Chapter 49 Chapter Twenty-Three

"Pandas are so cute." said Jian Jianpi's Li Shao.In fact, the pointed pig is also very cute. "Why are pandas black and white?" "Well," I don't know, "because they try to be the cutest animals, right?" "Can pandas talk?" "The only one who can talk is that panda." Maybe. "What's the name of that panda?" "It's called Lun Lun." "What about Kongkong and Diandian?" "That's its child." "What happened to them?" "Looks like they've been hidden by a big bad guy."

"It's disgusting. They're so pathetic." "Yes, that's pathetic." "Why do they all have 'ummm' in their names?" "what?" "Like Lun Lun, empty, and a little bit." "Because pandas are cute, people will give them cute names." "Yeah, what a cute name." "It's so cute." "That shoot will also be renamed, called Ceng Ceng." "Come on? It's not cute." Pointy Pig leaned back and let out a shrill laugh. "That Disco, think of something cute!" "What?" This is a bit difficult, "Then just rub it."

The thin laugh came out again. "No." This kind of thing will never end. "Okay, Shao, you'd better go to sleep. We'll be home when we fall asleep." She's going to be sleepy anyhow. Kofu and I jumped to the Princeton Hotel in Chofu.I first created a distorted space, hid in it and peeked into room 1201. Spoon and Seventeen-year-old Tip seemed to have fallen asleep, so I jumped to the small bedroom they were not using.I put the pointed pig on one of the beds, and she touched her face and continued to sleep soundly.Good, now we must hurry up, I think.Before returning to my body, I must be fully prepared.Of course, my preparations will definitely be complete.Because time is not an issue for me at all.It's just that I haven't gotten used to this feeling of being out of time, so I still feel a little anxious.

First, I jumped to Iijima Hospital next to Chofu Station, then to Toda Erika’s house in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, then back to Tokyo, to Horikiri Maki’s house in Chofu Hill, and then to Ishigaki Island’s Kawamura Yukie's family, Shimada Kikyo's family from Yakushima, Tashiro Yurie's family from Sendai, and Konno Narumi's family from Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, finally returned to room 1201 of Chofu Princeton Hotel after going around like this.I chose to go back to a time shortly after I put Tip on the bed, so she hasn't changed in any way, still asleep like a pointed pig.

After confirming this, I left the small bedroom and went to the master bedroom just now. Wearing the pajamas provided by the hotel, the two girls even had very similar sleeping postures... They were both a little too bold sleeping postures.I chuckled and said, "Spoon, Spoon, I'm back. I'm Disco." "Uh, ah, you're back!" "Seventeen-year-old Shao" jumped up first, and then the spoon said, "Well, what time is it? You're back... You've worked hard." She rubbed her sleepy eyes. "Well. The incident is finally over." "Ah? That's amazing!" I made a silent gesture to the "seventeen-year-old Shao" who was screaming excitedly.

"Xiao Xiaoshao is sleeping in the next bedroom now, don't wake her up." "Ah, really?" she asked me in a low voice. "And then, what happened?" "Well, I finally settled the matter." "so amazing." "The incident of the panda loyalists has also been resolved." "Really? Did I hear you right? Disco, you are amazing!" "Um. By the way, Shao, can I talk to you alone?" "Eh, ah, okay. No problem." "Seventeen-year-old Shao" seemed to get nervous suddenly. "What's up?" "It's too close to Xiaoxiaoshao, it's hard to say, we have to go a little further, is it okay?"

"Well. Then wait for me to change my pajamas first." "Oh, you don't need to change your pajamas. You may be startled later, so I want you to keep calm as much as possible. Close your eyes first, and don't open them until I say yes. Spoon, please take care of the little one." Xiao Shao." "No problem." Shao Shao sat on the bed and waved to us, "Go and come back quickly." I jumped to Room 303 in Viharabi Kojima Town with the "Seventeen-Year-Old Tip" with my eyes closed.The home of Shao and I was pitch black. "Seventeen-year-old Shao" noticed the change in the air, and showed a disturbed expression, but still closed his eyes tightly.so strong. "I just performed a little trick. Shao, you can open your eyes now."

"...Wow! Where is this?!" "It's the apartment where I live. Haven't you been here several times?" "Eh, uh, so that's the case. But how did we..." "Didn't I just say that I performed a little magic trick?" "Oh... "I'm lying to you. In fact, we jumped here after distorting time and space. Shu, you go to the living room over there and sit down first. Would you like a drink?" "Ah? Then give me a glass of water Bar." "Okay." I walked into the kitchen, took out mineral water from the refrigerator, and poured it into two glasses. "What do you want to say to me, did something happen at Fengliju?" "Future Shao" asked in a voice that hadn't shaken off the tension. "It's hard to describe in words, I have encountered too many things in Fengliju." Really encountered too many things. "... Just now, the distortion of time and space you mentioned, is that true?" "Hmm. I think it's hard to believe until you experience it yourself." Can you do it?" "Shao has been able to do this a long time ago. I just saw her movements and believed in this fact, and then I did it later....Oh...do you mean time jump? But , I don’t think it was done by my own strength.”

Because that behavior is as natural to you as human breathing. Originally, time and space cannot be distorted without the power of will. The reason why you did not notice that you distorted space is because you are the will itself. I picked up two glasses filled with mineral water and walked to the living room, where I sat on the sofa directly opposite the tip.I passed the water over, and she took a sip next, and I noticed her hands were still trembling slightly. "what happened to you?" "...I'm sorry, how should I put it, I suddenly became very nervous...Ahaha. Disco, it's all because you suddenly seem like a different person."

"Yes, I'm sorry. I feel like I'm very sentimental, too." "why?" "It's hard to say." "...Am I also one of the reasons?" "My head is full of tips, and nothing else matters." "..." "But we can't keep this state forever. We need to pay attention to the order, or the ranking." "...You want to say that my ranking is relatively low?" "In a sense, you are the number one priority." "what does that mean?" "I don't know what kind of statement is the least harmful to you, so I have to say it straight, I hope you leave the body of the six-year-old Shao."

"...Are you calling me back to the future?" It should be called the future or the past. "It's not like that. What I want to say is that I hope you don't banish the soul of the six-year-old out of the body anymore. Because the child has suffered too much because of this, I don't want her to suffer any more. "I don't want her to be herded into a faraway doll or corpse again. "Besides, the person living in this era is six-year-old Shao, so I think she should have absolute possession of her own body. Even if you and her are actually the same person." "...But even if you say that, I don't know what I should do." "I'm going to tell you this right away. But before that, I have to let you know who I am." "Ah, my identity?" "That's right." "I'm Inoue Kou." "Hmm. That's true, but there's still a difference." "...What does that mean?" "You are not Shao's soul. You are Shao's mind." Like Nail Peeler is my heart. "Ah, what does that mean?" "The space of a person is fixed by consciousness. And the mind generated from consciousness, if it is strong enough, can also form a substance. And it is very likely to be exactly the same as yourself." "What? But I will still travel back and forth between the future and the present eleven years later. Is this really possible?" "You simply came here and stayed here, and you didn't travel between time and space." "Of course there is." "No really. It's just that you think you're traveling through time and space, but you're not." "But……" "A large group of media personnel gathered in Fengliju. And many detectives died there, and many detectives were resurrected. I know this kind of incident is not easy to report, but no matter whether it is newspapers, TV, or even the Internet Some articles have been sent out. But why can't you find any articles when you go back to the future? Have you been to the library?" "went……" "But I haven't looked into it. Just do a little searching and you'll find it right away, you see..." I showed her the newspaper I copied in the library in my future eleven years ago (eleven years ago). I made copies of ten different news stories.They invariably avoided positive descriptions of various things that happened inside Pineapple House, and vaguely mentioned the word suicide, but it didn't matter.Even if the resolution of the incident amounts to obliteration, I don't mind. "I went to the library of old newspapers to check a little bit, and there were so many." I went to the future eleven years later, found a real library, and found out these materials, "This is the evidence. Still This one was also photocopied in the same library.” Then, I showed her the TV program trailer in a newspaper issued in 2017.In fact, I'm not interested in TV shows at all, I just don't want her to accidentally see something in the society section of the newspaper.It's not because of fear or trouble, but because of different priorities. "Right? I don't think a high school student can't find the contents of old newspapers in the library." "But……" "Do you remember what you did when you left your six-year-old body?" "That... with my boyfriend..." "That's just a fictional setting, right? What did you do?" "Seventeen-year-old Shao" opened his eyes.She seemed to remember something. "You're just looking at yourself from the outside, aren't you?" It's like Nail Peeler has been watching me in the lobby of Pineapple House. I imagined what it would be like for "Seventeen-year-old Shao Xinxin" to look at his back behind "Seventeen-year-old self", and then I remembered, "Ninety-Ninety-Nine" burst into laughter What was said about the self-image illusion.Those who see the illusion of self-image, the time of death is not far away. The fact is also true, Mitamura died after seeing his back. "Seventeen-year-old Shao's heart" will soon disappear. "You are just a collection of minds, and you don't have a real body. Moreover, you have never thought of driving away the 'self after eleven years' and taking its body. Although it may seem a bit strange for me to say this myself I am overwhelmed, but I still want to tell you that the reason why you want to take Xiao Xiao Shao's body is because you are the 'seventeen-year-old Shao' who wants to meet me again." After listening to my words, "Seventeen-year-old Shao Xinxin" flushed. "Maybe, Shuo suddenly remembered something about me after eleven years. Maybe... because she saw the report about the panda incident." In 2017, she may have seen the abduction of twin pandas in old newspapers or TV news... Or, she could actually travel back and forth between 1995 and her own era hidden in the same space ... Then, she remembered that strange foreigner she had been with for a while when she was six years old? I was thinking about it when I spoke. "It's not just that I think of Mr. Disco, I have never forgotten it. In fact, in a certain corner of my heart, I have been thinking of Mr. Disco. It seems wrong, maybe it is because of the fireworks." ahh... "I seem to be going to watch the fireworks with someone. It was a fireworks festival held in Chuo District, and the place was at a pier in Tokyo Bay. I walked very close and saw the fireworks rising, and suddenly..." That's why on the night of the fireworks display, "Shao's heart at the age of seventeen" came here.time travel. "The fireworks in Chofu are just as beautiful... I'm really happy." "Ok." "I remember I was still wearing a purple bathrobe..." "Standing on a pair of wooden clogs, I will take you to the bank of the Tama River." "Yeah. Then we ate grilled squid..." Mumbling like this, "Seventeen-year-old Shao's heart" may be slowly finding her own unique heart, she said with tears in her eyes, "...Yeah .I finally remembered. 'I' obviously never forgot, but I never noticed...I really miss you. Because I...'I' felt that in my life, I was with Disco That period of time is the happiest time. Because only Disco will be so gentle to me, and only when Disco is around, I will feel at ease. "But I can still pretend to be very happy. After all, I am seventeen years old. Although I am not an adult, I already know how to take care of other people's feelings. But I am still very lonely. It is too Lonely. I feel as if I have been acting. I don’t know if the friends around me regard me as friends, and I don’t know if I treat them as friends, and I don’t know if I have the ability to like someone. But I can still He's very gentle, but I don't know if I like him or not. Even so, I got a boyfriend...but I really hate it. Actually, I'm afraid of physical contact, but I still got a boyfriend. Isn’t this normal? That person is very kind, and I feel very relaxed with him. When I meet such a person, I usually associate with him, right? Because I hate being alone. But, isn’t this kind of life Is it full of lies? If you were you, would you also want to have a real relationship? For me, my heart for disco is real. Although I was young at the time, I really liked disco very much. I really love you, sincerely. Please don't ignore my feelings. Because apart from this, I have no other truth." I know.Haven't you already let your feelings become real and appear in front of me? I was moved by the words of "Seventeen-year-old Shao" brought by "Seventeen-year-old Shao's heart" and I had never met, and at the same time, I was also moved in another sense. It seems that Shao has grown to seventeen normally.She grew up to be an ordinary girl who was troubled, confused, and indecisive about her relationships.I breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled. "I told you not to laugh." Seeing my expression, "Seventeen-year-old Shao Xinxin" cried even harder. "Sorry sorry. You misunderstood, I'm not laughing at your heart. I just feel very happy." "What are you happy about?" "Because 'Seventeen-year-old Shao' is doing well, and he still remembers my affairs, and also, you traveled through time and space to see me." "Really? Are you happy?" "Very happy, of course it is true." "Then do you like me? It doesn't matter if I'm six years old." "Well, I like it very much. And I should also like you very much." After listening to me, "Seventeen-year-old Shao Xinxin" laughed. "And he did that." "I haven't done it, I haven't done it." I said hurriedly, "I really haven't done it, have I?" "It's close. But you may have encountered more places than my boyfriend." ah ah ah... "But, what should I do next? To put it bluntly, this body is not mine at all, is it?" "Ok." "Then what should I do? Floating somewhere like a ghost? Am I going to enter that doll instead of Kou?" "That's the problem." I began to cut to the chase, "Why do you think her body becomes your size when you enter the body of the late six years old?" "...Huh? Isn't it normal for my body to change into my shape?" "Yeah. Because people understand their whole body as 'self'. They don't think 'self' is limited to the brain, the face, or the heart. After all, it's the whole body. So 'seventeen It’s only because of my heart’s desire that you become what you are now.” But six-year-old Shao is different.She has not yet fully determined her understanding of 'self', so she can enter into dolls or corpses, and her appearance will change. The so-called human being is actually a space.This space is aggregated through the awareness of "self". "The Heart of Seventeen-year-old Sue" is like Saburo Mitamura changing the Nazugawa Villa into Pineai House, which deforms the "body" space of "Six-year-old Sue". "If you were inside a doll, that doll would take your shape. There's something about that, right?" "Hmm... how about the plastic mannequin?" "That's disgusting." "Is it? And there is no way to eat." "So, I have a proposal." "Ah, yes. Tell me?" "This thing may scare you, but don't make a loud noise." As I said that, I took out another report I had prepared. "This is?" "Seventeen-year-old Shao Xinxin" stared at my face and said.I confirmed her doubts. Everything makes sense.Baji's fortunate reasoning is actually partly correct, and it is not meaningless.Spoon is actually dead, and the claim that "those fake internet reports and paperwork prepared by Spoon" is the real forgery. "Is the 'tip' the spoon?" The pointed pig is being kept by Douyuan. Baji replied: "The final result is indeed the case." What a detective.In the final analysis, no one is completely wrong.

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