[Vampire Knight] Briar

[Time is divided into the future and the past.The so-called 'future' refers to the possibility of knowing the self that should be; the so-called 'been' refers to everything that has been accepted or undertaken by oneself. 】

——Heidegger (Being and Time)

I am walking in a dream.

This is my ability as a pure blood vampire.Although, it's not very useful.

The dream world is completely different from the waking world.

There are strange things here, full of doors one after another.

Those doors come in all shapes and sizes.

Some are wooden, carved with intricate patterns; some are inlaid with gold, decorated with diamonds and jewels; some are very weird, like distorted lava; The gates are no different.

But I know that these doors cannot be opened casually.

There is everything in the door.For example, some doors have a pile of gold and silver jewels; some doors are a blooming garden.However, there are also erupting volcanoes or cold glaciers inside some doors; it is more likely that when the door is opened, a ferocious human-eating beast will suddenly emerge from the darkness inside the door.

The distribution of these things is irregular and does not match the appearance of the door at all.

Sometimes I push open a door inlaid with gold and silver, and there may be nothing inside; but sometimes I push open a simple wooden door, and there may be singing and singing, and there is a small spring inside.

I walked around different doors with ease, and came to a quaint gate naturally formed by two ancient trees.

This is the place I am most familiar with in the dream.Inside this door, there is a 'little monster' that belongs to me.

I named it 'Youth League'.

Because its hair is green, which is the color of green leaves in hot summer.

I don't know what kind of species 'Qing Tuan' is.

In fact, it can get bigger and smaller.When it gets bigger, Qingtuan looks like a hill; when it gets smaller, Qingtuan can shrink down to as small as a kitten that can be held in your arms.

Qingtuan looks a bit like a fox.Big ears, long beak.But its tail is like a leopard's, flexible and soft, with smooth fur.

There are two things I like to do with Youth League most.

Make it big, the size of a hill.Then it would reveal to me the softest, long down of its belly, and I loved rolling in that marshmallow-like mass of fur.

Or, make it small enough for me to hold in my arms.I like to suck it like a cat.Starting from its big ears, smooth the fur backwards, along its spine, to the tip of its tail.The hair on its back is actually not soft, and even turns into spikes when it attacks.But they never stabbed me.Moreover, when I am smoothing its fur, Qingtuan will gently close its eyes, gently put its tail on my wrist, and make a "gurgling" sound from its throat in comfort.

Actually, speaking of it, I may be more familiar with the world in the dream than the world in reality.

I entered the dream world for the first time when I was three years old.

But the first time I entered this bizarre world, I had the feeling that I had been here before.

When I entered the dream for the first time, I didn't know that those 'doors' could not be opened casually.

So, after I pulled two ordinary-looking doors, but found that there were only some daily necessities or dusty sundries inside, I tried to open a vermilion door with a magnificent appearance. The gate, I want to see if there are candies and music boxes inside such a beautiful gate.

But unexpectedly, behind that beautiful door was a bloodthirsty demon.

A room full of blood.

The light outside the door shone like a pitch-black door, and what caught the eye were the stumped limbs and distorted and painful figures of human children.

"Oh, I didn't expect to see a cute little doll in my dream." A man in a suit and leather shoes walked out of the room and showed me a kind smile. "Have you lost your way? Come, uncle has wagashi here." He looked upright.If he could ignore the bleeding scalpel hidden in his sleeve, which was faintly exposed.

"You...you are human?! Why? Aren't those all your compatriots?" Even though I am a pure-blooded vampire of Level A, my age is too young for me to compete with adult males.So, I tried to buy time, backed away slowly, tried to get out of the way of the man, and then closed the door.

Unexpectedly, after hearing my words, the man suddenly stared straight at me as if he had been injected with a stimulant, as if he was looking at a prey that was sure to win.

"Vampire." He licked his lips and smiled greedily. "I should have thought about it a long time ago. How could there be such an innocent, ignorant, living child in the realm of my heart?" He tore off the gentle appearance and rushed towards me. "Come on, child. Be good. It's your honor to let me dissect you with my own hands, and let human beings have the ability to live forever, understand!!!"

"Don't! Don't come here!!" I couldn't care less about closing the door.Seeing that man rushing towards me, I was so scared that I turned around and ran away.

Purebred vampires should be able to turn humans into their own servants by sucking blood.But as a young vampire whose deciduous teeth have not yet fully opened, and hardly any fangs have been born, I have no ability to protect myself at all.At that time, I was actually no different from a human cub.

I was running in the dream world, using the light and shadow of other 'doors' to avoid the man who came out of the door and chased me.

I don't dare to open other 'doors' anymore.Because from those doors, who knows if other more terrifying monsters will jump out and devour me before I even realize it.

But children's physical strength is really limited.I was eventually found by that man.

At this time, I put all my eggs in one basket.Pushed open the ancient door closest to me.The door was completely dark, even unlike the previous situation, this door was real and there was nothing.

It was pitch black, not even light could penetrate.

But the man is coming after him.

In desperation, I didn't care whether there was any danger inside, so I hurried in.

The man originally saw my action, but also looked disdainful, and walked towards me like a leisurely stroll.

But he seemed to have bumped into an invisible wall suddenly, and then he was slapped out by a force, and he fell to the ground, with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth from internal injuries and from his throat.

Then, I saw that he looked in my direction, as if he saw some incredible existence.The face is full of horror.

Before I could turn around, a green, shaggy tail passed under my arm and lifted me up.

I struggled to look back.In the darkness, I couldn't see anything clearly, only a pair of bright, huge red eyes could be seen.

The pupils in those eyes narrowed into a line like a beast, and the gaze was very cold, as if there was no emotion at all.

It looked down at me and the man, like two ants that had intruded into its territory at the wrong time.

I was so scared that I forgot to scream.

At that time, I just closed my eyes subconsciously, hoping that when I was eaten by that creature, it would not hurt too much.

After closing my eyes, it seemed to me that the creature's movements seemed to pause for a few seconds.Then, I felt myself being curled even tighter by its tail.Immediately afterwards, I realized that I was being carried by the creature, moving rapidly through the air.

Is it going to eat me?Am I about to be thrown in my mouth by it?Will it swallow me whole, or will it bite me to pieces before swallowing?

Just as I was thinking wildly, I heard the man's screams.

I opened my eyes, and saw a huge, dirty creature blocking my eyes, and I was dragged behind by the creature with its tail curled up.

The man's figure had disappeared, and only a swaying flower vine remained in the man's original position.

The creature glanced back at me, then stepped back into the darkness.Its tail curled around me and placed me gently close to the quaint door.Then, it let go of me.

The tip of that tail gently pushed me toward the world outside the door.When I realized that I was safe, I ran to the world outside the door regardless.

Until he ran out of the old, ancient wooden gate.

The door closed behind me.

When I was rejoicing that I survived the catastrophe, I suddenly saw out of the corner of my eye that the corner of my clothes was stained with someone's blood.

I lowered my head and found that my waist, surrounded by the tail, was almost full of traces of blood.

The creature was injured?

Although... it looked scary, but, it saved me.

I gritted my teeth and pushed open the quaint door again.

It was still pitch black.After a while, a pair of red eyes lit up from the darkness.

Those eyes looked at me quietly, although there was no sound, I could feel the fatigue of 'it'.

However, the world inside this door has no light, and I don't even know what that creature looks like.

I thought silently in my heart, if only there was light.

To my surprise, as I had this idea, bits and pieces of light gradually appeared around me.

I cast these firefly lights and looked at the 'monster'.

That was the first time I saw the 'Youth League'.It was in a dying state rather than a bad state.

It was dirty, with green hair hanging down its body in strands.Its abdomen had been scratched by something long and long. It had not been treated, and it seemed to have rotted and pus.There are shocking wounds everywhere in the tail and limbs.

In fact, these are not the places that make me feel sad the most.

What worries me the most is that when I look at it, its pupils are full of exhaustion and self-loathing.Almost no desire to survive.

It is giving up on itself.

It is ready to die alone in this dark world.

But I noticed that when it saw the light spots around me, its pupils seemed to light up with hope and longing for a moment.

I suddenly felt that maybe it was also longing for someone to save it and give it some reason to live.

I reached out and tried to touch it.

It didn't resist my touch. Instead, when I touched its hair, it lowered its head and gently rubbed against my palm with its long beak.

I am determined to save it.

So later, I explored my abilities bit by bit in the dream world.I found that my real ability is to use imagination to change the small world behind the doors in the dream.

So I used my ability to enter that ancient door again and again.Help the green creature get rid of scars, heal wounds, groom its hair, and make it chubby after a long time.

It's very well behaved.

Even if I wanted to dig out the rotten meat on its legs, it never bit me. Instead, it licked my palm with the tip of its tongue like a kitten, as if to comfort me, or to tell me that it was fine.

At the beginning, I named it Xiaoguai.

It tilted its head, accepting the name.Because when I call it, it gets smaller and runs towards me.

I used the name to conclude the fate between us.

I think it's mine.I am responsible for it.

Therefore, every time I entered the dream again afterward, I would look for it.

Let's walk through the gates of various dreams together, and carry out a series of 'big adventures'.

Later, I renamed it Qingtuan, because it looks like a dozing ball, really like that kind of cute little snack.

But this time when I entered the dreamland, Qingtuan'er was a little sleepy, looking listless.

I felt distressed and touched its hair that was originally smooth and smooth by feeding me, but today it looks a little dry and dull.Feed it some cat rice with dried salmon, and then hug it and lie on the tatami mat that I transformed in the dream.

A good night's sleep.

When I woke up, I found that the youth group that was originally in my arms had somehow arrived behind me.

It became as big as the sofa, rolled into a ball, wrapped its tail around my waist, and then wrapped me in its middle.

It had just woken up when I woke up.

It leaned over and rubbed the top of its head against my face, then I ran my hands through its hair from head to tail and waved it goodbye.

It's time to face what Calamus is hiding from me.