To be king and magician

93. Another self in the world

Tokyo Tower, also known as Japan Radio Tower.

Before the Tokyo Sky Tree was built, it was the tallest building in Japan and a symbol of Tokyo. If foreign tourists want to visit Tokyo, this is basically a place that must be visited once.

The reason why Xia Chuanhu wanted to come here was that there were indeed some reasons for visiting, but it was more for another purpose.

The top floor of Tokyo Tower.

"Oh! It's so tall, Master! This place is even higher than the tallest part in Camelot City!"

Like a bumpkin from the countryside, Mordred ran to the glass window overlooking Tokyo below with a face full of excitement.

"Master! Is that where we came from? That place called the station!"

"Yes, yes, restrain yourself, you idiot, don't you see that everyone around you is looking at you?" Xia Chuanhu sighed helplessly, then nodded slightly to the people around who looked over, but looked at their faces The smile on the face should be that they mistaken the two for foreigners who came to Japan for tourism.

When he came to Mordred, Xia Chuanhu looked down—indeed, it was a first-class beauty, and it should be even more beautiful at night.If you wait until the Tokyo Sky Tree is built a few years later, you should be able to see a more beautiful view.

but......

"From here, there is nothing unusual..."

"Master?"

Hearing Xia Chuanhu's whisper, Mordred frowned: "Are you still thinking about that anomaly in the car?"

Xia Chuantora nodded: "There is obviously something wrong with Tokyo. The abnormality we felt on the train, and the supernatural phenomenon in Tokyo that Sajo Ayaka just mentioned... I don't think there may be some differences between the two. related?"

"Is there? Could it be Master, you think too much?"

"My intuition in this area is quite accurate. It can also be said to be experience. I am used to the days when I encounter some things every time I go to a new place."

Participating in the Holy Grail War just after crossing over, various emergencies when going to London, encountering a dragon when going to Paris... With such an obvious anomaly in Tokyo, Xia Chuanhu can be sure that he will definitely be involved in these two days What's inside!

"So, Master, your coming to such a high place...is also related to your intuition?"

"That's right. You can see most of Tokyo at this height. It's a good place to search."

Xia Chuanhu took out a few gems and a roll of parchment from his pocket while talking.

This is the magic he stole from Tohsaka Rin. It can be used to check the condition of the spirit veins, and to a certain extent, it can also be used to search.

(Anyway, stealth first...eh?)

Xia Chuanhu, who was just about to cast a magic trick to hide his figure in order to avoid attracting attention, was stunned for a moment, and stopped in place as if frozen.

Seeing him not moving, Mordred patted him: "Master, what's wrong with you?"

"Magic is useless?"

"Aha?"

Xia Chuanhu's face turned serious - he couldn't use magic.

No, rather than saying that magic cannot be used, it is more difficult to use magic.He can clearly feel the magic power and can use it, but the formation of the magic formula is extremely slow, as if the computer's loading progress is stuck.

"Xiao Mo, can you manifest armor?"

"I'll try—huh?"

A layer of armor phantom flashed on Mordred's body, and then dissipated immediately—similar to Xia Chuanhu's situation.

(Largely limited the use of magic power...was it curbed on the last project?)

"Xiao Mo, what do you feel like?"

"Hmm... There is a feeling that I have used a lot of strength when squatting in the pit, but I can't get out anyway."

The few young people who were still peeking at Mordred immediately looked away when they heard this sentence—this sentence is too detrimental to the image. Originally, they thought that Mordred, who was dressed in cool clothes It's easy for Taimei to strike up a conversation, but now they are completely lost.

It's a pity that he opened his mouth.

And Xia Chuanhu was also a little helpless: "Mr. Mordred, I think I have to let you take etiquette lessons later."

"Uh...don't, can't I change it?"

Mordred really doesn't want to touch the etiquette class thing anymore. When she was forced by her mother to take the etiquette class, she felt uncomfortable all over her body. Every part of her body was stiff to death, especially her face. The fake smile really made her unbearable!

Lightly hitting his cub on the head with a hand knife, Xia Chuanhu said seriously: "It seems that in Tokyo, the use of magic will be extremely difficult, so it is not difficult to understand why this place has become a wilderness in the magic world."

If you can't use magic, there is nothing special about magicians. Naturally, no magicians are willing to come here, and the local magicians will leave. Only those who don't need to use magic will come here on their own initiative.

(But why is Sajo Ayaka still here? Does she not feel this abnormality?)

Sajo Ayaka is the only magician in a place where magic is almost impossible to use—the combination is like a fire burning in the middle of a pool of water.

"I remember...was it night?"

After murmuring for a while, Xia Chuanhu turned and walked towards the elevator: "Let's go, Xiao Mo, let's go to other places to have fun before we come at night."

"Ah, wait for me, Master!"

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Shatiao Aige's consciousness is constantly sinking.

As if he wanted to sink himself deeper than Tokyo Bay, the sense of weightlessness gradually enveloped his entire consciousness, the sound of running water lingered in his ears, and the sound of bursting bubbles was conveyed to every corner of his consciousness.

All the eyes can see is darkness, and all they can perceive is the boundless abyss.

How long has it been?

How long has it been since you came to this place?

【Is it here? 】

As if tied by a rope, the gradually sinking consciousness stopped, and there was something beside her——Shajo Aige could feel it.

It seems that he has reached the place he wanted to go.

The feet touched what should be called the ground. Even in the world of consciousness, there is no boundary, but if you think about it seriously, you can still think of a place where you can stand.

Shatiao Aige stood still and looked forward. As expected, it was still an endless dark world, with some faint lights and shadows, like a fragile dream, and like a mirage that could be broken at the touch.

It does seem to be here.

Moving forward, ignoring the darkness that wanted to engulf him, Shatiao Aige stepped into the depths of the darkness as if returning to his own home.

——You are here.

Words with such meanings are directly projected into the depths of consciousness.

Shatiao Aige looked forward, and through the darkness, she clearly saw the existence at the end of it, the other self that had changed beyond recognition to the point of being unfamiliar to her.

94. The world on both sides

Dusk - just before night falls.

In the classroom under the sunset.

Sajo Ayaka, who finished her day's classes, was packing her schoolbag.

"It's the end of the day again...no call yet."

Half a day has passed since then, and in terms of progress, my monitoring work has been nearly half completed, but even so, perhaps because the time is too short, Sajo Ayaka has never had any real sense of being a monitor—— Is this kind of surveillance that only needs to make a phone call really considered surveillance?

(Isn't it better to take a leave of absence from the school and go to his side to monitor his every move? This is more like a watcher.)

"Sand bars."

The senior's voice from the door pulled Sajo Ayaka back from her thoughts, and when she raised her head, Sajo Ayaka found that Shier was standing at the door waiting for her as usual.

During the day, the two are seniors and juniors of the same school, but when it is about to enter the night, the two will become magicians and agents who jointly protect Tokyo.It may be immature to say so, but Sajo Ayaka thinks this mode of operating in secret is quite cool.

Carrying the schoolbag and walking out of the school together with Xier, the purpose of the two is not to go home, but to go to the place where several urban legends have been spread recently.

"Have you seen the magician from Moonset?"

While waiting for a traffic light at a certain crossroad, Xier suddenly asked.

"I've seen it. I went to the station during my lunch break at noon. I happened to run into him who was leaving the station. If I went a little later, I probably wouldn't have seen him."

"What kind of person is it? Is it as vicious as the rumors?"

evil?

Sajo Ayaka thought about Xia Chuantora and Mordred she saw at noon, and then shook her head: "The girl next to him may be a little bit, but he himself is far from the rumors you told me. Well...it gives a very sunny impression."

"A very sunny magician?" Xier couldn't help laughing, "I thought the adjective sunshine was insulated from magicians."

"He doesn't feel like a magician to me either."

This is just intuition, Sajo Ayaka thinks that Natsu Chuantora is very different from someone like herself who grew up as a magician since she was a child.

Xier looked at Sajo Ayaka in surprise, and then said with a smile: "Since you have said so, Sajo, then I will believe your evaluation of him for the time being, anyway, our surveillance mission will end at noon tomorrow , he just doesn’t cause trouble for us before then.”

"I've already told him, and he also promised me that it should be fine—so, senior sister, what is the first target to deal with tonight?"

"The phantom truck at the intersection." Xier said while taking out a stack of papers from his schoolbag, "Recently, it has been circulating among students that when they cross an intersection, they will see a truck coming towards them, but in Thinking you're going to get hit and then finding out the truck or something isn't there."

So is it the phantom truck?

"When did this rumor start?"

"The earliest time the church can track down is three months ago. Of course, there were only scattered rumors at that time, almost at the level of talking after dinner, and it didn't start to increase until these two days."

two days?

Speaking of it, it seems that since the last week or two, the number of occurrences of this kind of supernatural phenomenon has suddenly increased. In the past, it only happened once or twice a week, but in the past two weeks, it has increased to four or five times a week.

"Could someone be manipulating from behind?"

"There are only magicians who can do this kind of thing, but you also know that since the last magic family moved away five years ago, you are the only magician in Tokyo, and the only magician who has entered Tokyo in the past five years Only those who just came today."

Indeed, if it was Xia Chuanhu who did it, the timing would be wrong.

Sajo Ayaka shook her head: "That's because I'm thinking too much. Sister, how long until I arrive?"

"It's already here."

After Xier said this, Sajo Ayaka realized that the crowd around them had become so sparse that they could hardly be seen, and there was no one around the two of them—it seemed that the church had unknowingly planted a knot to drive people away. world.

The sky has almost completely darkened, and the time has come to the night when the magician is active.

Sighing slightly, Sajo Ayaka opened her schoolbag, took out a feather-like ring and put it on.