In this crossover anime, Yoshikage Kira longs for a peaceful life.

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This person's talent is so great that it can offset the advantage brought by the magic crest!

"Without a doubt,"

In the El-Melloi classroom, a male teacher with long, straight black hair and glasses stood on the podium, speaking in a very serious tone, "Bloodline can determine a magician's lower limit, and magical crests can also raise their upper limit, allowing them to go faster and further on the path of magic than others. This is an indisputable fact."

"But this does not mean that magicians without magic markings are destined to be unable to catch up with or even surpass the former. On this point, I think I don't need to provide any more proof."

El-Melloi II's gaze swept over the many students in the lecture hall, finally settling on a few girls at the back right of the classroom.

Most of the people sitting in this classroom are geniuses with outstanding talents.

They either have a long and distinguished family lineage or possess extraordinary talent.

Most people belong to the former category, a small number belong to both, while the young girls belong to the latter.

Talent.

This word means everything in the world of magicians.

It also deeply hurt Weber's heart.

Because he belongs to the group of people who lack talent.

He was only a third-generation magician in the Velvet family, a lineage that has lasted less than a century.

The first grandmother was merely a magician's mistress, and only learned the basics of magic during whispered conversations in his bedside.

The second generation's mother only inherited magic with the awareness of "cherishing the important memories of her mother," so it was only with his generation that people truly began to seriously explore magic.

This resulted in him having extremely poor quality in both the number of magic circuits he possessed and the quality of the magic crests he inherited, making him only a second-rate magician.

So even now, he has only barely reached the fourth rank, the priesthood—and this rank is different from the abilities of ordinary magicians, granting honorary status to special skills or achievements that must be evaluated.

In terms of actual magical skill, he's probably only at the fifth rank, specifically the lower ranks.

Unlike other magicians, although his talent as a magician was rather mediocre and he lacked the qualifications to practice magic, he possessed extraordinary talent in observation and insight as a magic researcher.

It is precisely this talent that has propelled him to where he is today, becoming one of the most renowned lecturers at the Clock Tower. Compared to the so-called "El-Melloi II's..."

Of all the titles of monarch, only the title of lecturer was truly earned through his own efforts.

In the first few years.

Weber eventually realized his naiveté, and whenever he thought back to his youth when he proclaimed that hard work could change his destiny, he found it laughable.

He once had high hopes for the world, but the world slapped him in the face, making him realize its cruelty.

But just as he was about to accept reality and abandon all illusions...

Fate seemed to be playing a cruel joke on him again—

Among his students were several young girls who possessed outstanding talent but lacked a long family tradition.

Their talent as magicians is top-tier, far surpassing most magicians with magic crests. Some of them even passed the assessment of the third rank, the Nobunaga rank, at a young age before coming to the Clock Tower. Their true strength is said to have even reached the Sei-rank, and their talent is no less than that of Zeng.

Lord Kenneth Archibald of El-Melloi!

Their appearance gave Weber hope, hope of proving his theory, and allowed him to revive the naive ideals he had once abandoned. If all goes well, his theory will inspire a large number of magicians and may even completely change the landscape of the magic world!

But if there's any remaining challenge, it's probably their identities—

"Einzbern".

Weber murmured to himself.

That was their family.

Despite their exceptional talent, they all come from the Einzbern family.

As is well known, the Einzbern family has always been famous for producing artificial humans, and their artificial human technology is recognized as the best in the magic world, without exception.

And that is precisely why.

The Einzbern family's androids almost all possess magic circuits far exceeding those of ordinary people, making it difficult for even heirs of prestigious families to compete with them in terms of the quantity and quality of their magic circuits.

If there is any shortcoming, it is probably that the Einzbern family does not have the magic crest, which is the most important magician lineage.

and so.

There has always been a voice within the Clock Tower suspecting that their magic circuits are the product of experiments conducted by the Einzbern family. In other words, these people believe that their magic circuits were implanted later in life.

Since it was implanted later in life, it cannot be considered their talent.

On the other hand, the fact that magical circuits can be implanted later in life means that this technology can be applied to other people.

If the Einzbern family truly possesses this technology, does it mean that other magicians could also be transformed into geniuses through the implantation of magic circuits?

If that's really the case, wouldn't that mean everyone in the magic world can become a genius?

Such a scene was terrifying just to imagine for the conservatives in the clock tower!

Therefore, they are usually very hostile to the Einzbern family, and even wish they could get rid of them as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, they failed every time.

Because they are protected by heroic spirits.

Weber's gaze fell upon the girl with the radiant blonde hair, then he quickly lowered his head, his expression slightly bitter.

Whenever he saw her face, he would be reminded of the unbearable past, of the man who died at the hands of the swordsman who looked just like that girl.

Although he knew it wasn't true death, although he knew that men as Heroic Spirits felt no remorse, although he knew the Holy Grail War was such a cruel thing, and understood that he should let go, he still couldn't shake the memory.

Although it was only a brief acquaintance of a few days, it had a greater impact on him than a lifetime.

Seeing that face each time caused him physical discomfort—not disgust, but fear.

That face had almost become a psychological trauma for him, yet he had no choice but to look at it every day while teaching.

Because in a sense, she was also his student.

Weber could only comfort himself by the fact that they were not the same person, which eventually became a kind of desensitization therapy.

At least now he is no longer as uncomfortable as he was at the beginning.

I can be as natural as usual during class, as long as I reduce the frequency of seeing her.

Ding!

When the resounding chimes echoed through the clock tower, Weber immediately packed up his textbooks and hurried out of the classroom.

As always, he was alone, but fortunately he was used to it.

In contrast.

It's better to see that face less often.

"boring."

The owner of the face that Weber terrified of now rested his elbow on the table, supporting his right cheek with his palm, making no attempt to hide his dissatisfaction. "I really don't understand, what's so fun about class?"

"Class isn't for playing around!"

Sitting next to her, the silver-haired little girl, who had been listening attentively in class, held up a finger and earnestly advised, "This is so that we can learn knowledge so that we can better cope with crises."

"Do you need it?" Mordred countered.

"Hmm~"

Ilya hesitated, as if it were indeed unnecessary, at least for Mordred. Because she was a Heroic Spirit, possessing extremely high magic resistance, learning magic or not made no difference; modern magic was practically useless against her anyway.

not to mention

Her class is Berserker, and there are no legends of her using magic in her previous life.

No matter how much you study, it's difficult to truly perform magic.

So attending classes really wasn't necessary for her.

She endures the boredom of staying here only to protect them.

"Feel sorry."

Ilya patted the girl's hair reassuringly, "Let's go get some hamburgers after school!"

Although the mention of food tempted Mordred somewhat, she still turned her head away from Ilya's small hand with displeasure, and said irritably:

"Don't treat me like a child! Ilya, I'm not your sister!"

"Mmm, Mo is the older sister~!" Ilya smiled indulgently.

"And don't call me Xiao Mo!!"

"Okay, Xiao Mo."