3. The crisis in Sakura

After waiting for a while, Sakura no longer struggled, and the Matou family's breakfast officially started.

For the breakfast Sakura made by himself, Matou Shinji was very happy, not only because it tasted good, but for him, it was a month since the last time he ate at home, and it has been a long time since he was at home with his family. Eating, the feeling of being away from home for a long time is extraordinarily good.

Sakura watched Matou Shinji eat quickly, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and her expression showed a hint of happiness, she elegantly cut the bacon and fried eggs on the plate with a knife and fork, and at the same time talked about her entering the virtual mirror last night. .

Entering the virtual mirror is not an ordinary thing for Sakura. In the face of some unknown situation, she naturally wants to listen to Shinji's opinion to see if there is anything wrong with her actions.

The knife and fork cut in the plate and hit the white porcelain plate, making a faint crisp sound. Sakura said, "Shinji, I seem to have made a breakthrough in magic last night."

"breakthrough?"

Shinji slowed down the speed of eating with some doubts, and looked at Sakura with a slightly serious expression. Every progress in the magic path is accompanied by danger, and Sakura's magic attribute is an imaginary number with an overhead attribute, and no predecessors have done it. As a reference, you need to be more careful here.

"Well, my consciousness seems to have entered a different world, a different world called Void Mirror, which is full of magic, but apart from energy and some local creatures, it is barren..."

Sakura told Shinji what happened in the virtual mirror, but the expression on Shinji's face gradually became cold as she spoke, and finally he left his position and came to Sakura's side: "Hand out your hand. Come out and let me check your health."

"...OK."

Although Sakura was a little confused, out of absolute trust in Shinji, she simply stretched out her hand.

Shinji held Sakura's slender wrist, and the magic power in the magic circuit began to surge, invading into Sakura's body from the place where her skin touched, she lightly bit her pink lower lip, and the huge magic power poured in like this. Come on... It hurts a bit to hold up and rise again.

Seeing Sakura's expression, Shinji immediately slowed down the influx of magic power, and the magic power spread along Sakura's blood vessels and meridians to the whole body. After a while, Matou Shinji pulled away his magic power and released it. Sakura's wrist.

"It doesn't seem to be invaded, this is good news... Sakura, from now on, you'd better not put your consciousness into that virtual mirror, or even say it's best not to use virtual number magic, anyway, you also have butterfly magic at home. some, okay?"

Shinji looked at Sakura and said, immersing his consciousness in a different world, which is very dangerous for a magician.

Different from the so-called alienation of the magic workshop, that alienation is often the use of ritual formations to distort the surrounding environment and rules to give oneself an advantage.

The virtual mirror mentioned by Sakura is a real other world. The magic world also has records of similar contact with other worlds. It is even said that the clock tower in London itself is built on a connection point of another world, and the records There are even magicians who were dragged directly into that world by the creatures in it when they were studying another world, and disappeared in this world forever.

There are also some unlucky ones whose bodies were occupied by souls from other worlds and were directly burned by the Holy Church, and the end was very miserable.

Therefore, every magician directly shows a very cautious attitude towards the real other world, and Shinji is no exception.

Whether it is his various experiences in the strange dream or the various legends about other worlds in the magic world, Matou Shinji has to be cautious. After all... some other worlds are really unfriendly to outsiders, whether it is the world itself is its inhabitants.

"I'll do the same, I won't touch imaginary number magic at all from today!" Sakura's answer was very straightforward, and it was a bit too much.

"Uh...don't go too far, just do what you need to do. Since it didn't show any obvious hostility in the first world, it shouldn't exclude you...just don't use imaginary magic for the time being."

"Understood."

After letting Sakura understand what he meant, Matou Shinji asked her to sit back in her seat, then returned to her seat, ate the last two bites of breakfast, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and Shinji looked at Sakura and said, "For the sake of As a precaution, I'm afraid you're going to ask the school for some time off recently, and we're going to London."

"Because of the virtual mirror?" Sakura said in surprise.

"Yes, let's go to the Clock Tower. After all... I haven't visited our teacher for a long time. He should be extremely difficult in the Clock Tower alone. As his students, we naturally go there to help him. "

"Do you have to go? I don't want to leave school..."

Xiao Sakura doesn't really want to leave the school. She is completely used to the school life. She has her friends there. Although they are not intimate, they also bring her countless happiness. Once she does not show up at school for a long time, she will They will be excluded from the circle of friends in the past, and eventually they will become like going to school like a prison.

"Um..."

Matou Shinji pondered for a while, then raised his head and said to Sakura: "In your case, you must go there. As for the school, I will arrange it. Of course, going to the Clock Tower still needs some arrangements, and it may take a few days. , During this time, you can prepare a parting gift for your friends."

"I'll prepare a present." Sakura said seriously.

After breakfast, Sakura went to school, and Shinji called the school directly and asked for leave without giving a reason. However, the school did not dare to neglect the Matou family, and simply accepted the request.

Then Shinji sat on the sofa and dialed a number he had known for a long time but had never dialed.

In the head room of the modern magic department of the Clock Tower, the old brass telephone rang crisply, awakening the long-haired man who was working at the desk. He glanced helplessly at his landline, not knowing who was calling Phone, really... I don't give any leisure time.

"Hey, I'm El-Melloi II, Minister of Modern Magic. Excuse me... um!"

Originally, the figure leaning on the chair was sitting upright because of exhaustion. A slight surprise appeared on Weber's face. It turned out to be the call from Matou Shinji from Fuyuki City. Usually, the two rely on magic envelopes to communicate, which is secret and very safe. , why use the phone in the clock tower to contact yourself, so as not to tell the people in the clock tower about the relationship between them!

"What?! You and Sakura want to come to the Clock Tower! Some things are undecided, and you want me to see it with my own eyes? ... You really want to come to the Clock Tower? This is not a safe place."

Webber looked out the window at the night and said, it's morning on Matou Shinji's side, but it's almost midnight on the London side, and the work in his hand has not yet been completed, and there are still piles of high documents next to him, I don't know why He always seems to be busy.

"Ha... Mr. Weber doesn't need to scare me like this. Since I decided to go to the Clock Tower, you definitely don't have to worry about it. You just need to move your finger a little and arrange us in the semester."

"...Since you said that, I have no reason to refuse, but I want to remind you, the clock tower..."

"There is no legal restraint for ordinary people, but there are school rules to maintain stability. It is not a safe place. I know that very well."

Leaning on the sofa slightly, Matou Shinji looked at the gorgeous chandelier above his head and said nonchalantly, but his index finger swayed gently in the air, causing a very small whistling sound.

"Since you have decided, then I will arrange for you..."

"Then thank you, Mr. Weber."

click.

After hanging up the phone, Shinji thought for a while, and then called other people. Before going to the clock tower, he really needed to do a lot of preparation.

Yasushitai Elementary School suddenly launched a foreign exchange program, and wanted to select an exchange student representing Yasdaitai Elementary School to go to the UK. On the head of Matou Sakura, under the farewell of the school teachers and friends, Sakura got on the plane to the airport with great honor.

Thinking that if she came back, she would definitely become a popular figure in the school. Everyone would pester her about her days in the UK, and she would only be more welcome than before, and would not become a pitiful creature that was forgotten at all.