Xingyue, is Xiaokai also considered Kai?

"Nightingale! Doctor! Nurse!"

The old pope's roar seemed to shatter glass: "Group therapy is based on a first-come, first-served basis! I was clearly the last one! Shakespeare should be next!"

But his words failed to move Nightingale. He was slowly bound to the hospital bed by Nightingale, probably because Blackbeard's earlier movements had made him uncomfortable.

The seemingly enormous scalpel was like a handy little knife in Nightingale's hands, and the tip of the knife quickly pointed towards the spiritual origin deep in Alexander's brain.

Just then, a sound came from the ceiling of the examination room.

"Nurse Nightingale, this is Paracelsus in the reception room. Is the Servant Rodrigo Borgia currently present?"

“His son and daughter have sent someone to visit him. If it’s convenient, please open the door to the consultation room.”

Chapter 469 The Man Who Killed His Wife and Daughters.

“Okay, Nurse Nightingale has agreed.”

Paracelsus smiled and nodded in the reception hall, extending his hand to the side. "Ms. Eri, with silver hair, you may enter the consultation room now. By the way, is this your first time here? Would you like to hear about some successful cases?"

"It's troublesome."

"The group psychotherapy room in the city of Shinjuku is different from other cities. Nightingale and I did not follow the standardized treatment process prescribed by AI. A few years ago, there were veterans like Alexander VI's Master who had their families murdered by Servants and developed PTSD reactions to red eyes and roars."

This is a standardized treatment process where urban AIs monitor the Master's brainwaves, spirit resonance rate, and other parameters to quantify the treatment progress. When the 'Servant Rejection Index' drops below the threshold, the 'Contract Reconstruction Technique' will be triggered, forcing the Master and the Servant to establish a new and perfect bond.

That's what they say, but the new Servants will not have any memories of the previous one.

"His follower was the Wolf King Robb. In the end, the two reached mutual understanding through sharing pain simulation, and the reconstruction spell was not triggered. However, this is only a few successful cases."

"Thanks, Little Pa."

Paracelsus slowly wiped the test tube, which suddenly began to bubble, and the pink liquid condensed into a small hand waving at Eri as she left.

"It's nothing, just a small favor. I hope you can take Alexander VI away from Nurse Nightingale as you wish."

Then, the alchemist's spectacles flashed with an eerie light.

How should I put it? He sensed a subtle aura emanating from the silver-haired Erise, a feeling that was somewhat familiar. This was the first time he had felt this way. It was somewhat like Favia, whom he had first met in London when he was young, and even the way she addressed her was similar...

Paracelsus pondered for a moment, perhaps it was a case of atavism in their descendants? After all, there hadn't been much news about Favia and Bavanshi since they set sail, apparently they reached a new continent called America, and then one of their descendants came to Japan? Incidentally, they became the ancestors of Chitose Manazuru?

Indeed, if he were a descendant of the prototype of the fifth sun, it would be quite natural for him to summon Lucius to become the subject of the Holy Grail War.

The alchemist, thinking of this, unconsciously curled the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Sorcerer, I—"

The alchemist, regaining his senses, snapped his fingers lightly, and the test tube suddenly transformed back into a lively Siamese cat, leaping onto the visitor.

"Today, the treatment room is offering a special selection of Honesty Water and Memory Macarons. Eating them will allow you to recite your first love diary and your innermost thoughts from that time to the third person you meet."

……

An explosion suddenly erupted from the examination room, plaster dust rained down from the ceiling, and Nightingale's furious roar pierced through the soundproof walls: "How many times have I told you! You are not allowed to summon your Noble Phantasm while I am thinking and waiting!"

"Ding-dong-"

Eri, possessed by Novia, tiptoed and rang the doorbell of the consultation room, quietly waiting for the automatic door to open.

After obtaining the psychological treatment report on Alexander VI from Paracelsus, the two now roughly understood the current situation.

Alexander VI's Master is an Old Human, a magician named Yukinobu Yoru. This magician developed Servant phobia due to witnessing his family's Servant massacre in the Tokyo area, one of the many Holy Grail Wars.

It's unbelievable at first glance that a magician would undergo psychological counseling because his family was slaughtered by Servants. After all, most magicians in the Type-Moon world are born with family ties, and those who value family are a very small minority. Calling them an anomaly wouldn't be an exaggeration.

However, unlike Eri, Novia thought it was normal. This was not an unfounded belief, but rather because of the name 'Night Robbery Snow Letter', which indicated that the person valued family and clan.

The Night Robbers are a family from the Japanese family in "The Great Adventure of Lord El-Melloi II". The magic they use is the local Japanese "divine body inheritance", which is to devour the physical fragments of the divine body of a god passed down in the family or the mystical world, thereby obtaining the god's power to drive phenomena.

From Minamoto no Yorimitsu, the strongest and most mysterious assassin in Heian, who was born because his father attempted to mold a divine child into a human, to Uesugi Kenshin, the incarnation of Bishamonten, who was born because his mother ate an impure Buddha bone, their origins lie in this traditional Japanese magic system.

However, due to the scarcity of 'divine bodies', and because they could not compete with the widespread dissemination of thought magic and Western magic, by the 21st century, only eight divine bodies remained in Japan. The divine body of the Yoru clan was the leader of Kunitsu God, the son-in-law of Susanoo, and the lord of Ōkuninushi who ceded his land to the Amatsu gods.

Incidentally, the Night Robbery family possesses swordsmanship originating from the four demon-slaying families. It was used by Night Robbery Xuexin during the Second Life Adventure. He is a once-in-a-millennium genius of the Night Robbery family, capable of walking in the air at the age of six. Among Japanese magicians, the ability to fly is considered proof of being a celestial being.

And although it was summer when she was born, it was snowing around her, which is also one of the origins of her name.

Ye Jie Xuexin, the 'special' son of the Ye Jie family, who was born only once every thousand years and was given high hopes.

"Erise Utsumi?"

The moment the automatic door opened, the tall Nightingale stood in the doorway, her sharp, blood-red eyes seeming to devour the small Eri Se.

"come in."

The moment the silver-haired Eri entered, she saw Blackbeard being tied to a circular chair designed in the shape of an ouroboros, kicking around, with an LCD screen above his head displaying 'Excessive obsession with his master's figurine: 97% cure rate'.

Shakespeare was scribbling furiously in his medical record: "Ah! What a wonderful tragedy! The cursed pirate falls in love with his master who summons him..."

"Don't run!"

Nightingale's axe struck the examination table, and flying sawdust grazed Alexander VI's papal crown.

The old pope had originally planned to use his scepter to hook the curtains and try to escape through the window, but after being stopped, he suddenly launched the scepter forward, pointing it directly at Eri's forehead: "Did those unfilial brats of the Borgia family send you to collect corpses? Tell them, I haven't fallen so low that I need brats to clean up my mess!"

The lights in the consultation room suddenly blazed on, and Nightingale threw her axe to block the oncoming scepter.

At this point, Shakespeare, not one to shy away from stirring things up, said: "Behold! The Pope, the most shameless martyr of the Holy Grail War! This fateful entrance should be accompanied by the drumbeats of Macbeth."

"Patient Luo—"

Before Nightingale could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Eri, a silver-haired woman who had squatted down and picked up the scepter.

"Did you use the same tone to threaten informers when you were distributing condoms in Florence in 1498?"

"Those are new types of indulgences!"

A holographic projection unfolded behind Alexander VI, displaying yellowed church ledgers. "Look closely! The price of thirty silver coins per box corresponds exactly to the price Judas paid for betraying Jesus. What a brilliant metaphor—"

An eerie silence fell over the examination room. Nightingale silently picked up the axe, and Shakespeare's quill automatically wrote the script of "The Passion of the Pope" on the medical record. Paracelsus, who had been listening to all this in the reception hall, revealed the words "Good luck" in the test tube.

Because the AI ​​of the city of Rome had long hoped that the AI ​​of Shinjuku would continue to publish Alexander VI's medical records, in other words, these words would all be publicly broadcast in Rome, a city dominated by church followers and believers. It could be said that Alexander VI and his children would likely be labeled as dangerous elements by the AI ​​of Rome for the rest of their lives.

At the same time, the silver-haired girl closed her eyes, her eyelashes trembling slightly, and to outsiders, she seemed to be suppressing something unbearably.

But for Erise, who knew the Demon King, she knew that he was definitely trying not to laugh.

Eri thought for a moment.

That's true. Although it's a mistranslation, this guy is widely known in the world as the Demon King. Since he's the Demon King, he wouldn't be interested in the church.

After all, people's perceptions can rewrite the heroic spirits seated on the throne. The throne is not based on the most authentic aspect, but rather on what people perceive as the most authentic aspect, which allows it to manifest and be summoned.

Immediately afterwards, in Eri's eyes, the demon king who controlled her body was rubbing the indentation on the scepter with his fingertips.

"October 31, 1517, Piazza del Duomo in Rome."

Novia uttered a whisper powerful enough to make Alexander VI tremble, and walked step by step toward Alexander VI.

"Before you engaged in your world-renowned theological debate with Martin Luther, your body was already uncontrollably turning towards becoming a dead apostle."

Alexander VI's pupils contracted sharply.

How could this child know this information? The only one who clearly knows is Giuliano. Could it be that Julius II is with this child? No, there's absolutely no connection to the church; it couldn't be him.

"After losing the debate, you died suddenly one day under pressure. Later generations believed that you accidentally poisoned someone."

Eri squatted down and gently placed the restored scepter in his hand. "Your assistant recorded: Your mouth was foaming like a kettle on a stove. His body swelled up like an inflating balloon, its width soon equal to its length. Finally, it burst, each hole emitting a sulfurous stench—this was because you single-handedly raided the sorcerers of Istanbul, and were then subjected to a collective sorcery curse during your retreat."

As we all know, Western magic and mind magic are the two major poles in the world, while the ancient spellcasting that originated in the Middle East once had the potential to become the third pole, but ultimately declined because it lacked a clear academic system and could not be learned or spread.

While the rise of the Ottoman Empire threatened European security, its domestic sorcery organizations also threatened the Clock Tower's position. However, at that time, the three nobles of the Clock Tower, in order to compete with El-Melloi for power, joined forces with Fa Guo to attack El-Melloi's ally, the Church of the Holy See, leading to the Avignon Prison.

But before the three noble families could even revel in their triumph, the rapid rise of the Ottoman Empire brought them no joy. Thus, the Church, which had ended the Avignon Prison, became the front line. To prevent the Ottoman Empire from breaching the defenses, the three noble families and El-Melloi kept providing the Church with financial support.

They were afraid that one day these despicable popes would lead the church to abandon Rome and flee to other places, causing the European front to be defeated, which in turn led to the Ottoman Empire, which worshipped magic, sweeping across Europe.

"you……"

Alexander VI frowned slightly. "This is something even Cesare and Lucrezia don't know..."

Nightingale suddenly placed her axe between the two men: "Explain."

"During the Holy Grail War in a certain place fourteen years ago."

Novia, through Eri, reveals some details from the past of Alexander VI's Master that she absorbed from the girl's instinct for death: "The Night Raiders family was not unmoved by the Holy Grail War, which could lead directly to the Root. They also participated in the war, and the participant was Night Raider Yukinobu."

Alexander VI suddenly fell silent as a corpse, while Shakespeare frantically carved "The Unspeakable" on the wall.

Generally speaking, Masters can dream about their Servants' past, but the reverse is basically impossible. As for Utsumi Eri's 'death' instinct, which allows her to recall memories, this is probably because her mother is Izanami from Japan. After all, she is the goddess of the underworld. In a sense, Eri, who has lost her memories of Tokyo, has also lost her divinity...

Of course, Novia himself also had a reason, because his relationship with Typhon was already one of close contact.

"With divine bodies, they were naturally invincible in that Holy Grail War, after all, it was the great lord of the country who was regarded as the chief god."

In the Type-Moon universe, there is an ancient conflict between the dragon and the bull. The Babylonian hero-king slew the Heavenly Bull, thus establishing his kingdom; in Greece, Zeus and Typhon clashed; and in Japan—

The origin of Ōkuninushi is that of Chiyou, a cow-type deity, and also of Typhon, a dragon-type deity. In addition, the name Ōkuninushi, also known as Yamata no Orochi or Ōki, who is regarded as a rotten rope 'snake', is sometimes considered to be the same entity.

The existence of God is so profound that, according to a long history and transmission, the killer and the killed sometimes merge together.

"You brat, you're really annoying. Be careful you don't get beaten to death by someone who doesn't like you..."

Alexander VI said with a crooked mouth.

This should be the correct answer.

As a 'despicable pope' who used real evil deeds to help the church rise again as much as possible after the Avignon Prison, Alexander VI naturally understood that the Master who summoned him by affinity was someone who 'would do what he felt was meaningful, even if it was evil.'

If that's the case, then that's enough.

Without needing to ask too many questions, people who are similar can understand each other's thoughts with just a glance.

However, this interaction was interpreted by the Holy Grail as proof of a psychological disorder.

"During that Holy Grail War, just before it ended, he killed Nightbringer Xuexin's wife, two daughters, mother, and the entire Nightbringer clan—"

Novia gently touched the scepter that Alexander VI was holding tightly with her fingertips.

"It is not a Servant, but Yukinobu Yoru, who personally pierced the spiritual core of the Great Lord of the Ninja Kingdom he summoned in order to give up his own 'specialness'."

Chapter 470 Am I the father (mother) of Yamata no Orochi?

The area surrounding Mosaic City in Japan is a wasteland.

Because during the height of the Holy Grail War that swept the globe, a single soldier could possess more than 10,000 drones.

From tiny insects to large passenger planes that are unmanned or semi-autonomous, flying around the battlefield, drones have been developed to dig into the ground and infiltrate underground facilities, as well as drones that can swim in water. Naturally, there are also drones that disguise themselves as marine creatures to launch self-destruct attacks on submarines. Therefore, in naval warfare, drones may even indiscriminately attack any approaching shadowy fish in self-defense.

The drones were mostly semi-permanent in life, and many people were killed in the period after the war due to the removal of the remaining drones.

On one hand, this is also one of the reasons why aircraft cannot appear in the skies of the new era. Even crossing the ocean is an extremely dangerous activity, because marine life has been basically wiped out by drones. A slight mistake could cause secondary disasters for these creatures that are patrolling the seabed.

Therefore, they currently rely on the abilities of the city AIs in various mosaic cities and individual Servants to maintain contact. However, most New Humans are unwilling to leave their cities to explore the outside world because of past wars. To some extent, New Humans have obtained the 'immortality' that Old Humans dreamed of, but they have also lost their motivation.

Just as the moon landing is considered an impossible myth, even when modern humans see old airplanes online, they subconsciously think of them as mythical creatures.

In contrast to the new humans who are unwilling to leave, some of the old humans who experienced the Holy Grail War prefer to live in the wasteland rather than stay in the city, even though they were also chosen by the Holy Grail and adapted to become Servants—

There is a mountain on the outskirts of Shinjuku.

On the parched and cracked earth, the lush forests in the mountains seemed to cover the sky.

In the heart of the mountain, there stands a massive mansion so dark it looks as if it has been painted. On one side of the gate, several tall buildings can be seen, undoubtedly constructed long ago.

"This is where my Master is. He's basically at home except when he's visiting graves."

"No, this is just an entrance."

Novia, using Eri's body, answered Alexander VI, who was leading the way, "This mountain itself is the true home of the Night Raiders."

"I don't come here very often."

Alexander VI nodded. "However, considering its size and related history, this should be considered a rather excellent barrier."

After Novia recounted the past of Master Alexander VI, Yukinobu, in the examination room, he asked Nightingale to let him borrow the old pope for a while to help him complete his psychological treatment. The nurse thought about it for a moment and then agreed. The two then went to the location of Yukinobu's house.

"Indeed, after all, they are distant relatives of the Ryougi family."

“Borgia, the little girl you brought seems to know our house very well.”

Just as Novia was speaking using Eri's voice, the door to the Night Robbery's house opened slowly by itself, without even needing to knock or ring the doorbell.

Then, dozens of humanoid dolls stood side by side on both sides of the road, all dressed in black suits and black ties, with different photos on their heads, including men, women, young and old; among the motionless dolls, a person took a step behind them.