I teach kendo in Tokyo

Kazuma: "Well, there should be many other preparatory steps in a relationship, right? Dates, travel, etc."

Jinguji Tamamo looked up at the ceiling, pointed his finger on his chin, and thought for a moment before replying: "That seems to be the case. After constant dates, the two went on a trip together.

"It turned out that the hot spring hotel where we booked didn't tell us until the two of us arrived, 'Sorry, our single room is full, can we stay in a double room?', so it all came together in the end..."

Kazuma: "If the two of us encounter this situation while traveling, it will definitely be arranged by you, right?"

Jinguji Tamamo smiled.

Hema didn't wait for her to speak, and continued: "And the store will definitely serve super tonic dishes during dinner, such as turtle blood, snake meat, venison, and hedgehog meat. It will definitely be like this! Maybe I will eat it halfway through Nosebleed!”

"Ah, I've been found out." Jinguji Tamamo said with a smile, "Then I have to play my cards right. This is bound to happen if you go on a trip with me. So don't refuse."

Kazuma looked at Tamamo with a serious look on his face: "I believe that when you really propose this kind of invitation, we have already reached the state of being lovers above AUO. At that time, I will definitely agree."

Jinguji Tamamo: "How cunning, Kazuma."

"I'll take it as a compliment." Kazuma said with a wicked smile.

"It's a compliment." Tamamo smiled evilly, "Because I'm also very cunning."

Before Kazuma could speak, she suddenly said, "Don't you really want to come and inspect the goods first?"

Kazuma glanced at her breasts subconsciously.

When his eyes returned to her face, Kazuma suddenly discovered that she had a pair of furry fox ears on top of her head. When Kazuma's eyes were obviously attracted, the ears twitched, just like a real cat. . Oh no, like a real fox.

Kazuma: "How cunning, Tamamo."

Tamamo chuckled.

This way of laughing looks very much like Mikako.

He Ma rubbed his hands: "Okay, let me inspect the goods. I mean the ears."

Tamamo lowered her head: "Please."

The ears dangle.

Kazuma was about to get up when he suddenly remembered something: "Your human ears are still there. Now you have four ears."

Tamamo: "Yeah, isn't quadraphonic music popular now?"

The latest home speakers these days are four-channel.

Kazuma smiled and stood up, walking around the table.

**

Outside the dojo, in the corridor, Chiyoko put her hands on her hips and glared at Amao: "What's wrong with you? Didn't you say you were going to guard the dojo to prevent others from approaching?"

"Yes," Amao crossed his arms over his chest, with the bamboo knife inserted between his chest and arms, "but there are two entrances to the dojo, and I am only one person. If I patrol between the two entrances, there must be space on both sides. I can't take care of it.

"I think a better approach would be to target the only person in the house who is likely to be peeping now."

Chiyoko: "You!"

She hesitated to speak, because what Amao said was very reasonable, and even she felt it made sense. So after a brief silence, she changed her story.

"Don't you want to see it?"

"I don't want to." Amao replied instantly, "First of all, I'm an ex-bad guy and I've seen every scene.

"Secondly, it's not much to see, really."

Chiyoko glared at Amao fiercely: "I've read the book, it's amazing, how can I explain it in such a clear and logical manner first and second? What will you do if I insist on going?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Chiyoko was about to break in, but Amao held her shoulder with a hand, unable to move.

"Let go!"

"no."

As soon as Chiyoko got angry, she used her legs.

But Amao didn't move at all and didn't even mean to defend himself. As a result, Chiyoko stopped on her own.

"You didn't even respond?"

"If I fight back, you will be injured." Amao said, "And I feel that if I struggled to hold on and finally collapsed, Master would not blame me too much."

Chiyoko stared at Amao and found that he already looked like he was ready to die heroically.

Chiyoko sighed: "I'm convinced. So in your heart, master is more important than me, right?"

"Yes." Amao replied instantly again.

"You hesitated for at least three seconds!"

"There's nothing to hesitate about, right? After all, Master will definitely not let me do anything that would be sorry for you, Xiao Qian. From now on, I estimate that most of the tasks Master gives me will be related to protecting you. So..."

"Okay, that's enough!" Chiyoko interrupted Amao, "You have been mastering master all day long. Is my brother Tang Sanzang? You never leave him."

"No, the master can fight much better than Tang Sanzang. He should be Elder Sun."

Amao replied that "Journey to the West" was one of the few novels he finished reading before turning back from being a bad prodigal. This is how influential "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West" are in Japan.

Chiyoko sighed and said, "Let go, I'm going to take a shower."

"Didn't you wash it?"

"What's wrong with me taking a shower after waiting for my brother to come back in the wind outside for so long? What's wrong with Japanese girls loving taking baths?"

Amao: "Are you Shizuka?"

"Yes, it's Shizuka, what's wrong?"

In the Japanese national comic "Doraemon", Shizuka Minamoto loves bathing very much. Every time Nobita enters her bathroom using props such as random doors, she must be taking a bath.

"Okay." Amao let go.

Chiyoko went to the bathroom angrily, and when she passed the dojo gate, she deliberately walked against the side of the corridor away from the gate.

Amao followed him to the restaurant.

Chiyoko held the bathroom door handle, turned to Amao and said, "Do you plan to stay here all the time?"

"Yes." Ah Mao paused, "By the way, according to my observation, the reporter from Weekly Fangchun seems to have rented an undemolished house near the dojo and used it as a base to squat in. Don't suddenly burst out in the middle of washing. I thought I'd go out through the window and go around the yard, I'd be on the cover of a magazine."

"Thank you for reminding me!" Chiyoko opened the door angrily and went in.

Amao raised his eyebrows and breathed a sigh of relief. Then he put the bamboo knife on the table and went to open the refrigerator to get some barley tea.

While he was drinking, Chiyoko suddenly opened the door and poked her head in the door and asked, "Amao, what would you do if I ran out in the middle of washing and peeked through the house?"

Amao: "Huh?"

Then he choked and instinctively squirted out all the tea. As a result, all the wheat tea in the pot came out and spilled all over him.

Seeing Amao's embarrassment, Chiyoko laughed and closed the door with satisfaction.

While Amao was looking for a rag to clean up the mess he had made, he shouted: "Don't do this! Master will kill me!"

"You have a beautiful idea!" Chiyoko said inside, and laughed out loud.

**

Kazuma returned to his seat.

"So, you're not human?" he asked.

Tamamo gently touched the ears on her head, and the furry pointed ears turned into hair and fell down.

While arranging her hair, she replied: "It depends on how humans are defined. I really like the world view you set for Anno-san. When the boundaries between humans and machines become blurred, how will humans be defined?"

"Actually, this question is very suitable for me. My appearance is undoubtedly human. Kazuma, you know this best now."

Kazuma nodded: "Yes."

"I have lived in human society for a long time, so the way I act and think is all human. In terms of the cyberpunk worldview you created, my 'soul' should also be human, right?

"I can pass the most stringent Turing test in the world without any obstacles."

Kazuma licked his lips: "This is one of the classic cores of cyberpunk, 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?' Does an AI that is no different from humans have a soul?"

Tamamo: "So, the father of cyberpunk, do you think I am a human being?"

Kazuma: "Before that, I'd like to know how old you are."

Tamamo smiled and said: "Eighteen years old. Before last year, I was always seventeen years old, but now I am eighteen years old. One of the biggest differences between me and humans has disappeared."

Kazuma looked at Tamamo and quickly ran through what she had said before in his mind, and then a bold idea came to him.

"Aura... I mean, the mystery is fading, right?"

Tamamo just looked at Kazuma with a smile and didn't answer.

It seems that this is the part that cannot be said.

When Kazuma was about to change the question, Tamamo suddenly said: "It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's just that you have the ability to drive the fate of many people. I don't know if you will give another hint to the mysterious side after you rush in to disrupt the situation. .

"I am only eighteen years old after all. Do you know how hard it has been for me to not be able to go to a convenience store and buy those magazines openly for so many years?"

"Is this the point?"

Kazuma complained accurately, making Tamamo smile very happily.

After laughing, she suddenly changed her serious expression and said, "I want to grow old with you. Then one day, we watched our grandchildren play under the old cherry tree that could no longer bloom, and the sunset caressed us. Our wrinkled faces..."

Kazuma: "In the distant sky, the newly built Federation starship is slowly taking off."

"Wait a minute! Hey, this seems not bad. In this case, I will change to a mechanical body and play for another five hundred years."

"You are five hundred years old, old lady (pronounced BABA in Japanese)."

"Eighteen years old."

"If it's not five hundred years old, then it's a thousand years old?"

"Eighteen years old."

Kazuma was about to continue adding more money, but when he saw Tamamo's expression, he changed his mind: "You're eighteen years old. It's the prime of life."

Tamamo: "Yes, Cardamom Years. Where did you just say that?"

"Look, my memory is failing, grandma. I just mentioned the Federation starship... don't throw away the book!"

Kazuma caught the book Tamamo threw and put it back in front of her.

"It won't be good if you hit the flowers and plants. Okay, don't throw them away. I know, I will treat you like a human being." Kazuma put the things he just caught on the table one by one. superior.

Kazuma changed the subject: "So, you are actually the strongest in our dojo, right?"

"That's not right. In the western continent, the Maoshan Taoist priests have been encircling and suppressing demons and monsters since the Song Dynasty.

"The gods and monsters on this archipelago have had better days, but from the time Lord Nobunaga burned Mount Hiei, humans have been the stronger side.

"The iron cannons and big barrels almost drove out the low-level gods and monsters. Obviously, only the swordsman-level warriors could fight them in the past.

"Later, the 46-centimeter cannon manufactured by Wu's arsenal made all the monsters decide to retreat into the background.

"Then, the flashes of B29 and Hiroshima made all the monsters decide to be ordinary people and quietly welcome the end of the Age of Gods."

Kazuma listened quietly to the end, and suddenly discovered something: "So the strongest in our dojo is really you, right? Only a nuclear bomb can make you an ordinary person!"

"That was 35 years ago, and I was still 17 years old at that time." Jinguji Tamamo said, and there was no regret in her words. "How fast human beings advance in science and technology, and mysterious declines are inevitable." How fast.

"For example, I haven't seen Kaguya since the Apollo moon landing. I originally wanted to ask her to order some of the moon palace medicine to beautify her face, but I guess it won't be effective. Just regular pills."

Kazuma looked regretful: "That's it. I thought I would have a thigh to hug from now on, so I would be able to sit back and relax."

"Don't try to be lazy! You still have a lot to do, Daystar."

Tamamo said.

Her words almost gave Kazuma PTSD, but luckily the last thing she said was that Venus was not "Doctor".

Kazuma shrugged: "I probably understand the general framework of the world."

"As long as you understand." Tamamo looked at Kazuma and suddenly sneezed, so she quickly buttoned up her collar, "It's still a bit cold now. Is there anything else you want to ask?"

"I met Heisenberg, who may be the key figure in this serial murder case. I have some doubts that he is your kind...comrade."

"Oh?" Tamamo looked very interested, "You mean, he is a priest? A monk? There should not be many monsters like me anymore. As for little monsters, even survival is a problem, so they are probably nothing to be afraid of. ."

Kazuma thought about it for a while, and found that the monsters he had seen before were basically entries. Probably those were not real monsters, but his golden fingers used the characteristics of monsters to tell him the characteristics of those people's souls. .

The "Anti-Pope" entry above Heisenberg's head is probably in a similar situation. After all, there is still a question mark as to whether Heisenberg is now Tamamo's same kind.

After careful consideration, Kazuma asked: "How much do you know about Tarot cards?"

"Tarot cards? Destiny-related topics?" Tamamo's understanding speed was frighteningly fast. "Or is it that this opponent may have characteristics that can guide destiny?"

Kazuma: "Characteristics that guide destiny? You said before that my destiny and Beichuan's are intertwined. Could it be that..."

Tamamo shook his head: "I can't predict the future, and no one can. Because fate and the future are constantly changing."

Kazuma listened to her quietly.

"However, the amount of change that everyone can bring about in their destiny and future is different. Some people struggle until the end and find out helplessly..."

Kazuma: "Ordinary is the only answer?"

"Yes. For these people, their fate is doomed. But for other people, they have some kind of inner motivation. I prefer to use the term from the Soviet camp, called subjective initiative.

"These people can change their own destiny, and even change the destiny of others. In the past, when the mysterious power was strong, we could find these 'children of destiny' through stargazing, but it has become increasingly difficult to find them recently.

"I'm relatively lucky. Over the years, I have been playing the role of the eldest lady of the Jinguji family. After playing the eldest sister, I played the second sister. I kept changing schools. Three years and three years later..."

Hearing this, Kazuma finally managed to calm down his strong desire to complain.

Infernal Affairs has spread so widely that the lines are almost engraved in Kazuma’s DNA.

Jinguji Tamamo looked at Kazuma sincerely: "Then I met you. You changed your own gloomy destiny and your sister's gloomy destiny. It is foreseeable that you will change the destiny of more people. I have been for a long, long time. I’ve never seen such a bright destiny star.”

"So you came to me."

"So I came to you." Jinguji Tamamo responded straightforwardly.

Kazuma: "I understand. But I digress. I'm afraid it won't be of any benefit to this God of Music incident. Let me ask another question. Do you think, with what you know now, there is a chance that this blue pill will be involved in a mysterious conspiracy? How old is it?”

Tamamo tilted her head slightly: "It's hard to say, because psychology is now booming, replacing things on the mysterious side, and the boundaries are very blurred.

"It's entirely possible that this blue pill is dyed cod liver oil, and it just achieves the effect of leading to breakthrough through suggestion."

He Ma said: "The fanaticism of the people who besieged us may just be the effect of incitement, a kind of kitsch, right?"

"Yes." Tamamo nodded, "Recently, I heard some interesting sayings while serving tea and water at a meeting of some big shots. The KGB is taking the initiative to promote the progress of psychology by referring to the mysterious side. They have used this method to create A super soldier."

Kazuma immediately thought of the "Winter Soldier" in the American comics, but to be honest, Kazuma never felt that the Winter Soldier looked like a super soldier. How could someone with an M4 sweep around become super?

Kazuma didn't know if the Winter Soldier had appeared in American comics of this era, so he complained about another point: "Are you really just here to bring tea and water?"

"It's true." Tamamo smiled slightly, "I know what you are thinking. But the Jinguji family has long spread the idea that 'our daughter will be sacrificed to the gods in the end,' so no one will come to propose marriage, nor will Those things that you imagine happen, after all, she is a poor girl who will disappear after the age of 20."

Kazuma: "But actually, it's you who comes and goes?"

"Yes, it's all me." Tamamo said while laughing.

Kazuma fell backwards onto the wooden floor of the dojo, looking at the chandelier on the ceiling.

"In the end, I still have no clue."

"It's not completely clueless. At least it's certain that there is an instigator or even a group of instigators who are proficient in psychology behind it," Tamamo said. "The possibility of someone with a mysterious side getting involved is not small. By the way, if... …I mean if!”

Kazuma raised his upper body and looked at Tamamo half-lying, waiting for her to continue.

"If you suddenly find yourself in a strange place and it seems like you can't leave here," Tamamo said with a serious expression on her face, looking straight at Kazuma, "then remember to sing the song I sang to you. "Song of Passage". Singing this song may not necessarily help me get out, but it will help me find you."

Kazuma: "As expected, the mysterious side still has power."

"Urban legend level." Tamamo waved his hand.

Kazuma: "How about you teach me a few more spells?"

"Your sword is stronger than the strongest spell." Tamamo said, "The child of destiny does not need to use those fancy things. If you can't solve the problem, then there is nothing I can do. I can only clean up the mess for you. .”

Kazuma had a doubtful expression on his face. He suddenly remembered many things. For example, when he was in Osaka, after the incident, Tamamo chased a cat to the morgue. Now combined with her words...

Just as Kazuma was about to ask clearly, Tamamo stood up, came to Kazuma's side, and then lay down parallel to him.

She measured her body, bent one arm and put it under her head.

With the sideways movement, the curves of her body changed shape with gravity, naturally highlighting.

"Do you still want to confirm?" she asked softly.

Kazuma: "Just confirm it once. Let's get down to business!"

"Is it because you have too much heart and strength?"

Kazuma: "This time, I feel that it is not that simple. I feel that for a long time, neither I nor the police can find Heisenberg... Why are you laughing?"

"No. Let's get down to business, don't look at me."

"Okay, let's get down to business. What I'm worried about now is whether someone will continue to spread this blue pill, which will lead to more and more victims."

In fact, if the victims were not found in the refrigerator one after another, Kazuma wouldn't want to worry about it. After all, it's just a fan of a certain band who is a little fanatical. It doesn't matter. Just treat Japan as having a local Elvis.

But when someone dies, the nature is completely different.

Tamamo said: "I think that if they make such a big deal this time, they must have lost URB, a chess piece that has been in business for a long time. Even if you lose the chess piece, you must be prevented from breaking into URB's singing room, which means that your attack has been completed. It's where it hurts.

"Then it depends on whether the police can find anything after getting the search warrant after dawn. Even if the search fails, I think Kazuma has already inflicted heavy damage on the enemy, at least disrupting their deployment. You can be completely complacent. .”

Kazuma: "You're right, but I have no idea what to do next. With this experience, the other party should be wary. Now that I think about it, I was really stupid, actually talking to Kitagawa Saori Just like that, he walked to the other party's singing room in a swaggering manner.

"I should have asked for the address and sneaked there—or walked up to the rooftop."

"I think this is not a bad thing. It is very good to deepen the relationship with Kitagawa Saori. I have divined her and her life star is a bit dim and may go out in the near future. I feel that if you do nothing I will definitely regret it in the future."

Kazuma looked at Tamamo seriously: "Are you serious? Is your life star dim?"

"Remember, I'm only talking about possibilities. Maybe she will meet other children of destiny who can change her destiny, or maybe she will suddenly awaken her courage.

"After all, the hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage."

He Ma was speechless. After thinking for a few seconds, he asked, "If I write a song that is so awesome, can it change her destiny?"

"Probably not." Tamamo adjusted her posture slightly, getting closer to Kazuma, "Changing your destiny is not an easy thing. Think about everything you have experienced before."

Kazuma closed his eyes and thought back to that rainy night a year ago, when he carried 21 wooden swords and challenged his fate.

Think again about the night when Amao's life took the most important turning point, and what he, Amao, and Amao's father experienced.

Sure enough, whether it is changing your own destiny or changing the destiny of others, it is never easy.

"Don't worry." Tamamo's voice penetrated into Kazuma's ear, "Your destinies are intertwined, and there will definitely be a time for you to intervene in the future. Before that, just prepare calmly."

Kazuma opened his eyes just in time to see Tamamo stand up from beside him.

"Why did you run away?" Kazuma asked.

"Now that I've finished what I want to say, I'm going to read a book. I really care about the plot below."

Kazuma: "You... I might as well attract you to books?"

Tamamo waved her hand: "Good boy, go take a shower, you're smelly of sweat."

Kazuma smelled himself and said, "Not only does sweat stink, but it also smells of engine oil. Okay, I'll take a shower."

He stood up and walked directly out of the dojo to the corridor.

Looking along the corridor to the kitchen, I happened to see Chiyoko standing in front of the refrigerator drinking barley tea with a heroic posture.

"Huh? Brother, are you done?"

"You are right, we are just talking about business."

"Eh? Really?"

He Ma ignored his sister's words and directly asked Amao, who was brushing his teeth and washing his face in the bathroom: "Is the water hot? I want to take a shower."

"No problem. Only Xiao Qian has soaked in the water I just boiled." Amao said, "I'll get it done right away."

After saying that, he quickly completed the remaining steps, took his toiletries and left the bathroom.

Kazuma took off his coat and walked to the bathroom.

I'm pretty exhausted tonight, I'll talk about the rest tomorrow.

After all, tomorrow is another day.