Night.
Griseo lay beneath the covers, her big eyes fixed on the ceiling, lost in thought.
Beside her, Miko Yotsuya tossed and turned. After a long while... she opened her eyes again and checked the time. It was already midnight.
Then she noticed that Griseo beside her was still awake as well, her big eyes staring upward.
"Griseo, why are you still awake? Can't you sleep either?"
Miko Yotsuya sounded sleepy, but... she could not stop her thoughts from wandering.
"Kyosuke said I should sleep with my eyes open."
Hearing Miko Yotsuya's question, Griseo answered softly. She had been trying to sleep with her eyes wide open, but she simply could not fall asleep.
Even now.
But Griseo remembered that people in ancient times had slept with their eyes open. Mm, Zhang Fei from the Three Kingdoms, for example.
When she read Three Kingdoms, she remembered that Fan Qiang and Zhang Da had entered the tent to assassinate Zhang Fei. Then they suddenly saw an astonishing sight: Zhang Fei's leopard eyes were wide open. Fan Qiang and Zhang Da were so frightened out of their wits that they hurriedly fell to their knees, thinking Zhang Fei had not gone to sleep.
Who would have thought that after the two of them loudly begged forgiveness for ages, Zhang Fei did not react at all? His snoring only grew louder. Only then did they realize that Zhang Fei slept with his eyes open, and they could not help finding it remarkable.
If someone else could do it, perhaps she could too.
But Griseo had been lying there for nearly two or three hours and still had not fallen asleep.
"Sleeping with your eyes open..."
"You really should sleep with your eyes open, because I want to beat up this little brat too."