Chapter 3 third chapter

The next story is just about to begin.One day, it was still the day when Hirosuke Hirosuke had a boring life, about a year before the start of the big project on the outlying island mentioned earlier, a great fortune happened to Hirosuke Hitomi.However, the grotesqueness of this incident cannot be explained simply by luck, it is more like an absurd myth.After hearing this great "good news", Hirosuke Hitomi immediately thought of one thing, and tasted a joy that no one has ever experienced before, which is difficult to describe in words.The next moment, he had such an evil thought for himself again, and felt a terror that made his teeth tremble.

It was his college classmate who brought him the news and is now a newspaper reporter.The two hadn't seen each other for many days. One day, this old friend named Yamada came to Kosuke's apartment and accidentally mentioned something during the chat, which was definitely a slip of the tongue. "You probably don't know yet, but your brother died two or three days ago." "What?" Seeing that Hirosuke didn't quite understand what the other party said casually, he couldn't help asking. "What, have you forgotten? It's your other half—the other half of the twins, the famous Gensaburo Komoda."

"Oh, you mean the millionaire Komada? That's amazing. What's wrong with him?" "I received the manuscript from the correspondent. It seemed that he had a chronic epileptic attack, and he died when he had an attack. It's a pity that he is not yet forty." Then, the newspaper reporter said two more sentences: "However, it's unbelievable. Why do you two look so alike? A recent photo of Komada is attached to the original report. We have both graduated for five or six years, but you look more and more alike, even more alike than when you were a student. .If you cover up the beard in the picture and put your glasses on him, the two of you are alike."

Yes, readers guessed it right, the poor scholar Hirosuke and Koda Genzaburo, the most wealthy man in M ​​County, were classmates in college. It is unbelievable that the two have the same face shape, body shape, and even the voice, so that the classmates jokingly called them It was the "twins," and that nickname stuck.Because they are a little older, everyone calls Koda Gensaburo the twin brother and Hirosuke Hitomi the twin brother, and they often tease them about this.Even if it's a joke, the two have to admit that the nickname is indeed worthy of the name.There are often people who look alike in the world, but it is quite rare that they are not twins, but they are exactly the same as twins.In particular, this point actually became the foreshadowing of that rare and bizarre event in the world in the future. Thinking of this, I can't help but lament the impermanence of cause and effect in the world.

Both of them like to skip classes, and there are not many opportunities to meet each other. In addition, Hirosuke suffers from mild myopia and always wears glasses. Even if they stand together, they can be distinguished from a distance, so there is no arousal. Too many anecdotes worth telling.But student life is long after all, and there are inevitably one or two incidents that can be talked about after dinner.One can imagine how similar the two of them are. Now, when the twin brother passed away, Hirosuke was extremely shocked, far more than hearing the obituary of other classmates.However, because the two look so much alike, and Komoda is like his own shadow, Hirosuke doesn't feel sad but disgusted, let alone sad.However, this news still gave Hirosuke Hirosuke an inexplicable shock.The shock was not so much sadness as horror, and more of an inexplicable and unpredictable premonition than horror.

But what exactly was that hunch?The reporter from the newspaper continued to gossip for a long time, until after he left, Hirosuke Hitomi still couldn't figure it out.When he was alone, he thought over and over about the news of Komada's death that had been lingering in his mind for a long time, and an outrageous delusion emerged in his mind, like cumulus clouds sweeping the sky in the afternoon thunderstorm, so swift and frightening.His face turned pale in an instant, he clenched his teeth, and finally he even sat in the same place trembling all over, meditating on the idea that gradually became clear and gradually revealed its true outline.Sometimes, because he was so frightened, he had to fight back the tricks that kept coming up, but he couldn't stop them.The more depressed he was, the more the details of those tricks were like a world in a kaleidoscope, blooming brilliantly in his fantasy.