I love time travel the most!

Once Kobayashi understood, he gave up and pounced on the servant on the bed.

During this break, Liu Zi must make up for it properly!

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It was already evening when the master and servant returned to the mansion.

As expected, Aqua did not return at all.

Not only that, after Liu Zi returned, she started to take credit for it, which made Xiao Lin so angry that he pinched her cheeks and rubbed them repeatedly.

"Idiot! It's all your fault for using too much force, that's why it took you so long to restart Liu Zi. Have some self-awareness!"

"I'm so sorry..."

The silly goddess, in pain, cried out for mercy with tears in her eyes.

"Alright, alright." Darkness stepped forward to rescue Aqua and advised, "Don't blame her like that. Aqua meant well, didn't she? Besides, without her, Ms. Ryuu wouldn't have been able to install that circuit, would she?"

"That's true... but never mind, there's no need to dwell on it anymore."

Kobayashi still let Aqua go.

"Speaking of which, since Miss Ryuu has restarted, it means that the magic circuits have been successfully installed, right?" Kazuma Sato asked curiously, "Then, what are Miss Ryuu's abilities, or rather, the abilities of the magic circuits?"

"Oh right, I didn't know that yet!"

"You haven't tried it yet?"

"After all, all sorts of things happened as soon as it was restarted, and we rushed back in a hurry. It's normal that there wasn't a suitable opportunity."

Kobayashi laughed it off, resolutely refusing to say what "this or that thing" was.

Then, to satisfy their curiosity and also to change the subject, he said, "Why don't we all test it together?"

That successfully piqued their interest.

"First, we need to transfer magic power."

As Xiaolin spoke, she took Liu Zi's hand.

"Generally, automatons rely on their heart, or magic circuits, to move, even though the amount of magic required under normal conditions is negligible. Therefore, they will stop moving once they run out of magic."

"That Liu Zi is now..."

“Ryuu is different. She was originally driven by gears, so she doesn’t need magic power after being modified from that basis. This is her advantage over other automatons. However, she does need magic power to use magic circuits.”

"I see."

Kazuma Sato and the others nodded knowingly.

However, Kobayashi was very suspicious that only Kazuma Sato understood; the other problem children simply nodded in agreement unconsciously.

"So... Ryuu, how are you feeling?"

"Hmm, Lady Kobayashi has entered my body. It's warm, but unlike Lady Aqua's, it feels more delicate. But it's okay, being small is cute too."

There's no need to be sarcastic at this point, right?

Xiaolin felt slightly embarrassed, and at the same time glared at the crowd who were trying to suppress their laughter.

Did you hear what he was saying just now? It was because Aqua supplied too much divine power that the magic circuits were blocked, which is why Ryuzu couldn't activate on her own!

Not wanting to joke around with them anymore, Kobayashi focused on channeling magic until he completely filled Ryuu's body and soul.

After the waiter nodded to indicate that everything was ready.

"So--"

Nothing else happened, except that the sickle was swung more swiftly and the attacks were more ferocious than before.

This left the confident Kobayashi extremely embarrassed.

Forgot, the waiter who is skilled at wielding a scythe actually has a pre-set fighting style and does not use other skills.

This is also a characteristic of the series of dolls made by Hanayagi Sai Glass.

The four techniques, such as Nightly Whisper, Serenity, Radiant Flame, and Sky Pierce, are not suitable for Ryuko, nor are they suitable for Kobayashi.

Looking at it this way, isn't it just a waste of labor?

"Wait, Kobayashi-senpai."

Kazuma Sato seemed to notice Kobayashi's embarrassment, and the quick-witted man pointed out the crux of the problem: "What about the abilities of the Magic Circuits? Just now, Ryuu only used the scythe and didn't use any other abilities, right? But under normal circumstances, shouldn't there be some special abilities? Just like how every character has a special move."

"That's it! Well done, Sato-kun!"

"Hey hey hey-"

There are many types of magic circuits, which can give dolls some common characteristics, such as turning into water, fire, or phantoms, but some can also have special attributes.

"Liu Zi."

"Yes, Master Xiaolin!"

Buzz————

After a brief, slight tremor, Kobayashi found himself in an open area.

The overall color is gray and black, and everything is divided into spaces of the same size.

Not only that, everything within the space lost its color, and only he himself, enveloped by a peculiar power, was able to retain his own color.

There's a strange sense of unreality here, like an imaginary space.

"here it is……"

"Imaginary space."

The one who answered the question was Liu Zi, who appeared behind him.

Like him, the doll girl still retained her own colors, and Kobayashi seemed to understand what this ability was.

—Imaginary number movement mechanism!

Imaginary time is a variable that exists only in the formulas of physics; it is merely a hypothesis. Imaginary time exists perpendicular to our unilaterally flowing time.

The time transformed through the Lorentz transformation, in the Minkowski spacetime, is relative to space, and at this moment, the two of them are in a timeline that others cannot perceive.

Simply put, it's like stopping time!

"Could it be that I also possess the same ability as Liu Zi?"

Kobayashi clenched his hands in disbelief.

His excitement was palpable.

After all, this is time stopping, a power that every man dreams of!

"But it's too early to be happy, Lord Kobayashi. Please look here."

"Ok?"

Prompted by Liu Zi, he looked at his arm, or more precisely, the thin membrane covering his arm, which was being consumed at an extremely rapid rate.

"this is?"

"To protect Lord Kobayashi from being affected, and to ensure that he can enter the imaginary space with me."

"I see. Then allow me to ask a question: what will happen to me if this energy is completely depleted?"

"They will probably die from accelerating too fast."

Imaginary space is not a complete pause in time, but rather a vertical existence created on the timeline, where everything operates at ultra-high speed.

With the [Imaginary Number Movement Mechanism] as a safeguard, and since she herself is a doll made of gears, she can move freely inside, and the time is determined by how many gears are reversed.

While Kobayashi possessed the same ability, he achieved it by exploiting magic circuits, thus limiting his time.

"What's the specific time?"

"Around 10 seconds."

"Yeah."

Xiaolin scratched his head.

Ten seconds may seem like a lot, but it has significant drawbacks. Each activation of the Imaginary Mechanism consumes a large amount of magic power, causing Ryuji's gears to stop and wear down. Regardless, its use involves a huge investment, potentially making it impossible to recoup the costs. Therefore, this ability cannot be relied upon frequently and should only be used as a last resort.

Even so, he still had to say something.

—I'm so incredibly excited!

Someone claims to be invincible in 5 seconds, and boasts of world domination in 9 seconds. Wouldn't they be in heaven in 10 seconds?!

Chapter 354 One More Time!

cold.

A chill that seeps deep into your bones.

A cold that wants to freeze the body and even the soul.

The weather was gloomy, with thick, low-hanging, grayish-yellow clouds filling the sky. A howling wind, carrying snowflakes, raged through the slums. It seemed to wield sharp swords, capable of piercing even the thickest fur coats, let alone the exposed skin of faces, which were slashed repeatedly, causing excruciating pain.

"Ugh, it's freezing! Seriously, if there's a Winter General or something, please come out already! If we defeat it, spring will come, right?"

In a ruin covered in ice and snow.

A boy, his arms crossed over his chest, teeth chattering, and body trembling, was shouting loudly at the polluted sky.

He has short black hair, is of average height (neither tall nor short), and has a muscular build, suggesting he may have worked out. The inexpensive gray tracksuit looks particularly good on him.

Only his sharp, triangular eyes left an impression, but now his domineering aura has been lost due to the drooping corners of his eyes.

—Frozen.

After all, this is a world of ice and snow, and he was only wearing thin sportswear. In addition, he is just an ordinary person. It is already commendable that he was able to persevere.

Will I catch a cold tomorrow? It would be terrible if I did. Wait, will I even arrive at "tomorrow"?

The boy with triangular eyes fell into deep thought.

While he was lost in thought, a steaming bowl of soup came into view.

"Alright, alright, Natsuki-kun, stop complaining. How could there possibly be a Winter General here? Even if there were, you wouldn't be able to defeat it, would you?"