A dimensional journey starting from the Dragon Clan

"Resonance!!"

The next moment, the steel nail of Nobara Kugisaki was smashed into the forehead of the real person's clone.

At the same time, the real person who was fighting with Xuanhao on the other side was also hit by the soul.

"What...!?"

The real person in front of Xuanhao spit out a mouthful of blood, with an unbelievable look on his face.

"... Kugisaki!?"

Xuanhao on the opposite side was also surprised to see this scene. He felt the curse power of Nobara Kugisaki from the real person, and this curse power came from the air.

Although he was a little confused about what was going on, he still took this opportunity to attack the real person.

Kugisaki's original plan was to penetrate the real person's body and directly hit his soul through "resonance".

As a result, the "resonance" passed through the clone and captured the soul of the real person.

Then the blow to the soul suffered by the real person was fed back to the clone!

"No way...!!"

The real person's face was full of disbelief.

"No way!!? My world is not just Xuanhao's!!!! The spell of this woman can actually hit my soul!"

"Strange."

Kugizaki Nobara was also a little confused about what happened to the real person.

"Why does it feel like my cursed power exploded from a little further away...? Now that I think about it... your cursed power doesn't feel oppressive. And just now, it should be enough for you to get rid of me if you just touch my pancreatic cancer. You are just a clone!!"

Kugizaki Nobara finally realized that the real person in front of her was just a clone, and laughed and sneered, "You can't use the spell at all!?"

"...Correct."

The real person's clone pulled out the steel nail on his forehead, licked the blood on his face, and responded with a grin.

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Boom——

On the other side.

Taking advantage of the gap created by Kugizaki Nobara, Xuanhao punched the real person against the wall.

"The aftereffect of the spell is too long!!"

The real person's original body was extremely shocked.

"The body can't move freely yet!!"

"Kugizaki...!! Thank you!!"

Xuanhao thanked Kugisaki for his unintentional help in his heart, and at the same time, he kept punching the temporarily unable to move real person.

"I couldn't save anyone. And everyone's hard work was in vain. But even so, my friends made me understand that I am not alone. So!! I will kill you here!!"

The explosive punches made the real person powerless for a while.

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On the other side.

Kugizaki Nobara felt much more relaxed after knowing that the real person in front of him was not the real person.

Since "resonance" works on him, he should not attack rashly like he did just now, right?

"Now is the real contest."

"...No, I'll leave first!"

However, the real person's clone seemed to have received an order from the real person at this moment, and turned around and ran away.

"...What!?"

Kugizaki Nobara looked at this shameless behavior in surprise and was speechless for a while, and hurriedly chased after him.

"Stop right there!!"

Although she could choose to ignore the real person and go directly to the 5th underground floor.

But if she left this guy outside, it would probably cause more trouble.

The real person flew up and jumped down towards the passage leading to the underground.

"!!...Underground!"

Seeing this, Kugisaki Norose became more determined to continue chasing.

"That's just what I want! After getting rid of this guy, it will be convenient for me to go to the 5th underground floor!"

At the same time, on the other side.

The real person's body was torn into pieces under Xuanhao's fist.

But it was not because Xuanhao's attack was too fierce, but because this guy dispersed his body himself and tried to delay time.

"Split!!"

Xuanhao's eyes moved among the many small clones.

"Which one!? There must be a part containing the soul in it! As long as you kill that one, you can cause fatal injuries to him!!"

Soon, Xuanhao felt a unique fluctuation emanating from one of the clones.

Puff——

He kicked it directly and kicked the clone to pieces.

However, the real person was not fatally injured.

"You've been fooled."

A teasing voice came from far behind.

In the distance behind him, the real person had recovered and fled to a long distance.

"Damn it!! Misled by the cursed power!!"

A trace of anger flashed across Xuanhao's face, and he hurriedly accelerated his pursuit.

The two kept chasing in the subway station.

The real person was fleeing towards the ground.

This was to reunite with the clone!

However, at this moment, neither Xuanhao nor Kugisaki Nobara discovered the real person's intention.

Until the moment when the two real people alternated in front of Xuanhao.

"!! There are two... real people!?"

Xuanhao didn't have time to see Kugisaki Nobara who had not yet appeared in his field of vision.

"He created clones and acted separately!? Is he going to merge into one and repair the damage!?"

Xuanhao could only think like this at the moment.

But the two real people didn't mean to merge into one until they crossed each other.

"!?"

Xuanhao was slightly stunned by this person.

"Brushed past!? Why..."

The next moment, the chasing Kugisaki Nobara appeared in Xuanhao's field of vision.

She did not see the scene of the real person's exchange.

"Xuanhao...!!" Kugisaki Nobara was a little surprised to see Xuanhao. She did not realize the danger approaching.

At this moment, it was no longer the clone that was approaching her, but the real person's body!

"Run!!! Kugisaki!!!"

Xuanhao realized what was about to happen and roared to remind her.

The real body blocked her vision. Kugisaki did not know that the real body and the clone had been exchanged. In addition, due to the previous battle with the clone, she relaxed her vigilance against the real person's palm.

So at the moment of daze, she was touched hard by the real person.

"Hahaha! What an idiot, I was touched hard!!"

After crossing paths with Kugisaki Nobara, the real person grinned.

"Don't block the way!!"

Xuanhao punched away the clone that came to block him and rushed towards Kugisaki Nobara.

"Kugisaki!!"

But everything was too late.

"I encountered the Three-Seven Division Master once before, but I failed to defeat him... I wonder what will happen this time?"

Main laughed teasingly, and then launched the spell.

Nobara Kugisaki calmly touched the half of her face that was touched.

A revolving lantern has begun to flash through her mind.

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2009.

"Go to hell! Aaaaaaaa!"

"Ola!! Watch this!!"

"You are still too young! Nobara~"

I was still in elementary school at the time, and I often played games with my family and friends at home during holidays.

"Don't give the opponent a chance to breathe."

"Ah!! Super special move!!"

At that time, Nobara Kugisaki thought that everyone in the village had a problem with their brains.

Only she was normal, and she believed it.

"This will be used until you graduate from the sixth grade? Are you sure?"

When I bought a schoolbag, my mother said that to me.

But I still chose a soft light blue schoolbag.

We moved to this village when I was in primary school.

My parents were worried about the inconvenience of living in the countryside, and what I hated even more was having to part with my friends for this.

There were 19 students in the school, not just one class, but the whole school.

Everyone carried red or black backpacks. She also liked red and black, but everyone seemed to dislike light blue.

However, Ye Qiangwei.

"Xiao Wen, take your backpack and exchange it with mine."

She took a fancy to my backpack.

"......Huh?"

"Exchange with me?"

"......Huh?"

Although I was a little reluctant, I was forced to exchange it by Ye Qiangwei in the end.

I do what I want, that's Ye Qiangwei.

After school that day, she returned the backpack to me.

"I don't like carrying backpacks anyway."

From that day on, Ye Qiangwei often came to me.

Play Super Smash Bros. with my father.

Ye Qiangwei didn't like the people in the village.

"This village is too small. It's much harder to be an outsider than to make friends." She said so.

I don't think it's a bad thing.

A few years later, when Grandma Lingju brought her steamed red bean rice to my house, I understood the unpleasant feeling that Ye Qiangwei mentioned.

"I found a secret base!!"

Ye Qiangwei always took me to explore everywhere.

At that time, I secretly sighed at Ye Qiangwei's maturity, and she didn't talk like a child at all.

"We will live there today!"

But she suddenly said such a sentence.

Now I think that it should be a copy of what others said, such as her mother.

"It's here! Here!!"

"!!"

The secret base that Ye Qiangwei mentioned was actually someone else's home.

"Ah, I'm really here."

"Welcome, welcome, it's cold outside, right?"

Her name is Saori, and she moved to the village after me.

Every time she faced our sudden visit, she never showed any impatience, and always welcomed us happily.

By the way... Saori always stayed at home.

After meeting Saori, Nobara changed.

"That's right, it's true, it's really Matsuko's style."

"Xiao Wen, let me practice braiding!"

"Practice again?"

Even the tone of her voice became softer.

How should I put it? I felt that her expression began to have a certain temperament.

Although we are both outsiders, the gap between Saori and me is really too big.

Not long after that, Saori's house began to become strange.

There was garbage in front of the door, graffiti began to appear, and there was snow that was obviously deliberately piled up by others.

The mansion looked gloomy and weird.

Not long after that, Saori moved.

Nobara and I went to see her off.

But afterwards, neither of us could remember what anyone said that day, and we even forgot the weather at that time.

But I remember clearly that Nobara burst into tears and cried her face.

It turns out that she can cry too.

Maybe it was because this incident had such a strong impact on me that I completely downplayed other things that happened that day.

This year, in June, Ye Qiangwei decided to attend high school in Tokyo.

It seems that he had a quarrel with his grandmother, so he chose to transfer schools at such a mediocre time.

"Then!! I will never come back here anyway!! Xiaowen!! You should leave here as soon as possible!!"

"... Yeah."

Why didn't you cry when you said goodbye to me?

I was speechless because of a sarcastic remark that flashed through my mind.

Since then, we have never mentioned Saori again.

"Xiaowen, next time we meet, let's go together as three people!!"

It turns out that Ye Qiangwei was just trying not to cry.

And I was crying like rain at this moment.

"......Yeah, yeah!"

"Yeah!!"

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"Saori, take a break?"

"No, today is the deadline for proofreading... um, should I say yesterday?"

"Today is until the morning. What are you talking about, you?"

"The situation in Shibuya is really serious, is it a terrorist attack?"

"Ah... I have a pimple~~~ and it's the kind that can't be squeezed! Although I won't squeeze it."

"Senior, are you married?"

"Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly feel that this is not the life I wanted."

"When I was in the second year of junior high school, my family moved to a very remote village."

"Your parents transferred jobs?"

"No, my mother advocates "organic life" and is weird. Anyway, she is very abnormal."

"...I feel it more or less."

"There I met two girls there, probably 7 years younger than me? One girl named Ye Qiangwei was very close to me. "

"I'm an only child, so I think Ye Qiangwei is super cute. I really want her admiration, so I try to act like a big sister."

"I also make black tea for them. Black tea for first graders!"

"Haha, they're all cute."

"I didn't exchange contact information with them because I was afraid of the feeling of good friends gradually becoming distant."

"When I left the village, they cried so hard. But if they saw me, who is so ordinary now, they would be disappointed, right?"

"Ye Qiangwei, are you doing well?"

"Where are you now and what are you doing?"

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"Everyone in that village is mentally ill."

'Of course, that's impossible. '

"Rather, the truly abnormal people shout loudly, making themselves convinced that everyone else is abnormal and trampling on the lives of others."

"...But it seems that this is not the case."

In the blank space, Nobara Kugisaki looked at the people sitting on the chairs in front of her. They were the people in her memory.

"I'm sorry, Xiaowen. I didn't keep my promise."

"Xuanhao, tell everyone for me. 'It's nice to know you'!!"

As she spoke, the half of Nobara Kugisaki's face that was touched by the real person gradually swelled.

Poof——

Blood splattered, and even the eyeballs exploded.

But for Nobara Kugisaki, such an ending did not seem unacceptable.

Because this was the path she chose herself.

She had no regrets in her life.