Carson nodded indifferently, his hand already touching the phone in his pocket.
But his eyes suddenly flickered a little.
Then his hand came out of his pocket, but he did not take out his phone.
“Just remembered, my phone ran out of battery from playing games this afternoon.”
Klara couldn’t help but frown.
“No way, yours is dead too?”
The coincidence of things was frustrating, Klara didn’t expect to be so unlucky after gently disliking Gabriela today.
“Everyone must have gone home from school by now, no one will come to open the door for us, so what are we going to do…”
“Well, there’s nothing we can do now, it looks like we’ll have to spend the night here.”
Hearing this Klara couldn’t help but look at Carson next to her, who sounded full of excitement in his tone.
But maybe it was his own illusion.
“Let’s just pass, there’s nothing else to do anyway.”
Klara was quick to adapt, and since she had decided to spend the night, she didn’t hesitate to sit on her butt on the ground.
Carson also sat next to her.
Klara entered her Soul Stone boundary after sitting down.
She had previously treated this knot as her other home, which had everything she needed, so she had an extraordinarily comfortable time.
As Klara was comfortably doing her homework inside the knot, she suddenly heard a popping sound.
Klara left the boundary alertly and opened her eyes to an unexpected darkness.
It seemed like the lights were turned off?
“What’s going on? Why are the lights off? Is there someone else here?”
Carson’s nervous and slightly shaky voice came to his side.
Klara was quick to understand the reason for this.
“There is no one in the auditorium at night, the school will definitely cut off the electricity, otherwise what is the point of wasting all this electricity.”
Klara yawned a little sleepily after saying that.
This time at home, she should sleep, and this time is really sleepy.
“Good night.”
Klara spread her jacket and prepared to sleep, but Carson grabbed her arm tightly.
Klara frowned.
“What are you doing again?”
“Do you see something there?”
“A mineral water bottle, you don’t have to Carson, will you let go of my arm now?”
Carson didn’t answer, but his hand gripped Klara’s arm tighter.
Klara almost couldn’t hold back her laughter as she asked in mock surprise.
“Carson, are you afraid of ghosts?”
Klara did not get an affirmative answer at first, but clearly felt her arm being gripped even tighter.
But it was only for a moment, and Carson quickly released her arm.
“I would be afraid of ghosts!?”
In the silent darkness, Carson coldly opened his mouth and scoffed.
It was said as if he was very confident and sounded convincing enough.
Klara laughed, nodded to show she believed it, and then suddenly reached out and pointed to a void of darkness in front of her.
“What is that thing!!!”
She exclaimed with a raised octave of alarm.
Carson shivered in shock and almost jumped straight up as he grabbed the girl’s arm.
“What what thing? Where is it?”
Carson’s muscles tensed up and he looked to the right and left nervously even though he couldn’t see anything.
Klara couldn’t hold back and almost laughed out loud.
“Well nothing, I guess I was wrong. But aren’t you afraid? Why are you shivering now?”
Carson only now came back from the panic he had just felt and understood that Klara had done it on purpose.
“Klara!”
“Oops, okay, okay, just kidding, you can get closer to me if you’re that scared.”
“I’m not afraid!”
“Ah… then I’ll duck a little if you’re not afraid.”
“Come back!”
In the end, he succumbed to the darkness and sat down next to Klara.
“It’s not because I’m timid.”
Carson’s eyes lowered, and his tone was suddenly tinged with a hint of sadness.
“It’s because of some experiences I’ve had that I’m so afraid of the dark.”
Klara was suddenly stunned, who didn’t have something in particular to be afraid of.
Just like in her last life when she was thrown into a snake pit, even in this life when she saw snakes again, wasn’t she still shaking with fear?
All the fear in the world is because there is a past that cannot be recalled.
Thinking about this she suddenly got soft.
“Then why don’t I tell you a story, so that you won’t be afraid if you are distracted.”
“Don’t coax me like a child!”
Carson gritted her teeth reluctantly, but Klara didn’t pay any attention to her.
“Once upon a time there was a hare and a turtle, and they agreed to race, and the hare thought…”
“Klara, you’re almost ready, the tortoise and the hare are telling a story?”
It’s not for preschoolers, so what kind of story is it about the tortoise and the hare?
“Well, once upon a time there was a hare and a turtle, one was made into a braised rabbit head and the other was made into a steamed…”
“Klara!”
Klara snorted out a laugh.
“I told you not to adapt it like this, I’ll tell you properly from the beginning!”
“Once upon a time, the hare and the tortoise were running one day, and the hare laughed at the tortoise for being slow, and the tortoise said that one day he would win. The hare said, “Let’s start the race now…”
It was a simple children’s story that somehow calmed Carson’s inner fear of darkness.
He really gradually calmed down, just listening to Klara’s clear voice, he was unconsciously sleepy.
His eyes grew heavy, his head slowly lowered, and then his breathing became more and more calm.
Klara’s story was told once and then again until her mouth got a little dry, only to suddenly realize that the people around her had long since gone silent.
So her voice was deliberately lowered, but she didn’t see any reaction.
The first time I took a peek, I realized that Carson had already fallen asleep.
“It doesn’t seem that scary.”
Klara smiled and muttered to herself, then yawned tiredly.
She also gently hugged her knees and closed her eyes.
Despite the harsh environment at the moment, she had been tired all day, so she quickly curled up and fell asleep.
Both of their breathing calmly and rhythmically rose and fell, and the moonlight shone on the two of them in unspeakable harmony.
Just then –
creak.
The door of the auditorium was pushed open and a slender hazy backlit figure stood at the door.
The sleeping Klara seemed to have heard this sound, and her calm features frowned slightly.
With this is a slight disturbance, although Klara did not fully wake up, but the body lost balance.
In a moment Klara’s body was going to fall to the ground.