Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 296 The Memories of Chihaya Higashino (8000 words)
After communicating with Chihaya Higashino, Division Higashino did not hesitate, he touched Chihaya Higashino's head, and turned to the innermost empty room.

Because Higashinoji and Higashino Chihaya only lived together, the remaining room inside was used by Higashinoji as a utility room.

But at this time, there was an oil painting in the space vacated by the utility room. It was not so much an oil painting, but a picture book painting in the form of oil painting.

The canvas is directly divided into four parts by Higashinoji, all of which are drawn in the same form as children's fairy tale books.

The first fairy tale picture book has no background.

There is only one long, sprawling road ahead.

The surroundings were painted white by Higashinoji, as if there was light in the sky, and it felt like a vague fairy tale painting.

On this sprawling road, there is a couple holding their kindergarten child.

The character Higashino here specially uses fine painting techniques, a yellow hat, and the palms held by two young children, walking forward step by step.

The screen ends here.

Then the second frame of oil painting has the same background as the first frame, and there are still men and women on it.

It's just that they don't need to hold the palms of the two young children this time, because the two children have grown up, about the age of middle school.

At this time, the grown-up children were talking and laughing at them with their heads turned sideways.

They still walked on that long road.

It has already been seen from here that the road drawn by Higashino is actually a metaphor for life, and the people who accompany the husband and wife are actually Higashino Chihaya and Higashinoji——

For this reason, Dong Yesi went through the photo album, not only looking for photos of the original owner's parents.

Similarly, I also found photos of the original owner and Chihaya Higashino when I was a child. The uniforms of the kindergarten and junior high school are also drawn according to the basis, not just scribbled.

Including this road, Higashino Division did not draw it randomly.

This long road is located near the bank of the Sumida River in [-]-chome, Adachi-ku. As long as you cross this road, you can see Higashinoji of the Sumida River going to the distance and actually go to collect scenery.

It is indeed a beautiful big river, the setting sun reflects on the water surface, and the shimmering water surface is like a girl crushing starlight and sprinkles it.

This is also one of Higashino Chihaya's memories.

There is a kindergarten near the Sumida River. The original owner's parents would pass this path every time they picked up Chihaya Higashino when he was a child.

Big hands holding small hands, the sunset stretches very long.
Memories, plus all of Higashinoji's current painting skills.

Empathize with other minds, lifelike, picture taste and form
All this is to make Higashino Chihaya have a deeper sense of substitution, so that the picture not only enters Higashino Chihaya's eyes, but makes her become the girl in the painting.

And at the suggestion of Higashino Chihaya's attending doctor, he changed the overall style to that of a fairy tale picture book.

As far as the other party said, most of the childhood memories are beautiful and worth recalling. This will definitely help Higashino Chihaya in the process of finding herself.

In addition, in the past few weeks, apart from "Unnatural Death" and "The Lonely Gourmet", Higashino has basically put most of his energy on this painting.

There is nothing to say about the quality, it can be said that it is meticulously crafted.

Coupled with the use of painting skills, if you look carefully, you will feel that your whole person has been substituted into the world of this oil painting.

Higashino Division looked to the third frame.

The third frame is still the long road of life.

But Higashino Chihaya's parents have disappeared, and even she has disappeared from the painting, leaving only the original owner on the picture. At this moment, he is walking forward step by step with his head down, looking a little lonely.

Arriving here symbolizes that the Higashino family has undergone drastic changes, Higashino Chihaya is insane, and only one normal original owner is left struggling to survive.

The only constant may be the long road of life.

Then comes the fourth frame.

The girl who reappeared in the painting has grown up to the age of high school. She tightly holds the palm of the boy next to her with one hand, and raises the other hand, as if she is waving to ask someone to come over, or as if she is saying goodbye Same.

The lost relatives can never come back, and people can only look forward, break free, and move forward.

It's just a fantasy here.

At the same time, there was also the song "I once thought about it too" that slowly sounded in Dong Yesi's ear.

It has to be said that the system that Higashinoji put into the sidelines does have two brushes. At least this inexplicable sense of substitution makes Higashinoji very satisfied.

Even Asuka, the attending doctor of Higashino Chihaya, was stunned for five or six minutes after seeing this painting, with tears in his eyes, expressing that there is indeed a feeling of going back to childhood, back to being held by parents. The feeling of those days of walking.

Childhood memories are always beautiful and memorable.

So can Chihaya Higashino cure mental illness with this painting?

Higashino Division is not clear.

The reality is not like in the novel, where Chihaya Higashino's mental illness can be cured if Chihaya Higashino's mental illness can be cured.

Even if Higashino Tsukasa's originally superb painting skills have a system skill bonus, even if the attending doctor came up with such a method based on Higashino Chihaya's mood analysis, he still dare not draw conclusions directly for the time being.

Higashino Division has also tried his best. He has taken out several insurance policies, and even specially asked Koizumi Asuka, the attending doctor who will be in charge of Higashino Chihaya tomorrow, to keep an eye on him all the time.

Also let Konoe Suzuka, Fujiwara Aoi, and Takahashi Yumi come over to help.

After all, mental illness is such a thing. No one can say for sure.

What if Higashino Chihaya suddenly went crazy looking at this painting?

When the time comes, we need them to calm Chihaya Higashino
"But no matter what, you have to give it a try." Higashino Si pondered, without much hesitation on this question.

He made a lot of preparations for this matter, and even made a special trip to the recording studio of Higashino Studio to record this song. The CDs were all made by someone, and the only thing left was for Chihaya Higashino to listen to, and Chihaya Higashino had also been asked by his parents. Death has been in bondage for too long.

Just like the Nakado series in "Unnatural Death", he has been investigating the death of his girlfriend for eight years.
To put it bluntly, Higashino Tsukasa didn't want to see Higashino Chihaya become the Nakado family in his manga.

He also didn't want to see Higashino Chihaya so immersed in his dreams in the future, that he didn't even have the ability to survive in society in the end—although even if he didn't, Higashino would just support her.

But still the same sentence, if a person is alive, he must move forward. Even if he falls, hurts from the fall, or falls to the ground, he must get up and continue to move forward.

Higashino raised his head, went to his room and took out the song CD of "I once thought about it too".

First of all, let Higashino Chihaya listen to this song
The second day came slowly.

At least that's how it looked in Higashinoji's eyes.

Almost as soon as the appointed time at eight o'clock, Higashinoji got up and called Dr. Koizumi Asuka, signaling that she could come over.

On the other side, he came to Konoe Lianghua's house again, and arranged the Konoe Lianghua trio who had just had breakfast.

The process appears to be orderly.

At about 08:30, Koizumi Asuka arrived at Higashino's house.

At this time, Higashino Division called Higashino Chihaya who had just washed up.

"Asi, what are you doing?" Higashino Chihaya glanced at the people in the utility room in astonishment, and then counted them in her heart.

Asi's girlfriend, Yumi, Aoi, and Dr. Koizumi Asuka Wait a minute, has Asuka-san always been a doctor?How do I know she is a doctor?
An inexplicable name popped up in her mind again, making Higashino Chihaya a little confused.

This symptom has lasted for a month, and there are always things in my mind that I have never thought about before, and there will always be inexplicable pictures.

These images made her feel inexplicably familiar, but at the same time, it also made Chihaya Higashino feel scared.

That's right.

It is fear.

Because when she stared at those chaotic and bizarre pictures, two bloody faces would suddenly appear, one male and the other female.

If Higashino knew what Higashino Chihaya was thinking at this time, he would probably be able to understand that these two faces may be the faces of his father and mother that Higashino Chihaya saw when claiming the corpse.

She has been trapped in the day when her parents met the murderer's death last year, and she still lives in the shadow.

As long as she thinks of her parents who died tragically, she can't get out of the shadows.

Higashino Chihaya was thinking, while Higashino Division on the other side had already said to Koizumi Asuka beside him: "Doctor Koizumi, please."

"You're welcome, Higashino-san, this is what I should do. Please start, I will stop if there is any problem." Koizumi Asuka nodded with a smile, and took out something similar to a medical record.

This is a common practice. This medical record is similar to a record book. From these observation records, she sums up the problem and finally finds out the method to treat the patient.

The reason why Higashino called her here today, in fact, she also knows, is to let her, a professional doctor, pay attention to Higashino Chihaya's situation, so as not to cause trouble.

Of course, she agreed to this request.

After all, Higashino Chihaya's condition has been stable for a long time, and it's almost time to give her some stimulating therapy.

The slightly softer stimulation therapy for mental patients is probably to find some items and scenes that make her feel memorable.

Higashino Division's method is correct.

The next step is to look at the effect.

With Koizumi Asuka's consent, Higashino Division here uncovered the painter covered with a black cloth in the corner, and then moved it in front of Higashino Chihaya, and said, "Miss Chihaya, can you look at this painting?"

"Painting?" Higashino Chihaya was a little dazed listening to Higashino Si's words, and then said cheerfully, "A Si, you've been acting weird lately."

She counted Dong Yesi's strange behavior recently; "Yesterday, I was inexplicably asked me to listen to some songs, and now I am asked to watch paintings. Is it true that he is really looking for another girlfriend?"

Chihaya Higashino said so, but she still obediently looked at the 'painting' that Higashino Tsukasa said.

She didn't pay much attention to it at first, but just looking at it, the whole person was fascinated.

The first picture is the scene where she leads her mother and father forward.

Chihaya Higashino could feel it.

The two-dimensional oil painting gradually becomes three-dimensional in his vision.

And the blank space left by Higashino in the background is gradually filled by her subconscious memories - in the eyes of others, Higashino may not have painted any background, but Higashino Chihaya clearly 'saw' it, to be precise 'Brain Supplement' came out.

Points and lines, houses and houses, buildings and buildings... everything seems to be back to her kindergarten days.

As soon as the kindergarten is over, her parents will come to pick her up. The reason why she went to the bank of Sumida River is not only to drop in there, but also because there is her favorite pancake stall there.
Looking at it, Higashino Chihaya was completely quiet.

Even Konoe Lianghua and the others who were watching were attracted in. When they realized it, they realized that their eyes were already moist, and tears couldn't stop flowing down.

"I don't know why I feel this way." Konoe Lianghua wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said softly: "Just looking at this painting, I feel very uncomfortable in my heart. I want to cry."

It is clearly a picture of a warm family reunion.
Yumi Takahashi, who was the loudest next to her, was speechless when she heard this.

She felt it too.

This painting looks warm but always has a touch of melancholy, which seems to catch people inadvertently.

As for Koizumi Asuka?

As a psychiatrist, she doesn't really believe the rumors that "looking at an oil painting can make people cry".

Even if you want to resonate with others, you still need a foreshadowing of the plot.

It is obviously unlikely that one painting alone can make people feel emotional.

But this painting by Higashino seems to have done it.

Just the first frame of the picture gave her a feeling of reminiscing her childhood.

At that time, maybe my father was the same way, gently holding my hand, and walking forward with myself who was still staggering.
Several of them were touched, but no matter how touched they were, they couldn't compare to Chihaya Higashino who felt intuitively.

After all, the characters above were drawn by Higashino Tsukasa based on the photos of Higashino Chihaya when he was young.

The picture danced before my eyes, and at the same time, there were gentle male and female voices.

It wasn't like the bloody face she had seen so often. It was a gentler, more attractive face.

A gentle voice rang in his ears.

This made Higashino Chihaya couldn't help but burst into tears.

I don't know why my heart is blocked and uncomfortable.

She really wanted to turn her head and tell Dong Yesi that she didn't want to watch it anymore.

But her eyes couldn't move away from this painting, she could only jump her gaze to the second frame.

The grown-up self smiled and talked with Higashinoji, and next to him were men and women who smiled and looked at him and Higashinoji.

When I was young, my parents held hands.

Growing up, parents watched over.

This is another unforgettable memory for Chihaya Higashino.
(End of this chapter)