Chapter 17: Penglai poison/medicine

Princess Kaguya, the nasty ghost, said: "People who are bound by the world and cannot be free or liberated have staged countless farces in the course of their short lives, providing me, for the monsters, and for those who have broken free from the shackles of the world, to see through the world, and all meaningful or meaningless actions make the existence of this world colorful. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"It's the freedom of Her Royal Highness to treat people's actions as a joke."

"Hmph."

My knowledge of the history of Japan, which was nothing more than a bedtime story passed down by the human community before there was a history confirmed by clear historical facts and evidence, was not comprehensive, and there was no doubt that the people Kaguya had received and proposed to marry in the story were very different from the actual events, and even Kaguya herself had erased the details from his mind now, and the exact circumstances of what happened at that time were basically impossible to verify.

Therefore, what happened after Kaguya gave the Penglai elixir to those unscrupulous suitors, the end of the story that was hastily passed by one stroke cannot be regarded as a record in the form of a story, let alone the evidence that confirms this matter.

For humans, it is theoretically impossible to have witnesses, but in fact there is a witness who may not have forgotten the past, that is, Miss Fujiwara Meihong, who was not Fujiwara Meihong at the time, and no one knows what happened, but the result is that she became an immortal Penglai person similar to Princess Kaguya.

Where does Fujiwara Meihong's hatred for Princess Kaguya come from, Her Royal Highness the princess seems to be indifferent to this, she only feels excited and excited about having a very interesting Penglai people, and what is even more exciting is the extreme and crazy feelings of this Penglai people towards Her Royal Highness the princess.

This is what I thought in a few short breaths, curiosity made me feel a little impulsive to ask Miss Fujiwara for historical facts, but it is very rude and disgusting to inquire about other people's privacy for no reason, and it seems that if I can't dispel this curiosity in the future, I will have to establish a good relationship with Miss Fujiwara in order to find out about their private past.

There are so many nasty ghosts in the world, such as Miss Pache Witch at some times, Miss Remilia the vampire at some time, and even the puppeteer Alice at some times, but these people I listed are people who don't care much about whether they are disgusting or not, just like Her Royal Highness Kaguya, the princess of Kurona, at this moment.

She said: "Although Fujiwara Meihong is just a strange product born from the farce of people on the earth, it is also an accident that Hongu vigorously promotes, and she is naturally my toy." ”

"It takes thousands of years for people to vent their hatred well, so Her Royal Highness the princess should not hit people more cruelly."

"For the sake of more than a thousand years of hard work, being taken care of by this palace is also a reward she deserves."

Should I thank Her Royal Highness for the grace of Her Royal Highness the princess?

"So it's a pity that the ignorant hillbilly didn't appreciate the reward of the noble Moon Princess in the slightest."

"It's not good to talk bad about people behind your back."

"I'm just talking about the facts, don't have a troubled conscience." Her Royal Highness said with a smile.

"No, it's not that I have an uneasy conscience, and I feel a little awkward talking about people who are not familiar enough behind my back."

"Yes, Miss Alice is such a simple person."

This is the second time I've heard the same comment today, and I said, "It's awkward to talk about other people's character, but it's something I'm interested in talking about ability." ”

"Is that hillbilly turkey capable of arson?"

"Does Her Highness the Princess understand?"

"I don't know, but I think her ability to set fire is a power summoned from the depths of her heart."

"A quality that originates from the depths of the heart and emerges from the outside, according to the understanding of the magician, is a phenomenon that can only happen to people who are strongly paranoid." I say.

"Oh? is worthy of being a scholar, and can easily see through her characteristics. ”

"If you can ignite an invisible flame that burns everything from the depths of your heart, it proves that Miss Fujiwara's most primitive desire for destruction has evolved into most of her will, which is a dangerous signal."

"Just a primitive earthly person, this palace dares to guarantee that she will not be able to do great things." Kaguya said mockingly.

"Ah, I think so too, as a former lady from a big family, the etiquette has not been forgotten, and it seems that she is a rational person in a normal state when she is not in a relationship with Princess Kaguya, and on the whole, she is much safer than Miss Fran II."

"The sister of the vampire family?"

"Does the princess know too? Yes, Fran is much more dangerous than Miss Fujiwara. ”

"Hmph."

"Speaking of which, it takes not only paranoia but also time to precipitate the qualities that stimulate the depths of the soul, and Miss Fujiwara has met all the conditions after taking the elixir of immortality."

"Aha, if Miss Alice is interested in Penglai's medicine, I can ask Yonglin to collect materials and make another bottle, although it may take a long time."

"Well, I think the time I have is close to infinity, Penglai Immortal Medicine is a dispensable thing, there is no need to waste energy on obtaining an inconsequential item."

"You're right."

"It's my honor to be recognized by Her Royal Highness the Princess, although I don't need to, I'm still very interested, what is the 'can't die' caused by Penglai Immortal Medicine?"

"Well, if it had been a thousand years ago," said the princess, "I would not have answered your question. ”

"Why?"

"Without seeing and deeply understanding, it is impossible to explain anything clearly."

"Will it be right now in a thousand years?"

"Reluctantly," said Her Royal Highness the Princess, who had changed to a more comfortable sitting position, "I have a number of questions before I talk about what it means to be 'unable to die'. ”

"Excuse me."

"Do you know what a person's full life contains?"

"From the point of view of common sense," I thought for a moment, "the experience of birth, the experience of growing up, the experience of maturity, the experience of decay, and finally death?" ”

"Basically true, but what about after death?"

"After death? I heard from Sister Zi that life is an endless process, and after death, it is probably a new repetition from the beginning of birth? ”

"Again, but does the definition of man include memory and insight? If so, is the person who does it all over again still the same person from before? Princess Kaguya suddenly asked a very deep question unexpectedly.

"I haven't looked into it, so I don't know how to make a conclusion for a moment." I then said, "If 'life' includes after death, then doesn't a person's life have never had a beginning and never an end?" ”

"If you don't go back to an unfathomable time, there's nothing wrong with that." Kaguya said.

"What if, then, poverty goes as far back as possible into the incomparably distant past?"

"Well," the princess propped her chin, "you can think of today's earthlings as the reincarnation of most of the moonmen who were originally earthlings thousands of years ago." ”

"The Moonman was originally an Earthling?"

"It used to be."

"That seems to be another topic, so let's talk about it first. If we go back to before the birth of the moon man, did the human soul have a beginning? ”

"I don't know, maybe the Venerable One knows when he sees him on a moonlit night, and Yonglin may know it too."

"Who is it on a moonlit night?"

"The gods of the moonmen."

"Not a moonman?"

"That's why it's the god of the moon people, the only god."

"It seems to be very complicated, forget it, let's go back to the function of Penglai Immortal Medicine."

"Yes, I almost digress, human life is an endless process, if you have to define the beginning and the end, you can bring birth and death into it."

"Ah, yes, that's Her Highness's first question."

"This question already contains all the meanings of Penglai's medicine, which turns people's processes into a circle that can be concretized, seen, felt, and never escaped."

“?”

"The death of the Penglai people, that is, the death of me and Fujiwara Meihong that Miss Alice saw, is indeed a death of the meaning of life, but the process of reincarnation is pulled out of the unaware reincarnation by the Penglai elixir, and it becomes a 'resurrection' that anyone can see, which is actually a rebirth after death."

"It sounds pointless," I said, "because dying or not dying has no effect on you. ”

"If we look at it in terms of memory and insight, it is true," said Her Royal Highness, "but we are talking about life as a whole." ”

"But I still think Her Royal Highness the princess didn't say anything."

"Penglai medicine is a thing, the meaning of its own use is very indifferent, the key is the opinion of the person who looks at it, if you think that the meaning of life is only to experience a lifetime, Penglai immortal medicine is just a common poison - although it is an antidote to the poison."

"It seems that Miss Fujiwara's opinion is very biased, and a large part of her hatred for you probably comes from her opinion of Penglai Immortal Medicine."

"Oops, so I really can't expect much from the village girl."

Who knows what Her Royal Highness has inexplicable expectations, and I don't think anyone will care about Her Royal Highness's expectations.

"If you don't 'die' all the time, the life of Penglai people is not a process, but a pool of still water," I said, "Is that so?" ”

"No, it's just that the experience of growing up is infinitely extended, and life can't stand still."

"There's some truth to that."

PS: Poison/medicine turned out to be a forbidden word! The guitar is back to its roots!