I teach kendo in Tokyo

——Watanabe could actually find something wrong with the dream?

Kazuma turned to look at Tamamo.

Tamamo: "Watanabe-kun who can create self-awareness in dreams has a strong heart."

Kazuma translated it in his heart: Watanabe-kun is a person with words.

Tamamo glared at Akanishi: "Keep talking, don't stop."

Akashi bit his lip and continued: "Watanabe started to become nagging, and even went to see a psychiatrist.

"Psychiatrists are very expensive these days. Even though Watanabe's family has very little money to support him in Meiji University, he still has to go.

"Then he even intensified his efforts to collect various mysterious products. He visited all the shrines in Tokyo and asked for all the amulets he could. He even asked for a talisman to protect the childbirth!"

Kazuma: "Maybe Watanabe just wants to experience giving birth? You see, if a man doesn't change his gender, one thing he will never be able to experience is giving birth."

——Wait a minute, what am I doing? Someone is about to talk, why should I interrupt her?

Kazuma covered his mouth.

——What the hell, Shantaro was the same at that time. Although he usually likes to think divergently and talk nonsense, this is too annoying, right?

Tamamo: "Don't worry, this is a dream. In a dream, even a human with a strong soul cannot completely suppress the self with his own self. Your true self will be revealed naturally."

Kazuma: "Isn't the ego the lowest structure of human personality? Am I essentially a heartless crosstalk actor?"

No, I don’t have an entry for a crosstalk actor——

Kazuma was suddenly not sure. He did have entries full of comedic effects. For example, the entry "Parkour like Jack Chen" was very comedic from the entry itself to the description to the actual effect.

Tamamo patted Kazuma and said, "Don't be stupid, the biggest difference between humans and animals is that they can use morality, culture and other things to suppress instincts.

"Your ego is the essence of your soul, and of course its influence is everywhere."

Kazuma: "What about the superego? My word...soul, does not include the superego?"

I almost said the keyword "entry".

Tamamo: "I think so. The power shown by strong human beings is the so-called superego."

Kazuma: "The superego is a power?"

"Almost... can it be roughly understood as the force?"

Kazuma: "Isn't the essence of the Force lightning?"

After saying that, Kazuma knew something was wrong, because now in 1981, Star Wars has just filmed The Empire Strikes Back, and it won’t be until the third Jedi Strikes Back that people will see Force lightning for the first time.

He glanced at Tamamo anxiously, thinking about how to round it, but Tamamo didn't notice the problem at all.

"The topic is beside the point," she said. "In short, it's not your fault that you made this joke. Unless you are strong enough to be completely self-directed in dreams in the future, your true self will still leak out."

Kazuma: "That road may be more... I see."

For some reason, his first sentence came out with the accent of the Imperial Army in the anti-Japanese drama. His accent sounded like that of a colonel.

So he quickly corrected his pronunciation and said the same thing again.

Oh my god, dreams are so dangerous. If you accidentally say "fuck" or "fuck" in Chinese, it will be hard to explain.

After this episode, Kazuma looked at Akanishi again.

Seeing that Kazuma and Tamamo's attention turned to him again, Akanishi said:

"Because Watanabe read a lot of psychology books during that time, so I read a lot in order to have something to talk about with him... Id, ego, superego, is this Freud?

"Ina, Inari Daimyojin is so knowledgeable. He is also knowledgeable in modern psychology... Are you really a god?"

Tamamo smiled and said: "You don't believe it? Then let me show you? In the past, I could extract the memory when your soul was intact without leaving any sequelae.

"Now, with the mysterious decline, I can only extract memories from the fragmented soul. So I have to crush your soul first, Kazuma!"

Kazuma didn't react. He was waiting for Tamamo to show off her magical power and overwhelm Akanishi. He suddenly heard his name and was a little confused.

"Uh, eh? Shall I blast you?"

"Of course, if you blast it into smaller pieces, it will be easier to retrieve the memory."

Kazuma raised his hand to draw the sword, but hesitated in the middle and looked at Tamamo: "If I continue to attack, will I be unable to fight? Will she become a vegetative state? How about we talk about it tomorrow? She will sleep with everyone now. In our house.

"She turned into a vegetative state for no reason. Even if the police come to investigate and confirm that we are innocent, others will not think that we are innocent."

Akani shouted: "No! Don't do it!"

She curled up and assumed a posture of self-protection.

It seems Kazuma's previous "electric shock" to her left a deep impression on her.

Tamamo probably also considered that Kazuma had actually hurt her by beating her, so it would be more effective for Kazuma to threaten her.

Akanishi maintained a curled up posture, holding his head with his hands, and continued: "Watanabe seemed to have grasped something after reading a large number of books on psychology, mysticism, and folklore.

"One day when I came to the activity room..."

"Wait a minute!" Kazuma used the interruption skill again, "Is this going to be college or high school one day?"

Hey, it’s not a gag?

I am indeed a serious (future) police detective, not a comedian.

Akanishi: "It was during my college days. One day in June of my freshman year, I remember it was raining continuously."

Tamamo: "The rain in May is as early as the Mogami River (summer rains gather together in the Mogami River)."

"What are you doing?" Kazuma complained immediately and patted Tamamo on the shoulder, "Don't read haiku just because it's the rainy season!"

Sure enough, my true self is a cross talk actor!

Damn it, I'm so proud of it.

Akani glared at the two of them: "You...could it be that I played too late with you tonight and was influenced by you, leading to hallucinations?"

Kazuma actually quite understands Akanishi's current thoughts.

After all, all of his disciples are keen on turning conversations into cartoons. But now we can't let Akashi regard all this as an illusion.

Kazuma: "If you have any doubts, why don't you poke me in the head with something like your nose?"

Akashi shivered and said, "No, no need."

She sighed and continued the interrupted topic: "June, May rain... I mean it rained lightly that day!

"I chose a fashion-related course that day. Watanabe didn't choose this one. Although Oda did, he stopped coming after one session. Anyway, I finished class alone that day and rushed to the activity room.

"Then I saw Watanabe lying on the table and falling asleep. He was always reading those days, and he wanted to fall asleep again. Being in a dream not only consumed my physical strength, but also Watanabe's.

"I have observed that the day after I fell asleep, Watanabe was always very tired, as if he had stayed up all night.

"That day happened to be the day after I fell asleep, so it's not surprising that Watanabe would lie down on the table and fall asleep."

Kazuma interrupted again: "According to you, he can't sleep one day a week? Has this situation continued for three years? What have you done, stupid woman. Watanabe didn't die from overwork, that's because he had a hard life. "

Akanishi frowned: "A man should have this kind of talent, right? And I always choose Saturdays, so he can sleep in on Sundays! Look at the men who go to work, don't they work overtime for a living? It's not much harder than this. Already?"

Kazuma: "People work overtime because the company pays wages and provides pension. Do you pay Watanabe a salary? Do you help him provide for him?"

"You make a person mentally depressed. If something goes wrong, he won't be able to work in the future, and he can't afford insurance and will have to be a homeless person. What will you do?"

Japan adopts compulsory universal insurance. As long as you register your address with the government, you have to pay regardless of your income. The reason why many Japanese people do not go home and choose to become homeless is because their income is unstable and they cannot afford this. money.

Without a fixed address, the person does not exist as far as the government is concerned, and naturally there is no way to collect insurance premiums.

Many "tramps" in Japan actually have normal jobs, and some even work in high-paying professions like lawyers and live in shipping containers - they just don't want to afford the money.

Akanishi couldn't refute Kazuma's question.

Tamamo came out to smooth things over: "This is not important anymore. Watanabe-kun has left, and he no longer has to worry about these things. Continue, what happened that afternoon?"

Akanishi: "That day I saw Watanabe lying on the table, sleeping soundly, so I wanted to get some clothes to cover him. After all, it was quite cold that day."

During the rainy season, although it is already the time to change into summer clothes, it will still feel chilly when it rains and the wind blows.

The really hot months in Japan are only the three months of July, August, and September.

"When I walked over with my clothes, I found Shigeru Mizuki's Japanese Yokai Illustrated Book on his desk, and I happened to turn to the page about the Dream-Eating Tapir."

Kazuma: "He has already noticed it..."

Tamamo: "It's probably the image I saw with my eyes in my sleep, which vaguely remains in my consciousness. This Watanabe-kun will probably return to himself in his dreams soon."

Akanishi nodded lightly: "Yes. I was very scared that day, worried that Watanabe had discovered that I was a half-demon, so that night, I broke the rules I had made for three years and did not wait for the week's 'cooling down' to end. He entered Watanabe's dream again.

"In the beginning, everything was the same as the day before, without any abnormalities. I was very careful not to show my original appearance, and prepared to use a simple conversation to try to trick Watanabe into saying something.

"People in dreams are easily tricked, just like taking truth serum."

Kazuma: "I want to correct you. There is no real truth serum in this world, only things that can have similar effects. In addition, everyone agrees that the most powerful truth serum is vodka."

Akanishi: "Eh? Is that so?"

"Of course. If there is Veritaserum, the Japanese police like to torture and extract confessions and then prosecute them with confessions. Wouldn't it be over if they just use Veritaserum?"

Akanishi was stunned: "Eh? This...Eh? Do Japanese police often torture to extract confessions?"

Only then did Kazuma realize that he had regarded the knowledge of his previous life as belonging to this life. Documentaries exposing the unjust, false and wrongful convictions caused by torture in Japan were only gradually released in the second half of the 1990s.

The Japanese police in this era are still very civilized at least in publicity.

Kazuma accidentally punctured the window paper.

Fortunately, it was in a dream.

Kazuma: "Humph, you don't know, do you? I know very well, because I know many people in the criminal police world, the legal world, and even the Yakuza."

Tamamo: "So, what happened when you fell asleep that day?"

"That day, I was going to have a chat with Watanabe - well, according to what you just said, I was probably going to have a chat with Watanabe's true self? In short, just a chat."

Tamamo: "Let's talk, what next?"

Akanishi took a deep breath: "Then... Watanabe suddenly called me Akanishi-san."

"In the dream, I always asked him to call me Feng."

Kazuma: "It turns out you don't even have a relationship with each other by calling each other's names?"

"It's already done!" Akani shouted anxiously, and then his voice dropped suddenly, becoming like a whimper, "Already...yes, I was so happy that day when my name was called..."

Kazuma: "Which day? College or high school? Girls like to pay attention to details. On such an important day, they will definitely remember the specific date!"

Of course, Mikako is an exception. Monkeys don't pay attention to details.

Akanishi: "College days, April 17, 1980."

Tamamo: "You're lying! The evidence is that you haven't said his name until now! In your sleep, your true self will show up beyond the confinement of your own self. You don't call his name at all now because your true self is very clear. , you haven’t reached that stage yet!”

Akanishi let out a cry of pain, as if Tamamo's words turned into a pen and a spear, piercing her heart.

The moment Kazuma had this idea, the dream changed. A huge Longinus gun flew from the sky and went straight to Akanishi's chest.

As soon as he saw this scene, Kazuma knew that he had done it, so he transformed into a purple giant and caught the Longinus Spear, saving Akanishi from being impaled.

Tamamo breathed a long sigh of relief: "Thankfully you reacted quickly. Be careful, this is a dream. You are the strongest among the three of us, and your thoughts will materialize at any time."

Kazuma also wiped the sweat from his forehead - and then he found out that it was LCL - he didn't need to worry about these details.

Akanishi looked shocked: "This...is this the power of humans? I thought the monsters were the stronger one."

"Once upon a time, monsters were the more powerful one." Tamamo said, without any trace of nostalgia in her tone. "Okay, you can continue. What did Watanabe do in the dream at that time?"

Akanishi was silent for a few seconds and sighed: "In the dream, I kept asking him to call me Kaede. I thought that if he persisted, it would have an impact on reality. But Watanabe suddenly called me Akanishi - this time it was true! Don’t stab me with that terrible gun again!”

Kazuma glanced at the Longinus gun in his hand. Well, this gun looks a bit fierce.

Mainly big.

Akanishi continued: "I was so frightened that I immediately left the dreamland, and then cried in bed all night. My only support was gone, and Watanabe was about to... run away from me."

Kazuma: "Then what?"

Akanishi suddenly stopped sobbing, and his expression seemed to be a different person: "Then I decided to let Watanabe shut up forever. This way at least he won't tell anyone that I can enter other people's dreams."

As soon as he finished speaking, everything in front of Kazuma's eyes cracked like broken glass.

On the broken "glass", Kazuma saw the reflection of some fantasy creature.

The shape that resembles a pig with an elephant trunk is the dream-eating tapir.

Tamamo: "Yeah, yeah, daze"