Chapter 189 The Second Player
It is not difficult to deal with someone like Zenin Naoya, as long as you find the right method and prescribe the right medicine. Zenin Naoya was finally taken away by Hanayamain Haruna, and since then, Saikai Haruto has never seen him again.
As a result, he has more time and energy to focus all his attention on the "love triangle" between Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru and the players.
Zenoya Zeno is not on this track - at most he is one of Hanayamain Haruna's "lickers".
The emotional drama among these three people is not complicated at all. At most, it is mixed with a lot of melodrama, plus a little bit of Shura field - Gojo Satoru becomes more and more stubborn and self-obsessed, Geto Suguru becomes more and more paranoid and morbid, and even has a tendency to be obsessive and possessed, while Hanayamain Haruna maintains a calmness that is almost cold and indifferent, and naturally wanders between the two, but also seems to be detached from both, making Saikai Haruto feel that she does not seem to be enjoying the feeling of walking on a rope on a cliff.
Xi Haiqing Dou suddenly found a familiar feeling in the player - that is the feeling of being the person who wrote the script and controlled the direction of the story. She is in the story, but she is also a person who is watching the story unfold.
But is Hanayamain Haruna's calmness really calm, or is it just her self-righteous "calmness" that has made her go crazy and possessed?
Xi Haiqing Dou guessed that it might be the second one.
It's not that the previous Huashanyuan didn't dare or wouldn't do this, but that's because she regarded this world as a game and everyone as NPCs in the game, so naturally she did whatever she wanted without any scruples.
And now, Hanayama Haruna probably can't tell the difference between the game and reality, right? The feeling of dying that time was too real, as if she had really experienced the feeling of death.
The "game" is so realistic, what is the difference between it and reality? And the "abnormalities" on her body, the inexplicable tear moles, the strange physical condition... the appearance of things beyond her control further broke her cognition.
If it was a "game," why couldn't she find the fake place? Why did she feel so much pain? How could she "log out"?
If it is reality, why has the real world become like this? Why do such terrible things as "curse" and "spellcaster" really exist in this world? Is "she" still "she"? Is "she" still "she"?
She sees the world from somewhere.
At one moment I felt that everything was too real, and at another moment I felt that everything was too fake.
Or is this the Truman Show? Is this the third wall, or the fourth wall? Or is there a fifth wall?
Players can't help but think about it.
In this situation, Hanayama Haruna feels that she may be going crazy, or she may be struggling to rebuild herself.
She tried to find a solution.
If she were asked to really "commit suicide" to find "relief" or take the risk of trying to "log out of the game" or "travel back in time", she would not have the courage to do so - otherwise she would have "committed suicide" in the past year or so.
After so much internal struggle, there is still no way to make her escape, so I have no choice but to try external struggle.
Hanayamain Haruna thought, there is a saying that goes, it is better to go crazy and hurt others than to exhaust yourself mentally; if you can't find the reason in yourself, then look for the problem in other people.
So Hanayamain Haruna calmly turned her gaze to Gojo Satoru and the others.
This is a very natural thing.
After all, what she had always believed in her mind was that this world was a large-scale "holographic love game", and the main characters in the game were Gojo Satoru, Geto Suguru, and Zenin Shinji; the background of the game was in the world of sorcery, and the main background was in the Sorcery High School; even her character background identity was "Gojo Satoru's fiancée".
Zenin Shin'er, that guy is a real lunatic. Because he stabbed her in the face, Hanayamain Haruna still has a psychological shadow towards him, so naturally she doesn't want to look for him again... Then only Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru are left.
So after staying at the Zenin family for a year, Hanayamain Haruna returned to the Jujutsu High School and turned her focus back to Gojo Satoru and Kagome Geto.
——If she succeeds in "conquering" Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, what will happen to the world? What will happen to her? If she fails, what will happen? Is there any difference between their "likes" and other people's "likes"?
No matter what the result or answer is, Hanayamain Haruna is looking forward to it.
Ah——there’s another “Yuuki Igarashi”.
After returning to Jujutsu High School, Hanayamain Haruna belatedly noticed the figure of Saikai Haruto again.
There's no way. For Hanayamain Haruna, the existence of "Igarashi Yuki" is too obvious.
Before "entering the game", Hanayamain Haruna knew a little about the "NPCs" in the Jujutsu High School. Whether it was her homeroom teacher Yaga Masamichi, Tengen hiding in the Kuribohiro Shrine, her classmate Ieiri Shoko, or even her junior classmates Nanami Kento and Haibara Yuu, she had more or less impressions of these names.
But Saikai Haruto is different - she had never heard of the name "Igarashi Yuuki" before entering the game. The first time she saw him was outside the school, like an ordinary, nameless NPC; but his identity is so special, and he is very powerful and handsome. Later, he also joined the Jujutsu High School, and was treated like a "main character" or a "hidden character".
For Hanayamain Haruna, he was definitely an accident in this "game".
Of course, after she could no longer distinguish between "games" and "reality", she gradually put Xi Haiqing Dou behind her mind. However, after she returned to high school, this time, she could not help but set her eyes on him once again.
Or because of his "specialness".
He was the only one who noticed the change in her, but his attitude never changed - he even became a little more "distant".
Even Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru will be gradually influenced by her current self and be "attracted" by her; even Zenin Shiori did not notice the "changes" in her - Hanayamain Haruna still couldn't help but go to see Fushiguro Shiori once again, but the guy seemed to have completely forgotten that he had fucked her once before, and started to flirt with her as usual - the player even found that the guy actually really wanted to "play" with her - so Hanayamain Haruna ran away again.
But before, Saikai Haruto "liked Hanayamain Haruna", but now he "dislikes Hanayamain Haruna"... This "change" actually makes the current Hanayamain Haruna happy.
Hanayamain Haruna feels that Saikai Haruto is like a clean ocean that will never change or stir up waves, or like a lamp standing by the roadside that will never go out - he just stands there quietly, reflecting the existence and figures of everyone, but also allowing people to see themselves more clearly.
She even intuitively felt that he might have something she wanted.
No one noticed her change, but "Igarashi Yuuki" discovered it: even if he didn't say it, even if he said he "couldn't explain it clearly", but Hanayamain Haruna knew from his eyes and behavior that he knew, knew her "change"... maybe he just couldn't say it.
Although after finding him, she did not find the answer she wanted to find in that conversation, but she couldn't say whether she was disappointed or not.
But in the end, her mood has improved a lot. After all, Sai Hai Haruto has a strong personality and stable emotions. He has an aura that can make people trust him. He can also stabilize Hanayamain Haruna's emotions. Even Hanayamain Haruna feels that she has changed so much that she is almost unsure of who she is. But Sai Hai Haruto's words "Haruna classmate has always been Haruna classmate" helped her struggle and become more stable again. When she was about to reach the limit of doubting and questioning and rejecting this world, it was Sai Hai Haruto's words "He is also an ordinary person" that calmed her down.
Of course she was not without disappointment - when she told him that "she hated this world", and he replied that "he liked this world", and told her to wait, things would get better, and that he could help her solve her troubles if she told him - Hanayamain Haruna thought, that feeling was really terrible.
—Will he know? Will he understand? Will he help her? Will he succeed?
—No. No. No. No. No.
—Will she tell him?
--will not.
Without Saikai Haruto saying anything, Hanayamain Haruna's heart had already automatically given all negative answers.
So she turned and left.
Her attention to Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru continued, but her attention to Saikai Haruto had not completely faded.
She still doesn't like this world - how can anyone like such a world? Distorted, crazy, weird. Hanayama Haruna, who comes from the normal world, can't understand it at all.
So Hanayamain Haruna thought about it for a long time, and in the near future, she finally had an inspiration and found a new and interesting thing for herself - she turned around and found the Jujutsu Directorate.
- If those guys in the Jujutsu Directorate knew that Igarashi Yuuki, one of the "Four Special Curse Masters" at the top of the curse world, had always firmly believed that "curse masters are equal to ordinary people", and if they knew that Igarashi Yuuki was actually a special "monster" that was a fusion of the "Heaven-Given Curse" and the "Special Curse Spirit", and it was unknown whether he could still be called a "human" now.
What kind of changes will the world of spellcasting have at that time? What kind of changes will Igarashi Yuuki have?
...Suddenly I feel a little bit excited, no, I can’t wait to see that scene.
Hanayamain Haruna thought, now, maybe she is really going to be ruined?
It doesn't matter, right? After all, sorcerers are crazy.
——As for Saikai Haruto, he had no idea what Hanayamain Haruna was thinking right now.
After all, Hanayamain Haruna's thoughts are not that unstable now, and he does not have the ability to predict or read minds, so of course he has no way of knowing the strange thoughts in Hanayamain Haruna's mind.
However, even though he didn't know, Xi Hai Qing Dou could guess it.
Although he couldn't guess the changes in Hanayamain Haruna's thoughts and ideas, the logic of her behavior was completely traceable to Saikai Haruto - based on the information she had obtained, she only had two choices: "stay away from Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru" and "get close to them"; and even if there were no "spoilers" from the previous week, under the influence of Tomie's buff, it would only be a matter of time before she chose to "get close to Gojo Satoru and the others."
What Xi Hai Qing Dou had to do, naturally, was to control the time to a perfect time, not too early nor too late, and when the time came, she would naturally direct her gaze towards them.
After all, he hadn't done nothing in the past year.
After that, he doesn't need to do anything more, the player will be pushed forward by himself.
The uniqueness of "Igarashi Yuuki" will also naturally draw players' attention to Saikai Haruto.
And what happened after that——was all in Saikai Haruto’s script.
In fact, maybe in the eyes of Hanayamain Haruna, her thoughts are untraceable, she is the one in control of the chessboard, and Saikai Haruto is just one of the more special chess pieces; but for Saikai Haruto, most of her thoughts can be easily guessed or even predicted by him; and Hanayamain Haruna is also on the same chessboard.
——After all, "Igarashi Yuuki" has been a false existence from the beginning. The one sitting on the chessboard is "Sakai Haruto" instead of "Igarashi Yuuki". The "chess player" needs to have everything in his own hands. But without knowing this most important information, and when the "chess pieces" in his hands are all false, the identity of the "chess player" naturally cannot be established at all.