down and thought quietly for a while, and then came up with the answer.

Yes, on the night of the mourning hall, Kogura looked at him with a panicked look in her eyes, and although she seemed to have infinite courage, in reality it was not the case at all.

In fact, she was not sure whether she was doing this right or not, and whether she had the qualifications to do so, she was just mechanically doing what Keiko had said before her death, and her heart was also worried about the future.

She was scared, too, and even more so than he was.

Among them, there may also be guilt for Keiko.

The heavy guilt of these factors may have exceeded the limits of her heart.

Therefore, she chose to flee.

Bai Heqing, who had quietly come to this conclusion, suddenly smiled.

It's really embarrassing to worry two women who care so much about him to this extent.

White River Clear, White River Clear...... Why don't you die?

He looked down at his hand, and the idea popped into his head, but immediately, he shook his head and vetoed it.

No, he promised Keiko that he couldn't go to her too soon.

Either way, he still has to live well.

That's right, it is precisely because of his fragility that Keiko and Kokarsuma were injured like this.

Yes, if this is not corrected, they will always get hurt......

There can be no mistake.

So, let's start with a smile......

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(End of chapter)