I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

"Hey, Xiaoyi's chest is too big, it dangles when she runs."

"I understand how you feel, Yoshino!"

"——You guys are so noisy." The male classmate standing in front of Yoshino and looking down at him interrupted with a bad tone.

He bent down and brought his face closer, "Seriously, have you seen...? Tsubasa's breasts?"

"I did not see!"

"Then you're saying Xiaoyi is lying?!"

Snapped!

There was a burning pain on his cheek, and Yoshino fell down covering his face.

"Hahaha, it's unreasonable~" "Give him a [-]% discount coupon!"

Seeing Yoshino being severely beaten, the other people even laughed and gloated.

Damn...that woman!

Yoshino's gaze met hers, which was full of sarcasm and condescension, a gaze that looked down on the weak.

Use me to secure your own status and take pleasure in doing so.I'm going to tell you...I'm going to expose you!

"Student Xiaoyi is not as cute as I thought."

Yoshino's words turned everyone's face black, "The three of them still flattered you so much even though they knew this, because they thought you would let them sleep—"

boom!

The words were forcefully punched back into the stomach, and rained down on him.

Yoshino could only curl up, cover his head as much as possible, and endured their bullying.

There is no strength to resist....

There was a flickering picture on the big screen that was lit in front of him, but Yoshino didn't feel like he could see it at all.Because the voices of those people almost overwhelmed the stereo.

There are people like that in schools with normal deviations... Yoshino feels all sorts of irritability.

Very annoying....Stop talking!

But he didn't have the courage to stop them, or rather, he was used to patience.

Yoshino couldn't help but close his eyes tightly.

Out of sight out of mind.

But the sound cannot be completely cut off by the act of plugging the ears.

This is a movie theater. If you watch a movie, you plug your ears and close your eyes... what the heck! ?

"you--"

Suddenly a voice sounded behind those people, and Yoshino couldn't help opening his eyes curiously. It was a strangely dressed person with long hair, who seemed to appear among them all at once.

He hugged the three of them in an intimate gesture, but it seemed that they were not noticed at all.

He leaned close to the ears of those people——

"Watch movies in a civilized way." He said so.

Put your hands over their heads....

Suddenly, the theater was completely silent.

Rather, only the sound that should have remained.

Yoshino was relieved, he was thankful that someone came out to stop those people, and he was finally able to enjoy the movie he wanted to watch with peace of mind.

Although it is almost over, there is nothing to see.

The movie ended shortly after, and the lights were turned on again in the dimly lit theater. Yoshino, who got up from his seat, subconsciously glanced at the few people who had been sitting quietly in the front row until now.

But the picture in his field of vision suddenly made Yoshino stunned, it seemed that such an impactful picture made his thinking go blank.

"How is this going!?"

... Dead, dead?

The head has been distorted in this way, as long as it is a person, it is impossible to be alive! ?

That figure flashed in Yoshino's mind.Is it that person just now...?

No, can humans do that kind of thing?

If it can be done, is it really a [human]?

A certain fire in his heart rekindled from the ashes for no reason, and Yoshino chased after him like a ghost.

In a deserted alley, he saw the man.

"Excuse me, did you do that thing in the movie theater?"

The man seemed a little surprised, and turned around with a smile. His body seemed to have been cut, with appalling scars and rough stitches.

"Hey, can you see me?"

“…”

He looked calm, "If I did it, what would you do? Scold me? They are very special to you?"

special?

If it is special, it is indeed very special...but there are only bad memories, the memories that make me hide in the quilt in the middle of the night and cry aggrievedly, entangled like nightmares...!

Yoshino's eyes widened, as if lost in spirit, he tremblingly said, "Can I do... the same thing?"

He looked surprised when he heard his own words, and then smiled softly.

"follow me."

Say so.

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The dry river and the sewer hole under the bridge smelled of mold and damp.

The sound of water droplets falling into rhythmic white noise, Yoshino huddled in a corner.

This seems to be his residence?No idea, anyway the man was lying in a hammock between the water pipes right now, holding a book.

"Some spell spirits are called [super imaginary spell spirits]. Curse spirits are a collection of magic power leaked from human beings. Even if there is no entity, those terrifying images that remain in the public impression are easy to use with force. Manifested in the form of a curse."

Facing his explanation, Yoshino raised his head.

"The scary image in the public image...does it refer to famous youkai or ghost stories?"

"Yes, like the Hanako in the toilet and the nine-tailed demon fox." He put down the book and put his arm behind his head, "The conjurer regards them as super imaginary curse spirits to register and guard against. A powerful curse of unknown identity It's the same, it will be included in the scope of imaginary spell spirits. All in all, I feel that they only see this."

"But it's not the fiction that people have been afraid of?"

"...A natural disaster?" Yoshino thought for a while and replied.

He got up from the hammock with a hey, and smiled at Yoshino: "It's great to talk to you without accumulating stress."

It was the first time for Yoshino to be so recognized by others, and he couldn't help but feel happy. He said modestly, "No...where..."

He said his name was [Real Man].

"The earth, forests, and oceans have always been feared by humans. They received excessive mantra power, so they gained wisdom before their appearance took shape, and they have been dormant until now."

"Everyone is my proud companion."

Yoshino asked: "Mr. Masato, what is the curse?"

"Human." He replied immediately.

Yoshino opened his eyes slightly in surprise.

"From my hatred and fear of people—"

"The curse of birth."

Chapter 61 What is the antonym of like?

"The antonym of liking is indifference. Has the person who said this first got retribution and went to hell?"

Yoshino was fiddling with the small object handed to him by the real person in his hand, it was a small person who was carved vividly.

"How can it be possible to treat people with malice, and it is better to hurt people seriously than not to communicate with each other."

"The antonym of liking is disliking. Japanese people like this kind of logic. They take pleasure in making simple answers complicated on purpose."

Listening to the young man's words behind him, Zhenren stopped walking and raised the corners of his mouth, "Everyone likes to play word games. Because human beings... can't live without making various excuses."

The open area in front of him was still in the dark underground. Beside the huge pillar that penetrated the ceiling and the concrete floor, a huge creature that was almost as tall as it was sitting against the wall.

Its bloated figure looked sluggish, and it seemed that it could no longer stand up by its own strength.

Yoshino opened his eyes wide and asked, "...is this?"

"I'm doing experiments to see how far a person can swell."

Makoto pointed to the small object Yoshino had been playing with, "By the way, the one in your hand is an experiment to see how small it can be reduced."

Yoshino was startled and turned his head sharply

, "This is a...person?!"

The boy didn't seem to have any fear, as if he was numb. The real man looked at him and was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Shunping, are you used to seeing corpses?"

"...how should I put it?" Yoshino handed the [person] back to Masato, "If this is my mother, I will lose my mind and may hate Mr. Masato."

"But I am well aware of the ugliness of human beings. So I don't have any expectations of others. Even if someone dies, I won't have any thoughts."

Yoshino looked at his palm calmly, "Indifference is the ultimate virtue of human beings."

The real person looked at the young man in front of him again with great interest, "You say so, but you actually want revenge."

"You mean, I'm conflicted?"

Masato paused for a moment, then asked, "Shunping, do you think people have [hearts]?"

"Huh... No...?" His tone was not very sure.

"No."

The real person said: "People have a [soul], but that is not a [heart]."

"...then mine...!"

"I am the only one in this world who understands the structure of the soul. And I can change the shape of creatures just by touching."

"Emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy are all products of the soul's metabolism. It is too blind to call it the heart. Human beings always think too much about those invisible things. But for me who can see, the soul is just as insignificant as the body. anything special."

"It just exists here."

The real person seemed to be in a daze, "You know? Life has no value or weight. Just like water is to the sky and the earth, life is just reincarnation between them."

"I, like you, have no meaning or value. So it doesn't matter what you do, and you are free to live as you want."

There seemed to be magic in his words, making Yoshino stunned in place.

"You can't be bound by this ideal of [indifference], and you don't need a consistent lifestyle. Eat when you're hungry, kill when you're hated."

There was a sound of cracking bones, and the sculpture-like person in the hands of the real person was easily crushed.

"I affirm you and everything you have done."

Yoshino widened his eyes and murmured.

"Definitely mine, everything...?"

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"found it."

Yi Zhizhi, who was driving, pointed to the scattered crowd on the street, and he and Knotweed found Yoshino Junpei wandering alone in the street.

"Huh, casual clothes?"

"Looks like he hasn't been to school lately."