Yes, such a life is really good.
Who would have thought... that someone like me, who was mentally disabled, could come this far.
No...
Did I really have an intellectual disability? It seems like a very distant memory, so much so that Koki was unsure.
No, I am not mentally disabled. People with mental disabilities rarely experience true happiness. Even if some movies depict mentally disabled people achieving success, that’s an idealization, a glossing over the truth.
Real disabled individuals endure hardships in daily life that only they can understand. All beautification essentially ignores them.
And over these years... Koki hasn’t had any nightmares, and in his dreams, people have been praising him.
You are a genius. You are a genius, you are a genius... you are a genius!
Yes, in his dream, there was someone who constantly told Koki, "You are a genius." And in the real world, Koki received many evaluations that said he was a genius.
After a while, he shook his head.
Zheping immediately looked stern:
"You think you’re not happy?"
Seeing Zheping’s expression, Koki cursed:
"What nonsense, of course I’m happy. I just feel... some things from the past don’t seem necessary to take seriously."
Zheping immediately smiled:
"What things from the past?"
Koki wanted to say: "You won’t believe it, I feel... like I suddenly have years of memories. I feel, the most prominent memory from my childhood, is one day I saw a masked man being chased by a group of people."
I still remember that man shouting a name towards me. That name was Wen Xishu.
Everything is so... clear, as if it happened not too long ago.
But when I try to grasp that vague clarity, the details of these years’ memories begin to tear at that feeling.
Koki really wanted to say it out loud.
But he didn’t think anyone would understand if he said it.
It’s like, from one point, he suddenly jumped to another station. Life is complete, but it has been jumped over.
...
...
At night, in a certain youth hostel in Hujiang.
Under the pink light, Yumi’s body was full of allure.
After reaching the depth of human harmony together, Koki felt tasteless and seemed to start devising manga stories again. Beside him, Yumi was panting with misty eyes.
At this moment, Yumi asked:
"These days aren’t bad, right? Did I give you any inspiration? Do you want to add a woman like me to your story?"
"It’s best if you arrange for me to have small boots and a small whip, and the people I whip will all fall in love with me," Yumi said.
Koki laughed, indeed, he could create such a female villain in the story.
He felt inspired once again.
"Yes, these days aren’t bad at all."
Yumi asked a familiar question again:
"Are you happy?"
Although it had been years since he was last asked, it felt like he was being asked repeatedly in a short period of time.
"Just tell me how you feel," Yumi said.
Koki thought for a moment:
"Well, I think I’m pretty happy."
After saying this, for some reason, something suddenly came to mind, and he immediately raised his hand to look at his palm lines.
Upon looking, Koki’s pupils changed.
Fear was written all over his face.
...
...
Opposite the youth hostel, at the top of a brightly lit skyscraper, a figure with two heads appeared.
Soon, a woman with a seductive figure appeared as well.
"Number 2. Everything is ending soon, a new human hole is about to form, we have won, the invader will die soon," the Two-headed Man said.
Seeing that the woman didn’t speak, the Two-headed Man laughed:
"What’s wrong, you don’t think everything will be overturned, do you?"
"The only thing he can do now is hide. Any misfortune he causes will lead to us appearing around him instantly."
"You don’t think he can overturn the situation in such circumstances, do you?"
The woman said:
"To leave the human hole, the host must realize his former unhappiness. But it’s strange... in the first node, he tried to tell Koki in a nightmare that he was intellectually deficient, his life full of misfortune."
"As a result, we found him."
"Ultimately, the happiness in reality made the host say that sentence. We won the first battle."
"But we also realized that the invader this time mastered the power of dreams... and had multiple personalities."
"The most outlandish part is these two powers complement each other. He can manifest personalities and let them hide in the host’s dream."
"But no matter what, as long as he tries to make the host unhappy, we will sense him."
The Two-headed Man said:
"So, what are you worried about? Doesn’t all of this benefit us?"
The woman shook her head:
"It’s abnormal. The invader’s behavior is becoming increasingly abnormal... At the first node, he told the host he was mentally disabled. But at the second node, he kept suggesting in the dream that the host was a genius..."
"Since suggesting the host is a genius doesn’t bring unhappiness to the host... I cannot pinpoint him."
"And in the real world, if he appears, he will soon be found due to our rejection reaction, but he doesn’t appear in the real world either."
"He does nothing, just continuously suggests in the dream that the host is a genius."
The Two-headed Man sneered:
"I wondered what you were worried about. No wonder you have always existed."