Chapter 21: The Sefirah Castle

After both groups of people left the amusement park, the child lying on the ground in the alley was found by police who had arrived upon hearing the news.

The child's head had suffered a heavy blow, and there were signs of fever; the arriving police immediately contacted the hospital, then took the child and the dozens of high-quality clothes on his body to the hospital.

Thirty minutes after leaving Domino Park, Ren Amamiya returned to his home.

First, he entered the house and turned on the air conditioner.

He didn't know what was wrong with the house; although the temperature wasn't particularly low, the overall atmosphere was chillingly cold.

Anyway, electricity and water were free for this house, so there was no need to consider electricity bills; if he felt cold, he could just turn it on.

Then, taking clothes to change into, he went to the bathroom to wash off the sweat and body odor from a day's work.

After a simple bath and changing clothes, Ren Amamiya straightened his appearance, sat on a chair in the living room, took out his diary, and began to enrich today's diary entry.

【Kudo Shinichi, oh Kudo Shinichi, what did you have to do that for? Why did you have to provoke those thugs from the Black Organization?】

【Alright, now you've stepped on a nail.】

【One baseball bat from them and you were down on the ground, and you were even forced to drink a drug developed by the Black Organization. If you weren't the protagonist, I estimate you would have lost ten lives right there in Domino Park.】

【Additionally, I'm attaching a full video recording of Kudo Shinichi turning into an elementary school student.】

【Everyone is welcome to view it, but please do not spread it.】

Ren Amamiya directly inserted that previous video recording into the diary.

That shrunken segment of footage would absolutely make anyone's scalp prickle with fear.

【If anyone has gone to that alley, there is no need to worry; Kudo Shinichi, the incarnation of death in Beika City, goes wherever murders occur, making him the root cause of the frequent cases in Beika City.】

【He likes to meddle in others' affairs, loves to show off, and enjoys solving cases; however, sometimes his excessive focus on cases causes him to neglect the people around him.】

【Kudo Shinichi is not a bad person; he is just like an ordinary, decent seventeen-year-old boy, an age where everyone is impulsive and reckless. It's just that his luck was rather poor; he ran headfirst into a steel plate and knocked himself into an elementary school student.】

【Next, he should go to cause trouble at Teitan Elementary; for the short term, Teitan High School is safe.】

【I am very gratified.】

【Additionally, you should have already discovered my identity. Although my personal feeling is very poor, I vaguely have some intuition; this should be exactly as I imagined: a diary exposure flow.】

【Besides my identity being exposed, I reminded you about the lottery opportunity, which should have generated some thoughts in you about wanting to capture me, right?】

【Mm, having such thoughts is correct.】

【If I were in your position, I would also want to do such a thing. However, I would also be thinking about one question: why would this fool expose himself?】

【And if you can think about this question and, because of it, guess that I have some backup plan or something, congratulations, you guessed wrong.】

【I really did the thing of exposing myself for absolutely no reason whatsoever.】

【Mm, today's truth diary ends here; wish everyone a good dream.】

Writing up to this point, Ren Amamiya stopped his pen.

Just as written in his diary, today's truth diary ends here.

He put down the pen and slowly exhaled a breath.

"Next is to verify my guess."

Ending today's diary.

【Completed the second day's diary.】

【Obtained a lottery opportunity.】

The big wheel appeared just as always.

Reaching out and lightly touching the big wheel, it began to spin rapidly.

Then the pointer stopped on a name.

【Lord of the Mysteries】.

【Obtained Source: The Sefirah Castle】

"Yes!"

The moment he saw "The Sefirah Castle," Ren Amamiya was completely relieved.

"My guess was indeed correct; this diary indeed has certain rules."

"The more people whose view of the diary is affected by my actions, the greater the probability I can draw good things."

The moment he saw "The Sefirah Castle," Ren Amamiya could confirm that the characteristic "Unrestrained" he obtained yesterday was absolutely an arrangement made by Fate.

"Unrestrained" and the potion system of Lord of the Mysteries are simply too suitable.

Since the protagonist's biggest cheat in Lord of the Mysteries, "The Sefirah Castle," is already in hand, the path he can take next is the Sequence route.

The direction of advancement to acquire power has been confirmed; the Sequence path of Lord of the Mysteries is also the arrangement made by Fate for him.

"If we follow the explanation in Lord of the Mysteries, the influence I caused is actually Fate's equivalent gift to me?"

I don't know if such a guess is reasonable.

However, there is no need to think about that now; the key lies in how much power of "The Sefirah Castle" can be used.

"I remember, it seems to require some kind of ritual."

After all, sixteen years have passed; previously, I only skimmed over Lord of the Mysteries, so now the memory is even less profound.

Suddenly, a sharp pain struck; his eyes instinctively closed, and when he opened them again, he had arrived in another world.

Mist flowed like water, and the entire world was enveloped in a sea of mist.

Everything was as if at the beginning of chaos when the world first opened.

Looking at this scene, Ren Amamiya only felt his blood boiling.

He reached out his hand toward this world filled with mist.

All the mist began to condense into individual substantial objects.

White stone pillars rose abruptly, and the misty sky turned into the color of the universe.

In the center, a long table over ten meters long appeared, and corresponding exquisite chairs were arranged around the table.

He lifted his steps lightly, walked along the edge of the long table, let his fingers trace the tabletop gently, and finally sat in the main seat.

He crossed his hands, pressed them together, and propped his chin on them.

"Does this version of me count as a perfect Cos?"