"Listen, Sakel!"

Seeing that the other party didn't buy it, Semir, who got Ricky's signal, was a little anxious:

"It's not easy for us to come down for a trip, not just to catch up with you, but ......"

"Then don't waste time," Sakel touched his stubble and raised a small stone knife in his hand, "Unless you have a razor......?"

Sakel turned his head and looked at Ricky's waist with contempt in his eyes:

"Well, your sword is good?"

Ricky snorted coldly and pressed his hand against his specially-styled saber, full of hostility.

Right now.

"Here," Tails, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, "razor." ”

"Here you go. ”

In the next second, the boy pulled out a sheathed dagger from his jacket and walked it between the fences.

Sakel was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and subconsciously took Tails' dagger.

Looking at the JC dagger that came back to Tails at some point, Ricky and Semir both changed color!

Semir looked at Tyers in disbelief:

"When will it ......"

Tails chuckled.

"In the scuffle, Marina pressed me to the ground, and she pressed me so hard that she didn't even feel my hand. ”

Ricky frowned, then smiled.

"Good boy, you can touch the dagger here, and really give your ancestors a long face," Semir looked at the prince with a displeased expression:

"It's a shame not to be a pickpocket. ”

Oh, yes.

I think too.

Tails sighed slightly in his heart.

Sakel chuckled and shook his head, looking at the dagger in his hand with interest, feeling the daggard and turning it over and over, but not pulling it out, let alone shaving.

I saw him staring slightly sideways in the firelight, and muttered a sentence without a beginning or an end:

"The king doesn't respect the bloodline?"

"Really?"

Both Ratchet and Semir were puzzled, but Tails smiled.

Under the puzzled gazes of the other two, the prince stepped forward.

"Who's that?"

Tails smiled:

"Sakel, the one who was talking to you just now...... Who is it?"

Ricky and Semir frowned again, as if upset with the prince's interjection.

But others don't think so.

"Ah, after all these years, someone finally asked that. ”

Sakel's gaze froze on the dagger in his hand, paused for a few seconds, and then the corners of his mouth curled slightly: "This means that you shouldn't be an illusion—are you?"

Tails smiled.

"Of course I'm not," said the prince lightly.

"But the guy you're talking to, is he?"

Listening to this incomprehensible conversation, Semir's expression was a little ugly.

But Ricky shook his head at him, preventing him from speaking by interrupting.

Sakel smiled.

"That person ......"

His gaze was a little dazed, as if he was about to return to the state he had just been nervous.

"When I first came here, I was fine," Saker said, "just like another solo workout, but it's a little longer, the light is a little darker, the room is a little empty, and there is no such thing as Brie's big mouth nagging every day, how nice it is." ”

He groaned, the chill in his words that made Semir unable to bear to bow his head.

"And then, I don't know how long it was," Saker laughed suddenly, without a finish:

"Here he comes, the man. ”

Semir's expression tightened:

"What?

Sakel was once again immersed in his own world: "One day I saw him talking, on the other side of the cell. ”

He pointed to a corner outside the fence, his face slowly stiffening.

"Sit there and ...... with a smile on your face"

"Speak. ”

"Him. ”

Sakael is dumbfounded.

Ricky and Semir glanced at the place he pointed, a dusty corner that no one had apparently touched in a long time.

But Sakel's gaze was frozen, his expression numb, as if he had seen something.

Like a sculpture.

Looking at the other party's appearance, Semir understood, and sighed angrily.

"Him?"

"See clearly, Sakel, there is nothing there, and you are the same here, no one, no light!"

Semir's words were tinged with accusation: "Listen to me, Saker, I know that you don't want to look back on all the tortures of the past, but no matter how terrible it is...... I've seen Barney and them, and that's all this damn prison for you! And you've been stuck here for eighteen years, and there's nothing but darkness and ......loneliness."

Hearing the other party's words, Sakel came back to his senses from the state of the immobile sculpture and sneered.

"I've been trapped here for eighteen years, and what about you?"

Sakel stared at Semir fixedly, a cold light radiating from his eyes: "Haven't you been trapped in your own heart for eighteen years?" ”

The Knight of Punishment shook his head disdainfully:

"At this point, we make no difference, the second flag officer, Semir. ”

Semir froze.

In the slightly stiff scene, Tails sighed.

"So, this ...... Sakel. ”

"You said you saw 'him' appearing here, talking?"

The prince looked at Sakel with complicated eyes: "Who is 'he' you are talking about?"

Sakel bowed his head.

"Who are you, young man?"

The prisoner of the royal guard narrowed his eyes: "I don't think you came with these people to visit the Prison of Bones voluntarily, right?"

Semir frowned and was about to pull Tails away, but Ricky stopped him.

Tails shook his head and didn't answer.

"You see him talking, but the words are not visible," the prince sighed.

"I suppose you were the one who saw 'him' first, and then heard 'him' speak?"

Sakel stared at him for a long time, thoughtfully.

But his answer was still fanciful.

"It doesn't matter, does it," the former star of the royal guard looked in a misty look as if he was caught in a memory:

"Sometimes I see his people and then his voice comes in. ”

"Sometimes, I hear him before he shows up. ”

"It's all the same. ”

"There is no difference. ”

After saying this, Sakel's expression froze again.

The four people in the hall were silent for a moment in this particularly strange conversation.

It doesn't make sense.

He's gone crazy.

This is the look that Semir shook his head and gave Ricky.

But the leader of the Sword of Calamity paid no heed, and instead listened to the conversation with interest.

"yes, it's all the same," Tails smiled reluctantly:

"So, 'he' is ...... Talking to you?"

Sakel's face became a little sad.

"Yes, he just talked, smiled, and even gave me orders," Sakel seemed to be distracted, staring at the corner he had just pointed:

"But I know, I know, sometimes he's real, and that's when I'm happy. ”

In the next moment, Sakel's cheek muscles tensed, and he gritted his teeth, as if he saw something evil:

"But I also know that sometimes he pretends to be something else, just to seduce the weakness and darkness in my heart, so as to break me. ”

Tails frowned:

"Something else?"

Seeing this, Semir on the side sighed and whispered in Ricky's ear:

"It's meaningless nonsense again. ”

But Ricky was clearly unimpressed: "As long as I can get him to speak." ”

Sakel ignored the whispers of the other two, instead focusing on the conversation with Tails:

"Yes, the ones that want to hurt you. ”

The long-faced middle-aged man stared at the empty void, and his words were full of emotion: "You know, he's very nice, but those things are very cunning, and I had a hard time distinguishing the difference between them at first. ”

Sakel spoke, faintly distracted.

It seems to be talking to itself.

"They will all tell me about the past, the training when I was a child, the selection when I grow up, the duty in the Fuxing Palace, the mission to the Northland, the expedition to the desert, the Blade Leader in the south, and of course the people, there are fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, Your Majesty, Your Highness, the old captain, Big Barney, the old smoker, Glovor, and of course her, and then ......"

Speaking of this, Sakel shuddered slightly.

Tails looked at him intently, encouraging him to continue.

"Those things are especially hateful, it likes to whisper while I sleep," Sakel seemed to return to his previous state, only to see him gritting his teeth and grimacing:

"Then they showed me something else. ”

"Trying to break me. ”

He stared at the dagger in his hand, his eyes cold.

"What," Tails said softly, as if guiding a child in his learning:

"What did they show you, Sakel?"

Sagar looked up suddenly, clenching his teeth like a beast.

His eyes were red and he was staring straight ahead, as if there was his sworn enemy there.

"Sometimes, it's the rotten skin that you can see when you open your eyes, with maggots and flies ......"

Sakel's words had a chilling aura, and he trembled slightly with his body: "It's so rotten that I can't recognize it, but it's still moving, but I just know that those are the guards, everyone's faces, emerging from the darkness, suddenly appearing in front of your eyes......"

Semir looked at him with regret and shook his head in a low voice:

"He's crazy. ”

Ricky ignored him.

"Sometimes, it was countless heads stuck in the tip of a spear that filled every corner of the cell, leaving me with no place to sleep, and I could only stand against the wall even when I slept. ”

Tails listened silently, his eyes pitiful.

"The heads have all been dead for a long time, but they can still speak, and they like to suddenly open their eyes and make noises when I squeeze past them to get food, and some of them will try to bite me," Saker clenched the dagger in his hand, and put his left hand over his shoulder, as if he had been bitten by a monster there:

"I have to say, the head that resembles Prince Banker is quite similar, and his words have kept me awake for days. ”

Sakel squeaked with a smirk.

He stared at Tails with a frightened stare.

"Even one day, when I woke up, I saw hanging corpses all over the ceiling, and there they were, all rolling their eyes and sticking out their tongues, but they seemed to be looking down at me......" Sakel pointed to the top of his head, breathing more and more rapidly:

"They swayed back and forth on top of my head, twitching slowly, and sometimes the dead men's feet and robes brushed my hair, and it probably lasted a whole ...... Three meals at a time. ”

He said quietly.

Semir couldn't help but speak.

"But you don't even have light here!"

The flag bearer looked at the former number one guard with sorrow: "Wake up, Sakel, there is nothing in the cell, just a hallucination of your own imagination!

Sakel sneered and looked back at Tails.

"Sometimes, they just don't let me see anything, except for the sound in the dark. ”

He said coldly.

Tails squeezed out a smile: "Voice?"

Sakel nodded, his face glazed over:

"Baby crying. ”

"It's like a baby's cry in the infinite darkness, over and over again, over and over again. ”

"Back and forth, back and forth, left and right, sometimes close to the ear, the ears are clear, sometimes imperceptible, only the concentration and tranquility can be smelled, sometimes it is sad and miserable, sometimes it is full of malice, and sometimes, it will become a strange baby laughter. ”

Sakel sat down against the wall, his whole body curled up, his expression distracted.

Tails flickered slightly, trying to keep his emotions alive.

"It must be tough. ”

He said with difficulty: "Live in ...... In a different world. ”

Sakel's expression became a little indifferent and numb.

"A Different World......

"In the beginning, yes, I could only tell me over and over again: it was a test. Later, I got used to ......"

He looked up and said stupidly, "You know, the good thing about this is that it's both him and those things...... At least when they appear, I can hear his voice. ”

"Whether it's true or not, that's the voice he had before he died, his laughter, his words, his commands. ”

Sakel pressed the handle of his dagger against his forehead.

"Let me be in eternal purgatory, solace one or two. ”

Tails was a little sad, he made and took a deep breath, opened his mouth and asked:

"Who?"

"Whose voice?"

The question attracted the attention of the other two.

Sakel was in a trance.

"Of course it's him," said the former watchman of the royal guard, with a sad but reassuring smile:

"His Royal Highness the former Crown Prince. ”

Semir shook slightly.

Tails was also slightly stunned.

"The one I see, the one who speaks to me, the one who smiles at me, who tests me, who torments me, who comes to visit me all the time, is him before he died. ”

I saw Saker hug himself tighter, and said in a trembling voice:

"The king's eldest son, Midil Bright Star. ”

There was a long silence in the hall.

I heard only the sound of Sakel's sobbing.

Tails' face darkened, and he closed his eyes gently.

Live in a different world.

He repeated weakly in his mind.

But when he closed his eyes, Tails in his thoughts seemed to be thrown into a stormy wave.

Rise and fall with the waves.

Until he collides with a long-lost memory fragment and brings him back to a world he hasn't cared about for a long time.

Inspire the same long-lost strange feelings.

The voice.

It's still that voice.

The beautiful, gentle, unconsciously reassuring female voice that always makes him laugh.

[Yuren, are you afraid of ghosts?]

【......】

This damn fellow, knowingly asked.

I'm going to laugh at him again.

[Yes, I remember, you are the most afraid of ghosts, and you can't even watch horror movies. 】

Really.

He sighed slightly, scratching his head.

But you've never seen a ghost, have you? Because in the world of many people, it does not exist, of course it cannot be seen. 】

The female voice on the other end of the phone paused, slightly depressed.

[But you might as well imagine that there is such a kind of person, and they see the world...... Ghosts exist. 】

[exists.] 】

He frowned.

What the.

[So, when they go to bed at night, they may see a hideous face on the pillow or against the ceiling...... Or, when they opened their eyes in the morning, they saw a bloody head standing in the window, and a dead man covered in white squatting in the corner...... They may see little girls dressed in red and faceless when they walk, and bloody eyeballs when they eat, and they will feel ...... at any time]

The woman's voice was a little low, trembling slightly, and intermittent, as if she was trying to suppress some emotion.

[Hey, don't scare me, okay, my aunt...... You know I'm most afraid of these ......]

[So...... So ......]

The voice trembled.

He felt inexplicably uneasy.

[So...... For such people, ghosts are real, at least in their own worlds, they are real...... Really, you can see it...... But they themselves couldn't tell if it was true or not...... In their opinion, they really saw the ghost ......]

The female voice seemed to be unable to control her emotions anymore, and countless negative emotions poured out like a burst of embankment, just like her fragile and unsupported voice.

[They don't want to, they're scared too...... But they, they don't watch ghost movies, but ...... It's that they simply live in the world of ghost movies...... Struggling to get out...... They are really powerless, they can really see the living, hideous, and most real ...... in their lives all the time Woo...... Ghost ......】

Puzzled, confused, uneasy.

In addition, he was a little anxious.

What's wrong with her?

[Hey, isn't the signal bad? No, eh, you...... Why are you crying...... Eh, don't you cry, it's okay, no matter what strange things happen, I'm here, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid......]

[Please, don't be afraid, don't be afraid of me, I'm not...... I, I didn't...... Please, I'm just ...... I was just...... Woo, I'm just living, living in a different world from you......]

The gentle voice was frightened and frightened, and its cry trembled.

This made him extremely flustered as well.

What is ...... called? A different world from him?

He didn't know.

He could only do everything he could to comfort her.

[Come, follow me to take a deep breath, don't be afraid, there's nothing to be afraid of, right, if something really happens, it's a big deal to find a Taoist priest, a goddess, and a superpower expert...... It's better, come, tell me...... What's wrong? Why all of a sudden, talking......]

There was a slight sobbing sound on the other end of the phone, but it was calmer than before.

[Yu Ren, today, doctor...... The doctor told me the diagnosis. 】

The woman's voice was much lowered.

Even with a hint of desperation.

He wanted to say something, but what he wanted to say got stuck in his heart, and he could only pop out three words.

[How?]

The female voice laughed.

[Schizophrenia, have you heard?]

schizophrenia.

A sudden fear snatched over his brain.

[Schizein, and Phren...... The Greek roots before and after are "disjointed, broken" and "mind, mind". 】

[The doctor said that this is a disconnect and separation between perception and thinking, so some people translate this as 'dissonance of mind.'] 】

The voice sobbed lowly, as if it was holding on, and it wanted to laugh.

made his heart like a haze, extremely sad.

He had only silence.

But in our case, there is a more common translation. 】

He swallowed.

[What's it called?]

The female voice sneered, and spoke weakly and weakly.

[Schizophrenia. 】

At that moment, Tails snapped his eyes open, broke free from the boundless sea of memories, and returned to the dark and dead underground black dungeon in a cold sweat.

He gasped and looked at Sakel in front of him, who was clubbed in prison like a wooden man.

I felt that my chest was empty.

Look blank.