After being retaliated by Asclepius with various tests that he did not feel very good, Fujimaru Rika, who had been devastated by the renewed round of oral drugs and injections again, changed into a simple regular suit, crept out of the innermost compartment, and escaped from the infirmary after passing the Holy Blood Angels who were still resting.

It's not that she has to finish the task she is working on now. Since joining a small group of Forbidden Army aboard the Storm Frontier, Rika Fujimaru herself has been left with a lot less work - although there has been a lot more coordination of interpersonal or departmental relationships, overall, she does have more free time.

It is true that the attitudes and speeches of the forbidden soldiers can sometimes raise blood pressure, but in terms of external communication, the emotional intelligence of living "humans" is still much stronger than that of Somni, who is too "like the master". What's more, when they appeared in front of people as the emperor's guards and claws, they were far more credible than Fujimaru Ritsuka, a minor (in terms of biological age, she was indeed underage) girls in the eyes of the empire.

For example, after these golden giants shook in front of the only remaining Blood Angels on the battlefield, the twelve soldiers who survived the catastrophe did not even show the slightest suspicion or rebuttal, and obediently accepted all the arrangements that the Storm Frontier had for them.

The Empire's widely known "Voices of the Emperor" were able to take out most of the work for Rika Fujimaru, but there were still some things she had to do on the Storm Frontier - spell-related ones.

She has not forgotten what San Gilierino said to her on the battlefield. After confirming that the subspace shadow caused by the hive had subsided and that all kinds of psionic spells were working properly, she was ready to start the relevant "investigation".

In a metaphysical way.

Each of the forbidden soldiers is versatile and knowledgeable, and can also be competent for various routine tasks in scenarios other than combat, even including cooking and washing dishes; But limited by the Emperor's plans when he first created them, these superhumans who are nearly insulated from subspace are helpless when it comes to most psionic issues: they may be able to remain unwavering in the corrosive effects of Chaos, but they cannot cast even the simplest spells: something that the Emperor has decided in their underlying designs.

In addition, the "think tank" in this team is either the "battle brother with psychic talent" who barely survived the Dark Angel's ban from Nikaia during the Great Expedition, or Sevita, who has been following Kylea openly for more than half a year. It may be reliable enough to throw these people into the battlefield to fight, but when it really comes time to divinate and prophecy, it will ultimately be up to Rika Fujimaru herself and Inquisitor Hastings.

By the way, although Fujimaru Ritsuka's "divination" accuracy rate is quite high, most of the roles played by Merlin were that little Merlin didn't know how to connect with her, which belonged to the essence of Conrad Cotz - and a small part came from the contractual relationship between her and the Midnight Ghost.

Or maybe the two are reversed, after all, the overly real prophetic visions that often plague Koz sometimes leak into Fujimaru Ritsuka's dreams along the contractual connection between them.

That's why, when she does card divination, she doesn't use the Imperial Tarot, which is more popular in the Imperial camp, but the traditional Nostramo cards.

Fujimaru Rika ran back to her room, expertly closed the door, pulled out the divination paraphernalia, and sat down at the table for a few minutes to calm herself. When she felt she was ready, she shuffled, draw, and unraveled the cards smoothly – and then, she didn't come up with anything.

Although "no conclusion" itself means a conclusion in the metaphysics of divination, Fujimaru Rika still fell into deep thought: this was only the first step, she just wanted to roughly divinate the current relative position between Acurdona and her, and theoretically should be able to decipher a very vague direction and a very vague distance information from the imagery represented by the cards.

However, in this divination, she did not draw a card that could decipher the "distance", but the three suited tiles in the deck that could decipher the meaning of "direction" all appeared in a contradictory form as she repeated the draw, and the fourth card represented "upside down and uncertain".

There is no doubt that the divination failed.

In this type of occult ritual, it is taboo to "ask the same question repeatedly", so after a brief reflection, and though she did not hold out much hope, Rika Fujimaru decided to divinate the current position of Company Commander Garibor Santo and her instead, and then shuffled the cards. She and the former Iron Hand Company Commander can only be regarded as acquaintances, without too much "fate" involvement, and the success rate of divination is theoretically lower than that of Acurdona - sure enough, Fujimaru Rika failed again this time.

The first two of the four cards interpret the meaning of "far" and "near," while the last two show her the "chaotic," unknowable, and "incomprehensible," imagery.

Rika Fujimaru fell into deep thought.

Then, she decided to soothe the location of Elder Rano and shuffle the cards again. Her relationship with the elder wasn't very deep, but this time, the four cards seemed to work very normally: the first two cards indicated the approximate direction that overlapped the direction of the Holy Terra, or the Star Torch, the third card indicated that the distance was "far", and the supplementary note on the fourth card symbolized "difficulty", presumably referring to the need to pass through the Great Rift to get to that location - a good proof that there was no problem with her own divination skills or the subspace that had just been liberated from the shadow of the hive.

That means that the only ones in question are Acurdona and Garibo Santo.

It seems that their "disappearance" is indeed a fact.

Immediately afterward, Rika Fujimaru ruled out the possibility that "they are doing an imaginary number dive". In the process of deceiving the veil through the self-transformation between the real and imaginary domains, divination is indeed unable to lock them. But first, this project does not need to and should not last long; Second, even if the Imperial Edition of the Imaginary Submariner made by the Iron Hand did take a lot of time to work on the project, the scry card shouldn't be that kind of mistake.

In that case, the card should tell her directly: there is no such thing as what you're looking for.

For a moment, Rika Fujimaru wanted to get up and go to Inquisitor Hastings, who was good at imperial tarots, to see if he could get a different answer by using another method of divination. But then she dismissed the idea, because the fact that "Acurdona and Garibo Santo were missing" had been told to her by San Gillino.

This means that neither the "prophecy" of the emperor himself, or the angels, can lead to a definite conclusion on this matter. And Emperor Tarot, as a divination method that borrows the emperor's wisdom as a carrier in the real universe, naturally can't tell her more.

After a short period of reflection again, Rika Fujimaru decided to try divination on the "state of Acurdona". After deciding what to use this time, she set about shuffling the cards again - but this time, as she habitually shuffled the cards, the cards that looked just slightly bigger than the playing cards flew out of her fingers in a disobedient way.

The Midnight Lord's certified King of a Thousand Kings, Rika Fujimaru, shuffled and shuffled, and if this happened at a regular table, it would undoubtedly be a joke. Unfortunately, this small probability event does not happen at the table, but on the fortune table.

Is the accident that happens on the divination table really an accident, or is it inevitable that it will happen under the watchful eye or interference of some being?

After the flying cards fell, only the "Martyr" card fell in front of Rika Fujimaru in a correct reverse form. It implies great danger, difficulties that are difficult to overcome even at the cost of one's life, reckless sacrifices, and bad endings.

This could be a coincidence, or it could be a warning - given her current position in the subspace, and the fact that she is being watched by both the Emperor and Tzeentch, is more likely to be a warning from the Emperor than an explicit warning.

Rika Fujimaru took a deep breath and decided to stop there. She retrieved all the cards, straightened them up and put them away again, then got up from her table and prepared to head to the lounge where the statue of the emperor was kept.

- Her "stop" simply refers to stopping in divination. After all, unreasonable solicitation of foreign aid was the one thing the Chaldean lord was best at. Even the Emperor himself could not see the future on this issue, but as one of the few powerful psionics in the Universe, Fujimaru Rika believed that he could instantly verify and affirm some of her conjectures.

For example, Acurdona and Garibo Santo got a parameter wrong during an imaginary submarine test and are now trapped in some hard-to-detect pocket dimension or something.

Miwoo (serene)

(End of chapter)