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"Burying hypocritical geniuses is something that only I am suitable for."
"Check (General)."
The sweetness and whiteness smeared on the dark memories were torn apart wantonly, and Kitagawa Ryo lost the seventh game with the opponent.
The result of 0 to 7 was not so much a game as a crushing, one-sided massacre.
The incandescent lights on the ceiling are like twinkling yet fleeting stars.
The boundary line on the chessboard seems to be shaky and blurred.
Everything in front of him seemed to be separated by a thick film, and the surrounding sounds could not be heard clearly.
The thing welling up from my chest made me feel extremely depressed, and something was stuck in my throat, making me unable to speak.
"Then, game over."
Absurdity is singing loudly, and the truth after piercing the hypocrisy is often more cruel.
My sister looks down at you condescendingly:
"Failure."]
[You tripped.
Just like a person in a dream kicking his foot suddenly, you seem to hear the sound of glass breaking, and the image in front of you disappears, as if the film reel has come to an end, and the image on the screen turns into flashing lights and flying objects. dust particles.
You opened your eyes again. ]
[There is no sound from the receiver that fell on the ground, but it did not hang up. It seems that the other party has already anticipated your abnormal behavior. She throws out the bait like a seasoned hunter and quietly waits for you to take the bait.
You close your eyes and try to recall the scene in your memory again. You try to see the white walls and the black chess pieces. You try to see the girl's face clearly, but there is nothing. The subtle memories have evaporated without a trace. It's as if it never existed, or was burned to ashes by reality.
"I remembered something."
You picked up the receiver and replied. ]
["Ah, isn't that something we should be happy about?"
Arisu Sakayanagi over there responded to your words immediately:
"What did you remember?"
"A white room in which I...study...sister...defeated."
The words are so broken that you may not even know what you are saying. ]
["her name?"
Sakayanagi Yusu is still guiding your thoughts, her voice is hazy and dreamy, as if she comes from another country. ]
["I can't remember." You wonder if that girl is Ichinose Honami. After all, according to Ichinose Honami's words, you are her childhood sweetheart since childhood. But if you apply the impression of Ichinose Honami to The words about the vague girl in the dream always felt inconsistent. ]
["Then let's start the next word." Sakayanagi Yusu chuckled, like a child discovering an interesting toy. She continued to whisper to you at the other end of the microphone:
"Matsuo Eiichiro."]
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["you are amazing."
You heard the boy sitting next to you and your age praising you like this. You were sitting on a high hillside. The blood-red sunset over the mountains and plains at dusk aroused your consciousness. You looked around and thought. Where are you and when did you get here?
"You should be the first one out of there."
The young man reached out and picked a blade of grass nearby. He lay there with it in his mouth and continued:
"I heard from my dad that this should be the first case."
"Hey, tell me what it's like inside. I'm really curious. At least we can be considered friends now."
Seeing that you were silent, he unceremoniously put his arms around your neck and knocked you down beside him. He propped his head on your right side and nuzzled at you.
"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me. Anyway, I will never have anything to do with that kind of place in my life."
"But you and I are friends, doesn't that mean you have something to do with it?"
you heard yourself say.
"Ah... that's right too."
As soon as the young man let go of his hand, he lay down again and looked at the sky:
"Although I don't know how long it will take them to find you, but until they find you, you should hide here first."
"um. Thank you."
The young man turned his head and looked at your sincere eyes and couldn't help but laugh:
"What? I thought all the guys coming out there were robots."
"Have you seen it before?"
"I just took a look at him from a distance. I heard that my father planned to let him go..."
He waved his hands and said:
"Forget it, this matter has nothing to do with you."
"But I still think you should go see Ichinose Honami."]
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["It seems to be very effective."
You heard Arisu Sakayanagi across from you say this, and you could even imagine from her tone that she was squinting her eyes and raising the corners of her mouth.
"So..."]
["Wait." You interrupted the other party. You realized that you could no longer follow the footsteps of an underage girl who called herself a "psychiatrist." Although you did think of a lot of things, all of this It was all the result of the other party's guidance. This sense of being controlled made you forcefully stop Sakayanagi Arisu.
You swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked her with difficulty:
"I remember you said before that when I was receiving treatment at your place three years ago, my girlfriend forcefully stopped me, right?"
"Well, she looked like she was about to kill someone at that time, which was completely inconsistent with her cute appearance."
"What does that person look like? Is his name Ichinose Honami?"
When you asked the question, the air seemed to freeze for a moment.
"Don't think too much, the girlfriend you were with at that time was Honami Ichinose."]
[After hearing her answer, you suddenly feel a strange sense of relief in your heart, like the complex emotions a prisoner who has just been tortured notices that he is still alive and is glad that he is still alive. , but he knew his subsequent fate in advance, which was still a bottomless sadness. ]
["Do you have anything else to say about her?"
You continued to ask with a hoarse throat. I don't know why, but when the boy named 'Matsuo Eiichiro' in the memory just said the name 'Ichinose Honami' to you, a huge unprecedented pain engulfed you. , as if digging out traces of her existence bit by bit with fingers in the ruins and gravel of memory. ]
["I don't know, I've never seen her again anyway."
Sakayanagi Yusu's voice became more serious, and she asked thoughtfully like a real doctor:
"Would you like to take a rest? There is still a long time left today."]
["No need." You refused neatly.
"Since my girlfriend stopped my psychotherapy with you three years ago, why did you say when I called you today that it was two years and one hundred and twenty-eight days since our last phone call? Although the contact was brief, But I don't think you're going to confuse this precise number of days into three years."
"Two years and one hundred and twenty-eight days ago, what was the content of my phone call with you?"]
["... Even if he loses his memory, Beichuan-kun's thinking is still as thorough."
Sakayanagi Yusu seems to have changed his posture to answer the phone, and you can hear the slight friction between the fabrics of his clothes. ]
["Yes, I did have a phone call with you at that time. The same as this time, it was you who called me yourself."
"What did I say?"
Sakayanagi Yusu hesitated for a while, but she continued:
"Only one sentence."]
[Her voice was as calm and intellectual as ever, so that what she said next seemed to be given a sense of rationality out of thin air:]
["What Kitagawa-kun told me that day was..."]
["When you call me again, no matter how long it takes, I will tell you."]
["Climb over the window sill and jump from there."]
["Eh?" You were stunned by Sakayanagi Yusu's words. There was an unquestionable aura in her words, and you subconsciously looked at the window sill. ]
[There are five or six vases neatly placed there. These large and small vases, high and low, are bathed in the sun. The ceramic surfaces exude a warm luster, and the flowers in the vases are penetrated by the sunlight. Another sparkling flower shadow fell on the window sill. When they swayed in the wind, the waves also changed. ]
[You put down the receiver and took away all the vases. The window was indeed unlocked. You pushed it open easily. Some strong wind hit your face. You saw the road below and the cars on the road. The people on the roadside, those cars as big as matchboxes, and those as big as ants, remind you that you are now in a high-rise building with at least seven floors. ]
[One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, you count the floors from bottom to top. Sure enough, your current location is on the seventh floor. Just looking at the height, it is probably more than twenty meters above the ground. You two years ago left a message that made you jump over and over from this place. ]
[Jump down to get the answer. ]
[I heard that when people stand at a high place, they will unconsciously fantasize about jumping off. But when you lean out of the window, such a sentence appears in your subconscious. When it appears, it is like a fiery red ball. It's like a branding iron thrust into your mind. ]
[Tsk. You pursed your lips, put your hands on the window edge, and now took one foot out of the window. ]
[Just as you slowly crossed your other foot and even your whole body...or jumped out of the window, you suddenly felt that the touch between your hands softened, and the tiled window edge seemed to be bent into a soft ribbon. , you jumped out. ]
["Hey, Ryo! The police have cordoned off this house. It's illegal for you to do this!"]
[You jumped over the isolation belt drawn by the police to exclude ordinary citizens from entering in a daze. Matsuo Eiichiro, who was standing in the crowd, shouted to you anxiously, but he couldn't just climb over and save you. You were forced to come back, so I had to keep waving my hands and shouting for you to come back. ]
[You unconsciously walked towards the corridor. As expected, there were two policemen standing there. They didn't seem to expect anyone to come in here. One man stepped forward with a sullen face to send you out. He scolded you sternly:
"Which school are you a student from? Get out quickly! This is not a playground for children!"]
[The next second, you stepped forward, pinched his shoulders and threw him to the ground. Your sudden attack and your strength, which was significantly greater than that of your peers, made the other party unable to react for a moment. You pushed him quickly again. He drove another policeman and stepped into the corridor without hesitation. ]
[Fourth floor, fourth floor, fourth floor, fourth floor! ]
[You went all the way up the stairs, and there were two people scolding and chasing each other below, but before they arrived, you climbed to the fourth floor. ]
[Then, you saw...]
[Matsuo Eiichiro looked at his friend who suddenly went crazy for some reason and stamped his feet fiercely. The comments from the people around him reached his ears. ]
["If you ask me, the Ichinose family must have offended someone..."
"No, within a month, the mother who headed the house lost her job first, and then her daughter was found guilty of stealing. Even though the amount was not big, the mother took her to apologize. As a result, this happened on the Internet the next day. Because of this, the school she was in was forced to expel her, and I heard that she was still the student council president."
"It's just because she is the student council president that she is expelled because of the influence. The student council president of a school is a thief, tsk tsk."
"I planned to move out because I had no financial income, but the landlord sued me again for destroying the structure of the house and causing property damage. What do you think this is all about?"
"Two days ago, the little girl said she wanted to drop out of school and go work, but no store nearby was willing to take her. I have a relative who works as a clerk in a convenience store. I heard from the store manager that someone was giving orders from behind to punish them. Home."]
[The neighbors who were watching all had expressions that were half-smiling but half-smiling, half-sad but half-sad, and their eyes were ambiguous, like the audience under the stage, with a hint of greed in their anticipation, followed by greed and indifference.
"...Um, what happened to the Ichinose family?"
Eiichiro Matsuo intervened and asked. ]
["I can't live anymore. The mother gave her two daughters sleeping pills and burned coal in the house."
A man turned around and spoke to him in an understatement, his cold tone making Matsuo Eiichiro shudder. ]
ps: Front row reminder: The name of this chapter is "The Summer Reappearance of Ichinose Honami"
ps2: Reminder for this simulated viewing: before the final ending comes out, any description may not be true. Don't criticize the author, the author is mentally very fragile. _(:з ∠)_
ps3: Thank you for reading. It's quite interesting to see everyone's guesses. Unfortunately, no one guessed correctly.
The Summer of Ichinose Honami Reappears: Chapter 28: Nightmare
[You climb the stairs and you see a white cat.
This is a huge cat that blocks the entire corridor. Its fur is snow-white, and its pupils that are almost the same size as you are shining with fluorite light. It lies there quietly, as if it has been there for a long time. Awaiting your arrival.
"Firefly?" You remembered the name of this cat almost instantly. Have you raised it? How many times have you raised it? Once, twice, three times, or more? ]
[Its huge head came over and arched your body as usual. If it were a normal-sized kitten, this action would undoubtedly be a sign of intimacy, but one that is a bit bigger than you It's not a pleasant thing to have a cat's head hunched over your body. You're a little glad that it didn't stick out its tongue to lick you.
"Why are you here?" You stroked its hair, suddenly thought of something, and patted its head:
"Let me go, I want to go."
It shook its head, and you seemed to hear it talking in your mind:
