Tokyo Psychic

"There are two main prerequisites for starting a harem: first, impeccable time management, and second, minimizing the amount of romance a girl experiences during dates and confessions while maintaining her good impression of you to the greatest extent possible."

The thief raised an objection at that time.

"Isn't that just playing with little girls' feelings?"

Lavenda asked him, "Are you planning to break up with your girlfriend right after we confirm the relationship and eliminate those enemies?"

The thief was speechless. "To be able to do something like that, isn't that pure idiocy?"

"That's why you need to avoid directly addressing topics like 'committing your life together' that are too heavy to circumvent, and at the same time, give them some time to get used to the 'unusual feeling' of going against public opinion. Otherwise, all the sweet talk and promises you made during the date will one day become like sharp knives stabbing into your body when the truth comes out... Maybe the girls will even cry and fight over your body parts."

"This description is a bit too exaggerated... But how do you know so much? You blushed for several days after kissing me back then." Kurusu Akatsuki looked at his secretary with a strange expression.

Lavenda's eyes wandered for a moment. "I learned it from watching anime and playing games."

"for example?"

"'School Days'."

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Before the Ferris wheel landed, Maruki Takuto had already escaped from his job.

In fact, he could more or less guess what Kirisu Akatsuki was planning.

Young people nowadays...are truly amazing.

Maruki Takuto sighed again.

The fireworks show just started, and the night sky of Disneyland was instantly filled with colorful flames accompanied by the sound of fireworks.

Shoko Toyokawa rushed out of the car angrily.

Kurusu Akatsuki followed her all the way.

The two quickly ran out of the amusement park.

Stop in the dim street lights.

Toyokawa Shoko supported herself on her knees, her hair on her forehead stuck together by sweat, tears in her eyes, and she looked back at Kurusu Akatsuki with shame and anger.

The thief came closer and reached out to help her tidy up her messy hair.

Toyokawa Shoko raised her hand and then put it down again. She didn't resist his action. She just looked at the love hotel a little further away and said gloomily, "I want to go home."

Kurusu Akatsuki followed her gaze and saw the love hotel. He was a little surprised. "Isn't your father coming home today?"

Toyokawa Shoko was so embarrassed that she stepped on the back of his shoe and said, "You don't have a chance today!"

Having said this, she turned indignantly and walked towards the station.

Kurusu Akatsuki caught up with Toyokawa Shoko and prepared to take her home. "Can we find another date tomorrow?"

Toyokawa Shoko hesitated for a moment, and let Kurusu Akatsuki hold her hand... Although her heart was filled with grievances, she couldn't help but feel happy when she heard him take the initiative to mention a date.

She bumped Kurusu Akatsuki's arm with her head and said, "Don't come to expensive places like this again."

The thief said calmly, "I'll take you to where I live and I'll prepare the gift carefully again."

Toyokawa Shoko was sensitive enough to notice that Kurusu Akatsuki described it as "a place to live" instead of "home." She held Kurusu Akatsuki's hand tightly and said in a serious tone, "The gift can't be too expensive, otherwise... I'll be angry."

Special experiences and major family changes have caused the eldest daughter of the Toyokawa family to completely abandon her sense of material superiority. At the same time, the intervention of the Phantom Thief of the Mind has enabled her to accept various cognitions that go beyond common sense.

The reason she felt aggrieved was not because of the "tiger finger", but because of Kurusu Akatsuki's somewhat frivolous attitude.

Even if Kurusu Akatsuki just picked two pieces of grass from the ground and weaved a grass ring for her to wear, she would not complain but would only feel happy.

A pair of brass knuckles and the other party's advice to "protect yourself" have actually far exceeded the lower limit of Toyokawa Shoko's frighteningly low standard of confession gifts... What she cared about was only Kurusu Akatsuki's attitude when he confessed his love.

The frivolous and absent-minded behavior of the thief on the Ferris wheel made Toyokawa Shoko instinctively feel scared.

But she had never been in love before, and because of her background and experience, she rarely came into contact with topics in this regard. She had no idea what true love was like, and could only blindly believe in all of Kurusu Akatsuki's decisions.

Even if she realized that the other person might have some special thoughts, even if she was afraid and uneasy, even if he might be lying... Shoko Toyokawa could only force herself to accept and believe it.

She had no choice.

This was the psychic thief who saved her life and family. If she couldn't give him her complete trust, and couldn't respond to the longing and admiration that was so hot that it could burn her hands... then, Toyokawa Shoko felt that she probably wouldn't be able to trust anyone in this world in the future.

The Phantom Thief seemed to sense Toyokawa Shoko's emotions, and his tone lost the casualness and ease he had on the Ferris wheel. Instead, he sounded very serious, "Don't worry, the gift is definitely within your means."

The two walked into the station hand in hand and waited for a long time in the empty waiting room.

Toyokawa Shoko couldn't help but ask him, "What is it like where you live?"

Kurusu Akatsuki touched her ear and said, "It's a mysterious place, like a secret base or an evil den."

The tram has arrived.

Toyokawa Shoko blinked her eyes and was led into the carriage by Kurusu Akatsuki. She suppressed her inner curiosity and prepared to wait until tomorrow to see with her own eyes the "secret base" and "evil den" mentioned by the thief.

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Riding the tram always gives one a sense of clarity of purpose: arriving at the designated location at the designated time without fail. Even at night, there's no sight of boundless scenery, only a blur of inky black.

It makes people feel a little boring.

But adolescent love is something that is as vibrant as weeds growing in boring fantasies.

By the time the train arrived at the station and they walked under the stars to the bottom of the apartment building in Akabane Town, the weeds in their hearts had grown taller than the building.

Toyokawa Shoko tugged at Kurusu Akatsuki's sleeve, her wet eyes fixed on the corner of his mouth.

"Um...Lian?" She nervously and awkwardly tried to call the other person's name.

"See you tomorrow, Xiaoxiang," Kurusu Aki, who was still looking sluggish on the Ferris wheel, now seemed to have turned back into the mysterious image that could peek into people's hearts when the two first met.

He put his arm around Toyokawa Shoko's shoulders and kissed her on the cheek in a way that surprised and embarrassed her.

I felt the moist warmth blooming on my cheeks, which penetrated my thoughts like an electric current.

Toyokawa Shoko closed her eyes and hugged Kurusu Akatsuki tightly, feeling the warmth and happiness enveloping her whole body at that moment.

The time of separation.

She walked down the dark stairwell of the apartment building and suddenly turned back, noticing the boy's graceful back, which stretched extremely long in the halo of the old street lamp.

Like a long sword, it instantly draws the line between loneliness and bustle.

The Phantom Thief looked up at the bright moon in the sky and finally stopped imitating the woman named "Shiomi Kotone".

He has never been in love, but his innate talent allows him to know how to perfectly complete something he has never understood by imitating others.

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(Yesterday, when I was promoting a new chapter for a friend, I accidentally typed an extra space, which caused the portal to fail. I'm promoting it again here.)

087. The Truth of Time Travel (Two in One)

The faint moonlight danced on the streets of Shigenjaya, driving away the darkness of the night and dancing around the thief.

A little further away, the billboard of Takemi Internal Medicine Hospital was still lit.

The convenience store that was open 24 hours a day, rain or shine, was now closed. When I got close to LeBron, my neighbor Nina had been squatting at the door for a long time.

When it saw Kurusu Xiao, it hurried over and circled around him, calling out in a soft voice, probably asking for food.

Kurusu Akatsuki squatted down and patted its head, "Why don't you act coquettishly with your master?"

Nina didn't understand, she just stared at Kurusu Akatsuki with her blue eyes, rubbing her tail against his trouser leg.

But Kurusu Akatsuki didn't have any sausage, and the convenience store was closed, so he had nowhere to buy it.

After a while, as if she understood that the two-legged beast in front of her had not caught any prey today, Nina licked Kurusu Akatsuki's fingers, then left with some disappointment.

Kurusu Akatsuki opened the shop door, went to the bathroom to wash up briefly, and then prepared to go back to the attic to rest.

At this time, a dark shadow jumped over the windowsill.

Kurusu Xiao, who was sitting on the bed plugging his phone into the charger, stood up, walked over and opened the window, and found that there was half a sausage with the casing removed on the windowsill, with some soup on the surface. It was still warm when he touched it... Whose instant noodle bucket did he take this out of?

Kurusu Akatsuki looked out the window at the street. Nina hadn't walked far when, as if by some premonition, she turned back and met Kurusu Akatsuki's gaze. Kurusu Akatsuki then threw a sausage at her. She visibly froze in place for a moment, then ran over, grabbed the sausage, and disappeared down the street.

"Dioscuri."

With the window closed, Kurusu Akatsuki lay on his small bed, with the personality mask "Dioscuri" floating above his head holding a notebook.

The pages of the notebook flipped, turning over the entire life of "Kurisu Akatsuki".

The thief pulled the light cord, and the thin moonlight flowed silently through the window into the simple attic like water.

Many long-fuzzy memories kept emerging with the pages of the notebook in Dioscuri's hand, and his mental strength was rapidly consumed in this process.

However, Kurusu Akatsuki did not stop driving the personality mask at all. He just lay on the bed, looking up at the misty and watery moonlight that filled the space.

Life seemed to be rewinding, with memories from high school, junior high school, and even elementary school coming back to my mind one after another.

Boring classes, noisy playgrounds, a girl crying and searching every corner of Gekkoukan for a girl who will never come back, the enemy of civilization named "Nyx", the towering tower, the predecessors of "SEES", and the first encounter with Kotone Shiomi.

Kurusu Akatsuki turned over and subconsciously reached out to pat his side, but there was no one else on the narrow bed except him.

The attic was empty and quiet, and the early summer night was particularly deserted.

But when the moonlight shone dimly on his body, he could feel himself enveloped in omnipresent warmth.

Come to think of it, he seemed to have had a "first love"...if "being tricked by a high school girl into sleeping in the same bed with her for a whole year in elementary school" could be called love.

However, it seems meaningless to worry about this problem now. First of all, he can't go back to his original world. Secondly, the girl named "Shiomi Kotone" has sacrificed herself to save the world and has faded out of his life for more than ten years.

Kurusu Akatsuki recalled the expression on his face when he learned of Shiomi Kotone's sacrifice, having just entered junior high school...

It was rare that I didn't feel childish or embarrassed. Instead, my heart felt as if it was being tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and I felt waves of pain.

Kurusu Akatsuki was only thirteen at the time, full of curiosity and regret. With heartbreaking sorrow, he wiped away his tears while trying to uncover her secrets and track her whereabouts... But he was still a child, unaware that this was already love.

After growing up, I always wanted to bury that unspeakable story in a tree hole, because I felt it was too shameful, or... the feeling of passively enjoying someone's pampering and love like a victim was too soft and too sinful, and I was afraid that it would be known by others and exposed.

Kurusu Akatsuki picked up the phone beside his pillow and opened the photo album... his eyes passed over the dozens of photos he had taken with Toyokawa Shoko at the amusement park. There were no photos with the "SEES" crew, nor any records of Shiomi Kotone's time with him.

Why didn’t you bring my phone with you when you traveled through time?

...After all, why did I travel through time?

When this thought came to his mind, the Phantom Thief urged "Dioscuri" to start reading memories backwards... After a whole month of development, he has become quite proficient in this new personality mask. He now has enough spare time to use [Memory Reading] to freely review every moment of his life.

It was late at night on the West Coast. He had just completed his great feat of stealing someone's heart and went into a high-end restaurant on the roadside. He skillfully pried open the back door with the lock-picking tools he carried with him, and prepared to use the restroom.

Everything went smoothly, unzipping my pants and releasing myself - but something went wrong when I pressed the flush button.

The power of "Dioscuri" instantly brought all of Raisu Akatsuki's senses back to the scene in her memory.

The moment your finger touches the flush button...

The thief couldn't turn back, and his nose was filled with the strong smell of disinfectant and mothballs. Even his intuition that always worked for him failed for a very short time.

But there is no need for so-called "intuition" at all.

Because his physical senses so clearly conveyed a sense of collapse, like a sand castle collapsing.

This feeling of collapse was fleeting, because in the next moment, the entire space, including Kurusu Akatsuki in it... no, to be precise, the entire world was torn to pieces by the distortion of the time domain.

Matter is decomposing, consciousness is evaporating, and the two levels of the world are completely collapsing at the same moment.

The blue butterfly desperately flapped its wings above the Sea of ​​Heart, but its power was rapidly fading with the demise of human civilization, and it was powerless to prevent the collapse of the universe. The only thing it could do was, at the moment when the universe disappeared and completely returned to nothingness, to use the last of its strength to send the velvet contracts it had preserved to another world.

In reality, Kurusu Akatsuki's hand trembled, and the phone fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

He looked at the dark floor and seemed to see the entire universe annihilated in an instant.

No wonder the "Encyclopedia of Personalities" in the Velvet Room was cleared... because all the personalities obtained from "experience" have lost their corresponding sources of cognitive tracing with the destruction of the original world.

Only the two personas, The Fool, which symbolizes the "beginning," and The World, which symbolizes the "end," are preserved as proof of his rebellious consciousness.

Kurusu Akatsuki looked at the blurry eyes reflected on the phone screen.

If it weren't for the contract with Philemon that allowed him to preserve his consciousness in the sea of ​​​​heart forever, perhaps he would not even have the opportunity to travel through time.

Who destroyed my world?

Kurusu Akatsuki remembered what Lavenda and Igor had told him... Before him, the Velvet Room had experienced an extremely tragic generational break. The Velvet Assistant, who was a demigod, was almost killed, and even the entire Velvet Room was destroyed once, losing many of its original functions.

The contractors of that generation disappeared without a trace.

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