I am a Type-Moon comic artist!

Need I say more? In just a short while, we've already entered the timeline of the Third Singularity!

"We'll talk about it when we have time—"

With that, Kurokawa Kazuya grabbed Marisbury and ran off.

"Where am I..." Marisbury, who had been there for about two months, looked around and breathed a sigh of relief: "Looks like I'm back... But, is it already noon?"

"No...it was still morning when I left, which means four or five hours have passed...has the flow of time over there changed to this extent without me even noticing?"

"You're finally back." Ryougi Shiki slowly walked over, looked at Kurokawa Kazuya, and sighed, "What? Back for lunch?"

Ryougi Shiki was lifeless.

After all, Kurokawa Kazuya had already told her about all sorts of possibilities, and he couldn't control such a thing, could he?

There's nothing that can be done about it, and she can't say anything.

but...

"Next time, take me with you."

"Hmm... Ah, I see. I didn't expect that this time, but next time... um, I'll definitely bring you along..."

"That's good." Ryougi Shiki smiled. "Now I can rest assured..."

On the other side, Marisbury, who had given some instructions to the maid, also came over: "Well... although there were quite a few mistakes along the way, it's finally over..."

"How about it? What about that Chaldea..."

“Ah, it feels very strange.” Marisbury nodded: “It seems that my future self has fulfilled the long-cherished wish of the Animusphia family. The only drawback is the burning of humanity... This is beyond our control. I never expected that Leif would be such a person... I value his skills and was originally planning to recruit him to help with the construction of Chaldea... What a pity.”

"Hmm? You mean to say?"

“That’s right… Professor Rafe certainly exists in this world too…” Marisbury sighed. “But… well, we’ve done most of what we needed to do, and I have a rough idea of ​​what Chaldea is lacking in the future. So—when are you planning to go to that Atlas Institute?”

"From my perspective, the sooner the better."

“Alright.” Marisbury nodded. “Let’s do it tomorrow then. After all, we’re going to Egypt, so it’s good to prepare more. It’s getting late.”

With that, Marisbury shouted, "Prepare my bathwater."

"Yes, I understand."

"Then, I'll go and rest now. I'm exhausted from my time at Chaldea. You don't need to prepare dinner for me. Just tell the chef or maid what you want to eat."

"I understand." Kurokawa Kazuya nodded. After Marisbury left, he took Ryougi Shiki's hand and walked forward, saying, "Shiki, there's still some time. Is there anything you'd like to do?"

"Then let's take a stroll around this area. It's a nice place, very quiet."

"...Yes, it's nice to wander around."

Kurokawa Kazuya nodded, then walked up to a maid and said, "We'd like to take a walk outside. Could you please open the door for us?"

"I see."

The Animusfia family's home is located deep in the mountains. From the outside, it looks like an ancient and noble family, but you only know the truth once you go inside.

This is an observatory.

It seems that all kinds of instruments related to astronomy, from ancient times to the present, can be found here.

Time slowly passed.

After dinner, Kurokawa, Yashiki, and Ryougi Shiki went outside again to look at the starry sky.

"It feels... a little different..." Kurokawa Kazuya gazed at the twinkling stars in the sky.

Ryougi Shiki nodded, her gaze fixed on the stars: "The stars here... seem much clearer now."

"It's probably Animusphia's family magic... Of course, it's also possible that this place is special in itself." Kurokawa Kazuya said with a smile, "That's probably why they left their family here. After all, it would be much easier to do stargazing here."

"That's right! This is the masterpiece of the Animusfia family." Accompanied by a steady voice, footsteps slowly approached. Kurokawa Kazuya turned around with a slight sense of vigilance. At this time... who could be coming?

"Who are you?" Ryougi Shiki frowned as she looked at the approaching young man and asked.

The person who walked over was a young man around twenty-five years old with blond hair. Although his eyes were closed, he gave off an aura that seemed to see through everything in the world.

"I see. So this is how the stage is set this time. However, as someone with the ability to travel between parallel worlds, and... meeting someone connected to the Root, the design of this stage is completely wrong. The producer, scriptwriter, and director will all be held accountable for a huge amount of responsibility, right?"

Chapter 368 The Incarnation of Calculation

"Who are you?" Kurokawa Kazuya frowned as he looked at the stranger in front of him...

I don't know him.

So...who is he?

No... but this looks somewhat familiar... it seems like... it appeared in the world of Tsukihime?

Hmm... that might be true.

"Cut! Let's cut it off here."

The blond man said, "I am not the person you think I am, no... or rather, I am an equivalent from a different world. It is because of this encounter with the two of you that I should have come during the day, but unfortunately, the sun is a bit too hot today, and I have been feeling a little inconvenienced, so I took some measures and came at night."

"Shouldn't you answer my question first?" Kurokawa Kazuya said, shielding Ryougi Shiki behind him. "I don't know you... but—you seem to know a lot about me? No... not only that. Even Shiki..."

As he spoke, he had already used his substitute, Atom.

This way, you can tell whether his words are true or false, and whether he is lying.

"Don't worry, you don't need to use that stand-in to distinguish between truth and falsehood. I won't lie... I have no need to lie. I naturally won't answer questions I don't want to answer."

"Varied----?"

Kurokawa Kazuya's pupils contracted.

He has never revealed this ability to anyone, why...?

"Indeed, you've hidden your abilities, but that's only the current possibility. Sometimes you'll reveal other possibilities that expose your abilities... Hmm, this time it looks like a scenario involving two people, but actually, it's more likely that you came alone."

The man's tone remained calm, and his tightly closed eyes revealed nothing of his thoughts.

Kurokawa Kazuya's stand-in cannot see into his heart; he can only judge whether he is lying by seeing the YES/NO of his soul.

"You two, if I'm not mistaken, you should be manga artist Kazuya Kurokawa and Ryougi Shiki, right? By the way... are you engaged?"

"We'll be getting engaged this August." Kurokawa Kazuya was interrupted by Ryougi Shiki before he could finish speaking.

"This is none of your business, you know far too much!" Ryougi Shiki said, pulling out a dagger and pointing it at him: "Who are you? Depending on the situation—"

"At this point, you would probably say—I will kill you."

“I will kill—this guy…” Ryougi Shiki’s face suddenly darkened: “You’re not human, are you? Then it doesn’t matter if I kill you!”

"No, Shiki, don't be impulsive... This should all have been within your expectations, right?" Kurokawa Kazuya said, looking at the person in front of him. "Alright, you've done enough testing, haven't you? Tell me, who exactly are you?"

"Hmm... According to the calculation, if we weren't preparing for an engagement at this time, Ryougi Shiki would rush over and attack me. However, if we are preparing for an engagement, this won't happen. Instead, you will stop me... This is the general trend in most scripts."

“However, your patience is probably nearing its limit.” The blond man said to Kurokawa Kazuya, who was clearly on the verge of exploding and beginning to show signs of impatience, “I am the person you are looking for, the current Dean of the Atlas Academy—Zybia Eltnam Atlasia!”

"Atlas...?"

“Ah, yes, just in case, let me say it again.” Tsbia revealed his sharp teeth and said, “As you can see, I have been a Dead Apostle for a long time.”

......

Dead Apostle... Headmaster of the Atlas Academy... Tsbia Eltnam Atlasia

besides...

That ability to foresee the future...

No, it's the ability to seem to know everything; there are some things that even if you could foresee the future, you still wouldn't be able to see.

Seeing him—

Kurokawa Kazuya almost thought this was another time traveler, and that he himself already had such a character in the Type-Moon world before the time travel...

If it weren't for the fact that he gave me such a special feeling.

That's probably what he thought.

Even now, he wonders if it really is true—

Kurokawa Kazuya looked at him as if he had thought of something: "Is it... calculation?"

"exactly."

"Calculate? What do you mean?" Ryougi Shiki frowned and asked Kurokawa Kazuya.

"He probably calculated countless possibilities... such as me coming alone, me bringing you, whether we're engaged... all sorts of possibilities, and then, based on our previous conversation, he understood what the current possibilities were, discarding the useless ones, leaving only the reality we're in now... So, it created the feeling that he 'saw the future' and 'knows everything'... right?"

“That’s right.” Tsbia nodded, his eyes still closed. “Among the possibilities of our survival, there are countless different scenarios, each a different wave. Although it is almost impossible to jump to other waves, we can calculate and estimate the shape of other waves. Through a lot of calculations, we can naturally imagine what common scenarios are like. I am not a detective and I can’t do reasoning. The possibilities are not infinite, but they are countless. It is impossible to verify them one by one. Even if we do verify them, new possibilities will emerge during the verification process.”

"Mr. Kurokawa, you are well aware that the possibilities are not infinite," the author says.

"Ah... so it's what's called the cut-off details, right?"

“That’s right.” Tsbia nodded. “Because even this universe is powerless to expand to infinity, but because the total number is not something that humans can take root in me, it is countless. Therefore, by limiting the five generations and the characters, the scope is narrowed down to a calculable level, and that is what I… Tsbia’s existence is.”

"I see..."

"Yes, we share the same perspective. But the difference is that I'm powerless against that inescapable future, while... you don't see it that way, and you're even eager to try. So... you don't actually need to come here. Just go to the Atlas Institute; its doors are always open for you. Although what you need the Atlas Institute to do has absolutely nothing to do with the safety of this world..."

"So... what's your purpose in coming here?"

"Yes, it's very simple. I'm here to recycle—the contract of the Atlas Institute."

Chapter 369 Dean of Atlas Academy

Even with this person saying that, Kurokawa Kazuya did not relax.

Even though I haven't revealed my abilities to anyone... D4C is fine, but... being able to see through other people's minds, while not as powerful as D4C's, is even more repulsive.

But... this person had calculated all of this.

Because he had read countless scripts for the Type-Moon universe and possessed the ability to travel to parallel worlds, he didn't care about these things.

And...this person.