A person is in Type-Moon, goes out, and then picks up an Outer God girl?

In response to this, Duanmu Ye very carefully placed Yang Yuhuan on his thigh while kneeling on one knee, so that her body could lie in his arms in a more comfortable posture.

He did not call Yang Yuhuan immediately. After confirming that Yang Yuhuan was fine, Duanmu Ye slowly raised his head and observed everything around him.

The cars that were completely paralyzed by the turbulence of magic were parked quietly on the street, emitting a little smoke, but no one came out to question what happened here.

Using common sense to infer anger and curiosity, even if people were not affected by the commotion just now, they would definitely be curious about what happened here. Human beings' tendency to gather in groups and follow the crowd always bring all kinds of troubles, but at this moment, it was extremely abnormal that nothing happened. Even among those scrapped Honda cars, none of the owners came down to question him.

"..."

Duanmu Ye silently handed Yang Yuhuan to Van Gogh who arrived later. Under her puzzled gaze, he walked towards the paralyzed black cars in the middle of the street.

Ever since crossing the Fuyuki Bridge, the landmark building of Fuyuki, Duanmu Ye always had an inexplicable sense of disharmony in this new capital, especially when faced with what he encountered at this moment. This feeling made Duanmu Ye feel unprecedented solemnity.

"Duanmu, be careful!"

suddenly!

Van Gogh's reminder sounded in Duanmu Ye's ears. The scream from behind seemed to be accompanied by some car horns and suddenly sounded in his ears. However, the sound of sudden brakes passed through Duanmu Ye's entire body under the dazzling high beam.

"???"

Duanmu Ye, who was trying to block the car, opened his eyes, which were dazed by the high beam, and witnessed the scene of the braking car passing through his body. Duanmu Ye suddenly looked behind him as if he realized something.

The Fuyuki Bridge, flashing with a red halo, seems to be a bridge to hell. Vehicles passing on it cannot tell whether the land under their feet is the source of hell, or the other side is the real hell.

I walked towards Fuyuki Bridge in silence, and the worry in my heart finally became a reality.

"Is it really a barrier..."

The wall touched by his fingers and palms was real, forming a stark contrast to the car that had just passed through him. This also confirmed that the person who was blocking him from entering this area at this moment was exiled in this completely inner world, losing all real connection with reality.

But who created this barrier?

Could it be Medea?

But if this was really a barrier created by Medea, how could it be composed of such magic? How could Van Gogh and I recognize it as absolutely familiar magic?

"Duan, Duanmu! Did you discover something?!"

Van Gogh came over breathlessly, carrying Yang Yuhuan, who was about the same height as himself, and jogging. The amount of exercise was more or less too much for a stay-at-home Servant like her.

But after witnessing Duanmu Ye's reactions one after another, Van Gogh seemed to realize that something was wrong and quickened his pace towards Duanmu Ye.

As Van Gogh behind him gradually approached, Duanmu Ye, who had lowered his hand from the barrier of the enchantment, shook his head slightly and spoke helplessly.

"It's a great magic trick. It seems the creator of this barrier must have made considerable preparations, both in terms of time and targeting. Any magician who breaks into this place—no, anyone who passes the screening of this barrier and possesses a certain level of magical power—will be trapped within it, becoming either the prey or the hunter trapped within this barrier, carrying out some unknown actions..."

"Wait, wait a minute, Duanmu... I don't really understand what the other world is, what is an unknown action?"

Van Gogh's head was dizzy. Although she could clearly understand the meaning of every word Duanmu Ye said, when they were connected together, it became a little difficult for Van Gogh to understand.

Her little head was filled with all kinds of inspiration, but she didn't have too much complex strategic thinking, so at this moment, there was only the purest confusion and doubt in her eyes.

Then she spoke again, asking questions with some uncertainty.

"Is that the girl named Katsushika Omi?"

"Do you know she's a woman?"

Duanmu Ye was a little surprised. The urgent task of finding Yang Yuhuan had come to an end because of Yang Yuhuan's sudden appearance. There was no sign of Saber, who she had described in her previous call for help. Apart from the phantoms of vehicles and pedestrians in the surface world, Duanmu Ye could not see any trace of any other real people.

But at this moment, he admitted that he had a little doubt about the Van Gogh in front of him. After all, he had never mentioned Katsushika Hokusai's specific identity in front of Van Gogh, and he had just revealed his name. If one could judge Katsushika Hokusai's real name based solely on this name, then Duanmu Ye would be more likely to accept the explanation that the Van Gogh in front of him actually came from Chaldea, rather than being directly thrown down from the hands of the Outer Gods.

But it is obvious that imagination is beautiful and reality is cruel. Neither Van Gogh nor Yang Yuhuan in front of him can be the former, but only the latter. It is impossible for them to know Katsushika Osamu...

Seeing this, Van Gogh was a little embarrassed, but he still gave an extremely frank explanation.

"Do you remember when you just came back and I told you I had a dream? Although I regained consciousness later, at the beginning of that dream, my body seemed to be out of control and I was taking care of a girl with Lady Yang Yuhuan... But when I was able to recover, that girl and you, Duanmu, had disappeared..."

Van Gogh's words made Duanmu Ye understand. This explanation was enough to explain that the dream created by Katsushika Hokusai was not just for him, and this made Duanmu Ye even more uneasy.

If there was no little Byager at that time, would he, Van Gogh, and Yang Yuhuan all become part of Cthulhu's dream and be dominated by him?

Octopus, Goat, and Carnival: Chapter 5: The other world, the Colosseum where people fight without any worries!

"Damn it, where did this blind bastard come from? He's trying to kill himself!"

The man pushed open the car door aggressively. The smoke produced by the friction on the wheels during the sudden braking made him cough uncontrollably.

But when he looked around on the bridge, he did not find any signs of an accident. Even the hood of his car, which should have been dented because of knocking someone down, seemed to be nothing happened. It just stayed there quietly, emitting the roar of the engine.

"Could it be that I encountered a ghost?"

The man's face flickered. After a long silence, he hurriedly got back into the car and left the scene at full throttle.

Immediately afterwards, a red figure fell from the bridge, and the girl with twin ponytails who fell from his arms gently stroked the remaining part after the car left.

"What do you think, Archer? That's where the guy in yellow disappeared."

The girl looked at the tall man behind her and stood there, ignoring the cars coming and going around her. It seemed that she was relying on the sparse crowds caused by the heavy rain at the moment, with only a very small number of cars passing by occasionally.

In response, the red Archer spoke calmly after a long silence.

"I assassinated him not long ago. His reflexes were far superior to those of ordinary people. I can confirm that he was one of the participants in this Holy Grail War."

Archer closed his eyes, his white hair fluttering in the wind. The rain could not wet any part of his body, nor could it make him reveal more information.

"You've acted without authorization again, Archer! The Holy Grail War is conducted in secret, no matter what. Even after the disasters of ten years ago, the Holy Grail War is on the verge of being banned by the United Nations. Perhaps this will be the last one!"

Facing the girl's question, Archer remained silent. After waiting for a long time, he opened one eye, looked sideways at the girl below, and spoke softly.

"Didn't your father ever tell you that the Holy Grail, which took only ten years to be filled, had something fishy going on from the start?"

Archer's words clearly made the girl swallow whatever she wanted to say next. She turned around with her hands folded in anger and crushed a few blue gems.

"If it's true, as Master Juro and my father said, that this new capital has become a forbidden place for magicians, and that even after the Holy Grail War begins, then the fact that this place is a forbidden place for magicians is even more concerning than the fact that the Holy Grail was filled in ten years!"

Toosaka Rin spoke quietly, crushing another red gem while speaking. She felt the magic power of the blue gem that made her body light spread throughout her body, and with the magic power of the red gem that amplified her body, her eyes were extremely firm.

"I've been through hellish training to become a Master of the Holy Grail War! If this place is truly a forbidden area for magicians, then it must be hiding some unknown secret!"

Rin Toosaka naturally has her own little thoughts, which only she knows and have been haunting her for 10 years.

Ten years ago, when she was still an elementary school student, she had faced an unforgettable nightmare, but that nightmare was soothed by someone in a very short time. She no longer dreamed of the weirdo with bulging eyes and the crazy yellow hair, but the smile of the man in yellow clothes kept echoing in her mind, again and again. In the yellow house, she was by his side, feeling extremely safe.

However, that kind of peace of mind disappeared with the disappearance of the yellow house. Even though she wanted to find the yellow house hidden in the residential area based on her memory, no matter whether she went to look for it in person or took a helicopter to look down from high altitude, there was no yellow color appearing in the residential area which was only made of gray concrete.

Even the memory of that figure was gradually fading, as if she had forgotten something. Even though she would not feel relieved that she had forgotten such a thing, her memory of those days had been fading every day in the past ten years. She could only reinforce her memory of that person and those people again and again through the diary she wrote and the promises she had made.

A tall man in yellow and a petite orange-haired girl, as vague as characters that existed only in a dream, caused Rin Tousaka constant torment. Even her own father had forgotten the name of the man who made the promise, and the name of the girl who followed him...

Toosaka Rin is not convinced by this abnormal amnesia. She wants to find that person and ask him face to face what the purpose of the torture day after day for the past 10 years is, what is the meaning, or is it that there is no meaning at all, and it is just to torture her and make her remember clearly all the things she suffered in her childhood?

Even when she had just entered high school, she learned from her father that she would be participating in the Fifth Holy Grail War as the head of the Tosaka family. On the same day, she overheard a conversation between her father and her teacher, Kotomine Juro, in which he said that the renovation of the Shinto district had been completed, and as long as there was an eighth class in the next Holy Grail War, or some other special Servant broke into it, there would be no possibility of leaving, and only the head of the Tosaka family could enter and exit at will.

Toosaka Rin didn't know what the thing was that could confirm whether the other person was the head of the family, but since that day, she felt a little curious about the Shinto District, which was strictly prohibited from visiting. For a period of time, she even had an extremely strong intuition that the person she was looking for was in the Shinto District!

At this moment, although she was not sure whether the man who disappeared completely at the end of Fuyuki Bridge was the one she was looking for, after all, there were countless men wearing yellow raincoats coming and going in this rainy day, and she had even recognized the wrong person more than once in the past 10 years, so she did not have much hope this time.

But with what Archer said just now, Toosaka Rin had a little bit of faith, believed in her own intuition, that the man in yellow who disappeared here must be the person she was looking for!

"Let's go Archer, that person is very important to me and I need your help!"

After performing a series of self-amplification operations, countless gem fragments were scattered at Toosaka Rin's feet. Those gems that were priceless in the eyes of others were now like magic props that could be found everywhere in Toosaka Rin's hands, and she used them easily and without any worries.

Archer, who still turned a blind eye to Rin Toosaka, sighed slightly helplessly. He knew very well that at this moment, Rin Toosaka was a real young lady, and her contact with him would only be in the later part of the Holy Grail War.

With this thought in mind, Archer looked up at the brightly lit new capital before him. Although in his eyes, this city was no different from the old capital across the river, in fact, if a magus or Servant with a slightly keener perception got closer, they would definitely detect something unusual.

Of course, this kind of feeling is limited to those who are extremely sensitive to the flow of magic energy. If it is Berserker, who has lost his mind, then there is absolutely no way he can detect it...

Although everyone's memories of this place were fragmented for some reason, Archer knew that this was the main battlefield of the Holy Grail War. Even if Rin chose to enter it on her own initiative at this moment, it was still fate. And it seemed that the self in this time and space would also be dragged into the Holy Grail War in an inexplicable event...

Archer couldn't help but look helpless at this, and with a sigh, he indifferently accepted the reality that no matter which time and space he was in, he would be inexplicably involved in the Holy Grail War. However, what made Archer a little concerned was that when he responded to the call of the restraining force and came here, he did not receive the memories about himself given by the Holy Grail and the restraining force.

It was clearly a memory I was bound to get, and I should have known the possible future of my own timeline immediately, but the content about my own timeline seemed to have been deliberately erased, leaving no clue or conclusion, not even an ending...

"Archer! What are you still doing there?"

Toosaka Rin's voice suddenly appeared, interrupting Archer's thoughts. Archer, who had always been indifferent to his future, naturally let go of his thoughts. Even though he still cared a little, these things seemed unimportant to him who had already given up everything and become the agent of restraint. He just followed Rin's actions and did what he should do.

For example... erasing the existence of that man in yellow and the root cause of the changes in this world...

The two seemingly identical missions had vastly different threat levels. Archer didn't think these threat levels would be very alarming when he was put to use. After all, if it really was a planetary disaster, it would have been handed over to someone more qualified for the job. How could a guy like him with no future be given the job?

Thinking of this, Archer couldn't help but find it a little funny. A person who didn't have any future at all would actually think about his own future...

Archer thought, maybe he's been here too long, and he's a little too bored to think about these things...

Following Toosaka Rin's footsteps, he strolled towards the end of the Fuyuki Bridge. The feeling of passing through some kind of membrane suddenly made him alert. He subconsciously threw the Gan Jiang Moye that appeared in his hand behind him, but then he lost contact with the Gan Jiang Moye he had thrown out. He and Toosaka Rin suddenly appeared at a port many kilometers away from the Fuyuki Bridge. It was as if he had entered a completely different world!

The thrown Gan Jiang and Moye almost brushed past Duanmu Ye's steps and came to the end of Fuyuki Bridge lightly. Hokusai Katsushika, who stopped there, suddenly dodged to the side, and the shining black and white swords were like a huge boomerang, brushing past its body.

Discovered? !

Hokusai's eyes widened, but he still frowned and looked towards the end of the Fuyuki Bridge, the direction leading to the new capital, just like Duanmu Ye and Archer before him. He couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

How could it be here?

Wouldn't that mean we're back to square one?!

Even with this sigh in his heart, Hokusai, after using a spell that blurred his own understanding, chose to sneak into this barrier constructed entirely by special magic, heading to the place where he and Katsushika Ou were summoned together...

Just as Hokusai drifted into the inner world of this dark city, a lamb appeared at the end of Fuyuki Bridge in the outer world. It fixed its gaze on the spot where many people had stopped before. Its unmoving body seemed to be observing something, but no one noticed its presence...

......

"You mean to say that you saw a Servant wielding a sword, wreaking havoc in this city?"

"But how did you think I would be here?"

Duanmu Ye was a little puzzled. He was indeed swept away by the crowd and ended up on a street he had no impression of. There, he first met the Foreigner Servant, Katsushika Yingwei, who he should have met during this Holy Grail War.

However, his disappearance should have occurred in the commercial and residential areas. How could he have crossed the Fuyuki Bridge and come to the area belonging to Shinto?

You know, it takes an hour to walk to these two places. Since they are quite far away from each other, it is impossible to get here just by being carried by the crowd.

Yang Yuhuan, who had just woken up from her coma, was silent for a while before she pursed her lips and spoke with some difficulty.

"I had a dream. I dreamed that I had been staying in the yellow house we were in at the beginning. Then, for some reason, my body started moving uncontrollably. When I woke up, I found myself on an unfamiliar street. As soon as I walked out, I saw a guy with a sword slaughtering people who looked not much different from missionaries..."

"Wait, what did you say?"

Duanmu Ye was stunned. He could tell that the dream created by Katsushika Hokusai was not just aimed at him, but also at Van Gogh and Yang Yuhuan.

But Yang Yuhuan's dream was obviously incomplete. After having such a dream, she suddenly appeared in Xindu, which was located across the Dongmu Bridge more than ten kilometers away from the commercial district?

Duanmu Ye, who found it baffling no matter how hard he tried, quickly grasped some key points in Yang Yuhuan's words. For example, she was walking along the street where he might have met Katsushika Yingwei. For example, the Servant holding a sword, the Servant who looked like Saber, was not slaughtering normal humans, but people dressed like missionaries...

Are there missionaries in Fuyuki City?

Isn't the Saber of this Holy Grail War Altria? The infamous Saber, who used a pseudonym to fight an entire Holy Grail War single-handedly? How could she, how could she, possibly, massacre missionaries?

Duanmu Ye admitted that he had underestimated the extent of the chaos during this period. If he hadn't actually fought Nyar Rhathotep, he would have seriously suspected that Nyar Rhathotep, still alive, had been laying the groundwork for a decade, using the power of the Outer Gods to construct a cage specifically for him atop the rebuilt New Capital, a "Roman Colosseum" specifically for him...

"It seems that there are more important things to do than chasing after the missing Saber..."

"Eh? Something more important?"

Yang Yuhuan, who had managed to fly high into the sky by sending the Maid of Flame flying into the air in advance and then catching the Fire Escape, felt a sense of relief at this moment, but faced with Duanmu Ye's response at this moment, she couldn't help but feel puzzled.

Van Gogh answered first.

"Do you still remember the dream we all had? The girl in the dream is the key to leaving this other world... Duanmu meant that we must first find her and find out why this place exists... So compared to that Servant, finding the girl named Katsushika Yingwei is more important!"

As Van Gogh explained more and more seriously, Yang Yuhuan nodded slightly, and Duanmu Ye, who had already taken action, came to an intersection that was not particularly far from them, nor was it particularly close, and quietly observed the shadows of the people passing by.

Although in this false inner world, apart from the authenticity of the buildings which remain to be confirmed, both the cars and the crowds are projections of the surface world, that is, false existences, a battle here would not cause too many casualties. It is for this reason that Duanmu Ye does not think that this is entirely the work of Nia Ratotep, at least not entirely.

After all, if it really was Nyar-Latotep, then there was no way he'd consider the existence of ordinary people. Instead, for the sake of a more interesting scene, he'd project the extent of the damage done to the phantom onto reality. Even if the phantom in the inner world was harmed, the outer world would definitely see some feedback...

Just as Duanmu Ye was looking around, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a sight that had not appeared in his perception. A ball of white appeared in the world dominated by dimness, which completely attracted Duanmu Ye's body and mind!