The journey of becoming a god of mushrooms in the ninja world

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André Gide.

I won’t go into details about this man’s life, to save you from saying that I’m cheating on the word count.In short, his setting is that of a mercenary who was abandoned by the country and had no place to go back to.He leads his mercenary team MIMIC to fight continuously in pursuit of death.

From his perspective, his choice was actually a helpless choice.

If there was a place he could go back to, he would definitely not want to wander around with his comrades.

When being abandoned by the country, more resentment towards oneself than hatred towards the country - if I, we, died on the battlefield at that time, would that be the best thing for the country?

If they had died then, they would have become heroes instead of the abandoned shadows they are now.

They can't even go back to their normal lives.

PTSD, most veterans who come off the battlefield have a similar situation, and the most severe cases even kill their own family members due to conditioned reflexes.

They are always suspicious of their surroundings, aggressive all the time, and have lost other survival abilities. Only war is the way of life they remember.

Returning to daily life seems to them to be a delusion.A peaceful life will only make them miserable.Even when they are lying in bed, gunfire and gunshots still ring in their ears. The excessive tranquility makes them mentally weak, and they even have the illusion that real life is unreal and everything is false.

Even if medical personnel are deployed for specialized treatment, only a few PTSD patients can escape the shadow of the past and return to their daily lives.

What's more, they don't even have this. They are people abandoned by the country, the people, and the whole world.

Living is extremely painful.

But suicide cannot enter heaven and is also a symbol of weakness and failure.

They can lose to others, but they cannot lose to themselves. That would make everything they have worked hard to survive until now seem too ridiculous.

To describe it in the simplest terms, it is a person gripped by despair and death.

In a way, they are very similar to Osamu Dazai.

It is difficult for outsiders to understand their pain. They seem to be caught by death, confused by death, and their spirits are immersed in darkness and negative emotions.If there are undead in this world, they will be haunted by the undead they killed and become lost ghosts that are difficult to transcend.

Even death has lost its sense of reality to them.

If it were not a heroic and tragic death, it would leave a vivid impression in their hearts, leaving them with the illusion that "that person is still alive" and "still lingering in the world."

Everything has inertia, and people are probably the same. Soldiers who keep killing repeatedly seem to be able to only continue killing. They can't stop. They are used to that kind of life.

So much so that no matter what kind of life, it becomes a kind of torment and pain.

When Andre Gide received the news that there was a person with the same precognitive ability as him in the island country of Yokohama, he felt a sense of destiny.

What a coincidence, everything is a coincidence!When they fell to the bottom of despair, like blind corpses moving forward mechanically, suddenly, someone told them that there was a chance to leave the world that exhausted them, and that it was pointless to stop talking. Andre Gide took it for granted that this act of self-abuse was destiny.

Another reason is that he possesses the power of prediction, which makes him nearly invincible. Like most people with powers, when he has few opponents, he will have the illusion that he is truly invincible.

This kind of arrogance that can only be found among superpowers makes him look down on most other superpowers.When he heard that someone had the same superpower as him, this arrogance spread to him.

——He, only he, can kill me!

This, of course, is a fallacy.

Globally, there are as many people who can kill him as there are crucian carp crossing the river.

But the arrogant mercenary leader believed that 'only' the other party could do it.

He looks down on most of the superpowers in the world, and is really ridiculously confident.

But it's no wonder, maybe he can't complete the task 100%, but he can escape death 100%.

This was also one of the sources of his guilt. Those who did not deserve to die and had more important social values ​​died, but he and his team became the living undead.He sometimes thought that if he didn't have such a power, it might be the real salvation for him and his team.In addition to being completely arrogant about his supernatural abilities, he also has a full sense of guilt.

——The sense of guilt makes him regard people with the same abilities as his other self in the mirror. He acquiesces that the other person is as 'guilty' as himself.

Then it is a natural equation to let the guilty opponent kill the guilty person.

...Sorry, we shouldn't think too deeply about his thinking logic. If you really understand a crazy person, you will become as crazy as him.In short, he was actually in an irrational state of extreme mental stress. When he heard the news, he did not hesitate to lead his mercenary team to find the person who was destined to kill.

But fate always plays tricks.

When he came, the other party happened to be away. It was said that he had gone abroad to participate in international award selections.

"International awards?"

Andre Gide was surprised. He thought that people like him, who had the same ability as the devil's curse, and who were caught by such a terrible curse as immortality, would live as hard as him.If you accidentally kill the other person, it will be considered as helping the other person to escape.Even if his other self doesn't feel this way now, the curse of immortality will bring him despair sooner or later.In the future, there will not be another Andre Gide to lift the curse for the opponent.

His subordinate nodded: "Yes, Captain, I heard that he wrote a work and was nominated for the International Literary Award."

Nominations for international awards are like this. Being shortlisted is worth showing off to prove that you have international standards.Usually, all the shortlisted people are called over, and the winners are announced on the day of the awards, which is more of a publicity stunt.

It was perfectly normal for a nominee to decide to go abroad for a trip, and Andre had no doubts.He was just surprised. He did not expect that his dream opponent would be so extraordinary and achieve success in other places - literature, a place where the ability to predict is least needed.

Out of curiosity, Andre asked his subordinates to buy a copy of this man's work.

Oda Tsukuru - This is the author's name printed on the cover.

"Ah, so confident."

Even Andre, who has never studied writing, knows that authors generally use pen names to avoid some trouble.If he fails to write good works, or if someone targets him, he will be in trouble if someone follows his lead.A pen name can serve as a vest to avoid most hidden dangers.

Odasaku, who can use part of his name as a pen name, is obviously quite confident, not only in his works, but also in his ability and means to deal with troubles.

Andre opened the pages of the book and began to read carefully.

He can actually only read very common basic Japanese, but fortunately, the second half of the book is an English translation.To be able to participate in international awards, of course, English is required. Sometimes the level and quality of translation also have an impact on whether you can win the award.

The English translation is simple and smooth, and the most interesting thing is the storyline, which is a witty and exaggerated description of a town full of dangers.

After Andre read it once, he couldn't help but read it again in English and Japanese.

He found that the original text was more flavorful, and the descriptions that seemed to record facts made the various scenes in the story even more ironic.

The author's message on the last page reads: I actually just recorded what I saw, but the editor said this is a fantasy story.My friends tell me this is probably because reality is stranger than fantasy.I think so.

Andre couldn't help but chuckle. He seemed to be able to see the other party saying this with a serious face, while his friend and editor had no choice but to cooperate.

Some of his team members also bought this book and read it several times after finishing it, just like him.This made the other team members curious and they also circulated it.

"Does such a town really exist?"

One of the team members expressed everyone’s thoughts.

"It shouldn't be, most of them are fiction."

Another team member responded.

Andre closed the book: "There shouldn't be too many towns whose abbreviation is BC. We can look for them one by one. Anyway, he is still receiving the award abroad."

The team members agreed, which determined whether they were watching fantasy or documentary literature.

They didn't know what the meaning was. In short, they just thought they wanted to satisfy their curiosity.

Andre and the others were lucky. They searched the Internet and found that many people were discussing the town whose abbreviation was BC.Some people bluntly said, this should refer to our town, it is really not an exaggeration.If you don’t believe it, come here and you will know that it is really like in the book.

Most people thought this person was joking and laughed along with him.

Andre contacted this person and learned the name of the town——

——Mihua Town.

All members of Mimic went to Mihua Town. After arriving in Mihua Town, they felt inexplicably that this place was so safe and comfortable. It was different from other cities. It gave them a sense of security as if they were back on the battlefield!

"Captain, why do I feel so friendly here and want to live here forever?"

One team member looked fascinated.

"Me too, it turns out I'm not the only one who feels this way!"

Another team member also had a similar expression.

Next!A tall building they were near exploded!The steel bars falling from upstairs hit the two team members who couldn't dodge!

Andre was shocked!It was so sudden, it happened even before he could react to his prediction!This place, this town—could it be that even with the ability to predict events, one could not 100% predict the accidents?It’s like a real-life version of Death coming!

The few team members who were still alive were shocked!One of them was moved to tears watching the gun battle between police and gangsters not far away.

"Captain, I like this place very much and I want to immigrate here."

"Me too, Captain!"

Andre thought for a moment and made a decision: "Okay, we will live here temporarily until Oda Sakunosuke returns to China."

then……

As a result, they never left Mihua Town again.