Tokyo Soft Rice King

Hijikata Isamu also understood immediately and understood the purpose of Kuroba Ming asking this question.

"Yes, yes!"

Hijikata Isamu scratched his head and let out a series of complaints.

"Why are you all so concerned about this lately? What were you doing before... Isn't this something you should have figured out when you first crossed over? And why don't you even know this..."

Hei Yuming opened his eyes wide, he knew he had asked the right person!

"You guys? As expected, Miss Hongxiang also came to ask you!"

"Yes, she once asked me if I had any memories of another self..."

Kuroba Akira was also attracted by this topic, and judging from Hijikata Isamu's expression, he had already guessed the answer.

"Wait a minute! Could it be that, Uncle Yong, you have your own memories of this world?!"

Hijikata Isamu had a puzzled expression, as if to say, 'Why are you asking such a natural thing?'

"Of course, Amin, you're talking nonsense, right? Otherwise, how could I speak Japanese so well? How can I survive in this place if I can't even speak?"

“Shit…shit!!!”

Hei Yuming was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood and screamed wildly in his heart.

That’s me!

I started learning languages ​​because I couldn’t speak!

And I studied for half a year!

It turns out that other time travelers have their own language!

Why is there still discrimination?

Chapter 141 Death and Rebirth

So where is the problem?

Why did Hijikata Isamu share his own memories and abilities in this world, but I didn't?

And Tashiro Hongxiang also came to ask, does this mean that she has no memory either?

No, she has a dual personality. Maybe the memories of the two personalities are not connected.

What about me? I don't have a dual personality, so why don't I share memories?

Wait... Am I really not a split personality?

Hei Yuming was a little uncertain, so he asked himself.

Hello? Hello? Moshimoshi? Hello? Are you there?

Arnold, Hei Yuming, my other self, my soulmate, are you inside me? If so, please let me know.

"..."

Okay, stop being an idiot.

If I really had a dual personality, I should have discovered it long ago.

The main reason is that in the past six months, Hei Yuming has not shown any symptoms similar to sleepwalking, nor has he experienced any personality switching.

If the local personality is the main personality, then the time traveler personality of Hei Yuming cannot take the lead.

So it can be confirmed that there is no other personality in Hei Yuming's body.

To summarize:

Kuroba Akira: No shared memories, no dual personalities.

Hijikata Isamu: There are shared memories, but no dual personality.

Tashiro Hongka: No shared memories, but a dual personality.

Three time travelers, three situations.

The standardization of time travel is really bad. What are the gods in charge of time travel doing?

Wouldn't she be like a certain blue mentally retarded goddess who causes a bunch of problems just by wearing more?

In order to clarify the details, Kuroba Akira continued to ask Hijikata Isamu.

"So, Uncle Yong, did you only gain memories and abilities? Or was your personality also affected by these memories? Do you think you are still the same person?"

Faced with this question, Hijikata Isamu also crossed his arms and showed a complicated expression.

"Hmm... Armin, you asked a very abstract question... How should I put it? It's probably similar to the Ship of Theseus."

The Ship of Theseus is a famous paradox.

Let's skip the story. The question raised by this paradox is: if the constituent elements of an object are replaced, will it still be the original object?

"Although I feel like I'm still the same person, I've indeed been influenced by a being called Hijikata Isamu and inherited some of his emotions, so I guess we've merged."

"Fusion..."

"That's right. I, in this world, am Hijikata Isami. I can actually empathize with his unwillingness, his regret, and his sorrow... It's as if I've experienced it myself..."

"Wait a minute, why are there only negative emotions like resentment, regret, and pity? Aren't there any better emotions?"

"Because he's dead."

"Huh? Wait...huh?!"

Hei Yuming was unable to react for a moment, and after understanding this sentence, he was even more dumbfounded.

Then Hijikata Isamu suddenly asked him back with a playful smile.

"Amin, what was the situation like when you first crossed over? What were you doing in this world?"

Kuroba Akira answered reflexively.

"Um... I was at school, and it happened to be the first day of high school, and it was time to introduce myself. Because I couldn't speak a word, my introduction went awry."

"Really...it sounds pretty socially destructive, but compared to me, it's a pretty good start, because I'm really on my way to death."

"Uh……"

Hijikata Isamu opened his collar and showed his neck, which still had bruises and scars from being twisted by the rope.

No wonder he always wears a stand-up collar jacket that doesn't expose his neck. It turns out it's to cover up the scar on his neck.

"As soon as I opened my eyes, I found a rope around my neck. I'm actually fucking hanging myself in this world! I just died once, and now I'm going to die again after traveling through time. I'm really screwed..."

"This is really the beginning of hell..."

He was almost hanged on a tree at the beginning, which was even more hellish than the debt-ridden start that Hei Yuming had imagined.

"Fortunately, I was lucky enough to still be able to move. After desperately swaying back and forth a few times, the branch that held the rope miraculously broke... I managed to escape, but Hijikata Isamu wasn't so lucky. It's probably because of his death that I'm the one who inherited his body."

"...!"

"I lay on the ground coughing for a long time, taking deep breaths of fresh air. After a moment of fear, a flash of memories came to my mind. I knew why I wanted to hang myself in this world, and I also felt his emotions before he died."

Hijikata Yong... Hijikata Yong stated again with an expressionless face.

"So my situation should be considered as reincarnation."

"So that's how it is, resurrection from the dead!"

"Yes, after I came back to life, I inherited my memories, abilities, experiences from this world... and of course, responsibilities and a mountain of debts."

"I see……"

Hei Yuming felt that if he were to find himself in debt after traveling through time, he would definitely think "To hell with it!" and try to escape.

But Fang Yong regards debt as "his own business", so he is willing to work as a social animal to pay off his debts.

You have to take responsibility for the mistakes you made.

However, not everyone can handle such a thing, which shows that Uncle Yong is really a real man who will not escape and dares to face the bleak life.

While feeling admiration, Hei Yuming thought of another thing.

"Uncle Yong, have you also told Miss Hongxiang about this?"

"Yeah, she came to ask me before you, so I told her everything. It's not something to be kept secret anyway, and you're both time travelers, right?"

If it was someone else, Hijikata Isamu might choose to hide it, but for his fellow time travelers like himself, he felt that it was not a big deal and told them everything truthfully.

At this moment, Hei Yuming understood everything and his pupils shrank.

He knew what the socially anxious Hongxiang... Tashiro Hongxiang wanted to do.

Damn...!

She wants to die!

The socially anxious Hongxiang wants to commit suicide and leave her body to the royal sister Hongxiang!

After learning about Hijikata Isamu's situation, she naturally thought: as long as the original owner of this body died, her memories and emotions would be inherited by Tian Hongxiang, the time traveler...

This way, the two personalities can be merged!

The reason why Tashiro Hongxiang is socially anxious is because she is so afraid of humans that she can no longer bear it!

But has she ever thought that memory fusion only occurs when time travel occurs?

The situations of each of us time travelers are different, there must be a reason for that!

How can we be sure that suicide will merge the two personalities? Maybe both personalities will die together?

This is too impulsive...!

We must catch up and stop her now!

Chapter 142: You Are Not Allowed to Die in Front of Me

Hijikata Isamu didn't realize that sharing his time-travel experience gave Tashiro Hongxiang the wrong inspiration.

Only then did he realize that the situations of the other two people might be different from his, and he asked with a bit of curiosity.

"By the way, the fact that you're asking me this question means your situation is different from mine, right? What's going on with you, Ming, and Ms. Tashiro? Do you have a split personality?"

However, after finding out the reason, Kuroba Akira no longer had the time to continue chatting with Hijikata Isamu.

He hadn't thought that Tashiro Hongxiang's escape was a particularly urgent situation, but now it has become a fatal incident!

"We'll talk about this in detail later when we have a chance! I have to go out for something urgent! Uncle Yong, you can go back to sleep!"

"Oh……"

Hijikata Yong looked at Kuroba Ming in confusion as he rushed out of his room. He touched the back of his neck and finally didn't chase after him. Now that he was awake, he should go back to work...

Hei Yuming's brain was working rapidly as he walked down the stairs.

Do you want to call the police?

Can you make it?

No, it’s definitely too late. By the time the police come and search, I’m afraid everyone will be dead.

The most important thing now is to figure out where she will go...

Don't panic, there's no point in panicking. What you need to do now is to "find the right place". If you choose the wrong search direction, it will be too late.

He stopped in the middle of the stairs and glanced at the palm of his right hand. The monitor's talent helped him calm down quickly and refocus on his thinking.

First of all, in terms of the cause of death, all causes of death that result in physical damage can be ruled out. After all, if the body functions are damaged, there is no guarantee that the person will survive.

So there's no need to worry about her jumping off a building or cutting her wrists.

In fact, the most likely way of death was to take an overdose of sleeping pills or leave the body intact, but Kuroba Akira remembered that he saw Tashiro Hongxiang running out from the second floor with two bath towels in her hands... She might want to use those two bath towels as ropes to hang herself.

The question is, where would she hang herself... and it's not completely impossible.

Here we need to think from another perspective. What would I do if I were Tashiro Hongxiang?

Tashiro Hongxiang doesn't really want to die. Her ultimate goal is to sacrifice herself and allow the two personalities to merge.

So even though there are many ways to commit suicide, she still chose to hang herself in order to try to replicate Hijikata Isami's experience and ensure that the process of personality fusion can proceed smoothly.