"When I saw a scene that was pleasing to the eye, I didn't expect that the Ikuyokai would make such an expression - as if everything was worth it. ”

"Although it is indeed surprising that you are still alive, you dare to appear in front of me. ”

"Miss Satoru, please don't say such ruthless words," Ogura Kuriko came to the table, sat down in the position of the barnyard Asu, and stretched out her hand to invite the Satoru monster to sit down and talk, "Shouldn't we be pursuing something more interesting than killing people?"

"What do you want to say?" Gu Ming Dijue didn't seem to bother to say more to the person in front of him, but finally sat back, "Do you mean, you want to taunt me as a winner?"

"Satoru-sau's personality is similar to what I suspected, and she is very aggressive and cute. But since you still haven't guessed what I mean, it confirms one of my guesses - this headset doesn't actually need to be worn on the head to take effect. ”

"If you're going to tell Miss Aqiu, I'll ......"

"How could I do such an incomprehensible thing, since Sister Aqiu mustered up the courage to take off Miss Jue's headphones, it means that she is indeed ready to be perceived into her heart, and this intention is also rare. ”

Gu Ming Dijue took the headphones he was wearing off his head and threw them on the table. Now that the words have been spoken, there is no need to pretend to listen to songs with headphones on...... This thing can work as long as it works near her, and to her it is like a huge source of noise, and the human with slightly inferior mental quality must have collapsed in such an environment.

"Miss Jue didn't seem surprised to see that I was still alive?"

"Your life or death is inherently indifferent. ”

"It's too much, Miss Satoru," Ogura Kururi was not annoyed, "Obviously, if I die, Sister Aqiu will never forgive you for saying such hurtful words, and she will abandon me in a mess." ”

“…… It's strange," Gu Mingdijue thought for a moment and said, "Based on how you are doing and talking at the moment, you don't look like a high-functioning autistic person or Asperger's at all, but before that, your mind was not as active and diverse as it is now......"

"Miss Satoru, there are too many boring things in this world," Ogura Kuriko sighed boredly as she held her cheeks on the table with her hands in her hands, "Especially for someone like me, it's rare enough to find even something that interests you." If you don't focus all your energy on your only interest, even if you have a little mind to think and explore this boring world, you will easily come up with some suicidal thoughts, which is incomprehensible to an ordinary human like Mo Ming or an ordinary monster like you. ”

"Self-preservation?"

That's right, no matter if you read too thoroughly or too shallowly, geniuses and fools will come to the conclusion that "life is boring" - I am also very desperate to survive, and because of this, I am very sensitive to the topics in fiction and books, the only vehicle of interest "words". Just a few months ago, I was suddenly given several novels from nowhere, in which the protagonists, without exception, all had extraordinary intelligence and unsophisticated personalities, some of whom eventually succeeded in blinding themselves and found the so-called "something worth protecting" and lived with this as a belief, while others threw themselves into the arms of death at the end. At the time, I was skeptical, but I didn't think much of it. Now it seems that Miss Satoru must have been the temptation to guide me to think deeply after reading and to gain insight into my inner personality, right?"

"You're a very good fit, so it's worth the effort. ”

"Wow, that's really happy," Kururiko Ogura smiled, "There's nothing more joyful than having your meaning recognized, isn't it?"

"I don't think so, your behavior is too strange," Gu Ming Dijue frowned: "I feel more and more that your symptoms are fake...... whether it is words or expressions, no matter how you look at it, you are just an ordinary person.

"No, I've done my homework so that I can say these words and make these expressions fluently at this moment today—just for Miss Jue. ”

Gu Mingdijue shook his head: "I can't understand. ”

What is incomprehensible is not only why Ogura Kuriko did not die, but also her mutated personality.

"If you want to understand, why don't you just destroy this headset on the table?"

"What could you have misunderstood...... You don't matter to me, but the headphones do. ”

Ogura Kuriko was silent.

She kept her face in a posture and thought on the table, and then said:

"Mr. Mo Ming is not the right life partner for you. ”

Gu Ming Dijue took three seconds to think about whether the other party had any deep meaning in his words.

"Don't you think this topic is a bit abrupt?...... If it's a joke, I don't think it works very well. ”

"Miss Jue, I'm giving you a very serious advice. ”

"Oh, that's real nonsense. ”

"Satoru-san, whether you admit it or not, there is one thing - although you may have been a far cry from me as a normal human at first, it is true that in the end, we became very similar people. ”

"You didn't take the fact that you killed me to heart, because it wasn't worth mentioning in the first place. ”

"Miss Jue, that's why I realized that we have something in common - things like rabbits dying and fox sorrows don't happen to me, there are often humans killed by monsters, I never care about this, and when it comes to the end, I won't feel wronged because it's me. Miss Jue, I am similar to you, and I don't think of any living thing as my own. ”

"I feel very happy to be selected by Miss Jue, which not only proves the meaning of my own existence, but also makes Miss Jue's posture appear in my field of vision, and has nothing to do with other monsters, peerless and independent Jue monsters - how wonderful and cute, the only regret is not two-sided, as the perpetrator, you have never felt that I have anything special. ”

"That's why I'm giving you advice in earnest, not to show you the way forward, but to prove to you the value of my Ogura chestnut. ”

"Even if you say that," Gu Mingdu tilted his head, "I don't feel anything in common with us in the slightest—at least, I'm not like you, and I have an inferiority complex for others......"

"I didn't!" Ogura Kururi stood up and sat down.

"Miss Jue, you have broken my heart. ”

"Yes, what does it have to do with me?" said Gu Mingdijue.

Ogura Kuriko sighed: "Okay. ”

"The reason why I mention this human is because I have learned about him before...... From Sister Xiaoling. ”

"And I had a conversation with him himself—he had warned me not long ago, and after reading your letters, I put them back in their place, and told him not to interfere in the matter, otherwise there would have been no tea party and what had happened in the aftermath. ”

"I see...... But you still don't understand what I mean," Ko Ming Dijue frowned, "Does this have anything to do with the boring topic of a life partner?"

"It's true that I'm not familiar with this kind of feeling either...... But, the strength of humans is that they are better at learning. I've never sat down with anyone else like this before. Miss Satoru, even if you are so misanthropic about humans, you are still impregnated by human culture, and you have a sense of being a woman, which makes it dangerous for you to be interested in a human being of the opposite sex. ”

"I'm confused," Gu Ming felt take a deep breath, allowing himself to suppress the urge to choke the throat of the girl in front of him, "Are we very acquainted? Why are you thinking about a mind-reading monster there? with that ridiculous, wishful thinking nonsense like 'we are one kind'?"

"I understand that last autumn, at a festival, Mo Ming, as a human, defeated you. ”

"Oh roar, so what?"

"Miss Satoru, by analogy with my interest in you, you must have developed an equal degree of interest in him," Ogura Kururi took a step back, because the other party seemed to be able to make a sudden attack at any moment, and although he would not be killed, he did not want to bear being beaten, "I think you must have come to your senses as well, so you no longer approached this human, but shifted your interest to another being who was also at the festival, Miss Alice." To divert the attention of Mr. Mo Ming from this witch lady, who is also a woman, or intentionally or unintentionally, you must have done this, right?Of course, it's just that I'm wishful thinking, not to use this to ridicule or make fun of you, but really want to advise you, a human named Mo Ming, is not suitable to be your partner, because this person ......"

Gu Mingdijue stood up from his seat with a blank face.

Kogura Kuri took a step back and said in a flat tone, "Sister Xiaoling, help." ”

Gu Ming hesitated for a moment, looked at the stack of firewood in the kitchen, and no one poked his head out.

"Huh?......"

Ogura Kuriko walked around to the other side of the table rather strangely, moving sideways with a wary face towards Komei. The monster only looked at her indifferently and didn't make a move.

Then, going around to the woodyard in the kitchen, he pulled up Honju's little bell, who was sitting on the ground with his hands on his knees in a daze, and on her shoulder sat a small, delicate doll—apparently left by Alice.

Xiao Ling was pulled to stand up, came back to her senses, looked at Kokura Chestnut beside her, poked out again, saw Gu Ming Jijue outside the kitchen, and waved to her.

Gu Ming Dijue nodded in response.

Honju Kosuzu looked at Kokura Kuri blankly and asked, "Just now...... What does it mean that Aqiu said, "Today's occasion is not suitable for discussing Suzutaro"—is it ...... Actually, I don't think much of the novels I wrote, but you don't want to say them in front of me because of your feelings?"

It turned out that the famous Sutaro turned out to be out of the world because of this incident.

Hearing this, Ogura Kuri laughed...... She glanced sideways slightly, and Gu Mingdijue, who had skimmed out of her afterglow, also hooked the corners of her mouth at the same time.

"No, Sister Suzu," Kururi Ogura flicked the hair of the doll sitting on Suzu's shoulder, and the unbearable doll rose into the air and hid behind Suzu, "Sister Aqiu doesn't want you to hear what she says about you for other reasons. ”

"What is it?"

"Yes......" Ogura Kuri stopped talking and said with a smile, "Let's go, go outside and talk." ”

The two of them returned to the table and sat down, and they were in a three-legged position with the monster.

Gu Ming Dijue saw the puppet flying beside Xiao Ling, and thought thoughtfully.

Ogura Kuriko said: "Aren't you surprised? The four people at the tea party have gathered again today, and ...... Even though they are the kings of the four heavens, there are five of them. ”

Xiao Ling sat down and asked again, "Chestnut hurry up and tell me, why did Ah Qiu say that?"

Ogura Kuriko looked at Komei Jiju: "Why don't you let Miss Satoru answer?"

Suzu's gaze moved along the chestnut to the Kakura monster.

Seeing Sutaro's gaze, Ko Ming Jijue clenched his fists and coughed, and said, "If it's expected, what Miss Aqiu is hiding should all be words of praise for you, Suzu Taro and Kristi Q are not only competing with each other, but also value each other very much, which should be noticed by readers who are both at the same time." Miss Aqiu must have taken into account Suzu's personality and didn't want you to be complacent after hearing those words, because Suzutaro is still improving, and it is clear that she has greater expectations for you...... But whether it is the ensuing pressure or complacency, it is not what Miss Aqiu wants to do to you, so this expectation should not be resorted to her. ”

After listening to this, Motoju Xiaosuzu was speechless for a while.

Ogura Kuriko added: "I further guess that Miss Aqiu will continue to insist on writing so many works of ontological reasoning because of the existence of Miss Satoru, otherwise Sister Aqiu might have tried other styles of works a long time ago." ”

At this moment, the puppet flying in the air fell back to Suzu's shoulder, and Alice's voice suddenly sounded in its body.

"Miss Jue, Miss Aqiu heard what I said just now. ”

Gu Ming was taken aback, and then his sharp gaze cut to Kogura chestnut.

Kogura Chestnut looked up and looked carefully at the roof of the hut.

"Miss Jue, Miss Aqiu seems to be in a good mood just now. Alice said.

"Oh, yes," Gu Mingdi felt unmoved, "she was spoiling me just now. ”

"The authorities are confused, and they are confused. ”

"Huh?"

"The gist of the mystery novel is the rigorous logic that interlocks together, and if one of the links is overturned, the conclusion will no longer be valid. ”

Gu Mingdi thought about it, and then suddenly it happened.

The two have been in correspondence for a long time, and it is impossible for the author, as the author, to not know how spoilers in the mystery novel will hit the reader, and since the motive of "revenge" as a key part of it does not exist, what reason does she have to let the well-written novel lose its value in the eyes of the readers she admires the most?

"So...... There should be something else. "It seems that Hui Di Ling Temple should read the third volume of the "Bell Shrine Experience" again, maybe this is a puzzle left to himself, Gu Ming thought to himself.

"This must be a new mystery that Miss Aqiu has left us...... By the way, there may also be a new trap. ”

Xiao Ling nodded: "Moreover, I believe that the fourth volume is definitely not as simple as Ah Qiu said...... If you read it preconceived with her spoilers, you'll walk into the pit 100 percent. ”

"It's really careless. Ogura Kuriko concluded.

Gu Ming Dijue asked, "Miss Alice, are you nearby now?"

"No, I just escorted Miss Aqiu back to the barnyard field, and I'm still in the village. ”

"Then why can your puppet still move, can it be controlled from such a distance?"

"No, it's not a fully self-disciplined puppet, but if you let them follow some predetermined trajectory, you don't have to control it yourself. ”

"So, are you keeping the puppets here to prevent me from hurting the two of them?"

"Although Miss Chestnut said no, I think it's better to take precautions - after all, no one can guess what Miss Satoru is thinking. ”

"Oh, no one guessed? Didn't this Miss Chestnut in front of you guess it? It seems that she is pretty sure that I won't attack Miss Aqiu again after I see her?

Ogura Chestnut laughed dryly, moved his chair slightly in the direction of Kosuzu, and instead of answering Komei Jiju's words, he asked Kosuzu: "How is it, Jue Youkai is the same as I said, it's cute, right?"

A drop of cold sweat oozed from Honju Xiaoling's forehead, she didn't quite understand her small thinking circuit, and quietly glanced at the expressionless Jueyoukai sitting next to her, and replied with a dry smile: "How can I say it, I heard you say that the one at the tea party was the famous Jueyoukai before, and I didn't believe it at the time...... However, it's better to meet than to be famous, not so much cute, but very big monster style, chestnut, you have provoked five times, Miss Jue didn't have a seizure, and her bearing is extraordinary. ”

Hearing Sutaro praise himself like this, Koaki's face softened a lot, but Ogura Kuriko complained dissatisfiedly: "Where am I provoking? This is a manifestation of love!"

"Your love is a little too twisted, isn't it?"

"Ahem, that's Miss Satoru," Alice's voice came from the doll, "Chestnut told Miss Suzu what happened, and Suzu felt that everyone had the right to know about it, so she summoned us...... The reason why I invited you to come is that Miss Chestnut said that she wants to make a settlement with you. Although it looks ...... Her expression may be a bit problematic, but it's definitely not ......"

"I don't think there's anything wrong with it," Ogura Kuriko interrupted Alice's voice in a slightly solemn tone, "My love for Miss Satoru cannot be discredited by you, although this relationship comes abruptly, it must stand the precipitation of time." ”

The sudden confessional speech silenced the whole room.

So Ogura Kururi said to herself.

"For example, I'd love to see Miss Satoru crying and throwing herself into my arms...... That being said, I knew it wasn't going to happen. ”

Xiao Ling smiled dryly: "Chestnut, you...... Although I must not forgive the murder of someone on me, since you said that you wanted to reconcile with Miss Jue and have this action, why are you now saying these grumbling words that feel like venting your dissatisfaction?"

Suzu was very suspicious that if Ogura Kuri continued, the Satoru monster sitting on the other side of the table would suddenly burst out and twist off the heads of the two...... After all, Suzu herself has a very limited understanding of the mind-reading monster in front of her, and before this incident, she basically only stayed at the level of "dangerousness: extremely high" and "human friendliness: not at all" described in "Gensokyo Origin".

Ogura Kuriko sighed: "That's why I said that you have a misunderstanding. None of this is born of resentment – but of one of the most primitive human feelings, first of all the love and possessiveness of the lovely and the beautiful, and the consequent desire to defile and destroy the unattainable. ”

Honju Xiaosuzu opened her mouth, didn't know what to say, and pointed at the chestnut fiercely.

Ogura Kuri ignored it and continued: "Miss Satoru is a powerful monster, and her personality is almost perfect to the point that she has no regrets, although I am pretentious, but after all, I am just a mortal, and it is too self-deceptive to say that I want to protect her. So, on the other hand, I want to see her perfect iron wall completely shattered in front of me, because Jue Youkai only cares about the strong, and there will be no mercy for the weak, and this strength and weakness are not physical but spiritual, so I occasionally want to stand on the side of the perpetrator, so that she can remember me well, this feeling...... Well, it's understandable, right? But in this case, it seems that it is indeed a little different from you, maybe according to what Sister Xiao Ling said, it is okay to understand the distortion caused by loving it to the extreme?"

Alice's voice came from the doll: "I admit that I am very powerful, but I don't admit that she has a perfect personality, and by the way, your feelings are very twisted, I agree." ”

"Yes, yes, I understand, except for me, several people here have their own understanding of the so-called "character perfection", your understanding of human nature is different from mine, in your mind, the representative figure may be a male human just mentioned, I'm not wrong, right?"

Ogura Kuriko looked at the other two with bad intentions.

"Don't count me in. "Gu Ming Dijue is like this.

"Is Chestnut talking about Mo Ming? Why do I have to think that his character is so good? It's absolutely strange, I don't agree. Motoi Kosuzu also denied it.

So several people glanced at the puppet on Xiao Ling's shoulder.

It's a pity that Alice's puppet can only transmit the voice here, she doesn't know that at this moment she has gathered the eyes of several other girls, and said to herself:

"Mo Ming's words, I think he has a good personality. ”

Chestnut and Xiaoling suddenly looked at each other and smiled when they heard this, and Gu Ming Dijue showed a thoughtful expression, but the corners of his mouth were unconsciously curled.

"Hey, are you still there?" Seeing that there was no response, Alice's inquiry came from the puppet again.

"Ahem, yes, Miss Alice. ”

"Oh, how can I say it, this kind of discussion that only conveys voices and doesn't have to meet each other, I surprisingly feel that I can relax, which is very good. Alice's voice continued.

Honju Xiaoling looked at Gu Ming Jiju: "This is another thing I want to discuss when I invite Miss Jue over this time." ”

Ogura Kuriko grabbed the conversation: "The ingenious Miss Alice plans to make a puppet for each of us that can transmit sounds, and by manipulating the puppet, we can sit at home and chat—of course, this "we" refers to the four people who have participated in the tea party, me, Sister Suzu, Sister Aqiu, and Miss Alice. ”

Alice's voice came: "With my skills, I can only do the paging of voices alone, and in two days I will go to the Red Devil Pavilion to consult Miss Patchouli, she is a master of magic, and with her guidance, she may be able to do such an interesting thing as sitting in their respective homes and chatting together through dolls...... In this case, it will be more convenient to have another tea party. ”

Gu Mingdijue was silent for a while, "oh", and then asked, "So what?"

"Really," Motoi Suzu couldn't stand it, "I didn't find it before, chestnut, you are so bad-hearted......"

"Where do I have?"

"Miss Satoru, we hope you will join us as well. "Motoi Kosuzu is open and honest.

Gu Mingdijue shrugged his shoulders and said that it didn't matter, and didn't speak.

Alice's voice in the doll sounded again.

"That...... Miss Jue, the things at the festival are very ......."

"Needless to say, it's a game, and I didn't care. Gu Ming Dijue interrupted.

"Then would you like to join us? At the tea party, thanks to your interpretation of my short story, after knowing that it was Miss Jue's pretended chestnut, I have changed my opinion of you a lot. ”

Gu Mingjijue nodded, as if forgetting that Alice didn't know what was going on, and stood up.

"So, that's all there has to say, right?" Gu Ming turned around, ready to leave.

Suzu looked at Chestnut, who shrugged her shoulders as if she were a monster, indicating that she had nothing more to say.

"That, Miss Jue......"

Gu Ming Jijue stood still, and the voice of Motoju Xiaoling came from behind him.

"I don't know exactly what that headset is working, but since mind-reading is the nature of the monster, it shouldn't be easy to suppress this instinct......, right? It's not clear how you did it, but it's okay not to do it......"

Gu Ming Dijue turned his head, looked at the puppet on Xiao Ling's shoulder, hesitated, and asked:

"Miss Alice, can I design the shape of the doll?"

“…… Of course, no problem at all. Even through the puppet, it seems that you can hear the joy behind Alice's brisk voice on the other side.

"Okay, about the puppet, I'll visit the house another day to discuss. ”

"No problem, always welcome. ”

Gu Ming Dijue nodded again, turned and left the hut.

……

……

Outside, it was past noon.

The mild February sun shines through the Hakurei Barrier over the entire land of Gensokyo, and Komei Jijue has been standing at the door for a long time.

The site of the Demon Slayer is still a sign of decay, but the overgrown ground occasionally shows a few early spring wildflowers. Her senses stretched and spread far beyond the vast, and the electromagnetic shielding field emitted by the headphones in her hand was completely obscured by this force.

The demonic power of the big monster fills the whole body, and the mind-reading monster feels full of energy for the first time in a long time.

Gensokyo was still covered in snow when I was planning that event, and before I knew it, was it already this time?

The Satoru monster itself is not very sensitive to the climate, and although he has been haunting Gensokyo a lot lately, his mind is not at all outside things, so he has not noticed the change of seasons at all.

"Spring is coming. ”

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