Vol 1 Chapter 1.2 (1/2)

Chapter 1 - The woman warrior dances in the night - Part 2

“-yeah, that’s basically what happened in my dream last night… Even now, I kinda think that it might’ve been ‘real’. It seemed so d.a.m.n realistic…”

Teru-san, who was listening to me talk, seemed pretty confused…

On my way to school this morning, I pa.s.sed by my senpai and friend, ‘Teruhiko Hiruma’ (nickname: Teru-san), so I started talking to him about the dream last night. To me, it was a topic that was so extraordinary, yet when I try to put it into words, it’s hard to explain properly… So it ended up making no sense and becoming a very boring topic, but even then, Teru-san listens to me, watching me with his sleepy eyes, hiding behind his gla.s.ses.

“Hmm, that’s sure an interesting story.”

Then, after a minute of silence, he said it as if he remembered just then.

“…Yeah, that’s interesting, especially how it actually… ‘Hurt’ you.”

While scratching his messed up hair, he continues mumbling.

“It’s interesting how it ‘hurt’…?”

When I asked the question, he says “for example…” and stretches his arm towards my face!

“Owowowow!!! Stop!”

Then he suddenly pulled my cheek!

“It hurts! What are you doing!?”

I quickly back away and glare at Teru-san. He doesn’t seem sorry and he just said,

“It hurts, it’s not a dream.”

“…Yes?”

“It hurts, it’s not a dream. Haven’t you ever heard of that quote?”

“I have… In manga and dramas… What about it?”

“It’s a pretty old quote now… But what the quote says is true.”

“Um… And?”

“So, in dreams, there’s no pain.”

While saying that Teru-san starts walking.

“Inside a dream, people can ‘hear’ and ‘see’. Those are the two main senses you use in a dream. Other than those, when you touch something, you use ‘feeling’, and when you eat something you use ‘tasting’ and ‘smelling’.”

“Yeah… You’re right… I do feel a lot of different things when I need to take a p.i.s.s in a dream…”

“The way you feel things is different for everyone. It depends on each person and what is happening. But ‘pain’ is a part of ‘touch’, and in most cases you’re not supposed to feel it…”

“Yeah… You’re right, because I’ve never really had a dream before which ‘hurt’ in the past…” When I think about it, I kind of feel special. The creepy experience I had ends up being a unique experience, which is strange… That’s pretty unfair…

“Also it’s interesting about the time… A watch came out in your dream, and time inside a dream flows with your own thoughts, so it doesn’t count each second and each minute. Maybe the reason the time stayed the same was because of that?”

“That makes sense…”

While I was being impressed with Teru-san, we reach the school gate. All of a sudden, I realize that there were many other students walking around us.

Private School Suijou Academy, the school I go to, is the biggest school in the city.

There’s a medium school and a high school, and the corresponding uniforms have small differences. I in high school first year, while Teru-san is in the second.

“Also Hos.h.i.+-kun, was the girl you met in the dream truly someone you don’t know? For example, a relative, cla.s.smate, or even an idol you like?”

“Well, if she was an idol, she was closest to, umm Yun Yuzuki?”

“…Yuzuki… Who?”

“Yun Yuzuki. She’s a recently popular pinup girl.”

She’s even on TV a lot recently, Teru-san’s knowledge is really one sided…”

“She was similar but definitely not the same person. She definitely was someone I don’t know. Why do you want to know anyway?”

“That’s pretty interesting… If you say it simply, dreams are there to tidy up your mind. And the ingredients used to create dreams are your own memories or an over exaggerated imagination of your own. So it’s actually highly likely for the girl to be someone you already know.”

“Is that… so…”

I think about it over again. That girl was… oh yeah, the uniform she was in was the ‘middle school’s uniform. She had twin tails and… Yeah, she looks just like the girl pa.s.sing through the school gate…

“WHA-”

“What?”

I quickly swallow the ‘T’ back in.

“It’s that girl!!! It’s that girl!!! She came out in my dream!!!”

“Hmm? The one with the twin tails?”

I don’t know what he means by ‘twin tails’ but, it’s that girl!!! I leave Teru-san and dash at full speed!

“Hey…!”

My voice was a lot louder than I wanted. The girl and her friend walking next to her got freaked out and turned around and looked at me with puzzled faces.

I gazed the girl. The uniform, the hair, it’s exactly the same. She has the cute and young face. Even though, this is definitely the first time I’ve seen her in real life. I’ve never spoken, seen, or heard of her before.

“…Excuse me, but what do you want?”

Because I was staring at the girl, her eyes changed into a mean look.