Short Story "Light and Shadow"

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Standing on a tall building, breathing the freshest air.Watching the first ray of sunlight shine into the lover's pupil.The world has too many twists and turns.Do your best if you can survive.If you can have a crazy and meaningless emotion.Then even if you die, you will have nothing to fear.

My love will accompany you like a shadow.

1,

Asakawa Ryosuke stood up with his body propped up, found a toothbrush with dim eyes, squeezed toothpaste and stuffed it into his mouth.

Life is like a step-by-step show.For him at least, there are few things that can cause him emotional fluctuations.He was instilled with the idea of ​​strict self-discipline since he was a child, and he can know without thinking too much: how to keep the distance between people to the safest range, how not to get angry, and how to be moderate.

But he doesn't believe in such things as strange power and chaos.Heck, this kind of thing is more difficult than going to the street to win a special prize in a supermarket and double-open the refrigerator.

So, when he was startled by the strange self in the mirror and coughed wildly, he felt a rare kind of anger.

"Hey." He took the toothbrush out of his mouth, imitated the person in the mirror and put his head close to the mirror, threatening, "Do you dare to move it?"

Then the "self" in the mirror tilted his head happily.

……

Normally, when you are "self" in the mirror, and suddenly your face is close to the mirror, and you stare blankly at it.People will make adaptive screams, and then cooperate with subconscious crazy movements to express the fear in their hearts.

But when Liangjie packed up his things expressionlessly and prepared to go to class, it was the turn of "Liangjie" in the mirror to show a troubled expression.

"Are you just ignoring me so boldly? Hey, let me tell you, don't you think there's something strange about it? For example, the self in the mirror can move, and everyone will be startled. Na na!"

Liang Jie looked back at the mirror expressionlessly.The person in the mirror had the same short light blond hair, the same amber pupils as himself, and even the clothes and the reflected background were exactly the same.

He walked forward slowly and reached out to tap the mirror.Randomly showed a disdainful expression: "Come and hit me."

"..." The other party was stunned, and sighed as if he had been stabbed to death.

"Can't hit?" Ryosuke tilted his head, and successfully hit the person in the mirror with an emotionless facial expression.Without lethality, there is no right to speak.Ryosuke's natural personality seems a little unshakable, he will be afraid of weird things.But everything is pretty much the same if you take out the hazards.He doesn't care, very much.He went downstairs to pick up the bento his mother had prepared for him and went out.If it's something that doesn't affect your life, whatever it is, just ignore it.

Not far from home is a municipal hospital.The tall building of the hospital.The new inpatient unit has recently moved in a large number of patients.The old building stands low beside it, looking short and thin.

A blue cordon was seen in the distance.An ambulance drove past him in a hurry, looking very anxious.Many roads have been blocked due to recent panic bombings.This seriously affected Ryosuke's route to school, so he quickened his pace.There is still a long way to get to school through the hospital, and he must make sure that he will not be late if he takes a detour.

"..."

"I said you are not worried about being late?"

He staggered and nearly fell.A strange voice came from the upper left.Looking up, the mirror surface of the monitoring probe at the Crossroads reflected a proud light under the sunlight.Ryosuke suddenly realized a troublesome thing.

"Hey, you're going to be late, I think..."

In addition to mirrors, there is such a thing as glass in the world.

He didn't have time to enumerate glass, the inventor of glass, where the gods and gods raged.After the lethality was ruled out, it was proved to be spiritual pollution with a long time limit.The only thing he had time to do was to look at the smug face of "myself" on the camera and spit.

"Damn inventor."

2,

For seven days in a row, Ryosuke's mother clearly felt that something was wrong with her son.He will deliberately avoid some shiny things, such as glass and mirrors.

"Ryosuke, haven't you encountered any troubles recently?"

"It's okay." He smiled naturally.

As it turns out, mothers are always right.For nearly seven days, Ryosuke realized that it was wishful thinking to ignore what was in the mirror.As long as it is any reflective thing or even a small puddle, the opponent can appear, and he can't help running the train with his mouth full.

Although except for the mirror, the movement of that thing will be restricted.But it doesn't affect his speech at all.So much so that when he loudly warned the other party to shut up, he was almost regarded as crazy.

"Don't talk to me in class." Liang Jie pressed the TV program expressionlessly.

"I can't help it, the content of the class is very boring." In the glass not far away, the boy pressed the remote control in the same posture as Ryosuke. "But having said that, you actually accepted my existence so calmly. Is this normal?"

"Even if you're not calm, you won't disappear." He glanced at the glass, and the lazy tones of the two were so similar. "The last time you said your name was Asakawa Toichi."

"Yes." The other party stared at the TV indifferently.

"Same last name as mine."

"Ah."

"Looks exactly like me."

"Ah."

"..." He looked at the person in the glass with a bored expression. "You think I'll believe it?"

"Well, maybe, Ryosuke and I are brothers in a parallel world." The other party raised his eyebrows. "The loss of the other half of the twins is equivalent to losing half the world. I have worked so hard to find you."

The tone is 12 very sincere.

Ryosuke picked up a piece of cloth and covered it.

He collapsed on the sofa and looked up at the nearby residential areas.The wind blows in through the window, and the sound of air moving can be heard.There is also the sound of life passing by little by little.Ryosuke blinked his eyes, the surroundings were so quiet that he couldn't feel the smell of life.

The screen of the mobile phone on the table lit up, and a new text message was received, which showed the name of Yu Chuanhui.That was his political teacher.The one transferred in recent months is indeed a good female teacher.It is said that her husband is working out of town, and recently plans to find a job here to make ends meet.

A young and beautiful female teacher living alone is always insecure, such as being followed.

He opened the letter, and there was a string of addresses on it.

"If possible, in a week..."

hell!He switched off the phone.The text message on the mobile phone was read out loud by someone, and Tengyi's voice came from the glass chandelier. "I haven't finished watching, Ryosuke."

"..."

……

In the second week of Asakawa Fujiichi's appearance, he has fully adapted to Ryosuke's life and lived an unusually colorful life.

He once wondered why things like Asakawa Fujiichi appeared.If it is something that can be called weird according to the book, it must have some obsession to exist.obsession?That kind of vocabulary that is unfamiliar to Ryosuke.

He is not a good communicator.Communication builds emotion, and emotion creates trouble.He can only keep his relationship with others within a certain safe range, and he has always been labeled as not rejecting others and being friendly to others.He himself didn't care.

But there are always some things in the world that he simply cannot refuse.

"Now, mother. Was there such a thing as a twin brother when I was born?"

"No?" Mother seemed to be frightened, "Ryosuke, why do you suddenly have such an idea?"

"Ryosuke, your thinking is really not something that normal humans can have." Ryosuke looked at Fujiichi who had a tangled expression as if he saw a treasure, and then successfully heard an exaggerated laugh.

"No, I'm just asking casually." He stuffed his mouth, looked at the person in the mirror, and didn't seem to be so angry for some reason.