Chapter 188 The Second Player

It's been a long time since I had such a jokey conversation with someone like this, Xi Hai Qing Dou smacked his lips. This time, after talking to Geto Suguru for such a long time, he actually still felt a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, he had been a mystery teller for a long time in the previous world, so he quickly adapted back to his normal life.

However, this also gave Xi Haiqing Dou a warning: This is very bad. After staying in this world for too long, is he going to "degenerate"?

This won't do. If he goes back, and accidentally turns "Mochizuki Kaoru" into "Igarashi Yuuki", who is "straight-talking and outspoken", it won't be a big deal, but if "Hagen Chiaki" is also like this, it will be funny... I guess Gin will think he is really sick again.

It's also because this world, as a world of passionate boys' comics, doesn't require much brainpower. No one seems to be very scheming. Even if his words are full of deep meaning, it's useless if no one understands. After a long time, Xi Haiqing Dou gave up. Now it seems that he still needs to find the feeling again.

After parting with Geto Suguru, Haruto Nishimi returned to the dormitory, took a shower, turned on the light and looked at himself in the mirror for a while.

The boy in the mirror had black hair and black pupils. His originally round baby face had become more angular. His black eyes had deep pupils, which made him look sharp and gloomy. There were also faint dark circles under his eyes. His short black hair, which was still wet, had obviously grown a few centimeters longer than last year. It fell down softly, but because he had just taken a shower and didn't take care of it, it looked a little messy and untidy.

Xihai Qingdou blinked slowly, and the smile on his lips gradually disappeared. The corners of his lips were pursed coldly. The gentle temperament he originally had disappeared in an instant. There was a sense of indifference, fatigue and imperceptible alienation lingering around his whole body. From a distance, he didn't seem like someone who was easy to approach.

He looks completely different from the friendly "Igarashi Yuuki" in the past. If the change in appearance was not that big, people might think they are two completely different people.

Xihai Qingdou was very satisfied.

There was still a lingering mist in the mirror that had not yet completely dissipated, making it look a little hazy and impossible to see clearly. Looking at the person in the mirror from outside the mirror, it was as if there was a layer of separation, so hazy that one could not see clearly.

Xi Haiqing Dou stood in front of the mirror and thought for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand and drew a simple smiley face pattern on the mirror with an expressionless face.

Then he seemed to feel that one smiling face seemed a little lonely, so he drew three more smiling faces next to it... After he finished, he smiled at himself in the mirror.

The way he smiled was the same as before, his eyes curved into shallow crescents, his two small canine teeth and the dimples on his lips were faintly visible, and just looking at him made people feel better. However, compared to before, there was still a hint of danger in him that was hard to explain.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Xi Haiqing Dou suddenly thought of Xia Youjie again.

His conversation with Geto Suguru is quite different from his previous conversations with Gojo Satoru, Hanayamain Haruna, and even with Ieiri Shoko.

The conversation with Geto Suguru seemed simple and ordinary, like a casual chat between two good friends who hadn't seen each other for a while, but every seemingly ordinary question and answer contained a deep meaning.

Given the tacit understanding between him and Geto Suguru, he felt that the meaning of those conversations should be mostly "you know and I know" and a small part "I know but you don't know".

Xia Yujie asked him if the two of them were still on the same path, if he was under a lot of pressure recently, the troubles caused by his "dreams", the situation of his "greedy beast", the affairs of the Directors' Council and his current changes, as well as some vague thoughts about curses, sorcerers and the future;

He also saw the confusion and pressure of Geto, both about himself and his companions; he also saw Geto's current troubles with spells and the world of spells, as well as his internal friction. His thoughts and ideas about Gojo Satoru began to become unbalanced and deviated, and the cracks in the friendship between the three began to appear and expand...

For some reason or out of some concern, neither of them asked these questions directly, even though these were things that both parties knew tacitly.

Of course, there are also some things that Saikai Haruto knows and that Suguru Kei is hiding...those are even less spoken out.

The two people at the back didn't even mention Hanayamain Haruna tacitly.

It was a kind of secret and obscure tacit understanding, but the behavior and attitude of Hanayamain Haruna herself, and Geto Suguru's attitude and thoughts towards her were still Gojo Satoru's. Saikai Haruto and Geto Suguru tacitly ignored it and never mentioned Hanayamain Haruna's name once - but Saikai Haruto and Geto Suguru knew that it was not because Geto Suguru disliked Hanayamain Haruna, but because Geto Suguru now regarded her as very important.

Like the black waves and icebergs rolling beneath the sea, some things are more important and more taboo, and more difficult to mention. The less they are mentioned, the more they cannot be mentioned - because once they are mentioned, something will change silently. Hesitation sometimes also represents "stability", and this is the case with Hanayamain Haruna at this moment.

Although if one really wants to resolve the hidden dangers of these problems, it would be best to bring them up and talk about them directly, but unfortunately, Xi Haiqing Dou certainly doesn't want to resolve the problems now...so he naturally deliberately didn't mention it at all.

After all, both of them can see that there are some things about "Igarashi Yuuki" that don't seem to be very good, but he doesn't say it, and Geto Suguru won't mention it either. On the one hand, it's because they respect Geto Suguru's own ideas, and on the other hand, it's based on Geto Suguru's trust in him. And as for Geto Suguru's ideas about "Hanayamain Haruna", in contrast, "Igarashi Yuuki" naturally has the same idea - isn't this very normal?

Although his deliberateness was somewhat obvious because he was "not very good at hiding things", it made Geto Suguru unable to help but become more concerned.

Of course, even if they really talked about it, Xi Haiqing Dou was a little skeptical as to whether Xia Youjie would become more relieved or more stubborn... Although judging from his performance, Xi Haiqing Dou still suspected that the latter was more likely.

After all, Xia Yujie is not as good as Gojo Satoru. This guy has already wasted two years on himself. If Gojo Satoru's magic resistance is low, then Xia Yujie's magic resistance to Hanayamain Haruna is so high that it can even become negative. In addition, he is already meticulous and has many thoughts, so his level can only be higher than Gojo Satoru's.

All I can say is that having a love-minded, obsessive, and psychiatric personality is very scary.

Immersed in his own thoughts, Xi Hai Qing Dou had no time to notice that not long after, the mist in front of the mirror condensed into water droplets. Large drops of water slid down the mirror bit by bit, leaving behind several long traces. The smiling faces in the mirror thus turned into smiling crying faces one by one.

When he came to his senses again, the pattern in the mirror was so blurry that it could not be seen anymore.

Then he stretched out his hand again, and drew traces, as if adding new cracks to the patterns. The traces became more and more, until finally, all the patterns and traces on the mirror were completely erased.

The mirror was clean again.

***

After the "heart-to-heart" dialogue time was over, in the following time, Saikai Haruto only pretended that all he had in his mind and eyes was "mission, mission, mission", and "curse, curse, curse", and at most a Jujutsu Director General Meeting... He was completely determined not to get involved in the "love triangle" between Gojo Satoru, Kaguru Kei, and Hanayamain Haruna, and just planned to stand aside and watch. As for Hanayamain Haruna, he resumed his previous plan of "hiding" her.

I met Hanayamain Haruna in the evening of that day. After the two of us talked, I don’t know if there was something in Saikai Haruto’s words that made Hanayamain Haruna suddenly interested again, but after that day, Hanayamain Haruna suddenly paid more attention to him.

Fortunately, after Hanayamain Haruna was transferred to the technical high school again, she no longer lived in the school dormitory like them, but lived outside alone. It was much easier for Nishimi Haruto to avoid her, using the excuse that "I was busy with the mission and happened to miss the time and place."

For such a long time, he made it impossible for Hanayamain Haruna to find a free and unoccupied time to talk to him, nor did he make her suspect anything. Even if they met occasionally, they would just say a few words in a hurry when there were many people around, and then they would miss each other again.

Among them, Saikai Haruto even attracted the hatred of a small group of people who paid attention to Hanayamain Haruna because of her "special attention" to him. Although Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru didn't have any thoughts about it, he did attract the hatred of a small group of people who paid attention to Hanayamain Haruna, causing many people to suddenly pay special attention to his whereabouts for a period of time, which made Saikai Haruto feel rare speechless.

Although in order to maintain his character, Saikai Haruto couldn't do anything to them, but too many flies were a bit annoying... Fortunately, although most of Hanayamain Haruna's "crazy pursuers" were severely beaten by him, they left after knowing that he and Hanayamain Haruna were not in that kind of relationship. In the end, there was only one golden-haired idiot who hadn't given up and whose brain was probably sick.

——Don't get me wrong, this is specifically referring to Zenin Naoya.

I can only say that Zenin Naoya is now truly the number one bootlicker of Hanayamain Haruna. After hearing just a little bit of the news, he couldn't wait to come to him, and said a lot of nonsense in front of Saikai Haruto that was completely incomprehensible. Saikai Haruto could only vaguely hear the main idea that he should know himself well and that he is not worthy of Hanayamain Haruna, nor is he better than Zenin Shiori (by the way, Saikai Haruto doesn't even know what this has to do with Shiori), and he is not even qualified to be his servant. On the one hand, he was grateful for Hanayamain Haruna's attention, and on the other hand, he had to be ashamed of himself and know that his identity was far away from Hanayamain Haruna...

Haruto Nishimi thinks that the guy's brain must have been sick before the Tomie buff on Haruna Hanayamain took effect. Haruna Hanayamain at most played a little amplifying role, so he just became a little sicker... After all, "Tomie" can amplify people's desires, bigotry, madness, and possessiveness, but it will not make a normal person suddenly appear arrogant, rude, annoying, and asking for a beating.

This guy's arrogance and inability to understand what others say are probably innate. No matter what Xi Hai Qing Dou says, he doesn't care and only listens to what he wants to hear. After being beaten up mercilessly by him several times, he first looked shocked, his face pale and unbelievable, and then he changed into various attitudes of reluctantly convinced, and disappointed that he didn't understand him... In short, he performed the "talking to himself" to the fullest.

But he still came to him to be beaten, and even after being beaten he still came to him.

In the end, Saikai Haruto even began to suspect that he was actually a masochist.