Chapter 102

"Afternoon tea party with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse." Minami Tsuna looked at the tea party garden in front of her and thought of the afternoon tea party in the fairy tale. "There is more than one law related to tea parties in "The 810 Laws of the Queen of Hearts". I was thinking that there is no suitable place to hold a tea party in the current open area..."

"I didn't expect that there would be a tea party garden in the newly opened area today..." Mashu glanced at Samson standing behind him, and took the lead to walk towards the long white tea party table in the center of the garden. "I can't say it's unexpected, but I certainly didn't think of it at first - after all, the existing areas are not very suitable for the Holy Grail War."

"And the Tea Party Gardens are clearly not a suitable location for a fight."

After receiving Mash's gaze, Samson disappeared silently from the garden - after transforming into a spirit and moving to a corner that was inconspicuous enough, Samson regained his physical form. Not surprisingly, he saw Anastasia, who came from Kadoc, also appear not far from him, holding Wei.

"The Master has discovered a new area."

Cadoch originally arranged the order of selection for Anastasia to be - first Matthew, then Ophelia and Pepperoncino, and lastly Mustard.

Originally, according to Cadoch's arrangement, Anastasia should have turned around and gone to the croquet court when she confirmed that there were members of other camps around Marthe.

And yet - in fact, Anastasia had come back from the croquet ground.

At first, Anastasia went to the croquet ground according to Cadoch's instructions - but when she arrived at the croquet ground, Marsh had already set out to explore the new area with Minamiki Tsunayoshi and Ashiya Hanae; Anastasia considered telling the people at the croquet ground directly, but Anna, who was more agile and stealthy than Assassin, had already rejected Anastasia's plan to directly inform them of the information at the suggestion of Ophelia, and pointed out where Marsh had gone.

And then Anastasia found this place.

But in fact, before Anastasia even stepped into the Tea Party Garden, Mash had noticed her whereabouts and reminded Samson in advance to leave and look for Anastasia - after all, the biggest difference between Mash and all the participants in this Holy Grail War is that she is a sub-servant.

In the past, Mashu has more often fought as Fujimaru Ritsuka's Servant than as a Savior.

The functions of a Lord and a Servant are different, and even as a Lord, Mashu still possesses certain abilities of a Servant - just like even though Galahad has taken back the spiritual base he gave to Mashu, Mashu can still fight as Fujimaru Ritsuka's Servant.

Although it is well known that the privilege of the Ruler class includes a search range of ten kilometers, for the servants, knowing the movements of the enemy approaching them is a basic skill. In addition to Assassin, who has excellent breath blocking skills and can approach other servants without leaving any trace...

Other Servants would be discovered by their opponents almost immediately after they got halfway close.

Although Mashu is not a Ruler, and does not have such an extreme search range, nor is he the kind of guy who can do everything without hiding as long as he stays in his own territory - thinking of this, I really have to be thankful that the other two camps have not yet had any participants who are brave enough to let themselves go to the sky...

——Otherwise, they might have to face the power of "Heaven".

However, the person who had handed over his spiritual base to Mashu was the famous Holy Grail Knight, Galahad - so even though Galahad's spiritual base had been separated from Mashu, Mashu still enjoyed some of Galahad's privileges.

For example - there is no Ruler limit, but it is still far beyond the search range of ordinary servants.

——The gods always give special treatment to their beloved children.

So long before the other two groups could notice Anastasia's magic, Marsh had already discovered the whereabouts of the last princess of Tsarist Russia - and then she sent Samson away during the gap in discussing the new area with the other two groups, creating an environment for the two servants to talk as undisturbed as possible by others.

"What's the new area you found over there?" Samson leaned against the castle wall, using magic communication to learn about the situation in the tea garden, and confirmed with Anastasia the news that Cadoc asked her to bring. "We also found a new area here - the preliminary judgment is that it is a garden used for afternoon tea parties, and no rules for its existence have been found."

"The area we found here has separate rules." Anastasia quickly explained to Sanson the information that Cadoc asked her to bring. "Judging from the title of the rules, it should be an area similar to a court. The rules are the "Trial Court Rules", which are the same length as most rules, only six articles."

Samson: "...Have you gone in to take a look?"

"No." Anastasia shook her head and explained the contents of the Trial Court Rules to Sanson one by one. "…Article 2: All actions are prohibited without the Queen's permission. Master judged that without the Queen's permission, the interior of the Trial Court should be a prohibited area."

"We have no intention or need to challenge the rules." Anastasia reiterated, "Chaldea's goal is to recover the Holy Grail at the anomaly, not to really come here to play rule-breaking monster stories and the Holy Grail War - but, this is the third day, and this is the first time a new area has been opened..."

"Yes, and it's uncertain whether new areas will be added in the future." Sanson nodded, thinking of the results of the meeting in Chaldea on the first night. "But, looking at the Masters... they seem to be very sure that there will be a chessboard area for "Pawn Upgrade" in this special point."

"…But why is the new area the Tea Party Garden?" Ashiya Hanae asked Mashu and Minamiki Tsuna.

"Hmm... maybe because this is a wonderful world centered on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?" Minamiki Tsuna shrugged subtly and told the two of them her simple guess. "In Alice's story, there are several very famous plots - one of which is the story of Alice attending the tea party with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, and the Dormouse."

"And they hold tea parties all day long because of the orders of the King and Queen of Hearts. Although the King of Hearts is not as well-known as the Queen of Hearts in the public's impression, in the original story, there are indeed two people, the King and the Queen." Mashu added to Ashiya Hanae, "In the process of the story's continuous circulation and changes, the King of Hearts almost completely disappeared. "

"The remaining Queen of Hearts also went straight from Queen to Queen - but if there is only the Queen of Hearts, then she can only be considered the Queen of Hearts."

"Also, the winner among the seven rose girls will be Alice. Since the rose girls appear here, they must be connected to this world." Minamiaki Tsunayoshi looked deeply at Hinamiya who was held in Ashiya Hanae's arms, lifted the lid of the teapot, and found a sleeping dormouse inside, not surprisingly. "Oh, okay..."

"In The 810 Laws of the Queen of Hearts, a dormouse is placed in the teapot at the tea party... It seems that we don't have to go to the trouble of finding a dormouse and putting it in the teapot."

After checking the ballroom and terrace, Fujimaru Ritsuka went to the throne room at the end - although she had not explored many castles, fortunately the location of the throne was roughly the same in every castle.

The throne room in the Heart Castle is completely different from all the throne rooms that Fujimaru Ritsuka has seen in the past - the throne room of Camelot seen in the Sixth Anomaly was solemn and dignified white, awe-inspiring blue, and sacred gold; the throne of King Gilgamesh is located in the Ziggurat, and has the same brilliant gold as the throne of Sun King Ozymandias.

In the interstellar city mountains of the Atlantic Sound Belt, although there is no throne room, the Orbital Grand Temple Olympia Dodona is the temple of the gods, with a cold and dazzling metallic color belonging to the machine god; and in the Sixth Sound Belt, the Great Cathedral of the Wind Clan mentioned in the information sent to them by New Chaldea is an aurora-like color unique to fantasy and fairyland.

There is also Camelot in the fairy kingdom of Britain. Although it is the same white and blue as Camelot in the sixth singularity, it is different from the sacred gold of the Holy Lance Goddess. It is black, representing the queen Morgan who has ruled the fairy kingdom for two thousand years. Although the throne room was soaked with the blood of dead fairies when Fujimaru Ritsuka first entered it, she still saw the normal capital of the fairy kingdom in her dream later.

The throne room in the Heart Castle is different from all the throne rooms that Fujimaru Ritsuka has ever seen - it is a cruel red like blood, and gold as sharp as a sword and an axe; just like the impression given by the Heart Queen in the story, there are bright red roses and beheading can be used at any time and anywhere.

Ritsuka Fujimaru quickly left the throne room of the Heart Castle - in fact, even though there was nothing above the throne, the moment he stepped into the throne room, Ritsuka Fujimaru felt the same pressure as when he faced the Holy Lance Goddess Rongomeniade at the sixth singularity.

—something was right here, watching her.

The moment she felt this pressure, Fujimaru Ritsuka felt someone's gaze directed at her - so she quickly left the throne room of the Heart Castle.

Fujimaru Ritsuka had a hunch that, if nothing unexpected happened, her exploration of the throne room might have awakened the true holder of the Holy Grail, Shinku... no, or rather, she should be called Alice.

Fujimaru Ritsuka and Kirshtalia discussed the issue of the Holy Grail holder alone when their teammates were not around. At the meeting last night, Fujimaru Ritsuka announced that she had confirmed that the fifth Rose Girl doll, Shinku, was the Holy Grail holder. Although Kirshtalia did not raise any objections in front of everyone, he later discussed his doubts with Fujimaru Ritsuka alone.

"Ritsuka, I don't think the one holding the Holy Grail will be the one who needs to participate in the battle."