Magician in Type-Moon

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After watching Matou Ike and Aozaki Touko's bickering from the sidelines, Ryougi Shiki finally spoke.

"Orange, you haven't finished speaking."

"Honestly, I'm not an alchemist, how could I be troubled by money?" Miss Orange by the window tossed her cigarette outside. "Alright, Ryougi, we need to do a test before we move out."

It was really unpleasant, and this was especially evident on Orange's face after taking nicotine.

Matouike is probably even more unhappy, Shiki thought to himself.

"You don't need to go over the details anymore, I already have a general understanding of it."

"Oh—really? I just described the situation on site, and that's enough information? You're quite good at applying what you've learned to other situations."

Orange glanced meaningfully at Ryougi Shiki.

"After all that talk, isn't it just that the two of you can't come up with a better solution for that so-called half-dead ancestor?"

"But you're not sure if I can do it. Here's a sample so I can try it out beforehand. Isn't that what testing is all about?"

Ryougi Shiki took off her glasses; she still hadn't gotten used to them, as they were completely different from her usual style.

The next part is simple: testing whether Ryougi Shiki's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception can clearly see the death lines on the Dead Apostles.

Orange nodded and smiled slightly: "Then let's begin. Let's see just how sharp your eyes really are."

Ryougi Shiki slowly walked towards the cage, her eyes revealing a coldness and focus.

The "Demon Eye Kill" technique has long been removed, but Ryougi Shiki has become familiar with the defocused visual method.

As her focus returned, her deep blue eyes, as dark as a cavern in the heavens, gradually gleamed with a faint blue light as they were about to touch the inside of the cage.

The gaze seemed to pierce through the obstacle in front of it, reaching the core of the Dead Apostle, which was now just a head.

For the human body, there are lines that can be drawn to stop it.

Whether it was a flaw in life or the weakest point between molecular bonds, the formula did not know.

It's just that we can see it.

Every single person to date has, without exception, a line leading to death.

However, the lines on this thing, which Aozaki Touko and Matou Ike call a Dead Apostle, are extremely faint.

Previously, I could see people die without even noticing, but now I have to use my brain to observe my opponent to see it clearly.

"What's wrong?" Orange asked, noticing Ryougi Shiki's strange expression.

"It's nothing, it's just that this thing in front of me feels a bit strange, like something that shouldn't exist in this world. I can't even see clearly what they died."

After confirming that she could see the death line, Ryougi Shiki stopped using the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

Now she understood why Orange and Matouchi had gone to all this trouble; until just now, she had thought the two of them were up to no good.

"Is that so?" Matou Ike nodded thoughtfully.

Ryougi Shiki is absolutely right about one thing: the Dead Apostles are inherently enemies of primates and not natural mediators, because they deny human history; the Dead Apostles are a product of denying human history.

However, if heroic spirits can be summoned into reality, the concept of enemies of primates should be greatly weakened.

However, in actual combat, Matou Ike did not feel that these monsters, which had been severely weakened, were particularly weak.

Perhaps it's because of that?

Matou Ike heard from Angela Manuel that this world had been transformed from a singularity into a Lostbelt after the Holy Grail War.

This is also something his boss has been pushing for, although Matou Ike still doesn't understand the point of making the world this way.

And wouldn't becoming a Lostbelt mean facing off against the Chaldea group again?

Matou Ike's head was throbbing just thinking about it; his desire to enjoy the everyday life he took for granted seemed to be going further and further astray.

Especially now, the existence of Lostbelts also represents a denial of pan-human history.

This might be why the Dead Apostles haven't been weakened by human reason?

However, this world can still summon Heroic Spirits, a fact he learned after being asked to return to Fuyuki ten years later to participate in the Holy Grail War.

It's really strange that human reason and anti-human reason coexist.

Orange glanced at Matou Ike, who was deep in thought, then at Ryougi Shiki, and gently brushed her hair aside:

"Although it's hard to see clearly, you can still see it, right?"

Ryougi Shiki nodded, confirming what Touko had said.

After receiving affirmation, Orange continued:

"Since you can see it, it means it's alright. However, the thing you're about to face is something even more powerful than this, so you should prepare in advance."

Orange paused, then turned to look at Matou Ike:

"Matou, put your matter on hold for now. Go with Ryougi tonight. If things get too difficult, just run away with Ryougi. As a Mushi user, your survival skills should be top-notch, right?"

Upon hearing Touko speak to him, Matou Ike stopped thinking and nodded.

Although Orange's words weren't very eloquent, they were indeed the truth, and it's always good to be cautious.

As for what Orange mentioned about what Matouchi was preparing to do.

Before Ryougi Shiki arrived at the agency, Aozaki Touko and Matou Ike originally planned to let Ryougi Shiki go alone to explore Hakujun's lair.

Meanwhile, Matou Ike will infiltrate Reien to follow up on the matter of Wujō Kirie.

However, given Ryougi Shiki's level of development of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, Matou Ike had to put aside one thing for the time being.

Although he always felt that Wuzhao Wue's matter was more important, as it might be related to Araya Sōren's most core plan.

As for Bai Chun, its current goal has been figured out—to devour Minato Keita's head and obtain the complete blessing.

And since this crucial item is currently in their own hands, Matou Ike is not in a hurry at all.

“Okay, let Kurogiri investigate the matter at Reien first. Orange, you should negotiate with him.”

Matouchi had no objection to this arrangement.

However, he still couldn't let go of the matter of Reien, so he proposed that Kokutou Mikiya, who had always been excluded from the plan, be the subject of preliminary investigation.

After all, although Kokutou Mikiya is known as the "human Google," none of the three present wanted to see ordinary people get involved in things outside of the realm.

However, it's not particularly dangerous to just conduct some preliminary investigations and preparations.

So both Orange and Ryougi Shiki nodded, which meant they agreed to the plan.

So much so that not long after, Mikiko Kurogiri hurriedly arrived at the office.

The others no longer felt guilty about hiding their actions from him.

After all, Kokutou Mikiya is the kind of guy who can't stay idle, so it's better to find him something to do.

Chapter 230 Method to Destroy the Barrier

Taking the subway, Matouike and Ryougi Shiki arrive at an unfamiliar station.

Looking out from this silent city, which resembles a ghost town, one can see a huge port in the distance.

According to Keita Minato, Shirasumi Rio is hiding in a warehouse district in the suburbs.

There was no one in the warehouse area, and few streetlights. As long as you walked into the open space between the two warehouses, no one would cause trouble.

The only things worth noting are the sound of the waves and the wide bridge still under construction on the distant sea.

A girl in a kimono and a young man in a trench coat stood at the entrance of this alleyway nestled between warehouses.

Against the backdrop of the harbor reflecting the dim moonlight, Ryougi Shiki and Matouike stood there —

The sky was dark; this place had become a distant sea.

The city lights seen from the harbor are as distant and unreachable as the moon seen from the ground.

The deserted port felt dozens of times colder than the city.

"Have we been scammed? There's no warehouse here that guy mentioned for storing cargo, and there's not even a smell of blood."

Wearing glasses, Ryougi Shiki complained to Matou Ike beside her with some confusion, feeling a little uncomfortable being alone with Matou Ike.

"Is that so?" Matou Ike muttered to himself, stretching out his fingers to feel the bone-chilling wind blowing from the sea.

But no.

If it's a barrier, it's difficult to manage its relationship with the physical laws governing the flow of nature.

Even setting aside ordinary barriers, other worlds are products that truly depend on reality.

The absence of wind only confirmed Matouike's suspicions about the unusual situation.

The wind couldn't get through, and you couldn't even hear a sound from the inside.

That stagnant air was indeed evidence of being isolated from the impure world.

But—there isn't even an air outlet here.

Stagnant air becomes cloudy and settles.

This is not an isolated otherworld, because walls cannot be used to create another world.

Therefore, the world surrounded by warehouses is not another world, but just a cage.

In other words, this place is more like a fortress built to imprison something.

Matouchi gestured for Ryougi Shiki to remove her "Mystic Eyes" to check if there were any unusual fluctuations here.

He himself quietly opened the Deconstruction Magic Eye.

Sure enough, with their Noble Color-level magic eyes, the two quickly saw the differences between this place and the outside world.

However, since a cage is a cage, its characteristics are more focused on its sturdiness.

Although it was used to imprison wild beasts, it also kept outsiders away.

In this situation, Ryougi Shiki looks at Matou Ike, and Matou Ike also looks at Ryougi Shiki.

Both were waiting for the other to make a move.

After a stalemate of more than ten seconds, Ryougi Shiki finally couldn't hold back any longer:

"Aren't you a magician? Shouldn't you be the one to check this? Go and open this thing!"