There's Something Wrong with This Entire Universe

Even the being behind Miyauchi Hiyage wouldn't casually bestow such power upon others.

"You look like you've secretly gotten a lot stronger while I was away."

In response to Tohru's question, Miyauchi Hiyage smiled.

"It's alright, I got some good stuff, and I guess it might be of some use to you too."

Tohru can use both the Jewel Sword and the Senzu Bean.

The former can provide Tohru with a continuous supply of Mana. Even if the cost for outsiders to use the Jewel Sword would be greater, Tohru is obviously willing to bear these side effects compared to the near-infinite Mana.

The latter needs no further explanation.

Even Gods of Destruction and Super Saiyan Gods can use Senzu Bean, so Tohru can easily handle them.

Although Tohru always acted nonchalant, the place where the dragon-slaying sword had pierced her was not so easy to heal.

Even if it doesn't seem to have much impact on her strength on the surface, the physical and even psychological pain is still unavoidable. When Tohru gets a few thousand years older, it might even develop into a chronic condition similar to rheumatism.

Miyauchi Hiyage took out the Jewel Sword that had been projected onto the palace.

Putting everything else aside, the design of the Jewel Sword alone is eye-catching enough.

For the Dragon Clan, such a dazzling gem has always been coveted, and they would love nothing more than to snatch it away and keep it as their own collection.

Even little Kanna, who was hiding behind Tohru, couldn't help but peek out to stare at the Jewel Sword.

Having known Miyauchi Hiyage for so long, Tohru naturally knew that this was most likely a fake that Miyauchi Hiyage had somehow gotten his hands on. Even if he managed to steal it, the Mana inside would dissipate automatically after a while.

However, she still accepted the Jewel Sword, wanting to see what secrets it held.

"This thing is a weapon used by a mage who can travel freely in almost an infinite number of parallel worlds. Its user can use it to obtain Mana from parallel worlds for their own use, which is like an infinitely powerful power bank. Of course, if you don't have an affinity for a second magic, it will be more troublesome to use."

However, Miyauchi Hiyage was a reward from the Diary, which added this adaptability to him, while Tohru and the others already possessed magic that could travel to parallel worlds, just not as conveniently as a second magic.

However, the Jewel Sword was designed for humans, and perhaps the Mana within Tohru has exceeded the Jewel Sword's output limit.

Even if it only restores half or even a tenth of Tohru's Mana each time, it would be enough to pique Tohru's interest in the Jewel Sword.

So, is the source of Miyauchi Hiyage's sudden increase in confidence?

After all, even if the war between gods is a contest between rules, manipulating the rules still requires the expenditure of power.

In the life-or-death struggle, no matter how vast the Mana wielded by a god may be, it will eventually be exhausted.

Just like her.

A lone figure stormed the heavens, intending to perish alongside the gods in a fit of despair. In the end, her Mana was exhausted by the gods, and the Dragonslaying Holy Sword restricted her ability to regenerate her Mana on her own.

If she had obtained that gem-made sword back then, even if the final outcome hadn't changed, she could have at least stalled for a few more days and perhaps killed a few more unfortunate gods.

"This is definitely more practical than the stuff you 'tricked' out of that school," Tohru said, then casually put the Jewel Sword away.

Anyway, this is just a projected fake. Miyauchi Hiyage can project one, she must have dozens more in stock. It doesn't matter if she takes one to play with.

After a few brief pleasantries, Miyauchi Hiyage shifted the topic to the small head behind Tohru.

"So, you went back to your hometown to find help, and all you ended up with was this cute little one?"

Tohru then remembered Kanna and pulled Kanna out from behind him, introducing them to each other.

"I found another friend and temporarily entrusted her with the Soul Crystal to study. However, after hearing that the two worlds have re-established contact, she is still at home making preparations and will probably not come over for a while."

"This is Kanna, Kanna Kamui, or Kanna Kamui in your language. She is my friend. As Dragon Clan, she is not yet an adult. However, due to some recent problems with her family, she does not want to stay in that world anymore. So, I have temporarily become her caretaker and brought her here."

"Don't let her small appearance fool you, she's actually over ten thousand years old by your standards of time."

For over ten thousand years, the other party basically did nothing but eat and sleep, and only mastered the combat magic inherited from the Dragon Clan bloodline.

Several hundred years ago, when Tohru met her, he taught her some simple transfiguration magic, enabling her to transform into a human.

Apart from that, this young Little Dragon, who had lived for over ten thousand years, was no different in personality from a ten-year-old child.

After introducing Kanna, Tohru patted Kanna's head, whose expression was not very willing.

"Kanna, this is the Miyauchi Hiyage I told you about. Although his aura is indeed not very clean, I have confirmed that he is not a dragon slayer in the traditional sense. He just performed a ritual magic using dragon heart and dragon blood as the main materials by chance. Feel it carefully again. Is the aura of a dragon slayer incomplete and fragmented?"

When Miyauchi Hiyage obtained the Name Curse, the accompanying materials did indeed contain dragon heart and dragon blood. Although the dragons in Harry Potter's world are not very intelligent, and many are even artificially bred and controlled by the wizarding world, they can still be considered dragons.

Thus Miyauchi Hiyage, who had bathed in dragon blood and eaten dragon heart, did indeed possess a portion of the aura of a dragon slayer, and the Name Curse was activated based on this.

Of course, there are no dragons in the world where Miyauchi Hiyage currently lives, so even if others can sense the special aura on Miyauchi Hiyage, they will not realize what kind of aura it is.

But high-level dragons like Tohru and Kanna can naturally distinguish them.

This is also why the two of them didn't have a very good attitude towards Miyauchi Hiyage when they first met.

Later, after Tohru stayed at the Miyauchi Hiyage, he brought up the matter openly, and that was the end of it.

Now Tohru is telling Kanna about these things again. Although Kanna still seems a little doubtful, out of trust in Tohru, she still nods slightly to Miyauchi Hiyage, which is quite polite.

Unlike the original story where, upon first meeting Kobayashi, Tohru Kobayashi stolen his heart and wanted to fight Kobayashi to the death, only to be reduced to punching her chest with his fists due to insufficient Mana, Tohru didn't do that.

It seems that in this Little Dragon's eyes, Tohru really couldn't possibly have any special relationship with him.

"So, Kanna should be staying here with me for a while now. There shouldn't be any problems with her identity, right?"

"It's not a big problem," Miyauchi Hiyage waved his hand, looking at Tohru's beautiful silver-purple gradient hair.

"It just so happens that our family's hair color is all blue-purple, and we look a little older than Renge, so it shouldn't be a problem for us to be Renge's older sister. Let's just put our household registration in our family."

Asahigaoka had long been developed into an impregnable stronghold by Miyauchi Hiyage, so it was easy to place someone in the village with a false identity.

Of course, with Miyauchi Hiyage's hacking skills, it wouldn't be too much of a problem to give Tohru the identity of a foreign tourist out of thin air, just like before.

"However, Kanna looks like a primary school student at her age. Since she is going to live in our world, unless she stays at home all day and never goes out, people will find it strange that she doesn't go to school if she goes out and is seen by others."

"It would be easy to take her to Tokyo to attend elementary school. I can talk to Professor Agasa and he should be able to get her into Teitan Elementary School. However, it would be easier for her to attend school at the Asahigaoka Branch School. Anyway, it's only about 100 kilometers away from Tokyo, and a round trip every day wouldn't take much time."

Although under his development, the number of students at Asahigaoka Branch School finally broke through double digits, and under Miyauchi Hiyage's arrangement, not only were the various facilities in the school building updated, but several more teachers who were willing to retire in the countryside were also recruited to strengthen the teaching staff.

However, the educational philosophy of Asahigaoka Branch School is still mainly based on self-study, and the school's activities are entirely up to the students themselves, making it a more free school spirit than Toyosaki in some ways.

Of course, Miyauchi Hiyage also found a companion for Renge.

Although Renge already had the three siblings from the Koshigaya Family and her own unreliable eldest sister taking care of her at school, there were also two boys of similar age to Renge who had moved from other places.

But before the start of the school year, Miyauchi Hiyage had already warned the boys and their families to stay away from Renge.

Renge is indeed missing a girl of similar age to her as a playmate. Given Kanna's personality, the two of them should get along quite well.

However, Tohru did not give an answer immediately, but instead prepared to let Kanna make the decision herself.

"I don't really care. It would be good for Kanna to learn some life skills at school. But let's let Kanna come to Tokyo with us for a while and get used to the world before she decides for herself."

Chapter 301: There's Something Wrong with This Universe

At dawn the next day, Miyauchi Hiyage, looking slightly tired, emerged from his room.

Behind him stood Tohru, wearing a strange smile.

If anyone saw this scene, they might misunderstand and think that the two of them did something shady in the room yesterday.

Of course, to be honest, what they did was something that couldn't be shown to anyone—a fairy wielding a second magic manifestation device and a dragon princess from another world fought each other for a whole night in this world's closest thing to magic's Reality Marble.

No matter which event gets out, whether it reaches the Front World or the Reverse Side World, it will obviously cause a huge sensation.

If the Mage Association finds out about this, even though the magic world is currently divided, it won't prevent them from temporarily uniting to issue a sealing order to Miyauchi Hiyage.

"Although you've grown rapidly, it's still a long way off before you can surpass me," Tohru, walking behind Miyauchi Hiyage, declared with a sense of victory.

Clearly, after a night of fierce fighting, Tohru, a veteran of countless battles, ultimately emerged victorious, and it was by no means a narrow escape.

Tohru was clearly still at full strength, while Miyauchi Hiyage, under the influence of the Jewel Sword, was quite exhausted in terms of energy and stamina, although his Mana was still sufficient.

I should probably rest at home for the day.

Apart from that, although on the surface nothing seemed to have changed in Miyauchi Hiyage's room, only Miyauchi Hiyage knew the truth.

Tohru, in his dragon form, was indiscriminately bombarding his Unlimited Blade Works, leaving the interior a scene of utter devastation. Thor had even taken a projected Jewel Sword.

If it weren't for the support of infinite Mana, the Unlimited Blade Works world would probably have collapsed due to excessive load after the first hour of gameplay.

This was also the first time that Miyauchi Hiyage had faced Tohru when he was serious since obtaining Unlimited Blade Works.

This was also the first time that Unlimited Blade Works faced a clash between rules and will.

Although Tohru did not possess skills such as Domain Expansion or Reality Marble, she already possessed a more intuitive power of rules.

Furthermore, she inherited the power of the End from her father End Emperor.

It sounds pretty high-class.

When facing domains and Reality Marble, she only needs to unleash her power of rules to suppress the domains and erode the Reality Marble.

In last night's battle, Miyauchi Hiyage first challenged Tohru with the Jewel Sword, and as always, he suppressed Tohru with his firepower advantage in the first few minutes.

However, when Miyauchi Hiyage planned to use a ten-pull of Fantasy Honkai as a welcome gift for Tohru's return, Tohru couldn't help but start putting pressure on Miyauchi Hiyage.

The power of rules, which had never been used before, was brought out.

The Gears Sky in Unlimited Blade Works was instantly torn open by Tohru's End Power, bringing with it a deathly and oppressive pressure.

This is the manifestation of the power of the end, the power capable of ending everything.

Even though Tohru was far inferior to her father in this aspect, Tohru still managed to use her End Power to corrupt nearly 40% of Unlimited Blade Works. It was only later, thanks to Miyauchi Hiyage's control over her own world, that she strengthened her defenses against Unlimited Blade Works and was able to resist the corruption.

When Miyauchi Hiyage's stamina and energy began to lag behind Tohru's, nearly 20% of Unlimited Blade Works' territory had already been eroded by Tohru.

However, despite losing, Miyauchi Hiyage did not appear particularly dejected.

Losing to Tohru is normal.

The opponent is a being above the Special Grade, and has lived for tens of thousands of years. His knowledge and combat experience are far superior to his.

He has now managed to hold his own against his opponent for so long, and his opponent has already used the power of the rules, although he is still far from forcing his opponent to their limit.

However, this can be roughly seen as the opponent finally showing their health bar in front of him, although it may be a long time before he can empty their health bar.

It's even possible that the opponent has another completely new health bar behind this one.

But it's nothing like the God of Destruction in Dragon Ball Super, who, from the moment Son Goku first transformed into Super Saiyan God, kept saying that Son Goku and the others' new forms could compare to him. In the end, he went from Super Saiyan God Red to Blue, then to Ultra Instinct White, and even the fused Vegito and Gogeta probably wouldn't stand a chance against the God of Destruction.

Once he catches up in his understanding of the rules and further improves his stats, defeating Tohru is only a matter of time.

However, Miyauchi Hiyage was naturally not going to admit defeat. "Just wait, I'm going to expand my armory in a couple of days. When I come back, you won't be facing those little gadgets from Jujutsu High in Unlimited Blade Works."

Upon hearing that Miyauchi Hiyage was going to update the equipment depot, Tohru suddenly became quite interested.

"Which equipment depot are you planning to raid this time?"

"Don't put it so harshly, it's just borrowing one thing."

"Moreover, this time I'm looking for the original owner of Unlimited Blade Works. What I obtained was just an empty world, and everything in it was something I created myself."

"But that guy works illegally in different parallel universes, so his world has a lot of good stuff. If I could bring all of that stuff over, my Unlimited Blade Works would be complete."

Tohru frowned. She hadn't asked Miyauchi Hiyage much about how he obtained these powers, and this was the first time Miyauchi Hiyage had explained these things to her.

In other words, did that mysterious being copy someone else's ability and then transfer it to Miyauchi Hiyage?

So her gaze toward Miyauchi Hiyage became even stranger.

The meaning of Miyauchi Hiyage is that the original owner of Unlimited Blade Works would travel through different time and space to do dirty work for others for some reason, and thus projected a lot of weapons into the other party's Unlimited Blade Works in various time and space.

Now, Miyauchi Hiyage is going to find the other party again and secretly steal the weapons that the other party has taken.

It seems like neither Miyauchi Hiyage nor the original owner of Unlimited Blade Works ever did anything truly human.

The Miyauchi Hiyage, however, was unimpressed.

Fighting oneself and learning from oneself has always been a classic tactic in the Fate series. In almost every timeline, Shirou Emiya's first serious projection is a lesson learned from Red Archer.

In this world, Red Archer) will not appear; only the Heroic Spirit Card that carry his power will appear, so Miyauchi Hiyage will have no psychological burden.

Moreover, after he has stolen all of Red Archer's swords, there's still Gates of Babylon waiting for him to take them.

"If you want to see for yourself, I can take you there for a tour so you can see how chaotic our world is. Anyway, it only takes a few minutes with teleportation."

The current Miyauchi Hiyage has pretty good mobility.

A single transmission can cover a controllable range of over 30 kilometers, with a maximum distance exceeding 50 kilometers.

Traveling to Fuyuki City or Morioh, which are four or five hundred kilometers away, only takes a few minutes if you plan your route in advance and teleport once every five to half a minute.

It could even be said that Miyauchi Hiyage could teleport to most parts of the world within an hour.