Chapter 76 Chapter 76 Sweet Dreams
When Xiangcheng realized what the evening talk was about, it was too late to leave.
Rika pinned her down firmly on the tatami. Seeing this, Abe-senpai pressed down on her shoulders. When she turned around, she grinned and said, "Listen, it won't be that scary."
Really? But you just said that the theme of this "night talk" is "The Rikkai University Mystery Case."
Didn’t you see that the Kobayashi sisters and senior Yumi were already hugging each other?
The initiator of this night talk was none other than the reliable minister Matsumoto Genon.
Matsumoto Xianyin raised an eyebrow at her: "Relax a little!"
——Senior, when did you become a bad person?
Matsumoto Genon coughed lightly and said, "Now that everyone is here, we should turn off the lights!"
Xiangcheng tried to make a last-ditch effort: "Can you please leave the light on?"
The brave ones immediately responded: "No!"
Well... Xiangcheng sat back down in disappointment, while Rika and Abe-senpai were still holding her on both sides to prevent her from escaping.
With a "whoosh", Matsumoto Genon struck a match from somewhere, lit the white candle in her hand, and illuminated her face.
...It has more of a horror movie vibe!
Xiangcheng couldn't help but start to feel anxious, and the experience of being scared by horror movies in the past began to repeat itself.
Matsumoto's voice dropped to a whisper, then stretched out. "It's said that over ten years ago... a senior confessed her love to the most popular boy in school. But instead of accepting, he mocked her. So, out of shame and anger, she went up to the rooftop and jumped."
"From then on, a story spread throughout Rikkai University: every full-moon night, when you walked up to the rooftop, you would see the shadow of a senior suddenly appear before you..."
“Ahhhhhh—”
Haneo screamed in shock, and the others immediately came forward, only to find that it was Matsumoto Genon who suddenly appeared in front of Haneo when she was talking and saying the last sentence.
After listening to the first story, Xiangcheng felt fine and slowly calmed down. At this moment, someone patted her shoulder.
Xiangcheng turned around subconsciously, and saw a ghost face holding a white candle appear in front of her.
“Ah—ah—”
Before screaming, Xiangcheng punched the ghost face, and now there were two people screaming.
The ghost face's voice of "It hurts - it hurts -" also filled and echoed throughout the room.
Within a minute, the door to the Japanese-style room was slammed open, and several boys rushed in: "What's going on?"
Someone fumbled to turn on the light in the Japanese-style room, and the sudden brightness made everyone look at each other in surprise. Yukimura Seiichi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that nothing was wrong with Xiangcheng.
He was startled by Xiangcheng's scream. After rushing over with the others, he realized what was happening.
Xiangcheng raised her head from Rika's arms and glanced at the ghost face carefully.
Brigida took off her mask, covered her nose and said aggrievedly, "Xiangcheng, you're too strong!"
Everyone looked closely and saw that his nose was completely red!
The boy who just came in couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Abe Zhen said in distress and dissatisfaction: "What a good atmosphere we had just now! Now it's ruined..."
Niou Masaharu leaned against the door and asked, "Are you telling ghost stories or something?"
Abe Shin shrugged: "Have you heard about the mysterious incident at Rikkai University?"
"Oh?" Several boys also became interested. Yanagi Renji pulled out a small notebook from somewhere and said, "I happen to have some relevant records here. Do you want to hear them?"
Niou Masaharu quickly grabbed his partner Yagyu, who was trying to pretend to disappear without a trace: "Pfft, you're here now."
He thought something had happened to the girls, and his good partner was so scared that he made a mad sprint behind the minister.
——If he had known that it was a ghost story, Yagyu would never have come. Niou Masaharu still remembers the time when he was in junior high school and was scared to death by a person who jumped out of the prop well.
Ah... Anyway, after ignoring the opinions of some individuals, several boys from the tennis club also joined the topic and turned off the lights.
Yukimura was kind enough to take over the seat next to Kaoru, and Rika was forced to sit next to Yagyu.
She hated it! If she had known, she wouldn't have bullied Xiangcheng.
Then he turned to Liu Sheng and said, "Let me tell you first, if you faint from fright, don't fall on me."
Yagyu Hiroshi, who was thinking about this, adjusted his glasses and said regretfully, "Don't worry, I won't be scared."
Rika didn't believe it at all.
In the darkness, the first sound heard was the sound of a match being struck, and then the light shifted to the candle.
Matsumoto Genon continued her story.
"The next story is something I actually experienced when I was a freshman in high school..."
"It was a rainy day, and the rain was pouring down. I struggled to hold my umbrella as I passed the community office and ran towards the teaching building. Just then, I heard other people gasping for breath around me."
"But—except for me, there was no one else on this road just now."
"Who could it be then? I held the umbrella with trembling hands, not daring to look back, until I turned the corner and saw... saw..."
Xiangcheng, who was huddled next to Yukimura with her ears covered, couldn't help but slow down her movements and quietly loosened her ears.
"What?" Kirihara Akaya asked, holding his breath.
Matsumoto Genyin moved the candle closer to him: "I saw another person's shadow reflected in the puddle on the ground, but when I turned around, there was nothing around me..."
"Huh..." Everyone couldn't help but gasp.
Kirihara Akaya couldn't help but say, "What on earth is that thing..."
Yanagi Renji also spoke slowly: "The second mysterious incident at Rikkai University - the boy in the rain."
"It's said that this is a reflection that only appears on rainy days. I like to share an umbrella with a girl to feel the feeling of 'love'."
"ha?"
"Why? And what about him?"
"Ah," Yanagi Renji continued, "According to the records of the first occurrence of this incident, he probably died on a rainy day because he never had a girlfriend. This weather triggered his existence."
Xiangcheng recalled whether there was a time in the past year when she held an umbrella alone, and then silently curled herself closer to Yukimura.
Yukimura stroked her back and whispered in her ear: "It's okay."
"Let's ask Aizi to tell the next story..."
Yukimura covered Xiangcheng's ears and let her whole head rest on his arms.
After waiting for everyone to have their fun, they could finally turn on the lights. Xiangcheng let out a long sigh, took Yukimura's hand and stood up: "I'm alive again! I will never participate in this kind of activity again."
Yukimura Seiichi looked at her with a smile, and inexplicably thought of the time when they went to the amusement park together.
Xiangcheng volunteered to experience the haunted house, but from the moment she saw the first motionless scary statue as soon as she entered the door, she kept her head buried in his arms and "experienced" the whole thing like this.
And in the middle of the night, he would send a rare message: "I'm done, all I can hear is the horror soundtrack."
"Are you asleep? I can't sleep!"
…
Sure enough, Xiangcheng, who seemed to be normal, couldn't help but think about the same question since she lay in bed - has she seen the "boy in the rain"?
Thinking back to the first rain after entering Rikkai University, one scene after another, it seems that these scenes have added some other content without me noticing.
Xiangcheng gradually fell asleep in this scene.
Sure enough, it started raining in her dream, and Xiangcheng subconsciously thought of the legend.
She looked around and saw that she was right in front of the volleyball club.
Suddenly, there was an umbrella in her hand, and as if out of control, the umbrella opened by itself.
Xiangcheng reminded herself not to look at the puddle and ignore it. She wanted to control her dream to return to the volleyball hall, but unfortunately it did not listen to her instructions.
In the dream, she still took a step, walked down the stairs step by step, and then lowered her head——
ah.
Xiangcheng suddenly turned over and sat up.
It's so scary.
She turned her head and saw that Lixiang was already fast asleep. She took out her phone and turned on the screen. It was only about 11 o'clock.
How did you fall asleep all of a sudden?
Now all the sleepiness disappeared, and Xiangcheng tiptoed back into the quilt with his phone in hand.
"It's over. I was scared awake."
"Are you asleep?"
“Just fall asleep QAQ”
Over there, Yukimura Seiichi felt a sense of relief that "it's finally here" and said skillfully, "Stop imagining it and focus on thinking about other happy things."
Xiangcheng replied immediately: "Now I can only recall the dream."
Yukimura looked at the tennis club training plan his subordinates were designing, then tried to turn off the desk lamp and look outside.
It was a clear night.
"Then put on your coat and come out. The night is beautiful tonight."
Xiangcheng rolled around stupidly in the quilt, then tiptoed, picked up her clothes and shoes and walked into the bathroom.
Using the flashlight from her cell phone to illuminate the way, Xiangcheng tiptoed down the stairs. Yukimura Seiichi was waiting for her at the second-floor staircase.
"Let's go." Seeing her, Yukimura skillfully took her hand: "Are you so scared? Your hands are cold."
Xiangcheng nodded repeatedly.
Yukimura wrapped her entire right hand to keep her warm.
The two walked down the stairs side by side and came to the path where they could see the entire galaxy again. This time, they sat on the bench by the roadside, leaning against each other and looking up.
Xiangcheng searched for the constellations visible to the naked eye on her phone, and together with Yukimura, she curled her fingertips and carefully crossed each star one by one.
It seemed as if the sky had also become romantic, when a meteor suddenly entered their sight with its tail trailing behind it.
"It's a shooting star!" Xiang Cheng said excitedly, her burning gaze looking at Yukimura: "Let's make a wish."
"You should close your eyes when making a wish." Yukimura helped her tuck her bangs behind her ears.
Xiang Cheng blinked: "You make the first promise this time!"
"Okay." Yukimura didn't refute, but just put his lips close to Xiangcheng's forehead.
He closed his eyes devoutly, and at this distance of a few micrometers, he spoke seriously in a voice that both of them could hear:
"I hope my Xiangcheng can have a good dream tonight."
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