Because he comes back early, Soseki helping around at his grandparent house and learn that both of grandpa and mom leaves early in the morning and go to the field, he decides to help them, if he can wake up early
After dinner, nothing special happened, he tries to make some book cabinet, it still not done, but by doing this he feels that his proficiency is raising up
He goes to sleep, his consciousness starts to fade,.............
When he wakes up, he thought he will be inside Velvet Room, but this time is different, the surrounding is green, with paper scattered around, forming a stair, each leads to a door, no rather than a door, it is more like a large open book
He hears the sound and turns around, where he sees a girl figure, but this figure is a little different than usual
".....Kyouka? but how?" Soseki says this, when he sees Izumi, she's looking back at Soseki and tears start to flow out from the corner of her eyes
Izumi right now is standing, not only standing she even walking toward Soseki, all of this while she's crying and tries to cover her face, and she starts to speak " *sob* sorry.... don't look at me .. for a while.... please" Says Kyouka
Soseki nods, even though Izumi still covering her face, after a moment, another figure comes out, it's Ogai
"Oh, it's punk" greet Soseki to Ogai, he replies him with "Is this the velvet room you two talking about!?", Soseki denies his words and says this is the first time they've been here either, he does this while try to cover Ogai vision to sees Izumi
After a while, Izumi starts to stand up and says "I'm fine now, let's explore the area!" she says this in a somewhat cheerful tones
Ogai doesn't realize her difference, follows her word, Sosei follow them from behind until he sees a book that piqued his interest
".....hey you two, that book has the creature on that boy's necks pictured it in" Soseki points his finger toward the book, the other two stops their movement and looking at the direction he points at
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"....it's kinda cute" Says Izumi, she is smiling when says this
"yeah... from the way you explains before, i thought it will be another gruesome creature," Says Ogai
"..it is exactly as i explain it, so what do we do?" says Soseki, not even a second after he says this, Izumi already touches the book and got absorbed to inside it, she screams "whaaaaa?" Soseki in reflex grab her arm, and Ogai grab his body
Their action is futile, all three of them getting sucked inside the book again, but different from before, they wake up in a grassland
"urgh.. this again, oi you guys okay?" Says Soseki
"u...um I'm fine" Replies Izumi
"yes!" Replies Ogai... no there's a big lump on his head, he's definitely not fine
After Soseki says this, he walks toward Izumi and grabs her hand while trying to give her a piggyback ride, Izumi replies with "u..um Soseki-kun I'm fine, and i can move my legs here" she takes Soseki hand, says that and smile. Soseki replies her "ah... Sorry, my bad" and pulling her up
They walk for a while, on their journey, they find a flying pumpkin head, a fairy, flying jar with a head coming from it, and a horse with two horn
each one of them is defeated, both of Soseki and Izumi has two more information on their book, respectively Soseki get Jack-o-lantern, and pixie. While Izumi gets Agathion and Bicorn. Ogai looking jealously at both of them and protesting each time they get something new
In the middle of their walk, they see Hito, standing still in the middle of the field, around him there's a lot of gold coin. Ogai looking at this yell "Oi! Hito!! whatcha doin?"
Hito looking at them, laugh and says "hey!! look at this amount of money! i find treasure, Treasure!! who would've thought that there's a hidden treasure on this island!!"
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Not long after he says this, black letters flying out from his body, Soseki and Izumi take a stance, Ogai try to greet him, but Soseki pulled him back
The same case with Ogai, the black letters absorb him and he turns into a creature, the creature starts to speak "MINE, MINE, MINE IT'S ALL MINE!!! YOU GUYS CAN ROT ON THIS ISLAND!! I TAKE ALL OF THIS AND LIVES A HAPPY LIFE IN CITY" and jumps at them
Soseki along with Izumi, at the same time, speak "Pixie/Agathion"
A small woman, with butterfly wing, and a jar with a head popping out, appear when they call their name, and they continue their word "Zio"
Two lightning comes down from a sky, hits the creature and burnt it black
the creature disappears, Hito figure can be seen, Hito? nods at them, disappear and gives a gold coin to them. alongside it a piece of paper flying to Izumi
".........huh!? it's over already?" Says Ogai
Confuses of what happens, the space distorted, and they wake up
Soseki take a looks at the clock, and it shows 00:48,.... can't understand a single thing about what happened, he starts to doze off, ...........
And he wakes up in the hammock again, he starts to walk and finds Izumi on the ground, on her back there's her wheelchair, Soseki asks her "....did you fall?" and tries to get her up, Izumi doesn't answer Soseki and just nods in silence
Her face clearly shows that she's not in the mood for a talk, Soseki put her back in her wheelchair, and takes some blue grass from her face and clothes,.... Izumi doesn't even retaliate or shows any sign of embarrassment.
When he tries to push her, Izumi speaks in a low voice ".....don't need" and starts to spins the wheel by herself. Soseki match their speed, and Izumi starts to talk again "........just go to the gazebo first, don't need to wait for me" with her head keeps looking down
Soseki ignores her words, and continues to walk beside her
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Natsume Soseki
Name Arcana Lvl STR MAG END AGI LUK Pan Fool 6 7 7 7 7 7 Garu Kouha Sukukaja Cleave Dodge-Wind Wind Boost Mandrake Death 5 2 6 3 6 7 Poisma Bind Voice Posumudi Pulinpa Jack-o-lantern Magician 4 2 7 3 3 4 Agi Rakunda Sharp-student Pixie Lovers 4 2 5 2 6 6 Zio Dia Patra
Kyouka Izumi
Name Arcana Lvl STR MAG END AGI LUK Red Fool 5 6 6 6 7 5 Agi Eiha Sukunda Needle-Rush Dodge-fire Agathion Chariot 4 3 3 3 7 4 Zio Rakukaja Dream Punch Bicorn Hermit 4 5 3 3 4 4 Lunge Tarunda Obariyon Fool 6 10 3 9 4 6 Snap Dekaja
Mori Ogai
Name Arcana Lvl STR MAG END AGI LUK Tarzan Chariot 5 8 5 9 5 5 Hysterical slap Magna Tarukaja Sonic Punch Wall of Earth