Lost Narrative Poetry

Without any hesitation, Xia Ran decisively betrayed Aleister.

Although he was two school districts away and in a windowless building, the Hanged Man must have a complex expression on his face at this moment, as if he had been shot in the knee by an arrow for no apparent reason.

The one-eyed girl looked at the magician quietly, as if she didn't want to accept this trick. Her clear emerald green eyes reflected Xia Ran's figure, trying to see through his truth. At the same time, she was muttering in her mouth. Said:

"I have never seen you before. You are definitely not from this world. Are you from the past long ago, those dead worlds? In this way, maybe you have existed for a longer time than I thought. Woolen cloth……"

"No, no, don't talk nonsense. I'm only seventeen years old this year. What does it mean to be ancient..." Xia Ran shook his head repeatedly. He was just a boy from Qia's classmate. He was in his prime and had nothing to do with these words. Is the relationship good or not?

He is only seventeen years old this year, and he will only be seventeen next year. How can he be said to be old?

When the one-eyed girl heard this, she looked at him with a slightly strange look. She is only seventeen years old this year?

Seventeen years and a few epochs?

Although she did not recognize this alien being who was definitely not a human being, and who did not seem to completely belong to the existing magical mysterious system, at least she still had some eyesight. In her vision, this person's past had changed over a long period of time. It is looming in and out, and continues to stretch.

It seems that it can be traced back to an unknown amount of time in history. Although it has not left many obvious traces in the current world, that is, it only appeared recently, among the many other magic phases, his record seems to be It sinks and floats, and some sporadic traces can be captured.

This shows that before she or other demons superimposed phases on the world countless times and reshaped the world countless times, perhaps this weird existence had already walked the world at that time.

It's not that the older the person is, the more powerful it is, but the more powerful the person is, the older the person is. The one-eyed girl knows this very well, so she becomes more and more cautious.

This person didn't seem to be a demon, but there was no difference in the feeling to her.

Especially now, in the entire world, all the superimposed magic phases are showing signs of being shaken by some kind of great force. When she clearly noticed it, she strengthened her understanding. Opposite her was a person who didn't know the slightest bit. A monster inferior to the devil.

However, even so, she would not retreat or give in. After all, this was not the first time she had dealt with beings of the same level.

"Stop it."

Walking in from the gate, the one-eyed girl dressed as a witch walked directly in front of the magician, slightly raised her head and looked at his face, and said calmly.

"Are there all demons outside?" Xia Ran asked with a playful smile. He felt that this sentence seemed inexplicably familiar to him. It seemed that he had said this to others several times not long ago, and now it was his turn to be treated like this by others. said.

What a turn of events.

"?" The one-eyed girl tilted her head, and a question mark seemed to slowly appear above her head.

"..."

"..."

"Director, who is this?" Under the inexplicable depression, Misaka Mikoto and others had been silent just now. Now they finally got an opening and couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, this... you can just call her Ooti." Xia Ran said casually, briefly introducing the one-eyed girl's name, but after thinking about it, she finally did not tell her the full name. come out.

"Outi?" Misaka Mikoto raised her eyebrows. It didn't seem to be a real name. If the person didn't say it wrong on purpose, he probably deliberately hid part of the information.

"Well, that's the relative meaning of Fei Ti. You can just think of this as her title. It means that she is a very lucky person. When drawing cards, she can always easily get the results she wants... ..." the magician said seriously.

"Director, you are like this..." Misaka Mikoto couldn't laugh or cry, could this person be more serious?

"..."

The one-eyed girl's eyes flickered. This person seemed to be talking nonsense, but in fact he did tell some of his information, such as the first half of his name.

It's just that his language is really strange. He clearly uses homophones that are unique to the language he uses, but everyone present, including the one-eyed girl herself, can understand the meaning at the same time... Others seem to have no idea at all. I didn't find anything wrong.

It’s not that they are slow to react or anything, but that they simply lack the basic conditions to discover this strange phenomenon. Just like most animals are actually color blind and can hardly distinguish colors. The colors reflected in their eyes are only black, Three colors of white and gray.

This is the world in their eyes, and no one prevents them from seeing it, but their own sensory perception does not support seeing colors other than black, white, and gray, so naturally they cannot detect the existence of these phenomena. This is The limitations of mortals themselves.

That is to say, Othinus, as a demon god, is able to be keenly aware of this problem.

Isn't it a limited and tangible language, but a description of meaning that is common to all things?

The light in Othinus's eyes flickered slightly. As the saying goes, the truth is found in the details, which means that the essence of things can often be best reflected in the details. Naturally, she understood this truth very well. She thought quickly and thought of a suspected clues.

Genesis 11: 1 At that time, everyone in the world had the same accent and speech.

——Old Testament "Genesis".

According to this clue, if everything is true, it is obvious that there was an era before the confusion of speech. At that time, unlike later generations or now, there were countless different languages ​​and characters. Speech was Unified and universal.

It is not only common to human beings, but also common to all things. People can talk to others, talk to the world, and even talk to God.

However, when people still had a common language, they tried to build a tower that reached the sky. The end result was that God was alarmed. God did not allow people to reach the same height as Him through this method, so people became confused. language.

“Now that they have begun to do this, nothing they set out to do from now on will be impossible.”

Man's great deeds are ruined in this way, no matter how arrogant a person is, he cannot compare with God, and rashly launching a challenge will only attract God's wrath.

This is also the origin of the legend of the Tower of Babel. In Hebrew, "Babel" means "chaos", but in Babylonian, this word means "Gate of God". The same word has completely opposite meanings in two languages, but both have profound meanings...

Othinus' thoughts flashed through his mind, and at the same time he took a deep look at the magician in front of him.

Could this man be an ancient remnant of the era before the confusion of speech? In that case, maybe it was really the world before the demon god in this world added countless phases to the world. If he had been alive until now, it would not be surprising that he would behave like this.

"What do you want to do by shaking all the phase foundations?"

Her face was still calm and she asked calmly.

After all, as the God King in Nordic mythology, she has seen a lot of things. In the countless changes in the world, she has not seen any weird things. Even if the remnants of the era before the confusion of words are born, It didn't surprise her that much.

"...To prevent the world from being destroyed, to protect the peace of the world?" Probably because he knew that Othinus, who only acted according to his own thoughts and rhythms, was difficult to be fooled. Xia Ran thought about it seriously and was not sure. said so.

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"..."

"By the way, are there any lines at the end, like "an evil, cute and charming villain who embodies love and truth" or something like that? "

Kamijou Touma said weakly. He noticed that the atmosphere was getting heavier and more solid, and he felt an inexplicable feeling of extreme ominousness and uneasiness. It seemed that this was the calm before the storm, and that a disaster might come at any time. He couldn't help it. Want to do something to lighten the mood.

However, it was obvious that he failed to make a successful rescue. Instead, the air became heavier. Realizing that no one was catering to him, the spiky-headed boy could only smile and subconsciously took two steps forward. .

Although he didn't know the reason or what was going on, the only thing he was sure of was that the one-eyed girl who suddenly appeared must be one of the magicians.

Therefore, Kamijou Touma felt that he might be able to help in the conflict that might occur next. His right hand could not catch bullets or block guns, but it could only possess special attacks against supernatural powers. Effect.

only……

As if aware of Kamijou Touma's actions, the one-eyed girl dressed as a witch turned her head slightly and glanced at him indifferently.

The next moment, the pupils of the hedgehog-headed boy shrank suddenly. He found that without any warning, this girl had already arrived in front of him. She appeared in front of him very suddenly, and she seemed to be as natural as a girl. Stand there.

It is impossible to grasp the directionality at all, but one is warned: there is no need to perceive it.

Fear naturally struck his heart, and he watched helplessly as the slender white arm reached out and grabbed his right hand, and then...

Another hand suddenly appeared, grabbing the one-eyed girl's wrist as if to stop her.

"He is just a child..." the magician said with a smile, "Don't be so irritable. As a senior in life, you should be more tolerant to young people."

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"..."

Othinus was silent for a moment.

The next moment, nothing happened, and she couldn't help but frown, precisely because nothing happened.

All the phenomena that should have occurred have been offset.

"Don't be so irritable, what a big deal..." Xia Ran sighed, her tone seemed helpless, "Don't look at me like that, you can't stop what I want to do, and you can't stop what I want to do. There’s no way to do it.”

"...Hmph, arrogant!"

The one-eyed girl snorted, not even looking at the other people who were facing formidable enemies. She just stared at the person in front of her indifferently and calmly: "I am a person who has reached the realm of pure devil..."

"I know this. I even know who you are. You don't think I don't know about this, right?" The magician interrupted her directly and asked with a surprised look on his face: "What's there to brag about? Yes, wouldn’t it be enough if you have the skills to do this kind of thing?”

"..." Othinus choked for a moment, and then fell silent.

She looked at her held wrist and suddenly realized that dealing with this existence might be more troublesome than she imagined.

"Furthermore, the Demon God is not without its weaknesses. Not to mention that you who want to enter the world have to weaken yourself once. Let's just talk about you - you feel troubled and embarrassed because of certain characteristics of your own, right? ?”

Xia Ran said calmly.

"The infinite possibilities you have means that in the face of any kind of thing, you have the possibility of inevitable success or inevitable failure. No matter how much power you accumulate, you can only be 50/50. Even if you have the power to destroy the entire world in an instant, Even the power of the world has a half chance of losing when playing guessing games with children..."

The one-eyed girl couldn't help but frown: "What do you want to say?"

"Ahem, to be modest, I am very similar to you, but the infinite possibilities I have do not mean that I have to be 50/50 in everything I face, but as long as that possibility exists, I You will definitely be able to grasp the elements of victory..."

With a slight cough, Xia Ran said with a Versailles expression on her face very humbly:

"In infinite time, there are infinite monkeys typing, and they can always put together a "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" at a certain point in time. The infinite superposition of "infinity" and "probability" to the limit is exactly what I want ability……"

Having said this, he blinked: "So unfortunately, at least in terms of characteristics, I happen to be able to completely restrain you, because I will always win, and win again, and you have a half probability of losing every time. If you lose, you will naturally lose all the time..."

If other demon gods came to kick the team today, Xia Ran would also feel a headache. Although he could protect Kamijou Touma and others, he could only adopt a defensive strategy and could not take any initiative.

But it is Othinus, the demon who has not yet been freed from the dilemma caused by her own characteristics...

This can only be said to be that Xia Ran was lucky, while Othinus was a bit unlucky.

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"..."

The one-eyed girl remained silent. After a few seconds, the magician twitched his lips and said, "No need to try. It's the same no matter how many times you come. I can offset any of your actions. It's meaningless." of."

Even though nothing happened, even though nothing happened.

It looked like the two were in a stalemate, and then Othinus remained silent, as if he was thinking about something, that's all.

But in fact, Xia Ran has counteracted countless attacks from the one-eyed girl, and has fought against each other thousands of times, but no one can know about this, and there is no way to stop it when it should happen. After the phenomenon is neutralized, it is just captured using one's own perception.

"I thought we could have a good and peaceful conversation. Could it be that I was mistaken?"

Xia Ran sighed, let go of his palm, and took the lead in expressing his sincerity: "Speaking of which, how about negotiating a deal?"

"What deal?"

The one-eyed girl took a step back with a calm expression, rubbed her wrist with one hand, and asked.

Then, she saw the magician opposite raised his camera, and her eyebrows suddenly raised.

"Sorry, I'm used to it, it's not this... it's this." Xia Ran turned her wrist and took out a seemingly ordinary tarot card, and looked at the one-eyed girl in front of her with a smile.

In his heart, he felt that everything was ready now.

"The Hanged Man" is explained from mythological imagery, and its meaning is the god-king Odin in Nordic mythology. In Nordic mythology, Odin once hung upside down on a sacred tree in order to obtain the fountain of wisdom. After nine days and nine nights, he suffered many injuries. Stung by a spear, Lunas's wisdom was eventually exchanged for his left eye.

But coincidentally, when it comes to being hung up and stabbed with a spear, Christ also had the same experience, and Christ was also stabbed with a spear during his crucifixion. In order to confirm whether Christ was dead, the Roman soldier Longinus used The spear pierced the body of the Son of God who was hanging on the cross.

Whether it is Odin who gained wisdom or Christ who became the Messiah, the "hanged man" represents "the wisdom of God" and "the awakening of divinity."

Staring at Othinus in front of him, Xia Ran sighed with emotion that the key elements and the last link of his ascension ceremony were finally completed.

Now we just have to wait and see if this one-eyed girl will take the bait.