Nightmare.

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I open my eyes.

I am standing in the middle of the houses.

The sky is dark.

The houses are stained with blood.

I see corpses on the ground.

Seeing this I take a step back.

I feel horror at such a scene.

Fear invades me.

"That..."

Words are stuck to me before such a scene.

'Where I am? What is this place and why are there dead people here? '

All kinds of questions flood my head.

But my thoughts are quickly attracted by a noise that is heard behind me.

In fear, I turn quickly.

And what I see is a man hidden in the shadows.

He is looking directly at me.

His eyes are glowing red like blood and they have the pattern of three volumes surrounding his pupil.

I take a few steps back, for some unknown reason this man makes me feel fear and also some anger, my fear is greater.

Panic floods me when I see that he is holding a sword stained with blood, when he sees the corpses on the ground he quickly connects the murders with him.

And seeing that he looks at me, I have horror in my heart.

'Is he going to kill me too?'

"You are weak"

Hearing this confuses me a bit.

'Why does he tell me that'

I can't think anymore because all of a sudden he lifts his stare of him pointing in my direction.

Seeing this action, I feel that death is closer to me. I want to escape but my feet do not obey, I use my willpower to move them.

"Run little mouse"

Hearing that phrase sounds like a referee's shot for athletes to run.

I quickly turn around and start running.

Adrenaline fills my whole body.

I run between the houses trying to distract him.

After running for a while, I stop on the side of a house.

The corpses on the floor are disgusting though.

I don't have time to worry about them, and although it seems that I have lost it, I still feel a crisis within me.

"You are slow"

Like the sound of the parachute calling me I hear him calling me from above standing on the roof.

Seeing that he found me I immediately run again.

'Oh no, I must hide'

So I keep going round and round to get rid of it.

After running rest.

"Very slow"

Hearing that, I feel like the killing intent in his word has increased.

Then I resume my escape.

But no matter where or how he runs, he always finds me.

Every moment that passes, I can feel his killing intent on the rise.

I feel that my death is closer.

My fear is increasing.

I'm getting more and more tired.

I feel like my eyesight gets blurry due to exhaustion.

When I am going through an alley, due to fatigue, I stepped on the wrong foot and tripped with my foot hooked to a bar, due to my momentum I went flying.

"Uff ... off * heavy breathing *"

'My ankle hurts, I think it's fractured'

Despite this, I have to run.

But I can't run like that, so I go into a house to see if hopefully this time he won't find me.

Then I drag my body towards the house that is on my side.

I enter the house while I am limping, it is very painful if it were in another situation I do not think I can walk or even stand up, but strangely I can bear the pain, but the feeling that a knife is stuck to my neck is exasperating.

Upon entering the house I search with the little light that I see a place in which I can hide.

I have the feeling that the invisible knife in my neck is tightening.

'Is coming'

In my desperation, I go into the closest piece of furniture which is a closet.

After a moment I hear a creak.

I stop my breath when I hear it.

Then the creaking is slowly approaching my position, it is heard very loud it seems that it does it on purpose.

"You can not escape"

I can feel it, this time he won't let me go.

I know he probably already discovered me but I don't want to go out, being in this closet gives me false security but makes me feel safe.

My heart races fast.

My breathing starts to get heavy.

I can hear him, his steps are getting closer, at a very short distance.

My heart clenches.

When I feel that it is in front of the closet.

The closet opens a little.

As I prepare to meet him face to face, I suddenly feel pain flood my mind.

The world gets distorted and I open my eyes.

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If it were in a dream I would not feel it much but this is a reality I felt all the pain I could feel.

I grab the cheeks that are the source of pain, I roll on the floor in pain.

I have never felt anything so painful.

I even forgot momentarily about what happened to me just now.

(PA: Let's remember that you have lost most of your memories)

I unconsciously scream.

"It hurt!"

"Why did you hit me?"

I say it with resentment.

I sit on the grass, and because of the pain, I am angry.

But hearing his words freeze me.

"Hey Satsuki, what happened just now?"

Then the memories come back to me.

In which an unknown man chases me.

But I only remember part of it.

And besides, he feels unreal, like he's never experienced it.

I remember it as a third-person experience, and the emotions of that moment seem to disappear, my emotional memory cannot fully remember what happened there, I only remember that I felt fear and despair, and I cannot remember what the fear of that moment would be like that now seems very foreign to me.

"Don't listen to what I told you"

I see you say it with a regretful face.

When I feel guilty, I feel that it is also my fault because he only wanted to help me but things did not go as planned so it is not his fault.

"It's okay"

"Are you going to tell me?"

When I see what question about his previous question I only answer him, anyway it feels so unreal that remembering it does not generate a psychological burden on me, much less telling it.

"No problem"

I see you frown...

"Well, I think we should talk at the house for now."

Hearing this last I feel relieved, I don't want to be near this place, I feel uncomfortable just being near this place.

"It's okay"

"Then come on, it's already late"

He shakes my hand so I try to get up but I can't get up, I can perfectly feel my legs but for some reason, I can't move them.

"What's happening?"

"This, my feet are jelly, I can't stand up"

Then upon hearing my answer, Yubeng takes out I don't know where or when a glass bottle of light blue-transparent color.

"Hey Satsuki, look what I have"

It's what I use to cure my fever yesterday.

"It's that liquid from the last time"

"Yes"

"But I don't have a fever"

"What nonsense Satsuki as it was going to be something so simple, this is a relaxation potion something that we pass from generation to generation in my family, so it can only be manufactured by me, as it could be simple medicine, it is also multipurpose"

'So it is not simple medicine, so it must be expensive and complicated to do'

"Oh, so would you give me something so expensive?"

"Of course you do, after all, your health is more important"

Her words move me a bit after seeing her smile.

I am mentally tired and cannot react much.

"Oh"

"So, what are you waiting for?"

"This, I can't move my hands, they feel heavy"

Tiredness is flooding me, I don't feel like moving my body.

"Okay just open your mouth I'll pour it on top, don't move"

"Okay"

I don't think about it much and I open my mouth while closing my eyes.

"So here it goes"

I feel a cold sensation pass through my mouth that instantly spreads to my brain.

My brain feels very cold but not to the point of pain.

When this happens a feeling of comfort spreads through me.

As if a sword cut all the chains that imprisoned my body.

I feel my body light when I get rid of a load that I have always been carrying.

As for what is loaded, I'm not sure.

But what I do feel is that another me within me has been released.

In front of her, things like shame, anger, fear, and sadness seem to make no sense.

Those thoughts and feelings that were hidden in the back of my mind and heart come to light.

I no longer feel ashamed or afraid to express my true thoughts.

As someone who is half a step away from transcending the mundane world, I feel that things like wealth and power make no sense, only things like the bonds of love can be eternal, death no longer seems the end, on the contrary, is what gives meaning to life, etc., among other things.

But soon I come out of this state.

I become aware of myself.

When I reopen my eyes, the world feels different, I begin to notice things that I had not noticed before.

I feel like my mind has been opened.

Now I see a landscape of another color, it seems that things are alive.

I direct my gaze to the person in front of me, despite being with him for an extremely short time, with my memory so short, I feel as if it had been my whole life.

In the time we spent together, we formed a small bond that is inexplicably now growing stronger.

I don't feel the need to hold back my feelings or thoughts.

I feel intimate with him.

Like a lifelong acquaintance.

My body regains strength, it seems that the fatigue from before would not have existed.

In my mind and heart, there were many reservations against him.

But now, those thoughts and feelings that are now getting stronger in me.

I clean my mouth.

"Hey, it wasn't that you couldn't move your hand"

"Ah, while drinking I started to regain movement"

I say this with confidence that makes it seem like we've been friends for a long time.

He is surprised to hear my answer.

I see that he wants to say something but suddenly thunder is heard in the distance.

"It looks like it's going to rain, we must go back"

"Okay then let's go"

I answer simply.

"So what are we waiting for, let's go"

I confidently grab his hand for something he didn't expect.

If I was me from a few minutes ago, I wouldn't dare even think about this.

I take his hand, something I wanted to do for a long time.