This is not the date I wanted.

"Besides, Shidou, you should focus on the spirit hunter Devil instead of the hacker."

"Elf Hunter... Devil...?"

Hearing this name that he had never heard of before, Shidou looked confused.

"What's wrong with you? You look like you've lost your memory." Kotori looked at him in surprise, then sighed and whispered, "Forget it, let's go to Fraxinus and explain after dinner."

……

Then, after finishing dinner with everyone, Shidou followed Kotori's instructions and came to Fraxinus's aerial ship.

In the command room inside the ship, Murasame Reion showed Shidao the following video.

The ruined city, the deafening explosions, and the billowing smoke showed that there was undoubtedly a fierce battle going on here.

And in that.

Shidou saw——a spirit.

It was like a human figure entangled in darkness. Its appearance, physique, and figure were all covered by a layer of black shadow and could not be distinguished. The wing-like parts floating around the human figure were constantly emitting lasers to destroy the city.

"Nonsense..."

Shidou felt his throat was unusually dry, and his voice became hoarse unconsciously.

It wasn't because of the strange appearance of the elves that he was surprised. Although the appearance and expression were obscured, he had seen in another world that the elves used angel-like things to destroy the Tiangong City where Shidao was located into ruins.

"Is it not over yet... Origami..."

That’s right, the elf on the screen, codenamed Devil, is the Origami who fell into reversal out of despair before the world changed.

03 Today after the change

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"Ahhhh-"

Alan Mathers, the most powerful magician in the Japanese branch of DEM, was sitting in his office at this moment, facing the mountain of documents on his desk, and he let out a desperate howl.

"Calm down, my dear Alan."

Sitting on the sofa not far away, Westcott tasted the red wine elegantly and said in a leisurely tone,

"As for work, just take your time."

"Ike, if you don't understand anything, stop making sarcastic remarks!"

Looking up from the pile of documents, Allen showed obvious anger towards his boss, which was rare. I believe that if there was no superior-subordinate relationship between the two of them, Allen would definitely pick up the stack of documents and throw it at Westcott's face without hesitation.

"Ah, he was able to force our DEM Club's strongest magician into this state. Should I say he is truly the most dangerous elf hacker to humans?"

Westcott chuckled and shrugged.

The documents currently piled up in front of Allen's desk were all reports from magician branches around the world about the most dangerous elves - hackers.

Perhaps among all the elves, Hacker's power is not the strongest, but to humans, she is the most dangerous elf.

The hacking technology that surpasses the current level of human technology has mastered the method of cracking the magician's weapon, the CR-Unit (Tactical Manifestation Unit). All of this has caused panic among magician branches in various regions, and naturally, DEM, who is responsible for the invention and sale of the manifestation device, has become the first target of everyone's criticism.

I remember the worst time, every corner of the entire DEM agency was buzzing with phone calls.

Although the situation has improved after Westcott invented the Vaccine Box that can prevent hackers from cracking the manifestation device, the elf named Hacker does not seem to give up his intention to cause trouble. After the headquarters' database was completely isolated from the Internet, he still hacked into the magician branches around the world to harass them.

If Alan were to describe this elf in three words - annoying as hell!

"I will tear the hacker into pieces!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah~"

Looking at the murderous Allen in front of him, Westcott shook his head helplessly.

"Excuse me."

At this moment, the automatic door of the office suddenly opened, and a young woman in her twenties walked in front of Westcott.

This woman has beautiful golden hair, blue eyes that seem to reflect the sky, and skin as white as snow.

Compared with the "domineering" female secretary Allen, the woman in front of him gave people a more "lovable" eldest lady temperament.

"Director, I have prepared the information you asked me to investigate."

"Thank you for your hard work, Artemisia."

“It’s just part of the job.”

With a gentle smile on her face, Artemisia came to Alan's table after respectfully bowing to Westcott. 　

"Alan, let me help you deal with some of the files related to Hackers." 　

"It's not necessary." 　

"But even if you want to process these documents by yourself, it will take a considerable amount of time. If this delays other necessary work, you will be troubled, Alan."

"Um……" 　

After hearing Artemisia's suggestion, Allen hesitated for a moment. Indeed, if he spent too much time on these documents, without his supervision, the magicians in the executive department would definitely be lazy in their daily training. 　

"Hmph, although there is no problem even if I am the only one doing it, there is some truth in what you said. I will allow you to be in charge of some of the documents."

"Okay~ Hey--" 　

Not minding Allen's arrogant attitude at all, Artemisia smiled and nodded. With her arms around him, she took away most of the documents on Allen's desk. 　

(This power——Is it using a micro-manifestation device to enhance one’s physical abilities?) 　

Allen thought to himself. As the strongest magician, he couldn't help but breathe faster when moving some of the files, not to mention the others. But Allen decided to pretend that he didn't see through the tricks his subordinates used to show off.

"Oh? We have captured the whereabouts of the Devil and the Hacker."

Flipping through the report in his hand, Westcott raised his eyebrows in slight surprise.

"—!"

The moment he heard the word hacker, a fierce light flashed in Allen's eyes.

Westcott did not miss the reaction of his subordinates and said with a sigh.

"Dear Allen, although I understand that you really want to settle accounts with the hacker at this moment. However, we have to prepare a plan for material A for now."

It wasn't that Westcott intended to let go of the reversed elf he had always dreamed of. It was because Westcott felt a subtle sense of disharmony from another elf - Hacker.

Starting from the Yamai sisters, to the subsequent Tohka reversal incident, as well as the invasion of Maruna Ormori, and his subordinate Maddock secretly causing the artificial satellite to fall into Tenguu City. In the battle between DEM and Ratatoskr, this elf would always "accidentally" appear at the most critical moment, rescuing Gokawa Shido and others from crisis.

After investigation, Westcott found that this was not accidental. The hacker seemed to have anticipated how things would develop and had taken preventive measures long ago.

It's not that she can predict the future, but she feels very familiar with it as if she has experienced it before.

If he makes a hasty move without knowing the reason, Westcott will be in a passive position. Even for this purpose, Westcott must take the power of Material A for himself.

"……I see."

Alan gritted his teeth with a hint of reluctance, and after a moment, he calmed down the murderous intent in his heart and nodded to indicate that he would follow Westcott's orders.

Even though he didn't say it explicitly, Allen obviously guessed what Westcott was thinking. Westcott couldn't help but smile with relief that he had such an excellent secretary by his side.

"Well, I'm going to take a nap. Work hard, my dear Alan~"

"Guh... just wait and see... Hacker"

Sitting alone in the empty office, looking at the still huge number of documents in front of him, tears welled up in the corners of Alan's eyes. He gritted his teeth and continued to work.

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November 11th, Friday. The day after Gokawa Shido changed the past.

"what--"

As usual, Shidou accompanied Tohka to school. After sitting in his seat, he couldn't help but yawn.

"Are you sleepy, Shidou?"

Tohka at the next table asked with some confusion.

"Well...I didn't sleep very well last night." 　

"Well, that won't do. Are you okay?" 　

"Haha, well... I'll take a nap before making dinner."

Shidou gave a wry smile, patted his cheeks to cheer himself up, hesitated for a moment, and asked Tohka. 　

"Tohka... do you know a spirit named Hacker?"

"Yeah! I know."

Tohka nodded without hesitation.

"Then do you know where she is now?" 　

"Um... I'm sorry Shidou, I haven't seen her since I met Hacker the last time Nanashi appeared."

Tohka lowered her head in disappointment, and the bow on her head seemed to wilt.

"It's okay. This is enough. Thank you, Tohka."

After patting Tohka's head to express his gratitude, Shidou sighed softly, looked up at the ceiling, and a trace of confusion appeared in his eyes.

The reason for lack of sleep is simple. Shidao did two things last night.

The first thing was to go out. After dinner, Shidao secretly went out alone and went to the apartment where Origami lived in his memory and the Nankou-cho residence where Origami lived during the fire five years ago.

However, the rooms in the apartment were already empty, and the Tobi family, who originally lived in Nankou Town, also hung up someone else's house number. Although they tried to inquire about the whereabouts of the Tobi family, they did not get any clues.

The second thing was confirmation. After noticing that Kotori, Nanashi and Yoshino had not forgotten Yumezuki, but simply knew her as a "hacker", Shidou asked Reine to watch the relevant videos of his Pokémon captures during this period.

Until the school trip, everything that happened was not much different from Gokawa Shidao's memory. However, after returning to Tiangong City, a huge difference occurred.

There was a space earthquake at the end of July. Originally, this was the first time that Mengyue and I met. However, according to the video record, when I entered the department store that was reduced to ruins, Mengyue had already "disappeared".

In this world, the first time I met Mengyue was during the Miku incident. After Miku broke the agreement and Tohka was captured, I met this elf wearing a black windbreaker and with long brown hair through the introduction of Kurumi.

——Hacker, this is what Mengyue calls herself.

At that time, with the help of Kurumi and Mengyue, he conquered Miku safely and saved the reversal of Tohka. After that, whenever Shidao encountered difficulties, Mengyue would appear to help him through the difficulties.

Having said that, Ratatoskr would not just leave the unsealed elves alone, so "himself" once asked Mengyue out on a date and asked her to seal her spiritual power in order to conquer her.

however……

【It's meaningless.】 　

However, Meng Yue in the video refused this.

Then half a month ago, when Shidou was on his way to conquer the Seven Sins, Devil suddenly appeared.

According to Kotori, Devil does not appear alone, but appears randomly when other spirits appear, and then launches a crazy attack on the spirits that appear. The Seven Sins, who were not sealed at that time, were unlucky enough to become the target of attack by Devil and DEM at the same time. If Meng Yue had not arrived in time to help him hold back Devil, the consequences would be disastrous.

The reason why the Seven Sins in this world also fell in love with games was because Meng Yue, who came to visit at that time, did the same "surveillance" behavior as in the previous world.

Immediately afterwards, Mengyue helped Shidao and others deal with the three fallen satellites, and never appeared again.

"call……"

After learning this, Shidou once again realized how naive he was yesterday when he thought that "everything can be solved as long as the past is changed".

Shidou is certain that the Devil spirit that appears in the picture is the reversed Origami that he saw in the previous world.

But why did it become like this? Undoubtedly, Shidou successfully saved Origami's parents five years ago. After losing the cause of killing her own parents, Origami in this world naturally could not reverse. No - it should be said that there was no reason for her to become a spirit.

Moreover, why did Meng Yue, who was supposed to meet me at the end of July, disappear early? And why did she help me with a stranger? Why did she hide her name? Is there any connection between the reversal of origami and Meng Yue's abnormality?

——Or in other words, the hacker in this world is not Meng Yue.

(No—calm down.)

Realizing that he was beginning to think in a bad direction, Shidou took a deep breath to cool his head.

"Anyway, when you get home, explain what happened to Kotori and ask her to help me investigate the whereabouts of Mengyue and Origami."

It's no use imagining things by yourself. I don't know if Kotori will believe that I traveled through time and changed the world, but as long as I show that this information is related to hackers and devils, she probably won't ignore it.

"Oh, by the way. Today I want to introduce a new friend to you all."

At the class meeting before class, Teacher Xiaozhu suddenly announced that a transfer student had been transferred into the class. 　

"Teacher Xiaozhu, isn't this a beautiful girl who transferred here?"