Chapter 004 4

"The year 2015 in the Western calendar is the last era in which magic still exists."

"Chaldea, the Humanity Continuation Protection Agency, is responsible for observing this world where magic alone cannot fully understand the whole picture, and science alone cannot fully measure the whole picture. It is a special agency established to prevent the extinction of mankind."

"The future realm that Chaldea had been observing suddenly disappeared without any warning - it became clear that humanity would be extinct in 2017."

"No, it was proven."

Morobushi Jingguang realized one thing very clearly - he was now in a dream.

However, for some reason, he could only watch everything going on in front of him and was unable to wake up.

The research institute that was glowing with cold metallic luster in the dream exploded in front of Moroki Jingguang. The smoke was everywhere, and the research institute was instantly turned into a ruin with flames burning everywhere.

The scene changed the moment the explosion ended, and Morobushi Keimitsu returned to the familiar Japan.

But everything in a dream is still - like a painting or a photograph.

Afterwards, everything in front of Morobushi Kagemitsu's eyes turned into blurry blocks of color, and soon returned to normal - and the person who appeared in front of him was Kenji Hagiwara, who had been dead for four years.

In the dream, Kenji Hagihara was talking on the phone with Jinpei Matsuda while defusing the bomb in front of him with ease - but Kenji Hagihara was not wearing a protective suit.

"If I really die, you must avenge me."

As soon as Hagiwara Kenji finished speaking, Morobushi Kagemitsu found that his position had been moved to the outside of the building - the next moment, an explosion occurred in the apartment building in front of him.

The scenery changed again, and this time, Morofushi Kagemitsu was stuffed into a small cabin - the person squatting in front of him was Matsuda Jinpei, who was no longer wearing the Explosive Squad uniform.

Like a wandering spirit, Morofushi Kagemitsu watched Matsuda Jinpei skillfully remove the screws. Then, after a brief tremor, he answered the phone in the stopped hangar and spoke to the other end of the phone in the same relaxed tone as Hagiwara Kenji.

"It only takes me three minutes to make such a simple device."

However, at this moment, words popped up on the bomb's display screen - Morobushi Kagemitsu's heart gradually grew colder as the red words popped up, and then Matsuda Jinpei hung up the phone, lit a cigarette, and walked towards the predetermined ending without looking back.

This time, Morobushi Kagemitsu was not thrown out of the capsule to face the explosion from the outside - he was in the capsule the whole time, watching Matsuda Jinpei edit the text messages, and waited with Matsuda Jinpei until the countdown for the bomb was only three seconds left, and then watched the bomb explode in front of his eyes, tearing his friend's body into pieces of flesh and blood, and breaking the metal capsule into pieces.

"The third unique feature: He died on the Tiantai Terrace."

The female voice that appeared at the beginning of the dream once again appeared in Morofu Jingguang's ears - the surrounding scenery suddenly fell into night, Morofu Jingguang floated in the air, watching the original direction of his fate from a bystander's perspective.

Sweat, panting, footsteps - and finally the sound of a gunshot that pierced the phone and the heart.

However, no miracle happened to Morofu Jingguang who died in the dream - he just died forever that night and closed his eyes forever.

Then there is the future.

"The fourth characteristic - WATARU's role model."

Everyone who knew Date Ko would undoubtedly think that he was a good and responsible person - but his departure was just an ordinary accident. It was just that on that day, a tired driver appeared on the same road as him.

Morofushi Kagemitsu stood by the road, watching the tires of a car that braked suddenly leave long bloodstains on the ground, and Date Kou just lying on the ground, silent, with a notebook next to him, but its owner never had the chance to pick it up again.

"The fifth singularity - the eternal eve before dawn."

The length of this part of the dream is longer than the total of the previous four people.

Morofushi Kagemitsu followed Furuya Rei, watching him sweep the graves of the four deceased people, and then plunged into work and began to extremely compress his rest time - for the Black Organization's mission, Furuya Rei put on Bourbon's mask and easily dealt with the temptations from all sides of the organization; most of the public security actions were arranged by Furuya Rei; and then it was the part-time job time of the disguised identity Amuro Toru.

——After a day like this, it was considered ample for Rei Furuya to get three hours of sleep.

Morobushi Kagemitsu just floated behind Furuya Rei like a ghost, watching him move forward step by step - investigating the Black Organization more deeply, establishing cooperation with the FBI under the testimony of mystery writers, and then step by step forcing the huge monster sleeping in the darkness into a desperate situation.

Then, Morofushi Kagemitsu realized that in this dream, it was time for Furuya Rei to leave.

Morobushi Kagemitsu watched his childhood friend send the little detective away from the scene of the decisive battle, then turned around and stepped into the core base of the Black Organization, which was burning with blazing flames, without looking back.

Once he left, there was no chance of coming back - but Furuya Rei used his life to bring about the complete destruction of the Black Organization.

"... Hey - I shouldn't have listened to Mr. Merlin. It's more reliable to ask those dream gods directly than Mr. Merlin." Lansermero sat at the bar, holding his head and watching the nightmare-stricken Morobu Jingguang being moved to the room by Roman and Marisbury who had just returned. "Hey Achiman, what do you say, I give Mr. Merlin this guy's emotions as a specialty?"

“I don’t recommend you do that.” Roman walked out of the room. “Even if Merlin likes to eat emotions produced by nightmares, this guy has protested that he doesn’t want to eat artificial emotions. What you create in dreams can only be considered artificial, right? However, he deserves to be hungry for hundreds of years for being so picky.”

“What are the next steps?”

"Buy some clay and mercury - we should prepare to cause a miracle."

One day after school, Fujimaru Ritsuka returned to the book cafe, put his schoolbag on the table near the window, and ran towards the adults who were gathered around a pile of magic materials.

"The dream hasn't ended yet?" Fujimaru Ritsuka stopped in front of the half-drawn magic circle and watched Mariners Billy pouring mercury on the floor. "I'm making fast progress here--"

It was indeed consistent with Holmes' judgment that Fujimaru Ritsuka attracted Kudo Shinichi's attention on the first day of his transfer. Of course, this was also related to the two people who came to Japan to build a workshop a year ago. After all, Roman and Maris Billy were the objects of Kudo Shinichi's observation a year ago.

The third law transformation of all Chaldea members is an irreversible process, which also caused Fujimaru Ritsuka to be alienated by most people as soon as he entered this class. As for those who did not alienate Fujimaru Ritsuka, they were naturally the main characters who were known from the information before entering this world.

——But the focus of Chaldea’s mission is not them, they are just needed to complete Chaldea’s mission.

Kudo Shinichi, who is still a junior high school student, is observing Fujimaru Ritsuka tirelessly, and his childhood sweetheart Mouri Ran is also paying attention to her. Fujimaru Ritsuka does not spend most of her time in class listening to Holmes' instructions on how to successfully lead the hero and heroine to an unknown corner and lock them in Medea's barrier.

"But there's no response from Kirsh." Lansemero watched the mercury flow on the floor, outlining the pattern of the magic circle, "At least, there's no response yet - well, but if you think it's okay, we can start tomorrow evening. The synchronization magic between the three of us will resonate..."

"As soon as the first word is uttered, Kirsh will know our operation has begun."

The next evening, after school, Fujimaru Ritsuka was walking back to the book cafe while he started to synchronize with Medea and Holmes.

Holmes is responsible for choosing a suitable location and paying attention to the distance between Kudo Shinichi, Mao Lilan and Fujimaru Ritsuka; Medea is responsible for deploying the barrier to ensure that all actions will be carried out covertly.

"Ritsuka." Holmes reminded Fujimaru Ritsuka, "Turn into the nearest alley in front - it's a dead end. Once you enter, have Medea cast the barrier immediately... You know what to do."

"I understand." Fujimaru Ritsuka kept his pace, turned into the alley, and disappeared from Kudo Shinichi's sight, "Please, Miss Medea."

"!" Kudo Shinichi got anxious the moment he saw Fujimaru Ritsuka change his route, and pulled Mao Lilan to the entrance of the alley, "Were we discovered by Fujimaru-san... But that should be a dead end - huh? There's no one there?"

What appeared before the two was an empty alley - the orange-haired girl who had just appeared before the two mysteriously disappeared out of thin air.

Fujimaru Ritsuka stood inside the barrier, his golden eyes looking across the barrier at Kudo Shinichi standing at the alley entrance, casting a hint of magic—

"Come in, the person you are looking for is here."

"... Let's go in and take a look?" Kudo Shinichi swallowed his saliva as he looked at the empty alley, and held Mouri Ran's hand tightly. "It's impossible for Fujimaru-san, such a big person, to disappear out of thin air - maybe it's a trick or something..."

"I think Ritsuka must be here."

However, Mouri Ran did not respond to Kudo Shinichi's guess, but stepped directly into the alley and disappeared from Kudo Shinichi's sight - suggesting that magic had a greater effect on Mouri Ran, but Fujimaru Ritsuka did not expect that the suggestion magic could affect Kudo Shinichi.

It’s just that Kudo Shinichi will inevitably follow the disappearing Mouri Ran into the barrier - that’s enough.

Kudo Shinichi rushed into the alley and saw the blood moon hanging high in the sky at first sight, while Mouri Ran was standing by the wall with lifeless eyes.

Under the blood moon, standing in the middle of the alley was Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Detective." After removing the illusion disguise, Fujimaru Ritsuka looked much better than the image in Kudo Shinichi's memory. The orange-haired girl tilted her head with a smile and raised her finger to make a silent gesture, "You, haven't heard this sentence?"

"Curiosity kills the cat."