God's Souvenir

Day 61 of Dragon Head Wars.

Dilapidated streets, displaced people.

A city in trouble.

And... hmm?

There are still people in the convenience store that has been smashed into ruins.

It was a man with red hair, and a little boy.The little boy was yelling some mafia nonsense.

Tsuruhara Himi walked past them without turning their eyes, and stopped in front of the surviving beverage shelf.He pointed his finger back and forth at the colorful beverage cans on the shelf, and frowned in distress.

Although Chuya Nakahara had just bought him a bottle of Coke the day before, Hiken Tsuruhara, who never bothered to remember such things, couldn't remember the appearance of the Coke can at all.This led to him being kicked out by Nakahara Chuya with the reason of "learn to live independently", and he didn't know which can was "the liquid that makes people feel happy to drink".

The two people next to me should know, do you want to ask them?

no.Damn, I still don't want to talk to humans.

Tsuruhara Hikami resolutely turned his head back, and continued to stare at the shelves with eyes full of scientific inquiry spirit.

It turned out to be all in cans here, and there was no obvious bottle at all.

"Brown, drinkable, drinkable, liquid..."

The boy's silver curly hair draped all the way to his shoulders, and a few disheveled hairs on the top of his head swayed with the movement.He bit the second knuckle of his index finger with distress on his face: "It's so troublesome. Do you want to open them one by one and taste them?"

As he said that, his other hand stretched straight to a row of silver aluminum cans placed under the shelf.

"Oh! It seems to be a mysterious potion passed down in that ancient oriental country. It is said that if you drink it, you will see heaven." The little boy among the two who was ignored by Tsuruhara Himi looked at him with eyes full of admiration. Hands on drink cans.

Tsuruhara Hiken paused for a moment before moving his hand to the jar next to him.

"Ah. That should be salad water, the existence that makes people want to vomit after taking a sip." The red-haired man cooperated with the child next to him, and continued to explain.

The hand that was eager to try at the edge of the new world retracted.

The boy with long curly silver hair turned his face and stared at the other two living people with empty eyes.

ah.Since it was these two human beings who spoke to him first, it was only a necessary social maintenance to hold back the disgust and reply.So take advantage of this time--

"Do you... know which can is the brown liquid with carbon dioxide and sugar in the ingredients?"

Oda Sakunosuke thought about it seriously: "The brown carbonated drink should be Coke. The red can in the middle of the second row in front of you should be what you are looking for."

Tsuruhara Hinami accurately picked up the red Coca-Cola in front of him.He paused for a moment with the hand that was stretched out to open the tab, then retracted it nonchalantly, and shook the can body instead.

"It's this. Although it's annoying, thank you anyway." He thanked the other party solemnly, and still kept an absolute safe distance from the other party to pass.The hand in the leather mitt held the drink can, the fingers were pale and slender.

Xingsuke yelled in dissatisfaction: "Why is this guy so annoying?"

The complained party stopped in front of the cash register, took out a 1000 denomination note from the pocket of his jacket, skillfully opened the cash register and put it in.

"Now that the store obviously has no owner, will anyone still pay?"

"If you only buy a can of Coke, 150 yen is enough."

The voices of Kosuke and Oda Sakunosuke sounded at the same time.

Tsuruhara Himi stopped putting the banknotes.He blinked: "That's it."

Afterwards, according to Oda Sakunosuke's recollection.This may be the first time he has seen a confusing operation done by someone without the slightest common sense in life.

The other party quickly made a judgment after hearing his words, and took out two 1000 yen bills from his pocket again.Then he turned around and prepared to go back to the shelf, apparently intending to take another nineteen cans.

In the end, it was the kind-hearted man Sakunosuke Oda who met the lost boy who helped to pay the two coins.

Tsuruhara Himi, who lost his direction in life, followed them out of the convenience store.He endured and endured, and finally said: "Tell me (われ) your name, and I (われ) will return it to you."

"My name is Oda Sakunosuke." The red-haired man said with one hand holding a paper bag full of daily necessities.

"Hiken Tsuruhara, my (われ) name."

After the boy announced his name, he didn't make another sound, and the three of them walked forward in silence.

"Yo, Odasaku! What a coincidence—"

A voice that was more than one degree more lively than usual sounded not far in front of the three of them.Looking up, the one waving is Osamu Dazai in a black coat on a mission.

He walked over with a very happy face after seeing his friend, and said as he walked: "I am so happy to see you here. Even because of the order of the leader, he had to come out to look for the lost senior giant baby." My mood brightened up."

The person whom he appraised as the "senior giant baby" stood quietly beside Oda Sakunosuke, not even bothering to give him a look.

"So are you working now?" Oda Sakunosuke very naturally ignored his complaints about his senior in the second half of the sentence.

"Today's task is over, now we just need to find the lost senior." Osamu Dazai replied, his eyes turned to Tsuruhara Higen who was standing aside, and he noticed the Coke in his hand at a glance, "Oh ——Hinami-kun, you are here! Have you learned how to buy Coke by yourself?"

"Oda-san helped me (われ)." Tsuruhara Himi answered him briefly.

Oda Sakunosuke looked a little surprised: "So Tsuruhara-kun is also a member of the port mafia?"

"Yes, Odasaku." Osamu Dazai raised a finger to answer, "So he's not the kind of kid you can find anywhere on the street."

The implication is that it is better not to have more contact with him.

Oda Sakunosuke nodded in agreement with his statement: "That's right. Children belonging to the port mafia can't be picked up everywhere on the street."

Judging by his serious expression, no one would suspect that what he said at this moment was just superficial.

"Really, every time Odasaku said something unexpected." Osamu Dazai spread his hands helplessly, and turned his head to look at Himi Tsuruhara, "I'm going back, Himi-kun."

Tsuruhara Hiken was already three meters away from them with a Coke in his hand, with resistance written all over his face: "Bastard Dazai stay away from me (われ)."

"Huh? That's too much, Himi-kun! Obviously Chuya was the one who kicked you out, not me. This is called venting anger." Osamu Dazai complained loudly.

"Humans stay away from me (われ), your stupid mental activities will affect my (われ) thinking!"

"What a terrible speech, Himi-kun!"

The childish noises of the two gradually faded away in this neighborhood that was temporarily kept away by the flames of war, and finally dissipated in the air.

In the alley not far from the convenience store, a figure with long white hair slowly walked out.

"Is that him?" Shibusawa Tatsuhiko said in a voice that only he could hear, watching the direction they were leaving, "The beast bound by unknown chains was originally an existence that could shake the whole world .”

"Whenever you feel that life is boring again, and there is no other entertainment that can save you. Why don't you try to become like that." The Russian standing behind him suggested.

"That look? Unexamined, like a walking dead?" Shibusawa Tatsuhiko vetoed this proposal, "It's more terrifying than a life that can still be redeemed, leaving only an empty shell without a soul."

As early as a few nights ago, he had already met that boy face to face.At that time, the mist that could separate people from supernatural powers had no effect on the opponent.

If it is an ordinary person, it will disappear in the mist.But if it is a person with different abilities, there will never be a situation where the ability cannot be separated.

The existence of that boy was a peculiar singularity.He is the combination of consciousness and supernatural power left by people who have long died. Because unknown forces are lingering in this world, he barely maintains the illusion that he is still a human being.

It's like a ghost that was forcibly left in the world, wearing a human shell.Although it is still strong and tenacious, it will disappear and collapse at any time due to the instability of time and space.

His supernatural ability is very beautiful, and if it is made into a jewel-like collection, it must be very precious.

It's a pity that he has reached an agreement with Fyodor to leave this very good-looking prey to him.

"I'm just very curious about his state of existence." Fyodor fiddled with the photos in his hand, which were images of Tsuruhara Hinami captured by surveillance cameras in different neighborhoods, "It's just human consciousness, how can it stay What about in this world?"

Of course, the reason he told Shibusawa Tatsuhiko could not be the truth.

He remembered everything he had done.Even what your future self does leaves obvious clues to your past self.

He Yuan knew the current situation of his existence, and he already knew the reason.That is the self in a certain timeline in the future, using the "book" he got to change the past.A friend who ended his life in a different world is sent to a certain point in the past in the form of a supernatural life form.

That future self has left unique and encrypted clues for the present self.After the past is changed, that timeline also disappears.But Fyodor in the past is still Fyodor, and that will never change.

Therefore, it is just to inform the past self to get the "book" again.

After getting the "book" this time, he will write his wish "to create a world without people with supernatural powers" on it.It's like playing a game for two weeks, and finally can realize your ideal.

But before he can do that, he needs to resolve a small lingering problem.

Let Tsuruhara Hikami become a real human being, so that he won't disappear after the disappearance of the world's supernatural powers.

And the most important point.

"The Creator" Rosemany shouldn't be like this.

He should have looked down on humans indifferently, leading a lonely and boring life.In order to pursue the meaning of staying in this world, I keep chasing my ideals.His ambition is big enough to swallow the whole world.

He should never be someone who suppresses himself for a ray of light or a piece of driftwood. He is a heterogeneous group of "evil thoughts".He harbors naive and unknowing malice towards human beings.

The world of man can only bind him, oppress him, and pain him.

He should be set free.He must face up to his sin.Only when he truly knows himself, can he be the "Sin'dorei" he first met.

"Let Tsuruhara Hiken die in this struggle."