Chapter 228 "K"

Author: Six Days and Four Dusts

Chapter 228 "K"

"Huh? Why there?" Although he was asking, Xingchuan Hui's feet had already begun to take steps in the direction Tangze pointed.

No matter why, just follow the instructions first.

Seeing the two of them taking steps without thinking before asking questions, Tang Ze smiled and his steps became a little more brisk.

"Isn't it because Kenzo Masama likes to compare himself to Caesar? July in English comes from the Julian in Caesar's name. As long as the current owner of the palace is really the image of Caesar, there is a high probability that the location of the mechanism or passage will be there

Around July.”

Miyano Akemi nodded repeatedly, looking at Karasawa looking around for something, looking very interested, and said jokingly: "It sounds very reasonable. I said, if you give yourself the identity of a high school student detective, wouldn't it be?

You’re really interested in reasoning, right? You have a lot of fun solving puzzles.”

"I'm not, I don't have it, don't talk nonsense." Tangze started by denying Sanlian, "I am, well, it's like playing a game. If the progress is stuck because of a puzzle, I will be very good at solving it.

Motivation. As for those fancy cases, please spare me."

Hoshikawa Teru and Miyano Akemi exchanged a look, and then nodded randomly without refuting him.

When he was a detective, he was in a state of having fun with his eyes shining...

"This is it...huh?"

With the visual aid of his "third eye", Tang Ze easily identified the location of the mechanism from the low wall covered with bushes. He stretched out his hand to grab the buckle on the ground, and followed his instincts to open the trap door upwards.

.

Then, he was surprised to find that with his exertion, the door seemed to be activated, and several bright red thorn patterns suddenly appeared. The tingling sensation on his fingertips made him instinctively let go of the door knocker.

"Hiss..." After shaking his hands twice, Tang Ze frowned, "What is this?"

"Huh?" Xingchuan Hui also squatted down and reached out to touch the door panel, but it was also bounced off by the lines on it. "Do you mean it can't be opened? It feels like it is electrified."

"Although there are indeed many areas in the hall that appear weird due to distortions, this one seems to be more than just distortions." Karasawa tentatively pulled the door open again, and opened his hand again as if he was warned.

...Hey, he still doesn’t believe him.

I've been wary of the Phantom Thief for so long, when did I ever get frustrated?

Tang Ze rolled up his cuffs and grabbed the copper ring on the door. Ignoring the needle-like pain in his palm, he lifted it up with all his strength.

There was a creaking sound from the door leaf, and it opened slightly, and then the red thorns on the door surged like water, and the slightly opened door was pulled back hard, pulling Tang Ze who was struggling with the door knocker almost to the point

Fall down.

"What the hell is this? It's gurgling." Tangze reached out and touched it again, searching his mind for anything similar to the situation he was looking for.

Rather than being unable to open the door itself, it looks more like something has added a seal to the door.

Is it the mechanism of this hall? Should I look around for monsters that need to be killed? Gem crystal worms and the like?

"Joker, if you look at it from this point of view," Miyano Akemi, who was standing a step behind them, said, "these lines look a bit like a squiggle, 'K'."

Compared to Karasawa who was stuck in game strategy thinking, Miyano Akemi observed more about the phenomenon itself.

She had a little exposure to Cognitive Hexology and a different world, so she was more nervous than Tang Ze who had a relaxed mind.

As soon as she saw these strange things, her associations came to her almost instinctively.

"'K'?" Tang Ze rolled up his sleeves and was about to give himself some attack ups before trying again. Upon hearing this, he turned around while still squatting on the ground.

Before he could take a closer look, his long scarf swung with his movements and happened to hit the thorn pattern on the door panel that was as bright red as blood.

There was a crisp sound of glass breaking, and the scarf around Tang Ze's neck also glowed with light.

The curved thorn patterns on the ground fell off and separated after the crackling sound, and re-formed into a shape similar to a keyhole. The scarf suddenly tightened and penetrated into the keyhole on the ground, and something like the rotation of gears came from the depths of the door panel.

fricative sound.

The gorgeous thorn pattern seemed to be swallowed up by the light emitted by the scarf, cracked, shrunk, and finally disappeared into the shadow of the scarf.

Unexpectedly, Tang Ze was pulled by the scarf that moved without authorization and fell to the ground. It was also dragged towards the center of the door panel.

The tightened fabric forced him to quickly reach out and grab the scarf, freeing up enough space to breathe, so as not to become the first Persona user in history to be strangled by his own props.

"Cough, cough..." Touching his throat, Tang Ze stood up again and pulled up his scarf in confusion.

The scarf, which had turned back into soft fabric, was rolled up snugly in his hand. There was no trace of the look that he had been preparing to kill just a moment ago.

"Are you okay?" Hoshikawa Teru grabbed Tang Ze's arm and made sure that there was nothing wrong with him, and began to cast worried eyes on the scarf around his neck.

"...Is this scarf left to you by your uncle?" Looking at this series of changes, Miyano Akemi was surprised and uncertain.

"I don't know either. It has appeared on me automatically since I awakened my ability... I only thought it was part of my special ability at first." Tangze told the truth.

He tried to pull the scarf fabric twice, and the bright red scarf was stretched and rolled into a ball without any temper, without any abnormality.

The same thing happened last time in the Impression Space. It got longer for no reason, and it was also when I encountered the "K" mark.

Do Tangze and his wife really have such great powers?

He studied for a while with a weird expression, and when he couldn't get an answer, he could only temporarily put down his sarcastic scarf and look at the trap door on the ground.

Holding the door knocker again, this time the door was pulled up with one hand without any hindrance.

"Anyway, the door is open." Looking at the dark entrance below, Tang Ze laughed to himself, "Go down first and forget about this."

What should I do? This is the initial equipment that comes with it, and he has no choice.

The props of Erwuzi are also Erwuzi, which makes sense if you think about it carefully.

Compared to Karasawa, who is good at self-examination, his two teammates are more worried, especially Miyano Akemi, who deeply understands the meaning of the mark.

"Could this be related to the organization, joker?" She held the gun in her hand tightly and looked at the dark hole below, "This is a palace for members of the organization, and there is such a place that must be passed through.

It’s hard to imagine that this has nothing to do with the organization.”

"It must have something to do with them." Tangze answered without even a question, "It's hard for me to explain why, but in short, I know that people who have a certain concept of cognitive world, if they have strong willpower, maybe they can

Control your own palace to some extent."

Here, Karasawa refers to the interest group related to Shido Justice in the original Persona 5.

In the game, except for Shido and Okumura, the two figures in their interest group, the cognitive existence in other people's palaces is just like the cognitive existence of Karasawa in the Furuya Rei Palace where Karasawa was beaten into black mud.

, is a pure empty shell.

In other words, they are just an extension of the memory and imagination of the palace owner, so they are called cognitive dolls.

But in the palaces of these two people, there were situations where cognitive beings shattered the powerful shadows stuffed inside.

Although there is no explanation in the game, when discussing the relevant settings, most people tend to think that it is because their mastery of cognitive mythology has allowed them to invisibly enhance the defense capabilities of their palaces, which they use for protection.

A means to build one's own palace.

"Does Masuyama Kenzo also know about the knowledge of cognition and even guard against people who 'change their minds'?" Miyano Akemi instinctively frowned and denied, "It's hard to imagine."

"More or less, he should know something. After all, he is the veteran of the organization. But when it comes to defense, it does not necessarily have to do with him." Stopping his divergent thoughts, Tang Ze first looked at the passage below.

, "Stop guessing here. The real answer will be known when you enter the palace. Let's go."
Chapter completed!