"Get out, I'm not your dead sister and Lori control. ”

For Yade, who owes a lot of money, Shinji is never polite.

Yade didn't care, the two hadn't known each other for a long time, but they had become accustomed to a mutually damaging way of talking, like like-minded friends.

"Then why do you want to help that brother and sister, you are so kind?"

"You're wrong this time, I'm so kind—I have a sister, too. Seeing the way Rosalind was attached to her brother, I couldn't help but think of my sister. ”

Most of the brothers and sisters in the magic world are thin-hearted, and fratricidal encounters are not uncommon. In this environment, Heine and Rosalind's relationship is particularly precious, and Shinji doesn't want such an innocent relationship to die, so he is willing to help the brother and sister.

Yard could understand such feelings, but the words that came out of his mouth were another matter.

"Oh~ It turns out that you are also a dead sister, and you still talk about me. ”

"I'm not Lolicon, my sister is a year older than Grey. ”

"All the same, all the same, all crows, no one whiter than the other. Yard laughed, "I'm okay with you trying to help that brother and sister, but why don't you go yourself?"

"Because I have more important things to do. I'm here for a treasure hunt for a secondary purpose, the main purpose is to investigate one thing, and now is the perfect time. You don't need to know what it is, it's the dark side of the clock tower, and I promised Weber not to let you get into it, otherwise he wouldn't have promised you to come out with me to practice. ”

Hearing the solemnity in Shinji's words, Yard said no more, while Gray carefully put away the map and amulet on the coffee table and asked.

"When does it start?"

"Tonight at 12 o'clock, no, 10 o'clock, keep an eye on it until dawn, and come back and rest if it's okay – remember, don't look directly when you're watching, watch with your peripheral vision. Unless you are in danger, don't show up, let alone do anything superfluous. ”

"Yes, instructor. ”

"When you encounter a fight, you must protect yourself first, and then think about saving others. If you can't beat it, run away, there's nothing to be ashamed of, crush the talisman I gave you if necessary, and I'll rush to support as fast as possible. ”

"Yes. ”

……

The appointed time soon came, and Grey, who had rested for an afternoon and half a night, quietly left her room.

Seeing the girl disappear into the darkness, Shinji nodded with satisfaction.

"It's good, the idea of a concept extraction and a secondary addition is a success. The concept of the 'Hades Cloak' is working, and although it is not as good as the original, Grey's presence is not good in the first place, making it difficult for even magicians who specialize in perception to detect her existence. ”

Grey had been living in the countryside before, and had no experience in stealth maneuvers, so Shinji dared her to spy on the world's first-class magician, and the secret was the amulet that hung around Grey's neck.

The amulet looks ordinary and inconspicuous, but it contains Shinji's latest research results in magic.

Five years ago, during a decisive battle with Shirou, he learned how to extract concepts from Honkai's Noble Phantasms and applied them to battle. After five years of research, he has studied the concept of Treasure more deeply, and has been able to separate the concept and attach it to other carriers. Although it didn't last long, correspondingly, the mystery after the addition was not as conspicuous as the Noble Phantasm.

When necessary, these one-off weakened Noble Phantasmas can work wonders.

Reaching out and patting the dagger that had been used as a temporary substitute for the "sharpshooter bow knife", the boy made his way to the hall that connected the various parts of the castle and walked slowly down the hanging stairs.

Michael's statue still stands, the blood on the statue has been wiped clean by the servants, and the sword severed by Heine has been repaired by alchemy, looking the same as before, as if the tragedy of a dozen hours ago had not happened.

"Ryori ...... Kano"

He stopped in front of the statue and pronounced the name that was strange even among the Japanese with strange names, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth revealed a slight weirdness.

"The magicians are talking about the members of the Law and Political Affairs Division, and the members of the Law and Political Affairs Department have died inexplicably? ”

I don't know whether it was sarcasm or pity laughter, it seemed particularly penetrating in the silence of the night.

After laughing for a few seconds, Shinji turned around and walked to the deepest part of the hall. It was the castle's warehouse area, and there was a temporary morgue where the body of Ryori Kano was laid to rest waiting for the magicians to examine and the personnel of the Law and Political Affairs Division.

The corpse has been treated so that it will not decompose naturally, let alone emit a corpse odor. The dead woman was like a one-to-one doll, lying there quietly.

Shinji walked to the bed, lifted the white cloth covering the surface of the corpse, and looked at the gouged out eyeballs on the female corpse's face, not only did there be no fear or disgust in the eyes disguised as black, but it was like meeting a collector of treasures that he loved, and carefully looked at every detail on his face.

Suddenly, he reached out to cover the upper half of the woman's face and spoke as if he were talking to someone.

"You know? The human eye is a strange thing, sometimes the slightest difference in a smile can be noticed, and sometimes it is blind to obvious changes. It's a lot of things in the news, putting a mosaic on people's eyes so that they can't see what someone really looks like. ”

"It's really strange that when a person's eyes only occupy a fraction of the face, after losing the eyes, the person's ability to distinguish between unfamiliar people is greatly reduced, just like losing the whole face. Isn't it strange to say, Miss Reino Kano?"

There was no response, and only Shinji's voice echoed in the empty morgue, but he didn't mean to stop and continued.

"Another interesting thing is that the first lesson in the introduction of magicians is to recognize death, and every magician is a person who is used to dealing with death. But with the exception of a small number of necromantic magicians, most magicians still hate death and corpses. After the autopsy in the hall, they never touched the body again. ”

And the exaggerated way of dying by gouging out the eyeballs and hanging on the statue of an angel also greatly affects people's judgment. After all, people are visual creatures, and when their vision suffers a strong impact, they will subconsciously ignore many things. ”

"So, they didn't find that there was a difference between this corpse and the Miss Kano herself who they saw yesterday - for example, here, Miss Kano's flying sleeve is really beautiful, such a beautiful flying sleeve, such a weak wrist can't be waved. ”

Shinji said, leaning down to hold up the hanging sleeves of the kimono embroidered with gorgeous flowers hanging from the window.

The hanging sleeves swayed, and the shadow behind the boy also swayed, as if it was blown by the wind.