Super power krypton gold [Comprehensive]

"I'm just... just a mere dealer, selling medicine."

"..."

It took about ten seconds, I chewed, swallowed, digested and ruminated this sentence repeatedly, and finally had to admit it in despair—although I knew every word in it, but put it together and put it in the current context Among them, I really can't understand a word.

Still, I reacted reflexively:

"Medicine? What kind of medicine? It's not a prohibited drug? Excuse me, can you show me your drug business license..."

"……puff."

"..."

that.

Did he just smile?

The temperament lingering around the young man is really too dusty, as if the characters in the painting cannot get close to all human fireworks including emotions, anger, sorrow and joy.This smile is like the morning sun breaking through the misty water mist on the lake, so the hazy feeling of "seeing flowers in the fog" no longer exists, and the whole picture scroll is irreversibly bright and vivid.

The corners of his lips were already curved upwards with purple lip gloss, but now the curvature deepened, more like the clouds parted and the mist cleared, and a gorgeous water lily was in full bloom in the picture scroll.

Abbreviated into one sentence is:

Because the other party smiled so beautifully, I wondered for a while whether I should hold him accountable for laughing at the police.

...But this policeman just rolled all the way from the steps to the end, and he barely saved a dog's life after he made a righteous shot (?), it seems to be quite difficult not to laugh at it.

"Okay, license aside. So what are you..."

"Cy, you're fine!!"

Just when I was in a daze, Hotaru had already swept towards me like a small hurricane, and tightly grasped my arm with enough force to squeeze a blood vessel.

"Does it hurt? Did it hurt anywhere?"

"It's all right, all hands and feet are there, and nothing is lost except face."

I immediately put on a bright smiling face without haze, stretched out my other hand and patted his hat: "I'm sorry, Yingying, for making you worry."

"I'm worried too, okay?! I suddenly made a scream like a frog being trampled, I thought something was wrong with you..."

Jeanne Alter's voice sounded through the earphones, sounding more anxious than usual.

"I'm sorry alter kiss, I also made you worry."

I honestly bowed my head and apologized.

"Hmph, hum, it's good that you know. No, I'm not worried about you, stop thinking about it!"

"..."

How should I answer it?

"Stop talking silly, alter. 』

Perhaps sensing my confusion and loss of direction, the Cave King interrupted our conversation: "Don't you know?Our current conversations are all monitored and recorded by police officers staying at the headquarters. 』

"...!!!"

"Have you ever said "worried", just go back and check the recording......"

"Wow~ ah~ ah~ ah~ I don't understand, I completely understand what you are talking about~ no~understand~"

Give up on yourself and start messing around? !My alter sauce can't be this cute... No, now is not the time to talk about this.

"All in all, there are suspicions of abuse and illegal detention in this circus, and now we will investigate here."

I wiped the stains on my palms indiscriminately, stood up again, and spoke to the strangely dressed young man:

"If you are a relevant person, can I trouble you to cooperate?"

"Is it related to...?"

The young man put his hand on his chin and pondered for a moment, "It's hard to say. Does it count..."

"It's okay to be a friend, but do you want Bo Xian to get richer?"

(This person is too suspicious, why don't you handcuff him first?)

Mr. Gua talked to me while chewing his mouth full of melons.Because the ability of "Eat Melon Passerby" is in the active state, I can only see a piece of air flying with saliva, which is so weird that people can't laugh.

"Ah, that's right."

As if thinking of something, the young man raised his hand and tapped his forehead lightly - this action reminds people of a naive beckoning cat, but I just think he is using body language to interpret "to play with you".

"I came here because I had something to do. Now the matter has been done, so... it should be considered irrelevant."

"Is something wrong?"

I tilted my head along with his movements, "What, is there anyone here to buy medicine?"

Taking a closer look, the young man was carrying a huge wooden box half a person's height on his shoulders, and he didn't know what was packed in it. It looked like a small mobile pharmacy.If it is said that he provides medicine for this huge circus, it is not unreasonable.

(But in doing so, he would become an accomplice...)

"No no, that's not the case."

The young man shook his head slowly, then turned his body sideways, raising his robe sleeves like a host guiding the audience on the stage:

"After all, you see."

In the direction he was pointing at.

Under the gloomy light like bones.

On the neat and square workbench like a coffin.

"They have already prepared by themselves..."

"So many medicines."

——Countless cold bottles and cans, like the bones of children lying on the ground, are piled up in a messy mountain.

"What's this……?"

For a moment, I felt like I couldn't think smoothly.

Although he intuitively understood the meaning of those medicines, his rationality still refused to accept them.

"Sleeping pills, sedatives..."

There was the sound of Mr. Gua's footsteps walking towards the workbench, "And... bastard! What the hell did they do, and what else do they want to do? You know teak, these drugs have a depressant effect on the central nervous system. If abused, the damage caused It can't be fixed at all!!"

"..."

I hugged my arms tightly, but I still couldn't suppress the violent trembling like a spasm all over my body.

No matter what kind of person is behind the scenes.

No matter how well-motivated he is, how bitter and bitter and tear-jerking his reasons are.

——he is honest, he has gone too far.

"Mr. Medicine Seller."

I pinched my nails into my palms, feeling that the sliver of sanity I was trying to maintain was crumbling like a sheet of cracked ice in a spring day.

"If you're not here to sell medicine, then what are you here for?"

"me……"

As if he had been waiting for this question for a long time, the young man narrowed his eyes happily.

Then I was surprised to notice that in his right hand, which was gracefully shaped like a woman, he was holding a strange and antique dagger.

"It's here to kill. To kill the so-called 'monsters', this kind of thing."

"Monster...?"

"Ah, I know that!"

Hotaru raised her hand to answer, "It's the 'monster' in "Princess Mononoke" right! Is it a big wolf?"

"No, I don't think so."

I kindly pressed his hand down.

"I've also heard that it's very popular in Edo ghost stories. Generally speaking, it probably means youkai."

Qingguang pressed the handle of the knife at his waist with one hand, and stroked it back and forth with his fingertips with a little nostalgia.

"Having said that, we, Fusangshen, should also be regarded as a kind of 'monster'. So, you are the legendary Taoist priest, onmyoji, etc.? Which kind of monster are you going to kill? It won't be us ?”

Speaking of this, the boy's fingertips dyed bright red lightly flicked on the handle of the knife, and the sharp blade was unsheathed instantly, shooting out a bright and cold light.

"Qing Guang, listen to him."

I immediately freed up another hand to hold him down, feeling like a single mother in a state of distress, "But I also want to ask, Mr. Medicine Seller, do you mean demon cats by 'monsters'? If so, then There may be some misunderstandings, she is actually a girl..."

"No. It's not you, and it's not cats. Because neither of them is a monster, but something born purely from the heart of the 'human being'."

The drug seller simply denied it.

"What I killed here was a monster called [Zashiki Doji]. So, what I have to do is over."

"Zashiki-douji...?"

This is not an unfamiliar name.It is said that this is a monster that looks like a child. It likes red and wears kimonos, and it will bring good luck to the sojourners.If humans accidentally drive away the zashiki warji, they will usher in the end of their families.

But appearing here is a bit out of place.

"That's right. It's probably a little different from the 'Zashiki Doji' you know."

The pharmacist turned around quickly, bringing a breeze in the stagnant air, and the loose colored robes were also lifted back like sails.

"In that case, it's better to witness it with your own eyes."

Then, he walked into the depths of the darkness without looking back.

"Ah, wait!!"

I hurried to catch up—then I bumped my head into a hard object suspected to be the bridge of Mr. Gua's nose. There were screams and nosebleeds on the spot. Fortunately, Qingguang and Gu Gu supported us both in time.

"...I'm sorry, you still spit out the melon in your mouth first."

……

"So? What do you mean by 'Zashiki Doji'?"

After regrouping, I was rubbing my red and swollen forehead while trotting to catch up with the brisk footsteps of the drug seller.

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The young man's tone is calm, and he is as persuasive as a good-tempered teacher.

"Perhaps you have also heard... the resentment of babies who were not born in this world, unwilling to die, longing to be born, and occasionally turning into 'Zashiki Doji'."

"Uh……"

Sorry, I haven't heard of it.I just know they're going to be Jack the Ripper (in the Moonworld).

"But there are no babies here?"

Mr. Gua's nose fluttered, and the tissue used to stop the bleeding in his nostrils was also shaking non-stop, "Could it be that it refers to the children who were sent here..."

"Yeah. Because you see, aren't they very similar?"

The drug seller stopped and turned around deftly.The bell hanging on the dagger in his hand shook accordingly, making a crisp sound of "jingle bell".

"The unborn babies—and, the children sent here."

"...?"

As if echoing his words, at the base of the wall, in the darkness, countless tiny, inaudible breathing sounds, mixed with the sound of feathers rubbing, and the sound of dragging limbs, rustled.

Like a trickle, like the wind blowing the leaves of the forest.

ring up.

ring up.

They sounded from all directions.

tiger.goat.deer.cat.dog.Pigeon.Parrot.

Countless faces that are very different from human beings, countless pairs of empty and dull eyes like glass beads, looking at us through the cold iron cage.

Countless small streams gathered in one place, and finally played a tsunami-like symphony.

"They're all the same, 'not expected' kids."

"Children who have lost their place."

"'I want to leave. I still want to stay in this world, and I want to live.' Such and such thoughts summoned a monster called Zashiki Warji."

The words narrated by the drug seller lightly, bathed in the bewildered eyes of the animals-children, are like the last sad poem of the poet before his death.

"So, you killed that monster."

I lowered my head and whispered to myself, "But even if the monster disappears, the children have not recovered. That is to say, this is not a problem that can be solved by 'exorcism' or 'elimination of demons'."

"nature."

The pharmacist replied.That voice sounded cold and irrelevant, but there was also a hint of indifferent and plain persuasion in the invisible.

"Whether it's the cat, or the other children here. What happened to them was not caused by monsters, but by humans."

So—[The next thing can only be solved by humans themselves].

The young man who claimed to be exorcising demons exhorted me like this.

"I understand."

I took a step, just in time to meet the scarred and colorful tiger curled up in the iron cage.

"..."

The tiger also raised his head when he heard the sound, and looked at me without blinking.Then, he opened his mouth to reveal sharp teeth and a scarlet tongue, but just like Nadeshiko who turned into a demon cat, he could only let out an indistinct whimper from his throat.

"Ah. By the way, that tiger."

The voice of the drug seller came from behind me, "I saw it in the monster's memory. He protected the cat and allowed her to escape from here. She probably... planned to ask for help."

Suddenly, I recalled the little claw marks left in Xing Taoying's home.

--I see.

——It turned out that it was just such a simple matter.

Maybe it was for repayment, or maybe it was completely lost confidence in his parents. The black cat who escaped from birth - Nadeko Kawahara decided to go to Xingdao's house and seek help from the boy's parents.

But for some reason, Nadeko not only failed to bring the adults back here, but instead led the situation to an irreversible and tragic ending.

Having become a criminal, she has no other way out, and in the end she can only choose to do nothing but die with Xing Dao Sheng, who pushed herself into hell with her own hands.

And the boy...Xing Daoying has been imprisoned in the circus, suffering abuse and beatings, silently waiting for the girl who will never come back here.

How long has he been waiting?

Does he believe Nadeko will come back?

Did he ever feel remorse that he was not the one who escaped?

I have no way of knowing.

But I know that to this day, he still roars on stage to get Hotaru's attention.Everything he encountered in the circus made this gentle boy haggard, weak, and dying, but it never made him despair.

Then, there is only one thing left for me to do.

I didn't care about the wet and dirty ground at all, and knelt down in front of the tiger.

"Can you understand me? I know you can't answer, that's okay. I'll ask, you just nod or shake your head."

"..."

There was a light rustle of clothes rubbing beside him.I turned my head to look, and saw Hotaru kneeling and sitting upright like me, her green eyes were clear and transparent, staring straight at her unrecognizable classmate.

"Hey hey."

Then, Hotaru grinned the corners of his mouth, showing a warm smile that almost brought tears to his eyes.

"It's okay. It's okay, Xingdao. I'm here. Akane is also here. Akane is a very good person, you can trust her."

"..."

After a while, the tiger moved its head up and down slowly and clumsily.

"Then, I'll start asking questions."

I breathed a sigh of relief quietly, "You are a second-year student at Sakuragawa Middle School, Hideo Hoshishima, right?"

nod.

"Were you sent to 'An Xin School' by your own parents and turned into a tiger?"

nod.

"The girl who came here with you is called Kawahara Nadeko. She was turned into a cat. You helped her escape, right?"

nod.

"Okay, here's the last question. Did the circus do anything to you against your own will? Do you want to leave here?"

"..."

silence.

long silence.

I know.For a boy who has always been submissive, if he says "I want to leave here", it is tantamount to formally rebelling against his parents.It is different from the practice of "running away from home" to avoid contradictions, but asserts clearly and squarely:

You are doing it wrong.

Everything you do pains me, you hurt me.

For him, this also means the courage to say goodbye to the past completely, which cannot be developed overnight.

Just when I was worrying, I saw Qingguang leaning forward—he was not afraid of getting dirty at all—through the gap between the iron bars and stretched out his hand, pressing a well-maintained hand on the tiger. forehead.

"Yeah. That's it, I see."

"...??"

It seemed to us that he was just stroking the tiger's head and talking to himself.

Only Gu Gu seemed to understand something: "It's empathy. As supernatural beings, we can sometimes resonate with other supernatural beings."

"Well, that's what he said."

Qing Guang nodded, and at the same time gave us a lonely smile: "He said, 'Can I really leave here'?"

"……what?"

"'Because, I was a child who was not expected. My parents gave birth to me, but I couldn't meet their expectations and wanted to run away from them. So, even my parents gave me up.'"

"'I am like this, I am not expected by anyone, I am not loved by anyone, even if I leave here, where can I go?'"

"'How am I supposed to live from now on?'"

"........."

It was a torture like piercing the soul, and it was also the cry of the teenager who had nowhere to vent and the uneasiness that had nowhere to rest in the past 14 years.

It is never up to the children to choose whether to be born or not.They were born into this colorful and sinister world because they were chosen and expected by their parents.

If even parents think that children "shouldn't be like this" and "need to be corrected", then where should these denied children go?

"...I'm looking forward to it."

And I, who is insignificant and not worth mentioning, can only give such a self-righteous answer.

"I'm looking forward to you, Mr. Xingdao. You are gentle, upright, brave, strong, and one of the most amazing children I have ever met. I hope you live, and I look forward to seeing you grow up. And I believe that , Kawahara Nadeko will definitely give the same answer as me."

I pressed my forehead against the cold and hard iron railing, stretched out my hands, and touched the thick and soft fluff on the top of the tiger's head.There is warmth in the tentacles, which is the heat of life that has not yet been burned out, the last spark that is struggling and dying in the ashes.

I would give anything to keep this Mars.

"I'm sorry, I didn't find you until now. It's been hard for you all the time—for 14 years."

"I'm here to save you."

The author has something to say: If the world treats you with the greatest malice, I will dedicate the greatest kindness to you.

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Zashiki Doji: The monster in "The Monster Cat" appears because many prostitutes are forced to abort, similar to the wraith of the fetus.Later, a pregnant woman said, "Zashiki Doji is not wrong, I am willing to give birth to them." Zashiki Doji showed a satisfied smile, and was finally beheaded by the drug seller.

In this incident, the children's resentment summoned Zashiki Warji.Yakuro came here for Zashiki Doji, and Akane happened to be here as well, so he told her the truth by the way, and wanted to see the outcome of this matter.