Variety Comic: My plug-in is myself

Even in modern times, no one would clean up the snow in uninhabited suburbs, let alone in an island country in the Taisho era.

In the suburbs of Asakusa District, Kyoto, a man in a red shirt was walking on the snow towards the flower street.

In contrast, Xia Yan's tall figure walked out of the flower street and walked towards him.

The sky was lead gray, and the originally fine snow became denser and more and more intense, with a sense of oppression as if the dark clouds were pressing down on the city and destroying it.

"Hmm? You came out to pick me up? I think I'm still very popular!"

"It's a pity that you're not a girl. I can't let you stay with me. Even if I kill you, I can't let you live with me for eternity."

"But why are you holding a knife in your hand? You look very dangerous. How does that saying go... You're here with bad intentions."

"You're the one who's here."

Xia Yan tilted his head and looked at the mentally ill ghost in front of him in silence.

White oak hair color, colorful pupils, the words "Upper String" and "弐" engraved on his eyes respectively, and a carefree smile on his face.

There's a red patch on the top of his head, and the black edges spread out to the surroundings, making him look like a dog bloody mess.

It's the second Upper String - Douma.

"Besides, you talk a lot. The last time I saw a ghost that talked so much, it seemed to be Akaza..."

The same snowy day, the same suburbs, the same upper-rank ghost, gave Xia Yan a strong sense of déjà vu.

"Ahahaha, really, so you think that I have a good relationship with Lord Akaza, right? I think so too, we are very good friends!"

"You should be Narukami Tsuki Natsuhiko, nice to meet you, I am Douma."

"What a nice weather, it's not dark yet, but I can't see the sun, so I can go out casually, otherwise, it would be very troublesome."

"After all, you know, I'm not very good at facing the sun..."

Douma introduced himself with a smile on his face, and his tone was familiar.

Unlike Akaza, who is straightforward and praises others as soon as he meets them, what he said was all nonsense without a beginning or an end, which only made people feel irritated.

And Xia Yan always speaks directly.

"So annoying! You talk too much. Akaza can't be your friend. He is much better at talking than you, and you must be unpopular."

"But I guess you didn't expect this, after all, you can't feel anything at all..."

"Eh——!? You are so hurtful when you first meet..."

After hearing Xia Yan's evaluation, Douma was stunned and showed a slightly distressed expression.

"That's right!" Then he seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "In order to prove my friendship with Lord Akaza, let me killYou can help him get revenge!"

"Before that, you can tell me anything that makes you sad."

"After all, besides being a ghost, I am also the founder of the Eternal Paradise Religion. Although I can't let you share eternal life with me, at least I will listen carefully to your last wish. ”

“Is that so…” Xia Yan frowned slightly.

As a fun-loving person, he actually doesn’t like opponents like Douma.

He likes to enjoy the enemy’s frustrated look, likes to see them racking their brains to find ways to struggle, and likes to listen to their cries before death.

And Douma, obviously, is also a fun-loving person.

Because he has no emotions, Douma’s fun is purer than Xia Yan’s, and he has almost no weaknesses. Even if he is at an absolute disadvantage, it doesn’t matter to him.

In other words, Xia Yan has no way to get fun from fighting with him, but is easily affected by his brainless words.

But fortunately, although Douma is almost invincible in mentality, he still has only one defense point that he cares about.

And Xia Yan happens to know this.

“So, before the fight, can you please answer a question for me? "Xia Yan stretched out a finger, with just the right amount of curiosity on his face.

"Of course! Please feel free to ask, Lord Ming Shenyue, I will listen carefully!"

"Then I won't be polite..." The curiosity on Xia Yan's face turned into a bad smile... As a human being, it is natural to feel emotions such as joy, sadness, and fear."

"But, from my observation, you can't understand these things at all, right?"

"You don't seem to be able to have any emotions, nor to understand what emotions are, and what you show is just a disguise."

"Why did you come to this world like this?"

According to the law of conservation of smiles, smiles will not disappear, but will only be transferred.

At this moment, the smile on Douma's face has been transferred to Xia Yan's face.

"That's too much... This is why I don't like men. You are so mean. Why do you say such excessive things..."

The smile on Douma's face remained calm and steady, with no change from before, but there was no expression on his face.

Without the disguise of micro-expressions, the numbness and emptiness in his eyes were also exposed.

Even though his defense was broken, he did not get angry, and he did not even have the intention to kill. There was only a dead silence.

It was like a cold machine.

Having an appearance that is no different from that of humans, but with this feeling of nothingness inside, it can even make people who look at it feel both psychologically and physically uncomfortable.

In the 1970s, a scholar proposed a theory.

When humans see objects that resemble humans, their liking for them will increase.

We will subconsciously treat it as a "person" and establish an emotional connection. When the performance of this "person" does not match this expectation, we cannot immediately clarify this cognitive confusion, and thus feel fear.

The closer the appearance is to humans, the more obvious the slight abnormality will be, making the observed object appear very stiff and terrifying, like facing the feeling of a walking corpse.

This is the famous uncanny valley effect.

And Douma, in appearance and behavior, is the same as humans. Because of this, his empty and nihilistic nature is magnified to the extreme at this moment. .