Outside the illusion, Miyauchi Hikage, splitting his attention, called the girls who were almost dozing off waiting in the theater to leave first after taking the Treasure hidden in the mirror space.
In fact, after Miyauchi Hikage took the half-person-high Senbazuru, a tremor began to come from inside the Mirror Theater, giving a feeling of shakiness.
"I have found the key to this Palace and helped Miss Ichinose awaken the ability of her Persona in the illusion. It is estimated that this Temporary Palace will collapse soon. You leave the theater first, and I will teleport out with Miss Ichinose later."
Seeing the changes in the Palace, several girls knew that Miyauchi Hikage should have really solved most of the problems, so they naturally wouldn't stay to hold him back.
However, Shinomiya Kaguya and Kasumigaoka Utaha both instructed Miyauchi Hikage to be careful before leaving.
And after the girls left the Palace one by one and returned to the Metaverse, Miyauchi Hikage also took back his Stand.
The power of calamity was indeed everywhere. Although ordinary illusions couldn't, the illusion generated by Shadow Chizuru was based on the special power of the mirror space.
The Mirror Theater also needed to be affected by calamity. Miyauchi Hikage could also gain certain control over this Palace because of this. Otherwise, he couldn't make this Palace his property directly, but entering the mirror space was obviously no problem.
Relying on this, Miyauchi Hikage could use his Wonder of U to enter the mirror space, and then conveniently enter Ichinose Chizuru's illusion.
On Ichinose Chizuru's side, just after breaking free from the illusion holding the Senbazuru given to her by Miyauchi Hikage, before she could react, her arm was grabbed by Miyauchi Hikage again.
In the next moment, another change occurred in front of her eyes.
When she came back to her senses, they were already outside the Mirror Theater.
And when she looked at the location of the Mirror Theater again, she found that just as Miyauchi Hikage said in the illusion, this Palace had begun to collapse from the inside.
"One minute later, we would have been crushed underground by countless mirrors." Miyauchi Hikage let go of his hand, letting Ichinose Chizuru witness the end of her Palace.
At the same time, he reminded Ichinose Chizuru again: "It seems that I was right. This thing is indeed the core of the Palace, and also the most important thing in your heart. So after taking it out, your Shadow showed such an anxious attitude, and this Palace also collapsed after I took it away."
Ichinose Chizuru looked at the Senbazuru in her hand.
Although she was a little confused that the most important thing in her heart was this huge Senbazuru, she still couldn't help asking Miyauchi Hikage worriedly: "But is it really okay for me to take this away?"
"What if I take it back to reality and it gets stolen by someone else?"
Really, Miyauchi Hikage hadn't even thought about this question asked by Ichinose Chizuru.
After all, the Phantom Thieves in the game were quite casual about disposing of these things after taking them to reality, and some even sold them for money directly.
Miyauchi Hikage pondered for a while before giving an answer.
"This thing was not materialized because of you, but should be because of the shadow in your heart that led to the final formation of this thing. Or rather, this thing can be seen as a manifestation of your Shadow's obsession."
"Now your Shadow has become your Persona and returned to you, so this thing has lost its original power. Hmm... at least I don't feel any threads of fate on it now."
"So just treat this thing as a souvenir with peace of mind. I think there should be few people in this world who can have an experience like yours, fighting against another side of yourself, and taking the obsession of your Shadow as a trophy. From now on, you can be considered to have formally entered the supernatural realm, although this supernatural being can only exert power in the Metaverse currently."
Only then did Ichinose Chizuru look at the Senbazuru in her hand with peace of mind, determined to keep this thing well.
Seeing the complete collapse of this Palace, and even the space itself becoming unstable, Miyauchi Hikage signaled that it was time for Ichinose Chizuru to leave.
With a flash of light crossing the world, as the last two people to leave the Palace, after they left, they also witnessed with their own eyes that the twisted space channel emitting red light originally located in the Metaverse disappeared quickly in front of them.
At this time, they finally saw clearly that the end of this road was a quite ordinary dead end.
"It really disappeared completely..." Ichinose Chizuru sighed, and then the girls who had been waiting for them in the Metaverse also hurried over to ask Ichinose Chizuru about the situation.
After all, Ichinose Chizuru stayed in the illusion for a full two hours this time!
It was already past midnight now. If Miyauchi Hikage hadn't kept saying that Ichinose Chizuru was not in danger, they probably wouldn't have been able to wait any longer.
And now Ichinose Chizuru not only successfully awakened a Persona, but also held a super large Senbazuru in her hand. It really made people care about the origin of this thing.
Ichinose Chizuru explained her experience in the illusion as briefly as possible, and the process of Miyauchi Hikage entering the illusion to save her, threatening Shadow Chizuru to return to her body, and thus allowing her to successfully awaken her Persona.
"This is the core item of that Mirror Theater. Miyauchi-kun said that after Shadow Chizuru returned to me, the power on it dissipated, and I can take it back to reality as a souvenir."
Shinomiya Kaguya was not interested in souvenirs. After knowing that this huge Senbazuru had no effect, she focused her attention on Ichinose Chizuru's Persona again.
"Your Persona is Hassan? That Old Man of the Mountain in the Middle Ages, the origin of the word Assassin? No wonder that guy's means looked related to sneak attacks and assassinations."
Regarding this, Ichinose Chizuru scratched her head embarrassedly.
"After she became my Persona, I also roughly understood her power... Indeed, Hundred Faces is not good at frontal combat, but can create many clones in battle to attract the enemy's attention. And usually, it should be very useful for investigation, so I will help everyone figure out the surrounding situation in advance when everyone explores the Metaverse in the future."
Although Shadow Chizuru could exert quite good strength as a Shadow, as the saying goes, "white-washed" characters become three times weaker.
Ichinose Chizuru's Persona was now in a weakened state with levels reset, and couldn't exert the previous strength.
Acting as the team's scout and assassin hiding around the team was also Ichinose Chizuru's biggest role.
When the Persona level went up in the future, it was estimated that there would only be some room for performance when facing those weak Personas.
And now the three people who awakened Personas awakened completely different styles of masks.
Sudou Ayami's Tomoe Gozen was a combat assistant, Kisugi Ai's Mata Hari was responsible for combat support and post-combat seduction extortion, and now Ichinose Chizuru's Hassan of the Hundred Faces provided usual support, allowing them to find the location of Shadows faster and reduce exploration time.
After simply checking the power of Ichinose Chizuru's Persona, today's expedition team came to an end here.
After all, it was almost 2 AM now. Although it didn't matter to sleep late tomorrow being the weekend, they still had to wash up after going back later. It was estimated to be three o'clock after finishing these.
And shortly after they left the Metaverse and returned to reality, Ichinose Chizuru uploaded a disc of Senbazuru in the group.
Mizuhara Chizuru: "After I took Senbazuru back to reality, I found it turned into this disc."
At this time, there were still quite a few members squatting in the group for frontline news who hadn't fallen asleep.
Although the exploration tonight was over, there were still quite a few active people.
So after Ichinose Chizuru sent this message, she soon got a response.
Umaru: "Is this the movie filmed by Chizuru's grandmother when she was young? To be honest, although I have heard of the name, after all, it is too old, and I really haven't seen the story inside. But it seems that the disc is made quite exquisitely, completely unlike an old movie from half a century ago."
Ichinose Chizuru posted a wry smile emoji in the group: "In fact, this is indeed not the original version of Senbazuru. It seems to be the version of Senbazuru filmed by me after replacing my grandmother in the final illusion."
"The heroine on the disc cover has become me."
Although she and her grandmother did look very similar, people who were slightly familiar could distinguish them very clearly.
It seemed that this thing could really only circulate in the group. If this version of Senbazuru circulated out, it would probably make those who had seen the old version of Senbazuru suspicious.
Umaru: "Isn't this great? Having a movie filmed by yourself before debuting."
Shinomiya Kaguya, who hadn't left Miyauchi Hikage's house, also joked to Ichinose Chizuru: "If you have this idea, I can help you find a way to handle these things and take this new version of Senbazuru for a small-scale trial screening. Maybe it can make you famous in one fell swoop."
Ichinose Chizuru hurriedly waved her hand to refuse.
After all, her performance in this movie was just completely imitating her grandmother.
Although she herself felt that this was enough, it was still a bit shameful to take it for screening.
"It seems Chizuru still intends to start from the basics," Shinomiya Kaguya briefly explained Ichinose Chizuru's situation to Miyauchi Hikage. "But if she really decides to join your Asahigaoka Media, how do you plan to arrange her?"
Regarding this, Miyauchi Hikage shrugged: "Then make some low-budget film and television works. With Ichinose's own conditions, and the awakened Persona Hassan of the Hundred Faces who can directly assist her in improving her acting skills, if she can't make a name for herself in the entertainment industry like this, then either the current entertainment industry is so dark that it doesn't tolerate any outsiders' intrusion at all, or the current entertainment industry is involuted to an unimaginable degree."
However, to be honest, the entertainment industry in this world was indeed involuted enough.
Leaving aside the film and television circle, at least the music and idol circle could be completely called a high-martial world.
Various campus bands and campus idol projects emerged one after another. Almost every once in a while, several super teams with professional-level arrangement and lyrics could pop up.
And most of them could maintain super-level performance on stage, with full state throughout a whole performance, belonging to the kind that didn't need tuning even if made into CDs directly.
In such an involuted environment, those band works that broke out of the circle in Miyauchi Hikage's previous life could only be at the roadside level in this world currently.
Including Hoshino Ai, a natural idol favored by God, could only work hard as an underground idol now.
If he really wanted to enter this circle, and assuming these circles were not those impact waves that relied solely on settings to blow hard but performed like poop in reality, then Miyauchi Hikage felt that even with the song library and film and television resources from his previous life, it probably wouldn't be so easy to cultivate a super idol in this world.
However, superstars were hard to cultivate, but with acting foundation and image, it was relatively easy to make a famous actor.
And his funds were increasing at a very fast speed every day now. Miyauchi Hikage couldn't spend all this money himself, and there was also investment from Shinomiya Kaguya.
So even if there was a high probability that Ichinose Chizuru and Sakurajima Mai would join Asahigaoka Media in the future, Miyauchi Hikage's attitude still looked very relaxed at this time.
"Indeed, sometimes I envy your brain. I don't know why you can always come up with so many interesting inspirations. If you need any help, feel free to contact me," Shinomiya Kaguya said, and then suddenly began to ask Miyauchi Hikage's opinion on Sudou Ayami.
From the beginning, Shinomiya Kaguya could feel that this girl seemed to be hiding some secrets. Miyauchi Hikage also chatted with the other party for a few sentences tonight, so she wanted to see Miyauchi Hikage's attitude towards that girl from Miyauchi Hikage.
Miyauchi Hikage blinked, and then said to Shinomiya Kaguya: "She should have known before this that there would be a core 'Treasure' in the Palace. As long as the Treasure could be found and taken away, the problem of the Palace could be solved. And after entering the Palace, she remained silent and rarely spoke, nor did she take the initiative to enter the illusion. It seems that she should be the kind of girl with heavy wariness, probably wanting to observe us in this way."
"As for other purposes, I haven't found any for the time being. But if you are worried, then continue to maintain an observational attitude towards her. I think one day you will be able to see clearly what she wants to do."