Chapter 9 The Devil on Judgment
No. 14-7, Tsomae-cho, Tsangmae-cho, Taitung District.
Ken Taro looked at the streets on Takamae Town. The chaotic street design made it full of the atmosphere of the 1970s. The distorted streets and houses with inclined angles intersected like sharp teeth in the mouth of beasts.
On this street, the same crooked poles and old wires are like spider webs in autumn, and are tangled together, which is distracting.
This is the very famous "Shitume Town" in Japan. The so-called Shitume Town actually refers to the area where ordinary people live. You can see many old buildings in Shitume Town and you can explore the ancient Japanese style.
Here, you will never see modern office buildings and towering apartments, you can only see low houses and workshops for people. Many people have lived here since the Edo period.
In the early Edo period, when Tokugawa Ieyasu first entered Edo, he built a house in a high-level open area, called a "machete", and streets and residential areas were built in a low-level depression for commoners, merchants and handicraftsmen to live in. This is the origin of Shimocho.
In Shimocho, residences and small shops are very dense and humane. People living here are usually simple and enthusiastic. To this day, they have gradually formed the unique Edo Shimocho culture.
Because of the dense housing, the residents of Shimocho are very familiar with each other and have a lot of communication in daily life, so "live" has become a major feature of Shimocho in Japan. There are various sacrificial activities all year round, and everyone will participate when they are held, which is very lively.
Among them, the more famous ones are the Sanshe Festival at Asakusa Shrine in Taitung District, and the "City of You" held every year in the Shiva Shrine in Nekichi.
Taro, the key, always remembers that when he was imprisoned in this dilapidated house, he always looked eagerly at the smiling faces of the pedestrians when the sacrificial activities were held outside.
There are also countless snacks and dolls on the commercial street.
At the end of the shopping street, there is usually a temple or shrine. In addition to seeing historical sites, you can also taste delicious food in the shopping street, buy very distinctive handicrafts, and occasionally encounter cats.
From a very young age, he imagined that if he could go out to this bustling commercial street one day, he would have to eat takoyaki until he had enough, and then he would get close to the little cat stars on the street, touch their faces, and let them stick out their tongues and lick his palms.
However, he never had the chance to go out and was imprisoned in his father's house for the rest of his life.
Every day he endured his father's whip day after day, and his father said, "This is a punishment for a natural devil like him" - he is a devout Christian believer.
However, his pious faith did not win the favor of God. Instead, the financial crisis that occurred in 2000 made his company overwhelmed and declared bankruptcy directly without turning over funds.
In 2000, the mutual network bubble broke out in the United States, which seriously damaged the US economy.
People previously thought that the Internet could change the world, but overstated the role of the Internet, which made the stock prices of Internet companies seriously overvalued and eventually collapsed.
After the Internet bubble, the United States issued a large amount of banknotes, approaching zero interest rates, expanding the housing market and gradually improving the US economy.
However, due to inadequate supervision, the current subprime mortgage crisis and financial crisis were eventually triggered.
This financial crisis also affected Japan. Large Internet companies were forced to bear the name of "unstable". Stock investors waved the stocks of Internet companies and sold a lot on the stock market, causing stock prices to plummet.
The same is true for my father's business, which quickly declined and went bankrupt.
My father abandoned the luxurious villa in the Central District and was forced to live with him, the "devil".
Even so, Taro Ken could still see many people coming here to argue with his father. When he saw his father being pushed to the ground, he couldn't help it.
Although his father used a whip to "punish" him every day, he felt that his father always loved him.
Otherwise, my father wouldn't have to give him a place to live or eat, just let him die, just let him die.
My father was just using "punishment" to wash away the original sin on him.
So when someone hurt his father, Taro, the key to him, was very angry and deliberately used his natural "devil" ability for the first time.
The look of those people suffocating to death by pinching their necks made Taro, the key to the then suffocating feeling a little joy.
This is a power belonging to the "devil". It is a key to being able to control the life and death of others. Taro has never been so happy.
But afterwards, my father looked at him in horror and shouted loudly, "You devil!"
From then on, Taro, the key to the outside world could not even see, and only his father's "punishment"... or "baptism" every day.
Until now, he finally saw the streets in his memory.
But this street at night is just a piece of darkness and tranquility.
"I miss it so much..." Taro, the key to the key, looked at everything outside longingly. Even though it was the street at night and there was no hustle and bustle of daytime words, it still made him feel familiar.
He watched all this, tears flowed out of his eyes like a river.
Behind Taro, a young and beautiful girl was sitting in a close-fitting black suit and skirt, with a tall hair bun, looking slim and bright eyes.
"Daitaka, go and get what you want..." The girl's white and bright teeth showed. Compared to the seemingly innocent and important key Taro, she seemed to be the devil.
"I want..." Kentaro murmured to himself, then trembled and picked up a potion.
The potion is filled with a black, boiling viscous liquid, as if it was boiled soy sauce.
"Father!!! Heavenly Father!! I'm here to be judged!!!" Ken Taro's voice resounded throughout the old house.
Next to Kentaro, there was a long-destroyed adult male skeleton, and the deep but empty eyes seemed to be staring at Kentaro with compassion.
This son, who had a love-hate relationship during his lifetime, killed his son with his own hands, became a monster with bronze scales under the gaze of his father's empty eyes.
The turbid "drug" quickly purified and refined his dangerous bloodline, and at the same time the tyrannical consciousness of the dragon clan invaded his few human consciousness.
That was his cowardly consciousness as a human being, and he lost his human consciousness, and he became completely...
monster.
But he kept shouting that.
Chapter completed!