Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

And then...the paper business failed.

Although he was able to enter the front desk at first because of his identity as a guest, he was immediately wanted after his ability to walk through walls was exposed.

There was no way, Zhihang never imagined that there was someone else guarding the door on the other side of the wall.

Although the infiltration failed, Zhixing was not discouraged. Instead, after performing the [stealth], he suffered a severe attack.

Zhixing was mentally prepared for this. After all, [Stealth] was achieved by relying on the difference between the cognitive world and reality, so it had no effect on the palace. Moreover, after entering the palace, it was no longer possible to enter the cognitive world.

But with the [Witch's Barrier] on him, Zhixing only dodged when the bar was read. After confirming that [Steal] was ineffective, he ran for a distance before stopping.

Just after stopping, he was attacked by several long-range hidden weapons.

But the paper lines had no further results except a slight breeze proving their existence.

Unable to [Sneak], Zhi Xing adjusted his mindset and, relying on the fact that the damage in the cognitive world might not be truly fatal, prepared to use [Witch's Barrier] to swallow these shadow monsters one by one.

Then, Zhi Xing returned to the [Witch's Barrier].

The paper kept rolling and tumbling, and it took a while before I felt a little better.

"A bank is just a bank, why is there a hot oil trap?!"

Although Zhi Xing was soaked all over, he skipped the casting time and returned to the barrier under the effect of the [Witch's Barrier], while also isolating the hot oil from outside.

But the feeling of that moment lingered on Zhixing for a long time, as if freshly boiled water was accidentally spilled on the body.

"I originally thought that with the [Witch's Barrier] I was no longer afraid of the palace's defenses."

"But now it seems that there is still the very difficult problem of trap mechanisms."

Zhixing looked at the projection on the wall and did not see his original location.

Because it is a palace, the projections that can be seen in the paper bank are like satellite images overlooking the entire situation, but they cannot be zoomed in or out.

Looking at the money house that seemed to be hidden in the city and disguised as an office building, the paper bank felt a little headache.

Although the situation outside the temple was somewhat similar to a city map, at least Zhixing found the route from the subway to home and the main road from home to the temple.

But if you go in from here, you may not be at the door of the money house. Maybe it will appear from some corner of the city like Futaba's palace. If you cannot navigate, you have to find the location of this palace.

"Let's just wait for the [Reset] to take effect. My skin is so sensitive."

The sensitivity of his body made Zhixing rethink his behavior of breaking into the hall.

"I learned about P5 by watching the story-oriented videos that were edited by the game's editor. Although a lot of repetitive battles and attribute-boosting parts were skipped, some of the teaching moments were still retained."

"For example, use the thief's hook to get to the ventilation duct or the raised part of the wall like Spider-Man."

"Because my [Wall Walkthrough] can ignore the prohibitions of reality and the process of finding the key, I didn't think it was a big deal before."

"But besides finding the key to open the door, there are also places where you need to find the key to stop and turn on the switch."

“And sometimes, the road is not something that ordinary people can walk on. You need to jump over potholes or jump onto each platform to continue.”

"For example, the river in Kamoshida Hall... Oh, you can use [Witch Barrier] [Space Movement] to get there."

"But up on the platform..."

After Zhihang calmly thought about the means he had, he suddenly felt that the situation was not going well.

If this were real, with the help of the [cognitive world] to offset gravity, Paper Line could also [wall jump] up.

But in the hall, the only alien space that can be used is the [Witch's Barrier], but the [Witch's Barrier] will not offset gravity, so you can only jump as high as you can.

"If that doesn't work, then we can only...come to the corresponding location from reality."

"I remember that when we were in the art museum hall, we should be able to directly enter the corresponding location in the corresponding space of the hall, right?"

Zhi Xing left the world of P5 after the completion of the first hall, so he did not participate in the subsequent story.

Therefore, when the paper company encountered the corresponding problem, it suddenly discovered a problem.

“Although the coordinates required to enter the temple require both the image of the temple and the actual space.”

"But there are three different scenarios that arise."

"One was at the art museum. It seemed that Gao Juanxun and Qiongge entered the gate before breaking into the palace. They fell directly to the position where Amamiya Ren and the others were, and then evacuated. At that time, they appeared directly from the corresponding place in the palace."

"The second is the Futaba Palace. The Phantom Thieves have already invaded the boss's house to the last line of defense, but after entering the palace, they were directly excluded from it and sent to a long distance. They even had to take a cat car to get to the pyramid."

"The third one is still Futaba, but after entering the palace from her room, she went directly to the secret treasure. Obviously, the Phantom Thieves still have to go through the level."

"Tsk, every situation is a different unknown."

Jixing even remembered the scene in Kamoshida's hall, where everyone discussed on the rooftop and then jumped directly to the hall. Although Jixing had not seen it with his own eyes, when he participated in it, the Phantom Thieves always gathered at the school gate and entered.

Direct thinking could not lead to a conclusion, and Zhixing couldn't help but look at his computer and sigh.

"Because I've already been there, I didn't use it as a reference. After all, it's a waste of real time."

"But I still have to play the main game of P5 myself."

"Now, I have to try it myself."

Zhixing carefully tested the extent of his body's recovery and confirmed that it was no longer so sensitive. Then he stood up, patted his clothes that had no signs of burns, and re-entered the projection on the wall.

But just as Zhixing had expected, he did not appear at the trap, but instead came to an unfamiliar street.

At least when the paper bank looked around, it couldn't find the location of the money house.

But the good thing is that here you can exit the cognitive world freely.

After Zhi Xing returned to reality, he immediately began to [stealth].

Just to say, maybe it's because [Stealth] requires the deployment of the [Witch's Barrier] first, so the people around him are not brought into the [Cognitive World] as well.

Thanks to [Stealth], Zhixing successfully arrived inside this landmark building.

But then the paper shop was blocked by a closed door.

“Why are there so many cameras inside?”

The paper shop circled around the closed gate and reached a dead end, but couldn't find any so-called blind spots in the surveillance. It was a bit surprising to see how strict the security measures were.

Zhixing used his cell phone to experiment with his [Stealth].

In the [Stealth] state, the paper lines will not be recorded by the mobile phone and can touch the mobile phone.

However, once you switch from [Stealth] to [Wall-Through], there will be a period of reading time before you are exposed to reality.

However, after [passing through the wall], you can maintain the [stealth] state by entering the cognitive world in the middle.

"Although we've confirmed there are no otherworldly equivalents here, so I'm not worried about any impact, I don't want to go back and not have time to check when the conditions arise because I'm busy chasing them."

"Well, here it is."

Zhihang left the building and looked at the gate, which was much higher than the surrounding terrain and required steps to enter. He walked to the shopping mall across the street with displeasure.

As he entered the restroom on the second floor, he roughly estimated that he had entered the [Witch's Barrier] and was ready to perform a long-distance [space movement].

"It feels like... it's over 100 meters. Is it okay? Will it fall onto the road? The road is quite wide, and there's a square there."

Zhixing was a little unsure, but this was the first temple that Zhixing could launch without any intelligence, so even if he wanted to change the target, he had no one to target.

"It would be nice if the protagonists had a hall, but even the heroine is still just a solitary shadow, not to mention those who have already graduated."

"Also, the scope of the [Cognitive World] seems to only be able to expand to the size of a city. Even if I wanted to go beyond that, I couldn't."

The paper bank put aside the options that had no implementation conditions and then began to move towards its goal.

And then....it failed as expected.

It’s not because the total length exceeds 100 meters, but because, although the rooms outside the witch’s barrier lack many separating walls, there are still corresponding doors to enter the rooms.

Once you step through that door, Zhixing has no idea whether the building in front of you is your target building.

"With the [Witch Barrier], you can only [Move] a short distance. If you want to move a long distance... it's only possible when the [Witch Barrier] moves on its own."

The power is not under one's control, and even how far one can move in space in a certain direction cannot be guaranteed.

After all, every time you enter the barrier, you are in a random position, except that there must be a wall behind you.

"There's no other way. If we can't get there in one go, then let's just start from the door."

Since we already know that if we only use [Wall Passage], we will encounter the shadow monsters in the hall, then we can only change [Wall Passage] into [Space Movement].

As for where it can move to and whether it will fall directly into a trap, that is not something Zhixing can know.

Zhi Xing returned to the entrance of the hall and rushed in with the intention of retreating at any time.

"Yeah, I got it. I'll pay attention. Thank you for helping me find the clown cat."

"It's okay, it's okay. Even though I'm already in my second year of high school, my family says I'm still a kid and won't disappear so quickly."

"Oh~ I'm a little sleepy, um, bye~"

After hanging up the phone, the senior student turned over, hugged the pillow and closed her eyes.

"It's a rare break, and this happened. Well, finding the cat is a good thing, isn't it?"

"So you still want a classroom that's convenient for taking a nap. Why isn't there anyone else I can join?"

The senior sister closed her eyes and soon fell asleep.

The two young men who were far away from the school also received instructions to return shortly after the other party hung up the phone, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"I didn't expect there are still people with super powers here. No wonder they've set their sights on this school."

"There's no way. After the One-Eyed Death God collected all the superpowers outside, he lost his own superpowers, so the superpowered people he originally controlled can't be eliminated."

"But the vaccine is now widely available, so no one else will have this kind of superpower in the future."

“Everywhere else is fine, but I can’t say for sure about this place.”

The young man driving the car looked at his leader in surprise and asked curiously:

"Hmm? Is there anything special here?"

"I heard that the owner of the cat we just found seems to be a person with super powers like [Dream]."

"Isn't that just dreaming? What's so strange about that?"

"No, no, no, she seems to be able to pull others into her dreams within a certain range."

"Ah? How do you know that?"

"I think I knew this place back when I still had the ability to detect other people, but I couldn't find their exact location. It seems like the whole city is within range!"

"Is this true? Their abilities shouldn't be that strong, right?"

The young man driving the car swallowed, then thought of the abilities he once had and the superpowers he had witnessed in the base, and couldn't help but feel puzzled.

"Generally speaking, people with super powers usually develop their powers around the age of 14 or 15, and then disappear around the age of 16."

"But what's strange is that the psychic just now seemed to be able to find only kindergarten records, and no records of elementary and junior high schools."

"That's probably because your family is rich, so you hired a private tutor."

"Yes, this is the key."

"I'm afraid her family, because they're rich, knew about this a long time ago, and therefore isolated her from the outside world early on to prevent others from discovering her superpowers."

"Is that necessary? Not all students have superpowers, otherwise they wouldn't be so bold."

"So, what if she already had super powers by then?"

"Is this true?! That's too exaggerated."

"It's just speculation. She's already a sophomore in high school, so she'll probably lose her powers soon. The higher-ups have already handed the job over to her anyway. If that guy's targeting her, it's better than us just standing guard outside."

"Yes, let's go back."

Chapter 391 The Gift of This World

Zhixing returned to the square outside the gate steps of reality and sighed helplessly.

The plan to steal the secret treasure alone failed.

Not only is [Stealth] ineffective, but even [Space Movement] is ineffective.

After Zhi Xing completely entered the [Witch's Barrier], no matter whether he came back through the projection on the wall or directly returned from the barrier, he would be squeezed to different places in the city and could not go deep into the hall.

The only things that can work in the hall are the [Wall Penetration] that has not yet completely entered the barrier, and the protection of the [Witch Barrier] itself.

These can be used to deal with ordinary shadow monsters, but they are useless when facing the mechanisms with ups and downs inside the hall.

Although the damage sustained from falling in the cognitive world is completely incomparable to that in reality, even the physical fitness of the paper can remain unscathed.