121 Chapter 121
Her existence
Chapter 121 [Her Existence]
International news was playing on TV. Intermittent sounds of running water could be heard from the small room. The bathroom was filled with steam and hot air.
A moment later, Agatsuma Sayuri came out of the bathroom, drying her hair. On the sofa in the living room were piled the clothes she wore at the comic convention, which were cosplay costumes of the main characters in her original comics.
Only after cosplaying once will the author deeply regret why he set such a complicated costume for the protagonist.
The more clever ideas there were in the original design, the more painful it was to cosplay.
"It's a shame this comic convention has a book signing event, otherwise I might as well cosplay Zhu Fu Jingguang and go to the convention."
After all, Morobushi Kagemitsu's official uniform and other clothes were all suitable for everyday wear. At most, carrying a bass bag with a sniper rifle on it would be a bit troublesome when moving to the venue - the kind that would cause a police stop if he took the subway.
The girl washed, cleaned, and stored the used cosplay equipment. When her hair was half dry, she pushed open the bedroom door and entered the room surrounded by Zhu Fu Jingguang.
“A room like this is still relaxing.”
For some reason, she felt like she had been away from Zhufu Jingguang's pain room for a long time. But when she looked into it, she couldn't figure out the reason.
What in this world could make my wife Sayuri abandon me and live in this painful house?
She couldn't think of any reason.
Before going to bed, she turned on her mobile phone and habitually checked the comments of the cartoonists and watched the short videos on the social platforms.
"Took a photo with my favorite teacher!" "Real-time comic exhibition report" "Successful expansion of the circle of friends, giving everyone a picture back" "No beauty filter, super beautiful teacher, cosplay skills are top-notch"
The comic convention just ended and is still trending. Just scrolling through it brings up a bunch of posts related to the convention, not to mention a lot of photos of people who brought their own.
My wife Sayuri was delighted to see so many people praising her in the comment section. She lay dormant in bed for a while, then turned over happily.
With so many people praising her painting skills, Agatsuma Sayuri couldn't help but want to recall her own works, so she clicked on the backstage of her currently serialized work.
Sure enough, there are more praises under the works.
My wife Sayuri was so flattered by all the praise that she thought she could draw more updates this week to give back to the readers who love her.
With just this association, the word "update" sounded like an alarm on her alarm clock.
[If I die, can my clones continue to update the series? ]
Late at night, my wife Sayuri woke up with a startled thought. It was strange to think that if she didn't update herself, would anyone else be able to do it for her?
She checked her phone to confirm the date.
Something's wrong, something's really wrong.
She vaguely remembered that she was at work the last second, but she felt a little dizzy. How come she closed her eyes and opened them again, and when she woke up, she was at a comic convention and book signing event.
shock!
It took her a whole month from the time she lost her memory to the time she regained consciousness.
Did she really simply lose her memory of this period of time, or did she really spend this period of time normally, but she just forgot?
The girl looked at her hands hesitantly. Under the moonlight, there were obvious calluses on several specific places on her hands that had been holding a pen for many years, which showed her hard work in writing for countless days and nights.
Normally, calluses will fade away within one to two months if you don't maintain the same posture.
The calluses on her hands were very clear and showed no signs of softening due to slacking off.
No matter what happened during this month, she must have maintained the habit of writing and painting, so she should not have been in a coma for a month.
That’s right. If she had been in a coma, how could others contact her and discuss the preparations for the autograph session?
She must be living a normal life, but perhaps she was too busy or too bored, so she accidentally forgot a memory.
After feeling a little relieved, waves of sleepiness came over me, and my wife Sayuri pulled up the quilt and lay down again.
[No matter what happens, let's think about it after I wake up.]
It's not like I'll be missing a few hours...
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"Xiao Zhufu, I'm so sorry."
Kenji Hagiwara opened his arms and gave Morofushi Kagemitsu a tight hug, trying to cheer up his depressed friend.
Zhu Fu Jingguang forced a smile, but the smile did not reach his eyes.
He laughed so hard that he looked like he was about to cry.
Kenji Hagiwara's face wasn't looking good either, with dark circles under his eyes making one wonder if he'd been attacked while sleeping. Not far from them, Jinpei Matsuda wore sunglasses with a sullen look on his face, never taking them off.
Agatsuma Sayuri's original body died, and her clones lost their unified consciousness in an instant. The Agatsuma family believed that this operation would definitely fail and had already prepared themselves to lose Hanamisake.
But this feeling of emptiness was only momentary.
Soon the clones resumed their activities as usual, without mentioning anything lost, as if nothing had changed.
Even if we explain it very clearly and ask them, they still can't notice the difference between before and after my wife Sayuri's death.
In this case, whether it is Hanamisake or "Sayuri My Wife", their existence cannot be eliminated for the time being, which means that even the funeral of Sayuri My Wife must be held secretly.
Fortunately, seven of Tokyo's nine crematoriums are privately owned, and six of them are even controlled by China, which leaves some room for licensing between the Japanese government and businesses.
For example, if the person being cremated is not a Japanese citizen but a citizen of another country, this number does not need to be recorded in the archives connected with government agencies.
My wife's family has always been good at this.
Before dealing with the girl's funeral, their mission was not completed. Agatsuma Sayuri and her group originally planned to go to the mission location of Hanamisake, but at that time Agatsuma Sayuri did not explain why she had to go there.
Usually, Agatsuma Sayuri needs to go to the scene in person, only when the clone must remain in a dangerous state and they don’t have time to set up temporary surveillance, the clone needs to perform the task under difficult and isolated circumstances.
At this time, Agatsuma Sayuri is a movable resurrection point, responsible for resurrecting the clone at any time.
They were still debating whether to keep the identity of Hanamisake. Logically, since Agatsuma Sayuri had already achieved her original goal of joining the organization, it was not a bad idea for her to leave.
However, they have already paid such a heavy price to keep Hanamisake in the organization. Even if only the sunk costs are considered, most people are not willing to do so, not to mention the obsession with the deceased.
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Three days later, on a sunny day, Morofushi Kagemitsu silently held the urn of my wife Sayuri, silent. He could feel that he was sad because of the departure of someone who loved him so much, but the reason why he was so depressed was indeed another reason.
In the main plot revealed by fate, he himself died in front of Rei Furuya.
Morobushi Kagemitsu couldn't put the unconditional love of his wife Sayuri and the friendship he had grown up with Furuya Rei on the same scale to weigh which was more important. But he knew that if he left, both Sayuri and Furuya Rei would inevitably fall into endless pain.
When he chose to become an undercover agent, Morobushi Jingguang was already prepared for the possibility of never being able to return home and dying at any time. However, compared to the departure of friends and parents that he had witnessed since childhood, and the people around him leaving one by one, Morobushi Jingguang would rather be the one to leave.
When he took the step of becoming an undercover agent, he never thought about how his departure would make the people around him feel.
In fact, Agatsuma Sayuri had already accepted this from fate, and Furuya Reimoto might also be forced to accept the pain of losing his best friend.
When Zhu Fujingguang first learned about his fate, although he was skeptical about the so-called fate, he had also thought about it. If he really had no other choice and wanted to destroy all contact information with others, destroying the mobile phone memory at the same time as committing suicide would indeed be the most convenient method.
He would really make the same choice as the so-called original.
So my wife Sayuri has always been afraid of such a future?
"It's time to leave, everyone." Agatsuma Kazuyuki greeted the guests who came to pay their respects to my wife Sayuri and led them away slowly.
News just came from the Agatsuma family headquarters that the murderer of Agatsuma Sayuri has been identified.
Now, the hunt begins, and the murderer will be punished with the iron fist of revenge.
To their surprise, it wasn't the CIA who did it. Perhaps the CIA provided the killer with some intelligence, but it was actually one of my wife Sayuri's clones who did it.
This person was also the one who kidnapped Zhu Fujingguang before and should have been one of "that group of people".
Agatsuma Sayuri's ability is very strange. Normally, the clone and the original body should be dependent on each other. The death of the clone has no effect on the original body. However, if the original body dies, all the clones should disappear.
But now it seems that the death of the original body has no effect on the clone?
Because Agatsuma Sayuri has lost her memories of the past, both the members of Agatsuma's family and Agatsuma Sayuri herself use incoherent memories, "should" and "maybe" to infer the facts.
The amnesiac Agatsuma Sayuri is the real person, and they judged this by the memory of the clone causing an impact on the real person, resulting in amnesia.
Is there a possibility that the amnesiac Agatsuma Sayuri is actually a clone, not the real person?
When Morufushi Kagemitsu proposed this possibility to Hagiwara Kenji, the latter's expression was as bitter as if he had eaten coptis chinensis.
"Xiao Zhufu, I know you are very sad. But the dead cannot be resurrected..."
Kenji Hagiwara, who was always eloquent, sometimes didn't know what to say.
What he said over and over again could be summed up in one sentence: My wife Sayuri is really dead, please accept my condolences.
Zhu Fushigaki had no choice but to let go of this idea, just like he let go of the urn of my wife Sayuri, and his heart, which had just been beating with love, died again in the lonely cold night.
There's still a lot to come, and even without Agatsuma Sayuri, they still have to consider how the Agatsuma family should move forward. Some people are still hoping to return to their original lives, while others are still passionate about their current lifestyle, always harboring a rebellious spirit.
Among my wife's family and "that group of people", there are some real criminals who have been blessed by "fate" in various ways and have not been imprisoned for the time being.
Since he is a criminal, he should be punished.
There were so many unfinished tasks in his world, and he could no longer focus all his attention on the fact that my wife Sayuri had left him.
Zhu Fu Jingguang said this to himself every moment of every day, implying, explicitly, commanding, and forcing himself, not daring to allow himself to fall into painful self-blame for a moment.
Knowing who the criminal is makes the arrest much easier.
My wife's family and "that group of people" joined forces and called out the murderer with just one phone call.
This clone of Agatsuma Sayuri leisurely walked into the Agatsuma family's residence, looked around, and said with a smile: "This is my first time here. As expected, the impression I had from the original body is the same."
The members of Agatsuma's family glared at her, but had mixed feelings because she looked very similar to Agatsuma Sayuri.
Since the case could not be handed over to the police, they had to investigate it themselves and only themselves.
"Why did you kill your original body?"
Although there is evidence that the other party committed the crime, many people still want to know why the clone had to kill the original.
The girl who looked very similar to Agatsuma Sayuri curled her lips impishly and leaned lazily on the conference table with her chin in her hand.
She opened her lips slightly and uttered words as vicious as a venomous snake: "It is because she is the original body that she must be killed, isn't it?"
"Every step, every action, and even your entire life is controlled by the thoughts of your true self. Don't you feel unwilling?"
"The reason for killing her? There are so many reasons."
"If you don't believe me wanting to break free from control, you can also think of me as being rebellious."
The questioner's face flushed red, and he almost roared, "Even so, there's no need to kill her, right?"
"She's almost indifferent to everything except matters related to Morobushi Kagemitsu. Even as my wife Sayuri's clone, she's able to develop her own awareness and travel widely. How has she influenced you?"
The clone smiled and simply said, "Her very existence affects me."
And he never spoke again.
【Author’s words】
The connection between enterprises and the government - the author made it up, don't take it seriously.
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