After having breakfast together, it's time to start the day's activities... As the Overseer of the Holy Grail War and the Good Latter, Nine also appears and joins in the middle (definitely not to eat and drink).

As a continuation of last night's battle meeting, everyone was together again at this time (mixed in with a girl who didn't seem to be there), but, it didn't seem to go well from the beginning.

“…”

"Ally with Yoshikawa-san and Artoria?"

"The task of collecting fires?"

"Gem magic?"

“…”

"Well, let's talk about one thing, one thing." Looking at the girls who asked different questions, Lie sighed and set his eyes on Xiao Nan and Xiao Xi.

"Lord Lie, did you just say that you want to form an alliance with Artoria?" As a Chino. Fortunately, after the maids, Xiao Nan and Xiao Nishi understood the reason, they naturally regarded the victory of the second lady as the top priority at present.

"Yes," Lie nodded, calmly analyzing, "As a Heroic Spirit, Artoria has an extremely high level, and it is very dangerous to be hostile to her. ”

"Of course, in the Holy Grail War, the other masters and servants will be enemies in the end, so the alliance will last at most until there are only two of us left... For the Holy Grail War, alliances are also a common method, right? ”

"Perhaps, the other masters and servants have formed an alliance with each other... Two Servants attacking one Servant at the same time is obviously more advantageous. ”

Xiao Nan and Xiao Nishi glanced at each other, understood each other's thoughts, and quieted down.

"Of course, it's good to form an alliance, but if the other party takes advantage of their own vigilance during the alliance period, they suddenly attack..."

Lie knew that they were worried, so he motioned for them not to worry too much, and continued to explain: "If the target is that king, at least there is not much chance of betrayal during the alliance. ”

“… If it's still the king in my memory... Moreover, it has been agreed that Chino will be taken to meet them today, and Chino has finally made a covenant. ”

Looking at Chino, Lie looked at her with a smile, and said softly, "You don't have to make a decision right away, and it's not too late to wait for the other party... Speaking of which, the other party is also a student of Fang Bun College. ”

"Yoshikawa-san?" Chino blinked, and quickly remembered several girls surnamed Fangchuan, and I didn't know which one it would be.

“…”

"Jiu, what is the mission of planting fire?" Seeing that the matter of the alliance was almost finished, Zero raised his small hand and asked questions.

Hearing Zero's words, Lie's expression was embarrassed for a while... Hey, when it comes to planting fires, I always feel like I see a lot of them...

"Planting fire is a necessity to replenish the magic of the Servant." Jiu made a sound, turned his head to look at the nursery rhyme, and asked, "As a servant, especially the nursery rhyme of the rank of Cater, you must have a deep understanding of the consumption of magic power. ”

"Yes." The nursery rhyme has a cute smile on her cute little face, and at the same time she says with some annoyance: "It's okay to maintain the enchantment, but if you do magic tricks such as summoning and amplification, it will consume a lot of mana... And the replenishment is extremely slow. ”

"This is because the masters of this Holy Grail War can't easily provide magic power..."Jiu continued to explain: "So, in order to be able to replenish the magic power after the battle, there is a task to collect fire~! ”

"In short, it's to collect war materials, and if the magic power is extremely sufficient, even if you keep using items such as treasures~"

“…”

Do you continue to use the Noble Phantasm? In Lie's mind, the scene of our king constantly using the 'EX Curry Stick' appeared, and the destructive power must be far greater than that of the ordinary Holy Grail War.

Even if Nursery Rhyme activates the treasure 'Nursery Rhyme's Tea Party', which she has never heard of before and seems to have been thought of and named on the spot, if the magic is extremely sufficient, it can summon nearly infinite chocolate soldiers.

No, more powerful soldiers can be summoned, right? With plenty of magic...

It's very tempting, this task of collecting fire, but... I'm sorry to hear this name and always play inexplicably...

“…”

"Gem magic, what do you mean?" Chino saw that everyone was thinking about the effect of planting fire, and asked this question.

"Gem magic, simply understood, is the use of gems that can contain magic power to create magic gems that can be used quickly."

Lie paused, it was too cumbersome to explain in words, so he planned to go straight to the demonstration... Give the nursery rhyme a suggestive look, which is something that Lie talked about during the chat last night.

"Master, everyone, please take a look." The nursery rhyme got up and came out of the kotatsu, walked back into the empty space, and turned to look at everyone after stopping.

A ball of fire appeared out of thin air in the palm of the nursery rhyme's outstretched hand, which was really not much easier for an extremely good magician.

"Magic with such power doesn't have much effect on the Heroic Spirits who basically have anti-magic properties or have anti-magic treasures, but for the Master... In particular, the Master of the Holy Grail War is very useful. ”

Lie said the idea generated last night while demonstrating the nursery rhyme, how to make Chino have combat effectiveness?

After the ship's 'battle suit', Chino probably has some protection, but it is still too little as a means of attack and defense. The enemy is a heroic spirit with great power, and as a human Qianno, there is not much means to fight it.

Fortunately, Chino's servant is Caster, that is, an excellent magician.

The nursery rhyme put away the flame magic, and after glancing at Lie, he said in a childish voice, "Last night, Lord Lie asked Lie if he could let the master learn magic..."

"Of course the Master can learn magic... But that is something that can only be learned much later, and even if you are very talented, you will not be able to catch up with this Holy Grail War. ”

"Learning... Magic? Chino looked at Lord Ryū, and although he felt that magic was extremely magical, he hadn't thought about learning it.

Is Lord Lie caring about himself by doing this?

“…”

"There are also some quick magic, such as 'necromancy' and the like, but I don't want the master to learn it, because it basically comes with some curses..."

"In order to enhance the master's combat power, the quick magic is another shortcut, so..."

“… In the collection of many quick magic tricks, I selected the gem magic that has the least side effects, and is completely unrelated to the curse~! ”

“…”

"Papapa~"

Warm applause rang out after the nursery rhyme was explained, and the nursery rhyme's face was a little red, and he returned to the kotatsu beside the master Chino with a little embarrassment.

"The so-called gem magic, the biggest consumption is probably gems..."After explaining why he chose gem magic, Lie said his thoughts: "In a sense, this is probably more powerful than a curse..."

"However, although the gems are precious, there should still be some in Chino's family, right?" Lie looked at Chino's room, and said with some emotion: "After all, Chino's family, no matter how you look at it..."

"Gems?" Qian Nai was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Whenever I celebrate the New Year and birthday, I always receive a lot of gifts, some of which are all kinds of gemstones. ”

After a pause, Chino got up and came out of the kotatsu furnace and said very elegantly, "Please wait a moment, I'll go and get the gem." ”

This is Chino's room, so Chino just walked to the cabinet next to his bed and took out a small box from it.

Soon, Chino came back with the box, and everyone's eyes were attracted.

This is a very delicate wooden box, and it is embellished with small gemstones, and even Lie, who does not know much about it, can see that it must be very precious.

It's not an exaggeration to say that even if you don't count the items inside, this box alone is worth a lot of ordinary gems for storage, right?

"Second Miss, this is..."Xiao Nan and Xiao Xi were obviously familiar with this, and they could guess which one it was when they saw the box.

"Well, it's a gift from my mother to Chino before entering Fangwen Academy." Chino opened the box with a smile on her face, and a blue light emanated from the box.

“…”

"This、This is a work of art~!" Lie saw a very beautiful aqua blue necklace, and it was carefully carved.

"Of all the gemstones, this is my favorite..."Chino picked it up with a sense of anticipation and said softly, "When my mother handed it to Chino, she said that it was used at a very important moment in Chino..."

When she said this, a flush appeared on Chino's face, as if she suddenly knew some great information.

"The words of this gem... How about nursery rhymes, as a vehicle for gem magic? ”

"The magic power that can be stored is amazing~!" After feeling it carefully, the nursery rhyme said: "If you compare it with ordinary gemstones with a price of about 500,000 yuan, it will be at least ten times higher~!" ”

"It's strange that being able to store ten times more mana than a normal gem is not just a matter of increasing the power tenfold... And, in general, you don't have such a high amount of mana, do you? The nursery rhyme was lost in thought.

“… So, the value is very high, right?" smiled bitterly, using such a high-value gem for gem magic to be consumed, so gem magic is only...

"It's not just about high value~!" Konan and Konishi corrected Lie's words at the same time.

"This is the second young lady's mother, that is, the gem that has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has been passed down for a long time..."

Hey, it's already precious, don't add it any more, okay... Lie was very bitter in his heart, and said helplessly to Chino: "That, the words of gem magic, I also said it just now... Once used, the gem is consumed. ”

“…”

"That's not going to work~!" Qianno didn't have much reaction yet, and Konishi said excitedly: "This gem is the second lady..."

Xiao Nan stopped Xiao Xi in time, regrettably not hearing what occasion it was used on.

"This gem has an extraordinary meaning to the second lady, you must use this one... Isn't it okay to have ordinary gemstones? ”

"Ordinary? Absolutely... And I wanted to use the ordinary one in the first place. ”

"I see." Xiao Nan stood up, bowed slightly, and said, "Second Miss's gifts from previous years are stored in the storage room, let's go and bring the gems in them... In addition, there are some gems in the storeroom of the house. ”

"Thank you for your hard work."

Lie breathed a sigh of relief and asked Chino to put the aqua blue gem back, it would be too bad if he consumed the gem at will because of his own opinion.

“…”

"While Xiao Nan and Xiao Xi went to get the gems, Jiu will tell us about planting a fire again... Although there is probably some conjecture. ”

…

Storage room.

"Found it."

After sorting out the gems, Konan and Konishi each carried a box about the size of a shoebox out of the storage room and walked towards Chino's room.

"Is that enough?" Halfway through, Konishi asked.

"It's okay, if it's not enough, I'll get it later." Xiao Nan said, his tone relaxed as if he was talking about roadside stones.

“…”

Poverty, which limits my imagination. (Spread hands and smile bitterly~.)

…

When Xiao Nan and Xiao Nishi came back, they saw Da Lie lying on the table of the kotatsu with a bitter expression on his face, which was a rare situation.

"I'm back." After noticing Konan and Konishi, Lie sat up straight and regained his spirits.

"So, let's give it a try."

(After some tidying)

The nursery rhyme takes out an ordinary red gem from the chest, and then recites the chanting incantation... For nursery rhymes, she has the ability to use high-speed magic without chanting at all, but now it is special.

“…”

A string of incomprehensible spells, Lie memorized with the ability to remember, but he couldn't understand it. The red light visible to the naked eye converges on the gem in the palm of the nursery rhyme, and after the chant is finished, it seems to be contained in the red gem.

"Master, please reach out." The nursery rhyme says this to Chino.

"Yes, yes~!" Infected by the tense atmosphere, Chino stretched out her hand towards the nursery rhyme.

The nursery rhyme holds the red gem in one hand, and the palm of the master's outstretched hand in the other... Because of the size contrast, this scene looks warm, but the next moment it is not.

The finger of the nursery rhyme lightly scratched Chino's index finger, and a trace of blood was left and dripped on the red gem that had already been placed below~!

That's right, as a quick magic, Chino only needs to pay for gems and his own blood~!

The gem is the carrier, the magic of the nursery rhyme is contained in it, and the blood of Chino is the medium.

In this way, the quick magic - 'gem magic' is completed~! Although it is different from gem magic in another sense, it is enough for this Holy Grail War.

After Chino's blood dripped onto the red gem, the surface of the red gem emitted a conspicuous red light, and when it dissipated, some complex inscriptions appeared on the surface of the red gem.

"Test its power?" Lie proposed.

…

A group of girls came to the courtyard.

Out of caution, Lie asked Jiu in advance if the damage caused by this 'magic power experiment' could be dealt with.

"Of course, all damage related to the Holy Grail War can be repaired by Jiulai." Jiu smiled and gave an affirmative answer.

Chino walked into the courtyard, and after being instructed by the nursery rhyme many times, she began to prepare in front of everyone.

Holding the red gem in her hand, Chino walked forward slowly, stopped and closed her eyes, meditating on the simple spell taught by the nursery rhyme.

"Because it's because it's the master of the nursery rhyme...", the returned nursery rhyme gave an important explanation: "This situation can be established, and the power can be quite preserved." ”