Fantasy Clock～Dream Ruler～

As night fell, the sky was dyed black.

I turned the key lightly, opened the door, and crept into the corridor. Just as he was about to go upstairs calmly, the door of the living room was suddenly pulled open. As if I was playing one, two, three wooden figures, I stopped immediately.

The younger sister came out while reading the book, probably noticing that I was blocking her way, and cast doubtful glances at me.

"Good evening?"

I raised my hand in embarrassment and greeted her proactively, but Su Erin didn't even look at me, and missed me while raising the book.

This girl doesn't care about me at all...

Awkward.

I simply ignored her and was about to go upstairs to the bedroom, but I heard my sister's voice in the kitchen.

"Hey! Just to tell you... I've finished eating~ If you want to eat, go out and buy it yourself!"

Look towards the kitchen. The younger sister was raising her teacup to drink water, but her eyes were still on her book in front of her. It's almost as if she wasn't the one who spoke to me just now.

When I was in a daze, my sister also walked out of the kitchen and handed me a glass of water.

"Here."

After taking the water glass she handed over, I came back to my senses and subconsciously followed her into the living room.

"There's no need to go out to eat... I came back from having dinner at Xia Yinci's house."

"Is that so..."

My sister didn't look at me, she didn't even raise her head, she just responded to me as if she was coping.

"Also, I have a little business tonight, so don't disturb me casually."

"Tch... Secondary illness."

She closed the novel in her hand with disdain, and without even looking at me, she picked up the phone that vibrated several times on the table.

"Secondary illness?..."

I looked at her back on the sofa and raised my eyebrows. Have you ever commented on your brother like this?

"That's right, it's you who was talking about the second illness in middle school."

She stood up and walked out of the living room.

Noticing who's calling was displayed on the screen of her phone just now, she must be answering someone's call.

I don't know what's going on with her recently, it's getting harder and harder to get close to her.

Although my father asked me to chat with her, I couldn't find the opportunity at all, and I didn't know what to talk about.

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【※Dream Cracks※】

The gap between dreams is the space where the dreamer's dream world meets, and it is also the gap between reality and dreams.

This is an independent world that cannot be separated from dreams and reality.

(For details, please refer to the file information 2017/02/25)

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Please allow me to introduce myself only now.

I'm an ordinary high school student, but I'm not the destructive and omnipotent protagonists you think of, but always claiming to be ordinary people. I'm really just an ordinary, high school student that can be seen everywhere.

Now I have just entered the third year of high school, and I am troubled by sleep paralysis.

If you like it...

Learning is my greatest pleasure!

"Su Luoyang, I don't object to you wanting to introduce yourself as the protagonist of a light novel, but please don't read it out. Especially don't read it out when I'm on the phone, I'll find it annoying."

My sister opened the door of the living room abruptly, covered the phone with one hand, and looked at me resentfully.

I quickly looked at her and squeezed out a nonchalant smile.

"That's right... sorry, I didn't notice."

I quickly apologized to her, but she frowned and closed the door with a displeased expression.

Seeing her figure disappear before my eyes, I had the urge to throw myself on the ground and roll over with my head in my arms, and I couldn't help shouting "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". What, I was overheard, then I might as well die!

no! No matter what happens, I still want to finish this kind of self-introduction that is tasteless and a pity! !

My sister, my parents and I live in this island city - "Seaside City".

It is actually a world-famous tourist attraction. Settings such as city beaches are well established, to the point where excursions in the city don't look shabby at all.

There are also several prestigious schools that are well-known throughout the country.

The high school of Qingnan Middle School, which I studied in, is one of the famous schools here.

My family is what is called a "reorganized family".

Before I can remember, Su Huilin came to my house with her mother and became my younger sister who was only 10 months away from me.

She has always been very dissatisfied with me being an older brother, so she never called me older brother.

Of course, the "Oni Sauce" plot that some younger sisters are looking forward to is simply impossible.

What really bothered her, though, was that the gap of a few months made her a grade behind me.

As for my childhood sweetheart Xia Yinci, she lived next door to me when I was a child. At that time, my relationship with Xiao Lin was very good.

It seems that they are still in touch now, because Xia Yinci has a strange genius attribute, and Su Huilin often goes to her house to ask questions.

Of course, I couldn't save myself from asking someone like her who doesn't care about studying at all.

"You're the one who doesn't care about studying at all, right? Didn't I tell you to stop reading!"

Suddenly, a voice with a touch of resentment came from the door.

"Even if you don't want to, I still want to get into a good university! So this kind of inexplicable introduction, give me, stop here!"

"sorry!"

I hurriedly bowed to her, and returned to my room as if fleeing.

Turn on the air conditioner in the room, take off the slippers, jump up on the spot, aim at your own bed, hugging the posture of a diver.

preparation--

start!

"Ah...my bed is still comfortable."

I let out a long sigh of relief.

Almost made my sister angry.

She seemed unhappy already.

I rolled over and lay on my back. Looking at the fluorescent lamp, which was not too dazzling, he put his hands on the back of his head.

Once you calm down, you will recall what happened just now.

"So, those who participate in the ruler game are all able to control and control their own dreams..."Ruler"?"

"En, um!" Xia Yinci nodded her head in satisfaction.

"So it's that masked man who forcibly drags people who can have lucid dreams to the Twelve Clocks different world, um...the so-called "dream gap", and then team up to compete?"

It's an odd game indeed.

"There is no problem with this understanding! But please clarify first, the one who participates in the game is called the "Ruler", and the masked monster who organizes the Dominator game is the "Dream Madman"!"

Xia Yinci corrected me earnestly, puffing up her cheeks in displeasure.

I raised my eyebrows helplessly. Isn't this kind of habitual language corrected immediately if you ask me to change it!

I can't even tell the difference between an npc and a real dreamer now, okay?

You should praise me for being able to understand this level...

"Uh... you mean, there are twelve rulers on each alarm clock, right?"

"Correction! It's not an alarm clock, it's DOMINATORS-CLOCK... the dominator clock! Each dominator clock has its own number to distinguish each other, just like the dominators have their own numbers. We are the number two clock, understand !"

"Anyway, it's just a dozen of us fighting with them?"

Xia Yinci once again showed a helpless expression, she helped her forehead, then looked at me with her arms around her, and said earnestly:

"Just treat it like I'm begging you... this is the 'War of Dominators'. Don't always measure it with the attitude of playing games!"

"Uh... I don't think I got it wrong."

Xia Yinci's eyes trembled slightly when I muttered softly.

"In my opinion, a dream is a dream. I just can't accept that I can't wake up after falling asleep one day. Besides..."

I didn't continue talking. Because I know she also understands what I mean.

If she hadn't used childhood events as a condition, I probably wouldn't have agreed to her.

The girl was silent for a while, just looked at me strangely.

As if she didn't care about my complaint, she suddenly smiled meaningfully.

"And you, don't be too discouraged, if you win the game, there will be rewards~"

"Oh—? So what's the reward?"

Although I didn't have high expectations, I still dragged my voice out and answered her feebly.

Xia Yinci's smile intensified for some reason, and she replied word by word:

"What if I say that the winner can dominate reality?"

She seemed to be waiting for my response, and I stared at her for a long time, with a serious expression.

Then.

I couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Tch... Secondary illness."

"Hey! You idiot, I'm not kidding you!"

With a soft voice, she complained fiercely to me. Like an irritated house cat.

"Anyway, I don't care if you are interested in this or not! Please take advantage of the last three days to practice lucid dreaming!"

"Wait...! The three days in the dream are different from the three days in reality, right? Which time are you referring to? How do you calculate the three days in the dream?"

"Dream time is the time for you to "dream"! But pay attention, the duration of dreaming is not how long you sleep. Because you don't necessarily dream when you fall asleep."

So you can't count the time by starting the timer before going to bed, waking up and turning it off...

"Let's explain it this way~ The time of dreaming refers to how long you have dreamed."

I see……

I nodded thoughtfully.

"Don't ask me how to calculate the time in my dream! Others almost judged you as an idiot, don't embarrass me anymore!"

If you didn't say anything and pulled me into that world, how could I be so ignorant in front of other rulers?

"You can't blame me for this kind of thing... I didn't intend to play such a weird game, and I don't know the rules of the game..."

I muttered in a low voice, but Xia Yinci didn't seem to hear what I said.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly fell silent. Xia Yinci didn't look at me either, I also stared fixedly at the empty floor.

After some time, I was the first to break the silence.

"Xia Yinci, I don't really like others to hide from me."

If she'd been honest with me from the start, I certainly wouldn't have agreed to play this game right away. But she made it clear to me what the consequences would be if she didn't make up the number of people, and I will definitely help her.

After all, she was always obsessed with some irrelevant things in the past, so she must have broken into the dream world by accident.

Then accidentally participated in such a game.

I can also understand what she said well.

Why not use this method?

"So, let me make sure again, you have nothing else to hide from me, right?"

Xia Yinci's eyes were in the center of my field of vision, dotted in the darkness like stars under the gradually dimming sky outside the window.

"Lies are not without reason~"

She tilted her head and smiled.

"Sometimes you have to hide it even if you don't want to. After all, lies are an essential part of reality~"

As a result, until the end, she didn't answer my question directly.

In this colorful and wonderful dream world, there are still many things that I don't quite understand.

Perhaps it is precisely because I have not grasped the laws of this world that I feel that it is absurd and unreasonable, and there is no need to be more serious.

In short. Xia Yinci dragged me to this grotesque dream world.

I participated in a game of dominators whose meaning is unknown.

I have no choice and no right to opt out.

[The dream world is like a gap between "reality" and "delusion", and it is an insurmountable "reality".

Therefore, "extraordinarily real" and "unrealistic" complement each other, laying out this incredible world. 】

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【※Dominator※】

Refers to a dreamer who is able to enter the lucid dream state.

【※Dream Madman※】

Specifically refers to the ruler in the cracks in the dream, the bystander who observes the game of the ruler, and is also the referee of the game of the ruler.

【※DOMINATORS-CLOCK※】

Before the Dominator game starts, Dream Madman will assign the 12 best players among the Dominators participating in the game to the No. 1 position on each Dominator clock.

After that, the No. 1 rulers select the No. 2 to No. 12 rulers of each clock.

If the number of people is insufficient after the selection, the rulers of the clock will make up the number by themselves.

Only when all 12 are present can the rulers on the ruler's clock be able to move freely between the dreams.

The ruler on the clock whose number is completed first can be freed first.

(Other information about the Dominator Clock is unknown)