“Cut it out, you stupid orange.”
“The monster you're talking about, is it this Dead Apostle?”
“If it is, then I can only say, it's definitely a deformed monster.”
“How ugly.”
A woman, who looked five parts similar to Aozaki Aoko, but seemed younger and had a more perfect physique, mocked Aozaki Aoko.
Even as a bystander, Shirakawa could tell from the woman's tone the nature of her relationship with Aozaki Aoko.
That's how it is, right?
You sure they aren't enemies?
And as Aozaki Aoko was mocked like this, she was indeed a little angry.
Veins were bulging on her forehead.
“Aoko, you who have obtained the Fifth Magic, this is your level?”
“Do you really think this is an ordinary Dead Apostle?”
“Heh, no wonder we haven't seen each other in so long, you still have that silly look on your face.”
That's right.
This girl was Aozaki Aoko's younger sister, Aozaki Aoko.
Also known as,
The Blue Magician!
And standing beside Aozaki Aoko,
was an older man who looked somewhat handsome.
He had a full beard, and his eyes sparkled with the light of wisdom.
Anyone who saw this man for the first time,
would involuntarily feel admiration and awe.
This man's identity,
was none other than the famous Marshal of the Magical Path,
Jewel!
.
Since Jewel had noticed that something was wrong with this parallel world,
he had rushed to this parallel world immediately.
And soon, he found the root of the problem in this world.
That's right, it was Shirakawa.
Shirakawa's appearance caused the fate line of this world to undergo unpredictable changes.
This directly led to the entire world going haywire.
After confirming Shirakawa as the target,
Jewel immediately brought Aozaki Aoko to Shirakawa's doorstep.
The purpose, needless to say,
was to eliminate Shirakawa, the source of the distortion in the world's fate line.
However, when they actually saw Shirakawa,
Jewel's brows furrowed.
He was a little stunned.
Because Shirakawa's current state was completely different from what he had imagined.
“You say you've imprinted yourself into the root of this world.”
“Do you know what that means?”
Jewel asked Shirakawa with a grim expression.
While Aozaki Aoko was also a magician,
she was still young.
And unlike Jewel,
in addition to being a magician, she was also the Third True Ancestor.
Therefore, in terms of insight alone,
Jewel was leagues ahead of Aozaki Aoko.
That's why,
Jewel saw it immediately, the problem that Aozaki Aoko couldn't see.
Shirakawa was no longer being rejected by this world.
In other words, he had quietly obtained the "household registration" of this world.
And this meant that Shirakawa had been recorded by the root of this world.
What did that mean?
It meant that even if Shirakawa died now,
it would still be possible for a new Shirakawa to be born in the future.
Because he had already been recorded by the root of this world.
So, he would inevitably appear again in the future.
This was the operating mechanism of the root, and no one could stop it.
It wouldn't necessarily be exactly Shirakawa.
But at least, it would be a flower similar to him.
And Shirakawa right now wasn't any good.
Jewel could tell at a glance how monstrous Shirakawa was right now.
Let's not even talk about the countless magic circuits in his body.
Just those countless magic imprints that were glowing with magical light,
were enough to give Jewel goosebumps.
Besides, there was Shirakawa's magical eye.
It was a pair of eyes that had never been seen before.
But Jewel recognized the name of this pair of magical eyes immediately.
Fate's Magical Eye!
Based on this alone, Shirakawa could already be called a monster.
The key was, Shirakawa was also a Dead Apostle.
This elevated Shirakawa's monstrosity to another level.
He had completely transformed into a bizarre pervert.
And with this pervert, unless Jewel could watch over this parallel world every second of the day,
otherwise, with a slight lapse in attention,
the entire world would be messed up by Shirakawa, this monster.
Maybe even the entire world would collapse into a new anomaly.
It could even be worse.
This made Jewel feel sick to his stomach.
He originally wanted to just kill Shirakawa and be done with it.
But now, Jewel really couldn't bring himself to do it.
.....
As soon as he realized he was being targeted by the Counter Force,
Shirakawa was already thinking of ways to protect himself.
And to protect himself, the most reliable way was to find a hostage.
Of course, ordinary things wouldn't qualify as hostages.
Even if Shirakawa tied up all the people in all of Japan,
it wouldn't work.
It wouldn't be a threat to the Counter Force at all.
However, there was one exception.
That was, the root.
The root symbolized the very foundation of the existence of the entire world.
Once the root had a problem, the world would have a problem.
So, Shirakawa set his sights on the root as his hostage.
Before Jewel even showed up,
Shirakawa had already touched the root once.
And not only did Shirakawa obtain the Fate's Magical Eye from the root,
he even imprinted himself entirely within the root.
This way,
even if Shirakawa died,
he would still have polluted the root.
Unless Jewel stayed in this world forever,
who knows when,
Shirakawa's Moon World individual would mess up this world.
There was only one way to prevent this from happening.
That was for Shirakawa to take the initiative to take back the imprint he had imprinted on the root.
In other words, Shirakawa would have to clean up the pollution he had caused.
But how could Shirakawa possibly do that voluntarily?
Unless he was about to leave this world.
Shirakawa might do it.
But if Shirakawa encountered some kind of accident before then,
then sorry.
The entire world would be Shirakawa's funeral pyre.
This was also why Jewel was so angry at Shirakawa's actions.
Killing Shirakawa wasn't that difficult for Jewel.
But killing Shirakawa meant that the pollution of the root would be irreversible.
In other words,
killing Shirakawa would mean the end of this world.
But if he didn't kill Shirakawa,
Jewel was still angry.
So, he was stuck.