Chapter 298 Explosion Is a Fantasy Element! (Original)

This is indeed a movie, and it is a huge success.

Everyone in the auditorium was secretly crying while watching the movie, but in the midst of sobbing, a hand suddenly appeared in the screen, making a V-sign of victory.

That... of course was Yutai's hand.

His movie was a success, and his and Eri's movie was a success!

He had successfully moved everyone who saw the movie to tears.

But Yutai's filming seemed not to be over yet.

In the comics, it was still like filming with a mobile phone, and the white wild cat in the picture was sniffing the flowers and plants on the roadside.

It was as if this was still in the movie.

Zhou Wenwei was really not sure whether this was still a movie or the movie was over.

Just then...

In the comics.

"Yutai-san."

A girl came to find him, looking sad and upset.

"What's the matter?"

Yutai continued to ask outside the screen.

"Um...what are you taking pictures of?"

"Cat..."

The girl glanced at the cat outside the window, then asked, "Let me ask you..."

"Does Eri usually wear glasses?"

Zhou Wenwei was stunned for a moment. Does Eri wear glasses?

But in the comics, Eri has never been seen wearing glasses.

Then, Yutai continued to talk with the girl who seemed to be familiar with Eri.

"She asked to take off her glasses when filming."

"What about the braces on her teeth?"

"That was also at her request. We took them off before filming."

"You are too obedient to your girlfriend, aren't you?"

"We were only lovers in the movie. We didn't actually date. I confessed my feelings, but she rejected me."

"...The movie was indeed handled in a way that made it difficult to tell, but in fact, Eri is a person who gets angry easily and is self-centered... She is a pretty annoying woman, right?"

"Well... That's why she said she only has two friends, me and you."

...

During the conversation with Eri's "only two" friends, Zhou Wenwei gradually understood...

It turns out that Eri is the same as Yutai's mother, and they are not perfect people.

In fact, the real Eri is even worse than Yutai's mother.

A self-centered girl who likes to get angry at people, has few friends, is nearsighted, wears glasses, and wears braces on her teeth.

Thinking about it this way, judging from the appearance of the girl, Zhou Wenwei was reminded of the time when he was in school. It seemed that there were many girls like this around him...

Very ordinary, and even her personality was hard to accept.

It was just that Yutai photographed Eri too perfectly, just like he photographed her mother.

That's why Eri in the movie is so beautiful, cute, quirky and considerate.

As Yutai's father said, Yutai has the power to determine the image of others in everyone's memories.

Zhou Wenwei suddenly understood something again.

It's just that the understanding was too vague, just a flash of inspiration, but it was completely ungraspable.

Back to the comics.

"...The Eri you photographed... is a bit over-beautified."

The girl said.

"Yeah."

Yutai admitted this.

But the girl was not angry, but smiled.

"But... I will remember that Eri from now on."

The girl said with relief and sincerity, "Thank you."

However, after this scene, the figure of the girl in front of her suddenly became blurred and doubled.

Everything seemed to become blurred and unreal.

School, mother, Youtai...

The last piece of black.

After occupying an entire page and divided into eight dark pictures, Youtai's narration suddenly appeared.

"The protagonist successfully photographed the death scene that his mother failed to photograph when she died..."

"Regained the confidence to live well and continue to make movies."

"End."

...

Seeing this, Zhou Wenwei was lost and muttered to himself, saying, "Is it over...just like this?"

He always felt that something was missing...

Such an ending seems perfect, it can be said that it is perfect to the point of being perfect.

Like ordinary depressing comics, the seriously ill heroine died after helping the hero fulfill their common wish.

But the hero was also greatly encouraged, cheered up and continued to devote himself to his beloved career...

But...is this enough?

Zhou Wenwei felt a little unwilling, why did it end like this?

There must be something missing, this is not a perfect ending...

But what is missing? What's missing...

Zhou Wenwei didn't know what was missing, he subconsciously turned to the next page, but...

The next page was not the so-called advertisement page or the last page.

The comic continued.

The scene where Youtai took a photo of his own expression with his mobile phone appeared again on the screen.

"That's just me in the movie."

"I'm not so lucky in real life."

Youtai's narration told his real life outside the movie, saying, "After the cultural festival, I didn't go to school, hiding in my room alone."

"Then, I re-edited Eri's movie in front of the computer all day."

On the screen, a movie disc with "Goodbye Eri" appeared.

"The movie itself was well received, but I always felt that there was something missing."

"I felt that the answer was hidden in the 2728 hours of video I spent with Eri."

"After entering university, I continued editing."

"Going to class, working part-time... After returning home, I would tinker with Eri's videos, and the whole day would end like this."

"After dropping out of university, I found a company."

"There I met my current wife, and after we got married, we had a daughter."

"After that, I continued to edit Eri's movies again and again, which I would never show to anyone."

"I have no complaints about my family. Living a stable life like this and facing death is also a happy life."

...

Yutai's words made Zhou Wenwei feel even heavier.

Eri... like Yutai's mother, has become Yutai's obsession.

Just like after filming "Mother of Explosion", not filming the scene of his mother's death became Yutai's lifelong regret.

After filming "Goodbye Eri", Eri became Yutai's new obsession.

That girl who was not really pretty, whose personality was not cute and likable, made Yutai never forget her.

Yes, it turns out that this is what he has been missing.

Yutai has been freed from the regret of "Blast Death Mother", but he has not been freed from the regret of "Goodbye Eri".

So how can Yutai be freed from Eri's regret?

Or, what is Yutai's regret for Eri?

What is it...

However, in the comics, the black picture flashed again...

Suddenly in the next picture, Yutai, who was as old as Yutai's father in the comics at the beginning, appeared and sat in a room, but now he looked haggard.

"That day..."

He narrated an event in the past with a numb face, saying, "That day, the speeding car carried my wife, daughter, father... and me."

"I was driving."

"For a moment, it was like a TV power outage, and my eyes became dark."

"When I came to my senses, I was already looking up at the ceiling of the hospital."

So... Yutai's family had a car accident, and Yutai was the only one left?

"They told me that we were caught in the car accident ahead..."

"Everyone except me died on the spot."

This heavy blow was too bad.

It was just that Yutai had probably cried at that time, and he had cried many times.

So now he couldn't cry anymore, only his heart was completely dead, numb, withered, without sadness or joy, and his heart was ashen.

"...I really can't accept this."

Yutai continued numbly, "It's just like watching a shocking plot in a movie."

"Thinking about it carefully, I have always been like this."

He recalled his past self and said, "I have a quirk, that is, I will look at the problems in front of me too objectively."

"Whether it was my mother's death or Eri's death, I looked at it through the lens."

"I was like this when I was considering suicide in high school. I could only face reality through the lens."

Another silence.

After analyzing and evaluating his own soul without blood and tears, he said to the camera as if he was judging himself, "And the result is... I understand that my remaining soul can no longer bear the death of others."

"If I have to die, I decided to go to the place where I have left my memories."

"I'm done."

Youtai covered the camera like he did in the previous selfie videos.

...

To be honest, Zhou Wenwei felt very uncomfortable watching this plot.

That kind of discomfort was just like watching "Flame Fist" at the beginning. All the sufferings were so reasonable, and all existence was so illusory.

Now, even he has the same feeling as when he watched Agni at the beginning...

Perhaps...death is the best ending for Youtai...

So commit suicide...

Suicide...is a good choice.

Besides this, is there a better solution?

Once again, Youtai came to the apartment building that was even more dilapidated than before.

After a timeline that should have lasted for more than ten years, Youtai has been in junior high school and now looks like he is nearly thirty years old. It has been more than ten years, right?

But this building seems to have not changed, and it seems to have changed.

It became more desolate, but no one came to raze the building to the ground and rebuild a new one.

It was as if no one knew about this building.

But Yutai didn't care about it, just continued to walk through the building, the blurred and gray building, as if no one had been here for a long time.

He walked through the long corridor and finally came to the secret base where he and Eri had spent 2728 hours here, or maybe more.

These 2728 hours were just the pictures he took.

The room was dark, with only the sofa and the portable projector at the back still there.

Yutai put down his backpack and opened the zipper, but inside was a thick hemp rope for hanging.

He seemed to be meeting his end here.

"This world is full of death."

Such a voice suddenly came from the side.

"Huh?"

Yutai made a puzzled sound and looked at the wall.

The wall was showing a selfie video of him when he was young, when he was made a laughing stock by his classmates after the broadcast of "Mother of Explosion Death", and he was so angry that he wanted to commit suicide.

Yutai, who is almost thirty years old and has experienced the tragic experience of all his family members passing away and being the only one left, looked back in the dim room.

In the next cartoon, Eri appeared on the sofa again.

She was showing the movie, and the light from the projector illuminated her beautiful face that never seemed to age.

"You are much older than you appear in this video."

She still said with a quirky smile.

Is this fantasy?

Yuta’s fantasy before his death, otherwise why would the dead Eri appear again?

Yuta looked in disbelief when he saw Eri reappearing, looking just like the familiar one in his memories.

The backpack was released and fell to the ground.

Then Yutai showed a look of realization and said, "I understand...I understand...ah..."

"I see...it's just a dream..."

"No, could it be that I went crazy and saw hallucinations..."

He further denied, "It's like the movie "Wild Rose Perm Shop"... No, if I have to say it, more like "Titanic"? In "The Sixth Sense"... the protagonist should be dead, right? ……Huh?"

"The general direction of this movie is good, but it's still a bit of a pity."

At this moment, Eri looked at him with a smile on her face and said.

"Huh? Huh?...Um...ah?"

Youtai still couldn't figure out what was going on and said.

"It's so common for movies to end with lovers dying. I really hope there will be a big twist in the second half..."

Eri continued to look at him with a smile and said, "Is it missing a little fantasy element?"

Finally, Yutai seemed to finally react.

He looked at Eri in front of him and asked in disbelief, "Eri is talking to me?"

"It's Eri talking to you."

Eri said somewhat speechlessly.

"...As for the illusion elements, they already exist..."

At this time, Yuta seemed to have returned to the past, when he and Eri were discussing the plot of the movie, and said, "I set you as a vampire."

"That's not a fantasy."

Eri suddenly pointed at herself and said, "Because I am really a vampire. The proof is that I am still young, right?"

When Zhou Wenwei said this, he felt a little ridiculous.

Therefore, he was sure that Eri was indeed dead, and this was just Yuta's fantasy before his death.

Zhou Wenwei thought so.

In comics.

Youtai didn't believe it either, and said a little dullly, "But I personally photographed the moment you died..."

"Yes, dead."

Eri pointed to her forehead and said, "This is the only place that is dead."

"You know what? The brain is like a hard drive, it has a limited capacity."

She went on to say logically, "If humans live for a full two hundred years, they will die because their brains are full."

"It's like me in this movie."

"But, in reality, I am not a human, but a vampire..."

She covered her chest, but it was the right side of her chest. Isn't the heart usually on the left side?

"As long as your heart is beating, you will never die."

"I woke up three days after my death, but I lost all my previous memories."

Yuta looked at her in disbelief, but Eri continued, "As for how I should live, the last Eri wrote to me."

On the cabinet on the right behind her, there was an open envelope.

At this moment, Zhou Wenwei really couldn't tell...

Is this true?

Is Eri really a vampire?

So she is still alive? Isn’t it the so-called Youtai’s hallucination?

"I seem to have lost my memory like this dozens of times and lived again."

Hearing what Eri said, Yuta was still in disbelief and said, "...It's like a plot that only exists in movies..."

"That's right, this time there's more than just a letter."

Eri looked at the movie playing in front of her and said, "Let's play this movie together."

Looking at the scene of Eri in the movie, Yutai was a little stunned.

"The kind of person I was before...the movies told me."

Eri said.

After watching the movie in front of me and being silent for a long time...

"Are you... going to have no problem with your future life?"

Youtai raised his head again and asked, "Everyone around you will take a step ahead of you... your parents, lovers, and friends will all die before you."

"Don't you despair of this life?"

This seems to be a question to Eri, but actually...

Isn't he asking himself?

Zhou Wenwei suddenly understood at this moment that this was just Youtai's hallucination.

Eri is dead. She is not a vampire girl. They are still in... the movie.

That's why Eri talks about the vampire setting.

It was just that Eri looked at him for a long time, and finally she smiled and said, "I think the last Eri must have been desperate...but it doesn't matter to me."

"Because I already have the movie."

Youtai looked at the projector in front of him and froze on the spot.

"If I look again, I can see you again... Even if I forget you countless times, I can think of you again countless times."

In the movie scene, Eri and the young Yuta are sitting on the sofa watching a movie together.

Eri, who was still young, looked at Yuta, who was nearly thirty years old and in a state of embarrassment, and asked, "Don't you think that is a wonderful thing?"

"Um……"

Youtai suddenly felt relieved and said with a slight smile, "It's a very beautiful thing..."

Eri immediately showed a satisfied smile, but now she seemed to dislike Yuta and said, "I don't like watching movies while talking. If you don't want to sit down, can you please leave immediately?"

"……All right……"

Yutai lowered his head and said with a smile.

Then under Eri's gaze, he turned around and opened the door, planning to leave.

"Bye now……"

Yuta finally looked at Eri and solemnly said goodbye.

Eri was still sitting on the sofa, but she turned around, looked at Yuta as well, and said, "Well...goodbye."

Just like that, Yutai stepped out of the room and closed the door, as if he no longer cared about Eri.

He crossed the dilapidated corridor again and left without any nostalgia this time.

Leaving this run-down, abandoned apartment building.

"I haven't seen her since."

At this time, Yutai's narration appeared on the screen.

“Because I understood why I edited that movie so many times.”

His footsteps continued to move forward, no longer nostalgic for the past.

"Is there a little bit of fantasy missing?"

Eri appeared on the screen again and said to Yuta.

Yutai smiled with relief, but the moment he walked out of the apartment building behind him, an explosion suddenly occurred in the apartment building.

Just like the sudden explosion in the hospital in "Mother of Explosions".

Only this time, Yutai in the picture no longer hesitated, regretted or regretted. He walked forward confidently, no longer caring about the explosion behind him.

Real men...never look back to see the explosion!

"End. 』

Finally, Zhou Wenwei saw the real ending, and this time he was relieved and laughed happily.

"ha……"

He looked at Yutai who was confident and determined in the comics and did not look back at the explosion, and he laughed heartily and happily, "Hahahahahahaha——"

"Goodbye Eri" is really the best short comic. I really like this story, so I couldn't help but make it longer.