Chapter 59 Seeking One's Own Death

Kagura Mio looked at the technique in front of her.

It's really amazing that they are originally one and the same, but at this moment they are looking at each other, like a mirror, pointing to the two sides of a person's destiny.

She had never seen her face from this perspective before, and it was really funny to think about it now.

This face that she had been looking at in the mirror for twenty-eight years now looked like this from another person's perspective.

Now she was standing in the field of the spell - rather than a field, it was more like a ball of flame. But maybe it was because of her instinct as a container, but Kagura Mio felt that this area was a little strange.

"You've got quite a strong vitality." Shushi slightly raised the corners of his mouth, with a hint of playfulness in his smile, "But I also want to thank you for making me perfect. Without your self-sacrifice, where would the real me be?"

Kagura Mio looked at her quietly, feeling a little cold.

Good news, she's still conscious.

Shushi frowned slightly -

she had thought that this guy would cry bitterly and survive with a sad look in his eyes, but she didn't expect him to have this expression now. how? She is not afraid of death?

When did a container have such an idea?

Shushi couldn't help laughing and shrugged, "Why are you standing there without saying anything? Why don't you ask how your boyfriend is doing?"

Kagura Mio stared at her for two seconds, then said, "I won't be angry no matter what you say, so there's really no need to do this."

"Tsk." Shushi pouted speechlessly, stood in front of Kagura Mio as if in a flashback, slightly turned his head, and looked at Kagura Mio seriously.

She looked Kagura Mio up and down almost from head to toe, then stepped back, with some disappointment in her tone.

"I thought you evolved, but that's all."

"You can't beat me, so just admit defeat."

"······" Kagura Mio was silent for a moment, then said helplessly, "Let's just start, I don't want to waste time talking to you."

"What start? I've already started--"

"This is not your domain." Kagura Mio sensed the magical power around her and glanced at her coldly, "Hurry up."

The technique stared at Kagura Mio for a few seconds, an indescribable look flowing in those familiar eyes, and then, in Kagura Mio's cold eyes, he raised his finger with a smile--

"I really admire you. Why don't you just be my little friend? Why do you have to--"

"You're looking for death."

"Territory expansion·simulacrum."

The moment the technique was unfolded, the sky and the earth sank, and the surroundings quickly sank and floated in the silence and distorted red light. A series of solemn mirrors that were completely incompatible with the technique itself rose from the ground at this moment, and a huge maze was built at this moment like a magic of nature.

Kagura Mio stood at the entrance of the maze, watching the air around her become stagnant like mercury, and the light being constantly reflected, distorted, and torn apart in the space. Mirrors are stacked on top of each other; every corner, every piece of ground, and every barrier sparkles with brilliant light, transparent and charming, thus forming this simulated maze.

"My ritual simulation labyrinth is itself an illusory existence. It is an imitation and copy of reality, an existence that is separated from the original existence and even replaces the real existence. Within the field, you cannot distinguish between reality and falsehood - in other words, the scene you see is determined by what your heart is like."

"You think you see the truth, but that is just an illusion reflected by your cognition. Ah, what a poor human."

The voice of the ritual came from the sky, looking down at the scene in front of it like a God rolling dice, with an exaggerated and sad tone, as if he was really sad for Kagura Mio's self-destruction.

"Your cognition is actually a maze of mirrors - so wonderful."

She sang auxiliary words for Kagura Mio as if she was singing an aria, "Infinity, closed loop, fate can never be escaped; mirror, reflection, self is always hard to distinguish between true and false; seeking, meaning, life is empty."

"My dear container, thank you for giving me such a wonderful performance. I will use my long life to take a minute to remember you."

Kagura Mio took a deep breath, frowned and didn't bother to pay attention to her.

She took a few deep breaths, cleared her mind of all thoughts, then closed her eyes tightly. The moment her toes stepped into the maze, she felt the powerful and majestic curse power coming towards her.

Such cursed power seemed to be enough to annihilate her in an instant, but Kagura Mio still stood there well -

she knew that this was also a kind of simulation.

In a battle between sorcerers in their domains, the simplest and most direct method is for both of them to open their domains, and the one with the stronger technique will win; but the problem is that the technique is essentially the strongest in existence, and if Kagura Mio wants to win, she will never be able to confront her head-on.

What's more, she never came here to win.

She slowly raised her head, watching the sky turn into a shining mirror, and her own face reflected in it. For a moment she thought that these mirrors might be the ritual itself.

They take care of each other, appreciate each other, and then move towards perfection.

"Oh, don't look at me. I'm shy~" Jushi smiled, watched Kagura Mio calm down, and gave her another piece of information, "By the way, I want to remind you that your boyfriend is still playing in my surface area~ That guy doesn't have the permission to come in--"

To be honest, Gojo Satoru is indeed in Jushi's surface area now.

Rokugan had long noticed that something was wrong with this area, but he couldn't be sure whether this was part of Kagura Mio's plan. If he acted rashly, it would affect Kagura Mio's plan -

Gojo Satoru didn't want to be considered a burden by a cute girl!

So he trusted Kagura Mio without hesitation, and at the same time allowed himself to take a short break in the area where fire was burning everywhere.

He casually flicked away a flying spark and even put on a blindfold, with a hint of indulgence in his tone.

"Mio, just do what you want to do~"

To be honest, Kagura Mio's situation here is really not good -

she is walking in such an empty maze.

This is a space without end and direction.

There are mirrors under Kagura Mio's feet. She can see the hesitant expression on her face when she makes a choice almost as soon as she lowers her head. The towering barriers around her are also mirrors. When Kagura Mio turns around, she brushes past herself in the mirror. The calm mirror is like a sleeping ocean. There is no reaction, no resistance, and it just obediently and tolerantly allows her to run around in this world.

At first, she would panic because she couldn't find the way, until later - she didn't know how much time had passed, Kagura Mio was still wandering back and forth in these huge mazes.

The huge maze makes people feel that they are in this mountain - such a huge maze with mirror walls everywhere is extremely confusing. If you stand on a high place and look down, you may be able to find a chance to pass through it, but Kagura Mio is in this maze. If you just blindly rush in, it is absolutely impossible to pass through it, not to mention that she feels that this maze is like a monster that sucks people's essence - just being there, Kagura Mio feels that the vitality in her body is strangely and wonderfully absorbed, as if it is continuously provided to this maze.

Every time she looked at herself in the mirror, every time she met and reunited with her, every time she turned a corner and reached a dead end, Kagura Mio felt like her chest was aching dully, and the pain was getting more and more severe.

She realized instantly that this was the realm's way of consuming and absorbing her.

Unlike the simple and crude technique of taking people's lives through red threads, this field is more like directly absorbing her existence spiritually and devouring her will, thus achieving victory in the battle.

No, that's not right. The technique itself is something that destroys the human spirit. She possesses all human "dominance", but has lost "humanity itself". But an existence without humanity cannot be called human.

The technique is the limit of rationality and denies the existence of human definitions, but Kagura Mio does not think she is human.

"Oh?"

As if he was very curious about her inner thoughts, Shushi said with a smiling tone, "You think I'm not a human? Then do you think you are a human, my dear - Miss Container?"

Container.

This word seemed to be the technique itself reminding her again that her existence was just like a Pocari Sweat bottle. Everyone who gets this bottle will just unscrew the cap and drink the drink inside without paying any attention to the bottle. The bottle itself exists for these drinks - otherwise it can't be sold, right?

"So you just accept your fate calmly?" Kagura Mio looked back at the raging fire behind her, and her tone fluctuated for the first time in a long time.

The technique was stunned.

The burning flames seemed to be dancing in the mirror. Fire, one of the things that humans depend on for survival, is often labeled as dangerous but necessary because of its pain and heat. The karmic fire used in the ritual is enough to burn away all the karmic fires in the world, burning on the smooth mirror surface, like a traditional Kagura priestess singing a song of praise for all living beings on the mirror with her own life.

What a beautiful picture, but it was a pity that she had burned Kagura Mio's way back - from now on, this maze was a one-way street, and she could never turn back, otherwise she would be burned by the raging flames.

"You were born as 'perfection', and your destiny was set and planned by others. You enjoy the strongest status, but you have no independent personality at all. Do you know what pain is, what deep love is, what it means to do it even if I can't do it, and what it means to fight for it even if I can't live?"

Kagura Mio panted, and the added power of the technique made the cursed energy in her body burn violently with every word she spoke. She could clearly hear the sound of the "ritual" in her blood. Those red threads were entwined around her limbs, her heart, and moved through her flesh with destructive heat, burning every inch of her life.

Shu Shi was silent for a moment, and suddenly laughed: "Not bad, you are interesting."

"I really want to... compete with you."

She said this in a particularly frivolous way, but Kagura Mio could still sense the seriousness that was hidden under these words.

So, are you going to take the technique seriously too?

Kagura Mio looked back at the road ahead that was like a deep cliff.

She knew there was no turning back.

But -

watching all this from a God's perspective, watching the woman in front of her endure the pain, the moment the spell appeared on her skin, the blooming blood flowers reflected a strange and beautiful pattern on the mirror -

Kagura Mio resolutely and without hesitation rushed into the raging fire, and the light from the mirror reflected the smile on the corner of her mouth.

So real, so... like a human being.

At least, more like her.