Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Could it be that the Velvet Room did something similar to how I can now escape back to the witch's barrier at any time?"

As his mind raced, Zhi Xing watched intently the progress of the other party's flight, ready to enter the witch's barrier when the other party came down to attack him.

In this way, you only need to look back after moving forward to know the opponent's movements.

Otherwise, if you disappear early, both sides will be unclear about each other's position, and Zhixing will not dare to come out of the barrier.

And maybe after you come up empty-handed, you'll feel like you're still in the same place and want to stay here and dig a hole?

As soon as Zhixing thought of this possibility, he shook his head and denied it.

No, the palace in this world is different from the witch's barrier.

Even ordinary people can hide in buildings in the witch's barrier, but in the temple, unless they use the power of the mask to sneak, everyone who enters the temple will have a situation where they will be called out to react as an intruder.

Although ordinary cognitive beings cannot tell the difference between real-life invaders and cognitive beings of the same appearance in the hall.

But judging by her behavior that is perceived as hating Futaba herself, I would probably be attacked even if I was considered a Futaba person.

Zhixing sighed and no longer held onto any hope. He began to face the Sphinx, which was much faster than him. He began to consider whether he should put a car in the barrier to use for transportation.

But soon, the approaching Sphinx did not dive down towards the paper line all at once. Instead, it slowly and steadily stopped a little further away from the paper line. Then, under the paper line's puzzled gaze, it spoke:

"I didn't know you were coming to visit my good-for-nothing daughter. I'm sorry for not welcoming you. Please follow me."

After saying that, he turned around and extended his wings to the ground, forming a staircase-like path.

Zhixing took a deep breath and then looked at the neck of the human face, a pattern that was also magnified although it was far away.

"Witch's Kiss."

Chapter 270 skipped the story of Futaba Palace

In this cognitive world, everyone's mental state should appear above the ground of the impression space.

But maybe everyone's desires are different, some are high and some are low.

So some people's desires declined and they sank beneath the ground.

Some people have too many desires, so they become self-isolating.

Until people with low desires combine their own desires with the desires of others to form a false god.

Until the person with high desires can no longer restrain his ambition and begins to influence other people.

From this perspective, almost everyone who is famous should have a temple.

But in reality, those who can own the hall are those who occupy more public recognition.

Because others recognized the part that was shown, they also handed over their desires to the Lord of the Hall.

This is what caused the distorted space that could not be resolved by others to continue to expand, forming a hall and recruiting NPCs.

What the paper industry wants is this public recognition.

Zhixing was very clear that he was not a transmigrated soul and that he had no trace of existence in this world.

Therefore, as an illegal immigrant, if you want to gain more power, you need sufficient exposure.

If stability is the priority, Zhi Xing should follow the situation of the Phantom Thieves to improve his cognition and increase the power of his mask.

However, the mask of the paper industry was never implemented.

Although Zhixing felt that one year was enough for him to obtain this power that was different from that of a witch.

But Zhixing always felt that such days passed too slowly.

After all, while I am still boredly scrolling through my phone, some people are still living in the pain of life and death.

What's more, as Zhixing began to come into contact with the power of this personality mask, he felt more and more that this power was not worth investing so much time in it.

After all, if this power really depends on the recognition of others, it will lose its power as the public support rate of the Phantom Thieves declines, and may even disappear after it reaches zero.

This kind of management ability is required, but for a paper company that often takes short trips, it seems that it cannot even express the original plot.

"People who carry desires distort the space around them and become independent."

"When this desire becomes too strong to be suppressed, it will spread to others, and then be known by others, gaining public recognition. Then, the excessive desire can be used to control other shadows and turn them into one's minions."

Zhi Xing looked at the shadow Futaba in front of him and expressed his understanding of the palace.

Shadow Futaba has not yet commented on this.

The genuine Futaba standing aside couldn't help but point to the side of the paper and asked:

"You mean, your desire is deeper than my obsession with Mom, so it controls the shadow in turn?"

Zhixing looked back at the Sphinx, a monster-level character that originally belonged to the temple's boss and could even put the Phantom Thieves in a tough fight.

He was also the one who had just carried himself to the location of the pyramid and allowed Paper Line to have a friendly conversation with Shadow Futaba.

"Well, when two different systems collide, one side will always have the advantage, right?"

Zhixing always feels that there is something strange about the image of the shadow being controlled by the witch's kiss.

After all, the Witch's Kiss is just a Witch's Kiss, and it has never been something that can control others.

The function of the Witch's Kiss is simply to spread despair, and then let the victim act according to the despair in his heart.

What can be intervened is where the route guidance is carried out.

Otherwise, if the victims were all controlled by the Witch's Kiss, there would be no need to go to the top floor. Even the second floor or even the first floor could have caused death.

The performances in the plot of Madoka Magica all show that the Witch's Kiss only plays a guiding role and does not deliberately control the opponent's actions.

Therefore, the paper industry does not quite understand the Sphinx's actions.

This is different from the two previous contracts made to reclaim the Witch's Kiss.

Although Witch's Kiss has become a familiar after the contract, it is still unable to control its original shadow.

Regarding this point, although the shadow Futaba was affected by the Witch's Kiss, Futaba herself was affected by the shadow's actions. This shows that the feeling of despair brought about by the Witch's Kiss was isolated in the cognitive world by the shadow and did not bring any changes to herself.

Shadow Futaba followed the two's gaze and looked at the person she considered the source of her guilt and persecution, the cognitive image representing her mother, and added:

"Inside the temple, besides those shadows wandering in the space of impressions, there is also an irreplaceable being within the temple, a being constructed entirely by the temple master using his own accumulated desires."

"And this kind of cognition exists." Shadow Futaba paused, then looked at Futaba and continued, "It has no connection to reality. It is just a collection of desires without a soul."

"Does the cognition of one person in the temple exist?"

Zhixing couldn't help but start thinking whether he could use the power of the Witch's Kiss to get more of these cognitive beings from other halls. After all, in the hall that nominally belonged to him, apart from the Shadow Bear, he didn't see any other things. Even the venue was moved from other people's halls.

"If that's the case, then this cognitive existence is just ownerless energy. Can it be controlled by the witch like a familiar?"

Shadow Futaba nodded, and as if syncing with Futaba's memory, he introduced:

"This kind of cognitive existence is even worse than the Phantom Thieves exploiting the cognitive existence of the deceased to enable themselves to exploit their own desires."

"Desires born from the Master of the Temple are often particularly simple and one-sided."

"Perhaps that's why the Witch's Kiss doesn't reveal anything in the other person's memory that's worth despairing about."

"So if you control it, you won't have much desire to resist."

Shadow Futaba was also very depressed about this.

After all, that is the only collection of desires in the hall besides the secret treasure.

After Futaba leaves her own palace and this cognitive mother is defeated, the palace will face collapse.

As for whether this palace will collapse after Futaba takes the secret treasure away, it is hard to say.

"So, you, like those soldiers, are like shadows, and are actually resistant to the Witch's Kiss, so you won't be controlled, right?"

Jixing's words reminded Futaba of the time when Jixing used the Witch's Kiss to ask for help. It was hard to say that he was not controlled at that time.

But it was only limited to that one time. After that, until Zhixing came back, he did not see the shadow of Futaba again. So after thinking about it, Futaba gave up giving examples to agree with this statement and started to ask about the real matter:

"Let's not talk about how much use your Witch's Kiss can have in this world. Could you please tell me why you suddenly want to drag me into the temple?"

"Look, I'm totally unprepared and don't know what to do."

Although Zhixing still had doubts in his heart, he still spoke frankly to Futaba who had already entered the hall:

"I want to witness the awakening of the Persona."

"Does it have to be me? There should be others who will join the Phantom Thieves, right?"

"That's different. You're a Hall-turned Persona, and there's another member who's a semi-awakened Persona. I want to understand all of this."

Zhi Xing looked past the two girls near the edge of the pyramid and focused his gaze on the mural in the center. He asked the shadowed Futaba:

"Aren't you going to start yet? Reorganize your distorted childhood memories, and then transform into a persona or something."

"Hmph, are you really treating us as NPCs in a cutscene?"

Shadow Futaba looked at Zhixing's behavior with some reluctance, but considering her mother's face, she couldn't do it again as before.

What's more, judging from the current situation, if Futaba leaves, she will have to endure her mother's troubles for a long time.

Therefore, the shadow Futaba took Futaba's hand and returned to the front of the mural. He first let the absent-minded Futaba recall the grief of the past and regain her senses, and then pointed out the wrong places in these memories one by one.

So very quickly, in less than ten minutes, Futaba's mentality changed drastically.

He went from thinking that he had killed his mother to being angry that someone else had killed his mother and was blaming himself for it.

However, the mask that Kazuya expected did not appear because Futaba realized the truth.

This made Zhixing a little unclear about the conditions for awakening.

But fortunately, the pace of fate seems to have quickened.

The Sphinx Isshiki Wakaba, who was theoretically controlled by the Witch's Kiss, also saw Futaba in the pyramid and saw his own memories clearly.

Involuntarily, he began to speak out and confirm Futaba's crimes according to the character and script given to him by the hall.

And as if the scene were re-enacted, the tone of those adults who shirked responsibility at the funeral echoed in Futaba's ears again.

Futaba put her head in her hands again and ran away, just like she had in the past.

Zhixing stretched out his hand, and seeing that the mother had no intention of opening the pyramid, he said nothing more, but looked at the changes in Futaba.

It is also about playing with the power of emotions, and it is also mainly about guidance.

A sense of familiarity rose in Zhixing's heart, and he watched as Sakura Futaba's Witch's Kiss emerged from her neck under the painful memories of her mother's 3D surround sound.

Seeing this, Kazuyuki wanted to walk to Futaba's side and recreate what happened to Suzui Shiho at that time, and awaken the personality mask by entering the witch's barrier.

But the one who is faster than the paper line is the shadow Futaba who is closest to Futaba.

Zhi Xing paused, rubbed his eyes with his hands, and looked at Shadow Futaba strangely, or to be more precise, at the black magic power in Shadow Futaba's hand.

"What's going on? Can the Witch's Kiss be stripped away directly? Shouldn't it be possible to control even cognitive existence?"

Just as Zhixing was about to think about the reason behind this situation, he saw the black magic power break away from Futaba's hand and fly all the way behind Zhixing.

[That's because she has become immune to the Witch's Kiss, so she can directly touch it without any deeper magic.]

"immunity?"

Zhixing listened to the voice behind him, grasped the key points, and also recalled another person who was immune to the Witch's Kiss.

Suzui Shiho, who now has a mask but no stand.

"If she was already immune at that time, why did she still see..."

Before he could finish his words, he turned his gaze to the Sphinx far outside the pyramid.

"Can the power of cognition also lead others into despair?"

Zhixing thinks it is not that simple, otherwise this world would not be a head-on numerical confrontation, but a Cthulhu confrontation where magic affects other people's minds.

Zhi Xing switched his gaze back and forth between Futaba and the human face, and soon, with the help of Little Bear, he understood the key.

【True memory.】

Zhixing stopped shaking his head and thought about the connection between the two.

The mother's understanding of Futaba, and the witch's kiss that returned from Suzui Shiho's body and her understanding of Shiho's desperate situation.

This is what can make the other party fall into despair.

(I can go back now)

The sudden feeling in his heart interrupted Zhixing's thoughts and made Zhixing turn his attention back to Futaba.

Just like the original plot.