Kisaragi's Long-Strange Collection Notes

Chen Meimei has a somewhat subtle personality trait: he is more responsive to gentle persuasion than force.

When he encounters someone arrogant, whether human or strange, he'll fight without hesitation; but when he encounters someone who seems easy to bully, he's not so assertive.

"[Social anxiety phobia], huh? I'll call you Little Social Anxiety. Tell me, what abilities do you have?"

"No...don't just give people names, we're not familiar with each other yet."

"Hmm?" Chen Meimei snorted.

"Okay, you can call me Xiao She, but I have social anxiety, so we can't be friends." Shadow immediately backed down.

"I was born in the shadow of a socially anxious person."

When they are in a social situation and feel extremely uncomfortable, a shadow will appear under their feet that only they can see.

The more people there were, the more painful it became; the larger and more distorted the shadow grew, and eventually, I appeared.

"Hmm, what about your passive ability?"

"I will pull out the people who can see me from the shadows and make them say inappropriate things, or cause them to develop autism."

"Then why didn't you pull me?"

"You're not socially anxious, and you're bathed in moonlight; the moment I touch you, I feel illuminated."

"Go, go, go back to your fog. Socially awkward people should stay home. What are you running around for?" Chen Meimei stepped out of the shadows, no longer wanting to deal with this weirdo.

"Oh, okay, if the fog in my house hadn't suddenly brought me here, I wouldn't have wanted to run into anyone."

Having failed to encounter any of the strange creatures she desired, Chen Meimei flew out of Sixiang City.

It flew for about half an hour.

Chen Meimei encountered a field of flowers.

This is a large field of sunflowers.

In the wild, at night, in a sunflower field slightly taller than a person.

Each sunflower, with its large flower head bowed slightly, resembled a face without features, silently watching the passersby who came to the flower field.

Chen Meimei originally thought that the sunflowers would come to life, rise up and attack, grind the newcomers into mincemeat and turn them into fertilizer.

As a result, he walked around the flower field and didn't hear a thing.

"What's going on, weird little buddy? Where are you?"

Chen Meimei's eyes, with their two crescent-shaped pupils, kept scanning the flower field.

He quickly noticed something was wrong.

There was no wind in the flower field at that moment, so almost all the sunflowers were still, except for one.

It was a moving sunflower, almost indistinguishable in appearance from other sunflowers.

Wherever Chen Meimei goes, the sunflower follows him, facing the same direction.

Chen Meimei moved closer.

I poked the moving sunflower with my finger.

"Hi, can we chat?"

The sunflower twisted its stalk and its first words were surprisingly a compliment: "You're so beautiful."

"Thank you, you have excellent taste."

"I'm very happy right now, and I like you a lot." Sunflower's tone became even gentler.

Before Chen Meimei could speak again.

The sunflower's flower head split open in the center, revealing hideous, sharp teeth shaped like sunflower seeds, and swallowed Chen Meimei in a flash.

Chen Meimei remained completely calm; this situation was entirely within his expectations.

That's normal. If the sunflowers in a field didn't attack people, it would be a waste of the terrifying atmosphere.

It didn't take more than three seconds.

Then the unexpected happened.

After the sunflower swallowed him, it didn't bite him. Instead, it created a soft sofa in its flower head, allowing him to sit comfortably.

The large mouth on the flower plate was not closed, as if it was specially left for him to breathe and enjoy the moonlight.

"You're not going to attack me?"

"I like you, so why would I attack you?" Sunflower asked, puzzled.

Why do you like me?

"I don't know either. As soon as you entered the flower field tonight and I saw you, I couldn't take my eyes off you."

"Fine, I often encounter this situation, I'm used to it." Chen Meimei was a bit thick-skinned.

Alone with a flower, I quietly gazed at the sky for a while.

"I'm leaving," Chen Meimei said, breaking the silence.

"oh."

The sunflower didn't cause any trouble like "You can't leave, you have to stay with me forever," and gently sent him out of the flowerpot.

"Then I'm leaving."

"Hmm, can you come and play with me often? The sunflowers here don't play with me." The sunflower's tone was full of expectation.

"If I have time, I will, but these are all your kind here, why are they ignoring you?"

"They are all sunflowers, active during the day, moving towards the sun."

I'm an oddball; I don't react to the sun, and I only move towards the moon at night.

They all said I was a monster and gave me a nickname, calling me "Sunflower of the Moon."

Chen Meimei was taken aback.

Wow, so it turns out it was "spending it myself".

"Would you like to come with me?"

The sunflower nodded, then shook its head.

"I can't go with you. Our entire flower field is a whole. I only come out at night when they are asleep, and they are active during the day."

"What if I dig you out separately?"

"It's no use. Tonight I'm this flower, but next time I'll be another random flower in the field."

"That means if I want to take you away, I have to take the whole flower field with me, and during the day it's a whole bunch of real sunflowers."

"Uh-huh."

Chen Meimei felt a bit tricky.

First, he couldn't bring such a large flower field back to Sixiang City, and second, he didn't like sunflowers during the day.

"Okay, I'll think of a way. If there's an opportunity, I'll see if I can separate you and take you away on my own."

"oh oh."

Goodbye then.

See you next time.

Even long after Chen Meimei flew away, the sunflower remained facing the direction he had left, without moving for a long time.

Chen Meimei flew in the air.

He also wanted to take the [Sunflower] with him, but he hadn't thought of a good way to do so yet.

To be precise, that flower field is the real anomaly. [Moonflower] and the regular sunflower are two different personalities of the flower field, which cannot be forcibly separated by external forces.

"There's always a way. Let's look for something strange we can bring home today."

Flying in the air, looking down from above, his Twin Moon Eyes had amazing vision; even with the fog obscuring his view, he could still see some strange things from afar.

Some of them were so ugly that he didn't even bother to attack them; he just flew over them.

Not long after, he arrived at a small lake.

He noticed a strange aura in the water.

Although he wasn't afraid of death, he didn't really want to go into the water.

The "brain in a vat" problem he encountered during his graduation exam still makes him feel slightly uneasy when he thinks about it now.

He didn't want to end up with his brains splattered.

The water in the small lake was very clear, and no living creatures could be seen.

This is very unusual.

Even if there are strange things in a normal body of water, they will not completely destroy the entire ecosystem.

Fish, shrimp, microorganisms, duckweed, shellfish, etc., will still be present.

Here, you can't see anything; the water is almost too clear.

Chen Meimei decided to try diplomacy first, then resort to force.

"Hey, is your weird friend in the water home? Come out and chat."

The next moment, Chen Meimei shuddered, and then... nothing happened.

After a while, a voice came from the water: "Why isn't there any blood on you?"

"Oh? So you were trying to draw my blood just now. I'm Ultraman now, I can turn into light, you can't draw it from me."

A ripple spread across the water's surface.

Then a small vortex appeared.

From the whirlpool, a transparent humanoid figure made entirely of water slowly rose up.

"High-ranking mystic, my name is [Water-shaped Artist]. It seems I will have another excellent piece of work today."