Chapter 085 85
"Only the rose girl who wins the Alice game can become 'Alice', the 'perfect girl', and can see father again." Hinamiya turned around and buried her face in Ashiya Hanae's clothes, and reluctantly answered Fujimaru Ritsuka's question in a muffled voice, "Alice game is a war between seven rose girls fighting for each other's Rose Mothers - the winner will get all the Rose Mothers."
When seven groups of Masters and Servants are gathered, the Holy Grail War will begin, and the war will not end until only the last group remains - and the final winner can hold the Holy Grail, which is the prize given to the winner.
"Although I know that the number 'seven' has a very important meaning to the mystical side, and is even called a sacred number..." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Amura Ransu and then at Asaya Hanae, and sighed helplessly, "But I never thought that the rules of this kind of fighting ritual also require seven groups of participants."
——The Holy Grail contains the souls of dead servants and becomes the prize for the winner of the Holy Grail War. The Rose Mother that the Rose Maidens have to fight for should obviously be something that can be equated with the souls of the dolls. The winner of Alice's game gets all the Rose Mothers, just like the Holy Grail that keeps the souls of dead servants.
When she began to associate the dolls in front of her with the Clock Tower's Creation Section "Baruye", even though Fujimaru Ritsuka knew in her heart that these people in front of her were obviously from completely different worlds, she still subconsciously used the words that El-Melloi II used to explain Frankenstein to her in the Fourth Singularity to understand the existence of the Rose Girl in front of her.
Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss magician, belongs to the Department of Creation "Baruye" - Baruyereta pursues the "ultimate beauty" to reach the "root" - and for Dr. Frankenstein, his "ultimate beauty" is to reproduce the miracle of God's creation of man in a human way.
God created man, made Adam out of dust, and then took Adam's rib to make Eve - and Frankenstein's plan was to let his "Eve" give birth to "Adam".
Although Android Frankenstein was even evaluated by Lancermello as a complete failure compared to "Frankenstein" in the secular sense - but Fujimaru Ritsuka, who saw it with his own eyes in the fourth anomaly and even took the initiative to choose to awaken Frankenstein, had to admit that even with such an evaluation, Frankenstein still represents a form of "ultimate beauty".
——That android girl who was feared by almost the entire world was undoubtedly beautiful.
——Even though she is just an artificial life form made of dismembered corpses and brought to life by electricity...she is still breathtakingly beautiful.
"Master!?" Charlemagne materialized again and appeared beside Fujimaru Ritsuka, looking at her with a rare look of worry on his face, "You look bad... Did you remember something?"
"No, I just thought of the goal of creating a perfect girl... I've heard it more than once." Fujimaru Ritsuka let out a long breath, and different scenes appeared in front of his eyes. "But creating them... at least as far as I know, I haven't succeeded so far."
"Even if we take Rose Girl into account, the existence of the Alice games proves that they were considered failures by their creators."
"That is to say, the winner of Alice's game will become a truly successful game."
Dr. Victor Frankenstein spent two years trying to create the perfect girl, but what he created was a doll that couldn't even cry; Izawa Ruma's Gold Princess and Silver Princess introduced the movement of celestial bodies into the human body, and through the tuning magic passed down through generations, they created the possibility of recreating the supreme beauty, but they still failed.
——Dr. Frankenstein used the broken limbs of corpses to create his "Eve", but in the end he created a monster that even he himself was afraid of. The robot created based on the "concept" of Eve became a monster that impressed the whole world and had deviated from the magician's pursuit of the "ultimate beauty".
- Izawa Ruma of the Twin Tower used the movement of the sun and the moon to harmonize with Gold Princess and Silver Princess, and walked their path of "recreating the supreme beauty in human form." However, the death of Gold Princess and the sudden collapse of the Twin Tower meant that everything they had came to an abrupt end at that moment, and even the necessity for their family to exist was no longer there.
The creator of Rose Girl didn't know how to give the doll life - Rose Girl was obviously not the puppeteer school of the Magic Association that imitated the human body, nor was she the type of puppeteer in the Atlas Institute that directly created life; however, when Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Hinamiya again, her golden eyes reflected the light of the Rose Mother.
——"My daughters, I love you deeply."
——!!!
"Eh!?" Ashiya Hanae's eyes widened in surprise, "What... does this mean?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, the members of the Red Camp should be the seven Rose Girls - there are no puppets in the other camps." Fujimaru Ritsuka scratched his hair, ignored the voice he heard before, and turned his eyes away from Hemei without changing his expression. "But, since there are camps this time - I have a bad feeling."
"It won't be twenty-one teams competing for the final victory." Yicun Ransu looked at the two people standing beside him and slightly shifted his gaze away. "If that's the case - although no matter which camp it is, there will definitely be a civil war in the end, but in the early stages, cooperation with the same camp is definitely needed... I don't really like working with people I don't know."
"Our problem now is where the others are." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed helplessly and decided not to fight here for the time being. "If there are only three of us, then the people are not all here, and neither side of the battlefield has reached the conditions to declare the battle open - at least one of the camps must have seven groups before the battle can officially begin, so let's work together to find a way out of this garden for the time being."
Asclepius calmly removed the barrier and retreated behind Yicun Ransu, indicating that he had no intention of blocking either group.
"Well... I think that the Crimson Camp may only be missing me and Hinamichi?" Ashiya Hanae held Hinamichi and looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka who was about to turn around and leave. "Because the Rose Girls are ranked according to the time of creation - the first to the seventh doll. Hinamichi is the sixth doll, and the seventh doll, even though Hinamichi is also a Rose Girl, has never seen her, so she can't judge her situation..."
"I think the first to fifth puppet groups of the Red Camp might have already met and are waiting for someone..."
"Then hurry up and find a way to get out - this space is very strange. Even a rose girl who has experienced Alice games several times will feel uneasy about this place." Fujimaru Ritsuka stopped and looked back at the people behind him. "After all, no matter what, this is not the battlefield you are familiar with in the past."
“Although it’s similar, it’s definitely not the same place.”
Fujimaru Ritsuka led the way and walked forward without saying a word. In this way, the group almost reached the exit of the garden smoothly and never entered any dead end except the dead end they had talked about before.
Charlemagne watched everyone successfully reach the exit of the garden, and subconsciously sighed: "My Master's good fortune is truly miraculous."
Although the other two groups felt relieved to see the exit and walked ahead of Fujimaru Ritsuka, they all stopped completely at the exit.
"What is that...?"
Ritsuka Fujimaru, the last one to reach the exit, raised her eyes and looked towards it. The first thing that came into her sight was the huge castle just within reach. One glance at that castle was enough for anyone who had seen it to admit that it was the castle of the Queen of Hearts, worthy of Alice's story. Then, she noticed the White Rabbit in a black tuxedo, standing upright at the exit, leaning on a cane.
"Welcome to the Heart Castle - the Caster team from the Black Camp, the Saber team from the White Camp, and the Sixth Doll Team from the Red Camp." The white rabbit stood in front of them, and the voice clearly reached their ears, but the white rabbit never moved its mouth. "The other participants have all arrived and are gathering in the banquet hall of the castle waiting for your arrival."
"Although you are the last group of participants to arrive, fortunately you are not late." White Rabbit looked at his pocket watch, turned around and walked towards the castle. "The consequences of being late are very serious - follow me, I will take you to the banquet hall. Only when the twenty-one groups gather together, can this battle begin."
Fujimaru Ritsuka was the first to step out of the garden and catch up with the white rabbit, followed by Amura Ranku. Ashiya Hanae, who fell behind, hugged Hinamiya tightly in her arms, but unexpectedly heard Hinamiya's words in a soft voice - "That is... the supervisor of Alice's game... a friend of father."
"By the way, let me introduce myself." White Rabbit suddenly stopped and turned to look at the six people behind him, with a strange smile in his red eyes. "I am the Supervisor, Laplace's Demon - just this once, you can also call me Ruler."
"I will be here to witness the birth of the winner. Although past battles allowed for any means to be used, in this battle... if you disregard the rules, you will face a more tragic outcome than losing the battle." Laplace's Demon made a gesture of silence, "This is my only kind reminder. After all, that person is my old friend, and I still have to take care of his daughters."
——Rules… not Rules, but Laws…
Fujimaru Ritsuka subconsciously looked up at the huge castle, and the red paint dripping from the flowers in the rose garden popped into her mind again at this moment - after all, when it comes to Alice, if there is a law, then that is... "The 810 Laws of the Queen of Hearts", a cruel law that would result in the Queen ordering the beheading of anyone who violates it.
——It seems that the trouble this time is far more than just the problem of the three camps.