Mr. Kuribayashi seems to have had a rough run of things lately.

Since the Alola Egg Tree scandal, the circus's popularity has plummeted, and the number of visitors has become less and less, and his and his wife's acting careers have been affected. The original solo flight plan proposed by himself was even stillborn, not to mention the separation of the circus, and now even the family economy has become strained, and even the most basic start-up funds cannot be gathered.

The hoarse arguments with his wife now seem like a joke......

No, on the other hand, the current situation indirectly proves his correctness. If the couple had been able to move ahead of time and leave the Circus at the peak of their careers, they would not have been affected by the slump in the circus' business - but this is only an ideal assumption, not only for his wife, but even for Kuribayashi himself, the long-term sense of belonging to the Circus is not something that is so easy to give up, whether the plan can be implemented in reality is a question, and it is even more meaningless to settle accounts after the autumn.

Time does not turn back, and there is no regret medicine in the world to take.

The relationship with his wife has also not improved. Although the two have no reason to quarrel now, and the atmosphere is at least much better than the previous cold war, the two are still a little awkward when they are together. The reason why she takes turns to go home to accompany her daughter is largely due to Sachiko's strange illness, but it is not the reason why it becomes difficult to face her partner after a quarrel.

I got into inexplicable trouble at work yesterday -

When Kuribayashi was performing the so-called "superpowers" in the circus as always, there was a guy in the audience who used real superpowers to interfere with the performance, whether it was a "telepathic performance" or a "levitation technique", and the original mechanism was destroyed by the other party, and he was even carried into the air by the other party's telekinesis...... Fortunately, the staff in the troupe reacted quickly and immediately reported to the nearby police station, and Miss Junsha and her assistant, who arrived immediately, found the prisoner who was obstructing the performance, and successfully retreated from the blue-haired superpower.

In retrospect, the power that resembles a superpower-based Pokémon "telekinesis" move is really heart-wrenching. That's the difference between magic and magic, between an entertainer and an alien. It's no surprise to be scared. Is it because the wife is afraid of such a genuine thing that she is reluctant to set up her own door, hoping to continue to hide under the protection of the circus?

No, these things are fine.

It is said that it is full of things, but there is only one thing that really worries you.

If that thing can be solved, everything else will be fine.

And if that thing can't be resolved, no matter how smooth the rest of life is, it's meaningless.

Thinking of this, Kuribayashi looked at his daughter who was holding his right hand, her hand was very light and small, and holding her was like holding an illusory and soft feather.

In the eyes of her daughter, she and her wife are in two parallel worlds that cannot see each other, and there are clear barriers between the worlds, but the daughter shuttles between the two worlds and is the only bridge that can communicate the two people who have died.

What a dreamy theory this is, so much so that every time Sachiko reiterates her theory to herself, Kuribayashi feels a sense of remorse beyond measure—

Again, it doesn't matter how many times you confess - there is never a parallel time and space, there are just two stupid adults who ignore each other and attack each other.

It's not a dream, it's not reality, it's not even a possibility, it's just a lie.

And now, this lie has become so serious that it affects reality, and even if the husband and wife stand in front of their daughter at the same time, Sachiko can only see one of them.

Is this a condition? Is it a fantasy? Or is it a double lie told by a little girl in order to bridge the family?

None of this matters, Kuribayashi felt that he was not qualified to ask his daughter.

Unlike his wife, Mr. Kuribayashi feels that it is not a big deal to leave Sachiko's current situation alone - Kuritabayashi, who plays a superpower at work, is a realist. In his opinion, even if the worst, worst, and craziest fantasies in his daughter's mouth become reality, the situation is not unacceptable.

It's not that he doesn't worry about his daughter, but the phenomenon of his daughter not seeing people only occurs in a closed family of three, and the object is only Kuritashi and his wife.

Although Sachiko also said that she would disappear by chance when she went to school, the school did not convey such a situation to herself, so it can be seen that the problem is not serious, and the specific situation is easy to imagine, probably because her daughter deliberately or unconsciously hid in the class in order to cater to her imagination.

When the two worlds of her daughter's fantasy are completely separated, she will not be able to see one of the two Kuribayashi couples, but she will lose one of her parents.

After becoming a "single-parent family", Sachiko's life can continue uneventfully, not to mention, compared to the average single-parent family, the Kuribayashi family will have one more invisible supporter, and life will not be in trouble.

After escaping the illusion of a double world at a tragic cost, her escapism at school will also lose its justification and cannot continue. The daughter's world will gradually return to its original state, and everything will be back on track except for the loss of one of her parents - she still has a bright future.

The only ones who will really be punished and who will suffer for a lifetime will only be the husband and wife who are the culprits.

This is also deserved.

Fair to the point of even some tolerance.

Mr. Kuribayashi thought so.

However, at this moment, in front of the gate of the nursery school, he held the hand of his daughter who was as light as a feather beside him, and his gaze swept over Sachiko's wide, clear eyes, and this realistic man could not help but pray-

Although he is sorry for his wife, he really doesn't want to be on the side of the 50% rate, and he doesn't want to be the one who is ignored by his daughter among the two.

If, even one in ten thousand, there was a chance that someone could solve the incident.

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"Oops, yes, expounding reasoning to a group of preschool kids or something, even a novice detective like me can't do it."

An incomparably cheerful voice came from behind him, instantly interrupting the man's sorrow.

Just as Kuribayashi was about to leave the school gate with Sachiko, a chestnut-haired girl jumped up from nowhere and blocked the way of the two of them in a domineering manner.

"I don't have the same sense of ritual as my boss at the office, but there's no point in revealing the truth in front of children and unrelated people, is it? If you want to reveal the truth that clears all your troubles, you have to tell it in front of a reasonable adult. No, according to the general routine in popular and comics, it is not possible to gather all the people involved in the incident. ”

Dressed in the mature dress of an urban white-collar worker, with leather boots on his feet, and flat glasses used for camouflage, he gurgled back and forth on the erected index finger of his right hand, and the acting detective, Miss Blue, appeared in front of Mr. Kuribayashi gorgeously.

The words and actions of the girl talking to herself in front of her were very strange, but Mr. Kuribayashi and the little girl Sachiko did not look at the beautiful face of the person who stood in the way, nor at the pair of glasses that were spinning around in their hands, and their attention was firmly attracted by something that was sandwiched under the left arm of the blue blue.

As a superpowered artist, Kuribayashi is no stranger to that thing-

It's not so much a thing as a creature, specifically a Pokémon.

It's a huge Dream Eclipse, half-dreaming and half-awake superpower Pokémon.

The Dream Eclipse was clearly in a coma, its belly turned upwards helplessly, its eyes swirling like a whirling spot, its body covered in dust and scars, and it didn't know how inhumane it had been treated.

"Rest assured, little sister Sachiko, your mother is about to travel from another parallel time and space. I've accepted the commission for two, just honestly wait for the perfect ending! ”

The chestnut-haired Miss Detective, who didn't seem to feel at all like a dangerous person, announced with a smile as bright as a sunny day.