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Chapter 8

She yelled back at her reflection with a newly discovered anger. She glared at the one trying to mess with her and violently tossed the music box at the ground, breaking it into pieces. The song finally stopped and she felt her heart cracking.

Koishi(?): You can't accept that someone will leave you, it does not allow you to remember the cruel destiny of humans.

She slowly pointed her third eye, firmly closed. Silently staring at it, she looked at the one on her reflection and saw the opposite, an eye wide open and staring at her.

Koishi: Leave me alone, I don't want to remember!

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Koishi: ...

She woke up and felt an unknown tiredness in her head, making her limited thoughts hazy. She woke up from a dream that she couldn't remember anymore, it was gone and she would never be able to see it again.

Koishi: ...Mister Y/N?

She was sitting against the mountain and staring at the rising Sun, the dawn of a new day. However, she couldn't find the librarian that accompanied her. She stood up and looked around, only finding him looking down at the rest of the hill.

Koishi: Mister-!

She recovered her usual smile of lies and rushed to his side, only to stop herself. Her expression was broken when she noticed that blood was at his feet and his blade was stained with it as well. The man turned to greet her and gave her a smile that she couldn't give back.

Y/N: I guess you're a morning person, the Sun is still down.

Koishi: What happened?

She asked him and pointed the blood around him. He followed what she was pointing realized what she was talking about. He told her to give him a moment and he pulled up his sleeves, revealing many wounds made by a blade.

Y/N: I had a hard time staying awake so I had to resort to extreme methods.

Koishi: Huh? Why did you cut yourself?!

Y/N: What are you talking about? It's because you were asleep, someone has to be awake at all time, what if we got attacked?

Koishi: You can't do that, you're going to die!

Y/N: Woah, someone's a little emotional today. I wasn't expecting you to be the one to yell at me.

He hid his self-inflicted wounds and took a deep breath, enduring the pain his body was putting him through. He had to remain awake or else he wouldn't be able to defend himself if someone tried to attack him. With her also asleep, he also had to remain awake to make sure nothing would try to pull a fast one on her.

Y/N: But still, I'll be fine, I feel dizzy but that's all, I should recover soon.

Koishi: ...Mister Y/N? When was the last time you properly slept?

Y/N: Why the sudden question?

He asked her while cleaning his weapon from his own blood. He placed it back in its sheath and returned its focus to the youkai, waiting for her answer.

Koishi: Because... your book said that you're tired, yea!

Y/N: ...You just made that excuse on the spot.

Koishi: How did you know?

Y/N: Experience... and it was also very obvious.

The air turned around them and gave life to the plants on the mountain. The girl with the sealed eye blankly watched the man that did not hesitate to harm himself just to not fall asleep.