Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

Hearing my answer, William also heaved a sigh of relief. He raised his head, lowered his head, repeated several times before looking around us.

It seems that although he doesn't care about it, he still doesn't want any of us to leave.

"In that case, I would like to thank everyone in advance. We will experience a relatively long time as a team in the future..."

"Okay, okay you!" Before William could finish speaking, Lin Yu quickly interrupted him, picked up the wine glass, and looked like a social gangster. He really didn't look like a teacher somewhere. "You. What's the purpose of dragging us into this magical little loli's dream? It's time to tell us, right?" Lin Yu waved his hands boredly, and then looked at the table with concern. Wine glass, "Uh, this thing is drinkable...it looks a bit unreliable"

"Hey, I was really stupid for almost changing my opinion of Lin Yu just now." The white cat sighed lightly, and Lin Yu put down the cup with some dissatisfaction, staring at her and pretending to be fierce, replied "Ah? Say it again." , the white cat was not only not afraid at all, it even snorted in disgust. Looking at it now, it is really unimaginable that the white cat will kill all the rulers of clock number 12...Of course, it is not doubting her ability, but I feel that although she is usually impulsive, she also retains a little bit of tenderness .

"Well... To be honest, the damage to the clock today will not have any impact on the real world." Before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, William suddenly changed the subject, "However, the impact on the ruler is Yes. As I said before, the three of us, Xiao Lulu and Feng Watanabe, will be directly implicated in this.”

"Ah? Strange, does it have something to do with me too? The white cat's tone seemed to have nothing to do with him, "Then what is the influence you are talking about?"

"...We will not be able to use our ability to control." William had a look of not wanting to say it, but he still uttered the truth helplessly.

Xiao Lulu was startled, stroked the white cat's hairpin lightly, and murmured softly: "Is that so?"

"I don't understand what you mean at all. Explain why the game is?" Lin Yu obviously couldn't understand the reason, so he asked directly. Of course I didn't understand either.

"Um... have you noticed that when the domination war started, the hands of the clock disappeared?" The voice came from Lin Yu's shoulder, and the tea cat jumped onto Lin Yu's shoulder at some point.

The clips of seeing her in reality quickly played back in my mind. I quickly waved away this memory, so as not to think about it, I nodded my head at the tea cat. Lin Yu also responded in a daze.

At this time, Xia Yinci came to the table and took a look at the bubbling liquid in the wine glass. He raised the cup and brought it to his mouth carefully, but at this moment Lin Yu suddenly raised his index finger, pointed at Xia Yinci, and scolded.

"Put the glass down!" These words even startled Elus who was about to drink the orange juice, and put down the glass like a frightened rabbit. Xia Yinci also blinked her eyes in confusion, and looked at Lin Yu in bewilderment. Lin Yu said, "Although this is in a dream, at least I am still a teacher. High school students are not allowed to drink alcohol. Do you understand?"

"Hey... your focus is really in a strange place!!" The white cat commented angrily. The elder sister, Black Cat, responded to her younger sister's question with "It's really cute", and at the same time, Lin Yu moved her arm at a loss.

"Hey~ Please wait until later..." Tea Mao frowned slightly, and his tone was so gentle that people felt that even if he spoke loudly, he would scare her. It was really a different person from that day.

Lin Yu coughed and reached out to signal the tea cat to continue.

——When the dream madman announced the start of the domination war, all the hands of the 12 clocks disappeared.

This incident really surprised me at the time. In fact, before that, I was guessing the meaning of the existence of pointers. So it was really impressive to me that it suddenly disappeared while I was thinking about it.

"How should I put it... When the pointer reappears, their dominance will disappear." The tea cat said this in a light tone, then stretched lazily, and put the soft foot pads again It rested on Lin Yu's shoulder. Lin Yu stared blankly at the mouth of the cup at first, turned his eyes, and then suddenly understood what the tea cat meant, and suddenly put down the wine glass in his hand. As a result, the tea cat fell off Lin Yu's shoulder and turned around quickly. And turned into a girl.

"Hey, why are you so excited..." Tea Mao's words were only mixed with a touch of complaint, and still couldn't escape the iconic gentle tone. I really don't know how good-tempered she is.

"Shut up, brown-haired magical girl dream maker idiot! This is no small matter..."

"Master, have you upgraded my title again~ Hehehe~"

The back-and-forth conversation between Tea Mao and Lin Yu made us all look at each other helplessly, as if the conversation would continue without interrupting them...

"I told you not to call me master..."

"I didn't call you master~my master~"

I lowered my head helplessly, ahem, I didn't expect that besides a rare dreamer like Qianyan, there would be such an incredible dreamer... I couldn't help sighing to myself.

Xue Xueer, who was later than me, just ignored the two of them, looked at William with concern, and asked with flickering eyes:

"Excuse me, can you explain why?"

No... Seriously, this purely curious attitude is also very unusual! "Can't use control ability", it's such a troublesome thing, why are you all showing such strange attitudes? But on second thought... the rulers who take the initiative to participate in the domination war are not normal people in the first place, right?

William put down his wine glass, closed his eyes, sighed softly, opened one eye slowly, and cast a glance at Xue Xueer: "Where do we start... The problem lies in the ruler clock, I I don't know if you can understand what I mean..."

"To put it bluntly ~ the appearance of the hands that dominate the clock does not only mean that the ruler of the broken part will lose its ability to dominate." I don't know if the tea cat also dislikes William's always beating around the bush, she stopped After the conversation with Lin Yu, he turned to look at us, "At the same time, it also means that all of you present cannot use the dominance ability freely."

The surrounding atmosphere suddenly became dull, but in this silence, Xiao Lulu pressed his red lips and asked in a flat tone: "Is that so... Isn't that very bad."

"Yeah, it's bad...but compared to you, you're even worse! You're still so 'calm' in the face of this situation, what's wrong with you?"

I scratched the hair on the back of my head in trouble, and put my hand in front of myself in disbelief, and continued. "It's already the current situation, how can you accept it calmly?"

"..."

There was another deathly stillness in the air.

"That~ compared to the fact that the destruction of the ruler's clock will affect the world just now... I feel that no matter what happens again, I won't be so surprised."

Xiao Lulu still had that flat tone. I raised my eyebrows, and simply dropped my head, letting my forehead rest on the table.

"On the contrary, is it that our side's ability to bear is too poor..." I made a dying struggle with a calm voice, and raised my head. I saw Xiao Lulu nodded without any concealment, with an expression of "otherwise what else".

I couldn't help but couldn't respond for a moment, so I leaned back in frustration and leaned on the sofa.

"Hey, sure enough, I still can't understand." Lin Yu narrowed his eyes and stared at William, "I can accept that the destruction of the clock has something to do with you, but what does it have to do with our ability to control?"

After hearing this, William frowned reluctantly, and at some point picked up a cigar between his index finger and middle finger. A cluster of sparks ignited, William used the lighted cigar as a pen, moved his wrist in the air at will, and actually drew a standard full circle. Then he sketched a few strokes, and a clock drawn with flames stood in mid-air in front of our eyes. Finally, the pointer was drawn, and the pointer started to rotate with the sound of his fingers.

"In fact, that's how it was originally. The pointer will keep turning, rolling between the twelve o'clock. The reason why the ruler's clock is called this is that they determine our ability to dominate."

At this point, the hour, minute and second hands coincide and point to eleven at the same time. William then pointed at me.

"If this is the Dominator Clock, when it runs...the Dominator pointed by the pointer can freely use his special dominance ability." William paused, then looked around at the others, "Other Dominators, then All unusable."

I couldn't help being a little confused. I looked at William in a daze, and couldn't help but tilt my head. "I haven't heard of this kind of rule?" However, when I said this, I suddenly recalled the previous conversation between the magician Yin and William. Doesn't the word "period of operation" just mean "the time when the hands of a clock run"?

Following me, Lin Yu also showed a confused expression. Even Xiao Lulu, who just claimed that there would be no more surprises for him, was taken aback for a moment. And the only person present who didn't care was Elus who was calmly drinking orange juice. It seemed that all she knew was this.

"That...'Important rules have to be found by yourself', this principle has been implemented in the domination wars all the time~" Tea Mao reminded softly.

"Wait... There are three pointers: hour, minute, and second. As long as any pointer points to you, you can use the dominance ability?" Lin Yu asked while thinking, pointing to William, and William nodded his head.

"For example, today's time is 11:57, and there is still a short time to 10 seconds. The hour hand points to Su Luoyang, so Su Luoyang can use the ability within one hour, and the minute hand is the same, that is Su Luoyang 5 The dominance ability can be used within minutes, and according to the superposition, the effect of the domination ability will also be improved to a certain extent. Finally, the second hand will point to Xue Xueer... She only has five seconds."

Speaking of this, William loosened his clenched fist slightly, stretched out his index finger into the pointer formed by the fireworks, and swung it aside suddenly. The fireworks flickered suddenly, and dissipated in the direction of the wind after a few seconds.

"When the domination war started, the pointer disappeared, and the shackles that restricted everyone's abilities have not yet been put on. And what this means, I think you will understand."

After hearing this, I shifted my eyes to Xia Yinci in a daze, and she was also looking at me.

I naturally know the purpose of doing this. In order to make us rely too much on our own dominance, when the pointer reappears, the clock will run, and the incompetent who loses dominance and can't do anything will naturally kill themselves...

Because of this, the well-informed Elus reminded me at that time, let me not use the dominance ability excessively, right?

The clock with missing hands is horizontal in the air, and the burning flame is flickering. It seems that the clock will disappear before our eyes due to turmoil at any time.

This kind of unsteady mistyness grips a certain place in my heart, so that I can't let go of it easily no matter what.

"In short, the fragmented part... that is, the numbers from 1 to 3, will not be guided by the pointer. Naturally, the three of us will never be able to take our turn, and we will not be able to use our control ability."

Even though this kind of thing is very interesting, to be honest, what I care more about now is the way he didn't tell us about it until now.

"Hey, it's not good to go on like this. We are almost used to the existence of dominance now, right?" Lin Yu frowned now, and quickly shouted at William in a questioning tone.

After hearing this, William narrowed one eye, and looked at Lin Yu intentionally with the other. He snapped his fingers lightly, and the flame went out, and the clock made of it also fell and scattered.

"Don't say that, I remember I warned you before."

"The ghost knows what your reminder means!" Lin Yu didn't want to be confused by him in the slightest, and immediately responded to his cheerful attitude of "I have already fulfilled my responsibility", "If you don't know this kind of thing, , how did we understand your hint? After all, this is your problem, right? Why didn’t you tell us sooner!”

"It's also out of my own consideration..." William replied with a sigh of relief, narrowing his wide eyes slightly.

To be honest, it's not just Lin Yu, his attitude this time even made me a little bit annoyed. And just as I was about to say something, William interrupted my thoughts first. He reached out and moved the ashtray in the corner to his eyes, and extinguished the cigar between his fingers.

"...Besides, what if our No. 2 clock didn't participate in the ruler who ruled the war?" Speaking of this, he intentionally paused, looked around us, and then said, "What if I'm not in this team?"

"This assumption is not valid, please don't secretly change the concept." Lin Yu didn't seem to agree with him at all, and William became more emotional because of this.

"Didn't we figure out the rules by ourselves in that class? Could it be that you can't do anything if no one tells you the rules, right? If that's the case, it's better not to participate in the domination war."

"This sentence is too much." Elus, who hadn't spoken all this time, couldn't help but reminded with a frown, and William reached out and stroked his forehead irritably.

For a while, I couldn't find enough words to fight back, so I just looked at him unwillingly, without saying a word.

Looking towards Lin Yu, he saw that he was clenching his fists, stood up suddenly, leaned forward slightly, and grabbed the crimson tie on William's chest.

The tea cat beside him gently tugged at the corner of Lin Yu's clothes, his eyes seemed to be saying something. But Lin Yu didn't intend to let go at all.

"Hey, although there is something wrong with Uncle William, don't do it casually!" Elusi's face was a little flustered. Seeing that Lin Yu still didn't want to let go, she quickly stood up, as if if he didn't let go, he would put his hands in his hands. The wand is pointed at him.

"Well~ now is not the time to quarrel, is it?" Suddenly, everyone's eyes were drawn away by Xia Yinci's calm voice. Xia Yinci gently rubbed her black hair, and she had a slightly arrogant smile in her style, "You guys, don't want the conflict between Charte and Sato to happen to the rest of us, do you?" ?”

"What, do you want to blame all the responsibility on me?" Lin Yu's eyes were full of disdain. Just as he was quite dissatisfied and wanted to fight back, William impatiently pushed aside the hand that was holding him. that hand.

William straightened the folds of his clothes a little, then took out another cigar out of nowhere, moved it to his mouth, and gently picked it up. After a while, the smell of smoke filled the vicinity again.

"I asked you to come here to find a way to solve this matter. I didn't come to quarrel with you."

"Heh, it's really hard to talk to people like you. Guys like you... probably only treat your son better." Lin Yu complained dissatisfiedly, and sat down fiercely.

William's face twitched slightly, and after being stunned for a few seconds, he showed a strange smile, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a sneer... He moved his mouth and counterattacked lightly. "Please don't speak out what you have spied out as you wish." Whether it's in the words or in the eyes... there seems to be an indescribable chill.

"Okay. I came to you, naturally, to solve the problem of the broken clock. If we leave it alone, then three of us will not be able to use our dominance ability, and the impact on others cannot be underestimated."

Lin Yu responded coldly, his eyes clearly expressing his disdain, "I'm sorry, I don't think it will affect you much without your ability". And William naturally sensed Lin Yu's meaning, "Xiao Lulu's space manipulation tore up all the rulers of Clock No. 12, I think you won't question her ability." Lin Yu's eyes.

"So, what can you do?" Elus sat back in her seat while talking. I don't know if she was trying to prevent them from arguing again. She glanced at William with a complicated expression, "It's impossible that you brought everyone to my dream world for no purpose... and it's not because Kazuhiko Sato didn't let you smoke. So, it must have something to do with me ...But do you want me to use restoration magic? I have to declare in advance~ I can't repair such a huge monster!"

These words made me think that this little guy's dominance is really foul.

It's not as good as we can only use a single control ability, Elus's magic is quite extensive, whether it is healing, attack or other types, it seems that she has it all.

"...Don't worry, you won't be asked to do such a difficult thing, but it does have something to do with you." William said, curling the corner of his mouth meaningfully.

This time he suddenly raised the wine glass and sprinkled it up into the air. And the direction was right at me, I quickly reached out to block the drink, and closed my eyes instinctively, but found that there was no wet feeling on my arms. I froze for a moment, carefully looked out through the gap between my fingers, then I breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly put down my hand.

——The wine spilled into the air by William followed the rhythm of William's fingers, and naturally formed a crystal clear clock. Even so, it seemed a little abrupt in the air.

"If this is our corresponding ruler's clock, there are 3 rulers who have controlled their dream temple..." William raised his index finger, pointing to the numbers 1, 5 and 12 in turn. After a little tap, the three The numbers reflected the lights one by one and shone brightly. very conspicuous. "...Then, these three worlds can be connected to each other. It will become the "same dream world" that is somehow related. However, there is still a prerequisite..."

He wanted to whet his appetite, and after a pause, he moved his index finger to 12. Just at this time, the original light reflected on 12 also instantly disappeared. Lin Yu couldn't help but tremble. "Numbers must be separated by the same distance. Now there are three numbers, that is to say, there must be four digits apart. Numbers 1 and 5 just meet the conditions, but number 12 does not. Therefore, what we need is the number 9 Ruler." His eyes followed the index finger to point to 9, and then looked in the direction of Elus through the clock.

"Do you want me to gain the sovereignty of the Temple of Dreams..." Elus was a little stunned, talking to herself, putting her hands on her chest, the light in her eyes was so dim that she was dazed.

"Well... if there are 4 rulers, what if the numbers next to each other are 3 digits apart? Can the dream worlds of 4 people be connected?" Xue Xueer, who has not spoken all this time, moved closer to William curiously, deliberately hiding With an urgent tone, he asked quite seriously.

"The reporter's nature can be seen at a glance..." Lin Yu sighed, and simply leaned on the back of the chair, and let out a breath into the palm of his hand. The town still seems to be in the middle of winter season.

"This sentence is a bit familiar~" Xiao Lulu's eyes slightly turned to the upper right corner, as if he was recalling something. Xia Yinci looked at Xiao Lulu speechlessly. It seems that Xiao Lulu asked this question before, and it was at a very strange time.

"It doesn't matter! The question is... what does this have to do with repairing the damage to the clock?" Lin Yu reached out and knocked on the table a few times, dumbfounded.

Probably this Lin Yu, who considers himself a "bystander", has now been pushed to a certain level by William, a super slow person in a certain aspect. I don't know whether William did it on purpose, but after hearing this, he went too far. He first smiled slowly, so the wrinkles on his face became more obvious, and then he replied unhurriedly:

"Just like the master clock is the shackles and pillars of reality, it prevents the world from developing too fast, and also helps to make up for many unreasonable problems in the world. The dream world also has its own repairing power, and the dream palace is exactly The pillar of the dream world. The Dominator Clock is somehow related to the dream world, but they are not close, so the repair power of a single dream world is not enough to repair it... However, if it is the three connected dream worlds Restorative power, there is a possibility of success!"

I couldn't help frowning, and asked in a confirming tone:

"So, you brought us here to help Elus...to help her control the Dream Palace, right?"

"Well. That's right." William hooked the corners of his mouth, following his gesture, the wine returned to his glass again, and then he moved the glass to his mouth.

The inclination of the glass is getting bigger and bigger, and the Adam's apple is wriggling from time to time. When the glass is put down, there is nothing in the wine glass. And soon the wine rose again, as if another pair of invisible hands filled his wine glass.

"Although the relationship between Elus and the residents in her dreams has always been good...but she has never been to the Dream Palace."

"Hey~ You don't need to tell me about my situation for me!" Elus gave William a displeased look. For some reason, when she said it, it added a hint of coquettishness. However, I heard a sad tone in her tone, even despair... This made my chest tighten.

"Sorry." William coughed, his tone surprisingly gentle. Er, this uncle must not have overflowing fatherly love because of Elus, right?

Probably noticed my strange gaze, William looked at me strangely, I quickly lowered my face, so as not to show my strange thoughts.

"It's almost time to act. Now in our team, Kazuhiko Sato and I have controlled our Dream Temple..." He suddenly paused when he said this. Recalling what Qianyan mentioned before, William is a traveler wandering in the dream world, and his dream world is controlled by other rulers, and controlling the dream palace must be just a name. "Eluth can't do it alone, so someone needs to stay here to help her. If you are willing to stay, please raise your hand."

I was stunned when I heard this, and looked at Elus thinking. She also happened to be looking at me with some strange eyes. Although she looked away quickly, I always felt as if she was signaling to me that she wanted me to stay. Thinking of this, even though I couldn't confirm whether it was just my own guess, I still raised my hand tremblingly. Xia Yinci followed me and also extended her hand.

I couldn't help but look towards her, meeting her gaze unintentionally. She tilted her head, and the strange charm in her eyes always made my heart itch. I had no choice but to shift my gaze away first and coughed.

"Um...Su Huilin's current state...it's not convenient to move around, so it's best to stay here." I changed the subject and suggested to William cautiously.

Su Erin narrowed her eyes and looked at me, and seemed to have no opinion on it. William was stunned for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

"Wait for me. Although the repair of the clock is more important, the problem of intelligence cannot be ignored. If the dream thief's goal is only in William's absolute observation, then it may not be too much of a trivial matter." Lin Yu Although his tone is quite flat, it always makes people feel that the words are stinging, "I think their goal is also to stagnate our intelligence. So...we can't waste information collection just because we repair the clock."

"Unexpectedly, what you idiot said also has... um... so a grain of truth." Although it sounded like a compliment, Xiao Lulu's tone was disdainful, coupled with the look in his eyes that didn't care at all. Lin Yu couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

"Well, that's right. Then the rest of the people will follow me back to the dreamland." William raised the wine glass that was filled again just now, poured it slowly, and then said while putting down the glass, "Besides In addition, we also need the master who guards the clock. We must not let the clock be damaged again. However, I think the Dream Thief will definitely appear again. After all, I have some grudges with them, so I will work with Chart and the others Stay on the clock."

"Okay~ Let's go then, Lin Yu? Leave the information collection to us~" The black cat put on a very energetic look, and stood up first. But I don't know why, but I always feel that she doesn't care about such things at all.

She stretched out her index finger and hooked it lightly, as if an inviolable order, Xue Xueer stood up obediently, and followed the black cat to stand beside the dining table. The white cat realized slowly that he was going together, rubbed his hair and stood up. She suddenly thought of something again, and looked at Lin Yu who was in a daze strangely. At the same time, Xiao Luoluo also stopped in his tracks, crossed his arms, and looked back at Lin Yu, with a unique charm in his eyes.

"What's the matter~ you don't want to go with me?"

Lin Yu didn't respond to him, but just raised his eyes to meet him, and stood up reluctantly propping up on the table after a long while. There is a scar on the arm that was pierced by something. He followed silently. With the sound of snapping fingers, a door appeared behind the black cat, and then it was pushed open naturally, just like someone on the other side of the door noticed that someone was about to come in, and opened the door respectfully. Xiao Luoluo glanced at me, smiled slightly, and walked into the other side of the door.

I really don't understand what the black cat is thinking. What made me even more concerned was that this look in her eyes reminded me of something, as if I had seen it somewhere before.

"It's time for me to go too. See you later." When William spoke, a strong smell of alcohol came out of his mouth. I couldn't help shrinking back unnaturally, and glanced at the empty wine glass on the table. The bubbling liquid in the wine glass rose slowly along the wall of the glass again, and the white foam poured out of the glass. I really want to ask how many drinks this uncle has refilled... Fortunately, he has no intention of drinking another drink before leaving.

Elus waved her hand absently at William, and she seemed to have been in this state since the Dream Palace was mentioned just now. William seemed to know why she was like this, and looked at her with some concern.

The familiar world door reappeared, William sighed, looked away, took a step towards the other end of the door, and gradually disappeared before our eyes as the door turned into particles.

The threads of the world are waiting to be connected, and it is time for us to set off.