Chapter 128

"Didn't he touch it that night?!"

"...So?" El-Melloi II glanced at his slightly out-of-control student, and asked the parties involved about the situation while holding an unlit cigar in his hand. "Since they are preparing for a meeting, then either the plan was completed ahead of schedule, or something unexpected happened - then, what did Ieiri Naoko do after she came over last night?"

“No—” Lancer-Melloi, who arrived a little earlier than El-Melloi II, showed a subtle expression and looked at the members of the fake last son who were on duty last night. “Rather than saying it’s one of these two developments… it’s better to say that the mission was completed ahead of schedule, but it deviated a little from our original plan.”

"...Are you sure it was just 'slightly off'?" Roman, who was in charge of sorting out the telephone conversation between William and Geto's parents in the evening last night, looked at Lancermello disapprovingly.

"Let me explain the matter first." William sighed helplessly, watching more and more people gather at the door of the conference room, "Last night--"

When Yega Masamichi was showing Kagome Nozomi around in her private work area yesterday, he mentioned that Kagome Ken's matter was definitely not what he wanted to see happen. As God knows, he really just wanted the only student who truly belonged to his class to stay away from Chaldea.

——But Yega Masamichi never expected that the very night he reminded Ieiri Shoko... Ieiri Shoko ran to Chaldea.

"But don't tell me." Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was sitting next to Kirshtalia, paused and said with a guilty conscience, "In fact, even we didn't expect this development, right?"

Naoko, who had come directly to Chaldea last night, had a characteristic that was unique to teenagers. She directly stated that she wanted to come to Chaldea at the door of the office of Roman and William, who were on duty that night.

"You guys have snatched the new student that Mr. Yemo has been dating right in front of him, so you can't make a difference if you add a sorcerer who can perform the reversal spell, right?" Ieiri Naoko stood at the door of the office, raised her eyebrows and watched Roman put down the mug in his hand in shock. "I came here without Mr. Yemo's knowledge, you won't reject me at this time, right?"

"Does she really know what the Suguru Jesuke signed?" Emiya Shirou, who was sitting in the front row, felt a little suffocated when he thought of his large family from various parallel worlds in the Throne of Heroes. "No, besides - what is she, a sorcerer who can reverse spells, doing here to join in the excitement of being the Guardian of Alaya!?"

"I don't think she's here to join in the fun." Lansermello, who was sitting in the last row, tapped the table in front of him as he watched William tell everyone about last night's events on the podium. "And someone who's not good at fighting doesn't mean they can't be a Guardian of Alaya... Isn't Lillian a typical example?"

Lillian Avalon Le Fay - is the first Servant summoned by Fujimaru Ritsuka in the First Anomalous Point France for unknown reasons. She is also the counterpart of Lancer Mello in Pan-Human History. Whether in actual combat or in her own words, Lillian is not very good at fighting compared to other Guardians of Alaya.

“Once you become a Heroic Spirit, even if you only mastered mediocre martial arts during your lifetime—” Having lived for a long time and having seen many old friends become Heroic Spirits, Akuhiko glanced at Shirou Emiya in the front row, “After becoming a Heroic Spirit, everyone will become stronger. If you specialized in a certain skill during your lifetime…”

"A typical example is Ms. Okita's Noble Phantasm - or someone more familiar to everyone." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Shirou Emiya's back, "That's Mr. Emiya. Although Mr. Emiya's projection magic is now more proficient and powerful than before, it is obvious that he is still inferior to Mr. Emiya who has become a Heroic Spirit."

"So, if Ieiri Naoko isn't here to join in the fun..." El-Melloi II turned around and looked at Lancer-Melloi who was sitting in the back with his head propped up, "Could it be that she's interested in magic? As far as I can remember, no one has ever used magic in front of her? At most, she's used it in front of Yega Masamichi - ah, I see."

Yesterday, they threw Iaruji to Noctua Masami in the parking lot - and Iaruji specifically mentioned in front of Roman and William that she came here with Noctua on her back.

"In fact, before you came here, I just signed a self-enforced certificate with the principal of the technical high school—" Lansemello thought about what happened in the fall and roughly understood why Yega Masamichi mentioned magic to Ieiri Naoko, "The principal of the technical high school invited me and Mr. Yega to have a fight at the technical high school's actual combat field."

"I wonder if you have left him with too deep a psychological shadow." El-Melloi II pointed out a possibility in a subtle tone. "I don't think you know when to stop and when to stop, Lord."

Although a magician's specialty is to study magic rather than use magic to fight - but this is Chaldea.

The Human Rights Protection Agency Phoenix Chaldea was originally an agency that used magic to achieve its goal of "protecting the future of humanity" - not an agency that researched magic.

Not to mention that Chaldea has now transcended the Burning of Humanity and the Bleaching of Humanity, and has completely transformed from an observatory and research institution into a professional savior organization. In order to ensure the safety of the savior, even if they are still doing research related to magic recently, their research is not on how to reach the root, but on how to create magic with greater destructive power and less magic consumption.

“…Velvet.”

"Ahem." Roman, another party involved who did not go to the podium, sat next to Marisbury and cleared his throat helplessly. "Is it possible that, just like we can find that the direction of the sorcerer's power is different from ours, the sorcerer can also find the difference between us and them?"

"I don't think so."

Lancermello and El-Melloi II rejected Roman's opinion in unison.

"The focus of a sorcerer is combat, not research—" El-Melloi II gave his reasons pertinently. "They are so busy fighting the cursed spirits that they are already short-handed to the point of being overloaded on a daily basis. There is no way they can spare any more manpower to conduct research."

"I don't think so." Lansemello glanced at Tosaka Rin's back, then quickly looked away and drew a simple diagram on the notebook in his hand. "There are three families in the world of sorcery - this alone is enough to confirm that the more important force in the world of sorcery is still the family of the sorcerer."

Moreover, the inheritance method of the sorcerer family is different from that of the magician family - at least according to the information provided to Chaldea by the principal, the three families in the sorcery world are very prosperous.

The sorcerer's technique is passed down through blood, so although only one heir is needed, the Sanke Gojo, Zenin, and Kamo all chose to increase the number of descendants with the same blood as much as possible under different family strategies - even if not all of these descendants can inherit the family technique, as long as they are sorcerers, it is beneficial to the family.

The magician's family line is inherited from one son to another - just one heir is enough to maintain the existence of the family line. In fact, because the essence of inheritance is to inherit the magic imprint, when there is no blood-related heir in the family, the magician can choose to adopt a suitable heir to inherit his own magic imprint.

"A sorcerer can become one as long as he has cursed power. He is more like the first generation of sorcerers who have not yet transformed the secrets they have spent their entire lives training into magic seals." Lansemello pointed at Fujimaru Ritsuka, then Kirshtalia and Olgamari, "And the sorcerers of the Yusan family are like sorcerers from famous families of sorcerers with at least ten centuries of experience."

"The seal of such a magician family has accumulated a lot of mystery, just like the blood flowing in the body of the family's magician." Lansemello tapped his notebook with his pen. "However, in terms of the superior organization, the 'Magic Association and the Spell Directorate', there is a considerable gap between the two sides."

The Magic Association "Clock Tower" was divided into three factions based on the political stance of the twelve monarchs, and became four political factions after Lancer Mello escaped the seal designation - but no matter what, because magicians are conducting research on magic, no matter how chaotic the politics is, the magic research of the Clock Tower is definitely the most advanced in the world.

Even the Clock Tower has considerable power to mobilize magicians from all over the world.

As for the Council of Directors of Spells - although it was obvious that the political stances of the representatives of each family were different, to the magicians who came from the Clock Tower, the Council of Directors of Spells looked like a hollow organization hastily established by the magician families in order to fight for power.

Although the growth directions of sorcerers and magicians are obviously different, there is no other reason why the Spell Directorate has received such a high evaluation in this regard - it is just because in the eyes of magicians, the teaching facilities of the technical college, which should be equivalent to the "Seventy and Five Cities" of the Clock Tower, are not enough to shoulder such a heavy responsibility.

The Clock Tower "Seventy-Five Cities" is the world's highest school of magic -- and the technical high school looks like something the Director of Spells came up with on a whim.

The technical high school has not yet been closed down by the Jujutsu Directorate, probably because the family sorcerers discovered that although there are few students, most of the students in the technical high school are sorcerers who are not from the family. So after discovering a new way to use the students - training sorcerers who are not from the family to die in their place, they continued to maintain the existence of the technical high school.

In order to conceal their own intentions, they even sent several family sorcerers to study in the technical college - but this was obviously just a cover-up for the magicians.

Perhaps it would be better to reveal one's true purpose directly to leave a better impression on the magicians - after all, magicians are not creatures with moral bottom lines.

"So, what do you think about Ieori Nitro?" Marinesberry turned his head to look at Lansemello, who was not interested. "Lord?"

"Although I originally wanted to find an opportunity to give Kagome Kei back to Mr. Yega - I don't have the hobby of teaching other students casually..." Lansemello stroked his chin and pondered, his eyes uncontrollably tilted to the window, "But, since Ieiri Naoko took the initiative to find us, then we should slightly modify the previous plan."

"Besides, the relationship between the High School and the Jujutsu Directorate is indeed worrying..." Lansermello retracted his gaze and found a simple excuse to change the plan, "The new goal is to first lure all three students from the Night Moth Orthodoxy over."