Tribute to the Demon King

"I said, Archer, Kiritsugu's wish is my wish. He taught me the way of human existence, singing life with crying, laughter, joy and anger... It is he who taught me how a human being should be. Alive. His wishes are my wishes, and his ideals are my ideals."

Weak but firm, Alice Felton paused, and added in a low voice: "However, if possible, I hope this is the last Holy Grail War... the artificial human who died as a container for the Holy Grail, I hope I am the last one."

Hearing this, Archer finally understood the meaning behind Irisviel's words.

Ilyasviel von Einzbern...his older sister.The greatest product of the Einzbern family after the Maiden of Winter, a miracle of alchemy.

"The patriarch plans to use a more powerful artificial human as the guardian of the Holy Grail after me. Long before the Holy Grail War started, he had foreseen the possibility of the fifth Holy Grail War, so he let me give birth to Yi Leah."

Irisviel said worriedly: "If Kiritsugu and I fail, then that child will be used as a test bed for the 'Clothes of Heaven'."

The artificial human who fulfilled Einzbern's wish was not herself, but Illya.

However, she will not be allowed to inherit.

"As the mother of that child, I would have given her anything as a gift."

Beautiful things, cute things, beautiful things, I want to collect them all and leave them to her.

but--

"Only the curse in the shape of the dress...I don't want to leave it to her."

Irisviel's voice was full of tenacity and affection: "So, I hope that this pain can end here."

Archer understood immediately.

There is no doubt - Irisviel, she is by no means a pure artificial human.

She has human kindness, happy smiles and sad tears.

The warmth contained in her heart is the most critical part of being a human being.

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Chapter 3 sent... Finally finished it... So tired... (摇)

I've got cold hands and feet... go to bed, good night...

...No, good morning (dead fish eye)

Chapter 86 The sacred F2A connects us

Kenneth El-Mellou Archibald never doubted his talent.

Even an eagle would forget how to fly if kept in a coop with chickens—to believe in and trust in one's own genius is the right way to harness this superhuman talent.

From this point of view, it may be a good thing that his ineffective student can steal his holy relic.Otherwise, I would have simply pursued the "powerful heroic spirit" and used the holy relic to summon Alexander the Great.

Rather, luckily he didn't summon Iskandar.Judging from that guy Velvet's situation, he has already been turned by his own Servant, taking away the initiative of the action.

...It is a shame to be a magician.

In the end, Servants are just props, no different from ordinary equipment, as long as they can be obedient, that's enough.No matter how powerful a hero is, it doesn't make any sense if it can counterattack the Master.The best Heroic Spirit to use should be the one who can faithfully carry out all the orders of the magus as the Master.

"I didn't expect that guy to get carried away..."

Kenneth couldn't help sneering.

I didn't realize it before...but when I was investigating Emiya Kiritsugu yesterday, I also investigated the news of all the masters on the side, and he noticed something wrong from that regularity.

Except for the Karna summoned by Tohsaka Tokiomi, the other holy relics used by the Master were all provided by the fraudster who sold fakes from the archaeological department...and they all happened to be genuine.

Therefore, Kenneth has every reason to believe that that guy—at least his spokesperson must be in Fuyuki City.

That's right, that guy... the monster of the Rockslot family, the "Inheritance Replicator".

His name was Darius - origin unknown.Probably because of his rare imaginary number attributes and heterogeneous magic circuits, he was secretly announced as an adopted son by the archaeological lord at the age of six, and began to formally practice magic at the age of eight.As of two years ago, he had become the most talented researcher in Rockslot, and he had reached the rank at the same time as himself, and he was given the "seal designation" because of his unique replica magic.

Moreover, the little girl from the astrophysical department had slipped her mouth when she told herself that time.She mentioned the information that Darius had even decrypted and reproduced the fragments of the True Cross before he was designated by the seal.In this way, it is only logical that he obtained the protection of the Church of the Holy Church and escaped the tracking of the Executive Department incognito.

It's ridiculous.The glory of the Rockslot family is enough to protect him.As long as he inherits Section [-] (Rockslott) honestly, Kenneth will not believe that the group of idiots in the executive department would dare to directly assign the seal to a future lord.

"But, Kenneth. As you know, archeology is the study of correctly recovering information from the past, bringing it back to life."

Feeling that he might be designated by a seal, the guy said to himself with a wry smile when he escaped from the clock tower ahead of time: "Compared to that, building a family and lineage, and fighting for power... caring about such things will make me feel worse." energies, and diminish my faculties."

"I must go back in history, all the way back to the era before the mystery faded... I have a hunch that if my work is slower than someone else's, something might go wrong."

The young man who always smiled gently spoke to Kenneth like this.

A magician is a creature whose only mind is magic.But at that time, Darius was undoubtedly studying magic for "purposes other than magic".

From then on, Kenneth realized that the guy and the clock tower were incompatible.

If nothing else... he probably has been preparing for the Holy Grail War for several years.Even before he was awarded the designation of seal, he vaguely started to lay out the layout, and handed over the holy relics he had arranged to the hands of each contestant one by one.

Kenneth had doubted him then.But what he doubted was whether the bodhi leaf he bought from him was a well-disguised fake...Just in case, Kenneth bought a new holy relic again.

...but what is he planning?

Kenneth couldn't help feeling dazed.

He didn't even have to set foot on British soil, just revealing where he was could cost his life.Not only because of the massive holy relics and ancient treasures he holds, but also the secrets buried by the times that he deciphered from ancient history—rather, the latter is the precious wealth that magicians want to obtain.

However, no matter what his purpose is.

Kenneth has the consciousness to defeat him.