Amnesiacs will be stimulated to recover some memories by seeing familiar things or hearing similar words.

Shiwu has always had a good attitude towards lost memories and will not dwell on the loss. Just as he said to Edogawa Ranpo, he is not in a hurry.

Because loss is never the most important thing. What is important is what is gained.

But when he sees something related to the past, he still feels a certain impact.

And once a person concentrates on thinking about something or an object, that thing will become blurred in his mind.

It's like writing the same word a hundred times, staring at it for a few minutes, and you will feel that the word suddenly becomes very strange.

This is the case with Shiwu at this moment. The more he thinks about things related to butterflies, the more blurred and unclear the memory fragments in his mind that were originally stimulated by the Xie Ye hair accessories become.

Like fine sand held tightly in the hand, the harder you hold it, the harder it is to hold.

I didn't forget on purpose. Shi Wu thought so, he lay on the railing of the roof, with a little regret in his heart.

So I will not forget "I forgot you", I will remember that you were forgotten by me - it sounds so difficult to say this. Shi Wu complained and confirmed one thing in his heart.

He thought: When I recover my memory, I will apologize to you... No, I'm dead, so let's wait.

After all, if we meet in hell, it feels like we have to wait for a long time. Let's wait for him to be resurrected. When he is resurrected, he will definitely see the surprised expressions of those he has forgotten. That must be very interesting.

Just to apologize to them, he should have tried hard to resurrect. Shi

Wu has always been optimistic. Even if he encountered bad things, he would naturally look for the good parts. He took a deep breath and felt that he was almost ready and could go back - no, he came up here to get some fresh air. He

paused for a moment when he was about to leave, and then lay back in his original position.

However, when he finished this action, he noticed the movement behind the door.

Listen to the sound...

"Ah! Mr. Ranpo, are you here?" Miyazawa Kenji's tone seemed to have this smile. His footsteps didn't sound right, and coupled with other noisy collisions, he should be moving something, and it was a very long thing.

This is indeed the case. Kenji Miyazawa himself explained: "I cut some bamboos and planned to make a fence. I couldn't find the right wood before. Later, I thought that bamboo is more suitable!"

For a moment, Tokiwa didn't know whether to complain about the fact that he grew vegetables on the rooftop to build a fence, or the fact that he found bamboo in the port city of Yokohama.

However, compared with the fact that Dazai Osamu could find poisonous mushrooms in the back mountain - it seems that these things are very normal.

"Do you need help?" Tokiwa said casually.

Kenji Miyazawa blinked: "If you are interested, Mr. Ranpo, of course you can!"

Kenji Miyazawa held a bundle of long bamboos. Because of his own ability, he often could not truly understand his own strength, but he had strong enough control over his abilities.

As for why I mentioned this -

"Ah, sorry! Mr. Ranpo, I didn't hit you!" Kenji Miyazawa said in a panic.

The bamboo was more than ten meters long and was dragged into the roof by Kenji Miyazawa. After moving the bamboo in, he naturally grabbed one and measured its weight and thickness horizontally.

Compared to the weight that he could use to grab a lamppost and run, the bamboo was too light for him, so when he picked it up to look at it, he swung his hands and the bamboo almost hit Shi Wu who was standing not far away. It was

just that Shi Wu dodged by reflex, and after Kenji Miyazawa remembered that he was not the only one on the roof, he suddenly pulled in the opposite direction, so that he did not really touch Shi Wu.

"...No, I'm fine." Shi Wu answered softly. As

he said this, his body stiffened uncontrollably.

Perhaps it was because his memory had just been stimulated, and the situation this time was a bit special, so Shi Wu's reaction was slow... no, it was more sensitive.

——This was obviously something he had never experienced before, not even when he first met Fukuzawa Yukichi.

A long and thin bamboo did not even touch his body, he only felt the horizontal impact of the air being thrown out.

But Shi Wu felt as if he was cut horizontally. This strange feeling made his back creep up, and he was a little dazed.

Kenji Miyazawa looks careless, but he is not stupid. He was about to say something, but he heard another Ranpo's voice at the door. Ranpo Edogawa said to him in an exceptionally calm tone: "Kenji, Kunikida wants to see you."

Kenji Miyazawa blinked, looked left and right, and then a simple smile appeared on his lips again: "I see, Mr. Ranpo."

He put down the tools in his hands, and when he left, he closed the door very politely.

The rooftop suddenly became silent. This silence was different from the tacit ease of the past. The air seemed to be frozen.

Tokiwa had calmed down by this time. He felt that he might be a little too sensitive today, and it was a little unlike himself.

He tried to speak in his usual tone: "What's the matter?"

But his effort obviously failed, and the atmosphere at the moment did not improve. On the contrary, it became more awkward because of the words he spoke.

Edogawa Ranpo walked into Tokiwu silently, and when Tokiwu looked at a confused expression, he reached out and held Tokiwu's face.

Edogawa Ranpo looked at the face in front of him that was exactly the same as his own. His face was no longer the usual relaxed and happy smile, but instead it was solemn and unhappy.

"You are scared." The world's number one detective suddenly made this conclusion.

Tokiwu didn't seem to understand the meaning of this sentence at all.

Edogawa Ranpo looked at this confused expression and pursed his lips slightly.

He saw the confusion and panic that flashed across Tokiwu's face when he picked up the butterfly hair accessory - that expression was not unfamiliar to him, and Edogawa Ranpo could tell it.

That was... an expression of fear for others, fear for the death of the owner of this butterfly hair ornament.

Picking up the hair ornament from the ground, this action seemed to foreshadow something - it made the "self" in front of him feel fear.

He was afraid to see such a scene. It had even been foreshadowed, but he just didn't want to believe it and see the reality.

Edogawa Ranpo immediately thought of something bad, and he was a little worried.

But he felt that "himself" might need some time alone to sort out his thoughts, so he didn't go to the rooftop right away. However,

it's easier for a person to think of other bad things when he's daydreaming, so he didn't stop Kenji from coming up.

The other self liked the feeling of Kenji, and Edogawa Ranpo himself felt the same way. Kenji's ease and purity are always the most touching.

However, he didn't expect that he would see even worse emotions on the other's face.

After Kenji let go of his hand, "the other self" subconsciously touched his abdomen. He was making sure that his body was still intact - this was an instinctive reaction that went beyond thinking.

And this action, which he had never performed before, told Edogawa Ranpo the worst answer.

...Beheading.

Edogawa Ranpo had never thought of this possibility. Because Tokiwa had never shown any small movements or reactions related to this point.

"You even fooled yourself." Edogawa Ranpo murmured to Tokiwa, his voice was so low that Tokiwa almost didn't hear it clearly. He said: "So you fooled me too."

Are you really not afraid? When you saw the president, you subconsciously avoided him. Was it really not because of fear?

Tokiwa's whole body froze. Obviously, Edogawa Ranpo's words did not have any point, but he understood the meaning.

Eh?

Shi Wu suddenly felt a little sour in the area of ​​his eyes, and transparent tears slid down from the corners of his eyes.

He didn't know why he was crying, but suddenly... there was an inexplicable grievance that surged up. He couldn't control his emotions.

Shi Wu had always been too indifferent. He felt his own death and everything at the moment - it was as if there was a layer between him and him, and he couldn't really touch that emotion directly.

Death, is it really such a simple thing that can be ignored?

No, even if he lost his memory, the fear of death was still engraved in his soul.

That was the most terrifying enemy he had ever encountered in his life. His body was afraid to fight him, but he still picked up the knife.

No matter how calm he was, no matter how strong he was, even after death, Shi Wu never regretted it, and he could even comfort another person without complaint.

But death never means that everything can be buried. The pain, fear, grievance, and terror that come at the time of death are never non-existent.

Humans will suffer psychological problems just by seeing the death of others, let alone facing it themselves?

It's just that no one has ever had the opportunity to know what the dead think about death.

Shi Wu wanted to try to say something, but he couldn't say anything now.

Edogawa Ranpo looked at him calmly, watching the originally calm face gradually collapse -

what does a waist cut mean? Such an injury will not make a person die immediately, but will only feel more and more blood loss, the body is getting colder and colder, and reason tells you that you are about to die. You can't survive.

Tears dripped down Shi Wu's eyes helplessly, and even overflowed with a little bright red color.

"Are you really not afraid?" Edogawa Ranpo murmured as he looked at the tears.

It's not that he's not afraid, he's extremely afraid, terribly afraid!

[His hands are shaking all the time, his body instinctively refuses to fight the opponent in front of him...]

But he can't be afraid, because if he is afraid, it means he has lost the ability to fight him!

[Calm down! Don't panic! It doesn't matter! Calm down! ]

Even if he panics, he must immediately abandon this emotion, because he needs to fight, he is not alone, he needs to protect everyone!

"Because... I can't be afraid..."

The author has something to say: [ ] From the original words of the Demon Slayer manga.