Shoji Fujisawa was stunned for a moment, and suddenly laughed.

Unlike the previous false polite laughter, this time there was something more real in his laughter. He smiled and bowed slightly to the female inquisitor who was leaning against the window, with a considerable appearance and aura, and said, "That's true. ”

Liu Quan snorted.

"So this is really another test you've created?" she asked coldly.

"For the outstanding employees who are willing to take risks, risk their lives to find out the truth for you, and overthrow the government of the time, can't you show more sincerity and less routines? She grumbled unhappily.

Shoji Fujisawa was complained about mercilessly like this, and he didn't seem to be angry. He smiled, clasped his hands on the table, leaned forward, and stared at the willow spring by the window with interest.

"If you want to be promoted, you have to pass some kind of test, right?" he said with an innocent expression.

Liu Quan was slightly stunned. “...... Promotion?"

Shoji Fujisawa bows.

"Huh~ Promotion. He affirmed it again.

Liu Quan: "...... What the hell are you doing?!Is watching others let go of the past with great difficulty and hard to let go of it?!"

She didn't seem to care at all about using such profound words to describe what she had just experienced - and she didn't care at all that Shoji Fujisawa knew it was one of her weaknesses. Perhaps because she had finally gone through a painful process to finally give up that weakness, she now seemed much more justified.

Shoji Fujisawa narrowed his eyes.

"Well...... Because the appointment of your new position may have something to do with the so-called 'past'......" he said in an ambiguous tone, "so it is important to determine your position." ”

Liu Quan: "...... What?!"

Shoji Fujisawa seemed to be happily squeezing his fingers, and nodded his head neatly.

"Make sure you have the intellectual and mental strength to deal with any future eventuality...... Make sure you're not an emotional person who puts the well-being of the world and most people before your own desires—" He said with a smile in his long voice, as if pleased with the choice she had just made.

"It's not easy to find such people. Indeed, Reiji Munakata is such a person. But alas, as you realize, He can't come to us and work for us. So, we'll have to test whether you, as his former lover, have learned from him the most valuable traits and virtues that are worth our higher trust—"

He suddenly stretched out an index finger and tapped lightly on the table. Then, the entire wall behind him flickered suddenly, and in an instant, it became a huge video wall that had been split into dozens of small screens.

Liu Quan: ?!

She looked at the wall in amazement, and almost immediately realized that there was a different world projected on those small screens.

In those pictures, there are both modern scenes and scenes with a strong sense of the times, and those pictures are constantly changing. On the same screen, perhaps one minute it shows the elegant scene of people wearing hunting clothes and tying waka to flower branches, and the next minute it becomes a dark back alley on a modern street, where a teenager walking with a basketball is pushed by thugs and hit on the dirty façade of a nearby building.

Liu Quan couldn't help but mutter, "What is this, what ——?!?"

Perhaps it was her shocked expression that inexplicably made her look weak, and this change in aura seemed to make Shoji Fujisawa feel happy, and he hooked the corners of his lips and gave her an answer in a cheerful way.

"It's a surveillance wall. Watching the sub-worlds we govern 24 hours a day......" he said, turning around as well, staring happily at the rapidly changing images on the surveillance screens on the walls.

"We need specific people to do these monitoring jobs...... The previous standards were not particularly strict, so some employees were emotionally involved in the monitoring process, paying extra attention to certain sub-worlds with their favorite characters...... Some people use their authority to excessively interfere in the plot development of the sub-world, causing the main line to collapse instead; some people have difficulty controlling their harmful emotions, and almost all of their energy is poured into a few sub-worlds that they particularly prefer, ignoring the bad operation of other sub-worlds, and almost leading to the huge consequences of the collapse of some worlds——"

He looked at the entire surveillance wall and talked eloquently.

"So, we later decided that the standards of these surveillance duties had to be raised to a high level in order to ensure objective and focused monitoring to the greatest extent possible, so that the vast majority of sub-worlds could operate in a good and stable state. Because, sometimes, it only takes some changes in the situation around a certain character for the situation in their world to quickly enter a period of deterioration...... Therefore, it is necessary to monitor calmly, rationally and attentively, to restrain one's inner strong mental strength, and to have the ability to respond quickly when problems are discovered. ”

Liu Quan: "...... So, are you promising me a promotion, a better job? ”

Shoji Fujisawa happily replied, "The 'Guardian of the Unstable World' – just like the so-called 'Kyoto Guardian' during the late Edo period, sounds like a lot of weight, doesn't it?"

Liu Quan: "......"

The boss who must poke the employee's sore spot when lobbying the employee is not a good employer!

Liu Quan said expressionlessly: "I spend a lot of energy staring at these unpredictable surveillance screens every day...... It's simply bad for your eyes. Long-term indoor work can also be detrimental to a healthy physique...... IMHO, I don't see any enticing prospects for this job. ”

Shoji Fujisawa seemed to have expected her to refuse with some emotion, and he smiled and turned back and shrugged his shoulders.

"Don't be so anxious to refuse. His tone was unusually kind, as if he was not at all disgusted by her categorical refusal.

"Wouldn't you be happy that in the future you would be able to at least see through these screens the development of the world that you value – or even experience, and that it is not impossible to understand the current situation of certain people?"

Liu Quan: !?

"You say...... What?, what are you hinting at?!", she blurted out in shock.

Shoji Fujisawa laughed.

"You can't meet in person, but you can see through these screens what someone's life is like in the future......" he said in a eloquent tone, but the content of his words sounded dangerous.

"You can't be physically present when something happens in their lives, but you can see it on the screen - of course, only as a 'watchman' can you get that permission. Don't you think about it?"

Liu Quan: "......"

At first, her face was surprised at first when she received such an explosive message, but after thinking about it, her expression slowly fell silent.

"You're so generous......" she complimented even insincerely, a smile on her lips that seemed a little sarcastic.

"To do this kind of 'monitoring duty' sounds like a high promotion...... But I guess that's the end of my career as a god inquisitor, right?" she said, "after all, if you spend a lot of time in front of these surveillance screens every day...... It's hard to imagine that I'll have time to play. Or, what if something happens to one of the sub-worlds I'm responsible for when I'm out of battle, and I can't report or deal with it in time?"

Shoji Fujisawa smiled.

"How can you do all the work alone? He replied, sounding like a good boss who was generous and considerate of his subordinates.

"Although we don't have a lot of good employees like you who can solve problems no matter what happens, we don't plan to put all the tasks on your own. ”

Liu Quan sneered.

"I'm very strange, if you want to take back my honmaru, why don't you just say it? Didn't you already send the former God Inquisitor back? As long as I nod here, Hitomi Gojo can take over immediately, right?"

Shoji Fujisawa sighed.

"No, it's not. He said.

"If you want to go back and be a lifelong Inquisitor, of course you can...... However, there are certainly many more people who are qualified to be inquisitors than those who are qualified to be the 'watchman'. Of course, we hope that you will be able to play a role in the position where you are needed more - not to mention, the duties of the 'Inquisitor' are what we have inherited from the government of the time, and the duties of the 'Watchman' are our old vocation...... Of course, we also want you to do the work that we value more and trust more. ”

His voice fell, but Liu Quan didn't answer for a while.

There was a strange silence in the room, save for the occasional sizzling of electricity passing through the screen on the surveillance wall that lit up behind him.

As if a long time had passed, Liu Quan suddenly laughed softly as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"So, after I accepted the position, my current Honmaru ...... What will happen?"

She asked in a tone that was so simple and blunt that it was terrifying.

Shoji Fujisawa looked at her quietly.

“...... You must hand over control of the present Honmaru and someone else will take over. He replied calmly, "Now all the swords in Honmaru will be in charge of the inquisitor who will take over. ”

Liu Quan raised his left eyebrow slightly.

"How ruthless...... she said with a smile, "what if I refuse?"

Fujisawa Shoji replied expressionlessly, "Of course, you can choose to go back and become a lifelong God Inquisitor...... However, this means that you will forever lose the ability to know the current state of the world that you have experienced in the past through the monitoring system. ”

He paused, accentuating his tone a little as if emphasizing.

"Even all forms of inquiry—through words, in writing, even in simple words—will not get any answer. ”

“...... Of course, you can also choose to go home after dismissal. But...... Given the current age, you wouldn't want that, would you?"

Liu Quan grinned again.

"No, of course not. She replied crisply.

Then, with her shoulder blades pushed back against the window frame she was leaning on, she straightened forward by the reaction force, bypassed her desk, and walked slowly to the surveillance wall, where she stood still, looking up slightly at the small screens that were changing rapidly.

Shoji Fujisawa also followed her movements, half-turned the chair at an angle, and silently continued to observe the changes in the expression on her face from the side.

However, there was no change in her expression.

Even a picture she was familiar with suddenly popped out of a certain light screen - tennis court, school island, Gion festival...... It's the same.

Her eyes staring at the light screen seemed to be bottomless, and those eyes were like a dark pool, without a trace of light. The lines of her face also firmly covered her young and beautiful face like an iron mask, serious and calm, as if it could not be shaken.

Then, her eyes suddenly flashed, and she slowly opened her lips and said:

“...... That's it. ”

Shoji Fujisawa didn't seem to expect to hear such a reply, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

“...... What?" he asked subconsciously.

Willow Spring's gaze was still on the surveillance wall.

"I said, let's stop here. She repeated it again.

Then, she turned to him slowly, and the gaze that fell on his face was extremely calm.

“...... That's the end of those precious pasts. ”

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December 18:

Tooth failure, miscalculation...... Grandpa will reappear in the next chapter

The next update is tentatively scheduled for the next dayhhh

PS. Thank you for the cute meow meow!(づ ̄3 ̄)づ╭~