Collapse, surrender to me!

And it's not just an ordinary ruin. It's a truly abandoned building that was started when the economy was good a few years ago, but was stopped halfway when the economy deteriorated.

Although the general appearance of the building has been completed, the interior is completely undecorated, and the walls, floors and building materials are all exposed.

If completed, the building was planned to be six stories high, but it has only been built to the fourth floor. Since the project was abandoned halfway, the fifth floor, which was half built, served as the roof.

Aozaki Touko bought the building which had been left abandoned because no one wanted to buy it.

Mainly used as a base and transformation workshop.

The function of a residence can be said to be incidental.

Grayshu didn't care.

Kyubey will be back in about a week, so she is only staying here for a while.

"Who is Kyubey?"

Orange asked smoothly as he cleaned up his office.

“It’s my family.”

Grace thought for a moment and added.

"But from its own perspective, it probably just regards me as its master."

"Your relationship is quite complicated."

Orange smacked his lips.

This is someone else's own business, so she can't say much.

"By the way, where is Kyubey now? When will he be back?"

"At the root, it came back a week later."

"Oh, Genyuan. I was there last time. The scenery was——"

Orange got stuck, and the next second he looked at Grayshuin with a shocked expression.

"…Are you kidding?"

"of course."

"Then you can send me to see the source."

"No."

"why?"

"Because the Holy Grail War is over."

"That thing can really reach the source? And you succeeded!"

This time, Orange was really stunned.

But after a moment, she returned to normal and was considering whether to find a place to fight a Holy Grail War.

But this idea was quickly abandoned.

If she goes up and goes back through the hole opened by the Heroic Spirit, she may not see the source, but she will definitely be beaten by a bunch of Heroic Spirits.

All I can say is that Kewpie is very skilled and courageous.

After settling down, Orange would occasionally raise some questions, and Grayshu would always solve them in a way that was very different from the magic world.

With Grayshu's computing power and accumulated knowledge, plus his intellectual destiny.

For Orange, it is a living encyclopedia.

So, what is the price?

The price is - the ruined building that originally had only two people has now become bustling.

"Auntie Orange, it's time to eat!"

Three or five children gathered around the orange.

At first Orange resisted, but now she is immune.

In fact, it’s not a big problem for these children to call her mom.

Because these are the puppets she made.

Although these puppets he made casually were so delicate that they were difficult to distinguish, there was no way they could move unless magic was used.

No, there is another possibility, that is, a new will is injected into the puppet, and the puppet will move.

It's like having a soul in the body.

After the 17th century, the concept of human body imitation magic declined, resulting in even very good magicians being unable to compete with antiques from hundreds of years ago in the category of automatons.

But Orange can mass-produce automata with performance no less than medieval combat automata.

In the process of pursuing the prototype of the flesh, she accidentally discovered and created a technology that makes a doll exactly like herself.

This goes beyond the absolute rule left over from the heyday of magic in the Middle Ages: "Even if you can create a puppet that surpasses humans, you can't create something that is the same as a human."

Orange therefore had the idea that "if I have this, then I won't be needed anymore?" Therefore, she always had a dormant self ready. Once the living Orange died, her memory would be transferred to the prepared body and she would wake up.

After waking up, the orange will make its body move again, and then go back to sleep.

Although even the orange itself cannot be sure which one is the original entity, because they are exactly the same and only one orange is active at the same time, she quoted the "Schrödinger's cat" paradox: although each self may be created, there is no way to distinguish them, so each orange is real.

But the reason why I can do this may be simply because I know myself well enough.

If it were a stranger, the time it would take to create an identical body would be enough for her to give up the idea.

But even so.

The puppets she created have already reached the limits of human capabilities.

Then--

Just a few days after she brought Grace back.

I discovered that nearly a hundred puppets in the workshop were all moving.

There was no doubt that this was done by Gray.

At first, Orange just thought that Grayshut had too much mental energy and had nowhere to use it, so he used it to control a bunch of puppets for fun.

But she soon discovered that the truth was far more horrible than she had imagined.

Each of these one hundred or so puppets seems to have a complete life, independent color, and their own way of behaving and doing things, so real and natural.

It’s like having a hundred more neighbors all of a sudden.

But she came here to seek some peace and quiet.

Now Grace has made this place look like a neighborhood vegetable market, and all these dolls are made by her own hands.

There is an indescribable sense of disharmony.

Grayxiu was really into the game.

But Orange felt that if he continued like this, he would suffer from mental breakdown.

Chapter 465: I heard that the first time was very painful, so I wanted to feel the pain

"Why doesn't Sister Orange want the doll she made to move?"

Grayshuse was still a good child. After Orange protested, she obediently let all the puppets return to the underground workshop.

But she didn't quite understand.

The doll made by Orange is obviously no different from a real person.

It's lifelike, just one step away from the finishing touch.

It's like a very realistic life-size figurine. When any normal person sees it, they will feel, "Oh, I wish it could come back to life."

"If they don't move, they will be lined up in a row on the lower floor, just like corpses lying in coffins. Sister Chengzi, aren't you scared?"

"...I was scared when you let them fake their deaths."

Orange sat in the office on the second floor, resting his chin on his hand.

"By the way, these puppets...how did you do it? Did you give them souls?"

It's not like she hasn't seen multitasking before.

But you can multitask and do several things, but you can't multitask and be a hundred people.

Even the thinking patterns, abilities, preferences, personalities, age groups, and experiences of these one hundred people are different.

She also saw two puppets arguing yesterday.

They were a couple, and they were arguing about who should wash the dishes today.

The feeling of small conflicts accumulating to the point of exploding is so real.

“It’s just a different color.”

Grayxiu explained, and seeing that Orange didn't quite understand, she randomly picked one of the silent dolls, walked upstairs, and opened the door.

Aozaki Touko looked at the puppet that walked in and felt a little confused.

Because he seemed to see another self.

But this is not right, because this doll looks completely different from himself.

"...Your ability should probably be considered magic."

"Record it, then overwrite it, and it will look real... No, it should be said that it is all real, but the 'orange' you painted with color will only be the state it was in when you recorded it."

After Grace's demonstration, Orange understood what Grace meant by "color".

It almost broke her defense.

After all, if Grace didn't lie...

"Come on, come out and have a fight."

Orange suddenly became serious.

Opened the door and walked out.

"You dye my color and let me see."

……

Half an hour later.

Orange sat on the steps on the first floor with lifeless eyes, looking at the blue sky in the distance.

There were cigarette butts all over the floor.

She lost.

A crushing defeat.

"Damn it!"

Orange gritted his teeth.

That's not right. She coaxed Grace back because she wanted to study Grace.

But now the situation is completely reversed, and my underwear has been hollowed out.

No matter what you do, the other person can learn it to the same level as you by watching it once.

Theoretically, even if Grayshu recorded her so-called color, at best it would be a tie with herself.

But what a coincidence.

Wei Yanwu thought so at first.

Yanqing thought so too.

The same thing, when used at Grayshu's current level, is like the difference between burning coal and a reactor.

This is what Orange felt: the biggest difference between Grayshue, who was dyed with his own color, and himself.

It is a feeling of being free, in harmony with nature, and accepting everything in the world.

For example, if she compares the magic she uses to water, then she would expertly throw basins of water at her enemies.