< In the last chapter, Richan is meeting someone on his fifth dream, and surprisingly It's a woman, just who is she? And why is she on Richan's dream? Who knows?>
[Richan POV]
Because she looked confused and nervous, I tried to break the ice by initiating the conversation first. So, I introduced myself first. After that, it looks like she responded well and was a bit flustered, too. She also introduced herself, and Kyurin is her name.
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"My name is Kyurin. Nice to meet you," she said to me. Well, that sounds like an Asian foreigner name to me, so I assume that she is a foreigner.
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"Uhmm Kyurin is it? That's a cute name, are you a nihonjin?" I tried to ask her if she is Japanese, well that's what's came to my mind first after I hear her name, at least I know a bit of Japanese language from anime, then she replied with a nervous voice and confused face "ehh? Nihon?".
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Oh well, I think she is not, so I told her, "Japan." Then she looked understandable, and she replied, "Oh, me, not Japan, me Chinese, ni hao." She said that with her broken English again while making a greeting gesture, but I can still understand what it means, all thanks to video games that I have played until now.
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Ah, I see. She is from China, which explains how she had that broken English. As far as I know, the English language is not presented well in China, unlike other countries. We are lucky that Eris is also from a Chinese immigrant family. Sometimes, when we hang out at his house and don't know what to do, he teaches me some Mandarin, and at some point, we can have a casual conversation with it.
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"Ahh, so you are Chinese, then? Hello, then." I spoke to her in Mandarin. She looked surprised after hearing that I spoke Mandarin, and then she said, "You can speak Mandarin?"
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"Well, just a little bit," I said to her, but one thing that I don't understand is what language she was speaking on early before, that's not even mandarin at all when I hear that, but whatever it is I don't mind it.
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After that, she tried to continue the conversation: "Richan, do you know where we are right now?" It seems she is still confused about what happened right now, but for now, I just told her, "Sorry, but the last thing I remember is I was sleeping on my bed, and when I woke up, I realized that I was in here."
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After that, she looked surprised. I don't know why, but I think she looked scared for some reason. She always looked around her for a second. It looked like she was being cautious about something.
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Looking at her, I felt a bit pity, so I tried to do something. I took a seat on the ground and spoke to her, "How about taking a seat first and relaxing a bit?" She looked at me first after hearing what I just said. I think she was a bit hesitant and nervous until she finally decided to sit beside me, a little bit far, though.
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"So Richan, where do you come from?" she asked me, and I replied immediately, "I'm from a country called Indonesia. I don't think you know it." Looking at her, the expression she had right now indicated that she didn't know a thing about Indonesia.
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"Kyurin, sorry for asking this, but why do you look scared? Is it because of me?" I asked her. I can't help it. She reminded me of someone, and that is… Yana. It reminds me of when she had trouble back then, and I can't help it but help her. Argghh, why am I thinking about her again? Anyway… she is already with Deva… I think he can help Yana in my place now.
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After I asked Kyurin, she looked at me first, maybe she was surprised that I asked this out of nowhere, and how I can guess what she was feeling right now, but then I think she finally feels open for me that she replied "Actually, from five days ago I always had a very strange dream", listening to what she just answered, I can't help to being surprised.
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What did she mean by having a strange dream? Don't tell me. She also had the same experience as me. At first, I can't help but react to what she said, and I spontaneously said while relaxing, "Is it about getting chased away by something and running endlessly, also... the end of the world?"
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After I said that, she got up from the ground and tried to stay away from me. Now, she looked so scared and was about to run away—this was an unexpected reaction. Then she said, "How do you know that? Who are you!!?" with an angry and scared tone.
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"Wait, wait, wait, hold on. I can explain all of this," I said to her in panic while I was still sitting on the ground. I crawled away from her, trying to give her some space.
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"Then say it now!" she yelled at me, so I said this immediately out loud: "I… I experienced the same thing as you!!" After I said that, I think the atmosphere loosens a bit, and I start to explain a bit more to her about what I experienced from the first day until now.
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After I told her all about what I experienced, from the castle, Black, White, the Fate Eater that was hunting me all the time, and the end times, she finally calmed down and trusted me. What happened next left me dumbfounded.
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She came to me and took a seat beside me—now that was out of the blue, and I didn't see that coming, either. After she took a seat, she started to speak again.
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"Me too, it happened five days ago, the nightmares… it started to haunt me endlessly," she said to me, and after this, she started to tell me all what happened to her from five days ago until now.
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After hearing it all, I can conclude that she also experienced the same type of dream as mine. However, it's different in many ways that I can't explain. One problem I think I heard is that she still can't have a conversation with the two clones of her.
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Unlike me who already trying to befriend White and Black, Kyurin seems still in doubt with two of her replicas, I know that maybe this is the normal reaction of every people when they encounter something like that, and Im pretty sure that actually, it is me that is too abnormal.
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"I don't know anymore, Im so scared… every night I pray and wished that Im not dreaming again, but it's useless, every night always filled with terror inside my dream, and when I woke up the first thing that came in my mind is only to think that it's gonna happen again sooner or later," she said that to me while she started to shedding tears and sobbing.
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While she still crying I don't know what must I do, in reflex, I started to stretch my left hand then I hug her and I said, "Don't worry, everything will be okay, you are so strong Kyurin" after that she started crying loudly on my shoulder, oh well this is such an emotional roller coaster.
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After around six minutes of Kyurin crying while I was still hugging her, she started to calm down, so I put my left hand back in place and said again to her, "Are you okay now? Let's do all of this together, okay?" I was just trying to cheer her up.
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Looking at her nodding while still sobbing, trying to clear the tears from her face, relieves me, but then what happened next is something: She smiled.
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At this point, when I saw the face of her smiling, im getting stunned like a frozen fish because of how beautifully cute she is right now, and I only think that in my mind be thankful to God.
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Oh my God, what an ultimate grace you bestow upon me.
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