This Japanese Monogatari Isn't Lame
Chapter 377 - 264. What Was I Trying to Do Just Now? (Goal of 8,000 Words Achieved!)_2

Chapter 377: Chapter 264. What Was I Trying to Do Just Now? (Goal of 8,000 Words Achieved!)_2

"Anyway, they actually sensed it and even notified me."

"Really?" Beichuan Si frowned.

Shen Gu Mirai actually had no reason to lie about this matter, after all, if the tired woman caused her trouble, it would be she herself who faced the consequences.

It couldn’t possibly be because they thought he had a pleasant dream and decided not to wake him, right?

That would be too nonsensical.

Luckily, Shen Gu Mirai and the others didn’t wake Beichuan Si.

From this, Beichuan Si roughly estimated the tired woman’s strength and the strategy to deal with her.

Firstly, the tired woman wasn’t an unsolvable existence; her control over dreams indeed greatly exceeded that of ordinary people, able to build the scenes she desired at will.

However, that was also her weak point.

Because she was in the dream, she could create anything in someone else’s dream.

But also because she was in the dream, she could only change the environment within the dream, the final decision still depended on the dreamer’s own thoughts.

When you see something terrifying in a dream, you naturally think towards something even more terrifying.

Seeing a severed hand, you think of a dismembered body. Seeing a dismembered body, you think of a bizarre and terrifying environment...

This is the divergence of human thoughts.

The tired woman just needed to guide the other person’s thoughts in that direction; even if you wanted to restrain your own thoughts, that would be very difficult.

The brain always unconsciously thinks about some things, sometimes it’s not something humans can actively suppress.

Especially in the state between sleep and wakefulness in a dream, a person’s self-control also significantly decreases.

For someone like Beichuan Si, who remains indifferent no matter what scene he sees, even devoid of any thoughts, it’s very rare.

And thinking towards something more terrifying was exactly what the tired woman wanted; she could gradually lead you into the deep abyss she constructed step by step.

"Anyhow, remember to bring the Voodoo Doll." After telling Shen Gu Mirai about the things he had seen, Beichuan Si gave her a final reminder.

"I understand." Shen Gu Mirai nodded firmly.

As long as you do not think towards a more terrifying direction in the dream, stay calm...

"Phew..."

Shen Gu Mirai gently exhaled and hung the Voodoo Doll around her neck.

"Mr. Temple, I’m going to rest now." Shen Gu Mirai, taking the Shinra Bell and Nishijou Kurenai with her, greeted Beichuan Si and then returned to her room.

Looking at the blurry white ceiling, Shen Gu Mirai slowly closed her eyes.

At this time of night, it always felt like the surrounding noises had been peeled away.

Once her eyes were closed, her other senses became much sharper.

She could hear the sound of the wind howling...

She could hear the voices of men and women quarreling in the distance...

She could hear...

She didn’t know how much time had passed, but Shen Gu Mirai felt absolutely no sleepiness.

She wanted to get out of bed.

She wanted to have a drink of water.

Huh?!

Shen Gu Mirai moved her body.

She couldn’t move!

She was completely unable to move!

Her limbs felt extremely heavy, and even opening her eyelids seemed to require infinite effort.

Shen Gu Mirai’s lips moved, and she breathed laboriously.

What was going on? Why was this happening?

Shen Gu Mirai could feel that her mind was clear, but it was as if her actions were locked, lying in bed utterly motionless.

Could it be that she had already started dreaming?

The thought gave Shen Gu Mirai a sudden shock.

When exactly had she fallen asleep? Why couldn’t she remember at all?

She struggled to open her eyes, but all her effort could only pry open a tiny slit.

Through that slit, Shen Gu Mirai saw...

It was a faceless woman with a pale blue complexion.

The opponent’s smooth head was facing Shen Gu Mirai’s face, with long arms firmly pinning down her limbs, preventing her from moving at all.

The tired woman!

Shen Gu Mirai’s heart chilled, numerous thoughts of fear about to erupt at any moment.

But she forcefully suppressed them.

She forcefully held back her thoughts.

But the next moment, Shen Gu Mirai felt it.

The thick palm of the assailant tightly covered her nose and mouth, and he was gradually applying more pressure!

Shen Gu Mirai’s body stiffened.

She was already unable to move, and now being smothered, she naturally couldn’t breathe.

Shen Gu Mirai quickly felt the symptoms of oxygen deprivation.

Dizziness, headache, tinnitus, blurred vision, limbs weak and powerless!

She experienced small convulsions all over her body.

Subconsciously, she remembered the words spoken by Beichuan Si.

"This is your own dream, and thus you also have the ability to control your own dream. In fact, you shouldn’t be afraid, and you cannot be afraid because the moment you truly believe you’re ’dead,’ your body in reality will also die."

Control her own dream?

Easier said than done, Mr. Temple!

Shen Gu Mirai screamed in her mind.

The assailant’s strength continued to increase, and Shen Gu Mirai’s mind raced faster, numerous ideas for rescue flashing through her mind—

"Mr. Temple!"

Her mind shifted, thinking of that cold, expressionless youth.

What Mr. Temple would do at this time...

What would he do?

What expression did he have when he saw the tired woman...

Shen Gu Mirai frantically fleshed out the image of Beichuan Si in her mind, the next moment—

Bang!!!!

Someone kicked the door open.

A dark figure walked into the room and directly leaped, kicking towards the tired woman who was smothering Shen Gu Mirai fiercely!

Amid an eerily deathlike atmosphere, that kick directly smashed the tired woman’s head.

And the moment the tired woman left, Shen Gu Mirai felt the invisible constraints on her body being lifted.

She rolled over to get out of bed and went to stand behind "Beichuan Si."

"Mirai, stand a bit more to the back."

Perhaps due to being in a dream, Beichuan Si’s expression had also softened a lot.

He reached out and patted Shen Gu Mirai’s head, then step by step moved towards the tired woman.

As the tired woman saw Beichuan Si’s face clearly, she actually screamed in terror, smashing through the window with a bang and disappearing into the night.

"...Mr. Temple, what on earth did you do to the tired woman in your dreams?"

Shen Gu Mirai couldn’t help but stick out her tongue.

The fact that the sight of Beichuan Si’s face scared her like that, also revealed just how horrifically Beichuan Si must have treated the tired woman in his dreams.

In front of her, Beichuan Si never bragged about such things; what he said was more like, "I came across a spiteful spirit at XX, and then I took care of it." Such a simple sentence.

"But this was in the dream..." Shen Gu Mirai looked at Beichuan Si ahead with clear eyes.

Since it was a dream, Beichuan Si should listen to her, right?

Indeed...

Shen Gu Mirai really lived up to the moniker of being mischievously clever.

Having just been attacked by the tired woman, she could fleetingly drift to another matter in the next second—

"In a dream... it wouldn’t be against the law, right...?"

Shen Gu Mirai muttered to herself, involuntarily walking towards "Beichuan Si."

But the next moment...

In a peculiar state of half dream, half awake, she seemed to hear a voice...

"Mirai!"

"Mirai!"

Shen Gu Mirai opened her eyes, just in time to see Beichuan Si standing beside her and Nishijou Kurenai, who had jumped to her bedside.

"I’m back?!" she exclaimed, rolling over from the bed.

"Yes. Shortly after I fell asleep, Kurenai and Miss Shenzhu came over and woke me up, and you seemed to have encountered something," Beichuan Si looking at her continued to ask, "Did you run into the tired woman just now? What happened afterwards?"

Seeing his somewhat questioning gaze, Shen Gu Mirai was about to respond—

She suddenly remembered what she was thinking of doing to Beichuan Si in her dream.

Then Shen Gu Mirai’s face turned beet red as she vigorously shook her head, her voice stammering, "N-nothing. The tired woman is gone already, she probably won’t appear again tonight."

"Really?" Beichuan Si frowned, but did not inquire further: "Then you should keep sleeping. It’s getting late, I’ll go rest as well."

Leaving that remark, Beichuan Si left Shen Gu Mirai’s room.

Leaving Shen Gu Mirai alone, her face burning red as if reflecting on something—

"What... on earth was I thinking just now?"