Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"It's just that there's so little experience to draw on, so before I knew it, I was being called a 'super high school programmer'."

The programmer's explanation calmed Zhixing's wild thoughts a little, and he couldn't help but ask:

"I can understand your pursuit of a goal from childhood, but... things are different now."

"Isn't the current situation enough for you to change your mind?"

"Look at the crises facing your classmates, the crises outside of school, and the crises you'll face soon. Isn't there a possibility of trading these things?"

The programmer fiddled with the computer in front of him and said with a smile:

"I know how much of an advantage the Despair who trapped us has now. He can decide our life or death at any time."

"So... since I'm not strong enough right now, it's only a matter of time before I become someone else's target."

Zhixing scratched his head, feeling a little tricky.

As for the soul, Zhixing does have something that can act on it.

That is to plant the witch's kiss on the other person.

Long before coming to this world, Zhixing had intended to spread the Witch's Kiss in an attempt to restore the witch to human form.

Although this plan has not yet been implemented, the Paper Company has already thought about the possibility of recycling the Witch's Kiss.

The witch's kiss in the witch's hand can be used to lure other people to commit suicide near the barrier in order to obtain the required souls.

On the other hand, as long as the soul is not near the barrier, it can only be absorbed by the familiar.

In Zhixing's imagination, if the body is stuck at a relatively appropriate distance, the dead body will allow the Witch's Kiss to take away the soul, and the Witch's Kiss will not devour itself because the Witch's barrier is not far away.

There will then be a separation area where the soul can be removed.

For the victim who is about to be killed by the murderer, this can indeed separate the soul.

But

Not to mention that the witch is in Zhixing's body and cannot be separated, so even if there is this separation area, once Zhixing gets close, or the witch's kiss brings the other party close, the witch's barrier will be triggered first and he will be taken to an unknown place.

Although Zhi Xing can just wait in the witch's room.

But even if he waited until then, Zhi Xing would have no way to snatch the soul from the witch.

In particular, Zhixing is not sure whether the soul can be considered as life and taken away by oneself.

In addition to the situation where the soul leaves the body, there is another difficulty, which is the soul attaching to other things.

If it is the real Kyubey, it can be seen from the other party's technology of taking away souls and the fact that the Soul Gem can transform into a human form through magic.

Turn the Soul Gem into a computer, and even turn the magical girl's weapon into a computer.

That was also easy.

But Zhixing is just a fake Kyubey in disguise. Apart from knowing a little information, he doesn't know anything like this.

"But, I'll probably spend the rest of my time bringing it back, so I won't have time to become a murderer."

"If I were the victim, a momentary impulse wouldn't change my desire."

"Not everyone has the same opportunity as [a baseball player], where they can slowly change their desires under pressure and make a deal with you."

The programmer could understand that the paper bank wanted better trading conditions. After all, the content of his own transaction was beyond imagination no matter how he looked at it.

How could I ask someone with other talents to accomplish something that I, a super high school level, couldn't even accomplish?

"You just want to find a way to conduct a contract in reality through trading, right? In that case, it shouldn't be a problem whether I'm there or not."

"Instead, if you understood the specifics of the contract, would you still trade?"

"Will you save anyone else here?"

"Why don't you give this deal that belongs to me to other students?"

"Compared to useless talents like mine, other people's talents are what attract everyone's attention."

Zhixing saw that the programmer had made up his mind and wanted to continue persuading him.

But Zhixing thought about it and found that apart from the lucky Makoto Naegi, the talents of other people seemed to be indeed attracting everyone's attention.

Even with the identity of "Literary Girl", her hidden talents are even more eye-catching.

Only the programmer in front of me is facing the computer alone.

Not even as popular as the fans of [fan fiction writers].

"you"

Because he didn't know what to say, Zhixing opened his mouth for a long time, but didn't know how to persuade her to change her mind.

Just as Zhixing was still thinking about the wording, there was a knock on the door from outside the room.

"Knock, knock, knock, I know you are at home, please open the door!"

"It's me, your familiar Kyubey!"

Zhixing walked to the door, carefully opened the door, and looked at the scene outside.

Kyubey stood outside the door, staring at Zhixing, and Zhixing also noticed the corpse behind Kyubey.

"What's going on? You can still bring back local specialties? Didn't you say you only have a part of my cognitive memory?"

Kyubey said a little embarrassedly:

"Although I didn't go to the execution site, maybe because you know the truth about this academy, when I went to find Monokuma to learn about the situation, Monokuma directly projected the underground scene to me."

"So I could naturally see from the live broadcast that the [baseball player] had become a cognitive shadow."

"So when I came down, I looked for it on purpose, and sure enough, I saw the body you left behind."

Seeing the obviously worse physical performance than the [Idol], Zhixing frowned and looked at the [Programmer] in the room, who seemed to ignore Kyubey's existence, and began to explain the details of his transaction:

"I might have something else to do first, so... since I've already chosen you as today's transaction partner, there's not much time to change it."

"How about this, you do one thing for me first, and then I'll consider your transaction status."

“Huh?? Eh?!!!”

This time, the programmer, who had been pretending to ignore it, couldn't help but cry out in surprise:

"Really? Can you really fulfill my wish?"

"It's hard to say, but anyway, let me first tell you what you have to do in this transaction."

Zhi Xing took the Baseball Player from Kyubey, and as Kyubey walked away from him, he said to the person behind him without turning his head:

"I hope you can write me a translation software that can translate the words I see. I don't need to translate them into foreign languages, I can just read them out loud."

"This shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"

"Well, I see."

When Zhi Xing saw Kyubey walking away, he immediately called out to the bear in his mind and went to the place where the idol's body and food were stored.

On the second day after the second floor was opened, the sun rose as usual and was not late because of the depression of the crowd.

Of course, the people trapped indoors could not see the early morning sun, but were only woken up by Monokuma's broadcast.

Since the second floor had been almost fully explored, the people present were less and less eager to chat.

Even in small groups, some people have begun to want to use a fresh environment to ease the tense atmosphere.

Faced with such a situation, the "young master" who had come to wait for Kyubey stood up and prepared to leave after confirming that the other party would not come to the cafeteria for breakfast again.

"Hey, where are you going?"

The [Disciplinary Officer] was the first to notice the [Young Master]'s truancy and immediately asked about it.

"Humph, is there any need to explain this? Of course I'm going to do my own thing. If you want to wait, then go ahead."

After the [Young Master] finished speaking, he decided not to pay attention to these false alliances and prepared to return to the newly opened study on the second floor to take a look at the books inside.

"Wait a minute, everyone, please listen to me."

[Fighter] Ogami Sakura saw that [Young Master] was determined to leave and would probably never come back, so she finally made up her mind and stopped him.

"Why, do you still want to keep up this playful behavior?"

"No, I just wanted to announce the deal Kyubey and I made while those who are still alive are still here."

"Deal? Yesterday?!"

As soon as Ogami Sakura finished speaking, the person who reacted the most was not the [Young Master] who stopped, but the usually taciturn [Fortune Teller].

"What's your reaction? Did you find Kyubey's whereabouts yesterday?"

The [hot girl] didn't miss the [fortune teller's] obvious surprise and couldn't help but question him.

The Fortune Teller was silent for a moment, but still hesitantly began to explain:

"Actually, after the Spectator disappeared yesterday, I used my crystal ball, which is worth 3 million, to do some divination."

"Ah, it looks like someone is trying to escape, even though I'm one of the five survivors."

"No, no, I...well, I do want to make a deal with the other party and escape from this place."

"But the result of my divination yesterday was strange."

"[Bystander] is probably...dead."

Hearing this conclusion from the Fortune Teller immediately attracted the attention of everyone present.

"How did he die? Did he have a falling out with Monokuma?"

【Lucky】 quickly accepted the death notice and asked immediately, as if he wanted to confirm the paper bank's position.

"Well... my divination success rate is only about one-third, so I did three divinations yesterday."

"But no, I didn't see that monster any time."

"When I used it to divine before, I always saw that...monster."

"But now it's gone, vanished from this place! There's no other possibility except death."

[Fortune Teller] explained it somewhat awkwardly, but couldn't clearly express what he wanted to express.

"If we didn't see the death scene, then the other party might have left the school. After all, he came directly from outside."

[Detective] Kirigiri Kyouko shook her head, denying this speculation. She then looked at [Fighter] Ogami Sakura and explained the reasoning for the [Fortune Teller]:

"You think that since the [Bystander] disappeared and someone appeared to make the deal, you naturally assumed that the other party killed Kyubey after completing the deal, right?"

"Yes, yes, that's what I thought."

"That's the end. Sakura clearly made the deal with Kyubey the day before yesterday, and Enoshima-san was there, right?"

[Swimming] stood up and clarified [Fighter]'s innocence to everyone, but [Gal] didn't appreciate it and said:

"When I opened the door, I saw [Fighter] beating Kyubey. I don't know what happened after that. They both walked into the corner and didn't let me see them at all. Who knows what they were doing?"

"How can you say that? Obviously..."

"Stop arguing. I didn't see the [spectator] yesterday. Instead, I came to the gymnasium to conduct the transaction on the day that the school refereeing ended."

The clarification from the parties involved did not end the topic, but instead attracted more intense questioning.

"If you really made a deal with Kyubey the day before yesterday, why didn't you tell everyone yesterday? You clearly knew you couldn't leave him, so you took revenge on Kyubey."

The [Literary Girl] couldn't help but point at the [Fighter], and after the other party looked at her, she timidly took a few steps back.

"The reason I didn't say it right away was because I wasn't sure whether this should be made public."

"But now the situation has come to a point where we've parted ways, and I have to speak out about it."

[Fighter] still had his arms folded across his chest, sitting in his seat with an imposing manner, accepting everyone's gazes without changing his expression.

"So, now you can tell me what the deal between you and him is."

The [Fan Fiction Writer] asked nervously.

"At that time, I accepted the deal of attacking him with a punch, and in exchange for that, I received..."

"...a way to end this fratricide."

Chapter 317 Solutions to the Crisis

"Do you want to end this life of fratricide?"

Kyubey blinked and shook his head in disappointment.