Chapter 112 Hirata’s World 7 (2/2)

Taka's face was drawn, and he suddenly stopped speaking

”You mentioned that after Yamada's body was found, you started to approach Hirata After hearing that, it dawned onBujue said, ”Seven years after the cried within Hirata, and that… was you”

Taka chuckled ”Do you mean that I am an existence similar to Tachibana and Watanabe?”

”No, you preside at a level of consciousness far higher than them From how I see it… Hirata should possess four layers to his consciousness,” Feng Bujue explained slowly ”Around Nove two murders and the suicide of his wife, Hirata experienced a mental breakdown From then on, his consciousness was trapped inside the deepest layer of his mind, a world built of terror and chaos

”One s, and after Hirata went through ations and obtained infor t personas—Doctor Watanabe and Officer Tachibana These two personas successfully rescued hi hiiven a h hisaway the parts that wereto reconstruct his actualBujue licked his chapped lips ”When a psychologist atte forth a patient's eclipsedlike a video reel I should have known the space with Tachibana and Watanabe was a mental space in Hirata's head… That place is a deeper consciousness coed between rational thinking and twistedinto Taka's eyes, he said, ”And you, or rather this cell that we're in, is the third layer”

”What do I represent?” Taka asked

”You are also aBujue answered ”You represent the ht years… The normal and believable memory that he could trust”

He leaned back in the chair and looked up Out of habit, he wanted to reach to his nose but realized that his hands were still cuffed In any case, he continued ”Tis After seven years of psychological treatment and the two other personas to help him take away some of the pressure, the confirmed time of death and place that Yamada was found led Hirata to this third layer

”At this layer, he can speak openly with you, objectively and calnize the present If Hirata stays with you here and does not return to the previous two layers, even if he does not recover his memory, at least he will be able to recover to beco Bujue's eyes moved to the recorder ”Inside the recorder, there are conversations between you and hi his memory Therefore, I said, these memories are normal and believable He doesn't want them to be mixed with others But the existence of the recorder also means that the time Hirata can spend here is limited before he moves onto the fourth layer”

Taka showed a helpless expression ”Mr F, what you said is basically correct, but I am sorry to tell you that there are only three layers here”

He sighed ”This place is the layer closest to reality The recorder and the documents on the table are part of Hirata's memory This room is a replica of the cell Hirata resides in, but in reality, there's no table or la Bujue murmured ”How is that possible…”

He showed suspicion and thought to hiained thefukui has been altered, and hiswas recovered, albeit altered These should have surfaced after he was apprehended, but ould he have noYamada? In fact, it was only seven years later, when Yamada's body was found, that Hirata knew about the murder The only information Taka could provide about theabout the her layer, it can onlyto do with Hirata,” Feng Bujue said confidently ”That part of ed in his mind, so they could not be found in any of the layers”

Taka shook his head ”But the evidence has shown that…”

”GiveBujue interrupted

”What do you plan to do?” Taka asked

”I' Bujue answered

”At in, and when that happens, Hirata will return to me or fall back to the deeper two layers” Taka see Bujue explained ”I' to what's adjacent”

”Adjacent? What do youBujue said in the tone of a life foret me the mirror”

In the blink of an eye, Doctor Taka disappeared, and only Feng Bujue was left in the room On the table before hiht, supported by the plastic stand on its back It looked upward at an angle

Feng Bujue dragged the chair forward to where he could look into the mirror He saw that the reflection in the mirror was not his own It was a pale-faced man around forty with an unke Bujue told the face in the mirror He had seen Hirata's resume in the black and white world, and it caed nized it