Overturned Tower

Who have you been in contact with recently?

...I'm ashamed to say it, but that's a lot.

It’s different from Delphinium, who stays in the office every day and doesn’t see three people a day on average. Russell comes into contact with a large number of people almost every day.

The relationship between the bosses requires Russell to be familiar with them and maintain them.

If the bad person offends someone because of his bad mouth, Russell also needs to find a way to eliminate the bad influence.

In addition, Russell occasionally went to the Cyber ​​Church and chatted with the Paradise Birds. Different from his appearance, although Russell was always lovable, he was not the kind of person who would stay at home quietly and wait for people to come and play with him. The kind that takes the initiative to go downstairs to other people’s homes and invites them to come down and play.

It will be even busier in the evening.

Russell's nightlife is extremely stable and rich - if you have time, go to Dreamland twice. If Strangler wanted to take his younger brother away to hide from the angels, then Russell would go to the boss of some shop to drink tea and chat when he had free time.

If we really investigate one by one, it will probably take half a month.

When the demon actually hatches, he probably won't even be able to find it.

But from another perspective...

Russell still remembered the strange feeling this morning.

The mask of "Blue Songbird" suddenly became impossible to take off.

It has been two and a half months since Russell awakened his psychic powers from the airship in mid-May. He has never had this abnormality.

Although it was only for a moment, Russell did not take any chances like "oh, it'll be fine" and still mentioned the matter to Delphinium.

"Psychic power out of control?"

Delphinium frowned, thoughtfully.

"Is this the loss of control of spiritual energy?"

Russell was stunned.

Although he heard the word, this was the first time he experienced it personally.

Delphinium nodded: "Yes, psychic energy is related to emotion and determination. Sudden loss of control is actually normal... because human emotions are not fixed lines, but trembling waves. When the red shift is close to the blue shift, Sometimes, sudden strong mood swings may cause a short-term loss of control. But this loss of control itself is not harmful, and it will not have any bad effects on your body."

"Then it..."

"Psychic loss of control usually only lasts for a moment, and will disappear as soon as you calm down."

Then this is indeed spiritual energy out of control.

Russell nodded in confirmation.

The moment he recovered emotionally, the mask became ready to be taken off.

Delphinium looked at Russell with a somewhat incomprehensible look: "It can even be said... If your loss of control does not have a bad impact on other people, then it is actually a good thing. You can at least know that if you will degenerate into a devil, , what kind of devil you will become."

"...Will he turn into a leather-covered devil whose mask can't be taken off?"

Russell's expression was a little subtle: "It sounds quite humorous, and it also feels a bit like a ghost movie."

Sounds like he would hunt down a security guard who works part-time at a pizza place and earns minimum wage in the middle of the night.

"I always feel that it shouldn't be that simple..."

Delphinium slowly shook her head.

She was actually a little worried.

Since Russell has awakened the spiritual power of "being able to perfectly impersonate others", what is his deepest desire?

Is it the desire to be someone else? Or are you envious of other people’s lives and talents? Or do you think you are unimportant?

Whatever it is.

Once this desire gets out of control, rather than hatching a demon, it will hatch an "evil god"... an evil god with many faces, different abilities, and omnipresence.

He may also be able to directly take away the identity of others, erase a person from the cognitive level, or split it into countless parts... One is the many, and the many are the one.

But in any case, this characteristic is very close to the so-called "god".

But there is an evil nature here, and it is unabashedly declared that this is an evil god.

Delphinium shook her head to dispel the uneasiness in her heart.

She said flatly: "I guess... the person who caused you to lose control of your spiritual power is most likely the demon you came into contact with."

"But she's already dead."

"……What?"

"The thing that caused me to lose control of my psychic abilities was the suicide note sent by Miss Morgan."

Russell knew that Delphinium didn't know this person, so he added: "It's Blue Bird's ex-girlfriend."

"...Blue Songbird?"

Two months had passed since the incident. Delphinium was stunned for a moment before suddenly saying: "You mean... Xiao Liuli's previous girlfriend?"

"Yes, she seemed to have been hired by the director to assassinate someone. Then she was silenced."

Russell said slowly, with the sadness still in his eyes that had not completely dissipated: "Although I did not get the memory of Bluebird, I still felt the sadness. When this sadness reached the limit... psionic energy occurred. out of control."

"It seems that your transformation ability may have inherited more than just the other person's appearance and abilities."

Delphinium analyzed: "But if you want to talk about whether some soul is attached to the chip and sealed by you... I think that is too fantasy and does not sound scientific.

"And there's a problem here."

She sat in her seat, raised her head and met Russell's eyes, staring deeply at him: "Are you sure this is really the sadness that Xiao Liuli feels?

"Or...is this the emotion you 'imagined Xiao Liuli' would have?"

Russell was stunned when he heard this.

He suddenly realized something——

If it were "Xiao Liuli" who turned into a demon, she would probably feel... relief when she heard the news?

Perhaps there is still peace and relief.

Because the two people are finally together again.

Ending the hustle and bustle, complexity and pain of the world, we came back together quietly.

But what Russell felt was very intense pain, full of sadness and anger.

——Why is it painful?

Because death is separation. Separation brings pain.

But "Xiao Liuli" is already dead?

In other words, the "Blue Songbird" transformed by Russell is not a continuation of the deceased Xiao Liuli in his self-awareness, but a "still alive" character.

Therefore, all his emotions and positions are based on the possibility that "he is still alive and Morgan is dead."

If Russell inherited the memory or consciousness of "Little Liuli" in the last stage, it would be impossible for him to feel such emotions!

So where does this sentiment come from?

Russell finally realized something...it was a detail that he had ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

In the first stage of his psychic triggering, he always sees hallucinations from the past.

The reason why I was so sad when I learned about Morgan's death was because in Xiao Liuli's hallucination, the love he and Morgan supported each other was engraved in Russell's heart... "At that time" Blue Bird was listening. After receiving such news, I will indeed be so sad and angry.

Because that memory eliminates all the unpleasantness and ordinary daily life between the two of them. Only the most essence and most profound influence of "pure love" is left.

"……I understand."

Russell murmured.

He already had some guesses about the nature of his psychic powers:

It wasn't that there was something like a soul that penetrated Russell's body through spiritual energy; it wasn't that Russell decided to follow the other person's path or was possessed by the other person's remnant soul.

But after Russell read about the other person's life, he developed the desire to "play this role"... so he became "them".

The memories he saw were the script for this character and the fictional life of the other person.

Because it lacks some trivial things in life, this character becomes very "distinctive".