"I think your taste in naming is on the same level as a low-level light novel writer." Li Wu commented, "Uehara Yuichi, right?"
"Exactly down there."
The man who spoke was about thirty-four years old. He was wearing a black tiara and a green hunting coat. His face was not handsome, but he gave people a gentle and harmless feeling.
He is more like a priest who should conduct sacrifices at a shrine, or an elegant scholar who should give lectures in the classroom.
But now he was sitting among the drunken monsters.
White jade-like steps floated behind the man. At the top of the thirteen steps stood a strange bird with a human face and a snake-like body. Under the monster's body was a unconscious figure.
It was Masaki Uehara who was captured.
"Is the weird story about the thirteen steps used here? Do you think of it as a stage decoration?"
Li Wu asked casually while observing the movements of the monsters and the words on their heads.
"Has Li Wujun heard of the strange stories about non-existent stairs?"
Uehara Yuichi seemed to know his name, and he was talking very enthusiastically: "If you step on the extra step, you will disappear without a trace. There is also a saying that it is like the story of Kisaragi Station, and you will come to a different world--ask me to say this This development is a little more innovative than hitting someone with a truck."
"You're pretty cool, uncle."
Aoi Hoshikawa said sarcastically, while pointing Guillotan's barrel at the opponent and silently accumulating power.
"Wow, don't worry, there should be a nagging session from the villain before bombarding me, right? Just like a magical girl's transformation cannot be interrupted?"
Yuichi Uehara raised his palms in an exaggerated manner: "Where did we just talk? The thirteenth step does not exist, and the party space we are in now is also isolated from the outside world, which means-"
A look of madness appeared on his calm face: "The influence of the principles of the world on my lovely nephew on the steps has been minimal."
"I don't have time to listen to your ramblings."
The magical girl has completed her preparations, the muzzle of the cannon lights up with a blazing white light, and the torrent of magic power rushes toward the target like a lightsaber that brings sanctions!
Li Wu also followed up, and in a rare move, he formed a flame seal and gathered momentum. A large fireball roared to the monsters' dining table, leaving traces of being baked to the point of scorching heat in the air.
"You two are too impatient. How about we talk about other topics, such as the nature of monsters?"
Facing the fierce attack, Uehara Yuichi still spoke slowly, while the eating and drinking monsters blocked him with their bodies like loyal guards.
A monster with the upper body of a strong man with a ghost face and the lower body of a giant spider and a cat monster with a tail that branched into two branches, the size of a calf leaped out and faced the magic cannon that brought the smell of death like a breakwater. and the flames of wrath.
[Earth Spider] and [Nekomata] only managed to hold on for a few seconds before being torn apart by this wave of fully charged attacks.
The magic cannon's beam of light penetrated through the lower part of the earth spider's body like a torrent, leaving a hideous hole; the flames ignited Nemomata's fur, and then eroded mercilessly into the body, turning it into a white skeleton.
Uehara Yuichi continued as if he was indifferent: "Nostalgia, resentment, and fear, monsters are born from the stories told by people and the emotions they place on them. On the other hand, as long as the two elements of [story] and [emotion] are provided, a monster can be created. It’s not that difficult.”
Although they were dead, the resistance of Dosha Spider and Nekomata really worked. After annihilating more than a dozen monsters in the aftermath and leaving a huge hole in front of the gymnasium, the man dressed as a priest was still safe.
Even though he didn't care at first, after hearing what he said, Li Wu couldn't help but think about it.
In the Fu Sangshen incident, the story is about a ghost story in a video game arcade, and the emotion may refer to the regret and nostalgia that the owner of the video game store had when he committed suicide because he could not continue to operate.
The Hannya ghost corresponds to the legend of the murder and the feeling of jealousy; the Tengu corresponds to the ghost stories spread by the snow girl and her longing for her late husband.
So, what about these monsters they face now in school? The stories are strange tales that have been circulating recently, and some are legends that have been sung for a long time. But whose obsession is it that makes the legends become reality?
Before he could think about it further, the girl next to him had already rushed out wielding a giant axe.
But Uehara Yuichi's voice continued: "...and you who killed the monsters I created are already in the [story]."
An alarm came from the Jingyan, but the crisis came from nowhere.
The man surrounded by monsters smiled.
The scene is the right place.
This playground is where the two young people first met, and where they joined hands to fight the villain behind the scenes. It is where the story begins and where the final curtain falls.
The time is right.
Nothing matches the climax of a story like the moment of decisive battle.
Then, the trap that had been prepared showed its fangs.
Uehara Yu's words came out in one thought: "Dependent origination and cessation of conditions, pure inaction - inaction style·pure and free method."
Imagine there is a desk lamp in your head, and the light you rely on to see the surrounding scenes depends on it.
Now, Li Wu felt that someone had pulled the switch cord of the lamp.
Total darkness enveloped him.
It was definitely not a lack of light in the usual sense. After gaining extraordinary power, he could still see things around him clearly even in the darkest corner.
This is more like a conceptual blackness, which makes the existence within it dissolve into the surroundings as if it has become a hollow, unable to feel the physical senses, unable to detect one's own consciousness, and even thoughts seem to have become stagnant and lazy.
It even feels good to continue like this.
Absolute darkness... Where should I have heard this description before... a combat meeting? What is a combat meeting? with who?
I can’t remember the face, but it seems that there is a person with the words [Miko] on her head...and a person with [Active Magical Girl~(^_−)☆] on her head.
In the dark memory, only this text is clearly visible.
This emoji is too nonsense. Just like her, sometimes she always shows her clumsy and off-kilter side.
who is she?
Thinking gradually built up logic, and tried to piece together the fragmented self-it was Hoshikawa Aoi, a magical girl, her classmate, who was fighting with Uehara Yuichi.
When this was realized, a little fire lit up in the darkness.
Li Wu regained the feeling of the body.
He moved his body cherishedly, turned his head and looked around.
Still in darkness, only a faint firelight lit up at the center of his body.
"So, now I'm most likely in a state where I'm invulnerable or the flow of time is slowed down, otherwise the monsters from the outside would have killed me long ago."
"There is a small chance that he is already dead. He is now in the afterlife, and there is no fighting organization led by the beautiful red-haired girl."
After telling himself a cold joke, Li Wu concluded: "I almost know how to get out of here."
