Chapter 70: Socialization training of Fusangshen is in progress!
Appeared! It's the sword of a corporate slave!
"The game has been online for ten years... can it really be finished?"
Qian Jianmu discovered the blind spot.
"We receive the memories of the shinigami either after the sword is broken or when the sword's emotions are extreme. The players' Shinsengumi will not leave the castle tower, and their relationship with the sword is very stable. The broken sword will completely disappear from the main castle. The hard-working Shinsengumi will not be willing to let a highly trained sword be thrown away, so the situation of a highly trained sword breaking is very rare. The memories of the hard-working sword men are usually received by us only after the Shinsengumi account is cancelled, so we did not find the problem for a long time. After discovering the problem, we made adjustments..."
Yamaubakiri Kunihiro explained:
"We studied the game mode and found that the main purpose of the Shinsengumi is to level up. Resources are paid in advance by the Time Government. As long as we can reach the corresponding level and supply the Time Government with the amount of resources, it will be enough, so later we adjusted it to the self-submission of swords. When the Shinsengumi is not around, we will find high-level tracing soldiers to level up on our own. As for the swords that the Shinsengumi wants, we will pick them up when we level up and save them, and give them to the Shinsengumi when they need them..."
"Right, I remember the 20th world point, commonly known as 5-4. The Shinsengumi said that it could drop Mikazuki, but in fact it was because a blade accidentally submitted the wrong loot at the beginning. Later, the Shinsengumi came to brush Mikazuki, and we would submit the Mikazuki we picked up at this time point. In fact, Mikazuki will not drop at this time point!" Tsurumaru grinned.
So what swords appear at what time, is it up to you to control?
"Later, the swords only needed to work hard for a year to reach the maximum level, and then the level requirements of the Shinsengumi could be met. As for resources..."
Yamaubakiri Kunihiro continued to explain, and at this point he hesitated:
"Every year, there are many 'dungeon' activities, where you can get a certain amount of small rewards. The idle Fusangshen will go to earn small rewards, then buy resources in Wanwu, and then supply the Shinsengumi little by little according to the Shinsengumi's requirements..."
"Haha, these are the methods used by the batch of Fusangjin a few years later after our modifications. Maybe the first batch of Honmaru are still in operation..." Mikazuki smiled awkwardly.
So I worked hard for ten years, right?
So desperate, really so desperate!
"But it is precisely because the Shinsengumi are so... so hardworking that most of the low-level soldiers of the Time Travel Army were killed within a few years. The remaining ones were specially dealt with by the Shinsengumi of Honmaru. As a result, we have received the most grand warning. The Time Travel Army has not launched a large-scale attack for a long time!"
Hasebe made a summary.
"Are the number of Shinsengumi so small that we have to win in this way? If I'm not mistaken, the spiritual power of the virtual Honmaru can hardly be supported by the players alone. This is not a good idea. Moreover, the Time Travel Army has disappeared, but the game is still running, so the spiritual power deficit is inevitable..."
The few swords looked at each other, and finally the experienced Mikazuki came forward to explain.
"Master, since 1900, the world's spiritual power has begun to dry up. Since 2000, less than one in a million people have enough spiritual power. Since 2050, this world has entered the Dharma Ending Period, spiritual power has completely disappeared, all Fusangshen have died, and there has been no spiritual power for 150 years. The time of spiritual power recovery coincides with the period of historical correctionists' rebellion. In 2205, due to the emergence of the Time Travel Army and the research results of the Time Government, spiritual power began to reappear..."
The term "Dharma Ending Age" comes from Buddhism, but in layman's terms, we can ignore those allusions. It mainly describes a specific period of time. During this time period, all supernatural forces were exhausted, and the world officially turned from magic to science.
In a world where technology has developed to a certain level, either the world will be like Bungo Stray Dogs, where supernatural forces are constrained within the individual's body and bound to fate through abilities, or it will usher in the Dharma Ending Age, where supernatural forces completely disappear, the overlords of the old world fall one after another, and the world will have a transition period to a purely scientific world.
Obviously, the sword world itself is a world heading towards the end of the law era, but because of the problem of "time", it has the opportunity to revive spiritual power.
"However, during the early struggles of the Time Government, the history of the year 2100 was destroyed by historical correctionists and could not be revised or repaired. As a result, a tragic mass extinction of the population was inevitable. In 2205, the world's population was only a few hundred million people..."
There are only a few hundred million people in one world. For the development of high technology, everyone has a very heavy workload. Moreover, the survivors in 2200 usually have extremely high scientific talents. If everyone is a scientist, wanting to extract the Shinsengumi in 2200 will add insult to injury to that era.
The period from 1900 to 2000 was a period of world war and world revival, and it was a period of vigorous development of the world. People with abundant spiritual power were more or less the best of the best and could often influence the general direction of the world and could not be easily used. After 2000, the world line stabilized and life gradually became peaceful. The screening of Shinsengumi by the Time Government mainly took place between 2000 and 2050.
"But the quality of the Shinsengumi varies greatly, and the Tsukumogami are very eager to become stronger. Humanized updates require the experience of batches of Tsukumogami to fill in. In the first few years, there were a large number of incidents where Shinsengumi and swordsmen swung their swords at each other. Shinsengumi are already scarce, while the Time Travel Army is getting braver and braver. As one grows stronger, the other declines. Soon, the Time Government fell into a dilemma of lack of combat power. Developing the game was also a last resort. But after the game was developed, the Time Government no longer recruited a large number of Honmaru Shinsengumi. Although it is a great victory now, if the game is shut down directly, once the Time Travel Army makes a comeback, the Time Government, which has lost the game players, will have no room to fight back..."
When a player creates an account and starts the game, he or she does not know that he or she has created a Honmaru. When a player quits the game and deletes his account, or loses his account, the Shinsengumi is equivalent to leaving forever, but the Honmaru cannot be dismantled just because the Shinsengumi's return date is uncertain. Therefore, the Honmaru of millions and tens of millions of Shinsengumi rely on the spiritual power of the Time Government to compensate for the floating in nothingness. This is also the reason why the Time Government lacks spiritual power.
In general, we are now in a dilemma.
Using games to share stress was like drinking poison to quench thirst in the beginning, and now shutting down the game to save spiritual power is not another way of drinking poison to quench thirst, right?
Thinking of this, Qian Jianmu murmured:
“It’s amazing that it can run for ten years.”
"Haha, although it is very rare, there have been Shinsengumi who bound Honmaru to the game before. They usually appear on Shinsengumi who go home to visit their families during the New Year holidays. The method that Tsurumaru-dono thought of has certain feasibility." Mikazuki finally said.
"Don't you need my presence to trade with other Shinsengumi?"
"Many Shinsengumi are busy with things, so they ask Fusangjin to do it for them. And the current situation of Man'ya is unclear, so please let us explore the way first."
"Um……"
After thinking for a moment, Qian Jianmu raised his head and gave the order:
"Team Two, appoint Tsurumaru Kuninaga as captain, team member Yagen Toushirou..."
Looking at the other blades standing by, Chigenmaku finally made his choice:
"And Yasukiri Hasebe. The basic supplies and necessary materials for the main castle will be handed over to you."
"yes."
"Team One is still carrying out the last mission. What kind of expedition is this? The expedition is to Yokohama for 24 hours. The mission goal is to learn about modern life. Please keep a low profile. There are no Tsukumogami outside, but there are many people with special abilities. I will have someone pick you up. If possible, it would be better to change into kimonos instead of hunting clothes." Chigenmaku thought for a moment and said, "Oh, please come back here at night. This place is a deserted shrine. You can just stay there for a while. Don't go back to Honmaru or join the crowd."
"...Eh, the real world!?" The Blades looked confused.
I thought the mission was completed, and I never thought that the original mission was to go to the present world of Mikazuki.
"Hahaha, that's what happened..."
**
"Huh? What kind of job is this?" Yosano Akiko opened her eyes wide, looking confused.
As a nanny, although she likes shopping, she usually stays in the Armed Detective Agency to study and rest. She will not be assigned to routine outdoor missions. Even if she is assigned to it, she will be equipped with armed protection.
There are relatively few members in the Armed Detective Agency at present, so the few times that Yosano Akiko went out were always with the president and Ranpo. Today, she was suddenly asked to go on a mission alone, which really scared her.
"They are two handsome guys!" Ranpo leaned back in his chair. There was a pile of messy books on the table. There was a map of Japan on the whiteboard in front of him. One place was circled in red marker and marked with the word 5000.
Next to the map of Japan, he drew a six-pointed star and a circle, with several arrows flying towards an unknown place. He looked at the whiteboard without looking back.
"It's okay to go out and have fun once in a while. Those two handsome guys don't understand fashion at all. Just let them go shopping with you. It's safe."
"You must be joking!" Yosano Akiko couldn't help herself.
Is she the kind of person who can't walk when she sees a handsome guy? !
Edogawa Ranpo glanced at her, took out a paper package that he had sent someone to the shrine to pick up this morning, took out a photo from it, held it between his fingertips and handed it to him.
Yosano Akiko took the photo with some doubt. This Polaroid photo was obviously a selfie. The photographer had an extremely exaggerated straight male aesthetic and the perspective was distorted to the point where it couldn't be more distorted. But it was also because of this that she saw the crescent moon in the man's gradually changing eyes at a glance.
She suddenly became quiet.
Edogawa Ranpo hummed a few times and handed over another photo. Yosano took it in silence. This time the photo showed an exotic white-haired man with snow-white animal ears that made people want to dissect it. The man looked at the camera, and there was something natural and pure in his smile that did not belong to human beings. It was as if an arrow suddenly pierced the heart of Yosano Akiko, who was just 18 years old and in adolescence.
"How can... humans have animal ears? Do humans also have animal ears?" she said stutteringly.
"So you want to go?"
The black-haired woman with a butterfly hairpin was silent for a moment. Although she had the look of a heroic and powerful nurse, she was only eighteen years old. Moreover, this animal ear was really the sun and the moon. No, this man had real animal ears, but that was not the case either...
that is……
"There's nothing to do anyway..." She muttered softly and put the photos away.
She was just curious about the structure of the animal's ears and head, and why there were sun and moon patterns in its eyes.
"Yeah, yeah, I understand, I understand. I've sent the address to your email. Those two people don't understand modern technology very well, but they're easy to teach! Come on!"
Ranpo turned around again and spoke lazily.
"Huh?! You don't understand modern technology?" Yosano Akiko was shocked.
Oops, don’t you understand modern technology? Could it be like in the fantasy novels, a monster coming down from the mountain?
Although she is calm and steady by nature, Yosano Akiko couldn't help but let her thoughts run wild on the way to the agreed location.
President - Do you know who Mr. Ranpo knows? You will no longer be a human being! !
How to say hello? It seems that she was not told their names, sir...Mr. Monster? Isn’t that a bit too much? Isn't that impolite?
Do monsters really understand human etiquette?
No, how can you label someone as a monster without authorization? ! That’s too bad!
The location was at the entrance of a shrine in Yokohama City. Yosano was carrying the handbag that she always carried with her. When she looked up, she saw two men in kimonos and holding swords standing at the foot of the mountain.
Animal ears! They really are animal ears! I really want to dissect it, but the human ear is completely invisible. Ah, the blue-haired man turned around—
"Hello, is this Miss Yosano?"
Looking at the young man's face that had stunned millions of Shinsengumi, Yosano Akiko, who was facing the most beautiful blade for the first time, was still slightly dazed despite being mentally prepared.
"...Hello, youkai gentlemen... I am Yosano Akiko."
"...?" Mikazuki Munechika/Kohomaru.
Coming back to her senses, Yosano Akiko gasped.
What did she say! ! !
***
As introduced before, Mikazuki Munechika possesses a calming skill that is unique to humans.
It is very normal, appropriate and correct for everyone, regardless of gender, age or status, to feel the love of beauty that is unique to human beings.
So after being amazed at first sight, I was worn out by daily success and found my speechless emotions in laughter. For the first time in my life, I felt the feeling of nourishing my stomach, which is also the normal process of liking Mikazuki Munechika.
"Sorry, I offended youkai." After regaining his senses, Yosano bowed.
"Hahaha, it's okay. Even though we're not monsters or anything, we're not human either." Mikazuki smiled calmly.
That's it! Just say that you are not a human being! Shouldn't this be a secret? !
Yosano Akiko was silent for a moment, she couldn't help but complain:
"You have to keep this kind of thing hidden! It will be discovered!"
The two groups of people had just introduced themselves. Yosano Akiko's curious eyes fell on Kokitsunemaru's head. As a doctor, her curiosity made her want to explore, but her sense of responsibility still made her sigh.
"That won't work. You need to buy a hat to cover it first."
The sharp sword noticed her gaze and bent slightly. The 188cm tall figure loomed over Yosano like a mountain. Yosano took a few steps back and saw Kokitsunemaru smiling at her in a friendly manner.
"You've been watching, want to take a closer look?"
"This... please!" Yosano was not polite and walked up to pinch his ear.
The feel is not much different from an animal's ears, but the hair feels very similar to animal hair. Animal hair has a unique long, slightly hard feel. When Yosano inserted his fingers into it, he was surprised to find that there were some very fine hairs mixed in with the long hair, a bit like the fluff of cats and dogs, but a little longer. This makes Kogumaru's hair very thick and feels much better than humans'.
Since it was already offensive, why not be more offensive? Yosano lifted up the human's ear and found nothing inside.
There are no ears where they belong to humans.
Yosano Akiko, who was very familiar with the human body structure and could draw a diagram of the human body with her eyes closed, felt a subtle sense of strangeness in her heart.
It clearly looks like a human, but it has no ears, and the ears are actually located higher up. Her doctor's instinct was to go into a frenzy of alarm, and she was severely shocked by the reality beyond common sense.
She combed her hair and looked at the pair of animal ears again with a subtle mood. She was eager to have an autopsy, but finally she took a step back and bowed again.
"I already understand, sorry for the offense!!"
"It's okay, my hair is fine, right?" Xiao Hun Wan smiled brightly, obviously proud of his beautiful long hair.
He actually called his hair "hair"! No acting at all!
"Miss, are you a doctor? Are you a person with special abilities?" Mikazuki asked at the right time.
Mikazuki made a guess after noticing that there was something in Yosano's body that was different from spiritual power, but was very similar to the feeling given by Dazai Osamu.
Yosano thought that the two of them had been informed of his situation in advance. Ranpo's ideas were always wild and although a little weird, he still said it directly.
"I am a user with healing abilities, and I am good at medical treatment."
"Hmm..." Sanriku thought for a moment, then stretched out his hand, revealing his arm that still had cracks. "Can you treat this, miss?"
Yosano leaned in to take a look and it was obvious that these cracks were not the scars that a normal human would have. She didn't really understand whether a non-human could be cured, so she said bluntly:
"I don't know. Maybe I can try to activate my special ability. But my special ability is limited by rules. I can only heal when I am on the verge of death. If I can't heal, I will really die."
It was precisely because she was uncertain whether the supernatural power could be effective on non-humans that Yosano Akiko only thought about dissecting animal ears and never thought about being satisfied.
“Hmm…”
The two blades looked thoughtful.
"If we were in the pond in Honmaru, we might be able to try, but now..."
Although the Shinsengumi himself cannot leave the Honmaru because he needs to take care of a pool of ICU patients, through commands such as "go out" and "expedition", the swords that leave the Honmaru can obtain appropriate spiritual power. But once seriously injured, the spiritual energy required to maintain daily life cannot be restored.
"...Amulet?" Kogumumaru suggested.
The government of time gives the sword man a life-saving amulet. The advanced golden amulet can instantly restore the sword man's health before it breaks. In theory, these amulets are high-concentration spiritual energy that can perform instant repairs, and are very expensive. But the spiritual power required by the main body is more than a hundred times that of the split spirit. Although they brought some, it could probably only repair moderate injuries. After being maligned, the sword man's wounds will continue to bleed.
“Let’s try again next time.”
As he said this, Mikazuki looked at Yosano Akiko:
"Excuse me... near death... what does near death mean?"
There are always people asking Yosano Akiko this question. The effect of instantly having full health is too tempting. Mori Ogai knows this condition, so he reverses the relationship between repair and injury. Yosano Akiko hates people who would harm her life just because she has full health. She will not lie when introducing her abilities, but at the same time, she will also intimidate others.
So the black-haired girl smiled softly and opened the handbag she was carrying.
The zipper of the black backpack was open, and there were several machetes lined up inside, as well as some hot weapons, shining with cold light, making people feel cold unconsciously.
"If you are not dying yet, let me create dying."
“……”Mikazuki/Kokitsunemaru.
What a terrible lady! ! !
"Hahaha, hahaha, let's do it another day, another day." Mikazuki Munechika laughed a few times and his eyes fell on the bus stop not far away.
"This is……"
"This is a bus. Taxi is very expensive. This place is far from the commercial street. The bus is faster. Do you have coins?" Yosano turned around.
"There's only 10,000 in cash..." Mikazuki took out his wallet, not remembering if there were any coins in it.
"Ten thousand yen is too much. A 500-yen coin would be enough. But it's strange that there aren't even coins. Japanese people always carry a few coin purses, right?" As she spoke, Yosano Akiko took out a small bag, pulled out a few coins and placed them in the palms of the two adult men.
"After you get on the bus, just put the coin in the box."
The 500 yen coin is very thin and small. Compared to the Koshu gold and koban coins of the current government, this coin is terribly thin. If swordmen used such currency, it would probably be broken if they were not careful. Liang Ren held the coin carefully, fearing that the coin would turn into a piece of iron if he was not careful.
"Hahaha, the master wants us to learn on our own. It seems he only has paper money." Mikazuki tried to explain.
"Master?!" Yosano Akiko showed her expression, "You are really kidding me." "You are talking about the master, right?"
"...The Lord and the Main Palace can also..." Sensing something was wrong, Sanriku added weakly.
"Ah... Absolutely! Absolutely! Don't say that in front of others! Especially Kokitsunemaru-kun, don't say that, otherwise it will become some weird main pet play..." Yosano Akiko covered her forehead with a headache: "Oh, by the way, if someone asks Kokitsunemaru-kun, just say that you are playing cosplay. After all, you are also cosplaying... cosplaying humans or something..."
"c...cos...p...?" Xiao Hunmaru tried hard to pronounce it.
Totally forgot about it! They shouldn't know English!
"It's cosplay! Never mind, I'll explain it better."
It was even more of a headache. Yosano, who was waiting for the bus, glanced at the two clumsy men. They were good-looking, but for some reason, it made people feel uneasy.
Yosano Akiko is only eighteen years old, but she is full of maternal love.
"What does your master look like, an old man? I don't mean to pry, I'm just a little curious." Yosano asked as the strange play screen in his mind was flooded with messages.
"He is a young man in his twenties, with white hair and golden eyes. He is a very powerful master."
Mikazuki explained with a smile, and as he spoke, he remembered that there seemed to be a photo in his wallet, but he didn't look at it carefully at the time. Thinking that Qian Jianmu hadn't said not to let anyone talk, he took out his wallet and opened it while speaking:
"There seems to be a photo here... um... eh..."
He is stuck.
Yosano was confused.
"What?"
"Well, I remembered it wrongly. It was probably a young man."
Looking at the group photo in the wallet and the small white-haired boy who had one bloodshot eye but looked like a Shinsengumi at first glance, Mikazuki opened his mouth in shock but did not show it in the end. He closed the wallet silently.
The other young man in the wallet was a very smart young man he had met before, and they were not much different in age. Here comes the question, Judge! ! How did you suddenly become so big? ! !
How can I introduce this little kid as the owner?
Even the Government of Time will not recruit minors!
Xiao Hu Wan came over to take a look, then his pupils trembled. Liang Ren silently put in the coin, silently got on the bus, silently was watched by passers-by, and then silently arrived at the commercial street.
"Come back to your senses. Besides hats, what else do you want to buy?"
Yosano, who had regained his capable nature, put one hand on his waist and looked at the bustling commercial street in front of him.
"Oh, and a cell phone, thank you." Mikazuki added.
"Fried tofu..." Xiao Huwan added faintly.
"Fried tofu? We need to go to a place a little further away. Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"
The two blades stood out of place in the commercial street and nodded obediently.
There were too many people in the commercial street, so Yosano found a place for Ryouren to sit and turned to leave.
Looking at the girl's back as she left, Xiao Hu Wan spoke softly.
"Owner……?"
“Hahaha, maybe it’s just a photo from the past.”
"But the boy inside looks similar to that gentleman, so they are of the same generation..."
"Although the photo looks new, there may be more to it..."
"But with the master's ability, it is possible to forcibly transform into an adult in order to avoid danger."
Ryouren fell silent again, imagining in his mind the young man who was almost as tall as the tanto, and then he was horrified to find that the Shinsengumi seemed to be smaller than the tanto.
"No, go back and ask the master..."
Letting a child be a Shinsengumi is too much!
Not far away, Yosano Akiko came back wearing two sweet-smelling rolled objects and handed them to Ryouren.
"This is?"
It is bright yellow and filled with snow-white cream. If I read correctly, the Time Government would occasionally give them some trendy food during activities, which should be called crepes.
Yosano Akiko looked at them lovingly.
“This is a crepe. It’s delicious.”
“……”Mikazuki/Kokitsunemaru.
What should the monster in the mountains say now? Waiting online, it’s very urgent.
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