Quadruple split.

Chapter 2783 Interlude - Seal

Time flies, time flies
ten minutes later
A gap in the sky above Edinburgh, [strange and unusual].

"Is it...successful?"

Ferry collapsed into a chair, sweating profusely. After exchanging a glance with his twin brother, he immediately turned to look at Mo Tan, who was slowly falling down, as if afraid that he would stand up in the blink of an eye.

Then, Mo Tan stood up.

"Not even close..."

Despite feeling dizzy and nauseous, Mo Tan shook his head, his face pale, and said in a dry voice, "I think I succeeded for a moment just now, but then I suddenly remembered it. It felt like a flood bursting its banks and breaking down the dam. Let's hurry up and try again."

"brother……"

Qiao, who was almost lying on the ground, propped himself up and said with a wry smile, "We were just saying, with the spell we set up for you, even an Emperor-level demon or monster would probably be turned into an idiot who only knows how to babble by now. How come you're completely unharmed!"

Mo Tan shook his head and said very sincerely, "Something's wrong... I'm just... feeling a bit dizzy?"

"Dizzy?"

Ferry rolled his eyes and said irritably, "Your description is as pretentious as complaining about losing a few dandruff scalps after being hit head-on by a nuclear bomb. It couldn't be more outrageous."

"Then you should put in even more effort."

Mo Tan sat cross-legged on the ground, saying helplessly, "I'm starting to have all sorts of thoughts popping into my head uncontrollably. If this continues for a while, and my 'identity' completely disappears, things might become unsolvable."

Qiao stood up unsteadily and said in a dry voice, "Even if you say that, we've already given it our all."

"the last time."

Ferry took a deep breath, raised his hand and gently pressed it on his wrist, causing a dense, seemingly regular patch of crimson gothic 'tattoo' to appear on his left hand. He said in a deep voice, "This time we will use 'cursed power'."

"If we still can't get it sorted out, then there's really nothing we can do."

Joe then revealed the same 'tattoo' on his right hand and said seriously, "This is because we've been recuperating since that year and have accumulated a few trump cards."

Mo Tan looked with great interest at the elaborate patterns on the backs of the two brothers' hands and asked curiously, "Is this very impressive?"

"That's it."

Ferry smiled and said with no small amount of pride, "Back then, we created a 'Rumble Dragon' by overdrawing all our magical power. That thing blew through twenty Sin Primals in a very crucial battle. Although it was eventually crushed by that guy who had completely mastered [Original Sin] with his bare hands, it was still incredibly powerful."

"Speaking of which, I think the fire spell 'Raging Dragon' in 'The Realm of Innocence' is just a cosplay of the move we used back then."

Qiao raised her right hand, which seemed to weigh a ton, and slowly walked towards Mo Tan: "Close your eyes and get ready. This time we'll definitely succeed."

"I am looking forward."

Mo Tan shrugged and then closed his eyes.

……

Time flies, time flies
Five seconds later
A secluded labyrinth, an endless, mad night.
"Trust that is meaningless."

The man behind the mirror slowly raised his head, gazing at the three 'colors' that were being suppressed and restrained by clusters of golden light under the raging night. He gently shook his head: "Inefficient and clumsy methods."

In mid-air, the three 'colors' were being slowly bound together into a single entity, while at a certain 'point' where they intersected, a wisp of gray was spreading.

That belonged to Mo Tan, and the total amount was about half a day's worth of memories.

however--

Perhaps sensing the threat that might shake them, the once silent night suddenly became turbulent, and the so-called golden holy power that could defeat more than twenty sin entities instantly became a small boat tossed about in the storm, which could be extinguished at any moment.

As for the solidifying gray color, it trembled violently as well.

The situation is inevitably sliding towards yet another failure.

Until he casually broke the silence.

"Quiet."

The man behind the mirror lowered his hands slightly and said softly, "That's not 'me' anymore."

And so, the night fell silent once more.

Just then, a ray of golden light appeared, as if it had just noticed that there was another target behind the mirror, and spread over, trying to dye the person in the mirror's pitch-black color with that gray hue.

"Ah."

He merely chuckled coldly and muttered under his breath, "Is crushing something like this with your bare hands considered impressive?"

Then, the man did not reach out his hand, but with just a cold look, he directly annihilated the holy power that ordinary people could not resist in Mo Tan's sea of ​​consciousness.

"……So be it."

He took one last look at the gray-white 'color' that filled the air, then lazily closed his eyes, completing the final act of sealing himself away in the tombstone that isolated him from the world, returning to the deathly silence that had lasted for twenty years, along with the labyrinth.

……

Time flies, and years pass like an arrow.

Real time: 16:39
City B, Middle School Club

"anyway……"

While casually stirring the chocolate parfait in front of her, Gu Xiaole lazily asked the rat spirit sitting next to her who was smoking, "Sister Cha Nu, are you really sure this is okay?"

"What could be the problem?"

Leaning back lazily in her chair, the woman exhaled a smoke ring and casually said, "Didn't you say before that my outfit is very suitable for the current era?"

"It's not a problem of the historical context."

Gu Xiaole twitched the corner of her mouth and said with a wry smile, "Your tail and ears are showing!" "It's okay, at least it's okay here~"

Upon learning that Mo Tan lived in City B, she immediately chose to settle down in this house and had become a regular at the chuunibyou club. A certain planet-level idol smiled and said in a light tone, "Why don't you take a look around? Everyone looks so strange. Even if they're faking it, there are countless people who are even more exaggerated than Shu Shu. So we're not conspicuous at all."

"Pretending?"

Gu Xiaole repeated the sentence with a strange expression, and sighed softly: "I forgot to mention earlier that although there are indeed many ordinary people among the guests here, a considerable number of them... exude an aura that I am quite concerned about."

Xueyin blinked, asking curiously, "What? What do you mean?"

"For example, that guy in the suit."

Gu Xiaole turned to look at the middle-aged man arguing with an old man by the window and said with a subtle expression, "Although he kept fiddling with the quick-burning paper hidden in his watch, when I used my spiritual vision to look at him just now, I almost burned my eyes out... It's insane. Why would someone choose to completely relax in a place full of ordinary people like this, without holding back any of their power, just short of unleashing it!"

The beautiful woman smiled slightly and said in a light tone, "That's the charm of this club. As long as you don't cause trouble for anyone, everyone can completely relax, whether they are ordinary people or those of us who are not so ordinary."

"If it were before, I would definitely have studied this place carefully, registered as a member, and used it as one of my writing bases."

Gu Xiaole pursed her lips and said restlessly, "But now... I really don't feel like thinking about these things."

"I see."

Xueyin clapped her hands lightly and said with a smile, "You're thinking about men, aren't you?"

"Don't make it sound so casual."

Gu Xiaole glared at the planet-level idol next to her, who dressed herself up like a tomboy but didn't put any effort into her makeup and could be recognized at any moment, and said irritably, "Didn't you just hear what those two said? Mo-chan has come into contact with something very bad. If it's not handled properly, her life could be in danger."

Xueyin nodded: "Yes, yes, didn't I also say that I would retire from the entertainment industry after Tan's accident? Someone as capable as me officially retiring from the industry! If I were to be buried with him, that would be an extremely extravagant thing!"

"you!"

Gu Xiaole glared angrily at the guy next to her, whose personality was quite awful, but then, not wanting to argue with him, she lowered her eyes again and muttered, "I really... don't know what to do..."

The maiden sighed and said, "You little girl... you're not even as reliable as that creepy little paper doll."

"Am I not as reliable as her?"

Gu Xiaole was both amused and annoyed, and complained, "She's almost dying of discomfort right now. If I hadn't been trying my best to calm her down, she probably would have already crossed the ocean to Europe."

The beautiful woman twitched her ears and shrugged, saying, "Okay, then never mind."

"In short, all we can do now is... eh?"

Gu Xiaole was speaking when she suddenly noticed her phone, which she had casually placed on the table, was flashing. Looking closer, she saw it was Ferry Rice, whom she had recently added on social media. She quickly answered the phone, her eyes wide, and said rapidly, "Moshimoshi! Moshimoshi! Is this Brother Ferry? This is Xiaole. How is Mo-chan doing? Sorry, what? You told me to slow down? I'm sorry, I need to calm down a bit… Phew, so Brother Ferry, please tell me quickly what's wrong with Mo-chan. Oh, okay. Sister Cha Nu, is there a quiet place here? Brother Ferry said we should listen together."

"Then please come up to the second floor."

Just then, a man who looked to be in his early twenties, with a slightly tousled short wolf tail hairstyle, wearing a white shirt, black vest, black trousers, and leather boots, and a somewhat thin build, walked slowly to the table with a friendly and sunny smile. He said in a light tone, "I've arranged a private room for you here. Although it's not big, it's quite private and comfortable. Please feel free to use it. I'll put the bill on Cha Nu. Anyway, she already owes me a lot of rent, so this one won't make a difference."

"You really don't hold back at all."

The girl chuckled dryly, then stood up and greeted Xueyin and Gu Xiaole, "Let's go. Since they've been so generous in giving us the private room, we might as well accept."

Having said that, the girl, who had been living and eating for free at this club for who knows how long, and who only moved to a new place after being lent to Xueyin to pay off her debts, stood up and took the lead in walking to the second floor, which was not supposed to be open to guests without reservations.

However, despite this, under normal circumstances, almost no guests would want to go to the second floor. After all, for most people, the reason they join the "Chuunibyou Club" and are willing to pay one-twentieth of their monthly income (one-tenth of children's pocket money) as membership fee is to experience this feeling of 'sharing the fun'. In other words, the lobby on the first floor is the best entertainment venue for everyone.

In other words, those who truly need to pay a high fee to go up to the second floor are either the most stubborn straight people who want to confess to their crush but can't even think of a date location, or a small group of customers who 'truly need' it.

"In principle, we do not meet the requirements."

The beautiful girl shrugged and slowly walked upstairs, smiling at the two beautiful girls following behind her: "After all, we are neither beset by an inescapable calamity nor being hunted down by any force without just cause, so theoretically we are not qualified to apply to go up to the second floor."

Xueyin blinked and asked curiously, "Um, Mouse, can I understand that the theoretical requirements for going up to the second floor of our club are 'being beset by an inescapable calamity,' 'being hunted down by certain forces without any legitimate reason,' and... being a straight-as-an-arrow person who wants to confess to their crush but can't even think of a date location?"

"Probably correct."

The maiden shrugged, then tilted her head and thought for a moment before adding, "And then there are... people whose powers are out of control and who, for various reasons, are not suitable for establishing connections with similar systems or groups, like you. Aren't you someone who has awakened her symbolic power but doesn't intend to join the family of outcasts?"

Gu Xiaole gave a wry smile, glancing around at the cozier-style decor on the second floor, and sighed, "I feel like something's not quite right."

"I feel so too."

The maiden nodded and said in deep agreement, "Being afflicted by an irresistible calamity is a natural disaster. As Xiao Meng once said, 'When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it first tests their will, strains their muscles and bones, and starves their body.' I also think the club is meddling a bit too much."

"Even putting aside the term 'Xiao Meng,' what I was actually referring to was that kind of straight-as-an-arrow feeling... Sigh, never mind."

Gu Xiaole shook her head. After entering the private room, she eagerly switched her communication with Ferry Rice to video mode, placed the phone horizontally in front of her on the table, and asked anxiously, "How is Mo-chan doing?"

"And sandalwood!"

Xueyin also squeezed into the front-facing camera.

"It doesn't matter who's there, but kid, is it okay to smoke upstairs?"

The woman then strained her neck and shouted outside.

"No."

A childish voice rang out from outside the door without hesitation.

And then……

"Ahem, everyone, look at us!"

On the phone screen, Ferry Rice and Joe Rice cleared their throats and spoke in unison—

"We have something to announce..."

Chapter 2774: The End