My name is Elijah,

I'm in the cloth bureau

8405：12：01

About 30 kilometers west of the bustling streets of Fuyuki City, there is an east-west national highway lined with a dense forest, and it is said that there is a "mythical city" in the deepest part of this dense forest.

According to those who have strayed into this place, the castle is made of white rock, and it is very magnificent, and there is no one living in the castle, like an abandoned city, but the castle is fully equipped and everything is in order, which makes people feel as if there are people living here.

At this time, it welcomed its owner who had arrived here in a desperate struggle known as the Holy Grail War.

"Mom! It's so beautiful here! ”

A little silver-haired girl in a purple velvet dress cheered happily as she ran through the corridors of the castle.

"Illya, don't trouble everyone."

It was a beautiful woman who was ninety percent like the girl who ran, dressed in a fluffy winter coat of the same style as her daughter, with the same silver hair and red eyes, and a woman named Alice Phil von Einsberen called out with a little distress when she saw the maids pausing their tidying up to avoid her daughter.

"Let her run," said someone beside her in a calm voice, and he added as Alice Fell turned away disapprovingly, "not only Elijah, but even you haven't been far away." ”

"Well, that's true." The silver-haired woman thought for a moment and nodded.

The stern-looking man beside her was named Kiritsugu Emiya, the husband of Alice Phil, and they had previously lived together in the Einz Belen house.

Alice Fell couldn't go out at will for various reasons, although Emiya Kiritsugu often brought some movies and photos from the outside world to her, and told her many stories about the outside world, such as New York, Paris and other international cities, and many people living different lives, but it was the first time she actually left that castle in Germany to go out and see it with her own eyes.

As for the reason for coming to Fuyuki a year before the start of the Holy Grail War......

"You can feel it, Ellie." Standing in the hall of the main entrance, Emiya Kiritsugu observed the castle with sharp eyes.

"Ah, yes, no signs of destruction at all." After looking around, Alice Fell made the same judgment.

A purpose-built annex for the Einzberen family, the castle is shrouded in multiple layers of illusion and magic enchantments, and except for the most occasional occasion, it is never revealed, and even if someone occasionally strays in, it will quickly leave on its own under the ubiquitous hint of magic.

But now, someone has gone in without triggering any alerts and defensive enchantments, and more than once.

Jubstakuhaid von Einzberen, the elder of the Einsberen family, believed that this was the work of a magician who was scheduled to participate in the upcoming Holy Grail War, in order to destroy or place traps in the already prepared magic workshop.

Therefore, he ordered Emiya Kiritsugu and Alice Fell to rush to Fuyuki in advance to repair and protect it, and it was completely different whether a magic workshop had an owner or not.

As a result of Kiritsugu's efforts, they were allowed to bring their daughter Illyasfil von Einzberen to the atmosphere of the Holy Grail War, but only to send her back three months before the official start of the war or when a Heroic Spirit was summoned.

Although there are so many with the patriarch, but in fact, he doesn't want to part with his daughter too early, and unlike his appearance, Kiritsugu is actually a very gentle person, Alice Phil thought.

"Since the other party can completely avoid the alarm and protection magic, and is only accidentally discovered during a spiritual disturbance, I guess even if you use the magic of 'scene reproduction', you will not be able to see the appearance of the person who came," Emiya Kiritsugu groaned slightly, and walked towards the stairs of the castle, "But the other party must not have guessed that there is the 'that' I have placed here." ”

Alice Phil knew "that", which was a completely different "technology" product from the "mysteries" such as magic and alchemy.

When Kiritsugu came to Fuyuki two years ago to conduct a secret reconnaissance, cameras and video devices placed throughout the castle were activated in a series of different ways, such as magic traps, infrared detection, weight perception, and sound feedback, so unless the intruder achieved complete invisibility, it would definitely be discovered and recorded.

Although Kiritsugu's behavior is said to be completely devoid of the pride of magicians, in the eyes of the Einzbelen family, who specialize in alchemy, whether it is a product of mystery or science, they are tools for people to control, and it is good to be able to use them to achieve their goals, so even if he bears the notoriety of a magician killer, the grandfather is still willing to let him be involved.

However, even though he clearly regarded magic as a tool, when they first met, he was still very angry about the treatment he received as a "magic tool", and even ...... Alice Phil held her slightly hot face and didn't want to think about it any longer.

Although Emiya Kiritsugu was aware of his wife's strange movements, he now had more important things to do than to pay attention to this little thing.

At this time, the two of them were in a secret room in the annex of Einzbelen, and more than a dozen surveillance footage was showing the maids sorting out from place to place, and Illya's lively figure passed through some of the footage from time to time, and Emiya Kiritsugu began to remove and play the footage that had activated and been recorded when the castle was "should" be empty.

Zizi Zizi - The preserved content quickly appeared on a surveillance screen.

"Hmm, are you still aware of it? Some kind of visual disturbance was used ......"

Although the device used by Kiritsugu is very advanced and the scene shown is relatively clear, the figure is vague and can only be preliminarily judged

A young woman in dark clothes and long light hair, judging by the date in the corner of the frame, is about a year ago.

The action of pushing open the door as if no one was around startled Alice Phil, who knew how many magic tricks were there, but nothing happened.

Then the woman began to look around the interior of the annex as if no one was around, and after a cursory turn, she pushed the door open and left without any alarms or traps.

"I have to admit that she is very accomplished in magic, and she can use magic to protect herself at any time without being vigilant." Emiya Kiritsugu calmly analyzed, while Alice Fell vaguely felt that the woman in the picture seemed to be dissatisfied with the facilities here.

The recording would stop when there was no trigger condition, so the next moment she was still open the door and came in, unlike last time, she looked very hard carrying a large bag and a small bag, and Kiritsugu was about to analyze what magic items were in those bags, and one of the bags broke very well and spilled the contents all over the ground.

"Is that melon seeds, peanuts and potato chips?" Seeing the girl stunned for a moment, and then looked down and went to find the utensils to start cleaning, Alice Fell couldn't help but laugh.

"I suddenly felt that it was a mistake for us to come to Fuyuki so solemnly." Emiya Kiritsugu pinched the corners of his forehead, sighed and said, "Although she is very powerful, most of them are the eldest lady of a certain magic family who goes out to play. ”

"He's a good boy." The video shows the girl making her home in a room in the castle, she seems to be playing nearby, some cameras in the forest can occasionally catch her coming back from different directions, and when she stays in the castle room, she either reads books or practices magic tricks, often cleans the room, and occasionally goes out to buy a lot of things and comes back as she did at the beginning.

"We have to educate Illya not to occupy other people's empty houses when she travels in the future." Kiritsugu doesn't pay much attention to the scene on the screen anymore, after all, although there is no surveillance in sensitive places, it is also the daily activity of a young girl.

"If that kid is going to come here, you can't kill her." Alice Phil said as she looked at Emiya Kiritsugu.

"This kind of invasion of other magicians' workshops must-" Kiritsugu was halfway through his words, looked at his wife's eyes staring at him, and raised his hand in surrender: "-can be forgiven, can be forgiven." ”

The video of the last day, which shows that the time is three days ago, has been showing the picture of facing the girl's door, which is a little strange, which proves that the girl seems to be using magic in the room, but because there is no surveillance in the room, only the camera at the door has been working.

Click-Click-Click

Illya, who had been passing by, seemed to notice something, and slowly walked back to the door, reaching for the door open.

At the same time, the door in the picture three days ago opened at the same speed.

"This ......" Emiya Kiritsugu sat up jerk straight, and Alice Phil's eyes widened.

The door opened by Illya was empty, and when the girl pushed the door three days ago and walked out, there was naturally no one outside the door.

however

The unknown girl turned around and raised her hand and touched Illya's hair, who narrowed her eyes pleasantly.

"Illya!" Alice Fell couldn't look any further, so she got up and rushed out of the secret room, where she soon found her daughter, who was still probing her brain into the room.

"Mom?" Illya, who was suddenly hugged by Alice Phil, blinked inexplicably, and then said, "Illya just felt that there was a young lady inside, but after opening the door, she didn't find it." ”

Emiya Kiritsugu is still in the secret room in a daze at the surveillance screen,

First, what the girl said three days ago, she walked to the gate around Illya's position three days later, and Illya tilted her head and looked at the direction of the girl's departure in confusion.

Then, in another video three days ago, when the girl was walking towards the gate, she suddenly dodged something, and the position in the real picture was Alice Phil who was running by.

"It's time magic...... No, the fifth law? ”