【Fantasy Pass】Psycho Pass Banquet

"Oh, this croquette is delicious! The miso soup is also delicious! Touma! Can I have another bowl of rice?!"

Sweeping the food in front of her at an astonishing speed, Index puffed up her cheeks like a hamster while appreciating the delicious food, and then handed over the empty bowl.

But thanks to her existence, the embarrassment at the dinner table that could not be ignored was resolved.

Kamijou Toya and Kamijou Shina looked at the petite girl with a happy face in front of them in a daze, and they couldn't help thinking about where they stored the things they ate before.

"Dangma! Rice!"

"oh oh."

Index yelled again, and Kamijou Touma stood up as if waking up from a dream.

"So you really borrowed here to eat?" Kamijou Toya asked in disbelief.

"That's right. Compared with instant food produced by machines, the food carefully cooked by the chef is more delicious! If you don't become a supervisor in the future, you can go to a restaurant as the chef! Business must be very good!" Indy Keith said seriously.

"Please spare me." Kamijou Touma came back from the kitchen to put the bowl in front of Index, showing a helpless smile.

"It will be very nerve-wracking to serve customers like you." Accelerator threw a tissue in front of her: "Your face is stuck to the sauce, wipe it off quickly."

"Ah, ah, did you get the girls' favor because of your good cooking skills?" Kamijou Shina smiled at the scene of a family of three that seemed to be "happy" in front of her: "But it's not like what we imagined before. 'It's wonderful that my son has a strange habit because of a problem with education'."

"Hmm! It's just because of the rice!" Index nodded affirmatively.

After hesitating for a long time between "Don't take your imagination as reality and guess your son casually" and "Is my existence value only cooking?", Kamijou Touma finally chose to remain silent.

"Thank you for the hospitality! I'm full!" Index put down the table and chopsticks contentedly, put her palms together, and then ran back to the room to pack her luggage.

Seeing that other people did not intend to continue eating, Kamijou Touma naturally stood up and prepared to clear the table.

During the period, Kamijou Shina and Kamijou Accelerator made it clear that they could help, but Kamijou Toya and Kamijou Touma, the father and son, rejected it in unison:

"No need! Just sit down and don't move anything!"

Kamijou, father and son, who had learned the lesson deeply, drove the two mobile kitchen bombers into the living room in an unprecedented united front.

"Oh my, I'm disgusted." Kamijou Shina caressed her cheek, looking at the kitchen that exuded the aura of 'don't get close to strangers' from the inside out, with a deeply troubled expression.

Accelerator, who was not interested in talking to him, sat down on the sofa closest to him.

"You..." Kamijou Shina sat opposite him, put away the smile just now: "Is it the executive officer?"

Accelerator felt a lot more refreshed by the open and honest conversation without the need to pretend. He raised his left hand: "As you can see."

"I see. You can't tell from the outside at all." Kamijou Shina nodded thoughtfully.

"Give you a suggestion."

"what?"

"Let your son leave me as far away as possible."

Kamijou Shina blinked in confusion: "Before that, can I ask a few questions?"

"speak."

"First of all, I would like to apologize to you for secretly measuring your hue with an instrument without your knowledge." Kamijou Shina saw the young man in front of him frown: "To be honest, I don't know what's inside the Security Bureau I only know that if the measured index exceeds 100, I will be arrested, but there is no reason for a person with a clear hue to become an executive officer? But you..."

Kamijou Shina's silence caused Accelerator to show a slightly disdainful smile: "What?"

"Does Ma know about this?"

"do not know."

Although he gave the answer simply and neatly, even Accelerator himself couldn't believe it——

Kamijou Touma really doesn't know anything?

Maybe it's just not known yet.But judging from the last incident, he has already begun to doubt.

"So, is Touma important to you?"

"What's the problem?" Accelerator said.

"It's a question from the standpoint of my parents." Kamijou Shina replied with a faint smile on his face: "For me and Touya, he is the most important person in this world for us. One day we will gladly accept the exchange of our lives. The work of a supervisor and an executive officer is very dangerous. The thought of him facing such a murderous criminal makes me sleepless with fear. I need someone who can protect me. His person, that's why I asked you how important he is to you."

Is it important enough to live and die together, to exchange lives for lives.

There was silence in the room for a while.

Accelerator asked, "Then what kind of answer do you want?"

Kamijou Shina obviously didn't expect that the other party would ask herself: "What?"

"Because you don't know the answer, you throw this question to me, don't you? No one can guarantee what will happen in the future. The person who answers the question will either swear by the sky and say something beautiful, or vaguely refuse subconsciously. You don't want either answer, but you still want peace of mind, so throw me the question and let me give you the answer."

Kamijou Shina felt that the young man in front of her seemed to have turned into a sharp knife, and her cold eyes directly cut open those thoughts that she had never thought about carefully, but they did exist, and looked at them concisely. pointed out.

Neither happy nor angry, without guilt, excessively calm, and excessively rational, on the contrary, he, who dissects others, does not look like a human being.

But if it is said that he is like an ignorant machine, when he is with Kamijou Touma, the little bit of humanity that he unconsciously reveals in his gestures and gestures cannot be ignored.

There were thousands of unspeakable thoughts in my heart, but Kamijou Shina finally just sighed and showed a sad smile: "I have a vague feeling since three years ago. When I looked at Touma, I It's like looking at a stranger."

Accelerator quietly waited for her to continue speaking.

"Obviously there is nothing abnormal in appearance or behavior. At first, when he looked at me or his father, he would show alienated and indifferent eyes. I found that since then, I can no longer understand what he is thinking. What. None of us thought that he would suddenly be so far away from us one day, and we don't know anything about what he has experienced and what he has been carrying." Shangjou Shicai closed her eyes briefly, with a painful expression: "But after all, he has grown up, and we want to respect his own choice no matter what. The future path is for him to walk on his own. I know that the question just now is very difficult, so now I will ask you again—"

Accelerator looked directly at the tough yet gentle eyes of the woman in front of him.

"Are you going to hurt him?"

If the day comes when you have to make a choice, will you hurt him?

Just as he saw through her at a glance, Kamijou Shina also almost accurately saw through the cold and vicious beast that was quietly dormant under the human appearance of "Fang Accelerator", ready to show its fangs at any time People were slaughtered.

She doesn't look smart, and the reason may be her intuition as a woman, or more precisely as a mother.

Fang Accelerator smiled: "You don't know yet, do you?"

"Huh?" Kamijou Shina didn't understand what made people laugh in what she said.

"Your son is a special person." Fang Accelerator looked at the 'handcuffs' on his left wrist and said, "If you want to hurt him, that villain must be fully prepared to die with all holes."

Kamijou Shina still didn't understand the deeper meaning of that sentence, and only regarded it as a promise that was not straightforward.

After closing the kitchen sliding door and confirming that no one would approach, Kamijou Toya rolled up his sleeves and walked to the sink, and said with a helpless and gentle smile, "Your mother will never be used to doing these housework. "

"But even so, you guys are very happy." Kamijou Tomajong poured the leftover potato stew into a transparent glass crisper, snapped the airtight lid on and put it in the refrigerator.

"Touma." Kamijou Toya asked: "Do you think you are really suitable to be a surveillance officer?"

Kamijou Touma's movements paused for a moment: "What? I got an A in the scoring standard of the Security Bureau."

"Scores must mean that you are suitable? You and I both know this truth, so don't make detours." Kamijou Toya sighed and shook his head: "You have never done things you don't want to do since you were very young. If you hate something, you hate it, if you don’t like it, you don’t like it, if you don’t have unreasonable rules, you’re a ‘bad boy’ who won’t turn back easily even if people from all over the world try to persuade you.”

The memory was as incomplete as if it had been eaten by insects, making Kamijou Touma listen to his father as if he was listening to him tell a story about a stranger, so he had to keep silent.

"At first I thought that you would delete the final inspection results as spam and find a job that you 'like'. But I never expected that you would accept the system's misjudgment so easily in the end and enter the Security Bureau. Judging from the results, you haven't regretted this decision until today, but you don't like this job, so what is the reason that drove you to make this choice? I have been thinking about this question."

reason.

Kamijou Touma tried to recall the first time he stood in the office of the Security Bureau and introduced himself to the strange executives, and then performed the mission together, but he couldn't remember what kind of person he was at that time. Is it the hope that I can meet someone again, or the paranoid desire to dig out the truth of the past, or the fear that one day I will suddenly turn the gun on the person I once loved deeply.

"At this point, the reason is actually not important." Kamijou Toya interrupted his meditation: "No matter what it was for, the choice made cannot be changed. Your mother and I respect and support All your decisions, but if you ask us if we regret it, my answer is yes. No parent in the world would want their son to deal with dangerous criminals? That's why I ask you if you continue to be a surveillance officer Enlightenment. Now it is too late to go back and take another path.”

Before you take more damage from it.

"Really. Since you know me so well, you should know what kind of answer your son will give." Kamijou Touma smiled lightly as if vomiting all the unhappiness in his chest, and then turned himself He clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it: "I won't give up until I get the ending I want. Don't you cheer for me?"

"Right."

Even though there were still thousands of things he wanted to tell him, Kamijou Toya didn't say anything in the end, he just raised his left hand and bumped fists with the young man who was already as tall as himself in front of him.