Chapter 294: Human Heart
For Migi, it didn't matter if Shinichi didn't attend classes, but he had to maintain good health.
That way, he could live longer.
And Shinichi definitely had to continue attending classes and maintain a normal life like any other person.
He was on his way to class when he suddenly remembered what Tamiya Ryoko had said:
"It's only a little bit, but you're already mixed..."
"What does that mean?" Shinichi asked, somewhat bewildered.
"Probably, my body is connected to your brain through your nerves and bodily fluids."
At that moment, Migi gave his own conjecture and said: "Perhaps you are also affected by this."
Upon hearing this, Shinichi was startled and looked at Migi.
"Then, perhaps your brain has changed," Migi said, showing his eyes and mouth. "Tamiya Ryoko noticed it, she perceived your non-human part, right?"
"Non-human part?" Shinichi asked quickly. "Except for you, Migi, my body is completely human."
"It's hard to say..." Migi said without emotion. "Even if your mental structure has changed, I'm not surprised."
"Huh?"
This startled Shinichi.
But Migi became sleepy again and fell asleep.
"What do you mean by mixed...? I'm just an ordinary human."
Shinichi resisted, but he suddenly remembered what the people around him had said about him recently.
"Interesting. I won't kill you," Tamiya Ryoko told him with a smile.
"Something is wrong..." his mother had told him with tears in her eyes.
"It seems you've changed lately," his girlfriend Satomi had said the same thing.
So... could it really be...?
"No!" Shinichi reaffirmed his thoughts. "I will not become a monster that wants to kill and cannibalize its own kind."
After a struggle with his conscience, he continued to go to school.
On his way to school, Shinichi saw Mitsuo, a classmate who tried to bully him out of jealousy of Satomi.
Mitsuo, who had always seemed like a school bully, was now surrounded and beaten by a group of bullies, looking quite embarrassed.
"Stop it!" the kindhearted Shinichi yelled at the bullies.
"What?" they looked at him with disdain.
"He's my classmate," Shinichi shuddered, but he continued.
"Is that a reason?"
Suddenly, a beautiful girl and a man who was clearly the leader of the bullies appeared in the manga. The girl said with a hint of fun.
"I don't know why you did that," Shinichi frowned, "but isn't it a bit excessive?"
The bullies exchanged amused glances. After a glance from the leader, one of them approached Shinichi and gave him a hard punch. "Are you awake, four-eyes kid?" the bullies mocked Shinichi without scruples.
It was clearly a scene of school bullying, and Kenji Tanaka, who was witnessing it, was deeply annoyed.
"These bastards..." Kenji Tanaka said angrily. "Protagonist, quickly bring out Migi and teach these naughty little vandals a lesson!"
"No..."
It was then that he suddenly remembered that Migi seemed to have fallen asleep.
And Migi, who was sleeping, seemed unable to perceive the changes in the outside world.
Sure enough, the gangsters began to mock Shinichi with contempt, wanting him to stay out of it and run away.
But Shinichi suddenly remembered what Migi had said at the beginning:
"The most difficult thing to understand about the human heart is dedication."
Migi said, looking at the information on the computer in Shinichi's room: "In other words, sacrificing one's own interests for others, I don't understand that at all."
"Human heart?"
Shinichi looked thoughtfully at Mitsuo, who was constantly being bullied by the gangsters, and he suddenly understood and said: "Yes! This is the difference between humans and parasites!"
Once again, he mustered up the courage to stop the gangsters' inappropriate behavior.
"I... didn't I tell you to stop?"
However, his words aroused the dissatisfaction of the gang leader.
He directly attacked and beat Shinichi with extreme brutality.
But Shinichi still did not give up his righteous conduct.
This made the gang leader feel even more dissatisfied, and he cursed Shinichi's hypocrisy for pretending to be a messenger of justice.
Perhaps, in his opinion, no one in this world is a good person, and everyone is driven by interests to dispense that kind of justice.
This little gangster is second-rate, but arrogant.
But in the end, the beautiful gangster who was with the leader and the gang members unexpectedly stepped forward to stop his behavior.
"Stop it!" the gangster Kana said with disdain. "You're bullying the weak, you're useless."
"I'll let you save your life."
The leader snorted coldly, obviously sympathizing with Kana, and stepped aside to let Shinichi go.
At that moment, Kana approached Shinichi and knelt down.
"You're so weak... why do you still want to show off?" she said, looking into Shinichi's eyes confused.
Shinichi looked at Kana with stubbornness, and his eyes, with his glasses off, caught Kana's attention.
Little by little, she immersed herself in Shinichi's pupils, just as Tamiya Ryoko looked into Shinichi's eyes.
She also saw the numerous red spots mixed in the depths of Shinichi's eyes...
But that's not all!
Suddenly, an eye opened in the depths of infinite darkness! It was... Migi's eyes!
That moment scared Kana, who looked at Shinichi deeply, her eyes full of fear. "Ah?! Who are you?"
Shinichi still looked at her with some confusion.
"Come on, Kana."
the leader said, without noticing anything unusual about Kana and Shinichi.
However, Kana ran backward in a panic, which confused the leader and the gangsters, but they still caught up with her.
In this way, Shinichi and Mitsuo were saved.
But Mitsuo was confused by Shinichi's stupid behavior. After all, they were rivals in love.
However, he changed his mind about Shinichi.
Upon returning to school, he found the "older brother" in his school, so that when he met the bullies again, he could ask for their help.
But after school, the gangster Kana found Shinichi.
Looking at Satomi, who was following Shinichi, she hinted meaningfully: "Don't pretend. You seem to have a strong sense of justice, but who knows what shameful things you're doing behind the scenes."
She had clearly perceived a change in Shinichi's spirit, but she assumed he was like the other parasites, a violent individual who did no good behind the scenes.
However, her unusual behavior toward Shinichi had made the leader, who had always been by her side and was in love with her, extremely jealous.
Mitsuo even had Satomi kidnapped and threatened Shinichi to accompany them to a remote and deserted corner.
Thus, Shinichi fell into the difficult situation of school bullying.
"End of this chapter."
"You have finished reading it..." Kenji Tanaka said, bewildered.
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