I'm a teacher in Tokyo!

Yoshizaki Kawakami couldn't imagine that scene.

The second one, if they keep indulging in such a false dream, what about in reality?

If I were to become a vegetable in reality, wouldn't everything I've experienced in reality be for nothing?

What would Kayako do if she knew her teacher had become a vegetable?

None of these paths are ones you can choose on your own!

Listening to his dream self speaking eloquently, Yoshizaki Kawa's expression turned extremely grim: "Isn't there any other way out?"

You have three years to think of other solutions.

Yoshizaki Kawa smiled and said in the dream, "After this time, this beautiful dream will continue indefinitely. Of course, if you are capable enough, you can also take Tomie with you, making her completely fall into this beautiful dream until she dies."

"Damn it, how could I, such an upright and good person, have a doppelganger with thoughts like yours?"

Yoshizaki Kawa retorted, listening to the wild and inappropriate words uttered by his own dream self.

"You'll have to ask yourself that."

"Let's go, it's time for class."

He stood up, dusted himself off, and was about to leave when he seemed to remember something. He turned back and said one last thing to Yoshizaki Kawa: "Oh, right, there's one more thing I almost forgot to tell you."

"Make a decision as soon as possible. The longer you stay here, the more memories you'll absorb and the more you'll forget about reality. By then, even if you want to make other decisions, you'll feel like your reality is a dream. Don't blame me for not warning you then, because—I will gradually accept my identity in this world and forget my past."

"I might still be able to help you within this month. After this month, I will be the Heisei-sensei teacher, but of course—you will still be Yoshizaki Kawa. Your memories are not so easily replaced; you'll have to wait for yourself to forget them."

After saying that, he smiled and left.

Yoshizaki Kawa was left standing alone in front of the flower bed for a long, long time before finally sighing, "A month?"

Within this month, I must come up with a way to keep this world running while also letting Tomie know that the other world is the reality.

This means that he must both stab Kayako according to Tomie's memory and not actually stab Kayako.

……

In reality, another ten minutes or so have passed.

Looking at Yoshizaki Kawa, who was still fast asleep, Kotoko also felt something was wrong. Before, he would only sleep for half an hour at most, but now he had been sleeping for more than two hours.

Could something have gone wrong in the dream?

But Kotoko doesn't know much about dreams, and she doesn't usually dream much herself.

But time in dreams must seem to pass longer than in reality.

So, how many days have passed for him in the dream?

Have they found Tomie Kawakami? Or has he already begun the rescue?

"We can't just sit here and wait to die; we should find other ways."

It is indeed somewhat irresponsible to leave everything to Yoshizaki Kawa.

However, because this matter involved Tomie Kawakami, Kotoko didn't dare to set up an altar and ask the gods like she did with Kayako before.

After all, the scene of the gods being erased was still vivid in their minds.

There are indeed many gods that one can worship, but one cannot consume them in this way.

"Let's find a mage skilled in locating people to find out the specifics."

"Or perhaps we should find a dream-reading mage?"

Higa Kotoko had thought of this before, but at the time she was afraid that the curse would affect these mages and cause them trouble.

But seeing that Yoshizaki Kawakami had not woken up for a long time, Higa Kotoko could no longer care about anything else.

"Wait another two hours. If it really doesn't work, we'll have to take action."

She dared not make any rash moves against Yoshizaki Kawa, for fear that her every action would affect him.

Chapter 194 Kayako, Join the Game

Yoshizaki stood on the flower bed for a long time until the bell rang to signal the end of physical education class, at which point he slowly stood up.

It was precisely because this class was a physical education class that the person in my dream brought me here and told me so many things.

As he stood up, he inexplicably thought of a sentence, as if amusing himself: "It seems that the physical education teacher in this dream world is quite robust and not so prone to illness."

He stood up, walked towards the crowd, bypassed the students who were gathering under the guidance of the PE teacher, and was about to head to the classroom.

In the corridor near the classroom, he was stopped at the top of the stairs by a girl with black hair and a short skirt.

The girl frowned, and her first words were:

Do I know you?

Yoshizaki looked at the girl for a moment, initially thinking she was a friend from the dream who was helping him get to know himself better. However, after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't recall her name from his memory, so he nodded: "We're in the same school, so it's normal for us to recognize each other, right?"

Kurosawa Sashige stared at the male classmate in front of her for a long time. She knew she had never seen him before, but for some reason, she felt that his face was very familiar, just like the English teacher in the office.

Every time I see them, a strange memory flashes through my mind.

Kurosawa Saege —

At the same time, when Yoshizaki heard the girl in front of him say that her name was Kurosawa Sae, his expression did not change, but his heart was in turmoil.

She flashed a bright smile, her youthful face radiating with innocence.

"Do you know Tomie Kawakami? What about Kotoko Higa? What exactly happened when you were with Tomie Kawakami?"

This means that she experienced the entire process of Tomie becoming like this!

Unfortunately, it seems that Tomie has completely erased his memories and implanted the memories of this dream, making him a true student.

Yoshizaki Kawa was stunned for a moment, then quickly grabbed her hand, carried her on his back, and ran towards the infirmary.

This demonstrates the terrifying power of brainwashing in Tomie's dream.

The two exchanged a single glance before distancing themselves.

"Your name is... Yoshizaki Kawa, Saitama Prefecture..."

During the frantic run, at the edge of the stairs, I ran into Tomie, who was holding an English book and throwing a bouquet of flowers into the trash can.

Then she forgot what she was supposed to say next, and hesitated for a moment. But when she remembered that the place she was in was also called Saitama Prefecture, she seemed to feel relieved: "It's nice to meet you. Maybe it's because we met by chance before, but I always felt that you were familiar to me."

"It's her, Tomie... Are you Yoshizaki Kawa? Take me with you..."

Now that she has met another person who stirs her memories, she is naturally unwilling to let him go.

She instinctively touched her neck, about to speak, but all the memories flashed through her mind and then burst and disappeared like bubbles.

However, why didn't my clone tell me that Kurosawa Sae was also in this world? Could it be that my clone's memories of this part of the world are starting to fade?

Yoshizaki Kawa didn't think much of it and just smiled slightly: "Hello, my name is Yoshizaki Kawa."

"I don't know. Just now at the stairwell, she suddenly had a nosebleed and fainted for no reason."

A brief conversation, followed by a rapid run.

If I could awaken her memories, perhaps I could find out what happened before and thus find a way to save Tomie?

Thus, she would completely become the person Tomie saw her as, and embark on the path of killing Kayako.

But at this moment, Kurosawa Sae didn't have that sense of age and vicissitude; she looked exactly like a high school girl.

Hearing the male classmate's hurried words, Kurosawa Sae seemed to realize something. Her pupils contracted slightly, and the hand that had been lowered from her neck immediately covered it again: "I...I..."

"Well, can we get to know each other? My name is Kurosawa Sae."

She is Kurosawa Yae's younger sister, and based on what Kurosawa Yae said, it can be inferred that she was with Tomie when she was in trouble.

Moreover, Yoshizaki could sense that his words had had some effect on the girl in front of him; she definitely remembered something, but under some kind of power, what she remembered was also being quickly erased.

Kurosawa Sashige grabbed Yoshizaki Kawa's sleeve sharply, about to say the next word, but just then, two streams of bright red blood slowly flowed from her nose, and then—

"Quickly, tell me, this is your only chance to leave this world!"

"My throat was slit, how could I still be alive? What on earth is going on...?"

Yoshizaki Kawa didn't know exactly how old Kurosawa Sae was, but considering that Yae had said she had been gone for decades, and considering her age before the ceremony, she must be at least forty years old.

But those memories flashed by and then disappeared, and I couldn't remember them at all. In the end, I only knew that the memory had flashed through my mind and that those memories were related to the person who looked like that.

At the same time, blood dripped onto the ground.

Yoshizaki River——

Therefore, although I have a certain resistance, as long as I forget about things in reality, the memories in my dreams will quickly fill up the reality that I have forgotten.

Finally, he leaned against the railing on his side.

"Tick-tock-"

The world spun around her, and she fell backward, powerless, her hands still tightly gripping Yoshizaki Kawa's clothes.

Faced with that familiar English teacher, whom she called a "devil," Kurosawa Sae was too afraid of her to approach her or utter such words.

The name was like a finger touching a sensitive string in her heart. She was stunned for a moment, and images flashed through her mind: crows flying high in the sky, an isolated courtyard, inside a carriage, blood splattering, and suffocation coming like a tidal wave. Finally, all the images settled on a man wearing glasses, a trench coat, and a teacher's badge on his chest.

Seeing that there was no one else in the corridor, Yoshizaki decided to tell her more in order to awaken her memory.