Yamazaki Shiki was shaken awake by his sister.

The eyelids seemed to have been smeared with glue, and it took a lot of effort to open them. The complaints from the sister next to me were like being passed through a thick layer of gauze mist, bluntly reaching the ears.

His consciousness was like the ebbing sea water, moving back. Only then did he brace himself up and look around.

"Really," the girl said coquettishly, hitting his arm, with some dissatisfaction in her eyes, "I just complimented you a few times and you hid in bed. After a while, my mother came up and saw her, and she was going to be angry again.

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Shiqi sat up straight, his spine bones groaning. It looked like he had been lying on his stomach for a long time.

"...Reina?"

He murmured softly, frowning and turning his stiff neck. At this time, Reina took out a few tissues and handed them to him:

"Wipe it, saliva."

Shiqi took it subconsciously and was stunned for a few seconds.

Reina observed her brother's expression and waved her hand in front of his eyes, "Brother, what's wrong with you? Are you asleep?"

"...Why am I...here?" Shiqi asked in confusion.

He turned around and looked around. He saw the small table in front of him, the desk and the bed further away, and the bookshelf leaning against the wall. The curtains were opened, and the window opened a small opening. A cool breeze blew in. Nogizaka 46 II was at the head of the bed.

On the single promotional poster, seven girls in the Goddess of Fortune smile gracefully in front of a background of colorful balloons.

correct!

He suddenly woke up, stood up suddenly, hit his knees on the edge of the table, stumbled, and almost knocked the table over.

"What are you doing!"

Reina exclaimed, quickly holding up the overturned water glass and taking out a handful of paper towels to wipe the water-soaked textbooks.

Shiqi ignored this. He rubbed his knees, stumbled to his desk, opened his computer in a panic, and logged on to the Twitter page.

In an instant, there were thousands of replies and tens of thousands of retweets, but none of them were heard. It lasted for more than ten seconds and showed no signs of stopping, so Shiqi directly turned on the mute.

"I didn't expect you to be quite popular online."

Reina came over and looked at her computer screen. There was a page full of replies and comments. Shiki pulled it several times, but she still couldn't finish it.

"Welcome shit!"

"Eh?"

Reina turned to look at Shiqi. This idiot brother who was usually fearless in skipping classes and fighting all day long seemed to have witnessed something extremely terrifying. His face was pale, his whole body was shaking, and thin cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

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"……elder brother?"

However, Shiqi didn't respond to her, and still stared at the screen in horror.

"Brother? Are you okay?"

Reina grabbed Shiqi's arm, worried about what had happened to his body.

For a long time, Shiqi collapsed on the bed next to the desk, his hands resting on his legs weakly, looking as if his heart was dying, like a boxer who was burned out in the boxing ring.

Reina called several times but there was no response, so she had no choice but to turn her attention to the computer, trying to find the reason why her stupid brother was so frustrated.

"……what is this?"

Numerous replies revolved around a breaking news, malicious speculation, cynicism, and indifferent ridicule from the masses. Reina rarely used Twitter, and the chaotic and complicated messages made her a little irritated, and then she finally noticed the tweeter's i.

"Brother, isn't this your Twitter account?...Nogizaka46...?"

She looked back at the indifferent Shiqi, tilted her head, and clicked on the Nogizaka46 official tweet in a reply. The top tweet was the official statement on the "three single leaks incident."

"... In response to the false information about Nogizaka's third single on the Internet... The main single of the third single is "Go! Biyle", and the selected members and their positions are as follows... It is scheduled to be released on August 22..."

Reina read the statement and read it out loud unconsciously. She read it from beginning to end and was still confused about the whole incident. "So, what exactly is going on?" She could only make random guesses, "Are you on Twitter?

What caused a commotion with your hair?"

(ex){}&/After that, Shiqi put the handle on the bookshelf, at a height roughly below his shoulders.

After the placement was completed, Shiqi took a few steps back, waved to the camera with a stiff smile, and then lay down on the bed.

At this time, the knight in front of the screen began to fast forward the video. It can be found that for the first half hour, the knight in the video tossed and turned and had difficulty falling asleep. He finally fell asleep after an hour. Then more than an hour later,

'He' got up from the bed.

Reina noticed almost instantly that the person in the video had turned into a stranger, and his whole body was filled with a strange feeling, as clear as a black dot suddenly popping up on a white paper.

'He' slowly straightened up his upper body from the bed, first glanced around the room, and then focused on his hands, repeatedly loosening and clenching them, as if to confirm something.

Reina's scalp felt a little numb.

Immediately afterwards, 'he' opened the quilt and got out of bed. His movements were gentle and smooth, but also a bit stiff. He walked to the window and opened the curtains with a "swish". The sunlight poured in, and 'he' blocked it slightly with his hands.

After getting used to the bright light, he began to twist his neck, turn his waist, and move his hands and feet, a series of preparatory movements for exercise.

After doing all this, 'he' picked up the square mirror on the table. Looking from the angle, the other party was just looking at the mirror normally. If you look closely, you can see that the muscles of 'his' cheek are twitching unnaturally.

'He' began to look in the mirror while walking around in circles in the room. When 'he' turned around, Reina discovered that 'he' was not looking in the mirror at all, but observing his various expressions, happiness and anger through the mirror.

Sadness, embarrassment, hesitation, helplessness, ridicule.

'He' was like constantly switching masks on his face, mechanically precise and correct, and the emotions conveyed through his facial expressions were so clear and pure that it even made Reina a little scared.

Bang bang on the door.

"Brother? Are you there?"

Reina's heart skipped a beat, that was her own voice.

The door was opened, and Reina pushed the door open and entered, but the area covered by the camera did not reveal her figure.

"Brother, I borrowed it from you some time ago and returned it to me. I need it for group practice assignments."

'He' rummaged through the desk and drawers, "No, have I paid you back?"

"Huh? You're not trying to cheat, are you?" Reina strode into the center of the screen, "I lent it to you because you begged me!"

‘He’ spread his hands and said, “There’s nothing I can do if you can’t find it. It’s probably lost.”

"Lost!?" Reina's voice rose a few degrees, "I'm going to use it tomorrow!"

"Otherwise, you can ask your classmates if they have it, and borrow it first, and then go there after you've fooled them with your homework. It'll be fine."

"...You think I am you!" Lina left angrily, slamming the door behind her with force.

The room suddenly became silent.

'He' stood quietly, slowly turning his head and scanning the room. Reina could feel the silent pressure emanating from 'him' through the screen.

When 'he' glanced in the direction, he suddenly stopped, his indifferent eyes staring at Shiqi and Reina outside the video. The two of them shivered for an instant, and cold sweat broke out on their backs.

The video ends abruptly here.

The two people were reflected on the black screen, with slightly stiff faces.

"Who... is 'him'?" Reina asked in a hoarse voice.

Shiqi looked back with a smile on his face;
Chapter completed!