Skadi, returning to infinity

"Alright, alright, you two stop fooling around. I know what you're thinking."

Skadi rubbed her forehead. She had tried her best to stop them, but the two girls still seized every opportunity to argue.

"Hmph." Alaya stuck out her little tongue, lowered her head and began to gently scoop up the sundae with a spoon and eat it slowly.

"Gaia, do you have any way to change Asagami Fujino's fate?"

Skadi suddenly turned to look at Gaia and asked a question.

"It's unnecessary. There are many, many people with tragic fates. You can't change everyone."

"Besides, Asagami Fuji is a human, you should be asking about Alaya."

"If she's willing, then I'll help you."

Gaia knew who Asagami Fujino was, but she didn't understand why Skadi would do such a thing.

“Alaya?~” Skadi turned around and looked at Alaya, asking a question.

“Look.” She stretched out her tiny finger, and a special space appeared in front of her.

"Her fate was tragic, but there are many, many people whose fates are just as tragic as hers, and some whose fates are even more tragic than hers."

"You want to help her, just as you want to help Matou Sakura and Kallen, because they are people who are both favored and manipulated by fate."

So I want to change them.

"In reality, there is always a price to pay when someone's fate is changed."

"Like Tokiomi Tohsaka, he should have died in this Holy Grail War, but he survived, at the cost of losing his wife and daughters."

He has the right to live with us.

"Like Matou Sakura, her tragic fate was changed, but she will also forever lose the person who was destined for her, and her magic will also..."

Change."

"Like Kenneth, he also survived this Holy Grail War, but he had to bear the burden of being betrayed by his fiancée, and shoulder even greater responsibilities."

The burden of the future.

"Like Aoi Tohsaka, she wasn't disabled or dead, but she lost the chance to be with her husband—even though her husband originally..."

She would die before that. But her husband didn't die, and she was alright, yet the two of them could never be together again.

"And then there's Karen. She certainly won't go down a more awkward path than her father, nor will she have to bear any responsibilities from the church. But..."

Her father, however, left her forever, becoming her successor.

"These fates are all interconnected, one link after another."

"When one thing happens, it indirectly leads to the occurrence of another thing."

"Asagami Fujino's future can be changed, but what she will lose is something you cannot predict right now..."

The scene in the special space is a little girl in a kimono, sitting on the ground with a blank look in her eyes.

A knife fell to the ground beside her, and her hand was cut by the knife, but she felt no pain.

She didn't understand what this was; she only felt that her body was very, very strange...

"She's still a little girl, the same age as Rin Tohsaka and the others."

"You can save her, you can change her, but in the future, she still has to return to her world to face her own future."

"Can you allow it?"

Alaya wasn't trying to reason with Skadi; ​​she was simply stating the facts.

And all of these things she mentioned were basically orchestrated by Skadi.

In changing them, she has in fact placed an equal stake on the other side of the scales of fate.

"Sometimes these things will happen, sometimes they won't."

"If there really is such a thing as fate, then I will try to change it."

Skadi understood this principle, but when someone actually laid it bare before her, she suddenly didn't know what to do.

How did you answer?

"If fate could truly be changed, it wouldn't be fate."

Alaya shook her head, swaying her legs. The five little toes of her two feet, wrapped in white silk, curled up, as if she had been chilled by the sundae.

"Hey, let's not talk about this kind of thing."

"Bring Asagami Fujino along. We already have three, one more won't hurt..."

There might even be another Ilya...

However, it would probably be better for Illya to be raised by Kiritsugu Emiya and Irisviel, who are no longer so stubborn, than for Illya to be raised by herself.

"...You."

Alaya shook her head, waved her hand, and the kimono-clad girl on the screen suddenly disappeared.

She then appeared before Skadi, but had already passed out.

"Let's pin this on the church, and say that this little girl was rescued from the church."

"And the whereabouts of Kirei Kotomine, the head of this church, are currently unknown."

Skadi looked at the six-year-old Asagami Fujino in her arms, then at Alaya, and said this.

"If Karen is unhappy with you, go and comfort her yourself."

Karen carries a faint aura of a chosen one of destiny, and can be considered Alaya's "daughter," so he cares about her quite a bit.

Skadi's actions were clearly an attempt to smear Kirei Kotomine. If Kallen knew about this, she would probably sulk for a while.

"Then how should I explain it?"

Skadi tilted her head; she didn't want to think of anything else besides this explanation.

"Solve it yourself."

Sticking out its little tongue, Alaya's figure disappeared.

"They changed time and space without my permission..."

Gaia muttered to herself behind her, and then she disappeared.

"Eh." Skadi, who was holding Asagami Fujino, was left standing there at a loss.

"Where am I...?"

Just as she was thinking about how to explain, the girl in her arms slowly opened her eyes and looked at her with a confused expression.

"You are in the church."

Okay, now that she's awake, she needs to sort out this problem first.

"What is the church...?"

"Who am I...? And who are you...? Why am I here...?"

Asagami Fujino's soft and weak voice sounded especially heartbreaking. Skadi looked at her and roughly understood what the problem was.

Clearly, although Alaya was verbally criticizing her, she still did what she was supposed to do.

She has sealed Asagami Fujino's memories for now, and will unlock them when the time is right.

Forget about it, let's not think about it too much and just take her back first.

"I don't know why you're here, but I know your name is Asagami Fujino." FF

Ask Xiao Ai to forge another nameplate for him.

Holding Asagami Fujino in one arm, he took out the nameplate and hung it around her neck.

"Asagami Fujino...?"

A name that felt both familiar and unfamiliar; she didn't know why, but hearing this name gave her a strange feeling.

"Yes, you may have encountered some accident and lost your memory. The people at the church have temporarily placed you here."

"I came here because of some things that happened at the church, and that's how I met you."

Alright, the reasons are all prepared. Doesn't this perfectly explain Asagami Fujino's identity and background while absolving herself of any responsibility?

"Is that sister... someone from the church?"

However, the little girl's intelligence wouldn't be lost because her memories were sealed. Her question, if answered poorly, could potentially cause her...

A rift develops in the girl's heart, which in turn allows her memories to return.

After all, Skadi wasn't sure exactly how far Alaya's seal had progressed.

With her current abilities, she can't change this situation, so she can only be more careful.

"No, I came to the church to find someone, but when I arrived, the place was deserted."

“I was a little worried, so I looked around and found you lying here.”

"I didn't know anything about you at first, I only saw your nameplate and knew your identity."

"I'm waiting for you to wake up so I can ask you where your home is and take you back."

"But when you woke up, your behavior told me that you had amnesia..."

"This is a real headache."

Speaking of acting skills, Skadi's acting is the result of hard work. She can lie without batting an eye, and the combination of her expressions and tone of voice makes it impossible for anyone to doubt her.

"I'm sorry, sister, I don't know who I am either..."

"I can't even remember anything about myself."

"My name is Asagami Fujino... right?"

Skadi nodded.

"Do you want to go home? I'll have the police check..."

Now that she's putting on an act, she has to go all the way and gain Asagami Fujino's complete trust.

"Ah? No...!"