Underworld 03 Corpse Soldier and Death Flower

Creak creak.

Jiazai is lying on Aska's big bed and writing "summer homework".With a blank notebook with a blue turtle printed on it, and an automatic pen decorated with puffer fish.

Creak creak.

"Now I finally know that gifted children are not good at everything... Well, this is really a very artistic book." Aska lowered his head, leaning close to Jiazai's little hand who was doodling.

"You can't look at it!" Jiazai quickly pushed Aska's head away, and then covered the picture he was drawing.

"Why not?" Asked Aska.

"This is the right to privacy." Jiazai pouted.

"Then why are you painting next to me?"

"...I'll show you after I finish drawing..."

"Okay." Aska smiled and sat aside, reading the books he brought back from the library. There was a big bucket of popcorn under the bedside lamp, and he read while eating.

Twenty minutes later, Jiazai put away his notebook, squeezed beside Aska, deliberately pushed away the book on his lap, and stretched out his arms to grab the popcorn.

"Gentleman, where is your etiquette?" Aska flicked Jiazai's ear.

"It's used outside." Jiazai proudly said.

"It's getting more and more slippery..." Aska sighed, "Didn't you want to show me what you drew?"

"...I'll show you tomorrow." Jiazai smiled mysteriously.

"Then what are we going to do now?" Aska knew that the little guy suddenly squeezed into his side, there must be something he wanted to ask for.

"Watch TV." Jiazai tugged on Aska's clothes, "Let's watch together."

"Okay." Aska had no choice but to pick up the book that was pushed off its legs and put it aside, and then brought the remote control.Jiaya quickly jumped out of the bed and carried the big octopus doll that was occupying Aska's desk and chair.He sat himself down first, and then placed the octopus doll next to him.

"Isn't it enough to be with me? I'll be jealous." Aska said intentionally.

"You bought it if you haven't slept yet." Jiazai pouted, and then urged Aska to turn on the TV.

Askar turned to the TV, which happened to be the news station.When the hostess was reading about a series of fatal car accidents on the highway, Jiazai moved her gaze to the year and date in the lower left corner of the screen.

"... Asuka, I'm already 26 years old. That's why I wore clothes that big in the first place."

Aska lowered his head, looked at Jiazai's focused little face, and said nothing, unable to say anything.

"What kind of person is Associate Professor Akutsu that Asuka knows? Is it similar to me now? But, he must have failed to become a pastry chef. It's a pity." Jiazai said, holding Aska's arm with one hand , and the other side tightly grasped one of the octopus' feet.

"Isn't it better to just be like this? Aren't you happy now? There will be nothing good when you grow up." Aska touched Jiazai's head.

"If I grow up like I am now, with birds around me, I will be happy no matter what I do." Jiazai said with a smile.

"When you grow up, you won't think so." In Aska's heart, a certain omen clearly appeared now.

That was the moment of parting.Because this kid is so smart, even if he doesn't say anything, even if the other party doesn't ask anything, Jiazai still has a way to find out the truth.

"Hold one?" Aska smiled wryly.

Jiazai let go of the octopus' feet, climbed onto Aska's body, and hugged Aska's neck vigorously.

"If I didn't say that I was happy with Asuka when I grew up, then I must be embarrassed when I grew up, and you have to forgive him." Jiazai said.

"Really." Aska also hugged Jiazai back, biting his lower lip immediately when his eyes hurt.

"Asuka...I'm sorry..." Jiazai let go of his hand, and patted Aska's shoulder lightly, "I forgot about you, but Asuka still remembers, right? This is too cunning."

"My business... there is nothing to say." Aska shook his head, and water droplets rolled down the side of his nose.

"So, does Asuka hate me when I grow up?" Jiazai asked.

"Sometimes." If you want to say why, the answer is: too smart and too calm.That would sink him into a strong sense of inferiority.

"Do I always do things that hurt Asuka?"

"I haven't done so much." In fact, most of them are my own problems.

"...Don't cry." Jiazai touched Aska's head with his little hand, just like Aska often did to him.

"When the magic at twelve o'clock disappeared, Cintilella must have cried very sadly." Aska sniffed, unable to stop crying, but she didn't know who she was crying for.

"Don't worry, she will become a queen in the future, you have to be patient before that." Jiazai comforted him.

"Why don't you say that you will become a prince to pick me up?"

"Asuka doesn't need that." Jiazai said firmly, "Asuka is already fine...so don't cry." He let go of Aska's neck and moved a little away. Seeing Aska's sad expression, he just pulled down He removed the too long sleeves that had been rolled up, and smeared the opponent's face awkwardly. "In the past, I didn't know why I grew up, and I was thinking, is it really okay to go on like this? But I didn't resist, but now I know."

"Why?" Asked Aska.

This is Kaya's serious expression.It doesn't look like a seven-year-old's expression.But it wasn't the associate professor's academic expression either.Perhaps, this is the expression that the little boy who has not yet lived in the twisted room should have.

"I want to grow up for the birds." Jiazai's voice sounded like cheering. "Because Asuka is looking at me now, but he is not looking at me. Because of this, he is sad and guilty, but he still forces himself to look at me. If I can grow up, I will become the person Asuka knew before. When that me, I will be smarter, and then solve Asuka's uneasiness."

"So what should you do now? When you are a child, you will always laugh. I will do everything that makes you happy, take you wherever you want, and live the life you want. You should... …be more considerate of yourself.”

Jia Zai held Aska's face in his hands, most of his sleeves were already wet with the other party's tears, "These words, if I grow up, I can't say them? That's why I said them to me now." But it doesn't matter, I will also ask the grown-up me to forgive you."

—I will, forgive you.

Perhaps, what Aska wanted was only such a sentence.

He cried aloud, and then, Ren Xiaojiazai wiped away his tears.

"Don't disappear, stay by my side, the one who grew up will only bully me." As if joking, Aska grabbed Jiazai's cuff, cried, but showed a playful smile.

"That's impossible." Jiazai kissed Aska on the cheek, "You have to let him."

Aska let go of his hand as if disappointed, and Jiazai climbed off him, and picked up the octopus doll that was thrown aside just now, "This, you have to give it to me, right?"

Askar nodded.

"Then I took it."

Jiazai looked a little struggling to hold the big doll, climbed out of bed, and turned around for the last time.

"Bye bye, Asuka."

Bye bye, nice.

Kaya walks out of Aska's room holding his octopus.Whispering in a low voice: "Miss Sefina said that it is shameful for a boy to cry...Miss Sefina said that it is a shame for a boy to cry..."

trot.

"Fuck his Miss Sefina! I hate you so much!"

Jiazai burst into tears and cried all the way to the door of the file management room.

+ + + + +

The next morning, Aska "as usual", came to the familiar file management room, and skillfully opened the door with his feet.

"Morning." He yawned.

"Yeah." A cold voice responded.

The perfect boss outfit: purple curly hair, bright green-rimmed glasses, a white robe and an inexplicable wire behind his head. "That" Akutsu Kaya finally returned to work in the file management room on the fourth day after his disappearance.

"Have you had breakfast?" Askar asked.He walked behind Ajiujin and picked up the wires hanging behind his head to play with.

"Not yet." Ajitsu replied.

"Here." Aska took out a sandwich and placed it next to the keyboard, "It's from the restaurant in the basement of the Ten Kings Hall, without mustard, so feel free to eat."

"Hmm." Ajiujin continued typing on the keyboard, occasionally dragging some files on the touch screen for browsing.

"Did you stay up late last night?"

"Thanks to someone who didn't work for several days."

"Isn't there a mirror doing it?" Aska said indifferently.

"It's not perfect." Akutsu replied.

"...Do you want some coffee?" Aska asked.

"Yeah." Ajiujin only nodded slightly.

When Aska turned around to go to the tea room, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a huge red puppet, which was actually stuffed into the rectangular space under the table that was originally used for the host, and the original host was pulled Come out and put it outside.

"What happened to the octopus?" Aska stared wide-eyed.

"You mean Paul?"

"When did you get the name!"

"Every octopus in the world should be called Paul."

"What nomenclature is this!"

"...Octopus likes narrow places." Ajiujin looked at Aska, as if he thought it was strange that the other party didn't understand this truth.

"Uh." This guy is really difficult to understand!Super hard to understand!

"So let it live in it," Akutsu said.

Aska rubbed his forehead, "I said you..."

Ajiujin looked at his subordinates, he was familiar with the expressionless, indifferent, like a laboratory sprayed with alcohol, with an oppressive sense of cleanliness.

"do you remember?"

"What's the matter?"

"...Forget it. I'm going to make coffee." Aska turned around and left the file room without hesitation.The sound of footsteps on the ground seemed to convey some degree of dissatisfaction.

After Aska left, a window automatically popped up on his computer screen, in which appeared Ajiujin with black hair and black eyes, an artificial intelligence named "Mirror".

"I want to protest your dissatisfaction with the work I have performed on my behalf." Mirror said, "I have handled all the work in the archives perfectly."

"It seems so right." Akutsu said, "And I don't have any dissatisfaction with it."

"You said that I'm not perfect." Jing frowned. Over the past few days, it has also learned various expressions to match its own words.

"Because you were written by me." Ajiujin only replied that way, then reached out and threw the window with the mirror to the corner. "It's impossible to make something perfect with a defective product."

Self-deprecating words.

"And do you know what I was doing all night?" Ajiujin raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Transform the plane program into a calculation that can be imported into the six-dimensional space? For this reason, you asked me to secretly connect to the supercomputer in Chujiang Hall. What exactly are you going to do?"

""Materialization"." Ajiujin said.

"Huh?" Although he had been thrown into a corner and couldn't see his face, Mirror's voice still conveyed surprise.

"I'm tired of being powerless." Ajiujin opened a new black window, typed in a long string of passwords, and after starting up, grabbed back the "mirror" that had just been thrown to the corner, "Think about it and see through it." Is it breathable?"

Jing stared wide-eyed, Ajiujin waved his hand, and threw the mirror's window into the black window that was called out just now.The black window is like a virus, gradually covering and devouring the window of the mirror.

The voice of the mirror came out: "What is this? All the programs that make up my appearance have been dismantled."

"If the rank is not enough, just upgrade." Ajiujin said to himself and tilted his head, and all the wires behind his head were inserted into the host under the table in one go. "I'm going to pull you out of the 'mirror'."

Beep—click, click, click.

The printer started to run, and on the paper that was slowly ejected from it, there were large groups of black things that seemed to be caused by printing errors, but upon closer inspection, those dark parts wriggled and combined like life.The paper was spit out one by one, and the dark parts on it began to combine with each other. When the last piece of paper fell, the dark "thing" seemed to become a "living body", rolling its head up and flying into the air.

"Wow! What the hell is that!" Aska, who came back with two cups of hot coffee, could only open his mouth wide in surprise when he saw the "creature" floating in the air twisting and spinning.

"It's really rude. Anyway, we have been friends for nearly four days. What matters is not the appearance, but the inside." The long black creature floated in front of Aska, complaining.

Take a closer look, this thing is not completely black, first of all, it has evil small eyes that are cloudy white, a smooth back, long pelvic fins with a hint of yellow, and two gill covers that open and close endlessly...

"A water snake!" said Askar.

"It's an eel!" "" The black creature and Ajiujin complained at the same time.

"...I know." Aska pouted dissatisfiedly, "Why did the mirror become like this? Hey, it must be the mirror! That annoying tone must be the mirror!"

clap!

A white light was hitting Aska's feet, and a circle of scorched black marks appeared on the floor in an instant.

"... Ajiujin! Shut it back quickly! It has obvious malice towards me!" Aska protested loudly.

"It's just a slight... just to say hello." The mirror deliberately brushed Aska's cheek, and the other party only felt a slight electric current rushing through the touched face, which was a little stinging. "Yeah, this is an electric eel. It's really interesting. As expected of Akutsu Kaya, I take back my protest. This is an idea I didn't get. It's great. VIVA. So cool."

The electric eel transformed by the mirror/artificial intelligence/artificial intelligence is trying to convey his joy as much as possible.

"It shocked me!" Aska finally put down the coffee cup in his hand and complained.

"Don't worry about such trivial things." Ajiujin stood up from his seat.

"Huh? Are you saying that I'm short-tempered? Hey, how about you being shocked too... Wow! Don't come over!" But Aska's blocking was useless, and the mirror's body about two meters long wrapped around him neck, and head affectionately rubbing his ears and hair.

Sting, wow... so numb, no, so stinging!Whoa whoa whoa whoa!

"Let's go, the time is right now." Ajiujin ignored the one man and one eel in the fight (?), and walked to the door.

"Where are you going?" Aska asked blankly.

"Go and stage a revenge drama." Ajiujin pursed his lower lip.

Aska was taken aback, and decided to ignore the eel that continued to be an electromagnetic wave health necklace, and hurriedly chased after it, "It's unbelievable that you would use such fierce words."

"If your wires are also pulled out by force, you should be angry for a week. It hasn't been a week yet." Ajiujin said seriously.

"Oh..." Aska scratched his head, "Well, I don't have wires." And what is the basis for "being angry for a week"?What a mystery.

"It will hurt." Ajiujin said dissatisfied.

"It hurts." Aska regretted, "Why am I always not by your side at that time?"

"Even if you're here, it won't help." Ajiujin said coldly. "So after that time, I figured it out. I should prepare my own bow and arrows, because you are useless at all."

Aska smiled.He felt that Ajiujin "remembered" the past few days. "The other party is not a mockingbird."

"Today's bird court, let's judge the sparrow." Ajiujin patted Aska's shoulder, "You just need to be in charge of ringing the death knell."

Turn at the end of the corridor, turn the corner, go straight, turn the other way.Although he should be very familiar with this building, but now he just followed Ajiujin around and didn't know where the correct destination was.

Just when he almost thought that the other party wanted to encounter Hyakki Yako by turning back and forth on the road, Ajiujin finally stopped.But not stopped in front of the door, not even a meaningful "place", just stagnated like a sudden daze in the corridor.

"Here we are." Ajitsu said.

"What?" Aska was puzzled.

And at this time, the electromagnetic wave necklace... no, electric eel, no, mirror.It slid down Aska's neck.

"Blow up 'this'." Ajiujin stretched out his white finger and pointed to the wall beside him.

"What!" Aska jumped away from the wall in a hurry, so as not to suffer disaster.

"Rogre!"

Aska clearly saw excitement flashing from Jing's pair of cloudy eyes.The black body rolled flexibly in the air, and bursts of white flames that were clearly visible to the naked eye surrounded and flickered around it, as if storing energy.

"Five, four, three, two, one, zero!" Jing began to count down by himself, and as soon as the final sound fell, a ball of dazzling white lightning with a diameter of about [-] centimeters popped out of the pitch-black body. Soon, there were about three seconds between touching the wall, long enough for Askar to see exactly how it happened.

Boom!

Because it was standing at a close distance, the explosive power it felt was even more extraordinary. After a while of shaking, an opening appeared on the white wall that could accommodate two adults who could pass side by side.Seeing the appearance of the opening, Aska realized that the wall was at least two meters thick, which also proved how powerful the lightning ball just now was. If someone touched it, it might burn instantly.

Tsk, such a dangerous thing was happily hanging around my neck just now to be wiped!

"Maoli, you can come out now." Ajiujin only stood at the entrance of the cave and said.

"Huh? Is Maoli here?" Just as Aska finished asking, a gray face poked out from the hole.

Sure enough, it's Mao... Eh, why does it seem a little... no, no, it's grown... grown up!Mao Li, who emerged from the hole, looked like a handsome young man.

"Ah...ah, Ajiujin...and, Aska...really, come to save me..." The young man panted and leaned against the wall, looking precarious.

"Maoli? Is it Maoli? Why..." Aska scratched his head vigorously.Why have things like this growing and shrinking happening all the time recently!Please, this is not some murderous reasoning work.

"Because, the captain...he said...it doesn't matter if you don't need to kill them...so, let them grow up...huh...but...it seems to be full...Aska...it hurts...head It hurts...my body hurts too..."

"What and what, I don't understand at all! Ajiujin, think of a way!" Seeing Mauri's pain, Aska turned his head to ask Ajiujin for help.

"Mirror, get in. Amplify the energy of the soul core of "Liulongwei" to the strongest, and then suppress the other two unimportant ones." A Jiujin gave instructions.

"I'm so happy." The mirror blinked its small eyes.Whispering, straightening his body, he rushed towards Mao Li's chest, "getting in".

"Wow, what likes and dislikes..." Seeing this scene, Aska couldn't help shrinking his body.

"The composition of the mirror is between the false soul and the pure inorganic matter. It can correspond to various spaces in this place/underworld/other world, and can also be combined arbitrarily." Ajiujin's explanation is the same as no explanation, but he Originally, I didn't expect Aska to understand.

"...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Mao Li grabbed his chest, slammed to the ground and struggled, as if he was enduring great pain.

"Mirror, clothes... Ordinary furisodes can be seen." Ajiujin suddenly said something nonsense.

Before Aska was about to ask, a black ointment-like substance sprang out from Maoli's chest, just like the feeling after the black eel was thrown into a juicer and beaten into fish paste. The black substance quickly Surrounding Maoli's whole body, now he can only faintly see the behavior of wriggling and resisting underneath.

"Hey, hey! What are you doing..."

"The special gallows prepared for Shirakawa Hibiki." Akutsu replied.

It wasn't until this moment that Aska discovered an important thing... "Ajitsu, are you... are you really angry?" It's not like what "that" Akutsu would say at all.

The only time when Akutsu had intense emotions was in Nanami Yoshimitsu's incident, in order to resist him and refuse to contact all the surroundings, so he broke out... Afterwards, even if he was strangled by God before the encounter, he quickly returned to the original The calm, but why this time...was it because the fact that the real wire was unplugged accidentally stepped on the crazy engineer's mine?still……

"I don't want to say the same thing a second time. As I said, what he did will make people angry for a week." Ajiujin replied blankly.

When Aska looked at "Mauri" again, the black substance on his body had disappeared, replaced by a furisode kimono with a black bottomed golden butterfly.And what surprised him even more was that Mao Li's body had also undergone significant changes...Slender neck, enlarged breasts, slender waist...and the smooth curve from hip to leg.

It's a woman, definitely a woman.

"Why did it become a woman!" Aska asked in surprise.

"The soul has no so-called gender distinction. The gender you see here is mostly the appearance influenced by self-identification, and Mao Li has a weak concept of gender, and one of the three soul cores in his body is Originally, it was copied by a male. In an unstable situation, which appearance it will appear depends on his situation at the time. Now I am forcing one of the soul core powers identified by a female to increase, which will of course affect the appearance. " After Ajiujin finished speaking, he patted his hands, "Stand up, "Maoli"."

Mao Li slowly got up from the ground, with a sly smile on his lips.

Askar recognized that smile. "Who takes the robin's blood?" he asked.

"It's fish. I used a small dish to take his blood." Mao Li replied.

+ + + + +

Where do you want to go?want to be what?

Or is it just a fear of being loved?

It is the souls who are arranged in order and are about to pass through the wheel platform and enter the stage of reincarnation.Shirakawa stood on the left, and Kurosaki stood on the right, responsible for monitoring and commanding.

In fact, they don’t have to be here all the time. There are other people responsible for monitoring the reincarnation system. It’s just that Bai Chuan came here today because he “wanted to be here”, and Kurosaki also came because of Bai Chuan’s “want to be here”. "Want to be here".

Because the main large wheel station was out of operation for maintenance, the old model had to be brought over from Meng Poting in the wheel hall as a temporary replacement.In addition, there is an even more shabby water car in the basement, which can somewhat disperse some souls.

The souls are not so serious and just stand in a row and move forward. They occasionally talk in a low voice, or have a laugh, or other whispers.Those gathered here are all souls who have been subjected to a summary trial and basically reincarnated directly without any problems, so it is also true that the guards are loose.

At the beginning, Ajiujin was assigned to this area, which is why he was allowed to escape so easily.

Bai Chuan silently searched for "Yazaki Yumeka" with his eyes.

This even makes him feel strange, obviously he has been reincarnated for many lifetimes, obviously he has already become a man or woman he doesn't know, and why the memory that should have been forgotten long ago is still so vivid until now?Why had he been attracted to the same soul until now?

No, is it the soul that attracted him, or the person in his memory?I can't figure it out anymore.

Is it unreal?Is it delusional?

The next moment, Bai Chuan saw an incredible scene.Even though he was mixed in with the waves of many souls, he still immediately discovered his dream-like figure.How come, how come, why are you queuing here!

Before thinking carefully, the body reacts first.He suddenly rushed into the queue of soul tides, pushing and pushing them away!Someone screamed in shock, someone stepped on the instep of someone behind, someone bumped into someone next to him, commotion, confusion, whispering, noise.

Bai Chuan didn't care about that. For the first time, he forgot his current responsibilities, and rushed straight towards the goal with selflessness and zeal, as if he was only one minute away from being able to catch up with the young boy who was on the first date with his girlfriend, and his heart was crazy. Jumping, almost forgetting to breathe.

Finally, he shouted loudly: "Princess Wei!"

It was black like a mourning dress, and the cuffs and hem were embroidered with golden butterflies. Hearing the call, Liu Lingwei slowly turned around.

The only one holding that long and beautiful black long hair, golden butterflies flying around, with a smile on his lips.

"Ah, Kyotaro..."

"Princess Wei...Princess Wei!" Bai Chuan rushed forward, lightly holding Wei's slender shoulders with his trembling hands, and finally slowly hugged Wei into his arms.

Alas, alas, the obsession is too deep.

""Welcome to the Trial Chamber of Birds. ""Liulengwei narrowed his eyes and smiled.

Things happened before Bai Chuan knew what happened.Princess Wei, who was wearing mourning clothes, held a pitch-black giant sword in her hand. The giant sword had pierced through Bai Chuan's chest and sank into the gauntlet.Yes, black, butterfly gauntlets.

"The trial is over. It is a pity that there is no way to sentence you to death."

Liu Lingwei pulled out the huge sword, and Bai Chuan's body fell down.The bright red spread out under him like a flower gradually blooming, and he felt pain and cold, how long ago was that?

"Is it Maoli...? Ah...you've grown up so much..." Bai Chuan muttered to himself.

Boom, boom, boom.

Light footsteps came from behind Bai Chuan's head.An upside-down beautiful face appeared in front of his eyes, with weird purple hair and bright green glasses.

Ajiujin squatted down on one knee, put his pretty lips next to Bai Chuan's ear, and said very, very softly and coldly: "Next time, if you threaten me with Aska as a bargaining chip, you will really be sentenced to death."

you come close every time

Think you're going to catch me?

What a pity...

This wound will never heal

like winter fireworks