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I: The Flowers Are Not Sleeping
Chapter 23: In the World
"I want to get out."

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Snow was falling, and the hazy snowflakes broke away from the clouds and fell. The hazy look made Yayoi feel like she was in a dream.

Yayoi stretched out her hand, and tiny snowflakes fell on her palm. After being melted by the temperature, they left a faint water stain and a cold feeling in her hand.

Yayoi blinked. There were white snowflakes on the roof, white snowflakes on the branches of the cherry blossom trees, and fine snowflakes on the glass wind chime. The white snowflakes buried everything.

Yayoi remembered.

When the first snowflake fell in winter, her hometown was destroyed. The snowflakes melted into the hot blood and flames. The coldness of winter was swallowed up by hysterical wailing and the sound of sharp weapons being immersed in flesh and blood. In the distance, the vermilion torii gate collapsed to the ground and shattered into pieces, and even the shrine where Yayoi and her sister often went together was burned down.

Grandma Kuriko's red hair turned white little by little, and finally it was as pure white as snowflakes, but her blood was still red, so red that it almost burned Yayoi's eyes.

She was dead.

It hurt a lot.

Her wrists hurt, her eyes hurt, her sclera was stained red by the blood left on her forehead, and her sight was also red. The village in her hometown were built along the bay, and the sunset on the horizon fell little by little, turned everything dyed in dazzling red. Red sea, red village, red fire, red hair.

Yayoi rubbed her fingers, lowered her head, pursed her lips. Her hair that fell from her head covered her dim eyes.

Satoru grabbed two handfuls of white hair on the top of his head irritably, walked up to Yayoi, stretched out his hand and held up Yayoi's face. When Yayoi's face was held up by him, for a moment, those amber eyes lost their vitality. The pupils of her eyes crashed into his sight.

Six Eyes were unable to detect Yayoi who had no cursed energy. When he faced those amber eyes, Satoru could not get any information from her, but looking at this face, Satoru could roughly guess what's going on.

It was not unreasonable to say that women had undergone a major change.

Satoru couldn't help but mutter in his mind.

But...

It shouldn't be like this.

Satoru thoughts.

If the guess was correct, Yayoi's current appearance was roughly what she would look like when she grew up.

Although he didn't know what the cursed spirit did, a young woman was very different from the little girl she once was.

Her waist-length red hair, her legs, her breasts, and... cough, stop it, he was not that kind of superficial man.

But it shouldn't be like this.

Yayoi's eyes were beautiful amber, crystal clear, filled with the morning light of the rising sun at dawn.

Now her eyes were like stones covered with dust from the world.

It shouldn't be like this.

"Hey, redhead, are you still alive?" Satoru pinched Yayoi's face, not too lightly or too hard.

Yayoi was in a trance. If she hadn't been in this courtyard that had been destroyed by fire at this time, she would have slapped Satoru's hand that squeezed her face without any hesitation and told him, of course I am alive.

But now Yayoi was suddenly unsure.

Was she really still alive?

This place had obviously been burned to the ground, her hometown had been destroyed, and even the "vessel" had been buried with her hometown.

Then why did she come back to life?

She was obviously dead.

When she saw the courtyard again, she saw the white snow on the ground. When she saw the late Grandma Kuriko, she saw herself still dressed in white. When she saw the old trees in the courtyard, she recalled the overwhelming fire and fullness.

Only when the world screamed did she realize that she was already dead.

The "vessel" had never lived her life as a human being. Yayoi was just a "vessel", an empty container.

"I have no idea."

Yayoi answered him, without joy or sadness, and her tone was so steady that it made people feel chilled.

The hand placed on Yayoi's face suddenly exerted force, she hissed in pain, trying to slap Satoru's hand away.

Satoru didn't let go and continued to squeeze. This time the force was much lighter. Satoru wore his small sunglasses and looked down at the redhead with his height. He smiled happily and asked, "Does it hurt?"

"Ugh-"

It hurt so much, let me go!

Yayoi patted Satoru's hand hard, but couldn't swat it. Yayoi could only puffed her cheeks and stared with tears in her eyes.

This dog man even pinched her face and used cursed energy to do it.

Exceed the score!

The redhead puffed out her cheeks.

"It just hurts." This time, Satoru let go of his hand, and a head crashed onto Yayoi's forehead. The force was so strong that Yayoi's forehead was dizzy, "You can only feel pain when you are alive."

Yayoi covered her painful forehead, rubbed it a few times with her palm, raised her head, and looked at Satoru with white hair and blue eyes in a daze. His hair was white, like soft snow, and his eyes were blue. The color was like the sky on top of the snow-white mountains.

In winter, the courtyard was covered with white snow, which looked like it was burying the whole world underneath. The courtyard was filled with black and white. When the weather was better, Yayoi could only see the blue above her head. Occasionally, Yayoi may feel that such a courtyard was very monotonous.

But these things were not monotonous when it came to Satoru. His eyes were so beautiful, they were the most beautiful eyes Yayoi had ever seen.

'You can only feel pain when you are alive.'

"Then I'm still alive." Yayoi said.

Her eyes were bright and a beautiful amber color.

It was obviously freezing on this snowy day, but Satoru felt a little hot on his face.

"Since you are alive, work for me." Satoru curled his lips, "What the hell is this place?"

God knew how much effort it took for him and Suguru to get in. There were strange sealing runes and sealing formations along the way. Those sealing runes and sealing formations, even Satoru, who was born in the Gojo family, one of the Big Three Sorcerer Families, couldn't help but wonder. He never seen such a seal formation.

Among the existing sealing techniques, there were only a few techniques that could compete with it.

Satoru opened a paper partition door, and what he saw was the runes, ancient characters, and complicated veins painted all over the tatami of the room. Extended from the surroundings to the circle in the center.

Satoru paused.

He had never seen such a sealing technique before.

It was exquisite and ingenious to the extreme. The winding runes and veins were like a group of twisted snakes, which was dazzling. It started from the square and circle, and every intersection and every trajectory was elusive. After miraculously extended to the center, it strangely formed a loop.

This was a sealing formation, a sealing formation used to consolidate something. The thing being consolidated was the thing in the circle in the center, but he didn't know where that thing had gone.

Looking away from the sealing array on the ground and looking around, Satoru felt that this room was more and more weird. In addition to the strange sealing array on the ground, there were also sealing runes on the walls. These runes were similar to the ones on the ground. The runes were different, seemingly to prevent something from leaving the room.

Satoru looked at the door again.

But when he opened the paper partition door, there was no obstruction, which showed that there was no passive meant on the paper partition door.

"What could it be?" Satoru murmured, looking at the runes on the ground.

"Gojo?" Satoru came to his senses, lowered his head and saw Yayoi's face. After growing taller, Yayoi was still not as tall as Satoru, so she could only look up at Satoru.

"Don't stay here too long," Yayoi said. "No one else can stay in this room for too long."

This was the room used to strengthen the seal on the "vessel", and it was also the room where the "vessel" was locked up.

The voice was very light, as light as dust flying under the sun, and even a small gust of wind could blow it away.

Satoru stretched out his restless hands and greeted Yayoi in the face. At the same time, he grinned and said, "Of course I know I can't stay in this place for too long."

Oh, why didn't the redhead's face look pleasing to his eye from any angle?

Chikuso, really want to pinch it, want to... really want to...

This felt really good in the hand. When he pinched it, it actually looked a bit like a fat white daifuku...

Yabai, this felt a bit dangerous...

His eyes fell on Yayoi's blushing face, and Satoru's thoughts began to wander unconsciously.

"Why are you pinching my face again?" Yayoi vaguely began to accuse Satoru of cruelty. "Let go now. If you don't let go, I will beat you."

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"Do you still want to... f*ck!"

When Suguru, who was also checking the situation with Tomoya Nozawa, returned, he saw an unknown object thrown out of the room. By the way, that unknown object looked a lot like his classmate, no, were you okay?

Suguru's eyes were dull.

There were many wonderful things in the world, such as the little redhead. Before going out to check the situation, Suguru specifically looked at his mobile phone.

Only four hours had passed since they separated from Yayoi on the azukiarai bridge and entered the birth domain and met up with the grown-up version of the redhead.

In less than half a day, the little red-haired girl had transformed from the flat-chested dwarf melon into a big red-haired girl... with waist, legs and breasts.

Not to mention, that face was really beautiful. If it weren't for the unique silly expression on the other person's face, the facial features that resembled the other's, and the brightest hair color in the world, for now, he would have seen such a person with red hair.

In addition, Satoru's uniquely certified Six Eyes were unable to detect it, otherwise Suguru would not be able to believe that the little red-haired girl who was still an underage dwarf melon a second ago turned into a red-haired beauty.

By the way, the current redhead was the type that his best friend liked, right?

Suguru thought quietly.

He had to keep a close watch and not let Satoru get out of singles first... No, it was an unforgivable sin in life. He did it all for the sake of his best friend.

Geto-kun had firm faith.

Another example was Satoru, his best friend. Before he met the little red-haired girl who was the waterloo of his life, Suguru had never seen a white-haired person with such a bad personality have an opponent.

When it came to bad habits, Satoru could always reach new heights in places that Suguru see and didn't see. Once he was not careful, he actually failed countless times on a little red-haired girl with zero cursed energy.

Suguru was delighted to see Satoru, who had been defeated countless times by Yayoi. At the same time, he did not forget to take out his mobile phone from his pocket and take countless photos to leave precious memories. In the future, when it was convenient to recall the past, he could use it to laugh at Satoru.

He was really a little genius.

The moment the white cat was thrown out of the room by Yayoi, Suguru subconsciously took out his phone and took a few pictures.

Satoru was worthy of being the Six Eyes heir of the Gojo family, a master of sorcerer. After being thrown out by Yayoi, he actually landed without his face and did a flip in the air. After the impact was removed, he landed beautifully.

It's a pity.

He actually landed without his face on the ground.

Suguru thought inappropriately as he held his cell phone.

After the big white cat landed, he jumped up on the spot and was about to run up and fight with the red hair on the spot.

Yes, he was the bad person again.

Suguru stuffed his phone into his pocket, and Pokémon training master Geto-kun began to summon cursed spirits to break up the fight.

"How long has this been, and you two can still fight?" Suguru, a reliable adult, crossed his arms and looked at the red and white hair, and the vicissitudes of life arose in his heart.

"Gojo pinch my face." Yayoi rubbed her red face, honest and pitiful.

"Who made your face feel so good to be pinched?" Satoru said super loudly and confidently, with a face full of 'it's not my fault, it's your face that felt so good to the touch, that face of yours was the source of all evil'.

Suguru: "..."

...what kind of nonsense was this?

Suguru looked at Yayoi's red face, then looked at the culprit Satoru, then looked back at Yayoi's face. This b*tch was definitely not easy.

He would beat him, even to the point of death.

"This domain... Satoru, can you detect where the cursed spirit is?" Suguru tiredly changed the topic to the right track.

There were two ways to break through the domain. One was to forcefully escape from the domain. The owner of this domain had not shown up yet. Special grade cursed spirits were not a big deal. They had been recorded in the files. The number of special grade cursed spirits was pitifully small. No more than the number of fingers and toes.

Obviously, this cursed spirit was not in the record file. It was the first time for the two boys to see this cursed spirit, and they naturally had no idea about its technique. At present, it seemed that this method did not work.

The second method was to use domains to fight domains. In layman's terms, it meant using magic to defeat magic, and using more excellent domains to crush domains. However, neither of them currently knew how to do domain expansion, so this one also passed.

What should you do if you get lost while playing a maze game? According to the route of a normal person, he must find the correct route. According to Satoru's brain circuit, he could penetrate the maze with a Limitless technique, and then take a straight path out of the maze with steps that he would not recognize his allies.

After working together for a long time, the two people's thinking could even achieve a strange synchronization at certain special times.

Since the first two methods didn't work, then simply drag out the hiding cursed spirit and beat it until it could no longer maintain the domain.

The two boys thought so.

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"I want to go out."

Satoru heard Yayoi say this.

The voice was still light, but Satoru saw Yayoi's face, and the expression on her little face was serious, more serious than he had ever seen before, more serious than ever before.

'You can't go out.'

'You can go out.'

'Please grow up.'

The wind chimes under the eaves were still spinning, the bell was spinning, as if it wanted to bring out the past at the other end of time.

'I still want to go out.'

'Whether I am "Yayoi Uzumaki" or "Yayoi Amamiya", I still want to get out.'

Yayoi thoughts.

'What can you do when you go out?'

Yayoi lowered her eyes, and her long and thick eyelashes were like two small fans. When they fell down, they created a shallow silhouette under her eyes.

'But I still want to go out, just want to.'

The effort required to say this sentence was smaller and stronger than Yayoi imagined. Yayoi had never been able to say this sentence to Grandma Kuriko in her entire life.

"Then get out."

The white-haired boy sitting on the tatami stood up. He was very tall, much taller than Yayoi. The small sunglasses under his nose slid down a little, and Yayoi saw his bright blue eyes in the small space above the lenses.

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· Genuine translation can be found only in OchatimesBlogspotCom, FanFictionNet, and Wattpad

• Omake •

#Before meeting the little redhead:

Tomoya: Woah, I fell into a trap!

Satoru: Weak guys are trouble- woah! Suguru, I fell into a trap!

Brother Suguru: ...want me to help you add some soil?

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#Suguru & Shoko: As long as I'm still single, don't even think to get out of single either!

#Good brothers just want to get into the water together, die together, be singles together, and endure the iron fist of Yaga-sensei together.

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#Some day in the future:

Satoru, who was playing on his mobile phone, received a message - you have been removed from the group chat.

Satoru: Can't you afford it?


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