I, Den-O, the Contract Urban Legend

Without disturbing the sleeping Arsen again, Inoue Ue continued to look for Naya.

Next, Inoue Ueya once again circled around Chiba City. Just like before, he did not find any trace of Naya, but it was almost dawn.

"I was afraid of missing the chance to run into her, so I went around in circles again, but still found nothing. It seems like Naya really isn't in Chiba right now..."

Come to think of it, instead of circling aimlessly here, it would be more efficient to pay attention to recent car accidents and use them to calculate her location.

"Ah, ah, so we still have to go back and seek help from Sadako A-mon?"

Unable to think of any other solution, Inoue Ue could only sigh and temporarily give up the search.

……

At the same time, not far outside the Hachisha clan’s territory, Hachisha Yuki closed his eyes and sat cross-legged under the waterfall.

Yasha Megumi stood by and carefully observed Yasha Yuki's situation.

These days, Yasha Kei gave tutoring to his silly daughter Yasha Yuki, and asked her to relearn most of the family's knowledge of illusion.

Up to now, Yashayuki still has some problems in performing illusions, but she has made some progress in the secret technique of changing body shape that she wants to learn.

"Although I've said it several times, I still want to remind you again. When performing the body shape-changing technique, you must imagine the body shape you want to change into, otherwise..."

Before he finished speaking, golden arcs of spiritual power emerged from Yasha Yuki's body and flowed around. A series of rumbling sounds followed. Yasha Yuki had indeed successfully performed the secret technique of changing his body shape.

However, a dazzling golden light flashed, and what came into Yashakei's eyes was a giant over thirty meters tall.

"Hey, why did we fail again?" Yashayuki was a little confused.

"...Otherwise, the transformation will go awry." Yashaki Megumi sighed as she looked at her daughter's giant form. "How can you still be called 'Yashika-sama'? She's already over 80 feet now..."

Chapter 183: Qu Zhi is so arrogant

Looking at her daughter who had turned into a giant, Yashakei couldn't help but shake her head.

In fact, the main purpose of this secret technique of changing body shape is to allow the tall "Hachisha-sama" to become a body shape close to that of his partner. It is a spell created by the older generation of "Hachisha-sama".

Firstly, it is because the Hachishaku clan cannot give birth to male offspring, and secondly, they advocate free love. In order to continue their bloodline or fall in love, they can only look for partners in the human world. Since most of the partners they choose are humans, and secondly there are human-like monsters, there is a certain degree of difference in height and body shape between "Hachisha-sama" and her partner, and they are always bound to encounter some inconveniences in life.

Thus, this spell was created. It was not an illusion but a secret technique that could truly adjust one's height and body shape. If the caster wished, the effect could even last for a long time.

Later, the Hashik clan discovered the convenience of this spell, such as not having to worry about their body shape when living in a house, reducing food consumption, and being more receptive to the other party when pursuing love, so this spell has become a compulsory spell for the Hashik clan to some extent.

However, since the secret technique is still somewhat difficult to master, it is considered a difficult spell for the newly born "Hachisha-sama" to master, so the Hachisha clan unknowingly developed a method of judging the age of the person by their body shape.

"The body shape can be changed between big sister and loli at will" has gradually become a test that needs to be achieved during the coming-of-age ceremony in the eyes of the Hachisha clan.

Incidentally, Yashaku Yuki's contemporary, "Yashika-sama," had already managed to do something like this, and her own coming-of-age ceremony trial was changed by Yashaku Megumi to involve defeating a bear on a mountain with her bare hands...

But these are not important. The problem now is the situation of Yashayuki's "giantification".

"Hmm, this level of change should have already exceeded the limits of the mystical technique. Could this also be caused by the nature of spiritual power?"

Faced with the scene in front of her, even Yashaki Megumi, the head of the Yashaki clan, felt a little confused. This was completely beyond her knowledge.

In fact, it wasn't just this shape-changing spell. The illusions Yashakuyuki cast were generally a bit strange. Sometimes nothing happened, and sometimes they turned into dangerous spells targeting mental attacks. The success rate of the spells was only about 20%...

As the first victim of the mental explosion, Yasha Kei couldn't help but feel lucky that her stupid daughter didn't use all her strength to cast the spell, otherwise she, as the clan leader, would probably be in trouble.

"I've gotten the hang of it. Sachiko won't give up!"

Although the transformation failed this time, Yashayuki became more energetic. It seemed that such a small failure did not cause much of a blow to her.

After all, Yasha Yuki has been unable to use magic since she was a child. She has faced countless failures and attacks. A small matter like a failed transformation is no longer a big deal to her. She feels that she is making progress every minute!

After a terrifying period of intensive knowledge training, she was finally able to cast spells of this level. Now she was only one step away from completing her mission!

Yashaku Yuki's mind began to imagine the scene of Inoue Ueya being mesmerized by her transformed self. A strange smile unconsciously appeared on her face, and she murmured: "Hehehe, after the training is completed, I must let my husband give me a princess hug!"

Yashakei, who was soaked like a drowned rat, looked at his daughter who was grinning foolishly with an expressionless face, feeling helpless.

"Anyway, let's cancel the transformation first. If you stand in front of the waterfall like a giant, the water will pour down on me!"

……

Late at night, Inoue Ue, who had found nothing, also returned to the Inoue family.

Inoue Ueya changed his shoes and walked straight into the living room. He saw Sadako sitting on a chair, who was dozing off at the moment.

"Really? I'll catch a cold if I sleep here, right?" Inoue Ueya murmured in a low voice.

In fact, this was also within Sadako's calculations. Today, Mary and Kun went to Hanako's room to play games. That is to say, as long as she stayed here, when Ueya came back home, there would be only the two of them in the living room. This was a long-lost time for the two of them!

But she never expected that halfway through the wait, Sadako would be suddenly overcome by sleepiness and fell asleep on the chair in the living room without realizing it.

When Inoue Ueya was hesitating whether to wake up Sadako, Sadako seemed to hear the voice made by Inoue Ueya and slowly opened her eyes.

As if she had not woken up from a dream, Sadako saw Inoue Ueya coming back and walked up to him and hugged him without thinking much.

"Shiye, you're finally back! I almost fell asleep!"

"Well, sorry to have kept you waiting..."

After a moment, Sadako finally came to her senses, her face flushed, and she felt an inexplicable sense of shame in her heart. She subconsciously escaped from Inoue Ueya's arms.

Seeing Sadako's reaction, the corners of Inoue Ueya's mouth unconsciously turned up, "Oh, Sadako-sama is blushing? It's not impossible for me to let you hold me for a while longer, right?"

Perhaps because he has been teased by girls frequently recently, Inoue Ueya seems to have gradually become immune to this kind of thing, at least he is no longer at a loss.

"Humph, if you hadn't come back so late, I wouldn't have fallen asleep so easily!"

"Okay, okay, if you want to sleep, go back to your room and sleep. Don't sit here any longer."

Sadako puffed up her cheeks and her ponytail stood up, as if she was a little dissatisfied with Inoue Ueya's teasing. "Tsk, a mere Ueya is so arrogant! Miss Sadako, I'm very angry now!"

"It was just a joke, don't be angry."

"I don't care, you have to compensate me!"

Inoue Ueya smiled and reached out to touch Sadako's head. "Okay, okay, I'll listen to whatever you ask. Is this all right, Miss Sadako?"

……

In Inoue Ueya's bedroom.

"Whoosh..."

Sadako hugged Inoue Ueya tightly as if he were a pillow. From time to time, she could hear his even breathing. It seemed that because she had been busy recently, she was tired and fell asleep quickly.

After all, when Inoue Ueya, Hanako and Iwanaga Kotoko had to go out for various reasons, Sadako was the only one who could take care of Kun and Mari, and her workload was much greater than before.

Inoue Ueya was lying on the bed with an expressionless face. He felt a little regretful about what he had said in a moment of carelessness. He didn't expect that Sadako would let him sleep with her.

In fact, Inoue Ueya slept for almost half a day today because of inexplicable fatigue. But now, when it was time to sleep, he couldn't fall asleep...

Chapter 184: Deus Ex Machina

But Inoue Ueya thought about it carefully again. If he couldn't sleep and went to play games now, he would probably have to stay in bed again tomorrow. Then in the morning, he would start to feel sleepy again, and then he would fall into an infinite vicious loop.

There is no doubt that this is a vicious cycle and we must adjust to it as soon as possible!

Besides, he was now being held by the sleeping Sadako. Based on his previous experience, if he tried to break free, she would instinctively increase her strength to hold him tighter...

This was just an ordinary situation. Recalling the terrible past, Inoue Ueya's face gradually turned ashen.

Others may not know, but as a victim, I know very well that Sadako's sleeping posture is not only terrible, but also very dangerous. Once when she was having a nightmare, Inoue Ue, who was sleeping soundly next to her, was punched several times by her and almost died.

After thinking for a while, Inoue Ue was still scared. There was no other way. It would be better to go to bed obediently. Maybe he would fall asleep after lying down for a while.

So, Inoue Ue also chose to close his eyes.

……

"You haven't fallen asleep yet, have you? Now we're finally officially meeting, Inoue Ueya."

When he closed his eyes and opened them again, Inoue Ueya came to the enclosed space that seemed a little familiar. In front of him was a giant sitting on the throne and a black-skinned loli with light purple hair.

Inoue Ueya raised his head and looked at the giant in front of him with helplessness.

"Well, I've already told you before that Mr. Inoue won't do anything like passing on the flames, so you don't need to come to me again, okay?"

"?"

The giant was stunned when he heard this, and for a moment he couldn't think of what to say in response.

No, so what exactly is this fire transmission you are talking about?

The giant pondered for a moment, then decided to put this unimportant question aside and continued, "You must have recognized the wrong person. I don't know what fire transmission is. Anyway, please allow me to introduce myself first..."

"Ahem, welcome to the Cathedral of Causality. My name is Zeus, the creator of this space. I'm also known as the Lord of Space and Time, the God of Time and Space, or perhaps my most widely known title, the Deus Ex Machina."

After saying this, the giant seemed to recall something and added, "By the way, although my name is also 'Zeus', it has nothing to do with that LSP from Greek mythology! To be more specific, my name is 'Deus' and that guy is 'Zeus', so don't get them mixed up!"

"Ah? Oh..."

Although he didn't understand what the giant meant, Inoue Ueya still nodded as if he understood.

Looking at the familiar scene, Inoue Ue vaguely recalled the scene he had dreamed about at noon, and then said: "I didn't expect that dreams could have coherent content..."

To be honest, Inoue Ueya still thinks he is dreaming.

"No, rather than saying this is a dream, it's better to say that I just pulled your consciousness from the outside world into the Cathedral of Causality." Zeus denied Inoue Ueya's statement.

"The Great Cathedral of Karma?"

Well, I don’t have any impression, but judging by the style of their names, these two should be characters in some work, right?

I haven't done anything wrong recently, but I seem to have been dragged into some trouble again. Why does even sleeping cause trouble?

"I see, you don't remember that? Then, you should know about "Future Diary"?"

Hearing this, Inoue Ue was also stunned.

Future Diary, this is one of the manga that Inoue Ueya read in his previous life. The content is quite impressive, especially the yandere heroine...

The giant in front of us, Zeus, the king of time and space, is the initiator of the main story line. As his life is about to end, he implemented a plan called "Future Diary" with the aim of finding a successor. He held a game in which more than ten people fought each other, and the winner would become his successor.

The question is why he knows this story? Did he see the plot of the story in some way? Or is he simply referring to the "Future Diary" project?

The most crucial point is, why did Zeus ask such a question to him whom he had never met before?

As if sensing Inoue Ueya's vigilance, Zeus waved his hand and explained, "Calm down. I already knew you were an outsider."

As Zeus said, he has been observing this outsider since the day Inoue Ueya traveled to this world.

Although Inoue Ueya himself seemed to have not discovered this, Zeus, as a god, was aware that he possessed an extremely powerful force in his body.

Later, Inoue Ueya used a small part of the power to transform into Den-O, which further confirmed his guess.

After all, Inoue Ueya wasn't a bad guy, even though he possessed powerful strength. Zeus had originally intended to observe him from the shadows, but it wasn't until the Tenjin Elementary School incident that Inoue Ueya's involvement triggered a massive distortion of space and time, forcing Zeus to adjust the laws of causality, forcing him to work overtime for several nights in a row. Only then did he discover the terrifying nature of that power...

I don't know if that was the effect of the power of the singularity. The result of Zeus's action was that Inoue Ueya's system judgment was disturbed, which indirectly led to the loss of more than half of the mission rewards for Tenjin Elementary School due to an unknown error.

"You've so blatantly caused the distortion of time and space. You don't think no god will notice, do you?"

"Ah this..."

Inoue Ue was speechless. He didn't understand these things, so it was useless to talk to him.

Come to think of it, Iwanaga Kotoko's memory doesn't seem to be affected by the time distortion. Could it be that the gods have some kind of resistance to this kind of time and space distortion?

"So? The reason you brought me in is to eliminate this dangerous existence like me?"

After saying this, Inoue Ueya sighed and added, "Let me state in advance that I, Inoue Ueya, have a clear conscience. That time-space distortion was only for the purpose of saving people, and I have never abused the power of Den-O!"

Zeus shook his head, rejecting Inoue Ueya's idea. "No, this is your choice. I won't stop you unless the world is destroyed. This is not the reason why I asked you to appear in the Cathedral of Causality..."

Not long ago, when Inoue Ueya rescued Kuin from the nightmare, serious time and space distortion occurred again, this time targeting not the "past" but the "future".

What no one knows is that a memory completely different from the current timeline also emerged in Zeus' mind. It was the memory of the time and space when the future Kato Megumi and Yukinoshita Yukino existed.

"Inoue Ueya, are you interested in becoming my successor?"

Chapter 185: Is there such a thing?

"Successor? How about we talk about passing on the flame?"

Inoue Ue also found it difficult to understand Zeus's train of thought. Whether it was the time and space distortion created by himself or the identity of a time traveler, it should be a trouble for this god. Why did Zeus choose to let him inherit his power?

As a singularity, Inoue Ueya would also suspect that he was being scammed when he heard the news of winning the lottery. Now a god suddenly appears and says that he wants to become the heir. He can tell from what he hears that this is a trouble.