Chapter Thirty-Six: The Hidden Transmigrator in My Heart

  At night, the atmosphere at the dinner table was very strange. Tonomura Katsuaki had caught a cold a few days ago. In May and June, the temperature difference between day and night is quite large. One morning when he woke up, he accidentally caught a cold, which seemed to be quite severe. For these few days, he hadn't left his room for meals, and was being taken care of by Yamaguchi Mireiko. That means that now, at the dinner table, there were only Li Qiu and Tonomura Masato, each lowering their heads and quietly eating...

  After returning from Kurashiki City, Fujiki Makoto didn't say a word and spent the entire afternoon shut in his study, doing last-minute work for tonight's final treatment. However, at least Li Qiu knew what method would be used for tonight's treatment - breathing technique, to be precise, full return breathing technique.

  "Are you ready?" Yamaguchi Mireiko knelt on the tatami mat in the living room, looking at Li Qiu lying beside her and asked.

  "Uh, okay." Li Qiu said at this time, saying that he was not nervous, that was impossible. Although this phobia had been rare for him in the past due to his personality and being an outcast, now living in the countryside at the foot of a mountain where people were scarce, it would be even less likely to occur. But somehow, he still had some fear of this phobia.

  "Let's start." A cup of tea, a raised hand, the tea water overflows repeatedly with a strong tea fragrance, being savored carefully by Yamaguchi Mireiko.

  "Yes, Mother," replied Fujiki Makoto, who then took a deep breath and knelt down beside Li Qiu.

  "Little Autumn, listen carefully. Breathing is the most basic action that sustains human life. According to my research, changes in breathing rhythm at two extremes can affect physical fitness, beauty, and spiritual consciousness. Returning to breathing is a way of connecting the body, mind, and spirit. Next, you will use breathing to guide the transformation of your consciousness within a few short minutes. After entering this state, you will feel extremely calm, with all muscles relaxed, and psychologically, you will eliminate defense and vigilance, leading to deep physiological changes and spiritual relaxation. At that time, you will enter a state of complete return, and the hidden things in your mind will emerge one by one. As long as you can find the root cause of your phobia, you can completely eradicate it." This is the conclusion that Tōmoki Makoto reached after two years of researching abnormal psychological changes.

  "Yes, Uncle Zhen, I know."

  "Next, do as I say. First, close your eyes, relax your body, imagine yourself lying on a very comfortable grassland, then take a deep breath through your nose and slowly exhale through your mouth, repeat this process, slowly entering a state of complete relaxation."

  As he slowly inhaled and exhaled, Li Qiu's body gradually relaxed, thanks to the long hours of hot water pool apnea training. The relaxing body allowed the sound of his breathing to slowly echo in his mind, "Hmmm... Ahhh..." The continuous echoes circulated from his brain to his abdomen, then to his toes, and back again. Gradually, his light and airy body felt as if it were flying in the vast sky, like a wave floating on the surface of the sea, swaying gently. The calm blue sky and the endless green grass slowly unfolded before him, and Li Qiu's consciousness seemed to have separated from his body, floating in this blue sky and green grass. A strange black shadow slowly flew out from the distance...

  Looking at this black shadow, Li Qiu, who was wandering around, couldn't help but get closer and asked, "Who are you?"

  "Hmm." The black shadow's voice was icy cold, so chilly that it sent a shiver down Li Qiu's spine, who had been feeling quite comfortable until then.

  "Who are you? Why are you here? Where is this place? And why are you speaking Chinese?"

  "Me? I'm just a dead person, I am Chinese, of course I speak Chinese!"

  "Dead? Chinese?"

  "Future dead people, this is your sea of consciousness, I am just a temporary lodger."

  "My conscious sea? You, future dead person? What does it mean." Li Qiu felt a bit panicked, anyone who encountered such things would be frightened...

  "Let me out, I have unfinished wishes."

  "How can I let you out?" Let him out, put him out...

  "How did I know it was you who locked me in here from the start!"

  "How can I lock you in here?"

  "It's also, how could you possibly remember, this memory..."

  "Memory? Why can't I remember?"

  "Let me out first, I've been locked up for so long, I don't even know what time it is now. I have important things to do and I want to go out!" The black shadow seemed to be roaring, but the roar was filled with a sense of helpless fear, which surprisingly affected Li Qiu.

  "Now? It's evening now."

  "I'm saying, now is the date! The year!"

  Today is July 30th, 2005.

  "It's only been 9 years since '05?! In this sea of consciousness, why does it feel like decades have passed?!"

  "What has passed in nine years?" Nine years ago, I was only seven years old. Yes, my memories before the age of seven are completely non-existent. My first memory is being under a bridge, and soon after that, I was taken home by my sister to be raised. What about before that?

  "What happened before I was seven years old? Do you know?"

  "Of course I know! Want to know? And how did you know you were seven?"

  "My sister told me how old I was myself, shouldn't I know?"

  "Let me out, I'll tell you what happened before."

  "Then follow me."

  Endless blue and green, Li Qiu himself didn't know how to get out, he just walked and walked, with a black shadow following behind him, walking for a very long time...

  Suddenly, this azure and green world suddenly shook violently. Before long, Li Qiu felt himself being sucked into a whirlpool, the force of which was so great that he could not control it.

  "Wait for me!"

  ……

  "Ah!" Lying on the tatami, Li Qiu suddenly sat up, breathing disorderly, with a puzzled expression flashing across his calm face.

  "Ko-Aki, are you alright? What did you see in your mind?" Fujiwara Makoto, who was kneeling beside him, immediately supported Li Qiu as he sat up and asked anxiously. Yamaguchi Mirei, who was sipping tea on the side, put down her cup, and her calm eyes also showed a hint of urgency.

  "A dark shadow... has come out!" Li Qiu immediately covered his mouth, the first sentence was what he said, but the second sentence wasn't what he thought. The first sentence was in Japanese, and the second sentence was in Chinese.

  "What's Chinese?" The usually strict Mako Yamaguchi also quickened her tone.

  "A dark shadow emerged from my mind...... Japanese?" The same voice, but with a different temperature. Li Qiu's own voice was like Tōdai Katsu's, warm as the morning sun; while the questioning voice behind him was cold as ice in January.

  "Split personality? Dual personality?" These two terms were the first things that came to mind for Tonomi Shinji, who had always been devoted to psychology.

  "Shut up first, I won't snatch your body! You do the translation, I have something to say to them." The cold voice suppressed Li Qiu's original words, "What did you say?"

  "Is it 2005 now? My name is Di Dakuan, a Chinese person (this name, when spoken, really isn't suitable as a name). I died in January 2012 at the age of 28. Death is just death, anyway I have no attachments or worries. But unexpectedly, I crossed over, something that ordinary people can't experience, and I actually experienced it. I crossed over into the body of a three-year-old child in 1992, this very child..."

  It wasn't until after 10 pm that the three people in the house finally understood that the dark shadow in Li Qiu's mind was indeed a "person", no, it should be said to be a soul, an extremely tragic soul, a "jinxed person" who could be called a "heavenly calamity", a "jinxed person" who would fail even if he traveled through time!

  Li Qiu also learned from this soul's words that he had known nothing about his life before the age of seven. From three to seven years old, it was this soul who controlled his body. Li Qiu was indeed an orphan, born in a small, dilapidated church in the countryside and raised by an elderly priest. When the priest passed away at the age of seven, the soul took all the priest's savings and went to Seoul, intending to return to China. However, he accidentally bumped his head, causing Li Qiu's original consciousness to awaken and regain control over his body. He then fainted and was picked up by an old beggar who brought him to a bridge cave in Cheonggyecheon. Of course, the money on him was also stolen by the old beggar... This is why Li Qiu's memories started from that bridge cave.

  "I think his phobia is mine, it has controlled my body for four years, I didn't expect that there are still my memories in his mind, so..."

  Yamaguchi Mireiko and Fujiki Makoto stared at each other in dismay. Such a strange thing, how could they believe it? But they actually believed it. However, the problem was that if it was a psychological issue, Fujiki Makoto would have had a way to deal with it, but in this situation, he was powerless. Should they invite a spiritual medium to perform an exorcism?

  "Do you want to drive me out of his body?"

  "Yes, Li Qiu is my husband's disciple."

  "It's actually quite simple, once I've fulfilled all the obsessions in my heart, then I won't have anything to linger on, and I will disappear myself."

  "What obsession?"

  "I want to go back to China and see my parents! I want to take a look at the reborn world, is the previous tragedy still continuing..."

  (The plot is accelerating infinitely... Of course, the 10th update is a joke, but since I don't know if I can update during the Spring Festival, I'll slowly release the stored drafts...)