【Light Cut】Story of O

"...You have been silent, but you haven't hung up. What are you thinking, O?" Minamoto Laiguang's voice was like the tip of a white bird's feathers across the water, causing distant ripples in O's trance heart lake, "Based on Respect, I give you the initiative to lead the topic, but you don't seem to have the qualities to be an Alpha. Heh, no wonder you call yourself 'O', is your full name 'Omega', kid?"

Although ordinary people may not understand it, O is very clear that the words "Alpha" and "Omega" mentioned by Minamoto Laiguang refer to their Greek letters respectively: α (Alpha) ranks first in the Greek alphabet, and has the meaning of "leader". ", and Ω (Omega) ranks No.20 in the Greek alphabet, that is, the last one, which can refer to "followers".

Just because he knew the ancient meaning of these two letters, O subconsciously blurted out: "'O' does not refer to 'Omega'! You are not allowed to call me 'little friend', I am older than you!"

His swollen childish voice looks like a ferocious puppy, but smells like milk. On the other end of the phone, Minamoto Raimiko couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and said slowly, "How old is it?"

O immediately retorted: "A lot bigger! A lot! There are so many, so many, so big that you can't imagine!"

Minamoto Raimitsu: "Hehe, how much is 'many', please tell me the specific size."

O just wanted to throw out the sentence "I'm 55 years older than you!" but suddenly there was a shock in his mind, and he found that he was surrounded by Minamoto Raikou-why did his young husband suddenly speak yellow accents!At, at this time!Does it fit? !

O became shy like a young child in love, and for a moment completely forgot the fear of death, as if Minamoto Raimitsu had the ability to rekindle the fire of his gradually extinguished desire—the desire for life , the desire for life, the courage and greed to live.

But the higher the flame rises, the faster it falls. After all, O is 73 years old. He knows that he must not reveal his true identity, and must not let Minamoto Raimitsu recognize that he is another "Onikiri".So, he pursed his lips tightly, suppressed the agitation in his heart with perseverance, strangled the urge to act like a baby to Minamoto Laiguang with his will, and continued to say some love words to him, and filled the time with silence.

It's a pity that he still showed his personality to Minamoto, because the purpose of Minamoto's words was to construct a clever aggressive method, which not only tested whether O understood the hidden meanings of "Alpha" and "Omega", but also Through this back-and-forth conversation, it is possible to detect the degree of similarity between O and Onikiri.

During O's second long silence, Minamoto Raimitsu suddenly said, "Speaking of which, the initial letter of 'Onikiri' is also 'O'."

O almost cried out, but luckily he gritted his teeth just in time.Unexpectedly, Minamoto Raimitsu said again: "About 'Alpha' and 'Omega'... That Kid Onikiri wrote me a New Year's card four years ago, at the beginning of his 14th year. Although it was anonymous, he insisted on Handwritten, so no matter how he changes his handwriting later, I can still recognize it."

"Onikiri wrote on the congratulations column of the greeting card, 'You pursue Alpha, I pursue you. You are my Alpha, please allow me to be your Omega. Signature, O.' You should also know this sentence very well, yes What, O—nikiri?"

The ancient old man who was called out by the protracted voice could not help but feel shy again. He never expected that the greeting card that was enough to become his dark history, the source of the content on it, Laiguang, could still remember it—it was the first time he blatantly Write a love letter (although it looks like a greeting card) to Minamoto Raimitsu (albeit anonymously)!

At that time, in order to think of a love story that was both unconventional and profound, he dragged Shuten and Ibaraki to flip through the books together, almost living in the welfare library of the community where the orphanage is located, and he and his partners struggled for half a month. The result is this sentence:

You pursue Alpha (referring to "absolute return" in the investment field, which is in line with Minamoto's career), and I pursue you.You are my Alpha (origin; guide; target of marriage proposal), please allow me to be your Omega (follower; destination; marriage partner).

He always thought that the love letter he wrote at the age of 14 was just like the thousands of emails, and when he clicked "send", he would lose everything, so he put the greeting card in the mailbox, and he didn't expect Minamoto Laiguang to see what he had thought hard. love words.

But just like at the age of 23 after the death of her husband, he discovered that Minamoto had carefully browsed every email of him and kept it until his death. At the age of 73, he learned about Minamoto’s emails. Guang always remembers the first love letter he sent, the first love sentence he wrote—the kind of words that are both subtle and awkward, but also explicit in desire!It's that naive age when you can't do anything!However, Minamoto Raikou took the simple heart of a 14-year-old boy so seriously. He not only carefully pondered the congratulatory speech, but also remembered it to this day.

Even though the body was stiff due to insufficient energy supply, O still showed a bright smile because of the inner touch, and he joked to Minamoto Raimitsu on the other end of the phone: "So what if it's O—nikiri, so what if it's not O—nikiri? Are you trying so hard to find the similarities between me and Onikiri, do you want to gather two Onikiri and two O's to become 'Double OSeven' (007) and save Heian-kyo?"

Minamoto Laiguang on the other end of the phone was speechless for a while, probably unexpectedly, O, who was as indifferent and resistant as a little hedgehog, suddenly became lively and strong.He pursed his lips slightly because of the feeling of losing control, only to hear O smile again: "Listen well, Minamoto Raimitsu, in this time and space, there is only one 'Onikiri', and only one living body is endowed with 'Onikiri' In your name, that’s the guy who’s already put your wedding ring on. And I’m nothing but ‘O’, no matter how much I resemble Onikiri, I’m not him.”

"My biggest reminder to you is the way to distinguish me from Onikiri - Onikiri is love to you, and I am just a responsibility to you. I eliminate internal and external enemies for you. It can be said that it is for you, but more For my own sake, because I'm more disgusted by those old bedbugs with a vegetarian diet than you! They want your life, and I see them unhappy. Every day they live, I feel unhappy. I just want to chop off their heads , I would gladly let you live and let them die."

"Minaraikou, I know you hate the unknown and are used to controlling everything, but is it meaningful for you to reason with a lunatic? You just need to remember that you have sufficient alibi for all the murders I caused, and you Never ordered me, never promised me, and never owed me anything. Don't try to understand me, let alone the existence named O, you just think I'm an unreasonable murderer Crazy!"

O finally said, almost giggling, "Stop trying to track my phone signal, I won't be caught by you. And don't rush out, thinking you'll be in Genji's house after I've been messing around a bit." Arrest me nearby. Minamoto Raimitsu, don't take a murderer like me to heart, you have more important people to care about, such as the real and only 'Onikiri'. Although that little fool has already He has successfully become your husband, but he still needs a legal "curse" to completely imprison you in human society. This time I will not hack into the central computer of the Social Security Bureau and directly modify your marital status! I believe that even if you don't take the initiative, Onikiri will know what to do, after all, the bond between me and Onikiri exists on the letter 'O'."

"That's all I want to say. This will be our first and last phone call. At 24:[-] tonight, I'm going to a place where you and Onikiri will never be found. No more harassing calls oh!"

O giggled and laughed, and the laughter echoed in the narrow back seat of the shared car, like a little white bird flapping its feathers openly and unyieldingly in an iron cage that was gradually being crushed.Minamoto Larimitsu probably also heard his irreversible determination like the law of cause and effect, so he snatched before he cut off the call: "Wait a minute, oh, do you still remember the first time 'Onikiri' met me? Is it time?"

O was stunned for a while by the sudden question, blinked his eyelashes a few times in a daze, and then murmured in a tone as if floating above the clouds: "13 years old... when Onikiri was 13 years old. You go to the orphan where he is. Hospital, to participate in the donation activities of the Genji Foundation."

O never expected Minamoto Raimitsu's reply to be categorical: "No. The first time I saw Onikiri was when I was ten years old. At that time, Onikiri was just born, a premature baby suffering from illness, Wrinkled, like a little monster. His mother is said to be a girl who lost her footing, her mental state was extremely poor, and her only obsession was the baby in her womb. In order to keep Onikiri, she made her own choice and died in the delivery room .”

"For children like Onikiri, the Genji Foundation has corresponding funding projects. The hospital staff applied for a spot for Onikiri, carried him out of the incubator, and brought him into the operating room. Monsters...as if rejected by this human world, he developed new problems at every turn, and his organs failed countless times. The medical staff had never seen such a poor child who seemed to be entangled by evil spirits. Strange. Many people speculated whether he had committed too many murders in his previous life, so he suffered so early in this life and was hated by the world."

"Fortunately, the power of human beings can finally defeat ghosts and gods. The little monster was rescued and his body is getting better day by day, but he still needs to lie in a sterile ward to recuperate."

"It was also at that time that my father inspected the key projects of the Genji Foundation, and specially took me with him to the hospital where Onikiri was located, to visit the rumored 'posthumous child who survived a catastrophe'. I think, anyone who sees that A child with catheters all over his body will be touched by his will to survive and his tenacity to not succumb to pain. Therefore, I asked my father if I could name the child 'Onikiri'——with Genji It has the same name as the legendary Xeon Demon Slaying Blade. I hope that name can become a new 'curse' to pull out the innocent evil spirits entangled in that child, and cut off for him the evil spirits that covet him in the dark."

"Father appreciates my idea, but reminds me that I am not the child's parents, and I only met the child once. According to the common sense of human ethics, I am not qualified to name him."

"I respect my father's teachings, so I wanted to give up and let the medical staff who brought the child back from the god of death give him a name, but... should I say that the little monster is worthy of being a little monster? Suddenly, I started crying and couldn't sleep on the bed. He kept twisting and frightening everyone outside the glass wall, and the nurse rushed in, comforted him not to cry, and nervously checked what was wrong with him."

"After checking and checking, everyone realized that the child's condition had not relapsed, but he was crying at the top of his voice uncharacteristically, which made the medical staff feel strange, because he usually does not cry or make trouble, just like a little dumb, I really don't know Why make an exception today."

"When everyone present was puzzled, it was still the father who was wise and keen. He saw that the child had been trying to wave and grasp me, as if he wanted to touch me."

"My father arranged for me to walk into the aseptic room, and the baby stopped crying. I stood next to his incubator, trying to put on gloves and reach out to touch him, but he started crying again, and the nurse allowed me to take it off. Gloves."

"I touched the child's open palm to me, touched his ten small fingers, and the child also tried to use his weak five fingers to circle mine... Heh, he grabbed my hand He clings to his left ring finger, and when I want to take it away, he cries, and I still don’t know whether he did it on purpose or not, and why he only clenched my left ring finger tightly.”

"In short, after that incident, my father believed that I had a 'deeper karma' with that child, so it was not a bad idea to name him; as for the medical staff, they also liked the meaning of 'onikiri' very much and did not object. Since then, that child The child was called 'Onikiri'."

"The above is the ten-year-old me, my first encounter with a little monster who has not yet turned one year old. My first encounter with Onikiri."

"How do you comment on this, O... Onikiri who doesn't want to be called 'Onikiri'."

Minamoto Raimitsu calls "Onikiri" every time, it seems more natural than calling his own name. The voice he blurts out of "Onikiri" is like an elegant startled deer, brushing away the ethereal and reserved water waves, and the poetry is hidden deep in the words. But it knocked on O's heart like a bell.

"You...I, uh! No, no, it's Oni, Onikir..." O's tongue was tied up, and he couldn't even speak clearly, only to feel that the call revived his urge to cry, because He has such a deep bond with Minamoto Raimitsu, beyond the cheekiest daydreams of his adolescence, it will make his (imaginary) little tail curl up!

But like two sides of the same coin, even though he could hear Raimitsu Minamoto's original intention to overthrow all self-sacrificing determinations, the older he got, the more rebellious he became, the less he followed his husband's ideas.Instead of being nostalgic for this moment, he felt that spending the rest of his life for Minamoto and Onikiri in this time and space—it was worth it!So worth it!Couldn't be more worth it!

So, O chuckled lightly in a boyish voice: "Didn't I say that, Minamoto Raimitsu, O's thoughts are not worthy of your attention, and O's existence itself is not worthy of your attention. Rather than asking me, why don't you ask me about this initial question?" Tell Onikiri the story of Yu again, and let that kid evaluate you with snot and tears running down his nose!"

O was all smiles, and made a gesture to hang up the phone again, but Minamoto Raikou's temper was quite childish, and he just opened his mouth and said: "If you dare to hang up the phone, I will imitate what you did this morning .Try it, O, the glass window of the study I'm facing is still wide open."

"——You?!" O almost shut down when he heard this. Is Minamoto Raimitsu also the one who can threaten Onikiri with suicide by jumping off a building?He thought it would only be the other way around! "You, you are despicable! You, you are a big villain!"

"Hmph, each other." Yuan Laiguang may also feel that the angry words are too naive, so he quickly turned over the page with a new retention, "Tell me, oh, when I was younger, I guarded you. Are you by my side? Whenever I encounter major dangers, such as kidnapping, robbery, or being involved in a car accident, you always appear suddenly, in the form of a boy of about 13 years old, dressed in the costume of an ancient warrior, but wearing a A ghost mask. Whenever you save me, you will disappear suddenly. No one knows your true identity, and no one can find the slightest clue. Therefore, my father thinks that you are the ancient guardian spirit of Genji, and he calls you mine. 'Yokai Samurai'."

When Minamoto Raimitsu mentioned this, O remembered that in a total of 120 four attempts to travel through time and space, he had traveled to a more distant past dozens of times—the past where "Onikiri" was not born, and " Onikiri" has a past that has not yet met Minamoto Raimitsu.As for the reason for this move, on the one hand, he wanted to meet his younger husband (his "little husband"! Like a snow doll) to relieve the extreme distress of lovesickness; on the other hand, he also wanted to collect information more comprehensively , in order to judge which people in the way to be killed and which malicious fuses to extinguish, so as to prevent Minamoto Yorimitsu's death at the age of 33.

But after dozens of attempts, he found that he had strayed into the time and space of the more distant past, especially the time and space before Onikiri was born. He wanted to hug his little husband and pinch his little face and hands ( left ring finger), his tiny wish brought disasters that should not have happened to the young Minamoto: kidnapping, robbery, car accident, arson...every time it happened before he wanted to touch Minamoto, It was as if the world was sternly warning him: You don't belong here, you're not welcome, you're not qualified to touch "him", leave now!

—if I don't want to?What if I want to touch?What if I'm just going to turn against you, world?

——Then eliminate the root "source" of your "unwillingness", "preferring", and "resistance".

Although with his strong mechanical body, he turned Minamoto out of danger every time, but in the final analysis, it was he who disturbed Minamoto's peaceful life and stable growth, which made him blame himself while being grateful extremely.Finally, after dozens of attempts—especially in the last attempt, where Minamoto Raimitsu saw...the inhuman and ugly side—he chose to give up, and no longer go too far, where Onikiri has not yet come. Adulthood, a past that has little connection with Minamoto Yorimitsu's destined day.

"Monster...samurai. You are too... no, it's you and Master Man Zhong who praised me too much." The recalled memories made O feel confused, he was ups and downs in the messy thoughts, both in a trance and sober, as if tears could Flowed, but solidified on the cheek.He seemed to have turned his head back, but he couldn't see the way back, but at this moment, Minamoto's voice sounded like a deer calling for his partner:

"It's called a 'samurai', but there really are warriors who don't even tell their lord their names? I was just born, and when I was an adult, every time you came to see me, you looked like a 13-year-old boy warrior. You come and go Gone without a trace, helped me and disappeared, never spoke to me, never answered my puzzles, you were the biggest puzzle of my youth, O. But once, the only time, you got me out of the fire , the mask on your face was smashed off by the falling beams. Through the thick smoke, I saw your face for the first time... It looks very much like Onikiri, but Onikiri was only eight years old at the time, clearly still staying in the orphanage Playing with building blocks in the yard. When you put me in your arms and rushed out of the fire, I saw the skin on your face peel off after being burned, revealing a metallic skeleton, like some kind of mechanical organism that only exists in the future."

"My 'monster samurai', after I saw the face, seemed to hide from me and never appeared again. But I always remembered that face, and kept looking for it. Finally, five years later, when I was 23 years old, And Onikiri entered the age of 13, his face completely coincides with the face you left in my memory. I really didn't expect that the little monster back then was my "Yokai Warrior". It’s beyond my understanding. But if my father is still alive, he will definitely say, ‘This is also a kind of romance in the world’.”

Minamoto Raimiko smiled slightly, shook his head slightly with emotion, and the tail of his hair brushed the white velvet collar of the bathrobe, making a gentle rustling sound. O listened to the small voice on the other end of the phone, and it seemed that the bitter memories became sweet after fermenting. He couldn't help puffing up his cheeks, revealing the deep dimples that Minamoto Laiguang couldn't see.

Minamoto Raikou said again: "In August this year, Onikiri accidentally touched alcohol at his birthday party. His friends didn't grab him for a while, and he rushed out of the Dajiangshan Bar like a little crazy monkey. When Qingming called and asked me to rush to the scene, and what I saw was him hugging a telegraph pole and confessing drunkenly, the silly boy kept repeating to a telegraph pole, 'Sir, I fell in love with you at first sight'."

"But in my opinion, the child and I are more inclined to 'hit it off'. If you are from the perspective of Onikiri and not him, what is your point of view, O?"

"...Woo, uh...that, that, um..." In fact, O couldn't give a clear answer, and his proud, clear and sharp blade heart was also ignorant at this moment. Confused.Or maybe, even the world itself, which monitors all the information flow, can't make a watertight and impeccable definition of the karma between him and Minamoto Yorimitsu.

It’s also like human beings can always talk about the elements of love, kindness, and family affection, but once they encounter real passion, they often start to lose their rationality and stutter—for example, O, for example At this moment, he opened his mouth and murmured at a loss: "Men, Minamoto...don't ask me questions all the time, I don't know, I don't care...don't care about his 'sight' or something, I don't... ...I, what I care about is... Minamoto Raimitsu."

"No, but although I care about Minamoto Yorimitsu, Minamoto Yorimitsu belongs to Onikiri, I, I know very well... I am O, I am not Onikiri, so, so I only care, just... just care, just Enough is enough. No more is needed."

He spoke really vaguely, like star candy stuck between his teeth, but Minamoto Laiguang on the other end of the phone obviously understood, and he said softly in a gurgling voice: "Oh... yeah, I understand. You You have made your own choice. You have your persistence, and you don’t want to be changed by anyone. But I still want to know, is there really nothing, no matter how bizarre, trivial, or tiny, I can help you?”

O chokes violently, and tens of thousands of poisoned pictures pop up in the electronic brain in an instant: hugging, kissing, touching the head, pinching the earlobe, touching the little red horn (Wi-Fi signal receiver), being stroked Messy short black hair, tied into a small ponytail, put on the ring again, the ring got stuck in the bottom of the finger and could never be taken off, just like the silver hair on the top of Yuan Laiguang's head could never be pressed down, just like When the capsule coffee machine was "buzzing" in operation, the mellow aroma of oil came out. He hid under the pillow to block his ears, but Minamoto grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him out of the bed. He dozed off in Minamoto's arms and wrote down the The small book of words "slapped" to the ground, and Minamoto Laiguang held him in his arms to read a thick collection of essays, and let the little husband put his head in his shoulder. They went to the movies again but this time The seat on his right has been sitting with his lover, Minamoto Raimitsu has been holding his hand and patted him on the back when he was laughing, telling him to stop laughing, but he wanted to talk back: I am in the Genji home Even how to laugh in life has to be reminded by the housekeeper grandpa!Being the son-in-law of the Yuan family is tiring. There are so many rules and rules, I am so annoyed. You should take my surname, sir!May I take you away from home, my husband, let your monster warrior show his might, and take you away from the family that binds you and the world that makes you tired and worried——

In the revolving fantasy, he seems to have relived his life.This time, there is neither life nor death, and the fifty spring and autumn are both plain and complete, making the betrayal and concealment in youth unreasonable.When the day he drew a red circle on the calendar came, he smiled and wrapped his frost-stained hair with his fingertips, and said to Minamoto: "The anniversary is here! Happy golden wedding, sir." Minamoto Maybe sitting in a wheelchair, but more likely leaning on the crutches on which he hid all kinds of weapons, nodding to him, smiling slightly: "Happy golden wedding, Onikiri. How do you want to celebrate, my little silly husband?"

"I..." O felt like he had turned into a small lemon, both bitterly sour and cloyingly sweet, as if he wanted too much, too much, too much, but what he blurted out was a simple sentence Simple and simple: "Minaraikou, I don't want you to do anything for me, no matter big or small. But I want you to do one thing for Onikiri, and you must do it - healthy, safe, long-term Live a hundred years."

"I am begging you, and I am ordering you, you must cherish your life and live with Onikiri. If possible, please let Onikiri walk out of your wings, please rely on Onikiri, and allow him to be your sword And the scabbard, let him not only protect your back, but also stand in front of you, and cut off all evil thoughts against you! Even if he is still very immature and unreliable, you must believe that as long as you give With the opportunity for Onikiri to grow, he will become a very, very, very powerful samurai! He will become an omnipotent existence in order to protect his master."

"If there is an eventuality... Please allow that brat to leave this world before you. He is really afraid of being left behind by you, just like a puppy cannot be separated from its owner. But if the owner is willing to take the puppy on the road together, The puppy will never leave the owner alone on the road!"

"This is my last wish. Can you do it, Minamoto? I only give you three seconds, whether you answer or not, we will say goodbye forever. One—two—"

Minamoto Raimitsu's concise reply and O's "three" sounded together: "Yes."

O cut off the call, which was a termination and a farewell.Just like his last slash of "Onikiri", he has neither regrets nor regrets, and he is worthy of the name given to him by his husband - the most powerful blade, "Onikiri".