Chapter 141

The invited high-ranking officials got goosebumps the moment they heard Merlin's words - at that moment, Nanami Kento even began to consider whether to drag Haibara Yu away first and leave the scene to the seniors who had deeper contact with Chaldea to handle.

"As long as she doesn't violate that bond, it means that Riko is still alive." Ieiri Naoko, who has been in contact with Chaldea for the longest time and has even understood the underlying logic of Chaldea's actions, glanced at her two peers. "You called us here today, probably to tell us the truth."

"I said we can't let Nazuru be here." Fujimaru Ritsuka turned his head to look at Kirshtalia who was sitting with Olgamari, and whined to his seniors, "If we really want her to be here, at least we should inform her of the situation in advance and arrange for her to be our stand-in."

"So I was right." Ieiri Shoko smiled and leaned back on the chair, looking at Gojo Satoru with a smug look, "Then I guess your mission is to ensure that Amanouchi Riko survives - but the things you said at the time... It feels like you were more eager to send her to Tengen-sama for assimilation than the higher-ups in the Jujutsu world."

"Nose - we said it at the time, for magicians, Riko is just material." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and looked at the Emiya family sitting opposite, "We in Chaldea are not magicians - we are magicians. Magicians are crazy enough to use themselves as material, so how can they care about the lives of individuals who have nothing to do with them?"

Through the wine glass, Marisbury looked at the few remaining members of the three families that created the Holy Grail War system, and recalled the past of the Holy Grail War that he had investigated - under the witness of the second magician Gem Onzelrich, Einzbern, Tosaka, and Jorgen "Matou" wove a ceremony called "Heaven's Feel".

Everyone knows that the "Winter Saint" Justisa Rizleich von Einzbern became the Greater Holy Grail in the Holy Grail War - but few people know that the body of the "Winter Saint" died under the witness of the Second Magician, and the Greater Holy Grail was composed of only Justisa's magic circuits. Her soul lives in the Greater Holy Grail, and no one knows when her soul died.

——But what is certain is that the "Winter Saint" met her physical death shortly after she set foot on the land of Fuyuki.

——That is the record of the First Holy Grail War, but this ceremony ended in failure.

"Any other speculations?" Kirshtalia, who also participated in the Star Plasma mission, took over the conversation and briefly exchanged glances with the adults sitting above. "Our mission is indeed to ensure that Riko and Kuroi survive. From the beginning, there is no provision in our constraints that we will fully assist the High Commissioner in carrying out the mission."

"You are only bound to follow the orders of the higher-ups when they give clear instructions—" Ieiri Nazawa paused and looked at Lancermello who was sitting next to Merlin, "and since Lord Tengen personally nominated the three of us, the higher-ups would not add anyone casually. And you took the initiative to apply to the principal to participate in the operation—that is to say, you did not actually receive a specific order to escort the star plasma to complete the assimilation."

"That's it." Lansermello smiled and looked at the members of the original A group, agreeing with Ieiri Naoko's inference. "And to keep a person alive who was going to die anyway, what needs to be done is to make the whole world believe that person is dead - her original fate should have ended abruptly on that day, but she still survived."

"Because the original destiny should have ended at that time - so all the destiny after that is blank."

"And the blank space is the infinite possibility."

So they saw Amanouchi Riko being shot and killed by Fushiguro Shinji; Kuroi Misato was also missing - but in fact, it was just a magic of Chaldea to deceive fate.

"We respect fate, we follow fate, we never go against fate, and we cannot escape fate—" El-Melloi II remembered the letter that Lancer-Melloi left for the first world they visited, and added a sentence that was not written at the time, "But we will cast magic to deceive fate."

Back when they were still on their original planet, they had cheated fate and changed the predetermined future - all those who should have died had died, but Marisbilly was resurrected, Olgamari was also resurrected, Lancermello lived as a fairy, Solomon did not erase his existence, and the original members of Group A were successfully thawed and returned to the Chaldean team.

"From countless blank spaces, tiny infinite possibilities gradually accumulate - only then can it trigger the power to overturn fate and shake the predetermined future." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and looked at Roman, then at Kirshtalia, "No matter how solid and unshakable the future is, it can be changed by this magic."

"So, where are Sister Riko and Miss Kuroi?"

"Einzbern?" After hearing Geto's question, Ieiri Glass subconsciously looked at the Einzbern family who suddenly joined the El-Melloi classroom after the Star Plasma mission. "Because there were no students belonging to Einzbern in the El-Melloi classroom. It was the day after the Star Plasma mission ended that Einzbern appeared in the El-Melloi classroom."

"Although it was explained that they were exchange students between Atlas Academy and Clock Tower, this goes against the basic content taught in the first class of each school year - Atlas alchemists are not allowed to make their works public to others, nor can they leave Atlas Academy easily." After thinking carefully, Ieiri Glass found the loophole in this statement, "But why did we believe it so easily at the time?"

"It's suggestion magic." Fujimaru Ritsuka explained with a smile, and raised his hand to point in the direction of Lancer Mello. "Even the deputy director came to teach that day, but didn't you find it strange? Until now, when you were directly pointed out that there was a problem, you would not take the initiative to look for unreasonable things in that experience under the influence of suggestion magic."

"So Riko-chan is the Rhinestone who is never seen except during class time!?" Kagome quickly matched the two completely different people in his memory. "But if it was a wig, or dyed hair, or colored contact lenses, we should be able to see the problem - and you can't keep using hint magic on Riko-chan, even if this magic is actually very simple for you."

"You can ask Nozomi about this." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Emiya Shirou and Emiya Kiritsugu sitting opposite him, and smiled as he threw Kagome Ken's question to Ieiri Nozomi. "Come to think of it, I remember that she hasn't explained to you two how she managed to resolve Gojo-kun's problem on the first day we met, right?"

"Magic Marks are something like 'organs'. Except for very rare cases, they can only be matched with blood relatives. Even so, under normal circumstances, a certain degree of rejection reaction will still occur." Ieiri Naoko held her face and gave the correct answer to her two peers, "So, if a person who has entered puberty and has no blood relationship with this magic family is to receive a complete transplant of a magic mark - then before the transplant begins, the recipient needs to undergo magical adjustments to the flesh and body."

——Or maybe the magic mark was modified into a mode that is compatible with the recipient's flesh and body before transplantation.

This is a further research result obtained by Chaldea from the Magic Association's research on Lancermello after Ieiri Shoko successfully transplanted the Magic Seal of the Emiya family. Two identical Magic Seals cannot exist in the same world, but when the Magic Seal of a certain family is destroyed, or in a world where no identical Seal exists, the Source Seal peeled off from Lancermello can remain active and be transplanted to someone else without any rejection reaction.

"Is it because the deputy director is the foundation of the world, the 'Earth'? So the humans living on the earth will not reject the power obtained from the earth?" After seeing the research results, Fujimaru Ritsuka gave his own speculation to the magicians who were exploring the reason, "Senior Kirshtalia and I were chosen to be transformed later, but the deputy director is different--"

"She should have returned to the hearth of the inner sea of ​​the star, and she originally belonged to the earth of the planet."

However, androids do not belong to humans - so if humans want to inherit the secrets of androids, even with the help of the base, they can only transplant them after adjusting the flesh and body as close to that of androids as possible.

Therefore, from the moment Tenuchi Riko and Kuroi Misato were sent to the infirmary, they were not only undergoing tests, but also had tuning magic cast on them to adjust their flesh and bodies, with Illya, Sera and Lijerite as the templates for their final adjustment results.

"The Emiya family is human, and the Einzbern family is androids." Ieiri Shoko looked at the white android with red eyes and the two men beside them, "Riko must have inherited the mystery of Einzbern. Because of the difference between androids and humans, she accepted the adjustment of her flesh and body, and adjusted her flesh and body to be as close to the Einzbern android as possible."

"The magic that magicians use to adjust the body can change a person's hair and eye color - it will look like they were born that way."

"Also, the magic that made Cang disappear was virtual magic." Ieiri Naoko tilted her head and looked at Gojo Satoru, "I opened a virtual pocket and put Gojo Cang in it. The magic that magicians can cast is determined by their origins and attributes. My origin is 'time', which is very consistent with the Emiya family, and my attribute is 'virtual'."

"So, what is Riko's origin and nature?"

"Riko's name after joining Einzbern is Rhinestone von Einzbern." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and gave them the final hint, "The magical dress of heaven, which has been passed down from generation to generation in Einzbern, will turn humans into gold as long as they touch it - and the raw material of this dress is a cursed gold."