Knight Asylum

He didn't like to call someone a god. Even if it was the king of the Yagi clan, even the terrifying King of the Gurongi, he still described them as life forms so powerful that current science could not understand them. But now Kanzaki Shirou, whether in terms of thinking or strength, was truly as invincible as a god.

Unrestricted, one can freely travel through the mirror world, exist in any layer, and be able to reset time miraculously.

Hideyuki Kagawa firmly believes that there is perfect power in this world, but there is no perfect user in this world. But now, he has to admit that Shirou Kanzaki is the perfect user of this power.

He didn't even need to meet Kanzaki Shirou face to face. Just by simulating it in his mind, Kagawa Hideyuki was knocked down by the feeling of powerlessness as if he was against God.

"Do you have any ideas?"

"About this matter... Professor Kagawa, the core of the mirror world is not indestructible, right?" Reid held his chin in his hand and circled around the holographic image of [S·L].

"The core of the mirror world itself is not stable. Even the placement angle needs to be strictly calculated during the cultivation process. If you are not careful, the core of the mirror world will collapse," Kagawa Hideyuki was a little surprised. Red, who had personally experienced the reset time, should know better than anyone that defeating Kanzaki Shirou is an impossible thing, but what he didn't expect was that Red was actually thinking seriously about how to defeat Kanzaki Shirou.

"But it's meaningless to just destroy the core of a mirror world, and..."

After hesitating for a moment, Hideyuki Kagawa shook his head helplessly.

"Even if you destroy all the mirror world cores, Kanzaki Shirou can reset time and make everything start over again. Even if you remember everything, it will be meaningless."

"Yes, that's it," Reid snapped his fingers, his eyes sparkling, "Professor Kagawa, the Mirror World relies on the Mirror World Core to connect with reality, right? The number and completion of the Mirror World Cores determine the time the Mirror Knights can stay in the Mirror World."

"That's right," Hideyuki Kagawa raised his eyebrows.

"Professor Kagawa, these mirror world cores, including Selvi Turia's mirror world core, were actually completed during this period of time, right?" Reid raised his hand and pointed to the holographic image.

"That's what it is."

"That's right!" Reid raised his hand and slapped the table with a gleam in his eyes. "Once Kanzaki Shirou resets time, these mirror world cores will no longer exist. There will only be two mirror world cores left in this world. Professor Kagawa, one is yours, and the other one..."

Hideyuki Kagawa was stunned and stood up suddenly.

"It's the core of the mirror world cultivated by Kanzaki Shirou himself!"

"It's enough to confirm the location of the mirror world core cultivated by Kanzaki Shirou himself!" Reid waved his fist. "In this way, even if Kanzaki Shirou resets time, I can go there and destroy the mirror world core immediately. As long as Professor Kagawa's mirror world core is destroyed, the mirror world will be completely out of touch with reality."

"No matter how many times he resets time, I will destroy his mirror world core until he gives up!"

Chapter 255: Justice

Reid's voice was like a key that completely opened up Kagawa Hideyuki's mind, and Kagawa felt as if his mind was suddenly enlightened.

Shirou Kanzaki is indeed as difficult to deal with as a god, but Shirou Kanzaki was not born a god. Shirou Kanzaki's past as a powerless human being is the weakness of this invincible power.

After getting the direction, Hideyuki Kagawa immediately took action. Under Red's astonished gaze, he pushed open the three mirrors in the center of the laboratory, and a triangular prism shining with a strange luster appeared in front of Red. Before Red asked Kagawa what he wanted to do, Hideyuki Kagawa raised his right leg and kicked, and the core of the mirror world fell to the ground with a clang.

Reid's breathing stagnated and he looked nervously at the core of the mirror world on the ground.

"Click——"

A crack appeared on the surface of the core of the mirror world, and this was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. The dense cracks instantly engulfed the core of the mirror world. In a blink of an eye, the core of the mirror world that Kagawa Hideyuki had spent countless energy and resources to cultivate was reduced to pieces.

But Hideyuki Kagawa didn't even look at the fragments on the ground. He walked quickly back to the computer and operated it quickly.

"The stability value has dropped. Just list all the stability values ​​of the past few days, and take the coordinates into account. Hmm..."

Hideyuki Kagawa stared at the screen full of data and kept muttering some things that seemed like incomprehensible to Red, but Red understood one thing, that is, Hideyuki Kagawa had thought of a solution.

"Professor Kagawa, how can I help you?"

Reid glanced at the nearby mirror.

Hideyuki Kagawa destroyed the core of the mirror world that he had worked so hard to cultivate. There is no reason why Kanzaki Shirou would not notice this situation, but Kanzaki Shirou still has no intention of resetting time. Does he not care at all, or does he have other intentions?

Red wasn't sure, but this was the only solution he could think of now.

If all else fails…

Then think of the next solution!

Twenty minutes later, Hideyuki Kagawa, who had been muttering to himself, stood up straight with his chin up and his brows furrowed. Seeing Hideyuki Kagawa stop, Reid's heart skipped a beat and he hurried forward to test him.

"Professor Kagawa, something went wrong."

"There are indeed some problems," Kagawa Hideyuki pointed to the fragments of the mirror world core on the ground. "The mirror world core is equivalent to the anchor point between the mirror world and reality, so its cultivation conditions are extremely harsh. Once completed, it cannot be moved at will. And the closer it is to the core of the mirror world, the more stable the value will be."

"Uh... to put it simply?" Reid was a little confused.

"To put it simply... there are too many mirror world cores now, almost covering the entire [S·L]. Just destroying the mirror world core I cultivated is not enough to calculate the location of Kanzaki Shirou's mirror world." Kagawa Hideyuki frowned, "It would be best to destroy two or three more mirror world cores from my position. If I'm lucky, I can directly calculate the location of Kanzaki Shirou's mirror world core."

"Uh...if we're unlucky..."

"If we're unlucky and destroy all the mirror world cores, we'll know where Kanzaki Shirou's mirror world core is," Hideyuki Kagawa pushed his glasses.

"Everyone... Professor Kagawa, what if, I mean what if, Shiro Kanzaki places the core of his mirror world in Selve Turia, what should we do?" Reid raised his hand and pointed at the location of Selve Turia, feeling a little annoyed.

"it's out of the question."

"why?"

Kagawa Hideyuki was silent for a while and then turned to Reid. "Because, after destroying the Mirror World Core that I cultivated myself, I realized that the Mirror World Core I cultivated was much inferior than I thought, and Kanzaki Shirou probably completed the Mirror World Core a long time ago, and the stability index I calculated is the sum of Kanzaki Shirou and my Mirror World Core."

"……Feel sorry."

"There's nothing to apologize for. This is the truth. It's my fault. I shouldn't have made such a mistake." Kagawa Hideyuki shook his head decisively and pointed to the nearest core of the mirror world. "I'll leave this location to you. I'll monitor the data changes here."

"it is good!"

Reid nodded, and after taking a few steps, he stopped and turned to look at Kagawa Hideyuki, "Professor Kagawa, what should we do if... Kanzaki Shirou resets the time at this time?"

Kagawa Eiko, who was operating the computer, paused, and after a brief silence, he let out a breath.

"Then come find me."

"Then how can I convince you?"

Kagawa Hideyuki shrank his fingers, "Family."

"family?"

"You just need to ask me if you regret what happened to your family. That's enough."

Looking at Hideyuki Kagawa's lonely and resolute back, Reid decided not to ask any more questions and turned and left the institute.

Hideyuki Kagawa stared straight at the data jumping on the screen, and his fingers tightened little by little.

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In Xingxiu District, Tojo and Nakamura sneaked to a building.

"Nakamura, are you sure you want to target this company?" Tojo was a little hesitant. He thought Nakamura would target those gangsters, but he didn't expect that he would target an ordinary company first.

"Tojo, I've interned in this company before, and I know the darkness here better than you do," Nakamura slammed the wall with his right fist and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Have you ever heard of not working overtime with bad intentions?"

"Ah...ah?" Tojo's face was full of question marks.

He knew about the malicious intent and he also knew about not working overtime, but he never thought that the two could be connected without any sense of incongruity.

"The management of this company is like a pool of rotten mud. I saw with my own eyes that an employee was harassed for various reasons because he refused to work overtime without pay, and he was eventually depressed and resigned. The vast majority of employees in this company are being ruthlessly exploited. Not only are their wages often delayed, but they are also brainwashed by the boss's PUA."

Nakamura sneered.

"This... is really too much, but is this the evil you want to eliminate, Nakamura-kun?" Tojo's expression was a little subtle, "There should be more evil that should be eliminated."

"Tojo, there is no distinction between big and small evils, all should be eliminated, there is no order of precedence. Now that it has appeared before us, there is no need to hesitate!"

As if moved by Nakamura's righteous declaration, Tojo nodded vigorously.

"I get it, Nakamura-kun!"

"it is good!"

Nakamura nodded vigorously, and went to the end of the alley with Tojo. He raised the Knight Card Box towards the pool of water on the ground, transformed into the Chooser, and entered the mirror world one after another.

After entering the mirror world, the whole world became silent, and only Nakamura and Tojo were left on the empty streets.

They entered the company, and Nakamura walked through the corridor with great familiarity, climbed the stairs, and came to the president's office. The office was empty, but the president in the real world was reflected in the glass.

The president with a beer belly was smoking leisurely and didn't notice a hand reaching out from the glass.

Chapter 256: Have you eaten your last meal? Then let’s get going

The core of the mirror world closest to Hideyuki Kagawa's research institute is located in the steelmaking area.

The crisscrossing metal pipes and surging steam create a country of heavy industry. In the past, Red would definitely sit on a motorcycle and take a few photos. As a man, he likes this kind of industrial style very much and always thinks it is cool. But now he has important things to do, so he doesn't have much time to appreciate the romance of heavy industry.

In order to avoid attracting attention, Red got off the car, put on the baseball cap given by Metzler, and walked into the steelmaking area. Along the way, Red saw many human and weird workers. They sat together drinking water, cursing the boss for being heartless, and then boasting together that they seemed very harmonious.

In the face of the evil capital, even monsters are targets of exploitation, and perhaps even because they are monsters, the exploitation is even more cruel. As a result, many humans can empathize with them and get along more harmoniously with the monsters. This is really cause for celebration.

It would be even better if there was a row of street lights here.

At this moment, Red keenly heard the workers' conversation.

"Several more people went missing yesterday."

"This is [S·L], it's normal for someone to go missing. Maybe some weird thing sneaked in again. Similar situations have happened before. Do as I said, report it to Servier Turia immediately, but is that okay? No, we have too many shameful things here."

"Hey, hey, hey - why are you so bad? Aren't you afraid that you will be the next one to disappear?"

"I'm telling you, I've come to work in [S·L], do you think I'm afraid of this? To be honest, I bought life insurance. If I die, the money from the insurance can allow my family to live safely outside [S·L] for 50 years. Under normal circumstances, I would have to work for 500 years without eating or drinking to make ends meet."

A beast-shaped monster and a shorter human worker were leaning against a truck, smoking cigarettes, and the one who was feeling deeply that he was missing was the beast-shaped monster.

Red's heart moved. He pushed down his cap and walked up to the two workers. "Um, you said someone was missing...what's going on?"

"You kid, you're a stranger, what's the matter?"

The beast-shaped monster shrank its neck, a little scared, while the shorter human worker raised his hand to block the beast-shaped monster behind him, looking at Red sternly, and the workers who were still smoking around seemed to think that Red was here to cause trouble, and stood up one after another.

"Well...actually, I wanted to come here to work, but when I heard you say someone was missing, and it seemed like it wasn't the first time, I wanted to confirm if it was true," Reid immediately raised his hands and smiled awkwardly.

When they heard that Red was also here to work, the workers sat back down one after another. Two of the weird workers even blew out a smoke ring and sighed.

"At your age, you can find a job anywhere else, why do you have to come to a place like this where there is no room for learning?"

"The status of our working class has long been far less than before."

The shorter human worker looked Red up and down suspiciously and tilted his head. "Let me see your hand?"

Red blinked. Although he didn't know what the other party wanted to do, he still spread out his hand and stretched it out.

Glancing at the calluses on Red's palms that were not formed overnight, the shorter worker's eyes softened a lot. He raised his hand and patted Red on the shoulder, giving him a thumbs up. "Don't listen to their nonsense. Don't look at the current promotion. It's just that the dividends haven't been reaped yet."

"Ahem - so, what's the matter with the disappearance?" Red coughed awkwardly, but he did not forget his main business.

"Ah... About this matter, it actually happened during this period of time. People disappear from time to time. We didn't pay much attention to it at first, until we found that some workstations were suddenly empty, then we discovered this matter," the shorter worker took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Reid.

Red shook his head and pointed at his collar. The shorter worker was stunned for a moment before he suddenly realized what was going on. He smiled ambiguously and put the cigarette back in his pocket. He then put out his own cigarette and waved his hand.

"This is [S·L] after all, so it's normal for some strange things to run out. But this time, there were no corpses, and no signs of struggle, so after discovering that there were fewer people, our first reaction was that they finally couldn't stand it anymore and just gave up and ran away," the shorter worker looked up and sighed.

The workers around nodded in agreement, and some even muttered in a low voice, "Actually, I just want to run away too."

"However, if they really wanted to run away, they should have called us to join them. They didn't call us, so... they definitely didn't run away, but disappeared!"

The workers around nodded.

"Um, is there a mirror in the place where those people disappeared?" Reid thought for a moment and asked tentatively.

"Mirror...ah, ah~ Do you think it was the mirror beasts that did it? Yeah, you have a point," the shorter worker nodded, chin in hand, "Then it should be alright. Didn't Servius Turria already plan to call...the Mirror Knights to deal with those mirror beasts? Those guys are so unlucky."

After chatting with the workers for a while, Red said he wanted to take a look at the working environment before deciding whether to continue working there.

Following the strange feeling, Red shuttled between the pipelines of heavy industry. The human voices became fewer and fewer, and only the heavy mechanical sounds echoed.

"Buzzing—"

Red paused and took out his cell phone from his pocket. The caller was Zhuo Mo Yilang. Red answered the call without hesitation and walked towards the direction obscured by the steam.

"Hey?"

"Brother, I did some research. Recently, Murakami Gorge has dealt with a few Orphinos that I don't know. Most of them are related to the Mirror World. Also, I've looked at the official website of Selvi Tulia. I wonder if the Zhinao Group has cooperated with Selvi Tulia."

"That's possible," Reid narrowed his eyes slightly.

"By the way, big brother, do you know the lawyer Kitaoka Hideichi? He is the ace lawyer who has never lost a game. He has a terminal illness and will not live long. In order to survive, he is working for Zhinao Group. He was originally responsible for helping Murakami Kyoer receive the research materials of the former president Hanagata, but recently he seems to be helping Murakami Kyoer with other things. It is very likely related to the mirror world. Big brother, you can go meet this lawyer Kitaoka."

Kitaoka Hideichi won't live long?

Reid was stunned. In the previous timeline, he had always thought that Kitaoka Hideichi had been helping the Zhinao Group simply because the price offered by the Zhinao Group was high enough.

"I see. I'll go check it out later."

Red hung up the phone, and mirrors suddenly appeared between the pipes. Ferocious mirror beasts poked their heads out of the mirrors and growled in Red's direction.

Judging from their plump state, they have a good meal.