"Gululu..."

"Gululu..."

Asuka Karasawa, with empty eyes, sank into the abyss-like water wrapped in the aura of death.

Above, the fierce sounds of battle, the hysterical shouts, and the harsh and hateful cries of babies were getting away little by little, peeling away from Asuka Karasawa's ears piece by piece like peeling eggshells.

She settled motionless, letting wisps of scarlet blood mist flow out of the wound in her lower abdomen. The lighter blood mist surged upward, while the heavier one sank downward. At this moment, she seemed to be walking

On the road to death, away from everything above, everything that caused her death.

What is she thinking about at this moment? Regret? Angry? Sad? Maybe nothing...

Asuka Karasawa was unexpectedly numb, as if she was used to it, as if she didn't care at all... At this moment, she just felt cold, dark and silent.

So cold...so cold...

Accompanied by this seemingly endless coldness and silence, Asuka Karasawa thought dully and monotonously. "Dong...dong...dong..."

That is to say, at the same time and at the same moment, an extremely distant and uninterrupted sound of wooden fish came from nowhere in her ears.

It seemed like it was the first time she heard such a voice, but Asuka Karasawa felt that such a voice was particularly kind and familiar.

ah···

I remembered, this was the sound of the wooden fish in my father’s temple.

When this idea appeared, it wasn't just the sound. The tip of her nose no longer felt suffocated. A deep and delicious Buddhist fragrance filled the air, and her eyes quickly became bright again.

At this moment, what appeared in front of her was a small room with only a few and a half stacks.

On the cool tatami, she knelt down next to the sliding wooden door, staring blankly at the homework on the small table in front of her.

"This is what I heard...for a while...the Buddha was in the country of Savatthi..."

The small TV with a snowy screen, the faint sound of chanting outside the door, and the sound of the wooden fish "Asuka..." seemed to be right in front of my ears.

Outside the door, a calm female voice suddenly sounded, like thunder exploding in Asuka Karasawa's mind, bringing her dull expression to life a little bit.

She kept panting, and her body trembled like chaff. As tears continued to fall from her eyes, her brown eyes narrowed to the extreme, and she slowly looked at the closed sliding door next to her.

Outside the wooden door, the shadow of a woman with permed and curly hair sat quietly outside. The outline of her face seemed to be able to see Asuka Karasawa from a distance, watching her calmly.

The calm, just an ordinary female voice sounded from the shadow's mouth again, she said, "Asuka..."

"mom, Mom, Mom···"

Asuka Karasawa's face was filled with tears of fear. She looked straight at the shadow behind the door, her mind going blank.

"Asuka...open the door..."

"But...but dad said...you can't open the door..."

"Did dad say...?"

"Um."

The sound of the wooden fish was ringing for a long time, and the shadow of the woman outside the door remained motionless. After a long pause, her smiling voice sounded again,

"...Asuka, didn't you close the door yourself?" "Me?"

"Ah, that's right..."

“Crack, click, click, click!!!”

As the woman's voice sounded one after another, the entire door suddenly shook. Even though no one was touching it, it seemed to be constantly being tried to open and then blocked by another force...

"Did you forget that you used [magic] to close it?"

Karasawa Asuka's eyes suddenly shrank, and the next moment, the wooden door could no longer control its trembling, and then was suddenly pushed open in front of Karasawa Asuka, revealing the darkness outside.

At this moment, Asuka Karasawa's consciousness continued to sink. She seemed to have returned to Tokyo, Japan, where there were many high-rise buildings and was full of luxury, and to the huge but extremely cold house in Nakuru.

There are no lights in the house because my mother said turning them on would waste electricity.

A small girl wearing a primary school uniform was sitting blankly in the corner of the living room holding her schoolbag. She had a slender face and her body was trembling slightly due to the low temperature that had entered winter early.

"Gululu~"

On the wall, the clock slowly moved toward nine o'clock. The little girl's stomach kept making noises, causing severe cramping and reminding its owner that she was very hungry.

But her mother hasn’t come back yet, and she doesn’t want to give herself money, but she is so hungry...

The little girl was so hungry that her stomach ached. She couldn't think of a way to do it, so she glanced at the empty room. She finally couldn't help but take a step against her mother - she took away the clothes her mother had left unorganized on the sofa.

He put one on his body, then looked around and came to the TV. After hesitating for a long time, he finally pressed the power button of the TV...

Gosh, even doing such things as turning on the TV and putting on her mother's summer clothes made that little girl's heart race and she was so panicked.

However, her mother won't come back until ten o'clock in the evening. As long as she turns off the TV before then, she won't know... The TV station has not been paid, and there are only a few channels that the little girl doesn't recognize at all. One of them is broadcasting

is animation.

"Gululu~"

In the dim room, the dim light of the TV covered the little girl's immersed expression, and the sound of the animation covered her shivering due to the cold and the sound of her stomach making noises due to hunger.

"I will use a magic to transform you into a princess to attend the prince's banquet, Cinderella... you will have gorgeous clothes, fine hair, expensive carriages and loyal servants..."

"Oh my God, magic is so amazing."

"But there is a premise. The magic will expire before midnight, and you must come back before then." "I promise to do it."

The thin little girl in front of the TV stared blankly at Cinderella who became so beautiful in the picture, her eyes couldn't help but brighten.

Magic...so magical...

How great would it be if I could also do magic?

He doesn't need such exquisite clothes and servants, nor does he need a prince. As long as his stomach is not hungry, it doesn't hurt, and it doesn't scream.

But it can’t expire at midnight, otherwise if her mother forgets to give her money after she comes back from drinking, the magic will fail and she will wake up hungry in the middle of the night...

The little girl immediately combined her own life, thinking this way.

Suddenly, a brilliant idea came into her mind.

Cinderella's fairy godmother used a staff to cast the spell. The magic is invisible at all. If the wind blows hard at night, it may be blown away. If you write down the magic with a pen, the magic will never expire as long as you don't take a shower.

?

The little girl stood up happily and looked for a pen that could be used to write [magic].

The pencils in your bag are not good. The pencil marks will fall off soon. My mother didn’t give me money for colored pens, so I didn’t buy them. I usually borrow them from others, but because I kept borrowing them, they were very unhappy.

I asked myself to buy it, but I felt a little embarrassed so I didn’t borrow it anymore...

The little girl rummaged through the entire room, but she found nothing except bills for various drinks and cosmetics.

There was really no other way, so she had to go to her mother's dressing table and get a pen she used to apply eyeliner.

As if she was committing a crime, her heart was beating very fast, because once her mother found out that she had touched her expensive cosmetics, she would definitely...

But fortunately, she was not found today.

So, she finally got what she wanted.

She returned to the TV with a trembling body, and sat in front of the TV with a smile. With the weak light of the TV, she opened her uniform, and wrote a line of "Magic" in Japanese on her arm crookedly.

”. She wrote,

"Asuka Karasawa will never be hungry."

As she solemnly finished this line of "magic", she immediately pursed her lips and looked down at her belly as if to confirm.

The amazing thing is that after the "magic" was completed, her stomach seemed to be no longer hungry and the magic no longer sounded. It was true!

Her eyes lit up slightly, and she looked at the animation on the TV in front of her as if she had discovered a new world.

Although I have never met a fairy godmother like Cinderella, maybe she has taught me her magic?

"Dong dong dong"

But even for this little girl, one [magic] is obviously not enough.

With the accompaniment of the increasingly quiet wooden fish sounds, there were more and more [magic] in her hands and body. To this end, she even secretly took a hundred yen from her mother and went out to buy a special one.

A pen that expresses magic.

"The place where Asuka Karasawa was spanked by her mother will never hurt."

Because the place where you were hit will feel very painful, but if you have this magic, you won't be afraid of your mother hitting you.

"Asuka Karasawa will never be sad or cry when her mother scolds her."

Because when you are scolded, you will want to cry and your heart will be very painful, but my mother doesn't like her crying, so she will be beaten. Although she has the magic that it will not hurt when she is beaten, she really doesn't like it.

cry.

"Asuka Karasawa will not feel ashamed at school."

Because I have nothing, my friends won’t play with me. If my clothes are ragged, they will laugh at me, but if I have this magic, I won’t feel ashamed.

"Asuka Karasawa doesn't know how to ask her mother questions."
To be continued...