The incident at the Pixnet auction house has been largely resolved satisfactorily. The stolen items have been briefly organized and their information submitted for consignment, awaiting their recovery.
However, what only a few people who have a glimpse of the truth know is that there is big trouble!
I have no way of knowing whether the last being to appear was truly Professor Adrian himself. However, what I do know is that that night, I personally witnessed at least four individuals who could be identified as Professor Adrian.
The mere existence of two at the same time is enough to be considered absurd and lead to some troublesome paradoxes, let alone the existence of four that look the same but are actually completely different!
And it's not even a clone!
Is the world about to go crazy?!
...Okay, whether the world has really gone mad or not, I feel like I'm about to go crazy.
"Hmm, Hikari doesn't understand."
Looking at the confused girl whose head was practically steaming, I couldn't help but sigh. Then, I snapped out of my reverie and pushed her back to her room to sleep.
In this situation, don't expect this idiot to cause me any trouble.
"Isn't there another possibility? As I mentioned before, that guy is skilled in illusions."
Miss Aisha leaned against the windowsill with a melancholy expression. Her face, which already had a slight look of weariness, was now even more clouded by dark circles under her eyes.
I pointed out, "But that doesn't explain why the guy suddenly disappeared without leaving any other items behind."
No matter how you look at it, this is unreasonable and beyond reality.
The artist racked her brains and came up with another possible guess: "...What if the illusion was used at the very end when it disappeared?"
But this was immediately rejected: "Then it doesn't explain why another person with the same appearance would appear at the same time, but not in the same place."
However, there is one thing that follows a certain common sense.
Just as many fantasy novels have argued, even those who travel back in time on a time train cannot meet their past selves at the same moment. At most, they can only transmit indirect messages through other mediums to remind or warn others, otherwise one of them will suffer an irreversible collapse.
Because for the world as a whole, each person's existence is unique, and the world itself is a large collection of errors, which just happens to be able to function smoothly, so the abnormalities are not noticed by the people living in it.
If a person's existence were replicated in this world and then separated into two different places, the overall system could barely maintain its stability, forcibly ignoring the error. However, if they were to actually meet each other and even realize that the other's existence was completely identical to their own, then the definition of "my" existence would be shrouded in an inexplicable question mark.
The world might even be torn apart as a result.
Alice, who had been listening in for a while but was only focused on grooming her long ears, offered a very simple idea after the atmosphere finally quieted down: "Let's not worry about the reasons why this event happened, let's think about the possible consequences first!"
That's absolutely right.
Instead of spending time figuring out the principles that are currently unsolvable, it's better to start with the possible conclusions and then carefully untangle this tangled knot.
In any case, there are countless times more spells still in use than I know of, a fact that can be glimpsed from the sheer number of books in the library.
Even if one could read through and understand all the lists, it would be impossible to separate them from the paper and translate them into concrete applications. Not to mention that in actual use, one must also consider the various real-world factors that might interfere; it's not impossible for a fire ignited in ice to subsequently cause an explosion.
"What is known now is that there were at least one to four Professors Adrian present at the auction today. In addition, there are Professors Adrian who have not been seen in the records... Of course, there may be more, and they may be active in some corner we have not seen."
Let me hold up five fingers for now: "We have no way of knowing whether each one is real or not, and everyone who has been with him has confirmed that there is nothing unusual about him that can be easily identified. Therefore, let's start by making judgments based on the premise that 'each one of him is real'."
[Aisha] counted on her fingers and continued, "The first one is Adrian, who was supposed to meet everyone before entering. The boy stayed with him for a while, so it's safe to say that they were all together while you were being escorted away by several girls to change clothes."
"The second is Adrian, who returned from the outside world after being away for some time. He claimed that he happened to meet the Frost Tower Master and had a brief conversation with him—this was later verified in the Frost Tower Master's records. Afterwards, when he was attacked, he chose to break the intruder's illusion, and in the bright light that came from when the Frost Tower Master and the intruder's attacks canceled each other out, he and the Tower Master disappeared without a trace."
“Research related to astrology and illusion should not be able to give him the ability to teleport,” I pointed out the doubt. “In such a short period of intense light, there are only two possibilities for teleporting: either someone helped him, or he has other techniques in this area.”
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