✿☆*To the Moon and Back*☆✿ -- Hanako-Kun x Fem!Reader --

⁽*✧✿‿A Perfect Daydream (5)‿✿✧*⁾

~~Chapter 32~~

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Shijima grabs her sketchbook, quickly draws herself, and she flies out of the page shrieking.

Tsukasa on one of the paintings stares in awe. "Oooh..."

"It's a clone. She has a mind of her own, so feel free to converse." She says, turning away from the annoying teenager. "To be frank, I'm a bit tired of speaking to you."

Tsukasa grabs the clone's skirt, putting a finger to his chin. "I see! Got it!"

"E-Eeh... B-But that's..!!" She then gets dragged out of the room by her hair. "But I don't wanna!!!" She whines, shaking her arms up and down over and over again.

Shijima sighs. I hate drawing, but I don't care anymore.  I don't have a wish. I don't reach out for anything. I don't go against anything. It's impossible to grant my wish now.

She takes a paintbrush, and starts to paint. In this fake world, things that may be impossible in the real world will come true. How pointless. Pointless. Pointless. Pointless. How pointless. Staying in this dream won't do anything to change reality. She thought while raising her arm. Even though this fake world can't change reality... She sighs.

"Hey, did you hear? The girl who drew this, right before graduation she..."

"For "me", too. Had that drawing never been finished, things would've been better."

If that drawing was never finished, then the rumors never would've begun and "Shijima of the art room" wouldn't have ever been born.

"I'll grant your wish for you!" Tsukasa exclaimed.

My wish...? My wish is-

She runs down the hallway.

"How sad. She's just a child."

"For her to die is just so-" SLASH

My wish is--to fulfill my role. After all, her illness can't be cured. There's only one thing I'm able to do. Before she, Mei Shijima, finishes that drawing... Before she turns it in... I'll kill her. She raises her dagger. And make it so "I" will never have been born in the first place.

Yashiro jumps up. "Mei!!"

Mei turns around. "Ah-wh- ah!" She ends up dodging it, but falling in the process. Yashiro runs to her. "Are you okay?!"

"Ouch... I'll be fine." She responds, then looks at her mystery self. "You're..."

Shijima looks at her with a frown.

"She has the same face as me... Who are you?"

"....I'm... A piece of fiction, a dream, and a supernatural." She says, walking toward her past self. She reaches out her hand. "I've always wanted to apologize to you." Mei grabs her hand.

"I'm sorry, Mei Shijima. I was unable to fulfill my task even though I was born in order to protect you."

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"So the subject is a "Tower".... I wonder what type of tower I'll do... I know!" She sits up. "In this Atelier tower, there's a "what if" version of me. And she draws while being healthy and well. Got it! I guess I'll just go with that. I mean, I wanna draw happy stuff, so... Hey, are you having fun in that world? Well, I'm still not done yet, but!" Her brush falls off her bed.

"Ah, my brush is..." She reaches for her brush, but is met by some pain. "Ow!"

"The me on this side is... I'm just a little bit sick, you know? But I'm sure I'll get better soon! But until then, in my place, will you draw for me? If you do that, I'll do my best. Isn't this weird? I'm talking to myself."