Chapter 044 [Inverted V] 44

Regarding Abe Haruaki's second treasure "Thousand Years of Heian-kyō", the comment Fujimaru Ritsuka often heard from Lancer Melo was -

"The inherent barrier is the magician's mental landscape - I think you should be very clear about this basic content." Lansemello sat at the only table in the observatory, flipping through a collection of constellation myths that he had obviously read countless times. "But Abe's second treasure is different from others."

"That inherent barrier can even control time."

Time reached the point where the loop was about to end, but the loop was cut off by a barrier that suddenly unfolded. The Möbius strip broke at this moment, and the Shibuya anomaly could no longer return to the original 20:00. Time began to flow backwards. At the same time, everyone in the subway station was dragged into the inherent barrier by Abe Haruaki.

"Heian-kyō..." the man sighed as he stood on the street, "It's a scene I haven't seen in a long time."

"After all, it was a scene from a thousand years ago. Even the current Kyoto no longer has such charm." Abe Haruaki put away his folding fan, put his hands in his pockets and retreated behind Iwanaga Kotoko. "However, although I am the 'maintainer of balance' a thousand years ago, I do not intend to interfere with the current 'maintainer of balance' to judge you."

"But now this is my territory, and it's time for you to sign up."

After the staff in Chaldea finished revising the proof of existence, everyone watched the situation inside the anomaly through the large screen projection. Chaldea's communication became unstable again when it was about to reach the loop node, but after Abe Haruaki used the time of the inherent barrier to cut off the loop of the anomaly, the spirit particle communication finally stabilized completely.

"Although I don't know if it will be useful..." Lansermello turned off the communication microphone and packed up a bunch of documents he had sorted out before and sent them to Fujimaru Ritsuka. "Anyway, send them to Fujimaru first. She is in the anomaly and knows better than any of us what needs to be done to solve this anomaly."

"What kind of existence do you think that guy is?" Marisbury stood behind the director's chair and asked the people around the table, "Although ordinary people may not be able to perceive the malice in this guy...but we are no longer normal humans - that level of malice is too obvious to us."

“Although I would like to say that since there is a malicious gathering in this world - a curse, then this guy has such obvious malice that it must be a curse…” Roman smiled helplessly and picked up the hot tea at hand, “But it’s definitely not that simple - I guess it’s a bit more bizarre.”

"I guess this guy used to be Abe Haruaki's shikigami."

"...Not every guy who caused such a big fight is Gaetia." Da Vinci complained, turning his head to look at Lansemero, "You should have known the correct answer a long time ago, right? Can't you tell me now?"

"Since Maris wants you to guess, it means I should keep my mouth shut on this matter." Lansemero spread his hands and cast his eyes on the big screen. "After all, my clairvoyance can see the past - although Solomon's clairvoyance can see through the past and the future, but since it is Romani Achiman, the head of the medical department, who is joining in the fun, Maris has no reason to stop him."

"After all, Lord Lansemello can't say that he has never joined in the fun or made jokes..." Goldruf looked at the three directors of Animusphia and cut off the topic very self-awarely. "Well, so... is he a guy who has lived from the Heian period to the present by changing his body like the Grand Puppet Master?"

"This is probably a guess that is pretty close to the correct answer." Olgamari glanced at Lansemero's expression, then turned her gaze to the figure on the screen and frowned slightly. "However, if we only change the body, the soul and spirit will also decay over time..."

"I never said that the soul of that guy hasn't decayed." Lansermello sighed, looking through the figure on the screen to someone in the more distant memory, "Five hundred years is enough time for a magician with noble ideals to turn into a swarm of cowardly insects..."

"But even if the noble servant of the king wanders aimlessly for 1,500 years, he is still a noble violet knight. However, that is the end of the story, which can only be achieved after the flesh, body, mind, soul, and everything else are burned up as fuel to achieve the goal."

“And that guy is obviously not a noble knight—” Lancel Mello leaned over to take the mouse from Roman’s hand and opened the brief report that Fujimaru Ritsuka sent back to Chaldea. “Apparently, the report sent back by Fujimaru also explains this point. In the report, Fujimaru said that this special feature was established based on the strongest trap woven by that person for this world.”

"Then he can only be a worm trying to survive."

Kirshtalia, who was sitting in the ordinary staff seat below, blinked and did not continue to speak in response to the discussion of the people at the director's seat - he just silently moved his gaze from the screen back to the cotton-doll archer with a green hood lying on his shoulder, then reached out and picked up the sleeping demon and stuffed him into his pocket to hide him.

——It would be better not to let the Lord remember that there is a Barbatos transformed from Machili Zorgan "Old Bug" lying in the control room... Otherwise, even if Ritsuka always likes to ask him for some materials, Barbatos will be forced by the Lord to be put back into the gem and locked up.

"...Don't you understand yet?" The man said with a tone of regret and sadness, opening his arms to everyone, "I have already said that the new world does not need the old rules - even if we create a new world, it is a future that can only be achieved by transgressing the rules of the old world."

"But as long as the new world is established, everything in the old world will cease to exist, and will no longer be able to restrict my actions and my ideals—"

"You seem to have forgotten something." Abe Haruaki stood in the middle of Suzaku Street and tilted his head towards the man. "This is my mental landscape, the 'Inherent Boundary' - that is, my world. At least you are not qualified to break my rules here. Although 'Thousand Years of Heian-kyō' is not the kind with offensive power, no one can break the rules here."

"Remember? I said - 'It's your turn to sign up.'"

Fujimaru Ritsuka stood at the back, looking through the data sent to her by the control room without changing her expression. The folder that Chaldea sent was filled with information related to the Shibuya anomaly, but it was obviously not carefully sorted. It was obvious that the members of the control room had packed it up and sent it to her as soon as they connected the communication.

But Fujimaru Ritsuka still found the most useful one for the current situation from the pile of documents in the folder at a glance - Fujimaru Ritsuka opened the document and, as expected, saw the familiar blue comments filling the blank area of ​​the entire document.

"…The references are the top puppeteer Azaki Touko, Machiri Zorgan, and Mr. Bedivere of the sixth singularity?" Fujimaru Ritsuka stroked his chin, thinking of the circle of seams on the man's head, and continued to flip through the document. "The flesh and body can be replaced, but over the long passage of time, the decay of the soul and spirit is inevitable…"

The length of time was enough to turn great and noble aspirations into rotten bones. Even Chaldea, which had voluntarily chosen to accept the transformation of the Third Law in order to rebuild the world, could not escape the fate of its soul and spirit decaying. So at the beginning, Chaldea chose to fall into a deep sleep and drift in the sea of ​​stars.

——This is Phoenix Chaldea’s answer to fighting corruption.

——Sleeping is similar to death, but only a long period of sleeping can allow everyone's soul and spirit to have the strength to resist decay.

Abe Haruaki's inherent barrier is not an offensive treasure - from the beginning, the power displayed by this inherent barrier is related to the rules. Abe Haruaki himself is the rule of this inherent barrier, so Lancer Melo told Fujimaru Ritsuka in the past that in that inherent barrier, even time can be controlled by Abe Haruaki.

——Apart from the gods, the only thing that can touch the torrent of time is the power of rules.

"In a complete world, rules are a force that is difficult for ordinary people to grasp, but an incomplete world is different - the inherent barrier is naturally an incomplete world." Lansermello used a pen to write the introduction in the air with magic power, "That is Abe Haruaki's 'heart' - a world built up by her memories."

"So she is the only owner there. So that cannot be the Noble Phantasm belonging to Grand Caster Abe Haruaki. So - Abe Haruaki is the rule of that world itself."

——And the rules cannot be violated.

"…My name is Nozomi."

Finally, after a long period of silence, Nozomi finally revealed his real name to everyone under the pressure of the rules.

"Then the next judgment is left to you--" Abe Haruaki stepped aside again, holding the paper man-shikigami, leaving space for Iwanaga Kotoko to face the noose, and turned back to look at Fujimaru Ritsuka, "Or you can just leave it to us to solve. The Holy Grail that caused the anomaly is still in this guy's possession, right, Master?"

"No, I will sentence him to death." Iwanaga Kotoko poked her cane in front of her, her eyes piercing the noose, "First, your actions in recent times have threatened the normal survival of monsters; second, the damage caused by the cursed spirit of one of your accomplices when it attacked Gojo Satoru was within the area of ​​the demon fox's residence; third, using the Hell Gate..."

Iwanaga Kotoko looked at the prison gate that stood between the two sides, took a deep breath, and was about to continue describing Noose's actions that violated the "law of balance" when Noose interrupted her and spoke -

"Prison Gate, open the door——"

The sudden smile on Nozomi's face was filled with dark malice. He looked at Abe Haruaki, who was just within the range of the Prison Gate, and gave the order to activate the Prison Gate with satisfaction.