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Chapter 1194 Birds of a feather flock together (The wind was so strong today that it almost blew my bike over)

An and Qian Shu have the same personality, and they both do what they say, so Duanmu Huai had no choice but to take her to the coffee shop the next day due to her pestering.

"Huh? This child is Takina, um...that's it...hehehe, it's really interesting."

Looking at the black straight line in front of her, An opened her eyes wide and looked around her several times with curious eyes. Faced with Ann's unabashed stare and consideration, Takina seemed a little uneasy.

 “Well, um, who is this...?”

“Ah, my name is An, and you must be Inoue Takina. Please give me some advice when we meet for the first time.”

 “Ah, it’s……”

 “How is it? He is a very honest, cute and obedient good boy.”

Qianzhu next to her poses proudly, "This is my wife, she's very beautiful, isn't she?"... By the way, who are you showing this pride to?

"Oh, she is indeed very honest and cute, making people want to tease her. Ah, from this point of view, she is almost the same as Gu Leiya, but it is a pity that Gu Leiya is not here..."

 “Is she similar to Takina?”

“They have very similar personalities. They are both well-behaved, but very strong children.”

"Ah, I understand, I understand. On the surface, he seems to be obedient, but in fact he is very independent and persistent, right?"

 “That’s right, that’s it…”

Looking at the two people chatting happily with a confused expression, Takina blinked, and then looked at Duanmu Huai next to her.

 “Um, please tell me this is...”

"Just pretend you didn't see it and go do what you have to do. These two people go crazy when they get together. I'm used to it."

Duanmuhuai drank coffee silently and looked at the news on his mobile phone, pretending that it had nothing to do with him.

"Aha………"

Perhaps Takina also judged that this was not a situation that she could intervene in, so she just sighed and went back to the counter to continue her work. After a while, a guest came to the door, Qian Shu was busy greeting him, and An Cai, who had just finished chatting, reluctantly returned to Duanmu Huai's side.

“Oh, Qian Shu is such a cute child, Mr. Knight, have you ever thought about letting her join the Tribunal? I think she will get along well with her.”

 “It’s impossible, don’t think about it.”

 “Hey? Why?”

 “Because she doesn’t know how to kill.”

Facing An's question, Duanmu Huai gave a decisive answer. In fact, he had considered similar questions before, but after talking to Qian Shu, Duanmu Huai gave up the idea. The reason is simple, that is, Qian Shu is unwilling to kill anyone no matter who he is, she says she doesn’t like to take away the other person’s time. So this is why Qianzhu has always used non-lethal bombs.

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai decisively gave up the idea. If the three views were different, there would be no way to talk. It's okay if you don't kill ordinary people, but what the Tribunal has to deal with are heretics who believe in evil gods and are full of blood. Keeping such people is a disaster, and since Qian Shu is so determined not to kill people, recruiting her into the Tribunal is simply a waste of time. Asking for trouble.

You don’t even dare to kill anyone, so what’s the use of entering the court of justice?

 “Oh, what a pity……”

 Hearing Duanmuhuai explain the reason, An also sighed with some disappointment.

“I still thought that if Qian Shu could enter the Inquisition, we would become good friends.”

 “Won’t Gulea be jealous?”

"Probably not...hahahaha...after all, I won't play tricks on her."

That is, if you two get together, you will harm others.

 “So? What’s the progress of your plan?”

Duanmu Huai glanced at the coffee shop. It was not lunch break yet, and there was no one else in the coffee shop except them, so there was nothing to be taboo about.

“Woo...it’s difficult, to be honest, it’s very difficult. Everyone still thinks the best way is to use QB’s wishing system..."

 “It’s impossible, just give up on this idea.”

 Duanmuhuai directly rejected the proposal.

“I guess so, then what’s left is... Miss Ellie’s plan.”

 “Ai Li?”

“Yes, she said that she can imitate the Holy Grail system, reset the entire magical girl network, and transform it into a situation similar to the possession of a heroic spirit. This process should be reversed to a certain extent.”

“Heroic spirits of the Holy Grail system... I remember, don’t heroic spirits need the magic power provided by the MASTER to stay in the world?”

"Yes, but Miss Ellie said that there is another technique, which is that the heroic spirit takes the initiative to descend into the human world. After merging with humans, it can appear in the human world, but it has very high requirements for the possessed person. It must have a wavelength Consistent with this, only those with a certain level of magic power can carry out soul possession. Although the souls of these magical girls have been taken out, their bodies are still in the world and are maintained well by magic power. They are not physically destroyed like heroic spirits. Theoretically, using the method of possession by heroic spirits, the souls of magical girls should be able to return to their own bodies - after all, they are originally their own bodies, so there should be no problem with coordination. What about the shortcomings?”

"It should shorten the lifespan... As for whether she will turn into a witch because of this, it's hard to say. After all, there is still a difference between the two. Although according to Miss Ellie, Chaldea has been studying the third The embodiment of the three methods and the Holy Grail system, but there is no Holy Grail and spiritual veins in this world, so whether it can be applied is also a question. "

“So we still need to do an experiment? That’s no problem. We happen to have a white mouse here. If it’s not enough, we can just go to Kamihama City to catch a few more.”

“Mr. Knight, your words sound like a villain.”

“It’s been such a long time, do you still think that the Inquisition is not a just organization?”

 “That’s not what I meant...”

 An pouted her lips, looking unhappy.

 “But we are also fighting for humanity, aren’t we? I think we can do better.”

 “This is your problem, not mine.”

 Duanmuhuai spread his hands.

"There is no such thing as the best of both worlds in the world. You have given us a solution, but this solution needs to be verified through experiments, so we need guinea pigs - and the nature of this experiment also determines that we can only find magical girls to do this little experiment." Rat, so what? You mean, we shouldn't arrest people, but persuade them to voluntarily participate in this experiment? Don't forget, we also need a control group."

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Hearing this, An stopped talking. She also understood what Duanmu Huai meant.

 In fact, to put it bluntly, this is like a moral dilemma.

This is like saying that someone has developed a drug that can treat advanced cancer. So how to test whether this drug is really effective? Of course there are clinical trials, and in clinical trials the placebo effect is very important. The so-called placebo effect is to give patients ineffective pills without informing them, and then compare them with a group of patients taking anti-cancer drugs to determine whether the patient's feeling that his body has improved is due to a psychological effect or a drug effect.

This is not a meaningless experiment, because there are experiments showing that there are indeed cases of mind control of the body. Take painkillers as an example. Doctors have done similar experiments before, that is, first causing pain to the patient and then injecting it into the patient. After taking painkillers for several days, the painkillers were replaced with saline solution on the last day and injected without informing the patient.

 A miracle happened - even though it was just normal saline, the patient still felt the same as the injection of painkillers.

Of course, you can do this with ordinary drugs, but what about patients with advanced cancer?

If you do this, it means you have to sit back and watch the people in the control group die. Because the control group received a placebo that had no effect and was not a real anti-cancer drug. So in theory, if this anti-cancer drug is really effective, it means that doctors have given up the possibility of curing half of the patients.

The same is true for magical girls. Even if the plan proposed by Ellie is very feasible, Duanmu Huai still needs mice to be the control group. Even a little cruel, he still needs to look at the magical girls who have been transformed into heroic spirits and the magical girls who have not been transformed into heroic spirits. What will it look like after the magic disappears, and what impact will it have on the world?

Although Ai Li's plan seems to be perfect at the moment, what if there are any additional risks that she and others have not thought of?

 So from this perspective, magical girls are just guinea pigs, which is neither humane nor just. Admittedly, Duanmuhuai might be able to convince some magical girls to join voluntarily, but he had no expectations for this.

  After all... fools who can be fooled by QB's few words, who knows what they can do.

So just hide it from them completely and do it to the end. Anyway, the Tribunal is not justice, and it does not care about human rights and humanity. For the Tribunal, as long as it can maintain the continuation of mankind, everything else is not important, plus the trial Courts do not need to rule anyone, so they do not need to be as particular about means and style as rulers.

These things are necessary for a ruler to rule a country or a civilization, but the Inquisition is just a tool that needs to complete its established mission.

 Since it is a tool, it does not matter how it is used. You can use this knife to chop people, chop vegetables, and smash garlic. It can also be used to cut sealed tapes, or make handmade paper paintings. It doesn't matter.

Anyway, for Duanmu Huai, if it doesn't work, he will blow up the entire magical girl network. With this back-up, he really has nothing to worry about.

An actually knew this very well. After all, she was the princess of Manalia, and it was not unheard of for her to encounter similar situations in politics that required making choices and sacrifices.

 So although An’s character is lively and innocent, she will still be serious when she should be serious.

Just like the original fate of the fragments of the world of Manalia - even in that future, Ann and Gulea still have deep feelings, but for the sake of Manalia and her people, she resolutely chose to be with her friend Confrontation and a fight to the death.

From this point of view, although Ann likes to play, she still has a clear mind when it's time to take action.

This is also the difference between An and Qian Shu. The latter... well, Duanmu Huai thinks that if she encounters such a situation, she will definitely not make up her mind so easily.

“Then, should we choose Mitakihara as the experimental location?”

“Step by step, first look at the situation of the white mouse. If there is no problem, expand the scale. Just in time, we can also compare it with Kamihama City.”

“You mean the system in Kamihama City that can release something like a witch? To be honest, I’m quite interested in that system, but it’s not without risks.”

"Oh, is it so?"

"Of course, according to what you said, Mr. Knight, Kamihama City's system is that magical girls turn themselves into witches for a short period of time to eliminate filth. Maybe this is no problem at first, but if the filth is eliminated frequently, will there be some kind of problem? What about an unknown influence? I have read about a similar situation in the book. There is a brave man who has the blood of a dragon and can use the power of the dragon to fight. But gradually, as he uses his power more and more frequently, he also As he got closer and closer to the dragon, scales began to appear on his skin, his teeth turned into fangs, and his temper began to become violent. Eventually, he completely lost his human sanity and turned into a giant dragon. "

 “Well, that’s certainly a problem.”

Hearing An's answer, Duanmuhuai touched his chin and nodded.

 “Perhaps I should find a chance to experiment.”