Miss Gudazi, who almost became a walker, is saving humanity

"You said you were a friendly army, so why did you help us?"

Noticing Tachika's movements, Akabako showed a surprised expression.Maxwell's demon has not spoken since just now, and it seems that this development does not surprise him now.

"The reason why I help you? Of course it's because I can make money. As long as I help you, you will be able to repair this singularity and fulfill my current wish. So what is such an insignificant initial investment?"

Speaking of this, Columbus paused and stroked his beard,

"Well, if you want to ask me why this guy who looks like a villain at first glance and doesn't hide it at all doesn't help this singularity to make a fortune... The reason is very simple, this singularity is a damn enemy to me."

When he uttered the words that Maxwell's demon also said, Columbus's voice was also mixed with other things for a moment.But it's not the sad voice of Maxwell's demon, but a more thorough hatred.

"...It seems that you are indeed a friendly army."

"The speed of confirmation is really fast. You can become an excellent navigator. Then come with me, and let us two villains tell you the history of this singularity."

After saying this, Columbus turned around and walked inside the secret base.After Maxwell's demon followed, Kabanko approached Tachika.

"What are you thinking? Humans."

"Huh? What are you thinking?"

"This is the second time - you took the initiative to stand in front of me. I have only known you for a few days. Although there is no unpleasantness, it is not to the extent that you will protect me in such a life-and-death situation That's right. What's more, I can still be classified as a vampire, an enemy of the church—what are you thinking?"

Facing this question, Li Xiang couldn't help scratching his ears and cheeks after being silent for a while.It was as if what I heard was not Mustard Seed's random question, but some of the top ten problems in the world.

In the end, Lixiang responded with an expression of abandonment.

"I'm sorry, Kaba-senpai. I really don't know how to explain such a matter of course. Even if you ask me, I can only answer [I don't know]."

Aochiko couldn't help but stopped, and looked at Lixiang with wide eyes.

"...Fujimaru Tachika, you are much more rare than I thought at first."

"Don't make me sound like it's an endangered animal, Mr. Kaku..."

Kua Chiko didn't say anything more, but just picked up the book again.However, she got a little closer to Lixiang and Matthew.

5. The right thing does not mean the right result

■New York·Sewer secret base (for sale/two holy grails and one flat)

The singularity that was thought to be a tiny singularity has become a large singularity of A+ grade. The enemy is machines all over the United States. Most of the [special powers] cannot be used, but the friendly forces are two neither It is a particularly strong villain reserve.

Lixiang thought about it carefully, and it happened that he seemed to be facing a situation that could be described as despair.

Following Columbus and Maxwell's demon at the forefront, the three of Chaldea's group soon came to the depths of the secret base built in the sewer.

To put it bluntly, it is a place that is too full of life, and the life is even so rich that it can be called "luxury".Columbus, who looked like a villain at first glance, sat on a sofa inside, and there were fruits and unfinished wine on the small table next to the sofa.

Although according to common sense, bad guys should hide themselves to some extent, but it seems that because this time there is no necessary relationship to hide themselves in this world, the man does not hide how extravagant and desperate he is.

The Maxwell demon on the side greeted the three of Lixiang to sit down at the table, and poured them a cup of black tea.

"How about it?"

Columbus said suddenly,

"The layout of this [Secret Base] is pretty good, right? Would you consider buying it? Now two holy grails can be exchanged for one level? It's a good deal, right?"

"...Didn't you just exchange two Holy Grails for the whole room?"

"This shows that my secret base has a lot of room for appreciation, and my heart is not as good as action, girl."

"I don't have any intentions or plans to act. Instead, I'm more and more curious about the purpose of something like you helping us."

Thinking of the unexpected crisis that he encountered on the ground just now, Li Xiang directly entered the topic.

"Didn't you just say that you wanted to tell us the history of this singularity? This singularity has changed too much, and some of you can't find the source. You seem to have come to this singularity long ago? Then do you know what this singularity is? What's the matter?"

"...Tsk, this is the only chance for this singularity to make money, what a shame."

"Is your asking price too high? Even if you want me to sell a perpetual motion machine, I wouldn't dare to charge a high price for two holy grails."

While saying this, Maxwell's demon sat down on a sofa that was in the same direction as Columbus but far enough away from Columbus.

"Two holy grails selling such crap? I don't remember you being so ignorant."

"This singularity has no profit at all. If the asking price is not high, wouldn't I lose a lot?!"

"...With all due respect, even I am the one who built this secret base, and you just renovated it casually. You obviously didn't pay anything, so where did you lose?"

"If you don't earn, you lose. This is the basics of sailing!"

"I've never heard of this kind of nautical basics..." Maxwell pushed down his sunglasses shamefully, and then looked at the position of Lixiang and his party, "Let's get back to business, let me explain the history of this singularity. But before that ——You should all know, right? The [Mafia Era] in the United States.”

Maxwell crossed his hands on his chin, looking like a storyteller in ancient fantasy novels or a behind-the-scenes commander in machine combat animations.

...But unfortunately, neither Tachika nor Akabino cooperated with him very well.

"Uh...don't know."

"Mafia? Something like a yellow scarf?"

Lixiang didn't know much about American history, neither in his previous life nor in this life, while Kao Hinako simply had little interest in human beings.

Hearing their answers, Maxwell almost couldn't move his pose.Fortunately, the last Matthew still knew these things.

"The five Sicilian mafia that are rampant in New York?"

"That's right, that's the one!!"

The Maxwell demon gave Matthew a grateful look, and then continued,

"The five major mafia gangs of the Sicily family were mafia families that used to dominate New York. According to normal historical development, they should decline due to the strengthening of security in New York itself and the internal strife of the mafia. In 1977, [ Blackout in New York] This incident was an opportunity to slowly withdraw from the stage together with other big and small mafia... However, there was an accident."

"...It's actually 1977?!"

Li Xiang shouted in shock,

"If the changes had already happened at that time... we were more than ten years late?!"

Not only was she shocked, but so were the Chaldean staff.They originally thought that the seven singularities were the key, but they didn't expect that there were such things hidden in the tiny singularities that were as numerous as stars.

"...So." Kabanko brought the shocked Lixiang back to his senses with the sound of closing the book, and then asked Maxwell's demon, "What accident are you talking about?"

"There was a man who returned to New York from Wujiang, China in 1977. The man's name is Kevin Cusgoyd, and he is probably the mastermind behind this singularity."

□Maxwell's Demon Explanation

According to the normal development of history, most mafia gangs in New York will take the blackout in New York as an opportunity to withdraw from the stage called [World].They would get their last chance at madness in the hours of darkness and lose all space in America shortly thereafter.

Of course, the reason for the mafia's withdrawal from the world stage will not be a large-scale power outage or a large-scale riot, but no one cares what the real reason for the mafia's decline is now.

What matters is that the future of the Mafia's existence is altered.

Self-proclaimed explorer-turned-grave-robber Kevin Cusgoyd returned to New York alone in 1977.He was supposed to go with a group of friends to rob tombs in China's Wujiang River, but he was the only one who came back alive, which made him a target of ridicule in "explorer" circles.

But unexpectedly, it didn't take long for Kevin to give up the career of tomb robber completely.When he came back from China, he not only mastered special power, he used this power to recover most of the mafia when the blackout occurred in New York, and gradually dominated the entire underground world of the United States on this basis.

Magicians and conjurers in the field will say this sentence - like attracts like and divides like.

The backside of the world is interconnected, and the distance between illegal organizations and unreal existence is always unexpectedly close.Most mafia gangs of a relatively small scale will keep one or two magicians and magicians. For wild magicians who have no power and money, they can get workshops and research by showing off some magic tricks that can be found in children's literature. Funding isn't bad business either.

In short, this is how the magicians and conjurers of the mafia think of Kevin—probably a brat who got a piece of a star shard by luck.

Losing the money and territory of the mafia family is also a troublesome thing for them. They planned to use one or two secret techniques to kill this bastard who hinders people from doing research. By the way, learn about this guy's [mysterious 】.

However, they didn't expect that this muddy boy never used his mystery at all, but took out a holy relic that was at least enough to shock the jaws of wild magicians.

【Holy Cup】

He used the Holy Grail to make a wish that the magicians could not even sing a bar, and sent a sci-fi mechanical weapon from nowhere to massacre these magicians.

It is said that the association, which is the representative of the Western magic circle, has thought about getting involved, but as soon as they enter the United States, they will lose the ability to use magic, so the United States itself has become a forbidden area for the association.Kevin, on the other hand, relied on the power of the unified underground world to slowly dominate the above-ground world, and three years ago turned the United States into a country full of steel.

■New York · Sewer secret base (for sale / [-] US dollars per level)

"Anyway, this has happened in this country."

The Maxwell Goblin took a sip from his teacup and ended with this sentence.

Columbus, who obviously said he wanted to tell history but didn’t dare to say anything, nodded in satisfaction, as if the person in charge of explaining just now was not Maxwell’s demon but himself and said: “It’s really good, you are indeed my good brother. Hahahaha! I have nothing to add!"

Facing the fact that Columbus is so shameless, both Lixiang and Matthew couldn't help but look amused.Maxwell's demon didn't respond at all—it wasn't a matter of a day or two before he was summoned, he was used to it.

Wasabi also seemed unresponsive, but not just because she had no interest in humans.If you look carefully, you can see that there is actually a little panic on the half of her face covered by her own book.

'It's actually... Wujiang?But why is it Wujiang? !The tomb robbers who went to Wujiang, wouldn't they...'

While thinking this way, Kazuko couldn't help exuding a murderous aura.While it was a good time for a furry animal to soothe her, this time Fou stayed in Chaldea.

In order to prevent Fufu from disturbing her low-profile date with Matthew, Lixiang prepared a bunch of delicacies for her.When Da Vinci suddenly ran over and announced that he was going to conduct a practical exercise, Fufu had just eaten half of it.

"Senior Kua?" Keenly feeling the killing intent overflowing from Kazuko, Li Xiang subconsciously looked over, "What happened? Are you okay?"

"...It's okay, nothing happened."

Mustard child forced himself to calm down, then looked at Maxwell's demon and Columbus,

"So, where's that guy named Kevin?"

[The most important thing now is indeed this question. ]

Roman, who finally finished reading the historical records, echoed,

[Although Chaldea can’t see the situation in the singularity now, but if what Mr. Maxwell said is true, then we just need to find this man named Kevin to recover the Holy Grail. ]

"That's where the biggest problem is right now."

The Maxwell demon put down the teacup in his hand, and said with a little helplessness,

"We don't know where Kevin is. Not only us, but no one in America knows where Kevin is. He suddenly disappeared, although because of the existence of robots, the whole of America seems to have been under Kevin's rule."

"……like?"

Lixiang felt a little puzzled for a moment.

No matter how you think about it, there should be no interrogative sentences here.

"Because those robots are not ruled by Kevin at all."

Columbus said rather disdainfully,

"Although it's only for a short while, you should be able to see it, right? Humans are not ruling robots, but robots are ruling humans. As long as I work hard enough, I won't be surprised even if I become a president from a slave, but unexpectedly Make tools the rulers of men?"

[However, since [no one knows where], how should we find this man named Kevin? ]

"There are still clues." Columbus said as if he was going to give a great explanation, and then he looked at the Maxwell demon next to him, "It's up to you to explain it! Brother!"

"...I will accept it if you are called a brother by Constantine XI. You bastard careerist, let it go. You still have the idea of ​​me helping you to make money at this time, you really never He's a rotten person in his bones."

Maxwell let out a long breath, but started to explain as Columbus said.

"Although Kevin is gone, there are still clues to find Kevin in this New York—that is [Five Great Families], the only human managers in this city dominated by machines."

"what is that?"

"To put it simply, it is the five subordinate forces that Kevin personally promoted when he first ruled the underground world of New York. They are the Russian mafia [Cave Bear Alliance] who often act as villains in American movies, and they will act as villains in American comics. The Chinatown mafia [Miscellaneous Ax Society] where the villains appeared, the traditional black mafia in the United States [Jam·Barretts], and the Scoladio of the magician force at all—and Kevin, the man’s family [Kasgo Ed]."

"My family?"

Lixiang tilted her head,

"Doesn't that mean that Kevin is a guy who was born from a gangster, worked hard in the tomb robbery world, and finally ruled the United States... This guy is actually the protagonist of the novel?"

"There are more protagonists!"

Columbus laughed at this moment, and it was a complete mockery.

"These five families are much more difficult to deal with than robots. After all, each of them has a servant who will not lose [power] even if he cannot use treasures and magic. Then, the servants of the Cusgoyd family It's actually that great hero [Lancelot]?!"

"—Breadcrumb Lott?!"

Matthew suddenly became energetic, and his eyes turned golden.Hearing what Columbus said, Lixiang couldn't help frowning.

"In the singularity that can only fight hand-to-hand, is the strongest hero in hand-to-hand combat in the round table an enemy? It's really bad news... But, how do you know so clearly about the servant?"

"Of course I know. Brother Maxwell and I were summoned together with the five of them! As a result, they all ran away [for the United States] and [for the peace of the world], and stayed to save the last It’s just me, the villain? You’re so ridiculous hahahaha!!”

6. Stereotypes of Russian gangsters in American movies

■【Five Great Families】Cave Bear Alliance·Residence

The Cave Bear Alliance, one of the famous mafia [five families] in New York and even in the United States... Although it is not clear whether they can still be called the mafia.