Persona: Devil Summoner

(Come to think of it, Senior Jiang must be sleeping behind this curtain...)

When Fangze Jin thought of Jiang Tianwei, she couldn't help but think of the straightforward confession she heard outside of Maruki's psychological counseling room... Her heart was pounding, and for some reason, she reached out to the curtain...

(I, I will just take a quick look to make sure that I am okay, then I will turn it off immediately and never disturb you.).

As she thought about this, she slowly and gently opened the curtains...

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 144 Sky Blue Stairwell

A study shows that human sleep can be roughly divided into two types. One is called shallow sleep, which is the daily sleep state of most people and the sleep state during lunch breaks. The other is called deep sleep or deep sleep, which, as the name suggests, is a state that is more difficult to wake up than ordinary sleep.

The difference between the two types of sleep quality can be understood from the names. According to scientists' calculations, humans need about eight hours of light sleep a day, but if converted into deep sleep, only four or five hours are needed.

How to distinguish between these two types of sleep? Scientists have not given an explanation, which is also the way most ordinary people think of science and technology: it looks great and sounds wonderful, but if you ask what is the use of this thing? Generally, it is useless.

After all, the most important things for ordinary people are always food, clothing, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. Other things are not important.

The simplest criterion for distinguishing the two types of sleep is that if you dream, then it is definitely light sleep. Otherwise, it may be light sleep or deep sleep - because light sleep may not dream.

So, if you want to dream about a famous actress senior dressed as a bunny girl, you must not sleep too deeply.

Jiang Tianwei's mind was full of random thoughts.

Judging from the fact that he was aware of his own delusions, he must be in a light sleep.

As for his own wishes, he would rather be in a deep sleep, because in this way he would not have to face the bizarre scenery.

Generally speaking, dreams are very vague, dreamy and will change form as thoughts change. Therefore, Jiang Tianwei felt that the scenery in front of him was particularly strange.

This is a space similar to an elevator.

It is the kind of elevator that often appears in old movies from the 1970s and 1980s, with metal railings woven into a birdcage-like structure. The railings often have decorative patterns, which looks very gorgeous.

It is hard to tell whether the elevator is moving up or down, because there is no reference point, and the surrounding scenery is just a blue sky, which looks deep and mysterious.

In the center of the room, there is a solid wooden table with a round stool behind it. It is obvious that someone should have been sitting here. Judging from the height of the stool, it should not be particularly tall. It was either a child or a hunchbacked old man. It is hard to tell what the whole space is doing. It is very weird.

"They say dreams are what the mind thinks. What on earth did I think about that made me dream about an elevator?"

Jiang Tianwei muttered to himself as he sat on the chair aimlessly, tapping the table with his knuckles.

What is this place? I don't know. I've never seen it.

Can I leave here? I don't know. At least I just tried to break the railing with brute force, but it was completely unsuccessful.

Here, he couldn't even call out Fang Zexia. This ghost girl who had always been inseparable from him was not in this strange space.

Originally, for a geek, there was nothing to be afraid of in a room where only one person lived, but the problem was that Jiang Tianwei's cell phone was not brought with him. This was very scary.

Being alone in a blue room, with no one to talk to, no cell phone, no games, no anime, no TikTok, no forums, no heated debates with others online to convince them... It's so uncomfortable...

Jiang Tianwei stayed there for a short while and already felt extremely annoyed.

"..."

It is said that impulse is the devil. When people are extremely irrational, they often make extreme choices. For example, now, Jiang Tianwei cannot escape. He angrily puts his hand on his face and tries to summon persona.

Fortunately, persona is the embodiment of the spirit. As long as he has not lost consciousness, he can summon it freely at any time. He tried several forms of the summoned persona, but none of them could cause any damage to this special room.

"Persona doesn't work? - Then let's try the power of the demon..."

As Jiang Tianwei thought so, the Peking Opera costume he was wearing changed into a red armor according to his thoughts, and a pitch-black spear appeared out of thin air in his hand.

This is the costume of Eliger, the demon that merged with him.

However, the majestic black horse did not appear... Jiang Tianwei then remembered that during the previous competition with the Hell's Angels, the black horse rushed into the fire storm and never came out again. It was probably burned to death.

He kept feeling sorry, blaming himself for being too reckless. If his warhorse was still there, wouldn't he be the legendary dark horse? When he graduated, he wouldn't have to work, and could find a racetrack to be a rider. How could those ordinary horses compare to the devil's warhorse? Wouldn't he be able to get a lot of bonuses?

By then, she might even be invited by CY to collaborate with the Umamusume mobile game.

He kept lamenting when he thought about how he had missed such a big business opportunity.

(Humph, when CY wants to invite me, I won’t go! Don’t let the horse become a sissy, and I will become a sissy too… Humph!)

He transformed himself into a spiritual Ah Q and felt much better.

But things had come to this point, and he had no other choice. He snapped his fingers, and a Harley motorcycle almost as tall as him appeared out of thin air. Perhaps because it was not started, the front and rear wheels had ordinary rubber tires, not flaming wheels.

"If you can't be an equestrian, wouldn't it be great to be a racing driver?"

He comforted himself while riding on the bike. As he started the engine, the wheels roared and quickly caught fire. The devil Hell's Angel said: There is no place this motorcycle cannot go.

So……

The flaming wheels rubbed against the blue velvet carpet on the floor of the elevator, emitting a burning smell. Following Jiang Tianwei's mood, the flaming motorcycle rushed towards the wall!

It was like a stunt show, Jiang Tianwei drove the motorcycle and sped along a railing towards the ceiling...

I thought the wheels would continue to run on the ceiling... but unexpectedly, as Jiang Tianwei climbed higher, he did not touch the ceiling... but rushed out directly... The surrounding color turned into a blue, as if he was under the sea, his body was light and there was no force point.

"Oh, what an unexpected visitor."

In the blue sky, Jiang Tianwei clearly heard someone's voice.

It sounds like a woman.

In the azure blue, he could vaguely see a silver-haired woman wearing a blue uniform and a small hat on her head. She was always floating not far in front of him, staring at him.

Jiang Tianwei was very sure that he had never seen such a woman.

"Who are you?"

"Huh? You don't remember me...ah, I see."

The woman said this and smiled at him faintly. But strangely, Jiang Tianwei could not clearly identify her facial features, but he intuitively felt that she was smiling.

"So, do you still remember me?"

She transformed herself, her blue work clothes quickly faded and turned orange, and a wheelchair appeared behind her. She sat backwards in the wheelchair... red suit, wheelchair, white hair, no details of her face could be seen...

"Ah, it's you, Hawking!"

"Hehe, so this is how I look in your eyes?"

The other person giggled, and it sounded like the wind blowing silver bells, crisp and refreshing.

Jiang Tianwei suddenly thought of a possibility and asked quickly, "Could this devil war have anything to do with you?!"

"Haha, who knows~".

The mysterious woman transformed herself into that azure blue uniform. Jiang Tianwei felt that he had seen this uniform somewhere before, and it looked very familiar, but he couldn't remember where it was at the moment...

"Well, may I have the honor to ask for your name, young lady?"

"Oh, you're so polite. As for your name...just call me Elizabeth."

Although he couldn't recognize the other person's face, Jiang Tianwei always felt that the other person was smiling. Just as he was about to continue asking, he saw the mysterious woman Elizabeth stretched out her finger and tapped his forehead...

"Haha, I'll leave your question for next time. Someone is calling you..."

Just as Jiang Tianwei was distracted, his mind became a mess, his eyes went dark, and he no longer knew what was going on.

Just as his consciousness was gradually fading away, Jiang Tianwei suddenly remembered where he had seen this suit!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 145: Meeting Teacher Kawakami Again

"Ah, isn't that the same style as the girl who kicked Amemiya?"

Jiang Tianwei muttered to himself and opened his eyes.

He said that he always felt like he had seen the blue uniform of the mysterious woman Elizabeth somewhere. Just now, a light bulb went off in his head. Isn't this the same girl he saw in the other world before, who kicked Amamiya Ren in the butt from behind and kicked him into the mysterious iron door? !

"I thought the first thing you said when you woke up was that you wanted water, but it turns out you were thinking about that little girl's butt! You problem student... cough cough cough..."

Not far away, someone was complaining about Jiang Tianwei's mumbling in his sleep when he woke up.

Jiang Tianwei quickly determined the current situation. He was lying on the bed, and his ankle was in pain. It was probably the wound caused by the knife man. The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant. Judging from the concentration, it should not be a proper hospital ward. In front of him was an unfamiliar ceiling, but he could neither hear the useless goddess discussing cheats with him nor open the attribute panel, which meant that he did not travel to another world... How sad.

Following the voice, Jiang Tianwei looked up and saw Teacher Kawakami's face. She looked terrible today, just like usual. Her face was pale, her eye bags were swollen and dark, and her curly hair looked particularly listless, with split ends. It is said that hair is a woman's second life. Just looking at the miserable state of her second life, you can tell how miserable her first life was...

The meeting between the two can be said to be very awkward...

Originally, Mr. Kawakami had already made up his mind not to have anything to do with Jiang Tianwei anymore.

However, Jiang Tianwei was injured in the school-organized event, and it was obvious that the school had something to do with it. Take the teacher who verbally insulted Jiang Tianwei in the office and was threatened by a violent gang at home. Now the school is extremely nervous, and no one can say how much responsibility the gang leader should bear for being slashed...

The school originally wanted to ask his head teacher to come and see him, but how tough was that head teacher? He burst into tears and sobbed bitterly on the spot, and his appearance was so miserable that it was unbearable. The teachers made excuses one by one. The second and third graders said that they had never taught him and it was not appropriate for them to go. The first graders said that although they had taught him, it seemed that they did not take this matter seriously if you asked an ordinary teacher to go over there.

The result was that everyone pushed each other, and no one could agree on what to do. Originally, Teacher Kawakami had no intention of forcing herself to step forward, but she was really too tired from her part-time job recently. This kind of meaningless meeting of shirking responsibility was much more boring than going to school. She couldn't help but use her arms to support her head and close her eyes for a while...

As we all know, if you hold your head up with your hands, it will eventually fail and your head will fall off... Then, everyone heard a thud and focused their attention. They saw Mr. Kawakami with his head lowered and his right hand raised...

Originally, no one wanted to have anything to do with this gangster's son, but when someone raised their hand, they all voted to let Mr. Kawakami represent the school to visit Jiang Tianwei...

Of course, this reason was so lame that Kawakami Sadyo planned to take it to the grave and never mention it to anyone.

Soon, however, Kawakami Sadayo changed her mindset and decided to make the best of it. Although it was a bit troublesome to deal with the police, after she came in to visit, she could just lean back and take a nap! In class and at the faculty meeting, you have to sleep secretly, but in this ward, no one cares?! Just sleep if you want!

In fact, although Teacher Kawakami complained about Jiang Tianwei's talking in his sleep, she didn't wake up much earlier than Jiang Tianwei. She woke up early because she was too tired from sitting on the chair.

Now that both of them were awake, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

Especially Teacher Kawakami, her face is as red as the butt of some primate. She had just made a harsh statement not long ago that the two of them would never contact each other again, but unexpectedly, just a few days after she said that, the two met first in Akihabara and then in the ward. It's really sad.

For a moment, in the quiet space, only Mr. Kawakami coughed from time to time, breaking the awkward silence.

"Teacher Kawakami, how is your body?"

It seems that the last time I saw her, she kept coughing, and now the situation doesn't seem to be getting better.

When Mr. Kawakami heard this, he quickly denied it: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just a common cold... cough cough... cough cough cough..."

It seemed that she was too anxious and she couldn't catch her breath. She coughed several times, and the pain made her have to hold her chest and hunch over, as if this could reduce the impact of coughing on her body... Jiang Tianwei didn't care about anything else and sat up quickly to pour her a glass of water. He didn't care whether the fruit on the table was a gift for his visit to the sick. He reached out for an apple, broke it in half with both hands, and handed the fruit and water to Teacher Kawakami.

She couldn't even say thank you, and tried to drink a sip of water to swallow the breath. Her throat was still itchy and uncomfortable...

“…I’m sorry…”

Inexplicably, Teacher Kawakami suddenly apologized. Jiang Tianwei was puzzled: "What happened? Why did the teacher suddenly apologize?"

"It's just... I've caused you trouble in every way... I clearly told you not to get involved with me, but in the end, I ended up causing you trouble..."

It is said that people tend to have wild thoughts when they are tired. That is why young people today jokingly say that it is time to be emo (emotional, usually interpreted as depressed and melancholy on the Internet) late at night!

This is because usually, whether you work overtime or play games until late at night, your energy consumption will be very high, and you will involuntarily start to think about things that you don’t usually think about, such as what to do in the future? How to take care of your old age? This will lead to anxiety and sorrow...

Although it is not late at night, there is no doubt that Mr. Kawakami's mental state has completely collapsed. Too much work has led to excessive fatigue, and the accumulated fatigue has further pushed his spirit to the limit. The result is that Mr. Kawakami looks like this now.

Jiang Tianwei saw the miserable state of his acquaintance. As a human being, he had sympathy for his friend. He could not help but feel anxious...

"Drip drip..."

Just at the right moment, Teacher Kawakami's cell phone rang. She bowed apologetically to Jiang Tianwei, took the phone and went out... Hearing her footsteps getting farther and farther away, as well as the sounds of the door opening and closing, it was estimated that she went outside.

There must be only one possibility that could make her so nervous...

"Go and help me."

Jiang Tianwei whispered to Fang Zexia beside him. The latter floated in the air, gave Jiang Tianwei a thumbs up, accompanied by a brilliant laugh.

Jiang Tianwei sighed deeply, thinking that Mr. Kawakami might have been pushed to the limit. Was it time for him, the righteous thief, to take the stage?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 146 Identity Exposed

Kawakami Sadayo walked quickly out of the nurses' lounge, which was used as a temporary ward, and went to the women's restroom on the side, then quietly answered the phone. She didn't notice at all that there was a ghost floating around her, almost inseparable from her phone, eavesdropping on the conversation between the two.

As the saying goes, there is a god above your head. It is hard to say whether there is a god or not, but referring to the situation of Mr. Kawakami, there might really be a "ghost" around you.

Just as Jiang Tianwei speculated, the only people who would make Mr. Kawakami so anxious to go to a secluded place to answer the phone were the couple who were obsessed with money. Even their dead nephew would only be used as a tool for blackmail by them.

According to them, today was supposed to be the day that Teacher Kawakami went to remit money to them, but, it just so happened that Jiang Tianwei was injured today, and Teacher Kawakami was forced to come to visit today... As a result, it just so happened that she couldn't remit money to him today...

As a result, the other party came to collect the debt.

Teacher Kawakami kept apologizing and explaining that there were indeed special circumstances today, but the other party was aggressive. This couple is well versed in fraud, the man kept forcing and playing the bad guy, while the woman said some soft words and played the good guy.