Emiya Shirou doesn't want to work overtime

It doesn't dredge up memories of yourself from your memory, but rather fades them away. It can even cause memories of people who have some impression of him to fill in the gaps, creating a certain degree of logical consistency.

Even if you document this event, your record will vanish when he disappears.

It is not just his body that will disappear, but everything related to him will also disappear.

No matter how much effort you put into observing him, it will all vanish in the end. Even if you used codes or passwords, it will all turn to nothingness.

He didn't simply make you lose such a person from your memory.

Instead, it allows your memories to be reconstructed into new memories in a logically coherent form.

Even if you try to recall, you won't have any memory of talking to someone at that moment.

It doesn't just leave it empty; it also automatically repairs it.

Even if 80% of your memory is of that person, it won't cause your memory to become confused; it will only cause you to lose the influence that person had on you.

Just like being swallowed by a white whale in the alternate world of Re:Zero, its existence disappeared from this world.

In this world, unlike a beluga whale that swallows someone whole in an instant, their disappearance occurs gradually as their presence diminishes over time until it is completely lost, at which point they are forgotten by everyone.

No matter how good your memory is, you can't remember people whose presence is constantly fading away.

Emiya Shirou's observational skills are indeed astonishing; he did notice those people who were overlooked on the street and had a weak presence.

Because those people's existence hasn't disappeared, it's just very low, so low that people are unaware of their existence. They can still be observed and affected by physics.

But they will soon fade from memory.

Just like Shirou Emiya now, he had previously focused his mind so much that he could remember those people with low presence, and even followed one such person with an extremely weak presence.

But there is only one result.

That is, Shirou Emiya has forgotten all of this, forgotten it completely. It's not that Shirou Emiya can't recall things, but that he has forgotten the appearance of these people in his memory.

In Shirou Emiya's memory, these people had never existed.

If Shirou Emiya were just an ordinary person, if he had always lived in this world, he wouldn't have noticed anything unusual.

It is precisely because Shirou Emiya is not from this world that he finds the events happening in this city so strange.

It is precisely because Shirou Emiya is not an ordinary person, not only because he possesses special powers, but also because he has seen many strange things, that he begins to question his own memories.

Most people don't question their own memories, nor do they believe that a person can suddenly disappear.

It was precisely because he had experienced those incredibly fantastical things that he believed in such strange and unscientific things.

Even after losing his memory, when Shirou Emiya walks down the street again, he will still notice the existence of those people who go unnoticed by others.

For some reason, for some purpose, there are quite a few people in this city who have such a weak sense of presence.

That's why Shirou Emiya was able to so easily observe those who had a weak presence.

However, history will repeat itself, but it will not simply repeat itself.

"Aren't they human?"

Emiya Shirou stood there, stunned, feeling a sense of panic at his own judgment.

She had also considered analyzing whether the human body could help her enhance her magic to a higher level, but she couldn't.

His enhancement magic has always been limited to enhancing objects, and he is unable to enhance the human body.

At that time, Shirou Emiya's projection magic could only project ordinary objects, and many of the objects in the Emiya residence's warehouse were things he had practiced by projecting.

For example, pots and pans. Of course, Shirou Emiya also wondered if projection magic could project living beings, such as trying to project onto birds flying in the sky.

Of course, the final result is that it is impossible to do so.

Now, Shirou Emiya discovers that he is able to project the incredibly faint presence of the person in front of him.

However, Shirou Emiya is not able to project creatures.

The conclusion is quite obvious.

Those who live in cities and have almost no presence are not human, and you could even say they are not even biological beings.

It is just a thing, or a manifestation of some kind of power, but it is not human.

Emiya Shirou was utterly shocked, even somewhat terrified, by the conclusion he had drawn in his mind.

Because there are quite a few such people in this city. Although they don't make up the majority of the city, their numbers are definitely not small.

Shirou Emiya saw at least a dozen of them on the road.

Of course, Shirou Emiya doesn't remember how many streets he had passed through before, since he has forgotten them all.

However, upon seeing these people with weak constitutions, Shirou Emiya would be able to discern exactly what the strange feeling he had experienced earlier was, and then forget it.

Seeing them again and remembering them again, then forgetting them again after leaving, Shirou Emiya was caught in this cycle, and in the process, he discovered that those with a weak sense of presence were not human.

"Ding-dong! Ding-dong!"

One bell after another rang out from behind Emiya Shirou.

Looking back, it was an ordinary school. Without realizing it, Shirou Emiya had arrived at a school.

Apart from the sound of the bells, there seemed to be no problem in the surroundings.

"Projection started (Trace on)"

Without any hesitation, the moment the sense of crisis crept up his back, a sword with chains appeared in his hand, and on this street, his armor instantly covered him.

Before Shirou Emiya could even sense the danger coming from, the entire world was instantly engulfed in flames.

Everything in the world seemed to be under a state of prohibition.

Those passersby also froze at the moment they were walking forward, unable to move.

In this world, Shirou Emiya stands at the school gate, covered in armor, just like any other passerby. He is unable to move or think, as if he were frozen by Esdeath's ice, losing the ability to move, sense, and think.

Chapter 219 The Person Behind Misaki City

At the top of the tallest building in Misaki City, there is a closed and dimly lit space.

The space was quite spacious, but there was no furniture or decorations around it; it was completely empty.

In the very center of this space is a large courtyard-style bonsai, which is made up of toy partitions and models.

Anyone familiar with Misaki City would be astonished to see this bonsai, as it precisely simulates the entire city.

The bonsai doesn't just create a map of Misaki City; it provides real-time feedback on what's happening in Misaki City.

Such a detection system that can provide real-time feedback would be a formidable weapon on the battlefield.

In this vast space, besides the bonsai placed in the very center for testing Misaki City, there are also things that send chills down your spine.

Puppet.

Dolls of all sizes, dressed in all sorts of clothes, with round, bright eyes, some tattered and others perfectly intact.

These figurines were then placed against the surrounding walls, completely enclosing the space.

The large, courtyard-style bonsai in the very center emitted a faint blue light.

The pale blue light shone on the faces of these dolls, giving the entire space an indescribable eeriness and horror.

I'm afraid that if an ordinary person came in and saw these dolls, they would collapse to the ground as if they had suddenly died, and would never be able to get up again.

In such a place, a voice, both elegant and incredibly sinister, emanated.

"Ah, my dear Marianne, have you decided where you want to go to hunt humans?"

With that sound, a tall, upright man slowly appeared in front of the bonsai.

It was a man dressed in a pure white suit, with a long, equally pure white cloth floating around him. He had a handsome appearance, like a noble young man from high society.

However, the man floated in mid-air, carrying a long cloth that also floated around him, and arrived in front of the courtyard bonsai.

The man lowered his eyes and looked at a doll-like figure floating in front of the bonsai.

His eyes couldn't help but reveal his doting affection, as if this doll were his lover.

The doll, quite shyly, snuggled into the man's arms, rubbing happily against his chest.

"Owner."

The doll's mouth didn't move, but an extremely ethereal voice came from it.

Judging solely by her voice, one would surely assume she is an incredibly beautiful young woman.

"What's wrong, my dear Marian?"

The man stroked her lovingly.

"I've discovered an interesting human being."

The doll floated out of the man's arms, flew back above the bonsai, and pointed in one of the directions.

The man looked in the direction the doll was pointing.

Within this large, garden-style bonsai garden, in a model simulating a panoramic view of Misaki City, there was a red-haired figure constantly interacting with the mannequins burning with flames.

Seeing this, the man frowned deeply.

"How could any human have discovered the torch?"

"Torch" is a synonym for those low-profile people that Shirou Emiya encountered before; it is a substitute for people who do not exist in the present world.

In other words, those who have a low sense of presence are essentially people who are already dead.

They had long since had their world-essence power, the "Power of Existence," stolen by beings like this man.

Humans whose [Power of Existence] has been taken away are already dead, with absolutely no possibility of revival.

However, in real life, a person's sudden disappearance can cause varying degrees of distortion.

Those beings who seize the [Power of Existence] will leave behind a "torch" as a substitute in order to mitigate the distortions that occur in reality.

But these "torches" will eventually fade from people's memories.

"Master, isn't it interesting that a human can keep an eye on these disappearing torches?"

It is not surprising that humans could notice the torch.