I'm Shenji, what are you doing?

Cheng Zi knew that he had changed.

In the past, I lived in isolation, had almost no friends, and only did things that interested me. If there is no point of interest, no matter how high the reward offered by the opponent is, you will not accept it. If there is something she is interested in, she will try her best to sell it, even if it is for free.

But now, it's different.

She is always alone and unknowingly gathers a group of people with distinctive personalities around her, including Matou Shinji, Matou Sakura, Asagami Fujino, Kurogiri Mikiya, Ryori, Wujo Kirie and Tohno Shiki.

Perhaps since that encounter three and a half years ago, her life has become richer and richer, with more and more obstacles on her body, and at the same time, she has become further and further away from her dream.

Cheng Zi has a dream. He first inherited the family business and became the fourth magician. After breaking up with her family, she found a new dream in the Clock Tower - to live like an immortal.

So she is always alone, never staying in one place for too long, never getting too involved with anyone, just like a gust of wind. Because there are too many ties, and you can't leave - if you can't detach yourself from the world, you are not an immortal.

"I should have left you earlier."

In the hazy smoke, Chengzi sighed quietly.

"You can't leave, you haven't paid off your debt yet."

Shinji let out a breath, not letting the smoke obstruct his and Orange's view.

"I regret it." Chengzi closed his eyes.

"It's still too late to regret now. Having said that -" Shen Er said with a smile, "-do you really regret it? You are determined to leave, and no one can stop you."

There was a rare trace of embarrassment on Chengzi's face: "Can't you just let me do it once in a while?"

"As you wish, My lady." Shen Er bowed slightly, "Then, lady, would you like to hear my opinion on immortals?"

"All ears."

"The Chinese character for immortal, written in Chinese characters -" Shenji carved the word "immortal" in the air in the way of depicting runes. "Add a mountain next to the character human. To understand this character, we must start from the person and the mountain. The mountain is the person." , go up the mountain to practice Taoism, and ignore things at the bottom of the mountain, but cultivating the Tao does not mean attaining the Tao and becoming an immortal. To become an immortal, you also need to go down the mountain and join the world, and cultivate yourself and others. Didn’t the ancients say that there is no place in life without cultivation. In my opinion, persistence in It is inevitable that the poor will be left behind on the mountain.”

"This is sophistry." Chengzi shook his head, "If people are on the left and on the right of the mountain, isn't it just that people go up the mountain?"

"Going up the mountain doesn't mean you can't come down. If it's true that you can't go down the mountain, why don't you recognize that the character for 'immortal' has the beginning of human and the base of mountain? Different from Latin-based characters, every Chinese character in the pictographic system has a different character. It’s meaningful.”

"Then why not write one person on each side?"

"Because this step of going up the mountain to practice can block the vast majority of people who are cultivating immortals. You have already passed this level, so don't always think about hiding from the world and living in seclusion, just let nature take its course."

Shenji looked seriously at Cheng Zi's eyes that were as beautiful as her name.

"Sister Chengzi, are you happy? If you are not happy, you can leave at any time and I will never stop you."

"Why are you still talking about this now," Cheng Zi laughed at himself, "If I'm not happy, I don't have to worry about it."

"That's fine. In life, the most important thing is to go smoothly."

"You say all this just because you want to tie me to your pirate ship." Cheng Zi glared at Shen Er angrily.

Shen Er touched his nose: "You are the free wind, no one can tie you down. But please don't forget, this is a sailboat and it will move with the wind. Are you willing to be its driving force?"

"It sounds so nice, so I'll reluctantly agree, Captain." Cheng Zi found that he was increasingly unable to deal with Shen Er. "But I have to warn you, if I find you becoming an obstacle to me -"

"——If you want to kill or behead, please do as you wish." Shen Er's words were so precise that they struck the ground.

"Remember what you said today." After saying that, Chengzi turned and left.

"Wait a minute, about the Tono family"

"Don't worry about it, I'll handle it."

"Huh?" Shen Er was stunned, "No, you don't have to do it for me."

"You are so sentimental." Cheng Zi snorted.

"That is?"

"Dolls are imitations of human beings. The strange things in humans are all the objects of my research. Magic eyes, supernatural powers, and hybrids. I want to use my hands to recreate the magic of the Creator. For this, I need a lot of materials, Tono My family is a treasure trove to me.”

When talking about the dolls, Chengzi's expression was enthusiastic, and his whole person was filled with shocking courage and charm, which made Shinji's heart sway and also feel a little worried.

"You're not going to dissect them, are you?"

"That's not necessary. They are all human in nature, and there is no difference in their basic structure. I only need to draw a few tubes of blood, cut some subcutaneous tissue, and let them cooperate with me to do a few experiments. It will not cause harm to the body. In order to 'coronate' 'The name of the puppet master guarantees it. You can rest assured now."

"Or not."

"You just don't believe me?" Cheng Zi's face turned cold.

"It's not that I don't believe you, but I'm worried about your safety. I recently received a piece of gossip that I don't know whether it's true or not - people from the Holy Church seem to be eyeing the Tono family."

"Those religious lunatics?"

Most magicians have no good impression of the Holy Church, which denies magic on the surface but is secretly preparing to bring all mysteries under its jurisdiction, and Orange is no exception.

"What are they here for?"

"It is said that it is to hunt a certain ancient Death Apostle, whose name is Mitchell Roa Fardan Yang."

"Snake of Akasha! Infinitely reincarnated person!" Orange finally changed his expression.

This is a special Death Apostle. He may not be the strongest among vampires, but he is definitely the most difficult to eliminate. His ability is the same as his title "Infinite Reincarnation", which allows him to reincarnate his soul into other humans when his body is destroyed.

"So, there might be a reincarnation of Roa in Tono's house?"

"Yeah." Shenji nodded.

Roa is the biggest boss in the story of "Tsukihime". The trouble is that "Tsukihime" has five world lines. In addition to the Bad end that cannot be cleared, there are a total of nine endings. Depending on the world line, Roa's reincarnation object is also different. Although it is Tono Shiki at the beginning, it can be transferred to Tono Akiha or Tono Shiki through life sharing.

Just when Shenji was thinking about how to further remind Chengzi, Chengzi suddenly took off his glasses, and his whole person became cold and solemn.

"This is really good news, the best news I've heard today, if it's true."

"Eh?" Shenji was dumbfounded.

This reaction is wrong. Even the church thinks that this troublesome guy could be so excited about Orange, so much so that he needs to use iceberg mode to suppress him.

"What, you don't understand?"

"not understand."

"The representative of the church did not appear, which proves that Roa's soul has not yet revived. If I remember correctly, he seems to be a dead disciple transformed by a very powerful magician in the Middle Ages. The soul of a sleeping magician, what does this mean to you? It’s not unclear.”

As Orange said, every reincarnation requires Roa's power, so Roa will fall into a deep sleep after reincarnation. As time goes by, his soul will slowly revive, erode and merge bit by bit, and eventually replace the reincarnated body, becoming a new generation of Roa.

Roa was reincarnated seventeen times in this way and lived for at least eight hundred years. The knowledge he accumulated is a treasure mountain for magicians. Chengzi wants to open the door to the treasure mountain and obtain the treasure before Roa's soul revives. After all, there are many ways to obtain information in the mysterious world.

The issue is--

"How are you going to find this treasure mountain? What if you can't open the door to the treasure mountain?"

Orange can already have answers to these two questions.

"Shiki's eyes are very good at catching invisible objects. As long as Roa's reincarnation appears, she can't escape her eyes."

"If I can't open the gate of Baoshan before he recovers, I will let Shi kill him. Infinite reincarnation does not mean that he will not die. With Shi here, it will be easy to kill him.

Shenji was really convinced. Orange was indeed an orange, and she thought of everything.

Shiki and Shiki have different eyesights. Shiki is good at killing physical objects, while Shiki is good at killing invisible things, such as diseases, barriers, concepts, ghosts, etc.

It is no exaggeration to say that Shiki is Roa's nemesis.

PS: In "Sora no Kyoukai", Shiki killed the dual existence of Wu Jiao Kirie and the ghost of the girl who jumped from the building, killed Fujino's appendicitis, killed the future seen by Kurami Ruka, and killed Araya. Zong Lian's barrier, which is good at killing invisible objects, was ordered by Mushroom.