Chapter 59 The First Player
The name of this episode is "The Bomb on the Ferris Wheel".
To Haruto Nishimi's surprise, he originally thought that "Cointreau" would appear later, but the comic starts with him getting up and cooking this morning. He briefly explains the cause and effect of his agreement with Miyano Shiho, and then he takes Miyano Shiho out to meet Miyano Akemi.
The scene of the sisters meeting is heartwarming, and then there is the same everyday scene of the three of them shopping together. Then Cointreau, biting a marshmallow, asks the Miyano sisters to ride the Ferris wheel, and the three of them sit in two different cabins.
In the comic, the young man who is riding the Ferris wheel has shining eyes - literally, the cartoonist drew two shining little stars in his eyes, and his originally handsome face turned into a soft, edgeless Q-version, which has an inexplicable resemblance to the marshmallow in his hand.
Isn't this... too "soft"? Saikai Haruto was speechless. He thought that his performance at that time should not have appeared so... childish. It was obvious that the cartoonist, for some reason, had made his image more than a little harmless.
Sure enough, when I opened the pop-up screen, most of the comments were laughing at him.
[Opening, Curtain, Blast! She can cook, loves to eat cotton candy, and loves to ride the Ferris wheel! Cointreau, what's wrong with you, Cointreau? If you continue like this, I will really treat you as my husband! ]
[Aww, Cointreau eating marshmallows is so cute! Hey, Cointreau baby, give mom a kiss!!]
[I didn’t expect Cointreau to like eating cotton candy, haha, and he also likes the Ferris wheel… Cointreau, you are no longer a three-year-old child! Anyway, let him sit!!]
[Shiho-chan looks disdainful... I'm dying of laughter, haha, why can't adults enjoy riding a Ferris wheel?! ]
[Cointreau likes to eat marshmallows and ride the Ferris wheel, and I also like to eat marshmallows and ride the Ferris wheel, so Cointreau likes me! Yay! ]
After they boarded the Ferris wheel, the scene immediately changed. A police officer named Jinpei Matsuda was transferred to the First Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department. The comic interspersed Matsuda's daily work in the First Investigation Division and his daily meals and chats with Hagiwara after work. The comic simply explained that they wanted to investigate a case in which a residential building was blown up four years ago, but the criminal escaped and still remains at large, sending faxes to the Metropolitan Police Department every year.
On January 7, several police officers from the First Investigation Division received another fax at noon. However, this time it was no longer a number that decreased by one every year, but a puzzle.
The handsome curly-haired police officer quickly guessed the answer to the mystery: it was cabin 72 of the Ferris wheel in the Beihu shopping mall, and then turned around and rushed towards the target direction.
[Shit! Shit!! Cointreau——I have a bad feeling——]
[Previous second: Wow, Matsuda is so handsome! Next second: Help me, this is too much of a coincidence! ! If I am not mistaken, I remember that Cointreau was in cabin No. 72, right? ! ]
[What a coincidence... Could the criminal this time be someone from the organization? Or was it Cointreau who did it? Or did he go on the Ferris wheel just to plant a bomb?! Start thinking.jpg]
[I made a mistake... I thought Cointreau was just going there to fulfill his promise to Shirley, but I didn't expect he was going there on a mission? Damn, this stinky man is really only concerned with work and the organization, and has no other heart.]
Xi Haiqing Dou touched his nose.
It wasn't surprising to him that the audience would make such a guess... Just like what Miyano Shiho thought, apart from Saikai Haruto's own perspective, the time when he appeared in cabin No. 72 was too coincidental, which really made it easy for people to think that he was directing and acting in the show himself.
So at this time, his acting skills need to prove himself, and Xi Haiqing Dou is not too worried.
Moreover, sometimes the mixture of truth and falsehood can attract more attention and cause more discussion than knowing a definite answer... Xi Haiqing Dou knows this very well and is naturally happy to see it.
Anyway, when the next scene turns, the audience will naturally know that Cointreau’s arrival is just a "coincidence".
The content of the comic switches from Matsuda Jinpei et al. rushing to the Haido shopping mall by car to the interior of Ferris Wheel No. 72.
In the comic, the young man who had just finished eating the marshmallows also coincidentally discovered the existence of a bomb under the seat. Driven by curiosity, he squatted down, took out tools from his pocket and opened the bomb. After discovering that the "product" of the bomb was himself, the young man showed a rare expression of surprise and interest on his face. While talking to himself, he eagerly tried to transform the bomb.
Thanks to the cartoonist, his "performance" in the cabin was drawn almost word for word in the comic - except for the "coloring" of a few words, probably to guide the audience in the direction of "the person who placed the bomb is related to the organization."
In addition, the cartoonist was rarely "conscientious" this time and did not draw any messy shadows and black lines on his face. Instead, he added a ray of sunlight shining into the cabin from the window and shining on him.
The sunlight was bright at noon. The white-haired young man half-knelt on the ground with his brows lowered, concentrating on fiddling with the bomb in his hand. He didn't even notice his long white hair and black coat flowing on the ground. His expression was focused with a hint of pure childlike innocent curiosity.
However, such a "beautiful" scene, coupled with his deliberately ambiguous words before and after, and the audience's stereotype of Cointreau's previous personality, at this moment, they only felt that this scene was a huge "contrast" of irony...
Except for a small number of viewers who "purely watched the appearance", most of the barrage was just as Saikai Haruto thought, and they were completely convinced that he was planning to do something bad again.
Then a bomb exploded at the control console outside the Ferris wheel. The view turned to the Miyano sisters, and Miyano Shiho subconsciously associated the explosion with the organization and Cointreau.
Even if he explained... due to preconceived notions, both Miyano Shiho and the audience were skeptical about what he said.
Until the police arrived at the right time, Miyano Shiho got off the Ferris wheel with Miyano Akemi. At the same time, she was so scared by Cointreau's words that her face turned pale and she hung up directly, but she failed to dispel her doubts.
[I'm really upset. I can't get rid of this connection with Jundu... I feel complicated. Jundu is going to confront Matsuda directly.]
[Ahhh, you even deceived and used little girls, doesn't your heart hurt, Cointreau? I feel sorry for Sulli, she was out playing happily with her sister, but she was used by Cointreau like this]
[Cointreau, my brother, are you too crazy? Asking Shirley to call the police... Very good, it fits my stereotype of Cointreau]
[But I'm talking about Cointreau x Shirley, Shirley x Mingmei. Is this okay? I'm sorry, but I really have some good ideas (twisting.jpg)]
[It's not certain whether Jundu did it on purpose...Calm down. Even if Jundu is really on a mission, so what? He and Shirley are both members of the organization. Isn't it normal for them to go on a mission?]
When Matsuda Jinpei arrived and opened the door of cabin No. 72, he saw the familiar white-haired young man with a look of surprise.
From the perspective of an outsider, at least in the manga, Haruto Saikai's "performance" in this part can be considered natural. At least it doesn't seem to be any trace of acting, and neither Matsuda nor Danmu noticed anything unusual.
Next came the familiar Matsuda Jinpei bomb disposal segment.
After Jinpei Matsuda calmly took out his cell phone and answered the call from Kenji Hagihara, saying that he would not continue to defuse the bomb, and sent the location of the second bomb to his friends three seconds before 12 o'clock, and left the last words "The only regret is that I can no longer continue to compete with you", the barrage exploded as expected.
Some people started crying, some cursed the criminals, some cursed Coindo, and some even cursed the cartoonist. The barrage of comments was so densely packed and intertwined that Xi Haiqing Dou was even a little annoyed and simply turned off the barrage of comments.
Not only is the manga very good at describing this part—
The handsome police officer with black curly hair was half-crouching on the ground. After learning about the criminal's sinister intentions, he was stunned for only a moment, and then he quickly made a decision - if he could not find the location of another bomb after defusing the bomb, which would only lead to the death of innocent ordinary people, he would give up defusing the bomb without hesitation, and at the same time, give up his own life.
There was no sadness, nor resentment... At that moment, when he learned that his only fate in a few minutes was death, the curly-haired young man's unruly and handsome face was filled with a carefree and relieved attitude that did not care about life or death.
"It's just a bit of a shame... In the competition with the second year student, 'Who can catch that guy faster?', it looks like I'm going to lose this time."
The curly-haired police officer, dressed in an unruly manner, had a cigarette burning in his hand. He was leaning against the ground, clearly waiting for death to come every moment, but there was still a faint smile on his face.
When a person who seems to be sloppy and out of tune shows a different kind of calmness at this moment, he always appears to be particularly attractive; especially when he is about to die not long after he appears on the scene.
In addition, although Jinpei Matsuda did not die later, he did die in this scene in the original work... Although the content of the manga was covered and changed, the audience's memory of Jinpei Matsuda's death was blurred, but they still felt "familiar" with the similar scenes and had a "feeling" in their subconscious...
Therefore, it is not surprising that the comic explodes with bullets during this scene.
"Fortunately it didn't explode."
Xi Haiqing Dou grumbled, and couldn't help laughing, with a bit of childish smugness and superiority -
Since the real world where the comics are located and this world have now become two different time and space, and there are two "variables" such as him and the player, when they change reality and at the same time change some things that originally "happened" in the comics, in the other world, the "original content" in the comics will also change accordingly.
——In other words, the content of the original manga about the "12 million hostage incident" and the death of Jinpei Matsuda will also be quietly changed, just like the content of this chapter, and the audience's cognition will be blurred...
That is to say, apart from him and the players, in the other world, neither the "manga artists" nor the "audience" will have any memories of the "death of Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara"...all that will remain is the happy ending of a "false surprise" in which both his comics and the reality here have changed.
The term "white moonlight" can only be used by dead people, right? If they are alive, they can only become "popular characters". Matsuda Jinpei, you should just stay alive.
Xi Haiqing Dou thought fiercely with a hint of malice, and he could be said to be "very satisfied" with this result.
"White Moonlight's popularity"? Take it.
The scene in the comic changes again, from the screen of Kenji Hagihara's mobile phone to the direction of Cointreau.
The 12 o'clock time came quietly. A long-haired young man in a black coat stood on a high place and looked down. His face could not be seen clearly, but his eyes were fixed on the most unique person in the crowd.
With a smile on his face and the word "surprise" uttered, the young man quickly rushed to the other party and caught him. On the surface, he explained his previous actions to the criminal, but in fact, he was explaining to the audience.
——In other words, the bomb on the Ferris wheel was a complete "false alarm"... It was impossible for the explosion to happen. As long as Jinpei Matsuda did not jump off the Ferris wheel himself, he would not be "killed" even if he stayed inside for dozens of hours.
[Someone, where is my emergency heart pill? I can’t breathe (covering my chest.jpg)]
[Ahhhhhh, I almost couldn't catch my breath from all the ups and downs!! So Matsuda is alive, right? Is he alive? ? ]
[I'm crying... I don't know why I feel sad and confused that Matsuda is dead... Ahhh, listen to me, thank you Cointreau!! Fortunately, it was all an illusion! Matsuda is alive!!]
[Report——Xiao Zhenping is still alive——Great! Jundu, you are my God! My only brother!!]
[Ahhh, Cointreau is so handsome, and his family members are moved! Who would have thought! Cointreau is actually doing! Good! Things! ]
[Cointreau: Do one good deed a day (1/1)]