I looked up and laughed.

"Eat?"

"Really?" The woman's face showed just the right amount of surprise, but the actual performance was far more casual than what she said. By the time I brought the plate to the table and put down the knife and fork, she had folded her hands and said, "Then you're welcome," and cut the bacon.

I sat down in my chair and looked at her indiscriminately. Maybe I should retract what I just said: this woman is very different from the female stars you usually see on TV, her temperament is unpredictable, and judging by all kinds of fragmentary information, it is undoubtedly a huge trouble.

But trouble also means "fun".

I glanced at the extra suitcase on the side of the shoe cabinet with an interesting glimpse. It's plastered with luggage tags from all over the world.

"Aren't you going to eat?" The woman suddenly looked up and winked at me. I shook my head:

"I'm not in the habit of eating breakfast."

The woman let out a long "oh", a hint of cunning flashed in her eyes, and silently ravaged the fried egg on the plate.

When you think about it, this may be a very strange thing: the woman in my bathrobe sits across from her and enjoys breakfast quietly and pleasantly, and I don't even know her name.

I began to realize that both me and this unnamed woman were insane.

She probably thought the same as me, and she couldn't help but laugh with a fork in her mouth.

"You're really funny...... When left? ”

My name was pronounced in a slower, slightly questioning tone. It seems to have a deep meaning. It made me feel more and more interesting.

"There aren't many people in this world who find me interesting. In fact, apart from you, there is only my psychiatrist. ”

"Psychiatrist?"

"A single, middle-aged woman with a dissolute shape and unkempt." I shook my head, "You're much scarier than her, though." ”

"Why?" She tilted her head slightly, pouting innocently.

"My psychiatrist wouldn't try to tempt me by putting on my bathrobe—" I leaned my neck on the backrest to make myself comfortable:

"—and she's not so conservative as to put underwear in her bathrobe and carry anti-wolf spray in her inner pocket."

The woman's face showed no surprise, just sticking out her tongue lightly, as if she had been found in a prank. This surprised me and even secretly frightened me.

"What works is good."

It's hard to understand. But she wasn't going to explain either. The woman pushed over the plate, rested her hands on the table, held her chin, and leaned over to look at me seriously, with undisguised curiosity in her eyes:

"You're really smart."

My heart skipped a beat, and I vaguely sensed that something was wrong. The woman's lips were still moving, a faint rose pink:

"Much more powerful than I thought."

An inexplicable uneasiness crept up in my heart, and I moved back:

"So what? Is there something wrong with me? Unknown Miss? ”

She suddenly said:

"Smoke Vision."

I was stunned.

She continued:

"Willow smoke. Smoke and flattery. ”

Before I could react, she was already laughing, her eyes curved like crescent moons:

"Shi Zuocai, do you want to be a Kyogen Master?"

"Inappropriate." Uncharacteristically, I stood up.

"If you're coming to me for this, please come back."

"Why?" She asked, "Do you know Kyogen?" ”

"I don't know, and I'm not interested in knowing."

Again, she asked why.

"Because it's troublesome."

She smiled: "You don't understand, how can you be sure that it will be troublesome?" ”

"Because you're taking a shower."

"Is there anything to do with the two?" She tilted her head.

I sighed helplessly.

"Yes."

"You showed up at my house while I was asleep with a suitcase and took a shower in the morning. It's most likely because you're tired of traveling and didn't have a chance to take a shower yesterday. You've come here after a long journey, and the channels are not clear, but I think it's most likely a plane. Because yesterday the Meteorological Observatory broadcast a typhoon warning, I remember that only one plane from Sydney to Guangzhou landed successfully at Baiyun Airport, and the others made a forced landing in Shenzhen. It's 8 o'clock, and the landing time of the plane is 6 o'clock, which is exactly the right time to come here from Baiyun Airport. The latest Sydney airport luggage tag on your suitcase confirms that. ”

“…… Do you think I have any reason to accept your invitation from a woman I don't know but who obviously knows me to a considerable extent, who is of the same age but has no bad financial ability, who has flown back from Australia thousands of miles away, and who has no intention of taking a break, and suddenly asks me to be a 'Kyogen Master' or something like that with a harmless smile on her face? ”

The woman smiled and nodded, and spoke softly:

"Yes."

I immediately felt a splitting headache. You can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, and neither is a woman who is pretending to be stupid. I said indifferently:

"Why?"

"There is no one in this world who is more suitable to be a Kyogen Master than you."

"To be honest, sometimes I feel like I'm more suited to be a great writer." I scratched my hair, tired of the absurd game:

"But to this day, I'm still a high school student who needs government funding to survive, and I'm also mentally ill. The reality is brutal, and it's always very different from what people expect. Do you see what I mean? If you get the idea, it's best to start packing up now and go back to your house and sleep before I call the police to arrest someone......"

"That's different." The woman interrupted me suddenly, and I looked up in some surprise to find that she was looking at me with a rather strange look, serious and determined.

"I'm not telling you about good steel on a blade."

She slowly stood up, and then, with her hands on the waist-high table, her calves under the bathrobe suddenly lifted, climbed onto the table in a near-kneeling position, and looked up at me.

"Ever heard the story of the ugly duckling? The reason why the ugly duckling became a white swan has nothing to do with hard work and chance, it is because...... It was meant to be a white swan. ”

Her knees and her hands slowly moved forward, pushing aside the plate and approaching me, her eyes shining.

The plate was pushed to the floor, and I saw the fork that had fallen on the floor, and the chill climbed up the back of my neck.

She's still talking.

"It's the same thing about you. The reason why I am here is that everything is predestined. It's about your talents, it's about your background, it's about your adoptive parents, that car accident ten years ago...... You may be vaguely aware of it, but you never know it. ”

The woman was getting closer and closer to me, and suddenly I felt the urge to get away from her and run away from the place. I knew it didn't belong to me, but my legs were completely stiff and I couldn't move.

"But there's something you can't escape, can't you...... When left? ”

Her tone was one of compassion. She reached out on the table and pinched the corner of my dress. Like a lost dog, I bowed my head without resistance, and the woman leaned over gently, and I could feel her breath in my ears, which was heartbreaking. As if smiling, with endless cunning, she whispered:

"Anti-wolf spray, beauty trick...... It's all very cliché stuff. But what works is good...... The reason why you didn't kick me out is because I did it on purpose, inadvertently eliminating your sense of crisis, didn't it? ”

I finally understood that this woman was a complete demon. She had already seen through all my thoughts, and used the anti-wolf spray in her bathrobe and underwear and deliberately put down in her pocket to create the image of a poor woman who clearly wanted me, but was afraid of being violated by me - in fact, it was precisely because I self-righteously saw through this that I did not choose to call the police in the first place. If none of this is true, what should her nature be?

"All of this I did was part of Kyogen's technique. Kyogen is a very complex and interesting profession, and I know you'll be interested...... Sooner or later, you'll be able to use it. ”

The woman finally lost the heart to tease me, and sat on the table with her knees folded, looking at me sincerely. I was a little speechless, and after a while, I said sullenly:

"Kyogen Master...... What exactly is it? ”

The woman tilted her head and laughed, her smile seemed to have the temperature of a melting spring breeze, but I only felt like the devil was showing his face.

Exegesis:

Demon (Tarot)

Card Interpretation: The demon looks at the slave bound by the chain and lets out a smug grin. Although the slaves were bound in chains, they could get rid of the demons as long as they helped each other, but they had been blinded by the temptation of the demons and willingly driven by them, and if you looked closely, they had grown horns and tails like those of the demons.

Keywords: bondage, depravity, captivity of malicious desires, irresistible temptation, decadent life, ulterior secrets, escape from bondage, release from trouble, farewell to the past.