Episode.14 Mutation
This is Shibuya Ward, and it is as lively as a normal city during the day, but the closer you get to the suburbs, the less crowded you are, and the more dangerous it is than in other cities.
However, now the story takes place in the city center, in a restaurant near the Shibuya subway station.
Near the window on the right side of the exit, the two men sitting opposite each other did not stop talking, no, one of them was human, the other was half-human.
Hearing Hiiragi's provocative speech, Izumi Takatsuki just smiled faintly and withdrew his right hand.
"With the development of the times, the progress of society, and the increase of knowledge, has the awareness of human beings become less fearful? Maybe it could become a new subject for your work. ”
"Fear has always been there...... It's just that the safety factor has become larger. To be more detailed, it's not that there are fewer things to be afraid of, it's that there are more things that provide people with safety. And Izumi-sensei Takatsuki, is your new work really going to write about human fears and the like? ”
Hiiragi also slowly wiped the remaining sticky pudding to calm himself down, and the strongest mew in front of him didn't plan to take any violent action right away anyway.
For Hiiragi's words, Izumi Takatsuki stared at the pudding in front of him, scooped it up with a spoon and put it in his mouth.
"Oh, that's a good taste, what I said just now is just a joke, even if you're not a fan of my readers, you can't tell you about your future writing plans, keep it mysterious and impactful!"
Hiiragi isn't a writer either, so I don't know what Izumi Takatsuki means by 'mystery and impact', but now, almost all subjects have been written about, right?
It is impossible to innovate and write a truly 'new' work, only to add some unexpected settings to the existing foundation.
Plainly. To surprise the reader, it is best to use techniques such as divine twists to spice up the work.
Hiiragi hasn't read many detective novels either, but feels that detective novels are the most difficult, after all, creating a good detective in a book requires the author to have a lot of knowledge, a rational mind, and linear reasoning ability.
The hardest part is that you have to have the same amount of information as the detective protagonist. It's impossible to say that a detective suddenly discovers something that readers have never read about in a book.
In other words, the center of a detective novel is to put the reader and the detective protagonist from the same perspective, but the detective solves the puzzle before the reader.
Not to mention this, after Hiiragi also cleaned up, he was not very disgusted with what Takatsuki Izumi did just now, so it could be regarded as a kind of dismount.
She may have felt that the word "one-eyed" meant two things, and she wanted to determine which one she meant.
Looking at Izumi Takatsuki, who was enjoying the pudding, he forced himself to eat human food, which was really perfect. There was no discomfort at all.
"When you say 'one-eyed', you mean that I don't have good eyesight, right? Why do you think so? I think looking at people is like writing, as long as you can analyze the other person's personality, hobbies, and habits, then you can confirm the other person's personality. ”
"If you say it's a vision, you can see it as a vision, after all, two eyes are much easier to use than one."
After all, Hiiragi is also one-eyed, and he is very envious of people who have both eyes intact.
It's just that the one-eyed of the mew species is different. Refers to the fact that they have half human blood and half mew blood.
"So, what do you think of people? Your left eye doesn't seem to work very well. Right? Mr. Nangong. ”
"Hmm...... So why did Izumi-sensei Takatsuki say that? ”
"I know from the moment we meet, although your left eye will react with your right eye, but the focus is not in the same place."
Is there such a thing? Hiiragi didn't know exactly what kind of state his left eye was in, so there was no reason to object.
But even if you only have one eye, you can actually distinguish others very well and confirm the 'look' of others.
Just like the movie "Smell the Fragrance and Know the Woman". Except for the tango dance, the blind captain can tell what kind of woman the other person is by smell.
"By the way, by the way, can I ask a somewhat strange question? Mr. Nangong. ”
"Of course you can, but I don't have anything to offer you, Izumi-sensei."
"It's just a simple question. Have you come across any strange creatures lately? ”
"Not long ago, I ran into a talking cat."
Of course, it was Koguro from the previous world, but Izumi Takatsuki, who was not clear, showed a puzzled look on his face, and took a bite of the pudding before continuing
"It's a strange experience, but I'm talking about whether I've encountered anything strange, like humans?"
"Strange humans?"
Hiiragi also took a sip of green tea, thinking that Izumi Takatsuki was probably trying to figure out if he had ever touched the seeds.
It can be seen that she is suspicious of Hiiragi, thinking that Hiiragi's 'one-eyed' does not refer to the eyes of people, but to a specific identity.
"No matter how many eyes there are, as long as the other party is very strange, they can definitely see it, right?"
Izumi Takatsuki made such an addition, and Hiiragi also chose to remain silent at this time.
She herself said that she could see the strangeness of the other party, but what about Izumi Takatsuki himself?
Who can see through Izumi Takatsuki's true identity?
Wrong, what is the true identity of Izumi Takatsuki?
Is it a writer called Izumi Takatsuki? Is it Aite, this cadre? Is it the monster 'One-Eyed Owl'? Either way, it's possible.
However, however, Hiiragi also has to repeat that Takatsuki Izumi chooses more of the identity of '喰种'.
Not any of the above identities, but simply meow species, acting for their own purposes.
Of course, these are Hiiragi's guesses, not entirely correct, but they have some credibility.
"With all due respect, I don't really know about this, but I'm going to see the work of Izumi-sensei Takatsuki."
"Wow! Thank you very much, and I hope you can find something that interests you in my book. ”
"So be it, I'll leave first."
"Okay, you go first, I still have to avoid the agent, and then I have a chance to meet again, Nangong Hiiragi, sir."
Nodding, Hiiragi also stood up from his position, thinking that it was time to go back and report to Nagi.
Leaving the restaurant, Hiiragi also chose to take a shortcut in order to save time, thinking about the time when he used to study, in order to take a shortcut and go home to play games, he would occasionally walk through other people's yards......
Walking through the passage between the two buildings, Hiiragi also summed up the conversation just now, not knowing how to summarize it.
Suddenly, something was felt, it was plural, there were at least three people.
"See."
"Found it."
"Start executing."
The number is indeed three, wearing a robe, wearing a mask, and the tracker Hiiragi also. (To be continued......)