"Mm..."
Yukinoshita Yukino's long eyelashes fluttered lightly. She covered her forehead and opened her eyes, her brows faintly furrowing. Her mouth was dry, and a thin sheen of sweat covered her body.
After a brief moment of confusion, Yukinoshita Yukino suddenly grew alert. She sat upright and scanned her surroundings.
What came into view wasn't a cave lit by flickering candlelight, but a clean, tidy, spacious, and brightly lit apartment.
The afternoon sunlight streamed in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, falling warmly on her.
Looking to the side, she saw Haruno and Amamiya Natsuki with their eyes closed, still napping. They hadn't 'woken up' yet.
"Phew..."
Yukinoshita Yukino quietly breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed.
"I can't believe I fell asleep..."
Yukino bit her lip and lightly touched her cheek with her fingertips. It felt burning hot, and memories of the dream replayed in her mind, frame by frame.
In the dream, she had returned to the island where they'd struggled to survive, but there had only been three people on the island: herself, her older sister, and Trash-kun.
She'd gone alone to the beach to find plenty of food. When she returned to the cave that evening, her older sister had suddenly said that Trash-kun had been poisoned by something he ate and that they had to help him detoxify. The way to do it was...
Yukinoshita Yukino quickly shook her head, driving the awful images from her mind.
This was bad!
Really, really bad!
There was no way that method could detoxify him!
And what was worse, by the end, it had even led to her and her older sister doing it together...
Taking a deep breath, Yukinoshita Yukino quietly got up and headed for the bathroom. The scenes in the dream had felt far too real. Even