Chapter 033 [Inverted V] 33

"Gojo Satoru! Let Gojo Satoru come over!!!"

"Hurry up and find Gojo Satoru!!!"

"Who is Gojo?"

"I don't know! But someone said we can't get out unless we find him!!!"

“Hurry up and get Gojo Satoru over here!!!”

The clock hands reached eight o'clock.

"...Eh?" Fujimaru Ritsuka blinked and looked at the huge crowd in front of him. "Is this...the special spot of Shibuya?"

What called back Fujimaru Ritsuka's attention was the sound of Sakura-haired Saber drawing her sword from its sheath. Okita Souji placed Kikuichimonji Norimune in front of him with a vigilant look, and blocked the master behind him.

——This peculiarity is filled with an extremely familiar smell to Okita Souji.

——The strong smell of blood completely enveloped the captain of the Shinsengumi's First Division.

"Master, Okita must have discovered something unusual." Abe Haruaki calmly closed his folding fan, looked around, and finally chose to ask Emiya, "Archer, is there a suitable place to talk nearby?"

"Okita." Emiya patted Okita Souji's shoulder, signaling Saber, who was too tense, to relax. "Let's talk somewhere else first - I just found a more suitable place."

Souji Okita pursed his lips, put away the Kikuichimonji, and followed Emiya to move to another location.

The four of them came to a dark corner where no one was, and while observing the crowd outside, they asked Okita what he had discovered before that made him so alert.

"...There is a smell of blood." The cold-blooded murderer who had killed many people in his lifetime leaned against the wall and slowly answered the question from the master, "Shibuya has a strong smell of blood - as if countless people died here. Every time I breathe, I can smell the smell of blood like rust."

"Blood smell?" Fujimaru Ritsuka was slightly startled, and then quickly asked the other two servants for information. "Did you two notice the abnormality of this special point?"

“Not at the moment.” Emiya shook his head, “But I didn’t smell the strong smell of blood as Okita described.”

"I didn't find anything unusual either." Abe Haruaki shook his head slowly and proposed two possibilities for Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Regarding the smell of blood, I have two possible speculations here - do you want to listen, Master?"

The first possibility proposed by Abe Haruaki is that it is due to the restriction of access to the singularity.

Because there are restrictions on entry to the Shibuya anomaly, additional restrictions were imposed on them after entering the anomaly - it could be that the Holy Grail amplified Okita Souji's perception in a certain aspect, or it could be that it weakened other people's perception of this aspect.

The second possibility is of course that the smell of blood was just an illusion of Souji Okita.

After all, no one except Okita Souji smelled the blood.

"I believe that Ms. Okita's perception has not been deceived." Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at Abe Haruaki, walked in front of Mr. Okita, and extended his hand to him. "For this special point investigation operation, the clues collected by Ms. Okita will be used as the reason for deciding the next step - of course, if you notice anything unusual, remember to tell me."

"...I want to try to find the area with the heaviest smell of blood." Okita Souji said, looking at the map of Shibuya district in Fujimaru Ritsuka's hand that he had picked up on the road. "We are now...should be in this position? I want to explore the buildings on the ground first - or in other words, check the situation on the surface."

"Then we'll go to the subway station."

The four of them left the corner where they had been talking one after another and walked into the crowd that filled Shibuya outside.

As Fujimaru Ritsuka was walking through the crowd, he heard some of the discussions people were having.

"Eh? No signal?"

"It's so strange that there is no signal in Shibuya."

"There is no signal in Shibuya..." Fujimaru Ritsuka was stunned for a moment, then she remembered that she had not received any communication from Chaldea until now, "Ms. Okita, please wait a moment - ah, it's like this again. Although Chaldea uses spirit particle communication technology and will not be disconnected due to interference with radio waves... but the number of disconnections has already occurred too frequently anyway."

"I'll ask Mr. Edison if they have any way to improve the lepton communication this time. The probability of losing the lepton communication is still too high..."

The four Chaldeans moved among the crowd while collecting as much information as possible about this anomaly.

"Is there anything that caught your attention, Master?" Abe Haruaki looked at the crowd around him and tried to squeeze in next to Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Shibuya... no, this peculiarity, is there anything that caught your attention?"

"In fact, I was thinking about that question when I passed by the group of tourists on the edge of Shibuya." Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at the crowd behind him, "Generally speaking, although a singularity has coordinates of location and time, what actually changes is the entire era - it is a point on the timeline, so the locals in the singularity rarely show a strong desire to leave the place where they are."

"But the people in Shibuya Special Point are very anxious - although this may be related to the fact that most of them are tourists from other places, I still find it strange... It's like someone has forcibly locked them here." Fujimaru Ritsuka saw Okita Souji, who was walking in front, stopped and said, "What's wrong, Ms. Okita? Is there any problem ahead?"

"There's no one here..." Okita widened his eyes and looked at the empty intersection in front of him in disbelief, "But there's a more obvious smell of blood than anywhere else."

"This intersection..." Fujimaru Ritsuka walked up to Okita Souji and gasped when his eyes caught sight of a certain building. "Isn't this the Shibuya intersection that is most frequently photographed on the Internet!?"

However, the intersection that seemed to be the busiest in the past was now deserted. Not only was there no one in sight, there were no traces of tourist activities either - the entire intersection even looked brand new, with not only the surrounding buildings but even the zebra crossings at the intersection flashing with freshly painted white reflections.

"... Let's stop here for now." Fujimaru Ritsuka frowned and made a decision, arranging the next actions for everyone. "With this intersection as the center, I would like to ask Mr. Emiya to leave here and observe the situation of the crowd; Ms. Okita and Lord Haruaki will stay here. In this way, if something unexpected happens, we can respond immediately."

"I understand." Emiya nodded and was about to transform into a spirit, but then he remembered something and asked Fujimaru Ritsuka, "Is there anything I should pay special attention to, Master?"

"Ah, if possible - please pay more attention to what they are saying!" Fujimaru Ritsuka slammed his palm hard and hurriedly explained his request to Emiya, "The people here have shown an extremely strong desire to leave Shibuya - I need clues about this!!!"

"learn."

Wei Gong waved to the three people who stayed behind, transformed into a golden spirit and blended into the crowd.

"Since there's nothing going on here for now, why don't we take this opportunity to sort out the situation at the anomaly?" Abe Haruaki glanced at Okita Souji, who was trying to calm his tense nerves by taking deep breaths, and used his shikigami to turn her around to face Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Still can't get in touch with Chaldea, Master?"

"Can't get in touch." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head and patted Okita Souji on the shoulder. "Relax a little, Ms. Okita. If you keep tensing up, you might not be able to react in time when the enemy officially appears. In fact, regarding the tourists' strong desire to leave Shibuya..."

"I would like to ask Lord Haruaki, is there a barrier in this world that can restrict the entry and exit of ordinary people?" Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the endless sea of ​​people and asked Abe Haruaki while sitting on the side of the road, "Although we can't see the existence of the barrier, it is possible that the barrier and the boundary of the singularity have merged into one, making it impossible for us to observe it with our naked eyes."

"...You wanted to wait until the line was connected to ask the Paradise Fairy directly, right?" Abe Haruaki stared at Fujimaru Ritsuka with vigilance, "Why do you have to wait for the line when I'm right next to you!?"

Okita Souji: "No, so the Master is not asking you!?"

Abe Haruaki: "Aren't you guys a little too straight-forward!?"

"And I originally wanted to wait until we contacted Chaldea, because Sheba's observation, as an auxiliary system for exploring singularities, is really effective..." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed helplessly, "After all, using Sheba is more convenient and faster than asking Mr. Emiya to check everywhere - by the way, Lord Haruaki, can the barrier achieve such an effect?"

"You usually come into contact with mainly Western magic, right?" Abe Haruaki tapped his palm with his folding fan and helplessly began to give Fujimaru Ritsuka a makeshift lesson. "Western magic, Eastern magic, and Japanese Oriental magic - generally known to ordinary people as Yin-Yang magic, these are three completely different systems."

Barrier - This kind of magic is a boundary that divides the world. Although it means "dividing", in magic, barrier means the effect of separating the inside and the outside and acting on the boundary.

Although magicians have different systems, the effects of barrier magic are almost exactly the same - the biggest difference between barrier magic of different systems is which system's magician most often uses which barrier, and the different effects are caused by different research directions.

"...For Western magicians, the most commonly used barrier magic is the kind that acts on the boundary line. The barriers of the Age of Gods would have an effect on the inside, but most magicians after the AD only use barrier magic on the boundary line." At the feet of Abe Haruaki lay a number of paper dolls that had fallen down in order to demonstrate barrier magic to Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Although the Age of Gods in the East ended a long time ago, the magicians in the East are all very outstanding--"

"Let me put it this way - if you are looking for the best boundary barrier magician, then go to Western Europe; if you are looking for the best inner barrier magician, then come to Japan; if you need the best magician who can master both types of barriers at the same time, then go to the East."