Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

Zhi Xing pointed at himself and asked doubtfully:

"Me? Are you serious? How come I didn't know I had this ability?"

"Haven't you already gained the same power as Amamiya Ren? Even if it's mixed with other things, it's essentially the power of the cognitive world."

[Whether it's a contract or the ability to enhance cognition, it can all be realized in this world.]

"How? Let me make it clear in advance that I don't have a personality mask yet, so I'm not a true Phantom Thief."

Zhixing never expected that the knowledge of cognitive science that he originally wanted to obtain from Futaba herself was actually mastered by Shadow.

Although the bank has obtained the app, it has no idea how to use it.

One reason is that the plot of this world was completed by Zhi Xingyun after all. Except for the contract of changing one's heart and rebirth and the main and side storylines, the entire battle process has been deleted.

What's more, Zhixing has not awakened his personality mask, so even if he knew anything, he has no room to maneuver.

But it sounds like there could be other powers even in this situation?

"Huh, you clearly possess similar powers, but do you think the power of knowing the world is just a program on your phone?"

"You're wrong. The so-called program is merely a manifestation of your own power. Even if you haven't awakened any personality masks, the fact that you possess power will not change."

“Doesn’t power come from apps?”

Zhixing touched the mobile phone hidden in his trouser pocket and thought of the app that still existed even though Amamiya Ren had deleted it many times.

[Of course, I'm a hacker. If there really were any apps with superpowers on your phones, I would have discovered it long ago.]

[But in reality, the app you're talking about is just a projection in the void. I'm afraid it only exists before your eyes.]

"If I can't see it with your own eyes, doesn't that mean I've entered a deeper realm of impression?"

If it were just Amamiya Ren and the other three, I might think so, but you can't easily sink deeper into the memory space. If such a force could really reach you, you would probably have escaped from this cell by now.

"The loser eats dust?"

Zhixing nodded thoughtfully. Considering that the owner of the power is a human, the idea that the activation medium is a mobile phone is untenable.

Because it is a person who has the power, deleting the phone will not work. Because it is a person, even if you don't click on it, you can use this power directly by voice.

Because the person who possesses the power is a human, he is locked up in a cell. Although Amamiya Ren seems to have lost her superpowers and turned back into an ordinary person, she can still see the butterfly.

Obviously, before this, the Velvet Room and the app appeared at the same time.

"Huh? Yeah, I should have thought of that earlier. The appearance of the Velvet Room has nothing to do with the app at all. It's just a superpower in this incident."

"You don't need an app to access the Velvet Room, and similarly, the power emanating from the Velvet Room has never been limited to mobile phones."

"No wonder that young lady gained the power of the Phantom Thief even though she didn't get the app."

Zhixing seemed to have realized something, and for a moment his mind was filled with thousands of thoughts, which eventually turned into a sentence.

"The so-called app is just a convenient channel. The real power of this world is actually the cognitive world itself!"

"Humph, it seems you're not that stupid. I thought you'd get carried away by gaining power."

"That's right. Since you've come to this world, theoretically you have the potential to become a master or a phantom thief like them. All you lack is the desire to gain power."

[But even if you lack desire yourself, you can still make contracts for yourself or for others.]

[A contract is a transaction between desires. As long as you and I reach a deal, then... huh? What's wrong with you?]

"Haha, am I wrong again, hahahaha."

Zhixing laughed out loud and squeezed out a few tears. At the same time, his hands holding the railing became weak, and his legs seemed to have lost the strength to stand. He slowly slid down from the railing.

"What I want is not this kind of power that requires the support of the entire world!"

"The power gained from the cognitive world will eventually be lost when the cognitive world dissipates."

"But the world I can reach has never been a cognitive world."

"If this power isn't given by the app, then what exactly am I gaining? What am I wasting my time on?"

Zhixing raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the closed cell, as if he saw the ghost countdown in the Three-Body Problem and saw his possible future.

The fact that the body is not being exercised already makes Zhixing feel that his future options are much fewer. After all, the body and strength are inseparable.

Even a Shinigami needs to develop both his Reiatsu and his Zanpakutō together.

But the ability to reset is barely acceptable.

Originally, Zhixing had already prepared himself for the possibility that he would not be able to obtain abilities from other worlds due to the passive nature of reset, so he chose to rely on the power of this app on his mobile phone.

Even when Ren Amamiya proved that he could not gain power in Futaba's room, Zhixing still considered himself to have knowledge-based abilities.

But at this moment.

He had already gained the power he expected, and was not happy about the restoration triggered by bleeding in the barrier.

After Kazuyoshi learned the true source of the Phantom Thief's power from Sakura Futaba, who came from the shadows, had become the master of the hall, had a mother who knew Hexology, and had some research materials.

Zhixing did not think about how to awaken the personality mask through this fact, but instead thought about whether he would still have the power to change his heart if he went to other worlds.

After thinking for a while, Zhixing realized that this was an impossible thing.

This doesn't mean that the cognitive world doesn't exist in other worlds. Zhixing also believes that this app has the potential to take Zhixing to a spatial position of the same depth, just like the Witch's Kiss brings people into the Witch's barrier.

But...could the cognitive world of other worlds be the same as here?

The cognitive world is a world composed of the common cognition and shadows of many people.

If you want the cognitive world to give the Phantom Thief power, then this world needs to be strong enough, strong enough to produce the final boss.

The reason is simple.

The Velvet Room was created to reconcile the excessive spiritual world and select people to suppress the impending disaster.

But by simply eliminating the source of oppression, the chosen ones will lose their power.

Is this recycled?

No, it’s just because their cognitive power after being diluted can no longer give them this superpower.

Just as enough people have imagined that Mona, as a cat, can turn into a cat bus, but not so many people have imagined that Mona cannot turn into an airplane even if she wants to.

The power bestowed upon one is naturally also limited to a certain upper limit.

The cognitive world may still exist, but it will no longer be in the form of a palace in the p5 world.

And if there is a cognitive world in other worlds, and it has enough power to allow Paper Line to become a phantom thief.

Without the intervention of entities like the Velvet Room, the real world would have been affected long ago.

Once it can influence reality, the whole story will be biased towards the power of the mind and will not have any other manifestation of power.

If the world I'm heading to has supernatural powers, then the cognitive world of that world must not have accumulated enough to interfere with reality.

If the world I was heading to didn't have supernatural powers, then the cognitive world of that world would probably be so calm that no phantom thieves could exist.

Even where the cognitive world clearly exists, I need to gain strength from the beginning and gradually strengthen my power.

But what world would allow one to develop for a year? And after a year of development, because of the world switching, one would have to start all over again.

How can the temporary growing power keep up with the fast-paced world plot?

If you seek stability and go to a safe world, your cognitive limit is limited, while if you go to a dangerous world, your cognition may include the existence of false gods.

Can we afford to sacrifice the tight story rhythm at the beginning of each world story for this temporary power?

How much can you grow in just one month?

And more importantly: what if the power of each world depends on the particularity of the current world, and no longer exists in other worlds or requires starting from scratch?

When the world is different, the sources of formative power will also change.

The people in the magic circle are constantly being blessed with wishes, and the witch's kiss that constantly points out the magic penetration.

Conan's shrunken body and the world with abnormal time distortion in Conan.

The seemingly reasonable training in Kenichiri actually increased his power far beyond the realistic exaggerated body and the corresponding ordinary diet.

The personality masks and cognitive world of the Phantom Thieves in p5.

"DND's daily spellcasting based on the magic network; the Sisters' Plan, which relies on the ability to cast spells in a certain position in Magical Index; the Shinigami, who can only transform after the three realms are formed by spirit particles; the Hokage, whose chakra is generated by the life under the fruit of the sacred tree; and the physical strength beyond normal range inherited from generation to generation by eating the flesh of sea kings."

"Can I truly gain the power of other worlds? Can I truly not be suppressed by the unchangeable nature of fate?"

In the infinite world, there will probably always be power that Paper Line can adapt to and use, but this thought cannot stop Paper Line, who has begun to feel that the future is bleak, from falling into despair.

"With such a strong desire, is it really too much to ask you to restrain yourself from using your power? Guard! Stop him now! Don't let him wake up Mom!"

The coffin that was originally summoned by Futaba immediately opened the loose coffin lid and wanted to attack Zhixing.

But Zhixing disappeared from everyone's sight first, leaving only an empty cell standing there.

[It is indeed a power different from the palace. Did he take the elevator of that power and leave? ]

[When we first arrived, we were barely able to retrieve it because it was deeper here, but now we can even break into the core area in a short period of time.]

The expected resistance did not appear, which made Shadow Futaba breathe a sigh of relief, but the approach of the witch's barrier just now still made Futaba feel a strong resistance.

That is the strong and desperate desire that the other person carries.

[Futaba! If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have given birth to you! ]

A huge roar spread from outside the pyramid to the core room of the temple.

This made Futaba cover her ears with her hands while trembling.

"Hmm~! If I had known it was so dangerous, I wouldn't have let my desire go to Mom."

The accusations were already difficult to endure, and after he wanted to use his mother's hands to destroy that part of the flesh, but ended up being infected, even the core of the hall could no longer block out the voice of the shadow mother.

"If this happens, my desires will also be affected. I must find a way to get rid of them outside the temple."

Shadow Futaba lay down on her coffin bed, and then her whole body disappeared into the hall.

Zhi Xing, who had already left the cell of Futaba Palace, was still immersed in the thought that the road ahead was blocked and there was no way to go, and did not notice the changes in the outside environment.

But not finding anything doesn’t mean there is no change.

Seeing that Zhixing was still standing there motionless, a girl in school uniform came over and shook Zhixing's body violently.

The constant slowing down of his vision finally made him feel dizzy on a physiological level, which in turn made his thinking become stuck.

Zhixing immediately frowned and came to his senses, and immediately grasped the point of force that was causing him to shake.

"Are you finally awake?"

"We're already in my room, so don't bring that feeling of despair with you. It's really annoying!"

Zhi Xing looked at the strange girl in front of him with a confused look on his face. Then he looked at the walls of the formal room around him. He felt as if his memory was fragmented. He asked the girl in front of him in confusion:

"Where am I? What happened?"

The girl loosened her grip and stood up straight, looking at Zhi Xing from a higher perspective than the one sitting on the ground and said:

"I saw that girl named Futaba wanted to attack you, and your body was about to be eroded by despair, so I pulled you in. Don't think too much."

"Pull me in... Hmm? Are you..."

When Zhixing heard Futaba's name, he realized that his memory was not fragmented, so after thinking about it for a while, he came up with a possibility, but Zhixing felt that this possibility should be small, after all, he was a male.

"Yes, it's me."

The girl puffed out her chest and introduced herself seriously:

"I am the Witch of Repair who resides within you. You can call me...Paper Walker."

"????"

Chapter 238: A Witch's Autobiography

"Why, do you have any objections?"

"Um, can I confirm this first? You are Shadow, right?"

"Well, that's what this world calls it."

"So are you my shadow or the demon...bear's?"

The girl's eyes widened, and she looked at the question in disbelief:

"Seriously? What makes you think I'm yours?"

Zhi Xing awkwardly gestured with his hands and said in defense: