Chapter 042 [Inverted V] 42

The water surface above the sink began to ripple, gradually revealing the initial appearance of this unique point:

At 19:00, a black barrier with a radius of about 400 meters appeared centered on Tokyu Department Store and Tokyu Toyoko Store.

"Eh? So the earliest peculiarity is so small?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the image projected on the water in amazement - black liquid flowed in the air and turned into a bowl-shaped barrier, trapping ordinary people inside the barrier.

"Strictly speaking, this is not the beginning of Shibuya's anomaly." Abe Haruaki wiped the water off his hands and reminded Fujimaru Ritsuka of the difference in time. "This is the first anomaly before Shibuya became the anomaly. We arrived at the anomaly at 8pm, and the time here is 7pm."

"And according to my memory..." Fujimaru Ritsuka blinked, "Each cycle of the Shibuya Anomaly starts at 8pm and ends at 21:05."

"Well, so I roughly filtered the content from 7pm to 21:05." Abe Haruaki glanced at the water surface that was playing the video at an accelerated speed, "I grabbed a few important parts - we no longer need to look for the protagonist of this world, because we can no longer save him."

"So, all we can do is to resolve the threat this anomaly poses to the world."

"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!!!”

Inside the barrier, tourists are becoming increasingly emotional and are beating on the invisible barrier, acting out an absurd drama on the stage of Shibuya like puppets of someone behind the scenes. No one knows why they are doing this, but their instinct for survival drives them to convey the demands of the person behind the scenes to the outside of the barrier in various ways.

——Let Gojo Satoru come over.

There was no doubt that Shibuya that night was a perfect trap prepared by the person behind the scenes for Gojo Satoru.

The image on the water was no longer the image within the barrier, but moved to a cafe outside the barrier. The girl in the white dress ate the last piece of cake, adjusted the beret on her head, and stepped into the crowd with a cane. The tall and thin young man followed behind the girl, and the two walked into the subway station under the guidance of the little monster that no one could see.

The images that appeared afterwards were of the various groups of sorcerers - Abe Haruaki knew very well that what Fujimaru Ritsuka needed was information that would be more useful to them in conquering the singularity, so the time on the surface quickly reached 20:31, and they finally saw Gojo Satoru himself, who had not appeared in the singularity.

The white-haired man passed through the black barrier, squeezed into the crowd, and rushed towards the underground that sucked in a large number of ordinary people.

"So I have to go underground..." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed helplessly, "So I have to get tuned again when I get back - no, after all, I can't just not do it because it's too troublesome."

"The specific process of what happened is not important." Abe Haruaki jumped the image extracted from the spiritual vein to the last period of time, "What we need to see is the formation of the special point - that is, according to the Master's speculation, the time when Gojo Satoru was sealed."

"So Gojo Satoru was indeed sealed before the singularity began!?" Fujimaru Ritsuka raised his eyebrows and looked at Abe Haruaki who was adjusting the spiritual vein projection, "In other words--"

"Yes, that means the Master's speculation is correct."

Abe Haruaki stepped aside and watched the images on the water begin to flow again.

A cube that looked like it was wrapped in bandages was thrown in front of Gojo Satoru. At this time, Gojo Satoru had obviously been through a hard battle, and his spirit, soul, flesh and body were all exhausted.

——So he couldn't hide away.

——Rather, it was an open and aboveboard conspiracy prepared by the person behind the scenes for Gojo Satoru.

"Hey, Satoru."

"Long time no see."

The people of Chaldea watched in silence as Gojo Satoru was sealed by the person behind the scenes - then they saw the Holy Grail smash on the head of the person behind the scenes, and the first cycle of the entire Shibuya Anomaly began within the barrier.

"...Why does the Holy Grail always like to fall on other people's heads?" Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed helplessly, watching the Shibuya singularity in the spiritual vein record gradually devouring other areas of Shibuya District and circulating together, "Then according to the current understanding of the direction of the expansion of the singularity - that is to say, in the early cycles, each cycle dragged a protagonist into the singularity."

The basic world that this world exists in is no longer a low-dimensional world that is only maintained by the absolute protagonist - but because his protagonists are all sorcerers, they were unexpectedly caught here.

"My main focus is on Gojo Satoru." Abe Haruaki fixed the screen on the girl in a white dress, "But I think in addition to that, this person is probably someone we need to pay attention to - she is the one who maintains the balance between monsters and humans in this world, and is the god of wisdom for monsters."

"She's still alive."

"Do you have any speculation about the identity of the person behind the scenes, Lord Haruaki?" Fujimaru Ritsuka took a deep breath and asked Abe Haruaki, "And... I hope to confirm the ending of the others."

"Master, I think... you should have seen the seams on that guy's skull." Abe Haruaki put his hands into his sleeves and looked at the endings of other people projected on the water. "First, based on the characteristics of the barrier, I think the person behind the scenes is the guy who lived in Heian-kyō at least a thousand years ago. Secondly, through Gojo Satoru's reaction, we can know that the body is not the body of the person behind the scenes."

"In the end, no matter who that guy is." Abe Haruaki looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka with a smile, "No one can beat me - this uniqueness is already empty, and I am the strongest and only Onmyoji in Japan, without predecessors and successors. As long as it is on Japanese soil, no one can beat me."

"There is one more important thing." Abe Haruaki cleared his throat and announced a certain answer to everyone, "At the end of the last cycle, the hostile reaction we faced was called Ryomen Sukuna in this world. I found some... very painful records in the records of the spiritual vein."

——In one cycle, Ryomen Sukuna was bored and chose to change his body.

This happened long before Chaldea reached the Shibuya Anomaly.

"...Is that so?" Fujimaru Ritsuka closed her eyes and engraved the tragic ending projected on the water into her heart. "I understand. Thank you, Lord Seimei. When the law cannot bring justice to the victim, revenge is reasonable and noble at this moment."

"Well, since there is no one in this anomaly who can judge the person behind the scenes who is neither human nor fantasy, then the task of judging should be done by us."

"Laws can only constrain humans, but can never constrain beings that cannot be seen by humans."

"We will use the death of the person behind the scenes to comfort the dead of the entire singularity - just like we have conquered the Beast and the Holy Grail holders of each singularity in the past."

"Let's go." Fujimaru Ritsuka drained the water from the sink and led his servants towards the subway station. "I hope the location of the Holy Grail can allow us to contact Chaldea... To be honest, if Mr. Holmes or Mr. William, who was recently recorded in the Spiritual Base Atlas, were not very suitable for handling Japan's peculiarities, I would have wanted to change people."

"Think of something good, Master." Okita Souji followed at the end and exchanged glances with Emiya. "Those in 221B are not very suitable for handling the problems here. At most, their concepts seem to be more suitable for the current situation. But you should thank Lord Haruaki for taking the initiative to join this exploration of the anomaly."

"No one knows better than Lord Harumi how to deal with the guys who have survived from Heian-kyō thousands of years ago."

Abe Haruaki* followed behind Fujimaru Ritsuka and quietly activated a communication line that could only be used between the two Grand Casters Abe Haruaki.

"Ae.AnS: There is a time loop inside the Shibuya anomaly, and the holder of the Holy Grail is a person from a thousand years ago..."

"Ae.AnS: Assuming that synchronization may be necessary, manifest with the crown-level spiritual base."

"Ae·AnS: This notice has been released."

The control room of Chaldea was still filled with red alarm lights, and everyone was trying hard to successfully contact Fujimaru Ritsuka. The values ​​that had fallen sharply when the alarm sounded had stopped falling, but they were still on the verge of danger. Da Vinci and Roman were calibrating the relative positioning of Chaldea and the world where the anomaly was located, while barely revising the proof of the exploration team's existence.

"C.AD: Received a notification from Seimei inside the special point."

"C.AD: There is a time loop inside the Shibuya anomaly. I think this information may be helpful to you."

"C.AG: ...So that's why. It's the same as the sixth singularity, the difference in observation time caused the loss of contact."

"C.AG: I will tell the control room. Also, if Abe said anything about the possibility of the Grand Title appearing, please ignore it."

"C.AG: Although the world is blurry, there is no Beast fluctuation."

"C.AG: Finally, I have seen the future of rebuilding communications."

"There is a time loop inside the anomaly." Lansermello closed his eyes and conveyed the latest information to the entire control room. "Fujimaru must have known this situation, so she will definitely conclude that the world observed by the control room is becoming increasingly blurred - so she will definitely take actions to prioritize stabilizing the existence of the world."

"Everyone, get ready. If nothing goes wrong, we'll be able to contact Fujimaru soon. When the next observation of the world's existence is stable, we'll try to establish communication. Activate Sheba again to observe the situation inside the anomaly and the anchor point on Fujimaru..."

"After all, no matter how far we go, we at Phoenix Chaldea have worked so hard to reach the current observation facility in order to ensure that the rookie protector at the beginning can return safely."