I have become stronger, but also shorter [comprehensive]

After waking up from a terrible dream, the psychic Saiki Kusuo returned to a peaceful life.

This is the peaceful and peaceful real world he is familiar with.

There are no weird people, no scary middle/high school kids who play supernatural basketball/tennis, no schoolboy detectives who go where they go and have things go wrong, his world is just plain normal.

……Um?Wait a moment.

Why did he think of the paranormal and schoolboy detectives?

Very incomprehensible.

Because most of the content of the dream was forgotten after waking up, and the remaining vague impressions did not affect him now.

Within two days, Saiki Kusuo had almost forgotten that dream.

He goes to and from school as usual, and implements to the end the character design of ordinary junior high school students who have nothing special except superpowers.

Compared with before, the most obvious difference may be that Saiki Kusuo subconsciously stayed away from the manga, and did not plan to touch the game again for the time being, as if he had left a deep psychological shadow somewhere he didn't know.

Oh, there seems to be a more obvious change.

After school, the boy with superpowers came to the living room, and he heard Mrs. Qi Mu ask in a brisk tone: "Ah, Xiaoxiong came back early today, isn't he going out to play with his friends?"

"Wouldn't they consciously come to our house to eat?"

Still subconsciously, Saiki Kusuo opened his mouth and answered.

It wasn't until he finished the conversation that he realized in his mother's puzzled eyes that he didn't have any friends, and it was never a thing for a "friend" to go to his house to grab a meal.

This is probably the sequela left by the "dream".

Saiki Kusuo had already forgotten who he met in the dream, but the fact that the "dream" was more real than the reality was inexplicably remarkable.

He occasionally has a little strange idea.

For example, the person I met in my dream is actually real—this kind of idea that can be called completely nonsense will definitely be laughed at if it is spoken out.

Of course, people with superpowers will definitely not say anything.

He still lived his life step by step, trying to keep a low profile, stay out of the limelight, and continue to enjoy the peace and quiet of...

"..."

"It can't be quiet at all!"

The teenager with superpowers who wanted to be quiet but couldn't get what he wanted was very troubled, and then he became angry without any surprise.

He just wanted to sleep peacefully.

However, somehow, from a certain day, Saiki Kusuo began to dream every night.

In terms of content, it's not quite a pleasant dream, but it's not quite a nightmare either.

Because the content of the dream is basically uniform, the dream that occurs most frequently is just a trivial matter that has nothing to do with him——?Is it really just that? !

In the dream based on this content, Saiki Kusuo was forced to stand in one place from the perspective of a bystander, admiring the melodrama in which the protagonist is not fixed, but the plot is completely consistent, bloody and tragic.

a, b and c are good friends, a clearly loves b and c secretly loves a, b likes a but refuses a's confession because of his reserved personality, the relationship between the three is intricately entwined into a spider web - and then the three of them are entangled together to death .

a, b and c are good friends, b and c both have a crush on a, a doesn't know about this and still treats them as friends, which makes bc what they want, and hates because of love - and then a is killed by b and c .

a, b and c are good friends, a and b like each other only one step away from being together, c thinks he is just friends to them, and then finds out that he likes a - then b and c fight to the death.

a and b and c, a and b and c...

In this way, Saiki Kusuo's dream was entangled by the spell of abc.

The recurring protagonists, the abc trio, have no specific image or show their faces. Obviously, they are just prop actors specially prepared by "certain people".

The details of the melodrama are slightly different, but the general structure remains the same, and its sinister intentions are almost obvious:

——I want to convey the central idea of ​​"good friends can only be friends, and if you create a plot where you like me and I like you, it's best to die a miserable death", which seems to make the hearts of certain groups that meet this standard Life alert.

Saiki Kusuo (patience): "..."

Saiki Kusuo (persistent and patient): "..."

Saiki Kusuo (tolerance... I'm sorry I can't bear it anymore!): "What is the purpose of showing these complicated emotional whirlpools to a junior high school student! I don't have any close friends and I don't have any plans to fall in love!"

He tried to find the culprit who changed his dream beyond recognition without authorization, but unfortunately, the superpower who is almost omnipotent outside is not so omnipotent in his dream—even his own dream—and is limited by Quite a lot, not as convenient as the intruder.

"Because I'm not only a flower magician, but I also have half of the blood of Nightmare... Haha, this small trick is really not worth mentioning, so I will simply skip it here."

It turned out to be the case.

Case solved.

The magician who trespassed into other people's dreams still refused to leave, and forcefully explained in a quite natural tone that this was because the boy's dream was temporarily connected to the prison where he was imprisoned, and he couldn't leave even if he wanted to. Lose.

This reason does not even qualify for a zero score, and can only be scored as a negative score.

"Don't be angry~ Don't be angry, boy, if you think so, I can't help emphasizing the important points a few times because I'm really worried and forced to do so."

It was still the tower, the same sea of ​​flowers, and the magician sitting in the sea of ​​flowers with a staff in his hand smiled earnestly, as if he was really innocent: "Look, the memory you accidentally forgot has also returned, and it can be said that it is a fruitful harvest." Man? That is a precious bond, what a pity to lose it."

Forced to think of the teenager with superpowers in his dream: "There are so many messy things, it is a burden for me to think about it, and it is absolutely impossible for me to say thank you."

The magician was as good as he said: "You're welcome, you are too polite, this is what I should do."

juvenile:"……"

Magician: "Well, as a small compensation, I can continue the story that I only told part of before, and tell you the continuation. How about that?"

Teenager: "No, I'm not interested, and I don't care about my business. Can knowing so much make up for my bad sleep? The answer is of course 'no'."

This is actually a rebuttal as usual, and it is actually involuntary.

Saiki Kusuo didn't expect that he would want to know the follow-up so much-it's all the storyteller's fault!

It is simply too much to not finish the story seriously and leave a mysterious and tantalizing tail there.

Being disturbed by such an unexpected person, Saiki Kusuo's peaceful and peaceful night's sleep will temporarily go away.

The magician made it clear that he would not leave until he finished telling the long and complicated story. The boy said that he was in trouble, he didn't want to hear it, he just wanted to sleep peacefully, but he still listened energetically.

In this way, there seemed to be several nights in a row.

The magician is indeed a conscientious storyteller without intentionally smacking his words in half.

After telling the story with the ancient country Uruk as the stage, when he spoke again, most of the personal emotions that were still exciting before were subtracted, and he became more objective and straightforward.

The magician started talking after the man left Uruk, and the next stage to appear was indeed the ancient Egypt that the boy had guessed.

It is still the background that contains important clues: a man will not die if he is not voluntary.

This means that not only will a man not die after being severely injured by ordinary people, but he can recover as long as he sleeps for a certain period of time linked to the injury. He is fundamentally different from ordinary humans.

He won't die of old age either.

His appearance has always been that way from the very beginning thousands of years ago to when he actually "died" thousands of years later.

The ruins of the city-state of Uruk were covered by yellow sand, and the anecdotes of the past were only recorded on the stone slabs under the yellow sand for many years.

The man who had wandered alone for so long came to the country where the Nile River flows, and, staying there for a while, accepted the future Pharaoh as his disciple.

The teenager with super powers has almost remembered now that he went to the pyramid ruins under the sea in his dream, and what the tomb paintings he saw clearly in the ruins was actually the same thing as what the magician told.

However, it may be because of the different perspectives of the narrators that the same event is started from the perspectives of different people, and there are many differences in details.

The version of the tomb painting of Pharaoh Ramses II—well, this is called too much personal emotion, and a lot of artistic processing.

Omitting the artistic processing, the actual content left is actually not much.

This also indirectly proves that Ramses II himself was not clear about what happened back then.

"When a man came to Egypt, he didn't simply wander here." The magician said.

"He was looking for a miracle—remember the goddess mentioned in the previous story? Because he failed to avenge the puppet, the man still couldn't let go."

"He wants to find the goddess again. Even if he still loses to the god, even if he finds it, he will still end up in the same fate. He is unwilling to give up revenge for the puppet and the eagle who died for saving him."

"Ah, he brought an eagle with him when he came into this world. Did I forget to mention that? I'm so sorry, I always forget the unimportant details."

Juvenile (Tucao): "This is deliberately mixed with private goods, no need to explain, because I have already seen through you."

Magician (pretending not to hear): "Where did you just say that? All right, all right, keep going."

"A man is determined to take revenge. This has become his obsession. Even after a hundred years and a thousand years, his obsession will only deepen and never fade away."

"However, when he woke up from the deep sleep recovering from his injuries, decades have passed, and there is no trace of God in the world."

"The temple still stands on the ground, but the gods who used to be able to come and go to the world at will disappeared without a trace. This is directly related to the end of the ancient gods."

"Because it involves a lot of cumbersome background that you don't need to know, I won't expand here. You just need to know that after the man wakes up, he will find that the gods are all over the ground, and they are all gone in a huff."

"I'm also not sure how unwilling and annoyed he was when he discovered this fact. In short, in the millennia after that, he wandered all over the world, trying his best to find any possibility for him to find God. traces of traces."

"There are countless civilizations related to gods, but they are mixed with true and false. Most of them are just creations of human fantasy. Therefore, after searching for a long time, the man discovered a little possibility on the soil of Egypt."

"He rushed over there and met the so-and-so there, and there were two other so-and-so who were important to him but didn't have much presence in our story so we didn't mention them."

"The process of getting along with those three young people is also omitted here, anyway, it's only those few years."

"You should already know the following things? That's right, the man's disciple fell in love with him. The plot of this story is almost the same as it was a thousand years ago, including the ending."

"This time, the man was still very disappointed. He had already found clues about God at that time, and he planned to leave the disciple alone and leave by himself."

"But ah..."

There was the first pause in the narration process, and the young man keenly noticed that the magician's flawless smile seemed to be dimmed for a moment.

With his camouflage skills, even if his mood fluctuates, it may not be discovered by the human youth.However, for some reason, he still couldn't hide it completely.

——Although the magician quickly recovered as if nothing had happened.

"He's much softer than he thought."

"What do you mean?"

"It probably didn't go very far, and an unprecedented disaster occurred in the country of the male disciple. It was a newly born god who deliberately made a big deal in order to collect beliefs."

"It's equivalent to using that disciple's country as a pedal to create a miracle to accept believers."

"Wow, you're so smart, young man, you can understand everything at once, and save me the time of explaining."

The magician went on to tell: "His disciples led the army and chased them to the sea. They were packed up and discarded, and they were about to be swallowed by the sea. At this time, it was the man who arrived in time and saved their lives."

"Really, if I had to say, he shouldn't have gone—sorry, sorry, personal emotions got involved again, but it's unavoidable."

"Saved the idiot Pharaoh who was just causing trouble for nothing. They didn't actually meet each other because the situation was urgent and they just missed it."

"The pharaoh returned to the shore, and the man went to the sea. He challenged the new god for his disciples, a betrayed woman, and for his own obsession."

"..."

"..."

"In the end, he lost, didn't he?"

"That's for sure." Although the magician sighed softly, the answer he gave was particularly ruthless: "As long as he is still a human being, he will not be able to compete with God, and a fiasco is the inevitable result."

"He was hit hard again, his body was submerged in sea water, he fell into the deep sea slowly, and slept in the cold and dark seabed for more than a hundred years."

"When I wake up again, the years have passed by."

It seems that even the voice of the magician has been stained with the vicissitudes of the past time.

"When he went back, the glorious dynasty built by his disciples had already collapsed. Just like Uruk thousands of years ago, only the temples and temples rebuilt on the ruins were left. Rotten and weathered in the endless yellow sand."

"Yes, he was abandoned again. You should understand why I use this word."

"..."

The boy did not speak.

The main reason is that I was suddenly shocked by too many emotions that I had never touched before, and it seemed that I couldn't slow down for a long time.

Although he is a superpower with powerful abilities, Saiki Kusuo is essentially just a teenager.

Born in a peaceful world and always understood by his family, his life should be said to be ordinary and happy.

Therefore, in this context.

The man in the "story"—his experience is too far away from the boy.

Just relying on the magician's slow narration here, no matter how vivid the narration is, it cannot compare with the real past.

Perhaps, there is also the possibility that they cannot understand each other at all.

Saiki Kusuo also thought that what he had heard was what he had listened to, like after reading a storybook that he could not empathize with at all, at most he would sharply complain about something unreasonable, and then he would remain indifferent.

But in fact, it doesn't seem to be the case.

He doesn't know him—

……

...Yes, I really don't know.

It's just that in the "dream" there was a little overlap by accident, and by the way, I inherited that person's favor.

Then the boy remembered that because of someone's whim, he had actually seen the real appearance of the man in the "story" with his own eyes.

Although it was just a glimpse, it never lasted more than half a day.

However, the impression left in my heart was inexplicably deep, and I can still remember it clearly at this time.

"Do you really not know what a man looks like at first?"

"I don't know. I didn't get the chance to witness it with my own eyes, so it's no use regretting it afterwards. However, I can guess that it must be more enthusiastic than I imagined."

"Then what he looked like later, you should know that."

"Haha, you can also imagine it based on your current impression?"

"Oh."

It is certain that the magician is still cunning, and only intends to fulfill his own intentions. All the deeper information he knows is strictly covered up, and he will never reveal half of it if he can.

However, the fact that the magician didn't say it didn't mean that the boy couldn't think of it.

If he hadn't met himself face to face, he probably wouldn't have believed it. The man who appeared on the verge of shattering his dream—the man who called friends loudly, the man who was flaunting the sunshine all over his body—and the cold and alienated silver-haired boy It's the same person.

"and then."

"What then?"

"Uruk, Egypt, these are two parts of a whole story, and there are other things behind it. Since it is agreed to finish this story, then you can continue to tell it, and I will listen carefully."

"Huh? Why are you suddenly active?"

"Or, Magician of Flowers, you are planning to go back on your word again—because the following content may be related to you, and you are also in this story, so you don't want me to know more."

Magician: "...Ahh."

Sure enough, he was seen through mercilessly.The smile of the white-haired magician seemed to be conveying the message that the underlying emotion was unclear, whether it was anger or indifference.

There is a high probability that he didn't take it seriously, he was ready to be seen through from the beginning.

"Yeah, the story that can be smoothly told as a bystander is considered to be over. If it involves yourself, you can't avoid adding too many personal emotions that will affect the listener's judgment, such as regret, regret, anger, hatred— —Oh, wouldn’t that be too bad.”

The magician smiled and said, "That's the end of the story that I can tell. Thank you, the only listener, for listening. You can look forward to it. Maybe someone else will come and tell the follow-up story."

"Oh, I remember your face, all bastards who only half-told stories will be cursed to have lovers become bitter lovers—"

"Speak well and finish! This curse is too terrible, it's just poking my sore spot..."

In fact, it was just Kusuo Saiki who casually said in conjunction with the previous brainwashing nightmare: "?"

The magician who originally planned to run away with the tower and the flowers stopped, patted the petals on his hair, shook his head, and gave the stubborn audience a concise and true ending in a perfunctory manner.

"The man is dead."

"...?"

"That's right, the so-called final ending you want is the death of the protagonist of the story."

"Wait a minute, didn't I emphasize it countless times, men won't die unless—"

"Unless he dies voluntarily."

"..."

"Don't look at me so shocked. That man, with a pure human body, was able to persist in walking the lonely road for thousands of years without collapsing. This is already a feat that can be praised as a 'miracle'."

said the magician.

"It may be because he is too tired from walking and wants to end this endless journey and take a complete rest. It may also be because he was deceived by the innocent goodness of some hateful person, so he gave up the same life for eternity...who knows?"

"No one knows what he thinks except himself. Why, he made this decision!"

The following content can no longer be mentioned.

Because the magician obviously can't keep objective and calm anymore-although he wasn't very objective before.

Once Nightmare is not calm, he doesn't want the human beings who were dragged in by force to snoop on more.

It seems that I only heard a few laughs without emotion, and a few esoteric words that were neither salty nor bland and I didn't understand.

Unable to ask any more questions, Saiki Kusuo was thrown out of his dream.

When he woke up this time, he never forgot the content of the dream.

I remember the content clearly, and I don't forget it at all.Perhaps because of this, the white-haired magician never appeared in his dreams again.

The magician came inexplicably, and seemed to tell many truths to the teenagers who had nothing to do with the story, but the most important ones, without exception, were not told.

In theory, Saiki Kusuo is unwilling to figure it out.

The reason is very simple, hasn't it been emphasized many times?These messy things, mixed with most emotional disputes that are not suitable for minors, have no real connection with him.

however.

The cunning magician who chose to harass him may have seen through the character of the superpower.

I don't want to speculate, but things that can't come out of the brain after entering the ears always trouble the superpower user.

——How did the man become what he was later on.

——Before Pharaoh and the final ending, what content was missing that led to his "death"?

If these problems are not clarified, Saiki Kusuo will be stuck in his throat, and if he goes further, he will toss and turn, and cannot sleep well.

In fact he can't sleep well now.

that's it.

What should have been an ordinary day.

With dark circles under his eyes that he had never had before, the pink-haired boy finally blocked the way of two passers-by at the door of the coffee shop he frequented.

"Mental damage needs at least 1000 billion yen. Since you can't afford that much money, it will be converted into real goods, which is [-] cups of coffee jelly-you can start cashing it out now."

Saitama: "..."

Eric: "..."

"Isn't it just a few days late! One mouthful is the mental damage fee, and it has to be so exaggerated!"

"Saiki Kusuo! Are you still a man with a big heart!"

The author has something to say: Qi Shen [Dark circles under the eyes]: I am not a man, I am just an innocent minor who has been tortured by someone's relationship history