Chapter 137

"I'm sorry, I failed to protect Miss Kuroi." The moment he saw the photo sent by the curser, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was traveling with Kuroi Misato, spoke up before everyone else. "I didn't expect that a curser would choose to kidnap Miss Kuroi instead of going directly to Riko."

"Didn't Fujimaru-senpai stop the curser on the other side?" Ieiri Nozomi, who was standing next to Gojo Satoru, blinked at Fujimaru Ritsuka in surprise, "I remember--"

"That was a group of cursers - although I said that, we actually encountered three people." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head at Ieiri Shoko, and then added his previous experience, "The curser who kidnapped Miss Kuroi was wearing a red bandana... The bandage almost covered his entire face, and the bandana covered the man's entire head like a hat."

"Kirshtalia: ...Kuroi didn't see them, did he? He didn't see them, right!? He didn't see them!? !"

"Fujimaru Ritsuka: Ahem."

"Kirshtalia: She didn't see it...right?"

"Fujimaru Ritsuka: I brought Hypnos's dress."

"...It seems that the situation on all three sides is the same." Kirshtalia looked at Geto Suguru who was still reflecting on himself, sighed helplessly, and used the leadership skills he had mastered when he was the captain of Team A a long time ago to summarize the current situation for everyone, "Q's Cursers were undoubtedly dealt with by Gojo-kun earlier. Now these Cursers are assassins who came from nowhere--"

"That's right, they are not assassins sent by the Cult of the Disc, but some independent cursers acting alone."

"Isn't it possible that they were hired by the Pansei Cult?" After self-reflection, Xia Yujie questioned Kirshtalia's inference, "If they are cursers, then as long as there is enough money, they can make a move. And it is not impossible to hire a few more cursers for insurance - they can even hire many cursers for one commission, and then tell them that only those who succeed can get the commission..."

"That's a bounty—"

The sudden ringing of the phone interrupted the conversation between Geto Suguru and Naoko Ieiri.

"...Looks like the results are out." Kirshtalia smiled and answered the phone in front of everyone. "Did you find out the results, Coles?"

"There is a new limited-time bounty on the Curse Master's dark web." In the technical college dormitory, Coles was looking at the investigation results on the computer and reporting to Kirshtalia while tilting his head and holding his phone. "The bounty target is Tenuchi Riko, and the identity of the Star Plasma Body is not mentioned - but the bounty amount is 30 million."

"30 million to kill an ordinary middle school girl..." Kirshtalia paused for a moment, exchanged glances with the people who were listening nearby, and gave a rather scathing comment to the cursers who came to assassinate Amanouchi Riko, "How could anyone believe that such a good thing that was like pie in the sky would come true?"

"What should we do next?" Ieiri Naoko asked the two core members in a vague manner, biting the mouthpiece of her cigarette, "The mission is not over yet."

"The curser who kidnapped Kuroi is quite smart in a sense." Gojo Satoru looked at the kidnapping message on Tenuchi Riko's phone and pointed out the curser's possible next move. "The enemy may propose a hostage exchange or use Kuroi's life to force us to kill Tenuchi."

"But Tennai is in our hands, so we have the initiative - as long as the other party proposes a deal, we have a way to resolve it."

"So it's better to send Riko back to the technical high school first." Xia Yujie sighed, "Then find someone with a similar body shape to be a substitute--"

"If we want to use a substitute, I don't think that will work." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head and interrupted Geto's speech, "Geto, do you think that after a treasure is put into a safe, it will be taken out immediately? So if we want to replace it, we can only find a reason to have someone from the High School come instead of us going back."

"Wait!!!" Tenuchi Riko suddenly stopped everyone who was discussing the feasibility of the substitute plan, "I want to go with you during the negotiation!!!"

"Huh? You little bitch, at this time you're still——"

At the moment when Tenuchi Riko started to call everyone to stop, while everyone's attention was drawn to Tenuchi Riko, Fujimaru Ritsuka quietly breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and smiled at Kirshtalia - "Fortunately, fortunately, Riko still took the initiative to ask to go with me to find Miss Kuroi."

"What did Mr. Emiya and his team arrange?" Kirshtalia raised her hand helplessly and ruffled Fujimaru Ritsuka's hair, looking at Amanouchi Riko who had escaped from Gojo Satoru's hands, "Since they took Kuroi away, do they have to fight Gojo and his team next?"

"That will expose us." Fujimaru Ritsuka reached out and slapped Kirshtalia's hand away, looking at Tenuchi Riko who was lowering her head, "We just let Miss Kuroi sleep for a while - when we get to her side, she will wake up by herself. And the so-called curser will disappear without a trace... But Kiritsugu-san wears an ordinary suit when he teaches, not the Heroic Spirit Armor."

"Otherwise they would have known it after hearing this description."

"...But what if Kuroi hasn't come back after I assimilate with Tengen-sama?" Tenuchi Riko lowered her head and clutched her skirt, "I haven't... said goodbye to her yet."

When Tenuchi Riko's crying voice rang out, Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately reached behind his back and opened his flip phone. He typed a message with one hand and sent it back to Chaldea. After the message was successfully sent, he quickly deleted the traces in his phone.

"Letter from: Fujimaru Ritsuka

The pre-process is confirmed to be established and the intervention is ready.

"It's time to go to work, Mr. Merlin - remember to come back before they arrive." Lansermero shook his phone at Merlin and turned his head to watch Roman tick the corresponding nodes on the tree diagram they drew in advance. "Then... Mash and Galahad can notify them to be ready."

"If necessary, let Lancelot practice with them - I think he would be happy to do so."

"Have you checked all the Panxing Cult bases?" After Merlin left the office through the window, Roman watched the screen saver automatically open on his computer, but he didn't look at Lancermero leaning on the side of his chair. "You have already obtained the permission of the world consciousness - but how to avoid being discovered by Ritsuka and the others, have you thought about it?"

"You even have to hide it from Mash and Galahad, as well as the Agents and Guardians themselves - and you can't let the Six Eyes detect their existence..."

"Emiya Kiritsugu is the agent of the restraining force; Emiya Shirou is the guardian of Alaya's 'collective subconsciousness of humanity' - whether it is the red one or the black one, they are all the guardians of Alaya." Lancer Melo paused and looked out the window, "Alaya and Gaia are both restraining forces..."

"I temporarily transferred their control to the world consciousness here. Although Fujimaru entered the new stage earlier than Kirche and I, she is not yet a complete Alaya, so the power she currently possesses is not enough for her to detect the transfer of the Guardian's control - and the world consciousness of the Jujutsu World happens to be an Alaya, teacher."

“…I won’t say more.”

When Gojo Satoru and his group boarded the plane to Okinawa to rescue Kuroi Misato --- inside a high-end hotel somewhere in Okinawa, Emiya Kiritsugu was handing over the sleeping Kuroi Misato to Merlin.

"Leave it to me. I'll make it happen like a dream." Merlin smiled and waved to Emiya Kiritsugu, then went into the high-end hotel suite that Chaldea had managed to book temporarily after paying extra money, and waved his wand to cast a new spell on Kuroi Misato, "Let's talk about the king's story - the Inland Sea of ​​Stars, the Observation Deck. I'll tell you from the corner of paradise. Your story is full of blessings. Only the innocent can enter -"

"The utopia "Garden of Avalon" that is forever separated! "

When the group landed and were walking out of the airport, when they heard Fujimaru Ritsuka announce the name of the hotel where they would be staying - Kagome Kyo, Ieiri Shoko and Amauchi Riko all gasped.

Geto Summer Oil: "...Can I really live in such a high-end hotel in my lifetime?"

Ieiri Naoko: "I knew you were rich, but I didn't expect you didn't burn all your money on research."

Tenuchi Riko: “That’s amazing—”

Gojo Satoru: "The Gojo family can afford this hotel, right?"

"Is this hotel expensive?" Fujimaru Ritsuka subconsciously turned around to look at Kirshtalia who was walking behind her.

"...Not as much as what Chaldea burns in a day." Kirshtalia answered pertinently.

"Let's not discuss the hotel issue for now." Geto Summer cleared his throat and turned his head to look at Tenuchi Riko, "Sister Riko, has the curser come to the specific location for distribution?"

"Oh, I got it." Tenuchi Riko turned on her phone and showed everyone the new message from the kidnapper. "This hotel - is it the one we're going to stay in?"

"Huh? They've gone to such lengths for 30 million, why would they be willing to stay in a high-end hotel? Or rather, they won't even stay in a formal hotel." Gojo Satoru reached out for Tenuchi Riko's phone with disdain, but revealed a subtle expression the moment he saw the text content, "It turns out to be this hotel..."

After everyone arrived at the hotel, Kirshtalia, who had gone to the front desk to register and collect the room card, came back to them with a look of confusion that was rarely seen on her face. And when Kirshtalia moved the room card that was at the bottom to the top, everyone showed expressions of surprise.

"The room number the curser reported to us is the same as the room number of one of the rooms we stayed in." Xia Yujie compared the numbers in the message to confirm that he remembered it correctly. "That means... the curser who kidnapped Kuroi even found out the hotel room we booked on a whim?"

"I don't think so." Fujimaru Ritsuka paused and shook his head to deny Geto's guess.

And when they pushed open the door of the guest room in the suite and saw the sleeping Kuroi Misato - a pink and white flower suddenly bloomed on Tenuchi Riko's mobile phone. At the same time, the name of the sender of the curser's message received before changed, and a new message appeared on Tenuchi Riko's mobile phone.

The sender of this message is the same name as the sender of the previous spellcaster message after the name was changed.

"Letter from: Magic☆Merry

I'm sorry for bringing you to Okinawa in this way☆

But I wish you a happy beach holiday☆』