Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 73 This is a necessary sacrifice

PS: If you don’t know Ritsuka Fujimaru, you can take a look at the two pictures in the previous chapter.

The place abandoned by gods, Moon City.

It was a barrier made of gray fog, guarded by the people of Moon City for generations.

Fujimaru Ritsuka squatted in front of the barrier, fiddling with her card pool. She was still wearing her white Chaldea suit, which, as a magical ceremonial outfit, could of course be self-cleaning.

Boom.

A bottle of mineral water and a round object popped out from the card pool.

Ritsuka Fujimaru opened the bottle cap and took a sip, then looked at the "card pool" in front of him with distress.

She had no extra magic power to condense the Holy Quartz.

This world lacks ley lines, no "Great Source." While theoretically, the "Great Source" is the life force of a planet, and every planet should possess it, this planet's life force is rife with pollution and chaos, making it difficult to utilize even if converted into magic.

The natural energy around her is filled with the aura of "secret", "natural disaster" and "corruption", making it difficult for her, a half-baked magician, to transform it.

I finally managed to save up enough money to draw a lottery ticket these two days, but ended up drawing a bottle of mineral water.

Although it was equally difficult to condense magic power before, for some reason, after drawing a mask, she could obtain holy crystals by helping the residents of Moon City complete commissions. However, she had completed all the commissions she could do recently, which made her a little idle.

Ritsuka Fujimaru sighed, tilted his head back, and drank the water in the mineral water bottle in one gulp.

Then she looked at the mineral water bottle and fell into deep thought.

This is an empty mineral water bottle, originally filled with water, but shameless humans have plundered it inhumanely, taking away its most precious thing.

Yes, it is water. Shameless humans have taken away its water. The mineral water bottles without water have now become garbage.

But is this really rubbish?

Yeah, it really is just garbage.

No, that's not right, it's not.

it is……

Ritsuka Fujimaru, who had turned back into Gudako at some point, put the cap back on the bottle, holding the neck of the bottle so that the bottom of the bottle was facing up and the body of the bottle was facing down.

Then she began to tap her forehead rapidly with the bottle.

The bottle hit the head, making a "dong dong dong" sound.

The soft bottle body can't hurt her, but the feeling and sound of knocking are really relaxing.

Hey, that's fun.

People are like this, they always do some inexplicable things.

After playing with it for a while, Gudako began to study this round object, which looked like a door handle.

This is a door handle.

Universal door handle!
Mounted on a wall, it can turn the wall into a door!
Gudako pounced in front of the barrier with her cute little short legs.

She had been studying the barrier for days.

"Hey." She placed the door handle on the gray fog barrier. "Now is the moment to witness a miracle!"

Twist and pull.

[The door cannot be opened from this side.]
"Eh?"

He pulled a few more times.

[The door cannot be opened from this side.]
Ritsuka Fujimaru stuck his head out and put his ear to the gray fog.

She had tried it before and would hear something in Chinese, something like "Fu Sheng Xuan Huang Tian Zun". She wanted to see if there was any change now.

She heard people talking inside, including men, women, old people and children.

They called out in unison, chanting an unknown spell. [We'll explore the area ahead later.]
"Waaaaaaaaaa!" Gudako gripped the door handle tightly, kicked her feet off the ground on the gray fog, and leaned her whole body sideways on the gray fog, trying to force it open.

There were two sounds: snap! and plop.

The first sound was the sound of the handle being pulled down.

The second sound was the sound of Gudako falling to the ground.

Gudako got up from the ground and looked at the gray fog with lifeless eyes.

Then she closed her eyes, her eyes full of reluctance.

Her voice trembled as she asked, "Lancer, although this is cruel, are you willing to become a true hero?"

In the empty space next to Gudako, which should have been empty, Cu Chulainn, wearing a blue tights and silver armor, emerged from his spirit-transformed invisible state.

He stared with a pair of dead fish eyes and said a little speechlessly: "I don't know what the master wants to do, but I will support it... probably."

As a hero whose name was recorded in history, his warrior instincts warned him not to show up. But as a hero, his pride wouldn't allow him to be a coward.

"Yeah." Gudako nodded with difficulty and called out again, "Chen Gong."

"I'm here, master." Chen Gong, wearing white Hanfu, appeared behind Gudako.

"Hey! This is not right!" Cu Chulainn seemed to understand something and protested immediately.

Gudako raised her right hand, and with a slightly lewd smile, she spoke the mysterious language of her homeland: "Mr. Cuchulainn, you don't want me to use the Command Seal, do you?"

Immediately, Gudako retracted her expression and became compassionate again. She covered her chest with one hand and said, "This is too cruel, I know... but... but there is nothing we can do. We have to make this attempt... but I have no other choice."

Chen Gong wanted to put his hand on Gudako's shoulder, but because she was so small in her current state, he could only reluctantly place two fingers. "Master, you don't have to blame yourself. You know, this is a necessary sacrifice."

"Yes, this is a necessary sacrifice." Gudako nodded sadly, and tears bigger than her eyes squeezed out of her eyes.

Cu Chulainn refused to give up and tried to fight for himself: "What about Red Hare? Why not let Red Hare come?"

Chen Gong turned his head to look at the Red Hare who appeared in response: "Hey, Red Hare is here too."

Red Hare refuted Chen Gong's words: "I am Flying General Lü Bu."

Chen Gong smiled and didn't engage in any more meaningless arguments.

Gudako immediately swallowed back the crocodile tears she had managed to squeeze out, her face expressionless. She looked at Cu Chulainn without mercy and ordered Chen Gong beside her, "Castor, kill him."

Chen Gong walked forward, pushed Cu Chulainn against the gray fog, and patted his shoulder as a comfort.

"Well, the time has come. It's time to 'pull the corners together'. This is a painful choice, do you understand?" After retreating to a safe distance, Chen Gong used his treasure talisman 'pull the corners together'.

The effect of the Noble Phantasm "Horn Attack" is to make a necessary sacrifice in exchange for high damage.

Chen Gong gave a thumbs up: "Killer Queen, the first bomb."

Press your thumb down.

boom!
"Cuchulainn!" Gudako shouted, stretched out his hand, and shed crocodile tears.

Cu Chulainn stared with a pair of dead fish eyes and turned into golden light and disappeared.

The gray fog trembled, surged, and seethed, a crack appearing for a moment. But it ultimately remained intact. The cracks healed instantly.

"Ah, it doesn't work after all. It seems we need more Cu Chulainn." Gudazi stood up from the ground, clapped his hands, and climbed back onto the back of the Red Hare. "Let's go back. I'm hungry."

The Red Hare snorted and carried Gudazi towards Yuecheng.

PS: Monthly ticket, monthly ticket.

Every time I finish writing about Hoshi or Gudako, I feel unexpectedly excited.

The editor said it'll be on the shelves around next Friday. Hmm... I started writing this novel just for fun, but it's become so long now. Let's all look forward to it.

(End of this chapter)