Persona: Devil Summoner

"..."

Jiang Tianwei didn't say anything, just looked at him calmly.

"........."

"…………"

"…You, why don't you do anything!!"

During the long silence, the first one who couldn't hold back was Kitagawa Minghai.

"Oh, you are nervous, you are anxious, you are wondering: why is this kid so calm when facing the murderer of his father. Right?"

Jiang Tianwei followed suit and used the same words that Beichuan Minghai had used to provoke him, and then provoked the other party in return.

This kind of “applying what you have learned” is the most annoying, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many creators hating piracy.

"If you're asking me why I don't hate the murderer, you're wrong. I still hate that guy very much. He messed up my peaceful life. It's impolite not to reciprocate. I have vowed to make him feel a hundred times the pain I have felt - but unfortunately, I just thought it through. You are not the murderer who killed my father. In this world, how can a real murderer admit that he is the murderer himself!"

Jiang Tianwei showed a smug expression on his face. Although he was still burning with anger deep inside, he looked calm. In acting, controlling emotions is a basic skill. Once an actor stands on the stage, he must suppress everything in his heart and play the role.

Even if the actors know that something has happened to their family members, or even that a family member has died, before going on stage, their professional ethics still force them to finish the show and not let the audience down.

From this point of view, it is very appropriate for Jiang Tianwei to name himself Actor.

What's more, he did feel that way.

Kitagawa Minghai was deliberately provoking me and making me hate him.

Furthermore, he was the type who fought with emotions, so he probably had reasons to do so. For example, if Jiang Tianwei did not have some strong feelings for him, he would not be able to cause effective harm to Jiang Tianwei.

If you think about it carefully, Jiang Tianwei has seen many cases of emotional outbursts so far, and there are many reports on the Internet, but... almost all people who have emotional outbursts have just become crazy people who succumb to their emotions. They either cry loudly, or laugh loudly, or are extremely sad, or extremely happy, but no one has died from an emotional outburst.

There would not be anyone who lost control of his emotions and died in such a strange way with black blood flowing out of all his orifices.

This scene was so shocking that he could never forget it. His father turned around and talked to him with a bright smile on his face just a second ago, and the next second, his smile became stiff, with dark blood flowing from his eye sockets, nostrils, ears and corners of his mouth. He looked horrible.

Even though the impact was too great and caused his brain to enter a defense mechanism and suffer selective amnesia, he only forgot things related to persona. He never forgot his father's face as he died with a smile that was a mixture of happiness and panic.

(That is, he just knew that my father was dead, but he was not the real murderer. He didn’t have the ability to do so.)

Thinking of this, Jiang Tianwei felt that he was getting closer and closer to the truth.

He said this because he wanted to provoke himself and lure himself into attacking.

This person is weird...

The cowardice and panic he had shown before didn't seem like an act, it was as if that was his true self.

If that is a true reflection of his inner thoughts, then it can be explained.

If Kitagawa Akihabara is a genuine coward, then many things can be explained. The cognitive palace is centered on cognition, so how a person sees himself will determine what kind of palace owner he will become. Kamoshida is an athlete, so his attack mode is volleyball shooting, Madarame is a painter, so his attack mode is to use paintings...

A typical negative example is Shoichi Oyamada. Although this person was emotionally out of control and owned a palace, the emotion injected into him was anxiety. If anxiety is too much, people will become timid and unable to act.

If Kitagawa Minghai's true state is that of a timid and cowardly guy, then it is easy to understand. A person with such a nature cannot actively harm others. This is just like the bullying incident in the school.

Every time a case like this breaks out, in addition to the voices criticizing the perpetrators and criticizing the upper echelons for inaction, there is often another voice criticizing the victim: "If he had risked his life to fight back against the perpetrator, wouldn't this have happened?" This puts the victim in the position of "deserve it" and "perpetrator."

People who say this have confused one thing. First, the perpetrators will not look for strong people as their targets. I have never heard of a middle school student having the courage to bully a world-class boxing champion. Secondly, if a person is bullied for many years, he will gradually lose his courage. This is an objective fact.

A person's character development is only a small part of what is innate.

A cowardly person often has a very unhappy family, where he suffers from parents' oppression all year round. For students, family should be a safe haven. When they encounter misfortune and pain outside, they can tell their family members to vent, but what if their family members are the source of their misfortune and pain?

Such a repressive environment will wear down a person's character and create someone who is unable to resist.

It is obvious that Kitagawa Minghai is a cowardly person who feels helpless.

Therefore, even if he awakened his abilities, he did not have the courage to kill a person, and he did not even have the means to actively attack. He could only absorb the enemy's attacks, integrate them, and then fight back.

If the enemy doesn't attack, then there's nothing he can do.

That's why he provoked Jiang Tianwei from the beginning, fearing that this kid was too naive and would not come to kill him.

If he doesn't take action, I won't have the ability to kill him back!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 589 The Beginning of Tragedy

Jiang Tianwei's speculation was correct.

Kitagawa Minghai is indeed a cowardly person by nature.

He has a family that is a textbook example of the opposite.

His father was a long-term alcoholic and domestically violent person. He was drunk 360 days out of 365 days a year. Although he had a respectable job, it was probably because of the pressure from work or the need for drinking companions. In short, Kitagawa Minghai had rarely seen his father not drinking.

His mother became addicted to gambling because of this unfortunate family. Given this family relationship, it is hard to fault her choice. From playing poker with a few neighboring wives to mahjong, from playing cards to squandering money on the mahjong table, it didn't take long.

The father is an equal person, and his domestic violence does not discriminate between women and children. As a victim of domestic violence, the mother naturally needs an outlet. Like Japanese women in the last century, she adheres to the three obediences and four virtues and dares not disobey her husband, so she can only attack her son.

Such a family environment naturally made Kitagawa Minghai withdrawn since childhood and afraid to interact with others.

The world of children is very simple. If you don't talk to others, no one will come to pay attention to you. As time goes by, he doesn't even have friends.

When they were older, school bullying became common. Maybe it was because students were under a lot of pressure, so they needed an outlet. And the reason... no reason was needed. "I don't like you" and "You don't have any friends" were not reasons, but they made Kitagawa Minghai the target of bullying.

But to be honest, Kitagawa Minghai has gradually become numb.

For him, who is still a student, home and school constitute everything in this world.

But now, neither his home nor his school can accommodate him, so his world has no meaning.

So, one day, he finally made up his mind to leave this world...

But, I don’t know whether to say it’s lucky or unlucky, on this day, he picked up a broken rope thrown away by a homeless person from the breakwater under the bridge that he had to pass by to go home. He was ready to go home and implement his plan to escape from the world on this day...

His family was broken.

As mentioned before, his mother is a gambler. How can she always win if she gambles for a long time? Especially when there are so many cheaters in the casino, this world is really not a place for a housewife who just wants to vent her daily grievances to get involved.

However, after losing money, she didn't dare to ask her husband for it, because her husband certainly didn't have money, but he had fists.

So, unable to control her gambling addiction, she ended up taking a path she shouldn’t have taken… which was to borrow money from gangsters.

At this time, she went to the Kawahara Group.

At this time, the Kawahara Group was already a very conscientious moneylender in the underworld. Because they were not loan sharks, but ordinary loans with normal interest rates...

But even so, the lady still lost a huge sum of money that she could not afford to pay back even if she emptied her family's savings - so, the Kawahara group came to take over the mortgaged property.

The drunk husband wanted to use his usual domestic violence tactics, but he was beaten by the gangsters and had his limbs broken and was thrown into the bathtub to soak.

This was also the first time that Beichuan Minghai discovered that the violent man who was so powerful and invincible in his impression was actually such a weak existence...

It was also the first time that he developed a fanatical admiration for the underworld.

Because they crushed the bad guys who had always oppressed them, just like... yes, just like the heroes on TV.

The person leading the team at that time was Kawahara Masaaki, who had not yet established himself as a team leader. At that time, he showed everything a gangster should have: cold, calm, and indifferent to life and death.

If the underworld is the angel who saved Kitagawa Akihabara, then the person who commands the angels must naturally be God, right?

"…What is the rope for?"

This is the sentence that Kawahara Masaaki and Kitagawa Akimi used in their first communication.

Before Kitagawa Akihabara could say anything, Kawahara Masaaki snatched the rope from his hand and said, "Don't do anything stupid. This room is now an asset of our group. Don't lower its value by committing suicide."

Although it sounded like a very cold and official tone, Kitagawa Minghai felt like "he cares about me!"

As someone who has always been bullied and has never felt the warmth of human nature, he doesn't even need others to be nice to him. As long as the other party doesn't bully him, he will feel good about them.

In particular, whether it is textbooks or public opinion, everyone says that the underworld is bad, bad, and a group of evil people. However, the kind-hearted Japanese police did not save Kitagawa Akihabara. Instead, it was the gangster who was called evil who saved him. Moreover, this gang boss did not even have any malice towards him!

So, Kitagawa Akiha begged and almost forced himself to follow Kawahara Masaaki, hoping that he would recruit him into the organization.

As mentioned before, the situation of Japanese gangs is becoming increasingly difficult. Due to government suppression and propaganda, fewer and fewer people are willing to join gangs every year. Kawahara Masaaki thought about it and finally decided to give him a chance.

Thus, Kitagawa Minghai had the happiest years of his life. Although there were annoying bosses and bullying seniors here, at least he knew clearly that God existed in this place. Everything he did was for this God.

This is probably why the more difficult the times, the more people believe in religion. It is because they have lost hope in the normal world that they pursue the illusory gods.

But gradually, everything began to change.

Although Kawahara Masaaki has been helping Councilman Shido to do dirty things, he has always hoped that the people in the team can clear their identities. Especially after meeting Jiang Jie, the originally serious team leader always smiles frequently.

Why?! On what basis? How is it possible?! The team leader is a gangster! He is the god of the gang! How can he show such a human expression? How can he smile like an ordinary human?! Gods must be high and mighty, how can they mingle with mortals?!

Kitagawa Minghai hated Shido Zhengyi because he used God as a gun and had no respect for Him.

At the same time, he also hated Jiang Jie, this outsider who, just because of a request from Shido Zhengyi, infiltrated the life of the Kawahara Group and became an important partner of the team leader.

He couldn't accept all this, so he planned an assassination...

But...I don't know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate that his assassination plan did not come true.

Because before he could make his move, Jiang Jie died first.

At that moment, Kitagawa Minghai found that his emotions were very complicated.

There is the joy of the enemy's death, but also the depression of not being able to solve everything by myself. There is hope for future life, but also a sense of loss...

At this moment, he did not notice that a new software had quietly appeared on his mobile phone - he was not the kind of person who would use his mobile phone frequently, he had no interest in anything, and the meaning of his life was only to dedicate everything to Kawahara Masaaki.

However, everything that happened later did not go as he expected.

First, Kawahara Masaaki announced his marriage to Jiang Jie’s wife.

Since the two of them were married, Jiang Jie's affairs were his affairs, so he had at least a legitimate reason to find enemies for Jiang Jie.

To be honest, although Kawahara Masaaki cared about Jiang Jie, most of the people in Kawahara Group just thought that the man was troublesome. He kept saying things that were hard to understand and annoying. So no one would pay for the death of this man.

But it's different now.

Now, this man is the ex-husband of the team leader's wife - why does this relationship sound so complicated? In short, the team leader gave an order to find out the cause of this man's death and seek justice for his wife.

Although this reason is far-fetched, at least everyone understands that this is not an outsider's business, and they have to give the team leader some face.

It was at this time that the chaotic emotions in Kitagawa Minghai's heart turned into a whirlpool.

The team leader is God, and God must be supported.

But now that God has fallen from the altar, is he still God? ——Of course! So I have to push him back to the altar.

The problem is that I respect God very much, so theoretically I shouldn't do anything that would make God sad. You can neither hurt Him directly nor hurt Him indirectly.

Therefore, killing that annoying woman was not a high priority option. Not to mention that it was inconvenient to kill her because she stayed at the boss's house every day, the boss would definitely be very sad if she died - anyone with a discerning eye could see that he really liked her.

But, that woman is the one who tempted God to fall from the altar...

A myriad of complicated emotions were swirling in his heart, and finally, his emotions couldn't be suppressed and ran wild... The inexplicable eye-like pattern in his mobile phone also quietly changed its shape without his knowledge.

Originally, the Different World Navigation APP should be an eye shape with a red background and black lines, but now, it has completely changed into a black background with a white swirl pattern.

This is... the beginning of a pitiful story about a poor man who suddenly possesses great power.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 590: Almighty, Three Times, Great Damage

There must be something hateful about a pitiful person, as people often say.

It seems to make sense at first glance, but only when an unexpected disaster really befalls oneself will the person who said the above sentence cry out: "Why do I have to encounter this kind of thing!" instead of really reflecting on whether there is anything hateful about himself.

There is no doubt that Kitagawa Minghai is a pitiful person, and judging from the fact that he doesn't mind causing trouble for others, he is definitely a hateful person.

But the problem is that Jiang Tianwei really can't do anything about this person now.

So now it has become a situation that is often encountered in turn-based RPG games, where the protagonist and the big boss are facing each other, but because the protagonist has not figured out what skills to use, the boss has to wait.

The only counterexample Jiang Tianwei knew was in a certain battle flag RPG, where at a certain level, the city was on fire and you were given a ten-minute timer to fight the boss. Depending on how much health the boss had, there would be different dialogues after the battle. If you did nothing for ten minutes and just waited, the boss would scold you for not taking action.

The current situation is that Jiang Tianwei can't find a suitable way to deal with Beichuan Minghai. If he attacks rashly, the opponent will absorb the attack and then bounce the force back.

To be honest, Jiang Tianwei has seen this type of boss many times in the second dimension. I dare not say that it is a mainstream boss, but at least it is a popular enemy type. To deal with this guy, either find an attack type that he cannot reflect, or inject a huge amount of damage into him and kill him before he can bounce back.

The most annoying thing is that, considering the effectiveness of the attributes, the most suitable attack attribute is definitely the universal attribute. Because you can't grasp the opponent's resistance well, then using this universal attribute without resistance is definitely the most appropriate.

But Jiang Tianwei didn't have that many demons with universal attributes, which was embarrassing.

If, at this time, I could have a helper...