[Psycho-Pass] Princess Disease

Chapter 12 The Song of the Stone Statue

Rikako was proud of her father when she lay in bed all day due to stress treatment in Wangling Prison, no longer communicated with her daughter or anyone, and became a walking corpse who could only stare at the ceiling with empty eyes Walking in dismay on the top floor of the teaching building of the strange university that he just transferred to.

The father's soul died due to the judgment of the miko.

Li Huazi walked on the edge of a tall building, as if she could fall into the abyss at any moment.

At this moment, a certain man convinced her how cowardly it was to submit to the embrace of the world that killed her father. He made her turn her eyes from the abyss under her feet to the boundless sky, telling her that there must be something worthy of her beyond the unknown. The pursuit of death.

That man is Yukimori Shibata, an art teacher who keeps helping her for some reason.

Rikako imitated her father's painting, and gave it a more beautiful decoration and injected more cruel emotions.

At the same time, Shibata Yukimori watched her more and more eagerly. From the eyes of the unpredictable young teacher, she saw the shadow of her father.

Before his father's soul passed away, he often smiled and encouraged Li Huazi with eager eyes.

Shibata's real name is Makishima Seigo, which he told her one morning when he took her to Ogishima, an abandoned area on the edge of Tokyo.

Li Huazi was immediately attracted by that desolate city abandoned by the world.

There is a gloomy freedom everywhere in Ogi Island, and she often comes here to wander aimlessly after that.

It was after that morning that I really got to know Kamejun.

That young girl with a borrowed surname who was not born well was not as vain and superficial as Rikako had imagined.Since Kame Jun was pretty lethargic most of the time, this person wouldn't behave in any unpleasant way.Apart from the occasional meal together, Li Huazi was a little surprised to find that her food intake was so small that she was not like a human being, but there was nothing too strange about it.

This short-lived friendship started when Jun Kame approached her when she met her that morning when she was returning to school after meeting her in Ogishima.

"The fog in Ogi Island is too heavy, and the air pollution is so serious that it's hard to breathe. You got used to it right away, you're really amazing."

Whether it is fog or heavily polluted air, Rihuako has no impression.The Ogishima mentioned by Jun Kame is definitely not the dirty but comfortable lonely city in Rihuako's impression.

but--

Father was obsessed with occultism for a while. At that time, Li Huazi secretly read his collection of books, which were all ancient Western books worth hundreds of millions.The magic of bringing the dead back to life has been sought for centuries by occultists obsessed with the unknown.

Because some people have always firmly believed in the existence of such miracles that go against science, there have always been people who have preserved the bodies of important people who died in anticipation of miracles, and the souls of the dead can be reinjected into the corpses.

In the few records, there are indeed people who resurrected their dead relatives, offered cruel death as a sacrifice, and kicked off the prologue of the ceremony. After paying countless people's sorrow and pain, they finally got the resurrection of their loved ones.

The so-called resurrection is to pull the soul back to the human body from the other side of the world, but the soul generally does not choose the body of the previous life, but chooses to enter another living body with similar blood.

Such a reincarnated person has forgotten everything in his life, and his body has been replaced, only the nature of his soul is the same.

So, the problem arises.

The resurrected person uses a different body and has lost his memory, so neither the resurrected person nor the person who called him back to the world will recognize each other.

And because the revived are using a body that does not belong to them, they will instinctively fear all creatures that can glimpse their essence.

Because people are the most easily confused creatures, they cannot see the soul hidden under the living body.But animals are able to see the decayed soul that does not correspond to the body.

Therefore, the resurrected people will instinctively be afraid of supernatural creatures such as foxes, snakes, and cats.He will also be afraid of approaching the place where his dead body was originally, and will feel a sense of near-death.Because seeing one's own dead body may cause one to recall the fact that one has died, thereby invalidating the technique of resurrection, the value of the dead is self-denied, and then attributed to death.

However, if the deceased can face up to his own body and accept his own death without denying his own existence and value, then it will represent the real completion of the art of returning the soul.At that time, the dead will no longer be a half-real nothingness. The dead will regain their memories and life, and complete the real resurrection.

Of course Li Huazi would not believe this kind of mythical story.Just throw it away after reading it.

But after all, it was her father's book collection that she worked so hard to find, so she couldn't help but read it from beginning to end.

After closing the book, it was already twelve o'clock in the evening. After the activities of the art department, she stayed here alone for five hours.

The whole building was pitch black except for the lights in the room where she was.

She walked alone in the silent and dark corridor.To her unknown world.

……

...

In the dark corner of the Roppongi bar, three people sat quietly in the corner.

"Only that night I didn't lock the door with her and leave the activity room."

Makishima said softly.

"We didn't do it." When facing people, Fujima has the habit of turning the pen, and the metal ballpoint pen that looks quite old is constantly turning at his fingertips.His attitude is not as shocking as Makishima's, but it's also slightly gloomy and doubtful.

Pure didn't speak, she sat quietly, drinking a glass of soda in silence with her head down.

The body of Wang Ling was found this morning, broken into thousands of pieces, scattered in every corner of the campus.

Wang Ling gave her an instinctive sense of closeness, and there must be something tender and comforting about him.

After losing the royal tomb, she felt that what she lost was not the friendship of two months, but the deep bond woven through countless worlds.Although there was no fragment of Lihuazi about Wang Ling in the dream, she believed that in countless other worlds, she and Wang Ling must have met each other without missing a single time.

"I've never encountered something that was inexplicably ended before my observation was over." Makishima rested his hand on his forehead, lowering his eyes slightly like a child who finally understood the dangers of the world.There was an existence that was beyond his expectations and took away the object of his current interest. This provocation probably hurt his self-esteem.

"The time of death is presumed to be from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] am. The body was found at [-]:[-] this morning. So it only took six hours at most for the murderer to dismember her to that point. In fact, he still had to pack it and send it to various places , the operating time may only be about four hours.” Fujima played with the ballpoint pen at his fingertips, and the shadow cast on the tabletop when the pen barrel rotated changed in length with the angle, “It has not been done in such a short time in an orderly manner. The human beings captured on camera are really admirable."

Makishima did not echo Fujima's praise of the prisoner.

After all, Wang Lingli Huazi did not tire him.

If it was someone else who died, he would probably discuss this superb human anatomy technique with Wang Lingli Huazi.That kid must also feel less bored now that he has such great material in reality.

But it was herself who became the material.That doesn't make much sense.

Jun silently went to the front desk to order a glass of tomato juice and put it in front of Makishima.

"Drink it like Rikako." Seeing Makishima take a sip obediently with a somewhat disappointed expression, Jun said.

"..."

Makishima looked at her with some disgust, and seemed to have the urge to pour out the tomato juice completely, but he didn't say anything in the end.He bit the straw in silence, probably thinking about the next subject to observe.

……

...

After Makishima Shenghu said that he was going back to the safe house underground in Ogishima and left first.

Jun shook the straw in the drink and said, "Mr. Makishima seems to be very shocked. Rihuako stopped playing before telling us."

"For Shenghu-kun, it has never happened. He is keen to observe every object he is interested in leading to the ending he expected, but the death of Wangling Lihuazi is beyond his expectations. .”

"He always seems to be doing his research on observing human beings in a high-ranking manner, but he likes to act as a low-ranking person to help others unconditionally."

It is precisely because of his help and teaching that although Li Huazi always has a dissatisfied attitude, she still respects him and is willing to serve him.

"It's really hard work to get up and down for a while."

"We will probably be one of his observation game objects."

"If you don't even give this bit of fun to the Holy Guardian, then his life will be too boring. Besides, letting him have an interest in observation will not hurt your mood." He said slightly happily, "This is The so-called evil fate. Not only between me and him, but also between you and him."

"Fortunately, we don't seem to take ourselves too seriously. Whether it's you and me, or Makishima Shenghu or Wangling Lihuazi, it seems that it doesn't matter even if we die. That's how we can get along well. .”

"You and I still can't escape life and death. You might as well pursue life in a vulgar way." Fujima said, "Fortunately, this time I won't let you be alone again."

He reached out to her who was sitting opposite him, and held her fingertips with a smile: "Let me tell you a story, one of the two will always be sealed in the stone statue, and the other can only face the stone statue." Crying, even if they are doomed to be separated forever, they still want to insist on redeeming each other's story in the infinite reincarnation."

The story reminded her of Rilke's Song of the Stone.

The stone statue longs for someone who is willing to give up her life for her and sink into the deep sea, so that she can be resurrected from the stone statue.

But when the stone statue came back to life, it was found that the person who died for her had turned into a cold stone statue.

Because there is no one who loves her so much to accompany her, even if she is resurrected, she can only cry alone.

If she wanted to revive the person in the stone statue, she would have to give up her life again and become a stone statue again.

What Fujima tells is the story of the stone statues and people constantly exchanging identities, infinite reincarnation in the world, but always getting the same result.

When he was telling the story of being unable to be together because he was doomed to be separated by life and death, he looked at her and smiled slightly, with his usual helpless smile of seeing through the world, but the mole under his eyes carried the completely opposite emotion to the smile.

She lowered her head and quietly leaned her face against his hand, inexplicably trying to comfort him.

But she really didn't know anything about what was hidden in his heart.So she couldn't say anything.

She could only listen quietly.

She thought in her heart, if the fateful day comes after more than two months, if she is going to face the same situation as Li Huazi at that time, since both of them are about to die, then let her most important person do the comparison All right.

Not out of malicious intent to be killed by him.

It just feels like it should be.

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This is not the pp world of science.

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