Chapter 149 Vigilance
Pain.
A tearing pain all over her body.
Consciousness slowly awoke from the darkness. Kazumi was still surrounded by formless chaos. Compared to the real world, it felt more like a person’s spiritual world, but the tearing sensation coming from another dimension seemed to drag her out of here.
[Where is this?]
She couldn’t even feel her own body, yet the boundless pain kept assaulting her brain. This feeling was truly strange. It was as if she could clearly feel the pain, but couldn’t find the source of the pain at all.
Forcing down the feeling of pain in her mind, Kazumi began to focus on the surrounding environment. Black mist enveloped her. Just touching it, she could feel the thick negative emotions emanating from the mist.
“What happened to me? I remember before…”
She retracted her hand and touched her forehead in a daze. The memories from before, mixed with the surrounding black mist, surfaced little by little in her mind.
“Being chased by enemies, escaping with Sato Shinichi, and being pushed down the slope by him when I was about to use my ability.”
As Sato Shinichi’s name was mentioned, the surrounding black mist seemed to be drawn by something and began to churn wildly. Her calm heart was also stirred, and the emotion named [Resentment] spread from the bottom of her heart.
“What is this feeling…”
Biting her lip hard, trying to dispel the emotion from her heart, the last expression magnified within the young girl’s heart endlessly. The feeling of her heart being churned reappeared, and because it was a spiritual space, it even became more intense.
“Hoo— Is it because of this black mist?”
Standing still, Kazumi closed her eyes. After a while, she slowly exhaled. The distorted expression on her face gradually calmed down.
Perhaps it was due to her own ability, but the strong negative emotions did not affect Kazumi as much as imagined, or rather, they had not reached the extent of being able to control Kazumi’s emotions.
This was already a terrifying thing. Known for her ability, apart from the emotional fluctuations caused by her feelings for Sato Shinichi, it was difficult for other things to cause any ripple in the young girl’s heart.
This was also why she was able to perceive the influence of the surrounding black mist on her. Although her current state was that her heart ached unbearably whenever she thought of the boy’s final betrayal, at least her basic normal thinking was not lost.
After overcoming the hatred transformed from affection in her heart, Kazumi keenly discovered that something was wrong. In fact, it was precisely because of the influence of this black mist that she could be more certain that all of this was definitely not what she saw.
[Why control my emotions in such a way? Is it his twisted pleasure? Or is there some other purpose?]
Kazumi’s train of thought grew, and many things about this matter were unreasonable. If the other party only acted out of his own twisted pleasure, then all of this would be for the sake of killing her, and all these playful actions would end after he killed her.
And Sato Shinichi’s final actions were also difficult to explain by common sense after careful consideration. Setting aside the flimsy reasons shrouded in negative emotions, Sato Shinichi’s actions were also contradictory.
If he chose to push her towards the enemy for survival, then his actions of coming to find her despite the danger, or his choices when facing that decision, would all be unreasonable.
[There must be something wrong with this, for example, being controlled by someone?!]
A glint flashed in her eyes, as if she had found the real reason. The young girl raised her head somewhat excitedly, but the next moment she crouched down again due to intense pain, clutching her head tightly with both hands.
“No! The black mist is affecting me too much. I can’t think about these things too much anymore.”
It was at this moment that Kazumi discovered the true effect of the black mist. As soon as she thought of the boy, the images in her memory would be spontaneously triggered, and the black mist intertwined with fragments of hatred would firmly occupy her entire consciousness.
After crouching on the ground for a while, Kazumi finally broke free from the control of hatred and stood up with a pale face.
“But the purpose of this matter is still unclear, and it’s definitely not just the twisted pleasure that person showed on the surface. Why would such a strong practitioner target me like this, and with such a terrifying ability to manipulate emotions?”
Kazumi’s eyes flickered with complex emotions. If it weren’t for her own ability, she probablyWouldn’t even have the qualification to resist it in her consciousness, and would have already become a puppet of hatred.
“Uncle Fukada’s enemy? A forgotten issue with my parents? Or to target Grandpa Sato?”
She briefly considered her relationships, but because her circle was too complicated, Kazumi couldn’t immediately figure out the real reason for being targeted.
“Hoo— The bigger problem now is how to get out of here.”
She exhaled again and looked up at the silent darkness around her. The terrifying stinging sensation on her body was gradually fading with the passage of time. And if Kazumi remembered correctly, she should have been saved by some power in the end, otherwise, her so-called consciousness would have long since disappeared with the death of her body.
[Is it a hero who rushed to my aid?]
Lowering her head, she pondered the hero who might have come to rescue her. But the next moment, the surrounding darkness seemed to be dispelled by something, and dazzling white light occupied the entire world.
…
The young girl on the hospital bed slowly opened her eyes. The white light from above seemed particularly harsh in her eyes, which had not been opened for a long time.
Subconsciously squinting her eyes to adjust to her surroundings, the young girl observed everything around her in a daze.
Disinfectant, white, bed, hospital.
All the characters condensed in the young girl’s mind, composing the entire event, and the cause of the event gradually emerged from her mind.
“Kazumi!”
A somewhat familiar excited voice came from her ear. Beside the woman with a disgusting aura standing by the hospital bed, there was a boy covered in thick bandages, who gave her a strange feeling.
Sato Shinichi looked at the slowly opening young girl nervously. Disregarding the doctor’s dissuasion, he immediately went to Kazumi’s side, wanting to reach out and hold the hands of the girl he had been worried about for several days.
“Snap—”
But the next moment, with a crisp slapping sound, the boy saw the girl on the hospital bed instinctively opening her palm, and her icy eyes holding a deep, ice-like vigilance.
(ps: The trustworthy Yugan said there would be an update later, and there is an update! Full of spirit!)
