Magician in Type-Moon

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Matou Ike hummed in agreement and nodded, showing Aozaki Touko the utmost respect, considering that he had just been repeatedly twitching on the other's sensitive skin.

Having finally recovered, Kurogiri Mikiya couldn't help but ask:

"Is there any way to stop it?"

“If you mean finding Shirasumi Rio and the magician behind him, I’m working on that. But…” Matou Ike suddenly paused, looking somewhat hesitant.

Kurogiri Mikiya, unable to withstand such provocation, immediately pressed for answers.

"The murder case has progressed to the seventeenth person. Ryougi Shiki's murderous impulse is irreversible, and she needs to be released."

"But once this thing is released, one of the personalities will inevitably collapse. Moreover, Ryougi Shiki is special. Even without guidance, that kind of demonic talent will gradually lead to that end."

"In other words, the magician who wanted to seize Ryougi Shiki was only accelerating this inevitable process... This matter was irreversible."

Matou Ike waved his hand, seemingly helpless.

"...What happens after the collapse? What will happen after the collapse?" Kokutou Mikiya asked emotionally, more excited than he had ever been before.

"Do you really want to know, Gan Ye?"

Matou Ike looked at him with a compassionate expression.

Yes, now that things have come to this point, how could a breakdown of one's personality be a good thing?

Kurogiri Mikiya was somewhat saddened, but he still wanted to know, because just now, he had finally discovered his own heart.

I wonder what kind of pain she's going through, or what she's thinking.

He didn't understand why she wanted to kill him.

but...

Just as the scholars have said, the man named Kurogiri Mikiya has long been obsessed with Ryougi Shiki.

"Tell me, please!" Kanya looked resolutely at Matouike.

"...Kurotong, Tai Chi symbolizes balance. The two polarities are mutually opposed yet contained within each other. When the balance collapses, Tai Chi will be destroyed. It's that simple."

Matou Ike looked at Kokutou Mikiya expressionlessly, uttering bland words.

silence...

"But there's still a way, isn't there, Matou-senpai?" Kokutou Mikiya stood up, looking directly at Matou Ike sitting on the sofa from his elevated position.

“You and Miss Orange are the same kind of people. You basically won’t say anything or care about anything that has no meaning. You’ll just pretend that it doesn’t exist.”

"But now that you've told me so much, there must be a way, right, Matou-senpai!"

Kurogiri Kanya called out to Matouike in a pleading manner.

Although his rationality had returned, even knowing it was a trap, Kokutou Mikiya decided to step into it!

“You’ve been seen through… That’s true. I do have a plan that might prevent this from happening. Would you like to participate, Kurokiri-kun?”

Matou Ike smiled again and began to explain her plans, word by word.

Chapter 209 Postscript

Kurogiri Kanya sat on a bench by the street, with a coffee can he had just bought from a vending machine beside him.

He leaned wearily against the back of his chair, his gaze fixed on the dimly lit end of the street, while his mind replayed the plan devised by Matou Ike.

He opened the coffee can, and the cool liquid slid into his mouth, but it did nothing to lift his spirits.

The street in front of me remained calm, the streetlights cast a dim yellow glow, and vehicles occasionally drove by, stirring up a gentle breeze.

The part of the plan concerning him is actually quite simple.

All he needs to do is show his face briefly during the duel between Matouike and Ryougi Shiki, and then "die."

At the time, Kurokiri couldn't understand the significance of doing this at all.

Even if he "dies" in front of Ryougi Shiki, so what?

However, Matou Ike repeatedly affirmed his role, saying that he was the mainstay of the plan.

I can't live without him.

Mikiya Kokutou said at the time that he was just an ordinary Japanese high school boy, and he had only known Ryougi Shiki for about two months.

The other party also kept threatening him, saying they would kill him.

It seems like it's just Ryougi Shiki's one-sided dislike for him.

At this point, Mikiya Kurogiri was still feeling a bit down, wondering why he always liked these strange women.

But when that happened, Tongchi, like an older brother to a street kid, put his arm around his shoulder.

Matou Ike's eyes at that time revealed an unwavering confidence, as if everything was under his control.

Speaking in that tone that says, "No one in the world understands women better than me," and saying things like a seasoned veteran of the red-light district:

"Kurotong, you need to think about why that girl named Ryougi said she wanted to kill you, instead of saying she wanted to kill someone else?"

At that moment, Hei Tong thought to himself, "What? Dude, does she have some other special reason for wanting to kill me?"

But what Matou Ike said next completely astonished him.

"That proves that Liangyi has feelings for you. She only wants to kill you and not others. Doesn't that mean you are special to her?"

Good heavens! Kurogiri Mikiya exclaimed, "Good heavens! I never knew there could be such an interpretation!"

But there was something Kokutou hadn't said yet: Ryougi Shiki didn't seem to want to kill him.

But once Matou Ike started talking, he couldn't stop, and he kept firing at Kokutou Mikiya.

"This kind girl who cares about you is now in danger. Do you want to save her?"

Before Kurogiri Mikiya could even process what was happening, he was struck by those words.

What could he possibly say? Of course he'd be saved. Even if Ryougi Shiki didn't care about him, he'd still be saved, wouldn't he?

After Kurogiri gave him an affirmative answer, he saw Matou Ike transform from a street kid into a super PhD in a high-class research lab, capable of publishing dozens of SCI papers a year—the kind of person who only exists in science fiction novels.

He began to analyze for Kurogiri Mikiya why this method could save Ryougi Shiki.

If Ryougi Shiki needs to be awakened, then two variables are needed: one is an emotional shock, and the other is a real experience of the feeling of death.

Matou Ike said that he, Kokutou Mikiya, would be responsible for the emotional impact, which meant making him "die" in front of Ryougi Shiki.

Kurogiri Mikiya then asked, "What about the feeling of death?"

He only saw Matouchi wave his hand and say:

"Of course, it's the feeling of being on the verge of death and the feeling of killing someone with your own hands. I'll take charge of that part."

Kurogiri Mikiya asked again, "But all of this is fake. How can something fake have a real effect?"

But Matou Ike then retorted, "Then why don't you just 'die' more convincingly? As long as she can't tell, it'll be fine, right?"

Kokutou Mikiya was quite hesitant at the time, after all, he wasn't really dead. He didn't know what to do if he saw Ryougi Shiki again after she awakened.

Matou Ike seemed to sense his hesitation and continued to coax him, "Since you feel somewhat indebted, why not make it up to her in the days to come? Indebtedness can generate more love, can't it?"

Under the barrage of Matou Ike's distorted theories, Kokutou Mikiya waits on the street for the plan to begin.

......

The dagger's slashing speed increased rapidly.

Ryougi Shiki could no longer see anything else; even the shape of the enemy in front of her had disappeared from her field of vision.

Only those dense, indistinct lines.

Ryougi Shiki herself didn't know why she was slashing so desperately.

Blood was constantly flowing from her wounds, and the blood loss had already made her dizzy ever since she rushed towards Matou Pond.

One cut, two cuts, three cuts.

"Why--!"

Why must you die at someone else's hands! Kurogiri Mikiya!

She screamed like a child, but the urge to cry only intensified.

Shiki, who appeared to be crying in the rain that had started sometime earlier, seemed to be weeping.

It was at that moment that Shiki understood the weaving's idea.

Why did the organization repeatedly try to stop the idea of ​​killing Kokutou Mikiya?

Because after that guy dies, I will lose the ability to dream.

That kind of ordinary, everyday life dream.

Although dreaming can be painful.

But how pitiful it is to not be able to dream!

I do not wish to disrupt the dream named Kanya.

Even if we can't have it, even if it's painful, dreams are the most important meaning of life.

—So we can't get rid of him.

But now this guy has died at the hands of someone else.

That dream, which was carefully protected, was so easily destroyed by the hands of others.

Unforgivable, unforgivable.

Only by killing him can the person named Ryougi Shiki find emotional release.

Even if it means dying, I would not mind not being able to kill myself with my own hands!

"A person can only kill one person in their lifetime."

"In order to die in the end, we only have the right to kill someone once."

"A person can only bear the value of one person's life. In order to forgive the fact that life cannot reach its end, people treat death with respect, because life is equivalent, and even one's own life is not something one owns."

I'm sorry, Grandpa, I have to break the contract!

I absolutely have to kill this guy in front of me!