.December 13th, noon, Tianyi’s bookstore.
A man in a leather jacket with an unshaven beard pushed the door open and came in.
He walked straight to the boss's desk and said: "You are under arrest."
Tianyi didn't read a book that day, he just sat there and drank coffee leisurely, as if he had been waiting for this moment.
"Officer Whalebird, right? It's been a long time."
Whalebird replied: "Humph, did you know I would come?"
"Of course I know." Tianyi held his cheek with one hand, calmly.
"Since you knew I was coming, but didn't run away beforehand, it means you either have the consciousness to confess your crime, or you are a complete lunatic."
"I'm not crazy, the world is crazy."
"It's up to you." Whale Bird took out a pair of handcuffs and threw them on the table: "Do you want to put them on yourself or do you want me to do it?"
"Do you have an arrest warrant?" Tianyi was completely unmoved.
"Hahahaha..." Whale Bird couldn't help laughing: "A person like you actually talked to me about legal procedures?"
Tianyi did not laugh: "It turns out that you also know that your behavior is illegal."
Whale Bird instantly put away his smile, took out his gun from his holster and pointed it at Tianyi's forehead: "This is my law!"
Tianyi slumped in his chair and applauded him calmly: "No, this is not law, but justice." He finally smiled: "Law is just a tool, written on paper, serving the powerful. It can be used, modified, and abolished at any time; but justice means much more than that."
Whale Bird's hand holding the gun remained firm: "Then please put on the handcuffs before your head is blown off by justice, and accept the punishment of the law."
"I haven't finished speaking yet." Tianyi stood up.
The whale bird took half a step back alertly, and the muzzle of the gun followed Tianyi's movements and pointed at its head without any deviation.
Tianyi walked slowly towards the bookshelf next to him: "But I have to say that justice is the thing that disgusts me the most. It is just an illusion of human beings." He pointed at the whale bird: "You adhere to a set of concepts of right and wrong, good and evil derived from a broad set of moral ethics, use the word 'justice' to hypnotize yourself, turn it into belief, and make yourself believe that everything you do, every action The choices are all correct.
To put it bluntly, this is just a high-level hypocrisy. "
He took down four black books from the bookshelf and put them on the table. Then he walked to the corner of the room and squatted down to open a cabinet.
"For a lion, it is justice to prey on an antelope, otherwise it and its young will starve to death; for an antelope, it is also justice to escape from the lion's prey, otherwise it will be eaten. In this case, justice is self-righteous Is it contradictory? No, what they follow is the same. Animals just follow the instinct of survival. This is the law of nature, the rules that maintain and operate the world. It cannot be written on paper. It cannot be tampered with or violated. To call it the so-called 'justice' is simply a huge insult."
Tianyi took out an iron bucket from the cabinet. He held the book in one hand and the bucket in the other, and walked to the door of the store. "If you don't mind, open the door for me."
Whale Bird had put down his gun at this time, and he could see that Tianyi had no intention of escaping.
"What on earth do you want to do?" Although he asked like this, Whale Bird still opened the door for Tian, and then followed him out of the bookstore.
The sky was hazy outside and the north wind was biting. Tianyi, who was only wearing a shirt and suit, was obviously shivering.
He placed the iron bucket on the ground, took out a kerosene lighter, and lit a book in his hand.
Continuing what he just said, Tianyi said: "So, the same goes for human beings. From the point of view of any ordinary human being, he is the only protagonist in his life. Others, no matter how eye-catching they are, are just supporting roles. .
And justice has become a very subjective thing. Children who grow up in troubled times, children who grow up in prosperous times, children who grow up in slums, descendants of princes and nobles... are exposed to different levels and are instilled with different values. In the end, everyone will have their own justice.
Whale Bird, you think what you are doing is right, just because it is in line with the justice in your heart. "
Whale Bird snorted coldly: "So... you mean, your indiscriminate killing of innocent people is right?"
Tianyi threw the half-burnt book into the iron bucket at his feet, "I didn't kill them. Since the day I came to Hokkaido on December 5th, I have never left the bookstore. At most I came to the door to burn books and sign for some takeaways, how can you say that I killed innocent people indiscriminately?"
"But the whole case is controlled by you!"
"Really? So, do you have evidence to prove it? Even if those people come back to life, they will tell you that I never 'instructed' them to do things like killing people, I just asked them to do insignificant things. That's it, in exchange, they can listen to some interesting news from me, or read the books I have."
The whale bird unconsciously looked at the almost burned book in the bucket, and a faint purple color appeared in the smoke.
"What kind of books are these?"
Tianyi looked up at the sky: "These books record people's sins." He took a deep breath and glanced at the ashes in the bucket: "The corpses of greedy and petty people are hanging in public."
Whale Bird was startled when he heard this, and the image of Matsuo's death flashed before his eyes.
Tianyi threw the second book into the bucket again, and this time there was a slight orange color in the smoke.
"A violent and brutal man whose body is torn apart by a knife."
The whale bird stared with bull eyes, stepped forward and grabbed Tianyi's collar: "Besides Matsuo and Miura, who are you with two books in your hand? Who else did you kill?! Did you kill Ikeda too!"
Tianyi smiled and threw the third book into the bucket, and red smoke rose up: "The lazy and indulgent people will disembowel themselves." He stared into the whale bird's eyes: "The meaning of this book is The master’s name is indeed Ikeda, but it’s not Nozomi Ikeda, but Takeda Ikeda.”
The whale bird gritted his teeth and said: "You bastard..."
Tianyi raised the last book: "This is the 'cowardly and jealous' Ikeda-kun. Don't worry, he is not dead yet." But two seconds later, Tianyi still threw the book into the burning barrel: " It's a pity that he is crazy and 'life is worse than death'. Therefore, his book is of no use. The following contents are all crazy words that are incomprehensible. Oh, by the way, he came home last night I saw some things and was so stimulated that I went crazy. I haven’t gone to school today yet. I don’t know what’s going on now... "
Whalebird let go of Tianyi and ran wildly in the direction of Ikeda's house, cursing: "Damn it..."
Tian straightened his collar and smiled crazily at Whale Bird's back: "You understand now! What is justice! Hahahaha!"