Heroic Spirit: I, Shinji, have tried my best.

After the two returned to the room, without Grey's reminder, Weber immediately found herbs and gauze to bandage the black cat.

But it was obvious that he was not very good at doing this kind of thing...

Gray walked behind and looked at Waver, who had a serious expression but seemed a little flustered due to his clumsy hands. Her originally sad mood suddenly brightened a little.

"Master, let me do it."

"...Ah, please Gray..."

Hearing his disciple's words, the self-aware Weber hesitated for a moment, then immediately stepped aside and stood aside, watching the girl gently bandage the cat.

However, whether it can survive in the end depends on its own luck.

"..."

"I'm going to go out for a while..."

"? Master..."

"Crack!"

Gray looked back, but only saw the door closing.

After walking out of the room, Waver wandered around the clock tower feeling a little lost.

No one knew that after he saw the cat's injuries, he probably realized that the chances of it surviving were slim.

But if it was just a cat that had an accident, although it would have caused him some trauma, it wouldn't have led to this situation.

What really gave him a headache was that at that time he actually thought of Shinji...the person in his memory who suddenly appeared again.

In his memory, the other party seemed to have the ability to heal injuries... But he had just separated from him not long ago, so it was too much to ask for help now...

"...You've disappeared for ten years, why did you appear again... Could it be the Holy Grail War?"

No, probably not.

Although the Holy Grail has disappeared, there used to be a gap of sixty years between each Holy Grail War, but now only ten years have passed.

That is to say...

"Is it really the incarnation?"

Waver suddenly stopped and turned a piece of the clock tower while he was thinking, but he didn't see the shadow of the boy at all.

After all, a day has passed, and we have probably left the Clock Tower, or even London.

"Forget it. Now is not the time to think about these things. Those guys have been urging me. I should respond."

Putting aside the messy thoughts in his mind, Waver walked back to his room...

the other side.

In an underground parking lot, a middle-aged man with a gloomy face slowly emerged from the darkness.

The other party looked around carefully, and after confirming that the barrier he had set up was not damaged in any way, he got into his car with confidence.

After getting in the car, he did not try to light a fire, but instead spread out his palm and looked at a yellowed piece of paper with strange patterns on it, which was gradually burned by the flames that appeared out of nowhere...

"Hehe, this is almost done... Sure enough, this El-Melloi II is as weak as the rumors say. He was cursed so easily."

"Hahaha...all I have to do now is wait for a while before I can go to my employer to get the money. It's so easy, hahaha!"

The man laughed sinisterly and couldn't help showing an obsessed expression on his face. He must have been imagining what kind of wonderful life he could enjoy after getting the huge sum of money...

However, what he did not notice was that in the darkness behind him, a blood-red eye flashed.

Shinji concealed his presence and sat in the back seat, less than a meter away from the other person, but he didn't seem to be discovered at all.

Listening to the information casually revealed by the man in front of him, Shinji roughly understood one thing... that is, the other party's target is Waver, and the cat is just an insignificant sacrifice.

However, this matter seemed to be deeper than he thought, and it was that guy's own business. If he suddenly intervened, it would have a counterproductive effect...

Shinji calmly glanced at the man in front of him:

【I'll let you live a little longer this time...】

Then the body dived into the darkness and disappeared completely.

......

After that, more than a day passed.

During this period of time, Weber stayed in the study and didn't even go to the bedroom. He would write something in the study with the light on at night.

Beside him, the black cat whose wounds had been treated lay there, its body rising and falling with its breathing, as if expressing its desire to live.

This scene was also seen clearly by Weber's disciple, Gray.

However... in the end, the black cat still couldn't survive the disaster and died in the early morning of the third day...

Under a tree in front of the apartment building, Weber dug a hole with a shovel and gently placed the thing wrapped in cloth in his hand on the hole.

However, after everything that happened last night, as soon as he stood up, his body couldn't stop falling down.

"Master!"

"...I'm fine, probably because I've been staying up late lately."

When Gray heard this, she thought that the master was too concerned about the cat's death, so she comforted him:

"Actually... there is not much difference between walking on the land and sleeping on the land..."

"...That's just your own way of thinking."

"No matter which magician, they can find a way to treat the disease during this period of time, but I always miss the critical opportunity because of my momentary willfulness..."

It is like this now, and it was like this ten years ago.

"Master..."

The girl wanted to say something else, but suddenly a hallucinatory sound attracted her attention.

"Master... did you hear the cat meowing?"

"Cat meowing? How could that be? You don't have to comfort me anymore. I have already prepared myself for these things."

"Meow..."

"...No! There really is a cat meowing!"

Gray said confidently, and Waver also noticed something was wrong at this time. He glanced at the reflection of the sun shining on the trees and suddenly reacted.

"This... is a reflection!"

"what?"

"...Gray, go and call Flat and Sfen over."

"Yes."

Although the girl didn't understand, she responded immediately. Waver was silent for a while and then propped himself up and left.

...Just after the two left, another figure appeared under the tree.