Chapter 14


    <strong>Chapter 14 </strong><strong>– Memory Fragments </strong><strong>(a)</strong>


    That night, ire had a very strange dream. In the dream, he saw his “other self” grow up quickly and be a slender young man. The young man looked very handsome, wearing a white tailored suit while standing in front of the mirror with a smile. He then sat in a strange car and went to apany. All people in thepany greeted him politely as he arrived, calling him......


    As soon as the name was blurted out, ire felt the whole world shook and he suddenly opened his eyes. Carlo’s serious face was magnified before him, shaking his shoulder with his hand: “ire, get up soon, don’t bete.”


    ” ....." ire stayed frozen a long time after the escape from his dream.


    That dream was too real. He lived in apletely different ce from home. The white car he used to go out was not the same as the suspension car in the Empire. The silver-colored building of thepany was a building he had never seen before. Definitely anotherpletely different world.


    But the horrible thing was, everything in that world is clearly printed in his mind. Even the faces of men and women who greeted him in thepany were very clear to him. Even when he woke up from the dream, he always felt like he had experienced all of it himself.


    <i>Is my illness getting worse? What is the rtionship between that person and </i><i>me?</i>


    Sometimes he could not even tell whether he was the man in the dream or the present ire.


    Carlo saw his roommate sat on the bed in a daze and frowned. He pped ire forcefully on the shoulder: “You are awake, right? Go to ss!”


    “......” ire, who was thoroughly awakened after being pped by the ss President, immediately got up to wash his face and brush his teeth.


    The two rushed to the ssroom and arrived at 7:59. The teacher wasing to the ssroom soon, so the two boys quickly slipped in from the back door and sat down in their seats.


    Seeing the gasping look of the two guys in the row in front of him, Xi Wei could tell that they had apparently ran all the way here. He reached out his foot and gently kicked ire’s butt, "ire.”


    ire turned back and Xi Wei beckoned him closer, which heplied, leaning his head closer to Xi Wei, “Xi Wei, you called me?”


    Xi Wei asked in his ear, “Coming sote, you overslept again?”


    ” Um... another nightmare," ire whispered. "I think my illness has be more serious.”


    Xi Wei said, “Wait for me downstairs in the afternoon and we’ll go to the infirmary.”


    “Okay.”


    While the couple was whispering privately, Carlo curiously straightened his ears, trying to to eavesdrop. He could not hear anything though, and had no choice but to turn back facing the podium seriously.


    There are three consecutive periods of Imperial History in the morning. The teacher was a man with gray hair and very serious looking face and voice. The focus of this lesson was “The Battle of Issyville”. Xi Wei had checked the information about this a long time ago and knew that since the battle human race was divided into two major regimes, the Lacey Empire and the Strandian Federation. The year the battle ended was also the year the empire was founded. However, his ssmates were obviously not aware of this historical knowledge. The teacher yed a lot of precious video information on the big screen, and the children were watching it with relish, as if they were seeing a movie.


    ire’s expression was a little ugly though. His dreams were often filled with exploding images, so looking at the war and mes scene on the big screen only gave him a headache. The nerves in his brain felt like they were burning with how ufortable he was feeling. ire simply closed his eyes andid his head on the table.


    Xi Wei saw the alpha sitting in front of him had fallen aleep again, and felt quite helpless in his heart. This ss was actually very interesting for children; the old professor’s voice was like a movie narration, and the video on the big screen looked almost as spectacr as Star War, a lot of the children under the podium were very happy to see it.


    Such an interesting history lesson, and ire still fell asleep, Xi Wei really admired his drowsiness.


    ***


    After school in the afternoon, Xi Wei followed their agreement and brought ire to the infirmary at the northeast corner of the school.


    Because St. Paul Academy adopted a fully enclosed education policy, the children lived together in the school and were unable to go home on weekends. Hence, St. Paul’s College had a veryrge infimary with an independent high-rise building, and employed many specialized doctors to solve the student’s medical problems.


    Xi Wei looked at the signs of the various departments on each door and continued walking until they arrived in front of a door signed as the “Psychological Counseling Room” on the third floor.


    ire looked and took a few step backwards once he saw the words written there. Xi Wei grabbed his hand and pulled him firmly, “Don’t be afraid, you have to find a doctor if you are sick, or you will only get worse.”


    Remembering his perfectly clear dreamst night, ire finally nodded with a pale face, and was dragged by Xi Wei into the psychological counseling room.


    The female doctor sitting at the desk was very young and beautiful with thick blonde curly hair. When he saw two childrening through the door, she couldn’t help asking, “Students, did you go the wrong ce?”


    Young children were less likely to have psychological problems, and it was the first time she saw such young children entering psychological counseling room since she worked in this school. Mia, the doctor, thought the two children in front of her were very lovely, and could not help but stand up and walked to them while asking, “Where do you feel ufortable? I’ll take you to the right specialist, okay?”


    Xi Wei at pulled ire’s arm and said, “Speak to the doctor."


    ire talked softly, “Doctor, I often have nightmares.”


    Mia smiled, “Having a nightmare is not a psychological problem. Many people also have nightmare.”


    ire said, "But my nightmares are very strange, they happen every night and all of them are connected. There is someone in my dream, and he has been with me since I was young, together growing up with me. I am ire when I’m awake, but when I’m asleep he seems to be me..."


    The more Mia heard, the more she felt something was wrong. If what the child said is true, then it was very serious; this was a typical precursor of schizophrenia. With this in mind, Mia finally smiled and gently touched ire’s head, asking, “What’s your name?”


    “My name is ire.”


    “Don’t be afraid, youe in with me and tell me the details of the dream.”


    Thedy’s smile was very gentle and kind, ire shyly looked back at Xi Wei. Xi Wei shook his hand andforted him, “Get in, talked with your doctor and I’ll be here waiting for you.”


    ire nodded, turned to the doctor’s room and went into the treatment room.


    It was dfferent from the closed and suppressed hospital space ire had imagined. On the contrary, the treatment room was very warmly decorated with colorful pictures on the wall. There were also many green nts in the room, and one of them was just blooming with delicate flowers, causing the room’s air to be very fresh. Mia designed the psychotherapy roomyout like this on purpose to alleviate the pressure on patients, so that the patients can rx and talk more easily with the doctor.


    Mia took ire to the couch and prompted him to lie down, saying, “Here, ire,e and rx, close your eyes and listen carefully to me...”


    She smoothly opened a music box, filling the room with a soothing melody. ire soon felt himself bing more rxed. His ears seemed to be caressed by the sound of waves on beach, and he gradually lost his consciousness.


    It felt as if he hade to a strange world, everyone around him was saying strange words, but he was able to understand what those people meant.


    “Where were you at very beginning of the dream?” Seeing the hypnosis was sessful, Mia asked softly in ire’s ear.


    ire frowned hard to remember, a long whileter, he replied: “I live in a strange house, a woman would hold me every day to bask in the sun... Later, I seem to have grown up, and was sent to a school, meeting a lot of ssmates... ”


    Perhaps the psychic hypnosis had lowered the guard of ire’s subconsciousness, making him able to slowly sort out the little fragments in his dream. Those memories, they began to gradually connect together, as the fragments of memory were stitched into aplete picture.


    Listening to his slow talk, Mia was shocked to find that—this child’s dream was anotherpletely different person’s life!


    <i> </i>


    <i> Is it double personality?</i>


    However, based on the medical knowledge she possessed, this could not be defined as a double personality. Because ire was only dreaming, he did not do anything else as another person. In real double personality cases, when someone became their “other self”, they would involuntarily do something to improve that personality. They’d create another identity and look for new friends to establish their own social circle, while the main personality often wasn’t even aware of the second personality’s activities. Connections between the different personalities were usually like strangers who didn’t know each other.


    ire’s dreams, which projected a clear circle of another person’s life, felt more like a serious brain damage case, with him receiving fragmental pieces of his lost memory.


    But he was only five years old now, how could there be so many memory fragments appearing in his mind?


    Mia was feeling more and more confused, and could not help but ask once again, “Tell me your name, what is your name?”


    ire: “......”


    “What do people around you call you?”


    After she asked this, Mia found the brain waves image in her monitor began to fluctuate abnormally. ire’s fists were clenched tightly on his body, his forehead exuded ayer of cold sweat as his hands and feet began to struggle violently.


    Mia was startled and immediately awakened ire, “ire, ire!”


    The young boy lying down on the sofa suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of clear, bright, as-blue-as-sky, misty eyes. However, when Mia looked into those eyes, she felt chills running down her spine—because at that moment, ire’s sharp eyes werepletely unlike a five-year-old child.


    ire looked at her, then looked back and stared at the white wall in front of him.


    The suffocating silencested for a long time, and Mia deeply regretted her hasty decision of using hypnosis on this child. She actually only meant to use mild hypnosis to make ire rx, and help him to recall the dreams. Supposedly, this kind of mild hypnosis would not cause any negative impact, but then how could ire feel like an entirely different person after waking up?


    Mia worriedly reached out to touch the child’s head, but to her surprise, ire stiffly turned his head away from her hand, and then said, “Doctor, my situation, can you not tell other students, the teachers, and parents about it?"


    “This......”


    ire said, “Psychiatrists should be obliged to keep the patient information confidential, right?”


    Psychotherapy was originally confidential, but due to ire’s young age, telling his parents should be the right thing to do. Mia hesitated, and saw the child in front of her showing a simple smile while looking at her with eyes full of trust, “I am very scared, and I told you these secrets because I have special trust in doctor jiejie, so don’t tell others, okay?”


    His soft little hands were holding onto Mia’s fingers as he said this.


    Being held by the child softened Mia’s heart instantly, and she couldn’t help agreeing, “Fine, I promise not to tell others for now, but you have toe back to the school’s hospital this weekend to meet me, I need to make a detailed assessment of your psychological situation. If the result is fine, we don’t need to ask your parents toe. ”


    iree nodded, "I got it. ”


    He stepped down from the seat and Mia took him outside. Seeing them, Xi Wei worriedly stepped forward and asked, “How is it?”


    Mia did not speak, ire answered him, "It’s fine, not serious."


    He turned to go as soon as he said this. Xi Wei immediately caught up with him and upon seeing his badplexion, Xi Wei took initiative to hold his hand asfort.


    ire took his hand back, looked at Xi Wei and said, “Don’t pull me, I can go by myself.”


    “......” <i>Is he feeling awkward? </i>Xi Wei patted his head, "What’s wrong with you?”


    ire, who felt almost dizzy being touched at his head, red at Xi Wei, “Don’t pat my head!”


    Xi Wei thought this little guy was pretending to be funny, so he messed up his hair and said, “Fine, I know your feeling ufortable, don’t be moody. Even if you’re sick, it can be cured slowly, it will always be cured."


    “......” ire fumed; he ignored Xi Wei and turned away.


    Xi Wei looked awkwardly at ire’s back, suddenly he had very strange feeling - <i>that’s the idiot ire, right? How does he seem like a different person? </i>


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    <strong>T/N: </strong>


    I’m so happy we reached in this chapter atst. Finally some progresssss! \0/