Ogawa Apartment is a building built by dividing a circle into two half-moon shapes in the middle and then joining them together. The only thing that connects the two buildings is the central space. It is impossible to go directly from the east building to the west building above the second floor. You must first return to the central space and then pass through the hall.
There is no manager¡¯s room in the lobby.
In the center of the circular space, there is a huge column that looks like the spine of the apartment. This is an elevator for moving between the first and tenth floors. There are also steps on the sides of the columns. The elevator and stairs formed a column-like thing against the wall.
Time has come to November 9th, Aozaki Orange and Kurogiri Miki also came here because of an accidental murder that happened on November 7th.
The incident was like this. A company employee in his 20s was attacked on the roadside. Since the victim was a woman, it was difficult to discern the purpose of the murder in this case. But, unfortunately, the victim was stabbed. Although the murderer escaped, the victim could not walk. The victim who was stabbed in the abdomen did not have a mobile phone with him. Plus the site is an apartment area. There wasn't even a small shop around, and it was already deserted at ten o'clock in the evening. While bleeding, she entered the nearest apartment of Ogawa and called for help.
However, no one is using the first and second floors of the Ogawa Apartment. People live on the third floor or above. By the time I took the elevator to the third floor, my physical strength had reached its limit. She screamed for help for about ten minutes, but no one in the apartment noticed her. Finally, she died at 11 p.m.
Chengzi: "Which floor is better to go to, Kurogiri?"
Qianye: "I don't know, it can be any number of floors. If I had to choose, it would be four floors."
Chengzi: "Then it will be the fourth floor."
With an unnaturally loud mechanical sound, the elevator reached the fourth floor.
Chengzi: "Now, because it is the fourth floor, this is 401. It starts from here and goes to 405, and then it ends. How to get to the west building?"
Mikiya: "Let's go around from the back side of the elevator. After coming out of the elevator, the south corridor in front leads to the east building, and the north corridor on the back side of the appliance connects to the west building. This apartment is indeed divided into The two buildings are a strange design. It wouldn't be so troublesome if they were connected on the outside."
Orange: "Wouldn't that be boring? It's how we can clearly distinguish black from white. Speaking of which, Kurogiri. What's the matter with you coming to the fourth floor? I want to visit someone who is supposed to be dead. Is that the family¡¯s room?¡±
Qianye: "Director. Where did you hear about this?"
Orange: "I told you that I heard it from the sincere criminal. It's like a thief saw the bodies of the whole family as soon as he entered the door. I didn't ask for the names of the room and the family members. However, I think you should have investigated it. It¡¯s time to come out. What should I do? Try to confirm, Kurogiri?¡±
Qianye: "I have this plan, but now"
Orange: "Go and have a look. I want to use the elevator by myself. By the way, let's meet on the upper floor. You can use the stairs over there. I'm afraid it's a spiral staircase. Close your eyes when you go up. It¡¯s better.¡±
Hei Tongqian also pressed the doorbell of 405, and a middle-aged man came out of the door: "Hello, this is Yantiao's house. Who are you?"
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Kuroyukihime also walked up the spiral staircase and reached the lobby on the "fifth floor". Aozaki Orange was already there: "Here he is, let's go down."
Kurogane also entered the elevator silently.
Cheng Zi: "Kurotong, lower your head. I want to test you."
Qianye: "Huh? Okay, just lower your head."
About three seconds passed.
Chengzi: "Then let's start asking questions. How many floors is this here?"
Hei Tongqian also raised his head: "Eh? Or the fifth floor?? Then, it was the sixth floor just now."
Orange: "The answer is correct. Kurogiri wanted to go up to the first floor but went up to the second floor. Although it is a staircase design that is easy to mistake, it is just a bonus. Speaking of which, for an apartment This is strange. The only way to confirm the floor you live on is a small text in the lobby. The higher you go, the more blurry you feel in the elevator. In this way, you only need to do some manipulation on the switches in the elevator. , it is impossible for people who are not used to living there to distinguish the fourth floor from the fifth floor. If you have the chance, you can try it in a nearby apartment. The best time is late at night, the atmosphere will be very good By the way, go there for a while Let¡¯s take a look at the east building. It¡¯s true that every building has a lobby on the first floor, right?¡±
Qianye: "Yes. It just matches the design of the second floor.Shilianlian is a structure with clear pillars and no walls. It feels a little like a hotel lobby Hey, wasn't the lobby of the east building designed by you, Miss Chengzi? "
Chengzi: "Yes."
Soon, the two came to the lobby of the east building, which was a slightly wide and empty square. The structure has clear pillars and no walls, and the wide stairs extend to the second-floor platform.
"If there was a device, it would probably be here. It was made as if it were an escape route just in case." Aosaki Orange knelt down on the marble floor. Then he kept touching the ground with his hands like a scholar looking for fossils.
Qianye: "Um, what are you doing, director?"
Orange: "Pay attention. In this place, haven't you noticed that the stairs have been used? This is what it looks like after it has been moved."
Mikiya: "The stairs have been moved? If the stairs stuffed in the cage have been moved, it means that the central column of the elevator has been moved. Such a stupid thing, why?"
Chengzi: "It's not a pillar. It's just a step. Didn't you see over there in the corner? There are scratches on the wall. Ah, yes. I'm afraid you didn't notice it."
Mikiya: "But it's impossible to move the stairs. Once the pillar is moved, won't the apartment collapse?"
Orange: "That's why I said that the only thing that was moved was the ladder. It was the rocket pencil, anyway."
Qianye: "Rocket pencil, what is that?"
Orange: "Don't you know? It's like putting about ten lead cores in a pencil. It's like a small rocket. It's a lot like the magazine of a pistol. The lead is connected lengthwise in the pencil. If the lead is reduced from the front, load it from the rear. New lead will be pushed out from the front constantly, which saves the time of sharpening the lead. It is a very convenient writing instrument. It should be possible now. When you buy it, the impression is that it is a mechanical cycle.¡±
Gan Ye: "It means pushing the spiral staircase upward from below. Use a piston or something."
Orange: "It should be so. Let's make about half a floor more from the beginning. It seems to be pushing up from below while using the elevator. It's not to increase the height of one floor, but to move the exit of the spiral. In this way When you come to the north and the south, they are reversed.¡±
Not long after the two left, two other people came to Xiaochuan's apartment - Liang Lili and Yan Tiaoba.
Ba: "Here we are, right here."
Style: "What, this is"
In the elevator
Form: "is distorted"
The fourth floor.
Ba: "The one at the end is my home."
Yan Tiaoba was about to ring the doorbell, but was stopped by the two rituals.
Style: "Don't ring the doorbell. Go in, Yan Tiao."
Tomoe: "¡ª¡ªWhat are you talking about? Do you plan to go in casually?"
Style: "It doesn't matter what you want, this is your room. Besides, it's better not to touch the switch. Otherwise, you won't be able to figure out the mechanism here. You have the key, give it to me."
Two ceremonies opened the door.
The scene inside the door suddenly shocked Yan Tiaoba.
"'Hey. Tomoe hasn't come back yet. It's already eight o'clock, and work has been over for an hour. Really, where did he go to play again, that guy!'
¡®Yes, what should I do? ¡¯
¡®That guy doesn¡¯t regard his family as family at all, it¡¯s because you dote on him too much. Damn it, if you don't hand over the money, see how I deal with him. Never gave me a penny. Who does he think he relies on to grow so big? That guy! ¡¯
¡®Yes, what should I do? ¡¯¡±
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Type: "Xantiao, what time do you usually go home?"
Ba: ¡°Around nine o¡¯clock.¡±
Type: "Is there another hour? Then just wait here until then."
Ba: "What do you mean? What are you planning to do, Liangyi!"
Style: "If there is neither a ringing of the doorbell nor a knock on the door, then there will be no action to respond to the guest. We have not pressed the switch to respond to actions other than the determined mode. So now it is just without In the mode of guests arriving, Yan Tiao's parents are just living a normal life."
What happened next was just like what Yan Tiaoba had dreamed about countless times. The other Yan Tiaoba who came back was killed by his mother in bed
Style: "I understand, let's go. There is nothing left here."
Shi: "What are you talking about? You see clearly, not a drop of blood is shed, right? You will wake up in the morning. This is a 'wheel' between life and death. The person who fell there was not Yan Tiao." Because, aren¡¯t you the one living now?¡±
Ba: "Whywhat?"
Style: "I don't know. I have no idea what the point of doing this kind of thing is. Anyway, there is nothing going on here. Okay, let's go to the next place."
Ba: "The next place - where else should we go, Liangyi!"
Style: "You still need to ask. Go to the place where you really live, Yan Tiao."
Another building.
Shiki: "What I find strange is that it's just such a small thing. Didn't you say you live in room 405? But Mikiya was the last to read your name. That guy who follows the rules will not change the order without any reason. . So it would be very strange if the family named Yan Tiao did not live in the last room on the fourth floor, which is Room 410. "
Ba: "what did you say?"
Style: "Didn't the elevator not work for a while? When all the residents got used to living in this apartment, it was finally able to be used. This was the signal to start. This was all a mechanism set up to reverse the south and north. The fact that the elevator is round or that it makes a sound is all a trick. Even the second floor is not used for this reason. At least half a turn must be reserved for the passengers to not notice it. Just stay about one level away."
Ba: "So - are you planning to say that this is my home?"
Style: "Yeah. To be precise, it was the home you stayed in for only a month. The home before the elevator started to move. I'm afraid the stairs were adjusted as the elevator moved. It's hard to say that the exit of the stairs wasn't reversed. .Aren¡¯t the stairs here spiral?¡±
Ba: "This is a lie. Generally speaking, people will be noticed. This kind of thing!"
"This is not ordinary. It's a different world. There are all the same square buildings around, and there is no special difference in the scenery. The apartments are separated by walls. The cream-colored walls are mixed with strange shapes everywhere, unconsciously giving the retina It increases the burden. This is an artificial barrier. Since there are no small abnormalities, no major abnormalities can be noticed." The two rituals stretched their hands to the door handle, "It's about to open. This is the self that has been away for half a year. My home, Yantiao."
A dark room.
Style: "The electric light, is this it?" Then, the electric light was lit with a snap.
Two human corpses. Filthy human bones, and something like flesh slightly attached to them. The mud-like rotting meat flowed to the floor and piled up, turning into a garbage heap of unknown objects - those were Yan Tiao Takayuki and Yan Tiao Feng - Yan Tiao Ba's parents.
Style: "It's been almost half a year since he died."
Yan Tiaoba was completely stunned.
The sound of the door opening.
"Hey, you are very motivated." Liang Li pulled out his short sword.
A group of people came over like puppets.
"One, two, three, four Killing in two rituals, killing like a dance."
Pattern: "It's useless to stay any longer. Go quickly."
Ba: "Liangyi, you¡ª¡ª!"
Style: "Let's talk about it later. Besides, these guys are not human. Those guys have died countless times. This kind of thing is neither a human nor a dead person, it is just a doll. Everyone wants to die. , so disgusting.¡±
As the two of them ran, a dark figure appeared in front of them. It was a man in a black coat¡ªAraya Soren.
"How ironic. It was originally something I should do after I finish it." The magician said, walking forward step by step.
"¡ª¡ªThis guy's, can't you see!?" The two men were filled with surprise, and they insisted on looking over. The threads were twisted together like holes on the man's chest.
"remember me, you." the man said.
Form: "You are"
"Araya Zonglian. The person who killed Zhi."
Type: "Bad taste. What's the point of this apartment."
"It makes no sense in general. It is entirely my personal will."
Type: "That means this kind of non-stop repetition is your interest."
"It's not in terms of effect. I created a world that ends in one day. But that's just the two phenomena of life and death. If there are not the same peopleYour existence and death are not enough to sacrifice your existence. The spiral of death and resurrection is incomplete. It is impossible to maintain them if they are intertwined and mutually incompatible. So I prepared their bodies as yin and their lives as yang. "
Shiki: "Ah? So this side is where the corpses are stored, and that side is daily life? It's really just boring things. That kind of thing is meaningless, isn't it?"
"¡ª¡ªI should answer you that it is meaningless, but." The man looked at Yan Tiaoba, "Yes, it is meaningless. From the beginning, it has been impossible for human beings to have two attributes at the same time. The dead and the living cannot Compatibility. In this world full of contradictions, individuals have no common meaning." Then he looked back at the two rituals, "This is a pure experiment. I want to try to see if human beings can usher in a different end. Death. People are bound to die. But that is just the death that everyone is destined to die. There is only one so-called final death for a person. People who die in fires are just dying in fires and being killed by their family members no matter what form they are. No matter what form, people are just killed for their families. The first time they escaped from the dilemma of death, but that was just a destined way to usher in the second and third death. This kind of limited death The way we call it lifespan. Even though the way a person dies is destined. But if the same ending is repeated thousands of times, there will be errors in the spiral. Even if the error is an extremely small accident, it doesn't matter. Get off work. The same misfortune of being run over by a car on the way
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? but now the result is the same. Two hundred uninterrupted repetitions only made me see the fact that human destiny cannot be changed. "
Style: "For this reason, the same way of dyingis repeated over and over again on the last day. So I prepared a morning that starts under the same conditions, and a family that lives under the same conditions. Then, who died at night Is it just the Yantiao family?"
"If that were the case, there would be no meaning of another world. The families that came here are all broken people. People who were originally on the way to collapse will undoubtedly only come to the terminal. This is It took decades of penance to reach the end. In one month, they reached the end that would eventually come."
Style: "I don't mean to destroy the brakes and push them. Indeed, this building can easily make people fall into a state of stress. It is twisted everywhere. By making the floor tilt like the sea surface, It disturbs the sense of balance and makes the nerves tense unconsciously through the painting and lighting that burdens the eyes. It can make people who come here fall into confusion without any magical effects. What about you, the great architect? This guy."
"No. Aozaki was responsible for the design here. If you want to praise it, you should give it to her, not me."
Style: "Arangye, why did you kill me?"
"Neither Kirie Wujo nor Fujino Asagami has any effect."
Form: "Eh?"
"Wujo Kirie, who can only rely on death to survive, has attributes that are similar to yours." Wujo Kirie is eroded by a disease that will take his life without knowing when. That is a woman who can only experience the reality of life through death. A human being who can only feel life after deatha person with the ability to control two bodies with one heart. and. Two rituals that are close to death and can only feel the real feeling of life through fighting against it A powerful esper can be controlled by two hearts. Only Asakami Fujino, who gains happiness through contact with death, has attributes that are paradoxical to yours. Asagami Fujino is unable to receive emotions from the outside world because he has no sense of pain. It was a girl who found happiness through the ultimate act of killing. A human being who kills people and can only feel a sense of superiority from the pain of the killed an ancient vampire who artificially turns on his abilities. In the face of death, she chose death, and you chose life. She enjoys killing while destroying lives, and respects the killing with you. It should be noted. They are both compatriots, and they are also murderers with attributes that are opposite to the two rituals I failed once two years ago. That guy is so opposite. What I need are people who share the same origin and can differentiate it. Yes, rejoice in the two ceremonies. Those two people are living sacrifices prepared just for you There is still one chess piece left, but there is nothing you can do if Aozaki notices it. Yan Tiaoba is useless. Because you came to this place on your own without the interference of my will. "
Pattern: "You guy¡ª¡ª"
"Nothing is your chaotic impulse, the origin - look at the darkness. Then remember your name."
Style: "¡ª¡ªThe culprit!"
The two rituals flew towards the magician.
"Not all," the air changed.
The posture of the body suddenly stopped.
"King Kong," one hand stretched into the air, and the magician made a sound to the form. Shiki, staring at the lines emerging on the floor.
"Snake, scorpion," around the magician, all the flow gradually stopped. Various phenomena of atmospheric flow are sealed.
I saw the formula. Three circular patterns extend from the feet of the man in black.
"¡ª¡ªThe body is so heavy" The three rings guarding the magician resemble the shapes depicting the trajectory of the planets. Three slender rings overlap each other.
Floating between the ground and the air. As soon as he stepped onto the outermost line of the ring, Shiki's body was stripped of its momentum. Like being entangled in a spider web, the fragile white
Like a butterfly.
"I, Araya Zonglian, will accept this body." The magician moved.
¡°If Shiki was running like a shadow of his white kimono in the darkness of the night, that man was melting into the darkness of the night and gradually approaching his prey.
The process of approaching is invisible, as fast as the undead. Beside Shiki, who couldn't move, the magician's coat turned.
Shiki didn¡¯t even have time to react to the magician¡¯s approach without warning. Obviously I saw it - I obviously saw that man heading towards
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????, but can't notice that he is standing next to her.
A chill ran down my back. At this point, she finally understood that the enemy was an out-and-out monster.
The magician stretched out his left hand. The open palm, which seemed to be filled with tremendous power, stretched out like it was about to crush the head.
"Don't come here!" The coldness that seemed to hit her back made her body revive from a static state.
The moment the magician¡¯s fingertips touched his face, he turned his face away like a reflex. While turning around, he turned towards
The magician swung away the knife with his wrist. With a dull sound, the short knife cut off the magician's left hand.
"Dai Tian," the magician said.
The magician¡¯s wrist was definitely scratched by the blade of the dagger, but it did not fall down to the wrist. The blade went through it as smoothly as cutting a carrot, but the magician's hand wasn't even injured at all.
"Ding Sutra." The right hand moved.
The right hand that was released, as if anticipating the movement of escaping from the immortal left hand, surely caught her. Grasping the girl's face with one hand, the magician suspended the style in the air. Although Shiki is just a girl, she can control it with just one hand
The figure of a person hanging up makes people think of a ghost or some other monster.
"Ah¡ª¡ª" Shi's throat trembled.
In a sound like gasping, consciousness faded. All that could be felt from the man's palm was overwhelming despair. This despair penetrates through the skin to the brain, and then along the
The spinal cord slipped and soaked through the whole body.
This is the first time in my life. I was convinced that I would be killed.
"¡ª¡ªChildish. There is a Buddha relic buried in this left hand. Even if you use the Demonic Eye of Direct Death, you can't see the vulnerable part. Just cutting it off will not hurt me, Araya."
Squeezing the girl¡¯s face with his palm, the magician said calmly. Unable to answer. The force that grabbed the face was too strong, and there was no room for reply.
¡A man¡¯s wrist is a machine designed to crush people¡¯s heads. The five fingers that are tightly inserted into the face are not
Can¡¯t break free. If he casually shakes his body to counterattack, this machine will crush Shiki's head without hesitation. The magician continued.
"Not to mention that even I will not die. My origin is stillness. The person who calls out the origin can control its origin. How do you kill someone who has become still?"
The formula cannot be answered. She poured out all her emotions, desperately trying to find the weak thread in the man.
Whether it¡¯s the anesthesia called despair that spreads throughout the body or the pain of being tightly grasped on the face, all of them are ignored, just to open the only breakthrough.
But before that. The magician observed the girl hanging by him in the air and came to a conclusion.
"¡ª¡ªReally? You don't need to have your head." With an emotionless voice, the magician's wrist gained strength for the first time. Snap, the sound of broken bones sounded.
In an instant¡ªthe right hand that was about to crush the face of the girl named Ryo Ritsu was firmly cut off with the swipe of the short knife.
"¡ª¡ªHmm" The magician backed away slightly.
In the posture of being suspended, the magician's wrist was severed from the elbow, and then he peeled off the severed wrist from his face and jumped back a few steps.
The black wrist fell to the ground. Break away from the magician?At a distance beyond the reach of the triple circle, Shiki knelt down on one knee.
Maybe it¡¯s because of the pain that almost crushed his face, or maybe it¡¯s because he was too focused on catching the magician¡¯s weak thread of death. Shikihara breathed wildly and just stared at the ground in front of his knees.
The distance between the two people was once again widened.
"I see, I was careless. That time in the hospital is enough to prove it. Whether life or death, as long as I can
?Things that move can cut off the source of their actions. This is your ability. Even though my life has ended, because
There is a thread that makes me exist. Cutting that off would literally kill me. Although the left hand is the only exception, no
How long can it be kept? Even if it is the bones of a saint, as long as it can still move, there is cause and effect that promotes its movement. "
"Seemingly unmindful of the severed wrist," the magician said.
"As expected, those eyes are too dangerous. As an accessory to the two rituals, they are too dangerous. But before destroying them - anesthesia is still necessary."
The magician maintained the triple barrier and took a step forward. Shiki, still staring at the three-fold circle.
"It won't work. You should have made a decision by now." He held the short knife in his backhand and said.
"I also know about the barrier. In the mountains that are sacred areas in Shugendo, there is a barrier that prohibits women from entering. It is said that women who enter
It will turn into stone, but the barrier is just a realm. There is no boundary within the circle. Only the grass at its boundary is the magical wall that blocks others. Then¡ª¡ª-as long as the thread disappears, its power will also disappear. "
Then, she thrust the dagger into the ground. Killed the outermost circle of the triple circle owned by the magician.
"¡ª¡ªIgnorance." The magician walked forward anxiously.
With one more step, Shi came to Shi, but Shi did not respond.
¡The number of men¡¯s amulets has been reduced from three to two.
The magician admired in his heart. I didn't expect Shiki's Death Eye to be so strong. Even the concept of an invisible and lifeless barrier has been obliterated. How absolute is this¡ª¡ª
???????????? The outer perimeter of the triple barrier that restrains foreign enemies that touch the realm, the magician who has already been killed, runs to catch him.
"But there are still two left."
"¡ª¡ªThat's it, it's too late." Still kneeling on one knee, he stretched his hands behind his back. Among the obi that holds the kimono together is a second tanto.
Pulling out the short knife from the strap behind his back, he threw it towards the magician. The blade penetrated the two barriers.
Like a pebble thrown away in water, the short knife bounced up above the circle and flew towards the magician's forehead. The speed is as fast as a bullet.
"¡ª¡ª!?" The magician subconsciously avoided it. The short knife grazed the man's ear and disappeared into the depths of the corridor. The base of the ear that was supposed to be avoided was dug out.
come out. Blood, flesh, broken bones, and brains burst out together.
¡°¡ª¡ªWoo¡± the magician shouted.
Before that - he felt the impact piercing his body. White shadows exploded in the magician's body. When he grasped the fact that Shiki charged towards him immediately after throwing the dagger, the victory or defeat was already decided.
The blow from the shoulder was like the impact of a cannon. Several bones were broken with just one blow. In Shiki's hand, he still held the silver short sword.
The short sword indeed penetrated the center of the magician's chest.
¡°Cough¡ª¡ªah¡± the magician vomited blood. Blood has a texture like sand.
Shi pulled out the short knife and stabbed it into the magician's neck. Put all your strength into your hands. It was clear that victory or defeat was decided, but he struck the final blow with an extremely desperate look.
Let me tell you why¡ª¡ª
"You haven't given up yet. You'll get lost on the road like this, Shiki."
¡ª¡ªBecause the enemy is still not dead.
"Damn it, why!" Shi shouted like a curse. Why - why, you are not dead yet. The magician still had a serious face, with only his eyeballs showing a smile.
"Indeed, this is my key point. But this is not enough. Even if it is the evil eye of death, it will still not be able to survive.
Two hundred years of my life are gone. I don¡¯t know when this body will die, but I have been prepared for it. Just to be able to catch the two rituals. Even if it is your own death, the price is quite appropriate. "
The magician¡¯s left hand moved.
??¡Yes?. Victory or defeat is already decided. The man's tightly clenched fist hit Shiki's abdomen.
A blow that can penetrate even a big tree will send Shiki's body flying. With just one blow, Shiki spit out more blood than the magician who had his chest and head penetrated.
With the clicking sound, the internal organs and the bones protecting the internal organs were shattered.
"¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª" Shi fainted. Even though she possesses the devil eyes of death and excellent motor nerves, her body is just fragile.
A weak girl. Even though half of his strength was removed, it was still impossible for him to withstand Araya's blow, which could break even a concrete wall. The magician grabbed the girl's abdomen with one hand and slammed it against the wall of the apartment.
The brutal act with the force of smashing all the bones in the body turned into a strange phenomenon being hit against the wall
The body was sucked in by the wall as if it was sinking into water. After the wall of the apartment completely swallowed Shiki, the magician finally put down his hand.
¡There is still a dagger on his neck, and the pressure in his eyes is gone. A brief blank moment passed, and the black coat did not even move. Of course it is of course.
The magician's body was completely dead, but the two rituals were indeed knocked down.
A house in the suburbs.
The girl listened to the report.
"The time to take action is almost here."
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Sorry, the main body of this chapter is still copied and pasted. The protagonist will appear again in the next chapter, and there will be no more copying and pasting.