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 do it right.
Seeing the two of them taking steps without thinking before asking questions, Tangze smiled and his steps became a little brisker.
“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 master of the palace is really the image of Caesar, there is a high probability that the agency will Or the location of the passage is near July ”
Miyano Akemi nodded repeatedly, looking at Karasawa looking around with great interest, and said jokingly: "It sounds very reasonable. I said, if you give yourself the identity of a high school detective, wouldn't it be? You are 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, um. , it’s like playing a game. If I get stuck on a puzzle, I will be very motivated to solve the problem. As for those fancy cases, please spare me.”
Hoshikawa Teru and Miyano. Mingmei exchanged a look, then nodded randomly without refuting him.
When he was a detective, he was in a state of having fun and his eyes were 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 electric tingling on his fingertips made him instinctively relax. Opened the knocker.
"Hiss..." After shaking his hand twice, Tang Ze frowned, "What is this."
"Huh?" Xingchuan Hui also squatted down and reached out to touch the door panel. , was also bounced away by the lines on it, "Do you mean it can't be opened? It feels like it is electrified."
"Although there are indeed many weird ones in the hall that are distorted. Area, but this one seems to be more than just distortion." Tangze pulled the door tentatively and opened his hand again as if he was warned.
...Hey, he still doesn’t believe him.
I have been wary of the Phantom Thief for so long, when did I ever get frustrated?
Tangze rolled up his cuffs and grabbed the copper ring on the door. He ignored the pain in his palms and 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 a flow, and the slightly opened door was pulled back hard, until it was right in front of the door. Tangze, who was fighting with the door knocker, almost fell down.
"What on earth is this? It's gurgling." He reached out and touched it again. Tang Ze searched for anything similar to the situation in his mind.
Rather than being unable to open the door itself, it looked more like something had added a seal to the door.
Is it the mechanism of this palace? Should I look around for monsters to kill? Gem crystal worm or something?
"Joker, if you look at it from my point of view." Miyano Akemi, who was standing a step behind them, said, "These lines are a bit like a squiggle, 'K'."
Compared with Karasawa who was stuck in the game strategy thinking, Miyano Akemi observed more about the phenomenon itself.
Having had a little exposure to cognitive science and a little exposure to different worlds, she is more nervous than Tangze who is relaxed.
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. After 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 Karasawa's neck also shone with light.
The curved thorn patterns on the ground fell off and separated after the crackling sound, and reorganized into a shape similar to a keyhole. The scarf tightened suddenly and penetrated into the keyhole on the ground. A friction sound like the rotation of gears came from deep in the door panel. The gorgeous thorn pattern seemed to be swallowed up by the light from the scarf, cracked, shrunk, and finally disappeared into the shadow of the scarf.
Caught off guard, 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, lest he become the first Persona user in history to be strangled by his own props.
"Cough, cough..." Touching his throat, Tangze stood up again and pulled up his scarf in confusion.
The scarf, which had returned to soft fabric, was rolled up in his hand obediently. There was no trace of the look that he had been preparing to kill just a moment ago.
"Are you okay?" Xingchuan Hui grabbed Tang Ze's arm, made sure 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 and the others?" Looking at this series of changes, Miyano Akemi was surprised.
"I don't know either. It has appeared on me automatically since my ability awakened... I only thought it was part of my special ability at first." Tang Ze 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 some reason, and it was also when I encountered the "K" mark.
Do Tang Ze and his wife really have such great powers?
After studying for a while with a strange expression, he couldn't get an answer, so he could only put down his taunting scarf for the time being and look at the trap door on the ground.
Hold the door knocker again, and 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 about that? What to do? This is the equipment that comes with the initial number, and he has no choice.
The props of Er Wu Zai are also Er Wu Zai, 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 the members of the organization, and then it must be passed through There is such a mark. It’s hard to imagine that it has nothing to do with the organization.”
“It must be related to them,” Tang Ze said without even a question. Why, but in short, I know that people who have a certain understanding of the world, if they have strong willpower, may be able to control their own palace to a certain extent. "
Here, Tang Ze pointed out. is an interest group related to Shido Justice in the original Persona 5 game.
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. This is a means they use to protect their palace.
"Does Masuyama Kenzo also know about the knowledge of cognition and even guard against people who 'change their minds'?" Miyano Akemi frowned instinctively 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."
(End of this chapter)