Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 304 The explosion is an element of fantasy! (Original)
It was a movie, and it was a huge success.

Everyone was secretly crying while watching the movie in the auditorium, but amidst the sobbing, a hand suddenly appeared in the screen, making a V-sign for victory.

That...of course is Yuta's hand.

His movie is successful, and his and Eri's movie is already successful!

He has succeeded in moving everyone who sees the movie to tears.

But it seems that Yutai’s filming isn’t over yet.

In the comic, the scene is still shot with a mobile phone. In the scene, the white wild cat is sniffing the flowers and plants on the roadside.

It's as if this is still in the movie.

Zhou Wenwei is really not sure whether this is still a movie or the movie is over.

at this time……

In comics.

"Yutai-san."

A girl came to find him, looking sad and sad.

"what's up?"

Yuta continued to ask off-screen.

"Um...what are you taking pictures of?"

"cat……"

The girl glanced at the cat outside the window, and then asked, "Let me ask you..."

"Eri usually wears glasses, right?"

Zhou Wenwei was stunned for a moment. Does Eri wear glasses?

But in the comics, Eri has never been seen wearing glasses.

Yuta then continued talking to a girl who seemed to be familiar with Eri.

"She herself asked to take off her glasses when filming."

"Where are the braces on my teeth?"

"That was also taken after it was dismantled at her own request."

"Are you too obedient to your girlfriend?"

"We were only lovers in the movie and never actually dated. I confessed my love, but she rejected me."

"...That movie did make it difficult to tell the difference, but in fact Eri is a person who gets angry easily and puts me at the center... She is a rather annoying woman, right?"

"Hmm...that's why she said that you and I are the only two friends."

……

During the conversation between Eri's "only two" friends, Zhou Wenwei gradually understood...

It turns out that Eri and Yuta’s mother are the same, and they are also imperfect people.

Even the real Eri is worse than Yuta’s mother.

A girl who is self-centered, likes to be angry with others, doesn't have many friends, is short-sighted, wears glasses, and wears dental braces.

Thinking about it this way, purely based on the appearance depicted, such a girl reminded Zhou Wenwei of when he was studying. It seemed that there were many such girls around him...

Very ordinary, even the character is hard to accept.

It’s just that Yuta took pictures of Eri so perfectly like he took pictures of his mother.

That's why Eri in the movie is so beautiful, cute, quirky and considerate.

As Yutai's father said, Youtai has the image that determines others' memories.

Zhou Wenwei suddenly understood something again.

It's just that the understanding is too vague, it's just a flash of inspiration, but I can't catch it at all.

Back to the comics.

"...The Eri you took...is a bit too beautified."

the girl said.

"Ah."

Yuta admits this.

But the girl was not angry, but smiled.

"But...I will always think of that Eri from now on."

The girl was relieved and said sincerely, "Thank you."

However, after this scene, the figure of the girl in front of him suddenly became blurred and doubled.

Everything seems blurry and unreal.

School, mother, Youtai...

At last it was pitch black.

After occupying a whole page and divided into eight dark pictures, Yuta's narration suddenly appeared.

"The protagonist successfully captured the death scene that he failed to capture when his mother passed away..."

"I regained the confidence to live well and continue making movies."

"over."

……

Seeing this, Zhou Wenwei felt lost and murmured to himself, "Is this... the end?"

He always felt that something was missing...

This kind of finale seems perfect, it can be said that it couldn't be more perfect.

Like the usual depressing comics, the seriously ill female protagonist dies after helping the male protagonist fulfill their common wish.

But the male protagonist also received great encouragement, cheered up and continued to devote himself to the career he loved...

Just...is this enough?
Zhou Wenwei felt a little unwilling, why did it end like this?
There must be something missing, this is not a perfect ending...

But what are the disadvantages? What are the shortcomings...

Zhou Wenwei didn't know what the shortcomings were. He subconsciously turned to the next page, but...

The following page is not the so-called advertising page or the last page.

The comic continues.

The scene where Yutai took a picture of his own expression on his mobile phone appeared again on the screen.

"That's just me in the movie."

"It didn't go so well for me in real life."

Yutai's narration tells about his real life outside the movie, saying, "After the cultural festival, I stopped going to school and hid in my room alone."

"Then, I spent the whole day in front of the computer re-editing Eri's movie."

On the screen, a video disc with the words "Goodbye Eri" appeared.

"The movie itself was well received, but I always felt it had a little bit of a fly in the ointment."

"I secretly feel that the answer lies in the 2728 hours of video spent with Eri."

“After I went to college, I still continued editing.”

"Going to class, working... I go home and make videos of Eri, and that's how the whole day ends."

"After I dropped out of college, I found a company."

"I met my current wife there, and we had a daughter after we got married."

"After that, I was still editing Eri's movies again and again that I wouldn't show to anyone."

"I have no dissatisfaction with my family. Living a stable life like this and facing death can be considered a happy life."

……

Youtai's words made Zhou Wenwei feel even heavier.

Eri...just like Yuta's mother, has become Yuta's obsession.

Just like after filming "Mother of the Explosive Death", not being able to capture the scene of her mother's death has become a lifelong regret for Yutai.

After filming "Goodbye Eri", Eri became Yuta's new obsession.

That girl whose real appearance was neither pretty nor cute or lovable was something Yutai could never forget.

Yes, it turns out that this is what has been lacking.

Yuta has been freed from the regret of "Blast Death Mother", but he has not yet been freed from the regret of "Goodbye Eri".

So how can Yuta be freed from Eri's regrets?
In other words, what is Yuta’s regret about Eri?
what is it then……

However, in the comics, the black picture flashed by again...

Suddenly in the next picture, Yutai, who looked as old as the original Youtai's dad cartoon, appeared, sitting in a room, but now he looked haggard.

"That day..."

He recounted an incident from the past with a numb face, saying, "That day, the speeding car carried my wife, daughter, father... and me."

"I'm driving."

"For a moment, it was like the power to a television went out, and everything went black before my eyes."

"When I came back to my senses, I was already looking up at the ceiling of the hospital."

So... Yuta's family had a car accident and Yuta was the only one left?
"They told me that we were involved in a car accident in front of us..."

"Everyone in my family except me died on the spot."

This heavy blow cannot be too bad.

It was just time to cry. Youtai probably had already cried at that time, many times.

So now, he can no longer cry, only his heart is completely dead, numb, withered, without sorrow or joy, and his heart is as gray as death.

"...I really can't accept this."

Yutai continued numbly, "It's like watching a shocking plot in a movie."

"If you think about it, I've always been like this."

Recalling his former self, he said, “I have a quirk that I look at the issues in front of me too objectively.”

"Whether it's my mother's death or Eri's death, I see it through the lens."

"I was like that when I was contemplating suicide in high school. I could only face reality through a lens."

There was another silence.

After analyzing and evaluating his bloodless and tearless soul, he seemed to be judging himself and said to the camera, "And the result is... I understand that my remaining soul can no longer bear the death of others."

"If I die, I decide to go to a place where memories are left."

"I'm done."

Youtai covered the camera just like the previous selfie videos.

...To be honest, this plot made Zhou Wenwei uncomfortable.

The discomfort was just like when I watched "Fist of Fire". All the suffering was so reasonable, and all existence was so illusory.

Now, even he feels the same way he did when he looked at Agni...

Perhaps...death is the best ending for Youtai...

So commit suicide...

Suicide...is a good choice.

Besides this, is there any better solution?
Once again, Yutai came to the apartment building, which was even more shabby than before.

After going through a timeline that should last more than ten years, it has been more than ten years since Youtai was in junior high school and now nearly thirty years old, right?
But this building seems to have not changed, and it seems to have changed.

It became more desolate, but no one came to raze the building to the ground and build a new one.

It's like no one knows about this building.

But Youtai didn't care about this, and just continued to walk through the building. It was a blurry and gray building, and it seemed that no one had been there for a long time.

He walked through the long corridor and finally came to the secret base where he and Eri had spent 2728 hours, maybe more.

These 2728 hours are just pictures he took.

The room was dark, with only the sofa and the portable projector still sitting there in the back.

Youtai put down his backpack and opened the zipper. Inside was a thick hemp rope used for hanging.

He seems to be coming to an end here.

"The world is full of death."

Such a voice suddenly came from the side.

"what?"

Yutai made a confused sound and looked at the wall.

The wall is showing a self-portrait video of him when he was young. He was made a laughing stock by his classmates after the broadcast of "The Mother of Explosive Death" and he was so angry that he committed suicide.

Yutai, who was almost thirty years old and had experienced the tragic experience of being left with his entire family, looked back in the dim room.

In the next cartoon, Eri appeared on the sofa again.

She was showing the movie, and the light from the projector illuminated her beautiful face that never seemed to age.

"You are much older than you appear in this video."

She still said with a quirky smile.

Is this fantasy?
Yuta’s fantasy before his death, otherwise why would the dead Eri appear again?
Yuta looked in disbelief when he saw Eri reappearing, looking just like the familiar one in his memories.

The backpack was released and fell to the ground.

Then Yutai showed a look of realization and said, "I understand... I understand... ah..."

"I see...it's just a dream..."

"No, could it be that I went crazy and saw hallucinations..."

He further denied, "It's like the movie "Wild Rose Perm Shop"... No, if I have to say it, more like "Titanic"? In "The Sixth Sense"... the protagonist should be dead, right? ……Huh?"

"The general direction of this movie is good, but it's still a bit of a pity."

At this moment, Eri looked at him with a smile on her face and said.

"Huh? Huh?...Um...ah?"

Youtai still couldn't figure out what was going on and said.

"It's so common for movies to end with lovers dying. I really hope there will be a big twist in the second half..."

Eri continued to look at him with a smile and said, "Is it missing a little bit of fantasy elements?"

Finally, Yutai seemed to finally react.

He looked at Eri in front of him and asked in disbelief, "Eri is talking to me?"

"It's Eri talking to you."

Eri said somewhat speechlessly.

"...As for the illusion elements, they already exist..."

At this time, Yuta seemed to have returned to the past, when he and Eri were discussing the plot of the movie, and said, "I set you up as a vampire."

"That's not a fantasy."

Eri suddenly pointed at herself and said, "Because I am really a vampire. The proof is that I am still young, right?"

When Zhou Wenwei said this, he felt a little ridiculous.

Therefore, he was sure that Eri was indeed dead, and this was just Yuta's fantasy before his death.

Zhou Wenwei thought so.

In comics.

Youtai didn't believe it either, and said a little dullly, "But I personally photographed the moment you died..."

"Yes, dead."

Eri pointed to her forehead and said, "This is the only place that is dead."

"You know what? The brain is like a hard drive, it has a limited capacity."

She continued to say logically, "If humans live for a full two hundred years, they will die because their brains are full."

"It's like me in this movie."

"But, in reality, I am not a human, but a vampire..."

She covered her chest, but it was the right side of her chest. Isn't the heart usually on the left side?
"As long as your heart is beating, you will never die."

"I woke up three days after my death, but I lost all my previous memories."

Yuta looked at her in disbelief, but Eri continued, "As for how I should live, the last Eri wrote to me."

On the cabinet on the right behind her, there was an open envelope.

At this moment, Zhou Wenwei really couldn't tell...

Is this true?

Is Eri really a vampire?
So she is still alive? Isn’t it the so-called Youtai’s hallucination?

"I seem to have lost my memory like this dozens of times and lived again."

Hearing what Eri said, Yuta was still in disbelief and said, "...It's like a plot that only exists in movies..."

"That's right, this time there's more than just a letter."

Eri looked at the movie playing in front of her and said, "Let's play this movie too."

Looking at the scene of Eri in the movie, Yutai was a little stunned.

"The kind of person I was before...the movies told me."

Eri said.

After watching the movie in front of me and being silent for a long time...

"Are you... going to have no problem with your future life?"

Youtai raised his head again and asked, "Everyone around you will take a step ahead of you... your parents, lovers, and friends will all die before you."

"Don't you despair of this life?"

This seems to be a question to Eri, but actually...

Isn't he asking himself?
Zhou Wenwei suddenly understood at this moment that this was just Youtai's hallucination.

Eri is dead. She is not a vampire girl. They are still in... the movie.

That's why Eri talks about the vampire setting.

It was just that Eri looked at him for a long time, and finally she smiled and said, "I think the last Eri must have been desperate...but it doesn't matter to me."

"Because I already have the movie."

Youtai looked at the projector in front of him and froze on the spot.

"If I look again, I can see you again... Even if I forget you countless times, I can think of you again countless times."

In the movie scene, Eri and the young Yuta are sitting on the sofa watching a movie together.

Eri, who was still young, looked at Yuta, who was nearly thirty years old and in a state of embarrassment, and asked, "Don't you think that is a wonderful thing?"

"Um……"

Youtai suddenly felt relieved and said with a slight smile, "It's a very beautiful thing..."

Eri immediately showed a satisfied smile, but now she seemed to dislike Yuta and said, "I don't like watching movies while talking. If you don't want to sit down, can you please leave immediately?"

"……All right……"

Yutai lowered his head and said with a smile.

Then under Eri's gaze, he turned around and opened the door, planning to leave.

"Bye now……"

Yuta finally looked at Eri and solemnly said goodbye.

Eri was still sitting on the sofa, but she turned around, looked at Yuta as well, and said, "Well...goodbye."

Just like that, Yutai stepped out of the room and closed the door, as if he no longer cared about Eri.

He crossed the dilapidated corridor again and left without any nostalgia this time.

Leaving this run-down, abandoned apartment building.

"I haven't seen her since."

At this time, Yutai's narration appeared on the screen.

“Because I understood why I edited that movie so many times.”

His footsteps continued to move forward, no longer nostalgic for the past.

"Is there a little bit of fantasy missing?"

Eri appeared on the screen again and said to Yuta.

Yutai smiled with relief, but the moment he walked out of the apartment building behind him, an explosion suddenly occurred in the apartment building.

Just like the sudden explosion in the hospital in "Mother of Explosions".

Only this time, Yutai in the picture no longer hesitated, regretted or regretted. He walked forward confidently, no longer caring about the explosion behind him.

Real men...never look back to see the explosion!

"End. 』

Finally, Zhou Wenwei saw the real ending, and this time he was relieved and laughed happily.

"what……"

He looked at Yutai who was confident and determined in the comics and did not look back at the explosion, and he laughed heartily and happily, "Hahahahahahaha——"

(End of this chapter)