After hearing Miyauchi Hikage's suggestion, Shinomiya Kaguya quickly sent a suggestion in the group for several girls to return from the Metaverse as soon as possible.
Shinomiya Kaguya's words still had certain authority in the group.
At the same time, after she said that all this was sensed by Miyauchi Hikage using his power of fate, the credibility of these words became even higher.
It was just that a few minutes after she sent this passage and @ the girls exploring in the Metaverse, Ichinose Chizuru, as the leader, finally sent a reply in the group.
Mizuhara Chizuru: "When we were preparing to leave, we received a reminder from the Otherworld Navigation APP, saying that if we leave directly, the 'Temporary Palace' might collapse prematurely. My Shadow is still inside. If the palace collapse affects my Shadow, maybe something unexpected will happen. I have let the others leave, and I am the only one staying here temporarily."
According to both Sudou Ayami and the Mysterious Person, the Metaverse was where the collective unconsciousness of all people living in Tokyo was stored. Although a large part of the Shadows inside were subconscious Shadows that wouldn't have any impact even if beaten to death directly, there were also many Shadows of real people that were not so aggressive.
These Shadows of real people could be communicated with directly. As long as no hostility was shown in front of the other party, except for always having some dark thoughts in their heads, their behavior was no different from normal people.
Of course, the most important thing was that killing these Shadows would directly reflect on the real people in reality.
Killing these Shadows would most likely turn that person into a vegetable without consciousness in reality, or even die directly.
Therefore, seeing such news from the Otherworld APP, Ichinose Chizuru really didn't dare to leave this place directly.
Mizuhara Chizuru: "And I can also feel that this space full of mirrors seems to have a lot of connection with me. I feel that as long as I can solve the puzzle here, I can see my own Shadow."
It could be seen that Ichinose Chizuru's emotions were also a bit nervous now.
After all, she just wanted to figure out the situation of her Shadow at the beginning to improve her acting skills.
How did it suddenly become like this?
And those other girls exploring in the Metaverse tried to see if they could return to that strange space after leaving the Metaverse.
The answer was yes.
It seemed that as long as there were still people inside that place called "Temporary Palace" by the mobile APP, this space could continue to be maintained.
Kasumi Utako: "Let's study it again. I feel that there should be some puzzle-solving elements in it. We have to solve the puzzle to proceed to the next step."
Anyway, there was nothing to do in these few days after the exam, so staying in the Metaverse longer didn't matter much.
Ichinose Chizuru was a college student, so it didn't matter if she didn't appear at school for a few days.
"Temporary Palace? Another brand new term. I don't know what a real 'Palace' looks like, and I haven't heard about it from the Mysterious Person," Shinomiya Kaguya muttered, then turned to look at Miyauchi Hikage, wanting to know what he thought currently.
Miyauchi Hikage certainly knew what a Palace was.
Those people with twisted desires in the Metaverse might give birth to a Palace in the Metaverse according to their twisted desires. This could also be considered a special domain or small world born attached to the Metaverse.
Miyauchi Hikage had almost turned the entire Metaverse upside down with Tohru in the past half month. They farmed a lot of money and items, but searched everywhere without finding a Palace formed by twisted desires.
He originally thought that this newly generated Metaverse hadn't hatched the existence of Palaces yet.
Unexpectedly, he actually encountered a so-called Temporary Palace on Ichinose Chizuru's side. It was really curious how this came about.
After all, no matter how you look at it, the desires in Ichinose Chizuru's heart shouldn't be twisted into a Palace in the Metaverse.
And the term "Temporary Palace" also sounded a bit strange.
"After all, the Metaverse is a unique small world. Unless I can personally contact that Miss Ichinose, I can't figure out the situation of that world."
Listening to Miyauchi Hikage's words, Shinomiya Kaguya quickly thought of letting Katsura Kotonoha, who was using Shiina Mashiro's phone to enter the Metaverse, come back, and then let Miyauchi Hikage go in with the phone.
But thinking about it, if Miyauchi Hikage went in alone without any contact method, it would probably be difficult for him to find people in such a big Metaverse.
Although Kasumigaoka Utaha could also do this kind of thing, Shinomiya Kaguya wouldn't give the opportunity to lead the way to that woman.
"There is actually another phone in the hands of another girl. I'll go borrow it now, then let Katsura Kotonoha come back, and then I'll take you to the Metaverse to have a look."
Shinomiya Kaguya had always maintained certain attention on the girls whose identities were exposed in the group.
Actually, not only the girls in the group, basically as long as they were characters mentioned by the Mysterious Person in the diary, she would pay more or less attention.
Before Kisugi Ai exposed herself, Shinomiya Kaguya actually had some understanding of the information about the three Kisugi sisters. It was just because the other party was a phantom thief and part of a protagonist team, so she didn't do anything to this Cat's Eye phantom thief.
Now that the other party had become her group member, Shinomiya Kaguya naturally wouldn't make a move on them anymore.
And she was also actively helping Kisugi Ai inquire about information.
She naturally knew about Cat's Eye's operation tonight.
It was just that it wasn't time yet, and the three sisters should still be preparing for the operation.
Under Shinomiya Kaguya's instruction, Miyauchi Hikage took Shinomiya Kaguya directly to the outside of the Cat's Eye Cafe with a wave of teleportation.
"Cat's Eye Cafe... and it's opened right opposite the police station. It's ridiculous that it hasn't been noticed until now."
Looking at the Cat's Eye Cafe opened opposite the police station, which gathered intelligence through policemen consuming here today, Miyauchi Hikage couldn't help complaining softly.
And Shinomiya Kaguya was still there feeling the taste of teleportation just now.
It was more than twenty kilometers from Miyauchi Hikage's home to this place. Even if she had Psychokinesis now and could fly in the sky, it would take a few minutes to rush over.
Due to ability limitations, her maximum flight speed wasn't actually fast. Sprinting with full force was only two hundred kilometers per hour and it didn't last long, maintaining for ten minutes at most.
Wanting to achieve longer endurance, a speed of about thirty or forty kilometers per hour was the limit under normal circumstances.
It was just that when flying, one could go straight to the destination according to the shortest straight-line distance.
On Miyauchi Hikage's side, having the teleportation ability saved much more trouble.
In less than 5 seconds, Miyauchi Hikage, who determined the location, directly teleported with her to the vicinity of the destination.
"What a convenient ability," Shinomiya Kaguya exclaimed.
Although she knew Miyauchi Hikage possessed the teleportation ability a long time ago, today was the first time she experienced this feeling personally.
"It looks convenient, but actually the consumption is much larger than you imagine," Miyauchi Hikage frankly stated the magic power consumption of this power.
"If it's only a distance of a few thousand meters, it's easy to say. Using it ten times in a row is no problem. But if the distance exceeds ten kilometers, the consumption starts to increase. Wanting to teleport to a location more than thirty kilometers away at once, basically two or three times can drain the magic power in my body. It is also a considerable test for my own spirit, so I usually don't use this ability much myself."
"So if I don't encounter any urgent matters, I won't remember this ability of mine myself."
Miyauchi Hikage said so, and then signaled Shinomiya Kaguya to go to Kisugi Ai to borrow the phone.
The negotiation with Kisugi Ai was simple.
Before coming, Shinomiya Kaguya had already communicated simply with Kisugi Ai on the phone.
Kisugi Ai, who had an operation tonight, was still doing the final debugging on the modified Spider-Suit that was more in line with the Cat's Eye style.
Now Kisugi Ai's room was entangled with various spider silks, and few suitable places to stand could be found.
And Kisugi Ai, wearing the Cat's Eye style Spider-Suit, was standing upside down on the ceiling adapting to this feeling.
Honestly, being able to adhere to walls, shoot tough spider silk that would dissolve automatically, and having decent self-defense attack capabilities—using this function on them phantom thieves was really a bit of a waste of talent.
To explain the source of this suit, Kisugi Ai thought of many reasons.
Fortunately, whether it was the material, energy source, or spider silk of the suit, corresponding knowledge was given to her when she obtained this reward, making her become a master in these fields instantly, proficient in various theories.
Plus she did have contact with Dr. Agasa recently. Guiding the source of the Spider-Suit to Dr. Agasa barely allowed her to muddle through.
Currently, this suit was used by her. Perhaps in the future, the core of Cat's Eye's operations would shift from her second sister to her little by little because of this suit.
As for the changes in the Metaverse tonight, although she was a little worried, she couldn't spare time to explore as she had a Cat's Eye operation soon.
Now that Shinomiya Kaguya wanted to take Miyauchi Hikage, who had been mentioned many times by the Mysterious Person, to the Metaverse, she felt this could be considered a solution.
After also expressing envy for the teleportation ability, Kisugi Ai handed her phone to Shinomiya Kaguya.
"Be careful in the Metaverse."
Shinomiya Kaguya also smiled and nodded to Kisugi Ai: "You Cat's Eye too. Don't fail instead after getting the Spider-Suit."
Although even if they really failed, the combat power of the Spider-Suit could easily take down an army alone.
The Spider-Suit belonged to the kind of item that became more useful the faster one's reaction speed was.
Ordinary people holding it would probably just climb walls and use spider silk as a simple means of attack.
Without a bit of reaction power and ability to withstand blows, even with AI assistance, normal people wouldn't dare to swing webs among skyscrapers like Spider-Man.
After chatting with Kisugi Ai for a few sentences, Shinomiya Kaguya returned to Miyauchi Hikage under Kisugi Ai's gaze. Finally, under a faint light, the two disappeared in front of her again.
"Miyauchi Hikage is really mysterious," Although Kisugi Ai didn't talk directly to Miyauchi Hikage, from the figure of the other party staying in the shadows all the time, she inexplicably felt that this person Miyauchi Hikage seemed to hide many secrets.
But she didn't think too much.
He was almost special-grade and had so many other abilities. Not only could he sense the changes in the Metaverse, but even the Mysterious Person had suffered losses under his ability. It was normal for such a person to have some secrets.
...
Katsura Kotonoha returned to reality with a slightly embarrassed look.
It seemed she failed to awaken a Persona in the Metaverse.
According to her own words, she had a little feeling when she just entered the Metaverse, but unfortunately, she didn't grasp that feeling, and she never felt it again later.
"Recognizing one's own heart is indeed not that easy. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future; don't rush." Shinomiya Kaguya herself hadn't awakened a Persona, and hadn't even felt that vague feeling.
However, at this time, she naturally had to go over to comfort Katsura Kotonoha and obtain clearer intelligence from her at the same time.
Soon, more complete information was known.
But this information was actually meaningless.
In a dead end of the Metaverse, there was a strange node. The railway tracks on the ground entered that node somewhat twistedly.
After discussion, their group decided to enter that node to investigate.
Finally, they ran to that weird world full of various mirrors.
Their group didn't dare to act rashly and just stayed at the entrance of that world to observe. Currently, they haven't found any useful clues.
Miyauchi Hikage nodded slightly: "It seems we won't be able to figure out the situation without going in and observing personally. Let's go in first."
Shinomiya Kaguya clicked the APP on the phone with Miyauchi Hikage. In the next moment, they appeared at the entrance of the Metaverse.
After re-entering the Metaverse after a few days, Miyauchi Hikage also made a gesture of perception, seeming to feel the situation of this world.
"I've read a lot about Domains, Barrier Techniques, and some space-related things in Magecraft these days, wanting to study if I can develop my own Domain relying on these materials. However, the development of a Domain is indeed much harder than I thought. I still have no clue until now."
"But the Metaverse gives me a feeling somewhat like a small world derived based on a corner of the real world. Perhaps it will be helpful for you to comprehend Domains in the future."
Miyauchi Hikage opened his eyes. The light in his eyes indicated that he had opened his Eye of Destiny.
"Although the power of fate is restricted in this world, it can still be used. I can feel a familiar aura here. Let's go."