Lost Narrative Poetry

"Well--!!"

With a low groan, Izumi Shinichi slowly woke up from his coma and opened his eyes.

"...Am I dead?"

There was darkness in front of him, and even when he opened his eyes, he still couldn't see anything. Izumi Shinichi quickly remembered what happened before he fell into coma, and immediately linked it together.

This should be the underworld? Or should I say hell?

Surrounded by darkness, he felt as if he was floating in this strange space. His body was so heavy that it seemed as if he had fallen into the quagmire of gravity and was falling downwards.

Ah, it really is like this!

In such a situation, what reason can I have to survive? Maybe this is the best result. After all, if your parents are dead, then there is no point in living...

But I really can’t reconcile myself to it. I can’t do anything. I can’t even avenge them. If I had known this earlier, I might as well have listened to Ah You’s advice...

At this moment, a deep sense of exhaustion and powerlessness surged through Izumi Shinichi's body, and he even sincerely hated his impulsive and stupid self before——

Completely blinded by anger, regret and other emotions, unable to listen to any advice, he ran directly into fatal danger... As a result, he couldn't do anything and died.

That's right, he couldn't even resist for half a minute before he was crushed by the enemy on the opposite side. It seemed that after his parents were killed, he couldn't wait to find them and give them a head. He didn't know why.

Does the family need to be neat and tidy?

"No, you're not dead yet, Shinichi."

——Just when Izumi Shinichi hated himself for being irrational, a familiar voice suddenly sounded in the darkness.

Immediately afterwards, there was a strange feeling coming from the right hand, as if this part of the limb suddenly came to life and had its own thoughts and will. A rustling sound came, and the activated limbs turned like snakes, twisting their bodies and crawling across his chest...

This should have been a very scary and terrifying thing, but at this moment, Izumi Shinichi felt an unprecedented sense of security that directly overwhelmed him.

"Ah You? You are still here... Oh, it turns out you are dead too. Speaking of which, is this hell?"

Izumi Shinichi couldn't help but burst out in surprise, and subconsciously took a long breath, feeling that no matter what he faced next, he wouldn't be too scared, because he was not alone.

——Even if he went to hell, his right hand would still be by his side.

"..."

"..."

Ah You, who has never shown any sensibility or emotion, seemed to be silent at this moment, as if he was speechless about this, but it might just be Izumi Shinichi's illusion.

"You're not dead, Shinichi. I told you, you're still alive." Ah You's tone didn't change at all, and it still didn't seem to fluctuate much.

"What? I'm not dead?"

Izumi Shinichi was slightly stunned. He probably never thought he would get such an answer. At this time, his eyes had slowly adapted to the dark environment, and he could vaguely see more outlines of the surrounding scenery. .

wait wait wait! What kind of hell is this? This is simply a room!

It was just because the doors and windows were closed, no light came in, and the lights were not turned on, he couldn't see anything when he just woke up, and because he remembered what happened before he fell into coma, he thought he was actually dead.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with this idea. After understanding the situation, normal people probably would not think that they could survive the siege of two parasitic beasts, even if they were conscious.

Not to mention that he was unconscious for an unknown length of time. During this period, anyone could kill him ten or eight times, let alone a parasitic beast that was born as a killing weapon in nature?

"Yes, because those two people... are actually in the same situation as us. They are not complete members of my kind. After figuring out the problem, they did not continue to attack..."

Ah You quickly explained the situation to Quan Shinichi.

"The situation...is the same as ours?" Izumi Shinichi had already sat up, and he was now sure that he was lying on the bed.

"Yes, the host has retained human consciousness, and the parasitic beast has only completed part of the parasitism. It's just that one is parasitic on the human body from the chin to the neck, and the other is strangely parasitic on the host's left hand. .”

Ah You said.

"Left hand..."

Izumi Shinichi also seemed to feel some kind of subtle coincidence, but at this time, it was impossible for him to pay attention to such a trivial issue, but he immediately thought of another more important thing.

He couldn't wait to ask: "In other words, my parents... nothing happened to them?"

He finally remembered that the appearance of the bodies used by the two parasitic beasts he had fought with before was obviously not that of his parents -

But if necessary, the parasitic beast can also change its appearance at any time. And because the situation was so critical at the time, not many seconds had passed from the time he was attacked to the time he was knocked down.

Izumi Shinichi, who did not have rich combat experience, had no time to think at the time, so he only reacted belatedly until now.

"No, they are safe. Although it was said that your mother was indeed attacked by a parasitic beast that was about to transfer its head, but she was saved by one of them in time..."

Ah You also knew that his host was most concerned about this issue right now, so he didn't hold back and started talking directly.

In the dimly lit room, its inorganic voice sounded. The matter is not complicated, and the ins and outs do not require a long explanation, so in just a few minutes, Ah You has already explained the whole thing——

Including the story about Izumi Shinichi’s parents who doubted their son, so they conducted probing behavior.

"..."

"..."

There was a long silence.

Izumi Shinichi didn't doubt that Ah You would lie to him about this kind of thing. He first breathed a long sigh of relief, then felt angry, but couldn't help but feel lucky.

He was angry because he was angry at his parents for deceiving and misleading him, making him think that something really happened. God knows how he got here in the past two days. He was going crazy with anxiety, okay?

I'm glad because my parents didn't really encounter anything unexpected. This is the best result, especially when I heard that my mother was really attacked by a parasitic beast, but was saved by a narrow margin.

As for the reason why his parents lied to him and wanted to see his reaction, Izumi Shinichi actually knew it very well. That is, his actions during this period obviously attracted the attention of people around him. Many people felt that He has changed significantly.

Not to mention the father and mother who are the closest and most concerned about their son.

In fact, just before his parents went on a trip, he had a small conflict with his mother. The main reason was that when he was talking to Ah You in the room, his mother suddenly came in and startled him.

Because his alienated right hand was almost exposed at that time, he couldn't hold back his anger and subconsciously yelled at his mother, asking her to knock on the door the next time she came in.

After that, the parents proposed that they want to go on a trip. Izumi Shinichi's erratic behavior made the mother, who was already worried about her son's recent changes, couldn't help but burst into tears. She even bluntly said that she could not understand the current Izumi Shinichi. Still not her son.

It is precisely because of such problems that it is natural for parents and others to subconsciously doubt their son after discovering the truth about the parasitic beast.

Of course they hope they can trust their son, but they are even more afraid that their son has been replaced by some monster without them knowing it, so they want to take this opportunity to test it out.

"Wait, wait! Ah You, why do you know these things?"

Izumi Shinichi suddenly woke up. When he was in a coma, did his parents come over and explain a lot to him while he was unconscious? He suddenly had a bad premonition.

Just at this time--

"Shinichi? I seemed to hear a voice...are you awake yet?"

The door not far away was suddenly opened, and the light switch was pressed at the same time, and the room suddenly became brighter.

Izumi Shinichi's parents appeared at the door, looking over with nervous and concerned faces. In the center of the room, their high school student son was talking to his alienated right hand.

——The raised right hand metamorphosed into long tentacles, grew huge eyes, and split in the palm to simulate a mouth, which was talking, making this scene look... quite curious.

"..."

"..."

Although they had seen it before, at this moment, Izumi Shinichi's parents could not help but twitch the corners of their mouths out of reflex. After all, no matter how you say it, this scene really has an impact on normal people's outlook on life.

Izumi Shinichi also opened his mouth wide, and his whole body was frozen in place, unable to move.

What should be done in this situation? Please, who can tell him?

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At the same time, in another room of the B\u0026B.

Xia Ran was scrolling through her mobile phone with her head down, looking like an addicted person. The other mobile phone was quietly placed on the edge of the table, because his left hand had finished studying for the day and entered a dormant state.

After all, mental attributes are not shared. Although parasitic beasts can rely on the host's physique to strengthen their physical strength, they still need to bear the mental fatigue themselves, so they also need to rest and sleep.

However, he will not sleep to death. If Xia Ran's state fluctuates significantly, such as an abnormal acceleration of heartbeat, or if the wavelength of an unfamiliar parasitic beast appears within a range of 300 meters, his left hand will immediately notice it and wake up. .

So Xia Ran wasn't worried about safety issues. He was just looking at his phone and thinking about Izumi Shinichi's joining the team.

That guy was considered to have boarded a pirate ship after all. After all, he saved his mother... Although he punched him before, it was okay. Isn't there often such a setting in "Shounen J〇MP"?

Two people fight each other, and finally a friendship is born...

Xia Ran thought this, and naturally ignored the essence of the problem that he was unilaterally beating the other party.