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“….Oh my God, what am I doing?”
“….I wonder what.”
As soon as I got home, my mother packed me off.
I had told her I was going out, but suddenly she gave me a scary look when she said I smelled like a woman.
I also feel that my mother in the reverse world is so worried about me that she is becoming more and more restrained day by day…..Eei ! I want to complain to the God who created this world.
[You are my precious son……above all, my pride and joy, more precious than anyone else. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if anything happened to you.]
She hugged me saying that…..and now my mother is back to being as usual..
(Good job for once……)
Honestly, I couldn’t get away from my mother if she kept it up.
But…..I have to talk to her again after all, so I have to be prepared with the right words to tell her.
“…I’ll prepare a bath for you.”
My mother tilted her head and wondered what I was doing.
I was relieved that my mother was no longer visible, but I don’t want her to end up like Minase or Noto…but that’s not the case, right?
“……………”
I’d like to think so, but my mother over there is……not like that.
But I know how she feels–in a way, I’m too special for her.
I love my mother as a mother…that alone is enough to make me a rare person, but I’m the only one she can trust…when I think of that, I can’t strongly deny my mother over there.
I’d rather reassure her, that’s what I think.
“…Haa, even if that’s the case, I’ll keep sighing.”
After that, I finished my bath, finished dinner and spent the usual time alone with my mother.
Then after I went back to my room, I thought back to today.
“Wait a minute,……if you think about it calmly, today is going to be dangerous, right?”
So much has happened that I haven’t had time to pay attention to it, but it means the world has switched twice today.
It reversed while I was sleeping at karaoke, and then again when I was being confronted by my mother……really, if this has happened so often before, I’m really scared for myself for having lived through all of this without any discomfort.
“Let’s see,……SNS.”
I decided to check on social networking sites to see what has been going on for the day.
However, I still couldn’t find anything that could be called an anomaly, and all the posts I saw were still the same, not even a mention of this anomaly, let alone the movement of the world.
“……Haa, that’s enough of that. I’m going to sleep tonight.”
And I went to sleep, only to have one of the worst nightmares of all time.
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The next morning, my face in the mirror was terrible.
“……Who is this, oh it’s me. It’s not a zombie, it’s me.”
I must have slept for eight hours, but this face is just too much.
“……It was a dream, wasn’t it?”
Yes, I had a terrible dream.
I’m very worried about this world in which sense of virtue reversal occur frequently.
As if to ridicule me, I was forced to spend endless hours in a world where reversals occur dozens ….or hundreds of times a day–the characters were all people I didn’t know. I was treated by these people with two different personalities.
“……………”
It’s hard to just remember….and I seriously thought it was real and not a dream because I couldn’t realize it was a dream and my thoughts were made real.
I was having nightmares of women approaching me as sex objects……but the next moment they would look uncomfortable at my touch and move away…..and I would have to repeat it over and over again.
“If reality were to happen like that,…..it would be the end.”
I headed into the living room to quench my thirst, but my mother was gone.
Well, today was yoga class with the neighborhood wives in the morning….. she said she wouldn’t be back for lunch either, so in that case, let’s go out to eat somewhere.
After drinking some juice and feeling refreshed, I went back to my room and thought about what I was going to do in my pajamas.
“It’s strange…….I should have stayed cooped up when I thought about that dream, but on the contrary, I can’t stay cooped up.”
Well, that dream was certainly real, but it was too much like quicksand.
I quickly finished getting dressed and I went outside,……maybe I didn’t want to be alone.
Maybe I couldn’t bear to spend time in this helplessly gloomy mood and wanted to at least talk to someone.
“……………”
As if my wish came true, I met a certain classmate.
“…”
“Wait, who are you?
However…I was a little too deep in thought and wasn’t looking ahead.
It is more correct to say that I bumped into her rather than met her, and I bumped into Noto’s back as she was apparently standing still.
“Sorry…..I was looking elsewhere.”
“What do you mean, [looking elsewhere] you…..wait, what kind of face are you making??”
“Yeah.”
Although Noto had a suspicious look on her face, her expression instantly changed to one of concern and she pulled my hand.
The place she took me to was a bench set up nearby, and although many people crossed in front of us, it was still a rest area and a good space as long as they didn’t mind it.
“Is there something wrong with you if you met a classmate early in the morning and you make a face like you’ve seen a ghost…..?”
“Have you ever seen a ghost?”
“Of course not. It’s an analogy, an analogy.
“…………….”
Something happened…if it happened, it happened.
I had a mentally tough dream…but even if I talked about it in detail, what would happen if I said it, the only thing she would say is that it was just a dream.
“So, what happened? We’re classmates, so why don’t you talk to me?”
“……………”
It’s like…..Noto is still very kind these days.
Or rather, she’s changed in the same way as Minase…it’s not like my interactions with her in that world have been carried over, so why is Noto being so kind to me?
(I’m kind of enjoying my interactions with Minase,…..it’s healing,…..and I’m also happy that Noto is worried about me,…..well, let’s see how she reacts.)
Not that I’m going to tell you all about it…..I just took the plunge and said it out loud.
“I had a dream…a bad dream.”
“Dream……?”
“Yeah.”
I couldn’t see Noto’s expression.
I thought she would probably tell me not to worry about something like that, and maybe that’s why she looked so unhappy, but Noto had the exact opposite reaction from what I had imagined.
‘”So….that was a nasty incident, wasn’t it?”
“……Erm.”
“Come here, let me help you.”
“H-hey !”
Suddenly, Noto pulled me into a hug.
Just as she said, my back was gently rubbed and my head was patted, as if she were cradling a small child…she whispered in my ear.
“I’m sorry,…..I don’t know why I’m doing this either. But when I saw Sukui’s face, I wanted to do something for him. If I could make him feel at ease, I’d do something for him.”
“…… Noto.”
“I really don’t know why,……but will this calm you down a little?”
That kind of thing will make me more surprised and nervous than calm down.
But… it’s really reassuring to be treated like this…it’s like all the sounds around me have been drowned out, and I’m enveloped in the feeling that everything is really okay.
“I won’t ask you about the details of your dream. If you’re like that, it’s probably something you don’t want to talk about.”
“No, it’s not like—“
“Sssshhh……..hey, do you have time now?”
“Eh?”
“Ah, I…I’ll cheer you up even more !”
What do you mean ……?
Noto, who was strangely motivated, led me by the hand, and I continued walking as if I were with Minase yesterday…I arrived at a rather luxurious mansion.
“This is my house.”
“Eh……?”
This splendid house !? No, why are we here !?
And then, smoothly, I was invited to the house, and Noto’s room…in this situation where I didn’t really understand what was going on, Noto, who had disappeared for a while, returned.
“Ta-da ! !”
“……………”
She had bunny ears attached to her head and was wearing a black bunny costume.
“……??”
I’m sorry, I just have to say something.
Maybe I’ll pass out and have a dream before I know it……?
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