Illya huddled on the bed alone and covered her head with the quilt.
Her current mood...is very confusing.
She couldn't think clearly or understand.
Is the person in the mirror really her mother Irisviel?
If the one in the mirror is really my mother...
So who is the person who has been talking to me in my dream?
Holding her head with both hands, Illya closed her eyes hard, as if she could escape everything just by closing her eyes.
"Mother......"
"Emiya Kiritsugu..."
These two words were always in her mouth.
What kind of person is your mother?
What kind of person is Emiya Kiritsugu?
My own memory can be deceiving, but what about other people’s memories?
Can other people's memories also lie?
That was Saber Anno, who fought alongside Emiya Kiritsugu in the last Holy Grail War. Even the mother in her dream would admit this, there was no doubt about it.
Will the memory of such a person deceive himself?
After thinking for an unknown amount of time, Illya gritted her teeth and closed her eyes, trying to sink her consciousness as much as possible.
If you can't figure it out - then ask.
Go ask the mother in your dream what is going on...!
...
"Our biggest problem is that we don't know what the nature of that thing is."
Adrosson rested one hand on the armrest of the sofa, his eyes serious.
"Our current guess is that it was the pollution brought by the eighth Servant summoned illegally during the Third Holy Grail War after returning to the Holy Grail, but the specific nature...is unknown."
"Is the soul of the eighth Servant simply left in the Great Holy Grail, or is it that some of the characteristics of the 8th Servant, or something else, is left in the Great Holy Grail."
"We don't know that, but we at least know for sure... that this thing is self-aware."
"Whether it is in the Greater Holy Grail or in the Lesser Holy Grail, they all have consciousness."
As a person who performs gem mirror magic, Adrosson has the best say on this point.
While exploring Justeza's heart, he could feel a pure black humanoid substance discovering him and probably looking at him. While exploring Illya's heart, the person who disguised himself as
I found people who looked like Irisviel, so I simply started communicating with them.
...In a sense, this is actually quite unusual, but if it is the Holy Grail, maybe...it is not incomprehensible.
Even though there are frequent problems now, resulting in a lot of casualties and accidents, it is undeniable that as three outstanding magician families that are at the top of the magician ecological niche, Einzbern and Tohsaka
As well as the result jointly created by the three Matou families, the Holy Grail System can be called a "miracle" magic.
Two of these three families are related to magic, and the remaining one is also full of geniuses. If this method is used to calculate, Matou may be the lowest among these three families.
But the problem is not big, the Matou family is rich.
"I tend to think that thing should have self-awareness - I wonder if you have noticed a detail."
Matou Shinji shook his arm, attracting everyone's attention.
"The woman in Illyasviel von Einzbern's heart. She doesn't seem to be surprised by our existence, including my magic."
"This probably means that she knew about our existence in advance. From this point, two possibilities can be extended."
He held out a finger.
"First, she is able to perceive everything in the outside world through Illya's senses, so she is aware of our existence."
Shinji stretched out another finger.
"The second...is that she is actually the same existence as the shadow that our ancestors discovered in the Great Holy Grail."
"Since they are the same existence, then there is no surprise for magic and us."
"Of course, there is a possibility that these two possibilities will occur at the same time, and it is not small."
Everyone looked at each other in shock.
"I see... I tend to prepare for the worst, that is, the two will coexist."
Kotomine Kirei touched his chin, thought for a moment, and nodded.
"Since it exists in the Little Holy Grail, judging from Illya's previous behavior, that guy has obviously had a certain degree of influence on Illya's thoughts, words and deeds. Then she must have some influence through Illya.
The ability to feel the outside world.”
"Secondly, the large and small Holy Grails have the same thing in the final analysis. Whether it is a clone or an incarnation, the existence in the Large Holy Grail has its own manifestation in the Small Holy Grail. This is not a strange thing."
"But based on the current information... Matou Shinji, you and Akuko-dono should be the only ones still alive in the last Holy Grail War, soaked in the black mud gushing out of the Great Holy Grail.
Someone who has passed."
"If that thing is the thing in the Great and Small Holy Grails, what do you think the nature of that thing is?"
"It's a curse."
Faced with Kotomine Kirei's question, Matou Shinji answered without hesitation.
"After I returned home ten years ago, my father and uncle used magic to conduct a comprehensive examination on me. The result of the examination was that my whole body and even every organ was cursed to a great extent. I
Our vitality and life are constantly weakening under this curse."
Shinji Matou does have a say in this regard.
"In order to eradicate this curse, my father even asked my uncle to take me to the Clock Tower and undergo nearly two years of treatment."
"It was...a very huge malice. When I was immersed in it, I came to an illusion. The black mud seemed to have its own consciousness. It asked me several questions full of malice.
, but I refuted them all."
"If you say so..."
Matou Shinji seemed to have thought of something, and stood there and took a few steps back and forth.
"How about it, Shenji, do you have any ideas?"
Shirou noticed Shenji's posture, his eyes lit up, and he quickly walked over and asked.
He now wants to save Illya...as a "family".
"If it's a curse, wouldn't it be better to find a way to expel the curse?"
Matou Shinji smiled.
"But the question is... can the curse of consciousness be truly expelled?"
"So, we may have to use the magic of our ancestors to do this..."
He raised his head and looked at his ancestor Adroson.
And Adrosson also thought of something.
Ancestors and descendants looked at each other and smiled.