I survive in a high-risk world by writing essays

The seventh day in Tokyo is also the third day in the new home.

Originally, I didn't plan to go out, but because when I moved, it was inconvenient to move around, and the cost-effectiveness of moving around was not high, so I might as well just buy new electrical appliances, so I just stayed in Tottori In the house, people from the moving company were not allowed to move over.

So I had to add the missing appliances.

Akihabara is the closest place to Yasho-cho where you can buy electrical appliances. It only takes more than ten minutes by train to get there. I adhered to the principle of proximity and chose to go to Akihabara to buy electrical appliances.

——Akihabara, although I have never been to Tokyo in the past few times, this place is indeed very famous.The world's leading electric street, a paradise for anime fans, generally just search for "must-see places in Tokyo", and there will be Akihabara in the nominations.

But to be honest, I'm really not very good at picking these things.

After being recommended a rice cooker worth 10,000 yen and a washing machine worth [-]+ yen one after another, I gave up listening to the clerk and chose the one that looked more pleasing to the eye.

"Only these few items, do you have delivery service in your store?" I simply paid the money and asked the clerk.

After getting an affirmative answer, I filled in my address and asked the shop to send a few electrical appliances to my residence.

When I finished everything and walked out of this electrical appliance store, I looked at the time, and it was not an hour before I left the residence.

——As we all know, for people who seldom go out, it is rare to go out for a trip. If they go back soon, there will occasionally be a subtle sense of waste, as if they didn’t do anything this trip, as if they were preparing for going out It's all done for nothing.

Obviously, when you go out, you are prepared to spend a long time.

so...

"Then let's take a stroll around Akihabara." I thought about it for a while, and quickly decided.

The horror novelist whose pen name is Kuroshio Doomsday, Ibuki Sake, that is, I have long been brewing in my heart the idea that an editor will go into cardiopulmonary arrest and readers will be outraged.

Since I started writing, all I have written are horror works, and the only difference is the difference between realistic horror novels and fantasy horror novels.

Even eating, always eating the same dishes will get boring, let alone creating.

I have been bored with horror novels for the past year, especially after finishing the second volume of "The Reef", this boredom has reached its peak, and it has reached the point where I don't want to think about writing at all.

So I thought about it for a long time—for about a week or so, I planned to change my style first and write about other things to adjust my mood and state.

Like romance novels.

...yes, you read that right, and neither did I.

For my editor Nakago, this is probably a horror story of "Would you be happy if the horror novelist you brought suddenly wanted to switch to writing romance light novels".

If I let the editor of Zhongxiang know that such a thought is turning in my mind, I am afraid that I will be 'happy' and run to my door overnight to hang myself [laughs].

So it seems that it is a good thing not to tell the editor that I have moved.

As expected of me.

But having said that, the fried fish-shaped red bean yaki in Akihabara is quite delicious, even if I am not very keen on sweets, I ate the whole red bean yaki.

In addition, I also saw a few characters in my novels that were changed into animations in several shops selling peripheral products. Among them, the most recognizable one is the doctor character in "The Crazy Man in the Box".

I wandered around for a while, found an open-air milk tea shop and sat down, and gradually focused on the young couples passing by on the street.

Since I said that I want to write a love light novel, I definitely can't just talk about it, but also have to make some preparations for the creation.

So I want to draw materials from these young couples for reference, to see how young people fall in love.

The young couple I selected as a reference looks pretty good. The girl is petite and petite, wearing a jk uniform and wearing a pair of low double ponytails. She is a sweet and gentle type, while the boy's hairstyle is a bit Like the male protagonist in an anime I've seen and forgot what his name is.

When I was observing, the girl was holding up an ice cream as if she was about to give it to the boy. The boy in the couple lowered his head and took a bite of the ice cream, then said something, pinched the girl's cheek and smiled. She blushed slightly, and hammered the boy's shoulder pretending to be angry.

Just looking at it like this, you can feel that the air over there is several degrees sweeter than other places.

It will make people sigh 'ah, this is probably youth'.

I watched this scene, took a sip of milk tea, and lowered my head to write down the inspiration that came out of watching the young couple get along in the small notebook I carried with me.

After writing down the inspiration, I raised my head and planned to continue to observe. There was still a relaxed smile in my eyes, but when I saw the next scene, my eyes suddenly opened wide, and I didn’t even care about dropping the things in my hands. superior.

The couple of high school students continued to walk forward after the fight, and the girls were still blushing and licking ice cream.

When they walked from the sun to the shadow of the building, I watched the young couple who were holding hands and laughing just a second ago. Their bodies suddenly twisted strangely, and their limbs became flat like squeezed balloons. ,

... Then, like an over-squeezed tomato, the flesh was bloody, and the red 'juice' splashed down and scattered all over the ground.

All of this happened in an instant. When I witnessed this scene with my own eyes, I didn't have time to react for a while, and I stared blankly at the blurred blood and flesh for a while.

is really dead.

How is this going?

Could it be that I'm actually still dreaming?

Akihabara, which was lively and relaxed not long ago, seems to be no longer calm at this time.

When people confirmed that the young couple had really turned into a pool of flesh and blood mixed together and indistinguishable from each other in front of everyone, they already scattered out of fear, staying away from the pool of flesh and blood.

But even so.

"laugh"

Slight squeezing sounds sounded one after another.

After that young couple, there are still people who are turned into 'squeezed tomatoes' in the same way.

How did all this happen?

The smell of human flesh and internal organs permeated the street. The blood splashed from the person standing closest after being squeezed splashed onto my shoes, mixed with unknown organ fragments.

But even so, people don't even know what caused all this.

Because I don't know where the source of the danger is, I don't even know where to escape.

I thought the hot, shuddering emotion surging through me was fear.

But in fact, under the current situation, my soul and body seem to be divided into two parts.

The scene and what happened in front of me strangely matched the plot I described in "The Madman in the Box". At this time, a sentence I wrote through the mouth of the character flashed in my mind.

[Is the world I have seen so far real? ]

My breathing became short of breath.

Just at this time, a young child stumbled towards me, crying for his parents, tripped over a raised step on the road and fell in front of me.

I subconsciously bent down to help the child.

The child's delicate and tender fingertips have already touched my fingers, but my hands suddenly emptied.

Before I had time to close my palms, the young child was swept away by something invisible in front of my eyes, and then the delicate crying disappeared.

After the crying disappeared, I had a feeling of 'being watched' somewhere.

in all directions...

No, from above?

I followed the 'line of sight' and looked up.

At first glance, there is none above.

But gradually, something emerged from where there was nothing.

In the midst of life and death, I finally saw...

The monster that entrenched at the bottom of the pedestrian bridge beyond conventional cognition.

It was a monster that looked like a giant stag beetle and squid.

Its eight legs climbed and fixed on the stone at the bottom of the pedestrian bridge. The 'shell' on its back was dark red flesh-colored, and on the flesh-colored carapace were countless sarcomas.

Those tumors looked like swollen mouths, each of which could shoot out a flexible mouthpart tens of meters long. It was that thing that wanted to take that child away and twist him to pieces. .

Unfortunately, at the same time I could see the monster, the tumor on the monster's back had already opened, and a mouthpart was ejected towards me quickly.

Too fast, too late, can't run.

Although I have made such a judgment, my body is still trying to dodge one step faster than my brain, but it is useless. The mouthpart moves quite flexibly and easily changes direction to catch up with me.

When the tentacle-like mouthparts hit me head-on, I subconsciously closed my eyes.

However...

...

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

...

Death did not come as expected.

I opened my eyes again, and unexpectedly saw a strange figure standing in front of me, raising one hand to tightly grasp the attacking mouthparts.

——No, it should be said that it is not a hand.What I saw was a claw shaped like an eagle's claw.

My gaze gradually moved up, and touched the position behind the head of the figure in front of me, and I was caught off guard by a rectangular eye.

A face in the hair on the back of the head.

On this face, where the mouth should be, there are eyes, but where the eyes should be, there are two mouths that open and close, and above the mouth are a pair of flat ears.

Yes.

This sudden appearance in front of me was another monster.

The monster that appeared later, for some reason, looked like the monster who rescued me had a stalemate with the mouthparts of the first monster for a while, and at the cost of being strangled by the mouthparts, it tore off the mouthparts, and then it didn't hurt at all. Without reluctance to fight, he turned around and picked me up, jumped out of the attack range of the previous monster, and ran forward quickly.

While being carried away, I saw the front of the monster that had saved me.

Unlike the face with the upside-down facial features at the back of the head, its frontal face has no facial features at all, only a piece of flat, blank skin.The skin has the texture of a snake's skin.

And the curved black horns extending from the forehead.

I was startled.

Curved horns, black hair, upside-down facial features, blank human faces, eagle claws...

The image of this monster is exactly the same as the creature I imagined and created in the work.

It is the monster named Reef in the piece "The Reef" that I just finished the second volume not long ago.

If I said that when I saw the monster before, my view of the world was shaken and I doubted the reality of the world, then after seeing this monster that should have existed in the book, I suspected that I was dreaming.

How is this possible?

【Explode! ! 】

There was a voice from the other side of the street, which should have come from something pointed at by the loudspeaker horn, and it sounded distorted.At the same time as the voice fell, the monster at the bottom of the pedestrian bridge, which was aggressively waving its mouthparts, paused, and the waving mouthparts exploded and scattered one after another.

A white-haired boy in black clothes ran in from the entrance of the street against the flow of people, noticed that there was a monster on my side, and hurriedly pulled off his collar.

This monster holding me stopped moving and put me down.

[Go away! 】

--Disappeared.

I keenly noticed that before the boy could speak, it turned into a dark shadow and disappeared.