Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

The dazzling sun gradually sets in the west and turns into a dim yellow sunset.

There is still a lot of mud and sand on the clothes, and the bitter taste of sea water is still in the mouth. While rubbing dry the hair on my forehead that was wet by the sea water, I lowered my gaze and thought about it, and Su Erin and I fell silent tacitly.

What should I do now...? Looking for another way to go to the cracks in the dream?

Not that there is no other way.

Now that it has been confirmed that Su Erin has a relatively lucid consciousness here, it can be concluded that she is now in a state similar to a lucid dream. In this way, I should be able to use Su Huilin's World Gate to enter the dream again.

It's just that even if I get there, I will be helpless, and maybe I will anger the god who is high above me.

Sure enough, isn't it okay now?

"Brother...you seem to be troubled."

Su Hui's awe-inspiring voice suddenly passed by his ears clearly.

I turned my gaze in a daze, and saw her hugging her knees quietly, leaning her cheek on her knees, and staring into my eyes.

The sea breeze brushed the soft light in her eyes, and her deep lavender eyes looked directly at me, as if I would fall into her abyss-like eyes.

"No……"

I shook my head left and right, trying to deny it, but Su Erin stretched out her fingers to my forehead. I stared intently at the blue petals dangling around her fingertips, when without warning she flicked out her index finger and hit me on the forehead.

"If you want to lie, you must at least put on a believable expression, right?"

Sure enough, my cover-up was easily uncovered by Su Huilin. I instinctively avoided her direct gaze for a moment, then my gaze slipped back, followed her turned eyes, and looked with her at the boundless blue in the distance.

"I didn't believe that lies can come true before, because reality itself deceives us everywhere. So I blindly admit that what the black cat said is right, but I can't tell which of her words is a lie and which is the truth."

"Hmm...Actually, the reality is not all lies..."

It's not right for me to say that. But Su Huilin didn't care, but continued to talk.

"Later, the lie became true. I realized that I really couldn't return to reality. As a person who quit the war of domination, I couldn't go to the cracks of dreams. In the end, I came to your world."

Su Huilin murmured as if talking to herself, her eyes drifted towards me with resentment.

"Me. I thought you would always return to your dream world after the war of domination ended, so that I would definitely see you here one day... who knows, I'll wait until now."

There was a bit of resentment in her tone at this time. The eyes that looked over were trying to express displeasure, but they were serious and cute, like a child who is having trouble.

I tried my best to hold back my smile, and hurriedly folded my hands together to apologize to her.

"I'm sorry... I didn't mean it either. Although there were no disturbances in the past four months, but... it can't be said that nothing happened."

I lost most of my memory about dominating the war, and lost my ability to control dreams. Of course, it can’t be said that nothing happened. It’s just that I, who is in charge, didn’t notice the abnormalities happening around me, and unilaterally thought that the world was just as it always was.

"I didn't mean to blame you either...don't apologize to me."

Her gentle tone flowed through my heart with a sweet warm wind. I couldn't help pulling the corners of my mouth. But as soon as she finished speaking, her eyes suddenly moved away for some reason. She looked into the distance as if she had noticed something.

"Ah... I should go back~" Su Huilin murmured thoughtfully.

Night had fallen, and a wisp of cooking smoke suddenly floated on the distant sea.

"Go back? What do you mean? Where to go?"

Hearing such strange words, I felt inexplicably uneasy, for fear that she would disappear while I was not paying attention.

——Just like Qianyan and Xia Yinci.

However, seeing my panicked eyes, Su Huilin couldn't help but chuckle.

"Brother, don't be so nervous. I won't disappear. I said 'go back'..."

Saying that, Su Erin stretched out her right hand easily, crossed my shoulder and pointed to my back, and then turned flat for half a circle.

"This period of time is not short...Although I can't do whatever I want in your dream, and the right to control the dream is also subject to a lot of restrictions, but I can still create such a landscape in your dream .”

Su Huilin looked around in the direction she was pointing, and I couldn't help following her gaze, curiously looking at the nearby scenery. Suddenly, a certain doubt that I had at the beginning was easily resolved.

"So... this place is actually made by you?"

No wonder when I first arrived here in the morning, I felt that the pattern of the neighborhood was different from the style of my dream.

"Yeah. I do something every day."

I see.

The reason why my dream changed after four months was because of Su Huilin.

"I heard the whistle of a train near here this morning, so I came over to have a look, only to find that there was an extra track out of thin air. At first I was still wondering what was going on, but I didn't realize it until I met you. "

"Do I still have to apologize to you? Because I ruined your work."

"Well, not really, I think it's pretty good. Let's think it was done by us together."

After finishing speaking, Su Erin let out a hey, stood up lightly while supporting the sand, and the petals fluttered with her.

"Okay, it's time to go."

Su Huilin glanced at me, then walked towards the direction of the smoke.

I watched her leave and sighed softly. Just when she was about to ask her when she would see her again, she suddenly stopped, turned around and walked back towards me, bent down in front of me, frowned slightly and looked at me displeasedly.

"Why are you still standing there? Why don't you wait for me to hold your hand?"

"ah?"

Seeing that I hadn't responded yet, Su Erin immediately reached out and grabbed my arm. I stood up with her with a smattering of knowledge, and was pulled by her arm to the violet sea.

"Brother, are you an idiot? Of course I want you to go with me."

Saying that, Su Erin took steps towards the sea——

"Hello...!"

As soon as he uttered a word, Su Erin's steps lightly landed on the sea surface, causing ripples.

Her bare jade feet were not submerged, as if they were floating on the water.

The next second, she seemed to notice that I didn't move on, and looked over strangely.

"Huh? What's the matter, bro?"

I couldn't help raising half of my eyebrows, and quickly waved my hands left and right to dispel her doubts.

"Uh...it's okay, nothing at all!"

Wow.. what a shame. I'm not a novice in lucid dreaming, but I actually look for a sense of reality in dreams...

Sure enough, such a long fault still has an impact on me.

"Then let's go."

Maybe someone is still waiting for her, Su Erin didn't make any pauses, and walked into the violet sea.

She didn't let go of my hand, and led me closer to the smoke. I looked at her back, and for no reason began to think about how to explain to her what happened to me not long ago.

One cannot think of an answer. But besides Su Huilin, I don't know who else I can tell this kind of thing.

"Rin...Actually, before I met you today——I met the god who organized the domination war..."

After hearing my words, Su Erin's figure paused for a second. She slowed down and retreated to my side.

I looked at her profile. The expression on Su Huilin's face is usually seldom turbulent, but at this time she is obviously a little bit surprised.

Of course, it is not difficult for Su Erin to be so surprised. For the rulers who have participated in the war of domination, the gods, the masterminds behind the scenes who have never shown up, really have an indescribable sense of mystery.

"is that so..."

Su Erin glanced sideways at me, as if indicating that I would continue to speak, that she would listen to me seriously.

"I don't know what's going on, she seems to be inextricably linked to me..."

I chose my words carefully, trying my best to explain to her in terms that were easier for her to understand.

"We met once before. It was at the end of the domination war... At that time, she took away my ability to control dreams. And this time, she took Qianyan away."

Su Huilin's steps stopped for a moment, and it took a long time before she regained her senses.

"Qianyan...?"

While making an appearance of thinking hard, she took another step forward.

"Is the Qianyan you're talking about the girl who always follows you and wears a hood?" She said as lightly as possible, "If I remember correctly, she should be your dreamer, right?"

Sadness turned into waves, beating my torn heart one after another.

An unbearable choked sob rose in his throat. I just opened my mouth, but I couldn't say anything for a long time, and I could only make a sound of "um".

Since April, Su Huilin, Xia Yinci, Lin Yu, and Xue Xueer have left my world one after another. Other students also stopped coming into my life for various reasons and isolated me in the corner of the classroom.

Now, Qianyan was taken away by the "God" again, and fell into a situation of unknown safety.

If Su Erin hadn't come back, I would definitely not be able to hold on, and I would have collapsed because I was helpless.

In the vision that was gradually blurred by the tears, there were only the waves jumping towards the shore, and Su Huilin's feet moving from side to side.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the road carpeted by the dark purple sea suddenly became wider.

Seagulls spread their wings and leaped across the sea, and the singing of birds pierced the sky.

"Well, we're here." Su Eirin whispered.

I couldn't help raising my gaze, following the seagulls flapping their wings and looking forward——

After this, the sound of children laughing and fighting joins the performance of the color of azure. I looked at this seaside town in disbelief, and the natural interweaving landscape drew a beautiful skyline.

"Oh! Everyone, the angel sister is back!"

The immature boy's voice sounded from the beach by the sea, and someone waved his arms excitedly. I followed Su Huilin and took a closer look. It was a boy who was at most six or seven years old. He was jumping up and waving to us.

Next to the boy was a little girl with pigtails. She pointed to this side with her eyes shining, and she put her hands in the shape of a trumpet and shouted loudly:

"Sister! This way, this way!"

Many other children on the beach looked over in unison, bouncing up towards the beach, and even a dark-skinned girl jumped onto the steps next to the slide, and jumped towards us with her arms open.

"Hey, be careful."

Su Huilin stepped forward quickly, and firmly caught the girl who jumped over with the help of the pedal. She put the girl down gently, and rubbed the girl's head helplessly and gently.

The girl laughed heartily, blushing on her face, and clung to Su Huilin tightly.

"Hey, Filia is too cunning!"

The other children stretched out their fingers to complain about the girl named Philia, and even two of the shorter children jumped up in anger, their watery eyes turned into a pair of greater than less than.

"Rin, I said... I haven't seen you for four months, how come you have a baby?"

Su Huilin glanced at me with a little distaste, and curled her lips helplessly, obviously she was too lazy to pay attention to me.

"Sister Angel, I want to hug too!"

The girl with double-tailed braids looked at Su Huilin with eyes wide open, and stretched out her little hand to her with an "I want to hug" expression on her face.

"Speaking of... this title..."

I couldn't help but look down, watching Su Erin gently hug the girl up.

In the past, except for Jack, the dreamer of Chartres, only people really called her a "bad girl". Now she is surrounded by so many children as an angel, it really makes me unable to react for a while.

However, the current Su Huilin does look very immortal. There is no pair of dark wings behind her, and the blue petals fluttering around her, the white gauze skirt and white stockings really feel like an angel.

"Sister, sister! The brother you brought back is dressed in rags, where did he come from a beggar~"

Suddenly, a childish voice unconsciously spoke harshly.

I realized slowly that "beggar" was talking about me, and my right eyebrow twitched immediately.

"Beg... beggar?"

Hey... Anyway, I'm still the creator of this dream world, right?

Is there any mistake in making such an evaluation of the owner of the dream?

"Brother, childish words are not taboo~"

Su Erin, who was standing next to me, poked me playfully with her arm, her face was full of "do you still want to quarrel with the child", and her squinted eyes were full of mischievous smiles.

Where is this sister angel? It is clear that what is hidden in my heart is the previous devil girl! !

"Speaking of which, these children are..."

"Well, take a guess."

Just as I was about to criticize Su Huilin's practice of imitating Xia Yinci's tricks, I felt someone's eyes looking over with a little vigilance. I followed my gaze, and inadvertently met the boy who waved to me at first,

I froze for a second, and offered to give the boy a smiling face to show his friendliness. Unexpectedly, his eyes trembled for a moment, as if he was frightened by the sky. He took a small step back cautiously and hid behind Su Huilin.

"Wow what does that mean?"

Does this brat know who is the creator here...

I stretched my head forward and spread my hands blankly, and my eyes moved to Su Huilin's body. And she looked back at me, instead of showing sympathy for me in her eyes, she puffed her cheeks and suppressed a smile.

"It's a child's word."

"Even a child should teach the Basic Law!"

Having said that, my concern has actually subtly shifted to other aspects.

These children seem to be slightly different from the NPCs I usually see in my dreams. And this wonderful "difference" is very similar to those residents in Chalt's dream, and has the same purpose.

If described in more detail - they all seem to have free will that is not affected by "subjective cognition".

"Umm, Rin...you created all of these by yourself?"

"Huh? I don't think I did it alone." Su Huilin shook her head seriously, and explained in a soft voice, "Brother, you must be credited for it."

After hearing what she said, I couldn't help being confused.

"Me? Has something to do with me?"

"Actually, I tried to create life in my dream before, but the ones I created in the end... were all unconscious puppets."

Thinking back to the NPCs I usually see in dreams, they are actually all in the "puppet" state described by Su Huilin.

"But, what does that have to do with the question I asked you...?"

"Well, how should I put it. In the beginning, there were no people here, and I created them. However, the life of a puppet should have free will. I think it is mainly because of the peculiarity of your dreams."

"The peculiarity?"

"Yeah. So, in my eyes, we created this place together."

I was taken aback by these words...Su Huilin would say such cute words that smell like candy. Although her tone is still as cold and cold as usual, this kind of statement is extraordinarily comforting...

etc! No, I always feel something weird when I listen carefully.

"Created together...that sounds...hehehe——"

Before I could finish speaking, I felt my body shake backwards. I quickly lowered my gaze, and saw that the group of children were all surrounding me, and now I was immediately surrounded by pairs of pupils that were as dazzling as stars.

"Big Brother, Big Brother, you look so tired~ There must be a reason for your ragged clothes, right? Shall we take you to rest for a while?"

The person who spoke was a little girl no older than seven or eight years old. She wore a single ponytail that fell on her shoulders. Both her tone and temperament had a gentleness like a wife.

"That...that! I have a lot of spare rooms in my house! You guys bring Big Brother to my house!!"

The dark-skinned girl was obviously much more playful, she jumped up noisily, and raised her hands high among her friends. The girl who just jumped off the pedal was her—I remember it was called Philia.

The eyes of the other children turned to Filia's side. But what was unexpected was that when she was stared at by everyone, she shyly lowered her gaze, and her little hand tremblingly wanted to put it down.

"Then let's go to Filia's house! Brother, you can rest there for a while, I will protect you!"

The boy who spoke this time was a bit shorter than the previous two, his immature voice was matched with a firm tone, and his eyes showed both the bravery of "Leave everything to me" and the fear of almost retreating, which is really impressive I can't laugh or cry.

"Tch... You brought him home without knowing the identity of the outsider, you will suffer a loss sooner or later!"

The boy hiding behind Su Huilin yelled, poked his head out, and gave me a slightly hostile glance.

"You are serious, what is there to worry about the people brought back by my sister!"

"Hmph. You kids are just not vigilant!" The boy shot back not to be outdone. He left Su Erin's side angrily, pointed at me with courage and said, "Let him change his outfit and say 'don't worry'!"

"I don't care about other things for the time being... You are not a child yourself..."

I pouted weakly, but unexpectedly the boy grabbed my sleeve and led me to the town without saying a word.

Although I didn't know much about it, I still bent down a little so that he could reach the cuffs.

"Geral, where are you taking big brother?"

"I told you already! Change your outfit!"

"Huh?" This time it was my turn to turn my confusion into words.

Ah, that's what it means...

Is this child not able to speak well, or has it become a habit to be inconsistent?

In this way, the boy named Gerald forced me to change into a casual beach attire. After that, Su Erin and I were "escorted" to the house of that Filia under the laughter and squabbles of the children.

Leah's home is located in the woods. It is not so much a residence as it is a small hotel with a layout of about three floors. The materials used to support this building are not reinforced concrete, but wood that is naturally integrated with the woods.

It is said that Einstein was also a lucid dreamer during his lifetime, and he often used dreams to construct the environment required for experiments to complete experiments in an ideal state.

In addition to him, there are many scientists who are also inextricably linked to lucid dreaming. Now it seems that Su Huilin can also use dreams to do architectural design work...

Thinking of this, I hastily interrupted my thinking. The inexplicable sense of familiarity makes me feel at a loss——

Xia Yinci once told me this kind of partiality without the necessary knowledge, and she is the only one who always talks about it.

"Instead of thinking about this kind of problem, let's think about the premise of finding a way to wake up Su Erin."

While we were thinking wildly, the children led us into the empty room on the top floor noisily. The shorter boy earlier clapped his chest and made a solemn oath—

"Brother, you and sister can rest here! Any danger will be handled by us!"

After speaking, the children left the room one after another. Finally, Liya jumped up and reached for the handle, and retreated with difficulty, thinking about her feet, and finally closed the door.

The sound of closing the door dispelled the noise, leaving a silence. Su Huilin and I looked at each other blankly.

"These kids...are playing role-playing games?"

When Su Huilin heard my complaints, she couldn't help covering the corners of her mouth with her hands and laughing, her breathtaking eyes smiled past me from time to time. Seeing her intoxicating smile, I had no choice but to pull the corners of my mouth.

All the unpleasant things seem to be temporarily washed away by her smile.

"Hey...why is it so funny?"

"No... I was thinking that they are also our children to some extent ~ so the way you spoke just now is a bit like a father who is helpless when facing a naughty child..."

Without thinking, her words choked my throat along my ears, and I coughed hastily.

"Cough! What have you experienced in the past four months? The fruit of brother and sister is absolutely forbidden!"

"Hmm, brother, where did you come from for the heroine of a light novel in such a way of speaking?"

Su Huilin stretched out her hands to touch my hot cheeks, tilted her head slightly, and said:

"Brother, you are still blushing like this, and I didn't say it was the child of my own sibling."

"Wow, it's because we are not biological siblings..."

Halfway through the conversation, I noticed the suppressed smile in Su Huilin's eyes. Now I finally concluded that she was deliberately teasing me. I quickly calmed myself down and grabbed her wrist helplessly.

"I said, the frequency of your joking recently is a bit high..."

Compared with Su Huilin half a year ago, her personality seems to have undergone a considerable change. But thanks to this, Su Huilin is no longer as cold as before, too cold to approach. From this point of view, this is a good thing.

"It's not because your reactions are always so funny!"

Su Erin didn't break away from my hand, she turned her cheek slightly and looked straight into my eyes, her gaze was a little seductive.

"Don't worry~ I will make up for all the jokes I didn't make before. Please stay tuned~"

Well, I take that back - I can only say that the impact has been mixed. After all, the essence of her little devil has not changed.

The night fell completely, and the sky was covered in jet black, and Su Huilin and I sat side by side by the bed.

Someone seemed to be having a barbecue downstairs, and the voices of people's discussions complemented the bursting flames. From time to time, the sound of pages being turned could be heard in my ears. I propped my hands back on the bed, looking at Su Huilin's profile.

Su Huilin was holding a novel in her hands, and her feet hanging below were swinging freely. Sometimes her legs stopped and her eyebrows were slightly frowned; sometimes she narrowed her eyes and smiled silently.

In an instant, it was like returning to the first year of high school.

Every day when I come home from school, I will sit side by side with Su Erin on the sofa, and I don’t have to deliberately look for topics.

She picked up the novel that was put on the tea table yesterday, and I leaned on the pillow with my eyes closed, listening to her sound of turning the pages of the book and falling into a light sleep. Time seems to stay at this moment forever, but it passes away at an imperceptible speed.

However, here and now, Su Erin exists well here.

Me too. So is this stillness mixed with subtle sounds. There is no domination war either.

As if nothing had changed.

As if, everything is as usual, never far away.

"..."

Suddenly, Su Huilin gently closed the pages of the book. She held the edge of the book with both hands and stuck it on her legs, and looked towards me.

"Speaking of it. Brother, you told me before... You have been deprived of the ability to control dreams, are you still a dream maker?"

I didn't expect her to bring up this topic suddenly. I was suddenly a little speechless, and the choking feeling made me slowly raise my hand and hold the clothes on my chest, as if the more disordered breathing would be relieved a lot.

"Well. Although the ability to control dreams has returned, the dream maker..."

I think of that guy restraining me with Qianyan's arm.

Thinking of her showing almost morbid love with her thousand-faced appearance.

Thinking of her breaking through my inner defense bit by bit with the voice of thousands of faces,

In the end, she kicked me out of the dream like a toy.

"I don't know how to say it, let alone what's going on..." I smiled wryly and lowered my gaze, "Perhaps, the key is not that that guy took Qianyan away...but that she took Qianyan without any warning." Yan's body."

"How did you do this?"

Su Huilin froze for a moment, she was obviously also a little surprised at this moment.

"I don't know... It's because I don't understand her methods that I feel worried, even fearful."

I looked at Su Huilin, swallowed the choking feeling that blocked my throat, and raised the possibility that made me shudder——

"I'm worried that she's actually pervasive. For example, will she occupy your body like she manipulated Qianyan."

As soon as the words fell, Su Huilin and I fell into silence at the same time.

I can't rule out the possibility that that guy can do this kind of thing, and I even feel in my heart that her ability as a creator far exceeds my expectations... Her limit is in a category that I can never imagine.

I don't know how long the silence lasted, Su Erin finally raised her eyes again and looked at me seriously.

"If it's really as you said, brother, then I really can't guarantee that I won't be manipulated by her." Su Huilin slowly opened her frowning eyebrows, "However, I believe that everything will be fine. There are previous omens."

Su Huilin's words made me startled. She was right—it seemed that things that occupied the body did not come without warning. Before Qianyan was replaced by that guy, she reminded me to get out of there as soon as possible.

"Wait until that day - if there is such a day, I will definitely remind you to leave me before she completely occupies my body! I can't guarantee other things, but at least I have such confidence."

After saying these words, Su Erin breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and turned a step sideways, changing to a posture facing me.

"But I don't even want her to occupy your body—"

"Thinking about this kind of thing now, it will only increase troubles, and there is no solution, right?"

Su Erin interrupted me briskly. Suddenly, a melodious and ethereal melody came from an unknown direction. And she looked at me moved, and said word by word:

"Now, I just want to live the life I can have now~ Of course, I will be lucky to meet you, I will cherish the past I remember, I will work hard to protect the present, and I will look forward to a better future in the future. "

My heartbeat suddenly missed half a beat. The familiar melody is joined by the drumbeat, gradually reaching a climax. Su Erin raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and put her knees on the bed. Her arms wrapped around my shoulders, hugging me tenderly.

"Hey... If Xiaoyin comes back someday, please bring her along."

A feeling of astonishment flashed through my heart, followed by a warm current. Obviously I never told her about it.

"You, why do you know?"

"This kind of thing can be seen from your state. If Xiaoyin is here, you will never be depressed."

The melody outside the window is getting more and more passionate. I looked at Su Huilin in a daze, took a deep breath, and closed my eyes with a wry smile. Maybe Su Huilin is right, Xia Yinci always has a way to cheer me up.

The music moves to the intro. I gradually realized the meaning of the melody, and couldn't help hugging Su Huilin even tighter.

"Alert rings."

"Um."

Su Erin leaned on my shoulder and moved her head lightly.

"I have to go back to reality." At this point, I paused for a moment and said, "See you tomorrow."

"OK, good night."

Su Huilin let go of the arms around my shoulders, leaned to the side, and lay down on the bed. The color in the eyes suddenly softened, rippling with a soft light that made one's heart itch.

"For you, it should be good morning."

As soon as the words fell, it seemed that there were hands pushing me back to reality, and my eyes suddenly went black.

The phone on the bedside table vibrated with the melody. I opened my eyes in bewilderment, and the sight I had been used to for a long time came into view. I stared at the light coming in through the cracks in the curtains, and the world suddenly became so unreal.

In the hazy vision, I slowly swipe the screen to turn off the alarm. The scenery outside the window is covered with a layer of light fog.

"No...it's good night for me too."

——Who wrote this story I gotta play?