Escaped from Kiko and Ellie, on the move, Friedman had been thinking.
(Hmm... isn't this a one-of-a-kind opportunity? If I'm prepared to throw people's minds away completely for research - but I'm talking about it)
It was a dangerous desire that came to mind when I first encountered Ellie and Kiko, and when I learned that they had lured the clones that Friedman had been treated to become children four times in total at the behest of the underworld.
(Didn't I come here to find out the truth and to protect the clones who made me a child? But... if those kids are going to die too... my previous research and the deaths of the Yi children who have been killed so far will all be in vain...)
I was walking and I was bitterly bitter.
"Huh!?
Without even noticing the tree branches stretching out in front of him, he struck him hard in the face and Friedman fell.
"Ha Ni Ni Ni? You finally blurted out?
"This is number seven! Don't say anything like number two!
"I didn't expect to be told before number seven...... Besides, I didn't expect to be seen through in the original......"
Nor do the words seven, Mika, and two get much into Friedman's head. With his mouth half-opened as he lay on his back, he looked at the night sky, visible from between the trees, and the light of the glowing thirteenth night moon.
"I am a tiny piece of... grainy grain in the universe"
Friedman who speaks such a dialogue.
(Even that little me, with the power of science, with research, with discovery, has changed the world. But it's not what I want. The mystery of the underworld needs to be solved if I am to build the society I want to be. There must be a key there. In my view, the underworld is the perfect world I aspire to)
That's all I thought about, Friedman decided to do one thing, meditated, and now he put his head around something else.
"Mr. Friedman!? Are you all right!? Was it a bad hit?!?
"Ah... no..."
Friedman stood up embarrassed, being restored to his sanity by Mika peeking in worryingly.
Fr. Friedman sees himself at the foot of his fall. There's a round of little flowers blooming that I don't even know the name of.
"Flowers - isn't this actually the perfect creature?
"Huh?"
Mika and the others paid attention to the dialogue launched by Friedman, and No. 2 raised a suspicious voice.
"Do spirits dwell in plants, but do you have any complaints about spirits dwelling in plants?
"Whoa, my grandfather hit me in the head and I'm seriously freaking out. Yabe. I've lost my mind in this place. Care for my grandfather is tight, and why don't you just leave me here? It's good to be a dump mountain."
"I don't like the role of changing the amulet."
"No, I'm not. I'm sure Mr. Friedman is a poet. You must have been inspired by it now."
"Number two! Even jokes are too malicious! Seven! I just cautioned you. Again! Sounds like you need a cage, too!
"But it's true that something's wrong."
"Humans are the only ones complaining"
With Friedman talking a bump and a word later, two, thirteen, seven, Mika, and eleven talk about it, but Friedman doesn't care about their reactions like that and continues the dialogue.
"So you want us to be plants, too?
But in inquiry number eleven, Friedman reacted with mockery.
"No way. Then it is a renunciation of humanity. That is neither peace nor equality. I don't need that perfection."
When I say so, Friedman walks out. Mika and the others also looked at each other in surprise, pinching back and forth, left and right, dressed to protect Friedman, and walked out into the woods again.
"Long time no see."
True walks over to the tiger with a voice, stroking his head and neck.
"Guru"
The tiger narrows his eyes, roars comfortably and rubs his head against his true face.
"It's a real pleasure to meet the tiger."
Tired, the birth parent of a tiger, smiles when he sees the sight of Truth and the tiger amicable.
"What kind of friends...... no, what kind of beings are they? This..."
"I made the tiger. And I called for your rescue. It was the product of an image of my abilities, but it became an image of my soul living and living, independent of my will."
When Hot Jiro spoke his doubts when he saw the tiger he truly missed, Tired replied so.
"Wow... I tried to stroke it too"
Seeing the sight of the true stroking of a tiger, Theodore is named after him with his eyes shining. The desire was also there when I was on the back of a tiger, but I was scared of what kind of reaction there was to a tiger and couldn't get my hands on it.
"Oh."
Then the tiger reacts and approaches Theodore.
Theodore took a breath and glanced a little, but when he saw the tiger offering his head with cancer in front of him, he perceived that his words had made sense, reaching out to the head of the dreaded tiger and stroking it out.
"Wow."
Suddenly a tiger raised his face when I was stroking him, licking his own face again, as earlier, so Theodore accidentally raised his voice, but a natural smile spilled.
"How about Jiro Hot?
"Oh, oh... no, I just stroked a lot. I mean, this tiger understands human language."
Encouraged tirelessly, as Hot Jiro approaches the tiger, he stands beside Theodore and strokes the tiger's throat.
"Instead of knowing what people say, you can even read people's minds, so be careful."
"Huh? Really..."
Really cautioned, surprised by the heat Jiro. I wanted to study this tiger. I was thinking sneaky, so I sweat cold.
"That's embarrassing...... Are you telling me I'm really a crybaby?"
Says Theodore as he strokes the tiger. I didn't want them to understand what I've always been afraid of, but if they're this tiger, I don't know.
Hot Jiro and Theodore told us everything about how they had been until they got here while playing with the tiger.
"Proof of power... I've already joined up with us like this, and I'm sure Yukioka, Tired and Midori will manage to deal with what Friedman did, and I'm somewhat relieved?
After listening to the story, Truth be told, I looked over at the three people I had just spoken to.
"About the two of you, please"
"Okey, true brother. Leave it to Midori ~. Abba, abba, abba"
Truly voiced, Midori gives a weird laugh.
"In the meantime, I'll try to keep the analysis Analyze in mind. The two bodies have been messing with each other before, but I haven't looked at them that hard."
Junko says so, approaching the two sides playing with the tiger.
"I see, I see. Professor Friedman said that earlier, but I'm sure this has a procedure for being a child. The art of bringing in spirits is planted in the body. Besides, you're skillful in your guts, brain and blood vessels. I can disarm it, but I'm sure this is tiring. It would be smoother if you or Midori cooperated, and I wonder if it would be difficult to do it here. We need to get back to the lab."
Hearing about Junko, Hot Jiro and Theodore relieved. We haven't settled yet, but he assured me that we could solve the ritual that was applied to us, so that most of the anxiety and fear disappeared and we felt easier at once.
"Then let's get out of here."
Truth be told, Junko shakes his neck to the side.
"We have to do something about Professor Friedman. No matter how many people in the underworld miss it, Professor Friedman might not miss it."
"That's right, but you should give priority to sending these two to a safe place. What's the point of keeping it here?
"If Professor Friedman finds out that you and Theo have escaped this forest, there's also the possibility of remotely manipulating it to work as a child. I might be able to do that."
"Then you're doing it all the time."
As I made up my mind, True had doubts about Junko.
"True, aren't I the same as Professor Friedman? That's the kind of suspicion you're pointing at me, isn't it? You think I'm trying to feed the two of you, fish for it with people from the underworld, and use it as research material?
Junko sees through his true concerns and smiles and says. True, Hot Jiro and Theodore are each shocked by Junko's allegations.
"I'm not gonna do that. Yikes. I'm interested in the mystery of the underworld, but as long as we get there, Midori, who realized reincarnation while retaining her memory and abilities, is the closest thing to the underworld, and Midori will work with us to get her into research."
"Ababa, I don't want to work with you."
After listening to Junko, Midori smiles and speaks out.
"Oh."
"Tiger says Junko is not lying."
A tiger gives his usual adorable squeal, and tiredness tells him his will.
"Until now, Professor Friedman has tried not to let the child die, but if the two remaining are no longer dependent children, I think that would be the same for him to die. There's plenty of choices about switching on that feature and seeing how people in the underworld were reacting to prevent it. If I'm in Professor Friedman's shoes, I will. Come on."
and Junko.
"I see. That's convincing. Especially the last word."
"No, no, no... it's also a bit arrogant to make you feel convincing there..."
Hearing the true words, Junko laughs bitterly.
"So... what are we gonna do?
Hot Jiro asks anxiously. A glance at Theodore reveals his anxiety, too.
"It's the stream that kills Friedman."
True said.
"I don't think you have to kill me, you don't have to detain me. If possible, it's Better to restrain him, take out only his brain, and get him to work at our lab."
"Awesome Better..."
Hearing Junko's words, Theodore shrugged scaredly.