Chapter 1033

Black Tower Lady proudly lifted her chin: "I am the Black Tower's own tower, the envoy of Knowledge, a genuine genius—controlling costs? That's too vulgar."

The fourth mirror slapped flattery with a "papapa" sound: "You're absolutely right, Black Tower Lady! For a genius like you, the company should unconditionally provide all resources and let you squander them freely on whatever interests you!"

"In that case, Black Tower's own tower, envoy of Knowledge, genuine genius… what do you plan to do now?"

Black Tower naturally said: "What else can we do? Of course we find the fault in the Audience System and fix it."

"Um… forgive my frankness, Black Tower Lady, you certainly excel in many fields. But are you sure 'hands-on ability' is still one of your strengths? If it were me, I'd suggest you contact Stephen…"

"'Contact him, and tell him I spent a fortune just to stuff a single sentence into the machine's head, and ended up screwing everything up?' Black Tower seemed a little angry."

The fourth mirror immediately grasped the master's mood: "Okay, okay, I get it…"

"'Understood is good.' Black Tower turned her gaze to a nearby terminal: 'Come on, let's go check it out together.'"

The fourth mirror eyed the familiar terminal, pursed its lips, and said: "Hmm… this is the Audience System? Looks no different from the Simulated Universe."

"'What you said is correct. They use the same underlying logic; essentially they're the same thing.'"

"'Oh, I see, this is called 'effective reference,' right? Hehe…'"

Black Tower rested her hand on the fourth mirror's frame, voice cold: "If you keep snarking, I guarantee my assistant's name will become the Fifth Mirror."

"'Speaking of business, I've divided the Audience System into three sectors: Energy Sector, Computing Sector, and Communications Sector. Each sector is independent, only linking via the Path of Knowledge when the system boots.' Black Tower explained calmly, 'Even just getting a word to the machine's head isn't easy. With such a meticulous system, routine testing or regular maintenance is already difficult, so a few small issues are normal.'"

"'I see. So, Black Tower Lady, according to your expert judgment—which sector is faulty?'"

Black Tower lightly flicked her hair: "Simple—of course all three are problematic."

"\"……Huh?? \""

"'It's no big deal—just need a minor technical adjustment.'"

——

Jujutsu Kaisen.

"'Is this Black Tower Lady's true form? Compared to a scientist renowned across the universe, she seems more like… uh, a magical girl?'"

Yuji strained to scrape together the meager vocabulary in his stomach, not knowing how to describe this lady who was somewhat overly beautiful. Although he had briefly seen her true face in the sky curtain before, it was only a few seconds of footage, gone in a blink.

"Nowadays… she seems more like a mage?"

In short, he couldn't immediately connect this beautiful lady, devoid of any envoy airs, with the only two Knowledge Envoys. However, the arrogance ingrained in a genius's bones left a deep impression on him.

"'Oh?' Shizuki raised an eyebrow, stubbed out her cigarette in the ashtray, and looked at Yuji with interest: 'Yuji, you don't like Black Tower Lady's true form?'"

"'No, not that—I just feel… counterintuitive.' Yuji scratched his head: 'I never imagined someone could unify "magic" and "science," two distinct powers, into one—like someone wearing a lab coat to unleash cursed energy and techniques. How to put it… it's a rather novel feeling.'"

"'I even think that if Black Tower Lady came to Earth, she could quickly deconstruct the cursed energy we use with scientific means and then create her own techniques.'"

Kusakabe Atsuya pursed his lips: 'She wouldn't be that idle—having mastered imaginary-number pulse weapons that can obliterate an entire star system in a blink, she'd hardly deign to use our level of power… probably she'd toss it aside once her curiosity is satisfied.'

——

Black Tower brought the mirror to the Energy Sector first; upon entering, the mirror shivered from the cold.

"'Hehehe… this Energy Sector… why is it so cold? Hehehe… my mirror surface is about to frost over!'"

Black Tower surveyed the icy surroundings: "What did you expect? I've converted all the energy of the Black Tower space station into imaginary form and stored it in this sector. Without a super‑cold environment, the station would have blown up long ago."

The mirror trembled: "Hehehe… but… aren't we already up in the sky?"

"'…As a mirror, isn't your sense of humor a bit excessive?' Black Tower glanced into the distance, where a rift‑monster appeared at the boundary of the Energy Sector."

"'Where did these guys come from? Corrupted data? Activated system rust? No way… could it be that a legion attacked?'"

Black Tower stretched, lightly tapped her key into the void, and the monsters vanished instantly, turning into a string of useless data.

After cleaning up, Black Tower immediately headed to the next sector; unlike the Energy Sector's monsters, this one was swarming with disgusting bugs.

"'What… what is this?! Where did all these disgusting bugs come from?'"

Black Tower, now unfazed, said: "To see the machine's head, computing power must at least match. If the floating‑point operations per second fall short of tens of thousands of gai, it won't even sense your presence. But too much computing power has a downside: it attracts these 'computing grubs'—a brood, though no one knows how they evolved."

"'Life is amazing, huh? But it still can't compare to a talking mirror, heh.' The mirror shifted gears: 'By the way, Black Tower Lady—since you have a supercomputer with such massive computing power, what does it usually… uh… calculate?'"

Black Tower shrugged: "Does it matter? I just need to get it running so it catches the machine's head's attention."

"'Sigh… if you have time, you should still chat with Miss Aisu.'"

Black Tower cleared the bugs along the way, but as she swept, a crystal‑clear… bubble? appeared not far off.

"'There's also a memory bubble here…' the mirror reminded."

"'Why bother caring about it?'"

"'All right.' The mirror said grudgingly, 'I just think it's a bit… weird?'"