Evolution of a Girl

"Yes."

Tianyin carefully folded the bathrobe and put it aside.

Her eyes were drawn to the scar that ran through the front and back of the puppet.

This penetrating wound did not cause irreparable damage to the Yikui, but it was obvious that if it had been a little more deflected, the Yikui would have been in great danger.

She was very curious.

But as a puppet, she couldn't ask the righteous puppet at this moment.

She was just like the real "Otonashi 001", mechanically helping the puppet.

"..."

For a moment, the atmosphere became a little strange.

"It's a stab wound."

Although it was a cross-shaped injury, Tianyin had already simulated the situation in his mind.

A sword pierced through the puppet at an extremely high speed, then quickly pulled out. Just as the puppet was about to lose its balance, it stabbed in again...

but……

Who is it?

Tianyin couldn't help but feel curious.

However, Yikui did not speak.

He just closed his eyes and rested, as if he was a master receiving service from a robot, or as if he was a parent receiving comfort from his child.

"What on earth is going on..."

After Yikui came out of the shower, the maid robot had completed a quick charge and regained its mobility.

Tianyin was also taken away by Otonashi 002 again and returned to the suitcase.

Immersed in darkness, the image of her father's body lingered in her mind...

Then, Tianyin gradually fell asleep...

The girl slowly opened her eyes.

The surroundings were no longer dark, but I was in a small bed, and outside, there was a clear sky.

——This is the world of dreams.

Unlike the dreamland with the cherry blossom trees, Tianyin occasionally has experiences in her dreams.

These dreams are not real, but illusory bubbles created by the collision of the world's information in the void.

Born with dreams, died with dreams.

"Well……"

However, this time it felt a little different.

Tianyin herself couldn't quite remember this dreamlike scene, but this time, she seemed to feel it with unusual clarity.

"She" is a girl adopted by the Hoshino family, named Hoshino Amane.

Tianyin didn't react much to this. In her dreams, her last name kept changing. She vaguely remembered that in one dream, her name seemed to be Tianyin Stark or something.

However, Tianyin prefers the name "Kamiyo Tianyin".

Moreover, her family's surname "Kamiyo" is very special and different from the general "Kamiyo" - the origin of this surname comes from "Yamataka Kamishiro Sakura", one of the five major cherry blossoms, which is a very special origin.

So she likes this last name.

Get up, wash up, and greet your adoptive parents.

"Well……"

Dreams are illusory and unreal, just like Tianyin's adoptive parents.

However, when she stepped out of her home, Tianyin felt a strange sense of "reality".

"Hello." Tianyin heard a voice just after leaving home.

A girl of the same age as him, about four or five years old, was looking at him with a shining face.

The girl has short brown hair with a small braid tied at the back of her head, giving her a very energetic look.

"I'm Kanami Eto, who lives next door. Hello!"

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The Hoshino family has just moved in, and the girl living next door seems to be very interested in the Hoshino family.

"Hello. My name is Hoshino Tianyin." Tianyin greeted the other party.

"What are you looking at?" Tianyin noticed that the other party seemed to be looking at him.

"Light blond hair...are you a foreigner?" asked the girl named Eto Kanami curiously.

"No." Tianyin replied.

“Oh, is that so…” The energetic girl approached Tianyin.

“…” Tianyin subconsciously took a step back.

Yi Kui once told her to stay away from such suspicious guys...

"Hmm..." However, the other party took another step forward.

“…” Tianyin took another step back and stretched out his hand, signaling the other party not to come closer.

“Ah… sorry, sorry.” The other party looked a little embarrassed. “Because Tianyin has a particularly pleasant smell, I unknowingly got close to her…”

odor?

Tianyin tilted her head.

"I don't have any smell."

A very firm tone.

"Ah... I'm sorry..." Kanami lowered her head, "It's not the smell... well, it's just... that... very comfortable feeling..."

What is she saying?

I totally don't understand.

Sure enough, this is still a dream...

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Chapter 24 Born with a dream, died with a dream

"Eh……?"

When Tianyin opened her eyes, she found herself in Changying's dreamland.

She seemed a little confused.

Just now, she fell asleep in the dream world.

That strange girl named Kanami Eto kept asking Tianyin all kinds of questions, which made Tianyin a little tired.

This feeling is a rare experience in dreams.

Then, because she was a little tired, Tianyin fell asleep.

According to Tianyin's experience, he would stay in the dream for several months to several years, or even longer.

However, in the dream, Tianyin's sense of time is rather vague, and only a few traces of the content of the dream remain.

Just like Harry Potter who used the Force.

However, this time the dream was very clear, and it ended in just one day.

Even Tianyin did not wake up, but fell into a dream again.

How is this going?

"Success?"

Just when Tianyin was confused, she suddenly heard Lelouch's surprised voice.

"Ah, it worked. I don't know why, but just a moment ago, the passage to the dream world was connected, and the information from my world has flowed into the petals of Changying."

Zhenhong was holding a cherry blossom petal in her hand.

"Good night, Sister Shinku, Brother Lelouch, and Grandpa Isshin."

Tianyin walked up obediently and greeted the three people in the dream.

Lelouch looked at Amane and smiled, "Amane, you came just in time. Miss Shinku just finally succeeded. We really did create an artificial dream world."

"That being said, this dream world is just a dream, and it's different from my real world," Zhenhong added. "And the last step seems to have been due to some accidental reason. Just when you, Tianyin, came in, a strange energy flowed into the petals, forming the 'key'."

"..."

Tianyin blinked her big eyes.

She suddenly thought of "Eto Kanami", who seemed so real even in the dream world.

What on earth is going on in that world?

Shinku left her seat for once, walked up to Tianyin, and handed her a cherry blossom petal. "If you are ready, hold this cherry blossom petal in your hand."

"Ah."

Tianyin nodded.

She took a deep breath.

Tomorrow is July 15th.

Although there is still a month until the Puppet Festival, for Tianyin, she needs to officially start working from tomorrow.

If I could understand the world of Sister Zhenhong before this, then I would definitely understand better what it is like to be a puppet.

"But you have to be careful, although this dream is built based on my world, it seems to have mixed in a lot of impurities, and when you enter, it will inevitably have an impact on that world." Zhenhong warned Tianyin.

"Well, please give it to me."

Tianyin held the petals in her hands and closed her eyes.

In an instant, Tianyin felt as if she had fallen into a dream again. She lost her five senses, her surroundings fell into darkness, and even her body lost consciousness.

The dream was not as vague as before, but rather a clear feeling like when I met Kanami Eto before.

Because this is the world created by Sister Zhenhong?

Tianyin pondered.

“…Alice…Alice…”

Alice?

A strange sound came from my ears.

Tianyin once heard Zhenhong talk about the "Alice Game". Although Zhenhong seemed reluctant to say more, Tianyin had already paid attention to it at that time.

Tianyin's five senses gradually recovered.

What caught my eye was a somewhat decadent middle-aged man. He had an unshaven beard and his hair looked like it hadn't been taken care of in a long time. His face was thin and his eyes were dark circles, as if he hadn't slept for several days and nights.

At this moment, the other party was looking at Tianyin with an obsessed look.

"Alice...Alice...my perfect Alice..."

he muttered.

"..."

Tianyin tried to blink, but found that he was still unable to move.

She was a little confused, but soon she noticed that she was lying on a tool bench.

This decadent middle-aged man gently touched Tianyin with his hand.