Chapter 27 She fell asleep

The light coming through the window penetrated his eyelids and woke Qingshui Jian up. He subconsciously covered his chest. The discomfort still remained, but it had improved a lot.

In front of me was the unique white color of the health room, and the air was filled with a faint smell of disinfectant.

"Is it noon already?"

I glanced at the clock on the wall and it was almost time for lunch.

"Who was that woman just now..."

Qing Shuijian had no idea who the woman in the picture was. He couldn't see her face clearly, let alone make out her voice.

At this moment, the voice of Amemiya Iori came to my ears.

"My dear, I hate it...if it's so intense...I will..."

Shimizu looked in the direction of the voice and found Amamiya Iori sitting on the bed and sleeping.

What on earth did this guy dream about...

Amamiya Iori, who is considered the most beautiful girl in the school, has a sleeping face that cannot be seen by outsiders.

If she continued to sleep like this, she would be really cute, but it's a pity that she is a severe yandere...

Qingshui was afraid that one day he would get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and when he opened his eyes he would see a woman with long hair sitting by the bed, staring at his sleeping face with a knife in her hand.

Just thinking about it makes me feel like my life will be shortened.

Perhaps it was human instinct, but when Shimizu saw this world as reality, his fear of death was obviously much stronger than before.

He tossed and turned last night, still unable to understand why Amamiya Iori had recovered the memory of the first round.

In fact, Qingshui Jian asked her about this last night.

But before they could finish their conversation, Hoshino Akiko came back. And it was already very late, so in order not to worry Amamiya Iori's family, they sent her back first.

"It seems that I can only wait until she wakes up and ask her."

Thinking of this, Shimizu looked at Amemiya Iori again, but was surprised to find that several rows of small black words suddenly appeared above her head.

Like some kind of mysterious hint.

【Character: Amamiya Iori】

[Character 1: A beautiful girl that appears once in three thousand years]

[Character 2: Kind-hearted, excellent cooking skills, and wife power MAX]

[Character setting 3: A childhood sweetheart who will always be with Kondo Yuichi]

[After testing, character 3 is deviating from the original trajectory and will be corrected soon...]

"Correction? This is..."

Qingshuijian closed his eyes in disbelief, then opened them again, repeating this three or four times before he realized that this was not an illusion!
Just as he was confused about this, the lunch break bell rang, and with the sound of the door opening, it was Kondo Yuichi who walked into the health room.

"See, you're awake... Well, you look much better. The school doctor said that you had sudden palpitations due to lack of sleep last night and excessive stress. Just take a rest..."

"Hush! She's asleep."

Shimizu Mi interrupted Kondo Yuichi and signaled him to speak in a low voice so as not to wake up Amamiya Iori.

"So Iori is here too... Um, actually I came here to ask if you guys want to have lunch together..."

"Sorry, you go first, I'm not hungry yet."

"..."

After hearing this, Kondo Yuichi still stood there.

From the beginning, his eyes have never left Amamiya Iori.

Qing Shuijian understood at a glance: "When she wakes up, I will call her over."

"Well, that's fine..."

Then, there was the dull sound of a door closing and the sound of footsteps gradually fading away.

"Okay, stop pretending, the person has already left."

"Eh? Honey, how did you know I was awake?"

As soon as Amamiya Iori opened his eyes, he saw his beloved, and a happy smile immediately appeared on his face.

Although the yandere is indeed scary, she still looks quite normal as long as she is not stimulated in any way.

"No one would have that kind of dream in broad daylight."

Shimizumi complained, but he never expected that the expression on Amemiya Iori's face had obviously changed.

"Dear, actually, since that night, I have dreamed about this every day..."

Amemiya Iori's face blushed unconsciously. She held Shimizu's hand and rubbed it gently on her cheek.

Although the feeling was soft and tempting, Qingshuijian was not interested in it at all.

"What exactly is the 'correction' just now..." In the character setting of this game, Amamiya Iori is Kondo Yuichi's childhood sweetheart, which Shimizu Miki has known for a long time, but what does the so-called "correction" mean?
And right after that, Kondo Yuichi happened to come in...

It's impossible to say that I don't care about this kind of coincidence.

What's more...Amemiya Iori is still rubbing her face against his palm, and Kondo Yuichi may come back at any time, so Shimizu mercilessly withdrew his hand.

"Honey, are you feeling bad for Yuichi?"

Shimizumi's thoughts were easily seen through.

Before this, he had vaguely felt that Amamiya Iori's observation skills had become very sharp.

"Honey, you have nothing to feel bad about."

"That kind of person?"

"No, it's nothing, don't worry about it."

Although it was only a brief moment, Qing Shuijian still caught that lifeless and cold look.

He had accidentally caught a glimpse of this look a few times before, but Amamiya Iori soon returned to normal, so he thought he had seen it wrong at that time. After all, how could the kind and gentle Amamiya Iori have such a cold look.

But after learning about her past last night, Shimizu changed his mind. Iori Amamiya might have been affected by the trauma of her childhood.

Just because they were childhood sweethearts, they were forcibly brought together by the two families, treated as a couple, and even had their future paved for them.

If she did not obey, she would be slapped or even abused to force her to obey. Such a repressive environment has created the sick and twisted psychology of Amamiya Iori.

At that time, Shimizu Mi appeared and pulled her out of despair, illuminating her life, but it also made her develop a strong obsession with him.

In the first week, Shimizu Mi knew that Kondo Yuichi had special feelings for Amamiya Iori, but Amamiya Iori never expressed her feelings.

According to the setting on the game's official website, they should be a pair of childhood sweethearts who have been together since childhood and will always be together.

But now Shimizu Mi knows Amamiya Iori's past and discovers that this is not the case.

So, a bold guess emerged in my mind.

If, just if...

What if the designer of this game simply created the "personalities" of a pair of childhood sweethearts, but did not write a reasonable background story for them to make them develop real feelings.

They just set up a childhood sweetheart character and wanted them to be together forever. There was not enough story behind it to support this relationship, and the proper feelings were not established.

So, Amamiya Iori in this world began to rely on her own will and strive to resist the arrangement of the fate called "childhood sweetheart".

But if Amamiya Iori didn't want to, why didn't she say it?
Could it be that she couldn't say it...

Just now, after Kondo Yuichi came in, the black text above Amemiya Iori's head disappeared and never appeared again.

That text was obviously part of the game's mechanics, but he didn't trigger it during his first playthrough.

If the so-called "correction" in the text refers to this, then even if Amamiya Iori is unwilling to contact Kondo Yuichi, wants to resist and stay away from him, she will ultimately be bound by the "childhood sweetheart" character set by the game designer.

It's like suppression from someone higher up!

As Shimizu observed the world more and more deeply, he began to reflect on his previous thoughts.

If this is true, other people in this world may not be able to escape the constraints of "personality".

In this world, everyone has fixed roles and expectations, and people's behavior and thinking will be influenced by the "personality" set at the beginning.

A fixed personality will limit a person's possibilities of responding to something to a certain range.

For example, people with a kind personality will naturally help an old lady when they see her crossing the road, while those with a bad villain personality will just ignore her and walk past her, or even kick her.

The thoughts and actions taken by people in this world are probably influenced to a certain extent by the so-called "personality".

If it were in the past, Shimizu might have thought so.

But now he is deeply aware that Amamiya Iori, including Kikuchi Megumi. In fact, under the "personality", everyone in this world has their own will.

Just like a thief steals things because his existence in this world is created as a thief, not necessarily because he wants to do so.

The same goes for Amamiya Iori. No matter where she goes, she cannot get rid of Kondo Yuichi because of the setting of "childhood sweethearts who will be together forever."

Even if you try your best to hide in a foreign country, you will see the other person behind you if you look back occasionally.

And because of her personality of being "beautiful and kind-hearted", even if you hate someone, you will be forced to wear a mask called "smile".

These personalities attached to her are like a "Five Finger Mountain", pressing down Amamiya Iori's own small will, making her unable to move and unable to express her feelings freely.

Even if you want to resist, you will eventually be suppressed.

If Tang Sanzang had not torn off the sealing talisman, Amamiya Iori would not have been able to come out from under the Five Finger Mountain, which is called "human setting".

Qing Shuijian did not dare to claim that he could help her tear off her "personality" like Tang Sanzang, but the feelings conveyed by Amamiya Iori last night made him deeply feel that she had been trying to resist the fate that had been arranged for her since birth with her own will.

And the only person in this world who can help her is probably Shimizu Mi.

Because the only person in this world who is not bound by "personality" and can completely control his actions by his own will is Shimizu Mi!
If these conjectures are correct, then in the second round, when I tried to get her to be with Kondo Yuichi, was I helping her, or...

In order to get the answer, Shimizu reached out and placed his hand on Amamiya Iori's head.

(End of this chapter)