Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"This is the secret treasure of the [Magic Demon Girl] herself, and it is what I will eventually take away."

"Hahahaha~ Captain, since I'm also a Phantom Thief, let's fight it out as Phantom Thieves!"

Nanamiya felt the instinctive use of the personality mask, and his fighting spirit suddenly surged. However, because Touka was still standing next to Zhixing, he did not take action immediately, but just habitually posed.

But Zhixing did not react. After seeing that everyone's attention was on him, he turned around completely, waved his hand to make all the displayed weapons disappear, and walked outside while saying:

"Like I said before, the Persona is a backup plan, so come along. I'll take you on a practical training session to see who else can gain the power of the Secret Treasure and become a member of the Phantom Thieves."

"I think you'll be more receptive if one of your own does it. Lord Mori, Dark Flame Master."

The two people who just stood up from the ground were both shocked, but the experience of passing through their own weapons when they just flew over seemed to prove that they had no possibility of becoming personality mask users.

"You must be kidding! The power is right before my eyes, so why..."

Dark Flame looked at the paper line passing by him, then at his right hand, puzzled. Meanwhile, Lord Mori, on the other side, was prepared for the fact that true superpowers were unattainable. So, after the paper line took a few steps, he regained his composure from his regretful prayers and asked:

"Sophia's power, that of the Phantom Thief, is called a Persona, right? And a Persona is formed using a secret treasure, right? So... what exactly is a secret treasure?"

Zhi Xing paused for a moment, thought for a moment, and then continued walking while saying:

"Everyone's secret treasure is uncertain. It could be a crown, a medal, a box of money, a painting, or even... a life."

Hearing footsteps behind him, Zhixing adjusted the camera to make sure everyone was following him before continuing:

"The power of the Phantom Thief is dangerous. Just as transforming a secret treasure into a Persona can resolve a world-shattering crisis, using it on ordinary people can also cause death."

"So, when using this power, you need to accurately find the corresponding secret treasure, such as... the [Magic Demon Girl] that has transformed into a personality mask. As long as you voluntarily give up this mask to me, then everything about being [Magic Demon Girl] will disappear."

"That won't do! I'm the eternal [Magic Demon Girl] and I won't give up."

The shadow behind Nanamiya has turned back into a mask, worn on the girl's face. Unknowingly, she has surpassed Touka and become the one with the most say.

"[Phantom Thieves Leader], does that mean that as long as the mask representing the secret treasure remains, Sophia can always be the [Magical Demon Girl]?"

【Thunder Hammer】 held her twintails and raised one hand to ask a question.

"Unfortunately, that's not the case. This is just the manifestation of the power of the secret treasure. It won't last forever. As long as the person's state of mind changes, it may prevent the secret treasure from forming the [Magic Demon Girl], just like what happened to [Mori-sama]."

Although Zhixing did not look back, through the perspective of the [camera], it was as if he had eyes behind him, and he could clearly see that although [Thunder Hammer] was asking questions about Nanamiya, his eyes were looking towards Nibutani [Mr. Mori] who was walking and thinking.

"If the Persona hadn't been obtained, would it be possible that other secret treasures would have been stolen by mistake?"

Touka looked at Rikka and couldn't help but ask a question to this spokesperson who was suspected to have a team behind him.

"Well, I can't really say for sure. Let's see who else can become a member of the Phantom Thieves after we go down there."

Zhixing thought about it and realized that apart from the secret treasure, the other treasure chests in the hall, including treasures and equipment that could be sold for money, and even the lust stone representing the seven deadly sins, would not affect the thoughts and attitudes of real people.

And if you really want to enter the palace, at least Qigong is likely to follow you. If you can really open the treasure chest from the palace and bring it back to reality without it disappearing, then even if there is no secret treasure, it is acceptable. Therefore, the possibility of other things being stolen is not denied.

"The power of the [Magic Demon Girl] is embodied by a young girl, so is my [Evil King's True Eye] a giant eye with tentacles?"

[Evil King's True Eyes] thought about his own personality mask image in distress. If Zhi Xing had not already taken away all those weapons, he would probably have tried to snatch these cognitive weapons that had become empty shells after he realized what was happening.

"Don't worry. In the [Cognitive World], the vast majority of monsters are humanoid, so the power of the Persona will only be humanoid."

Zhixing shook his finger to deny this guess, lest under the blessing of imagination, the shadow really turned into an indescribable tentacle. After all, there is a magical girl here. Under the common cognition of the [cognitive world], cats can be transformed into cat cars, so a big-eyed monster and a magical girl will compete.

"So, even if the Secret Treasure isn't humanoid, it will become something quasi-humanoid after becoming a Persona. If that's the case... my Secret Treasures wouldn't be those two weapons, but rather spirits, right? Living things can also be Secret Treasures, right?"

Mori-sama nervously offered his opinion. Although the reasoning was unclear from the first half of his sentence, Zhixing switched the camera to Mori-sama's perspective. He didn't see the actual scene, nor did he see any weapons appear around his body, but he still replied:

"Really? Have you seen it? Her own secret treasure. She's clearly someone who has already chosen to give up, but did she show it to you?"

"Although there are very few living secret treasures, I do know them. There's probably... a 12.5% ​​chance of them appearing."

Among the secret treasures that Zhixing knows, only the secret treasure of Futaba Palace in the Seven Deadly Sins is the real person himself. The others, including the magic lamp in his own palace, are simply a collection of desires.

But Zhixing was not sure whether his secret treasure would have life. After all, it looked like a magic lamp, so it was not impossible that there was a genie hidden inside.

"If that's the case, then my secret treasure is the Black Flame Dragon! No wonder my weapon is a bandage instead of a sword."

After hearing Lord Mori's hint, Black Flame recalled his own settings. It seemed that all his power was sealed in the Black Flame Dragon in his right hand. So if the secret treasure of the Evil King's True Eye was really the right eye, then his own...

Before [Dark Flame] could finish his thoughts, he saw Zhi Xing, who was leading the way, stopped and looked at the river on the right.

[Pitch Black Flame] Only then did they realize that this seemed to be a downward platform near the lake. It was originally a place for other people to play, but now it was filled with lake water.

"Let's go down from here. As long as we go down, it will be the same everywhere."

Zhixing ignored Yuta's words and walked straight into the river.

Watching the paper line walk down the stairs and completely sink into the water without any resistance, without even a bubble, it was a cult-like scene. The protagonists didn't know whether they should follow it.

"It's okay, there's no real water down there, it just looks like water from the outside, and it's not buoyant."

Touka, who had already followed them down from the bridge once, spoke first and then took the lead and walked down.

Seeing this, the others followed suit and went down.

As the water level rose above eye level, everyone could see clearly that the river had expanded several times.

Meanwhile, Zhi Xing, who had hesitated and moved some distance away, had already reached a corner and spotted two shadow monsters in the distance. He clapped his hands, attracting their attention, and then, with his back to the incoming protagonists, spoke:

"This is a layer of shadow monsters. You can use their threat to try to transform your own secret treasure into a personality mask."

As Zhixing was speaking, a shadow nearby on the other side of the corner came up to Zhixing and pounced on him.

But before [Evil King's True Eye] could issue a cautious warning, the shadow monster disappeared just before Zhi Xing reached out and touched it.

"With the [Magical Demon Girl] here, there's no need to worry about your safety. I wish you all success in gaining the power of your Persona and becoming a member of the [Phantom Thieves]."

After Zhixing finished speaking, he returned to the [Witch's Barrier] before another shadow monster arrived.

Chapter 416: Recalling the Past

After entering the [Witch's Barrier], Zhixing immediately ran towards the corner for more than twenty seconds, and then retreated from the [Witch's Barrier] and immediately switched the [camera] to Qigong.

Although Zhixing left, he did not completely ignore them. Not to mention that they were still ordinary people, even the situation of awakening the personality mask required Zhixing to leave the [Witch's Barrier] to check.

A normal awakened personality mask only needs to be within the [cognitive world], or in other words, within the [hall].

The reason why Paper Bank had been conducting transactions or contracts before was to be able to extend the power of the [cognitive world] to the other party in reality, but in the impression space, these are not necessary.

As for the other condition for awakening the personality mask, that is, the emotional choice of the person concerned, Zhixing believes that except for waiting for the other party to develop emotions during a transaction, this condition can only occur at such a critical moment.

"It seems that these stairs that clearly extend downward from the surface can all lead to the Impression Space. Moreover, this kind of entrance seems to form a safe zone. These shadow monsters won't approach."

"Well, Nanamiya came out of the safe zone."

Zhixing saw through the [camera] that Nanamiya couldn't wait to summon the masked shadow of [Magic Demon Girl], and then gave himself a fast-moving floating buff to avoid the attack of the shadow monster.

Then, while shouting, he was severely hit by the shadow monster's hand.

But although Nanamiya was knocked away, when she was hit, [Magic Demon Girl] had already stretched out her wings and blocked the place where she was hit. There seemed to be a flash of light.

Immediately afterwards, when the shadow monster wanted to chase, Qigong seemed to be floating in the air, so even though he was knocked away, he did not fall to the ground directly. Therefore, while keeping some distance, he stretched out his magic wand and aimed at the shadow monster.

"Divine Black Flame Cannon!"

A burst of black energy was released from the [Magic Demon Girl's] scepter, blasting the shadow monster to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Qigong leaped up, still using melee attacks, and delivered a powerful blow, successfully killing the single shadow monster.

Zhixing first took a look at the place where the shadow monster was and found nothing was left. Then he adjusted the angle of the [camera] and looked closer at the [Magic Demon Girl].

"Without any changes in transparency, you can't tell if there are any missing parts by looking directly at them."

"It seems there's no way to see the Persona's health and mana."

"Although this is only on the first floor, and the city here isn't very developed, I was able to take one down in just two moves. What level of skill should this be in the game?"

Zhixing sighed, he really couldn't figure out the power system of the personality mask.

In "p5", I didn't see any level-up effects, and there is no difference here.

It seems that after the live-action adaptation, not only the turn-based restrictions were removed, but even the comparison between the strong and the weak is not so easy to see.

The paper industry can only barely distinguish the strong from the weak based on their positions in the [hall] and the degree of their mythological image in the impression space.

After seeing Nanamiya resolve the battle and personally experience the feeling of true dominance, and then being surrounded by the protagonists with the second-year syndrome, Kazuyo felt a little envious.

Zhixing has experienced so many worlds, but still has never experienced this feeling of truly controlling his own power.

The only way to get close is to use the convenience of the Witch's Kiss to force yourself to face an impossible problem, thereby generating a feeling of despair, and then by diverting your attention, transform this emotional energy into a cognitive existence in the [cognitive world] in one breath.

Even the weapons displayed earlier were only formed after Paper Line created the cognitive existence of the "Phantom Thief" Paper Line.

Thinking of this, the [camera] looked towards the entrance.

From the bird's-eye view, we quickly spotted the [Phantom Thief] Paper Line, whose clothes were a little damaged but still retained their overall appearance. He was holding a pistol and squatting in the shadows.

"After all, time is too short. Even bluffing isn't enough."

Seeing the state of the [Phantom Thief] Zhixing, Zhixing breathed a sigh of relief, but he also knew that it could not stay here for too long.

Because the paper industry has tested the consumption of cognitive existence in various places.

Although the speed of being assimilated by other people's cognition in the impression space is much slower than on the surface, it is not free after all.

In order to maintain the existence of cognition, you either have to go deeper or create a space to block the cognition of others.

"Yeah, but we still have some time. Protecting them is just a matter of pulling the trigger anyway, so it won't take much time. We might as well take this opportunity to check them out."

"Although it seems that swallowing this shadow hasn't changed anything so far, and there's no sign of a familiar splitting off in the original place, there are still many souls in the Doll Tower. 'Magic Circle' doesn't specify how many witches are needed to become Witch Night or a higher-ranked witch, but supplying those elite familiars to become witches is more than enough."

"Let's go check on the little bear first."

Zhi Xing thought so, and then shouted to the protagonists from a distance of more than a hundred meters:

"Very good. In that case, under the protection of the [Magic Demon Girl], lure the monsters over one by one and then try to awaken them."

"Between life and death, stand firm in your title as a chuunibyou and awaken your own secret treasure!"

After saying that, he returned to the [Witch's Barrier] and entered the witch's room.

As for the safety of the protagonists, Zhixing did not base it on the two premises that fate cannot be changed and the cognitive world cannot affect reality.

Zhixing went abroad and specifically looked for guns for self-defense. Although he was unable to bring the quilt with him, Zhixing speculated that it was impossible to take away large amounts of supplies after [traveling through time].

But as a pistol that can have miraculous effects in the [cognitive world], it is still carried with me.

So when he created the [Phantom Thief] Paper Line at Yuta's house, he gave the pistol to the cognitive being.

Of course, it was an unloaded pistol.

After all, model guns can fire bullets, and a real pistol, even if it has no bullets, can use the opponent's cognition of the pistol to shoot bullets that are enough to destroy the shadow monster.

Also, because there are no bullets in the pistol, even if the cognitive existence is assimilated and disappears, the remaining pistol will not be picked up by the protagonist group and accidentally fired against the Paper Line.

After all, anyone who has had model guns can tell that there are no bullets in the gun.

But this is only used to save the situation in times of crisis, otherwise once the protagonists know that the model gun can also be used here.

Then, if the impression space cannot prevent them from exiting, they will go from facing danger at close range to being a pistol shooting range for [Evil King's True Eye] and [Black Flame].

Zhixing knew these two people well. One of them collected a pistol that even Yuta was attracted to, and the other even made a small prop specifically to draw his gun quickly.

With the [Phantom Thief] Zhixing holding an unloaded pistol as a cover, Zhixing finally felt relieved and entered the [Witch's Barrier], isolating himself from the [camera's] view to check on the witch's situation.

After being forced to wait for a bowl of soup to be collected and drunk, Zhi Xing successfully entered the room of the doll tower and counted the current number of dolls.

After confirming that the shadow monster that the [Witch Barrier] had just swallowed didn't seem to have any effect, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that sending the two Witch's Kiss shadows into the [Witch's Barrier] won't have any effect. Shadow monsters are just aggregates of cognition, without a real person to provide a stable supply of desire. But those two did indeed give birth to shadows from people."

"Should we wait and see if the Phantom Thief's heart-stealing ability can steal the Witch's Kiss, or should we try to see if the shadow spawned by the Witch's Kiss can be counted as a life, adding another doll to this place?"

Zhi Xing looked at the doll tower and saw that there seemed to be a lot of space left if they squeezed in, but in the end he decided not to take the risk.

Although when Zhixing first encountered the little bear, the doll tower here seemed to be full.

But most of them are immobile decorations, not real familiars.

What comes into view now are the paper lines that seem to fill the entire room, and no one knows what will happen when the paper lines are full.

Zhixing even felt that it was incredible that these puppet familiars could still stay here motionless according to the witch's wishes.

After all, the little bear is a repair witch, and the integrity of these dolls is far superior to that of the familiars working outside.

It was as if it was a doll displayed in a shop window that did not belong to the little bear, rather than a doll collection that had been successfully repaired.

Zhi Xing let his thoughts run wild and imagined some bad metaphors.

While accumulating his own emotions, he sighed:

"It seems that although I didn't gain the power of the corresponding world in the different world, I can at least get the bonus effect of the second wish for the race in the [Three Wishes]."