Dr. Kujou looked up at the bell in the dissection room.

It was approaching the time she knew through the shrine.

Put down the dissecting instruments, take off the blood gloves, wash and disinfect, and get ready.

She set up a ritual and performed a prayer.

There was chaos in front of me, and a large number of mosaic snowflakes were split and reorganized, filling the field of vision, and then coming back to my senses.

Surrounded by unknown metal monuments, the sunken ancient amphitheater is covered with rust.

The theater staircase is lined up, and the seats filled with invisible fog are dotted with fluorescent particles, outlining symbols.

A huge round table with twelve seats.

In the middle of the round table, sat a dull humanoid dust, with mosaics flashing from time to time.

She was already in the "Hall of Mysteries".

The blessing of the flood and the relief of the old days.

Ninety-nine-eighty-one above the god master.

A great being sunk in the depths of the sea.

……

There was another figure beside him.

Apart from her, there were others who came in.

A rat-headed student?

This should also be the image of the wire puppet, and Dr. Kujo has already noticed his appearance.

This is the person who happened to encounter a "miracle" like himself and found the shrine through the information left behind?

Dr. Kujo speculated in his heart.

At this moment, the humanoid dust in the middle of the round table suddenly sounded.

"Why Peep into My Mysterious ......"

The fuzzy electronic sound sounds stiff and detached, not like the same kind of person, like listening to a machine.

Is this asking?

Dr. Kujou was unsure, and she didn't dare to respond easily because she was cautious.

Everything around is strange and mysterious.

In this unknown situation, I don't know what to do and what not to do, and the first thing that comes to mind is to refer to others......

She glanced sideways at the person beside her, but the rat-headed student didn't seem to answer.

Silence, silence......

It's like it's a one-way logic that doesn't go on without a response.

"I got here by accident."

Dr. Kujo spoke up.

"Why Peep into My Mysterious ......"

A great being in the mystery, the humanoid dust made a sound again.

"Why Peep into My Mysterious ......"

Dr. Kujo chuckled in his heart, is my answer incorrect?

"I was guided to explore."

Doctor Kujo refers to "divinely apocalyptic" things.

"Why Peep into My Mysterious ......"

Still not right, Dr. Kujo frowned in thought, but suddenly a muffled voice came from his side.

"Dry ...... Dry...... Casein......"

The words are inaccurate, the speech is slurred, it is the rat-headed student who speaks...... Cheese?

Dr. Kujo didn't get too much of it.

However.

One of the twelve seats at the round table pulled out slowly, as if inviting rat-headed students to take their seats.

Why is that?

Dr. Kujo was a little confused.

Seeing the rat-headed student sit down at the round table, Dr. Kujo heard the voice again.

"Why Peep into My Mysterious ......"

Doctor Kujou lowered his head and pondered, what answer did the existence on the round table want?

Cheese can be seated in such an answer, and it must not be a right or wrong answer.

The question is "Why peep into my mysterious ......"

Her previous answer did explain the reason why she came here...... No, it's not how she got here...... It's her...... Want?

After thinking for a long time, Dr. Kujo said:

"I think it should be an exchange."

The Hall of Mystery was silent for a moment.

A chair next to the round table slowly pulled away.

……

Swap, that's a good answer.

Su Qi pondered the meaning of this repeatedly.

This coincides with the alchemy school's theory of equivalent exchange, and it is also the personality he is looking forward to.

His seated question is actually very simple and straightforward, which is to ask, "What do you want when you pray to me?" ”

Through this answer, he can get a general understanding of the person's demands, desires, and character.

Judging from the answer of the "nine-headed" doctor, she should belong to the kind of person who behaves rigorously and does things directly to the goal.

As for the guinea pigs......

Su Qi didn't need to comment too much on its pure desire, but the little guy made a human voice, which surprised him very much.

Frankenstein dolls do theoretically have this function, but that's just in theory.

But in fact, under the control of a small animal, it can really do this kind of human behavior, which is quite shocking.

Is this little pig really a sperm?

But it's okay, so that you can speak, and it will be more convenient in the future, the operation of the mysterious hall.

Here Su Qi knew that the guinea pig was an animal, but Doctor Kujo didn't know.

After she sat down at the round table, she kept thinking that although the rat-headed student's answer just now was a little strange, and now she looked around curiously, which was even more strange.

But the other party gave an answer earlier, much earlier than she sat down, much stronger than herself, she could only judge that this may be a strange person with a unique personality.

……

After sitting down, Su Qi didn't say anything more.

He's waiting.

"Forgive me for my presumptuousness, may I ask what kind of place this is, are you the great being mentioned in the shrine ceremony."

Dr. Kujo spoke, and this question was really the kind of person who did things and went straight to the heart of the target.

There was a moment of silence in the Hall of Mysteries.

The humanoid dust made another sound.

"This is my mystery."

Voices echoed in the empty hall of mystery.

The guinea pig listened, as if he didn't understand, and didn't ask any questions, or because it couldn't say anything more.

"You...... From the deep sea? ”

Dr. Kujo asked again in a different way.

"I come from the truth."

The dust figure made a sound, then paused and said, "You can call me that way, too." ”

"Mr. Truth."

As Dr. Kujo spoke, he peeked in the direction of the mouse from time to time, this person really didn't want to say a word?

Su Qi continued to speak:

"Those who seek the mysterious will eventually find the truth."

Doctor Kujo's eyes lit up when he heard this, isn't this her, the mysterious world that she has been looking for for so long, and now she is finally standing on the threshold.

She had been looking for this opportunity for too long, savored the meaning of this sentence, and asked cautiously:

"Mr. Truth, can you help me get into the mysterious world?"

A line of burning newspaper clippings suddenly appeared in front of Dr. Kujo.

"It's a swap."

That's what she said herself.

Doctor Kujo thought for a moment and said:

"Mr. Truth, I only have some experience working with corpses.

If you feel that this can also be a kind of exchange, I would love to share my knowledge. ”

"The Hall of Mysteries is never silent."

Su Qi felt that it was almost there.

The dust figure sat still.

On the round table, fluorescent lines outline a virtual Tokyo, Akihabara, and the Tram Theater.

……