Persona: Devil Summoner

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Chapter 684 Do you want to watch a movie together?

"Really, do you want to go to the movies together?"

At the dinner table at the Niijima family, Niijima Sae began with these words and took out three movie tickets from his shirt pocket.

Mature beauties like Sae Niijima always give people a mature demeanor no matter what they do.

"what?"

At the dinner table, the president, who was eating, was stunned for a moment, and did not react. His chopsticks stopped in mid-air, his mouth opened wide, and he did not seem to react at all.

Judging from the younger sister's reaction, the two sisters probably haven't done anything together for a long time. Every family is different, so it is said that every family has its own problems.

The two sisters of the Yoshizawa family have always been close, but the younger sister would get nervous and upset because of the comparison and pressure from others. On the other hand, in the Niijima family, although the two sisters were forced to be apart under mental pressure, the younger sister always cared about her older sister.

As an outsider, Jiang Tianwei keenly noticed that there were three tickets in Niijima Sae's hand. The meaning was obvious: he wanted him to go with them.

If there are four photos, then it is possible that the two sisters watched two shows in total...

Come to think of it, no matter what I say, I am still on bail. Although Niijima Sae is not worried that Jiang Tianwei will run away, at least she has to do what she should do. Moreover, it is always good to have a middleman to mediate this awkward meeting between sisters.

As for why she is like this...

Unexpectedly, Jiang Tianwei had some clues.

Isn't this the same as when Kawahara Masaaki showed kindness to me back then?

This is the image of a clumsy "parent" who is trying to show kindness to his family but doesn't know what to do. At first, Niijima Sae forced herself to work so hard in order to raise her sister, but during the long efforts, she gradually distorted her thoughts and original intentions, became profit-driven, and ignored her relatives for success and promotion.

It is said that one of the saddest things in this world is that a child wants to take care of his parents but they are no longer around. In fact, the opposite is also true.

If a parent suddenly realizes that he or she has neglected and abandoned their child, and suddenly one day repents and wants to fulfill their responsibilities as a parent and want to be intimate with the child, but finds that the child has already grown up to no longer need their affection, and the family becomes like strangers, or even turns around to find that the child has passed away... wouldn't that be even more sad?

It’s still not too late for the Niijima family now.

Once, it was the elder sister who wanted to save the younger sister. Now, it is the younger sister who saves the elder sister. What a beautiful sisterhood.

However, from the confused face of Shinjima Makoto, Jiang Tianwei could tell that she was not used to the sudden family scenes.

(Oh my, these two sisters are just like me and my stepfather back then… We still have to help them when we can.)

Jiang Tianwei thought so and took the initiative to say: "Here are three tickets. Can you take one for me? I love this movie very much..."

Before Jiang Tianwei finished speaking, Niijima Sae frowned and looked over with sharp eyes: "Do you like this movie very much?"

Jiang Tianwei's heart skipped a beat: Did I say something wrong? I'm helping you, sister! Why don't you appreciate it? This movie... what the hell? !

Jiang Tianwei took a closer look and found the flaw.

It turns out that the movie ticket in Niijima Sae's hand clearly has the name of the movie written on it - "The Evil Way!" From the name, we can tell that it is probably a gangster theme, and from the word "waste", we can tell that it is probably a story about a gangster boss who is driven out of power, then goes through various events, and finally pays to become the boss again. It has a strong Showa flavor, and it is hard to imagine that such a hardcore theme is actually a work of the Reiwa era.

Jiang Tianwei was tired of this kind of subject matter as early as Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gamblers" series. He said that he liked this movie, and there was nothing wrong with it. He just said it casually to give the other party a topic, but this subject matter became popular and caused a lot of trouble...

You see, a gangster's young master said that he liked this kind of gangster movie. Doesn't this make him look like he is determined to become a bad guy? ?

You see, it's like, if a normal person says, "I'll kill you!", people will just think he's joking. But if a gangster says this, it will be considered a threat. It's really unreasonable...

(But, my dear prosecutor Niijima, do you know how to choose a movie? How can a teenage girl like this kind of movie? I think you don’t understand your sister’s taste at all - you should show her the Fist of the North Star movie!)

Just as Jiang Tianwei was thinking about how to ease the embarrassment in an awkward but polite way, with only politeness left, Shinjima suddenly noticed the title, her eyes lit up, and her fists trembled. But for some reason, she looked at Jiang Tianwei intentionally and unintentionally, and coughed dryly: "Hate, hate, sister, I, I don't like gangster movies."

"Is that so? I remember you said before that you particularly like this kind of hardcore action movies?"

If Jiang Tianwei's previous statement that he liked gangster themes caused displeasure among legal workers, then now that Shin Niijima said he didn't like action movies, it was like a hammer that smashed Shinjima Sae to pieces! Prosecutor Niijima was so dumbfounded that he almost collapsed to the ground.

(It is said that children are fickle...Have they really grown to a level that I am not aware of?!)

Niijima Sae felt mixed emotions and looked very sad.

Jiang Tianwei quickly said, "Yes, President! Let's watch it together! Ah, just, just think of it as keeping me company."

"Huh? Why do I have to accompany you? Ah - I remember, this movie seems to be the work of that famous director, right? Haha, I like this director so much! Then, let's go watch it together!"

Shinjima Shin used a very abrupt turn to forcibly change the topic.

This dry tone, this half-hearted reason, this extremely fake excuse, Jiang Tianwei could tell at a glance that she was covering up her shyness: (The president is shy, so cute~~ It must be awkward and shameful to go with your sister who has been neglected for a long time, right? I had the same feeling when I first met my stepfather, I understand. Hahaha, although he acted like he liked me at the beginning, but he definitely can't be in love with me, right? Hahaha.)

Jiang Tianwei thought optimistically, and looked at Niijima Sae again. This senior prosecutor had exposed contradictions, lies and scams countless times in court, and used cold and authoritative laws to defend the order of society. But today, he couldn't see through his sister's simple lies to cover up her true feelings. Alas, Senior Prosecutor Niijima is really a blockhead! Hahaha!

This most wooden person speculated even more optimistically than before.

Whatever the reason, her sister suddenly wanted to watch a movie again, which made Niijima Sae overjoyed: "You want to watch it! That's great, this movie will be out soon. Let's go together. It's being shown at the cinema in Shinjuku."

When Niijima Sae secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he was also secretly grateful to Jiang Tianwei for his help. He thought, this kid is quite smart! However, if you think about it carefully, it seems that this is the reason why he is so versatile?

I'll have to take a closer look later to see what I really like now...

Niijima Sae swore secretly in his heart.

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Chapter 685: The Secret of Persuading People to Reconcile

Every country has had some eras that have left people with stereotypes, and these eras are often defined and summarized by people using some very recognizable nouns.

For example, if someone says "pigtail, baseball bat, street fight", the Japanese will definitely think of the Showa era, just like if someone says "40 people riding the same motorcycle", the world will definitely think of India.

The Showa era in Japan is considered to be the most famous era in modern Japan. The various personality traits of people at that time, which were very characteristic of the society at that time, were also specially brought out and formed into a term, called "Showa flavor".

The movie that Jiang Tianwei and other two watched today was undoubtedly a movie full of Showa flavor.

Humans are a very strange species. They love to enjoy themselves. This is understandable. Who doesn't want to lie down? However, after enjoying themselves too much, they gradually find it cliché and boring. They turn to pursue new types of entertainment. However, when they get tired of new types of entertainment, they start to think that the old ones are still better.

So you often see entertainment promotional materials with the words "retro style", "antique flavor" and "original flavor". It's strange that some things that people were tired of watching and no one would spend money to enjoy in the past are now brought out again and transformed into the dividends of the times.

This is also a Showa-style movie.

The plot of the entire movie, just as Jiang Tianwei had speculated before, is basically a big edit of Showa movies. You throw together all the plots you can think of, and that's what this gangster movie is.

Strictly speaking, this cannot be considered a gangster movie, because the protagonist never mentions his gangster identity throughout the film. Basically, the whole movie is about this macho man with a crew cut posing in cool styles while using all kinds of cold weapons to defeat enemies with guns.

This does have a bit of the flavor of a kung fu movie - who knows - Chie Satonaka might like it.

In short, this halfhearted movie was packed with people, but Jiang Tianwei almost fell asleep while watching it - after all, he is not Japanese and does not have the Showa sentiment. If you change this movie to something about the Three Kingdoms, even if it is a low-quality film, he might still be able to watch it because of the sentiment, but he is really not interested in the Showa gangsters.

If I had to say something that made him feel bright...

Those are the "Umihara Group" and "Sakura Group" that appear in this film. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that these are the real-life gangs, the Kawahara Group and the Sakura Group. Apart from these two real-life gangs, Jiang Tianwei thinks this film can only be given 2 points (out of 100) at most - do I come to watch your movie to see your lame fighting and killing? ! Do I want to see you parting ways with your life and death? ! Show me the gorgeous big sister, you bastard! Do you know what the audience wants to see, you bastard!

Jiang Tianwei couldn't bear to watch it any longer halfway through. He secretly looked at the other people in the theater.

Most of the people who came to watch it were fathers and sons - is it really okay to let children watch this?! Occasionally there were couples, but you could tell the women were not interested. In the dark cinema, the light from the phone screen shone on their faces, just like in a horror movie.

Shinjima Shinjima beside him half-jumped out of his body, clenched his fists, and trembled constantly, seeming to be enjoying this atmosphere very much.

It seems that Niijima Sae is worthy of being her biological sister. No one knows a sister better than her sister. She immediately chose Niijima Makoto's favorite movie.

As for Niijima Sae, she crossed her legs, folded her arms across her chest, held her chin with her right hand, frowned, and her eyes were full of doubts. It is easy to imagine that this kind of movie that does not make sense or logic, but simply piles up classic plots, is a torture for a woman like her who pays attention to logic.

I guess she is going crazy now: So why does the protagonist do this? Doesn't he have better options? Why are the police here so useless? Why do these people collude like this without any benefit at all?

This practice of asking a professional to watch her professional film is simply torture, both for the audience and the filmmakers.

The movie ended, and the credits began to roll, but Niijima Sae's brows were still furrowed. While the audience around him were contentedly discussing the plot of the movie and expressing their love for it, Niijima Sae was still mumbling.

On the other side, Shinjima really looked very satisfied, leaning back in his chair.

Jiang Tianwei pricked up his ears and heard completely different thoughts from the two sisters coming from the left and right channels.

Is anyone curious about how it feels? Then put on headphones, open two videos with different contents, one praising and one scolding, and play them at the same time. This is probably how Jiang Tianwei feels now.

Seeing the two sisters' different attitudes, Jiang Tianwei suddenly became malicious. He smiled and said, "The movie is over."

Is this the charm of linguistics, or is this the charm of "brain supplement"?

Oftentimes, a sentence may not have any particular meaning, but when it is spoken in certain circumstances and on certain occasions, it will be given a different meaning.

Today's sigh at the end of the movie is that Jiang Tianwei was just expressing the feeling that the movie is finally over.

But, the speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.

When Niijima Sae heard this, he felt a sense of liberation and secretly agreed in his heart: This movie was so uncomfortable, it’s finally over.

But when Shinichi Niijima heard this, he heard the aftertaste and reluctance in these words, and secretly agreed in his heart: This movie is so great, it really feels like time has passed in a flash.

"I say!" X2

The beautiful sisters around me speak out together.

"This movie is really amazing! Whether it's breaking into the enemy camp alone for a betrayed younger brother, or joining forces with a former mortal enemy to fight the enemy, or the final decisive battle with everyone's hopes on his shoulders, it's really a masterpiece..."

"This movie is too weird, isn't it? Street fights, smuggling of contraband, malicious wounding, premeditated murder, this is simply a collection of crimes, right? And the protagonist not only doesn't think about curbing crime, but wants to participate in it..."

The two sisters almost simultaneously told Jiang Tianwei about their movie-watching experience at an extremely fast speed. Jiang Tianwei wanted to cut open his brain and become a dual-brain person, understanding half of what Niijima Sae said and half of what Niijima Shin said, and directly become a dolphin person, how great!

"Um... Sister, so you don't like this movie. Ahaha, I, I was just talking casually. Yes, yes, who would like this kind of movie where criminals gather together!"

"So you really like it... I, I just said that it involves real-life crimes, and given the historical context at the time, there should be nothing that can be done about it, right? Probably..."

As soon as the two sisters noticed each other's feelings, they immediately changed their way of speaking. It was really interesting.

Jiang Tianwei nodded contentedly. Although he was almost going to have schizophrenia from listening to it, he still found it very interesting.

It seems that this pair of sisters will need some time to cultivate their relationship if they want to become good sisters who can talk about anything!

"I say, what are you smiling about?"

Suddenly, Shinjima noticed the smirk on Jiang Tianwei's face and reached out to pinch his cheek. On the one hand, he was hiding his shyness, and on the other hand, he suddenly remembered that if this guy hadn't suddenly mentioned his feelings after the movie, he wouldn't be so embarrassed! Considering his character, he must have done it on purpose!

"Please don't gloat over other people's misfortunes here. Although the law doesn't forbid it, I don't like it."

Niijima Saeya noticed the gloating expression on the man between her and her sister, and was furious: My sister and I have a disagreement, why are you so happy?!

It seems that we need to revise our previous conclusions. To make these two sisters close again, they only need to have a common enemy.

What a joy!

However, there was a small problem. Logically speaking, at this time, Fang Zexia's ghost should have come over to cause trouble, but she didn't... The little ghost didn't even pester him to come over to watch the movie.

Something must be wrong when things are out of the ordinary... Jiang Tianwei always feels uneasy...

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Chapter 686 The end of science is theology? ! Are you serious? !

"Everything has a cause and an effect, and every effect has a cause. Karma goes round and round, this is the law of nature - so, what does this mean?"

Fang Zexia looked up from the book "Introduction to Buddhism That Even Beginners Can Understand" and asked.

Today she put on that living body and came to Takemiya's research institute as a living person (who can only move for three or four hours).

However, she was a little overwhelmed. She had clearly come to ask if there was any way to break the maximum limit of only three or four hours of activity, but why did he suddenly start reciting Buddhist scriptures?

Also, why are there Buddhist scriptures in Takemiya's biology research institute? !

This is because the tragedy of scientists is that sometimes they cannot explain everything with science and can only propose countless hypotheses in an exhaustive manner and then verify them one by one.

Jiang Tianwei is such a research subject.

As a life form that resembles a human but is not a human at all, the various details of his body can no longer be explained by science. Because the impact was too great, some researchers have begun to give up thinking and try to understand Jiang Tianwei from a theological perspective.

Some people may think this is exaggerated, but it is not. Scientists are also human beings and they will also collapse. Just like the famous scientist, Newton. This man made great breakthroughs in physics and was even called the founder of modern natural science.

And this master Newton also began to study theology in his later years... This shows that studying is really a high-risk profession that can easily make people collapse.

The same is true for Jiang Tianwei now. Some common physical examination reports and test data of this boy from childhood to adulthood have been collected, but there is nothing remarkable.

Just, it's hard to explain.

From a scientific point of view, this person was a proper human being from elementary school to middle school to high school. But when he was in high school, he suddenly found out that the so-called human beings have their limits, so he is no longer a human being!

Insects and some other organisms undergo a process called metamorphosis during their growth. (Note: This is true.) Just like tadpoles and frogs look completely different, but they are also completely alike. This growth process is what biology calls metamorphosis.

I thought that Jiang Tianwei could be classified as a humanoid species because he had undergone metamorphosis. But it turned out that Jiang Tianwei before and after did not have the core elements of metamorphosis: [significant changes in morphological structure or living habits].

Therefore, in the end, these scientists were forced to start trying to explain what this human being is from the perspective of God creating man, or the Buddhist view of the six realms of reincarnation... But in a sense, although this direction is outrageous, there is actually nothing wrong with it.

Now, everyone understands why there are introductory books on theology in the institute. But why is Fang Zexia reading Buddhist scriptures here?

Didn’t she come here to pester Wu Jianmiao to help her solve her problem?