Tokyo Psychic

Kurusu Akatsuki flipped through the comics faster and faster.

Even though there is no "mind thief" who has ever saved the world in this story, watching friends who have been through thick and thin with you struggling in desperate situations will inevitably touch the longing for "home" in your heart.

A comic book turned to the end.

Kurusu Akatsuki looked at the autograph of "Araki Hirohiko" on the blank page, and felt as if he had been struck by lightning, his whole body numb and stiff.

Those familiar images suddenly became a continuous film reel. Submerged in water, they were blurred and indistinct, so close yet separated by a layer of emulsion that seemed vulnerable to puncture. One could only watch helplessly as the black and white gradually faded into the passing of time, becoming memories that were cherished but could never be touched again.

I must meet this author if I get the chance.

With a snap, Kurusu Akatsuki closed the comic book in his hand.

It was only then that he realized that an old man with a helpless expression had been standing in the attic.

Immediately afterwards, he handed a thick stack of "Fukuzawa Yukichi" to Kurusu Akatsuki.

"This is......"

Kurusu Akatsuki, who was sitting on the bed holding "JOJO" in his hands, was a little surprised.

Sakura Sojiro: "Thank you for your hard work today. This is extra reward."

"Isn't this too much?" Kurusu Akatsuki felt uneasy as he felt the weight of the banknotes in his hand.

Sakura Sojiro: "I promised you this, so please accept it."

Kurusu Akatsuki took out his wallet, but found that the money could not be stuffed into it.

Seeing this, Sakura Sojiro reminded him: "There is a self-service bank near LeBron. You can go there and deposit the money into the bank card. It will be convenient to use."

The reliable middle-aged man asked Kurusu Akatsuki, "You should have a bank card, right?"

"Yes." Kurusu Akatsuki took out a bank card from the crack of her wallet.

"You have quite a bit of money on you now. It would be safer to keep some cash as a backup and put the rest into a card."

Kurusu Akatsuki went downstairs readily.

Inexplicably, he felt that the dim corridor was like a gateway to hell.

I always feel like I've forgotten something very important.

But it was just a "feeling" after all, so Kurusu Akatsuki didn't take it to heart.

Until fifteen minutes later.

A desperate cry came from the self-service bank at Shigenjaya.

"Where's my fucking money?!"

A full 0.000 yen was deposited into the bank card, but the balance jumped to a shocking "" after a few seconds of delay.

Immediately afterwards, a text message saying "Debt Repaid Successfully" popped up on his phone.

At this time, Kurusu Akatsuki only had 10,000 yen in cash left.

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PS:

(Updates will be added during the free period. On October 10, the 16-word update was completed.)

(In response to the update issue: This book is indeed updated once a day. However, each update is generally 4-5k words. Most of Hedgehog Cat's new books have this update volume before they are released. However, they mostly choose to split the -word content into two chapters to release it, because this way it can attract more traffic.)

(I publish a chapter every day because I prefer less traffic, but I still want the chapters to be longer so everyone can have a complete reading experience... Why can't I update 8,000 words a day? If I could maintain this quality and update 8,000 or 10,000 words a day, I wouldn't fail in my missionary work on Qidian.)

(There are actually quite a few updates, as I’ve only been publishing the book for a week… In short, all kinds of data during the new book period are very important! Please give me recommendations! Please give me monthly tickets! Please give me blades! Please give me rewards! Please give me all kinds of things!)

012. Tremble, show off

A distraught man lay on the small bed in LeBron's attic.

Kurusu Akatsuki tossed and turned, unable to sleep. With his eyes closed, he began to hallucinate that 190,000 of his own energy had evaporated into thin air.

This was his first time getting into debt and he had no experience in paying it back.

In my previous life in District 11, I'd never heard of a bank forcibly taking the deposits from a user's account to pay off a debt. At most, they'd bombarded me with phone calls and conducted physical inquiries...

Damn it, is this bank card a black hole?

Kurusu Akatsuki scratched her messy hair in annoyance.

The grief and regret in my heart were burning like flames at this moment.

In order to provide them with an outlet to pour out their emotions, Kurusu Akatsuki dragged his tired body out of bed and opened a book called "Mathematics A: Full Chapter Analysis" on the workbench.

After all, he had worked hard in his previous life to get into Kyoto University. Even though he dropped out midway through his studies to become a phantom thief, he must still have a lot of skills left. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so confident that he could achieve "excellent grades" in all subjects in the entrance exam in just four days...

Wait, what theorem is this?

Kurusu Akatsuki looked at the unfamiliar equation on the page, his brain froze for a moment, the grief and anger that was churning in his heart froze, and then he lost the ability to think.

Then he threw the book on the table, stood up painfully, covered his face and walked to the windowsill.

I miscalculated. I started high school in 2015, and most of the material I learned was gradually forgotten after graduation. Seven years have passed... Who knows how many times the textbooks have been updated over the years. Not to mention that this is 2022 in a parallel universe, so the professors who edited the books are probably not the same anymore.

In fact, all the above content except the first paragraph are excuses.

Even if the textbooks are iterated ten times and the test points are changed a hundred times, the knowledge system it covers will always be there.

After all, no one would expect a group of high school students to study how to solve the Riemann hypothesis.

It's been seven years! What kind of freak would you be if you could still remember the contents of a high school textbook after seven years?!

Oh, I have the impression that there really is a monster who can clearly remember what is written on every page and every paragraph of a history book even after graduating from college.

Kurusu Akatsuki thought of the legendary figure who dropped out of school and then returned to school, and then entered the University of Tokyo with a top ten ranking in liberal arts in just three months.

At the time, he was studying tirelessly at a cram school in Tokyo, where he'd heard the legend of Takizawa Satoru's ascent to Akamon in March. Every high school student who first heard of this story assumed that Takizawa was either a destined time traveler from a light novel, or someone with a life-changing experience, or both.

Unfortunately, Kurusu Akatsuki is not the reincarnation of "Takizawa", and his life is not a lucky one.

Whether it is the reputation of the "Phantom Thief of the Mind" or the strength of his personality mask, they are all accumulated bit by bit through countless life and death experiences in the past seven years.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt sad.

The ambition to dominate the show seems to be over before it even began...

Ok?

Kurusu Akatsuki suddenly put down his hand, looked up at the blurry figure reflected in the glass window, his expression becoming increasingly strange.

How could there be such a twist and turn reversal?

After he consciously and deeply recalled his high school life, he suddenly found that the classroom content that had long been forgotten became clear immediately.

It was so clear that he seemed to be sitting in that classroom, with the sparkling sea outside the window, the ticking sound of the wall clock in the classroom, and watching the teacher writing on the blackboard stroke by stroke.

When Kurusu Xiao looked at the schedule on the desk and wanted to skip the math class, the fragment of his memory immediately switched to the next English class.

It’s as if all of your previous life has been compressed into “.MP4” format. You can play the scene at any point in time by simply pressing the progress bar with your mouse.

What's even more amazing is that many details that he didn't even notice at the time can actually be recalled in this way...

For example, Kurusu Akatsuki only found out now that when she was auditing Jotaro Kujo's lecture at Shinto Marine University, the female student sitting next to him was wearing black stockings with a hole in them.

This is really cheating.

Kurusu Akatsuki can guarantee that he has never cheated.

If he really had such a powerful cheat, he wouldn't have been stuck in a cram school in Tokyo, doing exercises day and night.

So it must be the Amamiya lotus that has bloomed.

Damn Amamiya Ren, she has the exact same face as me, yet she has such a despicable and sinister heart...

Damn, this hook is really useful.

Kurusu Akatsuki opened the book "Mathematical A: Full Chapter Analysis" and compared it with his memory. He found that he could understand all the contents.

If I had something to help me back then, I would have been able to get into the University of Tokyo without taking extra classes.

Although he was admitted to Kyoto University, "Kyoto" and "Tokyo" sound like only one letter difference, but the gap in academic ability between them is like heaven and earth.

In fact, if Kurusu Akatsuki prepared for the exam with all his strength, he could really be admitted to the University of Tokyo after three years of hard work.

However, the identity of "Mind Thief" took up too much of his time. Even on the eve of the entrance examination, he was busy dealing with the city's criminal councilors.

As the memory comparison continued, Kurusu Akatsuki flipped through the book faster and faster, and the flying pages made a rustling sound.

An hour passed and "Number A: Full Chapter Analysis" was turned to the last page.

He has mastered the entire book "Mathematics A".

Then, it was as if the last bit of energy in my body was drained.

Kurusu Akatsuki suddenly slumped down on the book, unable to even lift a finger.

Just before he lost consciousness, he realized that he had wronged Amamiya Ren.

It turns out that I was really cheating.

In Kurusu Akatsuki's blurred vision, an overly thin and frail human figure was standing against the wall by the window, with a black electric guitar at its feet. In its hands, it was flipping through a comic book with "Kurisu Akatsuki" written on the cover.

But one look at it reveals that it is a new "persona" that has never been exposed to any death battle.

A nameless personality mask that can ignore the rules of the world and appear freely in reality.

Four attribute entries about it appeared in Kurusu Akatsuki's mind: [Can be summoned in reality regardless of conditions, but cannot fight in reality], [Cannot be seen by ordinary people], [Ability to save and read the user's memory], and [Excellent growth potential].

After confirming that he had absolute control over this personality mask of mysterious origin, Kurusu Akatsuki fainted peacefully on the workbench.

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【August 2022, 4. 】

【Opening ceremony.】

[There are still three days until the start of the school year.]

"wake up?"

Kurusu Akatsuki's nose trembled for a while, as if he smelled the scent of coffee.

It was already the next morning when he regained consciousness.

Sakura Sojiro stood aside helplessly, "It's almost time to go to school. Today is the opening ceremony, right? Don't be late."

Kurusu Akatsuki stood up despite the pain all over his body, and immediately saw a cup of steaming coffee and a chicken sandwich with salad dressing and sweet and spicy sauce on the table.

"You're in a bad state. Did you stay up late?"

"Staying up late to review." Kurusu Akatsuki stuffed the supplementary books on the workbench into the schoolbag beside him.

"It's a good thing for young people to study hard, but they should also take care of their health. Eat breakfast first. It's too late to catch the tram to school now. I'll drive you later."

"I'm so lucky to have such a reliable guardian."

Sakura Sojiro just laughed twice without commenting, "Next time you fill up your car, the cost will be deducted from your salary."

After a burst of gulping, Kurusu Akatsuki raised the coffee and drank it all in one gulp.

The warmth flowed down the throat into the stomach and intestines, then spread to the whole body, and I suddenly felt some strength.

Only then did he turn his head to look at the window. The mysterious "personality mask" that appeared last night had disappeared without a trace.

Just as I was about to call out its presence in my heart, I suddenly felt a severe headache.

It turned out to be excessive consumption.

Kurusu Akatsuki struggled to put on his schoolbag and walked down the attic at the urging of Sakura Sojiro.

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Life with cheats is pretty cool.

Walking down the stairwell, Kurusu Akatsuki recalled how he speed-read the entire "Mathematical A" book in an hour last night, and almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

Even the tragedy of 190,000 yuan in savings disappearing out of thin air could not dispel this joy.

The schoolbag is heavy, and it feels like it contains hundreds of awards and certificates stacked together.

It's time to let the entire show bow down to this tremendous academic power.