Contact and Consolation

Warning: This chapter features a suicide.

‿︵‿︵ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ・❉・ ʚ˚̣̣̣͙ɞ‿︵‿︵

On the outskirts of Metropolis A, between the mountains and the water, stood a white villa.

Contained in the villa, silent because the night time, dim because the night time, the 2 sat on the couch.

Of their arms had been chilly, metallic weapons. Yi Zhize’s eyes had been downcast, and some strands of stray hair coated his eyebrows.

“Which a part of the physique do you want probably the most, the half the place the bullet will go via?” Mu Xin murmured, “I like a variety of locations. Just like the temple, the place the steel slug slams in and it stays completely in my thoughts. Or, the guts.”

He pressed his fingertips in opposition to the spot the place Yi Zhize’s coronary heart was, “Hear, ah, the sound of it beating. Shh! It’ll solely take a short while, after which it should slowly, slowly, without end be nonetheless. Inform me, Ze Ze, the place would you prefer it, hmm?”

“You are boring. And you don’t have any proper to name me that.” Yi Zhize stated, “It makes me sick.”

“Oh~ I am making Ze Ze sad.” Mu Xin smiled deeply and put the muzzle of the gun in opposition to Yi Zhize’s coronary heart, “I ponder, is there a bullet in right here or not, wouldn’t it make you content? To the purpose the place your coronary heart is fluttering? The blood in your coronary heart is stirring?”

Yi Zhize frowned in disgust.

Mu Xin took Yi Zhize’s hand and turned the gun in his hand, aiming it at his coronary heart: “What’s fallacious, Ze Ze? me like that? In the entire world, I am the one who is aware of you finest. You and I, we’re two sides of the identical soul. So, you kill me, or I kill you, that’s one of the simplest ways for us to return. I can not wait.”

“You and I bear no resemblance.” Yi Zhize whispered, “However, maybe, there’s a little.” His voice trembled barely involuntarily, “That’s struggling, longing… aid.”

———

A gunshot was heard as Ou Tingyun and the police unit arrived.

Birds leapt from the timber, bringing with them the sound of fluttering wings.

A sure picture got here to thoughts that he did not need to see, and Ou Tingyun felt a lump in his throat.

The door was pressured open and the group made their technique to the second flooring.

The research was open and Yi Zhize was leaning again on the couch, a discarded firearm at his toes.

In Mu Xin’s hand was one other gun, and he held the muzzle in opposition to Yi Zhize’s neck, raking it throughout his throat. He lifted his chin and whispered, “Why?”

Yi Zhize checked out him calmly and didn’t reply.

Officer Zhou immediately stated aloud, “You might be surrounded! Drop your weapon instantly!”

“So noisy,” Mu Xin wrapped his arms round Yi Zhize’s neck and put the muzzle of his gun in opposition to his temple, “You guys, get out.”

Ou Tingyun squeezed Officer Zhou’s shoulder and smiled at Mu Xin, “Do not be impulsive, maybe we are able to have a chat.”

“I’ve nothing to speak about with you guys.” Mu Xin’s tone was tinged with impatience, “I’ve one thing necessary to do proper now, do not disturb me.”

Ou Tingyun seemed over in the direction of Yi Zhize, his affected person was clearly in a poor state.

The way in which Mu Xin was clinging to him was unbearably distasteful.

However happily, there was nonetheless time.

He was nonetheless alive, and there was nonetheless time.

Mu Xin moved a bit of nearer in the direction of Yi Zhize: “We agreed to shoot collectively, why did not you pull the set off? I see, you wished to die however cursed me to reside, did not you? You are so vicious.”

“Your delusions make me sick.” Yi Zhize’s voice was as weary because it might be, “There is just one cause why I will not shoot. Irrespective of how a lot I detest you, I’ve no proper to deprive you of your life. I can’t do something that goes in opposition to my rules.”

“Ha, rules!!! What a grand excuse!” Mu Xin’s eyes had been bloodshot, “Simply now, the one one who shot was me!!! If there was a bullet in that gun at your toes, you’d have fallen in a pool of blood!!!”

“Is that not precisely what you need?” Yi Zhize stated, “You’ve got been planning this for a very long time, you simply need to kill me.”

“You are fallacious, Ze Ze.” Mu Xin laughed softly, “You continue to do not perceive me.” He gently stroked the teardrop mole on the nook of Yi Zhize’s eyes, “It would not matter, it is the identical, you will get it eventually. Ze Ze, come on, have a look at me correctly.”

“Have a look at me,” Mu Xin repeated once more, “You and I, we got here into the world with the identical blood; we should die drenched in the identical blood.”

On the finish of his phrases, a gunshot was heard.

Blood splattered and poured throughout Yi Zhize’s face.

The nice and cozy liquid stained his eyebrows, eyes and lips, staining the teardrop mole vibrant purple.

Mu Xin had killed himself.

He fell into his arms.

The encompassing space exploded right into a cacophony of noise, and Yi Zhize solely felt that the scene earlier than him was terribly unreal.

The sounds and pictures had been so distant.

Reminiscences of the wet night time on Lijing Highway immediately got here flooding again.

It was drenched in blood.

“Zhize.”

Somebody referred to as out to him.

“Zhize.”

Somebody was calling out to him.

Yi Zhize seemed up blankly and noticed Ou Tingyun’s face.

Actuality and phantasm intertwined, photographs pierced via the boundaries of time and house and mingled collectively with out cause.

Earlier than Yi Zhize’s eyes was a wet night time on Lijing Highway.

He stood within the rain.

Throughout him was the fishy scent of blood.

His mom was in entrance of him.

The beautiful face was a bloody mess.

He did not know why, however he had even misplaced his feelings.

Excessive ache is in the end a silent sacrifice.

It’s pointless to bawl or to clean one’s face in tears.

Excessive ache, from the very starting, loses the energy to specific itself.

He simply seemed on vacantly, and all he might do was not say a phrase.

The world stripped him away.

He stripped himself of it.

He couldn’t really feel the which means of existence.

“Zhize!”

Somebody referred to as out to him.

“Yi Zhize!”

Somebody was calling out to him.

He noticed Ou Tingyun strolling in the direction of him within the rain. He put his arm round his shoulder and whispered, “Okay, it is okay. Let’s go dwelling.”

Yi Zhize checked out him, detached and quiet.

Ou Tingyun tenderly rubbed the blood off his face, “I will take you dwelling.”

“Tingyun.”

“I am right here.”

“I haven’t got a house.”

“How come you do not? I have been to your home and also you cooked for me, do not you keep in mind? Hmm?”

“That is not dwelling, I haven’t got a house.”

“Okay, do you need to go to my home?”

“No.”

“Actually? My home is enjoyable.”

“Liar.”

“How have I lied to you?”

“Liar!”

“Zhize, would you like some milk?”

“Scorching milk.”

“En, very popular.”

“Need.”

“Do as you are instructed and are available again with me, okay?”

“Okay.”

Ou Tingyun squeezed his hand in his palm, stated goodbye to Officer Zhou, and led the person away.

Sitting within the passenger seat, Yi Zhize was surprisingly silent, like an harmless baby unaware of the world.

Ou Tingyun fixed his seatbelt for him.

Yi Zhize requested, “When is the rain going to cease?”

He was nonetheless misplaced in his visions.

Outdoors, there have been no clouds and the solar was shining brightly, however the solar was setting.

Ou Tingyun stated with out altering his expression, “Quickly. After we get dwelling, the rain will cease.”

“Okay, then let’s get dwelling quickly, we could?”

In unusual instances, how might this lawyer ever say such a sentence?

Ou Tingyun could not resist rubbing his hair,  “Okay.”

Again on the residence.

Ou Tingyun was warming up milk for Yi Zhize.

He stated to him, “Tingyun, is there nonetheless blood on my face?”

Ou Tingyun seemed carefully for a second, “No.”

“However I believe there may be.” Yi Zhize insisted, “It isn’t simply on my face, it is in lots of locations, many, many locations.”

Ou Tingyun requested, “How a couple of scorching bathtub?”

“Mmm.” Yi Zhize stated, “You assist me.”

Translator Notes

Whats up everybody! Are you having fun with Dr. Ou’s Psychotherapy to date? I personally love this writer’s fashion and have been wanting into their different works just lately. Would anybody be enthusiastic about a few of the different works by this writer? I began translating their ongoing collection already, ‘After Crossing Over to the Republic of China, I’ve Grow to be a Heartthrob’, and am enthusiastic about translating ‘The Chief Conductor’s Unusual Lover’ as soon as I’m finished with SCI Quantity 1. Let me know what your assume.

Please be at liberty to remark any errors I made so I can enhance and do higher as I am going via the guide.