Uplifting Journey

The distortion of self-cognition came earlier than Sakura Kyoko expected.

Through the soul gem, she constantly receives the information of parallel individuals and other nodes of the time axis, and in an inadvertent trance, she completely lost herself——

sleeping, eating, walking, sitting

The confusion of perception and even memory, and the overlapping of countless different experiences made the red-haired girl forget what time she was before in a trance.

As if consciousness was completely separated from a single world and time point, Sakura Kyoko, whose soul was connected to the bodies of countless girls, completely lost the ability to perceive and think that humans should follow the flow of time.

The moment she completed her transformation, she almost collapsed because of the countless different thoughts bursting out from the depths of her heart.

What exactly is the definition of "I"? The girl who can't understand this problem can only try to live first.

Fortunately, the soul magic that dominates the mind can still work. Inspired by Wen Wen's touch, the girl who inexplicably learned something used her own power to clean up and restrict her thoughts, starting from the simplest counting and integrating herself bit by bit. confused consciousness.

How terrifying is the power that dominates the mind when it acts on oneself?

As long as the girl is willing, she can completely erase the abnormal appetite caused by long-term hunger, easily eliminate all irritability and impatience, drive herself to do everything she thinks she should do but can't persist, and even kill everything Extra "self".

In an unknown "time", after counting an unusually huge number, the girl finally managed to recover her full thinking ability, and then she was shocked by the dazzling vision of "in front of her eyes"——

In day and night, in clear sky and rainstorm, in various environments and times, the red-haired girl with long ponytail closed her eyes and clasped her hands, sitting quietly in the abandoned church, as if In silent prayer.

But Sakura Kyoko knew that she was just counting in her heart—it was also thanks to the magical power of the magical girl's body that she could move, and there would be no problems if she didn't drink or eat for a long time. The incubator's technology was still very reliable.

But after she gradually understood the status quo, she soon discovered that besides the mind, even the way to control her own body needs to be learned from scratch——

Normal people will not have any obstacles to follow the instinct to spend time moving their bodies, but she is different. She needs to perceive and control all the bodies on the axis for a certain period of time at the same time, and spend countless times of energy coordinating the bodies at different time points to complete a continuous movement. action.

It's like grabbing the middle of a line and changing its shape while maintaining continuity, otherwise, her body in the downstream of the time axis will experience a burst of soul tearing in her mind due to the distortion and feedback of time oscillations. Chaos and pain on an operational level.

Fortunately, other people and things on the time axis are basically a fixed context in her eyes, and she only needs to coordinate once at each point in time to control her body, and even if she doesn't control her body, she can't It is not impossible to influence her consciousness activities and let her body sit there.

However, the information she can perceive comes from the original perception of the body in each time segment. If she wants to obtain more information, she has to make countless herself act.

But before acting, Sakura Kyoko first controlled her own consciousness, and tried to spread her low-dimensional body to the upstream of the time axis, or in other words, to contact and confine more body perception memories that were not integrated in a unified way.

Theoretically speaking, she can touch her body at all time points after possessing the soul gem. In this way, as long as she goes back to an earlier point in time, she can find herself who has not yet broken up and stop the tragedy that made her desperate .

However, trying to spread towards the past, she found that there was no way ahead.

The self that should exist in theory and has been active as a magical girl for a long time has not appeared in front of Sakura Kyoko at all, as if she was born suddenly not long ago and "continued" her life naturally.

Feeling unbelievable, Sakura Kyoko turned her head to explore the future after many failed attempts. Soon, she encountered the same time gap as the past, like a dark abyss.

The seemingly magnificent world with a splendid history, in her eyes, is just a small space surrounded by boundless darkness, only about a month long.

Seeing that everything seems to be perfect but only a short time trajectory, Sakura Kyoko couldn't help feeling a little chilly in her heart. She increased her control over her body and searched deeply for those perceptions and memories that were deliberately suppressed in order to maintain the unity of consciousness. , trying to find other possibilities in the perception and memory of parallel individuals.

Fragments of memories and emotions are constantly impacting the girl's consciousness. In the experience as if she was on the scene, she saw herself who has always been raising witches alone, she saw herself learning from Asami Ba, and she saw Madoka Kame and her friend Mimi. Shu Sayaka became friends with himself.

At the same time, Sakura Kyoko, who was constantly absorbing information, also came into contact with something that made her feel complicated——

She saw the process of Miki Sayaka turning into a witch in a certain timeline, and saw the process of the powerful and mature Ba Mami having a mental breakdown because of her destined witch transformation, attacking and killing magical girls, and also in some fragments In the movie, I saw the Akami Homura who has the ability to travel through time and is constantly growing in multiple world lines

Some kind of deep premonition of danger made Sakura Kyoko dare not touch and control her own body in other world lines rashly. After watching the information she obtained, she continued to explore the upstream and downstream of the time axis.

Soon, she discovered that no matter which world line it is, there is no past or future at all.

"One month, this is exactly the same length of time as Xiao Meiyan's reincarnation. This fault must be inseparable from her."

The girl who turned her attention back to her original world line was about to control her body to go to the next city to look for the girl with long black hair and straight hair for observation, but when she started to control her body from the beginning of the fault, she suddenly found a Inexplicably overlooked problem -

Where did that woman named Wenwen who easily defeated her go?

That's someone who has had direct contact with me at the front end of the time period. Why can't I see her figure in the information summarized by the body feedback?

In a high-dimensional level that does not have the concept of time in the normal sense, Sakura Kyoko checked the feedback information of her body during the period of fighting with Wenwen, but found that the past timeline had already been counted by sitting in the church I covered it myself.

That is to say, as far as the body in the world is concerned, she has never been in contact with a person named Wenwen for a few months.

However, just after Sakura Kyoko remembered Wen Wen's existence, a piece of information emerged from the chaotic information fragments, and the girl was slightly startled when she saw it—this was indeed Wen Wen's message to her.

The content of the message is quite rich - Wen Wen gave the girl a detailed description of various points and precautions on the high-dimensional level, and then reminded:

".Since you have seen this message, it means that your consciousness has successfully stabilized at the core level of the soul gem. Thank you for your suffering. However, I don't think you want to go back to the way you used to drift in time, right?

"So please try to live in the possible distortion of the world line, and tell me what you saw and felt when I meet you again. This is very important to me and you magical girls "

"Is it important to us magical girls?" After reading this message, Sakura Kyoko sighed in her heart, "Is my form without a human figure still a magical girl?"

——If it weren’t for the magic of mind control, which could distort and modify one’s thinking and emotions at will, I’m afraid I would have died in the shock of countless emotions and memories of terrifying information.

——No, it should be said that the consciousness collapsed and turned into a witch, but I don’t know what kind of witch form I will become after touching more bodies, and at what point in time it will appear

The girl whose consciousness surpassed the time axis almost lost the sense of time in the perspective of only a static time slice. She only felt that she had sorted out the information and knowledge gathered, and the distortion of the world line mentioned by Wen Wen suddenly appeared. happened.

At the end of the timeline that lasted about a month, Sakura Kyoko’s body in the church suddenly felt a sense of palpitation and fear, and then this feedback quickly spread upstream of the timeline, sweeping the entire time before the girl could react. paragraph.

In the turmoil of time, Sakura Kyoko felt as if her soul had been torn into pieces. The bodies that had been sitting quietly in the church for a month changed their states at the same time, and scattered in the huge city with complex action trajectories.

In the confusion and pain where her consciousness was on the verge of collapsing, the girl felt a trace of warmth coming from an extremely distant place—as if her body was soaking in a hot spring that made her feel comfortable and relaxed, and what was exposed to the harsh wind was just her stretched body. part of the arm out of the water

In the next moment, it was as if some existence grabbed the arm and tore the amputated limb from the torso. The incomparable contrast and pain crushed the girl as a limb, and even her soul magic could hardly restrain the severed body. Pain and emptiness.

In a trance, she seemed to see two indescribably magnificent existences, and her powerless self was constantly falling into the abyss between the two, unable to see the whole picture.

The will tempered in the long counting and the impact of personality differences finally allowed the girl to survive.

Surrounded by spiritual magic, the girl who slowly regained her sanity from counting once again sighed as she looked at the timeline vision that seemed to have no change——

What happened before? Why do I have such a sense of loss in my heart, reminding Wen Wen, can I understand what I felt before?

Hopefully, she will really show up again.

Staring at herself who was silently praying at many points in time, Sakura Kyoko silently waited for new changes to appear in the river of time.

An instant, or ten thousand years? In the high-dimensional world where time has lost its meaning, the girl who waited silently recovered from the soul sting caused by the time shock that spread to the downstream body, and she turned her attention to the starting point of the time shock—it was still a month The length of the front end of the time period.

The body that controlled that time period opened her eyes and turned her head. Sakura Kyoko looked at the woman in black who appeared in front of the church gate, and said calmly, "You're here."

Looking at the calm girl in front of her, Wen Wen frowned slightly——

Back then, this red-haired girl had a wild face, full of vitality that was almost overflowing, but now, only ice-like calm remained on her face

Recalling the feeling when she came into contact with the quantum avatar cluster, Wen Wen shook her head, sat down beside the girl casually and said to her:

"Although I can understand the conceptual changes brought about by raising the dimension of vision, you still can't completely eliminate emotional activities, right? I should have mentioned in my message that such things as self-spiritual interference must revolve around Is it carried out by a clear core soul algorithm?"

Almost as soon as Wenwen's voice fell, the girl calmly answered, "I can't do the extremely precise digital analysis of the soul as you said, and the effect of controlling by feeling is very vague, so I can only suppress it first." Live the excess emotions, and when you get used to it and become proficient, you will try to control more.”

"Okay, as long as you know the importance," Wen Wen nodded, "Since your consciousness has extended to this timeline, you must have experienced the process of distorting the world line, right? I don't know your kind of high-dimensional vision Can you get some high-level information and describe to me how you feel?"

The red-haired girl who was still stuck in Wenwen's reply just as she finished speaking nodded and said, "Yes, but let me experiment first."

As soon as the other party finished speaking, Wen Wen suddenly found that the girl in front of her disappeared suddenly. She stared at her slightly changed position and body posture, then turned her head to look at the girl who was sensed by the speed sweeping field behind her, and asked a little strangely. : "You are not high-speed or teleportation, it can't be time-stop, right?"

"I just walked behind you normally," the red-haired girl shook her head, "I just started walking twenty seconds ago. I didn't expect you to react to the shock of the timeline at this point in time. Obviously It’s just a low-dimensional individual, but your existence on the time axis is really strange.”

Wenwen glanced at the description on the system panel, the passive effect "non-anchor body protection" of the built-in mode, then shrugged and said: "In the past, you should only see the light and shadow, temperature, Kinetic energy and all the physical changes related to me, but I am afraid that I cannot directly touch my body——

"That is to say, my body at other time points is just a phantom under the inertia of time, and my consciousness is only active on the anchored node."

"So, I have to keep changing the body I want to manipulate backwards to talk to you. It's really troublesome." Everything you and I felt before, in exchange, you can also answer some questions for me."

"Yeah." Wen Wen nodded in agreement, but then she turned her gaze to the side and signaled, "However, if you don't open the enchantment and use soul magic, is it okay to just tell me these things openly——

"I don't care, but do you really not mind being known by this guy about your current status?"

The red-haired girl followed Wen Wen's gaze and turned her head, and saw the white Chubby squatting aside, looking curiously at the two people who were interacting strangely.