Chapter 325

"Different marks were found on the bodies we received this time."

A week after Asaya Michiman cooperated with the Inner World as "Abe Haruaki", Abe Haruaki, who had been receiving the corpses of monsters killed by "Asaya Michiman" from this world, discovered something completely different on the corpses he received on this day.

"The corpse I received this time is not the 'Ashiya Doman' of this world... No, I should say -" Abe Haruaki stared at the corpse in front of him and frowned, "It was not those evil spirits that tore the heart of this monster, and no magic residue similar to 'Ashiya Doman' was found... But since it continues to be thrown in front of me, this matter is inseparable from 'Ashiya Doman'."

Under such circumstances, Asaya Doman was called back to the base.

"…So, is there a conclusion?" Asaya Michimitsu looked at the small bird-like corpse surrounded by everyone, and confirmed the current situation with everyone.

"Although I can confirm that the fatal injury was not caused by 'Ashiya Michiman'... but I can't find the corresponding guy with such traces." Abe Haruaki shook his head at Asashiya Michiman and spread his hands helplessly. "Now it depends on whether Master can provide you with a feasible direction to investigate."

"Hmm, it's not a mixture of the magic of the familiar and the magician..." Fujimaru Ritsuka was staring at the body of the monster worriedly, "I can only see traces of one kind of magic, and just like what Lord Seimei said, it's not the chaotic and evil magic that is unique to evil spirits... Hmm, it doesn't look like it has any particularly obvious attribute."

"It was as if someone had stabbed the monster to death with a fruit knife."

"Fruit knife...? Ah, do you remember the incident with Living Kaguya?" After hearing Fujimaru Ritsuka's strange analogy for the situation, Edmund also joined the discussion, "Living Kaguya was also a man-made creature with no obvious attribute bias, but after the death case that day, when we tracked her down, her attribute leaned towards the evil side."

"That is to say, this incident also involved artificial fictions." Mashu concluded, looking up at Asaya Doman standing behind Abe Haruaki, "Mr. Doman, could you please hand this body over to the Hidden World? As for more specific actions in the future... Master, do you have any arrangements?"

"I think it's almost time to prepare for the final battle." Fujimaru Ritsuka leaned back on the sofa and told everyone about the future arrangements. "Well, even if we can't find this world's Ashiya Doman, we can still look for his collaborators. After all, even if he gave up his body, his collaborators are still living humans in this era."

"...I support the Master's proposal." Abe Haruaki dispersed the tool he used to occupy the rotten grass and turned back into a blue spirit particle. He agreed with Fujimaru Ritsuka's proposal, "Although we have not been able to find any trace of that guy, I have a hunch - the occupation just now made me more certain of this - although that guy has no physical body, if he were to appear in a physical state..."

"Then his location is not determined by him - it is determined by us who are tracking him down."

"I understand." Asaya Doman reached out and took the monster's body from the coffee table, nodded to everyone, "When will we act? I'll go notify the Hidden World."

"This weekend, maybe." Fujimaru Ritsuka blinked and decided on the time for the final action. "Although we will definitely meet in the end, I still hope that they won't realize that there is something wrong with me in school - let's hide it as long as possible. Mr. Doman can move freely before he switches his spiritual base, and so can Lord Haruaki."

"Well, if you can't decide where you appear..." Edmund stroked his chin, "Could that guy be possessed by someone?"

"Maybe it's more like the Demon Pillar model." Roman, who was on duty in the control room today, joined the discussion with a cup of coffee in his hand. "It's like Floros - he was just an ordinary person before a certain point in time. Only after that point in time did he realize that he was a Demon Pillar that existed to destroy humanity."

"Although the original purpose of creation was to ensure the survival of humanity." Fujimaru Ritsuka complained.

"But when Floros was still Leif Renol, there was no other Floros that was active outside, right?" Abe Haruaki pointed out the difference between the two situations to Roman. "But the Awaya Doman here still has the memory of being 'Awaya Doman' and is active in the outside world."

“…It’s not a big move anyway,” Roman complained, moving his gaze to a figure in green below him. “Well, maybe the conditions for materialization are just tied to a certain container. According to the information mentioned in your previous report, this world’s Ashiya Doman was able to use a shikigami as his container…”

"To put it simply, it's like Leonardo created Leonardo Lily, but not as a backup, but a type that can directly transfer his consciousness - but now he is restricted by certain conditions, and only a specific container can carry his soul, instead of just making a temporary body like in the past."

"Although we don't know who set the restrictions on this 'Asaya Doman', let's just consider this restriction as a backup plan left by Abe Haruaki in this world to ensure world peace." Roman put down his mug and clapped his hands at the other end of the line. "So, Haruaki, what do you think...if it were you, what kind of restrictions would you set on this gang?"

"The scope that can be limited by many conditions is not smaller than the scope that can be included by the condition of bloodline." Abe Haruaki tapped the tea table and gave his answer to everyone, "Although I have the attribute of order and goodness, if the premise is 'Great Onmyoji Abe Haruaki' - the basic attribute that can be used in many worlds should be order and moderation."

"That is, for the sake of order in this world, he will make the decision to kill the dangerous figure "Ashiya Michiman" as soon as possible - if he cannot be killed, he will have to minimize the impact of the dangerous figure "Ashiya Michiman" reviving or escaping the seal... and rather than looking for a container that meets the conditions for the appearance of Ashiya Michiman in the vast sea of ​​people, it is better to limit the scope more clearly from the beginning."

"Little Alice encountered more than one container in the Saint's world before, right?" Abe Haruaki mentioned the mission not long ago. "Athena in that world is a typical type who makes her own container; while Hades chooses the container according to restrictions. So there are also cases where Athena's reincarnated brother and Athena's Saint are the flesh and body chosen by Hades..."

"Then, apart from Athena over there, the most obvious container should be Poseidon, the king of the sea. The containers that Poseidon normally chooses in the world are all the Solo family, that is, some humans connected by the concept of blood. Only that unexpected resurrection similar to that of a shadow servant was stuffed into the body of another human."

“In other words, the person with the greatest suspicion right now is…” Roman picked up a pen and circled a name in his notebook.

"The servant of Monster An, Hanae Ashiya."

Everyone gave this answer in unison.

"However, even though that's the case..." Abe Haruaki tilted his head and looked at the curtains that blocked the night outside, "but there's also the possibility that the next generation changed their surnames - so we can't be completely sure it's that child. But, considering the interactions in the hidden world that Ashiya observed, there must be something special about Ashiya Hanae - after all, he himself mentioned that Abe Harusai changed his mind about kicking him out after knowing his name."

"However, the legislators, judicial officials and administrative officials of this generation seem to be unclear about the specific circumstances of a thousand years ago, so it is possible that they paid special attention to Ashiya Hanae for other reasons rather than because of Ashiya Michiman." Ashiya Michiman supplemented Abe Haruaki's explanation, "It is also possible that the child's father got into trouble in the past..."

"The information included in the report also mentioned that his father was missing, right?"

"Ah, this point cannot be ignored." Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded, "Then, is there any simple way to judge the container?"

"No." Roman, Abe Haruaki, and Asoya Michiman answered Fujimaru Ritsuka together, "We knew you would ask this."

"A 'container' is something that can hide its inner self with its outer appearance before its 'essence' is exposed." Abe Haruaki concluded, "If you don't know what the 'essence' is from the beginning, or if you are prepared to use the other party as a container, you can't tell whether the other party is a container or not - just like in the past you only knew that Mash was a sub-servant but didn't know specifically that she was a sub-servant relied on by Galahad."

"And the Master thought that Mash was an ordinary person before arriving at the anomaly point F."

"Ah, although I don't want to dampen everyone's excitement, I still have to explain." Ashiya Michiman cleared his throat and looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka who was a little eager to try, "Even if everyone knew the 'contents' in the 'container', it's not that easy to catch 'me' - since 'I' can run around outside the 'container', it means that the 'contents' of the 'container' are not 'Ashiya Michiman' on the surface."

"And I think it's not difficult to achieve this effect with my Onmyoji technique. We can't find the container of the 'Ashiya Doman' based on its 'content'."

"That is to say, only at the last moment will this world's Ashiya Doman appear in front of us." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked up at Ashiya Doman and asked him quietly, "Mr. Doman, when you informed Mr. Noah that you were going to manifest in the world with Caster's spirit base, you didn't foresee the current situation, did you?"