Start with Type-Moon, but Magical Index Magician

Illya looked at the strange man in front of her. His attire and other things did not seem to be from the ancient times. Rather, it was very close to modern times, or at least in modern style.

Moreover, this person's attainments in magic were very high. The special magic circle he had just used could actually offset the power of the Command Spell, completely trapping his Berserker and preventing him from getting out.

This made Illya even more curious about this person.

It is amazing that he has such powerful magical skills, but I have never heard of such a person in history.

Curious, Illya asked, "So, what do you want to tell me alone, uncle?"

"First, don't call me uncle. I'm still very young." Morpheus said, sitting casually aside and pointing to the seat on the other side: "Sit down and talk. It will be easier this way."

"Relax! Are you asking me to relax in the enemy's base? This is a bit too funny." Illya said, but still sat aside.

Illya is proud. She is confident in her own strength, disgusted with her experience, and has her own goals for this Holy Grail War.

Even though the opponent in front of her is stronger than her, Illya is still thinking of ways to see if she can find a way to defeat the opponent.

But the next sentence made her brain, which was originally thinking of a solution, fall into a stagnation.

"The enemy's base camp? Isn't this your father's home? Oh, now it's your brother's home."

The tone sounded like casual conversation, but Illya felt creepy. She couldn't help but take a deep breath, and this action made Morpheus laugh.

"You're nervous, Miss Einzbern. There's no need to be. Since I've said these words, it means I'm showing my sincerity."

"I don't understand what you mean. What do you mean this is my father's home? And that man is my younger brother? Look how young I am. Even if he is, he is the older brother and I am the younger sister!"

Illya said to Morpheus with all her might. She didn't know why she answered like that. Was it because she didn't want to admit it casually or because she was simply afraid?

But it was obvious that Morpheus didn't care about Illya's answer at all.

"Whatever you say, even if you don't admit it, it doesn't matter, Miss Einzbern. I say these words essentially because what I am about to say is based on these facts.

"And the fact, no matter how much you deny it, is the fact."

Morpheus said, pointing out Illya's current situation:

"Your physical condition is very poor. Even if this Holy Grail War hadn't happened, you wouldn't have lived for long. And now that the Holy Grail War has begun, your lifespan is only about a year. You'll even die the moment the Holy Grail War ends."

Illya no longer dared to underestimate the man in front of her. There were obviously many secrets, but he acted as if he knew everything and told them all.

"The last time you met Rin, I already sensed something was wrong with you, and today's contact has further confirmed my suspicions. You are the Holy Grail, right? In other words, you are the core, or the heart, of the Holy Grail. For the Holy Grail, you are a necessary entity."

Illya remained silent and did not answer.

"The Einzbern family has its own goals, such as the Third Law, but I believe your goal is not this. Compared to this kind of thing, you should have something more desired."

Morpheus said this and carefully observed Illya's expression. The girl's expression was a little shaken, but a hint of hatred in her eyes wiped out this hesitation.

Although Morpheus was a casual player, he had watched part of the story of the Fifth War very early on, so he said at this time:

"I've heard something. It's said that there was a man who went to a castle several times to see his daughter, but he couldn't get in every time. Because of the man's betrayal, the castle separated him and his daughter.

"Although this man brought it upon himself, he was still a pitiful person. He was unable to let go of his daughter until his death and died in depression."

Illya's expression changed subtly. As she listened to the story, she had some guesses in her mind, but she still said stubbornly, "It's a good story, but what does it have to do with me, uncle?"

"I'm not an uncle... Never mind, call me that if you want." Morpheus was too lazy to correct the other party. He decided to directly point out the key point of his previous words. "This man is Emiya Kiritsugu, and this girl is Illya. Excuse me, do you know this girl?"

The last question was like a prank. Illya's expression could no longer be suppressed. She looked at Morpheus, holding on to her last bit of stubbornness: "Where's the evidence?!"

"Your mother died, and then someone inside the Holy Grail scared you. This guy knows all about these things. Perhaps you can ask him."

Morpheus said, thinking for a moment: "Besides, destroying the Holy Grail is also for your safety. If the Holy Grail descends, the entire Fuyuki City will be in crisis.

"It's just a pity. For a android doll whose mind is only focused on the Third Law, this behavior is a betrayal, without considering any reasons."

"Doll..."

"I'm not insulting anyone. Even if it's a robot, if it has a heart, it's a human. But even if the body is human, but it's just a guy without a self, it's just a puppet. Aren't many of the guys in your family puppets?"

Morpheus said, glancing outside.

"Your brother, in fact, almost became a puppet, a puppet controlled by your father's will. But fortunately, he has a brain and can think on his own."

Morpheus' words finally made Illya show a disgusted expression: "Kiritsugu wouldn't do such a thing."

"It has nothing to do with Kiritsugu. Because of Kiritsugu's rescue, your brother has been living according to Kiritsugu's wishes. He feels that he is the only one who survives. This is simply a sin. It must be said that he is a perfect self-destructive personality."

After Morpheus finished speaking, he looked at Illya who was lost in thought and laughed: "So you finally admitted it, right, Miss Illya."

Chapter 73 New Students

"Hmph, I didn't deny it!" Illya snorted, then said, "So, you're planning to use this to persuade me? To make me give up the Holy Grail?"

"No, what I mean is that I can find a way to keep you alive and free you from the control of the Holy Grail, which naturally also includes the control of the Einzbern family. Based on this, you must assist me in analyzing the Holy Grail."

"You are so powerful, why don't you just kill all the Servants and get the Holy Grail? Then you can make a wish to the Holy Grail, right?"

"Your body is the heart of the Holy Grail. I need to find a way to transfer this function."

Morpheus said something that would likely cause others to get angry.

"Although your view of good and evil is somewhat different from that of most people, and you like to kill people when you're really angry, at least mine is different. I still hope to obtain the Holy Grail while minimizing the death toll."

After hearing this, Illya's expression became a little dissatisfied. She did not receive a good education, and her life had always been one where she could not survive without hard work. Only by relying on the power of Berserker could she survive until now.

As a result, the other party said that her concept of good and evil was wrong. She was extremely unhappy and said: "This is the life I have experienced. If I am unhappy, I will kill. If others are unhappy, they can also kill me. The enemies I have encountered have never shown me mercy."

"Isn't that because those lunatics of the Einzbern family have no mercy?" Morpheus retorted without hesitation, "Except for your two maids. They still care about you. Perhaps you can take them with you when you leave the Einzbern family."

Illya frowned and stared at Morpheus for a long time before she said, "Are you a pervert? Uncle, you're actually spying on a little girl!"

"Surveillance? Ah, yes, yes, that's right, surveillance. Not only did I monitor you, I also watched you die in all kinds of ways. I even watched you turn into a magical girl and take a bath."

Morpheus complained furiously in his heart, but he still said formally, "This is slander. I am not spying on you, Miss Illya. It is simply because I have some special ability that I can see some scenes of the future and the past."

"Prophecy? Future vision?"

"That's fine. Of course, you can also assume I can do divination. I'm pretty good at tarot reading. Do you want to try it?"

"Humph!"

"Since you don't want to, forget it. Let's continue with the previous topic. I can protect your life and repair your body, but you must also promise not to interfere with my actions. From now on, it will be considered as withdrawing from the Holy Grail War."

Morpheus said this, thought for a moment, and then continued:

"As for Hercules, I will find a way to return it instead of passing it through the Holy Grail. However, there are some problems. I cannot guarantee this. If the Holy Grail still successfully intercepts it and stores it in your body, or even causes the destruction of your body, then I can only guarantee that your soul will be safe."

"This guarantee sounds like 'it's okay even if you die,' isn't it too insincere for a cooperative relationship?"

"I think it's quite sincere. After all, even if you die, I can keep your soul and then let the Holy Grail give me the knowledge to construct a body. Or I can simply let the Holy Grail create a body for you without a soul, and then I'll stuff your soul into it. Perfect."

Illya looked at Morpheus with a sincere face. She really wanted to pry open this guy's brain to see what was inside and why he could say such shameless words.

But she still endured it, the main reason being that she couldn't win.

"How pathetic! I actually have no choice but to agree... Even if I don't agree and he doesn't take action, my body will still collapse by the end of the Holy Grail War...

"Kiritsugu, have you ever thought about what I would experience? After you died, my mother's ghost, no, that was the evil hidden in the Holy Grail. That guy used my mother's appearance to scare me.

"And because of you, I was disliked by my family. They forced me to summon Berserker and rely entirely on my own magic power to supply it. Every time Berserker moved, it seemed as if it wanted to tear my body apart...

"But I had no choice. They threw me into all sorts of horrible places, places where I would die if I didn't fight. I could only rely on Berserker's power to survive... even though Berserker's actions caused me extreme pain...

"The third law? That's the Einzbern family's wish, not mine. I just want the people I care about to survive, and ideally, I can live with them too..."

Illya pondered silently, looking at Morpheus. After a long while, she said, "I can help you study the Holy Grail, but... I also have conditions."

"You said."

"Your actions just now were clearly a test for Rin. Does this mean that you are actually Tousaka Rin's teacher now?"

"For now, I think so. The magic I use is very special, completely different from yours. It's real magic. I think she has some talent, so I plan to teach her."

"What about me? Can I learn?" Illya asked.

This surprised Morpheus a little, and he couldn't help but say, "Of course, even if people from all over the world want to learn, I can still teach them."

This made Illya feel like she had seen a madman. After a long while, she said, "The more widely the magic spreads, the worse the effect will be. Are you sure you want this?"

"The wider it spreads, the worse the effect. The wider it spreads, the more stable the foundation. How to choose between these two is really difficult!"

Morpheus said with a smile, and seeing the angry look on Illya's face, he quickly said:

"I never said this was magic, nor did I say this mystery was the mystery you know."

Illya really wanted to refute the other party. She had also studied magic for a long time and had a deep understanding of the theory. She had just asked the other party and wanted to learn the other party's magic in order to enhance her own strength.

Sometimes, your own strength is the most important!

But I didn't expect the other party to say such a thing, saying that his mystery was not the mystery I knew.

This sentence sounds like saying "Your roots have nothing to do with me."

But just as Illya was about to refute him, Morpheus said, "It won't take much time anyway. You can learn from me first and see how it works. Then you can confirm whether what I just said is right or wrong."

Seeing that Illya was still hesitant, Morpheus made an offer that was even harder to refuse: "When you feel that what I teach you is indeed useful and can prove what I said, then it won't be too late for you to fully cooperate with me."

The initiative was in her hands. Seeing that the other party had actually made such a proposal, Illya finally felt relieved.

"Okay, uncle, since you said so, let's have a temporary limited cooperation!"

Chapter 74 Meeting

This is the life support device that Atram built with his own money. It was originally just to prevent the sacrifice from dying and being unable to better exploit the magic power, but he didn't expect that it would become the key prop that keeps him alive.

"You should be thankful that you are still useful to her, otherwise death would be waiting for you."

The slender ronin, dressed in the clothes of a ronin from the Japanese Warring States period, spoke to Atram.

Atram took a deep breath and looked at the person, or spirit, who was talking to him.

"She should hypnotize me and make me know nothing, so that I won't have to suffer so much..." Atram said, with a needle stuck in his body, and something like glucose was constantly injected into him.

These things became the energy that allowed him to survive during this period. Without these things, he would have starved to death due to not eating for a long time.

"I'll convey your message to her, but I don't think she'll care about your suggestion." The warrior said to Atalaam and walked out. His last words were heard from outside the door, "After all, she hasn't bothered to come and see you these days."

Looking at the warriors who had left, Atram leaned against the glass, looking powerless.

That warrior was a Servant. Atram found that ever since he summoned the treacherous witch, the other party had almost torn his worldview apart.

A Servant can actually resist Command Spells!

This was scary enough, but the result was not over yet. After taking away her arm with the Command Seal and even preserving it with special magic, this crazy woman set up a summoning magic circle, using herself as the Master, and summoned a brand new Servant!

"This crazy woman, she, she herself is a Servant, and now she has summoned another Servant. Ha, hahahaha, hahahaha, she really might win the Holy Grail War by herself..."

Atram laughed softly, full of self-mockery, and felt increasingly powerless.

Even if this Holy Grail War is won, it has nothing to do with him.

What the servant, whose name I don't know, said was right. If I wasn't still useful, that woman would definitely kill me without hesitation, just like she was disposing of garbage!

……

The warrior came to the most comfortable living room in the building and summoned his witch, who was sitting inside. In front of her was a map of the city with many marks on it.

This woman at this moment didn't seem like a magician, but more like a general, or in other words, more like a conspirator who was plotting something.

"Kojiro, you're here." Medea glanced at the warrior who came in, and said, her delicate hand placed a chess piece somewhere on the map.

The samurai known as Kojiro looked at the map and discovered that the place where the chess piece was placed was the location of the Cathedral Church in Shinto.

His name is Sasaki Kojiro, and the woman in front of him is his Master.

Sasaki Kojiro said to his Master, "He looks very depressed, and he hopes you can make him unconscious. Anyway, your goal is just to drain his magic power, so a coma is fine."

"Death means everything is over, while living means suffering. There is a big difference between the two. For him, coma is a kind of happiness. I don't want him to be happy." Medea said, without taking her eyes off the map.

"Are you punishing him?"

"Punishment? No, I simply don't like him and find him disgusting." Medea gently tapped a location on the map. "This is the address of several mage families in Fuyuki City. There must be participants in the Holy Grail War among them."

When Sasaki Kojiro heard Medea say this, he didn't say anything else. Although this woman said this, when she did something, there must be a specific reason and it would not be simply based on subjective likes and dislikes.

So Sasaki Kojiro simply ignored the reason the other party gave. If the information he had obtained from chatting with the people working here in the past few days was correct, the reason why Medea rebelled against her master seemed to be related to the fact that this master killed innocent children.

Sasaki Kojiro thought about this while looking at the map and said, "Why don't we go explore it?"

"This is the Holy Grail War. They'll eventually lose their temper. When they start fighting each other, that's when we'll be able to intervene. Meanwhile, you're currently restricted to this area. I need to find a way to expand your range of action to the entire city."

Kojiro Sasaki also knew that due to his special summoning conditions, he could not run around like other servants. His current range of activities was extremely small, just this building. Once this building was demolished, he would disappear directly.