Persona: Devil Summoner

The standard English listening questions asked by the foreigners came to an abrupt end.

Even when he was at a resort, he never forgot to study. This is Shinjima Shin. The last word of his name means serious.

My roommate was lying on the bed, scrolling through his phone, glancing at Shinjima every now and then. He was sighing, "How can I be so depraved? Look at him! I should learn from President Shinjima!" I should not forget my original aspiration and mission! I should study, ...

As I mentioned before, this school trip only involves students from the first and second year of high school, since the third year students have to prepare for the college entrance exam.

So if high school students want to come along, there is only one way, and that is to become an assistant teacher like Shinjima Makoto, after all, there are really not enough people.

To be honest, there are still some students who volunteered to be assistant teachers just to have a chance to visit Hawaii, such as Niijima's roommate.

Apart from the annoying patrol every night, everything else is worth it!

Shinjima finished the listening test and looked at the time. It was almost nine o'clock in the evening. The patrol started at ten o'clock, so he could take a shower before then.

This is how it is in this tropical climate region. Even if Shinjima had just returned to the dormitory and taken a shower, he would start sweating again after just lying down for a while and listening to some English listening.

I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I always feel my skin is sticky and uncomfortable. It is said that the air in the seaside area contains salt, I don't know if this is the case.

Turning on the faucet to wash off the sweat, Shinjima looked at his face in the misty mirror and thought of a joke for no reason: "It's just like being marinated."

Perhaps she thought her own joke was funny, and she laughed along with the sound of water.

(If I tell this to the Actor, he will definitely laugh, right?)

For no apparent reason, she suddenly thought of Jiang Tianwei.

When I thought of him, I also thought of the time before, when I lost my first kiss in the fairy tale maze at the place of Togo Ichiraku's mother without knowing it...

When she thought of this, her fingers involuntarily pressed against her lips. Many writers like to use flower petals to describe a girl's lips, and Shinjima's lips are undoubtedly the most suitable for this metaphor.

The rushing water poured onto his forehead, then flowed down his face with distinct ups and downs, lingering briefly on his lips, just like Shinjima Makoto's current trance state.

Sometimes, people's ability to associate is very powerful.

Especially when "looking for meaning", it can be as small as looking for meaning in an article or as big as looking for meaning in the details. But many things are just going with the flow and actually have no meaning. However, I am afraid of guessing blindly.

(Before, when we were on the subway, he tried to seek justice for me... Later, he also helped me untie the knot in my heart and let me know that I was meaningful. Later, when he and JOKER broke up, he also said that he needed me...)

Originally, they were just a few words and trivial details, but as they piled up one after another, and now that she had this intention and was thinking in this direction, she naturally felt that everything seemed to have special meaning.

(Sure enough... Could it be that he likes me? But, that's too slow... He's obviously too close to so many girls!)

As Shinjima was thinking this, he suddenly felt upset for no reason and wondered if it was because the weather was too hot.

(If he doesn't realize it, should I take the initiative to tell him clearly that he should be more careful about keeping a distance from girls in the future? Yes, I should do this! If I don't tell him, he probably won't realize it!)

Shinjima Makoto nodded thoughtfully. In her mind, she had already connected the matter of preaching to Jiang Tianwei with doing homework: If you find that you don't know how to solve a problem when doing your homework and there is no one to teach you, it will be very difficult to understand it.

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9pm, a magical time.

Jiang Tianwei himself didn't know that at this point in time, so many people were actually thinking about different things.

So, at this moment, the center of destiny, what is Jiang Tianwei doing?

Answer: He didn't notice anything. He was in a restaurant near the hotel, leaning back in a chair, playing games on his phone.

The game tells the story of a famous and talented baseball player who was surpassed by the elementary school students when he was coaching an elementary school club to play baseball. As a result, he lost his job and social status, and finally became a big villain who liked to hit people from behind at the station.

It's such a plot that I don't know what to say.

Why did he have to play games outside... Because there was a man sitting opposite him who was eating heartily.

Yusuke Kitagawa.

This artist, who has always been associated with poverty, is now extremely poor.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner in the hotel are all served at fixed times. No one will be served after the time is up. But Yusuke wasted his time on painting and had no money to eat. He was planning to stay in the dormitory for the night, but his roommate said that his girlfriend was coming over to play. As a result, this guy who valued women over friendship begged and lied (in terms of art, he told Yusuke about the scenic spots outside that he could paint) and finally found a way to get Yusuke out.

As a result, Yusuke had no choice but to come to Jiang Tianwei for help.

For Jiang Tianwei, having one more mouth to feed is no big deal. He is not a big eater like Fang Zejin and cannot eat a lot in one meal.

This kind of restaurant must offer Hawaiian-style food. Jiang Tianwei had already eaten dinner, so he simply took a few bites and started playing games, leaving Yusuke alone eating.

"Oh, two students sneaked out of the dormitory and were discovered."

Suddenly, a middle-aged man's half-joking voice came from the side. Jiang Tianwei raised his eyes from the game and glanced at him. It was Maruki Takuto.

"Teacher Maruki, if you hadn't sneaked out of your post, how could you have seen us? - Teacher, you don't want the principal to know that you sneaked out, right?"

Jiang Tianwei was so experienced that he turned the tables on the guest, causing Teacher Maruxi to scratch his head in embarrassment and said with a smile: "It seems to be like this..."

"Well, after all, I'm not a devil - waiter, bring the teacher a menu. Come on, teacher, eat this and pretend you never saw us."

After one move, a derived skill is immediately triggered: blatant bribery!

When Maruki Takuto heard this, his eyes behind his glasses suddenly became sharp: "I, I am a teacher after all, how can I let my students buy me a meal..."

As he was talking, he took the menu handed over by the waiter, glanced at the prices on it, and breathed a sigh of relief. He could afford this price! It was about the same as in Japan! ! He was about to say, "Then let the teacher treat us."

Jiang Tianwei sighed and reminded: "Teacher, let me say one more thing. We are in Hawaii, and Hawaii uses US dollars."

Maruki was startled, and swallowed the words he was about to say...

"Ah... that... hug, sorry... it cost Jiang classmate money."

"That's right - teacher, you understand what I mean, right?"

"Ah, ah, yes, teacher, I didn't see anything today."

It has to be said that Jiang Tianwei is now becoming more and more like a "rule of law". His smooth and coherent threat made Maruki Takuto surrender.

Not bowing down for a few pieces of silver is just an ideal state. Modern adults have many frustrations!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 518: Raise troops for a thousand days and deploy them for a moment!

Three old men were having dinner together. It was natural for them to start talking about topics that were not convenient to talk about in front of the opposite sex. For example, what kind of girls they like, what kind of techniques they like the most, and so on.

But unfortunately, among these three people, one is a hungry art student, one is a penniless teacher, and one is a scumbag who is anxious and thinking about how to survive the next day.

Ah, there really are three people with three different minds, and there is no time to chat at all.

(The atmosphere... is so heavy...)

Maruki Takuto thought as he ate Hawaiian specialty risotto.

I don't know if this thing is authentic or not. Based on the situation in my country, generally speaking, in airports, hotels, and other places that are closely related to the tourism industry, all things that are labeled as "authentic XX" are basically processed products. They are basically used to deceive tourists.

For example, this Hawaiian baked rice is simply made by adding pineapple and other tropical fruit cubes, then adding shrimp and meat cubes, and stir-frying them with rice. It looks delicious in the picture, but when you actually eat it, you will feel that... it seems to be delicious, but it feels a bit subtle.

If you taste it carefully, the pineapple tastes like pineapple, the rice tastes like rice, and the shrimp tastes like shrimp. Although it seems like nonsense, it is because the taste of the ingredients is not integrated at all. It is like tying three dogs together with a rope, and it is not like the legendary Cerberus (the guard dog of the underworld, the famous multi-headed dog beast).

If you really want to taste these flavors, wouldn't it be better to just buy pineapple, shrimp and rice? For the price of this fried rice, you can buy ten large pineapples in Japan.

(No, no, now is not the time to talk about food... Use your brain, I am a teacher, I have to find a topic, I can't let the atmosphere remain so awkward...)

"Well, um, the classmate here is Kitagawa Yusuke, right? Why are you still hanging out so late?"

The bad habit of a psychologist comes back again. He instinctively collects intelligence from the other party. No matter what kind of rhetoric he wants to use, the premise is to understand your client. Psychologists are different from ordinary doctors. Ordinary doctors prescribe the right medicine for the disease. The focus is on the disease, not the person.

Regardless of gender, age or status, if you have a cold, you must take cold medicine. I have never heard of a doctor prescribing Wuji Baifeng Pills to treat a person's cold just because of their gender...

But psychologists need to talk to people. Although the symptoms that everyone may show in the end are very similar, the causes of the symptoms are very strange, and there are even many atypical cases. The most widely misunderstood is probably depression.

Many people think that depression manifests itself in being quiet, withdrawn, and not socializing with others. But in fact, a considerable number of patients with depression can speak normally, and are even happy to speak, and are full of energy every day - but once they are alone, the accumulated pressure will come over them like a mountain...

Yusuke didn't mind being gathered for information. After all, as an artist, he was used to being pointed at. When he heard someone ask, he answered casually, "My roommate wanted to entertain his girlfriend, so he kicked me out."

"Ah, this..."

Having come up with a heavy topic, Maruki Takuto became embarrassed.

As a teacher, how could I just ignore this situation?

But, if I think about it carefully, it seems that as a teacher at Shujin Academy, I have no right to judge the affairs of Kousei High School.

This is not Yusuke's problem, and there is no point in preaching to him. But I can't really check other people's rooms... Alas, being a teacher is such a restrictive job - and you can't even fall in love freely.

For no reason, he thought of Kawakami Sadyo who had come to chat with him before...

"By the way, teacher, do you have a girlfriend?"

Suddenly, Jiang Tianwei, who was browsing on his phone, blurted out these words without any context.

"Ah? Yes, I guess so..."

"Don't be vague."

"Ah, ahahahaha... I'm currently single..."

Maruki Takuto lowered his head and scratched it embarrassedly.

Jiang Tianwei responded and then asked: "Let me ask you, Mr. Maruki. This is a question about my friend."

“Ah, ahaha…”

It’s the classic question of a friend that no one would believe.

Maruki Takuto muttered this in his heart, but he still showed a standard psychiatrist-like business smile on his face.

"What's wrong? What's the problem?"

"He... is the one, many girls like him..."

"..."

Click.

Maruki Takuto seemed to hear the sound of something breaking. What was it? Ah, it was his own feelings! That was fine - why did he have to discuss this kind of love topic with a bachelor? !

"Look, in this situation, if I date everyone, there will be big problems, right?"

"...High, high probability..."

"But if I reject everyone else and only date one person, the other girls will be sad, right?"

"That's common sense."

"So, if you encounter such a patient, what kind of advice would you give him?"

Jiang Tianwei was looking at his phone as he spoke. He spoke so nonchalantly that it was hard to tell whether this was his own business or not, but Maruki Takuto's heart was in turmoil.

"This this……"

Although, as a psychologist, he has seen all kinds of storms, but today's problem is definitely something he has never seen before.

If it were an ordinary psychologist, he would not be so panicked. After all, the premise of any profession is legality. Although psychologists have a confidentiality obligation, this right to confidentiality cannot override national laws and public safety.

To give a simple example, if a bomber really told a psychiatrist: I have planted a bomb in such and such a place, and tens of thousands of people will be killed tomorrow. I feel bad, but I feel relieved after telling the doctor. Doctor, you have a confidentiality obligation, so you can't tell anyone, right? In this case, the doctor can disclose it to the police.

Similarly, Jiang Tianwei's situation clearly violated the country's laws. If his psychologist really revealed it to the outside world, he could still get away with it at least at the legal level - as for his personal safety, it would depend on Young Master Jiang's mood.

But, Maruki Takuto is different.

This person has a special obsession with "happiness". He doesn't like to see people suffer, no matter who they are. In this sense, he is the best doctor who emphasizes "saving everyone without distinction".

But the problem now is that no matter what choice Jiang Tianwei makes, someone will be sad.

If you accept everyone's confession, it will definitely cause big problems, and everyone will be sad. If you only accept one person, then the others will also be sad.

The correct approach should be... to let them forget each other...

Maruki Takuto quickly came to this conclusion in his mind.

but……

Maruki Takuto secretly glanced at Jiang Tianwei. Although this boy looked ordinary, no different from a human except for his tattoos, he exuded a very dangerous aura. It was easy to imagine that at his age, he could become the leader of the Phantom Thieves, who caused headaches for the society. He must be quite capable.

Maruki Takuto didn't know what this feeling was, but he believed that if he used his mental manipulation-related persona ability on him, there would be 100% certainty that there would be serious problems with his own person.

It's a really huge problem! No matter which choice you make, someone will definitely get hurt!

Maruki Takuto sighed deeply and realized his own shortcomings again.

Human beings have their limits. It is impossible to make everyone happy by yourself. I am afraid only God can do it...

Seeing Maruki Takuto so conflicted, Jiang Tianwei knew that he probably couldn't give any meaningful answer.

In fact, he was not prepared to listen to Mr. Maruki's answer. He just wanted to find someone to talk to, which would make him feel better.

"It's almost curfew. I'm going back first. You guys should go back as well after you finish eating."