Chapter 038 [Inverted V] 38

——In front of me is the huge crowds of people in the Halloween parade in Shibuya.

Fujimaru Ritsuka opened his eyes and habitually took a deep breath to alleviate the slight discomfort caused by the transfer of spirit particles. However, when his eyes touched the crowd, he was surprised and disrupted the rhythm of his deep breathing.

"The situation inside this anomaly is... too normal." Fujimaru Ritsuka let out a long breath and looked at the crowd below with a serious expression. "However, the normality of the anomaly is the biggest abnormality here - strange, why do I subconsciously feel that I can't get close to the crowd...?"

A battle-hardened lord will not ignore any premonitions - intuition, subconsciousness, and precognitive dreams... Before stepping into Chaldea, Fujimaru Ritsuka might not have taken these things to heart; but after such a long journey, past experience prompted Fujimaru Ritsuka to choose to listen to his own premonitions at the first time.

"Mr. Emiya, can you find a route that doesn't touch the ground?" Fujimaru Ritsuka turned his head and asked Emiya who was standing behind him, but he noticed that the man who seemed to be at ease in the past also showed a rare solemn expression at the scene in front of him, "Did you notice anything unusual, Mr. Emiya?"

"No..." The red Archer subconsciously gave a negative answer, and then fell into a brief silence. "I did notice something unusual, but I don't recommend you to explore there now, Master - that's the boundary of the anomaly."

"This anomaly seems to be surrounded by a barrier - that barrier is the boundary of this anomaly."

"Are you sure you saw the barrier there, Emiya?" Abe Haruaki frowned and cast his gaze towards the edge of the anomaly. "But there, I saw nothing - my 'eyes' told me that there is no anomaly at the edge of this anomaly. Emiya, can you describe what you saw?"

At the very beginning, Emiya's attention was attracted by the scene at the edge of the special point - a flowing, translucent, black film appeared at the edge of the special point, blocking the crowd inside Shibuya; continuing to look up along the barrier, he found that this barrier was like a bowl, with the entire Shibuya upside down inside, completely isolating it from the outside world.

"But... there are a lot of people gathered at the edge of Shibuya." Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at the boundary of the anomaly and ordered the servants to move. "I have a feeling that there must be something wrong with the crowd on the ground - so we'd better not go down, but... someone must act on the ground."

"Ms. Okita will go to the ground, and the others will go to the rooftop. The route of action will be based on the perspective provided by Mr. Emiya." Fujimaru Ritsuka stroked his chin and pondered, "I want to find the most famous intersection in Shibuya first. My subconscious tells me that there is very important information there."

"Subconscious..." Emiya led Abe Haruaki and Fujimaru Ritsuka to the rooftop and began to plan the most suitable route. "This is definitely the place we must go to. Do you two have the means to move at high altitudes alone? If not, you can only jump over with me."

"Don't worry." A delicate paper butterfly appeared in Abe Haruaki's hand as he folded it up and down. "This distance can be handled with an origami shikigami. By the way, they didn't prepare rune stones for Master to deal with this kind of situation, right? Then do you want me to take you, Master?"

"No, I think there should be a costume that can be used..." Fujimaru Ritsuka skillfully began to search the costumes in his pocket, "Found it! 'Wings of Daedalus'... Should I say it's a good thing that this anomaly was discovered at night? However, as a costume that allows humans to gain the ability to fly, that little limitation from mythology is no longer important."

Fujimaru Ritsuka waved his wings made of wax and feathers, followed Emiya, left the rooftop, and headed for the intersection that was their destination; Abe Haruaki followed the two of them on a shikigami made of a paper butterfly, and at the same time, he considerately cast magic to deceive ordinary people - and on the ground, a corner of the light green feather fabric floated out from under the eaves, but soon shrank back under the eaves as its owner moved.

Led by Emiya, they quickly arrived at the most prosperous intersection in Shibuya in the past. Emiya stopped on the rooftop of a high-rise building and lowered his head to look at the intersection below. Fujimaru Ritsuka stood still on the rooftop, put away his formal dress, and was about to observe the situation inside the anomaly, but stopped when his sight touched the empty intersection below.

"20:31, I remembered..."

“This peculiarity is a cycle.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka laughed, and the scene that came into her eyes was no longer the deserted crossroads in front of her, but a flashback of the exploration content in the last cycle - she saw that after reaching a certain point in time, Shibuya turned into a sea of ​​blood and corpses; in her eyes, the whole Shibuya was almost completely swallowed up by blood.

"It's not just that we're a little late..." Fujimaru Ritsuka covered her face with her hands and laughed dully, "It's really bad that we can't contact Chaldea in this situation. Ah, really, this anomaly is too troublesome - Mr. Emiya, did you find anything unusual at this intersection?"

"There is a very dangerous aura at the center of this intersection." Emiya pointed to the center of the intersection and answered Fujimaru Ritsuka's question seriously, "Master, what do you mean by what you just said? Will this information help us solve the problem of this anomaly?"

"Ah... Since Mr. Emiya can still sense an extremely dangerous aura here, even if the three of us didn't find anything unusual here, it means that the problem here was not solved by us in the last cycle." Fujimaru Ritsuka stared at the deserted intersection below and took a deep breath, "Then we can't prioritize dealing with the holder of the Holy Grail."

"My intuition is that this guy here and that guy underground will bring about the extinction of mankind in this world."

After hundreds of years of wandering, most of which she spent sleeping, Fujimaru Ritsuka has come to understand the concept of the Alaya-consciousness, the collective subconscious of humanity. Her mastery of this concept is well demonstrated by her own consciousness, her use of suggestion magic, and her actions in that world to modify the collective subconscious of humanity.

Fujimaru Ritsuka is the "human" in the framework of the future reconstruction of the world, and is also the final protector of Phoenix Chaldea, which will be upgraded to one of the two major restraining forces in the future. Her judgment is the highest priority order in Phoenix Chaldea, and even the authority of the directors is lower than that of Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Then tell us what to do, Master." Abe Haruaki let the disposable origami shikigami he had just used burn and turned his head to look at Fujimaru Ritsuka standing on the edge of the rooftop. "You know, we are acting as a whole with Phoenix Chaldea, so we will always stand on your side unconditionally."

"After all, without the planet 'Gaia' and the human 'Alaya', there would be no real Heroic Throne, and there would be no real world."

Heroic spirits exist based on human logic, but Phoenix Chaldea has long since left the planet where it was born. Without the planet, there would be no human beings, and naturally no human logic would continue.

Rather than being Noah's ark to escape the flood, Phoenix Chaldea is more like a specimen room of the Sealing Bureau - all Chaldean members have undergone the transformation of the Third Law, and the time of all of them stopped at the moment they first left the planet, and they no longer move forward.

The current Throne of Heroes is a remnant of the spirit base atlas recorded in the past by Phoenix Chaldea. The reconstruction of the Throne of Heroes that the people of Chaldea had talked about before was to establish a connection between the soon-to-be-shattered illusion and Ritsuka Fujimaru, who will become Alaya in the future, in order to stabilize the existence of the Throne of Heroes.

Alaya is bound to the Throne of Heroes - if humanity is destroyed, Alaya will no longer exist, and the Throne of Heroes is established based on the existence of these two.

Then, as long as it is proven that Alaya still exists, the Throne of Heroes will not be completely destroyed over time. The magic power that Chaldea obtained in the previous mission was partly used to prove that Fujimaru Ritsuka is Alaya. Fortunately, the proof process went very smoothly, and after that, Chaldea itself temporarily became a part of the Throne of Heroes.

Walking in Chaldea is no longer a Servant as a projection, but the only real one - however, when entering the special point, you still have to use the projection to enter, and other worlds cannot withstand the power of the real Heroic Spirit. Fortunately, their Lord has proved his talent in Lord many years ago, so the people of the Heroic Seat are happy to go through the complicated summoning process and then follow the Lord to go to other worlds.

As someone who cannot manifest normally as a Caster and can only use the Alterego class, Abe Haruaki knows better than anyone what an unstable and illusory dream is - but she still accepts the proposal of her colleagues and acts separately from Awaya Michimitsu, who is also unstable on the other side.

——It’s okay, as long as there is no evil in humanity, as long as no one questions her real name, as long as no one questions her existence... She will just be herself, and will not become that Grand Caster’s 'Abe Haruaki'.

——She can complete the exploration of a singularity with the Lord as an Alterego, and this will become a memory that belongs only to her, not to "Abe Haruaki".

"Wait." Fujimaru Ritsuka finally calmed down and announced the next action to the servants, "In this cycle, we must at least deal with this guy at the intersection. According to previous records, no changes will occur in Shibuya before 20:31 - I doubt that we can launch an attack before this time."

"Because before that, we can't even see what the real Shibuya looks like." Fujimaru Ritsuka closed his eyes and tried to contact Chaldea again. "I want to sort out the current situation - while I sort it out, can you be responsible for supplementing the insufficient information and correcting the errors?"