Chapter 92
Fujimaru Ritsuka pushed open the door and immediately noticed the parchment on the dressing table by the window. She quickly closed the door and reflexively began to read the contents of the guest room rules.
"Rules for the White Camp Accommodation Area"
There is another whole new world in the mirror.
1. Each room has only one corresponding access card, which will not be replaced if lost.
2. No entity can bypass the access card holder to enter the guest room unless the access card holder actively invites them - the entity connected to the contract is assumed to be the same person as the access card holder.
3. As long as you have the access card, you can open the corresponding guest room at any time.
4. You must tell a story in front of the mirror every night before going to bed, but you cannot put an end to the story. The story of the second night cannot be a continuation of the story of the previous night.
5. The chess pieces on the chessboard in the room will change according to the actions of the access card holder.
6. It is prohibited to damage any items indoors.
7. There will always be only white roses in the room.
"...If only I had a chance to find out about the accommodation rules of the other two camps." Fujimaru Ritsuka lay down directly on the soft white bed in the guest room. As his body gradually sank into the bed, his mind slowly emptied. "Telling a story to the mirror in the room... wouldn't that be a disguised version of One Thousand and One Nights? But directly copying it won't work..."
Fujimaru Ritsuka sat up helplessly, shook her hair, and asked Charlemagne, who had spontaneously transformed into a spirit, to check the situation of the guest room with her.
The room where Fujimaru Ritsuka stayed was almost a standard hotel room layout, and even better - the soft single bed was nothing special. In addition to the area where the bed was located after the door was opened, there was also a separate cloakroom and an independent conversation area, as well as a bathroom separate from the washroom...
So after Charlemagne noticed that Fujimaru Ritsuka's expression subtly confirmed that the clothes in the cloakroom were all her magical dresses, he saw Fujimaru Ritsuka dive into the bathroom and then exclaimed at the oversized bathtub - like some Roman servants would definitely like this place or something.
"Master." Charlemagne looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka, whose eyes were almost full of stars, and felt that he still needed to remind her, "Your Majesty Nero's bathhouse is much larger than this one - besides, this special point should not be able to summon other people according to the current situation."
"Yeah, I know that." Fujimaru Ritsuka turned his head to look at Charlemagne, and then looked at the wall in front of him that was completely covered by a huge mirror. "The reflection effect of the mirror can make this bathroom look larger than its original size. What's more, the rules say that there is another whole new world in the mirror."
The sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, tells the story of Alice's adventures after she passes through the mirror and comes to the mirror world. There are four mirrors in the guest room. Article 4 of the White Camp Accommodation Area Rules requires that guests must tell a story in front of the mirror every night before they can fall asleep...
"Either the mirror world is constantly extending, or a story needs to be told in front of each mirror." Fujimaru Ritsuka has begun to calculate how many days the stories of his exploration of anomalies and anomalies will be enough to sustain the new A team. "That means at least one story needs to be told every night, and at most four... * "
"Forget it, let's go meet the seniors first."
When Fujimaru Ritsuka left the guest room, everyone in the new A team had already found a suitable place in the rest area of the White Camp and sat together. The entrances and exits were guarded by servants, and they were obviously waiting for Fujimaru Ritsuka to come out. After all, although Kirshtalia had been the captain since the A team period, he was also the captain of the new A team now...
But in reality, the real center of the new A team's actions is Fujimaru Ritsuka.
"Whose room should we hold the meeting in?" The first member to ask the question was Ophelia. Apparently, the fourth requirement of the "White Camp Accommodation Area Rules" also stumped her. "Anna and I will have difficulty moving in places with many mirrors - mirrors refract vision instead of blocking it. Although I have an eyepatch, Anna's magic eye is not that easy to block."
"I think we need to put a Mystic Eye Seal on her to solve this problem." Kirshtalia took over the conversation, ignoring the crisscrossing deadlines in her vision, "Why don't we keep the Servant outside for the time being while we have a meeting - but you have to admit that we don't have the ability to cast a sealing magic on a Servant with divinity, Orphee."
"Have a meeting at my place? Or at Mashu's room." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at everyone and pointed out tactfully, "At least the room Mashu and I are staying in is definitely a regular hotel room, not some magician's camp that has been transformed into a magic studio. Although the defense may be a bit worse, it's at least clean."
The other five members of the new A group coughed after hearing what Fujimaru Ritsuka said - but what Fujimaru Ritsuka said was indeed undeniable, because... who doesn't have a magic workshop full of magic materials for experiments! Even the astronomy department, which has the least number of experiments, is the type that specializes in doing big things without making a sound. Kirshtalia was able to appear in the rest area calmer than everyone else, which already shows that he at least has a place to sleep there.
"Even if they are intuitive creatures, they shouldn't have guessed that our guest rooms have been turned into magic workshops..." Kadok subconsciously took a sip of the drink that was normally provided in the rest area, and looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka in disbelief, "Mashu is the first person to come out of his room!!!"
"Let's go to my place first." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed helplessly, while explaining to the seniors, "But I didn't expect that the guest rooms would really change according to the situation of the guests - the previous part was just my guess!!! And Senior Ophelia obviously has a headache about the rule prohibiting damage to property..."
"But I don't have that many things there - I can guess that there are a lot of things in Ophelia's room that I don't have, so let's just guess the magic room."
"Damned intuitive creatures." Kadoc, who was at the end, groaned.
After everyone entered Fujimaru Ritsuka's room, Charlemagne closed the door, separating the lords and servants into two completely different areas.
The new A team found a place to sit down in the talk room of Fujimaru Ritsuka's guest room, and then began to organize the intelligence they had obtained today. First, Kirshtalia calmly distributed a magic clock to everyone, so that everyone could confirm the exact time and prevent the possibility of time violations.
"Ritsuka saw the 'Bell Ringer's Guidelines' in the bell tower, which stated the time when the bells would ring." Kirshtalia sat back on the sofa and explained the production of these props. "As long as you determine an exact time, you can then infer other times. It's a very simple basic task for magicians in the Department of Astronomy. It just so happens that the guest room has been turned into a magic workshop, so we made these props."
"After all, the guest room rules only say that you are not allowed to damage anything in the room, but they don't say that you are not allowed to modify it."
"Time is very important..." Fujimaru Ritsuka subconsciously thought of the White Rabbit in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Laplace's Demon holding a golden pocket watch. "By the way, Senior Kirshtalia, why did you choose to prioritize the manufacture of clocks? Is there something we didn't notice?"
"Laplace's Demon says that fighting is prohibited on the first day - but we don't know when the second day begins." Kirshtalia looked serious and looked at the moon outside the window. "If we go by the Bell Ringer's Code, the latest time for the second day will be when the bell rings tomorrow morning... but it could also be midnight tonight."
"...Indeed, after all, midnight has always been a very strange time." Peperoncino nodded in agreement.
The magic of midnight does not only represent the time when the fairy magic in fairy tales ends - for magicians, many magics cannot avoid this special node of midnight, such as brewing potions, performing tuning magic, or the astrology from Animusphia that is familiar to everyone in Chaldea.
"So the first thing I want to remind you is - at least finish the meeting before midnight and go back to your rooms." Kirshtalia looked at everyone helplessly and pointed at the night sky outside the window. "After you go back, hurry up and finish your story and go to sleep. I also have to try astrology with Artemis."
"Speaking of storytelling, I have a question." Fujimaru Ritsuka subconsciously looked at Pepe Longino standing on the other side, seeking help from this senior who was very reliable in a certain sense, "There are four mirrors in my room, so how many stories do I need to tell before going to bed?"
"The core component of this special feature is Alice's story." It was Akako who was sitting by the window reading a book who answered Fujimaru Ritsuka's question. "In Alice's story, the world inside the mirror is infinitely extended, rather than being a mirror world that is almost exactly the same as the world outside the mirror. Considering this point, I think it is better to be cautious and talk about it four times."
"In Alice's story, the mirror world can extend infinitely, which means that different mirrors cannot be connected."
"If that's the case, I think it's enough to say it once." Peperoncino laughed, thinking of the group of red camp members he met in the Rose Maze. "Although this special point has the characteristics of Alice in Wonderland, I think that 'Alice' still refers to the winner of the red camp."
"And the area where the Rose Girls usually fight is a familiar area to Merlin and his family - the dreamland... or the spiritual world." Peperoncino quickly told everyone what he had learned from the Verdurous Star Stone. "The more common name among them is the N Realm - the entrance to the N Realm includes the mirror, and the N Realms are interconnected."
"That is to say, the mirror world here should also be connected to each other."