Overturned Tower

The mask of "Blue Robin" suddenly couldn't be taken off.

It has been two and a half months since Russell awakened his psionic power from the airship in mid-May.He never had this abnormality.

Although it was only for a moment, Russell did not have the fluke mentality of "Oh, it's okay", and still brought this matter up to Delphinium.

"Psychic out of control?"

Delphinium frowned, thoughtfully.

"Is this the out-of-control psionic energy?"

Russell suddenly realized.

Although he heard the word, it was the first time he experienced it himself.

Delphinium nodded: "Yes, psychic power is related to emotion and determination. Sudden loss of control is actually a normal situation... because human emotion is not a fixed line, but a trembling wave. When the redshift is close to the blueshift Sometimes, sudden strong emotional fluctuations may cause a short-term loss of control. But this loss of control itself is not harmful, and it will not cause any bad effects on your body. "

"Then it..."

"Psychic loss of control usually only lasts for a moment, and it will disappear immediately after your emotions calm down."

Then this is indeed out of control of psionic energy.

Russell nodded in confirmation.

The moment he recovered, the mask could be taken off.

Delphinium looked at Russell with inexplicable eyes: "It can even be said that... If your loss of control does not have a bad influence on other people, then it is actually quite a good thing. At least you can know that if you will degenerate into a demon , what kind of demon you will become."

"...will become a devil in a leather case whose mask cannot be removed?"

Russell's expression was a little subtle: "It sounds quite humorous, and it feels a bit ghostly for some reason."

Sounds like it's okay to hunt down security guards working part-time at a pizza place in the middle of the night for nothing.

"I always feel that it should not be that simple..."

Delphinium shook his head slowly.

She was actually a little worried.

Since Russell will awaken the psionic ability to "be able to perfectly play others", what is his deepest desire?

Is it the desire to be someone else?Or do you envy the lives and talents of others?Or do you think of yourself as something unimportant?

whatever it is.

Once this desire gets out of control, rather than hatching a demon, it would be more like hatching an "evil god"... an evil god with many faces, different talents, and ubiquitous.

He may also directly take away the identity of others, obliterate a person from the cognitive level, or split into countless parts... One is many, and many are one.

But in any case, this characteristic is already very close to the so-called "God".

But there is an evil here, which is blatantly declaring that this is an evil god.

Delphinium shook her head, dispelling the uneasiness in her heart.

She said decisively: "I guess... the person who caused you to lose control of your psychic power is most likely the demon you came into contact with."

"But she's dead."

"……what?"

"What made me lose control of my psychic powers was the suicide note sent by Miss Morgan."

Russell knew that Delphinium didn't know this person, so he added, "It's Bluebird's ex-girlfriend."

"...Blue Robin?"

It has been two months since the incident, delphinium froze for a moment before suddenly saying: "You mean...that girlfriend from before Xiao Liuli?"

"Yes, she seems to have been hired by the director to assassinate someone. Then she was silenced."

Russell said slowly, the sadness that had not completely receded still remained in his eyes: "Although I didn't get the memory of the blue songbird, I still felt the sadness. When this sadness reached the limit... a psionic power appeared. out of control."

"From this point of view, your transformation ability may not only inherit the other party's appearance and ability."

Delphinium analyzed: "But if it is said that some soul is attached to the chip and sealed by you... I think that is too mysterious and unscientific.

"And there's a problem here."

She sat in her seat, looked up at Russell, and stared deeply at Russell: "Are you sure this is really the sadness Xiao Liuli feels?

"Or...is this the emotion that your 'imaginary little Liuli' would have?"

Russell was stunned when he heard this.

He suddenly realized one thing——

If it was "Little Liuli" who had turned into a demon, she would probably feel... comforted when she heard the news?

Perhaps there is also peace and relief.

Because the two are finally together again.

Ended the hustle and bustle, complexity and pain of the world, and came back together quietly.

But what Russell felt was very intense pain, full of sadness and anger.

——Why is it painful?

For death is parting.Separation brings pain.

But "Little Liuli" is already dead?

In other words, the "blue robin" transformed by Russell is not a continuation of the deceased Xiao Liuli in his self-awareness, but a "alive" character.

Therefore, all his emotions and positions are based on the possibility of "I am still alive and Morgan is dead".

If Russell inherited the memory or consciousness of "Little Liuli" in the last stage, it is impossible for him to feel this kind of emotion!

So where does this sentiment come from?

Russell finally realized something... It was a detail that he ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

In the first stage of his psionic triggering, he always sees hallucinations from the past.

The reason why I was so sad when I heard the news of Morgan's death was that in Xiao Liuli's illusion, the mutual supportive love between him and Morgan was engraved in Russell's heart... "At that time", the blue song robin was listening to After receiving such news, I will indeed be so sad and angry.

Because that memory eliminates all the unpleasantness and ordinary daily life when the two get along.Only the most quintessential and profoundly influential "pure love" remains.

"……I understand."

Russell murmured.

He already has some guesses about the nature of his spiritual power:

It wasn't that there was something like a soul that infiltrated Russell's body through psychic energy; it wasn't that Russell decided to inherit the opponent's path, or was possessed by the opponent's remnant soul.

But after Russell finished reading the life of the other party, he had the desire to "play this role"...so he became "them".

The memory he sees is to construct the script of this character and fictionalize the life of the other party.

Because it lacks some trivial things in life, so... this role becomes very "distinctive".

Chapter 5 Russell's heart skipped a beat

Normally, everyone is complicated.Be special in special places, and become ordinary in ordinary places.

But every incarnation of Russell, from Alice to the blue robin, and the father of Paradise Bird whose name is still unknown...their "purity" is very high, like fictional characters in novels.

It is the "higher than life" extract that "comes from life and is higher than life".

It's like the gap between the image in a celebrity's personal biography and the person himself.

——That's why my mother is such a girl full of maternal temperament, with a body as young as an unmarried girl, and she also has the fighting talent that she should have at least after joining the Tower of Babel for a while and the ability to easily see through other people's body structure Experienced;

——So the blue song robin has the ability to master firearms through high-intensity prosthetic body transformation after being transformed into Xiao Liuli, but his body has not yet received that kind of transformation at that time... and this talent is even in the dream. can take effect in the world;

——Paradise Bird's father is even younger than the earliest appearance of Paradise Bird in his memory, and his body is still healthy enough; and in this era, the old stand-alone halo that has not been updated, It is simply impossible to have the power of the Holy Order of that intensity.In other words, Russell actually has the ability to "exist only in the past".

So he didn't get the real halo, but when he used the power of the holy order, a halo-like phantom appeared on his head-not the halo of the bird of paradise that was darker than the fluorescent lamp, but in 80 years. The brightness of the front!

Because that is exactly the ability that was "fictionalized" by Russell.

The "they" of the period that Russell became did not have this characteristic or ability at all!

"Not an 'old photo in an album' but a 'cover of a biography'.

"It's not that the mask of 'Blue Robin' is really crying, but I think it's sad, so I empathize with myself..."

Just analyzing himself, Russell felt chills down his spine.

original……

——Am I such an arrogant person?

"Nor."

Delphinium shook her head, jumped out of the previous topic, and asked from another angle: "Is she really dead because she sent you a suicide note?

"Did you see her body? Did you get any definite press evidence?"

"……No."

Russell thought: "No indeed. She even told me not to go to her."

"That's not necessarily dead...it could just be 'socially' dead."

"Uncoded."

Russell answered in a low voice.

It is indeed possible.

Sending a suicide note to everyone I know, but not telling them exactly where I died, or where the body will be found, or even letting them find me.It is entirely possible to kill yourself as a dead man on a social level, cut off all traces of the past...and then go downtown, avoiding who and what.

In other words, this possibility is much greater than being silenced by the director.

A person who was originally immersed in darkness decided to run away with a bucket and become a mercenary because he came into contact with something he shouldn't have come into contact with.

This is very reasonable.

That being the case...

So should I go find her?

Originally, Russell was only sad and angry, and his thinking was clear; but after sorting out the nature of his psychic powers, and even doubting Miss Morgan's death, he fell into confusion instead.

But delphiniums can't help with that either.

She just asked Russell to go home first and stand by... because this was an investigation about "Ultramarine", even though he had just had a physical examination and confirmed that he was not a demon, but because the demon might be someone close to him, he had to avoid suspicion.

And Delphinium planned to start with everyone that Russell had contacted this morning, and then check the city surveillance backwards.

In this way, you can always find some suspicious people you have contacted.

In order to comfort Russell, she also included "Miss Morgan" in her search.

She is the one with the chip after all.As long as she is alive, she will leave traces when she enters and exits any public place... As long as she is found once from the surveillance, Delphinium can follow the clues and call out the records of all the places she has entered in the last month from the entire Happy Island. Record.

However, Russell had just left the special operations room.

Before he even got out of the building, he suddenly froze in place.

His pupils ignited white flames without warning——

In hallucinations, Russell sees a dialogue in which the protagonist is himself, but never appears in his memory:

"Miss Morgan, Miss Morgan!"

Russell panted and grabbed Morgan's arm.

She was wandering around the executive building, as if waiting for someone.Because his behavior was too deliberate, he was stared at by the people around him.

Hearing Russell's voice, she turned her head in relief.

And Russell immediately asked: "What do you mean by the letter you sent me?

"What do you mean 'No matter what happens, don't come to me'?"

"... Maybe you can also be regarded as a kind of aggressive method?"

"Then I have to say, you win."

Russell said in a deep voice: "Let's talk in another place... This is not a place to talk."