The year after I left this world, I came here again.

It's just that he is no longer as a killer night song, but a mentor of the Paradise Division.

At that time, the Elysium was just a small organization huddled in Vientiane, and naturally it could not be compared with this world.

I'm only coming back here because of the Elysium mission.

- Lobbying a very skilled person to become an intelligence mentor of the Elysium.

My relationship with Paradise is just a very ordinary employment, and this task is not my professional scope, and I can refuse it.

But when the task was in front of me, I hesitated for a moment, but the ghost made it easy.

It said that the man had a relationship with me. I don't know who it is, I think it's just a passerby in my career.

After such a year, I have almost forgotten the history that was covered in blood.

I know I just want to go back to pay homage to my parents' graves.

If I haven't looked at it for so long, the grass has probably grown tall.

I looked down at the mission raft, and there was only the man's name written on it, and even the name was a little strange:

Nakamichiko

I looked through the rest a few times, but there were no clues.

Elysium knows who I am in this world.

The shining star of the killer world, the little young master of the night family who deserves his name. There are many enemies, and there are many paths.

One name is enough for me to find it.

I slipped the raft into my pocket and slowly entered the familiar and unfamiliar world.

……

When I came, it was spring, and the pink peach blossoms were blooming all over the sky, spreading for more than ten miles.

I went to my parents' grave to pay my respects, and the grass there had already covered the mound.

I hesitated with a shovel and thought about whether or not to weed, but in the end I didn't touch the vibrant things.

My father and mother were fond of flowers and plants, and they were kind people, probably not wanting me to be so cruel.

So even if I have been bloody for the first ten years, in front of them, I have to pretend to be a good child.

I burned some copper coins and paper money for them, and drank wine there with my heavenly father for an hour.

After joining Paradise, I already knew that they would not have souls and would not ascend to heaven.

It's just a handful of loess that has disappeared in this world.

But I still like to believe in those ridiculous fairy tales, thinking that they must have turned into stars looking at me in the sky.

Perhaps that's what those religions are all about.

It's just faith, and a kind of persistent sustenance.

I stayed there until late at night, when the green ghostfire in the graveyard was sparsely lit up.

The moonlight in the distance was hidden in the clouds, the cool breeze of the night was blowing on my face, and the midnight bell was already ringing in the temple.

I know everything is different now.

……

I dredged up my contacts and it took a little effort to find the person in Nakamichi.

For no other reason, this man knows where I am going like an uncertain prophet.

It wasn't until he came to me one night in person that I finished the hard work of searching.

"I'm not going to join Paradise."

The man spoke first.

He wore a mask on his face, and he seemed reluctant to show his face, but I didn't care much about the details.

"Why?"

Anyway, I have to bring an answer back, after all, it is a mission issued by the Elysian Division, and I have to give an explanation.

"Do you believe in the idea of being born again?"

He asked slowly.

I thought about it, and my childhood memories came flooding back, and there was indeed one of the books written by my father that was reborn by the main character.

"Believe."

I'm serious.

This time it was his turn to be surprised.

"Then I'll be blunt, I won't join the Elysium, because if I go to the Elysium, I will follow the same path as I did last time."

I glanced at him and took a slow sip of the tea in my hand.

"You didn't have a good last time."

This is an affirmative sentence, there is no doubt about it.

If you're doing well, why don't you come to Elysium and continue to do it.

"No, I'm doing well, but I'd like to try something different."

Nakamichi's answer was beyond my expectations.

"What do you mean?"

I put down the teacup in my hand and asked suspiciously.

"It's like a multiple-choice question, where everyone starts answering it together, but I have the privilege of answering it again after I've finished it."

"I answered the first answer the first time, and I got the result of the first answer, and it didn't satisfy me, so I went back and chose the second one."

"I see you choose the same answer over and over again, and I can choose a different answer each time."

"Until one day, I got tired of it, I picked all the correct answers, and I wanted to try the wrong ones."

Nakamiko explained, the light from the outside hitting his mask, casting a pale hue.

"I don't understand, why are you spending time on a multiple-choice question, why don't you go and look at the next question?"

I was still puzzled after listening to his explanation.

"I'd like to see the next questions too, but you know what, the price of being able to repeat the question is that I can only spend forever on this question."

Nakamichiko's voice was always flat, and he suddenly smiled after saying these words.

"Do you know why I'm telling you this?"

I shook my head.

Indeed, his methods are not weak, and if he really wants to evade my detection, it is not impossible.

"Because if I join Paradise today, you'll be my best friend in the future."

His voice suddenly became a little bitter, and the face behind the mask was facing me, as if he was talking to someone through me.

"That's the end of today's conversation, the meeting will be indefinite, Night Song."

He slowly got up and left, and the conversation ended in such an inexplicable way that I didn't even react.

He walked out of the doorway, and I stood by the door to see him off.

His figure slowly became smaller, and when he was halfway there, he suddenly stopped.

I saw him open his mouth and say two words to me, but I couldn't hear them because of the distance.

Later, after finishing speaking, almost in a flash, there was no trace.

I took the raft and closed the door in confusion, ready to deliver tomorrow.

I don't know if it's my delusion, but I always think that is very important.

But for someone I don't know very well, I don't think much about it.

Later I learned that that sentence was really important.

……

"I'm sorry, I hurt you in my last life, this time I won't join Paradise, and you can live well."

"We will always be friends."

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