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Chapter 1836 It's all Alai's fault!

Hayato, who had suddenly appeared in front of the tower, stood still, but the crowd around him gradually moved away from him.

The world of elves is never just one, but as numerous as the stars in the sky. Each elf world is not exactly the same. Just as a mountain can separate villages and towns and cause vastly different accents, the environment, culture, and even circumstances of different elf worlds are completely different.

"Astral Plane" is an ancient Norse court that is highly similar to "Asgard" in mythology; "Bird and Beast Forest" is composed of primitive tribes in the forest and countless giant beasts vying for supremacy in the desert; and the world where "Nameless Dragon" resides is a forest that exists around the castle where "gods" dwell.

The world Hayato lives in now seems to be themed around "magic." Just looking at the giant magic tower standing in the center of a town instead of being built in a remote mountain, one can see that the magical atmosphere of this world is quite "accessible."

It needs to be clarified that just as there are elves in the human world who are not from the elf world, there are also creatures other than card elves in the elf world. In addition to hunting for "Disruption", the Harpies also eat tree fruits.

Even in the "magic" world, there are magic practitioners other than card spirits. Therefore, Hayato, who used space travel, did not initially cause panic among the crowd in front of the tower. Only a few people noticed that someone had suddenly appeared and were startled.

However, upon noticing Hayato's strange attire and the familiar magical aura emanating from him, many people's expressions suddenly changed. They used magic to send subtle notifications to those with greater abilities, while quietly leading those around them away from Hayato, who gave them a sense of danger.

Hayato naturally noticed the sudden change in the atmosphere around him. He frowned and looked around, finding it very strange.

【The Temple's Water Spy】 pushed past Alai and peeked out from beside Hayato: "They're keeping their distance from you, Hero? How absurd! They could be right next to you, but instead of enjoying their supreme honor, they're deliberately avoiding you?"

"The 'labyrinthine profanity' is unbearable! Darling, let's burn this world to ashes!" [The Silver Princess of the Labyrinth Castle] further urged Hayato on.

"Hey, no, no, we're here to save the world from Yubel's clutches, okay? And your 'burned to ashes' line is so lame. Johnny Silverhand is just some nobody on the street," Hayato retorted. "If we were just playing a game, we'd really think he'd blow up Arasaka Tower."

"Huh? Isn't that right?" Xiao Lan asked curiously.

"The guy on the helicopter wasn't even knocked down, so Johnny didn't have a chance to use his machine gun to strafe him; the main force attacking Arasaka Tower was military technology agents, not a rock singer with a pistol; Adam Hammer wouldn't ambush an unknown nobody, it should be said that Johnny charged at Adam and got instantly shot down to 2.5 bars."

As the largest shareholder of International Illusion Company, Hayato naturally knew that International Illusion Company had other businesses besides Card Monsters, such as the sponsorship and distribution of board games like Otogi Ryuji's "Monster Dice". Another example is the recent project to digitize classic board games because of his love for games. The classic board game "Cybernetic Rebels", which was released in the last century, is a new project that was recently finalized.

Although it's only 2007, thanks to Haima Group, a "troublemaker" in the technology field, the technological level in some areas of the market is quite unbalanced, giving people the feeling that it's already 2077. The video game "Dynamic Rebels 2077," adapted from a game, is not only not lagging behind Hayato's memory, but it has also filled in many scrapped designs and defects. Only one classic bug, "Black Dream," which is enough to be recorded in the history of games, was not fixed and was retained at Hayato's strong request.

"Not to mention, how could Johnny, who was killed in an instant just a second ago, be on the helicopter ready to run away, and then be forced to stay and duel by Hammer?" The Silver Princess of the Labyrinth Castle, who had recently watched Hayato finish the "Jack Survival Hidden Story", also chimed in with a comment, "Bro thinks he's Morgan Blackhand."

"Not the Soul Killer part?" Hayato asked with a smile. "When Spider Murphy saw Silver Hand get killed instantly, he kindly left Silver Hand with a digital soul before he died. The megalomaniac could even imagine being taken to Saburo Arasaka for interrogation. He really thought he was some important person who could be received."

While Hayato was chatting with his spirits, several magicians who had received a notification from "helpful citizens" arrived near Hayato. Although they couldn't quite hear what Hayato and his cards were saying, they at least caught keywords like "soul," "torture," and "duel."

The mages gradually surrounded Hayato from all sides. One of them, a female mage who seemed to be the leader, took the initiative to approach Hayato and called out to him from a distance, "Hey you over there, don't you know that spatial magic is prohibited in town?"

"Hmm? Finally, someone with influence has stepped forward." Hayato noticed the unusual situation around him but did not leave. He wanted to wait for someone capable among the native inhabitants of this spirit world to step forward so that he could communicate with them. The pink-haired woman in front of him should be someone with some influence. "I'm sorry, I haven't been here long and I don't know the rules of this world."

“Using spatial teleportation magic here is tantamount to trespassing on the [Magic Academy - Lamaison], which is undoubtedly a declaration of war against us [Magicians].” After a pause, the pink-haired female mage asked again, “However, 'this world'? Let me confirm the answers to a few questions—Question: Are you from another world?”

“That’s right, but I remember your place is supposed to be ‘Magical Liberalism’? Anyone who wants to come can study magic at the completely open [Magic Academy - Lamaison], right?” Hayato thought for a moment and said with a smile, “But the name ‘Lamaison’ is really interesting. It’s exactly the French word for ‘tower’—the pronunciation of ‘La masion de Dieu’, which can also be translated as ‘House of God’.”

"And that grimoire in your hand, the 'Grimoire of the Law'? The law 'Torah' in it, which means 'instruction' in Hebrew, refers to Jewish law."

"You bastard!" The pink-haired female mage, [Magician Juno], who had been exposed on the spot, frowned and looked at the man in front of her. She was already wary because of the strange terms she had heard earlier, and now she was even more vigilant. "I'm asking you a question now, so don't give me any irrelevant information!"

"Question—Otherworldly visitor, you arrived at [Magic Academy - Lamaison] via spatial teleportation, but we didn't even receive an alarm about the magic barrier being triggered before we received the report. How did you bypass the barrier to enter here!" Although [Magic Academy - Lamaison] is a rather loosely managed organization, as Hayato just said, it is truly open to everyone, even commoners who can't even read. However, precisely because of this, they have a conflict with another organization that, while also benefiting the common people with magic, demands strict management of magic. For this reason, the magic barrier is continuously deployed, but Hayato's appearance did not trigger any alarms, even though this barrier should immediately issue an alarm if any unverified entity appears inside.

"I don't even know where the end of the universe is, how could I possibly know the answer to this question?" Although Hayato could roughly guess that the answer to the question that the other party cared about might be related to the [Summoner-Aleister] who was currently pretending to be dead, the problem was that he didn't actually know the specific situation under the [Magic] worldview.

Although Aray himself certainly knew about his past experiences, he was not very willing to talk about his past, and Hayato never pressed him for details. Therefore, Hayato didn't really know much about the specifics of Aray and the Mages—for example, how exactly was Crowley, the "Magic Codex," locked in the jar, and what his specific relationship with the Mages was.

Yes, [Summoner-Aleister] and [Great Sage of the Codex-Crowley] are beings from the same world as [Magic Academy-Lamaison], which Hayato has arrived at. In other words, Aleister is hiding in the card and refusing to come out because he has returned to his "hometown".

“Don’t answer a question with a question!”

【Magician Juno】seriously said, becoming increasingly wary of Hayato's answer, "You come from another world, yet you don't explain how to bypass the barrier. So, my final question—is your reason for coming to this world related to someone who modified themselves, turning themselves into a half-human, half-demon with green and white hair? And that person has the ability to further transform into an even more monstrous demon form? Perhaps even transform again to become even larger?"

Hayato raised an eyebrow, recalled Yubel's appearance, and corrected, "His hair color is half blue and half white, right? Although I'm not really sure what that color should be called, the rest of his hair is definitely like that."

Yubel is a cyborg who looks quite like a demon and is indeed of the demon race. He can transform into [Yubel - The Hated Knight], and then into the even larger [Yubel - The Extremely Sad Dragon]. So the person talking about must be Yubel, right?
"Like a man and a woman, like an adult and a child?" [Magician Juno] further confirmed that, although in her opinion, Hayato, who seemed to be a little colorblind or just unable to distinguish colors, had corrected his hair color problem, he had almost admitted the reason or goal for his coming into this world.

"Whether it's like an adult or a child is debatable, but whether it's like a man or a woman is undeniable." After all, the debate about Yubel's specific gender hasn't been resolved even more than a decade after the anime ended. Those who believe she's male and those who believe she's female each have their own reasons, but because it's the world of "Yu-Gi-Oh!", Hayato feels that gender is no longer important.

With three questions to analyze Hayato's background, [Magician Juno] didn't hesitate to call out to her companions, "No mistake! This guy is the one who came looking for that man—the destroyer from beyond the world that was prophesied to appear!"

"I never expected him to have a human form. Appearances can be deceiving, you destroyer of the world!" Among the mages surrounding him from behind, a male mage dressed like an emperor looked at Hayato with disgust, activated his terminal to unleash the power of the magic code, and declared, "You shall be slain by our magic!"

Simultaneously with his actions, the other mages around him also unfolded a book-shaped spellbook, which together emitted light, forming a huge six-pointed star barrier centered on Hayato's feet. Six mages, including [Magician Juno] and the male mage [Magician Royal Warrior Ampour], stood at each corner of the barrier to reinforce it.

Hayato wanted to stop the barrier from completing, but instinctively he didn't sense that the barrier had any harmful effect. Although he was puzzled as to why these [magic] people were suddenly attacking him, he didn't rush to react. Instead, he wanted to see what they were up to.

【The Temple's Water Dispenser】tells Hayato just as the barrier is about to be completed that the barrier seems to have only the ability to dispel otherworldly life or seal otherworldly creatures to prevent them from escaping. If Hayato wants, she can take action at any time and break the barrier effortlessly, which makes Hayato feel more at ease.

After the barrier was completed, the mages did not show any surprise when they saw Hayato inside, who showed no signs of being expelled.

"As expected, those associated with that man are no ordinary troublemakers." [Mage-Ampur] glanced at the spell in the spellbook in his hand, which was already operating at full power. "Even though I've maximized the barrier's special attack against otherworldly life through specialization and self-restriction, I still haven't achieved the desired results."

"It's more accurate to say it's completely ineffective. Although that man is a pretty lousy scumbag, he is, after all, the 'original text' of us [magicians]. The spell created based on the 'code' is expected to be ineffective against his familiars." [Magician Juno] snorted coldly.

"So things have fallen apart already? Given that you can't do anything to me, I can barely forgive your current offensive behavior. After all, what adult would hold a grudge against a child?" Hayato looked at the mages around him, all of whom were members of the [Magic] deck he recognized. Being able to become a card monster at least proved that they had a special status in this world.

While there's a saying that card players use all their memory to memorize strange judgments and all sorts of card effects, in reality, card players can only remember a limited number of cards, limited to those that are powerful enough or have unique enough card art. And coincidentally, the [Magician] deck belongs to the former category.

Specifically, regular [Magic] cards are just so-so, even if you include cards like [Dark Magician] that have "Magic" in their name. But if you have a [Magic] deck with a card like [Magician's Judgment] that's been heavily criticized, then that's a different story.

Back then, it was one of the earliest "super mainstream" decks to rival [Dragon Conqueror]. Anyone who lived through that era would have some impression of [Magician]'s cards—that's why Hayato was able to recognize [Magician Juno] and [Magician Royal Warrior Ampour] at a glance, even before the opponents had introduced themselves.

"And I've also figured it out. You guys don't mistake me for Aleister, do you? You've got it wrong, you've got it wrong. I'm here to save your world out of pure kindness."

At first, Hayato didn't realize what was going on, but combining what he knew about the intricate relationship between the Summoner Aleister and the Sorcerer faction in the story of the card game, as well as the conversation between the two Sorcerers just now, he immediately understood that his answers to the questions had made the other party think that he had come to see Aleister!
What have you done in this world? Just because the person I'm looking for seems to be you, you want to banish me from this world? Unforgivable, Alai!
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