GA: Chapter 81 – Power Made Real from Fantasy; How People Perceive Things
Doraemon blinked, looking back and forth between Bai Xuan and Huoyou.
"Do you want to use it?"
"No, no, no—absolutely not."
Huoyou shook her head rapidly.
She hadn't even expected any of these things to actually work in the first place. And while it turned out the Anywhere Door was limited to use within Earth—for people like them, usable anywhere on Earth basically meant no restrictions at all.
The limitation on the Anywhere Door, if anything, was a relief.
If it had worked with no limits whatsoever, that would have been genuinely terrifying.
And Bai Xuan—his ability had actually brought Doraemon to life. Not only that, but the gadgets worked too.
And then there was Silly Girl the phone—a phone that could go a couple of rounds with Sun Wukong.
That particular Sun Wukong did feel slightly weaker than the classic version—he could even be poisoned by pesticides, which wasn't very impressive—but he was still fundamentally Sun Wukong. The baseline was still there.
Huoyou was absolutely not a match for him.
Bai Xuan, meanwhile, was thinking through why the Anywhere Door had its limitation. He wasn't confused by it—because between himself, the chat group, and the spiritual qi revival, there was an inescapable connection.
The reason Doraemon's gadgets were limited to Earth was inseparable from him.
If he used the Anywhere Door to revert this world to what it had been before the spiritual qi revival, he would essentially be reversing the causality that had produced it all.
Without spiritual qi, would the Earth consciousness have awakened? Would Doraemon have been brought into existence? Would Bai Xuan still possess the fortune worthy of the chat group's invitation?
So using it that way would inevitably create unpredictable consequences.
But even if it would cause no consequences at all—even if he could use it freely—Bai Xuan had no intention of returning the Earth to what it once was.
To say he wouldn't mind giving up everything he had now and going back to being an ordinary person would be too dishonest. He had no reason whatsoever to relinquish [Natural Authority], and no reason to give up anything he currently possessed.
Even if Bai Xuan were willing—would everyone else truly be?
Would ordinary people willingly surrender an ability that might change the course of their lives?
Would the wealthy willingly give up spiritual qi that could potentially extend their lifespan?
Would scientists willingly abandon the possibility of fusing science with spiritual qi to forge an entirely new era?
Perhaps some would. But that possibility was far too small.
"When will those things arrive?"
Bai Xuan turned to Huoyou and asked calmly.
"Hm? Oh—those should be here by tonight."
Huoyou looked puzzled for a moment, then realized he was asking about the items she'd been tasked with acquiring, and answered quickly.
"How did you get this ability anyway?"
"A derivation of your nature ability? Like what you mentioned last time?"
Huoyou asked with genuine curiosity.
"Power from another animated world."
"A special kind of charm—it can animate the inanimate, and what it revives can break through dimensional barriers."
Bai Xuan shook his head. Jackie Chan Adventures didn't exist in this world, so he left it at that.
"It works on the Divine Shining Rod, the Armor Hero transformation devices, and Devil Fruits?"
"But even if the Divine Shining Rod becomes real—it's just a photonic energy converter, isn't it? Don't you need the host to carry the Ancient Giant's gene and a stone statue?"
"And the Armor Hero devices require the Shadow Crystal, the Five-Element bloodline, and so on. The second series Xingtian also needs a contract—I think, anyway. I don't remember it that clearly."
"Didn't watch the third series."
"Would something like that even work when you manifest it?"
Huoyou looked at him with a puzzled tilt of her head.
"Under normal circumstances, no. But mine is a special case."
If it were the Rat Charm on its own, it couldn't do this. But his ability was not simply the Rat Charm's power—it was what [Natural Authority] had derived after absorbing the Rat Charm.
What it needed was not a logical framework, but human recognition.
Not the official setting—but the impression people held, the fantasy grounded in their perception of reality.
Take the Divine Shining Rod. In the general understanding of most people, it was the thing you used to transform into Ultraman Tiga. Whether it was technically a photonic energy converter, whether you needed an Ancient Giant's gene or a stone statue—none of that mattered.
What mattered was that people believed the Divine Shining Rod could transform someone into Tiga. And so the Divine Shining Rod Bai Xuan manifested would do exactly that.
What's that? You say many people, like Huoyou, believed a plain rod couldn't actually complete the transformation without the required conditions?
So what.
Did every person who had ever watched Tiga think that carefully about the mechanics? Did children who grew up with it know all those details? Did people who only heard about it secondhand analyze it that deeply?
As long as even one person believed the Divine Shining Rod could transform someone into Tiga, Bai Xuan could draw on that belief and grant the rod that exact property.
The same logic applied to the Armor Hero transformation devices.
Yes, many people knew the Five-Element Armor required the Shadow Crystal and Five-Element bloodline. But many was not all. Otherwise, why did so many children grow up buying transformation toys, imagining they could become their favorite Armor Hero?
One person believing was enough.
Of course, this approach wasn't without its limits. Devil Fruits, for instance—it would be essentially impossible to manifest them without the weakness to water and Sea-Prism Stone.
Though that wasn't entirely certain either. Perhaps someone out there had imagined it that way.
"So the short answer is—yes, it works?"
Huoyou got the gist even though Bai Xuan hadn't said it outright.
He clearly knew exactly what she was asking, but treated it as a non-issue, and his explanation amounted to nothing more than my ability is special—which was effectively a yes.
Huoyou's eyes lit up. If Armor Heroes worked, then Balala the Fairies should work too, right?
Shugo Chara—probably not. That had some transformation elements, but not quite the same kind.
What about Cardcaptor Sakura? The Clow Cards should count, right?
"Oh—what's Brave Soldiers? Is that an anime? I don't recognize it at all."
"And what are the Three Angel Kings? Three kings among angels?"
Something occurred to her and Huoyou asked with a frown.
She'd seen at least something of everything else on the list, but Brave Soldiers she had never even heard of.
What anime was that? A deep cut? An obscure series?
Bai Xuan paused at the question. This world doesn't have Brave Soldiers?
Come to think of it, he hadn't seen any trace of it here.
But that was fine. He remembered enough of the plot to reconstruct it from memory and create it from scratch.
Not just Brave Soldiers—Jackie Chan Adventures, the Heisei Kamen Rider series, Pokémon—all of these could be created and released online based on what he remembered.
He could even produce original animation or live-action content.
Though that was a matter for another day. The specific strength of whatever he manifested was still tied to himself, and wouldn't be of much practical use to him—what existed from his past life was already more than sufficient.
Even if he made an outrageous fantasy production with maxed-out special effects and manifested the most fearsome entity within it, that entity still couldn't possibly surpass Bai Xuan himself.
So he focused his energy on things he actually cared about.