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In the dim and dilapidated black clinic, the teenage boy waved his hands covered with white bandages, shook his head covered with white bandages, and said to the man sitting in the darkest place: "Have you seen Polaris?" The Parody of Fairy Tales?"

The man sitting in the darkest place has straight black hair with a shawl, and his purple eyes show a sense of blood stagnation in the lack of light environment.

This man was wearing a wrinkled but unexpectedly clean white coat, with a pen stuck in his breast pocket, and a strand of hair just touched the cap of the pen.

The doctor in the black clinic stared at the childish suicide attempter and showed an ambiguous smile.

He didn't answer the boy's question.

The teenager then told a story in the book, telling the familiar story to happy and innocent children in a tone as if the whole world had lost its color.

"Cinderella"

In fairy tales, although Cinderella was tortured by her stepmother and two stepsisters, with the help of her fairy godmother, she obtained a beautiful princess dress, crystal shoes, and a pumpkin carriage, and successfully went to the prince's ball and won the prince rest assured.

When the fairy godmother's magic fails, Cinderella loses her glass slipper, and the prince uses this slipper to search for a girl he loves all over the country.

Two stepsisters wanted to wear beautiful glass slippers to become the prince's princess, but their feet were too big to fit in, so they chopped off their toes and heels.

But how could the prince not remember the beautiful girl who appeared in front of him like a dream and danced with him?

The ending of the fairy tale is of course that the prince successfully found Cinderella, and the stepmother and stepsisters who abused Cinderella also got the tragic end they deserved.

What a beautiful fairy tale, it makes innocent and innocent children have good expectations for the world they don't know, and draw strength from it to grow up hard.

The boy covered in bandages tells a story based on "Cinderella".

Under Polaris, the overall story line has not changed, and the only thing that has changed a lot is the protagonist.

"Cinderella's Sister"

The story begins with Cinderella becoming the prince's concubine, and the stepmother and stepsister also leave Cinderella's father's mansion in embarrassment and go to the countryside.

Cinderella, or should she be called Princess Cinderella's step-sister, was not reconciled to the sudden disappearance of her rich life, and she cursed all day long.

Just as Cinderella's pain beckons the fairy godmother, so too does the pain of Cinderella's step-sister, Tricililla, beckon the magical being, the Raven Witch.

The young man who was shrouded in the dim light spoke in a dull tone, "The Crow Witch said to Tricilia: 'Your pain is so delicious, that's why I appeared here'. Tricilia was very scared, but in her heart But there was a trace of unspeakable excitement, she wiped the tears from her face, and asked the Crow Witch: 'Are you here to help me'?"

The boy stroked the bandaged back of his hand with his bandaged fingers, and said expressionlessly: "The Crow Witch laughed like a night owl, nodded vigorously under Trixilia's terrified eyes, and said loudly: 'Of course. Tricilia, of course I'm here to help you take care of you. Cinderella has her fairy godmother, and you, my lovely child, you have the mighty Raven Witch at your back'!"

The boy continued to talk about how Trixilia was bewitched by the crow witch's rhetoric, and attacked his own sisters, his own mother, and irrelevant strangers. Through these evil deeds and The evil ritual got many things she wanted, but she still didn't get what she wanted most—everything that belonged to Cinderella.

Trixilia's heart gradually became crazy, she was still not satisfied, and lost fear of the crow witch who always treated her with a frivolous attitude, she began to ask the crow witch to help her take back everything that belonged to her from Cinderella, For example, the position of the princess.

The Crow Witch advised her and laughed at her, but this strengthened her determination. Finally, under her firm request, the Crow Witch reluctantly advised her and provided her with magical help.

So Trixilila returned to the capital with full confidence, looking forward to how she would take Cinderella's place and torture Cinderella after becoming the princess.

But Trixilia failed.

When being thrown into prison and about to be beheaded, Tricilia still couldn't believe that she would fail.

The Crow Witch revealed herself in the dirty and worrying cell, and sighed softly.

Trixilila began to question and blame the Crow Witch, and asked her to rescue herself immediately.

When the bandaged boy said this, he finally had an expression on his face. He twitched the corners of his mouth, and looked at the man with an indescribable coldness in his eyes.

"That's how the Crow Witch rejected Trixilila, Dr. Sen."

"'That's the way things are. The kind and simple Cinderella can meet the fairy godmother who helps her live a happy life, and the despicable and ugly Trixilia can only meet the crow witch who made her worse. The thing is It’s like this, it’s like this, you haven’t figured it out until now, don’t you think that you are a little angel who is favored by gods and magic, and you can get any favor on the side of good in this continent?”

Under Dr. Sen's unchanging smile, the boy in bandages sat lazily on the wooden chair, weakly—or carelessly raised his too slender hand, and his clear voice was filled with emotion for the first time.

"This fairy tale, which is not like a fairy tale, tells us to be careful. Children who are lost on the road of life, remember to reflect on yourself when you encounter help from the sky. If you don't have the kindness of the fairy tale protagonist, don't expect yourself Encountered a fairy godmother. Do you think so, Dr. Sen."

Dr. Mori showed a thoughtful expression, and then deepened the smile on his face, "So, Dazai-kun, is the crow witch bad? Indeed, ordinary people would not choose the crow witch when there is a fairy godmother, but things There are always exceptions, and the child who has lost his way answers that it was his choice, his choice to get lost, because... not all people are on the right path."

Doctor Mori, Mori Ogai's gaze was infinitely close to pity.

"That's why the Raven Witch exists in the mist."

Mori Ogai said so.

To Mori Ogai's interpretation, the boy named Osamu Dazai did not respond, he just sat slumped, maybe waiting for his physical strength to recover, or just slumped, waiting for any kind of future.

There are many fairy tales in his mind.

Fairy tales belong to children. This is a well-known fact, but it is ridiculous. What makes Osamu Dazai feel a little absurd is that even if children grow up and become adults, fairy tales will not disappear and still exist in the depths of memory. , donating countless illusions and temptations, despair and loneliness free of charge.

That could never be the product of the fairy godmother, but could only be the mischief of the Raven Witch.

Yes.

Fairy tales are the pranks that the witch gives to all children.

Thinking of this, Osamu Dazai raised his eyelids and sighed.

"As you said, Dr. Mori, this is the lost path I chose... Ah, it should be more appropriate to say that the end point is more appropriate? But... no, it's okay to call it a lost path. That's right, 'death', that's what it is thing."

After affirming his first reaction, Osamu Dazai continued: "This is the lost path I chose, and I chose it myself. If there is a crow witch in this story, then the true nature of this crow witch will only be 'Death', not you. In short, next time please don't bother someone else's suicide."

"It's only natural for doctors to save lives, right?" Dr. Sen retorted with a smile.

Osamu Dazai had no intention of arguing with Mori Ogai on this proposition, he just wanted to rule out the unexpected factors represented by this person, and the other party's answer implied the so-called trouble.

"It doesn't help my life, but accuses me of my death, and speaks loudly that my life is precious and worth saving. The so-called 'road' is for such people, right? Dr. Sen, do you think you are such a person?"

is it?

Mori Ogai suddenly remembered the battlefield. He used to be a military doctor, but now he is just a civilian doctor who runs an unlicensed clinic in the darkness of Yokohama, about a century away from the battlefield.

The only link is blood and death.

Probably Osamu Dazai finally survived the aftermath of the suicide and regained his strength. He was wrapped in bandages. The number and appearance of the bandages were so impactful that it was impossible to tell what he was using. Suicide is the way to make yourself like this.He stood up from the chair wrapped in bandages, turned and walked towards the door.

Mori Ogai didn't keep him, but the slender boy thought casually when he opened the door and left that they would meet again eventually.

The green fruit will eventually ripen, and the lost lamb will return to the fat grassland under the guidance of the sheepdog.

After the sound of footsteps blocked by the wall completely receded and disappeared, Ogai Mori realized belatedly that he forgot to ask Osamu Dazai if he could speak French.

The Japanese translations of Polaris’s works are only a collection of short stories “Fairy Tale Parody Collection” and a novel “Jewel Island”, but her travel notes are also very interesting, but this is only published in a magazine in France, and there is no foreign edition. There is no translation.Even if you can order through some channels, if you can't read French, it will be in vain.

next time.

Mori Ogai thought.

When we meet next time, I will remind that child to learn French if I have time. The thoughts revealed in Polaris’s chatty articles are more attractive than playful adaptations of fairy tales. Pity.

That's right, according to that child, it would be a pity to die before reading the complete Polaris.

what……

Now that I thought of this...

Mori Ogai stood up from the swivel chair, opened the medicine cabinet, searched for a long time like looking for private money, and finally found a library book that was curled up.

Seeing this book, Mori Ogai thought of the battlefield again, because he read this book on the battlefield, and it was taken from the trouser pocket of a compatriot who was seriously injured and could not be saved, and it was miraculously not stained with any blood.