"Yo!? You're still cursing me?" The Shadow Clone grinned and tapped the lid of the glass tank. Inside, another Flame Demon about the same size as the small Water Elemental appeared...
"Don't get beaten to death. Begin!"
The Water Elemental launched a water-spray attack!!
The black dumpling dodged!
The Flame Demon launched a fireball attack!
The black dumpling nimbly evaded!
"Oh, right. This glass tank is heavily reinforced. Even a giant sledgehammer couldn't smash it." Watching the crafty black dumpling try to use the Water Elemental's and Flame Demon's attacks to break the glass tank, the Shadow Clone spoke calmly.
orz... The black dumpling collapsed and could not rise...
In the dream, Jiu Ming saw a fairly happy family. Mikage Yuzuki was not a middle schooler here, but an elementary-school little girl. The man and woman beside her were obviously her parents.
So this was her childhood? A perfectly nice, ordinary family. Then what happened to her?
"Big brother, why do you keep staring at me?"
Sitting on a bench, Jiu Ming looked at the little Yuzuki running toward him. He smiled, glanced at her parents watching from nearby, and gently pressed down on the hat she wore. "Because you're very cute."
Jiu Ming was a little surprised that she could actually see him. Watching little Yuzuki run back to her parents' side, he shook his head. It was perfectly normal.
Perhaps sensing what Jiu Ming was thinking, the light around him abruptly darkened. The bench he had been sitting on turned into a seat on a bus. He was not particularly surprised by the change. This was only a dream; no matter how bizarre things became, there was no need to be startled.
Looking out the window, he saw rain pouring down in sheets. Turning to look ahead,