Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The moment the right fist hit me, I almost instinctively closed my eyes. But the consciousness was taken away without being severely injured. The unbelievable wind of the fist brushed his cheek the moment it fell, and hit the wall behind, making a dull and loud noise.

I don't know if she changed direction at this moment after hearing Xia Yinci's voice, or if the target of this blow was not me in the first place.

But the moment I opened my eyes, I got the answer.

——It is the latter.

"Hey, your acting skills are too clumsy."

Su Huilin's pear flower sobbed softly with the rain, her voice was intermittent and almost couldn't complete a sentence. The sadness in her eyes made me not have the courage to look directly at her. I shook my fist tightly against the wall and refused to let go, binding me in her arms.

The abdominal pain didn't go away, didn't abate at all, and kept turning mountains and seas.

The sound of running footsteps in the distance released me from the imprisonment of Su Erin's sight. I was in the chaos and hadn't turned around yet, looking towards the direction the sound came from. Xia Yinci rushed towards us without hesitation, wrapping her arms around my neck and Su Huilin's neck respectively.

She stood on tiptoe a little before she hooked it behind my shoulder.

It was too late to catch her face, only to see a fluttering long hair, gently and slowly falling back to her back.

"Hey, isn't the self-destruct attack cool?"

Her figure kept trembling, her arms hugged us tightly, as if we would disappear if we let go.

"Is it really necessary to do it!"

"Small voice..."

Su Huilin's sad eyes were dazzled with surprise, and the blood under her lips inadvertently stained Xia Yinci's clothes red.

Thoughts are in the aftermath of the event, and are extremely chaotic. But hearing their sobs faintly visible, I couldn't help feeling a bitter sense of shame in my heart. I stretched out my hand involuntarily and gently stroked their backs.

"sorry.."

However, he obviously wanted to comfort them, but unexpectedly, his voice also turned into a cry.

"Didn't you say stay at home and wait for us to buy breakfast?"

As soon as the words fell, there was a bite on the shoulder. The pain of being bitten was neutralized by the sharp pain in the abdomen, and the feeling was a little numb for a while.

Xia Yinci bit hard on the area between my shoulder and neck, and she refused to let go until obvious bite marks appeared. She took a step back, slowly let go of our hands, and brushed away the hair sticking to her cheeks.

The blue eyes that were shining with tears tried hard to put away the sad emotions, just seeing it was too much to bear.

"That's right. Aren't you going to buy breakfast? Why didn't you even buy your own!"

Her gaze sometimes looked at Su Huilin, and sometimes fell on me.

Su Huilin and I tacitly did not speak, our eyes glanced to the side at a loss.

"Do you know, Su Huohuo? When I heard you say that you have something to say to Xiao Lin alone, I felt faintly uneasy in my heart."

I suddenly recalled the worry written on Xia Yinci's face when I left just now. Feeling ashamed can't help but ripple.

"So, have you been following us?"

"What should I do? At first I thought it was bad, but I couldn't sit still thinking of what would happen to you."

Su Huilin's eyes were red and her eyelids were drooping. She adjusted her disordered breathing and took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry, I'm not calm enough in this matter. I'm sorry Xiao Yin."

"No! You're not wrong, Rin...it's my fault."

I probably shouldn't have done it. I obviously don't want to withdraw from the domination war, but I use various reasons to force Su Huilin to withdraw. She has a stubborn personality, how could I convince her?

Let her quit, and let her not worry about me, how is it possible? It's like I can't worry about her.

"Hey, you may have made trivial mistakes, but the one who was really wrong was me."

Xia Yinci smiled wryly and shook her head. The speeding traffic on the road scraped through the heat waves and blew Xia Yinci's long hair.

She clasped her hands together and hung them over her chest.

"What's wrong with you? This matter has nothing to do with you!"

When the wind and waves dissipated and the fluttering long hair fell on her shoulders, Xia Yinci narrowed her eyes and said with a sob:

"I was the one who invited Su Luoyang to participate in the domination war, so Su Erin was involved...so it's all my fault."

No one could deny her words in time, and the atmosphere suddenly fell into an oppressive silence.

"I don't know what else happened to you, so I really don't know why you are obsessed with dominating the war. But, I can also feel it. If I hadn't involved you in my childhood, you wouldn't have done it, right? ? Something else happened then."

I shrugged helplessly, not knowing where to direct my gaze.

When things got to this point, I also realized that Xia Yinci didn't want me to atone for my sins, so she dragged me into the domination war, it was just her excuse. Her grief at the time was true, but her anger was not genuine. At least not mad about something I did before.

During the period when I lost my memory, what happened to her led to the beginning of all this.

"Going around and going around to the origin, these things are still my fault in the end, aren't they?"

"No! It's not like that."

Xia Yinci kept shaking her head, repeating "no" over and over again, but she couldn't find anything to deny my statement.

The color in Su Huilin's eyes became increasingly dim. She moved her gaze down, glanced at her tight fist, then turned her gaze away to look at the wall behind me that had cobweb-like cracks from her punching, and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

"sorry."

"Come on, what are you apologizing for?"

She staggered away from me silently, walked to the front of the wall, stretched out her hand and gently stroked the conspicuous cracks on the wall. The small gravel fell from her light touch, and bounced off her toes.

Apologize for the straight punch? But, she didn't throw this punch with me in the first place.

"You are right about one thing. What I rely on is indeed "talent"...it can't even be called talent! This is just a gift from that person at that time to cheat. Impossible to get."

A few months ago, I was imprisoned in the Core Research Association together with Lin Yu and Xue Xueer. Su Huilin said similar things when he came to rescue me.

If it were me in the past, I would have laughed at her without hesitation for having suffered from a second-class illness, or worried that she would be overly inferior in such things. Not confident enough to attribute all his talent to the gift of someone who doesn't exist.

But now I wouldn't question her words, or even suspect that she confused the dream with what happened in reality.

If the person who gave Su Erin the "gift" is the same person who formed the domination war, then I don't think there will be a conflict at all. Someone who snickers behind the scenes and observes other people's fights may, of course, give someone a special gift for all sorts of nasty reasons.

The person who received the gift happened to be Su Huilin.

I involuntarily stretched out my hand to stick to my abdomen, even now the abdomen still feels upside down.

"Why are you all here?"

Suddenly, the black car wobbled to the side of the road. Dad rolled the window halfway and looked at us in confusion.

"My wife, why did you drive the car here... Wait, Xiao Lin, why did you cry? Xiao Yin, you too..."

"No...no."

Su Erin rubbed her eyes, stubbornly denying the obvious facts.

"Don't frame me, your eyes are red. What's the matter with you? You must have cried all the time, right?"

The father chattered uncomprehendingly, and the mother next to him poked him with her arm, and her glance was clearly hinting.

"Ah? Oh..." Dad moved his fist to his mouth and coughed, then looked at us seriously and said, "Get in the car for me."

"Uncle, I don't need it..."

Although Xia Yinci was in a sad mood, she did not forget to be polite. Her hands were clasped together in front of her body.

"Don't talk nonsense, let's all get in the car. It's not convenient to stop here."

The mother in the car put her hands on the steering wheel and dropped the sentence without looking at us.

"Go up."

I gently tugged on Xia Yinci's sleeve. Xia Yinci was a little hesitant at first, but she also heard the whistle behind her, so she got into the car with us. Xia Yinci went to the innermost seat and sat down, I continued to sit in the middle, and finally Su Huilin sat on the right and closed the car door by the way. Mother couldn't wait to step on the accelerator, turned the steering wheel and simply drove the car in the direction of home.

I accidentally glanced at the rearview mirror of the car, and I saw a familiar figure reflected in the rearview mirror, which made me quickly turn around and look out through the glass of the rear window. The tea cat stayed at the bottom of the stairs for a while, then walked up the stairs.

Originally, he was walking around while Lin Yu was still awake, but he ran into Su Ruoyang and Su Huilin on the road. Tea Mao was hesitant to say hello to them, but seeing them arguing inexplicably, she instinctively hid by the wall under the stairs.

"This is their private matter, so it's not good for me to take care of it?"

The tea cat was a little hesitant, until they even moved their hands and found that Su Huilin was a little strange, and then came up with the idea of ​​pulling them away.

However, she saw Xia Yinci before that, so she had to temporarily adjust the reality, erasing her own existence from her vision.

I don't know if she should meddle in other people's business, but in the end she helped Lin Yu by hugging them, and found Su Luoyang's parents from another intersection. When they got into the car, the tea cat connected the space in front of their driving direction with this place, allowing them to drive here.

"Although I don't know if it's useful~"

The tea cat was walking above the winter bridge, but after a while, it realized that there was something strange nearby, so it quickly stopped, realizing that this was not the way to go back. She turned her eyes and hurried down the stairs, but the person who came up made her stand in the same place again.

"I said, how can there be a cosplayer who only wears a hat?"

Outside the car window is the usual scenery, but unknowingly, it lost its usual color in my eyes as it flew by.

"You guys, can someone explain to me what's going on?"

From the driver's seat came the mother's neutral voice, and she didn't look at our reaction through the car's rearview mirror, just like a casual mention.

It is impossible for Xia Yinci to muster up the courage to answer this question, and Su Huilin has no intention of continuing. The two looked out of the windows on both sides tacitly. I was caught in the middle and could only look directly at the front window of the car. While pondering how to speak, I tentatively said:

"Domination War, remember?"

This way of asking made Dad squeeze out a dry laugh, and he thought it was funny and asked me back:

"How do you think I can forget about this kind of thing? So, the way you are arguing like this has something to do with dominating the war?"

"There was no quarrel."

Su Erin next to her muttered. His father was taken aback by her sudden sound. He turned his head slightly and looked at Su Huilin's reaction through the car window. In the end, he just sighed and did not argue with her.

"Actually...I wanted to finish talking with Su Eirin, so I came to confess to you."

I lowered my head and didn't dare to raise my head to speak out. I crossed my hands and fiddled with the thumbnail of my right hand with the thumb of my left hand.

"But it didn't work out... I'm going to tell you guys now, I think I'll be angry too."

My parents didn't speak, I lowered my head and didn't know if they looked at me or how they reacted, so I squeezed my hands tightly and told them the whole story as much as I could.

"So what you mean is that the three of you have to disappear from us, and you can only come back after completing the domination war. You made her angry by persuading your sister to quit, and you quarreled. Because Xiaoyin was worried that you would follow you secretly, she also It's getting involved. Isn't it?"

"It's almost like that." I raised my eyes carefully, peeked at their reactions, and confessed in a trembling voice, "It's just that the disappearance may be temporary, or it may be that we will never see each other..."

"Then what about your future? What time is it now? Are you ready to ruin your future life in this inexplicable game?"

Dad's fierce voice suddenly interrupted me. He didn't even look at me, but just turned his head and stared out the window.

"I won't agree to such a thing."

The car body came to a slow stop on the parking space. The mother tilted her head and looked at the father who was no longer speaking, and tapped restlessly with her fingers on the steering wheel. Father opened the car door without saying a word and got out of the car, skillfully took out a cigarette from his pocket and held it between his fingers.

"Where are you going?"

Father was not walking in the direction of home, mother hesitated and rolled down the window to ask him, but he waved his hand to her without looking back.

"Go to the supermarket to buy a pack of cigarettes."

Mother sighed softly, closed the car door, sat back in the driver's seat, put her elbows on the steering wheel, and scratched the bottom of her lips.

"Isn't your child too straightforward? Which parent would accept such a frankness?"

"I just...don't want to hide from you anymore."

I restlessly put my hands on my legs, pressing my upper body against the skin on my thighs, as if doing so would weaken the oppressive feeling. And what I said made Su Huilin turn slightly sideways, and glanced at me thoughtfully.

"I don't want you to take such an inexplicable and dangerous path, but I don't want to stop you, and I can't stop you. You all have your own considerations, and all I can do is guide you. From this point of view, I am not a competent mother, you So does Dad."

Mother's hand was on her right cheek, fiddling with her hair vaguely.

"We wanted to pull you out of the dangerous situation, so we left the Core Research Association. But this kind of thing is like fate, and it is an unavoidable problem. Why don't you go and solve it. Of course, I don't want you To die. That is my only request."

"You, won't you stop us?"

Xia Yinci didn't expect her mother to give such an answer, so she couldn't help turning her head and staring at her with wide, clear eyes in surprise.

"I can't stop it. I have thought a lot during this period. But after all, you are going to a place out of our reach, and there is no way to protect you. Please remember that you are going to win back the victory, not to go You're going to die. Don't keep silent, promise me."

The corner of my mother's mouth has a bitter curve, and her eyes are still a bit lazy, but they look very sharp when looking directly at me.

I reached out and squeezed the clothes on my chest, wanting to release the pressure in my heart, and nodded my head vigorously.

"Yeah. I promise you."

"Auntie, I promise you too."

The mother smiled lightly, and turned her eyes to Su Huilin who hadn't responded yet.

Su Huilin lowered her head and clutched the hem of the skirt, it took a long time to raise her gaze and let out a hum.

"My side is letting go, but your father may not accept this kind of thing. However, he is more because of guilt. So you are not allowed to leave without saying goodbye. No matter what, you must not forget to say goodbye to your father. Understand Yet?"

"Um."

Su Huilin and I nodded to our mother almost at the same time, and at the same time, we noticed each other's movements, and looked at each other with a little embarrassment.

"Are you still hurting?"

"Are you underestimating me? A few more punches will be fine, I'm very resistant..."

Su Huilin raised her eyebrows arrogantly, frowned, and glanced at me coldly.

"Oh. You said it, I just haven't calmed down~ Then here I am."

"Really?! Don't, don't! Be merciful."

Su Erin compared her fists to her face, and slowly approached me. When she was sticking to my cheek, she suddenly flicked her index finger and touched my face very lightly. The coldness in her eyes disappeared without a trace, and she raised the corners of her mouth, sending out a bright and somewhat sly smile.

"Hmph, old coward~"

She let go of her fist, her five fingers danced back and forth, and she swung her claws towards my waist. Controlling my right arm, she gave Xia Yinci a wink, so she also hugged my left arm to prevent me from escaping, and the two of them scratched my itchy spot unconsciously.

"A few more punches will be fine~ But, it's not a big deal to punish you a little bit, right?"

"Yes~ Student Su Huohuo, don't move, accept the punishment honestly!"

"It's impossible to move! Don't...don't poke your waist! You can't do it in the stomach. You scratch me, isn't it my instinct! Wait, don't go up, don't, don't... Hey! Going down is not allowed Yes!"

My mother watched the three people who were making a fuss through the rearview mirror, rolled up the car window calmly, and gradually pulled a smile at the corner of her mouth.

After noon the temperature gradually cools down. The girl with black hair tied into a single ponytail hummed an unknown tune, and gently pushed open the door. I followed her into the room hesitantly and watched her look around the room curiously.

"What are you looking for?"

Su Huilin decided to go back to the dreamland, saying that she wanted to find the "devil king's order" whose training in the dark knight was not stable yet. Probably using the Dark Knight as a test subject for instructions. I silently mourned for the Dark Knight for five seconds in my heart, and watched Su Huilin go back to my room.

So it turned out that Xia Yinci also wanted to go back to the dreamland, so he asked me to go to the dreamland to meet Qianyan.

"Hey, what else are you looking for? Check if you have something secretly hidden~"

Xia Yinci poked her head under the bed, turned on the phone's flash as a flashlight, and scanned under the bed carefully, but of course found nothing. I never put anything under my bed.

"Can't you find it? This kind of thing doesn't exist. How did you hear so many things, and you asked me this morning..."

【Are you uncomfortable? 】

I didn't finish the sentence. Thinking of Xia Yinci who asked me this morning, her face was blushing, and her twinkling eyes revealed the unique charm of a pure girl. I can't help but feel that she was doing radio gymnastics on the verge of getting burned.

"Impossible! Su Huohuo, you are definitely the kind of sullen boy, and the kind who is so sullen that you want to add est at the end! The proof is the way you... treated us in the morning!"

"What kind of look! Don't say it as if it's really what it is, okay? Besides, you and Su Erin have been with me for more than ten years as childhood sweethearts and younger sisters respectively. Do you think I will do strange things? ? Rabbits don’t even eat grass beside their nests.”

I watched Xia Yinci seriously. These words are absolutely true, and they are 100% unadulterated truths.

stare--

Well, the truth is the truth, unfortunately I am not a rabbit.

"Oh~"

For some reason, Xia Yinci showed a slightly displeased expression, as if she was a little angry. Those suspicious eyes kept staring at me and refused to move away.

"Then let me test it, is it okay?"

Xia Yinci suddenly turned her attack and moved closer to me. I took a step back, unintentionally tripped over the foot of the bed, and sat back on the bed. She raised her hand to let go of the hair tie, let her hair down without hesitation, and stretched her legs towards me and put them between my legs.

"Xia Yinci... what are you doing?"

She didn't respond to me, but pushed me gently, and when my back was on the mattress, she put her hands on the bed. The twinkling pupils of displeasure looked straight into my eyes, and the corners of the mouth curled down a little playfully. Hair fell down and just touched my cheek.

"you……"

Before the words fell on my lips, my cold thin lips blocked my mouth.

She closed her eyes, and her slender eyelashes trembled slightly, as if she was expressing her vague uneasiness.

After a long time, my lips parted.

Xia Yinci's face slowly moved away from me, she stared at me condescendingly, her cheeks were slightly flushed.

"What about the time we spent together for more than ten years? Is this also a normal reaction?"

Obviously her lips have left me, but I still can't say a word, I can only look into her eyes.

I can't find any trace of her arrogant temper recently.

"Why don't you eat the grass beside the nest, are you a rabbit?"

Xia Yinci tilted her head, for some reason, her appearance looked extraordinarily attractive at this moment.

The sunlight outside the window happened to be on her side, and her eyes seemed to reflect my appearance.

"Even if you are a rabbit, you are still a super boring rabbit with est at the end."

Her displeasure just now disappeared without a trace, but her eyes were full of bright arrogance instead.

"What rabbit, I, I don't have one."

The girl's winking eyes were like silk, she came to my ear with a smile, and said in a soft voice:

"You, you just like me, right?"

The tone was so gentle that my bones seemed to melt because of it, but the content seemed to have a strange force underneath me that dragged me down into the deep sea. I stretched out my hand toward the sea and tried hard to get ashore, but I sank deeper and deeper into the bottom of the sea.

"Okay, I won't quarrel with you, you go to bed quickly."

Xia Yinci backed away abruptly from me, and I quickly grabbed the quilt next to me to cover my lower body. She looked back at me strangely, but didn't expose me, "The air-conditioning is not enough, you are trying to cover up something with the quilt", she made a grimace and stuck out her tongue at me.

"Hmm... I won't sleep with you today. You are a bit dangerous! I'm going to ask your mother."

At dusk, there was no one in the ruined hospital.

I opened my eyes as if in a lifetime. Contrary to my passiveness last time, I came here on my own initiative this time.

My eyes were facing the door of the hospital, I looked down in confusion, and realized that I was sitting at the front desk.

"The way you like to be entangled. It makes me uncomfortable to see. It will be annoying."

The awe-inspiring and clear bell sounded from behind me. I wanted to look back, but there was a cold touch on my cheeks and I couldn't move.

"Su Ruoyang. Do you understand?"

In my impression, this was the first time Qianyan called my name. The tone in which she called my name was unusually gentle, as if it was whispering in her ear.

"What?"

"Domination War. Definitely win."

"I don't need you to tell me."

"Respond in this unicellular parlance. I don't like it."

The touch on the cheek suddenly disappeared, and Qian Yan's figure swayed in front of me.

Qian Yan's faint smile seemed to be the only light in this barren world, illuminating my dim vision just right. Today, she didn't put on the hood occasionally, and her long and dense silver hair was left fluffy in the dressing room and left unkempt, which actually produced a little hazy feeling of cuteness.

I couldn't help stretching out my hand to her, touching her hair and half clenched my fist, wrapping my arms around a ball of silver hair. I gently brushed it out of the front of her dress, and the tiny shimmers of light lit up her hair, slanting down to her legs.

"How rude, my ruler."

Qianyan complained softly, but the smile has not yet dissipated. The eyes that are usually cold and dull now seem to be smiling but not smiling, shining with the light of expectation.

The moment the silver hair fell down, the ends of the hair were knotted with black hair rings.

It is said to be a hair tie, but it is more like a clock that rotates time, with the pointer looming and spinning on the tail of her raised hair.

In fact, if you look carefully at Qianyan's eyes, you can also see the outline of the clock, but it's hard to make out.

As she said, she was the keeper of the imaginary clock, not my dreamer. But now she calls me the Dominator.

"Qianyan, what the hell is a fantasy clock?"

Qianyan looked directly at me, her slightly narrowed eyes made me feel a little itchy, and she tilted her head after a long time.

"I can't answer questions that are too general."

What does it mean? I don't think my question is general?

Still, it's better than saying no. Unlike before walking away on my own, now she at least allows me to modify the question and ask it again.

"Then... do you remember that I used the phantom clock as "time still"?"

"I remember. What's wrong?"

"Twice imagining the clock caused time to go back, time suddenly rewinds back to the past, do you remember?"

"Hmm. So what's the matter?"

"Can I use them again? Like standing still, can I do that?"

Qianyan shook her head bluntly, not intending to give me any souvenirs at all. She asked me with a slightly contemptuous tone:

"Hey. Do you really think that time stops your ability? Your ability to control. From the beginning to the end it is the "Imagination Clock"."

"It's okay, I used it before, so how do you explain it?"

"That's my ability. Idiot~"

Qianyan prolonged the word "white" on purpose, folded her arms and took a step back to the front table.

"You were like a fool at that time. I expected that you would not use the imaginary clock. It is not good for you to have no control ability, right? So every time you use the control ability, I will help you by the side. You use I didn't say I was so happy, but it was really annoying."

Having said that, she gave me a lazy look. I suddenly remembered that every time I looked for her before, she was always extremely impatient. Now that she told me this, I realized that it was because I troubled her too many times without knowing it, which made her unhappy.

"Yes... I'm sorry!"

"Don't apologize to me. Who made you, an idiot, be my ruler."

After getting used to Qianyan's personality, I realized that she actually likes to speak in a cold tone. Even the gentle words are in this lazy and lazy tone. Sometimes it's not that she's unhappy, but sometimes she's genuinely impatient.

However, even if she is impatient after a long time, she will still answer me patiently, and at worst she just walks away.

"I'm still a little concerned... how about time turning back then?"

"To be precise. It's not a time regression, it's just a precognitive dream. In your eyes, "what happened before being retraced" is actually just a dream within a dream. It's just the future you foresee, and those things haven't happened yet. As for you "Backtracking" to the time after the past, it is you who make changes based on the foreseeable future and affect the future."

"Is it the precognitive dream you let me have?"

"No. This kind of thing happens all the time in this world. You are not the only one who has had precognitive dreams."

There seemed to be something deep in her words, but I couldn't find out what she meant.

"But you... said a lot to me at the time, such as "breaking the rules" or "stillness is the limit". At that time, you seemed to be a different person, and it was the first time you mentioned "fantasy" Clock', even talking about its guidelines."

It is impossible for me to remember the experience of first contacting this term.

"Then let me ask you. Did I admit to what you said from the beginning to the end?"