HLnovel Chapter 196 The Meaning of Eyes
Chapter 196 The Meaning of Eyes
"Tiger weed." Wild Rose corrected him unhappily, "How did something so little known become an urban legend?"
"But that's what they said." Yuji explained, "I was just repeating it."
"Then please tell me quickly." Fushiguro Megumi glanced at the clock on the wall which was almost 7:30 and said impatiently, "I will be leaving at 8 o'clock. I feel like I am wasting my time accompanying Gojo-sensei."
"Okay, okay." Yuji said quickly, "Then I'll start talking."
"That's..." The moment he opened his mouth, the lights went out.
"......What's going on?" Maki stood up and walked to the switch, pressed it twice, but there was no response.
Fushiguro Megumi walked to the next room and came back less than half a minute later, "The power is out in my room too."
"Tuna!" Goujuanji showed his cell phone to everyone. There was a notice on it: Due to a circuit failure, the college had a power outage for maintenance and it was expected that power would be restored at 9:00 p.m.
"This is too unlucky." Wild Rose couldn't help but say, "I don't have to get up early tomorrow. I plan to go to bed later tonight."
"Well..." Gojo Satoru was the only happy person present. He clapped his hands excitedly and said, "Since everyone has nothing to do when they go back, why don't you stay and spend more time with the teacher?"
"What if there is no lighting?" Maki looked around and didn't find a desk lamp in Yuji's room, so she asked, "Yuji, why don't you buy a desk lamp?"
"............" Yuji said embarrassedly, "I lent it to Panda-senpai last time, and he broke it."
"......." Ingumaki, Maki, Nobara, Fushiguro Megumi and even Gojo Satoru turned their heads to look at him.
"What are you doing?" Panda couldn't hold it in any longer. "I've already paid him back!"
"So what did you do with the lamp?" Maki demanded, "You broke my junior's lamp!"
"Panda also has his own little secrets." Panda turned around, crossed his arms and said proudly, "I won't tell you."
After saying that, he hurriedly urged Yuji, "Yuji, hurry up and tell me."
"Oh! That is..." Yuji looked up and thought for a moment, then straightened up and said, "I think it's called the [Non-Existent Girl] Incident."
"A girl who doesn't exist?" Wild Rose was immediately interested when she heard the name. "What does it mean? What does a girl who doesn't exist mean?"
"It was told by a TV reporter."
Tiger Stick turned on the flashlight on his phone and said while holding it in his hand, "Many years ago, he was interviewing a girl on Street 88 in the city."
"She has long black hair, pale skin, and a smile that resembles a sinister venomous snake."
He lowered his voice and said, "The pattern of eyes wrapped around her arm is vivid, as if it is a living eye."
"When he looked into his eyes, he could clearly see the pupils inside were staring at him and moving non-stop."
"He was very curious about the girl, so he walked up to her and asked her about her age and background, but she just kept repeating: I want to go home... I want to go home..."
"But... then what..." Nobara couldn't help but grab Fushiguro Megumi's sleeve, and Panda also went behind Maki, but bumped into her and was glared at by her.
"The next day, he checked the camera records and found that the girl in the picture had disappeared."
At this point, Yuji raised his voice a little: "But, the words she said turned into bright red fonts, remaining in every frame of the video, and can't be deleted no matter how hard you try."
"........"
"Then something weird happened."
Yuji opened his big eyes and adjusted his sitting position. The light from his mobile phone swayed with his movements, creating an extra-large shadow behind him.
"No one who was traveling with the journalists remembered her," he said. "She just disappeared into thin air, no longer in anyone's memory."
“What’s even more bizarre is that—” he stretched out his words, “many people in the reporter’s life also disappeared inexplicably, without leaving any trace.”
"He went to interview, investigate, and ask everyone around him. The results were all that these people had never existed and were people he had imagined."
"Where's the back?"
"Then it gradually became an urban legend."
Yuji said, "Don't look into the eyes on a girl's arm, or she will take you to another world and forget you."
"Another world?" Panda asked nervously, "What kind of world?"
"Kombu."
"Could it be the Land of the Underworld?" asked Wild Rose.
"Well..." Yuji touched the back of his head and said, "The seniors didn't say anything, and I didn't ask."
"That's ridiculous..." Maki curled her lips in contempt, "This urban legend is probably made up, just to create a gimmick."
"So why is it an unknown urban legend?" Wild Rose was still very curious about this statement.
"Maybe..." I thought, "Because everyone who heard it had the same reaction as Maki, thinking that the reporter was artificially making up the story for hype?"
"Yeah," Maki said. "It even has the address marked on it. 88th Street."
"That's right." Panda said confidently, "I've been to 88 Street several times, and I've never met any beautiful girls with long straight black hair."
".......No one told you that this is a beautiful girl with long black straight hair..." Maki complained speechlessly.
"What?" Wild Rose muttered, "It's just a made-up story in the end, damn it!"
Then, she turned to Fushiguro Megumi, who had been very quiet from the beginning and didn't talk much: "Hey, Fushiguro, do you want to say something too? Everyone has said it."
"Hmm..." Fushiguro Megumi was in a daze, and was brought back to his senses by her slapping him hard.
It felt like Megumi Fushiguro's gaze was always floating on her eyes, but without focus, as if she was just wandering aimlessly.
So Wild Rose nudged his shoulder with her elbow in dissatisfaction and asked loudly, "Why have you been in a daze since just now?"
"............" Fushiguro Megumi said, "I wonder why it is the eyes."
"Why eyes?" Maki asked in confusion.
"No." Fushiguro Megumi picked up her phone, enlarged the eye pattern on the screen, and showed it to everyone. "Eyes have special meanings in many cultures."
“For example, in ancient Egyptian culture, there is the Eye of Horus.”
He paused and continued to explain: "Horus is the patron god of the Egyptian pharaohs. They believe that the Eye of Horus can drive away disasters and protect life."
"Also in Norse mythology, Odin, the king of the gods, is a one-eyed figure. It is said that he obtained the water of the fountain of wisdom in exchange for an eye."
"Also, there is a saying about the five eyes in Buddhism..." Fushiguro Megumi said, "But no matter which culture it is, eyes have the meaning of watching, insight, and wisdom."
"So, I wonder if the eyes on Miss Gojo's hand mean the same thing."
“........” I fell into deep thought.
To be honest, I had never thought specifically about the meaning of the eye branded on my wrist before this.
On the one hand, every time I come to this world, I think about how to change the original story line and how to fill my eyes with progress when I go home.
On the other hand, every time I return to my original world, I forget everything about this place and have no idea where to start.
Although I don't like this thing because I am forced to travel through time and space, I have to admit that it always plays a very reliable role at the critical moment.
"So..." I asked him, "Do you think this eye is protecting me?"
"It's possible..." Fushiguro Megumi nodded hesitantly, and then quickly added, "But this is just my wild guess."
Are you protecting my things?