Type-Moon: Root Seiko

It was so embarrassing to cry at the dinner table, but the Knight King's mother was quite pleased.

A good girl like Irisviel deserves a wonderful life.

She should experience friendship, love, and family.

This is also the greatest significance of a guardian of humanity like Artoria answering the call.

Chapter 88 The Tohsaka family is really no good! (Third update)

Irisviel, choking back tears while eating hotpot, was temporarily too hot to speak.

She suddenly became very introverted and just kept eating, as if she wanted to compete with Artoria to see who could eat more.

The other girls around her had their fun watching, so they stopped bullying her for the time being.

"But if we're going to dismantle the Greater Grail, how exactly are we going to do it?"

Canaan, the glutton, was also ravenously eating, his mouth stuffed full of fatty beef rolls:

"Where is the Holy Grail actually located? Can we just go there and blow it up?"

"It's not that simple. The three starter families put in a lot of effort back then."

Luo Zhen explained as he ate.

The Greater Grail is completely integrated into the spiritual veins of Fuyuki City, but it does indeed have a primordial physical form.

That location is in a place called Mount Enzo, west of Fuyuki City, inside a large underground cavity within the mountain.

That is also the source of the spiritual veins of Fuyuki City; the city's abundant spiritual energy flows out from there.

"To dismantle the Greater Grail, we must first control the spiritual veins of the entire city and cut off their flow. It's like turning off the main valve before repairing a water pipe."

"Then we need to find a way to make the Greater Grail appear inside Mount Enzo."

"Then we counter any possible anti-cheating measures and other setups, dismantling it step by step from a magical perspective. Finally, we reclaim the Winter Saintess Magic Circuit that forms the foundation. That's roughly the whole process."

As he spoke, Luo Zhen glanced at Irisviel, who was half involved in the matter, and asked her a question.

The android princess, still sulking, wiped her slightly reddened eyes and nodded in agreement with Luo Zhen's statement.

She then added, "In fact, the simplest way to make the Greater Grail appear is to collect the Spirit Origins of Heroic Spirits."

"But as everyone can see, this Holy Grail War is very abnormal."

"Of the seven Heroic Spirits, five have now appeared, and Caster has even been destroyed. His Spirit Origin should have returned to the Greater Grail."

"But the Greater Grail still hasn't activated its magic supply, which makes it hard to believe that the Greater Grail still has normal functions. We can't expect the Greater Grail to manifest on its own; we have to forcefully intervene with external forces."

"Hmm~, so how does the intervention work?"

Canaan asked, munching on a crab stick.

Luo Zhen replied, "The simplest way is to reverse the flow of magic power."

"Control the spiritual energy of Fuyuki City and reverse its flow in one go, forcibly overloading the spiritual veins to make the Greater Grail appear."

"This is a backup plan in case there is no Heroic Spirit's Spirit Origin. Moreover, considering that the Greater Grail was most likely contaminated during the last war, there might be a lot of black mud coming out. We need to have contingency plans for these situations, and we must not get filled with black mud."

"All the evil in this world"... This is the result of the Einzbern family's own actions, and Irisviel's feelings are complicated.

Canaan, a magician who treats magic purely as a tool, can understand the principles explained by Rozen.

She then thought of another possibility: "Don't we need to gather all the Heroic Spirits? Seven of them."

"As mentioned before, the Greater Grail has anti-cheating mechanisms and such. So if we try to dismantle it, will it temporarily summon a class that hasn't appeared yet? Archer."

"Probably."

Irisviel nodded very seriously:

"Logically speaking, there should only be seven Heroic Spirits in a Holy Grail War. This is a rule that has been strictly established since the first Holy Grail War."

"Even the Ruler and Avenger classes that arise from cheating are not too unreasonable."

"So to reduce the chances of something going wrong, I really hope to wait until all seven Heroic Spirits are gathered before dismantling the Greater Grail."

The heroic spirits that have appeared so far include:

Saber (Joan of Arc)

Lancer (Knight King Artoria)

Rider (Iskandar the Conqueror)

Caster (Avisbro, the Golem Master)

Berserker (Hassanid fanatics)

After summarizing it this way, Irisviel was somewhat troubled:

"We're still missing Archer and Assassin. But with all this commotion, they still haven't appeared. It's highly likely that these two classes haven't been summoned yet."

"Furthermore, the Greater Grail hasn't started supplying magic yet, so there can't be a replacement mechanism."

"Under normal circumstances, if seven Servants aren't gathered by the deadline, the Greater Grail will randomly select someone with the best suitability to become the Master..."

"Do not."

Xiao Kuang, who had been silent throughout the celebration banquet, suddenly interrupted, drawing everyone's attention.

As if she had made up her mind, she raised her pink eyes and swept them over the crowd:

"Assassin has been eliminated; I killed him."

These words shocked the world once again.

Indeed, Xiao Kuang has kept a low profile since returning from the cruise ship and has hardly communicated with anyone else.

But she's always like this, so no one realized there was anything strange about her.

When Luo Zhen saw her Master Canaan's reaction, he was still eating and drinking without a care in the world, and even tried to mash up watermelon, yellow peaches and bananas to use as hot pot dipping sauce.

Narojin understood that this shouldn't be a big deal.

"Is it inside that cruise ship?"

Luo Zhen guessed: "Kenneth is Caster's Master, so he probably can't summon a second Servant."

"So it was Caster Avisbro who cheated? He used his identity as a magician to summon another Heroic Spirit?"

"Do not."

Xiao Kuang then shook his head:

"She doesn't have a Master. It was a self-summoned event... no, I'm not sure if that situation counts as a self-summoned event."

"But in short, although she holds the rank of Assassin, she is not subordinate to anyone."

“I have truly eliminated her. There should be no more Assassins in this Holy Grail War. ...Sorry.”

Xiao Kuang's pitiful apology at the end probably wasn't because he did anything wrong.

This means she doesn't want to elaborate further and hopes everyone will stop asking.

The people present exchanged glances again.

Finally, Luo Zhen nodded: "Okay, I understand."

"That's good too. The only remaining unknown Heroic Spirit is Archer."

Luo Zhen sighed inwardly: The Tohsaka family's tendency to mess things up is really strong.

Tokiomi Tohsaka said he was going to the Middle East to find sacred relics.

We've been searching for over a month, how come we've lost all our own people?

Luo Zhen was on guard day and night, just in case he brought back a golden archer one day.

Why did it go silent? Could it have been intercepted on the way?

There was nothing that could be done; Luo Zhen couldn't contact him either.

Everyone had no choice but to continue eating and drinking well.

They discussed where to begin severing the spiritual veins, causing the magical energy in Fuyuki City to flow in reverse...

"Oh, the phone is ringing."

Luo Zhen's satellite phone, which he had kept at home, actually rang this time.

The only person who would make this call is Tokiomi Tohsaka... or more precisely, his wife, Ms. Aoi.

Just like that, so-and-so arrived immediately, and Luo Zhen went to answer the phone right away:

"Hey, Ms. Aoi. Yes, it's me. I'm so glad you're all safe and sound."

"Rin and Sakura are doing well with me. Would you like to call them? ...Does Tokiomi need to speak with me urgently? Yes, please speak."

“...True Lord Luo.”

Ms. Kui held the phone and pressed it against the ear of the useless, mustachioed uncle who knew nothing about electronic devices and dared not even touch them.

Luo Zhen heard his extremely bitter voice; he probably hadn't had a good time in the past month.