Reborn as a short-lived loli who can only live for three years

Ivy woke up on the top floor of a tall tower, with gray fog outside.

Strange noises were gathering noisily below, and before she could remember why she was there, there was a hurried knock on the door on the top floor.

"?"

When I looked over to where the sound came from, I saw that the door had been cracked and through the gap, a stranger's face was vaguely visible.

Immediately afterwards, the door was forced open and the people outside rushed in.

Ivy was startled because the appearance of this group of people was very strange.

……

Spring body.

The part below the head where the body should be was replaced by something shaped like a spring.

Every time they took a step towards Ivy... or bounced, their spring joints would emit a subtle hum, expanding and contracting in a spiral. It was a very strange sight, as the heads of those people drew exaggerated parabolas under the pull of the springs, and then instantly bounced back into place.

"Is this a dream?"

Ivy had no time to dodge or defend herself before the spring-loaded monster pounced on her.

At the end of the dream, she was torn apart by monsters, a process without any pain or touch.

Then, the dream woke up.

……

……

Ivy opened her eyes and suddenly forgot who she was.

People were coming and going on the streets, and everyone was in normal shape. The white fog still surrounded the city. Ivy found that his perspective had become higher.

Standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, the person in the mirror appears to be a tall man wearing a black hood and mask, and his face cannot be seen.

She made various movements towards the window, and could compare the people in the reflection one by one. Finally, Ivy finally accepted that the tall weirdo was herself.

She simply tried to take off the mask on her head, but when she reached into the hood, she grabbed nothing.

Carefully pulling down the mask, there was also an empty darkness inside.

"...?"

Ivy stood there in a daze for a long time, wondering if he was an air man.

"Hey, you're one of us, right?"

Perhaps it was because Ivy was too conspicuous standing there, and soon someone came to talk to him.

The person who spoke to him was also dressed in strange clothes, with a hood and mask covering his dark face, but he was a little shorter.

The feeling of looking down on others was very new to Ivy. She suspected that she was a short person before.

"What do you mean, our own people?" Ivy asked.

"You're from the exploration team~ But I think you should be one too. You're wearing similar clothes to us, and you look pretty reliable!" The man said, and waved at her proactively, "Come on, I'll take you to find other people so we can share our memories."

Exploration team.

This word was a key, and it actually activated part of Ivy's memory.

She recalled that she and the members of the exploration team were exploring the secret realm together. They seemed to have advanced to a certain position, and then...something happened?

They wandered around in the noisy and cold foggy city, and finally stopped at the end of an alley. This might be the temporary base camp of the exploration team.

Although it is called the base camp, there are actually only two or three people left here.

"Don't underestimate the small number of people. Everyone else is out looking for their compatriots. After all, we need to reunite as soon as possible!" The man answered Ivy's confusion and introduced himself. "Just call me Meng. I can't remember my full name for now, but we always need to call each other by name when we communicate."

“Oh…” Ivy’s mind was still blank.

A Meng was no longer surprised. It seemed that the other people also looked dazed when they were first found. So she signaled the others to share the information first.

"The situation is actually very simple. After we passed through the forest of stone statues, we found a fantasy maze nearby. In order to get a treasure inside, we stepped into it."

"After entering, my memory was lost and my body seemed to be different from my original body. It's an illusion...anything is possible. After observation, I found that everyone carries different fragments of memory. The more we piece them together, the more memories we can recall."

Ah Meng then said, "Don't think it's easy for us to say that. The reason for coming here is pieced together bit by bit by everyone. At present, we don't know much about this place."

"But we all have a common memory, and I think that's the clue to breaking the deadlock," said another person.

"What shared memory?" Ivy asked.

All she remembered was the vague dream, and it was a nightmare at that.

"Save Evie."

Ivy: “Huh?”

"Shared memory, rescue Ivy." The man added, "Ivy is the princess trapped in the tower. We have to find her and rescue her."

"Ah, the Tower Princess was described by a person named Hotaru. We thought the description was appropriate, so we kept it. You probably remember similar goals as well."

Ivy shook her head. “I don’t remember, but it reminds me of something else…”

"What else?"

"Actually, I am Yi..."

Her throat was suddenly strangled by an invisible force, and Ivy's voice was stuck in her throat. It seemed that her head would be crushed in the next second.

If there really is a head in the hood.

“Yi… Yi, a key person…” The voice finally came out. Ivy rubbed her neck and almost flattened her clothes.

This body is really strange, like a human-shaped shadow wearing clothes, and there is no skin or organs under the clothes.

Ivy always felt that if they were hit by an external force, they would probably not be injured or killed, but would be flattened.

However...after hearing the name, Ivy remembered his identity.

She was Ivy, but her identity seemed different from the one they mentioned, because she was standing here at the moment, instead of being trapped in the tower.

And she couldn't even reveal her identity? Because she was now an adult airman, not the real Ivy? Her real body was indeed in the tower?

Unable to confirm.

"Key person? How do you say that?"

There are still too many unclear things right now, but the people in front of me seem trustworthy.

So, Ivy chose to tell her dream: "I remember a dream. In the dream, I saw that Ivy."

"She was indeed on the top floor of the tower. A group of people broke in by force. They were like monsters with human heads and spring bodies. They jumped towards her and tore her to pieces..."

After listening to her story, several people fell into deep thought.

The content of the dream sounds absurd, but considering the current situation...

"Based on the rules of this game, this is not an ordinary dream. It may also be a hint," said one of them.

"But we've been out here for so long and haven't seen any weird people."

"If there really is a spring monster, there will be riots on the streets immediately, but it's still very quiet outside now."

"Well, if this is true, there is still one possibility left." The man came up with a deduction.

"Awan, tell me quickly." A Meng urged impatiently.

"It's very simple." Awan didn't keep the suspense and revealed it directly, "This may be... a precognitive dream."