The Persona: Hundred-Faced Hassan
Indeed Shadow Chizuru mentioned Miyauchi Hiyage's name in the illusion just now, and said that even in that future, Miyauchi Hiyage wouldn't be able to protect them like she does now.
It was probably because Miyauchi Hiyage's effortless slaying of those soldiers that made Shadow Chizuru remember Miyauchi Hiyage.
But that was in an illusion, so how did Miyauchi Hiyage know about it?
Several girls also looked at Miyauchi Hiyage with the same curiosity.
So, did Miyauchi Hiyage do something outrageous while they were chatting?
"The Destiny Power works like this: I have a special feeling for anything related to me. That's how I sensed the changes that happened to you in the Impression Space before, and that's how I sense that Shadow Chizuru now. In short, I can't explain the principle myself, so you don't need to worry too much about these details," Miyauchi Hiyage spread his hands and explained his situation simply.
"Thanks to the fact that they just mentioned my name, I've re-locked onto them and gained a better understanding of the situation in this Mirror Theater." Miyauchi Hiyage closed his eyes, pretending to be carefully sensing.
"I have some ideas. In short, if you enter the illusion one more time, I think I can end this after one or two more attempts at most."
Chapter 316: Hassan of the Hundred Personas of Persona
As Miyauchi Hiyage revealed his discovery, even though the girls still didn't know what he was planning to do, their expressions visibly relaxed.
Tonight, they started exploring the Impression Space around 7 p. m., and then discovered this Temporary Palace within Impression Space.
I've been in Impression Space for over four hours now, and it's almost midnight.
The mental strain lasted for a long time, and there were also various battles in between.
Shinomiya Kaguya and the others spent over an hour in the illusion. Although they didn't have any major reactions at the time, after waiting for Chizuru Ichinose for over an hour, the stimulation from the increased mental strength gradually subsided, and they naturally felt tired.
Even if she had Senzu Bean, it wasn't a particularly urgent situation, so Shinomiya Kaguya wouldn't use such precious Senzu Bean to recover at this time.
So when they heard Miyauchi Hiyage say that they could find a solution after trying one or two more times, they were naturally happy.
As for what method should be used for the Miyauchi Hiyage shadow?
The Miyauchi Hiyage can only indicate how the Destiny Power is used; you shouldn't concern yourselves with them.
If the Destiny Power can be used for teleportation, then basically everything can be related to destiny in some way.
Of course, Miyauchi Hiyage wasn't making things up.
After using the Law of Calamity to lock onto the Shadow Chizuru, he has been searching for a way to deal with the palace.
He didn't really have many options at first, until the girls started passing through those illusions. He sensed the girls in the illusions calling out his name, and he also gained some understanding of the space inside the mirror through the power of the surname spell, and that's when he figured it out.
Although this is not a real palace, and its presentation is closer to the maze setting in P4, it is, after all, the Impression Space, and it does have everything a palace should have.
For example, the secret treasure of Chizuru Ichinose, hidden in the deepest part of the palace, which is also the deepest part of the Mirror Space, also exists.
The treasure is the most important item in a palace, and also the most important obsession in Chizuru Ichinose's heart.
Of course, not everyone will generate secret treasures in the Impression Space.
In the world of Persona 5, only those with extremely strong desires will create palaces in the Impression Space and hide secret treasures within them.
In Persona 5, the Phantom Thieves' method of Cognitive Change ordinary people is basically to beat them up and then use persuasion to make those shadows repent.
To Cognitive Change over these palace lords, they had to steal their secret treasures.
Sending out notices is also a way to help people understand what is the most important and necessary action in their hearts, which is why the main characters in Persona 5 call themselves phantom thieves.
In short, it's no exaggeration to consider the entire palace as Shadow Chizuru took to prevent the treasure from being taken by others.
Even the shadows in the palace were created because of the existence of the secret treasure.
Even though Shadow Chizuru gained the power of the rampaging Persona due to Chizuru Ichinose's denial, becoming a special being capable of surviving alone in the Impression Space, the Secret Treasure remains the Root of her existence.
As long as they can get their hands on that treasure, Shadow Chizuru will naturally come to reclaim it at any cost.
Even if Shadow Chizuru remains hidden and refuses to appear, the palace that was built to protect the treasure will naturally collapse after the treasure is taken away.
At the same time, Shadow Chizuru, having lost her foundation, will most likely also dissipate.
This situation cannot be generalized to the case of Miyauchi Hiyage's use of violence to directly demolish the palace.
Direct demolition will not reveal the treasure. Moreover, after the treasure's palace is destroyed, Shadow Chizuru can still take Chizuru Ichinose's treasure and leave for other places. Only when she is no longer bound by the palace will she be truly free.
In the heart of Shadow Chizuru, what she probably wants most is for Miyauchi Hiyage and his group to destroy the Mirror Theater using their supernatural abilities, so that she can run away with the treasure.
Of course, Miyauchi Hiyage could not allow such a thing to happen. After realizing this, he had already given up the option of violently destroying the palace.
After that, he began to use his abilities to investigate the location of the secret treasure.
Although Twisted Fate's Eyes's eyes cannot see inside the Mirror Space, Calamity Torrent can clearly sense what is most important to Shadow Chizuru within this palace.
It was only after Shadow Chizuru mentioned his name that he finally noticed the location of the treasure.
In fact, Miyauchi Hiyage is already able to use the Wonder of U power to retrieve the treasure.
However, since this is Chizuru Ichinose's palace, let's give her some screen time.
Furthermore, Chizuru Ichinose needs to realize for herself what is most important to her.
Therefore, Miyauchi Hiyage reminded Chizuru Ichinose: "I can roughly guess the methods you use to break free from the illusion, but if possible, I hope you can wake up from the illusion on your own. That way, you'll be absolutely safe."
Despite Miyauchi Hiyage's reminder, Chizuru Ichinose didn't feel very confident.
Both of these experiences in the illusion made her realize that her mind was not very firm.
Without the help of the Diary, she would probably have lost herself long ago and become a puppet of Shadow Chizuru, who would have replaced her.
It was at this moment that Shinomiya Kaguya Chizuru Ichinose a lesson, explaining how she had escaped from the illusion.
During a break in Shinomiya Kaguya's speech, Miyauchi Hiyage added, "Ultimately, it all comes down to sticking to your beliefs, knowing what you want, and what you need to give up to achieve it. Once you realize that, breaking free from the illusion isn't that difficult."
Miyauchi Hiyage thought for a moment, and then began to teach Chizuru Ichinose Ripple on the spot.
"While Breathing Technique have decent combat capabilities, they are ultimately a power for self-cultivation. Maintaining this breathing rhythm while meditating should help clear one's mind. Try maintaining this breathing rhythm when you enter the illusion."
Miyauchi Hiyage first gave a simple demonstration, and then used his Ripple to rub Chizuru Ichinose's neck, temporarily adjusting Chizuru Ichinose's throat and trachea so that she could adapt to the breathing rhythm in the shortest possible time.
Chizuru Ichinose, who hadn't quite gotten the hang of things yet and was planning to use some Reading Points to increase her experience, suddenly felt her breathing become much smoother after the other person touched her with their hand.
Or rather, not maintaining that breathing rhythm would make her feel uncomfortable.
She touched her throat in surprise. "Is this also an application of Ripple?"
Shinomiya Kaguya had already experienced this technique from Miyauchi Hiyage before, so she didn't find it strange.
She knew that this was a simple technique that Miyauchi Hiyage had developed for his Ripple sister, who could never learn Ripple Breathing, not long after he learned it. Its purpose was to force people to maintain the rhythm of Ripple Breathing.
Thanks to this skill, his sister, who had no particular talent, has now completely mastered Ripple Breathing.
She herself has recently been learning this technique, and plans to use it on Hayasaka Ai after she learns it, to help her quickly master Ripple Breathing.
One of the reasons she suspected Miyauchi Hiyage was the You Know Who was because the other party's mastery of Ripple Breathing was simply too outrageous.
Even if a genius can easily apply what they've learned to other problems, isn't it a bit too overpowered to start studying integrals right after learning the multiplication table?
However, this argument is not sufficient, because Miyauchi Hiyage is indeed very skilled.
She witnessed firsthand how Miyauchi Hiyage mastered the Breathing Swordsmanship in just ten minutes and was able to execute the entire Breathing Swordsmanship in less than half an hour.
He has only mastered the Breathing Swordsmanship for a little over half a month, but his sword skills alone are already Maki Zenin has been diligently training in various physical techniques and weapons.
Kasumigaoka Utaha and Chizuru Ichinose, who were encountering this technique for the first time, clearly felt that the Ripple they mastered was on a completely different level from the Ripple mastered by Miyauchi Hiyage.
You can even use Ripple like this?
But it seems like you can actually do it that way. It seems like when Jerry lived at the Black Cat's house before, he taught them a lot of Ripple ways to use the ripples.
In addition to maintaining Ripple Breathing pattern, there is also a special breathing rhythm that gathers the Ripple in the chest, which can help those with flat chests to achieve fuller breasts.
These are all methods that Shinomiya Kaguya and Yukino Yukinoshita secretly try every night before going to bed.
However, none of these breathing techniques are as amazing as the one Miyauchi Hiyage is using now.
After all, he just casually flicked his wrist, and the movement was even a little frivolous, but with just that one move, he could change their breathing rhythm. It really made people wonder how he did it.
"These are just some advanced applications of Ripple. If you want to learn them, I'll have Shiina Mashiro post this training method in your discussion group later. I've also recently researched quite a few special uses of Ripple."
After finishing speaking, Miyauchi Hiyage waved her hand, telling them to quickly get used to the breathing rhythm, and that they could talk about this later.
Chizuru Ichinose then calmed herself down and focused her attention on maintaining her breathing rhythm.
This breathing rhythm, specifically designed to clear the mind, is indeed very effective.
Chizuru Ichinose only maintained this state for a few minutes before feeling that her mental state was much better than before she entered the illusion.
I calmed down completely.
"Just stay in this state, think clearly about your true self, and if you encounter your own shadow again in the illusion, how do you refute it? Once you've figured that out, you can enter the illusion."
He repeatedly hinted to Chizuru Ichinose, prompting her to contemplate precious objects so that her secret treasure could be fully revealed within the palace.
After a while, Chizuru Ichinose gave herself several hints before nodding firmly. Under Miyauchi Hiyage's instructions, she touched another mirror and entered a completely new illusion.
With the disappearance of Chizuru Ichinose, Miyauchi Hiyage also diverted his attention to create a Wonder of U in the Mirror Space that looks exactly like himself, ready to meet Chizuru Ichinose at any time.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Sudo Ayami, who had been watching from the sidelines ever since the girls entered the illusionary trial, was now watching Miyauchi Hiyage even more intently from behind.
As she listened to Miyauchi Hiyage's words, she vaguely recalled some of the things the You Know Who had said to her a few days ago when they were discussing the Impression Space.
When the You Know Who mentioned the Cognitive Change and the pre-announcement letter, he briefly mentioned the setting of the secret treasure and the palace.
However, the current setting of this Temporary Palace is somewhat beyond her knowledge.
After all, she had never heard the You Know Who mention what would happen if she entered her palace and encountered her own shadow.
Furthermore, she was also worried that whatever she did in this palace would affect Chizuru Ichinose in the real world.
The appearance of Shadow Chizuru and her rampage completely shattered her understanding of the palace.
Therefore, she did not reveal anything about the secret treasure.
But listening to what Miyauchi Hiyage just said, it sounded like she was guiding Chizuru Ichinose to find her own treasure in the illusion.
Is Miyauchi Hiyage planning to use this method to have a battle for the secret treasure with Shadow Chizuru?
But how could Miyauchi Hiyage be so sure of this?
Sudo Ayami's doubts about Miyauchi Hiyage increased slightly.
She still didn't voice her doubts, but quietly waited for things to develop further.
And then they return to Chizuru Ichinose's illusion.
Perhaps it was because she kept talking about what was most important to her.
The illusion she entered this time was not her own life.
Instead, she traveled to the filming location of the movie "A Thousand Cranes" that her grandmother had filmed, and participated in the entire filming process as the lead actress, posing as her grandmother.
The filming process went smoothly.
Because of a movie from half a century ago, she watched it dozens of times over the past three years and knows almost every line in the movie by heart.
As for her grandmother's performance, she learned it bit by bit by comparing it with the movie itself.
Perhaps she wouldn't be able to play other roles, but playing her grandmother is a perfect fit for her.
Even though he is still a complete newcomer who has never actually participated in filming.
But in this illusion, she only spent some time and quickly found the secret to filming. Almost all the scenes involving her were not reshot because of her.
At this shooting pace, all of her scenes were filmed very quickly.
Finally, as the actress who played A Thousand Cranes, she personally attended the premiere of this film.
Watching her own performance on the screen, a smile involuntarily appeared on her face.
"Looks like I didn't embarrass Grandma after all," she said with a relieved smile as the music played and applause began after the movie ended.
It was because of your grandmother's movie that she developed a longing for the acting profession.
She also remembered the worried look on her grandmother's face when she told her that she wanted to become an actress.
It's clear that Grandma, who has been in that circle for nearly ten years, is very aware of the problems within it, which is why she's worried that her daughter might be mistreated if she joins it.
But why did his grandmother give up her acting career at the peak of her career to marry his grandfather?
This happened so long ago that even her parents couldn't explain it clearly, let alone her, their grandchild.
But judging from the occasional indignation his grandfather showed and the hesitant look on his grandmother's face, something unpleasant must have happened back then.
So her grandmother was initially quite opposed to her becoming an actress.
In the first illusion, the Shadow Chizuru revealed that her grandmother had given up her acting career for the same reason, which may indeed be true, but there's no way to get a real answer anymore.