[Your door was not locked, the rain and thunder covered her footsteps, and Madoka walked into your bedroom. With the dim light coming through the gap in the curtains, she saw the outline of a figure on the bed.]
[There was only one person on the bed, and the bathroom light was on. ]
[She climbed onto the bed and touched your face to make sure it was you.]
[Then the person in the bathroom is her mother.]
[She pulled back the quilt, squeezed into your arms, and held your arms against her chest. She still felt it was not enough, and the scenes from the movie she watched during the day were still flashing back in her mind.]
[She sat up, stretched out her fingers to feel your breathing, and then touched your heartbeat, confirming that you were still alive, and breathed a sigh of relief.]
[You can't give her a sense of security when you are asleep, so she gets out of bed and runs to open the bathroom door. She needs the comfort of her awake mother.]
[The short distance from the bed to the bathroom was so dark that the girl's little heart was very nervous. She finally opened the bathroom door, thinking that she could get peace of mind and warmth. She couldn't wait to put her little head on her mother's little chest.]
[At that time, although she noticed something strange in the bathroom, she didn't take it seriously. She called her mother three times and successfully fell into her mother's arms.]
[The first sound, after she opened the bathroom door, was very soft and completely covered by the sound of flushing.]
[She could see clearly that there was clear water in the toilet, no dirt or garbage, and her mother flushed down a puddle of clear water.]
[The second time, after the sound of flushing faded away, her voice was still very soft, she didn’t want to wake you up from your deep sleep.]
[The mother ignored her and walked straight to the sink. She stared at her mother's face, which was a little stiff.]
[The third call was at this moment. Madoka thought her mother was asleep, so this time her voice was louder. She walked to her mother's side.]
[The mother spoke, but not to her, but to her reflection in the mirror.]
[My mother said, ignore those things that make people entangled and welcome a better tomorrow. ]
[After saying this, her mother turned and walked out the door. She stood in front of her mother, and her presence finally entered her mother's field of vision.]
[The mother's dull expression suddenly became lively. The mother squatted down and talked to her. In the second half of the night, she slept in her mother's arms. Except that it was not as soft as Aunt Yimei's, her mother's arms were very good.]
[Later, when recalling this scene, Madoka felt that there were many doubts in it. Why did her mother flush the toilet? Why didn't she hear her call? Why did she say that to the mirror? ]
[She recalled the religious supernatural films she had seen and suspected that this was a ritual performed by her mother.]
[In the days that followed, she conducted ambushes and investigations, and made more than ten observations. In a small number of observations, the mother only came to the toilet, in half of the observations, she was discovered by you or the mother, and in the remaining small number of observations, she saw the mother doing the same thing.]
[She was excited about this. She was sure that her mother was not a mortal. This was strong evidence that she was the daughter of destiny! ]
[She has kept this strange thing a secret, and has not told anyone else, nor you.]
[She used these oddities as background stories, weaving amazing settings with dream fantasies to perfect the evidence of her natural extraordinaryness.]
[This day, the day after she graduated from elementary school, she was lying on the bed fantasizing. She had fantasized about you, Maixia, Liuli, Xiaojiu, Shiori, Kazumi and Xinai countless times, and the settings about you were so detailed that there was no room for addition. ]
[She then stole a photo of her grandmother from the master bedroom. She thought it was time to start with the grandparents on both sides.]
[First, my grandmother.]
[Although the grandmother is not bad, she has been seen too many times and has lost her mystery. The grandmother who has never been seen is more suitable as the material for fantasy.]
[She was drinking Coke while staring at the pictures on the table. Her brain was working fast. Her poor grades were not due to laziness of her brain, but because she put most of her energy into this aspect.]
[The evidence is that she has learned Chinese characters and English very well, because Chinese characters and letters are very handsome. ]
[She thought that her mother loved her grandmother but didn't know about her because her grandmother, as an Onmyoji who could compete with Ashiya Doman, had many hidden enemies.]
[For her daughter’s safety, the grandmother had to bear the pain of not meeting her daughter. The identity of an English teacher was just a cover to explain why she had no students coming to pay their respects. She had never been to school! ]
[After linking some facts together to form a rough framework, Madoka began to fill in the details. When she thought of something happy, she slapped the desk with pride. ]
[She knocked the cup over.]
[The remaining Coke flows on the photo, black bubbles cover the grandmother's face and the starry sky above, making a subtle sizzling sound.]
[She didn't realize it in time, she was still immersed in the joy of delusion until there was a knock on her door.]
[She hurriedly wiped the Coke off the photo with a tissue, but it was too late. The pigment had seeped into the photo, and her grandmother's fair face turned brown. Because it was an old photo, it was not sealed with a plastic protective cover.]
[The door was pushed open, and she instinctively covered the photo and looked back.]
[The person who came in from outside was the person she least wanted to see at the moment. ]
[The mother put down the plate of pineapple and asked her what was wrong.]
[She nervously removes her hand, revealing the destroyed photo of her grandmother.]
[There was no blame, no sadness, no comforting with a heart-breaking pain or a fake indifferent smile. The mother picked up the photo with a normal look. There was no strangeness in her eyes when she looked at the photo, as if the brown mark on the photo did not exist.]
[My mother talked about her childhood, saying that she always deliberately said that the photos of her grandparents were blank. My mother's words were cheerful and her expression was happy.]
[No one can pretend to be cheerful or happy in this situation. This is a very inappropriate and rude joke.]
[Madoka couldn't figure out what happened to her mother. She felt scared. Just because she liked to fantasize didn't mean she really wanted her fantasies to become reality.]
The simulated text from Mando's perspective ended here, and the third simulated text began to appear. Minami Yuki paused the simulation and recalled the information revealed from Mando's perspective.
He had many doubts and guesses. He wanted to lie on the bed, drink a can of Coke or a can of Monster, clear his mind and think slowly.
He didn't do so because he knew there was no point in doing so. The third block of simulated text was his perspective, and all the mysteries would be solved there without him having to use his brain. He might even come up with the wrong answer after thinking for a long time.
He looked directly at the simulation interface.
[You finally failed to keep the secret. ]
[Maika scared Mando, her daughter who loves to use dark words, watch ghost movies, and loves supernatural events and urban legends. She is actually a timid child. She likes to fantasize, but she never wants her fantasies to shine into reality. She just wants to be a little princess loved by everyone. She doesn't want to fight against evil forces, doesn't want to be stabbed in the chest by a sword, and doesn't want to die and be resurrected.]
[If it were just a photo, things wouldn't be so bad, but Manfuyu has accumulated too many doubts in her life over the past ten years.]
[She told Mayu and Shiori about this.]
[You look back on your life over the past decade and sigh.]
[My daughter likes photos, she likes interesting or beautiful photos, whether they are landscapes or people.]
[This is your discovery. You told Wuxia about it. Now you wonder if it would be better if you didn’t tell your wife.]
[You know you are deceiving yourself. Humans are such wonderful creatures that we always want to draw conclusions from our failures and always want to find the reasons. You are the same.]
[Even if you didn't tell your wife, the photos would have been exposed in the future. They couldn't help but look through the family albums. If you really want to find a reason, then the reason is that you didn't destroy those photos.]
[Knowing her daughter's preferences, Wuxia quickly conducted an experiment using the family album. She took out all the photos, including those of your non-existent father-in-law and mother-in-law.]
[The photos were blank.]
[Your daughter has no interest in these blank photos. Wuxia thinks she doesn't like her grandparents. You suspect your daughter can see the blankness in the photos, but you don't take it seriously. You think your daughter just hasn't seen the video that hypnotizes Wuxia yet.]
[When she's older, she'll see the videos on a small TV in the pediatric hospital or on a projection screen in the kindergarten, and then she'll be able to 'see' her grandparents in the photos.]
[Your expectation is wrong.]
[After her daughter started kindergarten, Wuxia showed her the photo, but her answer was still blank.]
[You have to believe that my daughter is immune to Wu Xia's hypnosis.]
[This is not surprising. You are immune to it. Wuxia is also somewhat resistant to her own hypnosis. Zhendong, who has your and Wuxia's blood flowing in his veins, is certainly different.]
[You were prepared, but in order to prevent Maixia from getting suspicious, you waited for a while until Maixia and Manfuyu's memories were blurred, and then replaced the photo.]
[In the new photo, you reproduced your father-in-law and mother-in-law based on Wuxia's description. ]
[The strange thing is that Wu Xia's setting of your father-in-law and mother-in-law's life is very vague, but the setting of their appearance is very detailed. This setting cannot be figured out from her hypnosis video, and can only be explored from her mouth.]
[You are good at drawing and have learned profiling. You drew the appearance of your father-in-law and mother-in-law in every photo. It took you a long time to find two replacements with similar looks, body shapes, and temperaments.]
[You invite teachers from the drama academy to give them special training, dress them up like the ones in the photos, and take photos. Portraits are easy to handle, but landscape photos and family portraits are difficult.]
[Landscape photos need the same scenery. There are three photos of scenery but you can't find the location. You ask Wuxia, but she doesn't know either.]
[Luckily you have a Hollywood prop master, and you created a consistent scenery. The scenery photo was successfully solved.]
[The rest is the family portrait, and Wuxia needs to be in the family portrait, but where in the world can you find a girl as beautiful as Wuxia? And you have to look for girls of different ages. ]
[Wuxia doesn't have any photos of her childhood, so you don't have the materials to use for Photoshop. Fortunately, you still have Liuli and Xiaojiu. You can ask the most skilled experts to find the usable parts from Liuli and Xiaojiu's childhood photos, and then perform detailed photo editing to make their temperament more like Wuxia.]
[It took a lot of time to complete all this, but these are not the most important things.]
[These are just to allow people who see the photos to directly observe the faces of your father-in-law and mother-in-law, so that Mafuyu who can see them will think that they are looking at photos of their grandparents. ]
[You also need to make your wife, Wuxia, think that the photos are of her parents. No matter how good the disguise is, it will be flawed in front of acquaintances, not to mention that Wuxia's retelling is bound to have errors. Fortunately, Wuxia is hypnotizing herself, you just need to replace the blank photo with a new one, and Wuxia will fill in the blanks in her mind.]
[This is not an easy thing. You once tried to mix a blank photo with the photos of your grandparents and showed it to Wuxia. Wuxia recognized her blank photo at first sight. She didn’t make any mistakes.]
[What kind of mechanism is there on those blank photos that Wu Xia can see at a glance? ]
The answer is size.
[The sizes of those blank photos are different from those on the market. In fact, each hand-cut photo is slightly different according to the cutting method. Wu Xia used this to hypnotize herself.]
[It’s not that the human eye can’t distinguish these tiny differences, it’s just that the human brain can’t analyze the images transmitted by the human eye so minutely. Wu Xia’s hypnosis doesn’t use the brain in the general sense, but also the subconscious mind. The combination of the two makes these differences very obvious and can be seen and recognized at once.]
[You used the equipment in the laboratory to create a photo of the same size, and Wuxia was indeed unable to recognize it.]
[After Manfuyu started elementary school, you replaced all the photos of your father-in-law and mother-in-law. So, from Maika's perspective, the middle school girl who always said it was blank finally stopped making stubborn jokes. From Manfuyu's perspective, the photos that looked blank before suddenly had color.]
[You survived this crisis safely.]
[In the middle of this crisis, something happened that surprised you, but you fooled yourself into thinking it was a lie.]
[That was after Manfuyu started kindergarten.]
[You learned from the homeroom teacher, Manfuyu, that the girl is very popular in the class, and even the most mischievous children will listen to her.]
[You immediately think of Wu Xia's hypnotic ability.]
[Before my daughter was at home, you and Wuxia were the ones who faced her most. Of course, you were not hypnotized by her, so you didn't realize this.]
[You feel panicked. Wuxia's hypnotic ability is too terrifying. This ability is enough to disrupt the order of the world. You don't have the confidence to train Zhendong into a naive little fool like Wuxia. The most you can do is to prevent Zhendong from taking the path of enslaving others.]
[With a sharp weapon in his heart, the desire to kill arises naturally. Except for Wu Xia, who else with such ability would not stir up a storm? For example, to satisfy his own private desires - marrying eight or ten wives for his hardworking old father, or to realize his great wish - uniting the proletariat of the world. ]
[You immediately conducted a survey, and the results made you wonder if you also have chuunibyou. ]
[Mafuyu's ability is very weak. Her sincere requests will make it difficult for others to refuse. It's just difficult to refuse. A strong-willed adult can still refuse under precautions. If it involves something too important, a weak-willed adult can also easily refuse, such as asking a rich man to transfer all his assets to ordinary people. ]
[Such a girl is simply incapable of accomplishing the great feat you imagine. ]
You are a little disappointed.
[You lied to your daughter, saying that cute kids' requests are always hard to refuse. You wanted to use this lie to prolong the time it takes for your daughter to realize her abilities. You really just wanted to prolong the time so that the girl's worldview would be more mature. You didn't expect that Manfuyu didn't realize this until she graduated from elementary school.]
[She even felt that Shiori, who was usually cold to her but doted on her infinitely after she begged hard, was a tsundere! ]
[You marvel at the strength of Wuxia's genes. You think that with Wuxia's help, it might not be difficult to raise a naive little fool daughter.]
[By the way, Shiori knew that she was hypnotized by Mafuyu, and you told her.]
[You don't know whether this is because Shiori's will is too weak or Shiori is too relaxed when facing Mafuyu. ]
[The former is definitely not true. Shiori is a woman who can sit on the prime minister's seat. How could she not have a strong will? She is still young, and she is not at the stage where she would fall down while walking up the stairs. The latter is somewhat possible, but not very likely.]
[You sometimes think that maybe Mafuyu is right, Shiori is indeed a tsundere. ]
[You also told Shiori about Maixia. ]
(End of this chapter)