Chapter IX: Incineration

December 13th, noon, Tianyi's bookstore.

A man in a leather coat with a scruffy beard pushed the door open and entered.

He walked straight to his boss's desk and said, "You've been arrested." ”

Tianyi didn't read a book that day, just sat there leisurely drinking coffee, as if he had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

"Officer Whale, is it? ”

The whale replied, "Hmph, do you know I'm coming?"

"Of course I do. Tianyi held his cheek raiser with one hand, calm and composed.

"Knowing that I was coming, but not running away, means that you are either conscious of your sins or you are completely insane. ”

"I'm not crazy, it's the world that's crazy. ”

"Whatever you say. The whale took out a pair of handcuffs and threw them on the table: "Do you want me to put them on yourself?"

"Do you have an arrest warrant?" Tianyi was completely unmoved.

"Hahahaha......" Whale Bird couldn't help laughing: "People like you actually told me about the legal process?"

Tianyi didn't smile: "It turns out that you also know that your actions are illegal." ”

The whale instantly put away his smile, took out the gun from the holster and pointed it at Tianyi's eyebrows: "This is my law!"

Tianyi slumped in his chair and calmly applauded it: "No, this is not law, but justice." He finally smiled: "Laws are just tools, written on paper, at the service of the powerful, ready to be used, amended, and abolished; ”

The whale bird's hand holding the gun was still firm: "Then please put on the handcuffs obediently before you are blown out by justice, and go to accept the punishment of the law." ”

"I'm not done yet. Tianyi stood up.

The whale bird took half a step back alertly, and the muzzle of the gun followed Tianyi's movements, pointing it at its head without deviation.

Tianyi walked unhurriedly to the bookshelf on the side: "But I have to say that justice is the most disgusting and disgusting thing for me, and it is just an illusion of human beings. He stretched out his hand and pointed at the whale: "You abide by the concept of right and wrong, good and evil derived from a set of generalized morality and ethics, and use the word 'justice' to hypnotize yourself, turn it into faith, and make yourself believe that everything you make and every choice you make is correct."

To put it bluntly, this is nothing more than a high-level hypocrisy. ”

He took four black books from the shelves, placed them on the table, and then walked to a corner of the room, crouched down to open a cabinet.

"It is justice for the lion to prey on the antelope, otherwise it and its children will starve to death, and for the antelope it is also righteous to escape the lion's predation, otherwise it will be eaten. In this case, is justice contradictory? No, what they follow is the same, and the animals only follow the instinct of survival, which is the law of nature, which sustains and operates the rules of the world. It cannot be written on paper, and it cannot be tampered with or violated. To call it 'justice' is a great insult. ”

Tianyi took out an iron bucket from the cabinet, he held a book in one hand and a bucket in the other, and walked towards the door of the store, "If you don't mind, help me open the door." ”

The whale bird had already put down the gun at this time, and he could see that Tianyi had no intention of running away at all.

"What the hell are you going to do?" he asked, but the whale pushed the door open for Tianyi and followed him out of the bookstore.

Outside, the sky was overcast, the north wind was cold, and Tianyi, who was only wearing a shirt and suit, was obviously a little shivering.

He placed the bucket on the ground, took out a kerosene lighter, and lit a book in his hand.

Continuing with what he had just said, Tianyi said: "So, human beings are the same, from the point of view of any ordinary human being, only he is the only protagonist in his life, and others, no matter how eye-catching, are just supporting roles."

And justice has become a very subjective thing. Children who grow up in troubled times, children who grow up in prosperous times, children who grow up in slums, descendants of princes and nobles...... Exposed to different levels, instilled with different values, and in the end, everyone will have their own justice.

Whale, you think you're doing the right thing, but it's just because it's in line with the justice in your heart. ”

The whale snorted coldly: "So...... You mean, you're right to kill innocents?"

Tianyi threw the half-burnt book into the iron bucket at his feet, "I didn't kill them, since the day I came to Hokkaido on December 5, I have never left the bookstore, at most I came to the door to burn the books and sign for some takeout, how can you say that I killed innocents indiscriminately?"

"But it's all up to you!"

"Yes, then, do you have any proof that even if they come back from the dead, they will tell you that I never 'taught' them to do such a thing as murder, I just let them do little things that don't matter, in exchange for them to listen to me with some interesting news, or read the books I have in my hand. ”

The whale's eyes unconsciously looked at the almost burned book in the barrel, and the smoke was faintly purple.

"What the hell are these books?"

Tianyi looked up at the sky: "These books record people's 'sins'. He took a deep breath and glanced at the ashes in the bucket out of the corner of his eye: "Greedy and small, hanging corpses in the public." ”

The whale bird was stunned when he heard this, and Matsuo's death flashed in front of his eyes.

Tianyi threw the second book into the bucket again, this time with a slight orange in the smoke.

"Violent and ferocious, with knives and bodies. ”

The whale stared at the bull's eye, stepped forward and grabbed Tianyi's neckline: "In addition to Matsuo and Miura, who are the two books you have in your hand? Who else did you kill?!

Tianyi smiled, casually threw the third book into the bucket, and red smoke rose up: "Those who are lazy and indulgent will be disemboweled." He stared into the whale's eyes: "The owner of this book is indeed named Ikeda, but not Nozomi Ikeda, but Takeshi Ikeda." ”

The whale gritted its teeth and said, "You bastard......"

Tenjo picked up the last book: "This is the 'cowardly and jealous' Ikeda-kun, rest assured, he is not dead." But two seconds later, Tianyi still threw the book into the burning barrel: "It's a pity, he's crazy, 'life is better than death'." So, his book is useless, the rest of the content is some crazy words that I can't understand, oh, by the way, he came home last night and saw some things, and he was stimulated to go crazy, and he hasn't gone to school today, I don't know how it is now......"

The whale let go of Tenichi and ran in the direction of Ikeda's house, scolding, "Damn ......"

Tianyi straightened his neckline and smiled madly at the back of the whale bird: "You understand now! What is justice! Hahahaha!"