I'm a weird expert in Japan

I have to go to the hospital for a physical check-up, so I'm taking a day off today.

Will update as usual tomorrow.

Please forgive me. _(:з」∠)_

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Chapter 163 Chapter 1 If You Give Up ()

Twenty minutes later, in the cafe on the first floor of the department store.

Shijo Ren accompanied her sister Shijo Maki to buy things, and ended up meeting the eldest daughter of the Shinomiya family, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's sister.

Then, at the women's clothing store, Ren, who was considering leaving, ran into Touma Kazusa... and her mother Touma Yoko.

When Zhenfei saw this scene, she thought Lian had caused trouble, but it turned out that not only did they not quarrel, but they started chatting very familiarly.

In the end, it was Touma Yoko who suggested that everyone go for a cup of coffee and chat.

The people I least want to talk about are Hesha and Lian.

In some sense, these two people are the ones suffering from the most severe social phobia.

"Really... please stop him for a moment." Lian leaned against the sink outside the bathroom, carefully watching to see if anyone was coming, and said to Kazusa in front of her.

Hesha was leaning against the sink opposite her. From their respective perspectives, they could just see the mirror behind each other.

Thinking of this, it is still a world in the mirror, and even has an inexplicable metaphorical meaning.

"Even if it's turned over, Touma Yoko is still Touma Yoko." Kazusa looked away, unconvinced and shirked responsibility.

She has completely understood the meaning of Lian's words.

Maybe he became gentler, or perhaps he lacked the decisiveness to act.

But it's just about whether I can let go of Kazusa.

In other places, Touma Yoko is Touma Yoko, she has her own way of doing things and is extremely good at controlling the atmosphere, otherwise she would not have been taken to that store that sells such cute clothes.

It's not Touma Hesa's taste at all, but more like her mother's bad taste to some extent.

"It seems that you have accepted Mr. Touma here." Lian crossed his arms and smiled leisurely.

Hesha's eyebrows jumped and she glared at Lian unhappily, "Didn't you say...that Touma Yoko isn't a fake?"

"Well, I did say that." Lian shrugged, "But you seem to adapt to this world more than I expected, which is beyond my expectation."

"Except for some things being reversed, everything else is basically the same as the original world. What's so difficult about adapting?"

"Yes, it's this kind of easy-going attitude." Lian held up a finger. "In fact, I was worried before."

"What are you worried about?" Kazusa narrowed her eyes, "Did I have a quarrel with Touma Yoko?"

"No, I'm just simply... worried that you will become too uncomfortable with the current situation, and then a series of situations will occur." Lian shook his head, "For example, the world will be destroyed."

"Huh?" Hesha thought Lian was teasing her.

After all, this guy is only serious when he is playing music, and he does all kinds of weird things the rest of the time, which makes Hesa ​​on the verge of wanting to beat him up but unable to do so.

"I'm serious—" Lian paid a little attention to the surroundings, "After leaving your house last night, I discovered some things and got unexpected information from some people—"

Then, Lian picked out the key points and shared what he knew.

Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't say a word to Hesha.

But now they are both trapped in the small box of this mirror world, and they can be considered as fellow travelers to some extent.

No matter how you think about it, Touma and Sa have the right to know about their current situation.

For example, this world is not as big as imagined, but is strictly restricted to Tokyo. No matter how far you go in space, you will eventually return to Tokyo.

For example...if they stay in this world for a long time, the entire mirror world will gradually lose balance due to "rejection reaction" and finally fall into the crisis of destruction.

In this situation, neither Lian nor Hesha could escape the disaster.

“Really…” Hesha lowered her head. Lian, who was taller than her, couldn’t see the girl’s expression for a moment. “I have a feeling…”

"Feel?"

"It seems like the mother here has begun to notice that I'm not her daughter," Kazusa said.

Lian raised an eyebrow, "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything." Kazusa shook her head. "I just had a feeling that no matter how she looked, she looked similar to the Touma Yoko I knew, and there was no strange behavior..."

"Isn't this your illusion?"

"how could I know……"

Faced with Lian's guess, Hesha was not sure.

She just intuitively thought that Touma Yoko might have noticed it.

As for not saying it, it was probably because, like Kazusa, there was no way to prove that the other person was not the person he knew.

After all, it was just a subtle difference in personality that could be reasonably explained away in any number of ways.

"If it's true, maybe even if you, Touma, completely adapt to this world, you will still have a serious distortion of the whole world." Lian sighed, "Of course, I'm almost the same."

The only difference is.

Hesa comes from her mother's extraordinary insight.

The ripples are the foreign properties of the object itself.

Vampires appeared in a world where vampires did not exist. It could even be said that Lian was the ancestor of vampires in this world.

In short, if that kind of existence continues, sooner or later the nature of this world will change.

So, judging from the results, things are not that optimistic.

It’s just that Lian doesn’t have to worry about Hesha’s problem anymore.

"What should we do next?" Hesha looked at Lian.

That was all she could do.

Obviously Lian had a much better idea than himself.

I knew to try to go to the Kitashiro Snake Shrine alone, and I knew to meet someone who could provide an explanation.

Every step has its reasons.

"My train of thought is a little stuck..."

But Lian smiled bitterly.

This is so true that he has even begun to plan to investigate the unique events that took place in this world seven years ago, in order to find ways to expand his thinking.

Ren wasn't sure whether this would be useful or not, so she didn't plan to tell Touma and Sa right away.

"Half-blood brother, there is actually a simplest solution to this abnormality."

Axunoki's familiar and calm voice sounded.

"What simple method?" Lian didn't think much and followed the other party's line of thought and asked.

"Well, it's a super simple solution." Funoki continued.

"It's easy enough, solvable... Are you a user of nitrogen armor or something—" Lian sighed, and when she saw Kazusa's surprised expression, she realized something was wrong.

In the gap between their conversation, Atonoki Yujie appeared from nowhere.

Without any warning or greeting, he just cut right into their conversation.

It's not surprising that Kazusa would have that expression.

After all, dead people are almost like ghosts...

Chapter 164 Chapter 2 If You Give Up ()

Although she was surprised, Lian easily accepted the fact that Atonoki appeared.

It was he who asked Funogi to look after Kazusa secretly.

Even if nothing happened to Kazusa, Atonoki still kept his promise and completed Ren's commission.

Maybe she heard the conversation here nearby and chose the right time to show up.

"This, this is Miss Atonogi Yojie, uh... the one..." Lian introduced to Kazusa.

"Head of the weird investigation team, yeah, peace-peace--" Atonoki made up a title for himself that seemed very cool.

Lian swallowed, "Yes, that's it..."

"You really know some weird people." That's all Kazusa could complain.

As for Lian using honorifics to address girls who looked younger than herself, it was even more unnecessary.

A weirdo plus a weirdo, it's too weird, so any investigation would be superfluous.

"Ahem..." Lian cleared her throat, "What's the method, Ms. Atonogi?"

"It's very simple. As long as you, the half-blood brother, and the piano girl over there give up returning to their original world and make up your mind to live your whole life in this world, everything will be fine."

"I see, there is such a trick..." Lian nodded repeatedly, then slammed the sink, "It's so simple! In the end, are you asking us to give up? If that's the case, why did I put so much effort in yesterday? I didn't even need to bother Aunt Kissshotte!"

Facing Lian's bitter complaints, Kazusa did not react, but only looked at Funoki suspiciously:

"Why is deciding to stay a solution? Isn't it just giving up on solving the problem in the end?"

Judging from the current situation, most of them are also residents of this world, but they understand the current situation to a certain extent, and even understand the situation of Lian and Hesha.

In short, they are very special professionals.

"That's because they want to go back, but the mixed-blood guy and the piano girl don't intend to integrate into this world. Whether it's shopping or drinking coffee, they seem to adapt to this place, but they run here to discuss countermeasures whenever they have the chance. It's like a transfer student who brags about his birthplace in dialect, making the atmosphere in the class worse and worse."

Funoki directly put forward his own views.

"What? That kind of uncomfortable metaphor. What does the atmosphere in the class have to do with me?" Kazusa stared at Atonoki.

However, Funoki didn't care about Kazusa's attitude. She pointed to herself with her hand and said, "If I were to put it bluntly, I'm just the gentle heroine who wants to talk to the misfits in the class."

"Where did this elementary school friendship drama come from..." Lian slumped her shoulders.

"As long as you give up going back and open your hearts to this world, the world should take the initiative to exert influence on you. Under this level of pressure, you will naturally recover to a state that adapts to this world. Especially for the half-blood brother, the vampire part of you will gradually disappear because you don't belong to this world, and you will become a complete human being. Of course, this is only based on the fact that there are no vampires in our world. This is how we see you, and it is just a compromise." Funoki concluded quietly, "But basically according to the principle of minority obeys majority, our influence will not lose to you two."

“Don’t create confrontation at a time like this…” Lian stood up straight.

But there is no doubt that Atonoki Yujie is serious about proposing the solution she wants.

For the mirror world she lives in.

However, Atonoki's tone was so flat, without any sense of urgency at all, that it made people doubt whether this girl really wanted to save the world.

If we put aside these subjective factors, what Atonoki said actually makes sense.

As long as he and Kazusa give up, that's enough.

Just give up and go back, and then be determined to survive in this world.

To use Atonoki's analogy, it is like encountering a shipwreck, drifting to a foreign country, and finally making up your mind to live there.

"Well, I didn't ask you to accept this proposal." Funoki Yu continued, "After all, if you don't accept it, it will only cause the collapse of this world. There is no precedent to refer to whether you will be implicated after the world is destroyed."

"After all, if we really want to be able to use it as a reference, we have to be creatures of a very high dimension!" Lian complained helplessly.

"It won't hurt to keep looking for a way to leave." Funoki stood there quietly. "I just proposed the simplest and most effective way to maintain the balance of this world."

"Really..." Lian lowered her eyes.

If he really had no other choice, he would consider making this decision.

However, that is only a judgment made after excluding subjective factors.

In fact, Lian didn't want to at all.

Especially losing the part about being a vampire because of this.