Vision

He sees it. The human teeth, surrounded by a body made out of feets. The vertical mouth makes a horrendous smile widely open and tubes emerge from the feet's edges, continuously pouring out a lot of the black liquid. He looks up to see the face of the monster which is laughing. Hands pop out from its eyes, grabbing Kazuki and dragging him to the mouth. The immense fear which takes him over prevents him from moving or screaming. As he witnesses his final moment, everything around him changes again. He is back in his bedroom, laying on his bed. Tian-Han brutally emerges in the bedroom, visibly worried.

"Kazuki, are you alright ? I heard you scream !"

The young boy stands up and looks at himself in the mirror while the old man waits for an answer. The master carefully looks at his students, intrigued by his behavior. Kazuki put his hands on his neck. Where he passes his fingers, red marks are visible. Long red marks. They look like.. hands. Hands with very long fingers.

Kazuki starts shaking, not knowing what to believe. After waking up, he thought it was only a bad dream. Now he doubts. Is he in a dream again ? Was it a dream ? Is it a dream because he is dead ? He starts shaking. Then he looks at Tian-Han and starts crying. 

Tian-Han feels the youngling's trouble and comes close to him. The child holds the old man's clothes tightly and hides his face inside of it. But at the same time, when Tian-Han tries to put a hand on his head or to hug him, the young boy backs away. Faster, the Master took his students head between his hands. The kid didn't move, paralyzed by his tremendous fear. The old man puts his forehead on Kazuki's, and the kid starts to relax. He slowly calms down and puts his guard down. The child puts his arms around Tian-Han and his head on his chest, feeling secure with his master around. 

"Don't worry. Everything is fine. You'll sleep in my room. I'll keep an eye on you."

The two of them head to the master's room. Kazuki lays on his bed and Tian-Han sits on a chair, in a corner of the room. The young boy slowly shut his eyes, falling again in a deep sleep.

When he opens his eyes, he is not laying on the bed but on a hard and wet surface. Under his feets, the floor is made of bottomless dark grayish water. He starts to shake, thinking that the man in the red hood will appear again. As he looks around him, there is nothing. The black sea extends infinitely in the horizon, with nothing visible at its surface. He slowly gets up. The surface of the water is disturbed by his presence and some water droplets falling from nowhere, appearing in front of his eyes or coming from very high in the sky. 

Looking for a source to the droplet, he directs his gaze into the sky. His eyes widen by the horrific surprise which is offered to him. In an infinite black sky, far high, a giant celestial body which takes the form seemingly of a golden eyeball is right above his head. It's looking right at him. Remembering what eyes did in his previous dream, panic slowly takes over Kazuki's body and mind. The water around him starts to make waves and whirlpool. The more he panics, the more it moves. He instinctively starts to run on the water, among the waves trying to drown him. Everything in this dream is unknown to him. In the previous dream, they were in his bedroom. He keeps running, not knowing where to go. There is nothing nor nobody he could count on.

A high-pitched noise interrupts the regular echoes of his feet running on the water's surface and calms the water down.. As he turns to the direction of the noise, the horizon becomes blurry. Then everything becomes rapidly blurry and, while he goes through this strange effect, an invisible force pushes him to the opposite direction of its origin. A shrill and crystalline sound pierces his ears as he tries to cling to the dark water-ground. 

His hands go through the liquid and his whole body follows. The water enters his lungs and he panics even more. He is fidgeting, moving with the hope of coming back up. He is carried underwater by the invisible force. In the water, the high-pitched scream becomes laughs and words. The ones of a multitude of strangers, but yet so familiar.

He tries to grab onto something while being still pushed by the force. He grabs something visible at the surface, but he is still underwater. It's in the sky, a million lights everywhere. Stars. They weren't able to stop his course, but he was able to grab one. He looks in his hand and there is it, a ball made out of light. Its light is absorbed by the dark water.

Kazuki is thrown out of the water by the invisible force. The voices turn back to a shrilling scream, making his eardrums bleed. The force keeps pushing him away until he disappears in the horizon.

Kazuki suddenly wakes up. He looks around him. He is in his master's bedroom. Tian-Han is sleeping on the chair. Kazuki slowly calms down, as it was only a bad dream again. But still, he doesn't understand what he saw or imagined. He never dreamed about this before, neither the first nor the second dream. What is even weirder, is the fact that he is wet like he just swimmed. Even the bed sheet is soaked with water.

Unable to sleep again, he doesn't really know what to do. Then, he senses something. It's not in this room. He cautiously gets out of his room. He instinctively looks in the direction of his room. A gentle breeze comes from its direction. The door was left wide open. He slowly walks in the corridor to the door. He uses the wall to help himself in the dark, the light of the moon not being enough. 

He ears footsteps from the end of the corridor, in front of him. But something, inside of him, tells him to approach the sounds. As he does so, he passes by his bedroom doors. He stops there. He turns around. It's here. Smiling.