Incorrect usage guidelines for the magic perimeter

In the drowsiness, Shibukawa Yao felt as if his head had been filled with lead, gradually waking up.

Then she found herself standing in an underground passage, not wearing a witcher jacket or robes of a master assassin, but the trench coat she had worn on board the ship in the first place.

wow, where is this?

This is the girl's first thought.The second thought is: Have I crossed again?

Thanks to the stupid ability [Returning Light], which automatically passes through consciousness once he is near death, Shibukawa Yao is familiar with such emergencies, but he is not sure what will happen to Mr. Dazai who is still staying in the main world... No Will you come with me too?

If this is the case, it is really speechless.

But if you think about it carefully, you shouldn't encounter parallel world dungeons as difficult as the Holy Grail War every time, right?

Shibukawa Yao looked around, and found that this pedestrian underpass had been built for some years, and even the lights were a very old dark green... There were messy street graffiti on the walls, leftover energy drink soda bottles and snacks The packaging bag was left in a dark corner indiscriminately, and there was a sleeping homeless man lying next to it.

The girl walked towards the man, wanting to pat him to wake him up to find out what was going on, but when she reached out her hand, she was shocked to find that her hand passed straight through the man's shoulder, like a mist or a ghost.

Shibukawa Yo: ...What's going on?The 'me' of this world is dead?

She hesitated for a few seconds in disbelief, and instead reached out to touch the old newspaper on the other person's body and the empty beer bottle on the floor, and ended up picking them up instead.

So it is - can't touch people, but can touch objects.

I don't understand... It seems that this situation is not simply traveling to a parallel world.

So she gave up her plan to communicate with the homeless, straightened up and walked towards the exit of the underground passage.As the outside light gradually came into view, the dim green light was also left behind by her.

When Shibukawa Yao completely walked out of the underground passage, it happened to be sunset time outside.

The ordinary, unremarkable sunset sank behind the steel forest in Tokyo.

The girl turned her head and looked around, and found that the exit of this underground passage was just facing the gate of an old residential area with a small area, and some pedestrians seemed to be unaware of her existence when they passed by.

For some reason, she always felt that there was a voice telling herself to go into the community and have a look, as if someone was calling her inside.

Strange, strange... I have never had this place in my memory...

At this time, an old man walking his dog happened to swipe his card to enter the door, and Shibukawa Yao hurriedly followed him in sideways.Sure enough, neither the security guard nor the old man, nor the puppy noticed the existence of this suspicious person at all.

To the west of the community is a small fitness and recreational facility for residents. At this time, the sky is getting dark and the children have gone home for dinner. Only a thin girl in a white dress is sitting on a swing watching the sunset from her back.

Shibukawa Yao stared blankly at the child's back, unable to say anything.

The girl seemed to be aware of her arrival, but she turned her face and smiled at her: "Are you still coming?"

——This person was the first person to notice her existence in this strange environment.

Because of this, Shibukawa Yao also showed a little smile: "Okay."

There happened to be two swings on the swing pole, so Shibukawa Yao sat on the other swing, sitting side by side with this mysterious girl to watch the sunset.

"Isn't the sunset here beautiful?" The girl in the white skirt asked her still smiling.

Although the scenery seemed ordinary, Shibukawa Yao replied slightly against his will: "It's not bad."

"You're lying, you obviously think it's normal." The girl pointed out her problem with a smile, "Look, this is the difference between us."

Shibukawa Yao sighed, and said helplessly: "Of course there is a difference between us, right... the former master."

former master.

The real master of this body.

The girl who successfully committed suicide by cutting her wrists before her arrival.

If Shibukawa Yao remembers correctly, the other party should still be 19 years old when he died, but now this person's face and facial features still stay at the childish appearance of around twelve or thirteen years old.

She glanced at the other party's left wrist, the skin on it was fair and smooth, without any scars.

The former master slightly opened his eyes wide, showing undisguised surprise: "Did you recognize it?"

"You didn't want to cover it up, did you?" Shibukawa Yao held the swing rope with his hand, rubbed the toe of his shoe to play with the sand, "From the beginning to the end, whether it's the old underground passage, the clothing style of pedestrians or the surrounding buildings The years of my life...these existences are nearly ten years behind the time I lived in."

So the beautiful girl in the white skirt smiled softly, even though she was still so young, her smile was still as beautiful as a delicate flower.

This child is a real beautiful girl, which is very different from Shibukawa Yao, a werewolf who wears a weak skin and cuts people at every turn.

Today's Shibukawa Yao is of course taller than a beautiful girl, so although the girl's toes can touch the sand, Shibukawa Yao is completely adult's height and long legs, even if she is sitting on a swing board Still able to step on the sand easily.

"It's so interesting... I still find it very interesting to see that your successor is like this." The beautiful girl smiled so much that her eyes narrowed, and that look made Shibukawa Yoshi feel more cordial—wait, that's not what she usually does. Show off the kitty smile!

However, the girl in the white skirt withdrew her smile in the next second and became a little sad.

"I actually know it all." She said, "It's a basic skill for adults to lie. In order to survive, even if you say something against your will, there is no way... Over time, being tactful is like an instinctive skill. I won't because of this I blame you for small things."

Shibukawa Yao was silent for a moment, and decided to skip this topic, "I've always wanted to ask a question... Former Lord, why did you commit suicide?"

When he said these words, Shibukawa Yao felt a dull pain from the long and short scars under the phoenix tattoo on his left wrist.

It was as if they somehow revealed the true mood of the girl in the white skirt in front of her.

"The answer to this question is complex, but I can make a long story short."

The former master lowered his head, no longer looking at her or at the sunset.

"Do you know that a certain household in the building behind us is my home."

Shibukawa Yo suddenly understood, this is... what my aunt said later, about the place that was destroyed by the fire?

The girl in the white skirt spoke with an extremely heavy tone: "My parents will die in a car accident three days later."

"After all the things you've been through, do you still think it was just an accident?"

Shibukawa Yao shook his head: "I don't think so, especially after learning that your father was once a senior member of the Psychological Freedom Association... I don't think so anymore."

"That's right, Dad, he was the president of the previous generation, but he defected later." The former lord continued to tell even more shocking news, "After leading us to hide for several years, he was finally killed by the killer of the Psychological Freedom Association. Found...they kidnapped Mom, so that Dad could be tied up, so...they died like this. Doesn't this story sound sad?"

"It's a little bit. But I'm not too surprised by this." Shibukawa Yao replied in a very complicated tone, "After all, not everyone is qualified to host and promote a project to create such a large-scale synthetic human, and the ultimate goal It was just to save a little girl."

The girl looked at her, and finally nodded: "Although it is painful, it is indeed my sin."

"In order for me to live, my father personally created and destroyed [-] lives. Of course, outsiders can accuse and abuse him at will, saying that he is inhuman and a lunatic - but as the only beneficiary of the medical project, I cannot deny and ignore This fatherly love full of sin and blood."

The black eyes of the girl in the white skirt stared at her, with tears flickering clearly inside.

"...I don't want you to suffer the same pain as me. I sealed all these memories away. It's just that I didn't expect that you still unearthed part of the truth in the end."

Shibukawa Yao was shaking the swing in silence, and suddenly said: "Not enough, still not enough."

"what?"

"You, who have experienced that level of pain and self-blame, did not commit suicide simply because of this reason."

These words really hit the heart of the former owner. She is a good girl who looks rebellious on the outside, but is actually soft and kind-hearted. Otherwise, she would not have taken away all the painful memories before she died.

"You're right..." The girl in the white skirt followed her example and gently swayed on the swing, her eyes staring at the sunset in the distance, "After they passed away in a 'car accident', I really... miss them so much gone."

She muttered to herself, as if she was about to cry at any moment.

"They lied to me, they rescued me, but they left me first. They also said that they would not let me face death alone... Adults are like this, they always leave everything they think is best to their children I was able to let go and leave without knowing that I just wanted to meet and talk to them... that's all."

Shibukawa Yao didn't speak, she just felt deeply sad and sentimental.

After experiencing the treatment like the protagonist of a horror movie, coupled with the existence of [Backlight], the former master has blurred the boundary between life and death.For this child, death has become a channel. Whenever he wants to see his family, he is the only way to do it. It is as normal as many wanderers who are struggling far away in a foreign land will make video calls with their families... If it is true The unfortunate death of her, she can also leave this world full of pain and sin for her-why not do it?

While contemplating, the girl in white skirt suddenly stood up and walked in front of Shibukawa Yo.Now the height of the latter sitting on the swing is almost at the same level as the opponent's line of sight.

"I'm sorry, I'm in too much pain. I can no longer bear that kind of despair, and the loss after breaking free from death every time is unspeakable... So during the last suicide, I suddenly had a very selfish and strange new idea. "

"There are so many parallel worlds, isn't there an 'I' who is far away from this country, this culture, this family, this language? Is it true that as long as I leave this fate, I will not suffer from this pain again ?”

The girl in the white skirt was already in tears when she said this, she stretched out her hand to touch Shibukawa Yao's face, her fingers were cold, as if she was touching the other side of her soul.

"I don't know whether it's luck or misfortune, but I found it—in an ancient country in the west in a certain parallel world, there is an 'I' named 'Xu Jueling' living and existing peacefully there."

"Thus, you were born, pure white and innocent, my dear...the secondary personality." The girl said to her, "I am actually just trying to wake you up without hope, in fact I have already done it Preparations for death, but I didn't expect it to actually succeed..."

Shibukawa Yao looked at her without saying a word, hot tears also gushed out of his eyes.