58 Lying Children
"Miss Miri, Miss Miri!"
"Well...I can't eat it anymore..."
Because the "King of Fishing Kings" competition ended too quickly, when Chu Xuan and the others returned home with a full load, the drunk Miri Katsuki was still sleeping soundly on the grass next to her. Shinji Ikari called her several times but didn't wake her up.
"Miss Miri, get up quickly, we're going back!"
"Hmm? What... will it be tomorrow so soon?
Uh... let me sleep for another five minutes..."
Shinji Ikari kowtowed loudly in Katsuraki Miri's ear angrily, but Katsuraki Miri just trembled a few times before falling into a "sleep" again, with no sign of opening his eyes.
"Back back, this woman has been fascinated by nightmare, so let me, the expert, solve it."
Before Shinji Ikari made up his mind to use more intense means to wake up his guardian, the black cat with a slightly cool expression reached out to stop him with a serious expression.
Next, in Shinji Ikari's suspicious eyes, the black cat lay on the edge of Miri Katsuki's head, gently put his thin lips to the other party's ear, and then quickly muttered something.
“Um…
Well……
Huh...
OK…”
Because there were demons constantly whispering in their ears, Miri Katsuki's expression changed several times, her body became tense unconsciously, and there were more and more sweat beads on her forehead, as if she was really trapped in a nightmare.
“Wow wow—!”
Finally, Miri Katsuki, who had not known what she had experienced in her dream, suddenly screamed, her upper body bounced up like a tight spring, and then sat on the plastic cloth that had been wrinkled back and forth by her. She gasped in a big breath.
"It is said that human thinking can be accelerated hundreds or thousands of times in sleep. Even in just a few minutes, subjective feelings can be spent dozens or hundreds of years."
The black cat, who was obviously very similar to the dark witch, had retreated to Chu Xuan at some point. He also gave the inexplicable scientific explanation to Shinji Ikari, who was surprised and inexplicably, and this strange sense of incongruity made Shinji Ikari shudder.
"Mi, Miss Miri, are you okay?"
Shinji Ikari quickly walked forward and cared about the guardian who was still sitting there. Hearing his voice, Miri Katsuki raised her head a little dazed, and then her eyes quickly returned to the clarity.
"Ah... it's Shinji.
Didn’t you go fishing? Who won?”
"Woooooooooooo...Mi, Miss Miri!"
Just like Shinji Ikari awakened Katsuraki Miri, Katsuraki Miri's inquiry awakened that it had turned gray and white, and followed Hinata Makoto behind Chu Xuan and others like a walking corpse.
This introverted young man whose heart was greatly impacted suddenly rushed to Miri Katsuki's feet, hugged one of her legs and cried loudly:
"The new humans are indeed monsters!
The colonel... he actually... he actually... caught a big catfish more than three meters long!"
"That's right, Colonel Chuxuan is just the fishing devil!"
Makoto Hinata's cry also awakened Aoba Shigeru. The man with a slightly frivolous long-haired man hugged Miri Katsuraki's other leg and excitedly condemned Chu Xuan's cheating with his brother-in-law.
"Well...you two, please calm down, okay?"
Miri Katsurachi, who had drunk a lot of beer at noon, frowned in displeasure. When the two of them quarreled, she felt that her head seemed to be starting to hurt.
"Although I didn't think you could beat Chu Xuan from the beginning. But even if you want to find excuses, you should find a more reliable excuse, right?
What is catfish? The one with two beards on the lips.
How could it grow to three meters long - and even if it grows to three meters long, it would not appear in such a small river!"
Miri Katsuki looked at the crying Makoto and Shigeru Aoba with cold eyes. The three "bars" with different tones at the end of the Qun slap heavily on their faces like three slaps, completely awakening them.
"But, but...we really didn't lie..."
Makoto Hinata raised his head and said aggrievedly as if he had been wronged by his master, while Shigeru Aoba immediately shouted loudly:
"Yes, yes, kids can testify! Children cannot lie!"
"Anyway, you two let go of my legs first."
Miri Katsuki suppressed the urge to curse, raised one hand and pressed her temple. She said to the two subordinates who were still holding her legs and rubbing around.
After both Hyuga Makoto and Aoye Shige were sitting beside each other honestly, the pain in their heads subsided a lot, Miri Katsuki crossed her legs. She turned around and looked at Chu Xuan and others, and asked seriously:
"I heard that Chu Xuan caught a catfish that was more than three meters long, so where is the fish?"
There was indeed a big fish in Miri Katsurachi's sight, but the fish was only one meter at best; in addition, there were a few buckets covered with lids, even if it was a one-meter-long fish inside, it would be terrible, and it would be even more impossible to hold a three-meter-long fish.
However, she should not ask Chu Xuan and the others in this tone of interrogating the prisoners. Although Chu Xuan is indeed the "defendant", the identities of Black Cat, Ayanami Rei and Shinji Ikari are eyewitnesses.
"Ah~How could there be a three-meter-long catfish? I didn't see it.
The longest fish Chu Xuan caught just now was an eel that looked like a snake, which was just used to make grilled eels at night."
Shinji Ikari was about to speak to Miri Katsuragaki about Chu Xuan's great achievements, but the black cat suddenly denied the existence of the three-meter-grown catfish, which made Shinji Ikari stunned.
Next, the black cat, who raised his right hand to block the corner of his mouth, secretly sent a secret code to Ayahari using his left hand behind him, making this "good girl" who was always extremely obedient and said indifferently, "I didn't see it."
"She, they are lying! I did catch it just now, but I was put back in the water!"
Aoye Shige, who just said, "Children can never lie", looked at the black cat and Ayahari who were lying with incredible eyes. His voice could not stop trembling, and it sounded as if he was guilty.
"Yeah."
Miri Katsuki glanced coldly at Shigeru Aoye and Seihiga. The two of them suddenly had their eyes lit up and they nodded at her repeatedly. However, in the next second, Miri Katsuki turned her gaze to Shinji Ikari.
Because of this, except for Chu Xuan who was still looking at him without expression, everyone's eyes were finally focused on Shinji Ikari, which made him feel very stressed.
Although Shinji Ikari didn't understand why Black Cat "bullyed" two acquaintances who were usually very kind, he understood which side he had to stand in this confrontation between "children" and "adults".
Shinji Ikari didn't know what Aoye Shigeru's childhood was like, but he knew very well that the "children's world" he saw with his own eyes was not as kind and harmonious as adults imagined.
Perhaps these children do look like good babies in front of adults, but that is just a "disguise" for adults. Under the mask of good children, children actually have various faces and personalities, which naturally include the cold and cruel side.
Some children will gradually be excluded because they are introverted and are not sociable. If they look ugly or even have some physical defects, they will be looked at by "monsters" wherever they go... But these are not as terrifying as "standing in the wrong team"!
If a child betrays the class and chooses to stand on the side of the adults at this time when it is related to the "class position", then even if his behavior is correct, he will be marked as a "traitor" and will be bullied by all children from then on. Basically, no one dares to help him publicly, because all those who express sympathy for him will be isolated and bullied.
——Unless the one who helps him is the recognized "leader".
But unfortunately, the "leader" is generally the "leader" who can organize all children to fight against adults. For the small group of "eva drivers", the "leader" is the black cat.
So... it is very obvious how Shinji Ikari will choose. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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