tokyo creator

Chapter 108: Box Garden, Part One
--chaos.

In the chaos of consciousness, Hui Yuanchu suddenly heard Ling Li's voice.

"Speaking of which, where is Setsuko Matsumoto's domain?" she said.

Not to him, but to Arthur.

Because next, it was Arthur's voice that answered her: "You mean, Matsumoto Setsuko's domain as an ascendant must have expanded, right? The reason is that it can cut off the building's attack."

"Yes, the ability of the Ascended One is at the level of rules. But because it is a rule, it conflicts with the real world. It is generally only effective within the ruling domain." Rei Li paused and continued in a doubtful voice, "But the question is: How big is Setsuko Matsumoto's domain of rule, and where is it centered?"

She continued to ask and answer herself: "The first question is easy to answer. The technical department speculated based on the grayscale of the starry sky that the domain of the Beheaded Ghost will not be larger than [-] meters."

"Hundred meters - this is wrong." Arthur denied decisively.

"Yes, this conflicts with the actual situation, that is, the second question - the two locations where "Matsumoto Setsuko" appeared: Aoyama Apartment in Itabashi District and Motosukikai in Shinjuku. The two places are more than a thousand miles apart. m. If the beheaded ghost's domain is spread out in one of the places, then it is impossible for it to appear in another place."

"Unless...the Beheading Ghost's domain has not been fully expanded."

"You mean, it's not 'expanded' but 'leaked', right? The ruling domain that has not yet 'landed' can follow the movement of the immature Ascended Soul and randomly 'leak' around her."

"Yeah, but another problem is... if the ruling domain is just leaked, and it cannot carry the strength of the ruling domain that is enough to reflect the 'rules'... In this way, that amazing sword is impossible to appear."

"...Isn't this an endless loop?"

"Indeed, the discussion can no longer continue. It seems that until new information appears, we can only shelve this issue temporarily..."

Immediately afterwards, Ling Li and Arthur began to discuss other issues.

Their voices faded away, transformed into an indistinguishable murmur.

Hui Yuanchu finally realized something.

——The time when this conversation took place is not now.

This was a discussion that Rei and Arthur had had more than a day ago, when the disposal team thought Setsuko Matsumoto was still a beheading ghost.

At that time, Huiyuan didn't understand much at first, so he just wrote it down.

...Only now, he remembered it again.

Wait, why did he think of this?

What is his current situation?
……

--despair.

……

--despair.

Some kind of repetitive monotonous sound sounded.

Huiyuan realized that this time it was not a memory.This sound comes from the outside world.

His senses and memory are further recovering.

Haiyuan first remembered that the last scene he faced was - Yukinoshita Saya's sword-drawing technique and Yuki Tetsu's Galaxy.

His head must have been chopped off.

……

--despair.

……

--despair.

So what now?What is his current state?
Regenerating?The proliferation of flesh and blood can be felt, and the senses below the neck are gradually restored.Hui Yuanchu confirmed that he was undergoing regeneration.

...Yes, he remembered, this was his plan.

Beheaded, then regenerated.

With the recovery of memory and self-awareness, more sounds were perceived by Hui Yuanchu, and they appeared colorfully in his consciousness.

... huh huh huh...

--despair.

It turns out that before and after that crisp "tap" sound, there was also the faint sound of pouring water...

Even with his eyes still closed, Hui Yuanchu still imagined in his mind the scene of a bamboo tube being turned over after being filled with running water and tapping the bluestone.

...This is the sound made by "adding water".

So, he is now in a Japanese garden?

——So, after he was beheaded, his head fell into a Japanese garden?Where is this place?Where did Yukinoshita go?
The wind is a bit cold and my skin is a bit sensitive.

Hui Yuanchu finally slowly opened his eyes.

In front of him, what caught his eye immediately was this scene:
One, two—three, four, five.

At the foot of the bright stone lantern, five heads were placed side by side in a somewhat messy manner.

One is the head of a middle-aged man, one is the head of a young man, and three are from Jizo stone statues.

The two fleshy heads were crooked, and the head of the stone statue was still smeared with blood.

Hui Yuanchu scratched his head.He could feel it coming from his own blood.

He looked down at his state - naked, sitting cross-legged on the white sand in the courtyard.

Hui Yuanchu clenched his fists, adapted to the new-feeling body, and quickly restored the previous situation——

His head fell from mid-air and landed among the neatly arranged heads at the foot of the stone lantern on the side of the courtyard. It knocked the five stacked heads into a mess and then continued to roll forward. After some distance, it started to regenerate.

Like growing a tail...everything below the neck has regenerated.Hui Yuanchu woke up completely.

——The previous discussion between Rei Li and Arthur about the domain of the Beheaded Ghost has entered an endless loop and can only be put on hold for the time being.

But at the beginning of Haiyuan, one day later, under the prompts of Orilu Kui, he came up with a bold guess - Yukinoshita Saya's sword-drawing attack, which was named "Yuki Toru", its true appearance was not at all But it’s not an “ability”…

But "entrance".

But in order to confirm his guess, Hui Yuanchu needed to die again.

Let his own head "disappear" like Yukinoshita Katsumi and Shimokawa Shinki and fall into that mysterious place.

Then, after he regenerates, he can wake up inside that place and witness everything with his own eyes.

...So, now he has really reached "that place"?
Hui Yuanchu stood up and looked around, taking in what could be called a "vast" courtyard.

The gate and the farthest wall are hundreds of meters away.

Entering from the gate, the main road leads to the Sukiya-style main house in the distance, dividing the entire courtyard into two distinct parts.

On the west side is the dry landscape garden.The huge courtyard of several hundred square meters was empty, covered only with white sand raked out with parallel wavy lines.In the "Earth Sea" represented by white sand, there are scattered groups of moss-covered rocks, symbolizing mountains and mountains. The surrounding white sand has been raked to create concentric circles simulating water ripples.

On the east side is an ordinary tea garden.Surrounded by green plants, there are stone garden path ponds, stone lanterns, stone pagodas, hand water bowls, bamboo fence gates and bridges... everything is available.

Huiyuan's current location is at the southeast corner of the courtyard, by the pond in the corner of the tea garden.

And he looked along the diagonal line to the northwest corner of the courtyard, and saw a forging workshop opposite the dry landscape garden.

The door was open, and the furnace fire inside could be clearly seen, still burning brightly.But there are no craftsmen anywhere.

Hui Yuan thought for a while, then turned to look at the wall behind him.

Then he lightly jumped up to the top of the wall and looked outside the wall, but he whistled unconsciously because of the situation.

——The entire courtyard is actually located alone in the void.

Outside the courtyard wall, there is a ring composed of broken bricks and cement of unknown origin, which is slowly rotating around the entire courtyard like the rings of Saturn.Apart from this, even if you look further away, there is nothing else in this gray void.

Huiyuan Chu jumped back to the ground and sat in front of the five heads again.

He reached out and brushed away the white hair that covered the middle-aged man's face, identified the face, then looked at the head of the young man next to him, and finally his eyes focused on the heads of the Jizo statues.

On the stone statue, beneath the fresh blood stains from himself, were printed old blood stains from an unknown number of years ago.

Under the stone statue, the color of the soil is also faintly black.

Hui Yuanchu finally breathed out.

He has memorized all the information and is no stranger to these two heads and this place.

The middle-aged man is Yukinoshita Katsumi, while the young man is Shimokawa Materu.

And this house is Katsumi's last inheritance from the Yukinoshita family.

However, although the heads of the two people should be real, but now this place is not the real house under the snow, but just a simulated "set".

Hui Yuan was initially excited.

He finally fully confirmed the true appearance of this "courtyard" and confirmed his suspicion.

——This place is the domain of Yukinoshita Saya.

"Snow Che" is not a slash... it is simply inhalation.It's just that the immature ruling domain has sucked part of the world into it.

That’s why Katsuki Yukinoshita and Maiki Shimokawa died in that way—no heads found, surprisingly clean.

Their heads were not chopped off, but were swallowed by Yukinoshita Sandyro's domain, together with the spurted blood.

That's why Qingshan Apartment has lost a full fifty centimeters of thickness from this world.

This part of the floor, along with Shimokawa Masaki's head, was swallowed up by the ruling domain - Haiyuan thought of the particularly familiar "Ring of Saturn" of broken cement blocks outside the wall, and couldn't help laughing. Isn't this what Aoyama Apartment has lost? Floor?
——So it’s not the knife, but the scabbard.

When Huiyuan first came up with this idea, he raised his head and looked at the sky.

Over the "courtyard", in the gray sky, the aurora slowly changes with the silhouettes of various specious figures.

He could feel...the void sky wrapped around the courtyard was like a painting, a curtain.

——It doesn’t simply mean that it is fragile enough to be pierced with a finger, but more importantly——what is hiding behind that curtain?
Hui Yuanchu closed his eyes and sensed the "gaze" coming from behind the curtain in the sky.

In the vast and ruthless operation, there is a hint of "gaze" that feels pleading.

Hui Yuanchu shrugged, stood up, and shouted towards the source of the spiritual vision behind the false sky: "Hey - Xue Zhi - I'm here to find you!!"

……

However, nothing happened.

The spiritual vision in the sky continued to operate, but it seemed that he could not be seen.

Hui Yuanchu hugged his shoulders with determination.

[Hidden Mission: Behead the Ghost’s Heart]

【Take the road of snow and seek the heart of snow. 】

Because at this moment, the always reliable and timely system prompt came.

Hui Yuanchu scanned the courtyard again, and finally fixed his sight on the snow-white garden road connecting the courtyard gate to the main house.

He walked over without hesitation and stepped onto the starting point of the garden path at the gate.

——Suddenly, a blizzard came.

(End of this chapter)