Something's wrong with how I'm watching anime.

Animation cannot possibly show every single moment of the protagonist's experiences.

The issue of time span is actually not too bad...

Thinking back to the initial experiments on superpowers, Kazama thought to himself.

"The key issue is perspective," Kazama said.

"The perspective we take is mostly fixed on the main characters in order to obtain information."

"What about those things outside the perspective of the main characters, those that exist in the animated world based on the background and worldview, but which we cannot observe due to the limitations of our vision?"

This is also a very dangerous thing.

What is Kazama's most significant advantage in terms of information?

It is possible to find the object of superpower outage manifesting by observing changes in the main storyline of the anime.

What if the superpower manifests as a monster that has not appeared in the main storyline?

Then we can only wait for real-world feedback before making any plans.

Moreover, the more expansive the world-building, the longer the main storyline, and the more numerous the subplots in a work, the more difficult it is to obtain information about the products resulting from the loss of control.

It can be described as the ultimate form of passivity.

"If the loss of control is truly beyond the reach of observation, then the spying you felt before might mean that the loss of control has already occurred."

At that moment, Cerberus also realized: "How could this be..."

“This is what you call a cheat code…” Kazama sighed.

The more abundant the gifts from the unseen world, the more dangerous they are, because you have no idea what price they secretly price.

Extracting various dreamlike props from virtual works seems wonderful.

However, once this phenomenon of going out of control occurred, the cheat code turned into a collection of countless pitfalls.

Many of them are real sinkholes; a single misstep could lead to catastrophic consequences.

"There's not much we can do right now."

"When it comes to research on superpowers, intelligence gathering can only be done passively."

"Although the situation is passive, we must take the initiative to respond."

Kazama said.

"The first thing, naturally, is to improve one's own strength..."

Improving one's strength is the most basic requirement; only by striving to increase one's power level can one have sufficient ability to cope with loss of control.

"The second approach is to find a switch or a way to restrict the ability from the source of the ability itself."

"The last thing is to create an intelligence early warning mechanism to deal with things getting out of control."

"When things get out of control, we need to know immediately, or even in advance."

"Known in advance?"

Kerberos hesitated for a moment, then spoke:

"It would be difficult to do this before you fully understand and control this ability."

"indeed."

Kazama nodded.

"Therefore, we must continue to delve deeper into the mysterious and extraordinary fields."

"For example, divination, prophecy..."

Kazama said.

"I remember that Clow Cards also have the function of divination, right?"

Starting today, Kazama will strive to become a charlatan.

Chapter Forty-Two: Divination

Faced with an unpredictable future, humanity always hopes to know in advance so that it can take appropriate measures.

The establishment of early warning mechanisms stemmed from this idea, and the most comprehensive early warning mechanism in modern times is weather forecasting.

By collecting vast amounts of data and understanding atmospheric processes, we can determine future weather conditions and use these results to guide human activities.

Although atmospheric activity is inherently unpredictable and its processes cannot be fully understood by humans, resulting in a certain degree of error in weather forecasts, the accuracy of general predictions remains close to 99%.

"However, early warning mechanisms based on modern science are ultimately the result of summarizing existing patterns."

In theory, early warning is a summary of patterns in things based on data.

However, if something is completely irregular, this kind of early warning naturally cannot be established.

"But the extraordinary and mysterious, magic and metaphysics are inherently contrary to normal rules, and irregular warning mechanisms do exist in the mysticism."

Divination and prophecy are predictions that, under generally chaotic conditions, can provide a directional indication of the direction of things.

In the original Cardcaptor Sakura manga, Clow Reed is not only a powerful magician but also a skilled fortune teller.

One of the statements about it in the original text is: 'All-knowing'.

Kazama thought this assessment was somewhat exaggerated.

Absolute omniscience and omnipotence are both paradoxes.

In a world where information is infinite, omniscience is impossible. The description of "omniscience" at most means having a grasp of information in the world that is infinitely close to "100%".

Of course, Kuroride's prowess in this area is beyond doubt.

Knowing he was going to die, he made arrangements for everything that followed.

If Kazama can inherit Clow's power using the Clow Cards as proof, then what Kazama wants to inherit is not only Clow's magical skills, but also his divination and precognitive abilities.

"Would you like to learn divination?"

Cerberus crossed his arms, closed his eyes, and slowly nodded.

"Indeed, divination is very useful in the current situation."

"It's a pity that 'Moon' isn't here..."

Another familiar of Clow Reed, representing the moon, left the Book of Seals a long time ago.

It is currently a snow rabbit that has transformed into a human.

After the Book of Clow Seals was materialized, Light naturally did not follow.

"Will the absence of the moon have a significant impact?" Kazama frowned upon hearing about Cerberus.

"It's not that the impact is huge."

Cerberus explained:

“I and the moon represent the nature of ‘yang’ and ‘yin’ respectively in the dualistic mystery.”

“‘Yang’ represents stability and the foundation of matter, so if you want to study alchemy, I can give you a lot of help.”

“And ‘yin’ represents spirit, ritual, and mystery, such as divination, which often leans towards yin energy.”

"Without the moon, the Clow Cards will offer less blessing in matters of divination."

"Of course, the most important thing in divination is to look at the person themselves."

Kazama asked, "What do you mean?"

"Just like learning magic, divination also depends on aptitude."

"And in some ways, it places even more emphasis on talent than learning magic."

"Here, 'talent' doesn't refer to whether one possesses magic, but rather to 'inspiration'."

"It's somewhat similar to what you call a sixth sense."

"Those news reports, you know, about people going on vacation, getting on a bus, suddenly having a bad feeling, so they didn't get on. As a result, the bus was involved in a serious accident on the road, and almost everyone on board died. The person who didn't get on the bus was 'lucky' to survive."

"Although many people believe it is just a coincidence, the ability to be sensitive to unknown dangers is not without merit."

"According to what Kuroride said about divination, people who are born with strong inspiration are more likely to capture something mysterious than ordinary people."

"I see..." Kazama said, feeling a bit of a headache.

For him, something systematic is best. This kind of non-systematic, particularly idealistic so-called 'feeling' makes him somewhat uncertain.

"So, how do we test whether I have this so-called inspiration?" Kazama asked again.

"You may have a misunderstanding about inspiration..."

Kerberos said, "All things have a spirit, and everyone possesses inspiration, only to varying degrees."

"When it comes to divination, the quality of inspiration only affects accuracy and clarity."

"Of course, since divination and prophecy have been separated into a fixed discipline in mysticism, it means that divination also has systematic auxiliary means."

"Western divination systems, such as astrology, utilize the power of yin to enhance inspiration by observing the movements of celestial bodies. There are also methods that use special tools made of crystal for observation."

"There are even more in the East, using tortoise shells to divine the stars, and the most skilled even have the ability to 'observe the qi,' able to foresee future changes at a glance."

"What impressed me most was the practice of water divination, where one can perform divination using only a basin of water."

"Then there's the divination aid for Clow Reed... It's quite simple; these fifty-two Clow Cards are the ready-made aids."

“Each Clow Card contains an extremely rich spirituality, and using it as a medium can greatly improve the accuracy of divination.”

"and...."

Cerberus suddenly said mysteriously.

"Among these Clow Cards, there is one extremely special card whose power can greatly enhance inspiration."

Upon hearing Cerberus's words, Kazama began to ponder.

Talismans related to divination and spirituality...

Immediately, Kazama raised his head:

"It's the Dream Card, isn't it?"