Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

Zhixing didn't care about Futaba who was in the bed at first, but looked at Futaba who was dressed in Egyptian clothes and staring at him thoughtfully.

Is it because I got the navigation app that I can see shadows? Then Futaba, who also got the app, must have seen the other person, which is why she's even more scared.

Coming back to his senses, Zhixing glanced at Futaba who had poked her head out from under the covers, then looked at Boss Sakura who was staring at him and wanted him to help solve the problem. Zhixing thought of a way to stay in the hotel longer.

"Boss Sakura, it's not a good idea to keep asking me to go back and forth like this. After all, I won't stay in the hotel. How about this, do you have your cell phone with you?"

"Oh, I brought it. Wait a moment."

Boss Sakura sighed, then took out her cell phone and prepared to write down the contact number of the man from the paper shop.

"Don't get me wrong, I don't mean for you to call me. I just want to say...why don't you come and help Futaba."

Chapter 236 Are you talking about the shadow?

"You mean, you can't cure Futaba's illness?"

Boss Sakura glared at Paper Line, her tone lacking any joy at the possibility of gaining super powers.

"No, it can be cured, but wouldn't this allow you to understand the situation in more detail, just like requiring a guardian's signature before surgery."

Zhixing said this while looking at Boss Sakura's phone.

Boss Sakura hesitated for a moment, then looked at Futaba.

Futaba's newly revealed head immediately began to shake.

It was at this moment that Zhixing saw that both of Futaba's ears were wrapped in gauze, and it seemed that she was injured.

"You...what happened to you?"

Zhixing turned to look at the other Sakura Futaba standing beside her. That was the shadow in Futaba's palace and the culprit that caused Futaba to have auditory hallucinations.

[Sorry, I just couldn't control myself and confessed. This would reduce the pressure on me, but I didn't expect it to turn out like this.]

Zhi Xing shook his head and said to the shadow Futaba:

"I know a girl who only knows how to say sorry. It's just self-consolation, but it drives a girl who can vaguely hear voices crazy."

"But you and she are one, right? Could it be that the memories brought about by the auditory hallucinations are not synchronized?"

[I'm sorry, I can indeed have the same memories, but the feelings are not the same, or rather, the feelings towards people and things are not consistent.]

"Doesn't this make it an independent individual? And... that's right. Even if you leave the temple, you'll just become a mask, and the mask itself has its own personality attributes."

Zhixing first thought of Ichigo's instinctive statement, and then thought of the situation where the Zanpakutō usually turned another self into one's own ability.

The Phantom Thief undergoes a qualitative change just like the transformation from Byakuslash to Zanpakuto, and on this basis, it can be continuously upgraded.

According to the situation in the game, it seems that it is possible to awaken and change the personality mask. Isn't this a kind of Bankai?

"Yes... Is dialogue possible?"

Just as Kazuyuki was trying to connect the Personality Mask and the Zanpakuto, and was hesitating whether to go to the world of Death or similar powers, Futaba, with her ears wrapped in gauze, asked weakly.

Zhixing looked at Futaba in surprise, thinking that shouldn't Futaba's rebuttal have been made long ago, and then the auditory hallucinations would be made worse, so she chose to endure it in silence?

But thinking that his condition seemed to have worsened this time, Zhixing still did not say this. Instead, he walked to the side, picked up a bag of garbage that had not been disposed of and threw it at the body of the shadow Futaba.

【You must be very unpopular with girls. 】

Shadow Futaba didn't dodge or evade, allowing the bag of garbage to pass through her body.

"I see. So, if the cognitive world wants to interfere with reality, this talent alone isn't enough. No wonder the only skill is speech."

Seeing that he could penetrate things, Zhixing once again confirmed the limits of this power, and then looked at Boss Sakura, who obviously couldn't see anything but chose to remain silent.

"You really don't want to see it? The problems and causes that plague Futaba, and the person who was diagnosed as a hallucination and auditory hallucination...ah, can you touch it?"

The paper walker stepped forward, intending to indicate the position of the shadow, so he pressed his hand towards the shadow's head.

But the imagined situation of fluctuating up and down before confirming the height did not occur, but I actually touched the shadow's hair.

[As expected, even if it's for my life, I can't fall in love with someone as extravagant as you.]

"No...No, I didn't think of that!"

Futaba immediately jumped up from the bed and opened her mouth to explain something.

But Zhixing didn't hear what followed, because after saying this, Shadow Futaba disappeared into reality.

Also disappearing was the paper line that was touching the other person's hair.

""

Zhihang watched the scene around him change under the red and black ripples into a spacious place with a blue screen and green English codes on all sides, and suddenly a sense of unease arose in his heart.

Sure enough, after seeing Zhixing following along, Shadow Futaba changed her previous attitude of non-resistance, raised her hand and slapped Zhixing's hand away, then disappeared from Zhixing's side not far away.

[You've actually been able to follow me all the way here. You're definitely not an ordinary human.]

"No, it's okay to be an ordinary person. I have some strength now, but what the hell is a human being? I can't stop being a human even if I want to!"

Shadow Futaba pointed with one hand, and three walls rose from the ground, directly restricting the movement range of the paper line. Then the railings arrived as promised and added a cap.

【This is the world of cognition, and this is my palace.】

"But you're not someone I allowed into this place, nor are you one of those intruders. You don't have that distinctly strange smell. Who are you?"

Holding onto the prison bars that were characteristic of P5, Zhi Xing listened to Shadow Futaba's words and couldn't help but ask irrelevantly:

"Smell? Are you referring to the power in my hand having a certain smell? But you haven't come into contact with the Phantom Thieves yet, right? How would you know?"

[That guy, the one who gave you the map, went to Kamoshida's palace a while ago under my contact and retrieved some remaining items.]

Shadow Futaba bent his right hand, and suddenly an empty bottle appeared in his hand.

[This bottle contains some of the body tissues left behind after they entered this world. You can clearly smell the strange smell, or perhaps other sensations.]

Zhi Xing opened his eyes wide but couldn't see what was in the bottle. He scratched his head and discovered the truth.

"Hair? Sigh, that's right. Besides real people, shadows shouldn't lose their hair or excrete, right?"

[Of course, beautiful girls won't go to the bathroom unless they're drugged.]

Shadow Futaba returned the bottle, casually responded to Zhixing's question, and looked at Zhixing.

Zhixing turned around and looked around the room, which was so shabby that there wasn't even a bed, let alone anything else.

"You won't leave me trapped here, will you?"

"Of course not. I still hope you can save me. After all, besides those who call themselves the Phantom Thieves, there is something else that only you know the solution to."

Shadow Futaba reached out to touch her neck and pulled off the mummy-like bandage on her neck, revealing the tattoo hidden on her skin, the Witch's Kiss that Zhixing had seen many times.

[You should know what this is, after all, you have it in your body.]

Zhixing touched his neck. Although he had guessed it in his mind, it was only when he really faced it that he realized something was very inconsistent.

"If the Witch's Kiss was on you, then why can you still speak normally?"

[That's because, of course, this tattoo hasn't been working since yesterday.]

"Yesterday? Could it be!"

"But this thing is really strange to be called a thing. Normally, when we become temples and create cognitive existence, we do so based on our own desires. However, this thing doesn't contain the desires of its original owner, and instead guides others to a different kind of desperate desire."

This desire was so pure, so pure that I was also affected by it. I was aware of what I was doing, but I just couldn't control myself from doing those stupid things.

If I'm not mistaken, the original owner of this thing was also infected by it and was controlled by desperate desires.

What is the source of this despair? Is there really a life that can exist peacefully despite such a huge desire for despair?

Zhixing leaned against the railing, listening to this completely unexpected opinion, and fell into deep thought.

Before this, Zhixing had never met anyone who was able to break free from the Witch's Kiss after being infected with it, and who could describe the feeling of being controlled.

No, there is no chance to meet.

It was as if there was some coincidence that made Zhixing miss the reunion with them. Except for Conan who was suppressing the Witch's Kiss, he never saw any other victims.

What's more, the person who is sharing his experience now is very special. What he says is all based on feelings based on desire.

"This thing has a name. Its unified name is Witch's Kiss, which means the kiss left by the witch."

"And the witch is the name of the creature that currently exists within me. It comes from the name of a magical girl that shrinks after growing up."

"Magical girls are a species called Kyubey. Through studying human emotions, they invented a technique for transforming emotions. They are the product of a special black technology."

"The shadow here and this other-world navigation app in my hand should also be considered technology from this world, right? Didn't your... mother study cognitive science? It's probably a developed version of this thing, right?"

It's cognitive science. It's the inconceivable, what kind of brain is that? Is it even wrong to call it science?

"Ahem, I'm off the stage. Okay, okay, learn, learn."

"I think this place of yours must have some connection with the witch world. After all, as you said, the witch's kiss has the power to lead others into despair."

"Didn't you also grow into the Temple from some strong desire? Don't you have any way to resist the power of the same emotion?"

[Unfortunately, I'm not as strong as you think. This thing called the Witch's Kiss carries an indelible despair, and even if I try to disperse it, I still can't get rid of it.]

(Sound of shaking iron railings)

"What did you just say? You dispersed?!"

Zhi Xing grabbed the railing and stared at Shadow Futaba's neck, trying to see the difference between this Witch's Kiss and other Witch's Kiss.

[Since you were also entangled by the Witch's Kiss, you should also know that feeling very well. ]

[I'm not a real human. I don't have the same vital parts as you do. So when I realized this thing was interfering with my behavior, I separated that part of my body.]

[Of course, I wouldn't just throw this kind of harmful garbage away. I packed it up and covered it with stone balls.]

[At that time, since I had just started to learn about it, I wasn't affected much by it, so although I was curious about the situation, I didn't think much about it.]

Zhi Xing looked at the witch's kiss that was still on the shadow Futaba's neck and guessed what the other party would say next.

[But that despair will still appear, and will re-form into a witch's kiss on my neck. Even if I transform into a non-human creature, I can't get rid of it.]

[Furthermore, the power originally trapped in the stone ball did not disappear. Instead, it continued to exist while also gradually spreading outward.]

[Such a terrifying power should not exist in this world.]

Shadow Futaba waved again, and several mummy coffins emerged from the ground between them.

Zhixing roughly recognized that it was a shadow monster in the Futaba Palace, which was only used by the protagonist group to fight monsters and obtain resources, but Zhixing had no combat capability.

"I learned from Futaba this morning that you had acquired the power of the Phantom Thieves yesterday. I guess that's why I'm awake now."

"But it's too dangerous for such power to exist in this world. You must promise not to use these two powers after saving Futaba, otherwise I will choose to destroy you here."

"Wait, calm down. You just think you're out of control. Your behavior is irrational!"

"Think about it, if you're afraid of being controlled by the Witch's Kiss, then why are you also forbidding me from using my otherworldly navigation power? Can't one be used to counteract the other, and the two powers be used together? Anyway, I can't control you now, so naturally I can't control anyone else either."

"That's another matter. The Phantom Thieves' power is mixed with something else. I can see that, and I think the other shadows can see that too."

"What other things? Isn't the Persona the same thing as the Temple?"

[It's a feeling of destruction. I can feel the aura of destruction from those Phantom Thieves.]

Even as someone who knows the true identity of the Phantom Thieves, I still can't help but want to destroy them.

【Not to mention the others who were originally considered invaders.】

[If you also use this power and are contaminated by that aura, you will not be able to escape the pursuit of the other hall masters.]

"That's not right, right? I remember the Phantom Thieves were able to sneak around. If there really was any presence, they would be discovered, right?"

"Even in front of the Hall himself, the Phantom Thieves can still sneak around."

[Hmph, what do you mean by stealth? You're just hiding deeper into the memory space. Not only can you not sense it, but even if you show half of your head, there's no shadow to be seen.]

"But you're different. I realized it after seeing you on the surveillance camera in Futaba's memory this morning."

You cannot actively sink into a deeper cognitive space, but are passively brought into the corresponding space.

[In other words, as long as you enter the hall, no, as long as you enter the world of cognition, all nearby shadows will be able to sense the destructive aura from you and will attack you uncontrollably.]

So, stop using these two powers of yours. This is for your own good.

[Sign a contract in the cognitive world. The contract will allow you to restrain yourself and not do anything that violates the contract!]

Chapter 237 The Impact of the Cognitive World

"Contract? There's no way I'm going to sign a contract. There are too many pitfalls in that kind of thing."

"Is that so? Then you can draft the contract and show it to me."