Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"There's no point in waiting here and guessing blindly. It's better to return to the real world first."

As he spoke, Amamiya Ren took out his cell phone and waved it to his companions:

"I remember that Yuuji Sakai seemed to have his own temple. If something unexpected happened to him, we can use this to confirm it."

"Oh! You're amazing, Joker. You're worthy of being our leader."

Seeing that his companions understood his idea, Amamiya Ren took the lead in walking out of Kamoshida's hall, followed by a man and a cat.

In the alley at the gate of Shujin Private Academy, Amamiya Ren returned to the real world. She looked around and saw that there was no one else around. It was already time for all the club members to go home from school. She couldn't help but look at Ryuji who came out with her, then took out her cell phone and prepared to enter keywords.

But at this moment, both of their cell phones vibrated, and then Amamiya Ren saw a message from the mysterious man who had not appeared for a long time.

"Hurry to Shibuya subway station! Now! Immediately! Come and rescue them!"

Chapter 244: Becoming a Witch Still Can't Escape the Contract

In the dark room, under the fluorescent light projected by the computer, Sakura Futaba watched the Phantom Thieves who had received the signal and were heading towards the subway station. She turned around cautiously and asked:

"Is this okay?"

(Nods)

"Is there nothing else you need to convey?"

(Shakes his head)

"So...what's your situation now?"

Futaba looked behind her with a hint of caution.

In the open space between the bed and the computer, the shadow projection of Futaba was standing there, holding a sign.

The content on the sign was the message that Futaba sent to the Phantom Thieves as soon as she captured their signal.

But compared to this brand, Futaba was more afraid of the state of the shadow at this moment.

Futaba, with her head tilted, looked dull and lifeless, not paying any attention to her. Moreover, compared to the previous projection, she looked more unreal and quieter.

This reminded Futaba of the feeling of being woken up before.

After entering the personal space of the player who suddenly broke in with mysterious powers and being shielded from the call from the shadows, Futaba relaxed and fell into the same old sleep.

In such a deep sleep, even the call of the shadow cannot wake Futaba.

In other words, just to get more sleep, Futaba chose to fall into a deeper sleep.

But unlike the previous time when she was woken up by hunger, Futaba knew that the paper company was coming, so she replenished herself with nutrition in advance and waited for more rest, preferably until Amamiya Ren and the others had the strength to solve her problem.

But he never expected that he would be awakened by Shadow Futaba after sleeping for less than a day.

It wasn't the kind of chatter that opened up the wound, but a cold, panicky feeling that suddenly spread throughout the body, making the whole person feel refreshed and even less inclined to think.

The conscious brain that was originally used for dreaming was forced to stop unnecessary work, and only one thought emerged from the mind.

"Why am I still alive?"

Under the influence of this fear that did not belong to her, Futaba couldn't help but shudder and sit up from the bed.

Then he saw his own shadow, which was obviously not in a good state.

It's not like Futaba hasn't seen her own shadow, even though she just bought the other world navigation app on the 16th and she was in deep sleep until the night of the 18th.

But another influence from that player started from the 9th.

Although it had been brewing for a few days and she had slept for a few days in between, Futaba was still affected by the almost non-stop words. When she retorted a little irritably, she saw the shadow of her Egyptian appearance and the shadow of her mother who suddenly appeared.

Then Futaba didn't dare to be angry anymore, but lowered her head and urged the paper shop to do things as soon as possible.

Although she had seen it only a few times, the fact that she suddenly appeared in a house where only one person was staying was enough to leave a deep impression on Futaba.

However, the shadow that woke up Futaba did not make her feel scared. Instead, she was a little worried about the other party's safety.

But Shadow Futaba had no intention of engaging in conversation, and instead pointed at the sign she had materialized.

Futaba frowned and used the computer to translate the handwritten message, and finally got the message to send to the Phantom Thieves for help.

My thoughts return to the present.

Futaba felt a little embarrassed and awkward looking at Shadow Futaba, who had nothing to say and didn't seem to want to answer the questions.

After all, the shadow now looks like it is controlled by something.

As for the things that can control the shadows, after Futaba excluded the app brought by Amamiya Ren that can only be used for navigation, the only thing left is the ability improvement on the player's side.

In just a few days, he went from being unable to control or eliminate a crisis that could only be temporarily blocked, to being able to control power from a distance, and even command the controlled people to use their power to project it into reality.

Futaba could only pray that the games in her world were not overly free VR games, but adventure games with free text and action, but where interaction could only be achieved through options.

otherwise...

Futaba looked at the shadow that looked exactly like herself, and dismissed the idea of ​​leading the other party to the harem line if it appeared. She turned her head back to look at the computer, while confirming the progress of the Phantom Thieves, she searched the Internet for things that could interest game players.

The shadow standing behind Futaba and looking at her, or the familiar in Witch's Kiss, was looking at the witch's barrier on the other side of the void, which was the only place the familiar could see clearly.

If it weren't for the fact that he had allocated some of his magic power to Futaba, the familiar might not have been able to see Futaba's actions.

Of course, the familiar didn't understand a single word of Futaba's questions or conversation.

It simply gave the person it was attached to a strong desire to relay this text to themselves, and after that it was Shadow Futaba's instinctive actions.

As for why the scarce magic power of the Witch's Kiss could suddenly transform into a familiar.

Zhi Xing could only express his sincere gratitude to the shadow bear in front of him.

"Hmph, we're just helping each other. After all, if anything happens to you, I'll... I won't be able to control my feelings and hurt others, huh."

Shadow Bear looked at the burning contract in front of him, then glanced at Paper Bear, who was sitting in front of him, and Gao Juanxing, who was leaning against the wall, looking a little at a loss.

"But you've always helped me in the past, so it's rare for us to have a good chat. I also hope to help you more and express my gratitude to you."

The paper company was very self-aware and thanked again:

"I'm sorry to bother you. Thank you."

"It's normal to help toys solve the troubles they encounter."

The little bear turned his head away, then turned back and asked curiously:

"Is that all right? What on earth did you write?"

"I'm not sure about that either. After all, Futaba's real body is in a coma over there. I don't know if I can wake her up, and I don't know if the Phantom Thieves can come over."

Zhixing looked uncertain, not even sure if this method would work, but it was the only way he could think of to ask for help.

There are other alternative methods, but they are more random than this method, so the paper industry is just trying it out.

"Hey, how long will it take to finish? I'm feeling a little under the weather."

Gao Juanxing stood at a distance and still mustered up the courage to ask.

"My solution has been completed, and I can only hope that they will receive it."

"I'm sorry, I didn't think it through."

"If I had known that I could move around in the temple, I would have returned directly to the real world and entered the barrier."

Zhixing scratched his head and could only blame himself for not thinking enough for the accident he had just encountered.

Although the final result was as Zhixing expected, he recovered from the state of the familiar, which scared the shadow bear who was hugging him.

But this time the recovery obviously took a long time.

When I came out of the hall and found Gao Juan Xing, Gao Juan Xing had already encountered several waves of wandering familiars.

But fortunately, with the help of Zhixing's blood, nothing unexpected happened.

But just when Kazuyuki found Takamaki An and sent the witch's barrier back into the Witch's Kiss, the two of them arrived not at the gate of Shujin Academy, nor inside the hall of Kamoshida.

But...a place called Impression Space.

If the palace is a distorted space created by a person's strong desires.

Then the impression space is the space formed by the desires of all living people.

The masters of those halls also began to distort the space from the impression space, and gradually developed independently, forming a hall like a small world.

Zhixing just glanced at the surrounding road with railroad tracks and realized that he had escaped from the hall.

This is actually nothing, after all, there is also Takamaki An with Kazuyuki, and Takamaki An has already awakened her personality mask, so there should be no problem for her to escape from the impression space.

But...may I ask where the road lies?

Zhixing originally thought so, so after confirming that Takamaki An had transformed into a phantom thief, he wanted to wait to be taken away.

And An Takamaki also proved that she could single-handedly defeat an ordinary passing shadow.

But it is not free of cost, and these shadows are not as dull as in the game, waiting to trigger a battle.

So after just a few battles, Zhixing had to take Gao Juanxing and escape back into the witch's barrier.

After correcting his condition, Zhixing decided to sneak out.

By relying on the method of spatial movement in which he would return to the impression space from time to time to check his location and the road, Zhi Xing was completely lost.

The impression space is much larger than the maps in the game.

It even gave the paper industry the illusion that an underground war had been waged here.

But Zhixing thought about it carefully and felt that this situation was most likely due to the random map setting, which was transformed into the current open world copy after the world was made real, which led to Zhixing and the other person who had no map being unable to find the corresponding escape route.

The paper industry also wants to keep moving forward. After all, no matter how big it is, as long as it finds the center point, it will be fine.

But Zhixing could still move, but Gao Juanxing could not bear such great physical exertion.

Although she became physically stronger when she transformed into a Phantom Thief, the continuous battles still consumed a lot of her physical strength.

Although the physical strength is not completely exhausted, no one will wait until the physical strength is exhausted before starting to feel tired when running.

After conducting tests, Zhixing discovered that if Gao Juanxing was left in the barrier, he would need to go to the edge of the barrier to get out, and the position of the edge was uncertain, so the direction of advance would be even more disordered.

If you shout back, Gao Juan An will also be brought back to the memory space.

There was no other way. After all, it was Zhixing's request that Gao Juanxing, who was unable to have dinner, had to suffer with him. Zhixing had no choice but to stop exploring and start considering other ways to escape.

What's more, after giving up independent action, Zhixing quickly thought of the cat car that does not consume physical energy, that is, mona.

If I want to contact Mona, I can neither rely on a mobile phone with no signal nor find her through the other world navigation app.

Zhixing has also tried to exit the other world directly through the app.

But unfortunately, in the other world, this app only has a map function for recording locations, besides the option to exit.

However, the impression space is different from the palace. Zhi Xing was not able to exit from the impression space, but was told that he needed to return to the first floor before he could exit.

Zhixing once suspected that this was the hidden boss in the Velvet Room who had done something to him, so he wanted to borrow Gao Juanxing's cell phone to try.

But compared to its own functions, the app functions in Gao Juanxing’s mobile phone are even scarcer.

The only function left was to navigate to the distorted space to confirm the target. Not only could it not enter the temple, it also lacked the ability to record the location and perform space teleportation.

Zhixing then realized that his inability to exit the impression space might not be due to any manipulation, but simply due to insufficient authority.

The Velvet Room is located in the deepest part of this impression space, and Amamiya Ren can be called upon by the hidden boss at any time and can exit at any time.

These permissions are all due to the relationship between the hidden boss and this space.

And Amamiya Ren is the person chosen by Igel to fight the hidden boss, so the power given to him is the greatest.

The hidden boss also gave the same power to Goro Akechi.

As for Zhixing, he was an outsider who broke in suddenly, leaving the hidden boss no time to prepare.

How could the power gained in this way possibly be comparable to that of Akechi Goro of Amamiya Ren?

Therefore, Zhixing had to settle for the next best thing and thought of Mishima, which could form a distorted space. After finding that he could not find it, he realized the disadvantages of being a cloud player.

Zhixing was completely unfamiliar with the names that appeared in the side plots.

After his request was gradually reduced due to the current situation, Zhixing thought of the familiar that could distort the space and tried to input it, but because Futaba was the master of the hall, the navigation could not bring the two into the hall.

After all the roads were blocked, Zhixing had no choice but to enter the witch's barrier to rest. After Gao Juanxing recovered her strength, she could perform a teleportation called space jump, which she actually had to do by walking.

Just when the two were alone in the barrier and An Takamaki couldn't help but want to eat something, Zhixing denied the witch's room and thought of the only hall that could be entered here. After realizing the witch's hall, Zhixing also recalled the cognitive knowledge he learned from Shadow Futaba.

"Rely on the shadows of leaving the temple to reach other temples?"

This kind of relationship of being released but still connected makes Zhixing once again feel that the power systems of the two worlds are very similar, and also provides an idea of ​​communicating with the witch's kiss in the distance through the little bear.