Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The incomplete moon shadow has not yet withdrawn from the night, and my heart hit my chest as violently as if I was shot. I hurriedly stretched out my hand to the front where I don't know where it is. Light.

I opened my eyes suddenly, the familiar ceiling flashed by, and my vision retracted to the wall of the room as I sat up.

The sound of the second hand turning the clock seems to catch up with the rhythm of the heartbeat.

I hastily turned my gaze and looked to my side.

A corner of the quilt was turned up, and the person who usually lay there quietly while I was asleep was not around.

"Tea cat..."

Before his eyes flashed the last scene he saw before he regained consciousness——

"...I can no longer accompany you as a dream maker."

With a gentle smile, the tea cat pushed the blade of the sword into my abdomen and pushed me out of the extremely dangerous situation.

"The rest of the domination war, work hard to finish~"

After that, what happened to the tea cat?

My eyes wandered, and my body was driven by a strong anxiety. I ran out of the room barefoot and called out her name loudly.

"Tea cat!"

In a panic, he looked around for the figure of the tea cat, but suddenly his eyes met a pair of puzzled eyes.

The girl was standing in the kitchen, the teacup had just been lifted halfway, when she paused because of my actions, she looked here with warm eyes.

I couldn't help speeding up my pace and walked towards her. The tea cat put down the teacup in a panic, moved its hands to its chest and swayed left and right, and was immediately embraced by me.

"Eh……"

The tea cat swayed back half a step, her little hands half clenched into fists rested on her chest, as if she didn't expect that I would hug her. It took a few seconds for her to pull her hand out, move it behind me, put it on my back carefully, and stroke it up and down gently.

"Now you are like a spoiled child~"

I gently let go of my hand, took a step back and looked at the tea cat again, as if to confirm whether I was just having a dream within a dream.

"How will you be here?"

"Hmm... I'll be very sad if you say that."

"I don't mean that! I'm asking you... what's going on?"

I can't help complaining about her when I'm with the tea cat, but at this moment, I feel really at ease because I can hear her words jumping in my mind.

"Um……"

"If I said you're fine, why did you say those suspected farewell words in your dream just now?"

Probably because of her personality, she did often say things unclearly, but she wouldn't make a big joke about this kind of thing.

"Well..." the tea cat glanced at me, avoiding me, and said falteringly, "what I said in my dream... is true. I didn't lie to you. I really can't be a dreamer Your identity is with you~ You really can only finish the rest of the domination war by yourself..."

"But you... stand here properly."

"That's why I said, I can only stay with you on the side of reality!"

It was the first time I saw Tea Mao clenching his fists with his hands on the hem of the skirt, looking impatient, and it was also the first time I heard Tea Mao speak in such an anxious tone.

She stared at me as if she was also saying, "Do you have to talk to this point to understand what I mean?"

"Even if you say that... my mind is blank now, I don't know what you are talking about..." I avoided her gaze and murmured softly.

I forgot who left the kitchen first, I just remember that the two of them were sitting on the sofa in a daze, tacitly not speaking.

It wasn't until the twilight of dawn pierced through the clouds, and the sky turned between jet black and sky blue, that my thoughts finally came back to reality. In order to confirm whether the tea cat was still there, I decided to turn around first and look at the person sitting on the sofa. The tea cat on the other side unexpectedly met their eyes.

"The so-called devourers are the wills of dead people who linger in the dream. They feed on the will of the ruler, and they also have this ability. Therefore, if they are preyed on by them, they cannot return to the dream. But reality Here, because I still have the ability to control reality, it cannot interfere with me here.”

It was the same as the answer I came up with when I calmed down and thought about it. I simply didn't speak, and sank my head again.

The reason why I participated in the domination war was the tea cat's invitation.

If it wasn't for her appearance, I, who once rejected the invitation of Molutong, would not be willing to go to that crazy world until now.

"What about now? I know that the you I met at the beginning didn't come out of my own free will...but what about the you now?"

Suddenly, a soft voice almost rang in my ears, and the tea cat approached me silently.

"I……"

I couldn't help trembling because of her question. Even on this side of reality, without the so-called dominance, she can unintentionally speak my mind.

But I didn't answer her question. Because I don't know what I think now.

Has your opinion of the Dominator changed? Yep... what about prejudice? It can't be written off easily, but there are memories of specific people.

An isolated star dot suddenly appeared in the field of vision, and my eyes couldn't help chasing that star dot, watching the light dot float between the tea cat's two fingertips at a distance. It was as if she were pinching the spot of light with her fingers.

Tea Mao gently loosened her fingertips, opened her palms, and the stars lightly fell on her palms, and instantly spread around, intertwined into the shape of a bottle.

"Lin Yu~ On the day you went to the Core Research Association, you should have seen the will created by the name of the Holy Mother through thousands of faces, right?"

The tower-like church, the worshipers singing and worshiping, and the oil painting depicting empty pupils.

The pictures are incoherently engraved in the depths of my memory. If it weren't for mastering lucid dreaming, I would definitely have nightmares for several nights because of those pictures.

The bottle in the tea cat's hand contained a blue-purple flame like a spiritual fire.

"The wisdom of the Holy Infant." Tea Mao's eyes briefly stayed on the holy flame in the bottle, and then looked at Lin Yu, "When everything was over, I took the initiative to store a part of her drifting consciousness ~Although it’s just its dross, it’s still the key that will bring me closer to my goal.”

"Target……?"

I don't understand what she means, why she left the remains of the Holy Child, and still less why she told me this.

"After the last Domination War ended, although there were few memories of the past, I did not sit still ~ at least I knew that the Domination War was unreasonable. I remembered that I wanted to get close to the truth behind it. It's just... the truth is hidden in The depths of the dream are not in reality, and while I was deprived of memory, I also lost the right to participate in the next domination war. So, William Andres found me and asked me to help him find a dominator Sometimes, I also have my own selfishness~"

"Then how about our encounter..."

I have never heard the tea cat mention these things. Hearing my question, the tea cat smiled softly.

"Only the encounter was really an accident. A year ago, I heard that the Core Research Association was researching things related to dreams, and I settled down in the nearby Houshan. No matter how I thought about it, there would be a strange drunk one day , made me move around like this, even took away my first kiss~"

"Hey! After all, don't mention irrelevant things! And it's you... that, the kiss!"

"So... sorry?"

The eyes of the tea cat looked a little sad, and I couldn't help being startled, and quickly explained:

"That was not what I meant!"

As soon as the words were finished, the corners of the tea cat's eyes raised a smile. Only then did I realize that I had fallen into the "trap" of the tea cat, and I sat upright and stopped looking at her.

"As for me, I want to get close to the dream madman again through a ruler. But now, I have been ordered to leave by the dream world~"

I gradually understood her intention of confessing these things, and the tea cat closed her palms, and the bottle containing the holy flame disappeared with her movements.

"Hey... this is my request, Lin Yu. If you can win, please bring me back the truth that governs the war..."

"It will definitely win."

The tea cat's pupils trembled when it was interrupted suddenly, and then, its gentle eyes looked at me quietly.

"Beforehand! I didn't want to win because of you! I wanted to take off the dream madman's mask..."

"Oh~" The tea cat teased me with winking eyes like silk, she directly extinguished my aura like seeing a lion with fried hair and smoothing their hair.

"Really... I'm not bluffing! What's more, although some people over there are very annoying, such as Brother William... But there are also people who I care about and want to help. Now I don't have to ask you Holding on, I am willing to move forward..."

Worried that she would deliberately make fun of me again, I thought about it and got up the courage to add:

"Of course you are willing to lead me, and I will follow you."

"Hey hey~"

Tea Mao stretched out her hand and tapped her on the head, and then let out her trademark silly laugh, which made me feel like I was back to the beginning, but it was different from the beginning.

Actually, it's no big deal.

The tea cat is already in front of me, leading me along the way long enough. It's time to go on your own too.

She is no longer with me as a dream maker, but next, she will stay by my side as a lover.

I took the initiative to hold her hand, interlocking my fingers to feel the warmth of her palm.

His gaze inadvertently fell on her cherry lips.

"You were the one who posted it last time. This time...can I take the initiative?"