Chapter 039 [Inverted V] 39

Souji Okita, who was previously arranged to stay on the ground, also came to the rooftop to meet up with the three of them. The four of them each found a suitable spot to sit down on the rooftop, and then watched as Ritsuka Fujimaru, who had been hinted at magic to awaken his memories of the previous cycle, began to sort out everything they had experienced since arriving at the singularity.

"First of all, I think this is the third cycle we've experienced - but not the third cycle of this anomaly." At the very beginning, Fujimaru Ritsuka seriously threw out his speculation about the anomaly to his companions, "I checked, and apart from the suggestion magic that was triggered this time, at least in the short term, there are no traces of other suggestion magic attached to my body."

Fujimaru Ritsuka used the rune stone to lay out a rough diagram and began to integrate the information he had.

——Since we know that it will affect the memory cycle, we will definitely prepare a suggestion magic to preserve the memory.

Therefore, we can infer whether the Holy Grail at the singularity can cover the traces of consciousness based on the traces of suggestive magic acting on consciousness. If the Holy Grail cannot cover the traces of suggestive magic, then we can directly conclude how many cycles they have experienced in this singularity.

"During the first exploration, we must have failed to notice the existence of the loop in the anomaly..." Fujimaru Ritsuka moved the rune stone, his tone firm, "However, based on the bloodstains, we can judge that the same place was stained with blood more than once. I don't think we forgot to check the scene - then, it is obvious that something happened to divert our attention from the scene."

"So, what is the Master's conclusion?" Emiya watched as Fujimaru Ritsuka took out rune stones of other colors from his pocket and placed them on the positions representing the first cycle. "The memory of the first cycle has not been preserved. We can only rely on speculation to complete the information of that exploration."

"Perhaps a local person - a local person who can serve as a guide has appeared in front of us." Fujimaru Ritsuka pressed the rune stone to the ground and tried to recall what content in the memory of the last cycle could support her speculation. "Ah, speaking of which -"

Ritsuka Fujimaru remembered the white skirt that disappeared around the corner in the last loop, and the familiar feeling she felt at that time.

"The memories from the last loop contain content that can prove this, but we can leave it for later." Fujimaru Ritsuka took out a piece of chalk and drew a horizontal line on the concrete floor of the rooftop. "The area above the horizontal line where the rune stones are located is the ground, and the area below the horizontal line is the underground area, which is where the Shibuya District subway station is located."

"In my memory of the second round, the person who served as our guide in the first round went underground." Fujimaru Ritsuka moved the rune stone representing the guide below the horizontal line and turned his head to look at the position of the first cycle on the left hand side. "Combined with the judgment of Lord Qingming at the end of the second round, I think - in the first cycle, we went underground with the guide."

The rune stones from the first cycle were also moved below the horizontal line by Fujimaru Ritsuka - now only the rune stones from the second cycle were left above the horizontal line.

"Then, there are several speculations as to why the first loop didn't have a hint magic to preserve memories." Fujimaru Ritsuka raised his finger at the servants. "First, the guide knew about the existence of the loop, but didn't tell us. Second, the guide didn't know, and we followed the guide directly underground. The information we have is not enough for us to conclude that there is a loop in this anomaly."

"finally……"

Fujimaru Ritsuka turned his head to look at the screen not far away that showed the time, and announced the true conclusion to his companions -

"It's because there's not enough time."

At the end of the previous cycle, Fujimaru Ritsuka saw the final time - it was 21:05.

"The time we arrived at the anomaly is, as expected, the starting point of the cycle." Fujimaru Ritsuka used the horizontal line he had drawn earlier as a number axis to mark out the most important time points during this period. "20:00, the cycle begins; 20:31, Shibuya begins to mutate; 21:00, all of Shibuya falls; 21:05, the cycle ends and returns to 20:00."

"Only one hour!?" Okita Souji subconsciously looked at the screen showing the time, "How can there be such a short cycle!?"

"In fact, the information provided by Shibuya itself is only enough for me to deduce this far." Fujimaru Ritsuka leaned over to gather the rune stones together and put them back into his pocket. "For the rest, we have to rely on the information Chaldea collected through Sheba before. For example, although our guide may go underground every time it loops, it is very likely that it has nothing to do with Gojo Satoru himself."

"Why?" Abe Haruaki thought about the contents he had obtained before leaving. "In this Shibuya anomaly, aren't the sorcerers and cursed spirits the ones with the highest probability of appearing?"

"The guide to this singularity definitely can't be Gojo Satoru." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head, remembering the first area of ​​commotion that Emiya saw in the second loop, where only corpses were left. "It's better to say that Gojo Satoru didn't even appear in this loop - no, let's be more precise, maybe Gojo Satoru just encountered something in the loop before we came to the singularity, so he didn't appear in the subsequent loops."

The three servants thought of the information provided by the control room and silently agreed with Fujimaru Ritsuka's judgment. According to the content written in that document, even if Shibuya tonight was not a special point and there was no interference from Chaldea, it was a trap set for Gojo Satoru.

“So the possibility that this guy got the Holy Grail and created anomalies has also been ruled out.” Emiya leaned against the wall with his arms folded across his chest. “And the results of Chaldea’s detection are that this anomaly will definitely threaten the continued existence of humanity in this world. Even if Gojo Satoru really got the Holy Grail, the anomaly he created probably wouldn’t lead to the destruction of humanity.”

"I support this inference." Abe Haruaki glanced at Emiya and slowly told Fujimaru Ritsuka his thoughts, "According to the operating logic of this world itself - negative emotions of human beings will produce curses, and when curses gather to a certain extent, they will become curse spirits... At the same time, curse spirits naturally have malice towards humans - or in other words, curse spirits exist naturally to kill humans."

"But if only tourists in Shibuya died in large numbers because of tonight's incident, it would not be enough to affect future developments." Okita frowned slightly and looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka who was sitting cross-legged on the concrete floor. "Something more important must have happened in Shibuya, so that this place has become a special point that will lead to the destruction of human morality."

Ritsuka Fujimaru looked at the three servants in front of him who were lost in thought, and remembered the goal that Alaya and Gaia of Pan-Human History had given them before Chaldea completely broke away from its original world - to upgrade the entire world to a higher-dimensional world. Perhaps in this way, the mystery would continue to exist on the surface of the earth instead of gradually fading away.

"The higher-dimensional world will observe and record our lower-dimensional world."

Alaya of Pan-Human History appears in the control room of Phoenix Chaldea with Gaia, watching the staff race against time to calculate how to obtain enough power to activate the entire Chaldea to escape from the planet, while providing information about the outside world to the management members who are in a meeting.

"The low-dimensional world observed by the high-dimensional world will appear in the high-dimensional world in the form of books, games, and movies." Alaya supplemented the knowledge that everyone in the meeting should know about upgrading dimensions. "So the biggest difference between the low-dimensional world and the high-dimensional world is that maybe there is only an abnormality in a small place, and the high-dimensional world can directly ignore it, but the low-dimensional world may directly usher in the destruction of a world."

"Let me give you the simplest example." Gaia explained to Alaya, "Just like if we lose Ritsuka Fujimaru, our world may not have another No. 48 Lord to fill this vacancy - but in the higher-dimensional world, even if we lose Fujimaru, we will still have Ritsuka to fill this vacancy."

"It doesn't even matter whether it's called this or not - because the higher-dimensional world must have a more stable self-healing mechanism than the lower-dimensional world." At that time, Fujimaru Ritsuka quickly understood what the two inhibitory forces wanted to say, "Because the lower-dimensional world is books, games, and movies in the higher-dimensional world - then there must be an absolute protagonist."

"In the higher-dimensional world, the concept of the protagonist is fragmented."

"A complete story requires a protagonist." Roman sat next to Da Vinci and sighed helplessly, "But an absolute protagonist means that once the protagonist is lost, the story can't continue; while a dispersed protagonist means that even if a protagonist leaves, the story can still continue."

"The corresponding results are the continuation and destruction of human principles." Lansemello thanked the Pan-Human History Restraint for the information provided on behalf of everyone. "When we encounter an unexplained crisis of the destruction of human principles, we will consider the existence of this possibility - that is, an event that may not have a big impact directly leads to the destruction of human principles."

"...The protagonist of this world is dead." Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly widened her eyes, with an expression of uncontrollable fear on her face, "No wonder Chaldea hasn't contacted us yet, no wonder just Shibuya can threaten the survival of humanity!!! If we don't solve this anomaly as soon as possible, Chaldea will be completely unable to observe the world where this anomaly is!!!"

"There is ambiguity in the world!!!"

“Special point observation is not possible!!!”

"The data proving the existence of the spirit particle transfer system has entered a dangerous level!!!"

Alarms rang continuously in the control room, and the red alarm lights dyed the entire control room red - reports with more and more critical situations than the last were sent like water from the work seats below to the director's desk at the top.

"The protagonist is dead - this is what Alaya from Pan-Human History told us before. No wonder the danger of anomalies is so high." Lansermello took a deep breath and glanced at a document covered by a newly delivered report. "Oh right... we need to check the content we observed before to see who the protagonist of this world is!!!"