Despair of what happened in the past. Focus your thoughts on the future. That way, at least I will correct those guys to what they should be, so that they can regain a certain degree of rationality and know how to mourn for you who are sleeping in the grave."
If it was her.
Perhaps the world can be changed at will without any cost.
If Othinus told Kamijou that if he gave him half the world, he might really be able to have his own country. Making friends with men from all over the world, and falling in love with women from all over the world - such a foolish dream might be realized with just a flick of the "spear".
But...
"There's no point in this, Othinus."
"?"
"You said it just now. You said it yourself that there's no point in creating new dolls. No matter how pleasant it is to be there, there's still nothing there. If the whole world is like that, then there's nothing but emptiness waiting for you, not to mention the fulfillment of your wishes. There's nothing left."
"That's true. So you mean to say that the visions are not wrong? They need no correction, and that you should be left alone."
"That's right."
The boy answered immediately.
He responded so quickly that Othinus frowned quietly.
The mortals didn't care and spoke out against the girl who became a god.
"I was abandoned. Someone I didn't even know what he looked like took away everything from me... But this means they are free and have their own values. They are not influenced by the will of people like me, and they deserve respect. This is what it means to be unable to influence others. If everything goes according to one's will, it will become too empty."
"…"
"So, Othinus. If you unilaterally say that you want to 'correct' everything and leave here… then I will stand in your way. Everything here only brings me pain. But even so, you shouldn't arbitrarily destroy them for personal reasons!"
The girl's eyebrow twitched slightly.
The look in her eyes was like seeing a pest that she thought she had crushed with a slipper still moving.
"...Before I crush you, I have something to ask you."
Othinus spoke calmly.
An expression on his face that said, "The device is not functioning as expected."
"What does this get you?"
"Nothing."
Also answered immediately.
"I'm not fighting for anything."
"I see."
"Besides, even if we are separated temporarily, we can still rebuild our friendship if we are destined to do so. Some relationships start with mutual hatred and misunderstanding, but in the end everyone can still laugh together. This kind of friendship is much stronger than you think. Even if the identity of 'Kamijo Touma' was taken away from me, it doesn't mean that I won't have the opportunity to reconnect with everyone in another identity, right?"
"I see."
At this point, Othinus spoke as if to interrupt Kamijou.
Her shoulders were shaking.
Kamijou thought she was suppressing her anger, but it wasn't the case. She was suppressing her laughter.
"Haha. Although you spoke very well, I had a very bad plan for you. No, after all, I didn't expect you to come up with such an answer. This is really embarrassing. It is extremely rare for a god to admit his mistakes to a human. It is worth being proud of for a lifetime."
"...What's the meaning?"
Kamijou, who was still sitting in the chair, frowned.
"What on earth are you talking about?"
"It's very simple."
Othinus pointed to the exit.
Pointing to the empty void where everyone left.
"Everyone calls the boy who disappeared there 'Kamijo Touma'. The person in question is also convinced that he is 'Kamijo Touma'. And there is only you and me here, so your self-declaration is meaningless under such circumstances. In addition, what I said was full of malice from the beginning… In this case, don't you think you should have a question that is natural to say?"
no.
She couldn't be allowed to continue.
A strong feeling of disgust gradually took over my whole body, as if there were disgusting bugs crawling everywhere from head to toe.
Then.
Othinus, who didn't care, said in a mocking tone:
"Who are you who are here, bowing your head in misery and sadness?"
The girl looked very happy.
As if showing off the trick she was so proud of.
"Is this indecisive guy really the Kamijou Touma that everyone knows?"
Chapter 193: Index's Courage to Identify
A tug-of-war with no end.
This was the beginning of the chaos of this farce.
The demon god Othinus's goal is Kamijou Touma's complete despair.
but.
Kamijou Touma's vision and awareness is still to maintain his small piece of land.
This world still exists, and this is Kamijou Touma's bottom line.
However.
In the video.
Concepts and Kuo Lun's defense.
The balance of this rhetoric seems to have tilted in a new direction.
Kamijou Touma asked, and Othinus teased.
A closely connected question and answer, two diametrically opposed concepts.
The core theme expressed by Othinus is very clear. She just wants to prove the reverse point of view. Kamijou Touma thinks that the actions he has done to disrupt other lives are not wrong, but can be successfully performed by another person who has nothing to do with him.
Kamijou Touma's words, "I was abandoned. Someone I didn't even know what he looked like took everything away from me... But that means they are free and have their own values. They are not influenced by the will of someone like me, and they deserve respect. That's what 'not being able to influence others' means. If everything goes according to one's will, it will become too empty." really crushed the Demon Girl's smug tricks.
Seeing this scene, some viewers disagreed with Touma's theory of being the only one to suffer, and began to comment on it.
"This is a collision of two contradictory mentalities."
In front of the screen, the acting Pope of Amakusa in the Magical Index plane, Kenmiya Saiji, was holding a bamboo stick in his mouth. When he saw this scene, he pulled it out.
I express my views very frankly:
"One is the mentality of absolute selfishness and self-esteem, and the other is the mentality of absolute selflessness and equality of all things."
"To be precise, this is a spiritual clash between two people with extremely different mentalities."
Everything is selfless from beginning to end.
You can never go wrong with this.
But ah...the boy in the video.
He was able to accomplish these good deeds and good words so easily that would absolutely not be recognized by others.
To Jian Gongzhaizi, this is like a rare treasure.
This evaluation does not come from him alone.
From all those who are touched by this saintly sentiment.
From all things in the heavens.
Obviously.
Even the demon god Othinus who was being questioned was shocked by this inexplicable realization;
She, who had always been proud towards Kamijou Touma, now showed a rare silence.
She didn't understand Kamijou Touma's mentality.
I have never been interested in truly understanding this inexplicable emotional expression.
only.
Just when everyone thought she was shocked by this theory.
But she smiled for no apparent reason.
That is the posture of a sophist.
"Everyone calls the boy who disappeared there 'Kamijo Touma'. The person in question is also convinced that he is 'Kamijo Touma'. And there is only you and me here, so your self-declaration is meaningless under such circumstances. In addition, what I said was full of malice from the beginning… In this case, don't you think you should have a question that is natural to say?"
Her tone was full of boasting.
And accompanied her asking.
Kamijou Touma's mood gradually got out of control and became depressed.
And accompanied by this ridicule.
Othinus's last whisper also floated into his ears.
"Who are you who are here, bowing your head in misery and sadness?"
"Is this indecisive guy really the Kamijou Touma that everyone knows?"
These words may not make sense at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, they are full of meaning.
What's interesting is that when Othinus asked this question, there was someone standing in the picture.
But it was clearly a man named Kamijou Touma.
Available in video.
He looked confused.
It seemed as if this sentence dealt him a huge blow.
This...what is going on?
No one could find the answer for Kamijou Touma.
Looking at him, and thinking back to the Kamijou Touma who was created by the devil and was just surrounded by people, the whole atmosphere revealed a strange and absurd feeling.
So, what is the real answer?
"I don't think anyone can feel this more deeply than I do."
Everyone was struggling to think about this question, and the audience was debating the topic with great interest.
But at this moment——
On the editing scene.
The boy named Kamijou Touma was looking at himself in the video.
Calmness gave the answer.
That expression did not show any annoyance of being hurt or fooled, but rather a calm and accepting attitude.
Not that I really feel the same way.
Rather, from a God's perspective, all of this is just a game.
It's just a situation that is so real that it's hard to tell the difference.
However, he buried this view deep in his heart and did not reveal or express it.
This resulted in Othinus being unable to fully see through Kamijou Touma's point of view.
Just feel...
This guy's expression is really calm.
He clearly clenched his fists tightly.
First Chapter Previous Chapter 740/811His expression was like that of a green-faced ghost, without any emotional fluctuations.
"It seems that you have already realized what is shown in the editing screen."
Even so.
Othinus looked confused.
That's right...
Especially comparing inside the video and outside the video.
This confusion has intensified to the extreme.
Such behavior.
Such torture.
Such suppression.
From beginning to end.
Every move she made was aimed at erasing Kamijou Touma's personality.
The same is true of these few words of provocation, which are intended to shake the boy's state of mind.
But--
like water off a duck's back.
That's right.
It really has no effect at all.
It was like punching a ball of White Rabbit milk candy. Apart from being hard and burning, there was no other feeling.
An inexplicable feeling of dissatisfaction spread in the demon girl's heart.
No, aren't you afraid of being suppressed by me?
And then, the new scene appeared, and even Touma, who thought he had a firm faith in the Tao before the video, fell silent.
Despite all the twists and turns he has gone through in the video, he still firmly calls himself Kamijou Touma.
But, when the world without sorrow and sadness created by Othinus appeared before our eyes.
The shining, golden picture made everyone who was watching it silent.
Because those absurd scenes that should never appear in this world view are actually being staged one after another.
In the new world that has been opened up.
The absurd scenes that no one could imagine gradually appeared in front of Kamijou Touma.
"You are so cunning."
"Perhaps."
"That Alice died long before I met Shirley. That was about 20 years ago. I couldn't save him no matter how hard I struggled, right? I wasn't even born at that time."
"So, it's not your fault."
"Whether it's Orianna or Janice, there must be tragedies in their pasts that I don't know about. Debts, love affairs, etc., how can I know everything? How can I help them?"
"No one blames you."
Paper airplanes flew across the sky.
There was a petite figure chasing after him, and next to him were many girls with exactly the same facial features.
When you look in the direction the paper plane went, you can see two psychics (level 5).
First place, and third place.
In a slightly different future, they seem to have completely reconciled.
"I couldn't save them. I simply couldn't do it! Yes, that's right. More than 10,000 clones were killed. If I had discovered it earlier, maybe I could have taken a different path! This is indeed my fault, and there is no excuse. I just accidentally saved one or two people in front of me, making it look like the matter has been completely resolved!"
"As long as you give up blaming yourself, everyone will agree with you later."
"My...what does my choice mean?"
The scene before my eyes must be the correct answer.
Even if this is really unreasonable, and even involves using foul tricks like reversing time.
Kamijou still couldn't think of a better answer.
"Could it be that... my choices have accelerated the development of those tragedies? Did my choices cause unnecessary casualties? My choices have caused people to suffer, to go into debt, to lose love... If that's the case, then what am I to think of as 'helping others'...!"
Is changing the world really evil?
Is restoration of the status quo ante really good?
After seeing such a peaceful world, how can you still say that?
Even if someone rules the world.
But Othinus kept smiling, which Kamijou couldn't bear. Was she wrong? This had nothing to do with some vulgar words like conquering the world. It was simply what a ruler should do, right?
Boom, boom. A football rolled to Kamijou's feet.
Othinus gently loosened his arms from around the boy's neck.
The freed boy looked forward.
He looked towards the petite figure approaching him.
A nun in white monastic robes.
"ball..."
Hearing this, Kamijou picked up the football at his feet. Index approached the ball like a puppy or some other small animal.
There are a few figures in the distance.
Stiyl Magnus.
Kamiya Kaori.
There were also other priests and nuns that the boy didn't know.
"ah..."
Kamijou sighed softly.
Although he didn't know what actually happened because of his amnesia.
But I vaguely understood what was going on.
This is--
If they had not failed, the future would not have been taken away by people like Kamijou.
"?"
The silver-haired girl took the ball with both hands and tilted her head slightly when she saw Kamijou's expression.
"What's wrong? Is your stomach aching?"
Such words came flying.
Kamijou thought that his expression might be quite strange right now.
if.
If I reach out my right hand and touch the girl's head, will anything change? Or will nothing change?
moment.
His right palm began to tremble strangely...
"nothing."
Kamijou put on a smiling face.
The right hand placed on the knee was clenched quietly.
"I'm fine, don't worry."
The girl in the previous entry jogged away.
This picture of a young girl joining the crowd must be what they normally see.
...Is this redemption?
Who can be considered as being redeemed by continuously giving others such a strong sense of loss?
"Protect it, or destroy it?"
Othinus, who was standing next to Kamijou, sat down on the back of the bench and whispered to the boy with his back to him.
"No matter what, you can only choose one of the two. This will not only affect you, but also everyone you know and determine everyone's life."
"…What do you want from me?"
The boy questioned tremblingly.
"Even if I don't say anything, you can save the world by yourself, right? You've just shown me that you are that kind of person, right? If so, what's going on now? Why give me time to hesitate in this perfect world without any flaws? What do you want me to do!"
"It's very simple."
In contrast, Othinus looked relaxed and ready to whistle at any time.
"Like you said, this world is perfect and flawless. Everything is protected by the 'golden ratio calculated based on the premise that Touma is no longer around'. On the other hand, as long as you exist, this world will go wrong. As long as there are extra gears, or should I say, pieces of wood stuck in the gaps, it will hinder the movement of all the gears... Although it looks so peaceful now, it will soon start to fall apart. I don't know if it will be in a second or a month, but it will definitely happen - from the moment that the world guy thinks, 'So this guy is still here?'"
so.
Demon God Othinus stared at Kamijou with his remaining eye and came to this conclusion.
"Use your own life to end it. There is no other way to protect this world."
"...Hey."
At this moment.
The relaxed expression on Kamijou's face looked like a weird smile.
Anyone could tell he was definitely not smiling.
Othinus remained unmoved.
"I can do it. But you've discovered it yourself, right? When faced with a crisis caused by external factors, you somehow always manage to overcome the difficulties. In your life of continuous "unfortunate" state, not being able to die when you should is perhaps the greatest "unfortunate". Although I am more than 99% sure of killing you, if I want to ensure 100% sureness, it is better for you to commit suicide first. This is more healthy for the world."
A "pop" sound was heard.
Something fell from the sky.
It was a thick rope with one end tied into a loop, which seemed to be used for hanging. When I thought of this, there were already kitchen knives, charcoal stoves, pistols, detergents, cars, pills, thick plastic bags, broken hair dryers, silver wine glasses, short knives, gasoline barrels, clothes stuffed with many stones as hammers, etc. falling around. The scene was like the candy rain in the picture book, colorful, full of joy, and extremely unusual.
"So you can make your own choice and decide for yourself. If you are willing to bear everything, you can fight with me and destroy the 'Lance'. If you are not willing to do so, then end it with your own life."
Kamijou slowly turned his head and looked at Othinus.
She had vanished without a trace.
Only the teenager was left at the scene.
A happy and perfect world.
This was too heavy a burden to be placed on his shoulders alone.
in the end...
Those who are eagerly awaiting Kamijou Touma's return and hoping that everything will return to normal...
Is it just Kamijou Touma?
The pain in his heart could not be understood from his expression.
but.
That silence that cannot be concealed.
It's an emotional panic that no one can stop.
Right beside a group of partners.
Even with this comfort from everyone.