Zongman: Dream with me

The story begins when Kasugano Sora returns to her room after finishing her call with Mu You.

"Mashiro, are you done with your painting?"

"Ah."

Kasugano Sora took Mashiro's portrait, which showed her sitting on the windowsill of a hotel, holding a long sword and looking into the distance. A pure white crystal butterfly was resting on the handle of the sword.

At this time, the butterfly was quietly resting on Shiina Mashiro's hand. She looked at the gorgeous patterns on the butterfly's wings curiously. The starlight fell into the air as the butterfly's wings flapped, and then disappeared.

"so beautiful!"

Shiina Mashiro said.

"Can I also transform into such a beautiful butterfly?"

"About this, ask You."

"Qiong, stingy."

"I really can't help it. I don't have any extra blank God's Eyes, and I've already told you all the secrets."

Mashiro ignored Qiong and continued to play with the ice crystal butterfly in his hand.

After meeting with Asagi, Qiong finally told Mashiro about her and Muyou's hidden identities, used the Eye of God in front of her, and took out her weapon.

Then I became a model again at the other party's request.

"This dome is really different. It's a bit cold, but very handsome. It's a special color."

Is it special? Qiong was a little confused.

"Will Yuu transform too?"

"Should...right?"

Qiong remembered that the other person came in the middle of the night with a broken knife, changed his clothes, even his hair and appearance changed, and said with a look of asking for a beating that he was going to patrol the night, and asked if he wanted to join.

Kasugano Sora once agreed to Mu You's request out of curiosity, but it turned out to be very boring. In the end, Mu You had no choice but to take her to a dessert shop that was still open late at night to calm her anger.

"Qiong, does it have a name?"

Mashiro looked at the knife in Qiong's hand curiously.

"Bacchus' Kiss."

"Hey, what a strange name."

"Yes."

"Qiong, do you really know Barbatos?"

"Haven't you read the books Yuu wrote? Those are just stories."

"But Yu is not Barbatos, he is just acting, and the Eye of God is not real, right?" Mashiro said as a matter of course.

Yes, You is not the wandering bard who sings and dances everywhere, and his words and deeds on the Internet are also very different from his usual behavior.

You did not shy away from this fact, and from time to time he would comment on whether he looked like the real person or not, immersed in his own world of self-entertainment.

Sometimes Qiong couldn't understand the other person either, and just thought that this was a symptom unique to adolescent boys. What was it called? Oh yes, it's the second disease.

But what makes You different from others is that he really has the ability to make stories come true.

But Mashiro's words made Kasugano Sora vaguely feel that something seemed wrong, as if there was a detail that she had subconsciously ignored all along, hidden in the corner of her life.

This is the answer to all questions.

But, what is it?

Kasugano Sora was thinking and accidentally glanced at the clock on the bedside.

"Ah, it's already this late, Mashiro. Time to go to bed. We have to get up early tomorrow."

"Oh." Mashiro agreed reluctantly.

"Wait, what are you doing... Don't take off your clothes... Don't take off my clothes... Shiina Mashiro!"

That night, the two fell asleep in the midst of a lot of fighting and playing, just like countless ordinary nights before, but after tonight, it seemed that something was quietly changing.

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"Mashiro, wake up."

"Well...so sleepy."

"You have to get up even if you're sleepy, or you'll miss the bus."

"Doesn't Qiong have super powers? Why can't we just fly over there?"

"I can indeed fly. But that's no reason for you to stay in bed. Get up."

"The sky is broken!"

"..."

After another round of trouble, Qiong brought Mashiro to the rooftop of the hotel.

Although it was only six o'clock in the morning, the east was already beginning to glow with rosy clouds, like a ball of fire, igniting the clouds on the horizon and burning them away.

"What are we doing here?"

"Didn't you say you wanted to fly over there? Do you want to give it a try?"

"Can I do that too?"

"Well, just put on the wings of wind."

Kasugano Sora said as she took out a pair of ancient wings and bound them to Mashiro, allowing her to use them freely.

"This has the blessing of the wind god, allowing you to fly in the sky with just a wisp of wind."

"Wind God?"

"That's Barbatos."

After Kasugano Yuu finished speaking, both of them were stunned, but it seemed that nothing was wrong, so Mashiro took advantage of the early morning to start practicing.

If Yukinoshita Haruno saw this scene, she would definitely hug Kasugano Sora and cry bitterly.

She wasn't this gentle when she was training Yang Noi.

After half an hour, Mashiro gradually became familiar with the use of the Wind Wings, but Qiong asked her to put it away.

"This thing can't be seen in the city. Let me take you flying for a while."

"Isn't Qiong afraid of being seen?"

"I'll be invisible."

"Oh."

Qiong held Mashiro's hand, and Mashiro found that the other party had no wings, but the two of them floated in the air, and then she saw Qiong's body become transparent.

"Qiong?"

Shiina Mashiro subconsciously grabbed Kasugano Sora's hand.

"I'm here."

"How magical." Mashiro looked at her hand and found that she had also become invisible, but she could still feel the position of her hand.

"Hold on tight, Mashiro, don't fall."

"Ah."

So, Kasugano Sora took Mashiro and flew for a while, until they were gradually far away from the city, then they stopped and changed into the Wings of Wind.

Kasugano Yuu watched Mashiro gradually become bolder from being cautious at first.

Although she lost her balance several times along the way, Mashiro floated in the air again after falling for a while. She looked back and found that it was Qiong who was looking at her from behind.

The two flew and stopped along the way, and finally arrived at an ancient forest.

It is said that a mountain god and many monsters live here. They hold festivals in the summer, and sometimes human children accidentally enter them, and rumors of monsters begin to spread.

Under a torii, Kasugano Sora saw Asagi who had been waiting for a long time, and a young man wearing a strange fox mask.

"Welcome, Lord Kasugano." Asagi said respectfully.

"Just call me Qiong. You know I don't care about these things. Am I late?"

Kasugano Sora looked at the fox-faced boy next to her curiously.

"Are they all human?"

The fox-faced boy looked at Asagi, seeming a little nervous.

"It's okay. Miss Qiong is a good friend of Natsume-sama and a person of high moral character. And the person next to her is Miss Shiina Mashiro."

"Who are you talking to?"

Mashiro looked at the empty space ahead, then turned to look at Qiong.

"Oh, sorry I forgot about you. Take this so you can see it too. But you have to stick with me and don't run around."

"Oh."

Mashiro took the amulet given by Qiong. The moment the amulet touched her, it became hot, and then Mashiro saw the two of them.

One of them was Asagi, whom they met yesterday, and the other one was unknown to them.

"Okay, hello. My name is Yin, and I'm sorry for what I said just now, but my situation is quite special and I can't interact with humans.

How about this, I will lead you.”

Yin made a gesture of invitation, and the group walked up the stairs.

The forest in the early morning is filled with the scent of dew and soil, and it is quiet and peaceful. Far away from human habitation, it is indeed a good place for monsters to gather.

Asagi also wanted to explain Gin's situation to Kyon and Mashiro, hoping they wouldn't mind and that the other party didn't mean it.

But as Kasugano Sora listened, she felt more and more puzzled.

A monster named Silver was adopted by the mountain god and lived in the forest. He wore a fox mask and could not come into contact with humans, otherwise his body would dissipate...

So familiar, really familiar.

Suddenly, Kasugano Sora stopped and looked at the young man's back in shock.

This is the story of "Firefly Forest"!