Persona: Devil Summoner

A stone finally fell from Dongxiang Yiersan's heart.

However, what she didn't know was that the man opposite her felt even more worried than she did!

This is obviously a real-life scene, without any fairy-tale elements.

This is the solution that Bai Zhong Zhidou mentioned.

Since Mitsuyo Togo regarded herself as a fairy tale writer, it is not difficult to guess with a little thought that her purpose was to treat Togo Ichiro as her own work, depicting her as a beautiful princess in a fairy tale, making her an incarnation of beauty respected and admired by the world, while she herself, as the "mother of Togo Ichiro", also enjoyed the pleasure of being a big star.

Therefore, for her, the only reality is not family, not kinship, not ties, but her beloved daughter, Dongxiang Yiersan.

The core purpose of her writing fairy tales is to help Togo Ichiraku achieve success in real life.

Therefore, when you pull the real Togo Ichiraku into the fairy tale, these false fairy tales will all collapse in the face of the overwhelming "reality".

Because Togo Mitsuyo's desire is to use her daughter to get to the top, her daughter is the most realistic thing in her heart, even though she has always used her daughter as a blueprint to compose stories. It's really a bit ironic.

As Bai Zhong Naoto speculated, by pulling Togo Ichisan into Togo Mitsuyo's palace through the app, that difficult fairy tale world can be completely sealed off.

Sumire Yoshizawa was also saved because of this.

But among the group, only Yoshizawa Kasumi and Shirakari Naoto did not have masks on their faces. They were not convenient to show up in front of Togo Ichi-san, so as not to expose their true identities and cause trouble. Therefore, only the above four people, Jiang Tianwei, Kitagawa Yusuke, Yoshizawa Sumire and Niijima Makoto, actually showed up.

By the way, asking Togo Ichi-san to destroy the window has two meanings. First, it is to confirm her determination to resist her mother. Second, it is to destroy the sealed secret room structure. Although Jiang Tianwei and his team have not encountered Sakura Futaba's maze, Madarame's maze also has a similar design.

The loud noise from breaking the window would surely alarm the neighbors, and those who knew Togo Mitsuyo would of course call her immediately to tell her. In China, this possibility might be very low - after all, in most Chinese families, both parents have jobs to earn money, so there might be no one at home in broad daylight.

Japanese families still have the feudal ideology of the last century, which believes that women should support their husbands after marriage. Therefore, housewives are very common in Japanese families. It is also possible that housewives are busy with housework at home during the day. In this case, the broken glass is likely to reach Togo Mitsuyo's ears, causing a change in her cognition.

As a result, this is what it is now.

Because of Togo Ichiraku's entry, the entire room changed into its real appearance, which shows that Togo Mitsuyo had no cognitive bias about Ichiraku's situation in reality.

"Tsk, what an unpleasant little thief. He actually brought my precious princess here."

At the door of the room, a woman's voice was heard faintly.

It's a bit like the sound effects in horror games, ethereal, distant, deep, and with a woman's voice with some reverberation.

These words made everyone turn their eyes towards the door.

The greedy mother who imprisoned her own daughter was now standing at the door. Her palace image was different from that of others. At least for now, she still looked the same as a human being. At this moment, she was still wearing a blue dress, the same as the one she had seen in the church before.

Dongxiang Yiersan instinctively took a half step back and muttered, "Mom..."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 403 "I'm doing this all for you!"

So far, Jiang Tianwei has met many palace masters.

The palace was born out of over-inflated and over-distorted desires. Such strong desires often distort people into weird postures.

However, it is really strange that Mitsuyo Togo still maintains a basic human posture.

(Is it because her main distortion is not in herself, but in Togo Ichi-san? Or is it that the Togo Mitsuyo in front of her is also fake? Just like she can weave a false fairy tale, she can also weave a false self?)

Because Naoto was not there, Jiang Tianwei had to use his brain to carefully consider various possibilities.

Mitsuyo Togo ignored these thieves. This exaggerated desire for control is often accompanied by another pathological emotion: [self-centeredness] or [extreme self-confidence].

Why did she want to control everything? The core reason was that she firmly believed that the path she had chosen was absolutely correct.

"One, two, three, come to mommy quickly. Ignore those petty thieves. Humph, they actually call themselves phantom thieves and mess up the whole society. They are just hooligans, delinquents, and street urchins... What if you get caught by the media if you hang out with those people?"

"Mom, I..."

"You don't need to think about anything else. One, two, three, my beloved daughter. I will choose the path that is most suitable for you and will allow you to shine brightly. Will your mother harm you? I will definitely make you a world-class star."

Mitsuyo Togo didn't give her daughter a chance to speak and continued talking to herself.

That's right, a person who is twisted enough to create a palace cannot be a person who can communicate rationally.

Jiang Tianwei clenched his fists, ready to rush out and use violence at any time.

Although everyone knows that violence cannot solve problems, it can solve the problems of those who raise questions. If the questioners disappear, wouldn’t the problem be solved?

Suddenly, in this tense atmosphere, Shinjima asked, "Mother, regarding this point you raised..."

Even through the mask, Jiang Tianwei could feel that President Niijima's blood pressure was soaring, and his brows were probably tightly furrowed, right?

"Huh?! Don't interrupt others! Can't you see that they are just talking to each other?! Didn't your father teach you what the five virtues and four beauties are?"

These familiar words burst out again. Shinjima was about to explode. The throbbing veins could be seen through the gloves. Jiang Tianwei quickly summoned his pistol and stabbed it towards the floor with all his strength...

Boom!

It was a violent sound like an earthquake. A huge hole was pierced through the solid concrete floor by his gunshot! Thick dust was raised between the rustling fragments.

This blow directly interrupted the conversation of the two people. Both Shinjima Makoto and his mother were forced to stop talking by this blow.

"Your habit of not listening to others is still the same! You claimed before that you were doing it for her own good and that you wanted to create a perfect life for her, so why is the internet now full of negative news about her?"

"My...bad news?"

Dongxiang Yiersan's tone sounded a little strange. It seemed that he had never heard of this news.

The power of the Internet is enormous. In the early years, there would occasionally be news reports about people being forced to commit suicide by the Internet, or having their addresses exposed and then being killed by netizens at their homes.

However, the Internet also has its limitations. When one does not use the Internet at all, it loses such a powerful influence.

Now Dongxiang Yiersan is completely isolated from the outside world. Her mother announced that she was in seclusion. She didn't have many friends, so naturally no classmates would come to visit her. Then her cell phone and communication equipment were confiscated, the door was locked, and the window was replaced with a window that could not be opened from the inside or outside, just to ensure that Dongxiang Yiersan would not have any channel to know her current situation.

As for those omnipresent paparazzi, there are "professionals" hired by Togo Mitsuyoshi nearby on standby. If someone is really found holding a camera towards his house... it won't be solved by just smashing a camera.

From this point of view, the previous practice of everyone dispersing and entering residential areas was very correct.

"You guy!"

Mitsuyo Togo was angry, and her face looked like the angry King Kong seen in temples, with a ferocious and exaggerated expression.

She originally imprisoned her in order to prevent her daughter from knowing these negative situations, but she didn't expect that Jiang Tianwei would casually reveal it to her!

"What do you know? I locked her up at home just to protect One, Two, Three! I just wanted to prevent her from knowing these useless information and disturbing her."

"Mom? Mr. Kaito? Yes, what negative information is that?"

Togo Ichiraku looked around in confusion. He was clearly the center of the topic, but he had no idea what was going on.

"One, two, three, don't be afraid. These negative news were released by mom herself. Don't worry, mom will help you deal with it. Modern media has a [script]. As long as you follow the public's expectations, you will gain support."

Mitsuyo Togo's main job is a TV producer, which means she makes TV programs, so she naturally knows best how programs are produced.

Maybe, many people don't know the inside story, so they think that a small part of what is shown on TV is real. Everyone knows that TV dramas and movies are fake, but some people firmly believe that "live broadcasts" and "variety shows" are real. It's very strange...

If anyone has been to the recording site, they will know that all of this is a script. All the audience are extras. Every day's work is to sit here from morning to night, with lunch included. Occasionally, if you have to work overtime, you will have an extra dinner.

The salary for the day is RMB 20 to 50. Occasionally, when the audience is required to come on stage to cooperate, the selected audience (actually pre-negotiated) can receive an additional allowance.

In places where cameras can't capture, there is a profession called director, who holds a board in his hand, and he will write various instructions on it to direct the audience. For example, if you hold up a sign, you have to smile, or let everyone wave the sign in their hands, etc.

Those feelings of reality are actually written scripts, and are the realities performed for you to see.

As the producer of the program, Mitsuyo Togo knows only too well how to operate it.

Including all these negative news, they are all aimed at creating the image of Dongxiang Yiersan in the end.

It is inevitable that celebrities will be involved in all kinds of negative news, and it is not that everyone is completely unacceptable to negative news. Even when some celebrities touch the bottom line that cannot be touched, their fanatical fans will still whitewash them.

Moreover, a pure and flawless star is often more prone to negative news, because most people still yearn for artistic performances that "fall from the altar" in their bones.

Therefore, since negative news is inevitable, we must take control of the negative news and transform it into future popularity.

Moreover, Togo Mitsuyo is very smart. The news she released is basically focused on the disagreement between her parents and her mother's dominance. These news are not very offensive to Ichi-San herself. She first used negative gossip to gain attention, and then used a planned victory to further attract attention. Then, she deliberately lost to a male chess player, so as to let those who wanted to watch the fun eat melons and satisfy everyone's desire to comment.

Then they took the opportunity to hype up the incident and made it into a poor victim of public opinion, making everyone think, "Aren't these people going too far?" This feeling is like if you see someone spitting everywhere, you will of course think he has no manners. But if you see a person spitting everywhere and hundreds of thousands of people in the whole city are beheaded, you will think that this is a bit of an exaggeration and not a crime that deserves this.

As long as they succeed in stimulating the sympathy of the public (especially women), they will be halfway successful. Then, they can let One Two Three take revenge successfully, wrap it up with themes like women's self-improvement, and prove that the negative news was released by her herself, and then they can prove that it is all fake news, and then the operation will be complete.

The whole process is reasonable.

In fact, Mitsuyo Togo had originally prepared another plan.

At first, she wanted 123 to take the normal route of increasing exposure, so she actively promoted various activities of 123 to take the opportunity to increase exposure.

Originally, she found the director of the Medical Bureau, Shoichi Oyamada, who had made great achievements in the field of medicine, and planned to jointly launch a brain tonic product. For celebrities, the most important thing is exposure. No matter how great a star is, if no one knows him, it is meaningless.

It’s just a pity that just when the negotiations were almost done and even the contract was signed, and the only thing left for official production was... suddenly Oyamada got into that kind of trouble. Once he publicly apologized, of course his dirty deeds were also exposed.

As a result, Mitsuyo Togo didn't dare go to the hospital to ask for the penalty for breach of contract, for fear that these dirty comments would spread like wildfire through the contract and spread to her precious daughter.

Togo Mitsuyo really loves her daughter too much... or rather, she loves this celebrity daughter she imagined too much and will never let her get hurt. As a last resort, she can only actively choose to release negative news, trying to fish in troubled waters and do a large-scale crisis public relations...

It has been mentioned several times before that a person's shadow is his or her hidden self, and it will not lie. Dongxiang Mitsuyo was really angry at Jiang Tianwei's accusation and talked about her plan.

It's not to show how great I am, but to prove one thing...

"Do you understand now, you idiot masked bastard? Everything I do is for the future of One, Two, Three! You know nothing!"

She raised her head proudly, completely unaware that Togo Ichiraku had his head lowered, with his black hair cascading down in front of him, blocking her face.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 404 [My] Choice

Mitsuyo Togo's plan really surprised Jiang Tianwei.

For a high school student who has never been in the entertainment industry, this grand star-making plan is incomprehensible to him.

Just like the topic mentioned before when I mentioned Rishigen, one general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers. In this industry, countless people have become background boards for programs, receiving Weibo salaries every day, eating cheap boxed lunches, and dreaming of meeting a mentor one day and soaring to the sky.

Togo Mitsuyo herself is a loser in this entertainment industry, how could she not know how deep the water is here? She didn't want her children to go through the hardships she had experienced before, this is her mood. She had failed in it before, and now she would fight back no matter what, this is also her mood. When she has a child who is a big star, no matter it is the first, second, third or herself, life will surely usher in glory, this wish is definitely not a lie.

Humans are complex creatures.

Love for children, love for oneself, desire for fame and wealth, desire to be a winner in life, many desires are truly mixed together, this is the person of Togo Mitsuyo. It is one-sided to summarize only one aspect.

However, although Jiang Tianwei doesn’t understand the entertainment industry, he understands people’s hearts…

"So, have you ever thought about Togo Ichi-san's feelings?"

Jiang Tianwei asked.

"How is Yi Er San feeling? Ha, Yi Er San is still too young now! She doesn't understand at all! She doesn't understand how dangerous and difficult this society is! Do you know how many people in Japan work overtime until late at night! Do you know how many people can't even save a penny after paying for rent, utilities and food?! Do you know how severe the current employment situation is! When she reaches that time, facing these complex and harsh realities, it will be over! Maybe she doesn't understand me now, but one day in the future, she will definitely figure it out and thank me!"

Mitsuyo Togo's words are very similar to the thoughts that might be found in a traditional family.

Jiang Tianwei secretly glanced at Dongxiang Yiersan beside her, but she just lowered her head and said nothing.

Jiang Tianwei wanted to encourage or persuade her...but gave up in the end.

It is she who has to take this step.

Jiang Tianwei didn't mind having one more persona messenger, even though he wasn't sure that One, Two, Three would definitely join the Phantom Thieves. Naturally, by the same token, he didn't mind having one less persona messenger, since his current combat power was sufficient anyway.

If Yi Er San, like everyone else, tore off her disguise because of inner resistance, that would be fine, even if she chose not to become a phantom thief in the end.

However, if she still refuses to take this step in the end, it doesn't matter. Jiang Tianwei didn't come for her in the first place. Although it's a bit cruel to say this, Dongxiang Yiersan is just an important tool to break the illusion of Dongxiang Mitsuyo's palace.

"Do you have any final words for her? If not, I'll just get down to business."

As Jiang Tianwei spoke, he swung the spear in his hand and assumed a fighting stance.

Dongxiang Yiersan didn't say anything, but just raised his head silently. His originally clear eyes now became cloudy because he couldn't think through so many complicated things.

"..."

She looked around silently, looking at her mother, and then at the Phantom Thieves...

After a dozen seconds of silence that felt particularly long, Togo Ichi-san finally spoke...

"Give me some more!"

It is said that either you explode in silence or you perish in silence.

It is obvious that Togo Ichiro is not the type of person who would choose to perish.

Jiang Tianwei never thought that this seemingly soft and tender girl could burst out with such sharp and huge energy. She was shocked at the time.

"I'm talking to you guys! You're obviously talking about my topic! Why am I the only one who doesn't know anything?!"

She was a little hysterical because of the confusion, and she opened her hands wide, as if this could vent her distress to the greatest extent.

"Mom! Why didn't you tell me about your star plan until the very end? And the negative news! And the fake chess game! Why didn't I know about it?!"