tokyo creator

Chapter 368 Act [-]: Poem of Departure

"—Okay." Arthur was silent for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and agreed, but he continued with a serious face, "But I also have my principles. I will seek volunteers within the group in the name of experiments, and inform them in detail in advance. The reason and risks of this experiment. Is that okay?"

"Of course, the surge of love and desire between you is always real anyway... Rather, the more reasoned you are at the beginning, the more you realize that you are just addicted to it in the end, the more..." Yi Chuilaixiang The smile grew thicker, and finally he gestured with satisfaction, "Deal~~"

Then, she skipped Arthur's question and replied: "Well, this is Yumiko's script."

"...Tamauki's script? Not Oro Aoi's?"

Ibuki Raika spread her hands and said: "It's Yumiko's free expression. You have all seen Yumiko's original scenes, right? It really shouldn't be like this... but she just decided on her own, she mustered up It may be the greatest courage in this life, deciding to defy that woman's arrangements and act according to the development she wants.

"Do you understand that this place is within Hatsumi's body? Therefore, it can actually be said to be a realm where all wishes come true. Then, if Yumiko's wish is strong enough, Hatsune will naturally respond to her without her having to say it. .

“Then the scenery automatically changed.

"Hatsu-chan also naturally cooperated with Yumiko and acted out the script she wanted.

"This stage is for everyone to try their best to fight for Chu Jiang, huh?"

Arthur was silent for a moment and took a deep breath: "I understand, if Tamaki's wish is strong enough, maybe Haibara will realize her wish.

"...Then, what I really want to ask is this—but Tamaki's wish is Haibara himself? If Haibara really agrees to fulfill her wish, what will happen next?

“Is this going to be a good thing or a bad thing?
“I mean, what’s going to happen in this area.

"Will everyone return to reality, or will they be forever addicted to this ordinary but happy dream?"

Arthur clenched his fists and asked with a heavy and serious face.

But Yibuki Laixiang didn't give up at all, didn't even stop for half a second, and simply replied: "Anyway, Yumiko won't succeed."

"--what???"

The unexpected answer made Arthur pause for a moment.

Laixiang shook her finger and patiently explained: "Think about it, this is a script written by that woman!! She ranked Yumiko first, but do you think she couldn't predict Yumiko's plan?
"Generally speaking, the first one to appear must be the miscellaneous soldiers.

"That woman probably thinks so too. She believes that even if Yumiko causes trouble, the script will develop normally as she originally wrote it.

"Yumiko won't make it. Because she's just a mortal.

"Yumiko is super ordinary. So she also has self-awareness. She originally only had the most ordinary and unimaginative wish of 'marriage' for Hatsumi... as you can see.

"This wish is actually very satisfying. Isn't it very satisfying? Chu-chan only needs to create a clone of himself." Laixiang showed an ambiguous expression and twitched his fingers, "Just If Chu-chan is needed, give her a little finger... and she will become a big Chu-chan, right? A big--Hatsu-chan."

"But the problem is... Now, Yumiko seems to be gradually dissatisfied. She gradually has the idea to monopolize Hatchan.

"...How can this work? This is absolutely impossible - gods may give part of themselves to people out of charity and mercy, allowing them to love others and be loved. But no matter how greedy humans are, It’s impossible to monopolize the gods, right?
"If Yumiko just wants to get the 'person' of Hatsu-chan, Hatsu-chan can generously give many of them; but if what she wants is Hatsu-chan's 'heart'... then it will be sold out long ago. ?" Ibuki Laika smirked like a fox.

"I brought Yumiko here because I knew she would not succeed?" But for half a second, she showed an expression of innocence and ignorance.

"Hatsu-chan, you will never get tripped up by Yumiko." She finally smiled, spread her hands toward the stage and said, "—Let's see."

……

At the dinner table, the brave man looking at his wife was still smiling.

But at some point, his smile gradually solidified and turned into a thoughtful expression.

"——No." He frowned, looked down at his rice bowl, and thought thoughtfully, "Things shouldn't be like this..."

"That day? That day, I did follow you."

"But after fighting off the gangsters, I didn't appear in front of you, let alone go to Yumiko's house."

He fell silent and recalled: "That night, later, I saw..."

"——Kui." He thought for a moment, and finally spit out a name.

Suddenly, the lady from the prop shop suddenly stood up from the table with a pale face.

The table was pushed by her body, making an unpleasant "squeaking" friction sound on the ground. The dishes on the table fell to the ground and shattered into pieces with a crisp sound.

And amidst these voices, the housewife let out a scream-like cry: "Mr. Huiyuan? Mr. Huiyuan!! Please—don't, don't wake up!!"

Amidst her wailing, the jailors like sunspots appeared out of nowhere.Suddenly, a flood of people rushed onto the stage, ruthlessly pushing away the heroine, quickly moving away the "modern and warm small family restaurant" scene, and erected a new set.

A few seconds later, a new set appeared there.

——This time, it is a scene that fits the fantasy theme of "The Brave Fighter": a small prop room.

The prop house girl stood behind the counter with tears on her face.

In front of her, in the small area behind the prop room in front of the counter, there was a magic circle painted on the ground.The brave man is rising from it.

"Yumiko, you... what did you do to me?" The hero rubbed his forehead, with a painful expression like a hangover, as if he had just woken up from a dream, "Is this... a dream trap?"

The prop house girl didn't answer, as if she couldn't accept the reality in front of her and was lost.

"...I seem to have remembered it." He continued to rub his temples and began in a low voice, "...A long, long time ago."

……

Off the court, Arthur and Hui Ren looked at each other and saw each other's lips moving, and couldn't help but recite the lines together.

Because what the hero is reciting now is the original script and original lines written by Oro Aoi.

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A long time ago, the devil suddenly appeared, brought disaster and took away the princess, and then disappeared.

A young brave man from a small village drew his sword and made an oath to cross thousands of mountains and rivers to kill the devil.

Childhood sweethearts in the prop house, the girl gently advises: The mountains are high and the water is far away, why take risks?

The young brave man said that a peaceful life is not what I want.The two of them had a quarrel, each was angry and said they would never see each other again.

But before setting off, the girl stood in front of him.She begged hard to meet again, apologized softly, and said she would give him a sword.

A brave man is not afraid of hardships, but he cannot turn a blind eye to tears.So she took her hand and took him back to the door of the tree house.

——Then, boom, you’re in a trap.

The brave man relied on his firm perseverance to escape from the dream trap, but found that he had fallen into a situation that was even more difficult to extricate himself from: the crying girl in front of him.

"You promised me!" The prop house lady cried, "When I was playing house together when I was young, you promised me that you would grant me one wish! No matter what that wish is!"

"Well, I seem to have promised..." The brave man touched the back of his head, feeling a little embarrassed.

As a brave man, you must keep your word.

The prop house girl continued to cry and said: "I didn't even ask you to agree to marry me or any other excessive wish. I just hope you don't go -"

"Oh, get married? Then I will marry Yumiko." The brave man replied straightforwardly.

The prop shop lady was stunned for a moment, she even forgot to cry and stopped all of a sudden.

She stared at the brave man with her mouth open for a long time, then hurriedly came back to her senses, wrung her hands and whispered: "Well, it doesn't matter... As long as you promise not to leave the village and not go to the Demon King... …”

"No, no."

"Huh?" The prop house girl was dumbfounded for a moment, and then instinctively said, "Then--"

However, the brave man continued to be decisive, predicting in advance and interrupting what the prop house girl originally wanted to say: "That is not possible. The wish of 'only loving you and forgetting about the devil' is impossible to come true? I We have to go find the Demon King.”

The prop house girl stood there dumbfounded, as if it took her a long time to fully understand what the hero meant.

Her lips trembled for a long time, and finally she couldn't control herself and screamed: "——But why is 'marry me' okay!!! Why is 'getting married' so easy!!!"

"Because the Demon King doesn't care whether the hero gets married or not?" The hero picked at his ears, "And he doesn't care if there is a woman by his side.

“No matter what happens to the hero, the Demon King will be waiting for the hero in the deepest part of the Demon City.

"So...the one who kills the Demon King in the end must be the brave man. And if the brave man was killed instead of dying of old age, then the one who killed him must also be the Demon King.

"Anyway, after I kill the Demon King, I will come back and marry you.

"Well, if Yumiko wants me to leave you a child before leaving, that's fine with me -"

--"boom".

A cup of tea was smashed into pieces on the brave man's face.

The brave man didn't fight back or get angry, he just wiped away the hot water and glass shards silently.

"You—" The lady from the prop house kept throwing the water glass, her whole body trembling as if it had fallen into an ice bank, and her voice was also trembling: "—scumbag—man—!!!"

The hero sighed deeply.

He sat down cross-legged, holding his chin, looking at the prop shop lady, as if waiting patiently for her anger to subside.The two looked at each other for a long time, and the prop house lady's angry breathing finally gradually became softer.

Finally, the brave man spread his hands and said, "Yumiko... do you really want to hear the real reason?"

The prop house girl was caught off guard, and the expression on her face couldn't lie: she suddenly panicked as if she was being attacked, feeling both fearful and expectant, so conflicted that she was at a loss what to do.

Therefore, the brave man revealed the answer lightly: "Because——Yumiko came late."

The prop shop lady was stunned for a moment, then screamed: "No, it's impossible! I'm the first one, I'm the first one to fall in love with Haibara-kun!"

But the brave man shook his head and said: "No. Yumiko, I know what you want to say... But in fact, when the Endless Tower strategy was completed and we just separated, you didn't like me yet, right?"

"..."

"Recall our last conversation..." The brave man hugged his shoulders and paused, as if giving the prop house girl a chance to recall and speak.

The lady from the prop shop stood there stunned, her expression changing as her eyes flashed, and she seemed to open her mouth several times as the memory progressed.

But in the end, she said nothing: "..."

So, the brave man sighed and shook his head: "There's still a little difference, right? It feels like there's only a slight difference... But a little bit is actually a huge difference, and it's inevitable. Because, at that time, you ...Not sure yet.”

"..."

"That's why you made an appointment in advance to 'next time we meet'. Because you knew that the seeds were planted in you, but -" the brave man stared deeply at the prop house girl, "I can see your wish. At that time, it was not yet germination."

The prop shop lady turned away: "..."

The brave man also sighed deeply: "There is no way. If it is just a seed, normal people will choose to wait, right? Yumiko thought the same way at the time... Wait for later, wait for later. In the days to come, still Very long. Only after more contact can you truly determine your feelings.

"Because Yumiko is a gentle and serious person... No, it should be said that, Yumiko's gentle way of treating people is serious, not rampant.

"So, she won't make a decision based on impulse. She will think carefully before taking action. What she fears most is that her impulse will end up hurting two people at the same time.

"Yumiko also treats me seriously. She has to think carefully to convince herself whether she really likes me.

"...until Yumiko met Saya and Ayano.

"At that time, Yumiko actually didn't expect that she would actually hear Haiyuanchu's story from Saya and Ayano. Only then did she realize that she had forgotten one thing: the world is not static, Haiyuanchu's The world around her is not static either. During the period when she is sure of her own mind, neither Hui Yuanchu nor the world... will wait for her."

As the hero spoke, he observed the expression of the prop house girl, and then stopped talking.

After another moment of silence, he sighed, and suddenly ended simply: "...Forget it, actually these are not the point. The point is, Yumiko is indeed late."

The prop shop lady raised her head and squeezed out a word between her teeth: "—Who?"

"So Mr. Haiyuan, whose wish are you planning to fulfill?" She stared at Mr. Huiyuan and choked up: "Yes, yes... I was so stupid. I thought that we could have a long time together... But while I was waiting stupidly, someone made a wish to Haibara-kun first, right?"

"But, yes, to, in the end, is, which, one, one?" She gritted her teeth, "Is it Saya, or Ayano, or—give me a name!!!"

"Although you have some misunderstandings...but of course I can tell you who she is." The brave man looked at her gently for a moment, and finally said calmly: "Of course it is-"

The prop house girl looked at him calmly at first, but the moment he opened his mouth, it quickly collapsed into despair. In the end, she interrupted him by screaming: "No--stop talking!!"

She reached out to cover her ears, closed her eyes, and screamed: "I won't listen!!! I don't want to listen!!!"

The brave man stopped.

The prop house girl was already hugging herself, shaking and crying softly.

While she was crying, she let out an ugly laugh and uttered random sentences: "——That's it.

"I'm so stupid, really. Sure enough, by that time you had already -

"It turns out that I was really a step too late... If I hadn't been a step too late, if I hadn't been -"

"No, no, I always feel like you have misunderstood somewhere. The time I said you were late is actually-" The brave man paused and suddenly fell into deep thought for some reason.

"Thank you, Yumiko, for reminding me. It turns out that I made my decision at that moment..." He finally said to himself, "It turns out that it was really that early..."

But at this time, the prop shop lady stopped crying.

It didn't seem to be listening to what he had to say.

As if nothing mattered, she just buried her head deeply. Not to mention her expression, her whole body seemed to be sinking into the dark background of the prop room little by little.

Dark for a long time.

The brave man waited for a while, and finally said cautiously again: "Yumiko? It's time for me to go. I mean, the sword you promised to give me..."

The darkness seemed to remain silent.

But suddenly, two faint words came from it: "——Marriage."

"...Okay. I admit it. I'm late."

"but I……"

"I don't want to admit defeat..."

"Ah——!!!" The prop house girl finally broke out from the silence.

She didn't know that she was irritated by that sentence. She raised her fists and clenched them, as if she wanted to use up all the strength she had ever had since birth, and shouted, "I don't want to give in like this!!!"

The prop shop lady gritted her teeth, stared at the hero, and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Okay, let's get married!
"You just promised, right? It's okay to get married!! Then marry me!!
"Do you want a sword? Then use your life, a scumbag, to trade it for it!"

The brave man was not frightened by the sudden outburst of the prop house girl.

He just stared at her and smiled as if he suddenly saw something.

Then, without hesitation, he turned around and walked towards the door.

"Okay, wait for me to defeat the Demon King first." The brave man said, taking the silver sword hanging on the wall next to him and inserting it into the shield behind his back, and walked out of the store without looking back, "If this is If it is your wish, then I will grant it... No matter what, in the end, there will be at least one Hui Yuanchu who is exactly the same as the one you are familiar with coming back to you, marrying you, and spending a lifetime with you."

In the last scene, the girl from the prop house was waving desperately to the hero's retreating back, while shouting in her hoarse voice.

"——It's just the first step!!! Haihara-kun, I'll wait for you to come back and marry me!! But that's just the first step!!

"—Tamaki Yumiko won't admit defeat!!

"—I will not lose to that woman!!

"——Haihara-kun has agreed to get married anyway, so I am the main wife!!!... Ugh...

"Wuwuwu...wow..." But even as she shouted, she cried again, "I'm so unwilling...but at least...but still so unwilling..."

The curtain slowly fell.

On the LED subtitle strip, type out a line of words: [Act [-], end]

……

The curtain fell.

Tamaki Yumiko came off the stage.

She didn't even look at Arthur and Hui Ren next to her. She just wiped the tears on her face, grinded her teeth, and muttered something quickly before walking off the stage and passing by them. , rushing backstage.

Arthur turned around and looked at her back, touched his chin, and suddenly said: "Respectable Lord of Love. I always feel that I finally decided to offer a tribute, but your blessing seems to be a bit wrong. ?”

"Although it is true that Haibara rejected Yumiko. But the reason seems to be completely different from what you said."

There was a burst of silly laughter from behind: "Hey hey hey..."

Then, there was silence and no response.

Arthur turned back, but there was nothing behind him.

Yi Chui Lai Xiang had already run away without knowing when.

Sighing and shaking his head, Arthur turned around and asked Keito: "What do you think of Oro Aoi's script?"

"I don't know what it means." Huiren first made a fair evaluation of the script itself.Then he recalled the actual performance just now, shook his head and corrected again: "...No, it sucks."

"Haha, but Haiyuan just read the script yesterday, and the flesh and blood around us has changed like this today?" Arthur laughed, "Well... In other words, the simplest conclusion: this guy Haiyuan , I really like this script.”

"And -" he glanced at Tamaki Yumiko's back, "a branch line was solved in such a funny way."

"It's really ironic. We have been working on it for so long...but it was not us who finally came up with this answer and pushed the plot to this key point." He then sighed and whispered to himself in a somewhat self-deprecating and melancholy voice. He said, "So, she is the one who understands Hui Yuan's thoughts best after all..."

After a moment of silence, Hui Ren suddenly came up with a thought: "By the way, Oro Aoi herself also has a role, right?"

"You know it when you think about it, right? Her role can only be..." Arthur finally shrugged, as if he was too matter-of-fact to say anything.

(End of this chapter)