Chapter 130

"If it was Gojo Satoru, he would definitely take action on the first day of school."

"Glass, you need to know one thing - for this kind of guy who breaks through common sense, if you want them to be willing to see you, you must first arouse their interest."

"Ah... arouse interest? Ask Fujimaru about this, she'll tell you how to do it."

——This is the Chaldean speculation about Gojo Satoru that Ieiri Shoko obtained after she became familiar with the Chaldean people.

"I remember that according to Mr. Yega's original plan, there should be three of you this year, right?" Fujimaru Ritsuka opened the can and took a sip of the coffee inside. "Then, there will be two scenarios on the first day of school - one, Gojo Satoru will come or not come to the high school; the other, Geto Suguru will arrive earlier than Gojo Satoru or later."

"First of all, you are the same as Gojo Satoru. Because of your rarity, you are well-known in the entire magic world." Fujimaru Ritsuka threw another can of drink to Ieiri Naoko and sat down on the bench by the window. "So compared to Kagome Takeshi, who is not from a magician family, Gojo Satoru will understand you better."

"Although I don't know much, at least I'm more familiar with him than Kagome Kei, who I've never heard of."

——Just like King Gilgamesh and Miss Siduri in the past that she had never seen.

Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed subconsciously in his heart.

"So, what's the difference between these two branches?" Ieiri Naoko caught the drink thrown by Fujimaru Ritsuka, sat down next to her, and said casually, "Branch... This term sounds like playing a text adventure game - no, for you, what you have to do is to make sure that no matter which branch you choose, Gojo Satoru can stay in the high school, right?"

"I call it a branch because the future is like a tree branch to us." Fujimaru Ritsuka gathered magic power at his fingertips and used magic power to draw a tree-like pattern in the air according to the teachings he had received in the past. He explained to Naoko, "The past is like sand; and the future is the branches that develop from the present, or the root."

"In a sense, it is indeed like a text adventure game. The future will change completely differently depending on different choices." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed and dispersed half of the branches. "Strictly speaking, the two branches I mentioned are both possible - but based on the impact of the past on the present, the possibility that Gojo Satoru will not come to the high school is very weak, equivalent to non-existent."

"Why?" Ieiri Shoko asked subconsciously.

"Because the previous foundation was laid by Yaga Masamichi alone - Gojo Satoru initially thought Yaga Masamichi was interesting, so he allowed him to keep coming to him and persuading him, but he never gave a clear answer." Fujimaru Ritsuka searched his mind and found that the Uruk-gumi really didn't have anyone suitable to deal with Yaga Masamichi. He simply and roughly threw a conclusion to Ieiri Nozomi, "Let's put it this way, unless there is really a curser who can complete the assassination bounty on Rokugan, or the Gojo family can stop him..."

"Otherwise he would definitely come to the technical college - I remember he didn't know how to reverse the technique."

"And in high school you will."

"So that's how it is. That means the attraction that prompted Gojo Satoru to come to the high school is already enough." Ieiri Naoko opened the can and drank a sip of the coffee inside. "So your task is to create enough attraction for Gojo Satoru to choose to stay here for a long time - how come it's like a cat toy."

"...I think so too - but considering the lethality, or maybe it's to tease that large feline." Fujimaru Ritsuka's eyes darted around, and the face of King Gilgamesh flashed through his mind uncontrollably again, "But anyway, after Gojo Satoru mentioned the high school about the moth and your curiosity was satisfied, if nothing else attracted his attention..."

"He will definitely turn around and leave." Fujimaru Ritsuka showed a look of deep hatred and pain, thinking of the Chaldea headquarters floating in the sea of ​​stars with a large group of heroic spirits. "I swear on my experience - he will definitely turn around and leave!!!"

"Then it seems that the second branch is the real focus." Ieiri Shoko looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka, who suddenly exuded a dark aura, and moved her position slightly to the other end of the bench with a subtle expression, "Kayu Kei arrived earlier than Gojo Satoru, or later than Gojo Satoru - will the difference in these two directions have any important impact?"

"Uh... Strictly speaking, it will affect your next course schedule?" Fujimaru Ritsuka touched his chin and thought for a while, and finally gave Ieiri Shoko a vague answer.

——This was a conversation between Fujimaru Ritsuka and Ieiri Shoko in early March 2005, after the end of the third semester of the previous school year.

However, in fact, Ieiri Shoko received special training from Chaldea during the short spring break of less than a month. It even included two specialized courses with possible directions, rather than a single branch of special training. For this reason, Chaldea even took over the work of therapeutic dissection and handling the corpses of sorcerers that the Jujutsu Director Council had given to Ieiri Shoko.

And now, Gojo Satoru appeared on the roof of the high school, preparing to attack the location where Ieiri Naoko and Kagome Ken were.

"'Cang'."

A blue cursed bullet whizzed towards him, and Geto Suguru instinctively wanted to summon his own cursed spirit to block it, but he found that Ieiri Naoko raised her hand to hold him down, and even slowly put a cigarette in her mouth - then, under Geto Suguru's gaze, Ieiri Naoko raised her hand at a speed that he could not see at all.

"The inherent time control is activated."

When the smoke from the cursed dam that blocked their view cleared, Gojo Satoru's attack miraculously disappeared at the fingertips of Kaori Nozomi.

"Huh..." The hand that Ieiri Naoko stretched out in front of her suddenly dropped uncontrollably as if she had lost her strength. At the same time, she let out a long breath, turned her head and smiled at the stunned Geto Suguru, "By the way, should I introduce myself to you formally?"

"The master of the 'Reversal Technique' is Naoko Ieiri. By the way, the technique just now was used for the first time outside 'outside Chaldea'."

Time goes back to half a month ago - at that time, Chaldea was trying to find a way to make Ieiri Shoko be able to deal with Gojo Satoru's attack even if she was alone.

As a result, the research on magic, which had long been abandoned, was picked up again by this group of people who were closer to magicians than magicians.

"Achiman, I remember you gave my family a full set of examinations, right?" One afternoon, Lansermello suddenly opened the door of the infirmary and found Roman who was chatting with Magic☆Meili. "Help me see what her origin is. Ordinary magic has not made much progress now. I want to see if I can find any breakthrough points from her own attributes."

“Let me see…” Roman cut off the message Merlin had sent him in the voice of an internet idol and began to search for the report on Ieiri Naoko for Lancer Melo. “Come to think of it, even if Naoko’s power flows in the same direction as ours, she is not from the same world as us after all—ah, got it.”

"What is it?"

"The origin and properties are both very special. By the way, I suggest you call all the people from the Emiya family over here." Roman glanced at Lansermello standing behind him, and after reading the thoughts in her eyes, he decisively gave a suggestion. "By the way, if you want to develop in that direction, you can ask Director Mary to take a look, because Trisha has performed this kind of magic before."

"After all, as you know, the original more valuable child's attributes have not only been transformed, but she is not a student of El-Melloi's classroom, nor is she one of our members."

——The origin of Ieiri Shoko is "time", and her attribute is a fictional element and a virtual attribute.

"I want to talk to you about something." Lansermello appeared in a classroom with curtains drawn and desks and chairs piled up at the back to leave a large space on the floor. He looked at the servants who appeared through the summoning array set up in the classroom, "It's about the magic seal of the Emiya family."

"I plan to transplant the sigil of the Emiya family to Ieiri."

When El-Melloi II and Lyness joined the conversation that was supposed to be between the Emiya family and Lanser-Melloi, Lanser-Melloi directly informed the last holder of the Emiya family magic seal, Emiya Kiritsugu.

"Wait, wait!" Before Kiritsugu Emiya, who manifested as Assassin, could speak, Tosaka Rin slammed the table and stood up, "The magic seal of the Emiya family - because the inheritance of the Emiya family has been cut off, their family's information is still understandable in the clock tower... I remember that their research is related to time, right?"

"No, can this unconventional mystery be transplanted to people from another world!?"

"No, strictly speaking, as long as Assassin's guard nods, I can go directly to the infirmary to transfer the mark—" Lancer-Melloi looked at the incomprehensible looks of the people in the room, sighed helplessly, and slowly glanced at the two people from the El-Melloi family. "Well, I assume that you should have learned about El-Melloi's mark in Chaldea?"

"I remember that it was almost completely destroyed in the Fourth Holy Grail War, right?" Tosaka Rin frowned as she recalled the news that had been circulating in the Clock Tower in the distant past. "Although the Clock Tower extracted and preserved El-Melloi's Mark, before 2003 - Lyness still had to go to the tuner regularly... But at that level, it was a problem that could only be solved by a repairman."

"But when you, Tosaka, went to study at the Clock Tower, Renis should have stopped needing to go to the tuner for tuning." Emiya Shirou pointed out the abnormality for Tosaka Rin. "Since it was almost completely destroyed, why did it recover in 2006?"

"In fact, things have returned to normal after the Mystic Eye Train incident in 2003." El-Melloi II calmly turned the cigar in his hand and explained to his students what happened in the past. "In fact, if it was just a debt problem, no matter how horrific the figure was, it would not allow a monarch's family to regard themselves as someone's appendage."

"On the Mystic Eye Train, the Lord provided us with the complete El-Melloi family's origin seal - and in return, after that, we completely stood by the Lord."