Chapter 45: The Serpent of Akaxia
Orange knows he's changed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past, I lived in isolation, had almost no friends, and only did what I was interested in. If there is no point of interest, no matter how high the opposite side is paid, it will not be accepted. If there is something she is interested in, she will desperately sell it, even if it is for nothing.
But now, it's different.
Always alone, she unknowingly gathered a group of people with distinct personalities around her, such as Shinji Makiri, Sakura Makiri, Fujino Asashimi, Kanya Kurokiri, Ryori, Kumojo Kiri-e and Shiki Tono.
Perhaps since that encounter three and a half years ago, her life has become richer and richer, with more and more entanglements, and at the same time, she is getting farther and farther away from her dreams.
Orange has a dream, and the first is to inherit the family business and become the fourth magician. After breaking with her family, she found a new dream in the clock tower - to live like an immortal.
So she is always alone, not staying in one place for too long, not getting involved too deeply with anyone, like a gust of wind. Because there are too many entanglements, you can't leaveβif you can't transcend the world, you're not an immortal.
"I should have left you sooner. β
In the hazy smoke, the orange sighed faintly.
"You can't go, you haven't paid off your debts yet. β
Shinji exhaled, not letting the smoke obstruct his and Orange's vision.
"I regret it. Orange closed his eyes.
"It's too late to regret it now, but then again," Shinji smiled at the corner of his mouth, "do you really regret it? You are so determined to leave that no one can stop you." β
There was a rare hint of embarrassment on Orange's face: "You... Can't you just let me do it once in a while?"
"As you wish, My lady." Shinji bowed slightly, "So, lady, would you like to hear my opinion on the immortals?"
"Listen up. β
"The immortal character of the immortals, how to write the Chinese characters-" Shen Er carved the word "immortal" in the air in the way of depicting runes, "add a mountain next to the human character, and to understand this character, you have to make a fuss from the person and the mountain." Those who go up the mountain to cultivate the Tao do not pay attention to the things under the mountain, but cultivating the Tao is not the same as becoming an immortal. If you want to become an immortal, you also need to go down the mountain and enter the WTO, cultivate yourself and cultivate others. Didn't the ancients say that there is no practice in life. In my opinion, clinging to the mountains inevitably leads to falling behind. β
"This is sophistry. Orange shook his head, "Isn't it a person on the left who goes up the mountain?"
"Going up the mountain doesn't mean not going down the mountain, if it's really up the mountain and not coming down, why can't the word 'immortal' be illiterate? Unlike the Latin script, each character of the pictographic system has a deep meaning. β
"Then why don't you write one person on the left and one on the left?"
"Because this step of going up the mountain to practice can stop the vast majority of immortal cultivators, you have already passed this level, so don't always think about escaping the world, just go with the flow. β
Shinji looked earnestly at Orange's eyes, which were as beautiful as the name.
"Sister Orange, are you having a good time? If you are not happy, you can leave at any time, and I will never stop you. β
"What are you talking about until now," Orange laughed to herself, "If I'm not happy, I don't have to worry about it." β
"That's okay, in life, the most important thing is to go along with your heart. β
"By saying all this, you just want to tie me up to your thief ship. Orange glared at Shinji in disgust.
Shinji touched his nose: "You are the wind of freedom, no one can tie you up." But don't forget, this is a sailboat, it will go with the wind, will you be the driving force for it?"
"If it sounds so nice, I'll reluctantly agree, Captain. Orange found herself getting more and more helpless with Shinji. "But I warn you, if I find you in my wayβ"
"--If you want to kill or chop, listen to it. "Shen Er's words are a thousand words, and they are loud.
"Remember what you said today. With that, Orange turned and left.
"Wait a minute, about the Tono family......"
"Leave it alone, I'll take care of it. β
"Huh?" Shen Eryi was stunned, "No, you don't have to ...... for me"
"Self-inflicted. Orange snorted.
"That's?"
"Dolls are imitations of human beings, and the strangeness of human beings is the object of my research. MONOCULUS, abilities, hybrids, I want to use my hands to recreate the magic of the Creator, and I need a lot of materials for this, and the Tono family is a treasure trove for me. β
When talking about the dolls, the orange's expression is fanatical, and the whole person has a shocking courage and charm, which makes Shinji's heart sway and at the same time a little worried.
"You're not going to dissect them, are you? β
"That's not true, they are all human beings in nature, and there is no difference in basic structure. I only need to draw a few tubes of blood, cut a little subcutaneous tissue, and then let them cooperate with me to do a few experiments, which will not cause damage to the body, in the name of the 'crown' puppeteer. Now you can rest assured. β
"Still no. β
"Do you just not believe me?" Orange's face turned cold.
"It's not that I don't believe you, it's that I'm worried about your safety, I recently received a gossip that I don't know if it's true or notβthe people of the Templar Church seem to be eyeing the Tono family. β
"The religious lunatics?"
Most magicians don't like the Templar Church, which superficially denies magic and is secretly prepared to bring all the mysteries under its jurisdiction, and Orange is no exception.
"What are they doing here?"
"It is said to hunt an ancient Dead Apostle named Mitchell Roa Fardanyan. β
"Akaxia Serpent, Infinite Reincarnation!" the orange finally changed color.
This is a special Dead Apostle, who may not be the strongest vampire, but he is definitely the most difficult to eliminate. His ability is the same as his title, "Infinite Rebirth", which is able to reincarnate souls into other humans when the physical body is destroyed.
"So, there may be a reincarnation of Roa in Tono's house?"
"Hmm. Shinji nodded.
Roa is the biggest boss in the story of "Tsukihime", and the trouble is that "Tsukihime" has five world lines, except for the Bad end, which cannot be cleared, there are a total of nine endings. Depending on the world line, Roa's reincarnation object is also different, it may be Tono Shiki, or it may be Tono Shiki.
Just as Shinji was thinking about how to further remind Orange, Orange suddenly took off his glasses, and the whole person became cold and solemn.
"That's really good news, the best news to hear today, if it's true. β
"Huh?" Shinji was dumbfounded.
This reaction is not right, what would make the church feel that the tricky guy would make Orange so excited that he would have to suppress it with an iceberg pattern.
"What, don't you understand?"
"I don't understand. β
"The absence of the vicarcar of the church proves that Roa's soul has not yet been revived. If memory serves, he seems to have been a Dead Apostle turned from a very powerful magician in the Middle Ages. The soul of a sleeping magician, you won't be unclear about what it means. β
As Orange said, every rebirth requires the power of Roa, so Roa will fall into a deep sleep after his rebirth. Over time, his soul will slowly revive and erode and merge little by little, eventually replacing the reincarnated body and becoming a new generation of Roa.
Roa was reincarnated seventeen times in this way, and lived for at least eight hundred years, and the knowledge he accumulated was a treasure mountain for magicians. Orange wants to open the door of Baoshan and obtain treasure from it before Roa's soul recovers, after all, there are too many ways to obtain information in the mysterious world.
The question is-
"How are you going to find this treasure mountain, what if you can't open the door of treasure mountain?"
Orange has been able to answer these two questions.
"Shiki's eyes are very good at catching the invisible, and as long as Roa's reincarnated form appears, it can't escape her eyes. β
"If I can't open the door to Baoshan before he recovers, I'll let Shi kill him. Infinite rebirth does not mean that he will not die, there is a style, and it is easy to kill him.
Shinji really took it, the orange deserved to be an orange, and everything was thought of by her.
Shiki's eyes are different from Shiki's, Shiki is good at killing real things, and Shiki is good at killing unseen things, such as diseases, enchantments, concepts, ghosts, and so on.
It is no exaggeration to say that Shi is Roa's nemesis.
PS: In "The Realm of Emptiness", Shiki has killed the dual existence of Wujo Mist and the ghost of the girl who jumped off the building, killed Fujino's appendicitis, killed the future seen by Kura Mimu Ruxia, and killed the barrier of Araya Soren, Shiki's skill in killing intangible things is determined by mushrooms.