Chapter 352

"Ding-dong~"

The doorbell was pressed.

"Is there something you need?"

A young woman with a tired complexion came out to open the door; she looked at the few people at the doorway and asked.

"We're looking for a girl wearing a pink kimono, about this tall; have you seen her?"

Broly gestured the height and inquired of the strange woman.

"Haven't seen her."

The young woman shook her head with an indifferent face and was about to close the door, but the door panel was grabbed by the boy.

The white-haired little nun spoke.

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"Ryougi Shiki, are you alright?"

"It's quite incredible, isn't it? An existence like the Root, which rigidly records all past, present, and future of the world, could actually produce a personality with independent consciousness like me."

"Then do you believe your own behavior is ultimately for good or for evil?"

Ryougi Shiki spoke these words and sat up from the steel plate platform.

Rin Tohsaka saw the boy was still worried, so she added another sentence.

Little Sakura asked.

Amid the woman's gentle words, the boy still ate down the medicine.

A pile of cables descended from the ceiling; one end of the cables connected to surgical scalpels, the other end linked to a large brain, yet also series-connected with the building.

"But now I have my reasons; Shiki and Ori both have those they hold dear, their emotions have influenced me too, although it was I who influenced them first……"

Broly finished searching this home at this time.

Smoking the cigarette down to the butt, Aozaki Touko then spoke.

"You all stay inside; I'm not at ease."

Broly felt searching for people this way would be a bit swifter, so he directly pulled the room door down.

But the kimono girl instead revealed a gentle smile and gently agreed.

"Made you worry; sorry."

The young woman wanted to stop him, but he simply didn't care, like a nimble monkey dodging the woman's hands, burrowing about everywhere.

"Ryougi Shiki, your body I'll have; Fearless, Vajra, Snake and Scorpion……"

And not long after eating it, he lost his breath.

The woman poured the remaining medicine into her mouth; Rin Tohsaka and the others wanted to stop her, but were blocked by Aozaki Touko.

And Aozaki Touko was searching for people on one hand, and dismantling this apartment's barrier on the other, realizing it through the gentle method of destroying key ground tiles.

"Whether humanity has value worth saving — you know the answer to that question quite clearly, don't you? You once universally saved all beings intending to save the world; those you saved, aren't they the ones you deemed worth saving? Or do you intend to deny the proof of your own past existence?"

"Xiaochuan Apartments is a giant life-and-death barrier containing Taiji; I fear quite a few residents who have reached dead ends have gathered here."

"No way, hey, how can you be like this, kid? This is my home."

"Eh?!"

Aozaki Touko showed the puppet head in her hand to the boy and said: "Destroy that too."

Root Shiki picked up the dust-covered boy and apologized to him.

In the bedroom with the door not closed, the mother fed medicine to the child.

"It seems the time left for me is already not much."

Root Shiki opened the door and walked out, just as Broly had fought his way here.

Several boxes of unopened pink balloon condoms fell out from the cabinet.

Aozaki Touko shook her head.

In the living room, the woman holding a bottle of medicine, her complexion changed from the hesitation when Broly entered, to calm after hearing the boy in the room shout in pain.

The girl rubbed the boy's head in her arms, then carried the boy downstairs.

Kanata: "……"

After Kanata finished searching all the places he could search, he then jumped out and apologized to the frantic woman.

Although the scene before them was absurd enough — the Root actually having its own personality — Araya Souren still chose to believe in this moment; he directed his question at Root Shiki.

To verify this, Aozaki Touko stepped forward and snapped the woman's head off; Kanata had just chased over and saw this scene, his exclamation not yet uttered, when he saw the break point of the head in the puppeteer's hand — not a drop of fresh blood flowed out.

"Then I'll search from below, you dismantle from above."

"Okay."

"Araya Souren recorded those people's deaths, used puppets to repeat their day from living to death, thereby maintaining this giant barrier's existence."

"You barged into my home and rummaged through my things everywhere; believe it or not I'll call the police?"

Seeing her group completely ignored, Rin Tohsaka couldn't help but look at Aozaki Touko and ask.

"Worthy of Aozaki, to discover so fast that I might have faked death."

Root Shiki walked toward Araya Souren; Araya Souren's Commandments and surgical scalpel attacks turned into void before reaching the girl.

"Very sorry, very sorry."

Root Shiki's words reached into Araya Souren's heart.

"Sorry, it's Mom who's useless; can't earn the money to keep paying for your treatment anymore."

Karen raised her small hand and spoke.

As for the Yin building side, there's still a group of corpses? Come on; whether facing that terrifying boy or facing the First Class Puppeteer Aozaki Touko, a group of corpses are just instant-kill material; being able to delay ten seconds would already be thanking heaven and earth.

Aozaki Touko took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff and spoke.

Missing this girl, who knows how long it would be before I could see the hope of reaching the Root again.

"Destroy a room with someone in it too?"

"Ah, Broly, it's wrong to barge into other people's homes haphazardly. Hmm, truly embarrassed, this child doesn't know better yet, we'll leave right now."

"Sever all links except this room, there's only one chance, brain swap surgery begins."

Araya Souren forcibly calmed down, questioning the girl before him.

Broly asked.

"Not here either."

He's the only ordinary person, unable to protect himself, right? 【Good thing Broly didn't contact Fresh Flowers to come along.】 Kanata also thought to himself.

"What you're about to say is, how could you possibly break free of my Origin Ability?"

"Crack~"

If compared to the power he originally possessed, then of course it's slow.

"Who exactly are you?"

Broly, having searched every place, turned his head, dodged the woman's lunge, and ran out.

However, although his body was destroyed, his consciousness was not, because his brain had already been dug out by him in advance, just like those puppets in this apartment that live and die in a day, whose original human brains were dug out and then raised in brain cultivation tanks.

Just now, to make his own death look more convincing, he took out his own original flesh body and deliberately let that boy hit it, smashing it to pieces.

Three Commandments came directly at the Root Formula, the surgical scalpels on the cables also stabbing over together.

"Then, let me ask you, do the people of the world possess the value of being saved?"

She said this to the boy who was already walking toward the next room's door.

In the Hidden Room of Xiaochuan Apartments, Araya Souren, who had already swapped bodies, murmured to himself.

Before the Root, life within the World actually has no secrets; in other words, the Root Formula long knew someone was after his flesh body.

But, relative to a demolition machine, Broly's demolition speed isn't slow.

But before continuing to find people to demolish the building, he first sent Rin Tohsaka and the others out of Xiaochuan Apartments.

But the child feels the medicine is bitter and doesn't want to eat it.

Karen exclaimed.

"Good that you're fine, by the way, Miss Aozaki said that Araya Souren might still be alive."

The woman's home was shabby, but she had many pretty clothes, the walls pasted with some schedule memo papers, though they only recorded time, location, and what seemed to be numbers of money amounts.

Karen said at this time.

"Rest assured, he's already dead, I can guarantee this, the building's about to collapse, let's go down."

Everyone welcomed them, and Broly suddenly tilted his head back, saying to the girl hugging him: "Shiki, you agree to become my wife right now!"

Rin Tohsaka spoke thus, but the woman completely ignored the outsider who barged into her home, poured a cup of warm water, and walked into the side room.

Broly proposed a rude request. "Come, quickly eat the medicine."

Of course, Broly doesn't care about these things, merely searching in this shabby home, any place that could hide a person.

"Right now, inside the Root Vortex named as such, there is already a boy's figure, but on this side there is no room for you to enter."

Is Broly's demolition speed fast?

"I also know some magecraft and the two fist techniques Broly taught me."

"Say, Master Araya, did you know, ordinary people can actually reach the Root too, whether good or evil, after death, souls are all reclaimed by the Root."

"Broly, you don't need to press the doorbell anymore, when you encounter a door, just smash it and barge in directly."

"It's a Magic Doll!"

Even, there's no hope of reaching the Root, losing the Xiaochuan Apartments Barrier's cover, the Counter Force would soon discover him.

"Can you let me go into your home and take a look?"

"Araya Souren, when you brought me over here, I had a very long dream, a dream about you, I know your life, I know everything about you, if you have questions you want to ask the Root, I can answer on behalf of the Root."

"Impossible, Ryougi Shiki's body links to the Root, her body's instinct is the Root, are you trying to say you are the Root?"

Aozaki Touko, First Class Puppeteer, facing the possibly surviving Araya Souren has self-protection capability, yet she re-entered Xiaochuan Apartments, and with Broly formed a top-and-bottom demolition duo combination.

Because he needs to search for Ryougi Shiki's traces, needs to consider Ryougi Shiki who might be somewhere in the apartment building, would be affected by his own demolition behavior.

Upon seeing the girl, the boy immediately ran over.

"What's going on?"

"Sorry for the disturbance, we'll compensate for the door afterwards."

"Ryougi isn't here."

In an instant, Araya Souren lost perception of the room's exterior, and without the pain disturbance felt when the building was being demolished, he very smoothly controlled the surgical scalpels on the cables, heading toward the girl lying on the steel platform's skull position.

How many steps does brain swap surgery need, strictly speaking it needs many steps, but if not strict, only four steps are needed: open the other person's skull, take out the brain inside, then stuff your own brain in, then close the skull, and it's ok.

"I thought this apartment building had no residents, didn't expect people still live here, lucky that the huge commotion downstairs just now didn't bring anyone down to check the situation."

And how many floors does Xiaochuan Apartments have?

"I suspect Araya isn't dead yet."

Broly nodded.

Hearing this, Rin Tohsaka and Little Sakura and the other wives who knew the Happiness Value situation were stunned.

The Root Formula launched no attack, merely walked past Araya Souren, and the other's body and brain began to dissipate.

"This is unreasonable, doers of good should have good rewards, doers of evil should have evil rewards."

"Haojie, I'm coming right now."

Araya Souren placed his gaze on the Ryougi Shiki before him.

Enter the room, open the bathroom to search, even opened the woman's closet in her room.

"If worst comes to worst and I really run into danger, I can still use the Group Chat Room to contact you, right?"

"Snap~"

So, the only option is to search the rooms one by one, and only after the search is complete can they be destroyed one by one.

"Don't worry. If we're outside, that guy can't teleport, and Asagami and I are here. Her Magic Eyes plus my Jewel Magecraft should be able to handle him, if that guy is even still alive."

"Eh, is that really okay?"

In less than one minute, he had already demolished the top floor of the Xiaochuan Apartments.

"Broly, we need to speed up the search for Ryougi Shiki. Here's the plan: you fly from outside to the rooftop of the Xiaochuan Apartments right now, then search for Ryougi Shiki's traces room by room from top to bottom. As for any room where you don't find traces of Ryougi Shiki, you destroy it for me."

On the road, he ran into the Magic Doll Miss who was coming up, and they went downstairs together.

And this time, the apartment room he entered had a mother and son inside.

"Be good. Only by taking the medicine will you get better, only then will you not feel pain."

"If I can establish a Pure Land on earth, what does it matter if this body falls into Avici Hell?"

Broly didn't care about that. He directly pulled the door open and lunged into the strange woman's home.

Reach the Root. There, know the lives of all beings past, present, and future. Analyze the lives of all beings. Sort and categorize people into good and evil. The good get to live in the human world. The evil are strangled in the Root Vortex.

"Before, I actually didn't care what you wanted to do."

Araya Souren spoke in a severe voice.

Little Sakura also raised her hand, both looking perfectly reliable.

In the bedroom, the boy was shouting in pain.

Araya Souren murmured to himself. Once he had felt pain at being unable to save all beings. Now he only felt his whole life was a joke.

"I have a Rocket Punch too."

"Don't worry, Haojie. Mommy will come keep you company too."

Araya Souren could sense the Xiaochuan Apartments being destroyed. He had linked his Soul with this Building.

"It's useless. This mother and son are probably long dead. This place is just endlessly replaying the scene of their death."

Of course, Broly was searching for the person while brutally demolishing the building at the same time.

"Mommy, where are you? My body hurts so much."

Kokutou Mikiya nodded and bowed apologetically, retreating from the room amid the woman's cursing.

"And my Bajiquan."

Those Counter Force Guardians would also descend at any moment, find him, and eliminate this threat that intended to Reach the Root.

Although he had made absolutely no preparations for a brain swap, the arrow is on the string and he had no choice but to let fly.

"The Doorbell. It's probably the interaction switch. Since we didn't ring the Doorbell before intruding, we can't trigger interaction with the residents here."

"Human? That's not necessarily a human."

He asked with great concern.

"You froze the thoughts of my two outer personalities, yet uniquely left this body's Instinct. And now you ask me who I am?"

Plus Aozaki Touko is helping search downstairs. Probably in less than five minutes, this Hidden Room will have nowhere to hide.

"Human good and evil have no Meaning to the Root. The Root is only Responsible for recording everything in the World. So-called karmic reward and retribution are merely what some Cluster Wills believe and hope will operate that way, and sometimes the world does operate that way."

"It really is a pretty good Dream."

"Did something happen?"

Broly said, but he was still somewhat worried about Rin Tohsaka and the others' safety.

The woman lay on the boy weeping bitterly. Though her voice was tragic and her expression vivid, not a single tear flowed out.

"Mommy, the medicine is so bitter. I don't want to take medicine anymore."

Broly intends to strangle the threat in the cradle.

"But, isn't that person already dead? Killed by Brother Broly?"

"Over there I'm always dreaming. Sometimes other people's dreams. Sometimes my own dreams. Sometimes past dreams. Sometimes present dreams. I hope Master, on the Root (afterlife) side, you can have a good dream of your own."

The Kimono girl's voice was very light, like drifting Clouds, yet she refuted with a single sentence.

This Building is equivalent to his other Body. And right now this Body is being continuously destroyed, making his new Body vomit blood nonstop.

Araya Souren didn't refute. Instead, after a moment of silence, he continued: "Do you believe good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil?"

However, before the Surgical Scalpel could reach Ryougi Shiki's Forehead, it suddenly stopped.

"This is a Reality Marble dependent on a real Building. Only by destroying the Building will the Barrier be broken."

"A Pure Land on earth. It really was just a Dream, huh?"

After all, she clearly dreamed of this scene — him anxiously searching for her — yet she didn't wake up in advance, making him search this long, worry this long.

By the time they exited the Xiaochuan Apartments, the Building collapsed right on schedule, collapsing completely.

As the girl said, Araya Souren spoke these words.

"This isn't a human."

"This marriage proposal isn't romantic at all!"

The White-haired Little Nun started complaining.

"Karen, you too. And Asagami Fujino. You all have to agree right now to become My Wife!"

Araya Souren's kidnapping stimulated Broly, making him impatient to pull his Reserve Wife into the Crystal Palace and protect her fiercely.

(Chapter End)