Chapters 2556 / 2557

Chapter ID: 114914466

Duality Paradise, Huishi Academy, Principal's Office.

The heavy wooden blinds kept the night out, with only a few faint rays of moonlight filtering through the gaps in the slats and falling obliquely onto the floor, casting long, thin streaks of light.

There were only two people in the huge office.

One was a strange man dressed in a white tailcoat, holding a black hat to his chest.

He was called a freak because instead of a normal face, he had a giant hand on his neck, holding a die in its palm.

The other was a middle-aged man sitting behind the principal's desk, looking somewhat dejected. His eye sockets were slightly sunken, and his face bore the marks of long-term fatigue. His fingers unconsciously tapped lightly on the table.

The Great Extinguisher, Guiji, and the Principal of the Huishi Academy, Murata Ryusuke, stared at each other across a desk.

"They might think that you've been influenced or bewitched by me..." Guiji spoke first, his hand, which served as his face, tilting slightly, his tone carrying a hint of mockery.

"Even being replaced by you." Murata Ryusuke continued Guiji's words in a calm tone.

"But they would never have imagined..." The Guiji dice stopped spinning between his fingers.

"From the very beginning... from the first time I met Himeko." Murata Ryusuke's gaze calmly fell upon the Great Extinguisher before him.

"I have Destruction Murata Ryusuke and replaced him," Guiji said slowly.

"They would never have imagined that the Great Extinguisher, Guiji, could simultaneously manifest multiple personas..." Murata Ryusuke curled the corner of his mouth.

"And that's precisely why I can summon myself." Guiji's tone held a hint of smugness.

"I summon my former self, who once died, only to offer the most Elation Destruction to this Holy Grail War."

"This is really interesting." Murata Ryusuke leaned back in his chair and chuckled softly.

Two people, one sentence.

It's like someone talking to themselves in front of a mirror.

Because from beginning to end, there was only one person in this office.

Nanook's attack on Chen Li was completely unrestrained, causing even Gui Ji's Guiji, far away in the Duality Paradise, to Destruction simultaneously.

Coincidentally, when the Flame Reaver broke into the Path of Destruction's Path Interstice and beat up Nanook and the Great Extinguisher, he severely injured Guiji. This gave Guiji the energy to focus all his attention on the new account he created, the Murata Ryusuke.

Even more coincidentally, not long after Murata Ryusuke returned to Duality Paradise, Chen Li's arrival brought Duality Paradise into New Penacony, and Murata Ryusuke was also granted the qualification of Master by the Holy Grail at the same time.

When the Holy Grail truly selects Master, it never cares whether the person is a good person or not; it only cares whether the person has enough desire in their heart.

Therefore, when Nanook destroyed all the individuals named Guiji, the Master status remaining in the body of Murata Ryusuke Guiji to summon back to the world.

As for rescuing Manyuan and sending a letter home to Himeko... those are stories for another time.

Suddenly, Murata Ryusuke frowned.

"What's wrong?" Guiji tilted his head, and the hand that served as his face also tilted.

"My gym membership has expired. Do I need to renew it?" Murata Ryusuke asked, his brow furrowed and his tone serious.

"This is indeed a question worth considering..." Guiji paused for a moment, then nodded solemnly.

As for the letter sent home to the Astral Express through someone, Guiji wasn't worried about it.

Ultimately, whether it's Murata Ryusuke or Guiji who gets to board the Astral Express, the outcome makes no difference to Guiji.

Even if the people on the Astral Express are incredibly ruthless, they can't possibly fight two people to the death.

The reason for establishing contact with the Astral Express at this time is partly due to the longing for returning to familiar places.

Guiji is Murata Ryusuke. But Guiji is also the Masked Fool Weidi, and even more so, the Train Navigator — Wojian.

That familiar Parlor Car, those familiar old faces, and those new faces who might no longer recognize themselves... Guiji really wanted to go back and take a look.

Oh, right, and that familiar unlimited ice cream machine!

Secondly, there's the obsession with the Trailblaze Aeon A Kivili.

Guiji saw Aha and A Kivili appear at the so-called Origami University anniversary celebration, his face was practically pressed against the screen.

No, you mean that the person I most want to kill Aha, and the person I most want to see A Kivili, both appeared at the same time in an Origami University's anniversary performance?

And A Kivili was actually killed by Aha, the person I wanted to kill the most?

You fucking...

For a moment Guiji didn't know whether the New Penacony had gone mad, or whether he himself had gone mad.

But Guiji is certain that at least Aha's identity is real...

In other words, A Kivili is certainly real.

But Guiji absolutely refused to believe that A Kivili would completely withdraw from the Holy Grail War for such a hasty reason.

And if you want to trace more clues related to A Kivili, there is only one destination— the Astral Express.

As for how to know Aha is real?

It wasn't based on intuition, but rather because Murata Ryusuke and Guiji, who were both in the Duality Paradise, were also within the scope of New Penacony and had been dragged into the subjugation battle instance by the corrupted Aha.

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Although Guiji saw Aha's nauseatingly mocking masked face almost immediately upon entering the battle, he chose to leave the battle space without hesitation.

Even so, he was still 100% certain that it was the real Aha.

Thinking of this, Guiji subconsciously touched the hand on his neck, and gasped in pain as soon as his fingertips touched his wrist.

"Damn Aha..." Guiji's voice was squeezed out from between his teeth.

Although he couldn't see Guiji's face, Murata Ryusuke, sitting opposite Guiji, could imagine the gritted teeth on that face just from the tone of his voice.

"Pfft." Murata Ryusuke, sitting opposite Guiji, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Upon hearing the laughter, Guiji instantly looked at Murata Ryusuke.

"It's not my fault. Who knew that after entering the Aha Subjugation Battle, the enemy would give you tenosynovitis as a greeting gift?" Murata Ryusuke shrugged, his tone somewhat innocent.

"... And there's also Truth or Dare," Guiji added, somewhat annoyed.

Although Guiji and ran away the moment he saw Aha, Guiji's surrender was ultimately not as fast as Aha's attack.

As Guiji withdrew from the Aha Subjugation Battle, he was about to habitually toss the dice in his hand when a sharp pain suddenly shot through his hand, almost causing him to drop the dice.

After Aha was completely defeated by the Miraculous Forger, Guiji finally saw the defeat cutscene and elimination replay on the defeat results screen. Only then did he realize what Aha had done to him.

[The Aeon of Joy, Aha, used the skill [Playable Without a Nerf??] on you, adding two weaknesses.]

[Weakness 1: Tenosynovitis]

[Weakness Two: Truth or Dare]

The first weakness is quite obvious. All three of Aha's hands, now in Guiji, suffer from tenosynovitis, and even the slightest movement is painful.

As for the second weakness... that's even more outrageous.

The ability of Guiji is to roll a die and turn the probability you desire into a fixed number. Even if the probability of success for something is only one in ten thousand, as long as the die is rolled, that probability can be forcibly anchored as a certainty.

A skill characterized by a high degree of Elation.

Then... this weakness was thoughtfully added by the higher-ranking Aha.

This causes Guiji to randomly trigger either "Truth or Dare" every time he rolls the dice.

If it's a grand adventure, then even if Guiji does something outrageous, he can later claim it was just a whim.

But if he triggers the truth while pretending to be someone else... then he's completely finished.

Upon seeing this skill description, Guiji's mind was filled with only one thought: If this skill Playable Without a Nerf??

More importantly, this weakness has come into reality along with the Guiji.

Guiji created a new account and inquired online if anyone else had experienced a similar situation, or if the negative effects they suffered during the Aha Subjugation Battle had carried over into real life...

But so far, all the replies received have been "no".

It seems that of all the damage sustained in the punitive expedition, only he himself has been affected in reality.

It has to be said that this is also a kind of favoritism from the God of Fun.

Although Guiji didn't want this favoritism at all.

He was even willing to transfer this favoritism, with interest, to anyone willing to take it on, but it's clear that God of Fun has a very precise aesthetic sense when it comes to choosing victims.

Honestly, Guiji thought that this act of "summoning myself" was a brilliant ending to the Holy Grail War...

Using Murata Ryusuke as the Master and Guiji as the Servant out and operated on two fronts—it was a textbook example of high-level gameplay.

But nobody told Guiji that the scale of this Holy Grail War was this incredible.

Guiji originally thought that the insect summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru, the Master of that exhibition match group, possessed all the divine power of the Aeon of Joy and was already invincible. He didn't expect there to be another expert.

Blackened Aha, fusion of two Aeon of Joy, server-wide mandatory participation in the conquest battle... Who came up with this schedule?

"Knock knock knock."

Just then, there was a knock on the principal's office door.

Murata Ryusuke raised his hand and gestured to Guiji to "wait a moment," then gestured with his chin toward the door, indicating that the other party should hide first.

Guiji nodded slightly, then suddenly froze, a familiar stinging pain shooting through his wrist at the back of his neck.

Damn tenosynovitis!

Guiji gritted his teeth, clutching his wrist, which was still twitching slightly at his neck, as he slowly blended into the shadows of the room.

Murata Ryusuke looked at Guiji's pathetic state, where even nodding had to come at a price, and his lips twitched. He used all his facial composure to keep from laughing out loud again.

"Please come in." Murata Ryusuke cleared his throat, looked towards the door, and his voice returned to its calm and gentle tone.

The person outside pushed open the door and came in; it was a young student wearing the uniform of the Huishi Academy.

"Principal, this is your letter. The messenger said it came from the direction of New Penacony, delivered by the Astral Express through the Boundary Stone." The other person handed a letter to Murata Ryusuke with both hands, bowing slightly.

"Thank you for your hard work." Murata Ryusuke accepted the letter and nodded.

After the visitor left, the office door was closed again. After a two-second silence, Guiji's figure reappeared in his original seat.

Murata Ryusuke opened the envelope, took out the letter, unfolded it, glanced at it twice, and nodded thoughtfully.

"What does the letter say?" Guiji asked.

"The people from the Astral Express have invited me to cross the Boundary Stone and travel to the Astral Express." Murata Ryusuke folded the letter back up, put it back in the envelope, and leaned back in his chair.

"They did indeed become suspicious," Guiji nodded.

But he had only completed half of his movement when the sharp pain in his neck flared up again.

It's that damn tenosynovitis again.

Guiji now has to nod in three separate steps, only daring to move a few degrees each time.

"Yes. For me to travel to the Astral Express via the Boundary Stone, I first need to register a temporary agent for the King's Land. And registering for the King's Land requires testing six-dimensional attributes and a good/evil value." Murata Ryusuke placed his hands on the table and analyzed calmly.

Although Murata Ryusuke, as a clone of Guiji, was also implanted with the weakness of tenosynovitis, the good thing about Murata Ryusuke is that... in his current form, there are no hands on his neck. So nodding is not a problem.

In fact, after hearing that the New Penacony could register as a temporary agent for the King's Land, Murata Ryusuke immediately looked up the relevant conditions and was naturally very familiar with them.

He wasn't too worried about the six-dimensional attributes. After all, during the time Wojian as the Stargazer, the Train Navigator, Guiji had achieved truly outstanding results.

Whether it's diplomacy, Trailblaze, or Erudition, the values of these attributes can withstand any test and will definitely pass the review.

But this value of good and evil... there's really nothing that Guiji can do about it.

In fact, if we only consider the attributes of good and evil, Guiji may not necessarily lack faith.

After all, before becoming the Great Extinguisher Guiji, whether it was Weidi or [Stargazer] Wojian, he had done quite a few good deeds.

Especially the [Stargazer], Wojian.

The journey was marked by the fall of the Trailblaze Aeon A Kivili and the birth of the Aeon of Destruction Nanook. Even in the most arduous times, Wojian never relinquished my responsibilities. With the belief in maintaining stable interstellar connections, I overcame numerous difficulties.

The Stargazer's Wojian of the stars is good, a great good. It has influenced the pattern of almost the entire Milky Way.

The evil of the Great Extinguisher Guiji is a minor evil. At most, it would destroy a few planets and a few star systems, and its impact on the overall structure of the Milky Way would be minimal... probably.

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Or rather, although the nature of these events was almost all quite heinous, the process of the Great Extinguisher Guiji was remarkably slow compared to all the Great Extinguisher.

Theoretically speaking, it is possible for good and evil to counteract each other and cancel each other out.