Chapter 9: A Physically Uncomfortable Coincidence

"Really?" Miss Jue was noncommittal, and she met me with half-squinted dead eyes, but I thought she might have sunk into her own thoughts and not paying attention to me. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"Don't be silent any longer," I said, "and it seems that Miss Jue needs something to know, maybe it's the god's way of cultivating." ā€

If Murasaki had been sleeping, she shouldn't have known about the cultivation method that Kanako had just summed up, let alone that I had been taught by Kanako, so she didn't clearly tell Miss Satoru what I had that she needed. But then I thought about it, if Ziruo didn't know what the new method Kanako had summed up, how could she possibly know that I had what Miss Satoru needed? It's an annoying contradiction, and it's no wonder that Gu Ming Dijue is still silent.

However, another possibility made me a little abrupt, Murasaki's deduction ability has reached a new level, and it only takes a few signs to detect it - for example, the fact that I was taken back to Gensokyo by Miss Kanako, and the fact that I was able to establish a god-man connection with Pachouri, who was posing as a shrine maiden, it was much easier to witness the above two phenomena than to peek into the mind of the god (before).

"Although I can't peek into Miss Alice's heart at the moment, I want to believe that you are sincere," Gu Ming Jijue raised his eyes and said seriously, "I said, I rarely meet people who can't be read by me, how to say, mediocre people don't understand and can't lock their hearts, and high-level people don't have to, let alone close themselves, these two truths are easy to understand, of course, ordinary people can't know how to lock themselves." ā€

"Yes, what about the masters?"

"Masters, masters always want more people to understand themselves, how can they close their hearts? This is especially true for those who aspire to spread blessings, if the Buddha closes himself, where will the Bodhisattva Arhat become a high monk? If the Son of God had closed himself, how would he save the struggling people? If the immortals close themselves, how can the cultivation lineage be established now? ā€

"Huh...... Indeed," I was ashamed of my past narrow-mindedness, "and magicians should not close themselves off, especially when dealing with apprentices. ā€

"If only you could understand."

"So, is a master like Yakumo Purple also unscrupulously opening his heart in front of Miss Jue?"

"Yes, Gensokyo, the Great Youkai, at least I've seen, no one has to shut themselves up."

"However, I think everyone will always have some little secrets that they don't want others to know, and the longer they live, the more little secrets the big monsters will always have."

Miss Jue looked at me with a strange gaze: "Isn't one of the meanings of cultivation being to eliminate self-prejudices?" Any little secret will eventually become ordinary under the scrutiny of the mind, and for the masters, how can they be entangled in a mind and linger? Otherwise, it is impossible to move forward on the path of cultivation. ā€

"I see," I said, "it's ridiculous that I measure the big monster with my superficial notions." ā€

"No, Miss Alice is just not yet free from the psychological barrier of ordinary people, but at the moment of my invitation, you hardly hesitated to come to the Underworld for an appointment, and it is conceivable that although she is still under ordinary ideas, Miss Alice herself is no longer trapped by this obstacle."

"It's not that I'm not trapped, it's that I've never had a little secret that needs to be kept, and this special circumstance makes me seem to have bypassed the obstacle in my practice in advance, but I still haven't eliminated this obstacle conceptually."

"Jue is a mind-reading monster, and it's a monster that observes words and feelings, so I think I can trust you."

"Does Miss Satoru believe that I am genuinely willing to help you?"

"Yes."

"Then let me go."

"I also said that since I did it, I will do it to the end, and I will make amends to you afterwards."

"......" I thought about it and decided to continue chatting with her, because I was also very interested in the monsters, otherwise I wouldn't have fallen into the trap of, "I see why only simple people are willing to approach you." "Like Marisa's big idiot.

"Personally, I don't really care if anyone wants to approach me, it's better that I don't like being approached by the majority. The practice of Jue Youkai is always more susceptible to the influence of others, which has more advantages and disadvantages. ā€

I've seen a similar description in "The Fall of Jue Village".

"But Jue's influence on the cultivation of others is also profound, and I think many great monsters may get more from you than you think."

"Anyway." Miss Satoru didn't care at all.

"Then let's get back to the point," I said, "ordinary people always open their hearts to enlightenment because they don't have the means and don't understand the meaning of locking their minds, while those who are superior don't have to guard against their minds because of their advanced cultivation." It's because I've cultivated to a point where I can't be read by Miss Jue, so is there any other situation that can make Miss Jue unable to read my heart? ā€

"Lian Lian is the most special one."

"Your sister? Because the unconscious and the conscious are indistinguishable from each other, can the reading of the mind be read because the other party has lost its boundaries and has no support? ā€

"Miss Alice seems to have studied it deeply, in the spiritual aspect."

"Because it's my job to create a magician of consciousness."

"Oh? It turns out that, as you think, Lian Lian doesn't even have the attention to know herself in the self, even she can't concentrate on herself, and an outsider, even her own sister, can't organize her mind to get meaningful reading information. ā€

It may sound profound, but after careful thought, you can summarize the above content into one sentence: Lian Lian doesn't know herself, so she doesn't know what she is thinking, so outsiders don't know what she is thinking.

"What else?"

"There is also a situation that prevents me from reading the human heart, and that is a mental disorder in which a person closes off his senses due to a certain strong stimulus, such as intimidation, commonly known as psychosis."

"This kind of person who isolates his senses from the outside world really has no intersection with the world, although it is a way of self-preservation, but it is also a way to completely isolate himself."

"A completely isolated person, no longer intersecting with the world, my ability to read minds has also lost its support and cannot take effect."

There is still a big difference between a self-contained psychopath and a romantic situation.

"This kind of psychopath," I said, "Miss Jue is not common or strange, and humans don't let them wander outside, so is it rare for Miss Jue to meet people like me who can't be read because of their spiritual barriers?" ā€

"Yes, because this kind of threshold does not happen to everyone, it can be said to be a relatively rare exception, and even if it does, it is very simple and quick for the practitioner to get through this inconsequential threshold."

"If it's because I'm abandoning my practice, it might be more troublesome to get through this obstacle."

"It's an obstacle that's almost unknown in the first place, because only the Awakening Youkai can detect it, and it doesn't have much of an impact on people, the only trouble it creates is that it cuts off the communication of ideas."

"Huh? In general, is it only the Kakuyokai that reacts to the person who has this disorder? ā€

"That's right, and it happens to be the biggest obstacle in the moment when I need to communicate with you in an easy way."

"It's an unfortunate coincidence."

"Maybe it's not a coincidence."

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"Yakumo's arrangement."