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Kitagawa Ryo put the information in his hand together and expressed his affirmation to Ichinose Honami's answer.

"how could be?"

Sakayanagi Yusu looked at the two of them and saw that they didn't look like they were lying. She lowered her head and thought for a while before asking in surprise:

"Could it be that you were in my dream at that time..."

"Um."

Kitagawa Ryo raised her eyebrows subtly. After Sakayanagi Yusu banned the term "Ryo", not only did she not change it to "Kitagawa", but she kept using "you" as a pronoun. She herself didn't understand. What is the other person thinking?

"I probably simulated nearly a thousand chess games with Sakayanagi in her dreams. It wasn't until I understood all of Sakayanagi's habits, good tactics, and how to deal with various situations that I dared to I'm going to play chess with you."

"But this way it should leave an impression on me."

"Just cover this kind of dream with a dream that has nothing. Just like when I started your dream and was affected by your dream, it's just a dream within a dream."

"That..."

Kitagawa Ryo seemed to have realized what Sakayanagi was going to say next, pointing to his head and sighing:

"First of all, there is only one night left before the competition between Ayanokouji Kiyotaka and I. Without knowing the opponent's specific location, I have no way of locking onto his dream, let alone simulating it in advance in the dream. ."

"Second, my ability is not unlimited, and because the negative cost in the past was a bit high, I have basically not used it in the past two years except for busy building dreams for you every night."

Having said this, Kitagawa Ryo glanced at his girlfriend again. Honami Ichinose was holding his arm and smiling at him as usual, which made him feel a little chilly on his back:

"Ahem... About building various dreams with your girlfriend should not be counted."

A little embarrassed to bring this topic aside, Kitagawa Ryo continued:

"Actually, it's not impossible. According to the agreed rules, there will be only Ayanokouji Kiyotaka and I at tomorrow's showdown. The Sakayanagi family and Shiroya will be the witnesses to watch the fight remotely through equipment. This is a decision that does not affect fairness. "

"But in this case, there is still a certain amount of room for maneuver. I just need to pull Ayanokouji Kiyotaka directly into the dreamland at the moment before the competition starts."

"Ryo can pull a waking person directly into a dream?"

Ichinose Honami frowned:

"I remember that Ryo's ability can only work on others after they fall asleep."

"Oh, it's really not possible. The basis for the birth of dreams is that people are in a state of sleep."

Kitagawa Ryo nodded and admitted, but then he smiled:

"But of course I have a way to let Ayanokouji Kiyotaka get some sleep."

"As for chess, just trust me."

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"I didn't expect Miss Sakayanagi to ask me out at such a late hour?"

The night before the duel, it was already late at night around twelve o'clock. Honami Ichinose gently closed the door of the room and walked straight to a side room deep in the corridor.

Yusu Sakayanagi leaned on the door frame and nodded to her:

"Because there is something I want to say to Ichinose no matter what, about him."

"Yeah?"

Ichinose Honami had no intention of asking in detail. She walked into the room and lit the lamp. What appeared in front of her was a chess board with black and white chess pieces scattered on it. Ichinose Honami Bo sat down on the stool near Li.

"I thought Ichinose would refuse my invitation to talk. After all, I have done some excessive things to Ichinose before, so I wouldn't be surprised if you hate me."

From the time when the two were ten to fourteen years old, Sakayanagi Arisu communicated with Ichinose Honami as Kitagawa Ryo. At the same time, she pretended to be Ichinose Honami to trick Kitagawa Ryo into taking action. In a way, she was almost playing with two people's lives.

"Well, what Ms. Sakayanagi did was indeed too much."

Honami Ichinose looked directly at her with stern eyes, without any fear in his eyes:

"I not only remember my share, but also remember his share for Ryo."

"Yeah?"

Sakayanagi Yusu slowly sat down on the chair near the door. This weak and petite posture might easily gain the protective desire of others. She stretched out her hand to play with the 'queen' on the chessboard:

"Then I will wait for your challenge."

"If he can succeed tomorrow, we should be able to meet at Tokyo Higher Education High School in less than a year."

She stretched out her finger to knock down the 'knight' piece standing upright on the chessboard:

"If you have the chance to become your opponent, you should try your best."

"Tokyo Higher Education High School..."

Ichinose Honami recalled the scene she saw in Kitagawa Ryo's dream. Unfortunately, all her attention at that time was on herself who stood at the finish line and failed, although some internal campus events were involved later. incident, but I don't remember it particularly clearly.

In addition to remembering the face of a certain yellow-haired man whom he called "Nagumo-senpai".

[Starting to feel sick again. ]

Honami Ichinose quickly suppressed the discomfort rising in his stomach:

"What do you want Miss Sakayanagi to do with me tonight?"

"I'm just curious about his life in the past two years..."

As if aware of the bright gaze that Ichinose Honami immediately cast, Sakayanagi Yusu waved his hands helplessly and said:

"After all, in the past two years, I myself have been deceived by the dreams he made up for me. I always thought that I defeated him. Then I have been taking care of Matsuo Eiichiro for the past two years. It was not until I woke up from the dream yesterday that I I found that I knew almost nothing about his experiences in the past two years."

"Why should I tell you about him?"

Ichinose Honami rejected Sakayanagi Arisu's request without hesitation:

"It would be better to say that your position is strange, Ms. Sakayanagi, right? To trace the root cause, the tragedy of Ryo's childhood was almost caused by you. It was because you interfered in other people's lives on a whim when you were a child."

Ichinose Honami glared at Sakayanagi Yusu:

"I don't even understand why Ryo would choose to cooperate with someone like you, and even created a dream for you that lasted for more than two years."

"It's rare to speak the truth."

Sakayanagi Arisu showed no sign of being angry because of Ichinose Honami's words. She just crossed her hands and propped her head on them and praised her:

"Sometimes you just need to tell the truth, and you will wake up from the dreams constructed by lies."

She sighed a little and then told Ichinose Honami her true intention of coming to her tonight:

"If, I mean if."

Sakayanagi Yusu looked directly into Ichinose Honami's pupils and expressed his views about him in one breath:

"If he wants to do something drastic tomorrow, don't stop him."

"A drastic move?"

Ichinose Honami asked a little strangely.

"...Although I don't know if it's my fault, Kitagawa Ryo hasn't really gotten rid of the influence of the White House on him."

Sakayanagi Yusu suddenly smiled. Different from her usual smile that was vague and vague, her smile at this time already had a bit of a bitter taste:

"Two years ago, you picked him up at the door of your house, right?"

"...don't you know everything?"

"Well, because I had someone throw him there."

Sakayanagi Yusu said seriously:

"Otherwise, how do you think a person who has lost almost all his memory can just walk out of the white room?"

She raised her head and looked at the ceiling, and the bright and dark lights cast shadows on Sakayanagi Yusu's face:

"I don't know what made me think that I would be trapped in such a bad dream for more than two years."

"Actually, I haven't been willing to wake up from there, just because in the dream I won, Kitagawa Ryo didn't go to Tokyo to meet you until he was sixteen."

"So when we first met in that dream, you directly let him enter your dream within a dream?"

Honami Ichinose thought of the dream that Ryo Kitagawa experienced while he was watching and was imprisoned by his false self.

[…Maybe I'm more jealous than I thought. "]

Sakayanagi Yusu whispered, but Ichinose Honami did not hear:

"What did you say?"

"I said that it seems that no matter how I modify the dream, I can't prevent him from meeting you in the end. It's just the difference between the age of fourteen and the age of sixteen."

"She's like a destined heroine."

Ichinose Honami was unable to respond to her words for a moment. Sakayanagi Yusu sat there with his legs curled up and his face buried in the shadows.

"so."

Sakayanagi Arisu continued to speak, even his voice did not change:

"If something unexpected happens at the scene tomorrow, you just have to trust him."

"Of course I believe him."

"That's the best."

......

"I want to go back."

Ichinose Honami waited for a while before confirming that Sakayanagi Yusu had no intention to speak anymore. She stood up and walked out of the room:

"Don't worry about having strange dreams tonight. Good night."

"Good night."

Sakayanagi Yusu was still sitting there and replied to her without raising his head.

ps: There is one more chapter... I stayed up late tonight to finish it. After all, I said before that I should end this chapter before it is put on the shelves.

ps2: I will post a testimonial about the release tomorrow morning. The official chapter will probably have to wait until the evening. A total of 60,000 words have been updated since the May Day holiday. The reward should be paid off. I have to take a break tomorrow. Sorry.

The Summer of Ichinose Honami Reappears: Chapter 35: The Third Ending (Part 2)

"First time we meet, I am Ayanokouji Kiyotaka."

"First time we meet, I am Kitagawa Ryo."

Kitagawa Ryo's first impression of Ayanokouji Kiyotaka was not bad. Regardless of the dress or the tone of his actions, he seemed a little lazy and not interested in anything. He was no different from a normal fifteen or sixteen year old boy. What a huge difference.

The two of them were strangers to each other, and there was no need for small talk. What's more, they came here today to prove two opposing ideas. In every sense, they were both "enemies."

Immediately afterwards, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka held the black and white soldiers in his hands, casually changed the position where Kitagawa Ryo could not see, and then stretched out his hand again.

"I choose the left hand."

After Kitagawa Ryo finished speaking, a white soldier appeared in Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's open left hand.

In other words, Kitagawa Ryo takes the lead.

In the subsequent games, Kitagawa Ryo and Ayanokouji Kiyotaka remained silent and allowed time to pass.

In this empty room, only the sound of the black and white chess pieces kept coming back to my mind.

"I originally thought that there would be no one stronger than me there, because everyone said that I was the only success story there, and my standards were the highest standards of the White Room."

In the middle of the chess game, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka began to think frequently.

His tone was still calm, giving people the feeling that although he was boasting, he was taking it for granted.

"Actually, I don't even understand that my chess level is so good. Maybe I played a lot with Sakayanagi and learned it by myself?"

Kitagawa Ryoya responded with his usual teasing tone.

Starting from the middle of the game, Kitagawa Ryo's advantage gradually began to accumulate.

Ayanokouji Kiyotaka barely managed to maintain the situation before it collapsed until the end.

But it still couldn't stop the overall trend on the chessboard. Ayanokouji Kiyotaka stared at the chessboard for a long time but couldn't find the next step that could escape the general. He quietly put down the chess piece in his hand.

"I lost."

He didn't seem to be dissatisfied at all, and it could even be said that he calmly admitted his defeat.

"Wouldn't even failure cause regret?"