"Is this what a Japanese garden looks like, Kiritsugu? Is it really not a garden?"
Irisviel was standing in the center of a Japanese-style courtyard, looking around with her hands in her hands.
"This was lent to me by an old friend of mine," I heard Kiritsugu say, "I think it's a good place to stay temporarily and wait for Saber to regain her strength."
I have to say that Kiritsugu’s vision in choosing a new base is quite good.
The Japanese-style garden itself is located at the deepest point of a road that is cut off halfway, so there will be no pedestrians wandering over. The backyard is on a cliff facing the Weiyuan River. It cannot be attacked by conventional means, and if you need to escape, you can't.
very convenient.
Most of the houses in the entire mansion are Japanese-style, but there are also rooms with a more modern style. The courtyard and walkways are decorated with garden gates, stone lanterns, bright flowers and green vegetation. There is even a koi pond in the middle of the yard.
The frightened deer was drawing water. The two Sabers were watching with surprise and disdain as the frightened deer slowly filled up with water and then suddenly lowered its head with a thud.
And I was pushing my wheelchair around with the purpose of finding faults to see where barrier-free passage was required.
‘Speaking of which, who did you borrow this clean and tidy room that seems always occupied by people?’ I asked the stupid system.
[Looking at the location, this looks like a samurai residence...] Gaia drew a bird's-eye view of Fuyuki City directly in front of me.
‘Pfft! Doesn’t that mean we need to be prepared to get rid of the insects?’ Is that a chironid or a chironid?
[Didn’t Matou Zōyan quit...]
'It's a joke and you take it seriously, you're really stupid.'
[Woo woo...]
Although I mentioned "barrier-free access" at that time to deliberately embarrass Kiritsugu, there is really nothing special about this mansion that requires "barrier-free access". At least I can use the wheelchair without using magic assistance.
Visited the entire stronghold.
In addition, there is no "warehouse that looks completely isolated from the outside" here, so it shouldn't be a place where Shirou recruits genuine Saber - speaking of which, the fifth battle will probably be lost?
[Hmm...if you just take away the "evil in this world" and keep the Holy Grail, the five battles should still happen.]
'Forget it, now the original plot of fz has been blown away by butterfly wings to nowhere.'
[The butterfly effect... is largely influenced by the "will of the world", so actually——]
'It's actually your fault.'
【Yes, it's my fault...eh?】
'Okay, I want to think about the next strategy, please be quiet for a while.'
【oh……】
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"Irisviel, how can I help?"
When they returned to the center of the courtyard after a round of inspection, Emiya Kiritsugu and Kuu Maiya had already left, leaving only Irisviel who was holding a shiny silver "ball of wool" and not knowing what she was doing, so she stepped forward to talk to them.
"If possible, Xiaohao, can you help me hang these 'threads' around the yard?" My wife gave me a smile: "Kiritsugu said that no magic circuit-type defensive barriers are allowed to be set up this time."
"What is this?" I pushed the wheelchair close to Irisviel and took the "ball of yarn", and she took out another one like a magic trick.
According to my knowledge of magic, it should be the "mithril thread" used by my wife to weave giant eagles, flying swords, protective array patterns and other things. The material is soft and tough. It was improved by the alchemy of the Einzbern family.
It has become my wife’s secret weapon, but at present, its functions seem to have not been fully developed.
I tried to pull off a piece of "wool" and let it fall to the ground naturally. The silver-white line melted and disappeared the moment it touched the ground. Then, a magic pattern that was almost the same as its landing posture flickered on the ground.
Finally, it lit up a giant magic circle at Irisviel's location before fading away.
"It seems that it is indeed not connected to the magic circuit. I will try my best to lay them out." I smiled at my wife, put the ball of wool on my knees, and pushed the wheels of the wheelchair towards the outside of the mansion.
Different from the mithril threads that my wife used to weave into various shapes, the ones I have in my hands have been refined in advance into something similar to wires and contacts. Even if they are thrown around casually, they will evolve into magic nodes and connect them.
Go up to the main formation located in the atrium, and that main formation has the function of camouflage and extracting spiritual energy magic to replenish everyone within the range.
The reason for using this function is naturally - when I passed by the restaurant, I took a look inside. Saber·a1ter was eating burgers with the momentum of charging into battle, while saber·1i1y was filling the pot with steaming rice.
expect.
As expected... I dropped a piece of "wool yarn" and continued walking towards the backyard.
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'Speaking of which, how is that seventy-two-in-one gun girl doing now?'
The backyard is quite large, so I asked the stupid system while spreading mithril wire along the edge.
[She was beaten violently by Jin Shining, and Qili and Long Zhijie didn’t help her, so they ran away from home.]
The aerial view of Fuyuki in the corner of the field of view quickly enlarged, showing Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Tohsaka?
'Although I know they came to Fuyuki, I'm asking Assassin...oh, where is it.'
Xiao Rin and Xiao Sakura were arguing about whether they were lost, where their home was, and whether they should cross the bridge. Not far from them stood a little girl whose whole body was covered by shadows.
[She was supposed to be running around aimlessly, but because she came into contact with the two of them when she was unconscious, she has been subconsciously following them since they met. 】
'Well, after all, it's a truce period, and she doesn't have the characteristics of a heroic spirit at all, so it doesn't matter even if someone discovers her - eh.'
Because there are some man-made landscaping in the backyard of this mansion, it was actually built as a double storey for the sake of beauty. The riverside side is two or three steps higher than the inner courtyard, and it is obviously impossible for a wheelchair to push it up.
"It's so troublesome..." I held the wool ball and made a sad face.
"So, wouldn't it be much more convenient if you just let me cure this paralysis?" Illya opened his vest and appeared next to him, then snatched away the ball of string.
"No, this must be allowed to heal on its own." I made a determined expression.
[Ah ha ha ha ha...] This stupid system will laugh twice every time it sees me performing the oboe, even if it gets beaten up later.
‘Don’t laugh! What I’m doing is—’
Buzz-buzz-
Ilia was originally going to let Lin Hao take Lin Hao up the two steps, but the "yarn ball" she was holding began to tremble, and a dangerous-sounding sound came out.
'what's the situation?!'
【I, I don’t know...】
‘Really incompetent—hint sister?’
[Tip: The ‘Infused Mithril Thread’ is about to explode due to excessive charging. 】
When did you overcharge? But I don’t have time to worry about that now!
He quickly switched to Illya's vest, took aim briefly, and threw the mithril thread ball toward the other side of the river.
boom!
A blue light beam similar to an ex curry stick shot straight into the sky.
'Well, I just hastily confirmed that there is no one on the other side, but how many people will see it now?'
[Because the color is not obvious, it did not attract much attention, but the ones that were noticed were basically directed at the light beam in the previous castle, so——]
The light screen in the corner of the field of vision switched again, and a group of guys holding cameras were huffing and puffing from the bridge head toward the place where the light pillar was generated.
'Hmph, they shouldn't be able to find anything except a pit - huh?'
Tohsaka Rin, who was studying the map, didn't seem to want to be swept away by the crowd. He grabbed the hand of the little girl next to him and left their only path before the crowd gathered -
But it was Emil you arrested?
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"Xiaohao, Xiaohao? Is Caster back?"
Originally, I planned to see Xiao Lin's expression when she realized that she had arrested the wrong person, but she seemed to be alarmed by the explosion of the mithril thread, and her wife hurried over, arriving before anyone else.
Although the reason why the thing exploded was unknown, it was considered causing trouble anyway, so I directly let Illya's vest spirit body return to its source... Wait, this behavior is different from the naughty child running away after getting into trouble.
What's the difference?
"Well, she just came back, but she left immediately." Before I could make any other moves, I turned my wheelchair to face Irisviel who had already walked into the backyard.
"Tell me the truth, Xiaohao, what did Ilia do before?" My wife seemed to be very uneasy, she came over and grabbed my arm and asked in a low voice.
What to do...just give Sora a magic seal and nothing more...
"You know what she went to do, right?" My wife grabbed my shoulders instead, lowered her head and stared at me: "Please don't hide it, this is very important."
"Well, in order to ask Rider to take action, she promised to give Kenneth's fiancée Sola, a female transshipper, a magic seal whose family bloodline has been severed. She should have fulfilled it." After all, I couldn't resist my wife's gaze, so I turned my head and said.
"Really? Sure enough...that silly boy." Irisviel let go of her hand, and her original gentle tone became a bit...sad?
What, even if you are a mother, you can't just say that your child is stupid, right?
"Do you know why those mithril threads exploded just now?" As if she noticed my expression, my wife looked at the noisy crowd on the other side and said slowly.
'Stupid system, why?'
[Because she often stays at the root. Although she does not absorb it, the concentration of magic power attached to her is too great, and the 'Silver Thread Scroll' cannot bear it. 】
'You are so big with silver threads!'
"Even if she becomes a heroic spirit, she cannot have the ability to transfer other families' magic imprints. Most of them will use her own magic circuit to transform, and this transformation will cause her magic to leak out for a certain period of time, so there is
Only by absorbing the surrounding mithril threads of stray magic power can..." The wife paused for a moment before continuing: "This kind of independent magic power leakage is different from being hit by a bullet like Kiritsugu's. It will be accompanied by severe pain. Did you feel it just now?
It feels like she is forcing a smile?"
"..."
If it weren't for the fact that I personally picked out the engraved mark at the root, even I would believe this well-founded analysis.
