Chapter 12: Sulfona and Sulfona

Note: The holiday season is coming to an end. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The info liver update is also gone. Sadness. Fortunately, this volume is also coming to an end. Really hope to see more book reviews from everyone. If you have any suggestions or predictions for the plot, please feel free to post them in the book review area.

"In the countryside near Dunsinen sits Macbeth's castle. In Macbeth's castle, the physician and his servants see Lady Macbeth sleepwalking, trying to wash the invisible blood ("unaΒ·macchia") from her hands. In the end, Lady Macbeth died of insanity. Even so, Macbeth did not feel sad or regretful. He lay in bed and had a dream in which he approached Malcom with a crown and a dagger. ”

Asakura read the lines as he walked towards me with a sharp knife. On all sides are damp stone walls and candles that are lit and dark. It's night, it's a dark night that belongs to Macbeth. I was imprisoned here by Asakura.

"Ah, Malcom, you're going to die here today, just like your father!

Asakura looked down at me with a hideous expression. I curled up on the ground, trying to reach for the strap of my bag that was wrapped around my lap. But even with my legs free, I don't know how to escape from this strange situation. If I defeat Asakura, will I be able to return to the classroom of modern Japan?

"Why don't you speak?" "Asakura crouched down, then raised his knife, "Is it because you're afraid?" Or is it because of anger and reluctance to say more to the enemy who killed his father? Which one is it? Let's make some noise!"

Asakura swung his sharp knife, but it didn't stab me. The dagger was blocked by the thick hardcover book, which I took out of my bag. The other day, Nagato asked me to read the novel she gave me at school. To be honest, this thing was thick and heavy on my back, and it made me sweat a lot. But at this time, I really appreciate her.

Asakura watched in amazement as his knife was blocked by the science fiction novel that Nagato gave me.

"It's over......"

She whispered. I looked at her at a loss. At this moment, the hazy darkness that enveloped us suddenly disappeared. It's like a skylight suddenly opened, and the surroundings suddenly get cooler. When I looked up, I saw Nagato with a blank face. She was looking at us with cold eyes through her glasses. Her face looks huge, though, and her lenses look taller than a person's. It felt very strange, not so much that Nagato had gotten bigger, but that Asakura and I had gotten smaller.

"What are you doing?"

Nagato asked, looking at Asakura.

"I'm helping you pursue the truth! As long as you kill this person, Haruhi Suzumiya will definitely react. Haven't you always wanted to know what her existence is, and now is the best chance!"

"It's not in line with our agreement. ”

"Can't you see it, I'm helping you!"

"I didn't ask you to do that. I didn't ask for your help either. Nagato shook his head, "That's not what we said we were talking about. You've done a lot of things on your own, and I've never let you have any in-depth contact with Suzumiya-san, or him. You should downplay your existence even more......"

Asakura's face turned angry.

"Yes, yes, I just need to be a good squad leader. Every day, standing behind Haruhi Suzumiya and this guy like a background, silently observing them...... Okay, that's not bad. But I didn't expect you to come to the front of the stage tooβ€”wouldn't there be no need for me to exist at all?"

"I don't understand what you mean. Whether you need to exist or not, and whether you want to interfere with Suzumiya-san, her and the people around her, I don't see any connection between this matter. Why does the fact that I have contact with Haruhi Suzumiya negate the meaning of your existence?"

Nagato asked as if he was genuinely puzzled, but this sentence seemed to infuriate Asakura even more.

"So, what am I in your eyes? a memory of the past, a ghost that should have been dead, an antique, or a flea?"

"You're the third sulfona. ”

"What the hell is that? a code name, a name, or what? What the hell am I?" Asakura asked hysterically.

I stared blankly at the two of them. Oh my god, what is this, sisters from another dimension quarreling? I shrank back cautiously, and opened the science fiction book that Nagadoor had given me. I flipped through it and saw an illustration. I saw that Nagato was sitting on a familiar glass table and reading a book. The name of the book is written on the top of the page.

It's Macbeth.

I suddenly had a weird feeling. Suppose, suppose Nagato is reading Macbeth right now. It's possible that she was reading the story of Macbeth's Act IV, where Macbeth was dreaming that he had killed Malcom. And I'm Malcom. And Asakura, it's Macbeth. Nagato was looking at me and Asakura by reading a bookβ€”or rather, I was on the book in Nagato's hand. Like now I see Nagato in the illustration of this science fiction novel, maybe Nagato also sees me in the illustration of Macbeth.

I looked up at Nagato's huge face as it appeared in the sky.

"I don't think it's right for you to continue your mission to observe Haruhi Suzumiya. ”

Nagato pointed his finger at Asakura, as if he was reading with his finger pointing at the words on the book.

Asakura waved his hand angrily, only to see that the candles that had been bright and dark in the darkness before seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, and all of them turned into sharp blades and flew towards Nagato. In the face of the flying blades, Nagato was not in a hurry. She just moved her fingers, and the blades were gone.

"This cosmic boom cycle is my home turf and you can't beat me. ”

Asakura bit his lip and stood in place, then suddenly shrugged his shoulders as if he had given up. I don't know why, I suddenly felt that she looked a little pitiful like this.

"Okay, okay, whatever you want. My resistance is worthless anyway. In the end, Macbeth also died, and we can't fight fate anyway. What, are you going to kill me?"

"Won't kill you. There are other tasks for you to complete. ”

Nagato said, the castle-like scenery around him slowly shattered. Asakura walked up to me and helped me up.

"Eh, Ahhhhh ”

Asakura smiled at me. It was a different smile from the smile I used to see on her face. Obviously, I had sworn that I would never be tempted by her, but now my heart was beating somehow. I guess I'm the kind of person who prefers to be scolded rather than complimented.

"Ah Xu, do you know psychology? In classical terms, it is psychoanalysis. In modern terms, it is behaviorism, cognitivism and the like. All in all, after living for a long time, I had a very serious mental problem. I have different personalities in different cosmic boom cycles, and we often clash with each other. I'm sorry that this conflict has involved you. ”

"Ah...... I ...... you say that."

"Actually, I'm a good person. You see, if I follow my method, you won't die anyway, and Nagato will still be able to get a glimpse of the truth of this universe. Isn't that great?"

What kind of good man is this! It hurts to stab me with a knife! I'm going to hurt a lot!

"Ah...... This ......"

"I understand, Ah Xu must think that there is something wrong with my brain now. Asakura nodded my forehead, "That's because you're not the same as what I see." I have observed countless possibilities and seen countless futures. I've been thinking about it, I've been calculating, how to get to the happiest ending. We can't know the future for sure, but we can make some extrapolations based on the present. When possibilities and possibilities are superimposed, unpredictable chaos arises. No matter how carefully we look at the present, the future is chaotic for me. However, this chaos can be analyzed, suppressed to the extent that it does not affect my judgment. From what I've seen so far, this is the best way to go. I made a deliberate decision. ”

"Really? I thought you were crazy, you see, you're crying and laughing. ”

"That's a joke on you!" Asakura said with a smile, "All in all, the path I chose doesn't seem to Nagato to like, so there's no way around it." Anyway, here she is the boss, and whatever she says is what she is. But yes, you may be on a more complicated and difficult path as a result. Your opponent will not be as gentle as me. ”

Wait, does Asakura really think he's very gentle? Just now he was giggling with a knife, hurting my stomach to the rhythm of his words. Blood and stuff squirted out with a pop, and it was sticking to her bangs. Is this also gentle?

"Well, I think I have a pretty good personality among the few sulfona. I'm a very nice person!

Oh my God, who the hell are in the Sulfona family!

"Alright, I'm going to be eaten by Nagato. Seriously, Ah Xu, I like you very much. Because,You're really interesting!So,You must work hard yourself.,Work hard with Suzumiya-san.。 Nagato needs you now, too, so please help her more. That's all I can do to help you get here!"

Wait! What's it like to be eaten? And have you been helping me?

Suddenly, the surrounding scene changes back to a modern Japanese classroom. Asakura fell to the ground like a puppet with a broken string. I noticed that her hair was slowly getting shorter, and her color was slightly closer to purple. The smile that had been hanging on Asakura's face before also faded, and the familiar aura of coldness returned. I looked up at the sky, and it was the familiar ceiling.

I cautiously approached the girl who was sitting on the ground.

"Are you...... Nagato?"

The other party nodded expressionlessly.

"Yes. I quickly got to the location of the third sulfona by 'replacement'. This makes it easier to do things after the fact. ”

"Afterthought?"

Nagato waved his arm. The chairs and tables that were staggering around were all restored to their original state. The blood that splashed on my body also disappeared without a trace. It's so powerful that it can only be described as magic!

"Are you really a god? Nagato!"

You can understand it this way. ”

"Wait, where did Asakura go?"

"It's going to make everyone think she's going to change schools. ”

"I mean...... Was she obliterated by you, how can you say it?"

"Nope. Nagato stared into my glasses and said, "But I don't think you'll see her again." ”

"That's ......"

Nagato was silent for a moment and continued.

"I can't understand what the third sulfona said. It's only been three years since my consciousness was generated. While most things I can use to inform other Sulfona's memories, there are still many things I don't understand. I don't know why the third Sulfona is so emotional, and I don't know what to do. I searched and found the most common method of exiling her. ”

"......I see," I said, after a moment's thought, "and to be honest, I don't really understand it." Because I don't understand the complicated relationship between you, today is also the first time I have heard Asakura's sincere words. So I don't think I can help much......"

Nagato looked at me quietly.

"Well, I thought I'd probably be able to give a little advice next time I knew something. Maybe it's not good, but I'll tell you what comes to mind! I'll definitely give you advice from my point of view!"

"Thank you. ”

If I'm not mistaken, the corners of Nagato's mouth just moved slightly! If I continue to raise it a little more, it can be counted as a smile! Come on! I'm about to see Nagato's smile!

"Ahh

She snapped a soft sigh.

"I forgot about the reconstitution of the glasses...... The third Sulfona doesn't wear glasses, I forgot to generate glasses after replacing her......"

β€œβ€¦β€¦ I think it's cute for you to be without glasses. Girls with glasses aren't my type. ”

I quickly put my hand on her cheek to stop her from producing glasses.

"What do you mean? Is this your advice to me?"

"No, I'm just talking gibberish. ”

"Really?"

Now is not the time to say this kind of five-four-three. This made me regret it very much later. At that time, even if I had ruthlessly left Nagato, I should have left the classroom immediately.

"Hello!"

The sliding door of the classroom was suddenly opened.

"I forgot, I forgot to take something!"

It's so good that he can't die, humming a song he made, and the person who walked into the classroom turned out to be Taniguchi.

Taniguchi didn't expect that there would be people in the classroom at this time. When he found us, he was stunned on the spot, and his mouth was still wide open like a fool.

At the time, I was planning to stop Nagato from producing glasses. But if you just look at the stills, it looks like I'm about to overpower her and kiss her.

"I'm sorry. ”

After Taniguchi finished speaking in a serious voice that he had never heard before, he immediately turned around and ran out of the classroom. I don't have time to catch up.

"What an interesting person. Nagato said.

I sighed heavily.

What happened on this day was so bizarre. If you think about it, I've just experienced a very important thing! It's not a question of whether or not I don't believe what Nagato said a few days ago, and I don't dare to say that I'm skeptical. What happened just now made me understand the seriousness of the matter. I was almost killed by Asakura, who had a drastic change of temperament, and then I was revived and then killed again. Then Nagato came. To be honest, I was a bit confused until now. The classroom suddenly turned into a castle, laughing like a madman, and everything that happened to me like Nagato, who had exiled her with a blank face.

Why? Obviously Nagato is just a girl who likes to read, and Asakura is a very attractive squad leader.

I got it, I got it, I got a lot of personality out of her. And these personalities will fight, and almost kill me. As I said at the beginning, I want to be a bystander who is involved in the incident, and I am willing to be a supporting actor. But judging from the current situation, I'm simply the protagonist!

To be honest, I'm pretty sleepy.

What I really want to be is the character who gives me advice with a smile when someone has a problem that they can't solve. I don't want to be the target of being blocked by my classmates, I don't want this kind of messy story development! In fact, I also have a certain degree of persistence in my life.

Wait, I suddenly thought of another possibility. Could it be that Nagato used this to let me know that she was really a 'superlife', deliberately fighting with another self, and then making a very powerful scene to make me believe her. No, it can't be, Nagato wouldn't use this kind of trick at all, it's completely out of her style. If it were her, she would definitely make me a cup of coffee and make it all clear.

No, didn't she do that before? I just didn't believe her at all.

So because I didn't believe her at all, Nagato was completely helpless. That's why we have today. It can't be, but this must not be Nagato's plan, maybe the mastermind is Asakura? Seeing Nagato's troubles, Asakura wants to help her. So she decided to come and kill me, and then let Nagato come and save me, so that I would believe Nagato. Asakura knew that if she did so, she would be exiled by Nagato, but she decided to sacrifice herself anyway. But then she couldn't continue to help Nagato and me, so she said-

"That's all I can do to help you get here!"

Is that the case? Is Asakura such a person? For the sake of others, she took all the bad things and the black pot on herself? Or did she simply have a conflict with Nagato and decided to take out her anger on me? Or did she really want to kill me, stab the Suzumiya, and finally get the root cause? All of a sudden, a thousand possibilities surrounded me. I can't see through Asakura at all.

I was stunned for a moment in the orange classroom dyed orange by the setting sun, completely forgetting that Nagato was still leaning in my arms.

This...... What the hell is going on? What is the truth? Thanks to the fact that I was in a daze, I didn't notice that Nagato was looking at me blankly.

The next day, Ryoko Asakura disappeared from class. While this is a very reasonable outcome, I seem to be the only one who thinks so.

"Well, I think Asakura-san's job is because of his father's work, so he is in a hurry to transfer schools. To be honest, the teacher was also shocked when he heard it this morning. It seems that because I went abroad, I left yesterday. ”

When Mr. Okabe told this story during the class meeting, most of the girls shouted "Huh?" and "Why?" in surprise, and the male students looked at each other and discussed, and even the teacher looked like he couldn't figure out what was going on. Of course, the girl behind me couldn't be silent.

Boom! She suddenly smacked me in the back.

"Ah Xu, this must be a supernatural event. ”

Haruhi Suzumiya's eyes radiated a dazzling light when he was completely rejuvenated.

What should I do? Do you want to tell the truth? Actually, Nagato is a so-called "superlife", that is, a god in the ordinary sense of the word. The world of gods is really weird and unpredictable, in short, the gods after schizophrenia are also physically divided into several gods. One is Asakura Sulfona, and the other is Nagato Sulfona. Later, I don't know why these two people had a conflict, and they fought. And the reason why this matter involves me is because of you. However, in the end, Asakura was exiled by Nagato and was never seen again.

Come on, it's okay to talk about it, and I don't want to say it. I'm going to take everything from yesterday as an illusion and leave it at that.

"First there were mysterious transfer students, and now there are inexplicable transfer girls. There must be a ghost in this!"

Shouldn't I praise her for being so intuitive?

"She transferred because of her father's work!"

"I don't believe in this kind of rotten reason. ”

"Believe it or not, this is the number one list of reasons to transfer. ”

"But it's weird! It took a long time from receiving the transfer order to moving, what did her dad do?"

It seems that the old house is a shrine...... No, it's not necessary to transfer at all. So I'm not going to tell this to Kasuga either.

"Maybe Asakura's father didn't tell her beforehand......"

"Absolutely impossible. This warrants a detailed investigation. ”

I wanted to say that maybe the transfer was an excuse, but in fact, they absconded overnight to avoid debts, but in the end they gave up. Because the person who knows the facts best is me.

"As a member of the SOS group, how can I sit idly by and ignore the mysterious events in the school. ”

Please don't say any more!

After yesterday's events, I had to get a complete makeover. After all, having seen that kind of supernatural phenomenon with my own eyes, and trying to treat everything as if it hadn't happened, I have to start with the fact that my eyes are wrong, or there is something wrong with my head, the world is inherently strange, and I have been dreaming for a long time, and I have to choose one of these options as an option.

Moreover, I really can't admit that the world itself is an unreal existence.

I think it's too early for a teenager in his early fifteens to take an important turn in his life.

Why was I, in my first year of high school, forced to face the question of whether the world is so philosophical? This should not be something I should be thinking about. Please, don't add any more to my trouble.

Now I have a lot of headaches to deal with!

You want to ask me what worries me?

Okay, I'm going to take one of them and tell you about it.

This morning, I found a letter in my shoe closet. I thought it was a prank by an idiot like Taniguchi, but I didn't seem to know it. Because the name is clearly written on the back of the envelope that resembles the one that came with the monthly shoujo manga. The font is very good, as long as my eyes are fine, I will definitely know what is written on it.

Asahina Minoru Kuru.

I quickly put the envelope in the pocket of my sports jacket, then rushed to the men's toilet to open the letter, and found a few words written on a piece of note with a smile on it inside.

"I'll be waiting for you in the club classroom during lunch break. Real Kuru. ”

I just encountered that kind of thing yesterday, and my outlook on life, worldview, and sense of reality are like high-altitude flying stunts, and they spin 360 degrees in the air.

I don't want to be in that life-threatening crisis again.

Although there is no evidence to conclude that the letter was written by Asahina herself, I have no doubt at all, for she looks like someone who would do such a thing, and the appearance of a pen in her hand and happily writing on such a lovely letter paper suits her perfectly. If it's lunch break, Nagato should be in the club classroom too, and if something happens, she should come to my rescue.

Please don't talk about me, no matter what. I'm just a normal high school boy.

I said, Nagato, you should be able to save me!