I'm a weird expert in Japan

The location is...the third music room.

Lian squinted her eyes and looked through the window at the classroom in the new building.

There's someone inside.

He locked onto the next location, then chose atomization without hesitation. In an instant, he passed through the barriers of the building and arrived at the door of the classroom.

When I opened the door, the piano music stopped abruptly.

"Wow, you're here really early... You really don't follow Miss Woyan's instructions at all."

The lines were a little different from what I remembered, but he was still speaking to Lian.

Oshino Ogi sat in front of the piano that seemed a little out of place for her, looking up and sideways at Lian at the door, with a sarcastic smile on the corner of her lips.

However, Lian did not want to discuss this issue.

The moment he opened the door, he understood an extremely important issue.

This is a fact that can only be discovered after pushing open the door.

"Ms. Shan...are you imprisoned here?"

"Yeah, yeah. I've been locked up for at least two days... probably. I'm starving now."

In response to Lian's question, Oshino Ogi gave a straightforward answer.

"Ah...this..."

Lian felt a little regretful. He didn't expect that someone would be waiting for him here. If he had known earlier, he would have bought some snacks.

After reaching into my pockets, I finally found some snacks in the pocket of my sun protection suit.

A Snickers bar...

"This is all we have now, is that ok? Or should we go eat first?"

"No, no, this is enough for now." Oshino Ogi was very generous. He simply took the chocolate bar, tore open the package and ate it slowly. "If I am really locked up for a week, I will starve to death here."

"Well……"

Lian didn't know what to say.

Oshino Ougi was imprisoned here.

It's not as simple as the door being locked. The problem is that this door cannot be opened unless it is by someone who is immune to weirdness.

Lian just happened to meet the requirements.

Assuming that other weird experts have not arrived.

Before this door was opened, the entire third music room was a completely independent space.

It’s not quite right to say that Oshino Ogi was locked up here. To be more precise, she was imprisoned... and sealed here.

This alone is enough to illustrate the problem.

Locking her up here means she has no contact with the outside world, and no way of contacting other people.

The reason why they are isolated to this extent must be because Oshino Ogi has mastered something.

Moreover, she is an extremely crucial existence to this mirror world and to the person who imprisoned Lian and Kazusa in this small garden.

"No, no, I was not locked up here on purpose, but was excluded from here unintentionally. This was not an active behavior, but an exclusion behavior in order to prevent my existence from hindering the purpose. Just like white blood cells facing bacteria."

"If I am a transplanted organ that is rejected, then you are the pathogen that will damage the mechanism of this world...?"

There is no doubt that Oshino Ogi knew the cause and outcome of the whole incident.

Chapter 173 Chapter 2: Locked Space ()

Because of this, she became a nuisance and was locked up.

It was just that Oshino Ogi was not wiped out, which surprised Lian at the mercy of the "mastermind".

"I'm not the only one who was excluded—" Oshino Ogi said hastily, "You should have gone to see Araragi-senpai, right?"

"He went back to Zhijiangjin Town...it's obviously not the deadline for transfer yet." Lian asked with a frown.

"That's the problem." Oshino Ogi pointed at Lian, "All the beings that can help you solve the problem have been excluded from this world in various ways... No, should I say this little garden?"

"Aren't you locked up here?" Lian crossed her arms. "Wait a minute, you said about two days... You can see outside from the window, right?"

"Unfortunately, time in this classroom was completely stagnant before you pushed it open." Shinobu Ogi spread his hands helplessly, "It's a completely sealed room that you can't get in or out of, a closed space."

"Well……"

Lian originally wanted to explain why he could push it away, but he himself had the attribute of destroying demons, especially when the demon sword Xindu was in his body, his own lethality against monsters had increased by several levels.

In other words, the seal on the door of the third music room was not that strong.

"Oh, it's not that easy for you to open the door." Oshino Ou said, "Have you heard of the saying 'vampires cannot enter a room where they are not invited'?"

"...Is that so? That's why you're playing that lousy piano piece..."

"To be honest, you are better than I expected to be able to hear the music coming from a classroom that is completely isolated in time and space." Shinobu Ogi praised him generously. "By the way, you came here because you saw Miss Woyan's message, right?"

"do you know?"

"About three months ago, Miss Woyan considered the current situation and left a note in the library that you will definitely see."

"Anyway, she must know under what circumstances and in what form I will come into contact with the note." Lian took out the note from his pocket, "But the note said 'tomorrow'. If we calculate based on the time I saw, will coming here early now break any rules?"

"No, it's better to say that you came here early, which was also within Miss Woyan's expectations." Shinobu Ogi finished eating the Snickers, pinched the wrapper in his palm, and then disappeared like a magic trick, "Did you paint the paper with your own blood?"

"what?"

Lian immediately did as Shan said. After the blood covered the entire piece of paper, the blood in a certain area was pushed away by an invisible force, leaving different words.

"It doesn't hurt to be early."

"It's your nature to think about solving this kind of problem as quickly as possible." Shan sat on the piano bench and crossed his legs and said, "But don't worry, Lianjun, this is the last stop before the end. You will get the guide ticket to the end here."

"Why is it you who holds the guidance ticket, and not someone else? Teacher Hanekawa, or... someone else?"

After hearing this, Oshino Ogi smiled meaningfully.

"I am Araragi-senpai's clone, his shadow, his mirror image. What will happen when the mirror image is qualified to exist independently? Will it really become a human being?"

"As long as there is the will to be real, the fake will be more real than the real thing."

"That's what the trickster said." Shinobu Osamu narrowed his eyes, "But no matter how human I am, I can't change my essence. I am a weird thing born as a mirror image and a shadow."

"so?"

"So, I am an existence that is both inside and outside, connecting this world and that world. They are connected but will never touch each other. To put it simply, it is like an isotope in another world. The Oshino Ozuna you know and the Oshino Ozuna in front of you have exactly the same mechanical properties."

"Uh...I understand that."

"Because I am one with the outside and inside, I can tell that this is the mirror world." Oshino Ogi said, "As for why Araragi-senpai is not in Tokyo, it is also very simple. He encountered the same thing. Although the reasons, processes and even results are different, the mechanism is the same."

"I see."

All shortcuts to answers are blocked to some extent.

No, it should be said that they tried their best to block Lian and prevent him from getting the answer.

However, all these things combined are no match for the combined efforts of all the weird people involved.

Woyan Izu Lake's advance preparations, Oshino Ogi's self-entrapment, and the appearance of Funogi Yokai were all appropriate measures taken to help Lian reach the destination.

Lian lived up to expectations and implemented the experts' requirements step by step.

"Thanks to this incident, I don't have to stay locked up in this classroom. After all, I don't know how to play the piano or other instruments. I'm a complete layman and can't find the joy of playing these things." Oshino Ogi waved his hands, "Since you've arrived here, it means that my work is finally coming to an end."

"Yeah, yeah," she said, raising her arms high and stretching.

"In that case, what on earth happened to me this time? At least I'm not dreaming... the world over there, the world over here. Inside the mirror, the Kingdom of Mirrors, Touma and Kazusa who were dragged in - everything is reversed, inside and outside, everything is wrong, and yet it seems too good to be true, as if everyone has found happiness without any effort..."

“Isn’t happiness good?”

"I don't know. I haven't thought about this question specifically." Lian said simply, "I just look at these beauties and feel that they are as fragile as glass. As long as they are hit by a stone, they will have irreparable cracks."

"What a great idea! You sometimes think like a human being." Oshino applauded. "You always inadvertently choose to look at things from a perspective and values ​​that are superior to those of humans, and the conclusions you draw will be a thousand miles off the mark."

"It's a matter of inches, right?"

"No, it's a thousand miles for you. Because your life is many times longer than anyone else's."

"Is this related to this incident?"

"No, it's just some temporary divergent thinking." Shinobu Osamu shook her head, "But as a reward for this divergent thinking, Miss Woyan will allow me to reveal all the answers here, including why you came to this world."

"This is the question I wanted to ask you from the beginning. It's definitely not good to ask for the answer directly, but this is all I can do."

In the face of Lian's questioning, Oshino Ogi remained motionless.

"I don't know anything, you are the one who knows."

When she said this, she was looking at Lian, or rather, behind him.

The unlocked door faced the corridor, and at the corner at the end, a figure ran out.

Touma and Sa came here for some reason.

Chapter 174 Chapter 1: Message from the Barrier Cat ()

Earlier, at the Touma family.

Having reached a reconciliation with herself and her mother "over here" in the bathroom, Touma Kazusa listens to a symphony video clip on TV with her mother in the living room.

The two of them chatted there casually, and the atmosphere was very relaxed.

Just as it was half past nine, and it was time to turn off the TV and go back to bed, someone rang the doorbell.

Surprised by this, Yoko and Kazusa looked at each other. Kazusa felt a little disturbed, so she went to the entrance and opened the door with an impatient expression, but saw nothing.

There was no one outside the gate.

At first she thought it was a prank and was about to close the door and go back to the house, but she caught a glimpse of a swift figure that seemed like an illusion.

Perhaps because she was used to the "abnormal" atmosphere, instead of suspecting that it was her own illusion, Hesha became alert. She slowly closed the door, walked out of the yard, and came to the quiet and empty road in the residential area.

There was no one around, and the only light on in the nearby residents' homes was the one in the bedroom on the second floor.

Just when she began to wonder if she had really encountered a prank, she unconsciously raised her head to look at the telephone pole beside her, and when her eyes moved to the top of the pole, her eyes widened.

cat?

To be more precise, it was a woman with cat ears. Her long silver hair reflected the moonlight, and a hazy and dreamy atmosphere enveloped her.

"...Kurohanekawa?" Kazusa remembered the name that Lian mentioned yesterday afternoon and called out subconsciously.

Then Kurohanekawa suddenly jumped up silently, and landed on the left wall as lightly as a feather, looking down at Touma Kazusa.

"Did you ring the doorbell?" She wasn't very scared.

After all, if you take away the cat element, she looks more like an exhibitionist woman who likes to wander around the city in just her pajamas.

She's also a woman with an explosive figure.

"Yes, meow." Kurohanekawa looked down at her.

"I want to play a prank at someone else's house," Kazusa said.

"Who has time to play meow pranks with you, meow?" Hei Hanekawa squatted down and lowered his voice.

Hesha was speechless for a moment, "Then what do you want to do?"

"Of course I'm here to inform you." Kurohanekawa raised the corner of his mouth, looking full of sarcasm, "The brat has already gone to the private Fengzhizaki Academy, you'd better go there quickly."

"Huh? Now?" Kazusa was confused.

It is indeed concerning that Lian went to school, but it is not necessary for her to go there as well.

"What, meow? You don't want to stop what he is going to do next, meow?" Hei Hanekawa showed a surprised expression.

"Stop what?" Kazusa was still confused, "He wants to blow up the school?"

Regardless of whether Lian could do it or not, even if she really wanted to do such a thing, the police should be sent instead of being allowed to go.