"Who are you......?"

Mu Xiu felt a strong uneasiness from the bottom of his heart, and somehow, the pitch-black nothingness around him had undergone earth-shaking changes the moment the girl appeared.

Originally, it was just endless darkness and darkness, endless void and emptiness, but now it suddenly became a magnificent scenery of the snow scenery of Minghu Lake-

Mu Xiu recognized it at a glance, this was the scene when he first saw the night of Penglai Mountain that night, and he and the girl opposite were standing in the same position that night.

For a moment, he seemed to understand something, looking at the scenery around him that was no different from the night before, and the dark sky where snowflakes were falling, Mu Xiu suddenly felt that his consciousness was dizzy.

A young girl standing by the lake is dressed in a white kimono and contrasts with the snowy scenery of Lake Ming. Her expression was very regretful, but she was not surprised, she just looked away and sighed softly: "yes, you shouldn't remember......"

I don't know if she was saying that Mu Xiu didn't remember her, or if it was about the title she said.

“……”

“……”

"I'm sorry, I'm ...... I don't know you. After a moment of silence, Mu Xiu cautiously took a step back.

He couldn't tell if the scene was a hallucination or something, because it was too real. And although he felt his physical existence again, he also regained absolute control over his own power-

But he couldn't have any thoughts of wanting to fight, and the girl in front of him didn't seem to exist.

Just like in general, a person of normal mind has no way to attack the air, and it should be said that he does not even have the idea of attacking or confronting, and this is the case with him now.

And at this time, he can naturally perceive that this is actually not the experience of a demon, at least not the kind of "demon" he knows......

"No, I'm indeed your demon, but it's just that it doesn't match your perception."

The kimono girl chuckled, her eyes gentle as if she would melt everything, but the words she said were extremely terrifying. - Whether it is the meaning of the words themselves, or the act of saying them as if she were reading minds.

“……”

Mu Xiu stepped back in silence, he suddenly had an unusually strong feeling, as if the girl in front of him was attracting him, urging him to continue at this pace, he would be able to know everything he wanted to know.

But this subconscious feeling was so strong, so Mu Xiu hesitated, although he didn't know what he was hesitating about, but he couldn't help but faintly, he was a little afraid.

Then, he found that he had been retreating, but there was nothing he could do to change anything, and the distance between him and the girl was not narrowed...... It's almost exactly the same as that night.

"I'm sorry, I've been disturbed enough before, and this time I finally managed to meet you, I can't ...... Let you leave like this. The girl said, her eyes full of apologies.

"Who the hell are you?" After pondering for a while, Mu Xiu said slowly.

“…… I'm - "Two Rituals", you can call me by that name. The kimono girl smiled, "The reason why I'm here is because I've become your demon." ”

"Do we know each other? I'm sorry, but I seem to have forgotten a lot of things, or I can't tell what was true from my previous experiences...... And what did you just call me? Did you recognize the wrong person? ”

Mu Xiu said quite coldly, unceremoniously keeping a relatively distant distance from the other party.

"That's right, you do forget a lot of things...... Much more than you think......" The kimono girl took two steps forward, and found that Mu Xiu's demeanor was more vigilant and defensive, and even her body tensed up, and then stopped in a slightly disappointed way.

She continued in a soft voice, "Still, it's okay to ......."

“……”

“……”

There was another rightful silence.

Turning her head in the snow, the kimono girl stared at the Ming Lake next to her, and said softly: "Or you can't say that you have forgotten, after all...... It's true that it's not the same person anymore, but fortunately, the origin is still the same...... "reincarnation", which is a wonderful mechanism. ”

"What the hell are you talking about?" Mu Xiu frowned, he had calmed down at this time.

"You should know that innateness will never change, it is a more essential essence than the previous life, which can be traced back to the "cause" of the original raison d'être. The so-called origin is the direction that literally determines the reason for one's existence. ”

She smiled, her tone was natural, and she knew each other as if the two had been friends for ten years.

"You think, if there is a past life, then there should be a past life before it, right? The previous life was not a person, and the previous life was not even a thing, but the thread of existence will continue forever. You, the origin of your soul, the place where you were created, do exist......"

At this point, she closed her eyes, let out a breath, shook her head lightly and did not continue.

Because there is no such thing as life in that place, there is only some kind of starting cause, a certain direction that determines things.

"......" Mu Xiuzhi did not interject between the pauses.

However, the "Two Rituals" still read his mental activity, shook his head and continued: "It's just an example, the nature is the same, but it's not about your past life or anything...... No, you don't have a past life at all, and you won't have a future life, that's all. ”

Mu Xiu took a deep breath and quietly waited for the absolute follow-up.

Sure enough, she stared at Mu Xiu and said meaningfully: "The 'reincarnation' I just mentioned does not refer to the past and future lives such as the cycle of life and death, but to the "thing" in the depths of your soul, an extension of the divine system in the true sense——"

The girl's innocent eyes showed a smile.

But it was cold, with a mocking look at it.

"Interesting, right? Outside the root of omniscience and omnipotence, there is an unwitting intervention management system that transcends all logic and fantasy, and also has no limitations......

"What do you want to say...... Just say it! ”

Mu Xiu only felt that his throat was squirming with thirst, and his vocal cords seemed to be broken, and he bit the tip of his tongue mercilessly, and the salty taste spread in his mouth.

He had a very bad premonition, so much so that he lost control of the muscles in his face and felt nothing.

"Look at what a fool I'm in, don't you mind, just because I can see you, I'm in a good mood today, and if I don't realize it, there will be more words. However, since it's what you want to know......"

The kimono girl said in a small, soft voice as if she blamed herself for saying those words.

"You should be deliberately blocked from that aspect of your cognition and memory, and if you are not reminded, you will not even have the idea to explore. So, once again, introduce yourself, you can call me the "Two Rituals", because I am not a personality generated by the intellect, but the original personality of the being itself that this title represents......"

Speaking of this, she put her hand on her chest with some nostalgia and closed her eyes.

“……”

“……”

Then the kimono girl opened her eyes and smiled, she quietly stepped forward, looked into Mu Xiu's eyes, and continued in an unstable voice:

"In that body, there is a dual personality, both of which are "Shiki", but ...... However, they are respectively the personality "style" that represents the feminine, affirmation, and femininity, and the personality "weaving" that represents the masculine, negation, and masculinity - since it is Liangyi, then of course there is also a Tai Chi. And the outline of the circle that symbolizes Tai Chi is me. ”

Mu Xiu finally understood what he was rejecting from the bottom of his heart from just now now.

That was the truth from the beginning.

"Man is a creature made up of three elements, spirit, soul and body. But what your personality, your soul, can manifest into its form is your intellect accumulated from various experiences and your empty shell flesh-body. ”

The kimono girl seemed to continue in a casual tone without the slightest concern.

Therefore, it is not with intellect that there is flesh-body, but with flesh-body, intellect is born. After all, Shikiwaori is exchanging personalities in the root character of the "Two Rituals", and it is the "Two Rituals" that control all of this...... It started with me and ended with me. ”

"You mean, I'm ...... That masculine side? Mu Xiu subconsciously raised his voice.

"You can say that, you can't say that, because Ori died out for some reason not so long ago......," she whispered, staring at the night in the distance.

"Personality is not a soul, there is no possibility of reincarnation, and you are indeed not him – in theory, it should be. But the "thing" in your soul, the whole behind it, seized the opportunity at that moment, and took away half of the concept of existence. ”

Looking back, the "Two Rituals" stared at Mu Xiu: "I'm not sure if you're reincarnated." It's just that the personality and memory are not the same as before, even if the origin is exactly the same, and even exists in place of one of my two yi, you won't feel like you're another person, right? ”

“……”

“……”

Mu Xiu couldn't say anything, in fact, his mind was in such chaos like never before.

The kimono girl smiled a little mischievously, and then said to herself: "Actually, I've always wanted to meet you, but it's subject to external conditions, because I can only sleep in Shiki's heart, she can't perceive me, and I can't replace Shiki's existence." ”

"One of the few opportunities you have is when you first touch the essence of life and go deep into the sea of the mind, because your origin is "nothingness", so you are still one of the two instruments that have been constructed into me. It's just that you didn't have any impression at that time......"

"On the other two occasions, it was hindered by just the right amount of so-called coincidence—for example, your realm was temporarily replenished, and I had no way to directly influence you, and the power of the essence of the mind that was triggered later made me appear briefly that night, only to be cut off from the way of connection again by your spiritual light, independent of cause and effect......"

The kimono girl stepped forward as she spoke, reaching out to touch Mu Xiu's face, and looking at him with a look that resembled envy.

"Until now, the violent consciousness you encounter is essentially the instinctive consciousness of the flesh-body, and every cell has a weak consciousness, mixed together with an irrefutablely powerful and violent instinct...... It is equivalent to the personality of the flesh itself. ”

"-In this way, it can be used by me, otherwise, this meeting may still be far away!"