People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

"Hey, Beatrice?" Erica didn't expect that her actions would be discovered at the very beginning, but she didn't want to let Shirou Emiya go as Beatrice said. To be exact, she simply thought that Shirou Emiya "lived here". What she was thinking about was how to find Miyu. If Shirou really left, maybe he could lead the way to find Miyu.

But why did Beatrice come here?

"Huhu, I won't give you the doll - if I give it to you, you'll want..." Erica knew that Beatrice also liked dolls, but why did she have to twist off the doll's head? Every time she had to trouble Angelica to fix it.

"Huh? I wouldn't come looking for a little girl like you just for such a thing." Beatrice put away the controller held by Erica, but did not return it to her. "It was Lord Darius. He saw you walking towards the dungeon for the first time, so he asked me to keep an eye on it. Just to remind you, the guy locked up in there is a very dangerous person. If Erica gets into trouble with him, the end... will be much more miserable than having her neck broken!"

Beatrice spoke threatening words in a cheerful tone, causing Erica to turn pale.

"Hey, hey, I'm not scared!" Erica said stubbornly, "At worst I can go out and play by myself. Goodbye, Sister Beatrice!"

Thump thump thump.

The little girl ran away in small steps.

"Goodbye. If you want to leave, it's up to you. Lord Darius won't care about it. Just don't let him go."

However, Aicarie did not hear Beatrice's next words, as she had already run out of the castle.

"La la la, let's go out and adventure alone, and see if we can meet Sister Miyu~"

The little girl, jumping and not being wary, thought that Fuyuki City was completely safe and headed towards the vast deserted city.

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[I am so lucky that I have found the nutrients to survive again. ]

[After I left the church, several weeks passed and the food was about to run out, but in a 'lost things' that looked like a basement, I found a food box that was locked by some technology.]

[That technology seemed to be a completely different system from today's technology, but its strength was very weak. I didn't have the spare time to study it. In order to absorb nutrients as quickly as possible, I used brute force to destroy the box.]

[The food is obviously no longer fresh, but it doesn't matter. As long as it is within the range of ingestion (absorption), it can be converted into nutrients using the 'root system' device. Ah, but it's not accurate to say that it is a box for storing food, because it looks like there is a notebook in it. ]

[A paper notebook? Why is this an ancient medium? I heard that the "lost property" was very advanced before? ]

[Putting this question aside for now, I looked through the contents of my notes:]

['...The number of copies of historical documents available for interpretation is always limited. We must obtain more comprehensive records...']

['We must connect all the things together and understand the phenomena of the connections between them... I was disappointed with the archaeology department, but I didn't expect the investment to come so suddenly. That's great. My views have been supported. The work of the archaeology department has become a hot topic. It is no longer a luxury to interpret all the major lineages in my lifetime...']

[‘I think that the fragility of human nature is not something that suddenly appeared in modern times, but is the result of gradual evolution over the past generations... The sedition ceremony in the Far East is very suspicious. Humph, considering that the Clock Tower has obtained a lot of information about the Age of Gods, I will not pay attention to it for the time being...’]

['I began my study of the great mythology... I investigated the huge fauna of the Altamira Cave... I recorded the murals of giants on the Tahiri Plateau in the Sahara Desert...']

['...After repeated interpretations, it is confirmed that around 12000 BC is the intersection of the First Age of the Gods and the Second Age of the Gods...Starting from 12000 BC, the White Giant God (tentative name) caused the original life to grow in size and destroyed the divine principles and the ecological circle of the Age of the Gods...In 6000 BC, the White Giant God died in the Sahara Desert, which was far away from the ecological range at that time. It was recorded as a mural, and a large number of divine remains were left in various places...']

['... In 2600 BC, the farewell between man and god occurred... In 1000 BC, that person returned the Ten Commandments, and the compilation of divine principles was completed... At this time, the laying of human principles should have been underway...']

['Everything was going smoothly and should have been completed, but damn, a part was missing. During this period when the principles of God were shaken and the principles of humanity were uncertain, someone erased the information that was passed down...']

['Could it be that the divine corpse was used in a wrong way? ...Is that why the laws of human nature are so fragile? ...']

['...AD 1995, spring...Archaeology Department...Work log, Leif Huale.']

Chapter 280 You are spying on me, Darius!

“…There’s no one here either.”

Although Erica wanted to go out and play, there was no one in Fuyuki City now, at least that was the case for Erica at the moment.

The deserted city streets were covered with a white layer of snow. There was no sign of people coming and going, so no one was responsible for snow removal, and no one opened a shop to attract customers. Erica stepped carefully, step by step, on the snow several centimeters deep.

Even though there was no one on the road and no one would pay attention to her, she would try her best to remain calm and maintain the "lady" demeanor in her mind.

No one spoke to her on the road.

There was a monotonous, repetitive crunching sound on the snow.

On the seemingly endless street scene, Erica finally felt bored. "So, I don't want to go out alone. It's so boring~, huh, it's all Sister Beatrice's fault."

But come to think of it, why does she have to maintain this ladylike demeanor?

When she was extremely bored, Erica couldn't help but think about it. After all, she was just a ten-year-old girl. Since when did she insist on that attitude? She was just a child, but she was self-disciplined, as if she was showing it to someone?

It was as if…she had had that kind of gesture before?

"Hmmmm, I can't remember... my head is so dizzy!"

Whenever Erica reminisced about the past, she felt a burning sensation in her head, as if heat was radiating from within, making her forget and stop dwelling on the past.

"boom."

Without paying attention, Erica's forehead hit something hard and cold.

"Hiss, it's so cold." Erica raised her head and found that it was a tall fence gate. She unknowingly walked to the gate of the elementary school of Hogunhara Academy in Fuyuki City.

"Hmm——" This place... seems to be a place that she couldn't remember clearly before, but had an impression of?

Erica pushed the door gently and took a step back. Then the high iron fence creaked and the snow on the top shook and fell to the ground. Then she pushed the door open and walked in.

The windows and the classroom all looked as if no one had visited them for a long time. When the front door of the classroom was opened, the old smell and the dust began to exchange with the outside air. Erica walked straight through the aisle between the desks and came to the window near the playground on the other side. She found a seat near the window skillfully, and as if her body had always remembered, she wiped off the dust and sat down.

"Sure enough... there's no one here..." Erica just followed her feeling and found this place, but this Fuyuki Elementary School had actually been closed a long time ago. After the Fourth Holy Grail War, a large number of people left Fuyuki, and the children of those who left naturally would not stay to go to school.

Erica didn't have any illusions about this, she was just following her feeling. Thinking of this, she continued to look out the window, because this seemed to be a common action for people sitting in seats near the window.

"The playground is also... completely white... no one is there - eh eh, is there anyone!?"

Erica no longer cared about maintaining her ladylike image. She instantly stood up, left her seat, and ran towards the playground outside the classroom.

Because she saw several people, one of whom looked familiar... Sister Miyu!

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"Although I expected this, I still feel that Fuyuki City in this world is too desolate!"

Chloe said. She was accompanied by Illya, Miyu, Irisviel, Gray, Bazette, and others. They needed to start their actions soon. Chloe was at the front, leading the way. After all, as a Servant, she was dressed the coolest.

"Yeah," Illya said, wearing relatively thick clothes. "It seems to be caused by the disasters of the past few years. The Holy Grail War is really terrible. I heard that there was also a fire in the Fourth Holy Grail War on my brother's side. Could it be that all Holy Grail Wars in parallel worlds will have accidents?"

"Crowmouth Illya, stop talking! Big Brother's Fifth Holy Grail War hasn't even started yet. If something goes wrong, will it be attributed to you?"

"Hmm, you have a new nickname, Xiao Hei, you are really too much," Illya threw a snowball casually and hit Chloe in the face.

"Hehehe, I can't hit you!"

Chloe dodged and jumped directly onto the high wall, then stood steadily on the narrow edge of the wall with her amazing agility.

“Come to think of it, the place we just passed by wasn’t completely empty, right?” Irisviel thought back to the countless stores she had seen along the way. “It looked like there was a ramen restaurant open?”

"It feels very suspicious... It says Mapo Tofu Ramen on it." Miyu also noticed it, but they had already eaten, so they just took a look and had no intention of going in.

Gray agreed, "Indeed, my senses... my sense of smell is quite sharp. There is a very strong spicy smell inside, and the aroma of noodles is rather sparse. Even if you are really hungry, it is better not to try it."

As a person who has awakened her dragon bloodline, Gray not only has physical fitness comparable to that of ancient heroes, allowing her to run rampant in the modern world, but her various senses and physical signs are also approaching inhuman levels, including her sense of smell.

"Eh, is this a dish that has a little bit of ramen noodles and a lot of mapo tofu? How vicious!"

Illya imagined some kind of abnormally spicy food, which made her a little reluctant. Relatively speaking, some of the dishes made by Miyu also had a sweet and spicy taste, but they did not give people the feeling of being too spicy. Combined with other dishes with diverse flavors, the spicy feeling in the mouth did not continue to accumulate, making people eat more and more spicy.

"Huh?" Gray and Bazette stopped at the same time. As members of the frontline combat team, they were more alert than the others. "Who is that little girl?"

"It is consistent with what the file shows... It is Alicia Ainsworth, suspected to be the daughter of Darius Ainsworth."

"——Miyu-nee! Miyu-nee!"

The little girl was not alert at all. When she saw that Miyu was indeed among them, she quickened her pace and ran over.

"Wait!" In Miyu's opinion, Erica would not pose any threat. She wanted to call Erica because she was running too fast. "Be careful not to slip--"

"Eh eh eh——"

"thump."

It was too late. Erica, who was running fast on the snow, slipped and fell face down in the snow.

“This child is really…” Irisviel smiled and prepared to step forward and help her up.

“Wait, wait a minute!” Erica, who was lying on the ground in the snow, stretched out a hand, “Well, well, Erica is a lady! A lady should stand up on her own!”

"..."Everyone couldn't understand why he insisted so much. Wasn't it cold on the snow?

Crash, crash.

Erica tried hard to stretch her hands and kick her calves. After accidentally slipping several times, she finally stood up. The price she paid was that both of her hands turned red.

"Mei, Meiyu sister, I finally found you." Erica smiled pretending to be relaxed, as if she didn't feel any pain at all.

"Are you okay?" Miyu knew that Erica was just a little girl with some issues, but she couldn't guarantee that there were no problems with the people of Ainsworth. "Erica, is it really okay? You came out alone?"

"It's really okay. I ran out alone this time. Sister Angelica was busy with something with father, and sister Beatrice didn't want to come with me, so~ hehehe, I ran out alone!" Erica looked proud and told Ainsworth's information like pouring beans.

"Okay...Where did you fall just now? Does it hurt? How about going back to check? My friend has a big and comfortable house nearby."

When it came to 'going back to check', Miyu looked at Irisviel, Gray, and Bazett.

What she meant was whether or not to take Erica, whose combat power was 0, back and "keep an eye on her".

Erica noticed the people next to Miyu, "Hey, there are so many people here. Are there still so many people left in Fuyuki City? Are you all friends? That's great. Are you all out here to have fun? Where is the big house?..."

Maybe it's because she spends too much time alone, so when she meets a lot of people, Erica starts asking questions like a chatterbox has been opened.

After several people exchanged glances and confirmed their decision, Mrs. Irisviel, who had the highest affinity, said to Erica, stroking the child's head: "Oh my, so your name is Erica? It's so cute. It would be even better if you could be my child."

"Oh, of course, but Erica is my dad's daughter, she can't be someone else's child!"

"It's okay, it's okay. Even so, Erica can still come to our house as a guest!"

"Wow, thank you, big sister I don't know!"

They took Erica back without leaving any trace. In addition, when Irisviel was called "big sister", her face brightened visibly.

However, they did not reach the stronghold smoothly because something unexpected happened. Qin Xuan stood outside from a distance and stopped them.

In his hand he held the Lotus Staff.

"You brought Erica back? Wait a minute."

"...This big brother, is he also a friend?" Erica didn't understand the situation.

But Qin Xuan did not look here, but stared at a corner where there was a strange space crack, and then he flicked the Lotus Staff.

"Rumble————"

Suddenly, the roof of Ainsworth Castle, far out of everyone's sight, exploded instantly, the walls were shattered, and bricks and stones flew everywhere.

"Yeah - just cleaned up the peeping eyeliner, that's it."

Chapter 281 Snowflakes Flying ~ North Wind Howling ~

Darius Ainsworth, the head of the family, was standing on the top floor of the castle, looking out at the vast snowy sky and the winter wood scenery as usual, and his mood was not good.

The space exploration method to the parallel world through the class card was just getting started, but it was interrupted. Originally, the mirror world, as an existence with an uncertain spatial phase, like a quantum superposition state, can be used as a "drifting fabric" between the two worlds, and then it can become a bridgehead for Ainsworth to explore the parallel world.

However, the seven class cards that had accidentally gone to the parallel world before lost their response before they could be connected. Then, Darius ordered Angelica to send new cards to the parallel world, but they lost their response again almost the moment they arrived.

Without the mirror world formed, matter transmission cannot be used. But surprisingly, it seems that such a lightweight existence as intelligence can be transmitted, so it is not completely hopeless. What they are trying now is whether they can expand this intelligence channel.

However, what Ainsworth didn't know was that the eight cards they had sent out had already been cracked by the association and put into the system of the Holy Grail.

What they are trying to do now is essentially to transfer matter (human body) into the Small Holy Grail, so it is doomed to fail. The structure of the New Holy Grail system determines that it only allows things at the lepton level to exist, unless the system is changed to the old Holy Grail. However, Ainsworth is only the owner of the Holy Grail system in this world and does not have the authority to transform the Holy Grail of other worlds.

Because of this non-existent hope, Darius thought that the script he constructed could be performed on time, so he felt a little relaxed.

I even took a nap out of boredom.

"Ha~"

Darius yawned. He had no idea what to do next. "By the way, did Erica go to town to play again? Let's take a look."

Darius waved his hand, and a plane similar to a space crack unfolded in front of him. By exchanging the distant space (section) with the nearby space (section), long-range space displacement was achieved, and intelligence, light, and material transmission could be realized. The effect was almost close to magic. This was Ainsworth's displacement magic.

Darius often marked the little girl Erica, so he could easily locate and monitor her no matter where she went.

"Ah, really, this kind of thing (letting her keep her memories) really can't be done," Darius said, as if he was thinking about Erica. It was obvious that Erica's innocent appearance was shaped by Darius's active intervention. "Every time she encounters an opportunity, she thinks about suicide, suicide, suicide. How can this be allowed? I have to delete her memory."

As he spoke, Darius adjusted the "lens" of the replacement magic and moved it to a position where he could see Erica. At this moment, Erica fell into the snow. "Oh, you've become reckless again. Next time you adjust your memory, can't you generate a more stable personality?..."

Darius sighed and said helplessly. Little did he know that Darius himself was still wearing casual clothes and flip-flops in the middle of winter, and he always looked out of touch. It was like the pot calling the kettle black.