Whose personality mask's power comes from the heroic spirit?

"Wait, can Shinomiya Huangguang tolerate Kaguya doing this kind of thing under the banner of the Shinomiya family?" Taiyi asked with some confusion.

"... Master Taiichi, are you overestimating Shinomiya Koukou?" Hayasaka Ai replied speechlessly, "Although Shinomiya Koukou is a scumbag who does all kinds of evil, he is also a human being and has a certain fear of unknown things."

"Not to mention that the Phantom Thieves are an unknown entity with actual combat records. Provoking the Phantom Thieves will definitely bring a lot of benefits to the Shinomiya family, so why can't that guy tolerate it?"

"Besides, wouldn't this make the Shinomiya family appear more 'upright and fearless'? He also has a bit of a lucky mentality, hoping that this will prevent him from being targeted by the Phantom Thieves and changing his mind."

"However, Master Taiichi, please give me an accurate answer. Okumura Kuni and that incident have nothing to do with our Phantom Thieves, right?" Hayasaka Ai asked this question after hesitating for a moment.

"It has nothing to do with the Phantom Thieves." Taichi answered affirmatively, "It should be that something went wrong between him and Shido Masayoshi, which led to Shido Masayoshi letting the chess piece in his hand kill him."

"As expected." Hayasaka Ai breathed a sigh of relief. "We found a video of Goro Akechi meeting privately with Shido Masayoshi a few hours before Kuni Okumura's heart failure."

"Oh, that's useless." Taiyi pouted and reminded, "Whether it's changing one's heart or turning one into a cripple, they are all special actions that cannot be proven and cannot be punished by law."

"It has no other use except to make us more certain that the person who did it was Akechi Goro and the one behind the scenes was Shido Masayoshi."

"But... I suddenly realized that I seemed to be a little too restrained." Taiyi rubbed his chin and said, "I am too used to the action mode of the Phantom Thieves, so I ignored the possibility of taking action in the real world."

"You're going to attack Shido Masayoshi and Akechi Goro in the real world?" Hayasaka Ai asked in surprise. "Akechi Goro is easy to deal with, he's a lone wolf, but Shido Masayoshi... that guy is not an easy character to deal with."

"Shido Masayoshi still uses the method of changing his heart to make him repent and turn himself in... Although after he turns himself in, he may have to commit suicide behind his back, but Akechi Goro can definitely handle it in the real world."

"You continue to secretly investigate Shido Masayoshi's situation. As for Akechi Goro, you help me investigate his route of action. I will take care of the rest."

"But wouldn't this alert the enemy and make Shido Masayoshi notice something unusual?" Hayasaka Ai reminded.

"We want to alert the enemy, so that Shi Tong Zhengyi will find out that something is wrong and then take action." Taiyi licked his lips and explained, "If he doesn't take action, how can we find out his faction and expose his trump card?"

With an alternate world as his base, a personality mask that can manifest itself in the real world at any time as a guard, and X as his trump card, Taichi doesn't care how troublesome Shido Zhengyi's trump card is.

At best, he was involved with Shadow Mage and his group of aliens.

With X and the monster dolls Taichi has, they don't hesitate even in a team battle.

With a combat time limit of more than 30 minutes and a wide variety of armed calling cards, what is there to be afraid of?

If Taiyi hadn't been worried that directly pursuing Shido Justice in the real world might cause drastic changes in the world situation and easily affect his new layout plans in the other world, he would have taken action long ago.

It’s better to change your mind.

At most, the loss of Shitong Zhengyi would cause unrest within his faction.

But internalizing the political status is a great thing for those who have suffered from the justice of the Lion Child for a long time.

By then, the Phantom Thieves might really be turned into a terrorist organization that everyone in Japan would hate.

But it doesn't matter.

At worst, after dealing with Shido Zhengyi, the Phantom Thieves can just disband on the spot.

Originally, this Phantom Thief Group was just an informal group set up by Ryuji Sakamoto and Morgana for the sake of their own chivalrous hearts.

……

Shortly after Taichi hung up the phone with Hayasaka Ai and sent the information she sent and his own plan to the other members of the Phantom Thieves via text message, the doorbell rang.

"Ah! Long time no see! Taichi-kun!"

A one-eyed, one-legged god of wisdom with a cane in hand stood at the door with a smile on his face and raised his hand to greet Taiyi.

Behind her, with black hair draped over her shoulders and a gentle and kind look in her eyes, the former great evil spirit Kurosawa Oise was stealing glances at Taichi while looking slightly tipsy.

"Are you happy? I have brought your wife back to you!" Iwanaga Kotoko smiled and leaned sideways, exposing Kurosawa Aise completely in front of Taichi.

"My dear husband, it's been a long time since I last saw you." Kurosawa Fengshi lowered his head awkwardly, and nodded to Tai shyly, "Ah, no, I should say this now... I'm back."

To be honest, Taiyi almost forgot about this person.

His face trembled, Tai nodded slightly, then moved away.

"Anyway, you all come in first."

"Oh? Oh oh oh! Isn't this that someone!" In the living room, Mordred, who was following a TV series with a cold beer in one hand and the remote control in the other, spit out a mouthful of anger when he saw Kurosawa Aoi walking into the room. Then he jumped up and pointed at Kurosawa Aoi, but he couldn't call out her name.

"Lord Mordred, my name is Kurosawa Aise." Kurosawa Aise, whose every move showed his elegance, reminded with a smile.

"Yes, yes, yes." Mordred nodded, then looked at Taiyi, "Why, she wants to move in?"

"Is it okay, my dear husband?" Kurosawa Fengshi followed Mordred's words and looked at Taiyi and asked.

After all, the marriage between her and Taiyi was a ghost marriage between a human and a spirit, but she has now returned to her body and regained consciousness, so the legitimacy of the ghost marriage has naturally weakened.

Even though Kurosawa Fengshi still called her "husband", she felt very uneasy in her heart.

Otherwise, she would have to come to Taiyi's house on the day he returned.

Chapter 23: Kotoko Iwanaga: Are you so arrogant?

There isn't enough room.

This was already revealed when Taichi brought back Kasumi and Rachel.

However, Taichi later asked the two of them to escort Akane Shinjo out of Tokyo, which temporarily eased the awkward situation of five people in three rooms.

And this time, if Kurosawa Fuyo moves in, Taiyi will soon have to face six people in three rooms.

Therefore, the thoughts that had been temporarily suppressed earlier could not help but rise again.

I need to move to a bigger house with enough bedrooms.

Yes, that's right, Taichi agreed to let Kurosawa Aise stay.

"If you are worried that there are not enough rooms... I have a vacant villa that I can lend you." Iwanaga Kotoko said to Taichi with a smile.

"... Stop, tell me the purpose of your visit first." Taiyi stared at Iwanaga Kotoko with some resistance and said, "You are a busy man, but you won't come to me for no reason."

"It's so annoying. We've been living and dying together for so long, why does Taichi still treat me like this?" Iwanaga Kotoko looked at Taichi with a resentful look on her face and complained.

"Because every time you come to me, there's something waiting for me, and most of them are things that are difficult to handle." Taiyi waved his hand with disgust.

"Okay, I'll show my cards." Iwanaga Kotoko raised her hands. "The main purpose of my coming this time is to know... Taichi-kun, what is that thing you asked Miss Akane to build in the forest?"

"The monsters have already come to protest to me, saying that once that thing was built, the monsters around were so frightened that they couldn't sleep at night."

Taichi curled his lips and looked at Iwanaga Kotoko with an expression that said, "You continue to make up stories, I'm listening."

If the entrance and exit of the second passage was in the Olympus realm, it would scare the monsters, but in another world... haha.

All the divine power that should have permeated the air was in Taiyi's control, so how could it possibly affect the monsters?

It's simply that the god of wisdom in front of him wanted to test the waters but couldn't say it directly, so he used the monster as a fig leaf.

"...You are such a disrespectful person." Iwanaga Kotoko puffed up her cheeks and glared at Taichi in dissatisfaction. "After all, we have been through life and death together so many times, give me some way out."

"You're the one who doesn't give me face." Taiyi rolled his eyes and retorted, "You know we've worked together so many times and have experienced risks big and small, but you're still playing tricks on me."

"You never intended to have a heart-to-heart talk with me from the beginning. You didn't even trust me, so how could you give me a chance to show your trust?"

Although Taiyi has concealed quite a lot of secrets, people always like to have double standards.

You don't want to be honest with others, but you want others to be honest with you.

Iwanaga Kotoko was so angry at Taichi's reaction that her stomach swelled.

But after all, he has been the God of Wisdom for so many years, so he still has some ability to endure.

"Okay, okay! I admit it! I admit it!" Iwanaga Kotoko poked her cane on the floor. "I came here this time to ask you, what are you going to build on your private land in Gifu Prefecture?"

"...Do you really want to know?" Taichi asked Iwanaga Kotoko with narrowed eyes.

Iwanaga Kotoko said nothing, just nodded.

"That is a tunnel that leads to another world." Taiyi said shockingly.

"...Huh? A tunnel leading to another world?" Iwanaga Kotoko was stunned for a moment, then looked at Taichi in astonishment, "When did you become a guide to another world?"

"How can you talk like that?" Taiyi rolled his eyes in annoyance, "Ahem, introduce yourself formally."

"The one standing before you now is the Emperor of the New Kingdom, the only human empire in the other world."

"The human empire in another world? The emperor? You?" Iwanaga Kotoko looked at Taichi with a confused look on her face.

She could hardly keep up with Taiyi's pace.

It wasn't that she couldn't understand Taichi's words, or that she thought Taichi was joking.

It was precisely because she thought Taiyi was not joking with her and understood the meaning of Taiyi's words that she was unable to keep up with the pace.

Who could become the emperor of an empire in another world in just a dozen days?

Are you not going to act anymore and are you ready to make it clear that you are Ultraman?

Iwanaga Kotoko stared at Taichi with some excitement.

"Are you interested in taking a trip to another world?" Taiyi looked at Iwanaga Kotoko and asked.

The girl kept nodding.

"Okay, I'll satisfy your wish." Taiyi took out his cell phone and first reminded the several contacts above, saying that he would not be able to contact them for the time being, and then signaled to Mordred to follow and go together.

Come to think of it, even though the tunnel is in Taichi's bedroom, Mordred has never been to the other world to play.

……

"Is this the other world?" Looking at the fairyland-like environment around her, Iwanaga Kotoko took a deep breath.

The little monsters who originally served as Iwanaga Kotoko's guards also wanted to follow, but were rejected by Taichi.

He also said that with Mordred acting as a guard, what could those little monsters do?

Iwanaga Kotoko finally agreed.

"Oh, no." Taiyi suddenly interrupted Iwanaga Kotoko's sigh, "This is not a different world yet. It's just the divine domain where the tunnel entrance was built nearby. We have to take a detour to get to the different world."

"...Wait! What place did you just say this is? The divine realm?" Iwanaga Kotoko suddenly grabbed Taichi's wrist, looked up at him in surprise and asked.

"Yes, it's the realm of the gods." Taiyi nodded and explained, "The realm of Olympus, the one in Greek mythology."

"It's just a little different from the Olympus in Greek mythology."

“But it’s nothing serious.”

"Are you acting so arrogantly here? You can even enter the divine realm at will?" Iwanaga Kotoko asked nervously, moving closer to Taiyi.

"To be precise, this is actually my territory as well." Taiyi glanced at the 'young lotus' and explained calmly, "The Olympus domain is now my subordinate domain."

"...You are even more arrogant than I thought." Iwanaga Kotoko looked at Taichi in amazement and said, "However, gods like Zeus can actually tolerate having another ancestor on their heads? It's hard to imagine."

"Oh, that's not the case." Taiyi shook his head and explained, "Zeus wanted to invade the other world under my rule, but I stole his home."

“I also dealt with the most difficult guys at that time.”

"The current king of the Olympus God Realm is Athena... Well, she is my noble concubine and I also made her a king of a different surname."

Chapter 24: Kotoko Iwanaga: Another version update?

"Every time I feel that what you do is a little outrageous and gradually get used to this outrageousness, you always show me even more outrageous things." Iwanaga Kotoko sighed deeply, then looked at Taiyi with a complicated expression and sighed.

"You are worthy of being my husband." Although he didn't know where the Olympus Divine Realm was, Kurosawa Fengye tried hard to connect the 'Divine Realm' with the 'Takama-ga-hara' that he could understand, and then his eyes became shocked when he looked at Taichi.

Although she was quite surprised when Taichi transformed into Ultraman before, that thing was still beyond her cognitive understanding, so she could only understand it in a general way.

But the 'Divine Realm' is different.

As a leading figure in the supernatural world at that time, the shrine maiden of Higashiyama was very effective in popularizing Shintoism.

Therefore, the 'Divine Realm' mentioned by Taiyi became his private territory, and even the God King of this 'Divine Realm' became his benefactor. Within the scope of Kurosawa Fusyo's cognition, it can be matched with the 'Takama-ga-hara' level heaven being occupied by Taiyi, and 'Lord God Amaterasu' becoming his concubine.

Well, she could understand it, so the shock level was even higher.

"Achilles--!" After materializing the power of the personality mask and summoning the chariot, Taichi invited Iwanaga Kotoko and Kurosawa Aise to get on board.

There is no one on duty in this tunnel.

After all, if someone can break through the tunnel on Earth that is under the jurisdiction of X, it will be meaningless even if Gaia or Athena is personally stationed in the Olympus domain.

"New power?" Iwanaga Kotoko took Taichi's hand and climbed onto the chariot. She looked at Taichi and asked, "Well, Achilles, I remember this should be the great hero in Greek mythology... Never mind, you've already gone too far. If I delve deeper, it will only make me doubt my life. I give up and want to know more."

"So, besides being able to fly, what other functions does this chariot have?" Standing beside Taiyi, using a crutch in one hand to stabilize her body and grabbing the corner of Taiyi's clothes with the other hand, Iwanaga Kotoko looked up at Taiyi and asked.

"It's very fast." Taichi shrugged and let Kurosawa Fengshi get on the chariot from the other side before explaining, "It can fly, and it's very fast. You can imagine the scene when a plane flies towards you."