When Ryougi Shiki opened her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, the young man with his head lowered seemed to sense something. Suddenly his body trembled and he covered his chest as if he had a tightness in his chest.
Then, the boy seemed to realize something. He slowly raised his head and looked at the source of the throbbing through his eyes covered by thick plain lenses, the strange girl in a loose kimono with a bright light in her eyes.
The girl hooked her finger at the boy, looking like a provocation.
The boy hesitated for a while, as if he didn't want to go, but he couldn't suppress his inner impulse and curiosity, and finally walked towards the girl hesitantly.
When the boy came up to her, Ryougi Shiki looked him up and down carefully and asked directly, "What's your name?"
Although the boy thought the girl's questioning method was problematic, he still answered inexplicably: "Shiki, Arimaka Shiki."
Then, the boy saw the girl's stunned expression and heard another cry of surprise.
Turning his eyes away from the girl who inexplicably attracted him, the boy saw a man who had just entered young adulthood. This man made him feel very familiar, like another self, his future self.
What happened to me? Could it be that I am hallucinating because of anemia? The boy shook his head.
"Hey, Shiki, do you want to know my name?" Shiki automatically skipped the boy's last name and called him by his first name, with a natural intimacy.
Shiki nodded involuntarily.
"My name is Shiki, Ryougi Shiki."
This time it was Shiki's turn to widen his eyes, and his glasses almost fell off his nose.
Seeing this scene, Shinji finally laughed out loud.
"That's it, that's it, this is what I've been waiting for, hahahaha - well, you two shiki-sama, this isn't a good place to talk, let's go somewhere else. I saw one ice cream shop after another as I came here, I'll treat everyone to ice cream."
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Ten minutes later, the open-air parasol seat of the ice cream shop.
Shinji looked at Shiki who was sitting next to him, and then at Shiki and Mikiya who were sitting opposite him, and smiled contentedly. He had been thinking about doing this since he finished watching "Kara no Kyoukai" and "Tsukihime" in his previous life, and now it was finally realized. This was really the best compliment for a veteran moon chef.
"Okay, everything is as I said. There is no need to say anything more. Similar things will attract each other."
"That's true." Orange, who was sitting next to Shinji, said meaningfully, reaching out to take off Shiki's glasses.
Shiki, who had been in a daze, immediately felt dizzy and fell on the table, closing his eyes and begging, "Those glasses are very important to me, please give them back to me."
"Kid, didn't anyone teach you to look at the person when you ask for a favor?" Orange spun his glasses in his hands.
"Um..." Shiki tried to open his eyes and adjust to the strange world in front of him. He fixed his gaze on the face of the older sister who rarely spoke. "Please give me back my glasses. Please."
"No." Orange smiled maliciously.
"Why is this happening?" Shiki said with a hint of anger on his face.
"Don't be angry, Shiki-kun." Shinji, who was sandwiched between the two, patted Shiki's shoulder, "Don't you think this sister looks familiar?"
Shiki was stunned, and stared at Chengzi's face for a long time. Gradually, he found that the beautiful face in front of him was slowly overlapping with the person who was extremely important to him in his memory. The only difference between the two was their hair color and eye color, and they looked almost the same.
"Old, teacher—no, you are not a teacher, you are..."
"My name is Aozaki Touko, your teacher's sister, if your teacher's name is Aozaki Aoko."
Shiki, who was still a middle school student, did not hear the complexity of Chengzi's name "Aozaki Aoko". He was full of joy and nodded repeatedly: "The teacher is called Aozaki Aoko. Is she okay?"
"I don't know. I have a grudge against her. Little boy, you can only blame yourself for your bad luck in meeting me."
Orange took off his glasses unhappily, and his cold eyes made Shiki shudder.
"Orange, stop it." A hand was inserted between Orange and Shiki.
"Style...you..."
"Don't do anything to him."
"Why?" Orange's eyes were cold in the frost state, "Because he has the same name and the same characteristics as you. Do you think of him as a substitute for Ori? You have to understand that he is Shiki, not Ori!"
This question was extremely hurtful, using the thing that Shiki least wanted to recall to stimulate her, which was exactly why Shiki hated Orange, but Shiki was not angry, just said lightly: "I know that Zhi is gone, but Shiki is still here. He who has seen the same thing as me should not go to such a dark and empty place again."
During the two years that she was in a coma, Shi had been floating in that dark, empty, indescribable place. No one knew how terrible it was better than her.
"Are you serious?"
"Yes, no one understands the horror of that place better than I do."
Shiki's words were hazy and Shiki couldn't understand them, but he seemed to understand them. This sister who had the same name as him and made him feel close to her seemed to be able to see the same world as him.
Chengzi looked at the boy and the girl, sighed, put on his glasses, and hid his coldness: "It's not just because of this reason, but also because he looks like Ganye?"
"Orange, orange!" Shi was unusually awkward.
Seeing this, Kanye smiled knowingly: "Brother Shiki, you don't mind me calling you that, do you? Miss Orange is just trying to scare you, she's a good person."
"Whether she's a good person or not is not a good thing, but don't worry, she won't take her anger towards her sister out on you." Shinji continued to persuade, "He took your glasses for another reason, right, Orange-san?"
"I'm not the type to argue with a minor." Orange snorted, "Hey, kid, do you know who made this 'Magic Eye Killing'?"
Shiki shook his head.
"It was me. I used very precious materials. If converted into Japanese yen, it should be worth nine figures. I was going to wear it myself, but that stupid sister snatched it away. I had to make another pair, which increased my debt. What's even worse is that the stubborn and violent idiot changed it into such a tacky shape. He really has not improved at all."
Orange became angrier as she spoke, and the glasses named "Magic Eyes" squeaked in her slender hands, which made Shiki feel distressed.
"Um, Orange... Teacher." After hesitating for a moment, Shiki decided to call Orange the same as Aoko.
Before he could continue, Orange guessed what he meant: "Don't worry, the things I, Aozaki Orange, made are not that fragile. Even if that violent maniac wants to destroy them, it won't be that easy."
Shiki decided to ignore Orange's complaints about Aoko, as he had no right to interfere in matters between elders and sisters.
"But there is one thing Qingzi doesn't know. This 'Magic Eye Killer' can't suppress your eyes forever. One day your eyes will grow to the point where it can't suppress them anymore. What are you going to do then? Just close your eyes like you did just now and never look at this world again?"
"I...I..."
It was the first time Shiki had heard of such a thing, and he felt helpless and panicked. As a teenager, he couldn't imagine facing this shattered world all day long.
"What should I do?"