Chapter 12 Chapter 12 The Witch

One day passed, two days passed, three days passed, and Mizuru Ashikawa still hadn't come back. Almost both of Ishioka's accomplices are said to have recovered.It's just that the memory of that night has disappeared without a trace.Shi Gang himself still looked lost, even if he opened his eyes, he would turn a blind eye.He didn't respond, and he didn't answer any questions. When hearing these things from her mother, Wataru suddenly thought of Omatsu Kaori's appearance.He tried to erase the association.He hates Kaori and Ishioka thinking together. What happened to Kenji Ishioka and his group?

Is the missing Ashikawa Mizuru safe and sound? Everyone wants to know, everyone is concerned.But only Wataru knows the answer to this mystery.The only person on earth who knows everything is San Gugen. However—after the first night of sleep, and after the second night, the memory in Gen's heart began to fade again.The real situation related to the "fantasy world", which only Wan knew, gradually faded in memory. Not completely gone like last time.It's just like the long-standing watercolor painting, the color has been removed, and the line drawing has become mottled.Everything faded and became increasingly illegible.It can also be said that it is becoming more and more difficult to capture.

Still, there's only emotion left, the fear, and the fact that it's going to be serious if you don't find out sooner - such an anxious mood. So, it's very confusing.He became irritable, cried in his dreams, and even when he woke up, he always wanted to pry into his inner world.As a result, he spoke incoherently and couldn't eat. So, on the morning of the first week of summer vacation, Gen accidentally discovered that something big had happened to him. He remembered that the night before, because he was afraid of the dark, he fell asleep with all the lights on.He thought it was impossible to fall asleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes, darkness rushed in, and he was involved in it like drowning.At this time, the dream unfolded.Another horrible dream.Chased by the winged monster, he ran screaming, with no one to help him, and nowhere to go.

When he was running desperately, his chest was so painful that it was about to split, someone heard his cry.It's mom!The moment he realized it, Wataru jumped out of his dream, like a cannonball fired from a cannon. Mom's face is in front of her eyes.She was pale and hurt.Chapped lips, bruises under the eyes, and messy hair.Mom was wearing short-sleeved pajamas, and her bare arms were covered with horrible scratches. "Mom—what's the matter with you?" After this question, my mother burst into tears with a "wow". "Oh, it's all right now, Wat. You're back to normal, it's great, it's great."

Mother cried and shook Gen's body.Gen is held by his mother like a baby.Across the crying mother, she saw a terrible scene. this is my room? The bookcase fell over and there were cracks in the glass windows.The bedspread was torn and tattered, and the white stuff that had fallen from it was the core of a feather pillow.The notebooks and books on the desk were also torn into a mess, and they were hardly restored to their original appearance.Looking at the wall at a glance, there are only three dents in the visible place, as if someone kicked hard. Someone made it? who is it? it's me.I did it.

"Mom, did I do this?" Gen asked timidly.Mom wiped her tears with the back of her hand and said: "It's okay, you were dreaming, and you made trouble in your dream. So you didn't mean it, and you can't be blamed." Mom stroked Gen's head and hugged him tightly.However, Wataru thought of another terrifying reality, and his body became stiff. My mother's injury was also caused by me. - Now it's all right, it's back to normal. I was out of my mind before. I went nuts and beat my mom. "Sorry." Gen muttered, and her mother burst into tears again, saying that it wasn't you who was wrong, it was mother who was wrong.

"It's our parents' responsibility to make you suffer like this. It's all our fault. I'm sorry, Wat. Please forgive Dad and Mom." Not like that, Mom.I - I know things that no one else knows - I'm scared - so I almost go crazy. "None of Mom and Dad's business. There's all sorts of scary stuff—like friend stuff, so, I..." He muttered intermittently.Only then did he realize that he was also covered in bruises, bruises, and abrasions.These are also made by myself. "That's right. After such a terrible incident, of course I will be afraid." Mom said sobbing, "Because of this, we have to take care of ourselves at home. But we can't do anything. As parents, it's really not enough."

After calming down a bit, Mom took out the first-aid kit and took care of her and Wataru's injuries.It's okay for Gen to say that depending on the situation, mom should go to the hospital, but no matter how much she persuaded her, mom just laughed and said, it's okay, there is medicine. "Really, it's nothing." If you go to the doctor, you may be asked how you hurt.Then, no matter how I cover it up, I'm afraid it will be seen that I hurt my mother by messing around.Gen woke up to realize that mother was worried about this. Gen left his room and was placed on the bed that his father had used.

"Recently, you have had nightmares almost every night, did you notice it?" "No. Not at all." "Then you won't be able to sleep. You look so pale. Sleep a little longer. Mom is by your side, so don't be afraid." Although it was impossible to fall asleep, Wataru pretended to be asleep in order to reassure her mother. Mom was calling everywhere.One of the calls was to the school to exchange ideas with the teacher.Ever since Shigang and his gang had an accident, even during the summer vacation, the teachers returned to school every day. Although the content of the conversation was not clear, there were still phrases like "psychological counseling" in my ears.

I also called Odawara's grandmother, and my mother cried again.The next one seems to be Uncle "Lu".This time I didn't cry, I was angry. Relieved for now, he slowly looked at the creature with black wings through the depths of his memory.He also recalled a very bad smell. "If you don't say anything, I'll go to your company! What do you think?" Suddenly, my mother said loudly.Of course he was talking on the phone.Who are you talking to?He listened on the bed, but it was different from being in his own room. This place was not adjacent to the living room, so he couldn't hear clearly. "Come—see—with your own eyes. I—but—how uncomfortable—how—"

Although intermittently, I can hear that my mother is very excited. About 30 minutes later, the door opened and my mother walked in. "How is it? Are you asleep?" Mom asked kindly. "Ok." "That's great. What would you like to eat? Make you omelet rice?" "Ok." Mom smiled and said, "Dad is coming back tonight. The three of us have a good talk together." I always look up to my mother.The expression on his mother's face prevented him from asking further questions, "Is it true?" "Did Dad say he was coming?" She didn't look calm and serene, nor did she look relieved and relaxed, but rather awkward.The cheerfulness in her smile seemed vague and elusive. Mom spent the long afternoon in the kitchen.She is cooking.I walked in quietly to take a peek, and all the dishes I made were favorites of my father and Gen. I feel uncomfortable.He felt short of breath and had to take special deep breaths from time to time.Seeing my mother chopping vegetables, frying vegetables, and roasting the chicken deliciously, I felt cold on my toes.Knowing that something bad is going to happen later, half of my mind is waiting.Of course this is not expecting, but it is undoubtedly waiting.Heart pounding. If I want to say why, I'm still thinking: Maybe there is a possibility of one in ten thousand, one in a million, so that the deeply bad premonition will come to nothing, right? This is my father coming home. But—on the other hand, Gen heard the little Gen in his own body shouting in his heart—put his hands around his mouth to form a trumpet shape: it's wrong to ask Dad to come now.Definitely not going to end well.not understand?Oh, still don't get it? Yes, I don't understand. The mother, who was busy quickly, suddenly lost weight.Gen was preoccupied with his own affairs, and it was the first time he looked at his mother like this.While I was in a mess, Mom was alone crying, angry, scared, messing around, depressed, and I didn't see it all. Doorbell rang. With a "gurgle" in his throat, he looked at the clock reflexively.Exactly seven o'clock at night. Mom turned off the gas stove and looked back at Gen. "It's Dad. Open the door for him." She was nervous and her voice was out of tune. Gen moved his legs mechanically and walked towards the door.When holding the doorknob, he felt the "thumping" heartbeat all the way to his fingertips. open the door. A strange woman stood at the door. Not dad.It's a promotion.As he breathed reassuringly, the man spoke. "Are you Gen-kun? Is your mother at home? I'm Rikako Tanaka." Hearing this voice before—Waru had this feeling. It's the previous call.It was the voice of the woman who mistook Wataru for her mother and Gu Zi spoke angrily. This person is Papa's woman. The woman stared at Gen intently.She is tall.About ten centimeters taller than my mother.She was wearing a light blue suit with a white shirt collar and a silver chain around her neck.There was a faint smell of perfume, the perfume of a woman who was not in the same elevator and came home from get off work. This person is not as young as expected.Although she wears good makeup and dresses stylishly, she must be about the same age as her mother. When she was stunned, her mother had come behind her. "Why are you here?" A more out-of-key voice than before.He was too scared to look back.He is afraid of his mother.so scary. "I'll replace Akira Mitani." Rikako Tanaka replied.She looked directly into her mother's face.He had finished speaking, but the corners of his mouth were still twitching, not smiling, but white teeth were showing between his lips. "Like the vampire Dracula." Gen thought, or a saber-toothed tiger.I have seen a computer-generated fossil simulation map in the museum, which is a long-toothed tiger that was extinct in ancient times. "I called Sangu," Mom said. "He promised to come. He said, 'I'm worried about the child, I will definitely come.' How could this be?" Rikako Tanaka lowered her eyes again to look at Wataru. "I'm sorry," she said suddenly.When he apologized, he still didn't blink.The white teeth are slightly exposed, and it is still a saber-toothed tiger. "I hear it's not doing well. Have you gone to the doctor?" Mom strode forward, holding Wat behind her.He swayed and stretched out his hand to support the wall. "Please don't talk to my child. Don't say the kind of superficial talk that looks like a person but actually is yourself. Who do you think tortured this child like this?" Rieko Tanaka still didn't blink.That look showed that he had no such intentions. "Of course I am also responsible. However, Ms. Bangzi, I am not the only one who caused Gen to suffer. The three of us have a share, but in today's occasion, it is you who involved Gen, not me." Mom's back shivered.The hem of the apron fluttered slightly, like a breeze. "You said it was me—involving the child?" Rieko Tanaka raised her chin provocatively and stared at her mother steadily. "Isn't it? Aren't you the one who used Wat as a tool to call Mitani out? Don't you think you're cowardly?" "I, use heng—— as a tool?" Mom's voice was unexpected.It was a strange noise that had never been heard before. "Take Gen as a shield, no matter how strong Sanguming's will is, he can't bear it. So he said he would come here. He said so much that he couldn't resist. However, I stopped him..." Mom stretched her hand behind her, grabbed Heng's shoulder, and pushed her forward. "Look at the boy, please. Look at his face. Is it bruised? There are bruises all over his hands and feet. He got it in a bad dream in the middle of the night. He did it when he wasn't awake. It's too much." Poor—too pathetic..." Like a brave child, the mother held back suddenly and changed her trembling voice. "So I contacted Sangu. I asked him to come to see Gen and persuade him. This child is the child of our husband and wife. Although the husband and wife parted ways, they are like strangers, but the relationship between father and son is another matter. Because I alone cannot relieve Gen's pain. , so I informed San Gu. Because he is the father of this child." Rieko Tanaka looked at Wat carefully, then showed her white teeth again, and asked, "War, did you really make those scars yourself?" Can't answer.His tongue curled up in fear. "What do you want the child to say?" "Shut up, I'm asking you." Rieko Tanaka kept her eyes on her, "Did you really hurt yourself? Didn't someone beat you? You don't have to cover it up, just tell the truth." "Slapped? By whom?" Mom stepped forward and said, "Do you want to say that I hit Gen?" Rikako didn't speak. "I am Heng's mother. How could I do anything to this child!" Rikako raised her chin and stared at her mother. "When you say 'mother, mother', don't be so big. I'm a mother too!" This person also has children?Genser crouched, looking up from Rikako's slender calf.What kind of mother would she be? "I know. It is said that she has a daughter with her divorced husband." Mom gasped, her face turning pale like wallpaper, "Forcing that child to Sangu, right?" The corners of Rikako Tanaka's mouth twitched, and she smiled, "I'm not stuffed. It's Akira Mitani who happily wants to be Mayuko's father. He said he always wanted a daughter." "Don't say that kind of thing in front of Gen!" Mom shouted, covering Wataru's ears with her hands. "Ms. Bangzi, you also understand that it is irreparable, right? Crying and pestering Amin, even he can see through it. Empty talk, these are useless." Rikako took half a step closer to her mother, and continued to say fiercely: "Your dirty methods, and the ideals of me and Amin that were destroyed by you, I will not forget for a day. We are almost engaged, because you lied Pregnancy came in, that's why we had to break up. We were in love, but we were cheated by you, and you broke up like a mandarin duck!" "Stop talking!" Mom covered her ears this time. "No, I will say more." Rikako stepped into the house without taking off her shoes.She pushed Gen and squeezed to her mother's side, so close that her cheek was almost touching her cheek. "Amin and I both had to embark on another life path. However, neither of us has forgotten each other. When we met again two years ago, when we realized that we still love each other and our feelings have not changed, we decided that although we cannot recover the love that was taken away by you Time to go, but the rest of life can be restarted. From now on, we will hold hands and go on without separation!" Mom shook her upper body and squatted on the ground.Rikako Tanaka looked at the top of her head and declared as if to deliver a fatal blow: "Neither Amin nor I will be fooled by you again. If you abuse Heng in order to shake Amin, we will not hesitate to use legal means to get Heng over." Mom put her head in her hands and groaned.With its back against the wall, the unit becomes wallpaper and disappears forever. Terrible.For the first time in my life, I have witnessed such unabashed hatred of a person for another person.He personally felt the strong wave of hatred flying out of Rikako's body, bumped into his mother, and overwhelmed her. Rikako walked to the door and opened it.Just when he was about to go out, he stopped, turned his head, and said a word, the sound was like a tear. "Tell you one more thing." She also panted.It felt like he and his mother were running a sprint race, and she won, far ahead. "Amin and I have more than one child with Mayuko." Mom's hand combing her hair stopped suddenly.Although I can't figure it out, it seems that my mother has understood what Rikako said just now. "Born at the beginning of next year." Rikako said, stroked her abdomen with her right hand, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Amin is looking forward to that day." She is going out, open the door. At this moment, a group of black shadows flashed in front of Gen's eyes, swift as a beast, with energy like a tsunami.Rikako let out a scream, and her back was pushed against the concrete handrail in the public corridor. Mom kept silent, opened her eyes wide, gritted her teeth, and swung her fists at Rikako.Rikako also desperately waved her hands to fight, her shouts were deafening. Before he could leave the door, the neighbors had already exclaimed, and the sound of chaotic footsteps converged.madam, madam!What's the matter?Calm down!Oops!Call 110 quickly!The shouts were mixed with such dialogue. He turned right on the spot and ran back to his room.You can't run away, this is not the time to hide, you have to face it, you have to stand by your mother, you have to protect your mother - I think so in my mind, but my body is completely disobedient. As soon as Gen rushed into his room, he got under the bed.But despite this, the noise at the gate can still be heard, the voice of a woman crying, and the voice of the neighbor's aunt shouting. He covered his ears with his hands.Then recite the spells that can be remembered - all the attack spells that appear in "Saga 2".He is not expecting something to happen, but in order not to think about anything, not to feel. "Geng, come out." Uncle "Lu"'s huge body stuck to the floor, peeping here. "The noise is over, it doesn't matter if you come out." Gen was still huddled under the bed.How long has passed is impossible to estimate.Is it an hour, or half a day? Uncle "Lu"'s eyes were blurred as if he had cried.I don't know if he felt sad himself, or because he felt so pitiful. "... Where's mom?" Gen asked in a low voice. "Sleeping now. Sedated and sleeping soundly." So say you are at home.Great. "Is the police car coming?" "How do you use it to get into a police car?" "The auntie next door yelled 'Call 110'. I think I heard sirens later." Uncle "Lu" sighed, he was still in an uncomfortable position with his face pressed against the floor. "It's an ambulance. That woman named Rikako Tanaka has to be taken to the hospital." "Is she hurt?" "As far as my uncle saw, she just scratched her face. But she herself was crying for an ambulance." "Uncle, don't you know?" "What are you talking about?" "She said she was pregnant with a baby." Uncle blinked.Because one eye is close to the floor, it looks weird. "Uncle, when did you come? Mom asked you to come?" "No. It's scheduled to come today. I told your mother too. Didn't you hear?" "I don't know at all." "Really, Uncle is here to pick you up. I think it's better for you to come to Chiba earlier, and you don't have to wait until August. Look at the sea, and your mood will improve. When I got off the elevator, I heard your mother shouting loudly." "what time is it now?" "It's already night, half past nine." Gen looked at the cotton wool under the bed and was silent for a while.Why does the cotton wool gather here?My mother vacuums it every day, and it builds up before I know it.Although Wataru didn't realize it at all, the dust was indeed here, dirtying the room. "Will Mom be taken away by the police?" "why?" "She hit that person." "Such a thing does not constitute a crime." "However, if the child in that person's pregnancy dies, is it caused by the mother? Then the other party will not give up. That person will call the police and let the police arrest the mother, right?" This time Uncle "Lu" is just like Heng just now, sticking together with the floor, it looks like it has become a part of the floor. "The child will be fine." he murmured, lacking confidence. "Uncle, my mother didn't beat me or abuse me." Uncle raised his eyebrows suspiciously. "The man said that my mother should have beaten me for my injuries. He said that if my mother abused me, she would take me away from her. Please, don't let her do that." The uncle covered his face with his hands and said, "That woman actually said such things? I'll just beat her up." "The woman said that mother lied. Said that she would not be fooled by mother again. But mother would not do that kind of thing, she would not lie. It was the woman who lied." "Wan..." Uncle stretched out his thick arms to Heng, "Good boy, come out. Uncle can't bear to see you huddled in that kind of place. Okay? Listen to Uncle's words and come out. Then go to Chiba with Uncle. Every day Go out to sea, swim, catch fish, and have fun at the campfire party. Although Uncle is terrible at surfing, there are friends nearby who have a great time. Let’s learn together. Uncle can teach you how to fish. When you know how to fish, the two of us Travel around Japan to go fishing. Uncle worked hard to save money, and bought it a big yacht that can trawl nets, and you will be the captain. Wherever you want to go, I can take you there..." Tears streamed down my uncle's face as he spat out words like a machine gun.The situation itself was shocking. Uncle Stubborn, who was always cheerful and tireless, squatted down and cried like a child.Are we so miserable now? "Oh." Gen whispered, "Go to Chiba's hometown. But, uncle, let's take mom too. Uncle won't leave mom alone, will he?" "Of course." Uncle sniffed and wiped his face with the back of his hand. "Take Mom. I'll teach her how to fish." At midnight, when the all-day comprehensive news program started, Chiba's grandma arrived.She was carrying a big bag from the supermarket, panting. Gen had already crawled out from under the bed, took a bath, and was stuffing and packing clothes into the sports bag.Grandma said "I'll make dinner" and went into the kitchen.When grandma asked where something was put, she called out to Gen, and immediately drove Gen back to the room after asking.He kept talking to Uncle "Lu".Mom has been lying down, did not leave the bedroom. The three ate around the dining table.Grandma's seasoning is too heavy, and she doesn't know what dishes she likes, and the rice is so soft that it doesn't taste good at all.However, when Wat didn't move his chopsticks, grandma would stare, so Wat could only eat in silence. "Wu, I object to taking Kuniko to Chiba." Grandma spoke, and she waited for dinner to be over. "Well, it's better for you to live with grandma for a while, but mom has important things to do here. Do you understand? So mom can't go." Once face to face with grandma, there is no way to argue.Grandma's momentum is too strong. "However, Mom, I don't feel at ease leaving Bangzi alone." Uncle "Lu" protested. "Then it's okay to go back to Odawara's mother's house." Grandma seems to be angry. "Under the current situation, it's very pitiful to be separated from Heng." "It's going to be pitiful if it goes on like this. He's going to be at the mercy of the prince." Grandma and Uncle "Lou" started arguing.Hearing their conversation, we can know that there have been many discussions between father and mother, between father and grandma and uncle, and between grandma and mother. Just inform. "At this point, the husband and wife have no choice but to break up." Grandma pouted and said, "It's impossible to get back together." "Mom, Heng is here too." Uncle's expression was ugly.However, grandma refused to back down. "That's fine, it's impossible to keep it a secret." "But……" "I've said it so many times. Didn't Amin declare that he will definitely leave? It's impossible to get back together. For this kind of thing, it's better to end it early. Bangzi is also an age where he can start all over again." "Don't put it that simple." "Who said it was easy? Let's just talk about me. This kind of problem only occurs at this age. I never dreamed of it. My old bone still wants to live a comfortable life for a few days." Gen opened his eyes wide and looked at grandma's face. "Does Ma say she hates getting involved in trouble, but then she listens to Armin's self-absorbed excuses? I hate it. That kid is not a man. I want to cry when I think he's my brother. " "He really only cares about himself." Grandma restrained herself a little, picked up the rag and held it tightly, "But, Wu, it's not all about Amin's fault, right? You've heard about that woman too, right? I remember She is not useless, isn't she the woman who used to date with A Ming? The two of them are in love with each other. I also have mental preparations, she is going to marry in. I didn't expect it to be less than half a year. A Ming and When Bangzi got married, it was as if he had been possessed by an evil spirit." "Mom, don't talk about it." Uncle "Lu" was very concerned, "That's all in the past." "Isn't it just that the past is unfinished and has become what it is today? Amin was captured by Bangzi, right? She said she was pregnant with a child. Amin had no choice but to decide to get married, but in the end she said she had a miscarriage. She was lying." "Mom!" Uncle "Lu" got angry, "Don't say such things to Gen!" Before he knew it, he murmured to himself: "It's okay, Uncle, I've heard of it, I already know it." Grandma wiped her tears with a rag: "Ah Ming is really stupid. He is really stupid. But no matter how stupid he is, he is my son after all. Since he pursues so desperately, let him do as he pleases. If Bangzi won't leave no matter what, It doesn't matter if I kneel down to him... If he can accept it, I will do it." This time grandma really started crying. Uncle "Lu" muttered weakly, "Isn't that very pitiful, what is this?" "I'll take him." Grandma said decisively, "Anyway, this child is a descendant of the Sangu family. This will make it easier for Bangzi to remarry." Gen felt dizzy and couldn't sit still on the chair, as if he was about to collapse on the floor. At this moment, the door of the bedroom opened, and my mother floated in like a ghost. "Please go back, Mom." In just half a day, my mother seemed to have lost half her weight, but her voice was still crisp. "This is the home of Gen and me. Please go back." "Bangzi?" Grandma stood up, "You are so stubborn..." "Geng won't go anywhere, I'll take care of him." Mom announced in a flat voice, "I won't be separated from Amin either, we are a family. Please don't say that kind of thing presumptuously." Grandma threw the rag in her hand on the table. "Who is self-righteous? In the beginning, you planted the seeds? You deserved it! Amin meant to be deceived by you. Do you understand?" Mom and grandma face each other.The originally fearless grandma took a half step back.The air around my mother seemed to drop to ten degrees below zero. "Mom, we have been husband and wife for twelve years. If I cheated Amin into marrying him, would it have lasted so long? It would have been long ago. The reason why that person still brings up the past is because of what he did Too bad. Making up excuses to justify your misbehavior. Ma knows that man's behavior, doesn't she?" Grandma usually has a stubborn jaw, but now she is even more stubborn. "Did you talk about my son so badly? It's because of you that Amin went to other women." Mom turned pale, stared at grandma and said, "Please go back. Please leave this house." Uncle "Lu" stopped the grandma who was going to join her mother. "Whether it's Mom or Bangzi, stop arguing. Today is messy enough, I'm so tired." Grandma waved her fist and said, "Wu, go home. Gen also goes." He replied decisively: "I want to be here. Be with my mother." Grandma showed a painful expression, as if she was very hurt, and Gen moved her eyes away. "Okay, Bangzi. Let's go first tonight." Uncle "Lu" grabbed grandma's wrist and walked towards the gate. "However, Bangzi, you have to calm down. You can't give up on yourself. Okay? Gen, uncle will come back tomorrow." When only Gen and mother were left, the house was too quiet. "Geng, go to sleep." Mom gave the order in the same tone as she said to grandma just now, without any ups and downs at all, "Mom is sleeping too. Get a good sleep tonight and talk about it tomorrow, okay?" Gen Moran had no choice but to return to his room.He didn't know what to do.During the day, the woman named Rikako Tanaka looks like a terrifying witch.But now, my mother was like a witch in black, muttering curses and stirring the steaming cauldron of poison. Gen put his arms around his knees and leaned against the side of the bed, hoping to fall asleep right away.When it is clearly not sleepable, but the field of vision is covered with dark fog, it is because the body and mind are looking forward to escaping from reality.Go to sleep and get out of here. In a daze, the phone rang somewhere.What time is it?Who is calling? The phone stopped ringing.Mom answered the phone?Hear voices, like crying, or angry? If so, sleep is better.Enough is enough. Gen slowly fell into sleep, as if falling into a dark abyss. Then——I don’t know how much time has passed.Someone beside him shook Gen's shoulders, not very hard, but patiently. "Wake up, wake up!" I heard someone calling.Whose voice is it?The voice was both familiar and unfamiliar. Under the guidance of the sound, Wata floated from the bottom of sleep. "Wen, hold on. If you don't wake up, something big will happen." Gen opened his eyes.It was out of focus all of a sudden, it was just pitch black. Raising his head, he saw a dark, slender figure in the surrounding darkness. It's Mizuru Ashikawa. He wore a black cloak like a wizard's.Under the cloak is also black clothes, a tight shirt with pants for easy movement, knee-high boots made of leather cords, a belt around the waist, and a dagger with a sheath hanging on it. He holds a staff in his right hand, which is a black staff inlaid with shiny stones and emitting strange brilliance. "Lu Chuan—" Gen was tongue-tied, and quickly looked around.