Ryougi Shiki fell silent in response to Kuroto Mikiya's words, and she finally spoke:
"Kurogiri, you really haven't changed. I told you before that Shiki hates your personality the most."
After saying that, she hung up the phone.
…
The TV used long conversations and details to depict the communication between Ryougi Shiki and Kuroto Mikiya. Although the dialogue was very simple, everyone could feel the entanglement and pain experienced by each of the two people.
However, some people cannot understand why Ryougi Shiki would do such a thing. After all, compared to Shirajun Rio's murderous personality that was born out of her awakening origin, Ryougi Shiki's murderous impulse appeared too sudden in a sense.
Although the people in the TV tavern could not get answers to these questions, the magicians of the Imperial Magic Academy all looked at Durin in the crowd.
Noticing the gazes of these people, Du Lin knew he should give an explanation and finally said:
"To put it simply, it seems that a special dual personality will be born in the Ryougi Shiki family, and one of the two individuals in the body will often have a very strong urge to kill, and will constantly want to kill everyone around them. For this reason, the heirs of the Ryougi family's bloodline have to constantly kill the other self in their body in order to suppress the urge to kill in their body."
"Because this killing behavior seems to be very close to the real killing behavior, after constantly killing another self, the main personality of the dual personality will easily become addicted to killing itself and cannot get rid of it. When Ryougi Shiki was young, she was able to suppress her killing impulse because of the advice of her grandfather. But after Ryougi Shiki died, she lost her self-positioning for a while, so the killing impulse that she could suppress before was completely out of control, and she could not even bear the ordinary daily life of not being able to kill others."
After hearing Durin's explanation, the magicians around him nodded.
Geblun nodded and sighed:
"I see. A dual personality can actually have this kind of trait. I really want to find a similar case in reality and study it carefully. Maybe I can make a breakthrough in my current research field."
"Well, this is just a fictional story. Don't take it seriously."
Seeing that Geblun seemed to be really interested in the dual personality, Du Lin quickly spoke up to try to stop him.
Chris on the side said with a smile:
"So, Senior Geblun, aren't you more like a person with a split personality? You are so serious and focused when doing research, but you become so immature and stupid when it comes to normal times."
"Hey, what are you talking about, assistant? Are you going to turn the tables?"
Seeing the two people seeming to be about to quarrel as usual, Du Lin immediately turned his head away, obviously too lazy to pay attention to the fight between these two guys who actually have a good relationship, and focused his attention on the big TV in the distance.
Chapter 324: The Final Episode of "The Realm of Kara" is Released! (XI)
Chapter 324
On the TV screen, the murder investigation continued.
Kuroto Mikiya came to Aozaki Touko's office and told her about Shirajun Rio.
And Aozaki Orange's final conclusion is:
"Since the origin awakening happened four years ago, then there is no hope for Shirazumi Rio. He has become something completely different."
Hearing what Aozaki Touko said, Kuroto Kiriya was slightly surprised, but he still did not give up and said:
"Is there really no other solution?"
"Of course, because Shirozumi Rio has already awakened the origin, the directionality of the origin accumulated from the beginning of existence to the present. It is impossible for Shirozumi Rio, who has less than seventeen years of directionality, to fight it. He can only keep repeating his impulses."
"It must be the magician who caused this! If it was just you, it wouldn't have happened—"
"Is that so? Magic that awakens the origin cannot be done by the caster alone. Only when the origin owner is aware of it can it be awakened. Shirasumi Rio made the choice of her own will, so it is foolish to think that she is the Shirasumi Rio you know. Shirasumi Rio is just deceiving you and trying to gain your sympathy."
"In the end, Miss Orange still can't help Senior Bai Chun?"
"Really, Kurogiri, you're such a pushover. The other party is a murderer. It's better to leave that kind of thing to Shiki. Shiki is tracking down the murderer because he wants to solve the incident four years ago, right?"
However, Kuroto Kirei couldn't simply confirm what Aozaki Touko said.
For this reason, he couldn't help but ask:
"Ms. Orange, what is the reason why humans would kill humans?"
"Well, generally speaking, the amount of emotion that humans can bear is fixed. Some people have a large capacity, and some have a small capacity. Whether it's love or hatred, when that emotion exceeds one's capacity, the excess will turn into pain, and then one will become unable to tolerate the other person's existence. What should one do when one can't tolerate it? One can only eliminate it in some way."
"Is the amount of emotion unbearable? But aren't there people who kill people who have nothing to do with them?"
"That's not murder, it's stabbing. Only when a person compares his dignity with his past and makes one of them disappear, it is called murder, and he bears the meaning and sin of murder. Stabbing is different. Although the person being killed is a human, the murderer has no dignity as a human being, and there is no meaning and sin afterwards. Like an accident, the murderer will not bear the sin for it, right?"
"What is the killer?"
"Isn't that what it means literally? Because it's a murderous ghost, it's like a natural disaster. Those who are involved can only blame themselves for their bad luck."
"I see, so..."
For a moment, Kuroto Kirei recalled what Ryougi Shiki had once told him.
"A person can only kill one person in his lifetime. This is the agreement between my grandfather and me."
All of a sudden, realizing the fundamental difference in Ryougi Shiki's murder this time, Kuroto Kirei immediately stood up and left the office.
He must not let Ryougi Shiki, who was unwilling to kill, become a murderer. This was his only thought at this moment!
After Kuroto Kiriya left, Aozaki Touko looked at the familiar scene around her and muttered to herself:
"Have you stayed in one place for too long? Although I do miss it a little, it's time to leave."
…
The conversation between Kuroto Kiriya and Aozaki Touko on TV left the audience confused for a moment.
After all, whether it is the concept of origin or the difference between killing and slaughter, it is a little too incomprehensible for ordinary people in this world.
Of course, people like General Wilhelm who have been on the battlefield can actually understand these concepts very well.
Moreover, having personally experienced the battlefield, he truly understood how desperate and confused a person would be when he indulged in meaningless killing.
Fortunately, the Empire has never been a country that advocates expansion, and the battles fought by the human empire's army have always been battles to defend the country.
This kind of war with positive meaning will not let soldiers fall into a spiral of confusion and killing. Instead, it will give soldiers positive motivation and will not let soldiers degenerate into murderers because of too much meaningless killing.
This is also the reason why the imperial army has always been able to maintain strong combat capabilities.
But in the final analysis, General Wilhelm also knew very well that killing and slaughtering were often just a matter of thought. Only by controlling one's desires with one's will from beginning to end and wielding the weapons in one's hands with faith and courage could one always maintain one's self and keep the human heart forever.
…
Compared to ordinary people who are more concerned about the difference between killing and slaughter, the magicians of the Imperial Magic Academy are naturally more concerned about the so-called origin.
Although this concept has been discussed dozens of times, after Aozaki Touko described how human will could not resist the will of origin, the magicians once again started to discuss this issue.
"What exactly is origin? If everyone is given instructions at birth, is this world real, or is it just a bunch of illusory data made up of instructions?"
"This... According to reason, people do have certain tendencies, but I think this tendency should be reversible, or at least can be suppressed by human reason. As for the origin of this in "The World of Kara", I think it may be some kind of enhanced psychological suggestion, which amplifies a certain psychology of a person and thus changes his personality."
"Maybe, but stories are just stories. In the real world, whether something like origin exists is still unknown."
"But to be honest, I really want to know how humans were born. If the origin determines the source of humans, then where does the source of humans come from? It can't be that when the gods created humans, they also gave each person's genes a label, right?"
"This... You mean that humans may have appeared naturally?"
"Well, don't let the people in the church hear this. If those lunatics knew you said this, they would definitely drag you straight to the stake."
"… "
The magicians were discussing this.
Although it is only very superficial, the magician who prioritizes rationality has gradually realized the fundamental question about the origin of mankind.
After all, once we get away from the omnipotent theology, once we think about many things rationally, we will suddenly discover the vastness of the world and the insignificance of human beings themselves.
Chapter 325: The Final Episode of "The World of Kara" is Released! (XII)
Chapter 325
As the audience was discussing, the picture on TV changed again.
Ryougi Shiki came to a warehouse full of plants, and Shirajun Rio had been waiting here for a long time.
There was no unnecessary communication between the two of them, and they attacked each other fiercely as soon as they met.
In this thick darkness, neither Ryougi Shiki nor Shirajun Rio hesitated at all, and every move was aimed at the opponent's fatal spot.
However, Ryougi Shiki, who possessed the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, was clearly more advantageous in this regard. After a round of fighting, she put the dagger on the opponent's neck.
"Let's do it."
Facing the pair of extremely beautiful eyes in front of him, Bai Junliu fell into madness and shouted loudly:
"Kill me and return to your true self."
Just as Ryougi Shiki's dagger was about to pierce the man's heart, at this moment, the girl's movements suddenly stopped.
In Ryougi Shiki's memories, the words of Kuroto Mikiya flashed through her mind.
"If you kill the senior, I will never forgive you."
All of a sudden, a lot of memories flooded into her mind. Ryougi Shiki just watched Shirajun Rio knock her down without fighting back from beginning to end.
…
It can be said that Ryougi Shiki's defeat was unexpected to all the audience. After all, no matter how you look at it, Shiratsune Rio was obviously not her opponent. But in the end, Ryougi Shiki gave up the belief in fighting just because of a word from Kuroto Kiriya.
This scene left all the audience stunned and unable to understand what was happening on TV.
"Why? Why did Ryougi Shiki stop? She didn't hesitate at all when she killed Mujo Kirie and Araya Soren in the past. Why would she show mercy to a murderer now?"
"This... Is it because Wujo Kirie and Araya Soren can't be considered human? After all, one of them is a ghost, and the other is a concept that has turned into an origin. Even if they are killed, it is just erasing a phenomenon, which cannot be considered murder."
"I don't understand, but to be honest, it's really unpleasant."
"Hey, won't "Kara no Kyoukai" have a bad ending like "Fate Zero"? No, I don't want to see anything happen to Ryougi Shiki and Kuroto Mikiya."
"Please, director, be a human being."
"… "
For a moment, the audience's voices rose and fell.
All the audience were dissatisfied with Ryougi Shiki's unwillingness to take action against Shiraki Junrio, but even so, people still watched it patiently, hoping that the subsequent plot would give a reasonable explanation and a hopeful ending.
…
The TV's perspective switched and returned to Ryougi Shiki's memory.
On that rainy night four years ago, TV told this story from Ryougi Shiki's perspective for the first time.
But soon, the audience discovered that the dominant personality of Ryougi Shiki at that time was not Shiki, but Ryougi Ori.
"He is the dream of me and my other self, a dream that is painful and impossible to achieve."
"It's painful to be with him because he always makes me see things that I can't get, which makes me so unstable that I want to kill..."
"Kill him!"
"But I can't do it because he is our dream."
"In that case, I can only disappear myself."
With this thought in mind, Zhi leaped into the darkness and sacrificed himself.
And all the memories about Ryougi Ori, along with the magic of the Book of False God, were injected into the heart of Ryougi Shiki, who should have forgotten these memories.
Now Ryougi Shiki has realized that Ryougi Ori chose to sacrifice herself so that she and Ryougi Shiki's dream could continue.
At the same time, she had another long dream.
It was the cold Ryougi household. Holding the hand of his father, the young him went to the room where his grandfather was.
Due to the confusion caused by split personality, my grandfather was locked in this room for many years and could not move freely.
Before his grandfather died, he suddenly found Ryougi Shiki and told her:
"Everyone can only kill one person in their lifetime."
"is that so?"
At only five years old, Ryougi Shiki could not understand the meaning of these words.
"Yes, this is our only chance to die."
"For yourself?"
"That's right. Everyone can only bear the value of one person's life in their lifetime. Because life is equal, even if it is your own life, it is not something you own. If you cannot bear it, you will not welcome the death that belongs to humans."
"So, what about Grandpa?"
"Grandpa is no longer alive. I have killed many people. Because I have endured the death of those people, I can no longer endure my own death. Grandpa's death will lead to an empty place without anyone to endure it. That is a very lonely thing."