However, An Zhiyu finally agreed. After all, if he hadn't agreed, the current situation wouldn't be possible.
As for the reason for agreeing, one reason was because of Illya. When Zhao Si discussed Taoism with An Zhiyu, Illya was always by Zhao Si's side. Naturally, An Zhiyu also knew this lovely girl and knew that she was the child of his senior brother.
After An Zhiyu rejected the Tohsaka sisters' request, Illya came to beg An Zhiyu again after she knew about it, and that was when she really met Illya.
Of course, if it was just Illya, it wouldn't be enough for An Zhiyu to take the risk. What really made her decide to agree was after Toosaka Rin gave her a general explanation of the situation.
Toosaka Rin said that she would not let An Zhiyu do too much, and just asked her to cover the bottom line. Regardless of success or failure, as long as the safety of her sisters and Illya within seven days was ensured, she did not need to consider anything else, nor take their wishes into account.
There was no other way. Since things had come to this, An Zhiyu finally agreed.
It is worth mentioning that after Toosaka Rin finished speaking, she did not immediately specify the exact time for her help, but said vaguely that she would come to ask her "when the time comes".
After hearing this, An Zhiyu didn't take it seriously at the time. After Toosaka Rin left, he continued to isolate himself, while waiting for Toosaka Rin's so-called "then".
However, what she didn't expect was that when the gate of the forbidden area was pushed open again and An Zhiyu woke up, she learned from Toosaka Rin that ten years had passed since the agreed time.
The ten-year dream passed in a flash.
Just when An Zhiyu thought that Toosaka Rin actually no longer needed her help, Toosaka Rin told her.
In fact, she went to find An Zhiyu ten years ago for this very moment.
Chapter 696 Reason
Due to his lack of knowledge about the Moon World and Zhao Wu's deep sleep, Zhao Si once made up for some of the original trajectory of the Fourth Holy Grail War on his own.
In addition to the four wars, Zhao Si naturally also saw some of the Fifth Holy Grail War, which took place ten years after the Fourth Holy Grail War.
So when Zhao Si heard An Zhiyu mention the time ten years later, in addition to being surprised that ten years had already passed in the Moon World, the first thing he thought of was the reason why the Tohsaka sisters sought An Zhiyu's help, which was most likely the so-called Fifth Holy Grail War.
As expected, An Zhiyu's words also confirmed this point. It was indeed because of the Fifth Holy Grail War that Toosaka Rin came to seek her help.
Even though Zhao Si smashed the Small Holy Grail and eliminated the human evil that polluted the Holy Grail, nothing seems to have changed much. Ten years later, the Fifth Holy Grail War is still going on.
Unfortunately, An Zhiyu was not clear about the general situation of the so-called Fifth Holy Grail War.
An Zhiyu explained that the reason was that the situation was different from what was originally agreed upon. When Toosaka Rin came to her, it seemed that the matter she sought help for had already come to an end, instead of coming to her at the beginning as she had said.
Regarding this, Zhao Si guessed that Toosaka Rin had summoned some extraordinary servant, and was confident that she was no less confident than anyone else, and even had a high probability of winning the Holy Grail War, so she did not go looking for An Zhiyu immediately.
As for why you came back later?
Of course it was a failure. What else could it be? Otherwise, she clearly realized that she could not win or could not protect herself after failure, so she thought of An Zhiyu again.
Then for An Zhiyu, although ten years had passed, she felt it was just a matter of sleeping. Since she had agreed to help, she did what she said and went to Japan with Toosaka Rin at that time.
Then, the subsequent development revealed why An Zhiyu appeared in the origin place.
According to An Zhiyu, she didn't do anything after arriving in Fuyuki. She just ensured the safety of the Tohsaka sisters and Illya as originally agreed.
In fact, after she went to Fuyuki, from beginning to end, there was almost only one time in the entire five wars where she was required to take action, and it was precisely because of this action that she fell into this situation.
To put it simply, Rin Tohsaka's side was defeated after a fierce battle with the enemy, and then the enemy prepared to use the Holy Grail to achieve their own goals.
The enemy's purpose essentially involves the contract between Toosaka Rin and An Zhiyu, which is to ensure the safety of the group's lives.
Since a situation had arisen that could endanger the safety of Rin Tohsaka and others, it was reasonable for An Zhiyu to take action directly at that time.
Although An Zhiyu was still in the realm of great success of the Golden Core at that time, he was not someone that any servant could challenge. You should know that Zhao Si was only in the realm of great success of the Golden Core when they fought for the fourth time. At the same realm, An Zhiyu was not much worse than Zhao Si. As a descendant of the Taotie clan, some of An Zhiyu's innate conditions were even better than Zhao Si's.
Of course, the enemy's servant was no third-rate servant in order to win the final victory. The two sides fought a fierce battle, and in the end, as expected, An Zhiyu won and devoured the enemy's servant.
Logically speaking, there was basically no problem at this point, and it didn't seem like An Zhiyu would become the same as she was at the beginning.
However, things were not that simple. In An Zhiyu's description, just when everything was about to end, a tremendous malice suddenly surged out from the small golden cup that everyone was vying for. Endless black mud poured out from it, trapping everyone present.
Then, this black mud is obviously not a good thing. In order to ensure the safety of the Tohsaka sisters and Illya, and also out of confidence, there is nothing that my Taotie clan cannot eat.
Thus, An Zhiyu completely lifted his self-sealing state, and relying on his own devouring power that could even swallow the "world", he devoured the countless black muds and the small golden cup.
Not only that, tracing back to the source, An Zhiyu finally swallowed up the Holy Grail underground as well.
Then, things shouldn't end so easily, otherwise An Zhiyu wouldn't be here.
She'd expected the black mud, or rather the collective malevolence of humanity, to have no effect on her, but what was the reality? As the old saying goes, even drinking water can get stuck in your teeth, and choking to death while eating is not uncommon.
An Zhiyu was indeed not affected by the malicious collective of humans at the beginning, but it was not known whether it was because he was too high on food or for some other reason, or perhaps both.
Anyway, in An Zhiyu's words, she felt a little bloated at the time, and her mind was full of "eating". Then when she swallowed the rest, she felt as if she had eaten something incredible. Then, she suddenly felt as if someone had hit her head hard with a hammer, and then she lost consciousness. When she woke up again, it was now.
Anyway, when she talked about her feelings after waking up, she thought that she was affected by the malicious gathering of humans, or something else, which led to her going berserk and blindly thinking about devouring everything around her.
As for the fact that she came to the origin, it was not difficult for Zhao Si to come to the conclusion after listening to her words - she was knocked unconscious and thrown in by the world consciousness, or the restraining force.
Of course, Zhao Si couldn't guess why she was thrown into the Origin Land instead of being thrown directly out of the Moon World. Considering that An Zhiyu showed an attitude of protecting the Origin Vortex at the beginning, there might be some inside story.
In short, that's the thing. Everything An Zhiyu described was basically from her perspective. Regarding the situation in the Origin World, the Tohsaka sisters, and Illya, Zhao Si didn't get much information from her...
Of course, the good news is that under Zhao Si's repeated questioning, An Zhiyu repeatedly assured that before she lost control, she had already sent Illya and the Tohsaka sisters to a safe place. So even though she finally lost control and ran away, and there was a high probability that everything around her would be burned to ashes, but overall, Zhao Si doesn't have to worry too much about Illya's safety now.
In addition, Sajo Aika has now gone to Illya's side. The only thing he needs to care about now is when An Zhiyu can eat up 40% of the food in this broken place and successfully advance to the Nascent Soul stage. Only in this way can he get out of here and take Illya back to Gensokyo.
Now, maybe Aige has found Illya?
Zhao Si thought, what is the actual situation?
Chapter 697 Sisters reunite.
Fuyuki City at night
The sky was covered with dark clouds and rumbles of thunder, and it looked like it would rain heavily soon.
At this time, in the Tohsaka family, although it was not stated explicitly, the tacit understanding between the sisters allowed Rin and Sakura to understand each other's meaning with just a glance.
At this time, in Sakura's room, the two sisters were discussing some topics.
"What do you think about what Illya said before?" Toosaka Rin said.
"I don't know. If Sister Illya is not lying, then I want to go with her tomorrow to see the person who looks exactly like her and has the same name as her." Ying said after thinking for a while.
Hearing this, even though she had said it many times, Toosaka Rin couldn't help but bring it up again: "...I say, Sakura, don't you feel awkward calling her sister?"
"What's the big deal? It's true that Sister Illya is older than me." Upon hearing this, Ying looked indifferent and smiled gently.
"If you tell others about this, you'll be the only one who believes it. She's so small." Lin said unhappily.
"But this is the fact, sister." Sakura said helplessly.
As for Illya, well, in their impression, Illya should have just come to their house recently.
As for who brought it?
Lin thought about it and suddenly covered his forehead with his hands in annoyance: "Ah, so annoying, it's been getting weirder and weirder lately, Ying, do you have that feeling? It's just that when I think back on it, I always feel that those past experiences are weird, a sense of unreality."
Hearing this, Ying paused, put down the book in her hand, frowned slightly and said, "...Yeah, me too. I feel...very uncomfortable, but I can't put my finger on it."
"Really? Right?"
Hearing this, Lin immediately resonated deeply with the words.
It's not just about Illya. In the past few days, Rin has been feeling a little uncomfortable from time to time.
Gradually, these things became commonplace, but when she recalled them, she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. She couldn't tell where the source of the discomfort was, and this was what drove her crazy the most.
Naturally, as a descendant of magic, Rin had also suspected that the abnormal situation might be caused by a mysterious level.
This possibility is very high, but unfortunately, even if it is indeed the result of problems in this area, Rin still cannot find the source of the problem.
"How about we go and ask the one from the Matou family for advice tomorrow?"
After a while, Ying thought about it and said with a hesitant look on her face.
"The Matou family... But, I remember that you were very disgusted with the Matou family? Speaking of which, Sakura, why do you hate the Matou family? You should have never had any contact with them, right?" Rin asked curiously.
The Matou family and the Tohsaka family are both families of magic. Although the relationship between the two families is quite ordinary now, ten years ago, when their father, the previous head of the Tohsaka family, was still alive, the relationship between the two families was actually quite good.
Ever since the head of the Tohsaka family tragically died in the Fourth Holy Grail War, the Tohsaka family and the Matou family have become estranged. As heirs to the family, the two sisters have little desire to deal with the Matou family.
The most important reason is that for some reason, Sakura Tohsaka seems to have a natural aversion to the Matou family, or even fear of it.
This situation is hard to explain, and Sakura herself can't explain why, but she just feels genuine fear and terror towards the Matou family.
Under such circumstances, Rin, as the elder sister, also kept her distance from the Matou family. Over time, the two families naturally became estranged.
"Even if my sister asked me, I can't explain it clearly. If I have to say it... I used to have nightmares frequently for a period of time." Ying said in a low voice.
"Nightmare?"
"Well... I dreamed that my father adopted me to the Matou family, and changed my name to Matou Sakura, and then, ah, the Matou family..." Sakura recalled with a hint of fear on her face.
Sakura suppressed her fear and continued to explain, "There were bugs everywhere in there, horrible bugs. I was pushed into the pile of bugs by the head of the Matou family, and they crawled all over my body..."
Listening to Sakura's measured words, even if he just thought about that scene, Rin felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and he couldn't help but shiver.
But soon, Lin realized that what Sakura said was just a dream. She asked in surprise, "Why did you have such a dream?"
In fact, she had been to the Matou family once. Although it did give her a strange feeling, and the head of the Matou family also gave people a somewhat strange feeling, but other than that, she did not see the scene described by Sakura.
"I don't know either..." Sakura said in a low voice. It was for this reason that she always kept her distance from the Matou family and never walked past their door.
However, despite this, perhaps only the one from the Matou family can give an answer to the current situation of the two.
Although Ying was afraid, she also knew that what she saw was just a dream, and she couldn't let some things in the dream interfere with the problems in reality.
"Let's go visit together tomorrow, sis," Sakura said.
Since Sakura said so, Rin nodded, and then the two sisters talked for a while. When they saw that the time was almost up, Rin left Sakura's room.
At the same time, heavy rain was pouring down outside.
Japan, Tokyo
This seems to be a heavy rain that only happens once in a century, and the rainfall covers almost the entire area of Japan.
"Boom——"
Silver snakes flickered above the dark clouds. Thick rain clouds piled up together, and torrential rain like a waterfall poured down on this bustling metropolis.
"Boom——"
Suddenly, a thick bolt of lightning flashed, and the dark sky and earth seemed to brighten up for a moment.
"Om!!"
At the place where the lightning snake danced, in the air where no one was paying attention, the space gradually twisted into a spiral, and the center of the spiral collapsed inward, and a channel was formed.
Immediately afterwards, a figure fell out of the passage and smashed heavily to the ground like a bird with broken wings.
"Bang!!"
There was a loud bang, and a figure fell on a shed set up in the backyard of a house, and then continued to move forward and fell straight to the ground.
Not long after...
As if awakened by the loud noise, the light in the room next to the greenhouse came on, and then the door opened.
"Squeak!"
It was a girl with short black hair that reached her shoulders. She came into the yard wearing a pair of glasses, pajamas and holding an umbrella.
When the girl came to Dapeng and saw a figure lying in the shed, she was obviously stunned for a moment, her face looked a little hesitant and she didn't dare to go forward to check.
Not long after, as if she had finally made up her mind, the girl slowly came to the edge of the greenhouse and carefully checked the condition of the figure.
However, when she turned on the flashlight to see the other person's appearance clearly, the girl suddenly let out a surprised cry and the flashlight almost fell into the mud.
But soon, after the girl reacted, she immediately squatted down anxiously and used a flashlight to confirm the appearance of the figure.
After confirming it, the girl named Sajo Ayaka looked at the unconscious girl in front of her and shouted in surprise, "Sister, sister?!"
I'm taking a day off. It's the end of the year and I have a lot of things to do this month. If I can't spare some free time, I can only update as the opportunity arises. Please forgive me.
I've become a hypogonadist. There's nothing I can do. I took a leave of absence and have had a high fever and body aches ever since the second day. As expected, I got infected. There's nothing I can do. It was also expected.
The update is delayed, I can only wait until I feel more comfortable.
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