Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The girl standing in the center of the clock put her hands to her lips, turned her head slightly and looked around us playfully. Suddenly, the blue vines streaked across the dangerous light, and came straight to the eyes——

I hastily kicked my heels back, using my strength to bounce my body backwards and jump off the edge of the clock.

The sharp part of the vine grazed my cheek and passed away far behind me.

"You participated in the 13th Domination War, right, tea cat?"

Looking into the black cat's cold eyes, Lin Yu recalled what happened before he came to this world again.

"Hmm. You want to ask me why I didn't tell you in advance?"

The tea cat is leaning against the wall with her back, the fingertips of her left hand are on the wrist of her right hand, and her hands are behind her back. There is a keen light hidden in her slightly lazy eyes, and she is quietly staring at me.

"I already know that the observers will not allow insiders to hype the final rules."

"Hey, is that so?" The tea cat tilted its head to the right, revealing its well-defined clavicle. The tear mole at the corner of the eye inadvertently added a bit of charm to her. "Then you want to ask me why I rejected the dream madman?"

Up to now, it has gradually become a habit to be convinced by the tea cat. But every time I realize that she knows my heart well, I still feel lucky from the bottom of my heart, and there is a burst of warmth in my heart that is just right.

"Hmm... To be precise, it is to confirm the reason for your refusal."

"The reason is simple~ I don't want to be the one who drives people who have established a deep bond to kill each other, and I don't want to be with that observer. Being a dream madman or something...is not the reason for me to participate in the domination war."

As the tea cat spoke, he smiled with an inexplicable smile, and lowered his lazy but captivating gaze. She put her raised right hand on her neck, unintentionally brushing up her long brown hair on the side of her face.

"me too……"

"Huh?" The tea cat raised its head in puzzlement, and looked at me in confusion with its lower right eyes.

"Even if it wasn't for you, it wouldn't even be my intention to dominate the war."

When I said this, I paused, and noticed that Tea Mao’s confused eyes seemed a bit in a dilemma. She seemed to be wondering whether it was the right choice to invite me out of selfishness, so her eyes gradually became sad.

"Tea cat, have you said that? I wanted to touch the truth behind the domination war."

The tea cat didn't expect me to mention this kind of thing suddenly, and its eyes trembled and fell on me.

"Well, I think about it now."

【This is my request, Lin Yu. If you can win, please bring me back the truth that governs the war. 】

Thoughts drifting back to the past reminded me of what Tea Mao once said. At that time, she cast a gaze as gentle as water, as if her voice was soft and soft, and it still remains tender in my heart until now.

"Okay, then I have no doubts." I smiled again, "Since you have lost the qualification to participate in the domination war, I will fulfill your "selfishness" and find the truth behind it instead of you. "

The tea cat's eyes were a little moved, and the slightly trembling pupils looked directly at me, which made my heart throb. A gentle light flashed across her eyes, she tilted her cheeks with a smile, and asked playfully knowingly:

"Yes, win?"

As a result, the past in memory overlaps with the present moment, and the words spoken in the mouth and the voice in the mind resound at the same time——

[It will definitely win. 】

"It will definitely win."

This is the end of the memory. The vines flying in all directions drew curved tracks in the air, and my unbalanced body began to fall downwards.

I don't want to be an enemy of them if I can. If I look at things from another angle - as long as I have a way to directly find the observers, maybe I don't need them to be enemies.

I immediately stretched out my hand to grab the spring that popped up from the side of the clock, and looked up at the Observer Clock that was gradually fading in the distance and rising upwards. With the strength of my unhealed hand and foot, I pushed my body out with the help of the clockwork. .

Did you find a way for the observers in the information obtained from the mind of the fallen soul through one person with thousands of faces?

Of course there are. Not only that, but the method is unbelievably simple.

- Just need to stand on the observer clock. Only by taking this step can the observers be seen.

Such a simple thing has never been dared to try, or even dare to think about it. It's like the fact that we will eventually kill each other, which is clearly within reach, but none of us thinks about it.

Up to now, we have to think about a question - do the observers themselves have authority, or do we unilaterally regard them as gods, and unknowingly produce the cognition that deifies them?

In my opinion - the answer is clearly the latter. So I don't want to be fooled and pushed around by the observers any longer.

I stepped up to the edge of the clock, and the simple step shattered any vague awe I felt for them.

"Hey! Bystanders, there must be at least a limit to keeping yourself out of things!!"

The unmanned clock was dimly lit at first, but at the same time as I ran up to this clock, the numbers started from number 1 and reflected light in sequence. In a blink of an eye, my surroundings brightened up, as if I was in a resplendent palace.

"No. 12 Ruler of Clock No. 2." Observer No. 1 showed an unknown smile for the first time in my memory. He looked at me with great interest and asked, "I'm very interested. Why did you act so recklessly? Another interesting choice?"

"It's very simple, of course I don't want to be fooled by you anymore!"

I couldn't wait to spread my hands to the sides, and the dark red flames in my eyes put on the mask of the black knight for me. The black knight's disguise spread from the fingertips of both hands to the whole body.

Silently, an invisible barrier rose from the edge of the clock. Many observers obviously noticed the abnormality behind them, turned around and glanced at it calmly, and then gave up.

"Okay~ Can we talk? What do you want to do when you trap us here?"

Observer No. 3 folded his arms nonchalantly, and tilted his head. It seems that she cares more about the purpose of my coming here, the actions I will take, or the reason why I put all my eggs in one basket than I am.

"You'll know."

I stopped wasting words with the observers, stepped on the clock dial and approached observer No. 1. I stretched out my left hand to prop up the barrier and squeeze him back. At the same time, I was ready to switch to the mask with dark green pupils for a sneak attack.

However, the plan was only broken at the first step—after the barrier was pushed out, the man in front of him was not forced to the back by the barrier for a long time. It was as if the barrier was dispelled by the opponent without me knowing it after I pushed it over.

The heart throbbed with unspeakable palpitations. I gritted my teeth and stopped in front of No. 1, and swung my left hand at him with all my strength, pulling the barrier to attack him as if opening a curtain.

However, this time it still had no effect. The other party looked down at me unmoved, with an annoying smirk at the corner of his mouth. The increasingly intense mockery was oppressing even from behind, crushing me into the abyss.

I took two steps back to avoid No. 1's depressing smile, clenched my right hand, which had transformed into a thousand-man army, and raised it up in front of me. The mechanical army that appeared out of thin air with me at the center spread out, flooding in all directions. past.

The field of vision gradually changed from crowded to empty, and the black army rushed towards the observers, but disappeared for no reason the moment they touched the observers. Just a few minutes later, the entire army of the Thousand Army was wiped out, and the observers were still unharmed.

They didn't even make a shot because my all-out attack didn't even get close to them.

"Since the previous domination wars, you are the second dominator to break into the watcher's clock."

A cold female voice that gave people an unusually oppressive feeling sounded out of nowhere, and the unwavering voice was announcing the truth.

"The one before you declared war on us at the same time with the same means as you. And the result is also almost the same as yours. Then the reason for your doing so, isn't it different from her?"

I stared weakly at Observer No. 3 who was looking down at me coldly, so a sudden attraction appeared from my neck, which directly lifted me and my body into the air, and my body floated towards the No. 4 boy next to the girl.

No matter how hard you struggle, your arms are just flailing in the air to no avail. The field of vision gradually approached the open palm of the teenage boy, and his neck was wrapped around his neck. I clearly felt that life was in his hands.

"Ruler, don't think about skipping the necessary process to be clever. After all, we are your seniors, right? If you want to settle your old accounts with us, then you can win the domination war first."

As soon as the words were finished, the young man with teenage hair smiled lazily but very menacingly. His dull eyes seemed to be a shadow over my chest. He flicked back the hand that was clasping my neck casually, and let go without hesitation.

The dazzling light of the Observer's clock became farther and farther away in the field of vision, as invisible as every infinitely distant star point in the crimson sky. I stretched out my hand to the sky in confusion, and then my body fell to the bottom of the sky.

"..."

The back and the back of the knees are gently supported by soft arms, and the sky in the field of vision is blocked by a perplexed pretty face. Under the slightly furrowed eyebrows, worry quickly flashed across those lazy eyes.

The tea cat put me down silently. Nearby is the junction of the woods and the street. When it fell, it disturbed the trees next to it, and many leaves were stained on the clothes. And directly in front of it happened to be a straight alley leading directly to another street.

Confused about what to do next, I looked across the alley and saw a familiar figure.

Standing up against the wall, Chart seemed to want to catch up with someone, but he suddenly stopped for no reason, looked towards the alley, and met my gaze. He froze for a moment, turned around and walked into the alley towards me.

The tea cat next to me had left at some point, and I stepped forward hesitantly, and also walked into the straight and narrow alley.

"It looks more and more like your father, Chart... In the past, William used to use absolute observation to detect who was outside the line of sight. It seems that in this final game, you are more advantageous in finding the target. .”

"How would you decide, Lin Yu? Leave, or stick to your own opinion?"

Chart came within 5 meters of me, and we both looked at each other and stopped at the same time.

"—Although I originally wanted to ask you this way. But now, I have changed my mind."

"It's not 'I wanted to ask', you have already asked." I complained about his irrelevant language as usual.

"But I don't want your answer right now." Chalt's tone was very serious. He ignored my joking tone and continued, "Whether you leave or not, there is one thing we have to make clear anyway."

"Oh. You're in the advanced stage of Secondary School Disease? Don't you feel embarrassed to say "Our First World War is inevitable"?"

"I'm not kidding you, Lin Yu."

Chart quickly drew out his pistol and pointed it at the center of my field of vision, holding the handle of the gun with both hands as if solemnly announcing to me his seriousness at the moment.

"If you dare to move around casually, you know what will happen, right?"

"Absolute observation will clearly capture my movements, right?" I waved my hands and smiled wryly, making a gesture of surrender, and said with a little nostalgia in my heart, "This is what that William guy often said old saying—”

"Lin Yu!" Chalt interrupted my rambling with a higher volume. He tried hard to suppress the sadness in his eyes, and said through gritted teeth, "You once participated in the domination war, right?"

"What do you mean?" I was a little confused by Chalt's nonsense.

"Literally. I wanted to ask you this question when I was on the deserted star, but I felt that I couldn't tear the team apart on impulse, so I was always looking for the right time."

Chalt nodded his head to himself, as if he wanted to get back the self that was once out of control.

"There is no more suitable time than now, Lin Yu. I really hate the dream madman who put us at will, but even in this worst way, I sincerely thank fate for giving me the opportunity to figure this out. "

"Enough is enough? What do you mean?" I couldn't understand what Chatter meant, and even felt that he had misunderstood something, and just acted impulsively as usual, "Why do you think I participated in the domination war?"

"I ended up hearing gunshots, but no memory of shooting."

Immediately after my question, Chalt suddenly said words of unknown meaning. He took a deep breath, gripped the handle of the gun again, pressed his fingers tightly on the trigger, and asked as if he had made great determination:

"Do you still remember, Lin Yu? This is what the Thief King said at the time."

I suddenly fell into a hesitation, thinking of the last words of the King of Pirates, who was dying on the desolate star at the other end.

【I didn't seem to be able to muster up the courage. At that time, I still couldn't pull the trigger on Baitu Mei. I've been wondering why I ended up shooting Mei Shirato in the end, and I didn't find the answer until a while ago. 】

"A man's words are good when he is about to die...I believe in this common saying you Easterners say." Chatter paused for a few seconds, then looked at me who was deep in thought and said lightly, "So I always thought that he wanted to remind me me something."

【The person who killed Bai Tu Mei with my own hands was not me, nor your father. 】

"There is one thing that is absolutely observable and cannot be observed anyway. That is the human heart."

Chalt's voice was slightly choked, and he shook his head up and down twice as if to cover up his inner anxiety.

【Please, be careful of the people around you. 】

"The people around you... What are the people around you? There are too many ambiguities in these four short words. I tried to understand what he said in consideration of the aspects hinted at in the past, but in the end I came up with the answer—literally, Lin Yu .”

The thoughts drifting to the past are connected with the present time, I wander between the past and the present, and finally fall into the bottomless abyss.

The literal meaning of "people around" refers to nothing more than the people standing next to Charter. The person standing next to him was me. If you want to understand it literally, then the person Chalt needs to beware of is me.

If we go back to the previous sentence of King Thief of Dreams, then the person who killed Baitu Yayi with my own hands is also me.

"Let's not say that I didn't participate in the domination war before, Charte, I didn't have a reason to kill your mother, did I? What's more, if I fired the shot, why didn't the people present find out?"

"Yeah...you're right, if you fired the shot, there's no reason for the King of Pirates to find out that he didn't shoot it himself." Speaking of this, Charte suddenly changed the subject, "But just in case Killing someone with a knife?"

"What the hell do you mean?"

An overwhelming fear surged in my heart. Yes, I did not participate in the domination war in the past, so it is impossible to kill Mei Baitu. However, Chalt's words suddenly reminded me of a fact that I had overlooked.

"Without the other party's permission, he manipulated his body and shot his mother with his hand."

"I've been thinking about it for a long time, Lin Yu."

"You can peek into other people's hearts and use their dominance..."

"Then you have no reason, you can't control them!!"

The words that Chart almost shouted broke my trust in my inherent memory bit by bit.

The life so far, no matter good or evil, no matter how big or small, the things I have done in the past are clearly written in the depths of my memory, but the rest of my life and what I will do in the future cannot exist in my memory .

【I failed. Not only did he fail to win the domination war, but he also lost half of his memory, drifting between dreams. I failed two domination wars, and finally I wandered for 14 years and met you now again. 】

In the corridor of that hospital, the man's face was engraved with shocking scars, ruthlessly announcing my future.

[Dream time is misplaced, so it is not surprising that the future Lin Yu participated in the 12th Domination War, and the current Lin Yu participated in the 14th Domination War. 】

In the future, I will participate in the same domination war as Mei Baitu, King Thief of Dreams, and Arquette.

If, as time goes by, I, who have experienced two battles of dominance, can use the thousands of faces of a person to the point of proficiency, and can even interfere with or rewrite the will of others while spying on the hearts of others.

If I was there when Bai Tu Mei fought against the Dream Stealer... If I spy on the situation where Bai Tu Mei's will is on the verge of collapse, if I want to get rid of the big trouble of "White Ghost", I will use Zuo Xibai to shoot.

"Don't you explain, Lin Yu?" Chalt's voice seemed to lose its true color while swaying through the sea water several meters deep. Understood."

As soon as the words fell, the whistling wind rang in my ears, and the icy temperature was suddenly pushed from behind. Charte raised the gun and walked up to me, and blocked the muzzle of the gun in my forehead.

The cold touch touched his forehead, and his consciousness was pulled back to his eyes. I quickly activated a person with thousands of faces, the black knight's mask covered the whole body's camouflage, so the moment the gunshot sounded, I created a barrier to open the gun.

The glass separating me from Charte shattered at the muzzle of the gun. Before I could adjust my posture, Charte had already raised his foot and kicked forward violently, smashing it against the crack on the barrier. to my chest.

"Your actions are all under my observation, Lin Yu!!"

The violent force on my feet attacked my body, and I suddenly felt as if I had suffered a strong pull on my back, and my body was directly pulled into the world gate that appeared behind me at some point, so the temperature changed from hot summer to hot summer. severe winter.

To describe this feeling more accurately - it would be as if a person who lost his sense of body suddenly felt ultra-low temperature, and as a result, he couldn't distinguish the temperature and insisted that he was burned by high temperature.

The freezing temperature sent chills down my back. Although the temperature is seamless and abrupt, the bustling pedestrians, passing cars and neon lights everywhere make me feel like I am in reality

"Hey, Lin Yu!! Why are you doing this?"

Chalt questioned himself with a trembling voice, and he walked into this shore from the other side of the World Gate with heavy steps.

"Is it because your mother's way of dealing with people is clumsy, and she offended you unknowingly? Or is it because your mother is used to treating people with gentleness, and she misunderstood you by using euphemistic but ambiguous terms on important matters?"

As if involuntarily, Chalt listed the shortcomings that her mother Baitu Mei occasionally showed, and combined with possible situations, he looked for reasons for me to do so. It was like he took my answer as the last straw.

"Hey... answer me!!"

Chalt grabbed the clothes on my chest, lifted me up roughly, and yelled at me on the verge of collapse.

Pedestrians around were terrified by the sudden noise, and retreated far away from us. In the flow of people extending to the front, only a large area near where I was was intentionally vacated, as if pedestrians did not want to be involved.

The response was so real that it was outrageous. Such a sense of reality cleared my mind a lot.

What should I do now?

Tell him the truth? But even if you know that I haven't done this so far, so what? Will he accept it? Don't you have to blame the current me for what the future Lin Yu does?

So do I have to quibble? Add some excuses like "this is a white lie"?

Or do you say nothing and use "how do I know what I think in the future" as the reason for having no comment?

Instead of using these high-sounding and incompetent statements, why not...

"Ah, not at all." I shook my head at Chalt with a wry smile, and said angrily, "Because it was an excellent opportunity. Shirato Mei is so strong that if I don't seize that opportunity, I will never give up. might beat her."

——It’s better to let me replace the future me and give Chart a definite reply. I don't shy away from what I have done, and use my own heart to measure the reasons why I will do so in the future. So, tell him the answer I can come up with.

"You bastard...!"

Chalt grabbed me and slammed me against the wall, raised his fist high, and hit me in the face with all his strength.

"Your own incompetence and inability to do anything can be blamed on other people's brilliance blocking your eyes?"

The pain in my cheek that couldn't be ignored was clearly integrated into the intense emotion, reminding me once again that I had to do something, had to do something, to change the future that seemed to be fixed in front of me.

"Hehe... You really look more and more like your father, Chart. Even the words you say are not much different."

As I spoke, I raised my right arm, and slammed Chalt's trembling hand away from my chest.

Then I glanced at the clock in the high street business center. It was now 6:55 p.m. If Chart's dream world was anything like reality, the crowds would get more and more crowded before long.

"But you're wrong, Chalt. I don't blame anyone, and that's why I have to change the effects of my own incompetence. No matter what the means—dirty or despicable—it doesn't matter what stands in front of me. who is it."

"Are you trying to justify your own actions?!!"

"No, Chart."

In the future, I just think that everyone who participates in the domination war should be prepared to die at any time. As human beings, we must be responsible for our own choices. So he was not wrong, and Baitu Mei was not wrong either.

The wrong person is the current me.

Because I didn't try my best to win the domination war, I threw the burden and encumbrance on the future me.

"I just think we have to live in the moment."

I gritted my teeth and took a step forward, nodded my head hard, as if to give myself approval. You can't deny yourself at any time, only in this way can you have the strength to continue.

"This is my fault, but I will not give you the victory of dominating the war."

Taking a sharp step down on my toes, I immediately took advantage of Chalter's distraction and sprinted into the crowd.

"Lin Yu! Do you want to escape?! Knowing that I have absolute observation?"

Chart hurriedly cut through the crowd and shouted threatening words at me at a high volume.

"On the contrary, I have taken your absolute observation into account."

In this bustling city at night, the increasingly crowded crowd submerged Chart in the crowd.

"Don't try to escape...Damn it!! Get out of the way!"

In such a crowded crowd, even if Charte could detect my movements through absolute observation, as long as he used the crowd as an obstacle, Charte, who couldn't get close to me, could do nothing.

I have heard a little about Chart's dream world. And when I saw how passers-by reacted to our quarrel, I became even more certain that Chartres' world abandoned the status of "imagination" in favor of reality.

This means that compared to the dreams of ordinary lucid dreamers, he cannot interfere with the world as he pleases. If what William said is true: everyone in the city has free will, then Charte can't influence their will.

Of course, there are high limits for me too. In a place with so many people, I couldn't peek into Chalt's heart precisely. I think Chart must have taken this into consideration before he led me into his world.

Chalter cannot interfere with the reality of this world, and neither can I.

Turning from the street in the city center to the temple fair where vendors gathered, I walked as far as possible to the crowded place, and unknowingly used the bustling crowd to distance myself from Charta, and Charte would not be able to catch up for a while.

"Lin Yu! You can't even use the World Gate here! Where do you think you can escape to?"

I didn't stop, and quickly retrieved the memory about Chart. Chalt attaches great importance to this overly real world, but it can also become a stumbling block for him. He dared not do anything against the inhabitants of these cities.

The dream to us is the gap between dreams to him; the reality to us is this dream to him. Chart only sees the people here as real people, so it's impossible for him to take a shot at them.

On the other hand, the reason why Chalt couldn't wake up was because he was too obsessed with this place and regarded it as reality.

"What the hell are you trying to do?"

"Wake you up."

I echoed Chalter's words from a distance, ran into the gadget store, and left through the back door.

There was a sign on the side of the road not far from the front, I glanced at it hastily, and found a rough map drawn in the lower right corner. I immediately asked the tea cat to mix into the crowd and go over there to write down the location of the detective agency.

"William mentioned before that Chart, who has settled in this city for a long time, works in a detective agency as a trainee detective. If this is the case, then the location of Chart's Dream Palace is very obvious..."

As for the reason for sending the tea cat to check the map, because Chart's target is me. Therefore, in such a crowded crowd, if he didn't pay attention, he would never be able to find the tea cat.

"I don't need you to meddle in my own business!"

Chart's roar reminded me of words my future self said.

"Charter, do you know? Someone once told me, "The townspeople in the dream world are the final destination of those who cannot wake up in the real world." He finally woke up, but it was too late .And you?"

After running a short distance past the corner of the street, a slight weight came on his shoulders. I lowered my gaze a little and saw a cat-shaped tea cat resting its furry pads on my shoulders.

"Have you found the location?"

The tea cat meowed lazily in response, raising one of its paws to point towards the office.

"Okay, remember to take a long way to take me there."

Although it is only a matter of time before Charte's absolute observation reveals that my destination is a detective agency, taking a long way can somewhat avoid the risk of early discovery. However, more or less rely on some fluke.

Passing through several intersections and passing by countless pedestrians of all kinds, we are about to pass the most crowded time. The tea cat who shared my feelings also noticed this and stopped detouring.

So, when the office was within sight of the office, gunshots erupted unexpectedly in the alley between the shops. blood.

"Lin Yu!! Do you think...how many times have I walked the way to the office! Every time I am about to be late, I should take the shortcut, the way to buy drinks for the senior... no matter how clever I am. , it is impossible for you to get here first!"

Chalt raised the double guns in his hand, shouted hysterically at me and pulled the trigger.

"Yeah...I know, I know you will arrive before me."

The bullet was blocked by the invisible barrier between us, so it bounced back to the ground and formed an inconspicuous bullet mark.

"Hey... the dream palace is the incarnation of the fear in everyone's heart. Charte, why do you think the first and most important office in your heart is your dream palace?"

— for being too afraid of losing it.

"Because you don't understand how much I value it! I don't need you to meddle in my business and send me back to reality!"

"I'm sorry, Chalt, I won't give you the victory anyway. Just like I told my future self, the future can be changed, and his existence can't be denied."

"No! I don't care what you think, murderer! I joined the war of domination because I want this dream world, which is far more real than reality and free from hypocrites, to replace the false reality and become the real world!"

Lin Yu pushed forward vigorously with his raised hand. Even though more and more barriers appeared, superimposed one after another, they were always transparent and colorless in the vision of both of us.

"No one can decide my future, not even me in the future. Therefore, I promised him that I will do my best in the rest of my life and move forward with the goal of denying the future he told me."

Chalt vigorously knocked on the barrier, watching me stepping into the detective agency.

"I don't want to repeat the same mistakes in the future, so I must win the domination war."

——"The defeat of Lin Yu in the 14th Domination War". This would be my first future to deny.

Lin Yu clenched his right hand tightly, and the flames in his eyes jumped like burning flames. Countless mechanical units rose from the spot and rushed into the interior of the office before Lin Yu.

"I don't even want to wake up!"

Chatter's voice rushed into Lin Yu's ears across a seemingly long distance.

"Damn it! I've made up my mind... I'm going to win back Elus's share...!!"

"I will never let you hinder me, Lin Yu!!"

Chart broke through the barrier in front of him and staggered towards his office.

So, William's words rang in his ears at the same time.

【At first, I participated in the Domination War to fulfill Baitu Mei's long-cherished wish, but later I also realized that my real reason was not to fulfill her long-cherished wish, but to wake up a person like you who is sleeping in a dream...】

Chart's heart was throbbing desperately. At the same time, as more and more mechanical units rushed into the Dream Palace, almost filling the entire office, cracks began to appear in Chart's vision.

The tea cat on Lin Yu's shoulder seemed to foresee the future, and immediately jumped down and changed back into a human form, waving his right hand as if trying to summon something. At the same time, the core that maintained the world was completely broken, and the sudden burst of intense light in the next second took away Chart and Lin Yu's vision.

At the moment this happened, next to the tea cat's waving right hand, the world gate that could not be summoned here actually appeared behind Lin Yu, sucking them into the other side like a black hole, and sending them to the world On the other side of the door—a crack in the dream.

Chart, who desperately stretched out his hands, didn't catch anything.

Only the sound of the World Gate closing was especially clear in the aftermath of the explosion. Charte lowered his hands helplessly, the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably, tears glistened in his pupils, but his brows that had been frowning all the time were relieved for some reason.

"Wake up...are you..."

Everything in the field of vision turned into pure white without color. As a result, only Chart was left in this crumbling world.

"Everyone is talking to himself..."

The boy closed his eyes. With this world shattered in pure white.

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"Professor... Number K-0210 has woken up."

The knock on the door was accompanied by a hasty tone, and the male researcher in a white coat climbed on the edge of the door and panted heavily.

Professor Huan, who was sitting at the desk, turned his eyes, looked up and down at the researcher in front of him, stood up calmly, and straightened the inconspicuous folds of his clothes.

"Take me over there to have a look."

Professor Huan walked to the laboratory led by the male researcher. Through the glass window set up outside the laboratory, he saw an unusually thin teenager with sunken eyes staring absently at the food on the baffle of the hospital bed.

"William's child, Chart Andres. After 14 years and 2 months of coma, he woke up."