Magical User Aozaki Aoko Case Files

"I didn't want to go this far, Orange." Aoko said to herself in a tone that sounded like a lament, "But you knew that I hated dogs since I was a child, and you still went to find that kind of thing to deal with me and Yuzu. This is really tasteless."

"So I threw it into a prison with nothing in it," Qingzi said happily, "Let that lowly wild dog enjoy the torture of nothingness for the rest of his life - I will never let it out."

"As for you, my sister." Aoko admired Orange, who was lying on the ground in a mess, with a rather frivolous look.

"Are you going to kill... me?" Orange said intermittently, "What a failed life... In the end... I still lost to you..."

She tried painfully to sit up but failed, so she had to find a more comfortable position and continue lying down.

"Can you let me ask you a question?" Orange asked, "Just consider it as our last request as sisters."

"Just ask," Qingzi said generously, "I have always been a generous person."

"Aoko... your magic, is it a means or an end? Which one is it?" Orange asked his question with great effort, waiting for Aoko's answer expectantly.

"Of course it's the result," Du Qingzi answered simply, "I entered the place that the old man didn't enter, and almost even my personality and self were dissolved. The engravings you see now are the spoils I brought back from there."

"Oh, by the way," Qingzi added in a 'free gift' tone, "I also encountered a white dog on the shortcut. I was almost killed by it. Maybe this is why I hate dogs more than before?"

"...The fifth and the first share the same longitude and latitude, and their sins are getting worse... I heard that the second and fourth are both means to reach that place... Like will repel like, and I'm afraid that one day, you and the first (Yuju) will devour each other, right? And... the inheritance of magic is the inheritance of the road, so the entrance to the spring is really here, right?"

"You're being too picky, Orange," Aoko looked up at the starry sky and continued, "The so-called fifth magic is essentially about destruction/consumption, while the first represents creation and veto. So no matter how you look at it, we are inseparable and a good team, right? How can we be hostile to each other?"

"For you who are obsessed with Nordic culture, it is a fountain of wisdom. But for me, it is just a gold mine waiting to be seized. It is a boring place, Orange."

"It was a path that would disappear as soon as it was completed," Aoko said. "After I succeeded, it disappeared along with my grandfather."

"...Really?" Orange said in a gradually weakening voice, "It's really puzzling..."

After saying that, Orange stopped talking and her breathing became weaker and weaker.

Because of the huge amount of light and heat that had been exposed to before, not only was the skin burned over a very large area, but even the breathing passages had become somewhat shrunk.

It's rather remarkable that Orange can still maintain consciousness. Her powerful magic circuit is draining Orange's last bit of vitality, barely converting it into magic power to keep her alive, but this won't last long.

"Don't think I'll let you die like this, Chengzi," Qingzi squatted down and said to Chengzi in a tone of success, "You still owe me such a debt, you must accept the punishment."

What the hell is this little girl talking about?

Orange, who was no longer able to speak, struggled to maintain her gradually blurring consciousness, and used all her strength to look at Aoko with contempt.

Then Qingzi reached behind her back and pulled out an elegantly decorated narrow-necked glass bottle, then shook it close in front of Chengzi's eyes, allowing her to see the slightly glowing blue liquid in the bottle.

Then Orange watched helplessly as Qingzi unscrewed the cork of the bottle with a "pop" sound, and then poured the liquid in the bottle into her mouth without any reason.

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Chapter 44 Sisterhood

The main reason why Aozaki Aoko can use such an outrageous magic that she named Burning Type: Ao is that she used the fifth magic to temporarily integrate Aozaki Aoko in all timelines into her main body.

This is different from Zelrich's second magic. Aoko's method is actually closer to Goetia. In other words, she "burned" a small part of the life of the universe to force the parallel world lines that were originally unrelated to each other to be squeezed together with "Aoko Alter" as the center.

Therefore, Aoko does not need to worry about her, an outlier, being influenced by other Aoko in the parallel world in terms of personality, because what she is doing is actually just treating herself in the parallel world as a temporary "ammunition pack". Can a person be possessed by bullets?

The light cannon burned through a small mountain as soon as it was fired. Qingzi was so happy that he felt like he was on heaven's earth. No wonder so many people in this world like to use light cannons.

Having said that, Qingzi still thinks that this fifth magic should not be used too frequently.

After all, every time she really used the fifth magic on a large scale, some weird guys would jump out and fight her to the death with the excuse of maintaining world justice, which really gave her a headache.

In comparison, although the power she obtained from the magic network fragment system is currently far less than that of a magician, the good thing about it is that it is a system that can be accumulated over time and has no side effects.

As long as her caster level is high enough, combined with regular magic, I believe most enemies can be dealt with easily.

When Aoko was dealing with Orange, although she won easily, in fact, Aoko was very careful in controlling her output after using the fifth magic.

After all, she didn't really want to kill Orange, and when she used the light cannon at the end, it just looked scary and made Orange suffer a little. She carefully avoided Orange's position with the big head of the light cannon.

In the original time and space, Aozaki Touko was very twisted. It could be said that she was taught by Lao Deng to be a guy with almost no morals and no family affection. She would go crazy from time to time, which was very scary.

But after the efforts in this time and space, although Orange's current state cannot be said to be that of a normal person, she is definitely much cuter than the bloodless and tearless "Red of Pain" in the original time and space. As a sister, she can still be used.

However, Qingzi is still not satisfied with her "education results", so this time she decided to use some special means...

---Dividing line---

Pushing open a door in a building near the battle site, Aoko instantly returned to the living room of the Kuonji residence through the barrier effect of the Nap Mirror.

She threw the thing on her shoulders that was tied up like a dumpling onto the sofa, and then collapsed on the side like a social animal who had worked all day, looking like a useless person.

"Won?" Your roommate, Youzhu, came down the stairs at this time and asked immediately after seeing Qingzi coming back.

"Just an orange, simple!" Qingzi boasted while making a "V" gesture.

"What is this?" Youzhu looked at the 'zongzi' on the sofa and couldn't help asking.

"This is an orange." Qingzi's answer was brief and to the point. She opened one end of the rice dumpling, revealing a cute little face of someone inside, but unfortunately the person was still unconscious.

"...How did she become like this?" Youzhu also walked over curiously and pinched Orange's delicate cheek.

"I gave her a mysterious drink that was only available for members!" Qingzi said proudly. She looked extremely happy that this idea had come true.

Aoko's noise finally woke up Orange, who was only temporarily unconscious. She let out a particularly cute "嘤" moan and gradually woke up.

The little Orange first opened her eyes with great effort, and then found that Qingzi and Youzhu were staring at her with a gloating look, which immediately frightened Orange and made her perk up!

She struggled to jump up, but found herself wrapped tightly in some kind of cloth, with the rope hanging from her like a snake.

"Aoko!" Orange questioned Aoko in a slightly shrill, childish voice, "What's going on?!"

"Ahaha," Qingzi looked at Chengzi teasingly and said, "Of course we have to do something interesting."

"But first, Chengzi, you have to change the way you address me," Qingzi said with a malicious smile, "From today on, you have to call me Sister Qingzi."

"Huh?" Chengzi looked at Qingzi with a look of 'Why did your little sister suddenly go crazy?', very puzzled.

Qingzi didn't explain much to her, but just snapped her fingers, and the activation rope tied to Orange's body untied itself, then coiled into a circle and stayed aside.

Seeing this, Orange struggled to free herself from the cloth that was wrapped around her.

As a result, when I came out, I saw that I was naked without any clothes...

Orange's cheeks suddenly turned red, and she immediately clasped her hands to her chest, looking at Qingzi in front of her with anger and embarrassment.

However, Chengzi was surprised to find that neither Qingzi nor Youzhu had the reaction of "seeing someone of the same age naked". Instead...

Orange immediately let go of his hands and looked down at his chest.

...The result is a flat road with nothing.

Originally, although Orange's figure was not as good as Aoko's, she was definitely not "small". But now she found that she had become flat again...

It's not just the tablet. She found that when she stood on the carpet, she still had to look up at Qingzi and Youzhu, which was terrible.

Orange raised his arms, looked at his pink little hands and his tender, short limbs, and immediately understood what was happening to him.

She, Aozaki Orange, has regained her youth.

"What on earth did you give me to drink?!" Little Orange picked up the cloth again and wrapped himself up. Regardless of whether he was a child now or not, it was not good to run naked.

"This is your punishment, Orange," Qingzi said to Orange as he took out the suspicious glass bottle. Only half of the liquid in the glass bottle was left. "This is the old man's treasure. How about it? Do you like it?"

Chengzi searched hard in his knowledge, thinking about what strange thing he was fed. Finally, his face turned black and he came to the conclusion that this might be the elixir of rejuvenation in Mesopotamian mythology! How come that old Deng has such a thing? !

"Why are you doing this?" Orange said with a serious expression on her delicate face, but she actually already had the answer in her heart.

Aoko and Youzhu beside her were amused by this scene. Who would have thought that Orange could become so cute now?

"Because I think you've grown up crooked, Orange, and it's all because I didn't educate you well," Qingzi said with a hypocritical self-blaming expression, shaking her head and sighing, "So I decided to become your older sister and educate you again, so that you can become a better person!"

This sister relationship is so twisted.

Jiuyuansi Youzhu, who was sitting nearby, calmly drank her tea and thought to herself that it was none of her business.

Chapter 45: Consciousness and Body

Orange's physical age after rejuvenation was determined by Yuju's magic to be approximately eight years old.

Although Orange's experience and knowledge remain at the level of an adult magician, her body has shrunk into that of a child, so both her hormone secretion and the information obtained through her nerve senses have become very different.

Aoko still remembers the character of the naughty kid who tried to play tricks on her with magic when they were little.

However, because an adult's consciousness was stuffed into a child's body, if you compare the orange now with the orange back then, they are different.

Human individuals in the Type-Moon Universe have souls, but the human soul is definitely not the only factor that determines a person's consciousness and personality.

An interesting example is the existence of servants in this world. During the Holy Grail War, the servants summoned by the masters were not the real Heroic Spirits in the Realm Records, but a certain aspect of the real Heroic Spirits.

The different sides of the same Servant may be him at different ages in different periods, and his personality will naturally be very different. So is the reason for these different personalities really just the difference in life experiences?

Qingzi thinks that of course not, because according to the discussion in a paper she read in her previous life (Self-consciousness and Cardiac Activity, Babo-Rebelo, M., Richter, CG, & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2016)), the decisions made by human consciousness are closely related to the activity state of the heart.

The activity state of just one heart can lead to subtle differences in a person's consciousness, personality and decision-making. If the age of the entire body changes, is it possible to maintain the original personality?

The answer is of course no. Just look at the orange in front of you and you will understand.

Aoko thought that Orange would never hide away and not talk to them because Yuju changed her into a dress that she wore when she was a child in England. (Of course, this may be because Aoko got a camera from somewhere and took a lot of photos of Orange in the lace dress, but that's not the point.)

Orange's magic circuits and magical skills are still there, but because his current body is too young, he is unable to exert the combat power of his original adult version.

Aoko also forced Orange to sign a self-enforced certificate, which stipulated that Orange was now not allowed to activate the adult clone that had been made long ago, commit suicide, or harm Youzhu and Aoko in any form or by entrusting any entity to do so.

Of course, Aoko isn't so bad that Orange can't create and transfer his consciousness into a replica body of the same age, which maintains Orange's current certain pseudo-immortality, equivalent to a monkey version of the egg man.

---Dividing line---

Since it was already very late after Qingzi beat Chengzi up, after tying Chengzi back and explaining the situation, it was now almost two o'clock in the morning.

Now an eight-year-old child, Orange was totally unable to resist the surging sleepiness. After arguing with Aoko and the others for a while, he could no longer hold on and fell onto the sofa with a plop, and fell into a deep sleep.

"The kid sleeps so well!" Qingzi exclaimed with a smile. Youzhu couldn't help laughing when watching this guy being funny.

"You can... put Orange in the innermost room on the second floor," Youzhu said after a moment's hesitation, "It's a good place for her now."

"?" Qingzi was a little confused, "Is there anything special about that room?"

"That was the room I lived in when I was a child," Youzhu said, "but it's a little small for me now, but it's just right for Orange."

After saying this, Youzhu glanced at the young orange meaningfully.