32 – Episode 29: Shingo Ceremony – 4

“Kyoko, are you okay?”

I found Kyoko, who had suddenly opened her eyes, and I cautiously reached out and spoke to her.

He looked at me once, then blankly stared into space for a while.

Kyoko suddenly got up and came into my arms.

“All, all because of me…”

Kyoko leaned against me and started crying.

I didn’t know what to do when I saw her for the first time, but in fact, there was only one thing I could do.

I put my hand on her head.

“Kyoko apologized, and if he accepts it, that’s it. Why do I keep feeling guilty like an idiot?”

I don’t know the details of the context, but if you still apologized and the other person received that apology, that’s it.

He patted her head lightly and smiled.

Then, Kyoko cried even more sadly and exploded all the emotions inside.

All I could do was stay still like this for a while.

After a while, Kyoko seemed to have calmed down.

Wiping away the flowing tears, she said to me:

“Chop-topic cheeky wwwwwww”

It seemed that she had finally returned to her original self.

Seeing that, I relaxed and smiled lightly.

…

Soon after, Rin also stood up, grabbed her head, and began to stand up.

Similarly, he held out his hand and checked Rin’s condition.

“Rin, are you okay? Where is the problem?”

“Um… yes, there is nothing wrong with the body, the body, the body…”

Rin answered by holding my hand and getting up from her seat.

I immediately noticed that her condition was a bit odd.

“Why is Rin shivering like this?”

“Ah, nothing… Never mind.”

“No, I don’t think it’s anything, but I’ll be honest. Aren’t you okay now?”

I grabbed Rin’s shoulder and asked.

Body trembling obviously.

Even a face that looks paler than usual.

There must have been something wrong.

At my words, she looked a little taken aback.

Seeing my serious expression, Rin immediately nodded and began to tell me the truth.

“Yeah… I actually had a very frightening nightmare.”

Before long, Rin began to explain to Kyoko and me in a trembling voice as if she were telling the truth.

…

“Where is this place…”

Rin continued to look around.

No matter how far you walk, all you see is a suspicious space filled with gray smoke.

Deciding that further movement was pointless, Rin stood still and tried to grasp the current situation.

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Just stand there thinking about it for a while.

The space where there was only gray smoke was distorted, and soon it was transformed into another space in the blink of an eye.

It was a very familiar space.

When I was studying in the US, the classroom I always sat in.

It was the same as it was at the time.

“Hey chink… !”

Looking back, there were some very familiar faces.

Studying abroad in the United States.

It was the look of children who desperately longed for themselves.

“Why didn’t you say anything… !”

“Chinese punch!”

Rin didn’t think much of it and punched the nose of the white boy standing in front of her without hesitation.

Soon the child turned to black ash and began to disappear.

“So that’s what it looks like.”

It was only then that Rin was able to grasp the current situation.

I didn’t quite understand what he meant by facing my fears, but now I know.

“How dare you try to drive the people of a great country with a 5,000-year golden history to this extent! You underestimated me so much!”

Rin shouted loudly with her back straight.

Obviously, at this time, I was supposed to use the fact that I was being bullied as an excuse to provoke myself, but it didn’t hurt Rin at all.

It was because Rin hadn’t stressed about it at all since she had already been bullied in the past, or maybe she had been bullied.

If there was someone who kept bothering me, it was enough to throw a Chinese punch with all my might.

If the fools who tried to retaliate later took care of themselves properly, the people hired by their fathers would take care of them, so there was no need to stress.

“I see… Then how about this… ?”

Suddenly, a voice came from the empty void.

As if it was his own mistake, he spoke in a somewhat pouting voice, but as soon as he finished his words, the scenery around him was changing.

…

“This place… ”

What appeared this time was none other than the living room of his own house.

White polished marble floors, open views of the city.

No matter how you look at it, it was your living room.

“Rin, what are you doing standing there blankly?”

When she turned her gaze to the source of the deep voice, her middle-aged father, overflowing with force, was looking at her with strange eyes.

“Father… No, this is in vain…”

Rin was just taken aback by the vivid sense of reality.

At that moment, the bell rang and someone knocked on the front door.

“Who is so rude without contact… ”

Rin’s father frowned and muttered, then went to the front door and opened it.

Wearing sharp black uniforms and cold eyes, they began to rush into the house as soon as the door opened.

“Why is the public security suddenly… No, more than that, where are you coming in! Do you even know who I am?”

Thoroughly ignoring Lin’s jumping father, the public security officers approached the blankly standing Lin without hesitation.

Then he said in a cold voice.

“Chen Mei-Lin, I will be taken into custody for violating Article 4 of the National Security Law, seeking to divide the country and subvert the socialist system.”

“What do you mean! I never did that!”

“It was clearly obtained that he wrote tens of thousands of posts on the Internet bulletin board with the intention to realize democracy.”

The security guards grabbed her by the arms and began harassing her.

“Rin, is this story all true?”

“No Father! It’s all lies! I would…”

The father’s eyes began to turn cold.

Cold sweat began to flow like crazy, and Rin was desperately protesting that it had never happened.

“This is not real! You must wake up!”

Lynn struggled desperately to escape the police and started running out of the house.

There were policemen shouting loudly from behind.

Clutching his teeth and running and running, Rin repeated himself endlessly.

this is not real

By the time I was out of breath, the surroundings began to be enveloped in gray smoke again.

When he came to his senses, Rin was once again sitting in that gray space.

“I don’t know who it is, but is it only this much…? It’s not funny at all… so stop and get me outside…”

“… What is it… He’s still fine… I was going to let him go if he showed signs of remorse. What can I do?”

“Wait a minute! What can you do?”

The voice spoke resolutely, as if it was annoying now.

Sensing something ominous, Rin hurriedly tried to ask, but before she could finish her words, the surroundings had already begun to change.

“stop… ! No more…!”

Despite her desperate cry, her vision began to darken.

…

“Rin, wake up…”

Father’s voice, somehow all cracked, began to wake Rin.

When Rin barely opened her eyes, the blurred focus began to come into focus, and then her father’s image came into focus.

There was only a small room around, and mold was growing black in every corner.

“father… ?”

It was an unbelievable sight to see.

Where did his usual tiger-like spirit go? The father sitting in front of Rin was a rather skinny old man.

Even so, the original face remained, so Rin was able to recognize that he was her father.

“Are you really my father? How did this…”

“Does my appearance look strange? Just as usual…”

Rin couldn’t bear to ask any questions to her father, who was looking at her with a tilt of her head in a strange way.

“Dad, maybe your job is too hard…”

Rin asked in a trembling voice at the sight of her father, who couldn’t adapt.

And the father’s reply made Rin’s heart sink.

“Lin, what do you mean by work?”

With an innocent expression, the face of the father who asked as if he did not know anything was full of curiosity.

“That, that… of the party…”

“What…? Party…? What is it… Rin?”

Rin couldn’t calm his trembling voice.

“Ooh, our 5,000 years of great country history…China…”

“Did you even have a dream?”

I felt like I was going to lose my mind at the father’s answer that followed.

“China, that country has already disappeared more than 30 years ago. It has already been divided into dozens of countries, so why are you saying strange things?”

Lynn lowered her head in indescribable fear. No matter how much I tried to repeat that this was not reality, I couldn’t win against this sense of reality.

“Rin, why are you not saying anything?”

“sorry…”

“yes? I can’t hear you well.”

The father smiled at Rin as he asked, and he had a satisfied expression on his face.

“I’m sorry… Please stop now… I was wrong… I don’t like it anymore…”

Rin cried and covered her head and murmured.

“I won’t do that anymore… I won’t talk back, so stop doing this…”

Rin trembled and sat down looking as if she was about to burst into tears at any moment.

Everything around turned back to gray smoke, and again voices began to be heard in the air.

“Can you come to your senses now?”

“I was wrong… I won’t do that anymore…”

“You seem to be reflecting enough. How do you feel about facing your own fears?”

The voice asked Rin, who was trembling, as if she was having fun.

“No more… please…”

Rin begged in a tearful voice, almost begging.

Then the voice laughed a lot and said that it had passed.

“Originally, you shouldn’t be like this, but today I’m having too much fun, so I’ll forgive you. you pass.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Rin’s vision brightened, and soon everything around him was swallowed up in light.

And Rin was barely able to come to his senses.

…

“So… That… No… It must have been really hard…”

I patted the trembling Rin on the back.

To be honest, I didn’t sympathize with anything, but given her personality, there was probably no more fear than that.

I felt sorry for Rin, but somehow, I felt like a smile was creeping up on me.

I really shouldn’t be like this.

I laughed slightly.