I'm a Pokémon Master from School City (by mistake)

It was Misaki Shokuhou. Chiyo recognized the voice, but she felt that things were getting worse.

broken...

Chiyo felt her strength being rapidly drained from her body, and her breathing became rapid.

Headache and body aches are symptoms of over-fatigue.

Jiraiya was right; although the initial period of intense training was manageable.

But there are limits to this.

Without sufficient rest, even the young and resilient can't withstand the strain; the body has its limits.

And the effects of that excessive fatigue on the body over there seem to be reflected in the body here as well.

Chapter 74 Please Don't Leave

Everyone living in this world wears one or two masks, and very few people can live a truly carefree life.

Even a reckless, naive, and seemingly impulsive girl like Mikoto will choose to live with a mask on when facing her sister in the future.

When the incident first occurred, he faced his friends' ease and normalcy, and his sister's helplessness and despair.

Misaki Shokuhou did this much earlier.

Having witnessed the darkness of Academy City, she put on a mask very early on.

Treat your former best friend with a mask of unfamiliarity and indifference.

She hopes her choice was right, and she also hopes that her best friend's choice is also in the past.

Bury the past and embrace a brand new life.

Whether it's you or me, we'll both start anew, make new friends, and have a different future.

Perhaps one day in the future they will rekindle their romance, or perhaps such a future will never come.

But she didn't care.

Misaki Shokuhou felt that she had to let go of the past, forget the Dori of the past, and look at the returned Dori with a completely new perspective and with her current feelings.

She had been trying to do so, though she didn't seem particularly concerned when she occasionally heard about Dolly.

Even if she overheard members of her faction praising Dolly, she would pretend not to care.

Misaki Shokuhou always felt that she could let go.

Can...

But when she saw Dolly clutching her chest in pain and collapsing unconscious right in front of her, she could no longer hold on to what she thought she had let go of.

"Dolly!"

This was the first time Misaki Shokuhou had lost her composure, and the first time she had ever done so in front of her own faction members.

She finally realized that even though Dolly was no longer called Dolly but Chiyo, she still couldn't let go of that sincere friendship.

The moment Chiyo collapsed, she panicked and screamed, her heart filled with fear and chaos she had never felt before.

The elegance and composure of the former Tokiwadai queen seemed to have never existed.

She is still the same girl she was back then, and she still can't let go of the past.

She followed the doctors and nurses closely to a hospital and watched as Chiyo was taken into the emergency room.

Waiting, anxiety, unease.

She always felt that Chiyo would leave her at any moment.

"Dolly?" At the entrance to the hospital's emergency room, Koko thought about the name and said, "Isn't her name Chiyo?"

Although the name Dolly didn't sound like anything special at first, after marriage, Mitsuko always felt that the name...

She didn't want to assume the worst.

But her intuition told her that this name was not a good name.

Or perhaps the person who named Chiyo had ill intentions...

"Are you Chiyo's friend?" Misaki Shokuhou, now slightly calmer, asked Konoko Mitsuko beside her.

"Hmm..." Mitsuko said after the marriage, "Right... Even though we just met, Chiyo asked me to help her plant a tree."

"And... Chiyo is really something, talking about her illness as if it were nothing, even though she's really sick."

Yesterday she really thought Chiyo had just a minor illness, but she didn't expect it to be so serious.

“She’s still the same.” Misaki Shokuhou shook her head and said, “She doesn’t want others to worry about her.”

"Judging from your tone," Mitsuko asked doubtfully after the wedding, "it seems like you've known Chiyo for a long time?"

Misaki Shokuhou was silent for a moment before saying, "I guess so. I've known her for a long time. It's just that she wasn't called Chiyo back then. But even though it's not her old name, I think Chiyo is a much better name than the old one."

"Indeed." After the marriage, Mitsuko nodded firmly. "I think the reputation is indeed very good."

"Although I don't know what the name means, it just sounds unpleasant."

Misaki Shokuhou glanced at Kouko Mitsuko, and, confirming that it was just a gut feeling, said nothing.

“You’re here too.”

Mikoto arrived breathlessly, followed by Kuroko. Seeing the two outside, she anxiously asked, "Chiyo..."

"Ding..."

Just then, the emergency room lights went out.

The people outside the door held their breath, their eyes fixed on the door.

About half a minute later, the door opened.

The Soul Chaser of the Underworld walked out with a serious expression, showing no sign of relief.

Immediately, everyone, whether they had arrived early or had just arrived, felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.

不 ...

Mikoto felt dizzy; her relationship with Chiyo had just begun to improve, and now it was all going to end?

不 ...

Could it be that way?

"Sigh..." Mingtu Zhuihun sighed.

brush~

The faces of the group turned completely pale.

"That child..."

The group was already supporting each other and leaning against the wall, seemingly unable to accept this devastating news.

"Exhaustion. Although an ordinary person could recover with just a short rest, her body..." The sorrowful expression on Mingtu Zhuihun's face brought tears to the eyes of the others.

"Dolly...no...Chiyo, she..." Misaki Shokuhou could no longer maintain her composure.

Won't...

Probably not...

Is this how cruel fate is? Just when there was a glimmer of hope, it was so mercilessly extinguished?

"This must not happen again." Mingtu Zhuihun looked at the group and said, "Since they are her friends, they should remind her to take care of her health."

After she finished speaking, several nurses pushed Chiyo out of the room.

Wearing a ventilator, and connected to various testing instruments.

Although I couldn't understand the various data on it, the beeping sounds coming from the machine indicated that Chiyo's vital signs were stable.

"Just a hair's breadth away," said the Soul Chaser of the Underworld. "We almost couldn't have been saved."

"Is it about the disciplinary committee?" Kuroko asked doubtfully. "Big Sister has been busy with cases these past few days."

The investigation is now in its final stages, with at least five victims willing to help the disciplinary committee with their sting operation, and two of them have already taken the bait.

The preliminary investigation was indeed quite arduous. Was it because you were exhausted during that time?

The Soul Chaser of the Underworld remained silent.

Perhaps it was also my own fault; if I hadn't said those things that day, this might not have happened.

“It must be something that happened in a dream,” said the Soul Chaser of the Underworld. “I said that the hope for her recovery might lie within her abilities; perhaps there is a cure in a dream.”

"After reviewing yesterday's monitoring data, we found that her brain activity was extremely high, far exceeding the level of normal dreaming."

The Soul Chaser of the Underworld thought for a moment and said, "You know what dreams are, right?"

The group exchanged glances.

“Dreams are also a form of brain activity,” said Mingtu Zhuihun. “When a person enters a state of dormancy, brain and physical activity do not completely cease. Brain and physical activity continue even while asleep. This is a process of physical recovery, consolidation of knowledge and skills learned while awake, and also involves emotional and cognitive activity.”

"It's a very normal physiological reaction. I agree that some feelings in dreams can be directly reflected in the body."

After thinking for a while, Mingtu Zhuihun said, "You guys probably have dreams where you dream of falling from a height or dying for some other reason, and then you suddenly wake up in a fright, right?"

Several people nodded.

If everyone has experience with this, then things are easier to discuss.

“This child’s dreams are her abilities,” explained the Underworld Soul Chaser. “Therefore, her dreams are more real than those of ordinary people, perhaps even incredibly real. So what she experiences in her dreams will be reflected in her life to the greatest extent possible.”

"Although we don't know what happened in her dream last night, we can be sure that her dream activity last night was extremely intense, far exceeding her usual average level and several times higher than the average person's dreaming level."

While dreaming can aid in recovery and learning, everything in excess is harmful.

Chiyo was like that, creating dreams far exceeding those of ordinary people, resulting in intense brain activity.

This was also a huge burden on Chiyo's body.

They really almost couldn't be saved.

“There are some things…” said the Soul Chaser of the Underworld, “that still require you, her peers, to offer her some advice as her friends.”

"Although her health is not good, she won't leave this world tomorrow. She still has a chance and time."

"If this continues, she may not live long enough to find a cure."

Perhaps I really spoke too harshly and upset the child, causing her to work so hard.

"Little...Cao...Qi..."

Just then, Misaki Shokuhou suddenly heard a weak voice.

Misaki Shokuhou's body trembled. She wondered if she was hallucinating, but she still stood up involuntarily and looked in Chiyo's direction.

The nurse pushed the hospital bed very slowly and gently, trying not to make any vibrations.

So it's not too far from me.

Although she wondered if she was hallucinating, Misaki Shokuhou rushed to Chiyo's bedside before her mind could even process it.

"Little...fuck...fuck...fuck Qi..."

The girl on the hospital bed struggled to open her eyes, her left hand trembling as she tried to touch Misaki Shokuhou's face.

Her voice was weak and feeble as she said, "I'm sorry... I made you worry..."

The girl's face showed a complex mix of emotions, including a genuine smile that she had never seen on Chiyo's face before.

In that instant, Misaki Shokuhou felt as if she had returned to the moment Dolly left.

"Is that you?" Misaki Shokuhou grabbed Dolly's hand.

"I...I don't know..."

The girl tried hard to stay calm and said, "Maybe it's me now, or maybe it's Chiyo, or maybe it's both, but... even if it's her, please... Misaki, don't hate her..."

"She's working hard too..."

The girl finally couldn't hold on any longer, and her voice broke: "She didn't want Misaki to worry about her, nor did she want him to be sad for her if she really left one day."

"That includes everyone and me. Actually, I also want to thank Chiyo. Without her, I wouldn't have met everyone or Mikoto..."

"To see more beautiful and magical things..."