Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Although I have no interest in baseball, I have a very high talent for it. Therefore, I don't need much training to surpass my peers who train hard. Therefore..."

"Hey, stop it, let's make it short. You don't have much time."

The paper company raised its hand, prompting the "baseball player" who was about to go through his own favorability plot to obediently summarize the matter in one sentence:

"After being motivated to play baseball, I've been wanting to go out all the time. The reason I agreed to go out with Maizono-san was because other people were not allowed to go out at night, so I decided to go. Even if you didn't show up in the room as promised, I was ready to take action against Maizono-san."

"Is the addiction to baseball that great?"

"Well, if anyone wants to stop me from using my talents, then I will definitely use my talents to do it regardless of any difficulties."

After taking a look at the non-mainstream outfit left by the other party's engraving, Zhi Xing was puzzled.

"Don't you want to switch to singing? Why, you can do it, but others can't?"

The baseball player looked at Kuwata-san, who was still standing in the courtroom with his hands raised, with a mocking expression, and explained in a low voice:

"Because... I've known for a long time that I'm nothing but baseball."

"It's just because I'm unwilling to accept this, so I try to convince myself that I want to change, and deceive myself by thinking that I'll be welcomed by others."

"I knew very well, even before I entered the academy, that I wasn't cut out for singing. The only thing I could do was baseball."

As if baseball was mentioned, the baseball player suddenly raised his head, looked at the paper and asked again:

"Monokuma has already started voting. If we don't do something, there will really be nothing left."

"You want to gain the power to know the world, so you want to trade with others, right? Well, now is the time. I am willing to be your personality mask. Please, save me!"

Because he could accept the instinctive knowledge brought by this cognitive world, and had not lost his memory and was blessed with real memories, the baseball player knew that Paper Line did not have the power of the cognitive world as early as after Paper Line entered the impression space, and the transaction proposed by the other party was very consistent with the contract of the cognitive world.

Therefore, through the realistic perspective of the baseball player, when he saw the paper line using cognitive existence to act out something that was very likely to happen, the baseball player knew that the paper line was most likely targeting his own power.

When his true body was on the verge of collapse, he saw Paper Walker appear again. The baseball player understood that Paper Walker must have other means to save his life. In Hope's Peak Academy, his only value was to become a personality mask, so he brought it up decisively.

but...

Zhi Xing looked at the crowd in the image space who had also begun the voting process, and looked at the fourteen super high school level students, and said softly:

"You know, I've already given up on your lives from the very beginning."

"I never thought of participating in the story of Danganronpa from the beginning. Not only that, I even wanted to conduct an experiment on other people's lives in this world where order has collapsed."

"Eh?"

The baseball player looked at the paper blankly, not understanding what the other party was suddenly saying.

"I have a witch here who can use the Witch's Kiss to use those in despair as a vehicle to share her own distortions."

"As for this world filled with vast and despairing emotions, as long as I run fast enough, the distortions within the witches around me will become less and less, until a qualitative change occurs."

"If I don't meet up with the familiars scattered here, I can fulfill the conditions and leave this world through the live broadcasts everywhere."

Seeing the paper line seemed to be immersed in his own imagination, the baseball player's face turned pale, and his lips began to tremble again as he said anxiously:

"You...what nonsense are you talking about? I don't understand at all! Hurry up, there's no time. The voting results are about to come out. Your goal has been achieved. I am willing to be your personality mask. Hurry, accept me and save me!!"

Zhi Xing withdrew his gaze and returned to the cognitive shadow of [Super High School Level Baseball Player] Kuwata Reien, and finally stated his deal:

"But now that I'm involved, I can no longer remain indifferent."

"So... since you want to survive, then you can just go and be executed."

"what?!"

"There are only three ways I can save you. One is to use my privileges to save you, one is to replace you with a real-life cognitive being, and the last is to take you away directly."

"But you're the one who's anxious right now. I don't want to mess up this deal. Otherwise, won't every subsequent deal involve me leaving?"

"Having ruled out two options, the only option left in the middle is unlikely."

"Reality is reality. Even if this reality is the convergence of hundreds of millions of eyes, these perceptions are still as fragile as those of ordinary people. They can barely withstand six rounds of a toy gun."

"Not to mention, the upcoming execution will be like a machine gun firing baseball strikes. If you want to hide your true identity, you'll have to be able to withstand it, as you have more HP."

"But even though you can clearly enter reality with your cognitive existence, you still come to me for help. This means that you yourself cannot appear in reality and influence reality, right?"

"Based on this situation, I will make a contract with you. I will bring you, the master of the temple, into reality, and thereby transfer you from the real world to the memory space."

"Tell me, can such a contract succeed?"

The baseball player suddenly stood up from the ground, his entire body rapidly expanding as if he had turned into a monster, and he shouted:

"Do you know what you're talking about? If I die, then I can't survive in reality either. That's why I'm willing to become your personality mask, so that I can be sure that you will save me. But you actually proposed such an excessive contract!"

"So...yes?"

Zhixing watched as the black and white bear sitting on the referee's chair pressed the red button. After a simple cutscene, an extra-long mechanical claw flew out from the door in the wall.

The robot grabbed Kuwata-san, who was trying to dodge and kept calling Kyubey, and then the mechanical flying claw retracted and carried Kuwata-san's entire body away.

"can."

Although the time in the impression space is slower than the real time, in such a situation, the monster transformed by the baseball player obviously has no choice but to choose to save one of them from the fate of double death.

A paper scroll appeared in front of the monster baseball player, and then the baseball player handed the scroll to the paper man.

Seeing that the contract could not be signed verbally but required a written signature, Zhixing couldn't help but frown.

Fortunately, when the written contract was handed over to the paper company, the words on it were quickly translated into Chinese under the paper company's supervision.

Zhihang looked at this simple contract:

"[Baseball Player] was saved by [Bystander], and for this, [Baseball Player's] shadow will bear the impending execution in [Baseball Player's] place."

"What should I do? Do I need to sign my real name?"

As the initiator of the transaction, Zhixing asked the dying baseball player questions without knowing anything about them, hoping to learn how to sign the contract.

"A contract is something that is established as long as you agree to it."

"Then I disagree. The restrictions are too few. There should be at least two prerequisites to establish a line. So, how do we add them?"

The monster baseball player looked at the still-flying cognitive being, his gaze fixed on the rapidly passing ceiling, and gritted his teeth as he said:

"Just like you created these cognitive beings, release your desires and form them into a contract. It doesn't matter what carrier it is. As long as someone is willing to accept it and invest their own desires into it, then the exchange of desires will begin to take effect."

"What is this? An equal exchange? What's the point?"

The monster baseball player looked at the paper and asked questions that seemed to be delaying time, and he couldn't help but get even more angry.

However, no matter how angry he was, his hope of survival still lay in the hands of the paper walker. Therefore, the baseball player, who was already suppressed by [despair] and could only be alone as the master of the hall, quickly responded:

“The formation of a contract itself requires more desire, so a contract can only occur between people with more desire and people with less desire.”

"And the more desires a person possesses from others, the greater the power they can wield in the cognitive world. However, because these desires are too complex, they will eventually break away from the shadow body and become a secret treasure."

"Exploiting the desires of others? That's right. After all, he used his own desires to transform the distorted space into a palace. So even though he's the master of the palace with the greatest desires, his usual performance is no better than that of a soldier."

Zhixing nodded, as if he had some thoughts in his mind that he wanted to think about, but this was not the time to think.

Seeing the light of another room appear in the dark corridor, the monster, which was so big that it could reach the bottom base in a few steps, shouted anxiously:

"Hey! It'll be too late if we don't make the contract now! Hurry up!"

Zhixing glanced at Kuwata, who was about to hit the wooden stake as a target, nodded, and said:

"Then, let's begin the contract."

As he spoke, Zhi Xing used the dozen or so methods of recognizing existence he had come up with to create a contract with prerequisites in his mind:

"Only during this execution, save the [Super High School Level Baseball Player]. To do so, I will exchange the [Baseball Player's] cognitive shadow with the real body."

Looking at the contract that did not ask for any compensation but required a huge price to be paid by the other party, Zhi Xing handed it to the monster and waited for the contract to take effect.

"I am you, and you are me."

"Here, you gain a brand new bond."

""

Chapter 302 The First Class Judgement Ends

The declaration of the bond came to an abrupt end. Zhi Xing looked at the baseball player who did not notice the change, and very obediently brought the other party out of the memory space and to the execution site.

But as soon as he returned to reality, Zhixing had already timed his time to re-enter the witch's barrier.

Thanks to Kamizuru Izuru's suggestion, Zhixing also relied on his ability to enter two different worlds to form a different combination skill.

The cognitive world advances quickly and retreats quickly.

However, the witch's barrier requires distorting the surrounding environment before entering.

But in fact, for people in reality, the two different spaces disappear almost instantly.

Zhixing has relied on the witch's barrier's [Mistaken Entry] more than once to avoid many things that could threaten him, and it also made Zhixing act a little bolder.

But those are all situations when facing external things.

The paper line, which had already been wrapped and covered by the witch's magic, could not [accidentally] enter the witch's barrier no matter how it moved.

Often, it is necessary to use the means of [translation] to allow the witch to sense oneself and then bring oneself into the witch's barrier.

This back and forth situation itself takes time. It is inexplicable that the sound of the paper industry can be transmitted from a space as large as a factory to the witch in the witch's room somewhere unknown.

Therefore, although he knew that Kamizuru Izuru was very powerful and would most likely not be controlled by the Witch's Kiss or die because of his familiars, Zhixing did not invite him into the witch's barrier in the end.

After all, the cognitive world has lost its protective function in front of Kamijou Izuru, so the witch's barrier is Zhixing's last retreat against him.

Although the principle of how Zhi Xing entered the witch's barrier has not been discovered, the skill of [Wall Passage], which uses spatial changes to achieve short-distance displacement, has been further strengthened.

The cognitive world is illusory, so when traveling through the cognitive world, all movements are fake. Naturally, you will eventually return to where you came from, and you cannot move in reality.

But the witch's barrier is a real movable space. Even the matter in the cognitive world can still be penetrated by the witch's barrier. This is also the guarantee that Zhixing can directly skip those shadows and impression spaces.

Because of this, Zhixing once underwent a shift in the cognitive world.

It was moved from Shujin Academy to the train station.

Although it only happened that time, and it was most likely because the protagonists entered the impression space from the train station, so the displacement was achieved using the coordinates of the people who exited the space.

But this does not prevent Kamizuru Izuru from using this special case as a starting point to provide the paper company with a combination skill called [Sightseeing].

By relying on the time difference between exiting the cognitive world and entering the witch's barrier, the two spatial changes can temporarily achieve the effect of keeping one's position in reality at the current position in the cognitive world.

But after using [Sightseeing], regardless of whether the paper line interrupts the process of entering the witch's barrier, it will return to the starting point of entering the cognitive world, and the witch's barrier will also start moving from this starting point.

Because Zhixing started to study the abilities he could develop this time, under the witness of Kamijou Izuru, Zhixing found that the average time required for his [Wall Passing] was 3 seconds. After figuring out [Wall Passing] + [Sightseeing], he extended it to a new combination skill [Invisibility].

Witches are something that ordinary people cannot see. Only when you [accidentally] enter the witch's barrier can you see each other's form in the same space.

Therefore, conversely, when the paper line gradually goes deeper into the alien space where the witch's barrier is located, it will gradually become undetectable and untouchable in reality.

After Kamizuru's test, it was found that the time it takes for the object to be penetrated by light and other substances is 6 seconds on average.

During the entire process of entering the witch's barrier, the average time that can still belong to the real space is 8 to 11 seconds. After this time, even Kamijou Izuru cannot see any trace.

This means that as long as the time is right, the paper line can be in the "invisible" period in reality when using "sightseeing".

Although entering the witch's barrier relies on the passive method of Paper Line calling the bear, and the same sentence cannot make the bear let itself in every time, so in the end it is still impossible to use [Invisibility] as uninterrupted true invisibility.

After all, if you really try to trigger [Invisibility] back and forth at the right time by acting like "I jumped out again, I jumped back again" in front of the little bear, you might really get beaten by the witch.

After witnessing the wonderful use of traveling between two spaces, Zhixing couldn't help but look forward to the witch transforming back into a magical girl, or becoming a half-witch like in the spin-off, or evolving in the direction of the bag carrier.

Even if other worlds haven't found a way to transform witches, there's still what the witch on TV has shown, which is to gradually incorporate the real space into the witch's barrier. That's a means of directly throwing the familiar into reality.

Unfortunately, the little bear witch stays indoors and is obsessed with toys, so she can't use the power of the witch's barrier like the TV girl.

Zhixing also thought that if he had the initiative of this power in his own hands, he would have enough confidence to change his destiny or go to a world with greater power.

But considering that he has the passive skill [Reset], if he accidentally washes away the ability, it will be the end of him. Therefore, Zhixing still feels that the relationship between him and the witch is very good now, and there is no need for any variables that may cause unexpected problems.

Although he had only tried it a few times with Kamijou Izuru to verify the feasibility of this skill, as it was one of the few abilities that Zhixing could actively use, Zhixing still attached great importance to it and was very cautious about it.

Although the mechanical flying claw was released, the [baseball player] was flying and his soul was chasing, while the others could only catch up at an ordinary running speed, so theoretically there was still a lot of time to choose to make this transaction.

Although Zhixing couldn't determine the time to enter the witch's barrier, he could still make a rough estimate based on the 3-second time limit for passing through walls.

But this is the execution site after all. Not to mention that a lot of eyes are gathered here with the arrival of the protagonist [baseball player]. The switch has already been turned on, waiting for Zhixing to fall into the trap. Zhixing is also willing to expose himself here in order to complete this deal.

Although what was set up was just a baseball machine that launched baseballs, Zhixing was not willing to test the reaction speed and acceptance level of the witch's barrier like Koro-sensei did.

Although it is unknown what Kamizuru Izuru said to [Despair], at such a moment, it is not impossible that [Despair] would accidentally make a mistake and execute Zhixing as well.

When entering the witch's barrier, Zhixing's protection was the weakest. Zhixing relied on the fact that he could enter two different spaces at any time, so he had the courage to stand next to the black and white bear.

So Zhixing chose to activate [Invisibility].