Yuki Tsukumo's words cast another layer of eerie mystery over this incident.
Zenin Kiyoshi sighed. In fact, he had long expected that the real situation would be more difficult to solve than what he had seen in the anime.
According to the official statement, Master Tengen needs to undergo a Star Plasma Vessel fusion every five hundred years. But from the Heian era to the present, only a little over a thousand years have passed.
If the official statement is to be believed, then so far, Master Tengen should have only fused with two Star Plasma Vessels.
But judging from the animated silhouette in the original story, Riko Amanai should be the fourth Star Plasma Vessel about to be fused.
This is a full twice as fast as the official statement, which is obviously a problem.
However, in the previous face-to-face conversation with Tengen, she still did not reveal any clues to him, only saying that there was some connection between the [Six Eyes] and the [Star Plasma Vessel], and that the [Heavenly Restriction] was a possible key to breaking this cycle of fate.
But the specific relationship between these three, what role they play, the problem of Tengen's fusion process, and the wrong future of its development towards a [Cursed Spirit] in the original story, these problems were not given a reasonable explanation in the original.
However, the original ended with Tengen's death, directly burying these questions underground. The thousand-year secret disappeared forever with the deaths of Sukuna, Kenjaku, and Tengen.
But that was an incompletely explained anime world. This is now the real world.
All the questions must involve some secret, and these secrets, due to his sudden appearance, have now been quietly dug out from the soil.
Thinking of these coming complex problems, Zenin Kiyoshi only felt a little helpless.
He just wanted to lie low here, at least not show his face before he had the strength of a special-grade, and not be the one to stick his neck out.
But the development of things was always unexpected, as if everything was pulling him out of the gutter.
However, before Zenin Kiyoshi could answer, Riko Amanai's voice suddenly sounded at this moment. Her voice was full of trembling and suppression, her shoulders trembled slightly, and her eyes were a little red:
"Miss Yuki, are you saying that the Star Plasma Vessels were all abandoned by Master Tengen in the end? How could this happen! The existence of the Star Plasma Vessel is to help Master Tengen stabilize her body, and it is an important existence to allow Master Tengen to continue to protect the entire world! How could it be thrown away like garbage as you said?!"
Riko's voice went from weak to hoarse. Her gaze towards Yuki was full of indescribable sadness and pain.
For her, becoming a Star Plasma Vessel and then helping Master Tengen stabilize the entire world was the only belief that supported her to live on.
She died for the future of mankind, for saving countless ordinary humans like her.
But now, someone told her that in fact, the Star Plasma Vessel was not important at all, just a piece of garbage that could be thrown away at will after being used.
This made Riko's worldview and the things she had been insisting on all along become a joke. How could she accept this.
Yuki Tsukumo looked at Riko's appearance at this moment. For Riko, who was also a Star Plasma Vessel, Yuki had a great tolerance. No matter how angry Riko was with her, she would not be angry, because no one in this world knew better than her how big a blow this matter was to Riko.
But people grow up by learning to accept. Death, separation, leaving, abandoning... After learning to accept these things, a person can truly grow up.
So, she looked at Riko and said in a calm and gentle voice:
"I know you can't accept all this, but Riko, you should also feel it. I am the same as you, we are both Star Plasma Vessels. You should also be able to perceive the connection between us. Anyone in this world may deceive you on this matter, but only I, who am also a Star Plasma Vessel, will not do that.
And I can't deceive you either. If what I just said was false, you would be able to feel it very clearly, right?"
Hearing Yuki Tsukumo's words, Riko lowered her head. She only felt an indescribable coldness all over her body, and the whole world seemed to be plunged into darkness at this moment.
Her voice at this moment was a little broken and sad:
"Then... what is the meaning of our existence? What is everything I have insisted on until now?!"
Riko did not scream hysterically. She didn't even shed a tear. She just curled up her body and whispered in a voice so low that it was heartbreaking.
Yuki Tsukumo opened her mouth. She wanted to say something to comfort Riko, but she couldn't say anything.
Two lines of clear tears had already flowed down Miss Kuroi's face. She had always known that Riko was pretending to be strong, but the only thing she could do was to pretend not to know about Riko's pretense and play that optimistic role with her.
But when this optimism and strength were shattered in the face of cruel reality, all the efforts between the two of them seemed to be like bubbles, without any meaning, only appearing in this world for a moment, and then quickly shattering, leaving no trace.
She wanted to go forward and hug Riko, to comfort her.
But Kuroi knew that if Riko saw her like this at this time, it would only make Riko more painful.
Toji looked at all this, and his childhood self suddenly came to his mind. He seemed to have asked himself at that time what the meaning of his life was.
The oppression in the room was suffocatingly heavy. The sound of the rain outside the window seemed to be playing a dirge for the fragility and fall of life.
It was only at this time that Zenin Kiyoshi was freed from his thoughts. He looked at the people with sad faces in front of him, and only felt the corners of his mouth twitch uncontrollably.
He almost forgot that the mental state of most of the people here was not very good.
Or it could be said that among the people present in this room now, besides himself, there was not a single healthy and complete childhood.
If these autistic children were allowed to continue like this, he didn't know what would happen in a while.
Zenin Kiyoshi thought for a moment about what Riko had just said, and quickly figured out what she needed now.
Although it might not be very good to do so, at this time, it was the right way to get her out of it quickly.
So, Zenin Kiyoshi went forward, gently placed his hand on Riko's head, and his tone was as gentle as the melting snow in early spring:
"I think the name Riko Amanai sounds much better than Star Plasma Vessel, don't you think?"
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