Which, in fact, got even weirder when Haruka saw big and small eyes blinking, moving their lenses, etc., in the sky. It was cloudy, hard to notice, but...it was... disgusting and disturbing to watch.
Haruka was sweating, he couldn't move... it was as if he was experiencing sleep paralysis again. He blinked; the field turned into a road... a huge road with infinite width and length. He blinked again, and it turned back to a field. He was about to ask where he was, but... words just didn't come out of his mouth.
The cosplayer, or whatever IT was, speaks...
A weird voice, weirdly deep and weirdly human.
"Ah... Sorry to scare you... Haruka. Myself Rideous P."
A little pause, and he continues.
"This place is my heaven. My beloved place... My Home."
"You cannot talk right now... Because I am talking and when I talk... no one else does.. It hurts my ego, you know? Don't even try to talk. Just so you know, you are some idiot who was chosen. For what? You will find out soon. I don't like to spill the tea much either."
Haruka, who was completely paralyzed, felt more discomfort.
He blinked once more.
Now it was a ceiling... He was breathing heavily, and he looked around to realize he was in his room. He thought to himself, "Was... it a dream?..."
He relaxes and sighs; it was the worst dream he ever had. He checked his phone, and the time was 11:01 pm right now.
Then it crept him even more... He woke up once... Was that a dream too?... if it was... he shouldn't be remembering the time on his phone that he saw earlier so clearly. He was clearly driving the bicycle... He remembers it so clearly... He looked down at his feet, and he saw blood stains underneath the shoe.
His eyes widen, now that he recalls what happened earlier, he remembers stepping on a soft... warm... fleshy thing before.
"What... is this?"-- He thought to himself.
He took a better look at it. He went to the washroom to clean it... It might be something else, not blood. He took water on his hand and washed his face, then when he went to clean his shoes... he saw no shoes underneath his feet. He was rubbing his eyes once again.
"What the-... it was just here...wait, why on earth would I wear shoes inside the house? especially on bed..."--He thought to himself once again. Nothing made sense. Was this a dream, too? He looks into the mirror, and it doesn't look like a dream.
A smile on the mirror's reflection as he sees the Rideous P. behind his back... a soft and light whisper, "We will meet again..."
He was almost screaming, but he felt paralyzed once again. He was normal once again as his reflection went back to normal, and Rideous P. dissolved in the air.
He was sweating...he doesn't even know what to do right now. He gets out of the washroom and lies on the bed. He covered himself with a blanket. He kept his eyes open, barely blinking, thinking that something weird might happen again. He was checking the time again and again. 12 am. 1 am. 2 am. 3 am. And he kept seeing till it was 6 am in the morning... He had no sleep after the incident. He was tired... He got out of bed as he saw a ray of sunshine inside his room. He tries to convince himself that all of it was a dream. He brushed his teeth, freshened himself, and afterwards he prepared breakfast. He was eating and scrolling through his phone.
He saw a meme of "10 signs of extremely high ego" with a crow's picture. It was a funny GIF. He kept scrolling, ate his breakfast, and when it was 7 am, Jack was awake. He greeted Haruka with, "Good morning, kid..."
Haruka greeted him back, gave him breakfast, and then left for school. He went outside the house, and when he looked at his shoes, he saw blood stains on them... It was darkened now... It was surely... blood.
It frightened him... he didn't know what he should do, he simply wore it and took his bicycle. He was driving it quickly and went to school.
Saito, Naoki, Aurel, and others went to school today. Yume was sitting next to the spot where Haruka sits. Haruka parks his bicycle inside the school garage and then goes to his classroom. After greeting Yume and others, he took his seat. Usual place where he sits. Even though he was stressed about all the incidents that happened last night, he was cheerful now. A mask or not, it always gets turned on whenever he is near his friends, at home.
He asks Aurel, Saito, and others why they were absent yesterday. They say that class was boring for them, bunking one day won't get anyone killed.
Yume says loudly to them that it was fun yesterday because he was riding with Haruka on his bicycle.
Aurel and others' jaws dropped. Their dumbfounded expression quickly got replaced with an evil, mischievous grin.
They have a nice excuse to tease Yume and Haruka now.