On the Compatibility Between Conjurers and Writers

The mind is talking about the impossible, the impossible, but the body is acting.

Naturally, there were no Fuguro Megumi and Tsumiki in the paradise. Dazai sat on the wooden chair and read the handbook again and again. When the fireworks bloomed at 8 o'clock, he left a harsh comment saying that was just like that, and then disappeared quickly. Slipped away from the paradise and went back to the city.

My mind is focused on analyzing the details of the interaction with Tsumiji and others frame by frame.

Tokyo native?No, definitely not, it's just for fun. If Tonosuke-sensei comes with you, it should be... manga contract?

Dazai is familiar with the dynamics of Tonosuke, of course it is superficial and only related to the work.

They didn’t come by Shinkansen, they should have gone to the port area in the morning, and that’s where the incompatible housekeeper came from behind the two, so the two live around Tokyo, is it Saitama, Kanagawa, or Yokohama?

Tsumiki speaks Kanto dialect fluently with Fukuro Megumi, but the flat tongue is not so Tokyo, Fukuro Megumi's other things aside, his accent is too mixed, Tsumiki's words, it should be... Saitama?

Reasoning to this point, Dazai thinks it is not right, but no matter what, Kemei Jiying lived in Saitama for a long time, and Fuguro Megumi also joined the family during that time.

Where will they live?Even if it is not abandoned, it should be in the relatively chaotic downtown area, so let's go there first.

It's not that he didn't want to go to Minato, but Dazai spent too much time on Odasaku's handbook on the first night, and he was also worried about the magician who followed them. Dazai knew how buggy his spells were, so he It's just a child with no power to restrain a chicken, and I don't want to be exposed.

After traveling around for three days, I arrived in Saitama County, where I started a blanket search, and finally found Fukuro's house, which I moved away a year ago.

Pretend to be cute and talk to neighbors, saying that he is Tsumiki's drifting bottle pen pal, and he has not contacted Tsumiki for a year. He did not expect to entrust his parents to bring him to Saitama, but he disappeared.

Japanese elementary school students often have friendships from different schools, and it was not uncommon to see online drifting bottles when the Internet was first popularized. What's more, who would suspect children, Dazai's appearance is really hard to arouse suspicion.

Obasan from the neighbor said in a pitiful tone: "They have already moved away."

Dazai opened his eyes wide on purpose, like an abandoned kitten: "Hey? Where did you go?"

"I think about it." Obasan recalled carefully, "Maybe Yokohama."

"Yokohama?"

"That's Tsumiji-chan's mother's hometown."

No matter how many neighbors Obasan lives in, I don't know.

At that time, only one thought occupied Dazai's mind.

——It turns out that the shimmering sea he loves is the sea of ​​Yokohama.

Yokohama is much easier to find. Tsumiki and Megumi must have been under financial pressure when they moved out, so you can find news about them as long as you go to the cheapest apartment. I was adopted by the helper and moved to another area long ago.

Tonosuke-san should have been embarrassed before, but with the popularity of "Golden Basin Washing His Hands", life has improved slightly.

No, not right, he always thinks there is a mistake in the derivation link.

After entering the most remote area of ​​Yokohama, there were fewer mantras. After wandering for a period of time, Dazai knew how to rent a house with the least amount of money.

The easiest way is to live in an Internet cafe, and you don't even need to press your ID card.Secondly, they live in remote suburbs.

According to Tonosuke's personality, he would definitely not live in an Internet cafe and spend all his time with instant noodles. He might wish to live in an inaccessible suburb.

The search area in Yokohama was narrowed down, and Dazai was surprised when he found an old apartment in Kohoku.

"Fuhei." First look at the nameplate on the left, and then at the closed door of the next room, "Oda?"

Is this Tonosuke-san's last name?

Granny Chun, who lived on the first floor, saw him and said, "Ah, are you here to look for Hui Jiang?"

Dazai quickly pulled out a childish smile and said, "Isn't Mr. Fuhei here?"

Granny Chun said, "He went on a trip with Jin Meiji."

As for the person who took them out, it is self-evident, of course it is Oda next door, but this cannot be said to children. They are old residents who have not seen Fuhei Wheel for a long time, and one of them has taken on the responsibility of taking care of the two. I guessed something more or less, and occasionally made too many side dishes and would send one to them.

They didn't talk about the fact that Fuhei escaped with the broken wheel, nor did they propose to send Hui and others to an orphanage, maintaining a precarious and peaceful daily life.

"I see." Dazai pretended to suddenly realize, "Then when can I come back?"

Grandma Chun said: "It shouldn't be too long, four days, five days, or a week at most." She pinched her fingers and counted, "It's been two days."

Dazai nodded and said, "Then I'll come back in a few days."

Saying goodbye to Granny Tsubaki politely, his expression changed as soon as he turned his face away. Compared with the sincere and even cute expression just now, Dazai at this time looks much more mature, but anyone with a discerning eye can spot it , he was extremely excited, as if something good had happened.

"It's too easy."

Dazai was almost in a trance, he thought, he found it, Oda Tonosuke, no, it should be called another name, what is it called?

He came up with many ideas, such as wanting to know about Oda's life, wanting to give him interesting nicknames, wanting to see him more, wanting to talk about life with him...

"Want to see you."

"Very, very much, want to see you."

……

A little black cat came to an unknown house far away in Takamatsu. He took Fukuroe and Tsumiki to see the room first. It was a typical Japanese room with tatami mats, and there were clean futons in the closet.

Because the rented apartment has this structure, they don't care much about it, and Takamatsu does not produce hot springs, so it is impossible to have dry landscape gardens and open-air hot springs like Japanese hotels.

If there is anything that attracts the Fuhei siblings, it is only the mountains.

One was given to Jin Meiji and the others as an alarm. If something happened, one could call him, and the other could call Jade Dog.

In addition, Yiyi also spent huge sums of money to buy defensive spells for Tsumiki to carry.

His current money is only enough to buy one, and Hui said that it is enough for him to have a jade dog, and he will give it to Tsumiji first.

In short, defense is definitely enough. Hui and Tsumiki are also vigilant children, so they should be fine.

After sending them to play, he began to collect folklore. He first asked about the folklore in the village at present. He has been a tour guide for folklorists several times now, and the stories came out as soon as he opened his mouth. However, he found that many of them were traditional folklore stories. Here, there is no reference.

I don’t know one of the psychological activities at the moment, but I just said: “The village chief’s house also has local customs records. Its history can be traced back to 300 years ago. If you need it, you can borrow it.”

One said: "Troublesome."

So he followed his eyes to find the village chief.

The village chief looked to be in his seventies, with white hair and beard, but in good spirits. After hearing the purpose of the next article, he murmured in a local accent, and then took out Fengwuzhi from the Library Pavilion. There were nine volumes in total. The pages of Huang's book must be many years old.

There are such books in many ancient villages, and the records are varied, often including the surnames of the villagers, the evolution of the surnames, a certain person who came out of the local area, etc., as well as the history of the village and related myths.

After flipping through one for a while, I found the record about the monster.

He asked his eyes: "This record is..."

After looking at it for a while, he regained his composure and said, "You mean Xue Nu's child?"

Different from those old stories that were pieced together, this seems to be a brand new story, told with nose and eyes, and different from ordinary snow boy stories.

According to the picture of a hundred ghosts, the children of Xuenv are usually Xuetongzi.

The beginning of the story is that a woman from another village came to a certain snowy night. This person's hair color was very light, between gold and silver. She fell in love with a man from the village, and died after giving birth to children.

The son is fine, but the daughter shows extraordinary powers when she reaches a certain age. The book says that she can talk to wild beasts, and she can manipulate ghosts. In short, in the few years since the girl was born, the harvest of the village It has been lowered, and the weather is not going well. The recorder believes that this is God's punishment.

He also said that one day, they decided to exorcise the monsters, and the remaining boys did not show any abnormalities, and survived under the magnanimity of the villagers.

But the bloodline of the monster has never been cut off, and several sons of the monster came out later, bringing disaster to the village. The description here is very vague, what kind of disaster it is, and the ending of those monsters is not mentioned.

One said that he was a little curious about the story.

But now he said: "There is no end."

He said, "That's the story of my grandparents' generation. I heard that Xue Nu's descendants finally left this village, taking away the bad luck that has haunted this village for years."

One said: "This way..."

Immediately said: "It's a boring little story."

He seemed to quickly put the story behind him, and started to be interested in other things again. After his approval, he took out his camera and saved the image data. During the shooting, he held his breath, worrying that he would pay attention to the story of Xue Nu. It was as if he forgot, and he didn't take a picture of him.

This made the present really relieved.

Unlike most of the villagers, he has gone to university. Although he is not from a school in Tokyo, he has gained a lot of experience. Many people in this village can't even speak Kanto dialect well.

If he hadn't walked out of the mountain village, he wouldn't think there was anything wrong with the way the villagers treated the two girls, but now he knew that if someone found out and called the police, they would all go to jail together. This is social news.

Therefore, whenever a folklorist came to the village, he would cover up in every possible way and muddle through, and now he even wanted to delete the strange talk in the local history.

After reading one, I have a different idea. Obviously, Nanako and Mimiko are not the first pair of conjurers born here. The Yuki girl recorded in Fengwuzhi is probably the descendant of conjurers. She won the genetic lottery. There will always be conjurers born, but because they live in a closed mountain village, their children are regarded as monsters and are constantly persecuted by the villagers.

If you investigate carefully, you might be able to find the bones of the previous generation of conjurers.

Two hours later, Tsumiji and Fuheihui, who were crazy about playing, came back. Yiyi and others enjoyed the local cuisine. They said that the taste was not very good, but the ingredients used were very fresh. It is said that they were picked from the mountains. It was very delicious, Hui and Tsumiji blushed a little after eating it.

After they fell asleep, one of them said good night to his eyes, and then turned off the light.

Then, taking advantage of the dead of night, Mimi quietly groped out.

I saw what was arguing with other people in the village right now.

Because of the strong local accent, it sounds a little unreal.

"Are you kidding? There are also organizations that specialize in collecting little monsters... Impossible, don't let them come."

"Agreed...tomorrow..."

"Why not, those two little monsters are not human at all..."

He listened for a long time, and he roughly understood the meaning of his subordinates and others. He believed that Nanako and Mimiko were human beings. If they were found to be abusing children, the whole village would be sentenced. However, the villagers insisted on thinking that they were monsters, and they did not know where to contact them. Go to the supervisor of the board of directors and invite someone to exorcise the curse spirit. The person will come tomorrow, so I try my best to stop it now.

Hearing this, one already had an idea.

……

Nanako and Mimiko were imprisoned in the abandoned house at the end of the village. Katori Mountain Village is not big, and the houses of the villagers are next to each other.

Imprisoning them is a joint decision of the whole village, and everyone's eyes are like surveillance cameras, staring at them.

For Nanako and Mimiko, who are not very fluent in speech, winter is difficult, and summer is also the same. Before the age of five, they received a complete education and had a happy family.

Somehow, their parents didn't send them to rural primary schools.

Seeing the children with square schoolbags through the window, Nanako was a little envious. She acted like a baby on her father's lap and said, "I want to go to school too."

At that time, the parents always showed a melancholy look, and then took out the textbooks to teach them how to read.

Yes, parents are loving and always melancholy.

Mimiko secretly told her sister at night that her parents were planning to go to Tokyo, but they hesitated, saying that in a big city, they would have to go to school.

Nanako is puzzled, is it a big deal to go to school?

In any case, their life is unchanged and happy. Although they have no friends, it is enough for her and Mimiko to have each other.

The turning point happened last year, it was a depressing and sticky summer, there was too much moisture in the air, taking a deep breath, even the lungs could be blocked.

It has been raining outside the house for ten consecutive days. At the beginning, it only softened the uneven land of the village into a muddy loess road. As the rain became heavier and showed no sign of stopping, the villagers began to panic. They first Worrying about the orange trees on the back hill, they soon lost their minds about the yield and started worrying about landslides and mudslides.

Nanako and Mimiko's parents died in an accident, and they were adopted from other families in the village.

The people in Katori Mountain Village have the unique enthusiasm of the village people, and they are unwilling to send their children to welfare institutions, stubbornly believing that the villagers can give more love.

In the beginning, the situation of Nanako and Mimiko was not so bad. They were adopted by their elder brother who had no children, so they just adopted them.

However, after the first appearance of the technique, everything changed.

Beaten, scolded, and imprisoned, they were considered inhumans, and their bodies were wounded all year round. If they hadn't been strengthened by spells, they would have died of bacterial infection or other things.

And because they had a happy life, the sudden changes did not make them timid, but full of fighting spirit.

They hate the villagers.

After a year of detention, they no longer have many human characteristics, like beasts curled up and shivering, and when one finds them, it will even bark its teeth.

One: "..."

Even he was shocked by everything in front of him. He first collected evidence seemingly calmly, and then called the police.

……

Xia Youjie came the next morning. The director said that there was a suspected human-shaped magic spirit in the four countries. According to the conjurer's understanding, the closer to the human-shaped magic spirit, the higher the strength of the magic spirit. Only a magician can do it. It happened that Xia Youjie was doing a task nearby, so he arranged for him to go directly.

His mental state is not good, but you said it was terrible, and he didn't reach that level. After leaving the high school, Qihai Jianren, who was relaxed, could see these seniors from an outsider's perspective. He felt that Xia Youjie was very nervous, so he followed The family chatted with the nitrate, and asked how the nitrate dealt with the corpse of the conjurer all day long.

Jia Ruozi said that she had known for a long time how ugly human beings are, and that there is no way out for magicians at the end of her life. She said that she was living every day, so it would be better to help others, and reverse the spell to make her life Significant.

She also said that Xia Youjie's situation was different from hers. His righteousness was too extreme, and he was easily blackened. In addition, she also said that Xia Youjie was on the front line and was a super magician, so he would be under more pressure.

Qihai Jianren also thought so, but his character can't say much, and he can't ask too much. He can only ask Xia Youjie how he is doing recently, talk to him, and tell Xia Youjie about his review life.

He cautiously probed again: "Are you going to high school, Senior Xia You, I remember that your deviation value is very high."

Xia Youjie was very sensitive and guessed what he meant, he couldn't help shaking his head in his heart, thinking that he had fallen like this, worrying the younger generation, and always saying that he was fine.

He came to Shikoku under such circumstances. The supervisor contacted the village on the first day and heard that there were no casualties, so he asked him to go the next day. When Xia Youjie took the rainbow dragon up the mountain, he found something was wrong. Police cars stepped on the solid soil and stumbled past. The yellow seal line surrounded Katori Mountain Village. He saw red and blue lights.

The TV stations in Shikoku were also moved after hearing the news. It has been a long time since there have been any major crimes in such a peaceful countryside. Every time a child abuse case happened in Tokyo, they all thought that the people in Tokyo were too stressed and perverted. But such things are born out of ignorance.

It is really worth writing about.

Before Xia Youjie understood what happened, he suddenly received a call from the Director's Council, and the supervisor hurriedly said: "Mr. Xia You, there is no need to go to Xiangtuo Mountain Village, there is no magic spirit there."

He responded slowly: "I'm already here, what happened here?"

The supervisor hesitated for a long time. He always thought that this incident would have an impact on conjurers who were not experienced enough in society, and felt that it was not good to conceal Xia Youjie. At this time, the latter suddenly heard Xia Youjie.

Xia Youjie took advantage of the situation and hung up the phone.

He turned his head and saw one, remember that this is the benefactor of Qihai and the others, called Oda?Is a curse master.

Xia Youjie nodded politely, and then asked, "Why are you here?"

One said: "I'm here to pick up the wind." Then asked, "Are you sent by the director?"

Xia Youjie said straightforwardly: "I was assigned to exorcise the curse spirit, and the supervisor notified me that the mission was cancelled." He said, "The police car said so, is the curse spirit causing the damage?"

One said: "Of course not." He said frankly, "Child abuse happened here."

"Child abuse?" Just hearing these two words, Xia Youjie burst into anger. Anyone with normal morals would not accept it, but it sounds like the police should deal with it, and it has nothing to do with magicians.

One said: "Well, let Hui and Tsumiji accompany them first."

He tacitly agreed that Xia Youjie knew about it, or would know about it, "They are somewhat repulsive to adults. The police will let experienced female police officers in later, and I will accompany them."

Xia Youjie asked, "Why... accompany you?"

One said: "I was the first person to discover it, and besides, they can't control the technique, and their stress response is also very strong."

Xia Youjie was startled: "You mean, the victim is a conjurer?"

"I don't think they are children who can only have spells." One said, "They have no ability to protect themselves, and they don't know anything about spells."

Now Xia Youjie didn't want to sit still, he said, "I'm going to take a look."

He didn't agree to one, and he said, "Nanako and Mimiko agree."

……

Xia Youjie spent the next day in a daze. When he saw Nanako and Mimiko covered in bandages, he did have some kind of impulse, but the impulse was not strong enough. Simply put, it was like seeing Riko Amauchi die. Gojo Satoru asked him: "Are you going to kill all these people?" He answered the feeling of forgetting.

He hesitated and tangled, but did not take a step forward.

But he couldn't understand Yi Yi's behavior. He asked Yi Yi: "Why did you let them know?" He was talking about Kei Fukuro and other children who were accompanying Nanako and Mimiko.

The soft fur of peers and jade dogs is soothing.

One has speculated on the behavior pattern of Oda Tsukuru. There is no doubt that he is a loving father, but his educational methods are limited by his own experience. For example, if Fukurohui (of course, he is impossible.) one day Tell him that he will be very distressed if he wants to become a big brother and join the port mafia, and then let Hui see the cruelest side of it, so that people can quit.

But Hui is a good boy, and it is impossible to even be a bad boy, let alone join the mafia.

Fu Heihui:.

So one answer said: "Because they may meet." He said, "Nanako and Mimiko need help, and Kei can become more self-protective."

"They will meet." Xia Youjie repeated.

One looked at him, and suddenly asked, "Have you ever seen a movie with a mutant theme?"

Xia Youjie: "What?"

This topic spans too much.

One: "Marvel, DC?"

"I've heard of it." Xia Youjie said euphemistically, "Conjurers have too much work, and I don't have that much free time."

One thought about it: "Just as magicians draw a line between ordinary people, so do ordinary people."

"For them, conjurers are unknown and belong to non-ethnic groups. If a child born in an ordinary family has conjuration powers, the parents will think that he is hallucinating."

Xia Youjie recalled that when he was a child, it was true that he was also told a liar by his peers, but he was a thoughtful person since he was a child, and soon realized that only he could see it, so he stopped talking.

His childhood was lonely.

He learned how to pretend when he was a teenager, taught two or three friends, and was also popular with the opposite sex.He studied very hard, because he wanted to find out the truth about the curse spirit, and at the same time he joined the Kendo club and practiced hand-to-hand combat, just to gain the ability to protect himself in front of the curse spirit.

This was his youth when he walked alone.

One: "They're all weak."

He thought, "We are vulnerable in front of adults. If we are found to be special, without the protection of the elders, we will easily encounter bad luck."

He listed: "Sent to the operating table, abused, believed to be possessed by monsters..."

"For Xia You, the technique is very powerful and precocious, so he has the ability to protect himself, but many children don't have it."

"I hope Huineng understands this, don't be brave, learn to pretend, and go to adults when you encounter unsolvable things."

One said with some distress, "His sense of self-protection is not very strong, and I hope it can be corrected."

Xia Youjie: "..."

Yiyi's remarks were a new world for him, everyone told him that his technique was very powerful, and he wanted to stand in front of everyone, even before being discovered by the director, he was the best.

If not, he wouldn't have been indoctrinated with the idea that the strong should protect the weak, and he would only be like that if he was the strong.

In addition, I haven't had much contact with the outside world, I don't know the dangers of the same kind, and I can't feel their weakness...

He couldn't help asking: "Then do we need to protect ordinary people?"

One: "It's not necessary for me."

He said, "I protect Kei, protect Tsumiki, complete the entrusted tasks, and clear the curse spirits at the door of my house because I like the street where I live and don't want the neighbors to be harassed."

"I protect the people I want to protect."

——Indifference is the sage, the Buddha.

……

The trip to the four countries turned into a few-day trip to the police station. Fu Heihui and Tsumiji stopped playing and stayed with them for a few days. According to the procedure, the two children should be handed over to the orphanage. The director will definitely not allow it .

Later, Xia Youjie called Yiyi again, saying that he decided to adopt them, but the upper management of the board of directors disagreed, and there was another round of arguing.

The follow-up has nothing to do with one. He himself does not reject the adoption of Nanako and Mimiko. Unfortunately, he is a curse master and a minor. His status can't pass, so he can only take Fuguro and the others back to Yokohama.

On the way back, he heard a notification from the system that the mission was completed.

[The world line has changed!The world line has changed! 】

……

At the gate of the Oda house, Dazai hugged his knees and huddled into a ball.

"It's so slow." He complained from the bottom of his heart, "Why haven't you come back yet?"