Persona: Devil Summoner

Although Fang Zexia probably doesn't know how to dance the lion, don't be afraid, I can't do it either! Aren't we all just learning?

"Well, hey, well, well, well! There's only one thing we need to do!"

The little girl's eyes sparkled, and Jiang Tianwei was frightened by her aggressive aura for a moment: "What's the matter?"

"Of course it's special training!"

"Ah! Indeed..."

In almost all sports-themed animations, there are always scenes of training, special training, and intensive training.

Especially since two people don’t know how to dance the lion, they need to be trained well.

The location... isn't there one too?

Fang Zexia smiled slyly, and Jiang Tianwei always felt that she was planning something behind her smile. The little ghost seemed to have her own little thoughts.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 710: Special Training! Lion Dance Boy!

It is difficult to find out who first proposed the concept of lion dance. This activity of performing lion dance in a lively manner to create a lively atmosphere and pray for blessings is now just a beautiful memory in people's memory.

Fang Zexia and Jiang Tianwei put on almost identical lion dance costumes. The girl smiled and said, "Couple costumes~"

The two of them were now in a small house that Jiang Tianwei had rented before, because the landlord refused to return the deposit and rent. Although Jiang Tianwei was not short of money, he would not let the other party get away with nothing. He had to rent it until the expiration date.

Fang Zexia also changed into her human body and was looking at a dance costume that was almost exactly the same as Jiang Tianwei's with great interest.

Lion dance is different from dragon dance. After all, although dragons have claws, they can fly, so the core of dragon dance is to make the dragon fly up and down, which makes it very flexible. Therefore, dragon dance is basically a group of people supporting a dragon with sticks. Lion dance requires two people to play the lion's head, front limbs and hind limbs respectively.

So naturally the clothes on their bodies had to be of the same style as the lion skin that the two people were holding up.

I have to praise Fang Zexia's talent here. Although she has never been involved in this line of work, she has learned about 30% of it by watching the video. Does it look like it? It looks about 30%. It's really a terrifying talent to be able to reach this level after just one look.

As for the acrobatic moves, these two people have no problem. One is a rhythmic gymnastics student with a flexible and coordinated body, and can do a lot of leg tricks. The other is a demon man with a terrifyingly strong core strength. Don't even think about letting Kasumi Yoshizawa hang on him for coordination. Even if you replace Kasumi Yoshizawa with Dwayne Johnson, it won't affect his movements.

Now, these two people just need to get used to each other, and then they can go to various funeral venues to take on jobs. If someone filmed this scene, it could definitely be used to make a micro-film called "The Lion Boy", but it's a pity that Jiang Tianwei is not a little squinty-eyed, and Fang Zexia is not either. It would probably be difficult to keep up with the international standards this way...

The reason why this place was chosen as the training ground was that, firstly, no one lived here, so it was idle anyway. Secondly, the students didn't know Jiang Tianwei lived here, so they wouldn't come over to watch. Thirdly... this was the place where she and he had spent the longest time together, and Fang Zexia had feelings for this place.

Here, tables, chairs, benches, sofas and mattresses all become props for the two people's performance. After all, one of the highlights of lion dance is to see how the lion played by the person jumps up and down, and this complex terrain is just right.

The two of them jumped up and down for quite a while. Don't worry if they looked like lions or not. They were having a lot of fun. It was all about having fun! It didn't matter if they looked like lions or not.

Although Jiang Tianwei's house is not big, it is okay to go to bed directly when you are tired of playing.

The two were also "separated from each other" at the beginning, with the head and butt playing with their own, but now at least they are integrated. Although it looks like a lion with a mental illness, it looks like a lion after all.

"Sister, Jiang Jiang, are you still practicing?"

Suddenly, the door to the entrance opened and Sumire Yoshizawa's cute little head popped in.

"I've taken a break."

Fang Zexia, who was squatting on the bed, said this and lay down on the bed. Because she was in charge of the lion's head, when she lay down, the whole lion's body fell over, revealing Jiang Tianwei behind it.

"I've tried making some Chinese food. Can you guys help me taste it?"

The cute and well-behaved sister held up a translucent plastic lunch box with both hands, which was emitting an enticing aroma.

Since we are going to run a Chinese cultural club, food is definitely an indispensable part!

Moreover, this is more like a school festival. After all, during school festivals, many classes will choose food stalls, which can help them recover funds and are relatively simple to set up. It is better than a haunted house... After all, it is difficult to set up a haunted house in just one classroom.

For a company like the Chinese Culture Research Society that wants to showcase everything, naturally food is unavoidable.

But you can't ask Mr. Liu to be your cook... that's just not right. So Jiang Tianwei compromised and asked Jin to come and learn the skills.

In terms of her own conditions, Yoshizawa Kasumi, who knows Chinese, is more suitable to learn cooking and ask Sumire to come over to cooperate with her in lion dance. But Yoshizawa Kasumi flatly refused, and her reason was very good: "My cooking is not as good as my sister's! I don't have a talent for cooking!" So confident...

But in fact, what Fang Zexia was thinking was: (In this way, as long as I am responsible for dancing the lion head, I can naturally ride on Jiang Jiang's head! Hahaha! Those other so-called confidantes, you have never experienced this kind of broad perspective!)

All I can say is, birds of a feather flock together. The thought processes of these two people are so similar.

Although Yoshizawa Sumire doesn't understand Chinese, this is not a problem. Technology is so advanced nowadays, you can just find a translation software. Although machine translation is not accurate enough, it still has a certain accuracy rate for some less ambiguous proper nouns and numbers.

Of course, Chinese food culture is extensive and profound, and it is impossible to learn all eight major cuisines, so Jiang Tianwei only planned to let her learn a few authentic Chinese dishes, and then demonstrate these few dishes when the time comes - it's just a school festival, why take it so seriously?

The four dishes selected by Jiang Tianwei are boiled fish, sauerkraut and pork, Kung Pao chicken and Peking duck.

Boiled fish is a spicy dish, and Japan, as an island country, has a special sentiment towards fish.

Sauerkraut and pork, the name alone suggests it tastes sour, and sauerkraut can be said to be the representative of Northeastern cuisine.

As for Kung Pao Chicken, it was because Jiang Tianwei liked it very much. Ahem, seriously, he forgot where he saw a statement, maybe on a forum or a post bar, it was said that Kung Pao Chicken was the most ordered Chinese dish in restaurants around the world. This showed that foreigners were more accepting of this kind of food.

This is the so-called "safety card".

Peking duck is pure laziness.

Because you can prepare roast duck in advance... I've never heard of any roast duck store where they catch the duck, pluck the feathers, and roast it for you right after you place an order. Aren't they all roasted in advance and then they just slice the meat for you when the time comes?

So for this dish you don’t need to learn how to roast duck. You just need to learn how to slice the meat, how to cut green onions and cucumber strips, and how to heat up the spring rolls.

Moreover, I don’t know which Japanese started it first, but there is a saying about roast duck, which is “the king of Chinese cuisine”... Doing this can be lazy and gain public favor, so why not do it?

The dishes Jiang Tianwei chose cannot be said to be wrong, but they are full of Chinese thinking and are greatly influenced by his own eating habits. If he did more research and learned about the Chinese dishes that Japanese people like to eat, he would probably put spring rolls, xiaolongbao, and mapo tofu on the menu...

Jiang Tianwei had eaten the food cooked by Fang Zejin before, and it was, how should I put it… the quantity was large and filling, and the taste… it was very athlete-like. If you asked if it tasted good, he would only say it was very healthy.

But looking at the delicious food the little girl brought over, and having just exercised for so long, his excited body wanted to eat something to replenish his energy, so he reached out and pinched a piece of chicken and put it in his mouth...

"Don't just eat by yourself...I want some too..."

Fang Zexia on the bed was too lazy to sit up, she just opened her mouth wide and cried for food. I felt like I had seen this scene somewhere before...

But now is not the time to worry about that!

Jiang Tianwei's eyes widened, and he was too lazy to argue with Fang Zexia. He took the initiative to pick a piece of fish and fed it to Fang Zexia: "Try your sister's cooking skills."

"It's not like I haven't eaten it before... I just forgot - it's so delicious, right!?"

Fang Zexia also widened her eyes.

Although she already knew that her sister was good at cooking, she didn't expect her to be so good at it?!

Jiang Tianwei was also surprised. She had eaten the food cooked by Fangze before, and it was under the hypnosis of Maruki that she thought she was the elder sister. In other words, it was the younger sister who cooked very well who imitated the elder sister who cooked not so well and deliberately cooked badly.

Now that she had gotten over this perception, her first response was about her cooking skills.

Fang Ze Xia didn't care about lying on the bed and acting cute anymore. She took her sister's hand affectionately and said, "You must make miso soup for me for the rest of your life, my dear sister!"

"Ok!"

Jiang Tianwei thought about it for a while and couldn't help asking, "In Japan, when you say you want to make miso soup for life, doesn't that mean you're getting married?"

"Yeah. That's what I mean."

Fang Zexia looked calm.

"what about me?"

Jiang Tianwei pointed at himself. Fang Zexia chuckled: "Why don't you marry into my family? I don't have a household registration anyway, you and Jin can just get married, and the three of us can live together. Don't you Chinese have a song about this? [The three of us are a happy and auspicious family~]"

Before she could finish performing the Chinese song, she was pushed by the blushing Sumire Yoshizawa: "Hate you, sister!"

Three people living together... When Jiang Tianwei thought of this, he suddenly felt a strong sense of guilt...

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 711: In fact, everyone can have a persona

Persona, although the Phantom Thieves have been using it, few people pay special attention to why this thing is called persona instead of "stand" or "superpower" or something like that.

It's like, have you ever thought about why the earliest humans used a noun to refer to something? For example, a dog barks, so why did humans call it a dog instead of a "wangwang"? Then why didn't humans call a dog a cat, a rabbit, or a porcupine, but a dog?

Why is this energy called persona? This is a term in Jungian psychology, but there are so many psychologies in the world, why use this one? Wouldn't it be good to call it something else? Why not call it psychological extension, why not call it logical motivation? Even if you call it "repressed ego", wouldn't it be good?

If you trace the origins of most nouns in this world, you will only get one conclusion: that is, everyone calls them that. Don’t waste your time trying to figure out why…

So, sometimes you don't need to understand the principles so clearly, you just need to know how to use them. It's like you don't need to understand the central idea of ​​ancient poems, you just need to recite and memorize them to get points.

And...it seems that it's not just the Phantom Thieves who have special talents who have perosna...

such as……

"So, time really just flies by, and it will be [silent] soon..."

"No, it shouldn't be "quietly", it should be "white horse passing by". In Chinese, it means, like a white horse jumping over a crack, describing how time passes very quickly."

"I see. But why a white horse? Can't horses of other colors be used?"

"You stumped me. I don't know either. That's what the ancients said. Haha, you are really good at finding loopholes."

In the Niijima family's, in Niijima Sae's own bedroom, the young senior prosecutor was looking at the answers on the screen. It seemed as if she could see a young, frivolous and confident face through the lines of text on the screen. She couldn't help but smile.

Yes, she is chatting with someone using a chat tool.

"I'm done. Sister, Jiang Tianwei, who wants to wash?"

Shinjima Makoto's voice came from outside the door.

"I'll be the last one."

she shouted through the door.

"Then I won't be polite."

Jiang Tianwei's voice also came through the door. After all, the Niijima family is an old house, and the sound insulation effect is not that good.

Suddenly, a line of words popped up on the screen: "I have to take a shower first, we'll talk later."

"Yes, 886.^^"

A few months ago, Sae Niijima would never have imagined that one day she would be using buzzwords (which are actually outdated) and emoticons to communicate with people on the Internet.

After her parents left, she has always regarded herself as the only head of the family. As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, and similarly, the eldest sister must be the mother.

Therefore, Niijima Sae always felt that this was how her life would be. In her youth, she had to take care of her younger sister and her family, which was very hard. After she became successful, she only had work, work, work, and life, life, and there was no room for any other interests.

However, human desires cannot be eliminated easily. Sometimes, people think they have eliminated their desires, but in fact they are just suppressing them forcefully.

Just like now, Niijima Sae's long-pent-up girlish feelings and mental pressure were all vented in the illusory space called the Internet.

There is a saying that an adult's collapse only takes a moment, which means that adults are often restraining themselves and trying to create a mask to wear on their faces. Although they look cheerful, no one knows to what extent the self underneath the mask has collapsed.

The same goes for Niijima Sae...

At home, she is the pillar of the family.

In the workplace, she is a senior prosecutor trusted by her subordinates.

In the eyes of the world, she is a high-ranking public official.

However, few people would remember that she is actually a woman.

As a human being, she definitely has the seven emotions and six desires that humans have. She also gets tired, sad, and has the lassitude of wanting to be lazy and live an easy life. However, she hides them all with a mask of a "strong woman".

Isn’t this also a kind of persona?

It may be a little difficult to understand the concept of persona in psychology from encyclopedias. After all, if the definition of this thing is not very convoluted, it will not have that high-sounding feeling.

That's why everyone calls the meowing creature a cat, while the encyclopedia calls it a carnivorous animal. After hearing this official name, everyone always thinks the second half of the sentence means "We are now trying to sneak up on it from behind. It tastes like chicken, is crunchy, and has X times the protein of beef."

Persona, in fact, many people have it, that is, when you encounter a certain situation or occasion, you often switch your state. For example, when you see your boss, even if you think he talks nonsense in the meeting, everyone will often smile and say: "Boss, wise!"

In order to solve a certain type of specific problem better, faster and more smoothly, people will change their behavior style on the spiritual level, which is persona. To give an intuitive example, a person may be lazy at home, not folding the quilt, and wearing clothes casually, but once he goes out for a date or work, he will change into spirited clothes and hardworking personality.

Some people analyzed that this is to solve the problem better and faster, while others believe that this is to protect themselves from harm. After all, most of the time, the personality displayed by persona is more in line with the public's preferences, which can be understood as a kind of flattery.

Niijima Sae himself has countless personas: the Niijima Sae facing his sister, the Niijima Sae facing his boss, the Niijima Sae facing his subordinates, the Niijima Sae facing the criminals, the Niijima Sae facing the people...

The more such a person is, the more likely he is to become addicted to the Internet.

Because this is the most attractive thing about the Internet.

On the Internet, no one knows who you are.

You can be anyone you want, or you can be no one at all and just be yourself.

At the beginning, Niijima Sae just opened a small account to ask questions because he was embarrassed to ask Jiang Tianwei directly about Niijima Makoto's questions.

But before she knew it, she began to love this feeling: she didn't have to wear any masks, she could say whatever she wanted and do whatever she wanted. She didn't have to pretend to be a serious person, and she didn't have to be bound by morality...