Chapter 328

On the other hand, Iwanaga Kotoko and Sakuragawa Kuro, who were in charge of dealing with fictional ghost stories, went deep into the mountains and gathered together all the monsters who had witnessed the birth of this fictional ghost story. Even the monsters who had only heard of some rumors were invited by Iwanaga Kotoko - this time the ghost stories were not raised by humans, so they had to be made more spectacular.

——For example, group briefing sessions.

"...but it would be more accurate to say it's a storytelling session or something like that." While waiting for the monsters to arrive, Iwanaga Kotoko began to review the development of this incident. "The monsters that were killed at the beginning were undoubtedly the work of Asaya Michiman according to Lord Seimei's judgment - but, as of this week..."

"The traces of Asaya Doman disappeared from the newly discovered corpses - replaced by the fatal injuries caused by this unknown monster whose real name and appearance are unknown."

"We know there are differences on the bodies of the weirdos, but do the weirdos know this?"

"If they don't know, will it have any impact on us?" Sakuragawa Kuro asked Iwanaga Kotoko while setting up the scene.

"Then it's probably not pure fiction." Iwanaga Kotoko clasped her fingers together and looked at the empty land in front of her with a serious expression. "When they sacrificed Kaguya, the anchor point they chose to make fiction and reality intersect was the eye I lost in the past. So, if the monsters don't know this difference, then what Ms. Rikka has to do is not to create out of thin air, but to awaken a certain existence."

"Um?"

"For example - those well-known misfortunes." Iwanaga Kotoko looked up at the darkening forest in the distance and took a deep breath. "After all, compared to humans who are easily easily attracted by new things, the deepest part of most strange memories are deeply engraved with the figures of those old guys who have disappeared or been sealed."

At the same time, Fujimaru Ritsuka and Masashi are leading the way through the maze in the observatory Chaldea, which has been transformed into a maze by Ashiya Doman in this world. More important than walking through every floor is to find the entrance and exit connecting the upper and lower floors inside the observatory, which has been transformed into a mess.

"Didn't they say there was an elevator in the observatory?" Asaya Hanae, who was walking over while feeling the wall, asked Fujimaru Ritsuka who was walking in front.

"But Asaya Doman is an Onmyoji from a thousand years ago. He can be considered an antique that is completely out of touch with the times..." Fujimaru Ritsuka touched his chin and gave an answer under the gaze of Abe Haruaki who was trying hard to hold back his laughter and the rather subtle gaze of Asaya Doman, "He can't understand the power of modern technology - he will only transform all the elevators into walking stairs like emergency passages during the renovation process."

“So finding the right channel is important.”

Although she had never been to the Great Inner Labyrinth in person and had only read the battle reports of New Chaldea, Fujimaru Ritsuka still had rich experience in exploring unfamiliar areas. The savior lady once again skillfully adjusted the exploration formation and opened one of the two tightly closed doors in the room.

Black mist instantly poured out from the door opened by Fujimaru Ritsuka, tightly surrounding the group.

"Fire."

"Thunder."

"Burn all the evil!"

Dazzling fire and lightning lit up in the room as the two Onmyojis sang, greedily burning away all the dark shadows that were like mud - the desperate and gloomy undead spirits driven by the mastermind behind the scenes could not even utter a miserable scream before they turned into black smoke and disappeared in this pure white room.

"Let's go." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed and moved aside to open the door to the next room. "Although encountering an enemy may not be a good thing, it also means that our direction is correct - because the evil spirits we just encountered were driven by Ashiya Michiman. If it was another enemy, we should consider whether we have chosen the wrong path."

"Ah, this room..."

Everyone walked through the door and found that the pure white room made of metal had disappeared from behind them like an illusion, and the room they were in was actually a sterile room made of glass that was convenient for outside observation. Ritsuka Fujimaru, who was standing with Mashu, kept changing his expression, but Mashu was the one who remained calmer when facing this scene.

"This is really not an original arrangement, Master." Mashu smiled, walked forward, and sat down on the only bed in the middle of the room.

Numerous sophisticated medical instruments filled both sides of the bed, gradually transforming the room back to the appearance that Marsh was most familiar with in the past.

At the same time, the radio sounded, and the default female voice asked Mash——

"Why protect humans when you already know how ugly their desires are?"

"In essence, you are not even one of them."

"They created you and used you as a tool - why aren't you angry, why aren't you resentful?"

——The Ashiya Michimitsu of this world is watching here.

The Chaldeans realized this.

"...In that case, his story is very clear." Asaya Michiman tightened the handle of his fan and lowered his head to look at Abe Haruaki who was standing beside him. "Are you okay, Haruaki? Or were you provoked by that guy's words? Hmm? Haruaki?"

"——I saw it." Abe Haruaki raised his head, and his blue eyes radiating fluorescence collided with Asaya Michiman's sight. He sighed in a low voice, "Although it is a little difficult to track him back using 'sight' as the 'Ariadne's line', I have found him. It's just that I here..."

"He is actually an idiot-like Order and Good."

"I don't think Lord Haruaki has the right to criticize others in this regard." Fujimaru Ritsuka showed Abe Haruaki and Ashiya Michiman the bright red three-stroke command seal on the back of his hand, "It's just, um - no wonder he targeted Shielder. Why do one or two people like to use her as a substitute meal - forget about Gaetia, after all, the key figure is the same; but Ashiya Michiman is not related at all."

"Let's get started."

"Huh?"

Amid Ashiya Hanae's scream, Fujimaru Ritsuka poured out the mercury he had prepared in advance - although Fujimaru Ritsuka had thought about using his own blood to paint, he was finally stopped by the members of the control room; and the reason for not using Da Vinci's mass-produced simple summoning array was that it might be due to an operational error that caused the Great Onmyoji Abe Haruaki in the present world to change from an ordinary Caster spiritual base to a crown spiritual base.

"If that happens, the Simple Summoning Array will explode." Before the operation began, Da Vinci seriously rejected the plan of using the Simple Summoning Array. "After all, Ritsuka-chan is now the 'quasi-Alaya' who maintains the existence of the Throne of Heroes. Even if the steps are correct, it is possible that because the Heroic Spirit summoned by Alaya has the qualifications of a Champion, it will have a Champion Spiritual Base..."

"Think about it, it's not impossible, right? Then let's use the materials to draw a summoning formation."

When Fujimaru Ritsuka finished drawing the last stroke of the summoning formation, Mashu was still sitting on the hospital bed, communicating calmly with this world's Asaya Michimitsu to buy time.

"It is full. It is full. It is full. It is full. It is full."

Pure silver and iron. The great duke who made a covenant with the foundation stone.

The surging wind is blocked by four walls. The four doors are closed.

Release yourself from the crown and wander at the crossroads leading to the kingdom.

Declaration.

O spirit that has fallen from heaven,

The one who maintains the balance between this world and the other.

Your body is under my command, and my fate depends on your sword.

If you are willing to follow the call of human nature, obey this intention, and follow this principle, then you should respond to it.

I swear hereby.

I am the one who has accomplished all the good deeds in the world.

I am the one who spreads all the evil in the world.

You are the seven heavens entangled by the three great spirits of speech,

Coming from the Wheel of Restraint, the Guardian of Libra—! 』

“I’m so sleepy.”

Abe Haruaki moved closer to Ashiya Doman, closed his eyes and gradually stopped breathing - just like when Ashiya Doman killed him in his lifetime.

"Ahh...have a good dream." Asaya Michimitsu closed his eyes and hugged Abe Haruaki, who gradually turned into spirit particles and dissipated, and uttered a very low groan. "Leave all the troubles from now on to me - whether it's facing the nobles, monsters, or the gods above...it doesn't matter, I will solve them all."

——He killed Abe Haruaki.

——He killed Abe Haruaki. Such a peerless genius died at his hands.

——He killed Abe Haruaki, and the spirits left behind in the sky died at his hands.

It was because he killed such a person, Abe Haruaki, that the legendary great Onmyoji, Abe Haruaki, was born.

A black mist similar to but different from the evil spirits that attacked people before surged out of Ashiya Michiman's body, tearing the Onmyoji who commanded them into pieces, and retreated as golden spirit particles - at the same time, a strong wind blew at the corner of the wall where Fujimaru Ritsuka had drawn the summoning array, and the great Onmyoji Abe Haruaki, who was most familiar to the public, appeared in the center of the summoning array.

"Servant Caster, I came from Heian-kyō a thousand years ago." The male Caster, who had the same long black hair as Asaya Michiman, but the same blue eyes as Abe Haruaki, and whose servant's weapons were also white and blue, closer to Abe Haruaki's style, smiled and introduced himself to the lord of this trip, "My name is Abe Haruaki, and I am an Onmyoji who defeated many demons and protected Heian-kyō."

"At the same time, I am also the 'person who maintains the balance' of Heian-kyō, and the one who entertains all the monsters... However, my most famous identity should always be the genius Onmyoji who has never been seen before and will never be seen again."

Caster's Abe Haruaki raised his finger to make a silencing gesture to Fujimaru Ritsuka, and at the same time, he playfully winked at her like Asoya Michimitsu was doing something secretly from Abe Haruaki, and spoke to Fujimaru Ritsuka in a low voice - "I am still the lead, after all, I am the actor of 'this guy'. She has gone to rest early."

"Leave the next job to me." Caster Abe Haruaki used a not-so-Onmyoji method to smash the radio sound and declared war on Ashiya Doman who was hiding in a corner. "Ashiya Doman, my old enemy - since I was able to stop your evil deeds a thousand years ago, now a thousand years later, I can still crush your ambitions."

"I've seen you."