Chapter 041 [Inverted V] 41

A huge clock appeared in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka - as the hands on the clock jumped to eight o'clock, everything in front of Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly shattered, revealing the scene belonging to the special point of Shibuya.

With tall buildings standing side by side and bright lights ablaze, Shibuya was filled with a festive atmosphere on Halloween—but soon, everything was swallowed up by the dazzling blood-red color.

"...Master, did you see that?"

"Is that... the Clairvoyance?" Fujimaru Ritsuka was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously turned around to look at Abe Haruaki standing behind him, "Master Haruaki, this peculiarity——"

"Master, you have seen worse scenes than this before... Oh?" ​​Abe Haruaki was going to briefly describe to Fujimaru Ritsuka the current situation of the anomaly that Chisato had seen, but after walking into Fujimaru Ritsuka, he raised his eyebrows in surprise and tightened the handle of the folding fan in his hand, "Can you come closer to me, Master?"

"The bellflowers are blooming."

This is a universal magic spell that Abe Haruaki and other Grand Casters use - just like King Gilgamesh's "Enkidu", Solomon's "Everything under the heavens has its time", Merlin's "Artoria, dinner is ready", Taigong Wang's thought key pattern-inspired fixed chant, and Lancer Mello's lazy universal astronomical magic chant.

The key to these spells is the user's familiarity with them - thus achieving the effect of being able to trigger most of their magic instantly.

And now, as Abe Haruaki finished his words, a certain magic that was left behind by Abe Haruaki himself in the past was triggered at this moment.

"Don't be afraid, don't tremble, Master." Abe Haruaki showed a rare inhuman posture of the ultimate spirit. With the scent of platycodon flowers, he surrounded Fujimaru Ritsuka with clothes dyed with platycodon purple. "The past of this world has nothing to do with us. It's just that we heard the wailing of this world, so we came here."

"The dead cannot be resurrected, but the living must still move forward."

"We are here to help those who are still alive to continue living."

Then the hint of magic was triggered, and the blood-soaked memories engulfed Fujimaru Ritsuka completely - she saw the dried bloodstains covering the interior of the building that were deeply engraved in her mind in the second loop; she also heard her own speculation about the true situation of this special point in the third loop.

Finally, she opened her eyes and looked at Abe Haruaki who had released her, and remembered what happened when the two Alteregos were brought back to Phoenix Chaldea as servants of Lancermello. The subspecies anomaly belt took shape right before their eyes, and the people of Phoenix Chaldea did not react to it at all, as if the pan-human history of Asaya Michimitsu who became an alien god apostle was not planning to become a crazy act of evil for mankind.

"First, you need to love enough to become the evil of humanity that destroys humanity." The black-haired Alterego stood side by side with Abe Haruaki, leaving enough space between them. Standing on the deck of the Triton, they watched the black-red subspecies of the fantasy tree stretching its branches in the sky. "But Grand Servant is different - we don't even need to love humans."

In that memory, Abe Haruaki acknowledged the view expressed by the side that is closer to the public's cognition.

"You don't even need to look at us." Abe Haruaki was finally willing to give the other half who had never received his good face since the beginning of the world a normal discussion atmosphere. "Just look at the circle of Avalon - although Merlin and I have never had a good relationship, I still have to say... Merlin likes humans much more than I do - but that is just liking, not love."

"Not to mention Avalon Le Fay and the others - their mission is to forge the holy sword 'Excalibur' and maintain the stability of the planet... They are already servants who do not belong to the human 'Alaya' side, but to the planet 'Gaia' side." Abe Haruaki laughed coldly at this time, "We are heroes remembered by humans, but we don't even love humans as much as Beast does."

"No, you love humans no matter what." The black-haired Alterego, who was closer to the "Abe Haruaki" in the public's perception than Abe Haruaki himself, calmly refuted Abe Haruaki's point of view, "But I am different. From the beginning to the end, I have never loved humans - but I can say that I love a single person."

"That's you, 'Abe Haruaki'."

“So, as the crowned ‘Abe Haruaki’, he always loves humans superficially – he is a liar ‘Awaya Michiman’ who loves himself ‘Abe Haruaki’ but never tells the truth.”

Fujimaru Ritsuka took the initiative to cut off the memories that were too far away, looked at Abe Haruaki, and calmly and firmly gave her servant an order - "Master Haruaki, I know that you have the Onmyojitsu that can 'see' the past. So, can you use the Onmyojitsu to find the records of this special point from the beginning to the present?"

"I can give it a try," Abe Haruaki replied, "but the records of the anomaly will be automatically corrected and rewritten by the inhibitory force. We may not be able to find the most authentic and original records of this anomaly - but I will try my best to find the parts that you, Master, need most."

The ability to see through the past, the future, and the present is a common clairvoyance among Grand Casters. However, it is divided into specific types, and most of them only have a single effect. However, for most magicians, exploring the future and the past is also a type of divination magic.

——Although Merlin has the ability to see everything in the present, his most famous prophecy to later generations is the red dragon and the white dragon.

——As for the two in the East, although Taigong Wang did not say what kind of clairvoyance he possessed, he undoubtedly at least possessed the most basic ability to fortune-tell to seek good fortune and avoid disaster; Abe Haruaki's era was too late, and although the mystery of Japan had not yet faded, she herself was different from the shrine maidens and priests in the Age of Gods who directly obeyed the oracles.

What Abe Haruaki was good at was the sixty-four hexagrams that came from Taigong Wang's country and were deduced and perfected in prison by the monarch of Zhou, whom Taigong Wang initially assisted.

Although Abe Haruaki was not even able to reach adulthood during her lifetime, this did not prevent her from gradually transforming from a human to a non-human in the past - and such development expanded her connection with heaven and earth.

At that time, the mystery of Japan had not yet faded, and Takama-ga-hara had extended an olive branch to Abe Haruaki - but then Abe Haruaki chose to die.

——In an extremely resolute way, she completely stayed on the side of humans.

Her acquaintance with Asaya Michiman was earlier than the records in legends and historical documents. After all, the year of Abe Haruaki's death was only a story before the end of Abe Haruaki's unrecorded youth in legends and historical documents. Asaya Michiman had already known her at that time, and was invited by Abe Haruaki to compete in Onmyojitsu without knowing anything about it. In the end, he watched Abe Haruaki die in front of him.

Abe Haruaki's attitude of not wanting to become completely non-human was revealed earlier - that was also the beginning of her feud with Merlin.

However, up to now, Fujimaru Ritsuka can only hear such comments from one of the parties involved, Abe Haruaki: "I don't like and will never lock myself up in a small observation tower like a curse. If I want to curse myself, it must be to be forever free and forever a human being."

“…Isn’t this what you wish for?” The black-haired Alterego quietly appeared behind Abe Haruaki, narrowed his green eyes, smiled gently, and said in a sinister tone that everyone could understand, “To die—so you won’t become a person of Takamagahara, nor will you become a real half-white fox similar to the half-dream demon.”

"That's great, but have you ever thought about it, Abe? Your death itself is a malicious curse on others."

"So you shouldn't complain about me hating you - Asaya." Abe Haruaki's face was cold and calm, "You destroyed my wish, and then tied me to you completely - since choosing to let me ascend to the Throne of Heroes was your personal behavior, then you are actually taking revenge for my original choice."

"So you shouldn't and can't--"

The only fierce quarrel between Abe Haruaki and Asaya Michiman in Chaldea came to an abrupt end at this moment. Fujimaru Ritsuka watched Abe Haruaki choose the nearest bathroom without any care, turned on the faucet and let the water pour out, gradually filling the entire sink.

——Ah, she did forget.

Fujimaru Ritsuka blinked, watched Abe Haruaki put his hand into the water, and thought of Lancer Mello at the seventh singularity in the past.

——Abe Haruaki’s final spiritual base stage is the same as other fairy species, with the appearance of a white fox that can communicate with spiritual veins and sort out huge amounts of information.

Although it was something that had never happened in life, it existed as a possible dream in the spirit base of the alterego who manifested as a side-effect of Grand Caster Abe Haruaki - so Abe Haruaki also had the ability to communicate with the spirit veins, but she hardly used it.

After all, the more this ability is used, the more it contradicts Abe Haruaki's own perception that he is "still a human being."

Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed heavily, and thinking of the basic underlying logic of this world related to curses, he closed his eyes helplessly - Abe Haruaki and Asaya Michiman, if they lived in this world, Fujimaru Ritsuka had no doubt that the two of them would curse each other directly to an extraordinary level.

——Ah, as for those two guys, it’s best to just ignore them.

——We don’t know how long it will take. Who knows, by the time the world is rebuilt, these two will have completely vented their resentment for the past events, right?

——Hmm… Actually, if we don’t care about it, they will just keep cursing each other. So, I want to believe that there is someone in the future who can untie their knot, right? In this kind of situation, it is not the person who tied the bell who can untie it, but the bystander who can see clearly. There will definitely be a different world, but it depends on whether we can meet the people who curse each other like them.

"Would you like to take a look at the past of this anomaly, Master?"