reversal impulse

The second the three of them arrived at Gojo Satoru's apartment in Chiyoda Ward, the torrential rain poured down against their heels.

The wealthy landlord listed five or six restaurants for dinner, but was rejected by two votes from the other two tricky residents.

Jia Ruo Nizi gave the reason: "It rained too much."

"Besides, it's really abominable to be so crazy that you can't get out of the rain because of the limitless." Xia Youjie added the lines that Nitro didn't say from another angle.

Wujo Wujo's face and shoulders slumped, and he felt that the happiness of living with his friends was also wiped out by the rain.

The dinner race ended up being a takeaway.

It was still raining, the three sat on the carpet around the coffee table, board games and a bunch of Blu-ray discs were pushed aside by Gojo Satoru.With the sound of rain, they simply replayed the whole thing from beginning to end.

The story is simple and absurd.

This monster that does not belong to the field of magic has caused a lot of troubles, and the family is in danger, and at the same time it is being targeted by the high-level.

However, these two problems cannot be fundamentally solved at present.

The housekeeper was holding hot milk, but he himself was not in a hurry.When the monster came, he was done with a knife, and the high-level stared at him for a long time, and he got used to it.

"It's better to go to bed early." He blew on the milk froth of the cup noodles, "You were still in Sapporo yesterday, I think it was Fukuoka the day before yesterday."

Sapporo and Fukuoka are almost at the two ends of Japan. If it weren't for the difficulty of personnel transfer, such a task arrangement would be like walking a super conjurer like a dog, not to mention that it is still a holiday.

Nitro could even think of the despairing face on the assistant supervisor's face when he got the task arrangement and the contact information of the conjurer.

"Rest first, we'll talk about it tomorrow." He suggested.

Having said that, until three o'clock in the morning, Jiarui Niuzi was still staring at the ceiling with his eyes open.

The insomnia thing is really unsolvable.Sighing, Nitro turned over on the bed.

He regretted agreeing to Gojo Satoru's "cohabitation application" now.

regretful.

This regret reached its peak when he ran into Xia Youjie head-on on the balcony in the middle of the night.

The lights outside the balcony were not turned on, Xia Youjie leaned back against the railing, his hair was loose, and the moisture from the heavy rain outside partially soaked the ends of his hair.He didn't speak, just opened his eyelids, his narrow eyes looked at Nitro with a half-smile.

This look stopped Jia Ruozi's retreating steps, he hesitated for a moment, stuffed the cigarette case into the pocket of his pajama pants, and walked over slowly.

"Your sleep is terrible." Xia You said.

"..." Glass didn't deny it. After standing still, he thought for a while and chose a more appropriate answer, "Maybe it's because the situation is special recently."

Xia Youjie laughed.

"Is this a bad excuse?" Nitzi rubbed his fingers unnaturally a few times, but he still held back and didn't take out the cigarette case.

Xia Youjie said slowly, "A little bit."

Nitro didn't answer immediately.He gazed at the rain-battered lights beyond the railing, the first time he'd seen Kanfushi since moving to Tokyo.

The urban area of ​​Tokyo is seldom quiet like this. The whole city is like an ukiyo-e in washing, taking a moment of respite from the storm.

"It sucks." To Xia You's surprise, he let go, and explained in a half-perfunctory and sincere tone, "But I regret my life. I've been to the doctor, and I have taken corresponding measures. You don't have to worry too much about it."

"I'm worried." Xia Youjie pointed out the bias in his wording, "I don't care, I'm worried."

I want to light a cigarette again.

"You have seen a psychiatrist. After the diagnosis, you asked the doctor to destroy the relevant files, and you didn't tell anyone about it..." Before Niatzi squinted over, Xia Youjie added, "Okay, tell me, just let me know." Just now."

Jia Ruozi gave a vague "huh".

"Enlightenment and I took over the task of monitoring you from the higher-ups first, you should be clear about it."

"It's protection." He also imitated Xia Youjie's previous sentence pattern, and said with a smile, "It's not surveillance, it's protection."

The balcony was filled with steam, Xia Youjie looked at the floor-to-ceiling windows that separated the room from the balcony, and there was almost no lighting, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of ashes on the inorganic glass.

"For the sake of 'worry' and 'protection', I would like to ask—"

Xia Youjie looked as if he was about to say something that Nitro would never like. He ignored the water stains on the guardrail, stretched his shoulder blades and leaned on it, leaning back slightly to look at Nitro.

"Have you considered another possibility?" Xia Youjie looked into Glass's always calm eyes, and said bluntly, "Nervousness caused by insomnia and stress, or..."

"Patients with neurological disorders suggest themselves in reverse with results closer to their psychological expectations. The content of dopamine in the striatum is abnormal. Under the dual effects of psychology and physiology, they are sure that their hallucinations are reality. In short—"

"Having hallucinations after a mental problem."

Xia Youjie was a little confused by his words, "What?"

"What do you think I was doing in the high school when you and Wutiao were on a two-person mission?" Jia Ruozi chuckled, and for the third time suppressed his desire to take out the cigarette case, "Although I usually use the reversal technique to heal , but don't underestimate the efforts of a 'medical student'."

Xia Youjie suggested that the monster he described might not exist, it was something he made up.

Jia Ruozi clicked his tongue in his heart.

Of course he knew how suspicious a monster that would suddenly disappear under pain was.In addition, the only clue is his adoptive mother who has been missing for a long time...

"A hallucination created by forcing myself to act because I wanted to find Touko Aozaki."

This is the most reasonable explanation under normal logic.

"I have to confess one more thing." Xia Youjie took out a report out of nowhere. The report was coated with a plastic film. The rain came in and splashed on the outside of the film. Xia You wiped it away with his thumb, "This is the report. The medical examination report before the holiday at the end of last semester, Wu stole it from Teacher Ye Moth's file room."

His voice was surprisingly ashamed.

The college will give students a physical examination every year, and generally only one physical examination result will be issued, and the specific report will be sealed in the archives.

The relevant feedback on the physical examination form can be used as the basis for judging the general state of the nitrate at home.

Calculating the time, Gojo Satoru should have come out of the hospital and returned to the high school after investigating the scene to start his sneaky behavior.

That is to say, at that time, the two of them began to have the hypothesis that "it may not be normal to enter the family", and tried to prove it-while covering it up to the high-level.

"Are you going to use my knowledge in the field to tell me: Is Nitro a lunatic?" Nitro took the report.

He seemed to be joking, but also seemed to be laughing at himself. Xia Youjie tried to judge whether the sentence was offensive, but failed.

So he didn't answer, and took out another thing from his pocket, which was a lighter.

The erratic flame in the wind and rain illuminated each other's faces a little bit, Xia You asked through the light, "Do you want a fire?"

After the time for one cigarette was over, Nitro stretched his neck, intending to go back to his room to fight against insomnia.Before he left the balcony, he seemed to inadvertently ask: "So do you believe what I said?"

Xia Youjie was still leaning on the railing, with his head raised, his chin protruding in a straight line. He didn't smoke with Nitzi, but he exhaled like smoke, and his words subtly smelled of mint and burnt bitterness.

"Nitrogen."

With his back facing the balcony, he heard his calm voice.

"Conjurers are crazy."

***

When the sky was about to dawn, Jia Ruozi finally fell asleep.

As a rule of thumb, he will then face some terrible nightmares with no logic and no mercy for human beings.Reason would urge him to wake up, but his body pressed him to death due to long-term lack of sleep.

Nitro began to dream.

He wandered the black earth in a slate gray bathrobe, and the world was uncomfortably empty.He was barefoot, and halfway through it suddenly began to rain.

The rain was getting heavier, pouring down from the darkness.Nitzi lowered his head to look at the raindrops hitting his palms. The raindrops were also black, leaking through his fingers and mixing with the ground to become silt.

When he looked up again he saw a light.

The light source was a somewhat dilapidated convenience store, and he took a closer look.This is a very cheap convenience store. The storefront is so small that it can only accommodate one customer. Even the eaves outside are made of plastic sheeting with holes.

There was a child squatting in front of the convenience store. He hugged his legs and shrank his head, silently as if waiting for the rain to stop.

Jia Ruozi stared at the child who was exactly like him when he was a child, and was stunned in the rain.

This is not a nightmare, but a childhood memory that he has forgotten most of.

When I was six years old, I had a one-sided quarrel with Canozaki Chengzi. Chengzi ignored his questioning and pushed him out of the magic gate patiently and restrainedly.

"Don't think about it, for you, magic is absolutely forbidden." Aozaki orange told him, "Forget about your parents, go to the conjurer."

What is the matter of the parents?

Did I forget something important?Why didn't Orange tell me?

She said I had a magic circuit, but why didn't she teach me magic?

Does she find it a hassle to adopt me?

The plastic sheeting used as the eaves was rattled by the heavy rain, and the accumulated rain leaked through the holes. The children who ran away from home are still thinking about these issues.

Suddenly, the faint light on the ground became much brighter in the blink of an eye, someone lifted the plastic curtain of the convenience store, and the people inside came out, blowing up a wave of heating.

Nitro in the rain and the child squatting on the ground suddenly synchronized at this moment, looking at the person who came out of the store together.

The other party was wearing a loose black yukata, with some old hemp-patterned haori on his flat and wide shoulders. He hung his head, his hair that was neither long nor short was tied into the collar, and there was a plastic bag hanging on his wrist.

After looking at the weather, the ten-year-old boy seemed to have cursed something, and he did not enter the convenience store again, but leaned on the handrail outside the store, folded his hands in his sleeves, and did not move.

The face of the person in front of him was somewhat blurred by the water vapor brought by the heavy rain and the warm light from the plastic curtain. Standing in the rain, his vision was a little dizzy.

When the man turned his head to the side and opened his eyelids to see the bad weather again, lightning tore apart a moment of day in the darkness.

Jia Ruozi saw that there was a vertical scar at the corner of his drooping mouth.