"Well!"
Suddenly awakened in the middle of the night, Sharon sat up from the bed, her chest rising and falling violently.
Her whole body was soaked with sweat and the surrounding room was dark. She panted hard and turned her head stiffly and slowly to look around.
Beside him, Shirakawa Kiyomasa, who had tortured himself to the extreme in the past few days, was sleeping quietly.
【It looks so beautiful when I'm asleep. 】
Sharon looked at him, the corners of her mouth raised slightly, and she subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch his face.
But the next moment, she seemed to suddenly remember something, her pupils shrank suddenly, she stood up suddenly, ran barefoot to the bathroom and vomited non-stop.
[She did it, she really did it...]
"Little Karasuma~"
I don't know if it was an auditory hallucination or something else, but Sharon suddenly heard a very familiar voice behind her.
There was a hint of playfulness in this gentle voice that she couldn't help but remember.
"Sister Keiko?!"
Sharon turned around suddenly, only to find Keiko Hatoyama standing at the door of the bathroom, looking at her with a smile.
"Sister Keiko! You..."
No, this is not Keiko Hatoyama.
Sharon's words came to an abrupt end, and the excitement that had just arisen in her heart dissipated in an instant.
Hatoyama Keiko is no longer here. She knows this better than anyone else. Just yesterday she attended the funeral.
"What's wrong? Don't you recognize me?"
Keiko Hatoyama knelt down and kept her eyes level with Sharon, still smiling.
"You, you are not Sister Keiko, Sister Keiko...is no longer here."
Looking at this extremely familiar face in front of her, Sharon, who was kneeling on the ground, subconsciously shrank back, but still tried to keep herself calm.
what is happening?
Is it a dream? Is she still dreaming now?
Or is she hallucinating because she misses sister Keiko so much?
Or, or! Is this another prank by Miss Okino? !
"What? I obviously came back to see Karasuma-chan on purpose, but in the end I acted like I didn't know each other. Even if we are good friends, I would feel hurt..."
Hatoyama Keiko raised her hand and touched her face, with a sad expression on her face, but immediately, as if she understood something, she nodded, raised her index finger, and said with a smile:
"Ah, I understand! This is because you feel guilty for me, Karasuma-chan, right?"
"I didn't!" Karasuma shouted back subconsciously, but for some reason, her tone didn't seem as firm as her voice.
"Don't lie to me~" Hatoyama Keiko held her face in her hands and continued to smile: "You know well, Karasumaru, Sister Keiko, I am the best at seeing through other people's lies. Have you lied? What are you thinking in your heart? , I can see it at a glance.”
"No! I..."
"Hey, Karasuma, you and Xiao Qing are making rapid progress. Although I told you to take care of Xiao Qing, you are now together after I have only been away for a few days. It really makes me a little envious... …”
"No, sister Keiko, listen to me, I am..."
"Not what?!"
As Sharon's emotions fluctuated, suddenly, the expression of "Keiko Hatoyama" in front of her became extremely ferocious. This was an expression that Karasuma had never seen on her face before.
"You guys are still in bed, right?! Even I haven't done this yet, how dare you do it?!"
"No, it's not..."
Little by little, the terrifying "Hatoyama Keiko" in front of her asked questions while slowly approaching her.
Infinite guilt, pain, and fear suddenly surged from her chest. Sharon couldn't say anything. She just shook her head desperately and kept shrinking into the corner of the bathroom.
"Ah, I knew you had always liked Xiao Qing, right? It started a long time ago, right? Do you think I can't tell?"
"No wonder, you know that I will definitely die before you, so you shamelessly squeeze in between me and Xiao Qing, just so that one day you can stand by his side after I die, isn't that right?!"
"No! I do like him, but I have never thought of disturbing Sister Keiko and you. I have never said these words to him! Really not! Not a word!"
"Of course you won't! It's not like you don't know how keen Xiao Qing is! You also know that your little tricks can't fool his eyes! If he notices it, he will destroy your hard work for so many years. The business's 'good sister' character, right?
So, I'm going to die anyway, you might as well wait, use me, and Xiaoqing, and use your identity as a 'good sister' to sneak in when he's at his most vulnerable and completely possess him. right? ! "
"No... I just want to... save him..."
Huddled in a corner, constantly shrinking under the verbal attack of "Hatoyama Keiko", Sharon trembled and covered her ears, shaking her head desperately.
But even so, "Hatoyama Keiko" in front of her still refused to let her go. Her voice seemed to have some kind of terrifying magic power. No matter how hard she covered her ears, it could still be transmitted to her ears very clearly. .
"Ah, I really didn't expect that you, Karasumaru, whom I trust so much, would be such a vicious person... Tell me, are you really worthy of me by doing this?"
"Stop talking...Sister Keiko, please stop talking..."
"Really."
As if she couldn't hear her prayer at all, the voice of "Hatoyama Keiko" sounded softly in her ears.
"If I had known that you were this kind of person, little Karasuma, I should have got rid of you when I attacked that old Karasuma... Don't you think so?"
"don't want……"
Sharon fell into an insurmountable vortex in the darkness.
"..."
Sharon disappeared.
This is what Bai Heqing discovered when he woke up early the next morning.
The room was quiet. He initially thought that Sharon just woke up early and went out, but all contact methods could not reach her, and everyone around them said they had not seen her, and she did not see her until that night. After returning, Shirakawa Kiyo finally confirmed this.
She literally disappeared.
So, what is the reason?
This is actually not difficult to think about.
Bai Heqing just sat down and thought quietly for a while, and then came up with the answer.
Yes, that night in the mourning hall, Karasuma looked at him with fear in her eyes. Although she seemed to have shown infinite courage, in fact it was not the case at all.
In fact, she was not sure at all whether what she was doing was right or not, and whether she was qualified to do so. She was just mechanically following Keiko's words during her lifetime, and this created an uneasy fear in her heart about the future.
She was scared too, and more scared than he was.
There may also be guilt for Keiko.
The heavy guilt composed of these factors may have exceeded the limit of her heart.
Therefore, she chose to escape.
Bai Heqing, who quietly came to this conclusion, suddenly smiled.
It's really embarrassing that two women who care about him so much should be worried to this extent.
Bai Heqing, Bai Heqing...why don't you die?
He looked down at his hands, and the idea suddenly came to his mind, but immediately, he shook his head and rejected it.
No, he promised Keiko not to go to her too soon.
No matter what, he still has to live well.
Yes, it was precisely because of his fragility that Keiko and Karasuma were injured like this.
Yes, if this is not corrected, they will always be hurt...
Can't be wrong.
So, let’s start with smiling...
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(End of chapter)
