Volume 1 - CH prologue 2

(Disclaimer: This part, may not be 100% accurate as it uses several expressions, which I don't understand. And when I put it in the MTL it was something like (or the most important thing to remember is that you can't go out and buy new jeans and new jeans and new jeans.) try to give it the best possible interpretation. Sorry if it may cause some inconvenience).

Prologue Dreams and the myth of rupture.

We humans and this world are constantly threatened by evil dreams of God.

God is real. Far away, in the consciousness of all human beings, we meet.In the depths of the unconscious sea, God exists.

The absolute being closest to what is generally called "God" has been dormant ever since, far away in the depths of our human consciousness. Because we are asleep, we are completely indifferent to human beings and therefore indifferent. He is so merciful and just.

Then God had a nightmare.

God is so well informed. That he dreamed of all the evils that exist in this world at once.

And because God is omnipotent, He has cut off and discarded this huge nightmare that cannot even be seen in human consciousness, which becomes evil and demonic in sleep. The abandoned nightmare bubbled up from the bottom of the ocean of the unconscious, breaking into a series of small bubbles and rising upward.

Up to ──── Our conscience.

The "nightmare bubbles" that emerge in our consciousness dissolve in our awareness due to their "omniscience" and mingle with the inherent fears of individuals.

And when the "nightmare bubble" is bigger than our consciousness, the nightmare overflows from the container. It leaks into reality.

Thus, our nightmares, mixed with God's nightmares, become real.

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"Then I'll be going, Mom."

"Have you forgotten something?"

"No... I think."

While giving such a vague answer, I sat down at the entrance and tied my shoelaces.

Shirano Aoi finished tying her shoelaces while interacting with her mother in the kitchen, stood up with a slightly hurried movement, picked up the student bag that had been placed beside her, and walked out the front door of the house quickly.

However, that does not mean that he is late.

To get to school normally, it's a little early. When Aoi left the house and walked out of the alley of the residential area into the driveway, she saw a girl in a sailor's uniform waiting at a vending machine near the bus stop, pretending to drink canned coffee.

"Sorry, Yukino-san, I'm a little late."

"...... "

When Aoi, recognizing the girl's appearance, screamed, the girl named Yukino had a striking, shapely appearance and a pale color on her face. Then, she threw the canned coffee, which had long been empty, into the trash next to the vending machine in a violent motion.

The sailor uniform with the elegant ribbon is different from the moss green uniform that Aoi wears, and it is from a public high school. Her skin is white as if out of snow, she looks a bit beautiful with angry eyes. 

However, the hair was tied by a black lace ribbon that changed the stiff image of the girl into something else. 

So-called Gothic Lolita items.

"......"

In front of Aoi, who was wondering what to say next, Yukino quietly turned away from the vending machine she was leaning against and slung back the black sports bag slung over her shoulder.

"...... Let's go. Yukino-san."

"Yes."

Yukino replied softly and quickly stood up and walked away.

Aoi, had a slightly worried expression on her face at the reaction, and followed the back of the sailor suit, wondering what was going on.

Today is Friday. For the past three days, Yukino has been waiting here every morning for Aoi.

At first she waited in front of Aoi's house, but her family mistakenly thought she was her girlfriend or something, and after her parents invited her in yesterday with a very strange atmosphere, Yukino's waiting place was changed to this place.

Yukino's black ribbon swayed sullenly at Aoi's eye level.

Even though they are in the same city, they go to different schools.

"As usual, sorry."

In any case, while looking at Yukino's back, Aoi thanked her for coming to pick him up.

"Nothing. I'm just doing my job, so don't worry."

Yukino replies without turning around. The first time, she was worried that he wouldn't like her, but after the past few days, she's learned that he has the same attitude with everyone at all times, so Aoi, who doesn't have that kind of inclination, is hardly bothered anymore.

"So that's your job, ...... It's hard, isn't it?"

"Not at all."

"School, it's going well isn't it?"

"Yes."

"I hear you've been missing a lot of school."

"I don't care. I'm only there because of my uncle."

"Uncle? Your tutor?" ...... No, I still think you should go to school."

"Now I don't want to lead a normal life. I'm going to become a monster. If I don't become a monster, ...... I won't be able to fight them ﹅﹅﹅﹅."

Yukino's voice lowers. If you get closer, you will hear the gnashing of her teeth.

Yukino paces as she walks through the city in the morning, rejecting everyday life.

She carries her sports bag over her left shoulder. She has a bandage wrapped, around her wrist is peeking out of her hand.

If one were to notice, one would instantly associate it with a cut wrist. And Aoi knows that it is not a normal wound, but is carved like a bunch of eyes.

However, Aoi was used to such things.

It's not that she doesn't feel rejection. However, Aoi could not leave girls who engaged in such acts alone, let alone the act itself.

It's probably due to memories of a girl who is no longer with us.

A childhood friend who used to play alone with him when he was a child, and who used to self-harm.

The memory of his first love when he was young ............

Aoi says.

"I think monsters are more frequent when they live normally."

The first time I saw her, I thought she was a monster.

"So I think it's easier to pretend to be normal, even if it's wrong to lie, it's convenient at the time, to enter high school or college."

Yukino doesn't answer.

"I heard your grades are dangerous, because you are absent from school, would you like to study with me if you want? If there's anything you don't understand, I think I can teach you a little."

The public school Aoi attends is a prestigious school. 

"What do you think?"

"...... Why do I have to study with you?"

Yukino stopped and looked at Aoi with cold eyes.

Whether from her embarrassment or anger, her cheeks were slightly red.

"No, ... Then I wonder if Yukino will have to be scolded for many bad things by her teachers."

"It's a big bother."

Yukino states a truism.

"Because, if you stand out, Yukino-san will be troublesome."

"...... You're noisy."

Yukino says after a moment of silence.

"And I'm happiest when Yukino is happy."

".................. Noisy. I'll kill you."

Yukino's voice became chilling.

Aoi falls silent. And Yukino turns in the original direction and started to walk quickly.

Following her back, Aoi lined up beside Yukino. Yukino looked at Aoi with a look of sadness, but she didn't say anything particularly negative.

The two of them have been going to school together like this for three days now. ......

I don't have a relationship with her. Nor does it mean that they are best friends or childhood acquaintance friends.

The first time Aoi met Yukino was only four days ago on Monday. This beautiful, slender and gorgeous girl the same age as Aoi is a bodyguard with special magical powers to protect Aoi, the one who was predicted to meet a huge "God's Dream Bubble" three days ago.

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Aoi was predicted to suffer from the bubble of a divine nightmare, which is known as the "bubble danger".

Aoi encountered "it" four days ago at night and was rescued by Yukino's hand.

It is said that sometimes people who have come back to life after the Bubble Danger are left with huge traumas and fragments of the Nightmare Bubble deep in their heart. These nightmare fragments, which the people themselves call "nightmare fragments," unravel in their minds the phenomena of the nightmare they have experienced and can invoke that nightmare.

Yukino has a "nightmare fragment."

She too was once caught in the Bubbling Disaster and survived it.

There are many survivors of such nightmarish bubbles around the world. Among them, there is a group of people who have carried fragments of the nightmare in their heads, along with horrific traumas, who help each other survive and work to save new victims.

A small active movement called the Lodge is spread throughout Japan.

They work secretly to rescue people from the bad dreams that arise in this world, and continue to hide the existence of God's nightmares and their own existence with God's nightmares from the eyes of most other people.

They are known as the Order of the Fragments.

Thus, I learned about the nightmare of humans and God ──── and the battle against "fairy tales".

The world is being devoured by the nightmares of the God.