Chapter 266

"...Phoenix is ​​coming." After Draco's heart started beating again, Olgamari looked at the Sagittarius Gold Cloth under the spotlight and sent a message to the members who were also watching the Gurathu Arena, "Do you want to wait until Phoenix appears tomorrow before taking action, or do you want to take action today?"

"Let's start today." Lansemero looked at the report that Olgamari had just uploaded and ticked off the completed items on his schedule. "I went back to Greece to check it out before, and this time I have to go back and pick him up for a meeting. Kirsh's coming-of-age ceremony is scheduled for October. Although it's not his real birthday, it's the most suitable time."

"Well, anyway... I will solve all other problems before Kido Saori leads the Bronze Saints to the Sanctuary next February."

——The above is the complete outline of how Lancermello raided the interior of the "Court" magic he left behind and returned to the Holy Land Vatican with Shion and Aiolos, who had been confirmed dead for thirteen years.

"Thirteen years have passed, and they still can't find you. This makes me wonder if they haven't improved their strength at all." After Lancermello pulled up a barrier for the Pope's Hall to block the outside world from prying, Shion, who had taken himself out of the black robe, commented on the Golden Saints who had been summoned back to the Sanctuary by Saga, "What a joke, the three of us just walked past Deathmask in a swagger - and he didn't even react at all!!!"

"Don't laugh at them. When I came to the Vatican sixteen years ago to discuss future arrangements with you, didn't you not notice my presence before I opened my mouth?" Lansemero shook his hair and raised his hand to project the long table and chairs where people used to hold meetings in the Vatican. "But this is normal."

"Who would be wary of the earth 'planet' underfoot?"

Saga took off the triple crown belonging to the Pope and sat down in the Gemini seat at the long table; Aphrodite and Camus, who were closest to the Papal Chamber, were also involved in this pre-war meeting arranged by Saga, so they sat down in the seats marked with their constellations; Shion and Aiolos, who had been hidden deep in the British Mountains thirteen years ago, sat down according to the order of their constellations - everyone's eyes were focused on Lancermello, who was wearing the Clock Tower uniform.

"But our topic this time is not 'planet' - it's 'future'."

Before taking over the mission in this world, Chaldea had repaired a special point born in the world of curse - the blood-filled Shibuya district on October 31, 2018.

The birth of this anomaly was not caused by external interference like the burning of people that Chaldea had dealt with before, but was created by the dying struggle of the collective subconscious of humanity, "Alaya" - in the world of magic without Gojo Satoru, humans no longer have a future; so out of the need to save themselves, Alaya in that magic world reversed time and created an anomaly where time repeats itself over and over again.

The complicated time was distorted by Alaya and turned into a mess of wool without any clue - until Fujimaru Ritsuka and his servants broke the hopeless cycle in this anomaly, and cut off the Curse King who turned the entire Shibuya district into hell like a cancer cell, and the mastermind who induced the existence of the anomaly and sealed Gojo Satoru.

"Cut off all unnecessary branches and let the only hope continue to move forward" - this is the essence of the continuation of human nature created by Phoenix Chaldea.

Because the total amount of energy in a world is fixed, parallel worlds cannot exist indefinitely - so at a fixed time, those worlds that are destined to have no future need to be destroyed to maintain the continuation of the main world.

Phoenix Chaldea——was originally one of those parallel worlds that were destined to be cut off.

"Although we have been dreaming of a happy ending for everyone, to achieve such an ending, we essentially need to eliminate countless world lines where they would have died, which is a miracle that can only be achieved." Lansermello sat in his private office, breaking up and classifying past copies of reports to kill time, "However, having said that--"

"But I don't think, Fujimaru - we need to bear the sin of destroying those possible parallel worlds."

"Hmm? You ask me why I say that?" Lansemero sat on the ground, his back to the door leading to the corridor, and smiled as he answered the question of the girl who suddenly visited him. "You know what? The essence of the parallel world theory is that every choice that has not yet happened will lead to different branches - just like you entered my office at this moment, so you also killed the world line where you did not enter my office."

"Not all possible destructions are as powerful as the seven anomalous zones that left the Earth blank. - Fujimaru."

"Alaya's desperate struggle to ensure the continuation of humanity also destroyed the possibility that humanity would no longer exist."

"I just want to tell you that you should not ignore your desire to save them just because they are destined to die. Even if you save them and then destroy the world, don't ignore your own heart. If you want to save them, save them, even if it means you have to sacrifice the lives of thousands of people. After all, humans are destined to die at their end, and the destruction of the world is just one of the ways to die."

"After all, we all know that although you are a savior who has experienced many battles, you have never really taken someone's life with your own hands... right?"

"The death of human beings caused by destroying the world is completely different from the feeling of killing someone with your own hands. You can ask William or other Order Evil...ah, maybe asking Kiritsugu is a better choice." Lancer Mello once again scattered the copies of the report he had sorted out, stood up in the middle of the pile of papers, turned around and smiled at Fujimaru Ritsuka, "Don't waver in your determination to save people, Fujimaru - of course, don't forget that you are just an 'ordinary person'."

"Before you think about how to save more people, the first thing you have to do is to ensure your own survival."

——This is the creed that has kept Phoenix Chaldea moving forward even after crossing several worlds.

It is not the path of Kiritsugu Emiya, who kills a few people to save more, so that in the end he kills more people than he saves; nor is it the path of Shirou Emiya, who is willing to sacrifice his own life to save others. Fujimaru Ritsuka's path, or the path of the entire Chaldea, is to try to save as many people as possible while ensuring their own survival.

——Because, it was precisely in order to fight for survival that they chose to leave their original world, the "planet", and drift continuously in the sea of ​​stars.

Lancermello looked at everyone in the Papal Hall, closed her eyes, sighed, and pulled up a projection with a very Chaldean style in the center of the long table to announce the start of the meeting. Her clairvoyance, which could see the future, had already told her how to save the gold saints who were destined to die in February next year. All she had to do now was to arrange the movements of the people participating in this meeting according to that future.

However, before the meeting officially began, Saga first made a summary report on what he had done in the past thirteen years as Pope - including but not limited to the distribution of Pegasus Cloths and the assassination of the Silver Saint of Cepheus, and other matters big and small. Saga told all of this to Shion, who was idle deep in the British Mountains, and Lancermello, who was very busy throughout the European continent.

"...We'll talk about the arrangements for Cepheus after the meeting. Aphrodite is really good at controlling things. I was so busy that I only had time to tell you not to kill him." Lansemero pressed his forehead and projected a tree diagram in front of everyone. "Although we don't have much time, it's better for us to start with the basics this time."

The tree diagram shrank under Lancermello's control, revealing the sand-like part below.

"The top of this picture is the future, the dot in the middle is the present, and the part below that looks like fine sand is the past." Lansemello pointed at the projected picture with his pointer, "And when it comes to changing the future, we have to first talk about the content of the parallel world theory."

"The core of the parallel world theory is that every different choice will lead to a different future - just like the branches that keep branching out like tree crowns on this picture." Lanser Melodon paused and drew a red horizontal line on the many branches, "and the so-called fate, something planned by the gods - means that no matter which path you take, the ending is the same."

"That is to say - if you are destined to die on this day, then even if you avoid the original way of death, new accidents will happen."

"Your fate is doomed to end on this day, so you will not live to see the next day."

"But... aren't Mr. Shion and Brother Aiolos still alive?" Aphrodite, who had never understood Lansemello's teachings in the past, acted as the questioning system for this meeting and raised the first question of this meeting, "According to this statement, they should have died thirteen years ago, right?"

"That's a rare and excellent question, Aphrodite. Also, remember not to let anyone know that they are still alive and well." Lansemello looked at Aphrodite with admiration and pointed his pointer at Shion and Aiolos. "Of course, they were dead on that night thirteen years ago."

"...Then why did you let me chase and kill him?" Aphrodite looked at Lancelomero dully.

"Give me some time to deal with things in the Sanctuary." Lansemello smiled, "Shion was of course killed by Saga with the golden dagger - but I gave him a bottle of Asclepius's special true resurrection potion in advance. Although Shion was not resurrected with this, Aiolos used it."

"I was resurrected by Asclepius using a fake resurrection drug. Since I had not been dead for long, I was still within the effective range of the fake resurrection drug." Shion completed the situation of that night for the young people. "Aiolos was a bit troublesome to find, so in the end he used the real drug that can directly resurrect regardless of various conditions."

"But even this level is enough." Lansemero erased the red line on the tree diagram. "After all, the essence of changing the future is that the original destiny should end at that time - so all destinies after that are blank, and blank means infinite possibilities."