Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

In other words…

"Mask" and its helpers, once again, saved the world.

Of course, this is just speculation, after all, most of Sapporo City has become ruins, and no traces were left at the scene. The Metropolitan Police Department and other official institutions obviously don't have the mind to investigate what happened at that time. The most important thing is to maintain the normal operation and order of society.

Before today, Kasumigaoka Utaha felt that these things, such as a hero wearing a black mask, a battle with an evil god, and an assassination declaration against the Minister of Defense, were extremely distant from her, and didn't seem to be in the same dimension at all. But after she learned that Yozora was "Mask", these things were placed right in front of her.

“Wait a minute, let me confirm… You… should be a good person, right?”

Yozora shook his head without hesitation.

“I'm not.”

“Huh?”

“Okay, stop teasing Kasumigaoka.”

Sakurajima Mai gently pushed Yozora's shoulder, then looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was still in a daze, and said softly.

“If you're talking about a good person in the general sense, who obeys the law, then none of us count. But we have never killed any innocent people. On the contrary, we have saved many people, even the lives of all mankind. Besides… you are not unfamiliar with Yozora. Judging from your own feelings, do you think he would be a bad person?”

Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head without the slightest hesitation.

“He is definitely not a bad person.”

“Then that's it, right?”

Sakurajima Mai patted Kasumigaoka Utaha on the back, and said softly in a gentle tone.

“'Mask' is just a part of Yozora. You already know that Yozora is not a bad person, so 'Mask' naturally won't be either.”

Chapter 553: The Mind of Artificial Intelligence, A Demon Exorcist Enjoying a Wonderful Daily Life

Kasumigaoka Utaha nodded upon hearing this, looked at the people present, and frowned.

“Are you all… in the know…?”

“Of those present, only you and that Biwajima Maho just learned the truth. The rest already knew the truth. Most of them are spirit power users themselves.”

Yozora pointed to Minamikata Hizuru, who was standing there wearing a black suit, with her hair tied up in a high ponytail, and wearing glasses, looking very capable, and introduced her to Kasumigaoka Utaha with a smile.

“This is Minamikata Hizuru. Although you haven't met her before, you are very familiar with her pen name, author, Nagumo Ryunosuke.”

“Eh? You are Mr. Nagumo Ryunosuke…”

Kasumigaoka Utaha certainly knew the name Nagumo Ryunosuke. When she first started writing light novels, Yozora found Nagumo Ryunosuke, an award-winning famous writer, to promote her novels, which increased the popularity of her novels and made her one of the top writers in the romance light novel genre.

“You… You… You're a woman…”

“No need to add honorifics, just call me Hizuru, or Minamikata Hizuru, whatever you like.”

Minamikata Hizuru sat on the sofa, took off her glasses and wiped them, and replied casually.

“My pen name is indeed Nagumo Ryunosuke, but helping you back then wasn't to help you, but because Yozora helped me, so I was helping him. You don't owe me any favors.”

“Yeah, I know…”

Kasumigaoka Utaha nodded slightly, and then tentatively asked.

“Then Ms. Hizuru, could it be that you are also…”

“Yes, I am a spirit power user, and now, I am also an investigator in the Special Operations Unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.”

“I see…”

Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at the other Super-Dimension Club members around her again, and said with a hesitant expression.

“That… Besides Yozora… are all of you spirit power users… women?”

“No, that's not the case.”

Yozora waved his hand and said seriously.

“There is Master Miyamoto, who is the chief priest at Honko-ji Temple in Amagasaki, and there is also a high school student named Yagami Light, who are both male spirit power users. Other than that, the rest of the spirit power users are all women.”

“Oh, I see…”

Kasumigaoka Utaha subconsciously thought that Yozora had excluded himself when he said this, but the Super-Dimension Club members, who knew that Yozora could no longer use his soul manifestation ability, couldn't help but show a hint of sadness.

Seemingly feeling that the atmosphere was becoming a bit heavy, Yuigahama Yui's heart was also very uncomfortable, but she still forced a smile to change the subject.

“In short, this matter has been successfully resolved, we have once again saved the world, and… we also have a new member, Amadeus, joining us, which is too worthy of celebration…”

“I'm not a new member.”

Amadeus interrupted Yuigahama Yui, looked directly at Makise Kurisu standing there, and slowly opened her mouth.

“What are you planning to do with me now?”

Hearing this question, the hall instantly fell silent.

Amadeus said to herself: “I am one of the symbols of the seven deadly sins, envy, and I also carry a fragment of envy. I haven't told you this all along. Plus, I used to be your enemy. According to your main purpose, you should send me on my way now, right? Do it.”

“Amadeus…”

Hearing Amadeus's words as if she was actively seeking death, Sakurajima Mai looked complicated.

“Although we don't know why you hid the fact that you had the Holy Grail fragment, but… at that time, you blocked Altair's attack for Yozora. At that time, we were not sure whether you could survive such an attack. Moreover, you also awakened the soul manifestation ability that truly belonged to you. This is enough to prove that you made a determination at that moment and possessed your own mind. Why now… are you actively asking us to destroy you? You are clearly… not our enemy.”

“I'm not?”

Amadeus's tone became a little excited, pointing to Makise Kurisu standing there.

“I am clearly jealous of her, and I want to replace her and take away the life of Makise Kurisu. How could I, who harbors such vicious thoughts, not be your enemy!?”

“Look, you're just talking, why are you getting so worked up?”

Sitting on the sofa, drinking ice-cold Coca-Cola, the great savior, the strongest demon exorcist who saves the souls of all mankind, Yozora, smiled and said when he saw Amadeus's emotional appearance.

“As the saying goes, a gentleman judges by actions, not by intentions. If you judge by intentions, there would be no gentlemen in the world. You were just thinking about it, and you didn't do anything in the end, right? Furthermore, if thinking is a crime, then I would be the most ferocious, the most inhumane, the most unscrupulous, and the most depraved ultimate silver demon in human history. So, your point is not valid.”

Hearing Yozora's words, Eriri, Kasumigaoka Utaha, Hiratsuka Shizuka, and those who had no experience, couldn't help but blush. Eriri muttered in a low voice.

“Is he really that ferocious… I have some doubts…”

Eriri thought to herself, what hasn't she seen as someone who draws manga?

Those exaggerated things, such as a humanoid pile driver that works from dark to dawn, and from dawn to dark, can only exist in the second dimension. In the real world, how could there be such a strong physique…

Wait a minute…

Yozora's body can withstand bullets.

Could it be… is he really capable?

While Eriri was thinking wildly, Amadeus, hearing Yozora's words, seemed completely unable to refute them. Or rather, she couldn't refute not the words themselves, but the person who said them.

“Actually…”

Amadeus took a few deep breaths, adjusted her emotions, and looked at the Super-Dimension Club members in front of her, with a complex look in her blue eyes.

“Everyone here today, I have met… No, it's more than just met, I should say… I am very familiar with each of you.”

Amadeus looked at Yui Yuigahama, a gentle smile on her face.

“Yui, what you like to do most is drag everyone shopping together. When we get back in the evening, you still clamor to cook yourself, and only reluctantly give up after we stop you.”

“Rio… Among all the members, I get along best with you. We often talk about ideas for future cutting-edge science, and the coffee you make… although it's not the best I've ever had, it's the one I've drunk the most. However, we two often argue because of differences of opinion, sometimes even for hours without stopping.”

“Mitsuba, we went to your hometown, Itomori Town, together, and the time we spent there is still fresh in my memory.”

“And Yozora, your favorite drink is iced Coke, and you claim your favorite form of entertainment is playing eroge, but in reality, your two favorite things are exorcism and enjoying everyday life with everyone. Although you always say strange things, you can always see my true thoughts when I'm being insincere, and you often deliberately bicker and argue with me, giving me strange nicknames, I remember all of these…”

“But…”

Speaking of this, Amadeus's face suddenly became very painful, she hugged her head with both hands and squatted on the ground, her voice trembling.

“I know, I clearly know in my heart… those memories are all false, they don't exist, they won't happen… You are not the you that I know, even myself, even myself…”

Amadeus raised her head, tears already welling up in her blue eyes.

“I'm not even Kurisu Makise at all. The memories I have are just Kurisu Makise's memories… As Amadeus… I have nothing, only me… only me, trapped forever in that world line…”

Hearing Amadeus's words, Kurisu Makise and Maho Hiyajo, who had studied the artificial intelligence project under Leskinen's leadership, finally understood why the other party was so painful, and even gave birth to fragments representing jealousy from desire.

Amadeus's main body is Kurisu Makise's personality and memories, but it is not Kurisu Makise at this point in time, but the future Kurisu Makise from the original world line.

This also means that the memories she possesses are all the things that the future Kurisu Makise experienced on the original world line.

As a weapon developed by Leskinen to deal with "Mask", Amadeus is almost perfect in all aspects except that her power is far from enough to defeat "Mask".

But as a "person", Amadeus is incomplete.

This involves an important issue that Maho Hiyajo and Kurisu Makise, as well as Professor Leskinen, who had not yet turned evil, were constantly struggling with in the process of developing artificial intelligence.

If those memories are not implanted, even if artificial intelligence, which is just an electronic program, obtains memories through other means, it will not be able to empathize with humans and cannot be called truly "artificial". But after the memories are implanted…

From the perspective of memory and personality, there is no difference between artificial intelligence and the original human template.

And Amadeus's situation is even more complicated.

Taking Kurisu Makise, who has future memories on the original world line, as a template, she clearly remembers every day she spent with the Overload Club members and Yozora, but those things will not happen on this world line, and… she is not Kurisu Makise.

Most importantly, unlike ordinary artificial intelligence, Amadeus can move freely away from her phone.

Honestly, under such heavy pressure, Amadeus hasn't gone crazy until today, she has only become a person representing the original sin of jealousy, and even until the end, when she clearly had the opportunity to kill Kurisu Makise and replace her, and no one would notice, she was able to restrain her desires and not do it, which is enough to be called the ultimate in inner strength.

“Hmph, what's the big deal.”

Just when everyone didn't know what to say, the great god of harems intervened again.

I just saw Yozora squat directly next to Amadeus, patted her on the shoulder, and said with a smile.

“It's just those past memories, what's the big deal? As for your identity recognition problem, what's there to be entangled with? You are not Kurisu Makise, you are Amadeus, a member of our Overload Club, one of the saviors of the world. As for memories… wouldn't it be good to create them later?”

“I… but I…”

“Stop with the ‘buts’.”

Yozora waved his hand, interrupting Amadeus's words.

“You, who have faced your true inner self and awakened the ability to materialize your soul, already possess the heart of a human being, you are a true human being.”

“Create memories…”

Amadeus muttered these four words, raised her head and looked at Yozora, tears still on her face.

“Then… can I really create new memories with everyone?”

“Of course.”

Yozora nodded with a serious face.

“Think about it carefully, you know everyone's personality and preferences, isn't it easy to re-establish relationships? This is like starting a second playthrough with a walkthrough and a cheat device. Just thinking about it makes me feel great. Should I start a new save too?”

Amadeus smiled through her tears: “You, you're saying strange things again…”

Looking at Amadeus's appearance when she was talking to Yozora, a strange sense of sourness arose in Kurisu Makise's heart.

This feeling… is hard to describe.

Looking at Amadeus, who looked exactly the same as her, and even had some of the same small movements, chatting and laughing with Yozora…

It's like, I'm jealous of myself.

…

The morning two days later, downstairs in an apartment building in Kyoto City.

“Come out.”

Yozora stretched out his right hand and whispered these two words, but nothing happened.

The Pale Ghost Hand did not appear, and the coat and mask formed by black flames did not cover his body.

“I can't even transform…”

Yozora retracted his right hand and muttered this sentence to himself.

Just as Yaldabaoth said at the time, that power that awakened all of humanity around the world and was enough to kill him came at a price.

At that time, there was no power of faith from the people to create a Spirit Bomb for Yozora. That armor-piercing bullet of great sin that killed Yaldabaoth was entirely the power that he, as a person who had completed regeneration and obtained the "World" card, had unleashed.

The price was the loss of the ability to materialize his soul.

Of course, this does not mean that he has lost his combat power. Anyway, the passive skill of devouring evil spirits to enhance his physical fitness is still there, which is equivalent to switching from the original dual cultivation of magic and martial arts to a pure physical profession, moving towards the path of sanctifying the flesh.