The Strange Cat from Fuuto

Just as Miku and the old man were staring at each other, Saeko rushed back.

"What's wrong, Saeko? Why are you in such a hurry?"

"I've forgotten something very important, Father!"

After saying that, Saeko quickly walked through the secret door and took the elevator down to the Earth Well. Miku glanced at her but then ignored her, wagging her tail and strolling leisurely around the manor.

Although he's a handsome male cat who lives a peaceful and serene life, he still needs to move around more. Don't you see how those cats that don't move at all have gotten as fat as pigs?

Walking through flowerbeds and over bushes, the scent of grass mixed with the fragrance of flowers lingers around my nose.

After basking in the sun for half a day, Miku realized that Saeko was nowhere to be seen, and at that moment, Kirihiko also returned to the house.

Why did he come back?

Looking at Wu Yan's back, Miku's eyes were somewhat solemn. In his memory, it was not long after this time that Wu Yan was expelled from the sect by the old man. Rather than being expelled, it would be more accurate to say that this guy himself broke into the Well of Earth and then ruined himself!

No wonder, no wonder the old man and Saeko asked about Kirihiko's health. The Nazca Memory itself is a Memory with three stages of evolution, plus Kirihiko's status in the family, and the connection between the Earth Well and many other Memory.

Miku's brain, like that of a detective with a sweet tooth, pieced all the fragments together in an instant.

"I'm really worried about you!"

Miku jumped off the stone sculpture he was climbing and followed Kirihiko with light steps.

Following Kirihiko into the mansion, Miku first arrived at the secret door that the old man and Saeko usually used. Lying on the ground, its tail wagging, its eyes fixed intently on the secret door.

Sure enough, a short while later, Saeko came out. "Miku, what are you doing here?" Saeko was quite surprised to see Miku lying in wait there. Miku raised its tail and stepped into the elevator. Just as the doors were about to close, the voice came out.

"Something... has come up!"

As the secret door closed and disappeared from sight, Saeko smiled and said, "You clearly went to slack off, but you said you had something to do!"

"Sometimes, men really can't be trusted!"

Even if it's just a male cat!

After watching Saeko leave, Kirihiko hid to the side and watched Saeko disappear at the end of the corridor before sneaking up to the hidden door and starting to search for it.

click!

Just like Saeko, I flipped the light switch, and the wall flipped up, revealing the passage inside.

"Gudu!"

Swallowing hard, Kirihiko entered the passageway and, upon seeing the elevator, eagerly stepped inside. As the elevator slowly descended, Kirihiko had a strong intuition that he needed to find the truth.

In a corner he wasn't looking at, a pair of beautiful eyes were staring at him intently!

Once he recalled the scene of the two boys exchanging memories, Kirihiko felt a surge of panic in his heart. In his ideal world, Kaze City would become the number one city in the world, and every resident of the city would undergo a perfect evolution.

Perfect residents, perfect society, perfect city!

But the image of the boy using the memory shattered his perfection, and being too perfect is itself a kind of imperfection and morbidity!

Having faced the harsh reality, he desperately wanted to find the truth.

The sound of friction between the slings and pulleys was incessant. Finally, with a muffled thud, the elevator doors in front of Wu Yan slowly opened.

What came into Wuyan's view was a long corridor illuminated by white LED lights. It was so narrow that one could touch the ceiling by standing on tiptoe.

As Kirihiko passed through the passageway, he felt like Miku, who was visiting the Well of the Earth for the first time. His eyes darted around, taking in the various murals on the walls, the collapsed stone pillars everywhere, and the sense of vicissitude that had been sealed away for so long. All of this filled him with surprise and disbelief.

"There's such a space underground in the Ensaki family's house!"

On the other side, Miku, who had just arrived at the Well of the Earth, saw the old man standing in front of the Well of the Earth with his hands behind his back, seemingly lost in thought.

"Miku, you're here!"

Miku slowed down, tilted his head, and then went to the old man's side and rubbed against his trouser leg.

"What happened?"

He bent down and picked up Miku. The old man's eyes, beneath his brown eyes, fixed on Miku, and the bell around Miku's neck began to jingle.

"Ki...Hiko, you're here!"

"Oh?"

The old man was somewhat surprised by Wu Yan's arrival, but not for long. He smiled and said, "Then let's give him some time to be alone with the Well of Earth!"

The old man, who had hidden Miku to one side, scratched Miku's chin as he waited.

Kirihiko finally reached the end of this underground space, where a well suddenly appeared in his sight.

"what is this?"

Standing beside the bronze-colored well, Kirihiko looked inside with great curiosity, but there was nothing there except the well walls, as if this underground passage led straight to the earth's core.

The bronze-yellow well walls disappeared at a certain point, replaced by rocks of a strange color. These rocks were unlike any that Kirihiko was familiar with!

"Here, we obtained the memories of Earth, and then used them to create the Gaia Memory!"

The old man, carrying Miku, emerged from around the corner near the Well of Earth. The ever-smiling old man's smile, at this moment, appeared sharp and fanatical!

It's hard to describe what kind of expression it was. Miku, who was lying in the old man's arms, felt a strange chill rush from his tailbone to his head the moment the old man opened his mouth, and even his hair stood on end for a moment.

It felt as if I were standing in front of a ferocious, raging beast; the fear was indescribable!

"Father!"

Kirihiko was quite surprised to see the old man there, but after thinking about it carefully, he understood. As the head of the Madoka family, the entire Madoka mansion was under the old man's control, so this hidden space was nothing special to him. It was just like his own backyard. However, it was also very dangerous here. After all, no one would die in the backyard above, but here, you wouldn't even be left with a corpse!

Welcome to the museum!

The old man smiled at Wu Yan, but the meaning behind that smile was profound, sending chills down Wu Yan's spine.

"For us at this stage, Earth's memories are shrouded in mystery, so we need more experiments to unravel them." The old man casually placed Miku on a long ladder in the Earth Well. Seeing the old man's figure and hearing his words, Wu Yan suddenly understood!

But the old man continued muttering to himself, "For the sake of data, our museum is circulating the Gaia Memory in Wind City to prepare for an even greater evolution!" After a few keystrokes, the lampposts standing in the underground space all changed from soft white light to a chilling blue. A stream of data also surged from the Earth Well. Miku looked up at the dazzling data stream and couldn't help but exclaim, "No matter how many times I see it, it's so beautiful!"

But Kirihiko, whose face was illuminated by the data stream gushing from the Earth Well, did not think so. He felt himself enveloped by a coldness.

The old man, typing on the keyboard again, stared at the computer screen. "But what interests me most right now is the Asuka Memory!" he sighed, watching the screen turn red. Kirihiko, however, found this unbelievable. He exclaimed in shock, "Could it be that we delivered the Asuka Memory to those kids?"

"That's right!"

"The more immature a child is, the more accurate the data we can obtain!"

"Their pure and flawless bodies and minds allow the Asuka Memory to evolve rapidly and break through its limits!"

Kirihiko couldn't help but take a step forward and asked, "Do you mean that people who use it will die?"

"No, they didn't die in vain!" The old man, with his back to Wu Yan, slowly said, "They made a great contribution to the grand vision of the museum!"

How could you use the word "death" to sully them?

"But they are still children, Father!"

The old man's smile vanished upon hearing Wu Yan's rebuke. "So, what are you trying to say?"

"Humans are born to face death, and I've only accelerated that process. Not to mention, their deaths are a great contribution to the museum's grand vision!"

"This is utterly absurd!" Kirihiko, having retrieved the Nazca Memory, glared at his once-beloved father-in-law and slammed down the button. "I won't let you have your way!"

"Even if it costs me my life!"

Chapter 32: Kirihiko: I don't want my wife anymore, I'm not going to use the surname Madoka anymore!

"Tell me, how exactly can we save that girl?"

Kirihiko, now in Nazca form, held a knife to the old man's neck, his tone no longer gentle, but sharp and resolute!

All Miku could say about this was, "You're really brave!" Of course, he could only make a slight complaint in his mind.

In contrast, the old man remained calm and composed, hands in his pockets, a faint smile on his face, but his eyes beneath his brown eyes were filled with coldness.

"Even if you knew, what could you do? That girl has already brought the Asuka Memory to its final stage!"

"This is beyond stopping!"

Upon hearing the old man's reply, Wu Yan moved his battle sword forward slightly, the sharp, dark purple blade brushing against the old man's skin. He said sternly, "You just need to tell me!"

"Well, what an unlikable son-in-law!" The old man gave Wu Yan a deep look. "As long as we can locate the memory within that girl's body and destroy it, that will solve the problem!"

"It's that simple?"

Is it really that simple?

Faced with Kirihiko's question, the old man countered with a question of his own. After Kirihiko lowered his head and thought it over carefully, he realized that the operational complexity involved was extraordinary. First, after determining the location of the memory, how to destroy it was another matter. The girl was already deeply poisoned by the Asuka Memory's negative influence!

What should we do then?

Thinking of this, Kirihiko pictured a man wearing a hat!

You could ask him for help, after all, that person also deeply loves this city!

Just then, a tearing pain came from within Wu Yan's body, gradually spreading throughout his entire body.

"Uh...ah...."

What's wrong with me?

Wu Yan's battle sword slipped from his hand and fell to the ground. The old man glanced at the sword lying in the dust and shook his head. "Speaking of which, Wu Yan, have you been training your memory abilities lately?"

"What's wrong now?"

Since the pretense of civility had already been laid bare, Kirihiko was quite blunt with the old man's questions. After the old man took out his Earth Driver and Panic Memory, he looked at him and said, "It seems you've reached the second stage of the Nazca Memory, but this is probably still your limit!"

How did you know I had reached the second stage?

Kirihiko knelt on the ground, trembling as he asked, "Then why do you think I recruited you into the Madoka family?" The old man countered, "Then why do you think I brought you into the Madoka family?"

"Just because you're exceptionally capable?"

There are countless talented people out there; you're just one of the more outstanding ones! And that's why I chose you!

"There are still too many mysteries surrounding the Nazca Memory, and too little data, so we have no choice but to find a guinea pig!"

After hearing the truth, Kirihiko found it hard to accept. "I'm a guinea pig?"

"That's right!"

How could that be?