"Caster, how are you thinking? After knowing the truth, do you still want to get the Holy Grail again?"
In Liudong Temple, Illya was standing in front of Caster, with words floating in her palms.
"Your offer is really irresistible.berserker."
Caster pondered for a moment, shook his head helplessly, and leaned into Kuzuki Soichiro's arms.
For Caster who knows Soichiro's true wish, the Holy Grail has become less important.
Moreover, the current Holy Grail's method of realizing wishes is completely malicious.
"That's good. Then, you are welcome to join my camp."
Ilia nodded with satisfaction.
…
Time goes back to the day after Illya rescued Shirou from Ryudou Temple.
After digesting the true cause of Tokiomi's death, Rin specially had a good talk with Illya alone again.
"Who were you when you were alive?"
Rin frowned, Ilia brought too many questions to her.
"You are the caster of the previous term. I have confirmed this."
"What happened to these?"
Illya had a completely indifferent attitude.
"What's wrong? You were a magic sage caster in the last term, but this time you are a berserker with extreme physical attacks. Are you almighty? I have never seen such a perfect character in history.
Have been there. Even if they have been, they cannot become Heroic Spirits. Moreover, if you don't have a certain degree of popularity, it shouldn't be possible for you to be that powerful."
Lin pointed at Ilia with sharp eyes.
"In other words, are you a heroic spirit?"
'The feeling is really sharp.'
Illya didn't show any surprise when Rin hit the point. Instead, she rolled her eyes and prepared to trick Rin first.
"Whether I am a heroic spirit or not, you will know just by looking at it!"
At the same time that the words appeared floating in the air, Illya's figure suddenly disappeared in front of Rin.
Rin immediately widened his eyes, looking at the void in front of him in surprise.
Because Illya uses the invisibility ability that is exclusive to heroic spirits.
"How is that possible? Are you really a heroic spirit? Not some other creature?"
Looking at Illya who had materialized, Rin felt a little unbelievable.
"What you said is not unreasonable. However, there is a kind of person who is not only secretly unknown to the public, but whose reputation is not recorded in history. Moreover, they were transformed by a special ritual and became a near-immortal existence.
.”
Illya held the floating words with one hand, and pressed the other hand on the silver-white surface of the sacred-shackle that suddenly appeared.
"Cross?! Could it be that..."
Rin looked at the sacred-shackle with a somewhat vain expression.
"Crossism...saints..." (Xiao Ai: What? Does it mean that there seems to be no saints in the Xingyue world?...Well~whatever~the mushroom itself is a big hole anyway. Xiao Ai can fill it in at will
Say something~hehe~)
"Correct answer! But I'm not a saint!"
The teasing with Rin was almost done, and Illya was ready to give the standard answer.
"What do you mean? Didn't you just say..."
Rin was a little confused, and Illya was pulling her back and forth, making her almost confused.
"I just said that there is such an unknown but extremely powerful existence. However, did I say that I was that kind of existence? Not at all! It's just that you may have misunderstood it."
Seeing Ilia's explanation, Rin's face immediately darkened.
Since it’s not the case, isn’t it deliberately misleading people if you still mention it in so many words?
"Then what kind of thing... uh, existence are you?"
The word "thing" that Rin was about to say was replaced by "existence" under the sudden cold gaze from Ilia.
"Me. Although I am not a saint, I am not a heroic spirit either. I am an existence similar to the two. I don't know what my existence should be called. Let's call it a 'demon spirit'."
"Devil?"
Rin chewed on this new word, trying to think of what kind of existence Illya was.
"The so-called 'demon spirit'. To put it simply, it is an existence formed by the accumulation of magic power."
"Magical creature?"
Rin thought of some magical creatures with simple intelligence created by magicians using magic power.
"No, no. I am not such a low-level existence."
Illya shook her head, denying Lin's conjecture.
"I have a soul. A complete soul! I'm not a magical creature, a low-level product with an intelligent program written by a magician. Or a bad product that was forcibly added to the human soul."
"If that's the case, then how did you get selected by the Holy Grail to become a servant? Only heroic spirits can serve as servants!"
After understanding what Illya meant, Rin had another question in his heart.
"That's wrong! It's not that only heroic spirits can serve as servants. But during the initial setting, it was set that only heroic spirits can be summoned. Besides, after meeting Rider and Caster, do you think you can be summoned?
Are the only ones summoned heroic spirits? You know, in history, they were all close to evil spirits!"
Illya stretched out a finger and shook it.
Regarding the Holy Grail War, Illya, who had read all the books and secrets of the Einzbern clan and was once an outsider, definitely knew much more than Rin.
"I just intervened in the process of the Holy Grail summoning heroic spirits and changed the object summoned by the magician to me. Moreover, because my existence is similar to that of the heroic spirits, I also deceived the Holy Grail's retrieval system."
What Illya said were all things she had experienced personally. However, it was Gaia's help to participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War.
"Okay, that's the end of this question. Is there anything else you want to ask?"
Although Illya generously gave the opportunity to continue asking questions, Rin shook his head.
"No, please let me digest what I just learned first. I will ask you the rest next time. Anyway, you are not a heroic spirit, so you have plenty of time, so there is no need to rush. Besides..."
Saying that, Rin turned back and looked in the direction of the big house.
There, Sakura, who was about to return lunch, began to invite everyone to come and eat.
"It's already lunch time. I'm just an ordinary human being. Unlike you, I don't have to eat or drink."
"That's fine. Let's call it a day."
Ilia nodded and followed Lin into the big house.
…
Just when Ilia finished her lunch and was drinking tea comfortably while passing the time.
A little bat appeared in broad daylight contrary to common sense.
It flapped its little wings and landed in the courtyard outside the big house.
Illya, who was drinking tea, was slightly startled. From the weak fluctuations in the barrier of the Emiya family, she was keenly aware of this little uninvited guest.
"Well? Big sister, where are you going?"
Following Illyasviel's doubtful inquiry, everyone looked at Ilia.
'Loli who is too clingy turns out to be not very good...'
Ilia's face darkened. She just wanted to go out quietly and then come back quietly.
"Toilet!"
After leaving such a message, Illya asked Gaia to be careful not to follow Illyasviel, and walked out of the restaurant.
"Strange? Does she also need to go to the toilet?"
Rin looked at Illya's disappearing back and was very confused. Since it was an existence similar to a heroic spirit, such a physiological phenomenon should not exist.
…
"Tell me what you need from me, caster."
After a little analysis of the magic power fluctuations in the little bat, Illya knew who sent this familiar that was a nocturnal creature that appeared abnormally in broad daylight.
"If I said that I came to form an alliance with you, would you believe it?"
After glancing at the words that appeared in Illya's palm with her small black eyes, caster's voice came from the little bat's mouth.
"An alliance? Or for the Holy Grail?"
Ilia thought for a moment, and new words appeared in her palm.
"Of course, isn't the Servant's duty to help the Master win the Holy Grail? Although you verbally say that the Holy Grail War is a game, you also want to win the Holy Grail for that little girl, your Master, right?"
The little bat used Caster's voice and said it as a matter of course.
"Let's meet and have a good talk! For you who don't know anything, the conversation between us cannot proceed normally."
After hearing what Caster said, Illya pondered for a moment and made this request.
"Meet? It's okay. With your strength, it's easy to find and kill me. I don't think you will use this meeting to attack me. Besides, I don't know what I told you.
I’m very interested in things.”
So, after Caster and Illya met at Ryudou Temple, the initial conversation took place.
