Finale 01
You opened the door sleepily.
"Zen-in." Ieiri Naoko glanced at you sharply. Your expression didn't change. She looked away and said calmly, "Are you busy again recently? No need to worry."
"Time... is very precious." You gestured for Glass to come into the house, and sat alone at the desk. You wanted to pick up the pen to continue writing, but your hands kept shaking.
The pen drew a long streak across the paper. Ieiri Naoko snatched the pen from your hand and turned your face so you could look at her. "What's the rush for Zen Monastery? Reforms, research... these can all be done slowly. Your health is the most important thing."
"Time is precious, Nitro."
"Of course I know time is precious. I'm racing against death." Ieiri Naoko put down her pen and held your face. "What is Zenin trying to hide from me?"
“Yeah.” You lowered your eyes, not refusing to answer the question.
"I can also help you share the burden—"
Glass's hands are always cold, but you feel warm.
"Some things can only be done alone. I'm not stupid. If I can find help, I will. Don't worry about me, Glass. I know my limits."
"I know what I'm doing."
Ieiri Naoko grabbed your hand and pulled you out: "Let's go shopping."
"I'm not going."
You turned your chair around, facing away from Ieiri Naoko. You kept smiling: "Noko, do you want to forget me?"
"I'd rather you forget me. Also, didn't Zenyuan say—"
"Ah... I did. But if Nazori forgets me, this thing will no longer exist." You stare ahead. Your desk is by the window. The scenery outside is so beautiful, you want to go out for a walk. However, your legs are welded to the ground like steel.
You don't even want to see Shuiyue.
You want to escape again. But there's no escaping this. Your mind clearly tells you that you need to face this. Escaping is shameful and futile.
“Let’s not do that.” You replied.
Ieiri Naoko doesn't want to discuss this topic with you: "There haven't been many classes in Zen-in this week."
"Well... there are a lot of things that need my attention." I need to arrange my affairs after death.
Your phone keeps ringing in the corner. Jialiu Xiaozi picks it up and throws it to you. You answer it without hesitation: "Moshi Moshi..."
"Please tell President Tsukishima my apologies. I won't be able to be there as promised."
"Don't worry. President Tsukishima won't mind."
"Don't worry. I won't lie to you." You hung up the phone and said to Ieiri Naoko a little shyly: "I'd better accompany Naoko to the mall. It's the weekend after all, it's time to relax." Ieiri Naoko stood very close to you, and you stared at her face without blinking.
"Why are they contacting you? Isn't it until November..."
"Oh. I was going to thank President Tsukishima in person for all the help he's given me." He wasn't lying; that was one of the reasons. "But I'm not available on the date President Tsukishima offered... What a shame." I should have spent more time with Naoko, Satoru, and Jie. These... You put all the documents in the drawer, leaving your desk bare. You put your phone on the table, your chin resting on your hands, and you try to smile at the tree outside the window.
Plants don't have brains, but they possess magical powers. Their emotions are so subtle that they are unknowable.
It seems to care about you.
Shintoism believes in animism.
All things are born from the mind, and all things have spirits.
"Zenin, you want to go out, right? If you want to go out, we can—" The phone rang again. Ieiri Naoko gave you an unhappy look. She crossed her arms and said nonchalantly, "Hurry up and answer it. Once you answer it, we'll go."
"I'm sorry, Doctor."
"Can you come to me now?"
This is Xiaoyu's phone number.
"Where are you now?"
"This lady told you before that she was going back to her hometown, right? I'm right here."
Xiaoyu told you she was going back to her hometown three days ago. She said she wanted to return home with wealth and success, so that the villagers could see how successful she, a daughter of a fishing family, could be in the big city.
fishing village.
fish.
You put on your crossbody bag and quickly explained to Ieiri Naoko, "I have to go save a friend of mine. Sorry, Naoko. I... Tomorrow is Sunday. I'll be back tomorrow night and go shopping with you, okay?"
"I'm not lying..." Before Jia Ru Xianzi finished speaking, you had already left in a hurry.
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Ieiri Shoko shrugged helplessly. Why did Zenin suddenly mention that he wanted me to forget her today? The part of the technique related to memory wasn't... Ieiri Shoko couldn't figure it out.
The dull reverberation of tires rolling down the highway feels heavy, like a thousand pounds weighing down on you. You watch the misty haze and raindrops fall outside the window. Tokyo's rainy season is long over. You arrived in a hurry and didn't bring an umbrella. This bag doesn't have room for an umbrella.
"Miss, the rain seems to be getting heavier."
“Yeah,” you weren’t in the mood for sex and simply responded to the driver.
"The place you want to go is quite remote. It's hard for anyone other than a local to find it."
"That's really a coincidence." It's not a coincidence.
"Ha ha."
"It's raining so hard, I can't even see the road." The car slowed down. "After we get there, I'll go back to my house. It doesn't look like the rain will stop tonight."
The driver continued to ramble on, "Miss, do you really know anyone in the village?"
"Hmm." You can't quite put your finger on your current mood. Do you want the driver to go faster or slower? It's just that the fog and rain seem to reveal your mood.
I can't see anything clearly.
Everything is blurry.
The world is not real.
"Have you met him?"
"Yes."
The driver wasn't relieved. "If anything's wrong, just come to me. I'll tell you where I live later. I want to see who you're looking for, too."
"You are a good man."
"What's the good and the bad? I'm just thinking like a normal person. A beautiful girl came all the way from Tokyo to this rural area. Anyone would be concerned and concerned, right?"
"You don't have to worry about my personal safety."
The driver smacked his lips and didn't believe you.
"Do you have an umbrella?"
"It's in the car."
"When you get there, stay at my house first. I'll ask your friend to pick you up. Your friend's name is—"
"I saw my friend."
The driver slammed on the brakes. We were almost to the village, but was it still worth waiting out in this heavy rain?
"Let your friends get in the car too."
Rain never falls silently. Raindrops make a sound wherever they land. This rain is so persistent that you don't know when it will stop, or whether you'll ever see the rainbow after the rain.
Shuiyue had been carrying an umbrella, but his hair was still completely soaked. Raindrops flowed down his cheeks like tears.
[Is this kid stupid? Why doesn't he use his umbrella?]
"I'm so sorry I got your seat wet."
"It's just a small matter," the driver said nonchalantly. He looked at you before starting the car and said, "There's no such person in our village."
"He's my friend. We came together to find another friend of mine. It's just that he got here before me." You explained the situation succinctly.
Are you punishing yourself?
【No. 】
Still stubborn.
A few minutes later, the driver informed us that we had arrived. Shuiyue got out first and opened the transparent umbrella.
"The other side of your body has been getting rained on."
"I'm all wet anyway. I won't get sick, but the doctor will get sick if he gets caught in the rain."
Without a word, you walked up to the driver, who hadn't gotten out yet. Shuiyue followed behind you, still holding the umbrella for you. It was raining so hard, it was impossible not to get soaked.
None of these things matter.
You see them.
In groups, hiding in the rain.
This is not "Haisi", but "Cursed Spirit", which ordinary people cannot see.
"Thank you for your concern, we will go directly."
The sound of rain effectively masked the explosion.
“Will they adapt?”
Shuiyue shook her head: "That's not the scary thing. Doctor, there's a lot more beneath the deep sea."
Damn it.
"What's going on, little fish?"
"Cursed erosion?" Shuiyue scratched his cheek. "They haven't caused any damage yet. But their mere existence is a big problem. That... Miss Xiaoyu, their family's resistance is very poor."
This kind of density curse is rare even in Tokyo.
Is this a problem of poor resistance?
Shuiyue led you to a dilapidated house.
"I immediately informed the doctor when someone seemed unwell. Luckily, he made it in time." You placed the talisman on the fish. The damage caused by the curse is invisible to ordinary people; they only feel themselves getting weaker and weaker, and then gradually die.
"It's taking so long to heal."
"These two are for her..." That scumbag... "Put them on her parents."
"Do you really want to do this? Bad guy..."
"It is the law that has the power to judge, not me."
"I understand, Doctor."
"Injecting 'magic energy' will speed up the healing process, right? Right now... they're utilizing their own overflowing magical energy."
"Very clever."
"But you can't do that. The magic power that the talisman can carry is limited." Attached to it was the most exquisite and mysterious reversal technique.
Let the two forces collide, and negatives equal positives. Easier said than done. The research on this set of runes... has only just begun.
“Ahem…” Xiaoyu held your hand. The first thing she said to you after opening her eyes was: “Who…?”
"It's me."
"Miss Ruoye!" She threw herself into your arms and started crying. Xiaoyu... was a girl about your age.
"I saw it... I saw it..." She cried breathlessly, "Those stories you told... are all true... They are true... right?"
"Curse spirit..." She could hardly breathe.
You created a false cursed world for Xiaoyu, and used her pen to show that world to ordinary people.
Humanity will win.
Will defeat the curse.
Cursed spirits are not scary.
This is of course strictly prohibited by the top management.
The unknown brings fear.
You don't think blindly deceiving is the right thing to do.
"I'm here. Everything's fine now."
So the little fish cried even louder.
"It's so ugly... so ugly..." Xiaoyu wanted to vomit, but she hadn't eaten all day and couldn't vomit anything. She was a girl who loved beauty, and she would criticize cursed spirits by their beauty and ugliness.
"Ms. Ruoye...Mom..."
"She's still unconscious and it'll take a while for her to wake up."
"Stinky girl...who is this woman?"
The man was entangled by Shuiyue's appendages and fainted again.
"Ah... I scared Miss Xiaoyu."
"These appendages..."
"It's not an illusion."
A tentacle landed on your palm, and soon the others followed.
"No—" Shuiyue exclaimed.
Xiaoyu hid behind you and trembled: "Is he, is he also a sorcerer?"
"He was the one who notified me to come and rescue you."
Wait a minute...I think I've seen this person before.
"You know..."
"I've always known. Your mother's God is me."
Shuiyue admitted it frankly. You were completely unaware of this. Assuming the knowledge that "Suiyue existed five hundred years ago" is true, then this fact has an impact on reality.
Religion... You have a deep abhorrence of religion.
"It's not just here, right?"
"I've tried my best to restrain myself. For now, I haven't..."
"God bless me and my mother."
Shuiyue looked up at you, then scratched his head sheepishly: "As much as I want to just agree, I still have to tell Miss Xiaoyu that your suffering also exists because of me. So I have to resolve this matter."
"Are you referring to these?" Xiaoyu pointed at the small eyes on her arm, which hadn't completely faded. She wanted to close her eyes, but she couldn't help but look. She said with disgust and fear, "Compared to what I've experienced in the past, this is nothing. Death is indeed terrifying, but living is even more terrifying." She leaned closer to you and said, "But after surviving, I feel that living is still more beautiful."
"Why do you exist..." Before you and Shuiyue could even decide how to respond, Xiaoyu started talking. "Is it because humans need to keep their distance from God?" She looked at you as she spoke. You patted her forehead. "I'm not God. He's not God either. God is a human-created concept."
“Use your imagination in creation.”
"Oh." She held her forehead in grievance, "By the way, those outside..."
"It's solved for now."
"Temporarily?" Xiaoyu is very good at choosing words.
"I'll cleanse them completely. Don't worry."
"Why Miss Ruoye? Those things are not..."
"because……"
"Because only the Doctor can solve this problem. And I'm only happy to be solved by the Doctor."
"What is Master Izumik saying?"
"I shouldn't exist."
It's me who shouldn't exist.
Shuiyue didn't give you a chance to speak.
"The backlash has just begun."
"Miss Xiaoyu's attitude towards me has changed a lot."
"In Mom's opinion... With my dad's ability, he couldn't possibly catch that many fish. Our whole family would have starved to death long ago."
"Starving to death is still a bit difficult, right?"
"I mean... I couldn't have stolen enough money from home to take the boat to Tokyo. I would have been beaten to death. Izumi-sama and Miss Wakaba changed my fate."
"It's Xiaoyu herself who changes her destiny and makes choices. Not everyone has the courage to leave her hometown alone, and not everyone has the courage to try a career with an unknown outcome."
"I love Miss Ruoye the most!!! What's the theme of this year's final performance? Can't tell? Keep it a secret? I understand!" Xiaoyu spoke excitedly, then calmed down again: "The backlash that Lord Izumik mentioned..."
Suigetsu was thinking, "Miss Xiaoyu, you should know that in To... in Japan, there are no completely righteous gods or completely evil monsters. I am a cursed spirit, and my goodwill is about to run out. I don't know what will happen next."
"Is it because Lord Izumik has seen too many people like my father? In order for my mother and I to survive, he must survive as well... We don't need him now." I agreed with my mother that I would take her to Tokyo and away from that trash.
"You can live because of me, but you can't die because of me." When you said this, Shuiyue held your hand.
"Ms. Wakaba?"
Shuiyue did not tell Xiaoyu the truth.
Xiaoyu was just an ordinary person. Knowing the truth would be meaningless to her; it would only add to her sorrow. The truth only needed two people...three people to know it.
"Go and take care of your mother. She's been overworked and exhausted, and she's recovering very slowly."
"Miss Wakaba and Master Izumik..."
"We're inconvenienced tonight. It's still raining. We can't leave for the time being."
"Oh! Okay! What do you like to eat? I think we only have seafood and a little rice at home..."
"I'm fine with it."
"I'm fine with that."
Xiaoyu went off to work. Shuiyue followed you to the door. You reached out your hand to touch the cold rain, then stood there in the rain.
“Doctor—” Suigetsu’s strength is much greater than you imagined. He carried you back and instantly became much more anxious.
"You'll get sick. What if you have a fever... Doctor, lie down first. I'll go ask Miss Xiaoyu if she has any clean clothes."
"You haven't even changed your own clothes yet."
"I really don't want to wear that person's clothes."
"Wearing women's clothes."
"Oh... Doctor, this is so bad... I want to wear the doctor's clothes!"
"My clothes are wet too."
"It's okay, it's okay."
Shuiyue quickly returned: "I also found some cold medicine."
"Didn't Xiaoyu say anything?"
"I lied to her that you were going to exorcise the cursed spirit in the rain, and then I pulled you back."
"Lying is not a good thing."
"Doctor, what else can I say?" Shuiyue sat down cross-legged and handed you the cup of water: "Doctor, have you made up your mind?"
"I've made up my mind. I'll come see you again on the 17th. Can you hold out that long?"
"As long as the doctor asks me for help, I will do my best."
"Thank you, Shuiyue."
"Don't thank me." Shuiyue smiled brightly. "Even if it was only for a short time, I am happy from the bottom of my heart to meet the doctor again and touch a part of the real doctor."
It’s a pity that I can’t meet all the doctors.
Are you happy...
"Shuiyue, did I choose you because I once had the deepest feelings for you?"
"Perhaps, Doctor. But my feelings for you are deep enough."
"Doctor, do you want to change your clothes? It's not very convenient to take a shower here, so this is the only way... I'll go get a blanket for you."
"He's already asleep..."
"It's time to take a break."
Shuiyue is watching you.
"Good night, Doctor."
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