It is a Gothic manor castle hidden in a dense forest, and its medieval-like architecture makes it a legendary magic school.

In fact, the castle of Einzberen is indeed working to achieve some incredible magic, creating the product of countless wisdom crystals - artificial humans with the same feelings as humans.

"Illya, we can't look for the shoots of the walnut anymore......" The extremely suppressed voice slowly sounded.

"No, it's okay, Illya just needs Kiritsugu and Mom around." It was a sweet voice that was very easy to satisfy: "Illya, I like Mom and Dad the most!" ”

“…… Thank you, Daddy too, Daddy likes Illya the most, I swear it's true. ”

But that man, in the end, gave up the mother and daughter with great pain for the righteous choice of the world.

That's right? Wrong? Who knows.

……

"Mom, Kiritsugu Papa, he's okay, won't he be scared because he's alone?" The silver-haired little girl got out of the big bed with her, dressed in thin white pajamas, and went to the window, watching the wind and snow that never stopped.

There was no one around her, talking to the air on her own, to a phantom that didn't know if it existed in the imagination or on another level.

"It's okay, that person will work hard for Illya." A very gentle voice sounded in Illya's ears: "He will definitely be able to fulfill our prayers, and Illya will never be afraid again." ”

The silver-haired girl stood by the window and nodded vigorously: "Well, yes, that's right, because Kiritsugu works very hard, and he will complete the important work well, and he will be back soon." ”

At that time, the red pupils in the girl's big eyes were full of hope.

Await.

Without her father and mother, eight-year-old Illya waits alone in a lonely castle in the snowstorm.

The slender and cute silver-haired girl like a ragdoll sat in a pile of puppet toys, holding up the said ragdoll bear, with an indelible loneliness on her face.

The wind and snow continued outside the window, and she couldn't help but come to the window again, put her smooth forehead against the cold glass, and twisted her little ass to look at the road leading to the castle, and the figure of a carriage flashed on the road.

Her big eyes widened suddenly, and Illya's face was suddenly filled with surprise like a new life: "It's back!" ”

She spun around, spread her little feet, stepped barefoot on the cold floor, and rushed to the castle gate as fast as she could, her skirt flying.

However, before she could rush to the gate, the gate suddenly opened automatically, and the bitter wind and snow swept in, and the biting cold wind mixed with the snowflakes made the little girl can't help but embrace her arms.

But colder than the body...... It's the heart.

She looked through the snowy forests and roads in the cold winter, and found not a single carriage leading to the gates of the castle.

Standing quietly in the frozen wind and snow, looking at the door that closed automatically, the big eyes of the silver-haired little girl were extremely dim.

She was about to turn around, but she found streams of black-red fluid that seemed to be condensed into plasma, and the filthy substances that permeated the surroundings condensed into a figure.

The beautiful and gentle figure that served as the carrier of the Holy Grail in the Fourth Holy Grail War was exactly the same as the appearance of my mother......

A gentle figure condensed from filth came to the back of the silver-haired little girl and gently hugged her: "Your mother was destroyed and killed by the man you love the most. ”

"What are you talking about, although my mother has become a holy grail, but Kiritsugu is taking good care of it...... Impossible......"

"Betrayed, you and we, both betrayed by that man, like props...... Abandoned. This tone is not gentle at all, because it comes from the source of filth in the Holy Grail.

Impossible, impossible......

The little girl's eyes were like falling into the abyss at this moment, she covered her ears sharply, fell to her knees on the ground, faced her face against the cold floor, and her smooth silver hair like snow scattered around.

"Liar... Deceitful... It's all a lie! ”

At this moment, a solemn old man in a white robe came and walked down the corridor, quietly looking at Illya.

"Kiriji...... Illya asked, raising her little head with the last glimmer of hope.

The old man didn't speak, but turned and walked away, taking the girl's last hope with him.

He was the owner of the castle, one of the original androids, and he was now ...... Make Illya the Holy Grail Carrier of the Fifth Holy Grail War.

He wants to make Illya the strongest magic crystallizer and win the Fifth Holy Grail War for Einzbelen.

The painful magic makeover that belongs to the little girl begins.

The silver-haired girl kneeling alone in the hall wrapped in a thin robe was shivering with cold, and she was the only one in the hall, as if time had left no trace on her.

"It's okay...... One person can live...... It's okay, even if it's ...... alone," she muttered as she tugged at her robe, her breath turning into mist in the cold air.

Many times, in the elegant magic laboratory like a study, the silver-haired little girl's body was wrapped in bandages, and shocking black blood stains oozed from the bandages.

"It hurts, it hurts, I don't want to do it anymore...... Why do you have to open your body every day?" Illya covered her face in pain, and the stripes representing the magic circuit flashed on her body.

Many times, the silver-haired little girl has seen one by one the androids who had failed to transform for the Holy Grail War being carried away and carried into a bizarre reservoir.

She had been there once, and had seen a conscious artificial human floating in the water, these were very beautiful and delicate people, but they could only float on the surface of the water.

The little girl couldn't understand it at all, and her voice was a little painful: "Holy Grail War or something, wouldn't it be nice if you didn't participate......"

A voice rang out from among the underwater androids: "You can't give up, because that's our mission of existence, and we were created to reproduce the magical miracles of a thousand years ago." ”

Illya, who had received such a lesson, was even more incomprehensible: "Magical miracles? Salvation for humanity? But...... Only human beings are happy because of this...... What do we live for? ”

Different voices rang out from underwater.

"There is no concept of happiness for us, because we are tools, tools to be manipulated."

"Yes, everyone existed to activate the Holy Grail, and after a thousand years of suffering for it, you have finally arrived."

"You are the pinnacle of what Einzbellen can reach, the culmination of our technology, and we can no longer make something that can surpass yours."

"So, if you fail, everyone can only give up and be abandoned by this era......"

Illya muttered, "I've failed, everyone...... Will you give up? Choose to know your own life? ”

"Yes, the factory called Einzbellen, the millennia of research will stop." Conclusions were made.

"That's so strange, don't everyone live well, why do you have to die! It's just me who is going to die, isn't it? Illya covered her face in pain.

"Don't be sad, kind children, even if we can't be redeemed, we can finally be liberated from this thousand-year mission...... these voices seemed very relieved.

Illya suddenly raised her small face and shouted, "Mission, mission, what Einzbelen!" We haven't had ourselves once, have we? ”

From this moment on, Illya was determined to win the Fifth Holy Grail War no matter what.

Let yourself be left alone to bear all this fate.