Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

“I didn’t expect that…”

"It actually kept flying and then suddenly disappeared, didn't it?"

Zhixing listened to the murderer's confession and immediately thought of the upward baseball, which escaped from the range of the witch's barrier and returned to reality through the barrier.

Even though in the movie, even the bullets shot into the sky did not touch the edge of the barrier.

But the witch in the movie is competing against Witch Night, and the barrier may even be larger than Witch Night.

So the city sky, which was originally beyond the reach of bullets, became the ceiling of a large factory.

What's more, some witch barriers have underground structures.

What this factory faces is an unhindered weapon that can be thrown by a pitcher over the distance of a baseball field, despite the rebound resistance after being hit, and still hit a home run.

This situation was indeed beyond the expectations of the paper bank.

Although Zhixing had thought about creating a three-dimensional mobile device to facilitate his movement through the witch's barrier, that was just to take advantage of the tall enough walls that appeared from time to time.

I really hadn't considered the possibility of escaping from the witch's barrier.

After all, even a magical girl needs to cross a long railway track to successfully escape from the witch's barrier.

Because the props needed to leave from the shortest height do not exist, there is even a squad leader witch who is clearly visible in the barrier and is completely built on the vast sky.

Zhixing had never thought about such a situation. He was convinced that as long as he didn't let the person go, the possibility of the other party leaving was much smaller than the possibility of encountering a familiar. Therefore, he wanted to bring the other party back to reality before the other party moved.

"Puff, puff, puff. It seems you have a great talent for carrying people away. Judging from the time it took for the fruit to appear, excluding the preparations for throwing it, it must have been over a hundred meters away."

"Does a world like that really exist? Is it really a world that humans can possess?"

"I want to go and see it, but if you don't break the school rules, it doesn't seem right for me to attack you."

"So, it should be decided now. Are you going to use your privileges here or not?"

"Let me be frank. If you plan to call anyone else now, I will record the facts of the crime."

"If Maizono-san dies as a result of this incident, then if no one else wants to graduate, then the culprit will be our [Baseball Player] Kuwata-san!"

"If you wait until then, you'll become a bad guy to Kuwata-san~"

"Huh? You ask me why I'm a bad guy? Ah~ This is for minors, so I shouldn't say anything uncivilized~"

Zhixing ignored Monokuma's attempts to interrupt him, and also ignored Kuwata-san's expression of disbelief at suddenly becoming a potential murderer, who had just wanted to use Zhixing's passive skill to escape.

At this moment, Zhi Xing had only one doubt lingering in his heart, constantly echoing.

"At that time, was it because I was entering the witch's barrier that the weapon left the barrier, or was it because I could have left the barrier once I reached that height?"

No, that’s not the point. The point is, did my choice lead to the accident tonight?

If I hadn't appeared, Sayaka Maizono wouldn't have suffered such a painful, slow death.

That kind of thing was going to happen anyway. If I hadn't come, then Maizono, who didn't know about the class refereeing, would definitely not hesitate, right?

If I hadn't chosen to come here, then there wouldn't have been an opportunity to choose between fate and killing someone.

Letting what is destined to happen happen through my own hands is not the way I want to understand fate.

[Why do we know that fate cannot be changed, but still try to prove this rule again and again? ]

That must be... a very selfish reason... Do I really want my fate to be changed?

If one day, I possess the power to travel across other worlds, then time travel will be the most convenient way to understand time and space.

And fate, can I also extract it from my own experience, the unusual flaws that appear when fate is twisted and forced back to the right path.

[Yes, fate doesn't matter at all. In the original story, these people were all going to die, it was just a matter of time.]

Based on my experience, it's just a matter of speeding up or slowing down the time it happens. The other party is likely to have internal injuries. Although even heavy bleeding can save the patient, if he wants to truly escape danger, he must receive external treatment.

Even if we call everyone else over, Maizono-san, who still has to stay here for a while, will eventually be weakened by her injuries and even become a reason to leave.

The fewer variables that can appear, the better. Only in this way can I see the flaws of fate and do what Kamiya Deru said.

Zhixing's eyebrows twitched abruptly, like his left eye twitching, causing his thoughts to pause for a moment. Then, as if coming to his senses, he spoke:

"Sure enough, when in despair, the mind works at high speed, coming up with one alibi after another in a short period of time. That's Conan."

"Hmm? Could it be that Kyubey-kun's brain has gone haywire due to too much stress?"

"Or do you also feel the beauty of despair and want to join us?"

"Welcome! A super welcome!"

Faced with Monokuma's self-assertion, Zhi Xing did not respond. Instead, as if he had figured something out, he said to Monokuma in a very serious tone:

"I will not use my privilege in this matter."

"I will not waste the privilege of saving a man's life like this."

"Hula! Do you know what you're talking about? It was because of you that the delicate [Idol] Maizono-san was attacked by [Baseball] Kuwata-san!"

"Yes, that's right! If it weren't for you, how could I have come here? It's all your fault! You, Monokuma's accomplice!! If you hadn't been unwilling to let us leave, things wouldn't have turned out like this."

Zhixing looked at the two people who seemed a little anxious, then leaned over and looked at Maizono-san, who had been holding her stomach for a long time, so long that she seemed to have fainted. He moved the beautiful girl's eyelids, and after confirming that her eyes could still look at him normally, he chuckled softly:

"Thanks to the help of Desperate, I came up with a good idea."

"No, I can't say it's a good idea. After all, I'm not sure if it will work, but... it's worth a try."

After manipulating the [idol] Sayaka Maizono, who was too painful to speak but had the physical fitness and willpower to avoid falling into a coma due to years of dance training, into a position where she could see Shizuo herself, Shizuo stood up and took a few steps back.

Under the watchful eyes of Monokuma, Kuwata Reien, and Sayaka Maizono who was a little conscious.

Zhi Xing cast his gaze towards the cameras outside the three people and spoke with exceptional clarity:

"Since Monokuma is curious about my talent, I'll let you see it."

"I named this world...Impression Space."

Chapter 295: Cognitive Existence Manifestation

As Zhixing finished speaking, a flash of red disappeared, but other than that red that was as fast as an illusion, nothing around him changed.

Zhi Xing stared at the surveillance camera and waited quietly for a few seconds, then said to Monokuma and the Baseball Player as if nothing had happened:

"The so-called impression space is a space formed by the impressions of others on people and things."

“Here, I can see the future played out by people made up of other people’s impressions.”

Zhihang clapped his hands as he spoke, and suddenly there was a knock on the door.

The door that was originally opened by the [baseball player] had been closed at some point.

[Baseball Player]'s pupils shrank. Although he knew that Zhi Xing had some kind of superpower that could transfer space, compared to this thing that required a lot of explanation, the most dangerous thing was that he might become the murderer and be discovered by others.

I wanted to go forward and confirm whether the door was locked, but I was afraid that someone outside would open the door and see what was going on in the room.

While he was hesitating between hiding and going up to block the door, a crisp female voice sounded from behind the [baseball player].

"Okay, I'll be there soon~"

[Baseball player] suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

I never expected that there was someone hiding in the room.

But what he didn't expect was that after the voice appeared, a person also appeared in Sangtian's sight and came to the door. Then, as if he had changed his personality, he opened the door timidly.

"What is that...?"

[Baseball Player] stared with wide eyes at the person who opened the door and the person who appeared outside the door after opening it. An inexplicable uncanny valley effect swept over his body.

"Puuuuu, this is so interesting! You'll know when you see it, the one outside the door is you."

“Eh? Yes??”

[Baseball Player] pointed with some disbelief at the man who was talking to the girl in the room. He had dyed red hair, neatly styled hair, earrings, tongue studs, lip studs, and a small mustache on his face. He looked like he had dressed up in advance for punk music.

All of this is very familiar to the [baseball player], but...

"I know, I must be having a nightmare, right? No, it's not a nightmare, it's you, Kyubey, you trapped me here, right!"

Zhixing knew very well why the other party was surprised, because although they had only met a few times, Zhixing had a deep memory of the lifelike face in front of him.

Therefore, the two people who appeared in the room at this time were a two-dimensional version of Rein Kuwata and Sayaka Maizono.

That's right, although Zhixing has not yet obtained a personality mask and does not have the corresponding abilities of the Velvet Room, it only has the ability to enter and exit the cognitive world.

But under Kamizuru Izuru's observation and guidance, Zhixing still mastered a method to utilize the cognitive world.

After all, it is well known that in the impression space, most people have corresponding shadows, and these shadows are all underground because their own desires are not strong enough and cannot appear from the ground.

Therefore, once you enter the impression space, you will enter an empty city.

What Jixing learned from Kamizuru Izuru was to take advantage of the fact that this empty city is in the cognitive world and utilize the rules of the cognitive world.

"Regarding the temple, there are two special existences."

"One person is undoubtedly the master of the temple."

"As a shadowy being, its true form should be different from that of so-called cognitive creatures. It should be a genuine human form."

"However, under the influence of desire, they will acquire the same distorted appearance as cognitive creatures."

Kamuzura Izuru stood on the rooftop, looking at Zhixing, who dared not look down even in the cognitive world. He looked at the huge Hope's Peak Academy not far away and expressed his opinion to Zhixing:

"The second is the person of desire, who exists in the temple as the lowest level of cognitive existence."

"They are different from other contracted cognitive creatures. Not only do they lack the power of their original bodies, they haven't even received the bonus of desire from the temple."

"It can be said that if the shadow wants to reach the level of the temple, it needs to infect others with its desires, thereby gaining a piece of territory in the cognitive world."

"But the infection of desire does not mean bringing the other person's shadow into your own palace. Otherwise, once the master of the palace disappears, those bound to the palace will face the fate of being disabled."

"Since the beings that make up the temple are not the shadows themselves, but merely the cognitive beings of the temple master, it can be concluded that even without those cognitive beings that can become personas, the shadows can form their own temples."

"From your description, those who were able to be recaptured by the Phantom Thieves were all performing security duties. In other words, they didn't represent the wishes of the Palace Master within the Palace."

Kamuko Izuru looked at the paper line that seemed to understand but not quite, and said more directly:

"You only need to separate your own desires. Then, even without the temple, you can use the rules of the cognitive world to create an independent distorted space and the cognitive existence of your desires around you."

Maybe it was because Kamiza Deru took into account the thoughts of Zhixing. Although Zhixing took a little longer to comprehend, he still understood what Kamiza Deru said about the power of the cognitive world that can be used at present.

"Cellphone Boy?"

When Zhixing heard Kamizuru Izuru say that because he could enter and exit the cognitive world, he could more easily create cognitive existence, the first thing he thought of was this very old comic.

The reason is simple, because in this comic, the protagonist's mobile phone has the ability to project things from other parts of the world near him using the same method as 3D projection.

But this is not related to the energy body, so it does not have combat capabilities.

It just so happens that the final boss in the story has a very buggy ability that can be achieved as long as someone believes in it, so the protagonist's ability inexplicably becomes a nemesis.

"Volleyball club students, art museum visitors, non-humanoids throughout the city, the sphinx outside the desert... the robot employees, casino guests, and passengers on the ship."

After realizing the need to pay attention to cognitive existence, Zhixing quickly summarized the cognitive existence that appeared in the hall.

A class of people;

an art gallery with long lines;

A city that does not materialize people in order to spread their numbers;

An individual who has no other ties and is therefore ridiculously strong;

A completely cognitive existence of employees as a boss battle without reservation;

A grand opening of a mostly full casino;

A refugee group whose members, except for the core members, are all without combat capability;

Zhixing couldn't figure out the specific rules of cognition at first, but just by focusing on them, he immediately discovered two special places.

First of all, if you want to maintain a temple, you don’t need a large number of people. Even just a volleyball team and a dozen female students may be enough.

Likewise, if there are only one or two deeply memorable characters, then the desire that should be split will greatly strengthen the other party, directly causing it to rise to the level of a boss battle.

Judging from the largest number of Jincheng Hall and Okumura Hall, their desire is obviously not enough to create cognitive existence, so their image is changed from normal people to human form.

This means that the desire to be similar to a real person is likely to be greater.

"So, how do cognitive beings come into being? Can we just wish them into existence?"

Although Zhixing understood this, he still felt very confused.

Perhaps, as Kamijou Izuru said, he lacks the ability to turn his ideas into concrete actions, so he chooses to rely on the help of others.