Dream World (Yume Sekai)

Prologue

“Guaah———!”

I gasped through the deep darkness. Breathing so hard and yet can’t even obtain a single amount of air. I’m running out of air.

I am so tired and sick of running away an hour ago.

‘I am chased out from an unknown silhouette which brings me here. Then, I looped the dark shadow through the hide-and-seek in this darkness. Though, I hid between the tall bushes that make my eyes see through the tiny hole while I’m running out of air running away from that stranger. I don’t know what its reason for chasing me out but I need to get away from that man as possible. Seeing through, my lingering fingers move swiftly as I take a peek between the shrubs. “———!.” Splash out. The splashing red fluid is floating in the darkness. Red, red; even it is so dark yet no moon can be seen around, I can see the flying red fluids. A short sword swung around. Now can be seen is the bloody scene or simply saying a murder. The dark silhouette which chased me before and which is a few meters behind me is dismembering the defenseless victim. Stab! He stabbed the victim through his chest and swings his dagger downwards. Splak———!. It squished the blood of the diagonally slashed body part of the victim. That was a merciless killing. He is more like a murderer. An emotion-less human which has no heart or a homunculus is can be called.

Though, watching gore-bloody murder scene, I can’t do such a thing. I can’t even open my lower jaw downwards. I can’t even catch a single blink of my eyelids seeming like involuntary not moving.

———. My pair of eyes starting to feel watery feeling, and a dripped sweat in my forehead is flowing down through my face. Seeing that murder scene is a thing I’d ever regret not doing something.

A chill runs down through my spine.

My mind began going to be blank. My body is stiffening and as heavy as a sandbag. My lingering fingers which holds the green leaves in the bushes and my bold feet kneeling in the rough grass starting to play numb. My knees which is supporting my kneeling stance began to feel itchy as I the time slowly move around.

What is happening?, that’s the only question I cannot answer this time. As possible, I have to think what I should do yet something not a suicidal. What should I do? ———

What should I do?———. What. Whaaaattt!!!! ———.

I cannot think and focus in my conscious mind. I don’t even know what I SHOULD do to save me.

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I gulped saliva from my mouth as I clenched my fingers around. Right now, my right hand feels light and it is holding something. Something heavy, yet I can even feel it light right now. I gazed through my light right hand and started to swing it lightly as possible.

“!!!!!.”, it’s my final decision now. I would like to hit that lurking-shadow like silhouette in the deep darkness. It maybe the relevant way in this way I will take. I will ambush him from behind and start attacking a few inches away from him.

It’s my advantage now that he only uses a medium sized knife while I’m holding a sword. But, the main problem is HOW? How will I face that silhouette and what should I do next? I will think of something more than a strategy in able to defeat that murderer.

“!!!!!!”, again, I can now think the best thing to do. After approaching him from the back or more or like backstabbing, he would counter that attack to defend himself, so I will grapple hard this sword to dodge that counterattack and stab through that man. So now, that may my partial decision.