Chapter 10 second quarter

The topic of illegal construction was on the morning news.It seems that other counties have also found many apartments with earthquake resistance lower than the national standard.In addition, some apartments claimed that the first floor was partially built as a parking lot when they applied for the report, but they were built as a storefront after completion, and some buildings built prefabricated rooms on the top floor, or office buildings that can be leased. The total area is a bit more than when the application was submitted, which has aroused people's discussion.It is said that after the construction was completed and the inspection agency judged that it was "qualified", these buildings were added or rebuilt without authorization.There are a large number of such illegal buildings in Japan, and money is behind them.Duwang Town is no exception. The fast-growing Duwang Town is a new town. Although these secret transactions have not yet surfaced, there is no doubt that many illegal buildings have been built in the town.

While he glanced at the TV screen a few times, he was busy preparing for school.Suddenly the picture changed suddenly, and accompanied by lively music, the weather forecast began to be played on the TV.On Friday, January 7, 2000, Morioh Town was sunny early in the morning.Today is the first day of the third term. When I put on the school uniform, several scars left on my arms came into view.Traces of scratching by fingernails, as well as self-mutilation wounds with scissors are all conspicuously left on his body.It was a trauma left by my youth when my physical and mental state was not stable.The long sleeves of the school uniform can be used to cover these scars.Grape Hill Academy also allows students to wear long-sleeved school uniforms in summer, so he can cover his arms all year round.He made fake medical records in the hospital, missed all physical education classes when he needed to change clothes, and never took off his shirt at school.The only people who knew of the scar on his arm were old friends and staff in the orphanage.

Before leaving the house, he looked at the postcard pinned to the wall with a photo of the prairie, two horses standing side by side on the prairie.The horses stood in the middle of the grassland, and the photos were very small, so their specific appearances could not be seen clearly, but the black fur of the two horses was extremely shiny.If you look closely, it even looks a bit like "black amber" for a moment. "Black amber" is the name the ancients called a certain mineral.How about using this as the name of your ability?It's a good idea to use the name of the mineral as the name of the ability.It's been years since I've been able to see that thing, but I haven't yet given a proper name to the dark brown leather-bound book.

On the way to school, he stopped by the convenience store in front of the station.He glanced at the newspaper, flipped through the manga magazine, and left.It takes a minute or so to memorize all the pages, so there's no need to buy them.Although those books have not even been read, as soon as anything catches the eye, it will leave a record in the leather-bound book.When I have time to read in the future, those articles will be able to unfold every corner of the paper completely in my mind.Every day he just flipped through those books and left, so the shop assistants hated him. After arriving at school, the classroom was discussing how to spend the winter vacation.The noisy human voices from the students poured into his head.Although he didn't deliberately distinguish who said what, his brain was like a tape recorder, recording all the voices.

Communication with classmates also requires attention.If you don't have any friends, it will be too eye-catching. You need to have a few people who can talk, and adjust the sense of distance with everyone.Neither be isolated by the people in the class, nor be too active.He usually just talked about the entertainment stars he saw on TV and his complaints about his teachers. Now the only person he associates with outside of class is Futaba Chiho.One of the reasons for not alienating her is because it would seem more normal to have a close female friend.Although there were other reasons, but if she said it, she would definitely be angry, so she kept it in her heart.

On the first day of the third semester, there was only 90 minutes of class after the opening ceremony.The content is history and geography, but the teacher distributes test papers at the beginning of class, and a temporary test is required.The students complained repeatedly, and Takuma complained with everyone else in order not to attract attention. Five minutes into the exam, he summoned the leather-bound book.As long as I think of that book in my mind, it will appear in my hands like a submarine coming up.He is not a book bound with ordinary paper and printing technology.Although the number of pages is close to infinite, the thickness and size are no different from the single volumes displayed in bookstores.

Turning the pages of the book, he began to retrieve the answers to the test questions.When I read history textbooks before, my own vision made it literal.When Takuma was collecting answers from the "past", the teacher noticed his unusual behavior and walked towards him.Maybe he thought he was cheating, but the teacher couldn't see the leather-covered book, so he thought it might be an illusion, so he walked straight past him. When he was about to pack up and go home, he chatted with three classmates for a while.A manga he hadn't read appeared in the topic of conversation, so he summoned a leather-covered book and searched for the word, only to realize that it was a spoof manga serialized in a manga magazine three years ago.The leather-covered book also recorded the picture of himself flipping through the magazine, so while chatting with his classmates, he thawed the time in his mind at that time, and began to read the work recorded in the corner of the visual image.

The past time in memory is rewound in the mind like a video tape, and then slowed down to show it.He began to check page by page of the magazine that had been flipped through in an instant.The images of comics are transformed into articles, just as TV images and music are transformed into electronic signals.When reading the technical text information, he re-constructed the various sub-cameras of the comics in his mind. He expressed his thoughts on the manga he had just read to his classmates.They didn't remember very well, but Takuma could even recite the detailed lines, and it continued like this for a few minutes of non-committal conversations, really boring minutes.

The content of chatting with classmates gently vibrated the eardrums, and soon disappeared.Although there would be records in the leather-bound book, Takuma was completely absent-minded.The classmate's smile was only lightly traced on the surface of the eyeballs, and soon disappeared.The scenery in the classroom in front of him has also faded into an illusory space without any sense of reality, and it even makes people doubt whether everything around them is real. He thought to himself that one day he would escape from here and look for distant scenery.He wanted to leave the town by tram or bus, and go to the prairie far beyond the horizon printed on that postcard.

When he was walking towards the door and was about to go home, he suddenly noticed three boys whispering together beside the umbrella stand.The midday sun poured in from the exit of the teaching building, shining on their school uniforms.Two of the three were tall, and the other boy was a little shorter than the average student. Previously, Takuma had sneaked into the staff's office at night and looked through a large number of documents.The photographs and home addresses of all students in the school are recorded there.He compressed his experience at that time into words and recorded it in a leather-bound book.But even without opening the book, he knew the names of these three people.

The short boy was named Koichi Hirose.He was the first to discover Orikasa Hanae's body and call the police.I looked up his name in a leather-bound book, only to find that I had passed him several times on the street and at school.He also passed behind him while flipping through magazines in a convenience store.They even stood together and waited for the green light.But he probably doesn't remember himself at all. The people talking to Koichi Hirose were Josuke Higashika and Itsuya Nijimura.Both are bad boys.Koichi Hirose is an ordinary high school student. It seems that he would not mix with delinquent boys, but he often acts with these two people.Especially the student named Dongfang Jousuke, everyone in the whole school knows everyone.The reason is his hairstyle.The nose of his plane is a bit like a spaceship, a bit like a shinkansen, and a bit like a warship.When Hirose Koichi, who looks and behaves very ordinary, and Dongfang Jousuke, who has a strange hairstyle, stand together, they always give people a very uncoordinated feeling. Takuma was a little curious about what Koichi Hirose was thinking when he found the corpse, so he pretended to tie his shoelaces while watching his mouth shape from a distance.As long as the movement of the lips comes into view, he has previously trained the ability to judge what people are saying from the movement of the mouth.Lip reading is very effective with the help of the ability to accurately reproduce every detail of past visual information.He kept a distance of about ten meters from them, put his bag in a corner of the corridor, and tied his shoelaces slowly. Many students walked between themselves and them.No voice from Koichi Hirose could be heard, only the noise from the gate and the sound of walking could be heard. "Red Scratch on Arm" Koichi Hirose's lips conveyed the message.For a moment, he wondered if he had read it wrong, but he continued to talk to Dongfang Josuke and Nijimura Itaisu with a serious face. "The prisoner may be at this school" A group of girls laughed and left the school.In such a bright atmosphere, they looked dignified. Then, the trio, including Koichi Hirose, started to move.They didn't walk out of the school gate, and walked towards the first-grade classroom after leaving the umbrella stand.According to that route, they would pass by Takuma crouching in the corridor in thirty seconds.Takuma held his breath and waited for them to approach while tying his shoelaces. Definitely right.Koichi Hirose mentioned the Orikasa Hanae incident.People now regard Orikasa Hanae's death as a suspicious death, not a murder, but they use the word prisoner.In other words, they found evidence that Orikasa Hanae was murdered, and they also knew the scratches on her arms. At this time, someone suddenly bumped into him from behind, and Takuma almost fell down.He hurriedly supported the corridor with his hands, and at this moment the pen in his breast pocket fell to the ground.It was given to Takuma by a friend nicknamed "Crybaby" when he started living alone.That friend is now adopted by relatives in Kyushu and lives happily. "Don't squat on the ground stupidly, be careful I will kick you to death." The person who hit him didn't seem to be paying attention to what was ahead.A second-year boy looked down at Takuma. He had shaved eyebrows, was wearing baggy pants, and had triangular eyes with rolling eyes. He looked like he was taking drugs. "Sorry." When Takuma lowered his head, he spat out a mouthful of brown phlegm, which landed directly on Takuma's shoe.He snorted and walked away. Takuma reached out to pick up the dropped pen.This fountain pen is ubiquitous, with a black barrel adorned with a gold ring.But just before he picked up the pen, he stepped on it with one foot, making the sound of the barrel breaking. "Ah, sorry." Takuma raised his head, it was Nijimura Okuyasu.He was the one who crushed the pen.Beside him are Hirose Koichi and Dongfang Josuke, both of them turned their heads, with expressions on their faces as if they were asking, "What happened?" Nijimura Yiyasu raised his foot, and the pen was broken in two.The ink inside had seeped through the cracks and flowed among the fine fragments. "I didn't mean to, I'm sorry." Hongcun Yiyasu said with an apologetic face.He has a strong body and short hair, so he doesn't look like a nice guy.He gives people the impression that he is a bad boy without much brains, but in fact he has no brains. Rumor has it that he can't even add double digits.Looking at this ignorant face from close up, Takuma couldn't help thinking that the rumor must be true. "Anyway, I'm also thinking, when will I throw it away." Takuma swept the fragments of the pen together, then spread out the handkerchief and put the fragments on top.Ink adhering to the fragments seeped into the handkerchief, staining it a deep blue.Koichi Hirose and Jousuke Higashika also came over, and the three of them surrounded Takuma.He swallowed involuntarily. "Can you show me?" Higashika Jousuke leaned down and looked at Takuma's hands.The front hair, like a bird's beak, presses down on the face, almost covering the eyes.His face was well defined and not very Japanese.He is very popular with girls, and there are always girls who will take the initiative to say hello to him on the way home.And according to rumors, his father is European and American. "Ah, it doesn't matter if it's this type of thing. If you spend a little time, it will be fixed in no time." His intimate expression gives people the feeling that he is as clingy as a puppy. "What do you mean it will be fixed immediately?" I wanted to ignore his words.But at this moment, Takuma saw two shadows flashing across his arm, like a malfunctioning TV screen.But after blinking, the field of vision returned to normal.Takuma thought, this must be an illusion. Higashika Jousuke looked at Takuma's hand in amazement.What he was holding in his hand just now was still fragments of the pen that had been trampled to pieces, but now these fragments have been put together and restored to their original state, and even the cracks are not visible on the black pen barrel. Is it an illusion that the pen broke?However, I did sweep the pieces together with my own hands just now.After the pen was restored to its original condition, the oozing ink remained on the handkerchief.An unbelievable phenomenon is happening in my own hands right now. "Let's go, Yitai." Higashika Josuke started walking forward while talking to his friend.Then Hongcun Yitai walked away side by side with him. "Congratulations, the original state has been restored." After Koichi Hirose left these words, he also chased the two away.The noise of the students echoed in the hallway.The teacher's reprimand and the girls' laughter merged into a chaotic one.The three disappeared among a group of people in school uniforms. The restored pen is unchanged from before.Takuma wiped off the ink sticking to the outside of the fountain pen with a handkerchief, and inserted it into his breast pocket.The tea-colored phlegm on the shoe suddenly came into view, and he wiped it off with a handkerchief. Originally, he wanted to leave the school directly, but he quickly changed his mind and walked towards the third floor.In the corridor of his second-grade classroom, he saw the boy who had just spat on his shoe.The boy was walking towards the deserted landing.It's a place where delinquent boys gather to smoke.There is no noise from the students, and the surrounding is very quiet.When he reached the step stage, he felt that he was being followed, so he turned his head and frowned on his long-shaven brow. "What are you doing!" he yelled angrily.Takuma hid behind his schoolbag, paying attention to the movement around him.There are only two of them here.After the voice of the bad boy disappeared, the campus returned to calm. Before returning to the main entrance, Takuma summoned the leather-bound book and read the past described in it.When the pen was crushed, the broken sound of "click" was converted into text information and listed on the book. It also recorded the scene when Dongfang Jousuke leaned over and looked down at the fragment of the pen.Sure enough, it was not his own illusion that his arm became double.The right arm under the school uniform floated up the other arm like a soul out of body.It was as if a leather-bound book had emerged from Takuma's palm.The floating arm moved at an astonishing speed, clenched his fist and touched what Takuma was holding in his hand.A moment later, that arm overlapped with Jousuke's again and disappeared before his eyes.Generally speaking, the eyes can't catch up with such a fast speed at all, and Takuma only realized it after reading the description in the book several times. What is Higashika Josuke's third arm, its true face is still unknown.But Takuma wondered, the fountain pen was able to return to its original shape probably because of this arm.It's a pity that the moment when the fragments were repaired didn't come into my field of vision, so there was no record left in the book.Like a skilled magician, Higashika Josuke skillfully blocked Takuma's view with his palm.His palm covered the debris, and the pen returned to its original shape in a flash. There was one thing Takuma could confirm about that arm.That is, it can be summoned at any time like a leather-bound book, and ordinary people cannot see it, and it also has incredible power.This was the first time Takuma met someone other than himself with this special ability.Maybe in addition to Dongfang Josuke, Hirose Koichi and Nijimura Itai also have the same ability, so they can grasp some information about Orikasa Hanae's corpse and exchange this information with each other. Takuma passed a group of first-year girls in front of the school building's gate.A dozen of them gathered in the hallway, all ready to go home.Now it seems that we are discussing about going to karaoke together next time, and the atmosphere is very pleasant. Futaba Qianho was also among those girls.Takuma often saw Chiho in school, and passed her several times.But she is always surrounded by a large group of friends, and she is rarely seen walking in the corridor alone.She lazily put her schoolbag on her body, laughing with her friends.They quarreled so much that the teacher came out and reprimanded them. When the group of girls passed Takuma, Futaba Chiho looked at him.She raised a hand in greeting to Takuma, but Takuma pretended not to see and walked straight ahead without stopping.There's no time to talk to her now. After walking out of the teaching building, the icy cold wind in the first month poured into the body from the school uniform, which was bitingly cold.But Takuma wasn't too afraid of winter cold and summer heat, so he didn't care too much.As he walked towards the school gate, he felt someone approaching him behind him.You could tell it was her from the sound of the heels on the road. "Are you staying to study? Why are you still in school so late?" Chiho's breathing calmed down a little, and she walked to Takuma's side.As usual, she covered the corners of her mouth with a scarf embroidered with a simple white pattern, and held a schoolbag in her hand with thick gloves. "You are, what are you doing, you can go home long ago." "I was chatting with my friends in the classroom. We talked about the red and white song party on New Year's Eve for a while, and I wanted to copy her winter vacation homework and so on." "Then you must be tired." "No, I feel very comfortable." "You are really serious." She looked back occasionally.Maybe it was because he was worried that his friends would see him with Takuma after they came out. "What did the senior do?" "Sweep. Sweep away the filthy trash." When they left the school gate, they saw an ambulance stopped at the door of the teaching building with its siren blaring.Qianfan turned around and murmured: "What happened..." "Someone must have found the guy who was injured and fell down. It's on the stepped stage where the delinquent boy has been hiding and smoking." I'm afraid he'll have to stay in the hospital for a while.There was no way he could tell anyone who did what to him.Because he didn't see the other party's face at all, and he didn't even understand how the other party hurt him.