Abnormal Moon

Roy glanced at the messy church, his gaze lingering for a moment on Nakano Nino and May. Nakano Nino had just escaped death and her face was full of panic, while May was comforting her.

He gave Nino Nakano a very infectious smile.

Needless to say, this is a magical smile, with a touch of hypnosis, capable of calming a person's emotions in the shortest possible time.

Nino Nakano's emotions quickly stabilized, and her trembling body calmed down as if she had been given a sedative.

She looked at Roy incredulously.

But they found that Roy had already taken a step and was walking towards the front of the church hall.

In front of the hall.

Tono Shiki breathed heavily, his wrists trembling as he pulled his glasses out of his pocket and put them on.

Lying in a pool of blood before me was the corpse of the kappa monster, cut into several pieces, completely dead.

"Young Master Zhigui, are you alright?"

Upon seeing this, Amber's expression changed slightly, and she quickly went to greet him.

"amber……"

Tono Shiki's face was as pale as paper, and when he saw Kohaku, he forced a smile.

It wasn't until this moment that Yumizuka Satsuki came to her senses. She quickly got up and, together with Kohaku, helped Tono Shiki sit down in a chair.

"You're really capable! You're amazing!"

Roy also came up, his gaze sweeping over the kappa monster on the ground before landing on Tono Shiki, and he said with admiration.

The monsters that attacked the church have all been eliminated.

The students either fled or left, leaving almost no one in the church. The few remaining people stood frozen, too afraid to approach.

"...Do we know each other?"

Tono Shiki had regained some of his strength and looked at Roy in surprise.

"You probably don't know me, but I've heard of you."

Roy pointed to the black-rimmed glasses perched on his nose and smiled.

"Your glasses are the same style as mine, except mine don't have the 'magic eye' effect."

"Are you an acquaintance of Aoko-sensei?"

Tohno Shiki suddenly realized that Roy's glasses were exactly the same style as his, without any difference.

"I'm her kept man."

Roy smiled slightly.

Tono Shiki's smile froze for a moment.

"Besides, these glasses don't belong to Aoko, they belong to her older sister, Orange. Aoko is such a carefree person, she doesn't have the skills to make these kinds of props at all. She stole your glasses from Orange."

Tono Shiki's smile vanished completely.

The positive image that Roy had of Aoko during his childhood was shattered by just a few words from him.

Tono Shiki was speechless for a moment.

"Young Master Shiki, this is Lord Roy, who came from Fuyuki City to support us. He's incredibly strong; he just kicked that huge cursed spirit away with a single kick—it's even more terrifying than a rocket!"

The restless Amber took it upon herself to introduce Roy.

"Ah, um, please take care of me..."

Tono Shiki wasn't really in the mood to talk. He nodded politely to Roy and then fell silent, continuing to rest and recover his strength.

"it's wired."

At this moment, Yumizuka Satsuki suddenly began to mutter to herself.

"what happened?"

Tono Shiki looked over.

"Ah, no, I was just thinking..."

Yumizuka Satsuki tilted her head, her face seemingly filled with unresolved confusion.

"Ordinary people shouldn't be able to see calamities like cursed spirits, right?"

That's right—

Tono Shiki nodded.

But then, his body suddenly stiffened.

Ordinary people cannot see cursed spirits.

Even members of the guard team have to wear special glasses to see the cursed spirits, and they need to use special bullets to hurt them.

What happened just now?

In addition to the regular students who already possess magical powers, ordinary people who have not yet opened their magic circuits also gather in this church.

But just now they all seemed to have seen a ghost, and they fled frantically.

They clearly saw the cursed spirit!

"Then these monsters aren't cursed spirits?"

Tono Shiki made a somewhat uncertain guess.

"No, the smell of curse is strong; they are undoubtedly cursed spirits."

But Roy directly and decisively denied his guess, though his expression was also particularly strange.

"However, these cursed spirits have physical forms."

"No, that's not quite right to say it, but think about it, when ordinary cursed spirits die, they turn into black smoke and dissipate, right? But these cursed spirits just lie there like corpses."

Roy pointed to the cursed spirits lying on the ground, each one lying in a pool of blood, showing no signs of dissipating even after several minutes of death.

"why is that?"

Tono Shiki was puzzled.

Kohaku and Yumizuka Satsuki also shook their heads in confusion.

The students nearby and the Nakano sisters, who couldn't understand a word, also turned their attention to this.

“There are only two situations in which cursed spirits can be seen by ordinary people: one is that the cursed object has taken flesh, but the ones here are obviously not like that. Cursed spirits that have taken flesh are not that weak.”

Roy surveyed the church, his gaze sweeping over all the cursed spirits.

"Another possibility is that these may not have originally been cursed spirits, but humans, who were simply transformed into their current form by someone."

Roy's expression carried a hint of the unsettling.

To be honest, he had pretty much figured out what was going on with the frequent occurrence of cursed spirit disasters in Tokyo.

Originally, this world did not have cursed spirits. Although there are similar vengeful spirits and ghosts, cursed spirits themselves are not products of this world, but products of another world.

The source simply waved his hand and captured a cursed spirit from that world, and cursed spirits began to appear in this world.

The Nightmare Spirit Roy encountered in the Holy Grail War was a product of this world, possessing the ability to pull people into dreams and even kill through dreams. It was undoubtedly a powerful spirit with a life-giving technique.

But this world has one unique creature, not native, but a cursed spirit captured from another world by the Root.

That was the very first cursed spirit in the Type-Moon universe.

Now, seeing these cursed spirits, or rather, cyborgs, that can be seen by ordinary people, he understands who the cursed spirit that was captured really is.

"Let Tono Akiha investigate. There must be a lot of people disappearing without a trace in Tokyo lately."

Roy put away his gun-shaped weapon, transformed back into his active form, and tucked it back into the storage case on his waist.

After giving Amber this instruction, Roy turned and walked towards the Nakano sisters.

The two sisters panicked for a moment when they saw him walking towards them.

"You two must be Nino and Satsuki, right?"

Roy approached the two of them with a gentle smile on his face.

"...How do you know our names?"

Nino and Itsuki exchanged a glance, both seeing deep astonishment in each other's eyes.

At the same time, a hint of wariness arose in their eyes.

"I learned it from Ichika and Miku."

Roy didn't pay any attention to their slight wariness; without such vigilance, one simply couldn't survive in this world.

"I came to find you on their behalf."

"Ichika and Miku?!"

"So they really came to this world too?!"

Nino and May were taken aback at first, but then their faces lit up with delighted smiles, their wariness melting away in the blink of an eye like spring snow.

"The air here is thick with the smell of curses; this is not the place to talk."