The Villain Knight Doesn't Want to Be a Hero

"And what! Why do you, the head of the medical department, occupy that position? Where is Kiara? And where is Sakura?"

"Uh, this..."

After coming back to his senses from the shock, Dr. Roman looked at Olga Marie who looked indignant and vaguely guessed something. He fixed his expression but did not tell her his guess.

That would be too cruel.

"As for Ms. Sesshōin and Ms. Matou, although they left the control room earlier, due to the previous explosion, their status cannot be confirmed for the time being..."

"Why don't you send someone to confirm it?"

"We have sent people, but Chaldea is still in chaos, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to get any news for a while..."

Why is this happening?

Upon hearing the news, not only Olga Marie felt upset, even Lin Qiao, who had been listening silently, frowned.

Fortunately, the news from Dr. Roman was not all bad - at least through the wristbands of Chaldea's internal employees, it can be confirmed that the vital signs of the two people are still stable, so they should be fine.

"But then again, who are you?"

After dealing with matters within Chaldea and issuing the order to freeze the remaining 47 Masters, Olga Marie heaved a sigh of relief and then turned her attention to Lin Qiao.

——He was wearing a white robe-like garment, and in his left hand he was holding a staff made of tree branches...although all of this was mimicry.

"Since this is the Fourth Holy Grail War, you should be a Servant, right?"

"Captain, that's too rude. After all, the other party is a Heroic Spirit..."

I feel ashamed of Olga Marie's attitude. This is not Chaldea, where everyone will respect you just because you are the director.

There is no shortage of heroes with strong self-esteem or strong pride as kings. Once they are rude or offend someone, it is not something that can be solved by just saying sorry.

"That's fine. I don't really care about these trivial things... Besides, I was told that the current situation is not the time to play polite games."

Holding the mimicked staff in his hand, Lin Qiao had a gentle smile on his face.

"But what you said is true. I am indeed a Servant summoned in this Holy Grail War. My job is Caster. I just never expected the situation to turn out like this. It's really a headache."

"I see. Excuse me, may I ask, what is your real name?"

"It's Merlin~"

“…”

"Fu!?"

You are a ghost Merlin!

Before Dr. Roman, whose expression was stiff, could say anything, the look in the eyes of the little white-haired beast that had been rubbing against Mashu's chest until just now suddenly became sharp.

How could Merlin not know what that dog looks like if others don't know it?

Do you really think you are that bastard just because you are wearing a white cloak and holding a branch?

He made a few "Fu Fu" sounds in his aho-haired voice as a protest.

But before it could finish its protest, Lin Qiao reached out her hands very familiarly, held up its pair of front legs, and held her in mid-air.

"Hey, Cathy Parug? It's been a while. How is it? Freefall must be quite interesting, right?"

"Fufu!"

Ignoring the little white-haired animal struggling in mid-air, Lin Qiao looked at Fu Fu's belly... Well, there is no bulge, so it should be female, right?

"Fu!"

Noticing Lin Qiao's undisguised gaze, and even the fact that the other party was blowing air towards her, Fu Fu let out a voice of grief and anger.

After struggling to break free from Lin Qiao's clutches and jumping back onto Mashu's chest, Fu Fu curled up into a ball, trembling.

At this moment, the Merlin in front of it who called himself "Merlin" has become an existence of the same level as Merlin in its heart.

"By the way, Mr. Merlin, do you know Fu Fu?" Ritsuka Fujimaru next to him couldn't help but ask as he watched the friendly interaction between the man and the beast.

"I guess so. After all, I'm not called the Super-sized Fufu Spirit for nothing."

"Eh?"

Mashu and Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the white-haired young man in front of them at the same time...what kind of strange self-proclaimed title was that?

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

As if his patience had reached its limit, Dr. Roman on the other end of the line suddenly exploded.

"How could Merlin be here? How could the British court magician, the pinnacle of the world of useless people, the crowned Caster who could not die even at the end of the world, be..."

"Oh my, you know me very well, doctor, especially about me being a Grand Caster... Have we met before? Or did you see all this with your own eyes?"

"Ah... this this this..."

This sentence forced Roman into a corner.

Yes, as an ordinary doctor, he should not know these secrets, especially those related to the Grand Heroic Spirit.

But the problem is that he is not an ordinary doctor!

"...Anyway, Director, listen to me, next..."

Before the doctor could finish his words, the sound was distorted into a harsh noise as if interfered by some signal. Even the holographic projection image from the bracelet turned into countless white dots, and finally disappeared completely.

"Romani? Romani?"

"Damn it! The signal was cut off at this very moment. Is that guy capable? It would be great if Kiara was there."

Patting the bracelet on Fujimaru Ritsuka's wrist, Olga Marie clicked her lips in dissatisfaction.

Lin Qiao, who was watching all this silently, smiled without saying a word, then cleared her throat and said.

"Anyway, let me, Merlin, introduce you to this singularity."

"It just so happens that I have a lot of doubts here, and I need the help of everyone in Chaldea to answer them."

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Chapter 605: Chaldea's Past

Miss Kiara is kind but scary, Miss Sakura is scary but kind….

——The above is a fact recognized by all Chaldea employees.

In fact, although it sounds like there are many criticisms, in essence they are just sarcastic comments.

After all, there might be people in Chaldea who are afraid of the two or have a headache about them, but there is absolutely no one who hates them.

Especially the former, although they may become a little scary sometimes when touching upon sensitive topics, they are undoubtedly as tolerant and guiding as a bodhisattva in normal times.

But what is worrying is that after the explosion in the control room, both of them disappeared.

Drop—drop—drop—!

Although the most basic repairs to the most severely damaged control room had been completed under the command of Dr. Roman, the shrill alarm still echoed in Chaldea.

And at this tense moment when almost everyone is busy and exhausted, there is a rather unsociable presence in some places where no one is paying attention.

"Hum~" Some light music came out of his mouth.

In an empty corridor somewhere, a woman wearing a black dress with wide cuffs and a high collar, holding a pointer, was walking at a leisurely pace.

With a happy smile on his face, his black heels made a "tapping" sound as they touched the ground.

——Although her face looks no different from when she was 18, her well-developed figure is far from being described by the immature word "girl".

The long hair, which accidentally turned white and purple due to studying magic, almost reached her calves and swayed constantly as the woman walked.

If someone far away in the singularity F/Z saw the same expression on her face as Xie Ai, I think they would probably feel complicated.

After walking to a certain place, Sakura Matou stopped and looked at the surrounding environment.

There are some hidden rooms in Chaldea. The entrances to these rooms are very secret. If you don’t know the location in advance, ordinary people can’t find the entrance at all. Even if you find it by chance, you can’t enter if you don’t have sufficient authority.

"Yeah, I remember it should be here~"

She tapped the wall lightly with the pointer in her hand...but there was no change. The wall was still the wall. Even though Sakura confirmed it twice, it was still not like in the fairy tale.

Hmm, wrong place...?

"That's ridiculous! Do you think you can just lock the door from the inside and pretend that no one is at home? I'm not the kind of salesman who would give up easily just because no one is home!"

"Watch out, replacement magic!"

The blackboard stick in his hand fell quickly against the wall, and the wall in front of him was immediately torn open a hole large enough for a person to pass through, revealing the room hidden behind the wall.

Seeing this, Sakura Matou nodded with satisfaction.

Although substitution magic itself is only a basic part of magic, just like Emiya Shirou's projection magic, relying on Sakura's own "imaginary number" attribute, this basic magic has undergone earth-shaking changes in her hands.

——Especially the spatial displacement, which is even easier to perform.

Of course, the most critical theoretical part that could achieve this was actually copied by Lin Qiao from the Endsworth family next door using the power of Zi-O Rabbit.

Anyway, the Endsworth family doesn't know either. Even if they know and want to collect copyright fees, they can ask them to talk to Lin Qiao.

But these are not very important.

"Found it~" He strode across the space passage in front of him, holding the pointer high in his hand.

As if to punish the teacher of the student, it fell quickly towards the buttocks of the figure in front with a sound of breaking through the air.

Although no magic was used, the force of the attack would probably be quite painful if you were hit.

——The prerequisite is that you can hit it.

At the moment when Sakura swung the teaching stick, the figure in front of her let out a helpless sigh.

Then he grabbed her arm and threw Sakura Matou, who was trying to launch a sneak attack, onto the sofa opposite with an over-the-shoulder throw.

"You're playing a joke like this right at the start... What on earth are you thinking about, Sakura?" Looking at his friend who had grown up with him lying on the sofa and crying out in pain, Kiara Sesshōin sighed with a hint of helplessness.

Thanks to the other party's disruption, her mood, which had finally calmed down, began to waver again.

Gently patting the loose black coat that had become a little wrinkled, after about twenty years, her figure, which was taller than Matou Sakura's, had made the light brown sweater inside bulge out with an undulation that could not be ignored.

"What? Hehehe, of course I'm representing justice and punishing a bad woman like you, Kiara~"

Sakura stood up from the sofa, crossed her arms over her chest, with a righteous expression on her face...if the corners of her mouth hadn't been raised because she couldn't suppress it, it might have been more convincing.

However, in response to her statement, Kiara just smiled helplessly and did not refute anything.

The notebook in my arms couldn't help but tighten a little.

If Lin Qiao was present at the scene, she would probably recognize at a glance that the notebook she was holding was the one she had just given to the other person not long ago, which contained information about the Type-Moon world.

But the difference is that Qihuang's book has been around for more than 20 years.

"Yes, so much time has passed without us noticing, and we have grown from innocent children to adults today..."

Kiara sighed with mixed feelings.

Compared to her liveliness and noise as a child, she has lost her youthfulness and become more mature and stable as she grew up.

Touching the notebook in my hand, my memory can't help but go back to the past.

After the Fourth Holy Grail War, Kenneth returned to London and was devastated by what he had experienced. He completely shut himself off for quite some time and became a "useless person" in the true sense of the word.

This also plunged the entire El-Melloi faction into an unprecedented crisis...

Although many of them were deliberately created by relying on self-enforced documents to avoid what Lin Qiao called "cutting", the results did not change much.

Naturally, due to the rapid decline of the El-Melloi faction and his own useless appearance, Kenneth and Sora's engagement was completely off.

In order to break away from the relationship with the El-Melloi faction, her father immediately married her to another magician...but it is said that the relationship between the couple was not very good after marriage.

There are really not many people who can pamper her, a vase, like Kenneth does.

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