The coffee named after Intis was fragrant and strong, and it paired perfectly with the fluffy little cakes spread with butter, even if Lumian's mind was not focused on them at all.
Just as 3:30 arrived, he heard a familiar gentle female voice coming from the booth behind him.
"Good afternoon, Lumian. Mr. Li."
"Good afternoon, Ms. Susie." While Lumian responded, he was secretly surprised.
Although he didn't deliberately observe the customers who walked into Mason's Cafe, the instinct of a "hunter" still made him pay attention to the environment:
At 3:18, when he walked into the café, there was no one around the D booth, and from 3:10 to 3:30, no one entered the door.
And now, Ms. Susie quietly appeared behind the D booth like that, appearing behind him!
How magical and weird this is!
Susie's voice sounded again, and she asked gently:
"How did you feel after your last treatment?"
Lumian did not hide it and replied simply:
"It's much better than before, at least I can vent my emotions."
"This is a good thing, always let emotions accumulate in your heart, always suppress your feelings, will only make your mental problems and extreme state more and more serious until the tendency to self-destruction completely overcomes your instinctive will to survive." Susie commented with peaceful and soothing words, affirming Lumian's change.
Her tone immediately took on a bit of a smile:
"Let's chat first, let's talk about all the things you have experienced in the past two weeks, well, pick what you think you can say and are willing to say."
Lumian knew that this was to calm his psychological state and do further spiritual treatment, so he didn't have the slightest resistance, and said with a wry smile:
"There's nothing I can't say, even that dream is open to you, and the rest can only be considered a small secret."
He paused for a moment, starting with Charlie:
"The hotel where I stayed had a guy who was both unlucky and stupid......"
Lumian recalled the events of the past two weeks and spoke out little by little like a small talk.
His mind gradually relaxed, as if he had returned to the time when Kordu Village had not yet been destroyed:
Aurore, who rarely goes out, learns from him about the big and small things that happen in the village of Kordu, and he is happy to share it with his sister, including the pranks that show off his success.
Time passed slowly, and Lumian's straight back softened a little bit, leaning against the soft sofa.
He didn't mention the existence of the Curly Baboon Research Society, Franca's original gender, and his own suspicions about her joining the Savoyard Party, but only said that he met his sister Aurore, a pen pal, she is the "witch" of Sequence 7 of the "Witch" path, and both sides are in the same gang.
Similarly, he only briefly mentioned that he held the ceremony and received additional gifts, without mentioning the specific content of the gifts.
Susie listened to everything quite quietly, and from time to time she cooperated with the question "What then" so that Lumian could continue speaking more smoothly.
After talking about what happened in the past two weeks, Lumian laughed at himself:
"I don't know if it's my own problem, I have encountered so many extraordinary events in such a short period of time, and sometimes, I can't help but feel how Trier has extraordinary abilities as a human and a dog."
This time, Susie didn't respond to him immediately, and after a few seconds, she smiled and said:
"It can be seen that your psychological state has indeed improved to a certain extent compared to before."
"Where did you see it?" Lumian didn't mention just now that after seeing Aurore's obituary, he cried in the carriage and wet the details of the newspaper, and he didn't think that the things he told could reflect his own psychological state.
Susie said in a soft voice:
"I can clearly feel that you are rebuilding your social relationships and starting to have some friends."
"Friends?" Lumian asked amusedly, "Charlie, Jenna, Franka? How can they be considered friends?"
Just acquaintances!
Susie responded with a smile:
"There are many kinds of friends, not every one requires both parties to establish a deep friendship, you just need to ask yourself, if they encounter difficulties, and are within your ability, are you willing to provide some help, you can know if they are your friends."
"It depends on the specific situation and the price you need to pay, I'm not the kind of good person who abuses it." Lumian muttered.
Susie didn't ask any more and explained herself:
"For a person with self-destructive tendencies, the sign that he is starting to get out of the quagmire is a willingness to make new social relationships.
"Rosell the Great said, probably what Roselle the Great, that people are the sum of social relationships, and when you do not exclude the establishment of new relationships, it proves that you no longer resist your own future.
"Of course, this is just one of the symptoms, not the whole thing."
Lumian was silent for a while and said:
"Ms. Susie, I would like to ask you something, I just mentioned some of the coincidences that happened to me, are they really partly due to the influence of the sequencer in the 'spectator' pathway, as Ms. 'Magician' said?"
Compared to the last treatment, Susie seemed to be more relaxed, she laughed and said:
"Are you forcibly changing the subject?
"Do you still have a lot of resistance to this aspect in your heart?
"In fact, this can also be seen from some details, you took the initiative to ask the 'Red Boots' lady to answer your questions in the field of occultism when you were free, but you never went, and the only time you visited your door was under the pretext of repaying a favor, which shows that you are still reluctant to establish a closer relationship with her.
"This is normal, how can a patient be cured after one treatment? You don't have to carry any baggage......"
Susie spoke eloquently, pointing out some of Lumian's current psychological problems in a soft way, and finally said:
"Last time, I wouldn't have told you so directly, it would have made you more resistant and closed off, but now, you already have a certain tendency to establish new social relationships, allowing you to see your heart more clearly and help you move forward better."
After being pointed out by Susie about his hidden thoughts, Lumian's first reaction was to be defensive, vigilant and reject, but the other party's calm attitude, non-aggressive analysis and accurate grasp of the real situation made him gradually relax and face up to the problems in his heart.
His body and mind gradually became calmer.
Susie didn't go any further, and answered Lumian's question just now:
"There was nothing wrong with Ms. 'Magician' explanation, but it wasn't detailed enough.
"To create coincidences, the middle sequence of the 'spectator' path needs to do 'psychological cues', or 'hypnosis', that is, he must be around you and around Baron Brignel and others.
"The reason why you didn't notice it, and Baron Brignel didn't notice the anomaly, is because the middle sequence of the 'Spectator' path also has another extraordinary ability, 'psychological invisibility'."
"'Psychological invisibility'? How is this different from other invisibility?" Lumian asked suspiciously.
Susie explained in a calm voice:
"'Psychological invisibility' is not invisibility in the true sense, it just makes you not notice me, even if I am already standing in front of you, and many people around me have seen it."
"Sounds amazing......" Lumian sighed, inexplicably feeling that there were "psychiatrists" sitting in front and behind, left and right, but he didn't notice it at all.
"This will not change just because you use 'spiritual vision', and your dangerous intuition will not react until I am ready to attack you." Susie further said, "In comparison, the 'Hermit's 'Hidden in the Shadow' will make you feel like you're being watched by darkness occasionally."
Lumian asked:
"'Hermit', which way?"
"'Secret Prayer'." Susie replied simply.
"Secret prayer person" way? Above the "listener" and below the "shepherd", is there a sequence called "Hermit"? This is the way Mr. K is...... I occasionally feel that someone in the darkness around me is watching me because of him or his men?" Lumian combined Aurore's sorcery notes with the hints of the "magician" lady and had a sense of enlightenment.
- Aurore only records sequence 9 "Mystic Man" and sequence 8 "Listener" in the "Secret Prayer" path.
Ms. "Magician" seems to have written a bunch every time, but in fact there is only a frame, not too many details, not as detailed as Ms. Susie...... Lumian muttered and asked curiously:
"Aren't you worried that revealing the extraordinary ability of your own path to me will bring harm to yourself?"
Susie didn't answer the question, and continued:
"If you are a high-sequence person in the 'audience' path, you don't need to be so troublesome, even if they are far away from you, they can quietly influence you, making you unconsciously follow their arrangements and create various coincidences.
"Although I am also a 'spectator', I still want to remind you, 'Beware of the audience!' 」
High sequence ...... Lumian was startled:
"So, you 'arranged' for that newsboy to send me an expired newspaper?"
Lady Susie is a high-sequencer, a true demigod?
"It's not me." Susie said with a little embarrassment, "It's my companion."
Companion? Lumian remembered Ms. "Magician's" initial proposal and guessed carefully:
"The other 'psychiatrist'?
"Did he come last time too?"
"Yes." Susie confessed, "Your problem is more serious, I'm not sure, so let her come over and help me, well, prevent some accidents.
"Actually, she is also here today, sitting opposite you."
Opposite? Lumian looked at the opposite side of the coffee table in astonishment, which was empty, not only was there no one there, but there was not even a depression where someone had sat on it!
In the next second, he heard a soft female voice with a little smile and a slightly brisk tone:
"Hello."
(End of this chapter)