Who says you can't change everything with your dreams?

29 chapter

"What does it turn out to be? What happened? Was I able to jump through time?" - Takemichi thought, running with a bag on his shoulders to school.

"But not twelve years ago... But ten!" - Hanagaki was already standing outside the school gate.

- Nonsense... - Takemichi faintly exhaled.

- Hello, Takemichi," Hanagaki heard from the side. Turning around, he saw his friends.

- Good morning! - Yamagishi said.

- You're a little early for someone who's always late," Takuya said.

- Yamagishi... Makoto... Takuya... Ak-kun? - Takemichi said.

"We're in our second year of high school.

- What's up! Takemichi! - A voice was heard, and someone leaned on Takemichi's shoulders. - Have you prepared for today's tests?

"Who's that?"

- As soon as I sit down at my desk, I pass out...

- You don't look like you're such a klutz," Yamagishi said.

- I agree," Makoto said.

And then Takemichi realized that it was Hakkai, only with long hair.

- What's wrong, Takemuchi? What's wrong with you? I don't remember your blood pressure being low. Let's go," Hakkai said.

"Everyone's a little older..."

- Look... Where's Chifuyu? - Takemichi asked the boys.

- Huh? He's in the social studies preparatory room.

- Yeah," Takemichi said, and was about to run, but he was grabbed by his briefcase.

- Hey, Takemuchi, leave your backpack behind first, and then run to Chifuya.

- Ah, okay," Hanagaki ran to the classroom to leave his briefcase.

***

- Chifu! - Shouted Takemichi, as he sped to open the door to the classroom.

- Yo, Takemuchi, you're fucking loud," Chifuyu said, distracted from reading the manga.

Takemichi stared at Chifuya in silence and tried to catch his breath.

- What's wrong? - Matsuno asked, and Hanagaki's tears started to come.

- Chifuyu, I... Shook hands with Red from the future.

- Э? Are you... Takemichi from the future?

- And here I am," Takemuchi said and started wiping away his tears.

- Э? But why?

- I don't understand, but he just asked me to save him," Takemichi looked at his hand after saying that.

***

- God, they're pathetic after all," said one Oni, Watanabe Yoshihiro, a seventeen-year-old boy, six feet tall, with black hair and light brown eyes, wearing an Oni uniform. At Oni, Watanabe was the finance manager.

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The Oni uniform was a black tokkofuku with red "Oni" kanji on the shoulders and back, and black knee boots from World War II.

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- Lepota, our boss has become even more bloodthirsty," said Sanzu Haruchiyo, another Oni member. - He single-handedly took them all out. I wonder how many of them are in critical condition? - Haruchiyo looked at Red, who was standing among the unconscious bodies, his boots and uniform sleeves covered in blood.

On his face, which was also stained with blood, not a single emotion, his eyes covered with round black sunglasses behind which were empty black eyes that had been staring into nothing before, shifted his attention to the hand with which he had shaken Takemichi's hand in the future.

- What a... It's a strange feeling... - said in a quiet hoarse voice Red, but already Black, Boss Oni.

***

- There you go... It's not twelve years ago now," Chifuyu said, standing by the window and looking out into the distance with Takemichi.

- Two years have passed since then. It turns out I'm jumping ten years.

- Yeah, Red's a trigger now, which means you can't go back to the future that easily...

- Э? Yeah! What's Red doing now?

The answer was silence.

***

- Hey, Takemichi, do you want to know about the gopniks around here? So rare, remember my nickname? - Yamagishi said, and the boys walked into an empty classroom.

- Yamagishi Encyclopedia of Gopniks? - Takemichi said thoughtfully.

- It's been two years since the dissolution of the Swastons! And the map of gangs' influence in Tokyo has changed dramatically. First, the Swastons who owned Kanto have been disbanded. Gopniks have entered the era of civil wars! - Yamagishi said.

- Civil wars... - Takemichi swallowed.

- But in this era, three charismatic men came along and put an end to it!

- Three charismatic men? - Takemichi asked with obvious shock.

- Exactly! The first is from the Rokuhara Tandai faction! The first is Terano South, who has huge influence and has settled in the Minato region. The second is the sung by the strongest, mysterious boss of the young Brahman faction that owns the Shinjuku area, Kawaragi Senjyu. And finally, the equally mysterious boss of the Shibuya district, nicknamed Black, the head of Oni, name unknown! This faction appeared a few days after the dissolution of the Swastons. From these three factions a balance was formed in Tokyo, just like in the Triple Tomoe. This is the era of the three celestials," Yamagishi finished his lecture.

"Are they on the same level as Red? No, I remember he's not much of a fan of wars and stuff, and he wasn't interested in gangs either. So he lets them develop in peace? Knowing Red and the new him, he could easily beat them to a pulp. Wait, he created his own gang called Oni. Did he create his own to protect it?" - Takemichi thought, but his thoughts were defiantly interrupted by Matsuno.

- Hey, Takemuchi!

- М?

- What are you thinking again? It's times like this when your pot doesn't work at all.

- It's just...

- Right now all you can think about is Red and this Black guy, but now you have to take responsibility for something, don't you?

- Responsibility?

***

- I'm sorry, Hina! - Takemichi shouted, kneeling down in front of Hinata.

- Takemichi?

- Я... Died right before our wedding...

- Э? Wedding? Did you... You're back?

***

- Hina... - Takemichi turned to Hinata while standing with her on the bridge. - Я... I get it, eventually. Nothing will change until I make him remember everything...

- Mm-hmm. Like, even if you made that choice wrong, and even if the future gets ugly, I'll always support you! Whew! That didn't come out right," Hina said, smiling.

"Thank you, Hina."

- I'll make him remember everything, and it doesn't matter how I do it! - Takemichi said firmly.

To be continued...