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Chapter 56 sudden death─Sudden death

After putting on the glasses, many things around me suddenly became clear.Although I didn't feel it, it was obvious that my eyesight had deteriorated a lot.Putting on the glasses and turning in a circle, it feels like being put into a new world of a different dimension. Some things that could only be seen vaguely in the past suddenly become clear, and some things that were "completely invisible" in the past can suddenly be seen.Specifically, "Great Ape" should be classified as the latter. I occasionally spot great apes on street corners after I started wearing glasses.Although this can be clearly asserted, I have never seen a great ape before.

According to my diary, I started wearing glasses four months ago. Since then, I have witnessed a total of seven great ape sightings.That is to say, an average of one per month.Seven or five times, if you don't take Sunday as an example, there are two times each on Monday, Thursday and Friday, and one time on Tuesday.So it might be explained - though this may be purely accidental - that great apes do not appear on weekends. There are also places where great apes haunt, but so far, they have been limited to those along the Ginza Line of the subway.The details are as follows: (1) Around Omotesando (three times)

(2) Near Aoyama 1-chome (secondary) (3) Toranomon (one time) (4) Kyobashi (once) But of course, this is only the result of the condition of "within the limit of what I see occasionally", and they may actually appear along the Marunouchi Line as well.Because theoretically, as long as these great apes move towards the opposite platform at Chi (Tufan) Station, they should be able to go to Yotsuya or Korakuen as they please. As for the number of great apes, I cannot be sure.Maybe the same great ape was seen seven times, maybe it was different every time, and there were seven great apes.No matter how clearly the whole world can be seen after wearing glasses, it is still extremely difficult to correctly distinguish the differences in the fur of the seven similar great apes.This is not me defending myself, who the hell could do that?

Among the great apes I saw seven times, the one I saw most clearly was the one I saw in Kyobashi.The great ape walked up the stairs of Kyobashi Station, went out towards Nihombashi, and stopped at the corner of Kinhodo.It was the corner from Chuo Koron Shrine to Main Street.The great ape held a huge wrench in his fluffy hand, waiting quietly for someone to appear around the corner.The big ape bent over, his hands almost touched the ground, and he didn't move.If it weren't for the white gas coming out of the mouth from time to time, I might have thought it was a stuffed ape.The big ape didn't move for a long time.But the great ape was really alive, holding the wrench tightly in his right hand, as if waiting to kill someone.

And that whoever, never dreamed that he would be killed. At that time, I happened to have important things to do, so I didn't get to watch the final development.Did that great ape successfully get someone's head, and was suddenly taken care of by the god of death?
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