Chapter 36: The "I"
"The first time I met that person, it was the Kamakura period, although it was a long time ago, but the scene of seeing each other cross-legged and accepting a bow at the first time in the hot spring is still vivid, the tacit conversation between the two, the warm manners, the two of them took a look at each other, and they looked back with reluctance before leaving, hoping for the next meeting, just like tasting the mellow and strong wine after a refreshing bath, the taste is always nostalgic, and it is impossible to forget..."
"When I went to visit him in the mansion of Ghost Mountain Cangyi, we always talked about some elegant and idle things in terms of literature and ink, or came to play a few games in the interest, he asked the servant to bring salt-grilled sweetfish and soju to entertain me, although it was not a grand meal, but the wine sweetfish and a close chat friend, the days of the gods were also half a minute, but they only met a few times, and always felt that it was better to be restrained, every time I ate and drank with my belt at Cangyijun's place, and I never got drunk too much because of the peak of interest, as time went by, I found that Cangyijun's way of treating me was different from others...”
"Ghost Mountain Cangyi took out his secret to share with me, Cang Yijun is an unmarried and beautiful man, with a water lily-like dusty posture, at first I thought he would show me the old letters to his lover, and then let me taste his naïve and shy but full of true love writing, but the truth is contrary to what I imagined, what he let me see, is the lover is right, but, it is a terrifying corpse, no, it should be said to be disgusting, especially in front of this corpse, Cang Yijun is actually caring, His face showed an incomprehensible loss of concentration and crazy infatuation, and he chattered soft and warm words, which made me feel terrified and uneasy..."
"In the huge mansion, the lotus pond is three feet, the clear stream is jade, even gasping here can make people vomit the old and accept the new, such a refreshing place, but in the dark corners of the depths, there are big thorns and maggots and rotting corpses - in that room locked by the ghost mountain cangyi, it is really only a door between heaven and hell. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"When I thought that Oniyama Cangichi just had a quirky habit that ordinary people couldn't understand, then I was very wrong, I didn't imagine that it was actually one of the links of a terrible event he was traveling, one day unfortunately, I bumped into the strange behavior of Oniyama Cangichi, his attitude towards me was not intended to hide, but he hadn't found the time to confess to me, now that I've seen it, I don't have to worry about what the consequences will be after I think about it, so... We were still sitting on the verandah of Cang Yijun's mansion, with grilled sweetfish and shochu, and he began to tell me the real reason behind these things—"
As I read this, there was a "click" of warning behind me, and the cracks in front of me spread like new branches, and the situation suddenly became urgent, and I thought that Kihara would yell at me, "It's too late to leave", but he dragged me up and ran to the other side without saying a word.
The sound of cracking and roaring came almost close to my heels, and I didn't have to look back to understand what was happening behind me - the frozen ice collapsed, I thought that the water surface that was frozen to the same level as the 10,000-year-old ice would not melt in an instant, it seemed that I was still reluctant to completely accept the fact that I was already in another world, and it was not strange that something strange happened in this kind of situation at all.
I had long forgotten about the injury to my right leg when I was running wildly, perhaps it had already healed before I knew it, and I fled to the other side with all my breath, not paying much attention to whether it was a shallow beach under my feet, but the hazy fog had dispersed, as if I had opened the curtain in front of the window, and the scene that made my scalp explode in front of me was clearly presented.
I was stunned and stunned like never before, I thought that the "abandoned area" would be some kind of house that had been used, or it would be some kind of labyrinth that could not be walked through, but as a result, the hazy and huge thing that I saw from a distance, I didn't know until I was close to the front of me...
"This is the Wasteland?"
"Yes, it's a headache place, and that's why I have to come with you."
Even if Kihara only uses the word "headache" to explain the current situation in a concise way, in fact, the complexity of the situation makes me want to go crazy.
It was a mountain-like thing, full of thousands of mailboxes piled up like garbage, at least two or three stories high.
――What should I do?
"So much... How do I find my first mailbox? ”
I think the most difficult thing in the world is in front of me at this time, and a glance makes people feel like giving up, these mailboxes are not special boxes, and the kind of wooden boxes that have opened a mouth in the classroom of the first year of high school, many of them are blackened rotten wood, and the wet ones on them seem to be covered with grease, and they look like they are soft and collapsed, not to mention what it will be like to be buried in the center of those invisible, it is estimated that they are all corrupted and glued together.
"Why do you have to come? This kind of posture is not the same for everyone, and the result will only be one, and it is impossible to find it at all. ”
"At first, I thought you were a child of the Tsurumaru family, and you should be able to distinguish it by bloodline, but it seems that the truth is a little wrong with what I imagined."
It's ridiculous, this kind of thinking is too naïve to have a lower limit, at this time I actually don't understand the true meaning of this sentence at all, the naïve one should be me.
"Rurihi, I've been thinking, since you read those replies just now, there are no doubts in your heart? There is one of the most obvious questions, you should have pondered it countless times in your mind, right? ”
Kihara ignored my questioning expression and continued, "You must have wondered who the identity of the 'me' in the letter was?" Anyone with a bit of a brain knows that it will definitely not be the current Momoi himself, the Kamakura period has been seven or eight hundred years ago, and Momoi is not old like this, right? ”
"You said that there is some kind of contractual relationship between Oniyama Soichi and Tsurumaru Mayuki, should I..."
"Is Tsurumaru a real bow? Heh..."Kihara smiled casually, "Let me explain to you that Tsurumaru Mayuki is a woman, and he is in a romantic relationship with Oniyama Soichi. ”
I'm even more confused.,In the letter, Momoi introduces Oniyama Soichi in the third person from the perspective of "me", and those words and sentences with a little emotion imply that "I" and Oniyama Soichi have a great relationship.,It's not like an ordinary friendship.,And it's still a relationship that can be shared with secrets... I admit that I silently thought at first that if that "I" was not Koichi Oniyama, it must be Tsurumaru Mayumi, but in this way, the two important people at the key point are not the first-person "I", so what role does Momoi play in replying to the letter?
――Who is he?
"Ruriki, it seems that we have to read all of Momoi's replies now, maybe the answers we want to know are in it."
(I was out for a long time before, and I wanted to collect some materials to write about, and I really searched for it, and the rest of the reason was that I was lazy, and when it happened that I didn't know how to continue, not to mention the situation of wanting to die... Now I just want to work hard to finish it, and then move on to more interesting new topics and new books, the outline is being drawn up, and hopefully it will be more advanced than this one. )