It was a young man with a very eye-catching appearance.
He had an extremely tall and thin figure, at least 1.8 meters tall. His hair was dark blue, almost black, and combed back. His pupils were dark green, which was unique to Westerners. He was wearing a western-style gentleman suit with a black robe with many hemlines. He looked very tall and handsome.
"I haven't seen you for a few days. It seems like you're fine. That's better than anything, Ms. Fujimaru."
The young man greeted Tachika Fujimaru in a gentlemanly manner. Then, his pair of eyes that seemed to be able to see through all illusions swept across everyone, pausing on Ryuga for a moment.
"After analyzing the information you exchanged with Chaldea a few days ago, and Sheba's observation of the singularity you are in, I have basically grasped the situation of that singularity."
His face was full of confidence, as if he was quite confident in his own ability.
"Who is he?"
Ryuga looked at him up and down, then asked Tachika Fujimaru.
"Excuse me, please allow me to introduce myself."
Without asking Tachika Fujimaru to convey the message, the young man took the initiative to introduce himself to Ryuga. "My name is Holmes, Sherlock Holmes."
Sherlock Holmes?
The world's most famous detective from "The Adventures of Holmes"?
This person's worldwide fame didn't even require any unnecessary introduction. After all, when it came to detective, it was Holmes, and when it came to Holmes, it was a detective. He was close to the embodiment of the concept of "detective," a wise man who was above countless people in order to find the truth and solve mysteries.
"But he should be a character in a novel, not a real person in history … Is he a fictional hero? Or is there really such a person? "
Ryuga looked at the young man with a similar gaze, but after all, she didn't have time to test him, so she went straight to the point and exchanged information with him.
"You just said that you have grasped the situation of this singularity?" Ryuga asked.
"Basically."
Then, the man said with a humble but confident expression, "Time is of the essence, so I'll abandon my bad habits. I won't beat around the bush and get straight to the point."
"First, I have to make a statement, but I believe you should have noticed something, Ms. Fujimaru."
Holmes revealed the mystery he had solved bit by bit to them. "The place you are in is not normal human history. Perhaps it is a realm like an inherent enchantment, or some kind of clipping event. All in all, the place you are now is not a singularity, but some kind of gap between reality and dreams.
"The evidence is the Earthy City and the Lower Main Country. In the real history of humanity, there is no country called the Lower Main Country, only the Upper Main Country. The Earthy City is not the capital of the Upper Main Country, but a ruin long buried in history — just like your surroundings now."
The so-called [Pan-Human History] referred to the "correct" human history. It was the mainstream human history of all kinds of history that won in the survival of the fittest and natural selection. It had the correct prosperity and development.
To describe it in more selfish terms, it was the history that modern humans had experienced. This was the correct history.
In the case of correct history, of course, there would also be wrong history. This kind of "wrong" history was called [clipping event].
In the process of natural selection, history had the possibility to go toward the [Pan-Human History], but it could also diverge from the [Pan-Human History] and go toward an incorrect history, developing the so-called parallel world.
These people had gone into a dead end and were far from the [Pan-Human History]. They had lost the correct development and prosperity, and the wrong human history that needed to be "trimmed" was the so-called [clipping event].
The world they were in now had a certain discrepancy with the [Pan-Human History]. Shimonoseki, Earth City, and so on were all places where there were divergences from the [Pan-Human History].
These divergences seemed small, but in fact, they could not be underestimated. As long as they accumulated, it could lead to the history of this world completely to a dead end in the future. It would diverge from the [Pan-Human History] and become a [clipping event] that could only passively wait to be trimmed.
According to Holmes, this world might be a [clipping event] that needed to be trimmed.
That was why Tachika Fujimaru did not use Rayshift but entered this world in a dream. The magic circuit had not adapted to this world and needed Ryuga's help to communicate with Chaldea and wait for the technology there to adjust.
"But don't think that it won't threaten the pan-human history just because it's a world similar to the [clipping event]. In fact, the information we obtained from our investigation is the opposite."
Holmes's expression gradually became serious. "According to Sheba's observation, someone in that world is planning to invade our world through a special technique. If he succeeds, the history of that world will most likely defeat our history and destroy our history."
History was subject to natural selection, and the existence of the pan-human history was the result of natural selection.
But because of this, the victory and defeat of history gave some people room to intervene. Some people who were unwilling to be left out would use some special methods to interfere with the natural selection of history. They would artificially intervene in this matter and make the [clipping event], which should have been defeated, defeat the pan-human history.
"So, there is such a person in this singularity who wants to use some method to make the history of this world subvert the history of my world?"
Tachika Fujimaru quickly understood the seriousness of the matter and then made some guesses. "Could that person be —"
"That's right. According to my deduction, it should be the mastermind behind the Heroic Swordsman. If I'm not wrong, the mastermind should be in the illusory castle in front of you."
Holmes's face showed a smile again. "Originally, the illusory castle should have been materialized using the Heavensguard Pavilion in Earth Gas City as a medium. Then, it would have used another person who connected your world and our world as a medium to connect the two histories of humanity, thereby influencing and destroying the history of humanity on our side."
"But fortunately, the Heavensguard Pavilion was destroyed in advance, so this illusory castle can't materialize for the time being. This means that their scheme has already failed by half."
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