Master of the Machete Style Manga

Chapter 144 Judging a Person by Their Feet (Seeking Monthly Tickets!!!)
"Did someone call you just now?"

Ai Hoshihara pressed down on Ken Sakamoto's shoulder and looked to the side.

Kenya Sakamoto was looking in the same direction as her. Ai Hoshihara couldn't tell, but he could hear it very clearly; it was obviously Mio's voice.

A terrible thought popped into my head, completely distracting me to the point that I lost my focus.

Ai Hoshino looked down and asked, "What happened?"

Ken Sakamoto looked in the direction from which the voice had come and said, "Didn't you say there were only the two of us in the dream?"

Hoshihara Ai said, "That should be right... However, in dreams, you can actually perceive some sounds from reality, but they are different from what you just heard."

"How is it different?" Ken Sakamoto asked.

Ai Hoshino said, "First of all, I locked the door. Secondly, if someone were talking next to me in real life, the voice should come from all directions and not from a specific direction."

Ken Sakamoto stared at the vending machine but didn't notice anything, though he had already lost interest in continuing with Ai Hoshihara.

Ken Sakamoto got up and walked over there, with Ai Hoshihara following closely behind.

As he got closer to the place where the sound had come from, Ken Sakamoto felt his heart rate rise. He suddenly turned and jumped to the other side of the vending machine.

No one is empty.

Then I immediately went to check the adjacent public restroom, but it was empty.

“No way, I couldn’t possibly be hallucinating, could I?” Sakamoto Ken said.

“I heard it too, it can’t be a hallucination,” Ai Hoshihara said. “It’s a woman’s voice, what’s going on?”

Ai Hoshihara looked at Ken Sakamoto with a questioning gaze.

Ken Sakamoto coughed lightly and said, "I don't know... I'm just wondering why someone would call me."

"And he calls you Ken, which is very intimate," said Ai Hoshihara, crossing her arms and looking at Ken Sakamoto.

Ken Sakamoto thought for a moment and said, "After all, this is a dream, anything can happen, right?"

Ai Hoshino shook her head: "This is different from a normal dream. There shouldn't be any other people appearing under any circumstances... Hmm?"

Suddenly, something occurred to her. She frowned, stared at Ken Sakamoto, and said, "That voice just now, could it have been theirs?"

When asked this by Ai Hoshihara, Ken Sakamoto's lips twitched slightly in embarrassment. After thinking it over, he decided to tell the truth directly.

"Indeed..."

"So you're one of the other two people you were seeing behind my back?"

"Hmm... no, that's something from another timeline. That Sakamoto Ken was dating two other people behind your back, it has nothing to do with me."

Ai Hoshino stepped closer to Ken Sakamoto, raised her hand to pinch his chin, stared intently at him, and asked, "Name."

"..."

"Did not say?"

"...That's not important, is it?"

Ai Hoshino said, "What, are you afraid I'll deal with them?"

“Not really…” Sakamoto Ken touched his chest and said, “It’s just that you guys stabbed me in the back, so it’s normal to have some psychological trauma. Please understand.”

Ai Hoshihara grabbed Ken Sakamoto and said, "Take me to see them."

"not the right time yet……"

“I won’t talk about my relationship with you, I just want to see them, but I don’t have to talk to them,” Ai Hoshihara said.

"Let go first..."

Hoshino Ai let go, took a step forward, looked around, and indeed did not see anyone else.

"Anyway, it's about time, let's go out first," said Ai Hoshihara.

"So how do we get out?" Ken Sakamoto asked.

“It’s good that you’re awake,” Ai Hoshihara said.

“Wake up…” Sakamoto Ken said, “Didn’t you forget to set an alarm? And you locked the door, so how are you going to wake up?”

Ai Hoshihara stood still, closing her eyes. Ken Sakamoto walked over, and seeing that she was motionless, reached out to touch her body.

The moment her fingertips touched him, she discovered that Ai Hoshino had suddenly vanished.

"Huh?" Sakamoto Ken walked to the spot where Hoshihara Ai had just stood. Two footprints were still visible on the sandy park floor.

Oh, right, footprints.

Ken Sakamoto only remembered when he saw Ai Hoshihara's footprints, and he immediately bent down to search nearby.

The open space in the city park is covered with fine sand, and you can leave a trail as soon as you walk through it.

Soon, he saw a series of footprints next to the public restroom. These were completely different from the footprints he and Ai Hoshino made barefoot; they were clearly made by people wearing shoes.

The shoe print has diamond-shaped patterns, which are the anti-slip texture of the sole. However, Kenjiro Sakamoto was too idle to look at the soles of their shoes, so he didn't know which pair of shoes made the print.

However, judging from the size...

Ken Sakamoto brought his foot up.

His foot is 27cm long, and this footprint is about two centimeters shorter than his foot.

However, considering that shoes are slightly longer than the actual foot length, the owner of this footprint has a foot length of about 24cm.

Haruna's feet are small, only 22.5cm, while Ai Hoshihara's are 24.5cm, slightly longer than Mio Natsume's. The difference is mainly in the shape of the feet rather than the length.

Based on the sound I just heard, it was indeed left by Natsume Mio.

Could she have been here just now? But how come she disappeared after just one sound?
He immediately looked this way, and there was nowhere else to hide.

This dream has a unique feature: the basic environment is based on his memory, but the clothes they wear are consistent with what they wore in reality at the time.

It should be a recreation of their own impression of what they were wearing when they entered the dream.

This was proven in Ai Hoshihara's case; the clothes she changed into before leaving her house were also seen by Ken Sakamoto in his dream.

Of course, it wasn't worn by her; it was taken off and left on the back of the sofa.

If, just if, Mio just entered this dream and saw him and Ai Hoshihara together...

No, why did I suddenly feel this way?

Ken Sakamoto patted his forehead, trying to shake off his random thoughts and calm himself down.

He stood up and walked around the area by himself to make sure no one else was there.

Suddenly, Hoshino Ai's voice was heard.

"Ah Jian, wake up, it's time to get up."

Just as Ai Hoshino had said, the sounds coming from the outside world seemed to be coming from all directions at the same time.

Then I felt the whole world shaking, everything in front of me rapidly shrank, and my vision returned to darkness.

Slowly opening her eyes, she saw Ai Hoshino sitting on the edge of the bed, holding a tablet.

Ken Sakamoto sat up, looked at the various data and charts on the screen, and asked, "So what are the results of the experiment?"

Ai Hoshino looked at the tablet in her hand and said, "Strange... there's a sudden peak in the middle."

The basic data was actually the same as what she had tested herself before. In this dream, the brain reacted differently than when a normal person is dreaming; it was more like a high-intensity thought process.

Today's monitoring data showed that both of their data were as expected in the initial stages, until a period of time before they woke up, when Sakamoto Ken's brainwave data suddenly peaked for several minutes, with the intensity being twice as high as before, and by a full two times.

It's like a server whose load suddenly doubles.

She stared at Ken Sakamoto and said in a serious tone, "Someone did enter our dream just now."

"Can you tell from this?" Sakamoto Ken asked curiously.

"Never mind all that." Ai Hoshino put down her tablet and said, "Now take me to see them. Don't worry, I won't hold it against them. You old scumbag, don't always worry that I'll kill you."

"He's not a scumbag..."

"no?"

"Not old……"

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(End of this chapter)