Unspeakable bubbles

About three days ago, Kyoko started experiencing tinnitus; or rather, she began frequently hearing some incomprehensible sounds.

"Grumpy"

"G! G!"

“￥……￥＃￥……＆**……＆**（……＆”

Her eyes hurt, her stomach felt like it was filled with lead, her temples throbbed, and her mouth tasted fishy.

"It's so hot, I feel so uncomfortable."

Anzu curled up, feeling completely unwell.

Am I going to die?

'Hehehehe'

"who is it?"

'Whoosh whoosh whoosh'

"Don't talk in my head!!!"

"Apricot, apricot, poor apricot," something whispered in the chaos.

"Who's talking?" I barely managed to lift my eyelids; the surroundings were empty.

'Ah, what a poor girl, hee hee hee hee'—a sticky, terrible, chaotic sound.

A wave of nausea washed over her, this time especially intense, and the girl almost vomited up all her stomach acid.

Gasping for breath, Kyoko felt she couldn't go on.

"dong dong"

"Apricot, are you done yet? You've been inside for a long time." Her friend's worried voice came, but Apricot didn't want to say anything.

"The long-distance race is about to start, so we need to hurry."

Before she could finish speaking, the toilet doorknob turned, and Anzu slowly walked out.

"You startled me, Xingzi, you're so slow!" The female classmate laughed and grabbed Xingzi's hand. "Let's go!"

Long-distance running? Xingzi didn't think she was in a condition suitable for long-distance running at all.

To be rational, she should immediately ask the teacher for leave and then go to her dormitory to rest.

Xingzi walked to the starting line in a daze, her eyes filled with delusion.

Ask for leave?

Why are you asking for leave?

If I don't ask for leave, I'll collapse, I'll collapse...

So what if I fall?

People are worried, very worried.

Worried? So what if you're worried?

I'm worried, worried, worried... It's not good to make everyone worry.

Why is it bad?

why?

for?

what?

I don't know, I

I know nothing.

"Xingzi, what are you daydreaming about!"

She could vaguely hear Ms. Eve's voice.

Oh, so it's already started.

Beginning... what beginning?

Run!

Run? Is the teacher telling me to run?

Then let's run.

Run, take your first steps.

Rush, swinging your legs.

Hurry, be quick.

"So fast!" Xiaoshan looked incredulously at Xingzi, who had overtaken her and was running at an unbelievable speed.

She already knew that Kyoko had excellent athletic ability, but today's performance was just too exaggerated!

The girl moved like a gust of wind, easily surpassing all her classmates.

It quickly caught up with even the slowest bubble by a whole circle.

"Huff, huff," Bubble, panting heavily with her short legs, felt a gust of wind blow past her.

"Apricot, apricot?"

Watching Xingzi leave everyone else in the dust, Bubble cheered herself up in her heart.

"Go, go, Bubble!"

.................................................. ...............

"Hey Bubble, isn't Apricot in such great form today?" Xiaoshan said to Bubble after the long run.

"..."

The little girl lay on the lawn, panting heavily, unable to utter a single word.

"What a difference!" Xiao Shan sighed as she looked at Xingzi, who was surrounded by a group of girls in the distance and seemed to have done nothing, and then at Bubble, who was lying on the ground like a salted fish, unable to get up.

"Bubble, phew, you're still young. Later, phew, you'll, you'll get faster."

After struggling to utter those words, Bubble continued to lie there, lifeless.

'Hmm, Bubble, that also depends on talent... Besides, didn't you run one less lap than us?'

While inwardly complaining, Xiao Shan considerately refrained from saying it aloud.

"Hmm?" Just then, Xingzi seemed to say something in the distance. Ignoring the worried looks on her friends' faces, she left the crowd and walked towards the dormitory building alone.

"An opportunity!" Xiao Shan's eyes lit up, and she quickly ran towards a certain boy.

Xingzi walked slowly, feeling as if she could collapse at any moment.

My head is throbbing, my chest is cramping, and the sounds around me are getting louder and louder.

"buzzing"

"buzzing"

The sound of thousands of flies flapping their wings.

"Grumpy"

The churning mud made one feel nauseous.

"apricot"

"Apricot, are you alright?"

Who, who is calling me?

"Kyoko!"

The girl felt someone tug at her, and then she looked up.

"Oh, it's Yang-kun."

"Xiaoshan told me you went back to the dorm alone. Are you feeling unwell?"

The boy looked worried.

"buzzing"

Buzzing

"Grumpy"

"Gurgle gurgle gurgle"

A hollow "So noisy!" came from Xingzi's mouth.

"Huh?" The boy looked at her incredulously, hardly believing his ears.

"Oh no, I'm not feeling well."

Kyoko realized what was happening and forced a smile. "Yang-kun, let's get to the point. I want to go back and rest as soon as possible."

"Okay then."

The boy was silent for a moment, then said, "Xingzi, I'm leaving in a few days."

“I don’t want to part with Anzu, but…” The boy’s eyes dimmed.

If he could, he really wanted to go to junior high school and high school with the girl in front of him, and then...

“But I believe in Anzu,” the boy said, his eyes filled with expectation.

Believe, believe in what?

"Apricot can definitely do it!"

Do that? What do you want me to do?

"If I can recover, there's no reason why Xingzi can't."

'Lying, hehehe, he's lying,' a sticky, disgusting, and pleasurable sound.