Chapter 5: Family Glory

August 1, 1918 (Taisho 12), Tosaka Mansion, Fuyuki City, Japan.

In a lavishly decorated room, the flat walls were covered with crimson wallpaper with ancient patterns, and on the bright red carpet, there were three people, two magicians, a church priest, and two people of completely different sects, and the harmonious atmosphere was a little strange no matter how you looked at it, as if something bad was being discussed.

The magicians' faction is the famous local landlord Squire Tosaka Gin, the contemporary head of the Tosaka family, and his daughter Tosaka Sakiri.

On the Templar side, the overseer of the Third Holy Grail War, Father Ryōmasa.

The glass of the window is like a landscape painting, full of lifeless green, and the vivid hue is dizzying.

"Silver, long time no see!" Father Lizheng asked with a gentle face, his humility revealing a strong sense of confidence, yes, he always had a faint spirit in him when he became a Templar priest at the age of 24.

"yes, it's been ten years!" Tosaka Gin let go of the hand he was holding Sakiri and gave Father Rimasa a warm hug.

They turned out to be small, but Father Rimasa was indeed born in Fuyuki City, and it is not surprising that he and Silver know each other, looking at the current situation, the relationship between Silver and Rimasa still seems to be very good.

"Are you the one who participates in this year's edition, Silver?"

Hearing Lizheng's question, Yin's happy smile suddenly became a little bitter, shook his head, and said, "No." ”

"You're quitting?" Father Lizheng was a little puzzled, but his face was visibly relieved when he heard Silver say that he was not a participant in this Holy Grail War.

"......" Silver didn't speak, but just turned his head to look at his daughter, who was less than half as tall as him, Saki Tosaka!

Seeing Gin's movements, Father Lizheng seemed to think of something, his pupils suddenly dilated, and he stared at the seven-year-old girl with a stunned expression.

Just like the ancient Greek enchantress Medusa, even if she has a pure heart, she can't change her sinful experience, because fate is predestined.

"That's right, the Holy Grail is my daughter, Saki Tosaka!"

A sentence was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, which overwhelmed this young priest, who had been receiving the ideological education of benevolence and protection for the world.

And Saki Tosaka, who didn't understand anything, just looked curiously at this priest uncle who seemed to have a good relationship with his father, but had never seen it, with big blank eyes. Her right hand, with its strange and strange blood-red mark, was clutching the neat corners of her father's clothes, as if everything seemed to her to be fresh and full of danger except her own.

"So...... Is the master this time Sakuri? ”

"That's right, for the glory of the Tosaka family, I think she will definitely win the glory that the family deserves when she participates in the Holy Grail War in five years, and I will be proud of her at that time!"

"But even five years later, she's just a child!"

Father Rimasa looked at Tosaka Silver with a little anger, but his good cultivation still made him try his best to suppress the anger in his heart, like a pressure cooker of excellent quality, all you can see is the miserable white water vapor at the outlet.

"Hmm!" Tosaka Silver was undeniable, and touched Sakiri's little head lovingly, "That's right, even then she was just a child!" ”

The words that seemed to be answered were full of the desire to look at the girl Chengfeng, tepid, like the sweet sound of a hot soup spoon when it was dipped into butter.

“…… Yes! Father Lizheng was stunned for a moment, and then the anger in his eyes was instantly absorbed like dry ice sublimation. He squatted down gently, stretched out his calloused right hand, pinched Saki Tosaka's extremely elastic little face, and asked, "Sakiri-chan, do you love your father?" ”

"No, my mother told me before she died, love is an adult's thing, and children can't say love!"

Sakiri Tosaka used her clear voice to give an absolutely negative answer, but the Templar priest who crawled out of the pile of countless dead people almost shed tears! As a child, how did she perceive the expectations of her parents, and how did she manage to recognize the fact that her mother had died at the age of seven, she was really sensible and good.

"Well, children can't say love, so you have to grow up!"

"Okay!" Saki Tosaka's innocent smile made Father Rimasa feel so good that he wanted to tear everything apart.

The afternoon sun is always the warmest, and the soft light shines through the glass made of quartz, and the three people in the room are also frozen in this harmonious atmosphere, forming a gentle and heartbreaking picture.

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The so-called Templar Church is an organization that protects the world and keeps the world from touching the non-scientific society, between the magical society and the scientific society, and is powerful, has a strong violent organ, and gives priority to the interests of the majority of ordinary people, and believes in the true God Jehovah. Due to the strength of the participants in the Android War, and it is very likely that they will act arbitrarily in disregard of the "Magic Shall Not Be Known to the Public", so the Templar Church has sent personnel to participate in this battle between magicians as the referee and overseer of the Android War.

The so-called magicians, just like the literal meaning, people who can use magic, because of the development of society since the beginning of the industrial revolution, began to exclude non-scientific products, persecuted, suppressed magicians with the help of the government, began to hide people's eyes, mingle in the ordinary society, obey the government, regularly complete work and receive high remuneration. If there is one word to describe a magician, it is: a creature who will stop at nothing to achieve its own ends.

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On August 2, 1918, Japan declared war on Russia and began to attack Siberia.

The sharp rise in rice prices has caused severe economic hardship, particularly in rural areas where rice is a staple food. Because of the huge gap between the government's statutory purchase price and the high current price, farmers became extremely hostile to rice merchants and government officials who kept rice prices out of control. After the First World War, the price of rice peaked. The resulting inflation has caused a spike in the prices of a large number of consumer goods and rents, and as a result, urban residents have also become dissatisfied. Instead of solving the existing problems, the government bought all the rice in the market because the Siberian troops needed military rations, and the price of rice continued to rise. The government's inability to intervene in the economy has led to protests of discontent spreading from rural to urban areas.

The rice riots were an uprising unprecedented in the scope, scale and violence of Japan's modern history. On July 23, 1918, the riots first began in a small fishing village near Uozu in Toyama Prefecture. What began as a peaceful petition quickly escalated into riots, strikes, looting, deliberate attacks on police and government offices, and armed conflicts. In mid-September 1918, more than 623 riots broke out in 38 cities, 153 towns and 177 villages across Japan, with more than 2 million participants. Since the February Revolution that overthrew the imperial system and the October Revolution that advocated communism had taken place in the Russian Empire the previous year, the Japanese government took a vigorous repressive approach. Some 25,000 people were arrested in the aftermath, and 8,200 of them were sentenced on various charges, ranging from fines to death.

Taking responsibility for the outbreak of the riots, Prime Minister Masashi Terauchi and his cabinet members resigned on September 29, 1918. After that, Hara organized the first political party cabinet.

The connection between this incident and Japanese imperialism is still inconclusive. Scholars believe that in order to alleviate the tight supply of rice in Japan at that time, Japan strengthened rice production in the colonies of Korea and Taiwan at that time.