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

"Marriage and paying tribute to the superiors are operations that almost every powerful person will do." Sonozaki Shion glanced at Sonozaki Mion and reminded her, "You should have been aware of this a long time ago."

Sonozaki Mion lowered her head slightly.

In fact, she had already realized this after seeing Sonozaki Ryo's sudden change in attitude.

However, she realized that as the next head of the family, she would most likely be offered as a "tribute" to Taichi.

After all, Sonozaki Shion is, in a sense, the 'non-existent person in the Sonozaki family'.

As for the new candidate for the next head of the Sonozaki family... Sonozaki Mion always feels that the ghost woman will take advantage of the situation to change the rules of the Sonozaki family, and maybe even take the opportunity to bring my mother back to the Sonozaki family tree and become the next head of the Sonozaki family.

After witnessing the changes in Sonozaki Ryo over the past few days, Sonozaki Mion felt that she had walked into her grandmother's shoes and saw through her heart.

However, she did not intend to tell Shion about her speculation.

After all, it was Shion who had always made sacrifices for the Sonozaki family, and this time it was Mion's turn.

Shion... No, my sister's future will be protected by me!

Sonozaki Mion secretly made up her mind.

The two sisters were "hiding" things from each other, while on the other side, Hojo Satoko was hiding behind Rena Ryuuguu, looking at the scene in front of her with some surprise.

Status and power.

Once again, she faced up to this inequality of power and status so clearly.

Once upon a time, the position that Sonozaki Akane was in was that of her and her brother Hojo Satoshi.

Taichi's position is that of the Sonozaki family.

That was the first time she felt the oppression from the Sonozaki family.

This time, Satoko felt that "the Sonozaki family is nothing special. In the face of stronger power and status, the Sonozaki family, like herself and her brother, has no room for resistance."

A small ambition was planted in Hojo Satoko's heart.

"Ms. Sonozaki, please look up." Taiyi said with a calm expression, "Thank you very much for your hospitality. I understand your fear now, but please don't worry too much."

"One more thing. My country has already abandoned the kneeling ceremony. As for the etiquette of interacting with others in that world, I will find someone to teach you after I successfully send you there."

"If you are confused about your future life, please rest assured that I will give you enough time to adapt to the environment of that world."

"...It will be our honor to live under such a tolerant Majesty in the future." After seeing that Taichi's attitude was mostly tolerant and enthusiastic, Sonozaki Akane was somewhat relieved in her heart.

Chapter 27: Aix's Defense Breaks

"A total of 937 people are willing to leave Hinamizawa." Koyukiichiro sat in front of Sonozaki Ryo with a pale face and said this number, which barely accounted for more than half of the population in the village.

"..." Although he had already made an estimate in his mind, when he heard that only this number of people were willing to leave, Sonozaki Ryo's hands trembled involuntarily.

"More than 800 of them are young people in the village." Gong Youkichiro continued, "Most of those who chose to stay are people of the same age as the two of us. They don't want to continue to run around, and choose to stay in this village and perish with the village. There are also some people who have long been unwilling to follow the footsteps of our three families. They think we are a group of stubborn young people who are conservative and don't want to change. And there are also those who oppose us just for the sake of opposing us... idiots."

"Mother, there are not many people who trust us in the Okumiya area, and we have no credibility. In addition, after the truth about Okumiya and Hinamizawa was exposed, those people were more inclined to release the dark side of their hearts rather than survive. At this time, Okumiya is completely in chaos." Sonozaki Akane, who was sitting next to her, also described the current situation of Okumiya. "Even many people in the Sonozaki group chose to betray us... Even he expressed his distrust of Your Majesty and chose to stay in Okumiya."

At the end, a hint of worry appeared on Sonozaki Akane's face.

Sonozaki Akane never expected that her husband would choose to abandon the Sonozaki family at this time.

But if you ask her if she feels sad about this... the relationship between the couple has become as cold as water over the years, and love and family affection have long turned into interests, so she can't say she feels very sad now.

Otherwise, she would not have chosen to return to the Sonozaki family without a name after severing ties with the family.

But even if the relationship became indifferent, she was able to understand her husband more objectively.

He is a person in power who is no less ruthless than his mother in terms of means and no less cruel than his mother.

Therefore, she is now worried that the man, after consolidating his military power, will choose to bring his men back to Hinamizawa to fight for power.

After all, in today's world without any contact with the outside world, the future source of food can only rely on "land planting" as a method.

People who are good at farming and land suitable for growing crops will be what all forces will fight for in the future.

Hinamizawa is likely to become a hot commodity in the eyes of those people.

Therefore, Sonozaki Akane hopes to speed up the evacuation of Hinamizawa.

She also told her concerns to her mother, Sonozaki Ryo, the village chief, Kiichiro Koyuki, and Rika Furude without reservation.

"Akane's worries are not impossible..." Sonozaki Ryo looked at Koyukichiro with a gloomy face, "Even those who chose to stay are no longer reliable."

"Kiichiro, you should take advantage of the night and gather all those who choose to follow us to Sonozaki's house in a lightly equipped formation." Sonozaki Ryo reminded, "Don't disturb those who don't want to leave."

"Akane, you and Rika-chan report the situation to His Majesty. If possible, please take us away from Hinamizawa tonight."

"Is it so urgent?" Koyukiichiro looked at Sonozaki Ryo in astonishment and asked.

"This is no longer the time to tolerate slowness." Sonozaki Ryo glared at Koyukiichiro and reminded him, "This is a time to fight for life and death! Do you want to witness the villagers of Hinamizawa killing each other?!"

Koyukiichiro shuddered, then stood up tremblingly and was about to fight for the lives of those who trusted him.

At this time, Taichi was in a mental meeting with Aix, Jeanne and Himiko, discussing how to expand the internal space of the domain.

Aix has thoroughly analyzed this narrow 'world'.

Aix already has a way to allow those who choose to leave here to escape smoothly without destroying this "world".

Now it depends on how many people are willing to leave.

Axelrod is optimistic about this.

I think the number of people will definitely be no less than 10,000 by then.

Although Hinamizawa has a population of less than 2,000, the population of Xinggong Town is at least tens of thousands.

So, when Akane Sonozaki and Rika Furude came hand in hand and told Taichi the situation, he fell silent.

"I understand." Even Taiyi, who had already understood the diversity of human beings, was shocked by this number.

Out of hundreds of thousands of people, only more than 900 chose to "live".

He found it a little unbelievable.

Therefore, when Sonozaki Akane and Furude Rika left to prepare for the moving activity, Taichi simply turned into a beam of light and rose into the night sky.

He planned to take Aix to Xinggong Town to see if the situation was the same as what Sonozaki Akane said.

Before reaching Xinggong Town, Taiyi saw wisps of black smoke rising in the distance.

There were flames everywhere on the ground.

The order of this town has been completely disrupted.

"...No, are the leaders of this town really that outrageous?" Taichi looked at the village that looked like a battlefield and sighed, "They just do whatever they want. They don't even have a plan to persuade the townspeople to migrate, and they just directly make public the information handed over by the Sonozaki family?"

Otherwise, Taiyi could not understand why at this critical moment, those people did not think about how to survive, but instead raised their weapons and pointed them at their neighbors.

The purpose... is probably to enable oneself to obtain more material things in future life?

"Negative energy... This must be the negative energy that I haven't even noticed at work." Axe was also a little broken.

Although he had been somewhat mentally broken by all the information contained in the Internet when he was on Earth in the previous reality, at least there were positive people shining their light, which allowed Aix to persevere.

But this time, apart from the Sonozaki family's response, which made people feel not so heavy-hearted, the responses of everyone else were completely outrageous.

Axel's defense is really broken, and he wants to turn evil.

Of course, just think about it.

There is still at least 90% of the progress to go before his defense is completely broken and he turns evil.

Although he is not from the Land of Light, X is also a good guy with the spirit of Ultraman.

It is no easy task to make him evil without brainwashing him.

Seeing that X's defense was broken to the point that he wanted to close his eyes and turn away, Taiyi immediately took over the control of the body and activated "Ultra Hearing".

In theory, Ultraman's hearing is an ability even more outrageous than 'Superman's hearing'.

It is not a tedious task for Aix to take in all the sounds within the entire Xing Palace and quickly analyze the source of each sound.

Chapter 28 Yu Ru has something to say

"…When did Hinamizawa Syndrome become so widespread?"

After turning off Ultra Hearing, Taichi revealed Sima's face.

In the entire Xinggong Town, there was not a single cry for help expressing the desire to survive.

Cruel, violent, and fierce.

This is almost the mainstream voice of the entire Xinggong Town.

It felt like everyone had an outbreak of L5 Hinamizawa syndrome.

"The possibility of the dream theory has increased." After a period of silence, Aix spoke again, "However, 'the dream theory of the God of the Shrine' has become 'the dream theory of Takano Sanshi', because this tragic situation only appeared after she developed Hinamizawa Syndrome."

“Anyway, let’s use the purifying light to do a refreshing baptism.” Taiyi said as he was about to use the purifying light on a large scale.

"Wait! Just in case, let's use the purification beam on a single unit first to see if it works on Hinamizawa Syndrome." X advised. "We'll have to drive the domain and leave this world, and the energy required will be great."

Purifying light

After Taichi shrunk his body, he came to the entrance of an alley and used the purification beam on someone hiding inside, but...

"No effect?" Taiyi frowned and muttered.

"This shows that he is not 'mentally polluted'. All his choices are from his heart." Aix replied in a low voice, "Of course, it is also possible that the power of my purification light is not enough to save him from this state."

"This is really..." Taiyi scratched his scalp helplessly.

"Sorry……"

"Huh?" Taiyi raised his head suddenly and looked around, but found nothing.

"What's wrong? Taiyi." asked Axel.

"I seemed to hear someone apologizing just now." Taiyi replied with some doubt.

"Someone is apologizing? But I didn't hear it." Axe replied with some confusion.

"Sorry……"

"Fuck! It's not hallucination! Someone is apologizing!" Taiyi replied in horror, baring his teeth, "And it's the kind of continuous apology that makes people feel creepy."

"It's just that the frequency of this sound is beyond your hearing range, Aix."

"Hyuuri, it's you who's apologizing!" Taiyi shouted loudly.

In this world with Hinamizawa as the background, the only one who keeps saying "I'm sorry" as if it were a ghost is Yuiri, whose figure is invisible to ordinary people.

But, wasn’t Yu Ru already swallowed by the Shadow Mage?

Why are you speaking here again?

"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do... I can't help Lihua, and I can't heal these sick people... I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"In what form are you maintaining your existence now?" Taiyi asked with some confusion.

"Shadow Mage, this is what you call that weirdo in robes, right?" Yu Ru's voice sounded again in the meeting in his mind, "I was devoured by him, and now I am just borrowing his power to communicate with you... In fact, you are the only person I can communicate with now."

"After Lihua woke up, I have tried to communicate with her countless times, but she can neither see me nor hear me." Yu Ru's voice was very low, "I thought I was completely worthless, so I kept silent."

"I didn't expect you to be able to hear my voice..."

"Actually, I can hear it too," Joan of Arc said.

"I can too... Could it be that only the power of the personality mask can hear it?" Himiko reminded.

Taiyi raised his eyebrows in understanding, then took out his smartphone and inserted the armed phone card.

This time, Taichi transformed into X, a blank form without any seal, without the power of the personality mask.

So……

"Hayaru, shout a few more times (Huh? Oh, oh——)... Aix, can you hear me now?"

"...I heard it." Aix looked up in a daze, "I now understand the existence of that Yu Ru."

“She’s the world.”

"No wonder you said that he borrowed the power of the Shadow Mage." Taichi said in surprise, "The Shadow Mage should have used 'Takano Sanshi's Dream' and 'Hayaru's Power', but it is indeed the Shadow Mage's original power that facilitated the maintenance of these two abilities."

"I don't quite understand, but that should be it." Yu Ru sighed helplessly, and then his tone became depressed, "Like before, I can only watch and can't do anything... No, it's even worse than before, because Rika can no longer detect my existence, and I can no longer take Rika to Hinamizawa in other times."