Type-Moon, isn't this really the other world?

A look of sadness appeared on her face.

She murmured softly, "So why did you run away from your mother?"

Meryl, I'm so ***!!!

"I am not yours..."

Lin Jiu'an had just mustered up the courage to speak, but he couldn't continue.

Intuition, her animal instincts, were telling her that.

If he says what follows, something very, very terrible will happen.

and.

This doesn't seem to be entirely a bad thing?

Going home with Aika Sajou means I won't have to worry about being bothered by perverted women like Gilgamesh and Artoria. I can finally reflect on life and become a well-rounded young man with moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and practical development.

Sensing the approach of Minamoto no Yorimitsu and his entourage, Lin Jiu'an immediately said, "Let's go home, Mom."

Hedong in thirty years and Hexi in thirty years.

Calling someone "Mom" is no longer shameful.

Later on, we can let Ayaka Sajou call him "Dad".

"Mother?"

Sajou Aika was taken aback.

The sadness and gloom on her face disappeared, replaced by a shy blush on her fair cheeks.

Yourself.

This child called me "Mom"?

Sajou Aika never expected that this runaway bad child would call her "Mom" so quickly.

Although I could guess that this naughty kid definitely had bad intentions.

but.

I'm so happy.

"Okay."

Sajo Aika's beautiful eyes curved into crescent moons.

Sajō Aika, who had originally planned to wait for those reckless and wicked women to come and give them a "lesson" they would never forget, which might be the last "lesson" they ever received in their lives, suddenly forgot all about these unimportant little things.

She hugged Lin Jiu'an even tighter.

I held him in my arms.

The figure disappeared into the closed auditorium.

Seconds after they disappeared, the auditorium door was suddenly blasted open.

Several figures rushed in one after another.

"Jiu'an?!?"

Minamoto no Yorimitsu was the first to rush in, and upon sensing Lin Jiu'an's recently vanished aura, his expression immediately became blank and helpless.

"Jiu'an?"

"Damn it!"

Sensing Lin Jiu'an's suddenly vanished aura, which could not be traced.

Artoria suddenly swung her longsword.

The pitch-black light engulfed one of the walls.

Gilgamesh's gaze fell on the ground where Sajou Aika and Lin Jiu'an had disappeared, and his expression turned extremely gloomy as he looked at the remaining bright petal.

She thought it was because Mary's newborn had returned.

But I didn't expect it.

How dare that newborn be so arrogant, deliberately leaving a petal to provoke her?

"Mei! Lin!"

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The inner sea of ​​stars.

"Ah!"

Mary, who had just returned home, touched her nose.

"Strange, who is talking about how beautiful and lovely I am?"

"Could it be that my adorable little Jiu'an misses me? Hmph, he looked so disgusted before, what an dishonest little guy."

"Let me be healthy."

A bewitching purple light appeared in Merry's beautiful eyes. She activated her clairvoyance and quickly took in a large amount of information. With her collection and analysis abilities comparable to those of a Grand Magician, she quickly found out the information that was useful to her.

When Mary saw the petal that had fallen in the auditorium, her smile froze.

"Sajyou Aika, you tricked me!"

Interlude 53: The Clock Tower

Despairingly, Merry watched as Gilgamesh, Artoria, and Minamoto no Yorimitsu's gazes were fixed on that petal.

then.

Gilgamesh seemed to sense something and met her gaze through the layers of void.

Upon seeing Gilgamesh's beautiful eyes filled with savage killing intent, Meli trembled in fear and immediately withdrew her "clairvoyance".

"I didn't do it, I didn't do it."

Mary murmured in an almost tearful voice.

but...

"It's over."

Everything was planned perfectly.

After being killed by Artoria and Gilgamesh, he was essentially out of the picture.

The grudges have been settled.

What happens afterward has nothing to do with me.

As it turned out, Aika Sajou deliberately left behind that one petal.

He hasn't even offered an explanation yet.

Because I did appear there at the time, and it was I who lured Ayaka Sajou there.

Given Gilgamesh's, the fallen Artoria's, and Minamoto no Yorimitsu's personalities, they obviously wouldn't listen to his explanations and would definitely kill him if they met.

"Sajyou Aika, you just wait!"

Meli immediately closed and hid the portal to the Inner Sea of ​​Stars to prevent Gilgamesh from coming to her door and actually chopping her up.

Then he sat dejectedly in the flower field.

However, when she thought of the relic she had given to the Linglongguan clan for free—the one originally intended to summon "Von Hohenheim Paracelsus"—Merry suddenly smiled with delight.

"Hmph, so what if you win this time?"

"Morgan will avenge me!"

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London, Clock Tower.

Office of Astrophysics.

Maris Billy sat quietly behind his desk.

As the monarch of the Celestial Department, unlike the monarchs of other departments, he rarely stayed in his office in the Clock Tower, nor did he usually teach students in the classroom in a conventional manner. However, today, for some reason, he came here early to wait.

'Ring ring.'

The landline rang.

Maris Billy answered the phone immediately.

"Hello, hello."

"Is this Little Horse Lisbury?" came Mary's cheerful voice from the other end of the phone.

"Yes, has your matter been resolved?"

"Of course, the Fuyuki Holy Grail has been cleansed of its corruption, and you can participate in the Holy Grail War in ten years."

“Thank you very much for your help.” Marisbury paused slightly, then said, “This is a debt of gratitude that the Animusfia family owes you.”

"I do need to trouble you with something."

"Please say."

"Sola, you know Kenneth's fiancée? Could you talk to her father for me and see if you can help me find a way to make her the heir to the Sofia family?"

The Sofia family.

A long-established magic family within the Magic Association.

The Lord of the Spirit Summoning Department, Euryphal, is from the Sophial family, who is also Sora's father. This family is very powerful in the Euryphal lineage of magic. It can be said that becoming a member of this family is almost a certainty to be one of the next twelve Lords of the Clock Tower.

"This is a little difficult."

Maris Billy smiled helplessly.

Although he is one of the twelve monarchs and belongs to the same noble faction as Euryphus, it is still impossible for him to become the heir of a magic family that is also a monarch family. In fact, he might even inadvertently arouse the jealousy and suspicion of other monarchs and monarch families.

"May I borrow your name?"

Marisbury carefully considered his words: "With the combined power of myself and the Animusfia family, we might not be able to persuade them."

"Sure, sure, just help me get this sorted out, okay?"

"That's no problem at all."

"Alright, I'll leave it to you. Oh, right, there's one more thing. You're going to Fuyuki to do some research in a while, right?"

"Yes."

"You know Natalia, right? She's the bounty hunter from your Mage's Association. If she runs into any problems, help her out."

"As for the Einzbern family, you help me out by telling them to stay out of Irisviel's business and behave themselves."

"Then the head of the Tohsaka family died, leaving behind an orphan and a widow. You can help stabilize the situation for the Tohsaka family so that Aoi Tohsaka can smoothly take over the Tohsaka family business. Also, those two little girls in the Tohsaka family have very good aptitude. You can take a look and teach them."

"May I ask why?"

Instead of going to Monarch Euryphus and telling him to give up his eldest son and let Sora become the heir of the family and inherit the magic crest, this was different.

What Meryl said later was relevant to him, the astronomical monarch.

These are all trivial matters.

Moreover.

Merry helped him remove the contamination from the Fuyuki Holy Grail, allowing him to participate in the Holy Grail War in the future to raise funds for the construction of Chaldea.

This preserved his chance to realize the Animusfia family's ultimate magic.

This kindness.

Even if the Animusfia family were to give up everything they had, they still couldn't repay the debt. Marisbury wouldn't find it inappropriate to ask him to do these small things.

The problem is, although he hasn't had much contact with this being who has lived for thousands of years, Maris Billy still understands that this is a 'monster' who is even more ruthless and merciless than them, the orthodox magicians.

after all.

This being, who saw through all my plans and thoughts the moment we met, must be very clear about the impact that what he was doing in building Chaldea would have on humanity.