《Persona: Greed of The World》
Arrival
I am thou and thou art I
By reading this fanfiction thou hast agreed that similarities between name, places, and event in thou world are purely confidential
If thou agrees to this term a new contract shall becreated
And then thou hast established a newvow
Allowing thou to takes part mending a broken world
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Soseki eye slowly opened after he heard an announcement.
"For your safety and comfort, please remain seated until..."
Soseki ignoring what the announcer says, and look outsidethrough the window, where everything is green, completely different from the scenery he used to see. in the midst of it, a gentle, calm voice can be heard
Soseki turns his head to where the voice comes from, a woman in her mid 40''s, with voluminous loose curly hair. "Hey, sonyou''re finally awake" she says thisin a low tone while caressing a young girl head, that sleeps on her shoulder. Soseki doesn''t give much response except for nodding. "Don''t worry, I''m sure you''ll like it here since this is a place where i grow" her mother says this to Soseki with a confident look on her face
Soseki has to think about how he feels, since all of this happens because of him. But.. he''s considering his mother feeling and replied. "maybe, bet this place doesn''t have Wi-fi"
His mother sighs to his answer and say. "you don''t need things like that in here" and continue caressing his sister hair
After a while, other passengers start to stand up and walks to the door, leaving one by one, his mother carries his sister, while Soseki carries their bags
As soon as they finish taking their luggage, the three of them walk out from the airport, his mother tries to search for someone, while Soseki carries his sister and waiting in front of the airport, after a while he notices something and yells to his mom
"Mooom!!, is this the person that you''re looking for?" right in front of him, there''s a man that just came in and brings paper that written with "Sawaya Chisaki" Chisaki is his mother names, and Sawaya is his mother family names before married
"Oh my, it''s true, how smart of my son to notices this" Chisaki says this while messing with Soseki fade man-bun hair, and go to the man, Soseki follows his mom in the back
"This is yer lad right? my, mylook at that face! this one sure will be a strong manwhen he grows!"
The man voice is loud, Soseki can feel that everybody looking at him right now, this man figure is what Soseki would call as the country look, with flannel as his shirt, messy beard, and messy hair, from the look this man seems to be in his early 50
"Soseki~, don''t forget to introduce yourself" Chisaki reminding her son, that looks like forgotten about that
"Ah sorry, Natsume Soseki, pleased to meet you" Soseki bowing after he finishes his word, he''s completely aware that this man will be helping them to move to the village
This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it."Ooh~, yer a polite one right?, thought yer will talk like some kind of city punk considering yer appearance, ah I''myourmother neighbor, Uchida Junichi, feel free to call me old man!" Junichi says this to him while joking around, helps them bringing some of their luggage, and taking them to their ride
After they see their ride Soseki can''t help but mutter a word of protest to his mother
"....Mom,you''re joking right?" Soseki in astonishment saying this to his mom, he is giving a look like he sees a ghost or alien right now
"Why? ah, this is the first time Soseki-kun riding something like this right?" Chisaki grins a little bit, and start taking her daughter, while Soseki in his amazement, still put their luggage on a trailer behind the tractor.... there''s a haystack on that trailer
"Alright, kiddo, this will be a bumpy ride" Old man says this and starts the engine, the sound it makes is really loud, even Shina, Soseki little sister a 4years old girl, that has been fast asleep, get awaken by this sound
After the tractor starts to move, Soseki says this to his mom "...Old man really serious when saying this is a bumpy ride" in which Shina, that just wakes up, confuses of what happens "since when the plane becoming this?".
Their mother can only give a wry smile and says "don''t worry, it is safe, ah look at the bright side, we can see scenery directly from this right?"
Soseki just kept all of his protests in his heart, after a while, despite the sound of the engine, he starts to feel drowsy
When he realized, he already awakes in a hammock, inside the garden where there''re papers scattered on the floor
"Huh?...is it night already?" Soseki says this to himself but after a while he realizes something,
".....Wait, why''s everything blue?" everything inside this garden is blue, blue grass, blue leaves, blue flowers, the only thing that has different color are white papers that scattered around the floor
Soseki has a feeling that he needs to walk to the center of this garden, after walking for a while, A gazebo can be seen, inside it there''re three figures, he walks more closely and seeing a figure of a girl in a wheelchair, a figure of woman with blue uniform, that brings a puppet, and a figure of a man with long, very long pointy nose that''s unnatural for human, writing something on paper
Meeting
Right after Soseki steps his right foot into the gazebo, "Ah, welcome to the velvet room" the man with unnatural long pointy nose stops his writing, put both of his hand below his chin and welcome Soseki with a friendly voice
"My name is Igor and they are my assistant Christina and Hans". Igor speak again and gesturing to a woman in the blue gown, straight chick white hair, in her hand there''s a puppet that wears a blue uniform, both of them nod in unison to Soseki
"......Where the fuck am i?" Soseki ask Igor, he doesn''t even take one more step inside of the gazebo, he just standing still on the mouth of the entrance
"My, my why don''t you take a seat first?" Igor talk to Soseki again, Christina can be seen preparing his seat, while Hans the doll, moving around by himself and preparing a tea
Soseki... even though he is hesitant, feels like he needs to listen to Igor word, and walk slowly to the center of the gazebo, everytime he walks a rustling sound of paper can be heard. After he reaches his seat and starts slowly sitting down, a figure of a girl can be seen right next to him, a girl with red hair, with hairpins on both side of her hair, the girl greet Soseki with a nod, and before Soseki able to greet her back
Igor starts to speak, answering Soseki previous question "This is Velvet room, This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter. ku...ku...ku this is a first time for two people exist inside the same velvet room"
"It takes its shape based on the state of your heart. fu..fu.. truly such an anomaly, two different velvet room and two people at the same time" Igor continue his explanation and start his writing again
"Indeed master, this is a troublesome matter" Hans the doll, finish preparing his tea and giving Soseki and the girl next to him a cup of tea, completes with scone cake
"......Robot?" Soseki, in his disbelief mutter that word, even though this is a robot, he never saw a robot that talk, walk, and making a tea
the girl with red hair, take the cup and start drinking it,"Oh, the tea is good" the girl with red hair start talking, complimenting Hans tea, in which Hans only greeted with bowing his head downIf you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.
"Looks like the string of fate has intertwined between the two of you" Igor stops his writing and starts to talk,
After he finishes, Igor takes a book, right after he opens it, a card flying out from inside, one card flies toward the girl with red hair, and one to Soseki. Soseki sees the card in front of him, it looks like a man with stick and bag of his shoulder, and a dog, falling down from the skies
"Ah... Two fools, one reversed, and one not, i see" Igor speaks by himself, Christina walk slowly to Igor, and gives him two books
Igor reads the books, Soseki in his curiosity, tries to peek into the book but can''t see anything, after a moment Igor starts to speak "i see... Kyoka Izumi and Natsume Soseki, two figures, so different and yet so similar.."
Before Soseki able to reacts how Igor know his name, he clearly remembers that he never introduces himself
*cring* Sound of a bell can be heard... Soseki feels he heard this sound before, but he can''t remember where, he looks to the right and sees Christina, already moving her hand to ring another bell
*cring*
"Ah, too bad that the time is up, until we meet again Izumi, Soseki" Igor closes the books, giving a farewell, take his pen and starts writing again
"Oi! wait a minu.." Soseki yell at Igor, he tries to move his left hand to grab Igor long noses but,,,
the third bell can be heard *Cring*
".........i-san" Soseki hear a voice, a voice of little kid, speak right next to him
"onii-san~, wakey, wakey" in his side, there''s a figure of a little girl, pulling his shirt and pointing toward something
(.....that was a weird dream, but...where''s i heard that bell sound before) Soseki still wondering about what happened, if it really just a dream, or something else. Rubbed his eye, and see toward the direction his sister Shina pointing, and says "oh... it''s a sea" to Soseki there''s nothing special about that sea, the sea isn''t that beauty, and there''s no landmark around it
"it''s the sea~ it''s the sea~, hey let''s stop and play over there" Shina jumping around on the trailer of the tractor, Old man laughing in front and say
"i-f y..u, w...nt, i....ca...ta....y..u....morrow" old man looks like saying something but the sound of tractor engine too loud to hears him
Soseki sighs, holds Shina down and says "Shina.. stop jumping around, Nii-san doesn''t think this tractor can hold on if you''re jumping around like that" and start patting Shina''s head
Old man in the front, somehow hears his word and says "ga...ha...ha,thi....tor....ma.be...ol...bu...it...ca.....ove...round"
Soseki, just give up encrypting what the Old man says and just continue to play with Shina, his mother, just giving a weak smile, seeing her son ignorant attitude
Grandparent
After the bumpy ride, Soseki and his family finally reach his grandparent house, it is a wooden house, smaller than their previous house, from Soseki point of view, this house can collapse anytime, but Shina and Chisaki sees it differently, Soseki steps down and start unloading their luggage
" Waaaaaah! , it is a wooden house!! " Shina says this while looking amazed by the wooden house, while Chisaki starts to looking around, and checking thing one by one and say " my, my this place hasn''t changed at all since i leave this island" after a while Chisaki seems to have a little nostalgia about this house
Old man, talk to Soseki that just finishes unload their luggage and say "kiddo! , my house is near that corner, if you''re need anything feel free to come by" and start to drive away to his home, some of the smoke from tractor hit Soseki face.
Soseki start to brings some of their luggage, inside the house, while Shina still running around in the garden, his mother already greeted by an old woman and old man, Soseki even though he sees Chisaki from the bag, know that his mother has a troubled face when meeting with those two old people
his mother turns around and calls both of Soseki and Shina "Soseki~, Shina~ come and greet your grandparent" said Chisaki, Shina running away to the old couple, and says "my name Natsume Shina!" followed by bowing her head, his grandmother replied with "ohohoho~ what a cute little kid, and don''t need to introduce yourself, we are your grandparent after all" and starts to rub her hair
"nice to meet you, grandpa, grandma" Soseki, follows his sister greet their grandparent. His grandpa only said "hmph! ... this brat smell like a city boy", Soseki, has complicated feeling hears his grandfather answer, but decides to bow
both of his mother and grandmother just smile wryly, after a while his grandmother gives permission for him to starts putting their luggage inside "now,dear it must be a long journey, why don''t you all start taking your luggage inside, while i prepares some tea", in which his mother replies with "ah, let me help you mother" and starts going inside the house
Soseki... feeling his grandfather glared at him, starts to take their luggage inside, Shina still playing around outside of the house, while his grandfather go from the front door, and start going to the garden
After Soseki put his foot inside the house *kreeet* a sound like that resounding, in his mind he''s thinking (...is this house really safe!?) and starts put their luggage in, each time he walks another *kreeet* sound can be heard
"Mom... where should i put it?" Soseki asking this to his mom, not knowing where he should put their luggage, his moms answer with "you can put mine and Shina on the second floor, as for you, there''s a small house on the left side, you can put your things in there"Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.
listening to his mother word, Soseki starts to move his mother and sister luggage to the second floor... on his way, he can see a growth height mark on the wall, a picture of his mom when she''s young, and some tool that he never saw before, after he finishes put their luggage, he starts moving his to the small house
Soseki, sees the small house and mutters to himself "...this is a warehouse right?" he tries to open the door, but it stuck, after using a little force the door finally opened, the warehouse only has 3x2m, inside there''s already a futon A/N (Japanese bed), wooden table near the window, a small table on the middle, a wardrobe near wall and a yellow lamp hanging around the top of this warehouse
He starts to unpack his things, most of the thing he brings only clothes and books, while he organized the books, he found one book that he never read or buy before, he takes the book, sees the cover and mutter "this...is the book that shows in my dream", he opens it, but there''s no single letter inside it, not even a scribble.
Soseki sigh, thinking this book is only a notebook that he buys, and forget about it. He continues to organize his thing, after a while he realizes that all of this stuff inside is new, even the warehouse itself doesn''t have any dust, and then the door knock can be heard
*dug* *dug* "nii-san~ the tea is ready" Shina calls out to him, Soseki hears this, start to think that living in this warehouse, communication will be unpractical and starts to think about how he should solve this problem, but he doesn''t have enough knowledge to solve this problem.
Following Shina to the living room, they have a tea time, Shina already adapting to her new environment, and both of her grandparents really pamper her. On the other hand, while grandma acting casual around Soseki, he can feel that his grandpa always glared at him
Grandma, notices this and say "on my dear, are you still mad about the warehouse being used as his living place?" , grandpa in panic denied grandma word "nonsense! who''s mad about that!" Soseki hearing this smile wryly and think (so, that''s why he glared at me) after this incident, he feels that his understanding rose up
"Oh, yes, i almost forgot, Soseki-kun, we already prepare for your enrollment at the local high school, be nice and make a 100 friends in there, okay?" grandma treats Soseki like he''s a kid that just start his first day at elementary
She stands up, walks a little bit and gives Soseki his new school uniform, before Soseki able to say his gratitude, his mother already say "sorry for the troubles mom"
While Chisaki helps her mother making a dish, Soseki help Shina unpacks and organized things in her room, unknowingly, the sky already dark, they have dinner and talks a little bit, after dinner, Shina already asleep, and Chisaki excuse themselves to put Shina to bed, not long after this, Soseki grandparent also excuse themselves and went to bed
Soseki being left alone start walks to the warehouse, prepare his bed and starts to sleep.
Once again.. he suddenly wakes up in a hammock, everything is blue, the only difference is the hammock is nearer to the Gazebo, from his place, he can see Igor, Christina, Hans... he hears some noises, turns to his right, and sees a red-haired girl in a wheelchair
Purpose
"umm...Soseki-kun right?" the girl in a wheelchair said his name, he knows that she learns this from Igor, but he doesn''t remember what her name was, and so Soseki answer with "...yeah, but sorry i forget your name"
"Oh, it''s okay, Igor-san just calls me for an instant, ah let me introduce myself, my name is Kyouka Izumi, nice to meet you" she bows and giving her hand to Soseki, Soseki grabs her hand, doing a handshake and introduce himself "Natsume Soseki"
After doing the introduction, both of them don''t know what else to do, a long silence surrounds them, after a while, Soseki breaks the silence by saying "mind if i help you?" to Izumi,
In which Izumi responded with "ah, thank you... sorry to be a bother" and slightly bows her head
Soseki starts to move to her back and push the wheelchair and says "it''s fine, we''re heading the same direction after all". The rustle sounds of paper can be heard, when both of them heading to the gazebo,
Soseki talks again with Izumi "hey, you know about this place?". Izumi hearing this, answers with "Igor-san said this is Velvet room, right?". Soseki replies with "...so you''re clueless about this place too huh"
When both of them reaches the gazebo, Christina can be seen preparing a sit for Soseki, while Hans already prepares the tea, Igor stops his writing and speak to both of them "Welcome back, both of you"
Soseki, takes Izumi to the Igor front, and start to sit too, but this time he asks Igor a question "Oi!, nose, what is this place?"
"this is a velvet room, a place that exi-" before Igor able to finish his line, Soseki cut his word "not that, geez, you''re already explained that, what i mean how can i get to this place?"
Igor hears his word speaks again "this is Velvet room, this place already exist in your mind since the day you''re born, only some people have permission to access this place"
Soseki, feeling that Igor only repeats what he says, stand up and tries to grab Igor nose but "please, don''t touch my Master nose, his nose is the best in the world" Hans already catches Soseki hand and says that word. Soseki on the other side can''t even move his hand an inch, giving up and start to sit down
"ku..ku.. a fool indeed, now where was i.. ah,Velvet room, is a place between dream and reality, the method to access this places is different for each people, but for you two, you can access this place by dreaming at the same time" Igor explaining this to Soseki,Stolen story; please report.
"basically, both of me and Soseki-kun can access this place because we are sleeping at the same time?" Izumi replies to Igor explanation, trying to check her understanding, but the one that answers this time is Hans "Nein, Nein, it is not sleeping but dreaming at the same time" Hans says this while moving his index finger left and right
"i see.. not sleeping but dreaming huh" Izumi, hearing this starts put her hand on her chin, and lost in her thought, While Soseki in the other hand ask a question to Igor again "so, nose, why are you calling us?"
Igor answer Soseki with "I''m not the one that calls you, you''re the one that calls me" ... Soseki feels that Igor only play riddle with him, ignoring his answer and ask another question " why are we calling you?"
Christina hears Soseki word, moves and gives Igor another book, same as before, Igor read the book and starts speaking "ku..ku.. our purposes is only to guide you two, making sure each of you, doesn''t walk stray from the string of fate, remember, your fate is intertwined, if one walks to the other side, the others will follow"
"...urgh, nose, you just answering my question with another" Soseki, feels like he''s being played with, ask another question again "oi, nose! what''s that book? i have one like that suddenly appear in my place" Soseki says while pointing to Igor books
"ah, i have one like that too, suddenly appear inside my school bag" Izumi, snap back to reality, if you can say that this room is reality follows what Soseki says, but before Igor answering
*cring* Christina, already ringing another bell
"oi! nose! you still have a second to answer" Soseki yells to Igor, he feels like these people always try to avoid important question
*cring* Igor speaks to Soseki and Izumi "until we meet again" and close his book
*cring*
"ugh....." , after the third bell Soseki wakes up, he can feel a sunshine pierce through the window and hit his eye, he looks into his watch and sees the time is 6.14 AM, after a moment Soseki collecting some will to move his body, and starts to get up, go to the main house, brush his teeth and clean his body, since he sweat a lot
(....just what the hell is that dream) When Soseki went out of the bathroom, grandma already prepares breakfast for him, a Japanese style breakfast, rice, Miso-soup, grilled fish, and pickles
"oh.. thanks grandma, does mom & grandpa already awake?" Soseki asks this to his grandmother, in which she replies with "both of them already awakes since 4, right now they are supposed to be in the farm, ah right Soseki-kun, this is a map to the school don''t get lost and don''t dirty your uniform
"ahaha... I''ll try too" Grandma really treat Soseki like he''s a child since Soseki never meet both of his grandparents, he doesn''t actually know how to react to this treatment
After finishing his breakfast, Soseki changes into his uniform, and start his first day at the new school, with a map in his hand
Dream
While walking to the school, Soseki looks at the map again, and speaks in his head (....the school sure far from the place where i lived huh), By walking, to reach the School from Soseki grandparent house, almost more than 1 hour needed, the bus only arrive at 7:30 am and 5:00 pm. he can still catch the bus, but Soseki want to take a walk to get familiar as fast as he can with his environment, so he choose to walks by foot
On his way, he can see another student that wearing the same uniform as him, with pink punk hair, and piercing all around his ear, looks like the student misses the bus, a sweat can be seen pouring down like a rain from his head
*sigh* "Dude, you''re okay?" Soseki greets the student and asks about his condition, the man turns around and ... not only his ear full of piercing, but his lips and nose is being pierced too, the unknown man, suddenly reacts aggressively toward him
"whaddya want huh!?" the punk student, or so Soseki decides to call him, grabs his collar, but his leg is shaking, and sweat is really pouring from his head... Maybe because of the student appearance or his habits, Soseki doesn''t get surprised by him
"......you look like you''re dying, i just asking about your condition," Soseki says this and removes the punk student hand from his collar, looking at Soseki calm action, the student yell at his face "huh!? what''s that crap yer talking bout? yer think I''m so weak that I''ll pass out from trying to catch running bus huh!?"
without clear reason, the punk student yells at him and telling his reason to be in this condition, but after realizing Soseki eye patch he starts to speak again "oi, oi wassup with that eye patch? are you aware how old are you rite now?"
"... not your problem, anyhow since you can scream that means you''re fine" says Soseki, he starts to walk again and ignoring the punk student, a scream can be heard from the back of his body, it is the punk student
"Oi! wait! fucker! you''re ignoring me huh!?" the punk student throwing insult to him, ... too bad Soseki doesn''t want to make trouble in his first day at school, and start walking again until he stops his walks
"speaking of which i never saw yer face before, a new kid huh? listen, new kid! in this school the one that makes the rules is me Mori Ogai!" Ogai, boasting about himself and walk while closing his eyes, he bumps into Soseki, that stops his walk midway
"oi, fucker! you''re searching for your own grave huh!?" Even though Ogai is the one that bumps into him, he blames this on Soseki, and try to grab his shoulder, in which Soseki only replies with
"........punk, what is that?" he asking a question and pointing toward something, Ogai take a peek from behind Soseki and answer with "Dog?" , Soseki surprise by his answer talk to him again, "...not the Dog, but thing behind him" Soseki pointed again, this time he points to the flying book behind the Dog
The punk student answer with "....flying book? HUH!? a Book is flying!?, how!?" suddenly the book opens itself, and tries to suck both of Soseki with Ogai along with the dog inside it
"what the fu!?" Say Soseki while surprised
"Mommmyy!!" Ogai cry while saying this and tries to run away
"wooooooof!!!!!" The dog is the first victim that got sucked by the book
even though both of two men already tries to run away, the book finally succeed at sucking both of them.. after this everything is black, when Soseki wakes up, they are already in the middle of a jungle,This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.
"....ahaha...am i going crazy? , oi punk! wake up!" Soseki says this and kicking Ogai, after kicking him twice Ogai wakes up only to get kicked the third time
"whatcha problem huh!?" Ogai cover his nose that got kicked, a little blood can be seen coming out, Soseki Replies him with "this is my problem.... looks like ours" and pointing to his surrounding, after a while Ogai realize that they are in a location unknown to him, and he mutters "....gah!! thi!! this must be "the spirited away" incident!, Kuh because of you!!"
"spirited away?" Soseki ask him back, but Ogai already to confuses to talk anything, suddenly a bush behind them gives a rustling sound, Ogai losing his calmness, hiding behind Soseki back, while Soseki itself is walking a step back from the bush
suddenly from inside the figures of a dog flying out, Ogai seeing this, acting tough say "you fucking mutt! trying to scare us to death huh!!"
While Soseki, feels something not right, seeing the dog clearly and ".........punk, the dog is dead"
"huh?" Ogai replies, Soseki pointing to the ground, there''s a blood coming out below the dog mouth and ear, right after Soseki mention this, another rustle can be heard, it is bigger than the last time, from the bush jumps out a plant that has a face, that has roots as its leg and arm and spits a ball of purple liquid, luckily for both of them it misses and only hit Ogai bag
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"gah! what''s up with that, disgusting, disgusting" Ogai scream and throwing his bag to the ground, The plant with a face suddenly scream, a scream so loud, both of Soseki and Ogai hold both of their ears, but the scream feels like piercing through their ears, not only that after the screaming another Plant with a face coming from the ground, one by one, they already surround Soseki and Ogai
"......gh! fuck!" Soseki in desperation tries to kick some of them, but each time he kicks them, a purple liquid can be seen coming from their mouth, Soseki instantly deduce that from the color this must be poisonous
In the midst of confusion, suddenly Soseki hears a voice
I am thou and thou art I
Thou hast established a new vow
It shall become a pen of truth
Helping thou write own destinies
Thou has been blessed with the power of fool arcana
Say my name, and read my story
Soseki mysterious book suddenly appeared, inside it, there''s a word, a word that he never sees before, but he knows how to read it, follows the voice that Soseki hears he say the word
" Pan! "
Mysterious letter coming out from the book, creating a circle, Ogai screaming "What''s going on again this time!?" while all the plant with a face surrounded by letter and stops their movement
Suddenly figure of a young man appears, wear a leather armor that surrounded by leaves, a green leather pants, his ears are pointy, wear a cap that has a red feather, in his belt, there''re many kinds of weapon. and the most surprising of all the young man floating above the ground with his butterfly wing that throws golden dust everytime it flap
Without realizing, Soseki already holds the book that has another mysterious letter written, this time he reads another word, it is spoken "Garu!"
Pan, creating a gust of wind, that throws all of the plants with a face surrounding Soseki and Ogai
In an instant all of the plant already gone, Pan is disappear and leaving only both of Soseki and Ogai
"..........punk, tell me what the fuck going on" Soseki says this to Ogai
"..dude, could you kick me once again, this time kick it really really hard" Ogai starts to believe that he''s inside a dream world right now, asking Soseki kicking him to make sure he is awakes
Anti-climatic
"oi! eye patch!, how do we get out of this place??" after the battle, both of Soseki and Ogai wandering around this jungle to search for a way out, but they found none, Ogai at his end wits says that to Soseki
"how should i know? I''m as clueless as you are" Soseki replies to Ogai, lucky for them there''s no more mandrake coming out after Soseki beat the mandrake, he finds a piece of paper, when he touches it, the mandrake data written in his books, with its name, illustration, history and many more
Soseki looks at his watch, either it is broken, or time doesn''t move normally at this place, they already search for a way out for about 2-3 hours most likely, but the clock says they only spend around 3 minutes of time
"shouldn''t a guide coming right now!? an animal guide? either bear or cat? something like that!?" looks like Ogai really at his end wits, even Soseki doesn''t dare to tell about time anomaly on this place and just ignores him
(should i try to sleep? nose said i can go to that place by dreaming? but there''s no chance that Kyouka will sleep at this time) Soseki actually at his wit ends to, and Soseki realize that they''re lost on this jungle
Both of them just wander aimlessly, hoping on pure luck to find some way out, but rather than way out, he finds something else
".......ssst" Soseki gives a signal to Ogai to shut his mouth, Ogai that already at his wits "huh!? whaddya want!? ordering me around this time!?" , "no dumbass, lower your voice! there''s something over there" Soseki answering Ogai by a whisper, the truth is until this time none of them know each other name, Soseki just calls him Punk, while Ogai calls him Eyepatch
In front of them, there''s another bizarre figure than Mandrake, the figures this time has a woman face but donkey body
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"ugh..disgusting, eye patch hurry up and beat her" Ogai whisper this and urges Soseki to use Pan to beat the creature in front of them
Soseki replies Ogai with another whisper "are you stupid? what if that thing stronger than Pan? and is that supposed to be a whisper? lower your voice more punk"
While both of them arguing, the donkey-faced woman, stomping her feet, both of Soseki and Ogai look at the stomping sound, and finds that the donkey-faced woman already facing directly to them, the donkey-faced woman raised her head and a pair of ice chunk fly to them
"wtf!?" "uwaaa!!" the scream of Soseki and Ogai can be heard, the ice chunk doesn''t fly at high speed, but it still surprising for them to see ice creates out of nowhere
"wtf this ugly woman want from us!" Soseki says after he evades the ice chunk
While Ogai on the other hand "yer donkey, yer only a donkey how can a stupid donkey create that!"If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.
The donkey-faced woman suddenly creates a shrill sound and run away from them, both don''t know why she runs, but just feels gratitude about that
"....oi Punk, I''ve been wondering for a while but what do you mean by "spirited away" back then?" says Soseki not long after donkey-faced woman runs away, he actually doesn''t believe on that kind of thing, but right now he''s trying to be open-minded
Ogai replies Soseki question "tha....that''s just a local folklore on this island, a person sometimes disappear, only to be found in a sleeping state"
".....say, if there are some chances that the person that''s disappeared is sent to this jungle?" Soseki asks him back
"how should i know!? i never spirited away before" Ogai retort to his question
"lets... lets just rest for a while, looks like i starts to blabber some stupid thing" Soseki give his opinion in which Ogai agreed, Soseki rest in the shade of a tree, while Ogai choose some rock and sit down
While resting Soseki open his book, and try to read it... most of all it''s only story, biography, illustration but on some pages, he found
Name
Arcana
Lvl
STR
MAG
END
AGI
LUK
Pan
Fool
2
3
3
3
3
3
Garu
Kouha
Mandrake
Death
3
2
3
3
4
4
Poisma
Bind Voice
(Status? this is a little bit like a game huh, let''s see... Poisma: creates a ball of poison, bind voice: high pitched scream.. hee, Mandrake is stronger than pan, but how can they be defeated so easily? oh weakness wind, i see) While Soseki concentrating at reading the book, Ogai starts to wander around the area
"Oi! Eyepatch!" Ogai talks to Soseki, he looks to where the voice comes from, and Ogai throw something to him, rather than something, what Ogai throw to Soseki is a dagger, while Ogai himself have an axe on his hand
"ooh..where did you find this?" Soseki playing the dagger at his hands while saying that, this scenery amazes Ogai and he says "....i thought you''re some kind of a nerd, who would''ve thought that you can use something like that"
"this? this is only a hobby," Soseki answer while continue playing the dagger and reading the book, Ogai in his heart retort (...he just continue playing the dagger while reading a book like it was nothing!?)
"Mandrake" Soseki out of nowhere saying this, a letter comes out like before, making a circle and a mandrake formed, Ogai seems alerted by his action and readied his axe but Soseki says "no need to worry, Mandrake, search around this area and find us an exit" .. the figures that try to kill them before, giving Soseki a salute before went off
"Alright then Pan" Soseki this time want to use Pan and makes him search from the sky, but... there''s nothing come out
"ah... so i can only use one at a time huh" he keeps experimenting and taking a notes on his regular notebook
Ogai that watches all Soseki action changes his mind and thinks (yup this guy is a nerd but...... eyepatch!! stops playing around with that dagger like that!)
After they have enough rest and decides to move out, Mandrake comes back, pulling Soseki pants, thinking that Mandrake finds a way out, both of them decides to follow him, and what they find is a hut, they''re going inside and find a bookshelves, a desk, a hammock, a sofa, some food, but what''s taking Soseki interest is the bell, he tries to ring it three times, following what Christina do
*Cring* *Cring* *Cring*
Out of nowhere, a storm of paper coming in, when they open their eyes, they already back to where they gone, minus the book and the dog
"oh" Soseki mutter this to himself
"......we''re back? just like that? , that''s somehow a little bit anti-climatic" Ogai in confusion say this to himself
"ah! school" Soseki looks into his watch and finds that they are only gone for 4minutes, he takes his back and starts walking toward the school
"...gah! i forgot my bag back then!" Ogai that forgets about his bag, follow Soseki from behind to the school
Kyouka Izumi
"oi! nose! you still have a second to answer" Soseki yells to Igor, he feels like these people always try to avoid important question
*cring*
"........mi-sama"
"Izumi-sama, wake up or you''ll be late" A voice calling Izumi, which still lay on her bed, with a blanket on cover her body
"...........that dream again" Izumi wakes up feeling tired, this is her 2nd time having a weird dream, meet a man that she never saw before, a man with an unnatural nose, a beautiful girl, and a talking puppet
A sound of a door being open can be heard, alongside that, the same voice that called to her before resonating in Izumi room "Izumi-sama, are you awake already?"
"hm.. I''m already awake, sorry to bother you, Ran-san" Izumi answer to the voice that called her, a young woman called Ran, wearing a maid outfit, and braided bun can be seen, she''s in late 20 and works at Kyouka household since graduated from high school
"so, how are you feeling today? your face is a little pale" said Ran to Izumi, while she tries to help Izumi get up from bed to her wheelchair
"um.. I''m fine just having a weird dream" Izumi replies to her, while Ran trying to push Izumi to the bathroom
"Alright then, do you want me to help?" says Ran, in which Izumi replies with "no, I''m fine by myself"
The bathroom inside Kyouka household already modified so Izumi having no trouble taking a bath and do other things by herself, even though her maid Ran always offering help every morning
Izumi, bathe in the bathtub, her body is full of sweat because of a realistic dream, after bathing for a while, she feels refreshed, she gets out from her tub, and dry her body. In front of the bathroom, a pair of uniform already prepared for her
After she changes her into her school uniform, Ran already waiting in front of the bathroom, more likely she''s always waiting for Izumi in front of the bathroom and helps Izumi to the dining room downstairs
The dining room in Kyouka household is big, bigger than Soseki grandparent house. After Izumi reaches the dining room, a set of healthy food with a balanced diet already readied for her by the cook of Kyouka household, maybe because of her dream, Izumi just takes a little bite and start talks to Ran
"Ran-san... let''s eat together" Izumi says to Ran
"ohoho~ I''m sorry, but i already had my breakfast when you''re still dreaming" Ran replies to her proudly
"...next time wake me up when you''re having your breakfast" Izumi says this in a low voice
In the big dining room, only her, Ran, the cook, along with three butlers can be seen, maybe because she''s feeling weird, eating alone when other watches, she always asks somebody to eat with her, everyone in this room actually want to eat with her, but they don''t dare to do thatStolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
"....hey, Ran-san, when do mom and dad come back?" Izumi asks Ran
"Madam should be coming back by the end of this month, and your father always comes when you''re already sleeping, and leaves before your wakes up" Ran says this in a manner toward someone far younger than her
"now Izumi-sama, why don''t you eat a little bit, i might not be able to eat anymore, but i can stay and talk with you while you''re eating" once again Ran says this and close her eyes and starts to sit down near Izumi
"Okay" Izumi takes another bite of her food
"so... how about school? have you done your homework?" said Ran to Izumi
"of course i have, i don''t have much to do either at the home, although..." Izumi cut her word and starts to show Ran a book, the same book as Soseki have, but this one has a red cover rather than green
"do you know anything about this?" said Izumi to Ran
" I''m sorry Izumi-sama, i don''t read many books, but that books really look antique" Ran gives her opinion to Izumi books
"i see.. since you know so much, i thought at least you''ll know something about this, ah... I''m full already, can we go to the school early?" said Izumi
"yes... no problem, I''ll ready the driver, oh it looks like there''s a new kid at your school, i heard he is quite a handsome kid" Ran says and tease Izumi, hearing a word boy, she starts to remember about Soseki, the boy that appears on her dreams
The car is readied, and Ran rides with Izumi to her school, she does this to help Izumi with a stair and any problem like that, the problem should be solved if Izumi parent sent her to the school that has lift or something like that, but they''re to doting and won''t let their daughters go outside of the city
She sighs and looking the scenery from outside car window, after a while, she can see a book laying down on the side of the roads, of course, this will trouble the driver and Ran if she ask them to pick up a book on the road like that, moreover the car already passes the book by far, and the book can''t be seen anymore
"Hey, today after taking me to the 3rd floor, you can go home already, all of my class is on the 3rd floor today" Izumi says this to Ran, actually she''s lying and some of her class isn''t in 3rd floor, and Ran aware of her lie, but Ran never ask Izumi the reason for her lie
"yes, i know that every Monday and Thursday all of your class is in 3rd floor, i remember your schedule after all" Ran replies, in which Izumi gives her a wry smile
At the school, Ran helps Izumi to go to her class, there are 10 minutes before the class start, but Izumi already tells Ran to go home, after Ran walk outside, she''s reading her book alone, while some other student playing around and talking to their friend
She spends her time alone reading a book until the Homeroom starts, a gossip about the new student becomes the topic of conversation, she actually curious about this too, since their school lately get a new student, even in the 2nd year, there are only 53 students that get separate into two classes
When their HR teacher comes in, she gives a word that the new student hasn''t come to the school yet, and start the homeroom, after the homeroom almost done, a sound of a door opened can be heard along with a familiar voice to her "Forgive me, I''m late"
A boy, with fade man-bun hair, wearing an eye-patch on his right eye, having an arrogant look on his face, looking tired and all sweaty
In her amazement, she can''t believe her own eye and start rubbing it, until the man facing his face to the front of the class and begin to introduce himself, she sure that he''s the same man that she sees in her dream
"ah!!!!" he points to Izumi, takes a step back and looking really surprised, like seeing a ghost
.......... a long silence fills the classroom, Izumi realize that the man surprised because of her and start to talk
"u...m.. hello" Izumi nod slightly
"ah right, my name is Natsume Soseki, pleased to meet you all"
School
"Oi! Eyepatch, i know a shortcut, follow me!" Ogai tell this to Soseki, there should be enough time for him to walks to school, he feels grateful that his watch isn''t broken, and know that when people "spirited away" time moves differently over there
"Nah... I take a normal one" says Soseki,
"Cmon Eyepatch, i didn''t know what happened back there, but i feel that i owe you one, so from now on, you''ll be my underling" says Ogai to Soseki
"...its fine, don''t bother, i don''t even know what was i doing back then" Soseki replies to Ogai
Still, Ogai tries to force Soseki to go with him, in the end, Soseki decides to follow Ogai with his shortcut, this is something that he regrets.
The first shortcut that Ogai shows having road construction
The second shortcut is to muddy to walk without dirtying their clothes
The third shortcut have a longer distance than normal path
By the time they reach the school, they already late, the Teacher starts to lecture them, but Soseki gives excuse by saying "this man help me when i get lost, ah i am a new student, so this one is my fault" the way Soseki speaks right now is very different when he''s talking with Ogai before, making Ogai very surprise that he lost his word to say to the teacher
"Is this true Mori-kun?" the teacher gives a stern look to Ogai
"yes, teach! i help this man shows the right path!" Ogai answers by yelling, Soseki speaks in his heart (you owe me good this time Punk) and gives an eye signal to Ogai, in which Ogai answer with another eye signal that says (i buy you some good ramen after school!)
The teacher only sigh and letting them go, unknowingly, both of them go to the same year, even though Ogai in class 2-2 while Soseki in class 2-1, they separate and Soseki enters his class
He opens the door and says "Forgive me, i am late"
The teacher gives Soseki a tired look, and let him do the introduction
Soseki facing to the student, but he sees something that surprises him
there''s one student, on his back an appearance of a kid, with red skin, a bowl cut hair, and two horns show
Soseki reflexly point his finger to that student, while taking a step back and yell "ah!!!"This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.
long silence fills the classroom while Soseki speaks in his mind (wait a minute! how come no one realizes that thing? am i the only one that able to see it?)
After a while, a voice of a young girl breaks the silence
"u...m.. hello" Izumi nod slightly, Soseki sees the girl and think (Is that Kyouka!? ah right, introduction)
"ah right, my name is Natsume Soseki, pleased to meet you all"
"Okay, then Natsume-kun, you can tell a thing or two about yourself" the teacher urges Soseki to tell something about himself
In which Soseki answer with "nothing much, from Tokyo, starts living on this island since yesterday that''s all"
the Teacher introduces herself as Kuroki Kyoumi to Soseki and starts to talk again "hm~ since there''s still time on Homeroom, and looks like Natsume-kun here a little bit shy, why don''t you guys ask him one or two question"
Soseki in his mind, recognize that he will not get along with a teacher named Kuroki Kyoumi, and not long after the teacher says this, some students raise their hand and ask him a question
"How''s Tokyo?" Soseki answer with " like what? everything looks ordinary to me"
"What''s yer deal with the eyepatch?" Soseki replies with "Private matter, don''t ask that question again"
"what''s inside the eyepatch?" Soseki sigh, he answers with "nothing"
another student asking about the eyepatch again "if there''s nothing why bother wearing it? isn''t that what they call a chuunibyou?" half of the class laugh at his comment
Soseki looks slightly annoyed, taking off his eyepatch and say "because there''s nothing, not even an eye, i wear the eye patch, happy?" he speaks in a monotone voice
a silence once again fills the classroom, Kyoumi even doesn''t react at all to this atmosphere, since this is their first-time meet, and she doesn''t know about his deal
Soseki feels he has enough guts to challenge the student that mocking him, this time he gives a smile to the student that makes a joke before while saying "Oi~ are you happy~?"
"ah! looks like Homeroom is over, Natsume-kun, you point at Kyouka-san before right? why don''t you seat near her, don''t worry we redo the seat every season so you''ll get chance to know everyone in this class" Kyoumi speaks like this and point to the empty seat on the right side of Izumi, Izumi nods at her teacher word.
Soseki sigh, and start to walk to that seat, actually he points to the red kid that hug a boy''s neck, but from others perspective, it must be like he''s pointing to Izumi back then, after Soseki sits down, Kyoumi, walk out from class in her mind she speaks (another troublesome child getting thrown in my class) and lower her shoulder
"u.....m Soseki-kun.. may i call you that? .... this may come out of nowhere but have you seen a weird dream lately?" Soseki pretty surprises, the girl that called Izumi has... a little bit different persona from what he remembers on his dream, this one seems a little bit timid
"Yeah, it''s fine, I''m calling you Kyouka though and yeah... blue garden, nose man, doll and something like that right? Soseki answering her question
".....so all of that is real?, unbelievable" Izumi speaks with a low voice, but Soseki still able to hear it
"hey, Kyouka, if you don''t have a plan at lunch, trust me, there''s a thing more unbelievable than that" Soseki says this to Kyouka, in which Kyouka replies with "....okay then, at lunch...if you''re fine.....with m-"
"Hey! whatcha deal with her!?"
"how do you lose your eyes!?"
"why are you coming here!?"
"I''m sorry it was a bad joke!"
Before Kyouka able to finish her word, another student already surround Soseki, he sighs and just answers their question that''s unrelated to "how he knows Kyouka" and "everything about his right eye" until the next period starts
Lunch
"I''m sorry! be right back!" says Soseki to Izumi
It is lunch time right now, but the people in Soseki class force him to do a school tour with them, even though he already refuses, they keep insisting to do this, Soseki finally giving up and go with them
Right when they open the door, a figure of a young kid with pink mohawk hair can be seen standing in front of the classroom
"where is the boy with an eye-patch!? i need to speak with him right now!" Ogai, yells like that, sees Soseki figure and start to talk "there you''re! eyepatch! come with me! there''s something that you need to see!" Ogai grab Soseki tie and drag him, Soseki release Ogai hand from his collar and replies with "wait a minute, i need to bring someone"
He walks again to the classroom, and talks with Izumi "Kyouka, go with me for a minute", Izumi does not have a chance to reply, but Soseki already pushes her wheelchair and goes to Ogai
"wa...wait a minute Soseki-kun" Izumi, confuses of what happens, while her wheelchair being push, she sees Ogai on the hall, and Ogai react to Soseki action says "wait a minute, why do you bring that girl!?" , Soseki replies with "it''s fine, just want to check things", they search a place where there''s no student around and start talking
"You two don''t see that thing on his neck!?" Soseki start the talk
"There''s that flying book inside my desk!" Ogai start talking at the same time as Soseki
"....wait, what thing do Soseki-kun see?...and Mori-san know about velvet room?" Izumi replies both of them
"huh? that book on the street is inside your desk?" Soseki replies to Ogai
"what kind of thing do ya mean?" Ogai replies to Soseki
"....um sorry i don''t follow" Izumi confuses of what is going on
"Punk, how''s that book is inside your desk?" Soseki ask Ogai again
Ogai replies Soseki with another question "no, eyepatch what''s the thing yer talking bout?"
"wa....what was going on.... please talk one by one" Izumi getting more confused and mediates both of them, this continues for a little while until both of them start to calm down
"alright, i start then, ya know? bout dat book? when i look inside ma desk, it''s already in there" Ogai speaks and show both of them a book, this book has brown color as its cover
".....i have one too, mine is red color" Izumi looks astonished replies to Ogai
"oh, mine is green, ah right, you two don''t see there''s something sits in that boy neck? you know, Kyouka, the student that sits in front of you? he has something on his neck" says Soseki and he starts explaining what is the creature looks likeThe author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.
"e...ehm..i don''t think i see something like that, sorry" Izumi replies to Soseki after he finishes explaining
"don''t think i see one too when i look inside yer class" says Ogai
"i see.. so having that dream and having a book is unrelated to that thing huh" after says that, he started to think by himself
"....pan" Soseki tries to call pan, but nothing come out, once again he tries "Mandrake" nothing come out either
"nothing come out?" said Ogai
"....what will come out?" Izumi asks
"ah, sorry, let me explain..." Soseki tells the reason whyhe is late and other things, after he finishes explaining Izumi replies with "o....oh... a jungle huh, and Soseki-kun can call creature by his book?" , not long after she says this a loud sound of grumble stomach can be heard
"huh? not mine" says Ogai, Soseki doesn''t feel that he is hungry too, he takes a peek at Izumi and sees her face is red, he sighs and says "sorry, it''s mine.... let''s end this conversation, ah give me your number, i call about this matter later"
Ogai replies Soseki with "ya coming from the same village as me rite? tell me yer house, i''ll come by later" Soseki replies him "sorry, punk i still need to do some cleaning... let''s just meet tomorrow at school on the same time" Soseki ends the conversation, Ogai nods and starts to go to his own class
Soseki, looks at Izumi that looking to the ground, even her ear starts to redden and says "...Kyouka, let''s have a lunch together, and you don''t need to be that embarrasses, Punk doesn''t know that was your stomach" he says this with a grin, while lower his body and tries to look at her face
Izumi replies Soseki statement with ".....but Soseki-kun know.." and raises her head, unfortunately, Soseki face is directly in front of her, their eyes meet, Izumi face getting redder than before, and a drop of blood coming from her nose
"ah...,your nose" Soseki says this and point at his nose, Izumi immediately covers her nose, and Soseki search something in his pocket, and gives her a pack of tissue
"so...sorry" Izumi takes the tissue while says this, she keeps looking to the ground, Soseki confuses about this atmosphere says "let''s eat in class, cmon I''ll take you back" he starts to push Izumi wheelchair, Izumi just replies him with a nods
After reaching their class, Izumi says "....Soseki-kun, maybe you can see that creature because Soseki-kun can call a creature similar to that?" Soseki replies her with "oh, i don''t think about that... but still, Punk can see when we are inside the book, wonder why he can''t see that in this world" he take a peek toward the student that has a creature on his neck
when they starts to having lunch, Soseki sees Izumi lunchbox and says "oooh, that''s cute" Izumi food modeled as a black cat that wears bandana, Soseki can''t help but amazes and says that Izumi on the other hand, close her lunchbox and mumble "...i already told them to stop making character at my lunch"
"hm? something wrong?" Soseki ask Izumi and open his bread, Izumi replies with "no...it''s fine" she starts opening her lunchbox again and starts eating
"....hey,Kyouka, you''re a picky eater huh" Soseki says this to Izumi and she replies with "...why?" while looking confused and chopstick in her mouth "...you''re setting aside that potato salad" Soseki says, Izumi want to speak that she set the potato salad aside because she like it and want to finish food she doesn''t like first, but troubled by how to say it
"ah..because you like it, you want to finish it last? my sister is that type too" Soseki says while grinning toward Izumi, she just nods, looking to the ground and continue to eats but
I am ye, and ye art I
ye bond has been deepened
ye shalt have our blessing
when ye choosest to create a persona of the fool arcana
"huh?" x2 Soseki and Izumi replies when a sound echoes in their head, but for Soseki the word is different from what he ears on the first time
"you hear that?" Soseki asks "...Soseki-kun hear that?" Izumi asks
Both of them ask at the same time, they decide that both of them hear the same voice and continue to eat
Night
"...hey, Soseki-kun can i ask your number?" says Izumi, her voice is so small, if Soseki doesn''t pay attention, he will miss her saying that
"Sure, i am planning to ask yours too" Soseki replies to her, they exchange contact info. Now that they''re taking out their phones, Soseki just realized that the student in this school doesn''t play with their phones at lunch break, different from his last school.
The figure of a girl in front of him smiles a little when they exchange contact, now that the lunch break is over, they have another class.
Even though he is supposed to concentrate on his class, Soseki can''t help but wonders about what was happening this morning, the teacher call his name while he daydreams
"Natsume-kun, what are things you can''t do in your dream?"
What subject is it? even though he''s daydreaming, Soseki still answer the question "In a dream, most people can''t read or tell time with accuracy"
"Correct, i think you''re daydreaming, but it looks like you''re paying attention" the teacher praise him, even though what the teacher says about Soseki was daydreaming is true. He feels like his knowledge is increasing by answering the question
The class ends after Soseki answers the question, the next subject is art, the art classroom located on the 2nd floor. when all student already prepare to leave class, Soseki eye still fixated to the student that has a creature sitting on his neck, after a while he realizes someone calls his name
"....Soseki-kun, you''re not going to the art room?" says Izumi.
"Ah, yes sorry, just lost in thought" Soseki says this and stand up, he walks to the back of Izumi and starts pushing her wheelchair,
Izumi in surprises let out a dumb voice "e....eh?" and looking to her back, she sees Soseki push her wheelchair like it''s a natural thing to do, Soseki notices this says "oh... sorry, i thought you want some help, since it''s on 2nd floor, and... you know" he looks to her legs, her skirt is a custom one, while the other girl wears a skirt around their knee, Izumi skirt almost reach her foot
"o...oh, it''s fine, i just don''t want to cause trouble for you" says Izumi, Soseki smile wryly and starts pushing her to the art room, after this, they have another subject and the school ended
when all of the students going home, Soseki talks a little bit with Izumi, when he realizes, they are the last two students that still stays in the class, he excuses himself and Izumi just nod. When he opens the door, figures of a woman, slightly older than his teacher, wearing a maid outfit already waits in front of the classroom, the maid nods to him and going inside the class.
Soseki in his heart speaks (...holy shit, that girl has a maid? must be a rich one huh). He walks to the front and sees a black car parked, he looks at his watch and sees the time 5.10, Soseki says in his mind "i already miss the bus, well let''s just take a walk slowly"
Not long after he walks alone, the same car he sees before stops near him, this alerted him, and he grabs the house key in his blazer pocket, and start to prepare for the worst, only to find a familiar voice and face
"u....um...we live in the same village right? i heard Mori-san says that before....how about going home together?" it is Izumi''s voice and her head sticking out from car windows, Soseki feels like a fool being high alerted like that and says this to her "ah, thanks for the offer, but i want to see the surrounding area, so sorry"
Izumi nods, pull her head back, and the car starts to drive again, Soseki continues his walks, he wants to check the place he and Ogai gone this morning. After reaches it, he doesn''t see anything suspicious and continue his walk to the home
As soon as he arrives at home, it is already 6:17, he can see that his grandparent looking worried and says "thank goodness, i think you get "spirited away", Soseki feels sorry about this and tell his grandparent that he''s taking a walk, since he wants to know the surrounding area better.
After taking a bath, dinner already served for him, even though they are his grandparent, he still feels bad and making a commitment in his heart to help them when he has free time, when finishes with dinner, he help his mother and grandmother to clean some dishes.This tale has been unlawfully lifted without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.
While he cleans the dishes, Shina runs to him and says "hey, Nii-san, look at the stars with me" and start pulling his shirt, his mother says this to him "just go play with Shina, it is fine with only both of us" Soseki nods and go to the garden to see the stars, grandpa watches tv while laying down when they pass living room. it is commercial for Tanaka''s Amazing Commodities, and he advertises Just Do It Shoes, he wants to buy it, but he doesn''t think he needs that thing, considering his family condition right now
When they reach the backyard, Soseki sits down, and Shina is sit in his laps, her eyes shining like a star when she looks above, Soseki decides to look above too and ..... his phone in ringing, he checks the caller "Kyouka Izumi"
[ What? ] Soseki answering Izumi calls
[ oh... sorry, did i bother you?] says Izumi, she''s nodding her head even though there''s no one besides her right now
[ not really, so anything matter?] Soseki asks Izumi
[ u...um... what are you doing right now?] Izumi asks Soseki back, in her front, there''s a book that she buys from Tanaka''s Shady Commodities, the book titled with "How to make a phone conversation" if anyone sees her right now, they must be laughing.
[eh, nothing much just sees the star with my lil sis, you know, back in the city i can''t see the star with naked eye] Soseki explaining what he is doing, while keeps his head to the sky, and his other hand patting his sister''s hair
[hee...] Izumi says this and starts to take a look at the stars too, she doesn''t have special feeling watching the star from her room, while doing this , she thinks that the book advice is a success and tries to follow the next step (so... next the recipient should be ask me what i am doing right now) it''s what she says in her mind ...... but she waits for quite some time and Soseki never ask her that
on the other side Soseki keeps looking at the sky and wonders (is she really calling to just ask me that?) he sighs and starts to talk [...so, what do you do?]
[e....ehm..wait] Soseki in his heart says (bingo, she''s waiting for me to ask back huh) somehow Soseki feels that his kindness is increasing
on the other hand for Izumi, she gathers her courage and says [sorry, i think my phone is having a low battery] just by saying this, she can feel that her courage is increasing
[oh, just turn this off and charge it] Soseki replies
[ye..yes! that is the problem, it doesn''t pay me the money] Izumi replies back to Soseki, long silence fills the air
[..............] Soseki tries to encrypt what Izumi means
[..............] Izumi feels like she can die from embarrassment anytime soon
[............ah i get it, charge! so you charge it with money, but it doesn''t pay] Soseki.... don''t know what to say anymore and just blabber
[......pl.....please....kill me..... tommorow] Izumi says this, her body is shaking and a drop of tears is coming from the side of her eyes
[wait, i have a good one why does a phone wear glasses?] Says Soseki he hears this joke from his friend at old school
[why?] Izumi ask him back
[Because the phone lost its contact] Soseki giving the answer
[ah.. i see, contact info, and contact lens, so contact... that''s why it wears glasses] Izumi tries her best to get the meaning of Soseki jokes
"Hey, hey who are you talking too? i have a joke too, um...wait... ah, what do you call a bear with no teeth"
[so, can you hear this?] Soseki ask this to Izumi, and put his phone beside his sister''s ear
[what?] Izumi speak
[teeeeet! the answer is a Gummy bear!] Shina talks to Izumi on the phone, she laughs after giving her answer, not long after this, Chisaki calls her to go to bed
[ah, sorry she''s going to the bed.....hello?] Soseki talks again to Izumi
[..........so........sorry...pfft... i see, gum so gummy bear.......] Izumi trying hard to hold her laugh, she can feel she''s having a cram on her stomach
[........wa...wait don''t hang up yet...............fuh.... speaking of sleep, i think i want to go to bed soon, so.... um... till we meet again at velvet room] Says Izumi
[right the Velvet room, okay then night] Soseki replies to her
After turning his phone off, he closes the door to the backyard and goes to the warehouse, this time there''s a fan and a heater inside it.... in his mind he speaks (i must help them whenever i can)
he prepares his bed and reads the green book, and he just notices that there''s something new written
Name
ATK
Effect
Assasin dagger
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(is this a dagger that punk give me in that jungle? now that i notices it, the dagger suddenly missing when we go back) Soseki check his book and found an illustration of a dagger, the picture is the same as the one in the jungle, he decides to talk this to Ogai tomorrow, locks the warehouse door, and starts sleeping
".........so i''m here again" Soseki mutter this to himself, he gets up from his hammock, but this time Izumi already there earlier than him
"good morning, Soseki-kun" Izumi greets Soseki, she somewhat a little bit cheerful than her usual self, Soseki greet her back, and he pushes her wheelchair, and starts to go to the gazebo again
"ah, look here, my dear two client" Igor stops his writing while says this, the tea and chair already prepared, and both Christina and Hans waiting next to Igor
Explain
Same Velvet room like before, but this time, there''s Green book and Red book in the table which belongs to Soseki and Izumi
Soseki sits in the chair in front of the green book, while Izumi sits in front of the red one
After they sit, Igor opening the conversation
"looks like one of you already awaken a persona" says Igor, and Soseki replies with "Persona? do you mean pan and mandrake?" Igor nods to the Soseki statement
"alright nose, i have some question, first what''s that book that suck us?" Soseki asks Igor
"wait, i want to ask too, what is persona?" Izumi adds another question
"what book?" Christina answer Soseki
"Persona is a manifestation of a User''s personality and dream" while Hans answering Izumi question
"....the book, it has same covers as this, it suddenly sucks me, another person and a dog, inside the book there''s some monster, that''s where i can call pan, from what you say you call it persona" Soseki adds more explanation
"so..that means Soseki-kun has two personalities? i only hear the story, but he has 2 persona" and Izumi asks more question
"there''s no such thing as that book, the book you have in front of you are the personification of your dream, with this, you can record your dream, make it a reality and use it as a weapon to fight against shadow" Christina gives an answer in monotone voice
"kukuku.. that''s what makes you two so special, when other people only have 1 Persona, you two can have many personas!! think of it like a parade~" Hans answering Izumi while dancing on top of his chair
"you''re lying, i get pan while I''m inside that book, and i can''t use it on the normal world, if you''re saying that those books are personification of a dream, it means i enter someone dream?" Soseki answer Christina with another question
"if we can have as many personas as we can, does that mean it will changes our personality?" Izumi asking a question again
"yes that''s true" Christina answering Soseki question vaguely
"don''t worry dear~, a fool arcana already has many personalities after all" Hans spinning around while saying this
"so that''s mean you know something about the book that sucks me right? , geez you just make this thing going in a circle" Soseki not satisfied with Christina answer, asking for a clarification
"then, that means the more personalities we have, the more persona we can get?" Izumi asking another question
"now, now you two, the night is still long, you two can relax and start asking question one by one" Igor, mediating both of them and he continues to talk "now, for Soseki, indeed the power you have let you enter someone dreams, but the method isn''t supposed to be like that... this is interesting"
After this Igor replies Izumi question "Ku, Ku, Ku that''s not wrong, but you don''t need to have many personalities, they already exist within you, what you need right now is making a bond with another person and another persona"
Izumi, taking a sip of her tea and start to speak again "then, what is a shadow that Christina-san told before?", Soseki looks at her and notices something
"hey..Kyouka, are you sleep with clothes like that?" Soseki asks something to Kyouka, her figures right now is wearing the school uniform, like the time he meets her today
"....you''re right I''m sure that i change my clothes, ah! this place is a rift between dreams and reality right? i guess we just wear clothes that make us comfortable, i mean, Soseki-kun itself wears school uniform" Izumi says this, and Soseki take a look at his clothes and say "You''re right"If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.
"now, now if you two are done, ah right the shadow, shadow is Suppressed human thoughts given physical form, think of it like a dream that you can''t control" Igor explains
"a dream that can''t be controlled? ....aren''t every dream can''t be controlled?" Soseki ask Igor, but the one that answers this time
".....Soseki-kun, i think what he means by that is a nightmare, and by physical form means..." Izumi says this while smiling to Soseki and shifting her gaze back to Igor
"ding dong! 100 for you~, you''re right, having a nightmare for a long time, and they will manifest and gain a form" but the one that answering this time is Hans
"oh, the one that sits on that boy''s neck? and I''m the only one that can see shadow?" Soseki ask back
"you can see a shadow on reality? non-sense" Christina is the one that answers him, somehow she''s more talk active tonight, and Hans seems more talk active than before too
"...whatever if this place is really a part of my subconscious, you should know that what i say is true" Soseki gives up talks to her, since Christina just denied everything he says
Izumi that watches them, feels that both of Soseki and Christina have the same personality, two stubborn peas in the same skin, she gives a wry smile and continues to ask "... Igor-san, you said before that the method isn''t supposed to suck up by the book, what kind of another method do you mean?"
"ku..ku.. this is supposed to be something that you learn by fate, by it looks like fate has brought it to me, the only method to enter someone dream is when they are having a dream" Igor replies Izumi question
"......i see, "spirited away" " Izumi, hold her chin with her hand and starts to lost in thought, on the other hand, Soseki talk " nose! ... this is only hypothetical, but on this island, people sometimes missing only to be found in the sleeping state, is this related to the book that sucks us? and shadow that gets shown on the real world?
Igor stays silent and not answering Soseki word. Soseki gives up pursuing this matter any further, and change his question
"Nose, if both of persona and shadow are created from the dream, is that means both of them are the same creature?, but what happens if a shadow exists on someone dream from a long time?" Says Soseki
Christina answering his question "If that''s the case, they will lose their mind, and remember that shadow is an uncontrollable dream, and too manifest something, some kind of energy required, unlike persona a dream that you can control, shadow is uncontrollable and thus eat the host energy without it realizing it"
Soseki, holding his right forehead, think for a moment and says "dream, shadow, nightmare, physical form, losing mind.... hallucination? no...paranoia? ... wait what do you mean by energy?"
Izumi on the other hand, realize something and talk "Soseki-kun! the student in front of me, i just remember that he is a victim of spirited away incident! i see... when he is in a sleeping state he must be having a shadow clings to him"
"Correct, now fu..fu..fu this is interesting matter indeed, a shadow that gets manifest into reality, enters someone dream through a book" Igor put both of his hand, covering his mouth while says this
"...hey, nose, if that''s not the method to enter someone dream, what is the method then?" Soseki asks Igor
"dream is telling you about the things you have been longed for, therefore, finds their dream and you can enter someone dream" Igor explains to Soseki
"how?" Izumi asks
"of course by your book, by writing someone name and the thing they longed for, you can travel to someone dream~" Hans explain
Soseki glared at him, he thinks the people in Velvet room is inconsistent (before Christina says she denied something about the book that able to suck someone and she clearly says that the book function is to record dream and summoning persona, and now Hans telling that our book can deliver us to someone dream)
"....sorry, but something is not right, Christina-san said there''s no book that can suck people into someone dream, but now Hans-san says that the book can be used to enter someone dream" Izumi says this, telling what Soseki think inside his mind
"yes, there''s no book that can suck a person into someone dream, your book only helps you two to travel into someone dream" Christina close her eyes, and starts to stand up
"ho~ i think i get it, to travel into someone dream, we need to dreaming by ourselves right?" Soseki looks to the roof while saying this, and puts his legs on the table, Igor nods toward Soseki statement, Izumi on the other hand, says something to him "Soseki-kun that''s rude..." she continues with another question "...what will happen if by chances we die on someone else dream?" but after she asks this, the sound of bell can be heard
*cring*
"of course you''ll be sleeping forever" Hans replies to her
*cring* *cring*
"................fuck, so being suck in a book, and see a shadow in reality, is still a mystery in the end" Soseki speaks by himself, he gets up and walk to the main house, inside it once again his mother and grandfather already go to the field, but this time Shina already wake up, and sitting in dining room, eats her breakfast, Grandma prepare egg roll and rice this time, they talks a little and Soseki walk to the school
".......hn..." Izumi wakes up and rubs her eyes, different from last night she doesn''t feel tired or have a lot of sweat, she straightens her body while says "....so they don''t know anything about spirited away incident... and what is Christina-san means by energy?" after she says this, a figure of maid can be seen and talks to her "Good morning, Izumi-sama"
Jungle
"go...good morning Soseki-kun" figure of a young girl with red hair greet Soseki
"ou, morning" Soseki greet Izumi back, when he goes into the class, the creature can''t be seen anymore on the student''s neck, Soseki can''t help but wonder about what was going on
"um...something happens?" Izumi asks him
"oh, nothing, it just the creature is gone from his neck, i wonder why" Says Soseki while he shifts his gaze to Izumi and starts to talk again "so... what''s with that pun yesterday?" he asks
"......please don''t remind me" Izumi looks to the ground while says this and sighs
"eh, no, that''s a good one, maybe we should do it sometimes again, my sister seems to like playing pun too" Says Soseki while he grins toward Izumi, she smiles weakly and has complicated feeling
While they talk, another figure coming in closing to them and says "hee, i still wonder how Natsume-kun knows Kyouka-san, ah, good morning you two" a girl with braided hair, that she let''s drop on her right shoulder
"oh... Class rep right?" Soseki asks Class rep
"mo...morning, Ito-san" Izumi greets her back and nodded her head
"yup~ thank god you remember me, and I''m sorry about yesterday, you know, about that joke that he made" the girl is called Ito Noe, Noe says this and shift her gaze to the student that makes a joke about Soseki eye
"Nah.. it''s not a big deal, I''ve already forgotten about it" Soseki replies to her
"i see... so, how are you two meet? since Kyouka-san have a smartphone, i hear they have online dating apps, are you two meet by that?" says Noe, Izumi shake''s her head lightly and Soseki replies with "oh, you mean Timber? that''s pretty famous, but nope, i met her in my dream" with a joking tone and grinning, this makes Noe and some other student shift their gaze to them
"what~? cmon, what year is it, even a child will not buy that, but it still romantic right, to meet someone of your dream" Says Noe and she grins back to Soseki, Izumi just kept looking to the ground, her ear is reddened again
"ah right, Kyouka-san i found this book yesterday, is this yours?" Says Noe and she shows brown book, it looks the same as the one Ogai shows to them yesterday, both of Soseki and Izumi looks astonished
"oh, and... about Ogai, how do you know him Natsume-kun? don''t tell it comes from a dream too" Noe ask Soseki again after she gives the book to Izumi
"Ogai?..... ah, that punk? i meet him yesterday on my way to school" Soseki while says this learn that the Punk name is Ogai
"is that so... um... how should i say this, it seems like Ogai isn''t coming home yesterday, so... did you two went to some place before going home?" a slightly worried looks can be seen on her face
"no we''re not" he says this and shifts his gaze to Izumi, Izumi nods, and Soseki says "Class-rep! sorry but i need to talk privately with her" he pushes Izumi wheelchair to the place where their talk yesterday after reaches their destination Izumi start talking
"...is Mori-san getting sucks inside the book?", Soseki replies her with "that dumb punk", Izumi says again "hey..Soseki-kun, why don''t we open the book and check it?" , Soseki hears her word and says "We?" and shift his gaze to Izumi''s legs, Izumi understands the meaning of Soseki gaze says "e.. ehm... it''s fine, and I''m kinda curious about what happens too" while tries to convince Soseki, he sighs and nods
Following Soseki nods, Izumi open the book and
"This again!?" Says Soseki
"wha...what happen?" Says Izumi
When Soseki opens his eye,he already inside the hut from yesterday
**
"urgh..Kyouka you''re okay?" Says Soseki, while he tries to stand up and in his astonishment..... Izumi is laying down on the floor, her wheelchair is nowhere to be seen, she looks up, has teary eyes and say "i....i''m fine"
Izumi continues her word "....it looks like my wheelchair doesn''t get sucks" and gives weak smile, Soseki on the other hand "...let''s go back first" and ring the bell three time, but... none of them get back, Soseki looks confuses and tries to ring it many times again, after a while he know that it is useless, and look to the Izumi that still laying on the ground
"sorry, i mess my priority" Soseki, pull Izumi body, and help her sits down, on the other side Izumi slightly surprised and retaliate when Soseki does this, in the end, he still manages to put her in the nearby chair
".....sorry, I''m a little ticklish" says Izumi, and she keeps looking to the ground, Soseki realizes that he just touches her body without permission says "no..that was insensitive of me, sorry" he sighs and starts to wander around the room
Izumi speaks "Soseki-kun, may i try ring the bell?" Soseki replies in surprise "oh, right, maybe you can do that"
"Excuse me then" He walks to the side of Izumi, and carries her, Izumi that know about what was going to happen when she says that still leave a surprised face, her face becomes red, and she tries to cover it with her arm
When Izumi ring the bell, nothing happening either, both of them sighed
After a long silence, Soseki says "want to check things outside?" , Izumi replies with a simple nod, he carries her on his back and starts to walk outside of the hut
One hour has passed since they leave the hut, both of them just walking around aimlessly, Soseki body is already full of sweat, and his breath slightly heavy, Izumi says this to him ".....sorry, I''m heavy right? why don''t we take a little rest?" with a very small voice, Soseki follows her word, find a log, and drop her there, while he took off his blazer Izumi looks really depressed, he starts to sit near her and say " no, you''re not heavy, you''re just not as light as i think" while grinning to her face
Hear this, Izumi hit his arm, raise her head and protest "...that''s the same as heavy right, you just try to make it sounds better" at the very least, Soseki can see that she isn''t depressed anymore, he feels that his understanding is increasing
Not long after this, a sound of rustle can be heard, and something comes out from the bush, Soseki in reflex yell " Pan!" blue letter comes out and forming into Pan, but the figures they see is
"Punk!" Says Soseki
"eh.....Mori-san?" Izumi continues, but what surprised her the most is that Soseki already stands up, one of his hand already hold a dagger, and the other hand tries to cover her body
".........." Ogai just look blankly into them, after a while Soseki notices somethingFind this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!
Ogai eyes have yellow pupils, he follows this by "h.....e....l....p" after Ogai says this, black letters come out, it continues to circle around, until Ogai figures can''t be seen and forms into a creature
it has leopard body, stands on two leg,its face is elephant face, its arm is the arm of gorilla, and its tail is a snake, it is more than 4 meters tall, Ogai can be seen inside its belly
"Kyaaaa!" sound of a scream coming out from Izumi''s mouth, Soseki on the other hand while looks surprised yell " Garu! " the wind surround that creature, but it doesn''t do any effect, the creature isn''t getting cut or throw into the air
As soon as garu finish, the creature jumps out to Pan and punch it hard, Pan is getting thrown to the nearby tree, and Soseki yell "argh...." while looks in pain, he holds his chest, the place where Pan getting hit, and drop down to the ground, Izumi in reflex tries to grabs Soseki, but unable to hold his weight, she falls down with him
the creature suddenly speaks... no the one that opened its mouth is Ogai in that creature belly, but the voice is slightly distorted
"khe, khe, khe.... I''m the king of this story, none shall defeat me in my story, I''m the ruler of this jungle" Ogai? says to them
*cough* "gah!, Mandrake!" Soseki still holding his pain, call Mandrake, a figure of a plant with face coming out and he follows with " Poisma! " Mandrake vomit the purple liquid, but the creature evades it easily
The creature jumps out and tries to hit Soseki and Izumi, in his desperation, he pulls Izumi body getting out of the path, at the cost he''s the one that getting hit, Soseki body is flown to the tree, his back hits the tree.
"* cough*...." a blood vomit can be seen coming from Soseki mouth, the eyepatch is gone, and his hollow right eyes can be seen
"......mandrake, Poisma" in small and weakly voice Soseki order mandrake once again, but this time, before mandrake able to vomit the poison, Ogai? snake tail already bite it in the neck, Mandrake is disappearing into the letter, and Soseki feels another pain in his neck
"gah!..... Kyouka! Run!" Soseki yell in desperation, fully aware that Izumi can''t walk, but he can''t help to yell like that
Hearing this, Izumi starts to crawl, not to the other side, but toward Soseki
Ogai? looks satisfied starts to speak by himself "kha, kha, kha, welcome to the jungle! the place where the strong eat the weak!" Ogai? jump once again, this time it''s sure that Izumi will get hit, in the middle of desperation, Izumi stop thinks rationally, and continue to crawl to Soseki until
I am thou and thou art I
Thou hast established a new vow
It shall become a pen of truth
Helping thou write own destinies
Thou has been blessed with the power of fool arcana
Say my name, and read my story
Izumi red book appears it opened, and there''s letter coming out from it, Izumi suddenly knows hot to read that letter and Scream
"RED" she screams while closes her eyes, Soseki that still awakes, tries to hold onto his consciousness, sees Ogai? getting surrounded by a letters
Other letters flowing out, circling around and making an appearance of a girl, her legs made from a machine, it has two wheels as it feet, and spewing fire on its exhauster, she holds a basket in her right hand, and her left hand is holding a canon, her head and , her face is covered in modern night vision goggles, and she wears a white shirt, above that there''s a red hood, with blood dripping out from it
Ogai? in surprise yell "there''s two Fool!? how!? this isn''t what i told!" while still trying to get out from the letters
Red, starts to touches Izumi''s face, she looks up and opens her eyes, Red gives her a warm smile, and hand her the book, Izumi notices what she means, open her book and scream
" Agi!" a burst of flame coming out from Ogai? legs, Ogai? screams but manages to get away, once again Izumi scream " Agi!!" a fireball coming from Red Riding Hood canon, and she shot it towards Ogai?, Ogai? easily evades it and tries to hit Red with his hand, but this time
" Garu! , *cough* " Soseki, don''t know when and how, already calls Pan, the burst of wind able to hold Ogai? punch, but it doesn''t seem to give any injury
Soseki tries his best to stand up, this time he yelled once again " Kouha! " at the same time, Izumi yells " Agi! "
The red string appears between their persona follows their yell, linking both of them, on Soseki and Izumi hand, there''s a pen, Quill pen for Soseki and Ink pen for Izumi, both of them at the same time writes something on their books and yell " Feuer leggero "
Pan throw his dagger that surrounds by his glittering golden dust, to Red, Red put it into her canon and shoot a light spear that surrounded by flame, this instantly hits Ogai? Elephant head, and Ogai? drop down, releasing Ogai body from its belly, while the rest of its body becoming black liquid
Soseki, already use the tree to hold his body, with blood coming from his mouth and hold his chest in pain, while Izumi clothes all dirty because she''s crawling on the ground, her face full of tears and snot
".....hey, Kyouka, let me rest for a while and i will carry you back with that Punk..." Soseki sits down for a while, and resting his head to the tree, Izumi on the other hand, still trying to crawl to a nearby log, and trying to turn her body but
"I AM THE KING OF THIS JUNGLE!! NONE SHALL DARE TO FIGHT ME!! THIS IS MY DREAM YOU CAN''T MESS WITH MY DREAM!" the black liquid, forming another body, this time it''s more grotesque than before
Its face and body is the combination of gorilla, leopard, snake, and elephant. its right arm now becoming elephant trunk, while its left arm becoming 5 snakes that form an arm, its leg is the combination of gorilla and leopard for its right and left
" fuck! Pan!" Scream Soseki "grab that punk!"
"...re....red" Izumi says with weak and shivering voice "Agi"
**
on the other side, Ogai hears something in his dream
"...hey, brat, for how long do you want to sleep" says ???
"huh? whaddya mean by sleeping!? I''m fully awoken here!" replies Ogai
"wake up! get up! this isn''t the power your looking for!" says ???
"i already said I''m already awake goddamnit!" says Ogai
"why don''t you try to open your eyes and face reality?" says ???
".........wait....i can''t open my eyes!" Ogai replies to that voice again
"this is my story! now get up! stand up!" says ???
" I am thou, and thou art I.... open your eyes, and conquest the beast inside you!"
Ogai forcefully open his eye, and sees that no one there, except him, all this time he''s been dreaming and talking to himself
*GAAAAASP* Ogai wakes up from his dream for real, this time he sees three figures, one is the guy with a hollow right eye, the other is the girl that tries to crawl her way, and the last one is a grotesque figure of a beast
"Tarzaaaaaaan!!" Ogai Screams, Pan surprised and drop him to the ground
Figures of a Man, his skin is pink, his arm is big and long, his shoulder and back is full of white fur, his hair is the same mohawk hair as Ogai, he doesn''t bring any weapon like the other two persona, his only weapon is his oversized arm along with his claws, but the self-confidence look can be seen on his face, he playing his chest like a drum, ululating his voice "Ooo-wa-ooo-aaooaaooaa-ooo!" and throw a book to Ogai that has light brown of wood as its cover
Ogai opens the book and yells "Hysterical Slap !!"
Tarzan following his order, stands between grotesque beast and Soseki, holding it down with one hand, the contest of strength can be seen, but Tarzan other hand is pulled back, and he slaps the grotesque beast face, throwing him to the tree
"..Kouha!" Soseki yells, following the figure that being thrown, Pan throw the spear of light that pierces its chest
"..a..agi" Izumi slightly behind, follows Soseki word, Red instantly burns the grotesque figure that being impaled
After a while, the figure is becoming the letter, black letters are flown out and .....there''re two figures, both wear a black robe, from where Soseki and the others look, one tries to collect the black letters and put it into his bag, while the other one eats the other letters.
"...a...are they friend?" says Izumi
"...dunno" Soseki, don''t want to take a risk, grabs Izumi and tries to hide, but after they finish their business they become the same black liquid and then turned into a mist
"..............eyepatch!! what was that!?" says Ogai
".....shut up for one fucking minute ....i want to get... some rest...." Says Soseki still holding his chest and tries to get some sleep...but before he does that, he looks to the other side, and manages to see
"Hey, punk.... is that a hut?" says Soseki
"huh!? your right! thank god! i can finally leave this place!" Says Ogai while he stomps his feet to the ground
"punk... carry her, i can barely walk by myself" says Soseki
"e...eh...no my clothes its already dirty, I''m fine by crawling, Mori-san, just take Soseki-kun" says Izumi
"wait, so i need to carry who!?" says Ogai
this goes on for a while.... until a decision has been made and Ogai need to do two round journey to help each one of them
The Public Health Committee
*Cring* *cring* *cring*
Sounds of the bell echo three times, same as before, a storm of paper coming out, and the three of them getting back to the school, Soseki looks at his watch, they only go for about 2 minutes, this time the three of them holding down a book
"punk, how long do you wander inside that jungle?" says Soseki
"huh? maybe like 10minutes?" Ogai replies to him
"mori-san, you''ve been gone for about a day" says Izumi
"whaaaat!? no, there''s no way dat is true, i swear i only wander around dat jungle for 10minutes" Ogai replies to Izumi
while they''re talking like this, Sosuke barely stand up, and Izumi clothes is full of dirt, the only one that still has proper appearance is Ogai, and another voice joining in into their conversation
"what is happening???, Natsume-kun and Kyouka-san suddenly disappear? and now they''re back? and Ogai! your family has been worried sick about your whereabouts!!" says ???
All three of them, take a look to where the sound comes from and find Noe, her face is pale, like she just sees a ghost, in front of her there''s Izumi wheelchair
"oh, class rep, how much do you see?" Soseki says this in a calm tone, Soseki doesn''t care about school anymore, he lost his blazer, his body is full of sweat, his hollow right eye can be seen, and there''s some blood on his shirt
"u...um...Ito-san calms down, we can explain, maybe.." Izumi''s eyes are red, with a black spot below it, her white uniform is now becoming brown colored, dirt can be seen on her pale skin, her tidy hair is a mess, she lost one of her hairpins, and she sits on the ground
"Gah! Noe! whatcha doin here?" says Ogai, his appearance doesn''t give a vibe that he''s been wandering around at that for 1 day
"oh...my head @@, you three better explain to me about what is happening" Noe, holding her head, look confused.
Soseki sighs and helps Izumi to take her to her chair, he''s still surprised seeing her crawling around like that
On the other hand, Izumi is surprised by the fact that Soseki acts like nothing is happening
"class rep, can i go to the infirmary? i don''t think i can join the class with an appearance like this" says Soseki
"Uhm... me too" says Izumi, while she tries to clean some dirt from her uniform, but her attempt makes no result
"wait! tell that to a thea-" Noe says something but getting cut by Soseki word
" *cough* sorry.... my chest... really hurt" Soseki coughing once again, and drop his knee to the ground, Noe seeing this, only say "ugh...fine I''ll try to cover you two, but! better make sure to explain what''s going on"
Ogai, on the other hand, says "sorry, i think i skip clas-" but his mohawk is being pulled by Noe, and she drags him to the teacher room
"hahaha.... it is only my 2nd day here, and i already sent to the infirmary" says Soseki, he sticks his tongue out, and standing like nothing happened
"e..eh? Soseki-kun, i think you should get some rest, wait here, I''m going to call the teacher" Izumi says that while looking worries about Soseki
"Nah, I''m fine, that was only an act, right after we got into the hut, i feel like all of my pain is gone" Soseki says this to Izumi and convinces her with the way he punches the air
"....is that so, don''t force yourself" says Izumi
Soseki now pushing her wheelchair and moves to the infirmary, there''s no one inside. He moves Izumi wheelchair near the bed, and he starts taking things by himself
"e...eh? is that fine?" says Izumi while looking flustered
"hm? the pain may be gone, but i still want to check whether or not there''s wound, you know, infection and stuff" Soseki says this, not looking at Izumi and start putting things on top of the table
After he collects it, Soseki take off his shirt, looking at the mirror, there are bruises on his chest, he tries to touch it but doesn''t feel any pain, and there''s no broken rib or something like that, Soseki still apply some first aid to his chest area, after finishes he put on his shirt back
He turns around and sees Izumi cover her face with her hand, and her red ear can be seen, Soseki seeing this say "I''m already done, you can open it" follow Soseki word, Izumi just shake, she opens her hand slightly but cover her nose area.
Soseki sighs, take some tissue from the infirmary, start giving her treatmentThe tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
"kyouka, raise your head, it is easier for me to do that" says Soseki, Izumi reject his offer, take the tissue, and start doing her own treatment
While she like this, Soseki realizes that there''s some blood on her skirt, around the knee, he continues his word "don''t take this in wrong way, but raise up your skirt, i want to give some treatment"
This time Izumi shakes her head wildly, the tissue that she''s been put on her nose fly out, she ignore this and says "....sorry, i don''t want anyone sees it" and looking to the ground
Soseki answer with "I''ve seen it back then, no excuses just raises it until knee area" he''s lying
Izumi overwhelmed by him, finally say yes, she raises her body a little using her arm as the lever, and moves her body to the infirmary bed.
While Soseki sits in her wheelchair, and take something from the medicine box, he asks permission from Izumi "mind if i grab it?" Izumi shakes her head and pulls her leg up by her own arm
His position is a little bit hard to do the treatment, so Soseki still grab her leg gently and start to straighten it, Izumi gives up and pulls her skirt a little bit. there Soseki sees many scratch wound, and there''s a big scrape on her right knee
"tell me if it sting" Soseki says this, Izumi replies with "u..um...it''s okay, i can''t feel my leg after all" her face is so red, and she''s trying to stop her nosebleed again,but her hands are so shaky and Soseki responded with "I know, just want to say that, oh and I''m sorry, i lie, i never sees your leg back then" hearing this, Izumi just sighs, and throw the tissue pack at him, almost hit him, Izumi right now having complicated face between angry, embarrassed, and happy
after a while, the treatment is done, all of her scrapes is already covered up, Soseki feels his proficiency and kindness raise up, while Izumi immediately cover her leg
The room is filled with a long silence, while Soseki putting the thing back to first aid box, Izumi just daydream looking at him, and Soseki breaks the silence by start talking
"hey... you don''t seem bothered by my right eye" Says Soseki
"e..eh? should i be bothered by that?" Izumi asks him back in which Soseki replies with "hm, not really it''s just comparing to punk and class rep, your face doesn''t show any reaction" this time he takes a bandage and starts covering his right eye
"you too... is someone on your family paralyzed like me? you don''t seem surprises seeing my legs" Izumi asks him again
Soseki replies with "nope that''s my first time seeing it up close actually, well i guess we''re really similar" he says this while still covering his right eye, his figure right now looks like someone that has an accident on their head
after this talk, the room filled with another air of silence and suddenly Soseki speaks "what would bears be without bees?"
Izumi a little bit startled and says "....you''re mocking me right" her face looks slightly annoyed
Soseki replies with "nope~ and the answer is ears!, now it''s your turn" Soseki turns back after he finishes covering his right eye, and start taking a chair and sits near her
"e...eh..wait a minute....uhm...why don''t ant get sick?" Says Izumi, Soseki replies with "why?"
"because they have ANTybodies!" Izumi says this in a proud voice, Soseki in return chuckles a little bit, Izumi feels her Expression is increasing a little bit
They start changing pun until a man, in his 30s comes inside the infirmary and say "oh, it''s rare to see some student in this infirmary, hm... you''re Kyouka-san right? and you must be the new kid Natsume-kun?" that man is bald wearing a white coat, and round glasses talking to them
"ah, right I''m the one that takes care the infirmary my name is Taichi Takumi" the man that called Takumi, giving his hand to Soseki, Soseki accepting it
"so... what''s happening with you two? with Kyouka-san uniform all dirty, and is that a blood on your shirt?" Takumi already starts analyzing what''s happening to both of them
Soseki replies him "don''t know what''s happening to her, when i get here, she''s already inside, and this isn''t my blood, i find some cat, he looks injured so i try to take him somewhere safe, but he''s bleeding and some of its blood getting on my chest, and not only that, my blazer getting some too, i try to wash and let it dry, but it''s gone by the time i came back to pick it"
Izumi amazes by how lightly Soseki telling lies, of course the lies isn''t perfect but Takumi still believe him
"is that so, and then Kyouka-san, what''s happening with you?" Takumi shift his gaze to Izumi
"e...ehm...i feel down and scrape my legs and knee, but Soseki-kun already fix me up" Izumi replies to him
"oh~ Natsume-kun you can do some first aid? well, if you don''t mind why don''t you become the public health committee? ah, and for Kyouka-san, you seem to know this boy, why don''t you joining in too? i really need some help in here"
Takumi says this, scratching his bald head, and offering that, not only that, Takumi starts to complain about other things, more like forcing his way
After a while, both of them agrees to do it, and a sound resonate in their head
I am ye, and ye art I
ye hast make a now bond
ye shalt have our blessing
when ye choosest to create a persona of the Hanged Man Arcana
The two of them look at each other, know what each other thinks, besides that, the two of them feels like their Understanding also increasing
**
Natsume Soseki
Name
Arcana
Lvl
STR
MAG
END
AGI
LUK
Pan
Fool
4
5
5
5
5
5
Garu
Kouha
Sukukaja
Cleave
Mandrake
Death
4
2
4
3
5
5
Poisma
Bind Voice
Posumudi
Kyouka Izumi
Name
Arcana
Lvl
STR
MAG
END
AGI
LUK
Red
Fool
3
4
4
4
5
3
Agi
Eiha
Sukunda
Mori Ogai
Name
Arcana
Lvl
STR
MAG
END
AGI
LUK
Tarzan
Chariot
3
5
3
6
3
3
Hysterical slap
Magna
Tarukaja
Giving a Hand
"Oh, you''re back?" Says Noe, the class representative, and she walks to the Soseki table
"yup, Kyouka is sleeping, and it feels awkward, so i decided to go back" replies Soseki, he''s already changed his uniform to the gym uniform, it is now the 3rd period, Soseki continues his word "...hey, class rep, if you want to hear the story, why don''t you come to the infirmary at lunch? there''s no other people inside that place, so it should be fine"
Noe nods to him, and she goes back to her friend, Soseki itself starts to group up with other guys, the guy that he chooses is the one that makes the joke about his eye, he walks and greets him "yo"
The one that makes the joke, stand up and say "Sorry once again!" and bows his head, Soseki replies him "..geez, i already told you that''s fine, it was immature of me either, being angry by that", the boy replies to him again "so you did mad!" and bows his head many times.
After the boy finishes apologizing, he starts to talk with Soseki "right! i believe you don''t know my name yet, my name is Agari Anzo" a plain-looking boy, his only trademark is that his apple model hair, introduces himself and Soseki replies him with "ah, okay then Clown, what do you guys talking about?" Even though Anzo just introduces himself, Soseki continues to call him Clown, the rest of the guy also introduces themselves one by one, and the talk that they have is ideal woman
"Since Natsume coming from the city! there must be pretty girl right?" says Anzo , Soseki replies him with "pretty huh, well if you say so, i guess there''s many, pretty or not it''s only matter of preference though, personally i think the girls in this class are okay", Anzo and the other two guy, get worked up by his word, and start to gives the rank of the girl inside their class, Soseki smile wryly and gives some of his opinions.
All of sudden Anzo asks him a Question "hey, is there some tips to catch lady attention? you know, city tips or something like that?" Soseki hearing this replies "eh? don''t know, i mean you can''t generalized all woman is the same right? every woman has their own preference" the other two guy give a boo at his boring question, Soseki gives a troubled face, and time pass while they talk like this, the 4th period is over, and now is lunch
before he able to leaves his seat, Noe already grabs his hand and pull him outside, Ogai can be seen waiting in front of the door either, they go to the canteen first, the canteen looks like a deserted place, there''s only a vending machine and a lady that sell bread, he buys some bread and they continue to go to the infirmary
When they open the infirmary door, a maid can be seen walking outside, she nods to the three of them, and starts walking outside again, they walk in and find that Izumi already awakes, her uniform is clean, and she''s eating alone inside the infirmary, her face isn''t as pale as before. Soseki sees this replies with "oh.. you already eat, i bought some bread for you, but i guess that food should be better" , she replies him with a word of "sorry"
The other two greet her, she just replies with a small nod, before they''re able to sit, Noe says "oh, Takumi-sensei isn''t here, well now, Ex-Pla-In" she shifts her gaze to the Soseki and Ogai, Soseki sighs and start opening his bread and say "to cut this short, we got spirited away, and come back" after he says this, he starts to eat his breadStolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
"nonono! ya see Noe! rite now the three of us can use persona!!" Ogai continues Soseki word, without explaining what is persona and other things, this makes Noe more confused than before, she shifts her gazes to Izumi
Izumi smile wryly, she puts her chopstick down and explains everything that they''ve been through, Noe listening to her story like children that hear a fairy tale, nodding her head back and forth and fall into the silent mode
Out of nowhere, Izumi continues her word "..Soseki-kun can i have some of that?" and she points toward Soseki bread, he replies with "Finish your lunch first, I''ll give one later, what do you want?", Izumi replies back "melon"
Ogai retort at their action "don''t flirt around ya two!! seriously! that really comes out of nowhere!"
Noe starts to speak and say "wait, how about that creature? what will happen if that creature keeps hugging Hito neck?" they are talking about Hito, the student that sits in front of Izumi.
Soseki replies her "i don''t know, well if thinking about the worst case scenario, it is death, and the creature is already gone from his neck", and he opens another bread from its package, hearing a word death, Ogai and Noe reacted
"DEATH!??" says Ogai
"wait! , aren''t that bad? shouldn''t you guys try to help him?" says Noe
"you two don''t hear me at all right? the creature is gone, and i don''t see it the whole day either" says Soseki
"b....but Soseki-kun, there''s a chance it comes back right? you know.... something like our persona, maybe it just surpressed or something like that" says Izumi
While Noe tries to persuade them doing extermination, on her word
Izumi, giving her opinion and says "u...um.. the problem is we don''t know how to enter someone dream,"
Soseki adding her word "and we don''t know either defeating shadow in someone dreams related or not to the creature that hugging that boy''s neck"
"but! can you guys at least do something?" Noe replies to those two, Soseki sighs and opens his book, trying to search is there something new written in it, and it is blank
"hm?" Soseki says this, while he tries to pick something that drops from his book, he picks it up and shows to the others
"oh.. it is quill pen from before" says Soseki
Izumi follows his word, opens her book and find "oh.. there''s Ink pen dropping down too, but how?" and start to gaze into the ink pen
"huh!? what are ya two wondering about? it just slipped through inside the book right?" Ogai says this, Soseki replies to him "...i don''t think something this big can be slipped inside without us noticing, and why don''t you check yours?"
Ogai tries to search and find nothing inside his book
Noe on the other hand still looks worried and seems restless
Izumi finishes her lunch and starts to talk "u...um Ito-san, you might now believe it since it comes from my mouth, but we''ll try to do something about this, please, believe me" after saying this, her gaze changes into the melon bread
Soseki replies her word " we? ...... geez, you''re really planning to go into his dream?" he sighs and continuing his word ".....can''t be helped" and gives Izumi the melon bread
"just wait for tonight, I''ll give you two the info tomorrow, ah give me your contact, and class rep, i have a feeling that situation will be chaotic or the four of us will get sent into the mental hospital, so please, try to keep this secret" says Soseki
Noe nods to his word, Izumi decides to go back into the class, and the day ends.
Nightmare
Because he comes back early, Soseki helping around at his grandparent house and learn that both of grandpa and mom leaves early in the morning and go to the field, he decides to help them, if he can wake up early
After dinner, nothing special happened, he tries to make some book cabinet, it still not done, but by doing this he feels that his proficiency is raising up
He goes to sleep, his consciousness starts to fade,.............
When he wakes up, he thought he will be inside Velvet Room, but this time is different, the surrounding is green, with paper scattered around, forming a stair, each leads to a door, no rather than a door, it is more like a large open book
He hears the sound and turns around, where he sees a girl figure, but this figure is a little different than usual
".....Kyouka? but how?" Soseki says this, when he sees Izumi, she''s looking back at Soseki and tears start to flow out from the corner of her eyes
Izumi right now is standing, not only standing she even walking toward Soseki, all of this while she''s crying and tries to cover her face, and she starts to speak " *sob* sorry.... don''t look at me .. for a while.... please" Says Kyouka
Soseki nods, even though Izumi still covering her face, after a moment, another figure comes out, it''s Ogai
"Oh, it''s punk" greet Soseki to Ogai, he replies him with "Is this the velvet room you two talking about!?", Soseki denies his words and says this is the first time they''ve been here either, he does this while try to cover Ogai vision to sees Izumi
After a while, Izumi starts to stand up and says "I''m fine now, let''s explore the area!" she says this in a somewhat cheerful tones
Ogai doesn''t realize her difference, follows her word, Sosei follow them from behind until he sees a book that piqued his interest
".....hey you two, that book has the creature on that boy''s necks pictured it in" Soseki points his finger toward the book, the other two stops their movement and looking at the direction he points at
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"....it''s kinda cute" Says Izumi, she is smiling when says this
"yeah... from the way you explains before, i thought it will be another gruesome creature," Says Ogai
"..it is exactly as i explain it, so what do we do?" says Soseki, not even a second after he says this, Izumi already touches the book and got absorbed to inside it, she screams "whaaaaa?" Soseki in reflex grab her arm, and Ogai grab his body
Their action is futile, all three of them getting sucked inside the book again, but different from before, they wake up in a grassland
"urgh.. this again, oi you guys okay?" Says Soseki
"u...um I''m fine" Replies Izumi
"yes!" Replies Ogai... no there''s a big lump on his head, he''s definitely not fine
After Soseki says this, he walks toward Izumi and grabs her hand while trying to give her a piggyback ride, Izumi replies with "u..um Soseki-kun I''m fine, and i can move my legs here" she takes Soseki hand, says that and smile. Soseki replies her "ah... Sorry, my bad" and pulling her up
They walk for a while, on their journey, they find a flying pumpkin head, a fairy, flying jar with a head coming from it, and a horse with two horn
each one of them is defeated, both of Soseki and Izumi has two more information on their book, respectively Soseki get Jack-o-lantern, and pixie. While Izumi gets Agathion and Bicorn. Ogai looking jealously at both of them and protesting each time they get something new
In the middle of their walk, they see Hito, standing still in the middle of the field, around him there''s a lot of gold coin. Ogai looking at this yell "Oi! Hito!! whatcha doin?"
Hito looking at them, laugh and says "hey!! look at this amount of money! i find treasure, Treasure!! who would''ve thought that there''s a hidden treasure on this island!!"This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.
Not long after he says this, black letters flying out from his body, Soseki and Izumi take a stance, Ogai try to greet him, but Soseki pulled him back
The same case with Ogai, the black letters absorb him and he turns into a creature, the creature starts to speak "MINE, MINE, MINE IT''S ALL MINE!!! YOU GUYS CAN ROT ON THIS ISLAND!! I TAKE ALL OF THIS AND LIVES A HAPPY LIFE IN CITY" and jumps at them
Soseki along with Izumi, at the same time, speak "Pixie/Agathion"
A small woman, with butterfly wing, and a jar with a head popping out, appear when they call their name, and they continue their word "Zio"
Two lightning comes down from a sky, hits the creature and burnt it black
the creature disappears, Hito figure can be seen, Hito? nods at them, disappear and gives a gold coin to them. alongside it a piece of paper flying to Izumi
".........huh!? it''s over already?" Says Ogai
Confuses of what happens, the space distorted, and they wake up
Soseki take a looks at the clock, and it shows 00:48,.... can''t understand a single thing about what happened, he starts to doze off, ...........
And he wakes up in the hammock again, he starts to walk and finds Izumi on the ground, on her back there''s her wheelchair, Soseki asks her "....did you fall?" and tries to get her up, Izumi doesn''t answer Soseki and just nods in silence
Her face clearly shows that she''s not in the mood for a talk, Soseki put her back in her wheelchair, and takes some blue grass from her face and clothes,.... Izumi doesn''t even retaliate or shows any sign of embarrassment.
When he tries to push her, Izumi speaks in a low voice ".....don''t need" and starts to spins the wheel by herself. Soseki match their speed, and Izumi starts to talk again "........just go to the gazebo first, don''t need to wait for me" with her head keeps looking down
Soseki ignores her words, and continues to walk beside her
**
Natsume Soseki
Kyouka Izumi
Mori Ogai
Fusion
Inside the garden where everything is blue, a figure of a young man with one eye, a girl in a wheelchair, a beautiful woman, a puppet and a man with unnatural long nose is met once again, the only difference is that there''s something new inside the gazebo
"....nose what is that?" [Soseki]
he asks Igor, and point his finger towards the new object that appears in this room
"this is a present for you two" [Igor]
Igor speaks in a calm tone with his weird voice
"......." [Izumi]
Izumi, on the other hand, has gone quiet since they enter the velvet room, following Igor word, Hans the puppet starts to talk
"listen brat! this! is a present from master! with this, you can combine your persona that you two have collected!" [Hans]
Hans, speak in the same loud tone, but since they come into this rooms, Hans has been getting more like a brat
"with this, you two can combine the persona from each other book, to create a new persona, as for whom who will hold the persona, i leave that decision to you two" [Christina]
Christina, starts to speak more actively than the first time they met, and the aura of mysterious beauty still radiating from her body
"now, why don''t you two try to fusion your persona, it''ll be more simple to shows that explain" [Christina]
Christina walks toward Soseki, and asking his book, Soseki gives it to her, when she walks toward Izumi, she ignores Christina, a blank look can be seen coming out from her face, Christina, once again talk
"Izumi-sama, may i ask your book?" [Christina]
Contrary to her tone when she''s talking with Soseki, the way she talks with Izumi is soo polite, like she''s talking to a queen or princess, Izumi awakes from her daydream, nods and gives her book in the silence. Christina accept her book, walk toward the new machine that located inside this gazebo, and starts to speak
"now, which persona do you want to combine?" [Christina]
"anything is fine" [Soseki]
".....whatever you want" [Izumi]
Soseki startled when he hears Izumi word, there''re no traces of politeness that come from her mouth
"then, I''ll take Mandrake and Agathion to give you an example what''s combining persona means" [Christina]
She rips a page from their book, the page that contains Mandrake and Agathion picture, then she puts those two paper inside the machine that looks like a photocopy machine, she closes the lid, after that the sound of machine starts to roaring, and a flash of light coming out from inside, the end result is that a new paper coming out, Christina takes it and says
"the result is here, this is Incubus, the Devil persona, now i leaves the decision to you two on whom this persona will be given" [Christina]
".......just give it to Soseki-kun" [Izumi]
She says it without looking at Christina''s eyes, in fact, she doesn''t show interest at all of what happened, Soseki sighs, and he says
"yeah.. you hear her, I''ll take that new Persona, now let''s get down to the business, before we came here, we are entering someplace, there''re stairs of paper and a book that act like a door, is that what you two mean by entering someone dream?" [Soseki]
Igor, hears his word, moves his body a little and starts to say
"....yes, hohoho, the place that you''re entering is a hub, that connects of every dream in this world, inside that realm, there''s Shadow lurking around, trying to enter someone dreams, and eat that said person for every night" [Igor]
"is that so, then to enter someone dream we must dreaming, ... another question, but is there any chance when we enter someone dream, they''ll remembering that we''re inside his dream?" [Soseki]Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.
"worry not, it will feel like a dream, of course sometimes the said person will remember their dream, but they can remember every detail of their dream. and of course they''ll forget anything related to the shadow and you guys, since you''re doesn''t exist in his dream from the first place" [Igor]
When Igor finish his explanation, the bell sound can be heard, Igor take his pen once again and says his farewell
"now... until we meet again" [Igor]
Soseki and Izumi figures disappeared when the third sound echoes, Christina walks from the bell towards Igor, and Igor starts to speak
"khu,khu,khu... they enter the dream realm already, even though it is not the time yet, i wonder, if the story is wrong, or there''s some kind of disturbance that change the story, now then Soseki and Izumi, i can''t wait to see whether you two reach happily ever after, or having a bad ending" [Igor]
Soseki, tries to open his eyes, and sees the time... it''s 4:14... he wonders whether or not Izumi already awaken or it is just him, when he tries to call Izumi, he remembers her depressed look, and decided to leave her alone, then he remember that both of his mother and grandpa always go to the field every morning, he gathers his will to move, wake up, get up and get change, when he walks out from the warehouse, he found that both of them already wear their work clothes, Soseki then speak
"may i help?" [Soseki]
"my, my isn''t it too early? and aren''t you have school this morning?" [Chisaki]
"just sleep again brat, you just make our work harder if your come" [Grandpa]
"...pardon me, but some of my friend in the school talking about how they''re always helping their parent, and i think it is a good experience for me to try something too" [Soseki]
Soseki, sweet-talking his grandpa, he''s what people says a man with many faces, depends on whom he talks with, he can be very rude or very polite, after a while his grandpa agreed in a condition that he must get back when it''s 6 a.m, grandpa might look like a rude man, but he still his grandfather and don''t want to bother Soseki studies, Soseki smiles at them and follows them to the field. The field work is hard, but he only takes the easy part, like watering the rice and many other things. after doing this, Soseki feels like his proficiency raises up, and after his done, grandpa gives him some pocket money, Soseki tries to decline it, but grandpa still forces him and tell that next time just come to the field, don''t need to wait for them
Soseki, comes back to the home, clean his body, eats his breakfast, this time Shina already wakes up, and she forces Soseki to take her to the field next time he goes, grandma just smiles looking at her grandchildren
**
One
At school, Izumi figure is nowhere to be seen, Soseki enter the classroom and the one that greets him is Noe, the class rep
"Morning, Natsume-kun" [Noe]
She greets Soseki with a calm smile, Soseki replies her greeting
"ou, morning, hey, is Kyouka sick?" [Soseki]
"Hm~ already wondering about your girlfriend right~ don''t worry~ she''s in the infirmary, i see her goes there with her maid, well usually she goes there when we have P.E at the 3rd period, but i wonder why she''s going to the infirmary from the 1st period" [Noe]
and Noe continues her word
"so, what about it? any news about the creature?" [Noe]
"hahaha... i think it''s fine, you might not gonna believe me, but yesterday..." [Soseki]
Soseki tells all the detail about yesterday incident
"i see... treasure huh, now that i remember it, Hito once told a story that he wants to be treasure hunter or archeologist, that must be related to his dream" [Noe]
Soseki answers her with "Maybe", right after he says this, a familiar scream can be heard
"WHAAAAAAAA!????" [???]
the sound of footsteps can be heard, the door of his classroom opened, and Ogai appear and yells
"EYEPATCH! ya need to see dis!" [Ogai]
Soseki even doesn''t have a chance to reply Ogai, and he already pulls Soseki arm and take him to his classroom, every student in Ogai classroom is looking at him, and Ogai continue his word
"IS DAT WHAT YA SEE!??" [Ogai]
he says this while points his finger toward a female student that sleep on her table, Soseki can''t believe his eyes, but there''s another creature on her head, it is small, with a crescent moon shaped head, it is throwing a golden dust toward her, another student comes in and yells at Ogai
"Ogai! it is rude to point your finger at a person like that! and you''re too loud! and don''t bother the new student!" [????]
A girl, with black wavy hair that modeled in twin tail, yelled at Ogai
"ah, Sorry, you must be the new student, I''m Akazome Emon, i live in a village next to yours! Nice to meet you!, oh! let''s hang out sometimes! i know a cool place to hangout!!" [Emon]
"ooh, nice to meet you, Natsume Soseki" [Soseki]
Emon, a cheerful girl, her body is small, if Soseki needs to compare her to Izumi, she''s a lot shorter than her, even her height doesn''t reach Soseki chest, but she has loud voice compared to her small figure, while they''re greets each other, a bell rings, and Soseki goes back to his class
The third period is here, and Izumi doesn''t show her face.... Soseki still wondering about what happened, goes to the infirmary, he opens the door and finds Izumi is reading alone inside the infirmary, Takumi is nowhere to be seen. Soseki starts to greet her
"yo!" [Soseki]
Izumi nods back at him, and starts to read her book again, Soseki looking at the books title, speaks to her
"hey, that''s Phantom Thief right?" [Soseki]
Izumi turn her face to Soseki, nods and starts to open her mouth
".....Soseki-kun read this too?" [Izumi]
She says this in a low voice if they are inside classroom, there''s no way Soseki can hear herThe tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
"yup, i already finish it though, it is a really good book, you know, many believe that the book is inspired from a real story!" [Soseki]
He replies to Izumi word and sit down near her
".......i see" [Izumi]
"Hey, how far have you read that? i rarely find someone to talk about books" [Soseki]
"..i just started, it''s right around when the MC met the red panther" [Izumi]
"hee~, okay then, don''t wanna spoil it so I''ll shut my mouth..." [Soseki]
Soseki sits near her, playing with his phone, while Izumi continues her reading, and she opens her mouth again
".....Soseki-kun you''re not going to P.E?" [Izumi]
Izumi asking this question since Soseki already wear his P.E clothes
"hm... don''t know, how about you? you don''t go?" [Soseki]
"...are you seriously asking me that?" [Izumi]
Soseki nodding at her, he closes his phone and starts to look at Izumi, he smiles and says
"hey, Kyouka, there''s another girl that has a creature, this time Ogai can see it" [Soseki]
"is that so? then, let''s help her immediately" [Izumi]
When Izumi says this, a little light coming from her eyes and Soseki know what''s happening to her
"hey~ you know, last night, Punk doesn''t realize that you''re walking until i mentioned it to him this morning, you should see his face when i says that" [Soseki]
".....punk is Mori-san right? i see... i guess Mori-san just being himself, not realizing things like that" [Izumi]
Izumi speaks this and forcing to smile in front of Soseki, in which he replies with
"..........Kyouka, is it that good? you know, walking and running like yesterday?" [Soseki]
Hearing his word, Izumi suddenly stop her body for a moment and she nods at him
"what it is that you like from it?" [Soseki]
".................don''t know..............wind against my face, maybe" [Izumi]
Izumi goes back to her silent mode, but this time Soseki stop talking and
"w....wha!? Soseki-kun!?" [Izumi]
And by force he grabs Izumi body, doing a princess carry, Soseki starts headed toward the field, the other students that already doing the P.E activity, Including Kyoumi, their Homeroom/P.E teacher stop their running when they see him and Izumi, Today they are doing marathon, the objective is circling the school field five times for the girl, seven times for the boy
Soseki enter the field, carrying Izumi and start to run, following the other Students, Izumi''s face is bright red, because of the combination of embarrassment and confusion, her eyes start to make @@ shape, Soseki ignores all of this and continue to run, he runs in a full speed, once he finishes one lap, he starts to chase the other students, that have almost finished their second lap, Soseki starts to slow down and speak
"how''s the wind? which is better? this world? or that dream?" [Soseki]
He speaks... while catching his breath, Izumi is very surprised to hear his word, she opens her mouth but a word won''t come out, once again Soseki speaks
".....i see, the wind isn''t enough huh? alright then, i raise my speed!!" [Soseki]
A fool he is, Soseki starts to run again and increase his speed, Kyoumi yelled at him, but he replies Kyoumi yell with "Sorry teach!! I''ll run 12 round today as a punishment!!"
"whattt!?? Natsume-kun!! that''s not what i mean! hey, stop! it''s dangerous to run like that" [Kyoumi]
After the third lap, Soseki finally catching up with the last student that already run ahead, he''s starting to run out of the breath, and his body already covered in sweat, but finally, Izumi in her red face, starts to speak
"........Soseki-kun... you''re a cheater....... i like it here, the wind is more real, the sun is hotter, the dust is sticking to my body......." [Izumi]
Out of sudden Izumi starts to cry weakly, she covers her face and burrows her face into Soseki chest
"good! ... you know, i still have 9 more laps to go, so stick with me for a while" [Soseki]
After Soseki says this, both of them hear a sound, a sound of something breaking, it was that at this moment, they know that their bonds have raised up, and they know that whenever they create a persona from Fool Arcana, it will be stronger
Soseki continues to run. at the 5th lap he already in the middle position, on the 7th lap he already in the 4th position, all of the students, including Kyoumi..... not only them even the student in the classroom, that looking out from the windows drop their jaw when Soseki does this, after he finished the 7th lap, he gets a good lecture from Kyoumi,
While Soseki smiling at his teacher and jokingly says "sorry~" for Izumi, this is her first time getting lectured by a teacher, she looks really down and scared, but she got a smile that can''t be gone from her face,
After the lecture is over, Soseki changes back into his uniform when he gets back to his class, he meets Izumi at the front door on her wheelchair, nodding and smiling at him,Soseki smiles back and when he opens the door
"YOU''RE THE MAN CITY BOY!!!" [Student A]
"NATSUME! THAT WAS CRAZY! SO THAT''S THE CITY TRICK TO PICK UP A GIRL, ALRIGHT FROM NOW ON I CALL YOU NATSUME-SAMA" [Anzo]
"haah~ i wish someone will carry me like that someday" [Girl Student A]
"he~ i know it that you''re dating with her~ Natsume-kun" [Noe]
Izumi..... covering her face with her bag, while Soseki in his heart speaks
(crap.......i overdid it!!!) [Soseki]