The Trickster's Ninth Episode

Chapter 130 Four

April 4 → August 21

In the early morning, Sojiro walked in from the outside.

"Good morning, boss."

"Good morning." Sojiro responded, then thought of something temporarily, and continued. "By the way, there were a few things yesterday that you didn't tell you when you came back too late."

"Huh? What's the matter?" Yu Gonglian looked over curiously.

"Yesterday, a policeman came to the store to find me, saying that someone wanted to help you reverse the case, and came for routine questioning. Do you know about this?" Sojiro asked.

"Turn...the case?" Yu Gonglian frowned, a little confused. "I don't know about it."

"You don't know? That's troublesome. If someone comes to you during this time and says they want to help you reverse the case or make a deal, don't promise to know, at least come back and discuss with me." Hearing this, Sojiro immediately He warned Yu Gonglian.

"Don't worry, boss, I'm not that easy to deceive." Yu Gonglian said with a light smile upon hearing this. "If I do, I will let you know first."

"That's good. In addition, there is another strange thing. The policeman, I took a look at his police officer's ID card. His name is Zhou Fang Tatsuya. Later, after the policeman finished asking questions and left, another one came shortly after. The man, who looks exactly like that policeman, said he was your friend, Tatsuya Amano, do you know him?"

"Amano... Tatsuya?" Amamiya Ren's expression became weird.

Do you know each other?Of course I know each other, but it's not the kind of acquaintance between friends. Ren Amamiya just knew Zhou Fang Tatsuya from the game.

And... two people who look exactly the same, one surnamed Zhou Fang?One surnamed Amano?

Is it the change caused by the convergence of parallel worlds during the second reincarnation?

Zhou Fang Tatsuya is the male protagonist of "Persona 2". This work is quite special. P2 is divided into two parts: [Sin] and [Punishment]. Zhou Fang Tatsuya on the sin side failed to prevent the destruction of the world. With the help of Ferremon, a parallel world was opened up, and he possessed Zhou Fang Tatsuya on the punishment side of the parallel world, and then prevented Nyarlathotep from destroying the world in the parallel world.

After that, the sinful Tatsuya left the world of punishment and returned to his own world that had been destroyed.

If the parallel worlds converge, it is not unacceptable that the sinful Zhou Fang Tatsuya will appear, and now he has changed his surname to Amano...

Maiya Amano, he can be regarded as the lover of Zhou Fang Tatsuya, the sinful side. Tatsuya, the sinful side, changed his surname to Amano. Is this a marriage?

Moreover, Tatsuya Amano said that he and Ren Amamiya are friends, and it seems that he is another person who retains the memory of reincarnation.But that's right, if Tatsuya Amano doesn't keep his memory, how can he face another person who looks exactly like himself in this world?

For Tatsuya Amano, it should be a precious feeling to keep the memory of the sufferings of the past and face the world today.

"I... do know him." Yu Gonglian responded after thinking for two seconds.

Tatsuya Amano, who still has memories, came to him on purpose, but he didn't know what was going on... Ren Amamiya was a little worried.

Although Tatsuya Amano is the protagonist and savior of P2, and he has a kind personality, Ren Amamiya is not sure about his current situation, nor Tatsuya Amano's attitude towards him.

As the protagonist of P2, Amano Tatsuya's combat system is slightly different from the latter P3P4P5. Amano Tatsuya's individual combat effectiveness is very strong, and he can carry a long sword with him.

It is imperative to be defensive, so when you meet him later, you should bring your dagger with you.

"You really know each other?" Sojiro was a little surprised, but soon relieved, and continued. "You usually come back so late. I guess he won't be able to meet you even if he is free, so just tell him to let him come over on Sunday. Since you are friends, please pay attention to yourself."

"Sunday? I see." Umiya Ren nodded to show that she understood.

Indeed, if you want to meet Ren Amameiya, unless you go to school to find him, the only choice is Sunday.

Calculating carefully, Tatsuya Amano is about 36 years old this year. I don't know if he and Mai Amano have children, cough.

The sun gods of P2 have all appeared, and the husband of the real god Izanami in a small village called Yashigami Inaba does not know what state he is in.

It’s pointless to think about it now, and we’ll see the outcome on Sunday. I hope Tatsuya Amano won’t be like Goro Akechi and Kusuo Saiki, who keep their words hidden and don’t want to reveal anything.

Yu Gonglian still has a lot of things to ask.

After bidding farewell to Sojiro, Ren Amamiya walked on the way to school.

Last night, I chatted with Blank for a long time about the Phantom Thief story. To be honest, Ren Amamiya didn’t know how he spent his first week, so the story he told was actually the original plot of the game + private goods.

It's just some places that he himself finds uncomfortable, and he corrected them on his own.

The plot line of P5 is very long, and Ren Amamiya only talks about the main line, and it is impossible to finish the story in one night, probably only to Banmu Liuzhai.

Of course, Ren Amamiya used all her original names. Although names like Kamoshida Takumi and Banmo Ryusai would definitely turn into rumors, but if they were just telling stories with Blank, it would have nothing to do with them.

Of course, the protagonist of the story is Amamiya Ren herself, which is what makes Blank most dissatisfied-they all thought that they would appear in the story, but Amamiya Ren told them that they were not in the Phantom Thief story.

For this reason, these two guys are still angry with Ren Yugong.

Telling this story to Blank, Ren Amamiya hinted that the two of them wanted to make a solo debut together with him, but unfortunately until the end, Blank didn't seem to hear his hint.

According to Umiya Ren's guess, Sora should have heard it, but he still has some concerns, maybe it's because he doesn't want to confess, or maybe it's for other reasons, so he just pretends that he didn't hear it.

It is very difficult to test blank, because blank is very sensitive, it is very difficult to conceal one's purpose in front of him.

Therefore, Ren Amamiya can only release part of the truth to attract his attention, forming the cognition of [Ren Amamiya thinks Vtuber is very interesting, and hopes to make a blank debut], so as to cover up the matter of [Ren Amamiya debuted for Blank]. .

The genius of sociology VS the world's number one trickster.

After all, the two of them still know each other too well, that is, on the Internet, if they mention this matter when they meet, even if they can't come to a conclusion of the truth in a short time, they should be able to see the clues.

However, truth and falsehood are originally the means of tricksters, and Yu Gonglian has no psychological pressure to use the advantage of location to deceive Kong.

There is no eternal lie in this world, as long as it is exposed after achieving its goal, Ren Amamiya will win.

Speaking of it, although there is no blank in the Phantom Thief story, since the blank has the idea of ​​wanting to be written into the Phantom Thief story as a prototype, it means that the two of them don't seem to be very repelled to be written into the story.

Do you want to get "No Game No Life" out?If Blank as the protagonist can be loved by everyone, will they be less vigilant about the world?

Go back and ask those two guys if they are willing.

Chapter 130 Five Awakening Parry

(second more delayed)

"No Game No Life" was originally a light novel, but later it was lightly changed to anime.

There is no doubt that it is a very popular work, but since there is no second one so far, it can be easily seen that at least it is not so popular in Japan.

In China, in the impression of Yu Gonglian, she is very popular; but now she is a little uncertain.

After all, Ren Amamiya has not been in contact with the network environment opposite the firewall for 17 years. It is not that the wall has not been overturned, but it is very purposeful, just like a man who goes shopping, finds the target, takes it and leaves.I haven't interacted with the netizens there.

If Ren Amamiya is allowed to work on "No Game No Life", he must be drawing manga.There are many considerations involved in this. The most basic one is that on the one hand, the status of manga artists in Japan is higher than that of light novelists; on the other hand, the expressive power of manga is undoubtedly much stronger than that of words.

Expressiveness is an insurmountable gap for all entertainment creators.It is true that there is such a beautiful creative technique as "blank space" in this world, but it is undeniable that most of the time, the expressiveness of various media is crushed layer by layer.

A 500-word description of appearance is not as good as an exquisite vertical painting most of the time; the emotions conveyed by an exquisite vertical painting are not as good as micro-expressions that can move in two seconds.

Otherwise, there would be no talk of buying toilet paper and giving illustrations in the light novel world.The expressive power of illustrations, unless the writing is excellent, is really much higher than that of text.

Human beings are creatures who are happy to absorb information. What they get from words and pictures, even useless knowledge, can make people feel satisfied.

But people enjoy the works, not to learn. You can't expect the audience and readers to actively absorb the information in entertainment works, but need to be consciously instilled by the creators, which creates a gap in the value of expressiveness. The gap between pros and cons.

The information contained in an illustration is not only comparable to thousands of words, but also because the information in the illustration is easier to extract.Information that can be obtained without thinking is the greatest weapon that manga artists can always have over light novelists.

Of course, the ecology in China is another matter. On the one hand, cartoonists and web writers have been equated with not doing business properly in the past few years, and they are all at the bottom of the chain of social contempt; on the other hand,... .There are too many people who write novels.With the stacking of a large number of high-quality works, let the novel world temporarily overwhelm the comics.

After all, both novels and comics are based on fun. Even if the expressiveness of comics crushes novels, whether the information contained in them is interesting or not is still a decisive factor. The development of domestic online literature circles is earlier than that of comics. When a large number of high-quality original authors are devoting themselves to online articles, the decline of comics is also helpless.

It is easy to find a thousand people who can tell stories in the Chinese online literature circle, but it may be difficult to find a hundred in the Chinese comic circle.

There are also various factors such as the threshold of painting. If I continue to chat, I can write a paper, so I won't go into details.

Let us return to the topic.

Although basically inclined to draw manga, for Amamiya Ren, the most important thing to consider is the workload and time spent.

It takes more time to write a 30-word novel, or it takes more time to draw a [-]-episode manga. It's really hard to say.

There are also paper pens and drawing tools for comics. It is not easy to continue to use a digital tablet for drawing comics. Regardless of illustrations, for comics, Ren Amamiya is a hand-painted party.

It's so troublesome to think about hand-painted parties!How about apostasy?

"Amiya, what are you thinking?"

In the Man Research Club, Parry asked Ren Amamiya, who was in a daze with an electronic pen in front of the tablet.

"I'm wondering whether to rebel from the hand-painted party to the board-painted party."

"what???"

Yu Gonglian smiled at the dazed Parry, put down her pen and said, "Don't talk about that, what's the matter?"

"Ah! By the way, Amamiya, come over and help me read this." Parry said as he pushed his digital tablet over a bit.

Ren Amamiya looked over, and Parry's digital board was drawing a beautiful girl with white hair and big breasts with a half-taken coat and a lazy expression.

"Huh? What's wrong with this?" Ugonglian didn't understand why Pali asked her to watch this.

"How is it? This character design? Actually, I am trying to make Live2D now, most of which are based on the tutorial, but the progress is very slow, it is still a bit difficult!" Parry asked Ren Amamiya to read the tablet and put it away. Come back and show off your computer.

what!It is a familiar picture of liver pain.

"How to adjust the deformation parameters like this to be more natural?" Parry asked Amamiya Ren.

"You are learning Live2D... Ah! Sure enough, women's vertical painting is more complicated than men's. Do you have to do it even if you shake your hair?" Ren Amamiya didn't ask who the white-haired girl's skin was for. .

Reminiscent of the fact that Parry was still persuading other girls to become Vtubers at noon yesterday, maybe he planned to make the model first for them to experience.

"For hair, it's actually best to divide it into sections. First use the brush to select the tool, and then modify the softness weight..." Amamiya Ren took a look at Parry's progress. The deformer is quite detailed. A large number of dense parameters.

It still takes time for outsiders to get used to a semi-finished model halfway through. Fortunately, the questions Pali asked Amamiya Ren were basically untouched parts, and Amamiya Ren didn't need to adapt to the binding points that she didn't understand at all.

"Probably like this, you can modify the specific shaking effect when you go back to the model test."

"I see." Parry watched carefully from the sidelines. "By the way, Amamiya, will you do that?"

"That?" Yu Gonglian frowned and looked at Parry.

Immediately afterwards, Parry secretly raised his head and glanced at the three women in the same activity room, approached Ren Amamiya, and said in a low voice, "That's the one, what should I do with the breast shaker?"

"...I've never done this before!" Yu Gonglian laughed dumbfounded. "There's no need to do this, is there?"

"What are you talking about! Of course Opie has to move to have a soul!" Parry retorted in a low voice.

"Uh... As for whether I can do this, I have an idea, but I don't have relevant experience, so let's try." Amamiya Ren thought for a while and said.

The breast shaking of the Live2D model is actually not too difficult, but Ren Amamiya's modeling experience so far is only "Lai Qixiao", and some fine designs about female models have never been thought about.

"Let's think about it, breast shaking should be similar to hair tip shaking in terms of thinking, first use the brush to select the tool..."

"After making a ball and copying it to the other side with the mirror action, it should be fine."

"Oh—that's amazing, Amamiya!" Parry exclaimed with a look of surprise.