I changed the timeline with the game.

Chapter 1126 Spring Chapter, Arrival
Until this moment,

The actual Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Disaster Response Department
These departments, which are specifically responsible for dealing with paranormal disasters, finally realized, albeit belatedly, that this huge energy fluctuation was coming from another world.

They acted swiftly, using advanced detection equipment to instantly pinpoint more than a dozen potentially threatening areas.
Further investigation and handling are planned.

Su Wen was momentarily distracted and found himself and Natsume Chie back on a train that was still speeding towards Tokyo.

It was as if nothing had happened.
But the return mark left by Caroline on his palm clearly proved everything.

The little girl who had been leaning against him seemed to have experienced too much beyond her comprehension, and was still fast asleep.

same,

The other ordinary people on the train also fell into a deep sleep.

During slow-wave sleep (SWS), the hippocampus repeatedly activates memory fragments through "sharp wave ripples," and the cortex calls upon existing knowledge networks to integrate new memories into the long-term system.

Magnetic resonance imaging experiments from the 2006 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

This brain protection mechanism is indeed benign, but it also created opportunities for me.

Caroline,
Can you still hear me?
Please erase this system data that exists on the train.

Su Wen gently pushed up his headset, then whispered to the hacker girl.

Meanwhile, following his request, Caroline, who had thoroughly hacked into the deep data network and gradually reduced her activity frequency to ensure her security level, was finally able to relax a bit.

She lay on the sofa in the Cyber ​​Tower room, casually flipping through the data she had obtained, but couldn't help but complain to him in a coquettish voice:

"Hey! That's Tokyo's rail transit data."

Mr. Rhein

Do you think it's that simple?

"But the data I used to get on board was fake, and the same goes for Chie."

"So you had already anticipated this possibility back then, how malicious of you."

Caroline rolled her eyes. In truth, regardless of whether Su Wen used real data, such a small 'modification,' carried out within a chimeric core like Deep Tokyo, meant that no one could trace its origins back to her.
"Those people in Tokyo are really patient. I didn't expect I'd have to open the passage for them."

"They'd be lucky to find me."

Miss Hacker stuck out her tongue cutely, not to mention her raw data was still in New York City.

So, with a wave of her hand, countless data points appeared before her eyes.
It even included some vague command data from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Exorcism Division and the Disaster Relief Headquarters.

As for why it's fuzzy data...

That's because Tokyo's data transmission is currently affected by [Ruins - Tomb of the Gods: Deep Tokyo], and she is unable to cross the border to gain complete control.

of course,

Caroline had never actually committed such a blatant data breach. Although the number of data stream ascendants was small, the relics left behind by various resurrected civilizations contained a considerable amount of information about mechanical ascension.
So even when she hacked into NASA, she was very careful.

She really went all out for Su Wen's plan this time.

Even so,
Caroline, with her devilish personality, never revealed it, and even pretended to be completely at ease with Su Wen.

At least now, [Shenzhen Tokyo] can no longer put too much pressure on her.

Su Wen has indirectly helped relieve a lot of her pressure.

When he finally unleashed the Azure Storm, even slamming the hilt of the mythical sword against the massive cyber wall.

The aftershocks of the explosion directly knocked off the entire tempered glass curtain wall of the core area, making the massive core building seem to let out a groan like a dying beast.

And the next second in deep Tokyo,
Before the data could even sense the psionic fluctuations of [Rhine - Watcher's Sword - Azure Storm], it had already been stored in Su Wen's storage box at a distance.

Even in the instant the sword is sheathed,
The sword's already deep blue patterns now glowed with a tidal scale indicating a depth of 3.2.
Ten seconds later,

The aftershocks of the horizontal slash, originating deep within Su Wen's vertical strike, arrived belatedly.

But what it brought was a deeper aftershock of the tsunami:
Even the numerous Victorian-style cyberpunk buildings surrounding the core tower are neatly split along the central axis.

The cut is as smooth as a mirror.
The virtual skeleton inside was exposed, flashing a faulty red light.

After that,
They plummeted into the abyss, causing countless terrifying, spider-like compound eyes to emerge for the first time in the depths of Deep Tokyo.

"in this way,
This is just the beginning.

After confirming that Caroline had helped him and Natsume Chie erase the data they had collected on the train, Su Wen...

He gently picked up the little girl.

In a flash, he left the carriage that was about to arrive at the station.

at this time,

It felt like less than six hours had passed since they set off that morning.

Japan, spring.

The cicadas chirped in the afternoon, when the rain was about to stop but hadn't quite ceased.

The indigo skyline was cut into irregular rhombuses.

The verdigris on the Tokyo Station dome seeped into the damp air, resembling a blue inkstone accidentally overturned by a ukiyo-e artist.

Su Wen led Natsume Chie to a wooden bench along the zelkova path in the Kaguya Outer Garden, a place that was perhaps already abandoned.
He waited for the little girl to wake up before proceeding with his next plan, watching as the sunlight filtered through the newly sprouted buds of Tokyo in spring, turning them into fine, shimmering gold leaf.
They landed on Chie's knees and became breathing scales.

The whole scene is beautiful.

But it felt completely different from the tense atmosphere I had just experienced.

Caroline,

If you don't experience it yourself,

Perhaps I find it hard to imagine that Tokyo is currently surrounded by such a huge crisis.

But the fact that the resurrected civilization has its eye on Earth is definitely part of my vision of the future.

"so what.

What do you want to do? Be a great hero who protects the Earth?
whee."

She teased him as if he were a witch.

But Su Wen simply smiled at those words:
"If I were in junior high or high school now, I might actually have this thought."

But after all that I've been through, I still hold onto this 'naive' idea.

That's not just you.
Perhaps even now I think it was just a kind of naive foolishness.

"Then what doesn't count as naiveté?"

Caroline countered with a question.

And to this,
Su Wen simply watched as the thin, gossamer-like clouds drifted past the Skytree, and the Tokyo afternoon was bathed in the crystal-clear waters of the Seto Inland Sea.

He held out his hand:
"This is what they want."

And what I want is...
It's the sky.

"I really underestimated you."

Or rather, many people don't know the real you, Mr. Rhine.

"In fact, even I don't know what I am like."

All I know is:

Who I like, what I want, and what kind of future I don't want to witness.

Su Wen silently watched as the cicada shell curled up like translucent amber on the photinia leaf.

He watched as a thin mist rose over the Kanda River in the distance, carrying with it the faint lingering notes of a shamisen.

(End of this chapter)