Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Dream. ...

The new transfer student, Eri Kimoto, has a very pleasant face, which quickly makes her surrounded by her classmates.

Almost immediately after the head teacher left, the students, unable to contain their curiosity, quickly gathered in the back row and began to chatter and ask questions.

"Eh?! Why is Qiben-san transferring here now?"

"Where did you transfer from? Tokyo?"

"So cute, do you have a boyfriend?"

...People from Saitama Prefecture are so sociable.

When facing outsiders, Qi Ben Eri always managed to maintain a perfunctory attitude without being noticed. She answered everyone's questions with a gentle smile on her face, but in fact she was already somewhat impatient in her heart.

The school used to be so good, but it turns out that the blame still falls on that guy named Gojo Satoru, bastard!

Besides, she didn't really want to go to technical college after high school!

Just when Qi Ben Eri was getting more and more annoyed, the boy next to her made a not-too-light but not-too-heavy sound as if he was annoyed by the noise.

“!”

It was clearly just a nonsensical smacking of tongues, yet the students who heard it retreated incredibly quickly?! They retreated as if their butts were on fire!

Eri Kimoto: “?”

...what's going on.

Is it because of Megumi Fushiguro who is beside him?

Is this person's influence so great?

Eri Kimoto silently turned her head to look at him. Megumi Fushiguro was holding her chin with her right hand, still looking towards the direction of the playground, as if she didn't care about the situation here.

So Eri Kimoto turned her head and looked at the group of classmates who had retreated far away and were looking at Megumi Fushiguro with fear and trembling.

"...Hello,"

Qi Ben Eri hesitated to talk to the boy next to her: "You guy, are you the school bully?"

Fushiguro Megumi: “…”

Seeing that the boy's expression did not change, but his head tilted at a wider angle, Qi Ben Eri felt that she had guessed correctly.

But she never expected that the boy with the sea urchin hair sitting next to her would be so different!

She looks quiet and somewhat reliable?!

And they both have a sea urchin head, but why is that sea urchin head the type who just accepts being bullied submissively... It turns out that guy is no good.

Eri Kimoto just felt that the gap between people was too big, but at this time the vibration of the mobile phone in her pocket distracted her.

[Otsutsuki Yuuta: Eri, I heard you're also a new student today...]

【Otsutsukota: Are you okay? 】

【Eri Kimoto: 1】

[Otsutsuki Yuta: Ah... I'm also... I think it's pretty good...]

【Otsutsuki Yuta: (Picture.JPG)】

This person even sends messages like this! Not straightforward at all!

Eri Kimoto impatiently clicked on the picture he sent, and the first thing she saw was the nasty dog ​​making a "yeah" gesture towards the camera!

Gojo Satoru is showing his big white teeth and laughing for no one knows what... It's so annoying to see him ahhhhhhh!

The few people at the back should be Yuuta Okkotsu's contemporaries. For some reason, they were all looking at the camera with bruised faces and noses. The classroom was also in a mess, with tables, chairs and benches all in a mess, as if there had been a fight.

[Otsutsukotsu Yuta: Gojo-sensei told you to take a look so you don't have to worry.]

[Otsutsuki Yuta: The students are all doing well. We're going to the playground for physical education class soon! And they said we'll be doing spell training this afternoon!]

【Eri Kimoto: Oh, don’t die. 】

[Otsutsuki Yuta: ....I will fight for it! ]

[Otsutsuki Yuta: (Come on, dog.gif)]

Qi Ben Eri did not reply to him again. At this time, the class bell rang, which made Qi Ben Eri lie on the table, took out the Chinese textbook and placed it in front of her.

She hid behind her textbook and then enlarged the photo on her phone. She was really interested in Yuta Okkotsu's classmate... How could there be such a big panda?

Eri Kimoto likes pandas. There should be no one who doesn’t like pandas, right?

It’s so cute. It’s really so cute. How can it be so cute? It’s actually a giant panda!

The fur looks so soft! I really want to touch it. Can I? I think I can. Damn, how can there be a giant panda in the Curse High School? A standing giant panda, a giant panda that looks at the camera! Is this fake?!

It can't be a middle-aged man with a lot of leg hair wearing a panda doll...that would be too cool.

Eri Kimoto looked at the panda's photo and breathed heavily. She zoomed in on the picture on her phone again, carefully searching for any clues that it wasn't a middle-aged hairy-legged person. After searching for a long time, she found nothing obvious. The kindness in her eyes (?) and the desire to pet the panda's fur reached its peak.

At this time, the Chinese teacher called her name.

“....”

Eri Qimoto was speechless after standing up, and she became even more speechless after meeting the expectant gaze of the Chinese teacher. When she heard the Chinese teacher say, "Qimoto seems to have very good grades," "I have read some of your previous essays," and "Can you translate this paragraph? Maybe you will have a different opinion," Eri Qimoto finally couldn't hold it in and the corners of her mouth twitched.

Which paragraph are you talking about?

Eri Kimoto quickly glanced at the blackboard with few blank words on it, and then she realized that she seemed to have turned to the wrong pages in her books.

"here."

... Fushiguro-san, you're such a nice person!!

Qi Ben Eri looked at him deeply, then calmly turned the book to the correct position.

After thinking for a few seconds, the answer came to her mind. She really liked reading. This article was an excerpt from Natsume Soseki's Ten Nights of Dreams, which was a very interesting fantasy literature.

Natsume Soseki wrote down his ten dreams. Each dream follows the chaos of dreams. The sudden appearance of scenes is also as absurd as a dream, a bit like a lucid dream.

Lucid dreams are those in which one still has clear thinking and memory abilities while sleeping, like dreams that are transformed from unconscious chaotic states to semi-conscious states. The dream in the book is the sixth dream he wrote, and luckily he has read it.

"Rather than 'jumping into the sea,' it's better to stay on a ship where you don't know where it's going, right? What do you think, Kimoto-san?"

The Chinese teacher smiled at her. He was very satisfied with Eri Kimoto's explanation of the original text.

Eri Nori answered without hesitation, "Yes. After all, people only learn to cherish things after they lose them. That's why the words 'the regret I felt the moment I jumped off the boat' and 'I could only sink quietly into the black waves with endless regret and fear' are so heartbreaking."

Upon hearing this, the Chinese teacher showed a very satisfied and approving smile, then asked her to sit down and continued to read the textbook aloud.

"Thank you."

Eri Kimoto quietly thanked the boy beside her: "If it weren't for you just now, I would have embarrassedly asked what the teacher was talking about. By the way, why isn't he writing on the blackboard?"

Fushiguro Megumi: "You're welcome."

The Chinese teacher really doesn’t like writing on the blackboard, maybe because the handwriting is ugly.

After hesitating for a moment, Fushiguro Megumi, who also loved reading and seemed to understand these articles better, couldn't help but lower her voice, frowned, and asked quietly with her head tilted to the side: "What do you think... forget it?"

Qi Ben Eri frowned slightly and looked at him straight: "If you have something to say, just say it."

Don't hem and haw like that annoying guy.

Fushiguro Megumi was a little puzzled by her sudden impatience, but hesitating was not his style, so he asked, "Would you jump ship if it were you?"

....nerve.

I've already said that Natsume Soseki is dreaming, but he's still so serious.

Qi Ben Eri looked at him speechlessly, leaned on the stool and sat up straight. After thinking for a while, he told her his answer.

"Yes,"

"Of course I can."

"You were the one who just said that we should cherish what we have?" Megumi Fushiguro raised her eyebrows, and felt strange that she had guessed her correct answer.

"...I'm just asking because if it were me, I'd probably jump ship too."

After explaining this, the boy looked away. He looked at the Chinese teacher who was talking loudly and urging the students to cherish their current Chinese language skills, then lowered his head to read the textbook.

"Yeah?"

Qi Ben Eri shrugged her shoulders and didn't say anything more. She just lowered her eyes and wrote and drew on the book, marking out a few sentences that she thought were particularly well written.

Compared to the unknowns described by Natsume Soseki, she really prefers to control everything in her own hands.

Even if it means sinking to the bottom of the sea.

The movement of turning the pages of the book paused, and Eri Qimoto glanced at the boy who was taking notes seriously beside her without leaving a trace.

Is he too?

The author has something to say:

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After looking up what the Japanese language classes would cover, I discovered that they would cover some of Natsume Soseki's writings (perhaps in high school?). It just so happened that I had read "Ten Nights of Dreams" before, so I decided to write about it.

"Ten Nights of Dreams" is quite interesting. This dream is about "I" being trapped on a boat. However, due to all the unknowns and confusion, I have no desire to live. So, one quiet night, I decided to jump off the boat. However, when I jumped and was surrounded by water, I regretted it and realized that "even if I don't know where to go, it's better to have a boat than not to have one."

Of course, the dream in "Ten Nights of Dreams" is my own interpretation! It seems that there are also some higher-level thoughts about society at that time by Natsume Soseki... Forgive me for not understanding the private Marseille for the time being.

Compared to the protagonist in the dream, I feel that Eri and Kei are the kind of people who will not regret the decisions they make. And there are indeed those who want to rely on their own control even if it means death... Anyway, I wrote it according to my own understanding. If you have different opinions, please feel free to discuss them! ! QWQ