Persona: Devil Summoner

Bai Zhongzhidou had been holding his chin with one hand, thinking about something while walking. Jiang Tianwei was afraid to interrupt her thoughts and didn't dare to speak. Fang Zexia was also silent, but she bit her lips unconsciously, still betraying her heart. After all, her sister, a living person, disappeared suddenly. How could she not be anxious?

In a castle like this at the end of a story, there are naturally no forks in the road. After walking for a while, they saw a huge, decorated door blocking the way. As the only man in the team, Jiang Tianwei naturally walked in the front. No matter if there was a princess or a powerful enemy in the room, he should have been the first to go.

Taking a deep breath and making all necessary preparations, Jiang Tianwei reached out and pushed open the door.

As soon as I opened the door, I was immediately greeted by a strong sweet fragrance. When writers describe women, they always describe their fragrance. According to this rule, this must be the princess's boudoir.

The sweet smell that makes people's brains unable to think can be called olfactory violence.

This is a room that fits the traditional stereotype of a "princess". Pink is everywhere: the walls are pink, the curtains are pink, the mattress is pink, the floor is pink, and even the lights are pink.

Through the gauze curtains on the window, one could clearly see the bright sunny day outside, which made Jiang Tianwei suspect that one of him and the owner of the house must be in another world. Through the gauze curtains hanging on the mattress, one could vaguely see a person lying on the bed.

Jiang Tianwei was just about to walk over and lift the curtain out of curiosity, but unexpectedly Fang Zexia blocked her way first. Jiang Tianwei felt warm in her heart and thought: (It seems that she still cares about me.).

But unexpectedly, Fang Zexia said, "No, you absolutely cannot go over there! If there is a princess on the bed, what will she do if she sees you the first thing when she wakes up!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't they say that princesses fall in love with the first person they see?"

Fang Zexia said this righteously, making Jiang Tianwei wonder if she was joking or speaking from the heart. He scratched his head in confusion, and Bai Zhongzhidou chuckled and came to help: "First of all, what you are talking about is the habit of recognizing the mother, which means that animals will regard the first creature they see after birth as their mother. Secondly - if this habit is true, then we can only let Assistant-kun go."

"Why?!".

"As a woman, I have no interest in having a girlfriend."

"Then I can! If it's to protect Jiang Jiang's chastity!"

Fang Zexia once again said something shocking, causing Bai Zhongzhidou to cover his mouth and try hard to hold back his laughter. Jiang Tianwei quickly came out to smooth things over, as if he didn't say anything, his image would be completely ruined by her: "I tell me, what are you thinking about in that little head of yours?"

While complaining, Jiang Tianwei strode around her and reached out to lift the curtain.

Just as expected, there was a princess lying behind the opened curtain.

She has black hair, delicate features and smooth skin, and she exudes a sweet fragrance.

However, what was completely beyond Jiang Tianwei's expectation was that he originally thought that the person lying on the bed should be Dongxiang Yiersan. Because, Yiersan's statues and reliefs can be seen everywhere in this palace, and this is Dongxiang Mitsuyo, the palace of Yiersan's mother, so no matter how you think about it, the princess role inside should be Dongxiang Yiersan...

However, lying on the bed was...

“President?!”.

Jiang Tianwei looked at Shinjima Makoto in astonishment, and reached out to shake her shoulders hard.

However, no matter how hard he shook, Shinjima just kept his eyes tightly closed, breathing steadily, and showed no sign of waking up.

Normally, at this time, you would pour water on the face, or simply slap him. But the problem is that Jiang Tianwei thought of something called morning grumpiness, and President Niijima was a master of "iron fist sanctions" on weekdays, so he would never try to slap someone even if he had the guts. After all, there is a saying called "revenge after the fall"...

Jiang Tianwei turned on his cell phone and called out the goddess Parvati, who was good at healing. He cast a few spells to remove the abnormality, but it was of no avail.

"Don't even try. This is clearly the story of Sleeping Beauty."

Bai Zhongzhidou gave a calm explanation.

Jiang Tianwei pondered it for a while, and it seemed to be true. You see, the story of Sleeping Beauty is that there was a princess first, then she was cursed by a witch, then she was pricked by a spindle, and then she fell into a coma. Then there were thorns all over the castle, and finally a prince came, cut through the thorns, and kissed the princess awake. It really fits perfectly.

Especially this setting of being in deep sleep.

In fact, the setting of a sleeping princess in fairy tales is not uncommon. For example, Snow White is a similar case.

But there are neither a few dwarfs nor a vicious stepmother who poisoned her daughter, so Sleeping Beauty is more likely to be the story.

"By the way, what was the ending of Sleeping Beauty?"

Bai Zhong Zhidou pretended to be ignorant and asked.

When Fang Zexia saw that even this great detective didn't understand something, she quickly interrupted him in a show-off manner, "Of course the prince kissed the princess to wake her up, and then everyone was happy."

"Well, please."

Bai Zhongzhidou gave a wicked smile, took a half step back, and made a gesture of invitation to Jiang Tianwei.

Fang Zexia finally understood that Bai Zhongzhidou's question was a trap! She hurriedly said, "No! How can Jiang Jiang's first kiss be in this situation... But, we can't not save the president..."

Fang Zexia frowned and thought carefully. Bai Zhongzhidou added: "Long-term sleep is not a good thing. The body will age day by day, lose vitality, and finally become dry..."

"Well...but, Jiang Jiang's first kiss..."

"You are stupid."

Bai Zhongzhidou showed a mysterious smile: "Then why don't you find a way to make it not your first kiss?"

When Fang Zexia heard this, she suddenly showed an expression of enlightenment, and laughed at that time: "There is such a method!"

She has all the qualities that a JK of this age should have, such as lively expressions, lively personality, and... a very active body.

She immediately hooked her hands around Jiang Tianwei's neck, and with a step, the little girl almost jumped up, and her rosy lips touched Jiang Tianwei's slightly dry lips in a flash...

(Hey?! What’s going on?).

Jiang Tianwei hadn't caught up with the topic yet, and was a little dumbfounded. After all, boys would more or less fantasize about KISS, but he didn't expect that his dream would come true at this time...

(I really misunderstood Ms. Naoto. I thought she was a love rival, but it turns out she is a supporting role! - Also, Jiang Jiang's lips are too dry, aren't they? Men need to use lip balm, lip balm too!).

This is Fang Zexia's thought, which is a bit sweet and a bit complaining.

(Oh, as expected, seeing this kind of situation makes me feel uncomfortable. According to the general public's understanding, this kind of emotion should be classified as jealousy. So, why do I have this kind of emotion? I...something is wrong.)

This is what Bai Zhongzhidou thought.

Probably, Kasumi Yoshizawa would never have imagined in her dreams that Naoto was neither a love rival nor a supporting role, but a scholar who studies love... What a novel career positioning!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 381: Classics Will Last Forever

The concept of "first time" can be said to be the most important information in love.

To make an analogy, its importance is equivalent to the hero in Dragon Quest, equivalent to Zelda in The Legend of Zelda, and equivalent to speed in Fast and Furious. Simply put, it is a crucial link.

How many gay men would break out in a sweat because their girlfriend asked them, "Do you know when we had sex for the first time?" Or would they get a chill down their spine because their girlfriend asked them, "Do you know what day it is today?"

Generally speaking, compared to careless men, girls with delicate emotions tend to pay more attention to these "ritualistic" things.

This is also the main point that Fang Zexia is struggling with.

She was very open-minded in this regard, otherwise she wouldn't have been thinking about instigating Jiang Tianwei and her sister every day. But Fang Zexia was also a woman, and she was sensitive and naturally cared about this kind of ritual. Especially, things like the first kiss.

Instigated by Bai Zhongzhidou, Fang Zexia directly tampered with the traditional forced kiss plot that is popular in online literature. This change made Jiang Tianwei at a loss.

Seeing his pupils shrink, his eyelids dilate, his heartbeat speed up, and his body sweating, he looked like he could be sent directly to a medical school as a sample of difficult and complicated cases. Fang Zexia laughed instead: "What? You got the upper hand, but you're still embarrassed."

Jiang Tianwei complained instinctively: "I'm thinking about whether I should wipe my mouth with muddy water."

"Then at least you have to wait until I declare to others: 'The person you first kissed was not Jojo, but me, Kasumi.'"

The two of them communicated skillfully with each other, and Jiang Tianwei also felt much calmer. There is a thing called sage time, which refers to the period of time after the passion begins to become more rational. Now that Jiang Tianwei's passion has calmed down a little, he feels that he has suffered a loss.

It was such an important matter, how come I was distracted just now and didn’t appreciate it properly at all!

The kiss described by writers often has a magical expressive power, which can make people feel numb all over, with a sweet taste on the corners of their mouths, and they can always recall it clearly whenever they want to recall it. And, usually, it is accompanied by a lot of lyrical descriptions.

If Jiang Tianwei could see the writers who wrote these, he would definitely slap them in the face: Why don’t I feel so many wonderful flavors that you wrote about?

Now he felt as if something hit him on his lips, but he didn't feel anything special... just... very ordinary.

From this we can see that many things can only remain at the level of thinking, and when they are actually done they are often not as good as imagined.

"Okay, this time I agreed to it because I wanted to save my companion's life! And this is not a kiss, this is just like artificial respiration! It's about curing illnesses and saving lives! Don't let your imagination run wild!"

While Fang Zexia pushed Jiang Tianwei towards Xindao Zhen, she kept nagging him over and over again. It sounded as if she was saying it to herself, in order to make herself accept it.

Jiang Tianwei looked at the side. Bai Zhongzhidou seemed to be thinking about something, and his attention was obviously not on Jiang Tianwei. Fang Zexia was in such a contradictory mood. Jiang Tianwei looked at the president who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, and looked like he was in a sleeping state...

As a man, he was very happy to do this. However, as an intellectual with higher education, there was a voice in his heart that said, "This is not right."

Then Jiang Tianwei spent twenty seconds in a fierce psychological struggle. In the end, the inner devil rode on the inner angel and beat him up, leaving the angel dying. He therefore came to a painful, great, and humanistic decision: human life is more important than anything else, there is nothing you can do about it!

Jiang Tianwei had been kissed forcefully by Fang Zexia before, and he didn’t react, so he didn’t savor it properly. This time, he tried hard to control his racing heart, watching the peaceful sleeping face of Niijima Makoto getting closer and closer, smelling the overly strong banana smell that came from the mattress or something else... Jiang Tianwei’s lips touched Niijima Makoto’s lips...

(What? It’s not as wonderful as I imagined…)

Jiang Tianwei straightened up with a sense of loss. It was not that he did not want to savor it carefully, but Fang Zexia's eyes were as cold as a knife. At this moment, he experienced firsthand how a frog felt when being stared at by a snake.

I don’t know if it was because of the fairy tale, but after their lips touched, President Niijima really let out a moan, his eyes slowly opened, and his hazy eyes gradually became clear.

"President, are you okay? Do you remember what happened before?"

Jiang Tianwei asked with a guilty conscience.

Niijima really wanted to shake her head, but she seemed to be very tired. Just shaking her head had already consumed too much energy. She finally gave up and said slowly: "I don't know... Just like before, I started the app and entered the palace, but before I could react, I was attacked by some kind of mental attack. When I came to my senses, I was in the current situation."

Shinjima spoke intermittently, and one could tell from her voice that she was very weak.

"President, why don't we first..."

Jiang Tianwei was about to suggest that they go back and rest for a while, but unexpectedly, Shinjima interrupted him immediately and said, "No, don't leave yet."

Although Shin Niijima is not as good a detective as Naoto Shiraishi, he is still a good student who has been ranked first in the grade for many years and has a very useful brain.

Ignoring her still weak body, she forced her brain to work, and she immediately reacted: everyone acted separately and entered this fairy tale world separately, and when she came to her senses, she was already lying on the bed so weakly, which meant that other people who acted alone might have encountered similar things as she did.

If he returned to the real world now, he could rest and recuperate quickly, but what about the others? No one knew what the consequences would be if he died in the palace, but Shinjima would never gamble on such a thing.

After listening to Shinjima's analysis, Bai Zhongzhidou nodded and said, "That makes sense. I think so too. Even if we want to retreat, we should gather the others first. Although it is just a rough inference, I am afraid that this palace will be different from the palaces you have conquered in the past."

Bai Zhongzhidou's voice was always so calm. In order to cover up his guilty conscience, Jiang Tianwei half-jokingly said, "You are worthy of being the detective [Prince]. Do you have the answer?"

Before Naoto could say anything, Yoshizawa Kasumi suddenly frowned and said, "Wait a minute! I just thought that since the condition for waking the princess up with a kiss from the prince, Miss Naoto, you also meet the requirements, right?"

"It should be consistent."

Bai Zhongzhidou admitted it without any concealment.

"Ah! So you were deliberately trying to piss me off? Well, I thought you were a good person just now!"

"Haha, but didn't you also get a blessing in disguise?"

"Well……"

After hearing what Naoto said, Yoshizawa Kasumi was suddenly in a deep dilemma, not knowing whether to condemn Naoto for bullying her or to praise her for assisting her.

However, what Fang Zexia did not notice was that she had just inadvertently revealed a shocking secret!

Shinjima had just woken up and was in a daze. She didn't understand what happened, but Yoshizawa Kasumi's words made her pay attention to the key points instantly...

Where is this? A palace that looks like a fairy tale world.

What did they talk about? They talked about kisses and princesses.

Then, someone must have been kissed here just now, right? ——Without a doubt, it was me who was kissed, right? ! At this moment, Shinjima felt as if a thunderclap had exploded in the sky, and a bolt of lightning had struck him squarely on the head!

(I, I was kissed?!)

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 382 Brainstorming

Niijima is such a conservative person.

As long as you spend more time with her, you will definitely come to this conclusion.

Not only is his personality too serious, but his hobbies and tastes are also too mature, and in the words of people his age, they are a bit too "rustic."

A girl who is strict with herself, has never been exposed to entertainment, and has always been well protected, naturally has a "stereotyped concept of chastity" that matches it.

For example... your first kiss can only be given to your future husband.

(I, I was kissed?).

Shinjima's head was buzzing and he could only repeat this sentence over and over in his mind.

(Isn’t that something that can only be done after marriage…he, he he he kissed me? Then, then doesn’t that mean I have to marry him?).

Niijima's face turned red. She had no experience in love and had never thought about falling in love. As a good student, she felt that premature love was wrong. She had no intention of falling in love before graduating from university. But she didn't expect...

If she were to ask herself, she still had some affection for this junior. When she thought about getting married today, bits and pieces of the past came to her mind: for example, the days when she was asked by the principal to follow him, for example, the two of them dancing in front of a single clerk in a supermarket, for example, he helped her to ask Akechi Goro for an explanation on the subway, for example, he comforted her in the palace and made her discover her own value...

She hadn't paid attention to it before, so she didn't notice it. Now that she suddenly thought about it, she found that there were actually quite a few little things between the two of them?!

(But, he said that his current family is involved in organized crime... As a prosecutor, will my sister really tolerate my relationship with him? What if my sister disagrees? Should we elope? Just like in the story? Should we travel the world together for love? Moreover, not to mention my sister, will the father-in-law who is involved in organized crime let us go? Will we live a life of being hunted down every day like in Rome? This is not okay. If the child cannot live a stable life, it will be very bad for his education...)

Shinjima was already exhausted by the attack from the palace owner, and now her mind was suddenly hit by this shocking fact, and she was completely confused! If someone could read her thoughts now, they would probably be shocked and lose their memory on the spot.