The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 727 The Transcendent One in Reincarnation

A soccer ball manufactured last year has appeared in a meadow that was made more than ten years ago.

Under normal circumstances, Su Tianqing would not approve of such illogical things; she would only think, "This is probably a prank," and then laugh it off as a joke.

...What does it mean that the Heroes Association, after investigation, determined that the football was indeed buried more than ten years ago?

"Something is definitely wrong. This is just too exaggerated no matter how you look at it." The person who said this was Qi Yun.

"You're right. At first, I also thought there might be some mistake, but the facts are right in front of us, and no matter how we explain it, we can't make sense of the current problem."

Messiah answered, pointing to the frontline report in front of him.

Everyone sat in the Hero Association's conference room for an emergency meeting. All the S-class heroes residing in Chengdu were present, as were representatives of the magical girls.

Hyacinths, Cheshire rabbits, autumn poplars, and dandelions.

The pink-haired bunny girl quietly huddled in the corner to minimize her presence, wearing a mask, hat, and sunglasses to become super stealthy, but her high-perched bunny ears faithfully proved that this masked group in the corner was her true identity.

"Now that everyone is here, let's begin."

"Cheshire Rabbit, can you hear what's being said at the conference table over there?"

Messiah, who was the host of the meeting, spoke up.

The rabbit girl nodded repeatedly, showing that she heard him perfectly, so Messiah didn't ask any more questions and turned his gaze to the people sitting around the conference table.

"I believe everyone already knows what we're going to discuss today—this is it."

Messiah gave Meteor a look, and the latter casually raised his hand. A ripple of psionic energy caused by a spatial distortion flashed across the conference table, and a sealed bag used by frontline personnel of the Hero Association appeared on the table. Inside was a shriveled and damaged soccer ball covered in mud.

"Perhaps the dandelion doesn't know what this is yet, so let me explain it to you simply."

Messiah briefly explained the situation of the damaged football. Su Tianqing acted as if she was hearing this information for the first time, going from feigning surprise to falling into deep thought.

Cheshire Rabbit mustered his courage, went to the table, took off his sunglasses, and examined the sealed bag closely. He looked at it over and over for a long time but couldn't see anything special. While scratching his ears, he retreated to the corner and scribbled down a few lines of notes.

After Dandelion finished listening to the whole story, the meeting room fell into a brief silence.

"Meteor, you and I were the first to find this thing. What are your thoughts?" Messiah turned the conversation to his colleague across the table.

"Finding a football manufactured last year in a meadow that was renovated years ago is enough in itself to be a case that we need to investigate thoroughly."

Meteor nodded and said,

"The frontline investigation team just sent back the latest analysis results. They found the manufacturer corresponding to the production batch number of this football. This factory didn't even exist more than ten years ago."

"Based on the surveillance footage verified at the scene, and considering the influence of magic and astral magic, this soccer ball was very likely the one that the victimized middle school student brought into the alternate dimension when the rift appeared."

"Wait a minute, I have a question."

Qiu Baiyang immediately raised his hand, indicating that he wanted to interrupt.

Meteor gently raised her hand, turning the conversation to the magical girl who had originally retired but had been specially invited to participate in the discussion. Qiu Baiyang nodded and thanked Meteor, his former colleague, before sharing his thoughts:

"Following Meteor's reasoning, if this soccer ball was the one the victim brought into the alternate dimension, then why would it appear in the meadow of Chengdu in the present world?"

"The only possible opportunity for it to enter the meadow was when the subsided meadow was repaved. But why would a damaged alternate dimension existing in the present day affect the former Chengdu?"

Everyone nodded slightly, even Liu Xing agreed with Qiu Baiyang's statement, and Qi Yun couldn't wait to raise her hand to take over the topic.

"I also think that Messiah, your psychic abilities are also related to time, right? Can you explain this situation?"

"What a joke! Just because I can stop time doesn't mean I can reverse it. I'm not at that level yet." The white-haired girl Messiah rolled her eyes at Qi Yun.

Su Tianqing strongly agreed with this.

Based on the complete set of advanced astral magic I recently learned, the ability to stop time is permissible, and there is even a legendary spell that can achieve the same effect.

While Inari's legendary spell, [Future Jump], is also permitted in magical theory, the ability [Time Reversal] is quite unique—

"Higher magic theoretically allows time to reverse, but this is based on the plane of existence itself."

Su Tianqing, in her dandelion mode, spoke up.

"Time itself has enormous inertia. The act of going back in time will trigger the rejection of the dimensional world. A living person can never go back to the past in the current dimensional world."

"But there is a way to circumvent this inertia."

After saying that, the fox spirit and the automatic transmission Yue Tianxin on her shoulder walked to the whiteboard in the conference room and drew three parallel lines.

Hyacinth seemed lost in thought.

Has Sister Tianqing's magic level really gotten this high...? I feel like even Xinyuehu can't compare to her at all. She's almost at the same level as Inari-senpai.

If I have the chance, I should also ask Sister Tianqing for some knowledge about magic. Maybe it can help me improve my normal strength!

Su Tianqing naturally paid no attention to the hyacinth's inner thoughts, focusing instead on the explanation.

"These three lines are independent planes of existence, which do not interfere with each other, and can only be entered and exited using spatial rifts."

"Under normal circumstances, these dimensional worlds are infinitely extended. Magic and other rules work together in these worlds, such as the astral plane and the mortal world, as well as other worlds connected by the astral plane. Time progresses synchronously in these connected worlds."

"However, there is one special case."

The fox spirit drew a flat oval outside the three lines.

"This ellipse is a finitely extended secondary plane, which we generally call..."

"The world of mental images." Qiu Baiyang's knowledge and understanding as a senior made her blurt out, "I understand. With the existence of the world of mental images, the idea of ​​'going back to the past' becomes theoretically feasible."

"That's right, Senior Qiu Baiyang is absolutely right."

Su Tianqing nodded.

"In magical theory, the mental world, as a sub-plane, has great activity in terms of space and time. It can carry things in the space back and forth on the timeline under the impetus of powerful magic."

"Due to the inertia of time, even if the mental world returns to the past on the timeline under the impetus of magic, the living people in the mental world still cannot return to the past of the current plane. Only [matter] can travel there in this way."

"Take this football, for example, which was manufactured last year but appeared more than a decade ago."

After speaking, Su Tianqing fell silent, staring intently at the soccer ball on the table.

These words were the theory she had come up with after much contemplation during this period, and it was the first time she had spoken them aloud. Cheshire Rabbit in the corner seemed to have discovered a new continent and began to write notes incessantly. The only sound in the entire venue was the scratching sound of her pen on the paper.

During the narration just now, Su Tianqing realized something she had overlooked.

"...Does anyone remember anything?"

Dandelion leaned on the table with one hand, picked up her water glass, took a sip of cold water to cool down her overloaded fox brain, and said...

"Hyacinth, do you remember who first discovered these missing persons cases?"

"Hmm? I remember it was Senior Lilac and Senior Autumn Poplar who came to me with a strange video, supposedly filmed by that missing video blogger," Hyacinth answered honestly.

Qiu Baiyang's eyes widened suddenly, as if he had realized something, and cold sweat broke out on his back and forehead.

"Did Senior Lilac tell you where she got this video from?"

"Let me think... My senior said she found her 'on a bench in the park next to her house'..."

Hyacinth froze, and Cheshire Rabbit in the corner also stopped writing, his red eyes behind his sunglasses staring straight at Hyacinth.

"That's right."

"That video, like this football, is about going back to the past from the present, but at different points in time."

"Who decides their return location and timing? Is this sending us a special signal?"

The dandelion didn't say anything more; the answer was already clear.

"The albatross is using this method to engage in a conversation with us across time."