Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"This is a game where you can't change the ending"

"Even though the impact you can have is minimal, don't get discouraged."

"One day you will remember the reason why you are trapped by fate."

"But this is not the time..."

"Wake up, your destination is not here"

Watching the butterfly suddenly appear and then suddenly disappear.

The man lying on the ground couldn't help but stretch out his hand, suddenly sat up and shouted:

"and many more!"

In an instant, cries, sirens, and even the sounds of ambulances and fire trucks reached the paper bank's ears from all directions.

Zhihang's attention was attracted by the noisy sounds and he looked around.

There were no butterflies seen before, no Phantom Thieves heard before, and no trace of the three people in the Velvet Room.

What unfolded before Zhi Xing's eyes was a catastrophic scene, as if a monster had invaded reality, causing damage and collapse of surrounding buildings.

Zhixing couldn't help but lower his head and looked at his body which had returned to normal size and with his clothes intact. He then looked at the crowds of people who were still evacuating from the nearest intersections several blocks away from Zhixing.

"I invaded reality?"

Chapter 259: Become famous in advance and plan ahead

It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that the Paper Shop is just a ruin, but there are several gaps in the wall, and the road is paved with rocks.

He looked at the scene around him, and then his hand involuntarily reached into his pocket and took out his cell phone, which was also intact.

"April 20th (Wednesday) 21:09"

When Zhixing noticed the time, he also saw the messages sent by Amamiya Ren and the anonymous Sakura Futaba in the notification bar.

But this is obviously not the time to leisurely click around and check.

Zhi Xing put these aside and checked his current location.

"You actually walked 1000 meters?"

Looking at the direction and distance of the positioning, Zhixing felt confused again. Then he turned his head to look in the direction he came from and walked towards the original scene of the incident.

Going against the gradually fleeing crowd, Zhixing originally thought he would see corpses everywhere, or a Godzilla invasion, or at worst a fight between small monsters that destroyed a few buildings.

But apart from the place where the paper shop had just awakened, no damaged buildings were seen along the way.

If it weren't for the traces of people running on the ground that showed that Zhixing had not taken the wrong path, Zhixing would have thought that the place where he returned to reality was not the door of the Velvet Room.

In Zhixing's original imagination, it should be his demonized self who came to reality.

Although it is larger than the average person, it is just like a company mascot, at most a damaged version of Midnight Harem.

But if it was this size, even though its bounce was incredible and it was likely to have caused extensive damage to the building, it shouldn't have scared the crowd so much.

Zhixing looked at the motorcycle that had fallen down and there was no time to pick it up again, and saw a lot of drinks spilled on the road, both of which described a terrible fact to Zhixing.

"Could there be a murder scene ahead on the road?"

With such doubts, Zhixing glanced at the shops on both sides of the street, wanting to understand the situation at that time, but after considering that he did not know how to check the surveillance, Zhixing gave up the idea. Instead, he gave up the investigation to confirm the direction and started to rush towards the original Central Street.

After walking along the deserted street for a while, Zhixing soon saw other people.

Or it could be the police officers who chased all the way from the original location after receiving the alarm.

"Hey, over there! Is that monster still there?"

Zhihang looked at the five police officers who were shouting from a distance and walking slowly, shook his head, and then looked at his current location.

"It seems that if I want to know what happened, I can only ask the Phantom Thieves. I think I heard their voices, and..."

"No, the Phantom Thieves probably only came here after discovering the situation here. They don't know what happened, so we really have to go and see the scene."

Zhixing looked at the five police officers blocking one side of the sidewalk and knew that if he walked past them, they would remember his appearance or something unexpected would happen.

Zhixing didn't want to find anything in the dark night.

So he immediately closed his eyes and called the little bear's name as he walked.

It was originally just a trial call, but the paper bank’s phone was already ready to be transferred to the app.

But the paper industry’s call was responded to as always.

And quickly disappeared from the sight of several police officers.

Zhi Xing felt the familiarity of the change in light source and opened his eyes. He looked at the witch barrier which had not changed at all and said in surprise:

"Hmm? Didn't the witch barrier move?"

"Or, no matter where the little bear is, I can call him back with the witch's kiss?"

Zhixing looked at the wall not far away and confirmed that he was not in anyone's palace or memory space, then he called Xiaoxiong again.

But the strange thing is that after calling for a long time, the shadow bear who claimed that he could appear in the barrier did not show up. The surroundings were still so quiet. Unless you crossed a certain line, you would not even know whether the familiars were working.

"Something's wrong. The witch's barrier that was supposed to restore me to the temple is here, but the little bear (shadow), who was supposed to follow the barrier, isn't here."

Combining these two clues with the information learned in the Velvet Room, Zhixing suddenly felt that he might have walked a line between life and death.

After all, Zhixing's original idea was to let the little bear in the temple rely on the advantage of being able to project onto the barrier, and command the real witch to move the barrier to the locations of various temples. In this way, because these villains cannot be lost, Zhixing will trigger the reset because his fate cannot be changed.

But before carrying out this plan, Zhixing did not realize that the activation of the personality mask required the recognition of other beings.

Therefore, considering that the witch's barrier has not moved and the little bear in the hall has disappeared, Zhixing thought of a possibility.

The little bear in the hall has turned into his own personality mask, so he can no longer command the witch to move.

At the same time, the body that has already turned into a familiar is not something that the personality mask can resist, so Zhixing can only wear the mask he just obtained and become a familiar without any protection.

As for why he recovered, Zhixing was a little unclear. After all, the original recovery conditions were unclear. It was just an ability created by threatening other people's lives.

"Do you want to go take a look inside the temple now?"

The paper company immediately thought of this method, but then rejected it.

Because Zhixing actually doesn't want Temple Bear to become a personality mask. After all, there are always substitutes for masks, but there is only Temple Bear who can communicate with the witch and even command the witch to a certain extent.

If this was confirmed, Zhixing was afraid that he might fall into some emotions again and do something suicidal.

So it’s better to just confirm the situation at that time, and then find some people to enter the barrier to check the situation again.

Zhixing thought about it for a long time before giving up, taking out his cell phone, and following the remaining instructions on the map, he walked towards his destination.

This time there was no hindrance at all, and the paper arrived at the indicated distance.

After no longer feeling any sense of urgency, Zhi Xing took out mobile phone No. 1 in the barrier without the Internet and started translating and checking the messages sent from the phone.

The message sent by Amamiya Ren was simple:

"Found it....the other one is there too....where are you now? Did you do that?"

But Futaba Sakura is different.

I clicked on it many times but couldn't get into the chat page.

Although I didn't see the message inside, it was obvious that Futaba must have touched her computer, which is why there was this withdrawal message that was obviously technically demanding.

Zhixing looked at the time when Amamiya Ren sent the message, then thought about the time it took to get from Shujin Academy to Shibuya subway station, and was somewhat surprised to find that the Phantom Thieves found someone about ten minutes after arriving at their destination, and found another person about ten minutes later.

Considering that Impression Space couldn't connect to the internet either, Sakura and the others probably weren't too far from the subway station.

But compared to this, Zhixing was more concerned about the last message sent by Amamiya Ren.

That message sent half an hour ago.

Zhixing had some vague guesses about what had happened in the past half hour, but he still needed to ask in person to find out the truth.

After checking his phone again and confirming that there were no other clues, Zhixing felt that the police officers who might be outside were probably no longer at the scene, so he started calling back.

The surrounding scenery began to distort and soon reassembled into reality.

With just a simple look up, I saw a huge mark.

A dent that looked like it was caused by the face hitting the floor.

Is this body type... a witch's? Have witches also invaded reality?

Zhihang couldn't help but follow the direction of the giant mark and immediately saw the alleys that were forcibly expanded by the giant object, as well as some people who were joining in the fun, or the owners and employees of these shops.

Seeing that no murder scene had occurred, Zhixing felt relieved, but also felt a little powerless.

The paper walker moved forward and through the alley that had been cordoned off, he saw the police officers from the Investigation Department who were collecting intelligence at the scene. The place where the Velvet Room was supposed to be erected was now empty.

Just when Zhihang had gathered the information and was about to leave, his cell phone vibrated and then the call was connected automatically.

"Are you okay? Are you feeling okay both physically and mentally?"

Zhixing took out the number 3 phone from his pocket, looked at the call from Sakura Futaba, and immediately asked:

"I just lost consciousness. What happened?"

"We were just about to ask you about this. What happened? Why did such a big commotion suddenly happen?"

"Well, it's just a small matter. I'll tell you when I get back."

"No, it's better not to come back!"

"Ok?"

"There's traffic surveillance footage here that showed you entering the alley and walking back from where that monster disappeared. It might not be found yet, but no one can guarantee whether you've been discovered at this moment. After all, your situation is too serious!"

"...It's okay. I'm ready to become famous anyway, and I still need to get my computer back."

The paper industry doesn't care.

Although it is different from the original plan of becoming famous as a third-party force with good relations with the Phantom Thieves, it is still a matter of social recognition. As long as it can increase public recognition, it is only a loss of living environment, which is still acceptable to the paper industry.

"You're fine, but I am! What's going on? Did it end badly? Is there any possibility of recovery?"

Zhixing felt the urgency of Futaba's tone, and even through the synthesized voice, he could sense a hint of panic about being searched for social anxiety, and could not help but comfort her:

"Don't be afraid. Even the apparent boss, Shi Tong Zhengyi, couldn't be convicted or detained because he hadn't caught them in the act. People like you who clearly had nothing to do with the matter won't be too implicated simply because you've had contact with me."

Zhixing is still very confident about this. After all, in the original plot, Amamiya Ren was also caught, and before that he was investigated and interrogated for several days. In this way, the victims of a Phantom Thief incident often gathered together, and even Akechi could see that something was wrong, but they were not caught together.

Based on this situation, Zhixing felt that Futaba was still safe.

What's more, Zhixing is planning to do something big for Futaba's safety.

"Don't worry. You're afraid I'll implicate you. It's just that you guys called the police and there's a record. It's very likely they'll be discovered."

"Then I just need to change you from being special to not so special."

"No, not only that, the Phantom Thieves are also involved, and I'm afraid their identities have been exposed."

"what happened?"

"They wanted to contact you after they brought us out, but they didn't. Since we were close, we decided to come over and take a look."

"But what appeared before me was a giant stitched-together doll, wandering aimlessly."

"I saw the devil... Anyway, I recognized that the doll might be related to you, so I asked if there was any way to stop it."

"Then the cat spoke! He said that in reality, we are just ordinary people, and we must lead it to the realm of impressions."

"But just using the app next to it doesn't bring it in with you."

"Just when Amamiya Ren and the others didn't know what to do, another me appeared, and I don't know what I did, but I handed a picture to me."

"And that picture turned into... a preview letter when we returned to reality."

"A warning letter? The kind from the Phantom Thieves?"

Zhihang was surprised to hear this.

If there's anything that represents the Phantom Thieves, it's the trailer and the logo.

But this thing should have only appeared in Kamoshida this time. Why would Futaba's shadow exist and be brought into reality?

"Yes, and it's not text that we can understand, but text that is very similar to the symbols that appear on your body."

"After Amamiya Ren threw the warning letter in front of the monster, we saw the figure of a young girl... and then... we were invited into her palace."

""

"How is she?"