Type-Moon, the Path of a Magician

Yuan Ye Qiuye vaguely heard Amber's murmur and asked curiously: "Amber, what did you just say?"

"No...it's nothing."

"Ms. Qiuye, it's getting late. You should rest."

Amber shook her head and made up an excuse to get away with it.

"How can I sleep when there are Dead Apostles around?"

Tono Akiha shook his head. "I'm going to go out and gather the members of the branch family and go directly to the city to look for the traces of the Dead Apostles. The Tono family can't let outside magicians look down on them."

"You should go back and rest first, Amber."

"Yes……"

Amber lowered her head with a strange look on her face, not knowing what she was thinking.

……

……

The night was cold as the master and servant chatted.

A light blue butterfly flew across the white moonlight and landed in a corner of the courtyard.

It's not over yet.

Chapter 129: Past Events of the Tono Family

That night.

As the night deepened, the shadows became more rampant, like a giant curtain that isolated the entire city and turned it into a stage of its own.

The cold moonlight is bright and clear, shining on the ground like the lights on the stage.

The drama is still going on.

……

……

Time quickly came to the point where it was about half an hour since Xia Yuan and Tono Shiki left.

Having seen their brother being taken away by Xia Yuan, and the ensuing crisis of the Twenty-Seventh Ancestor of the Dead Apostles, the Tohno family, which claims to be a demon-exorcising family, naturally had to take action.

With the help of Amber, Toono Akiha quickly suppressed the rebellious impulse brought by his own blood, and then summoned the best players in the Toono family to go out and start a carpet search of the dead apostles in the city.

This shows that the defenses of the Tono family are weak at the moment, and not many people are left to defend.

So after asking Elquet to take Tono Shiki to the base.

Someone took advantage of this opportunity to act.

In the spacious courtyard in front of the Tono family's mansion, several blue butterflies fluttered out from the windows and chimneys of the mansion, passed through the white moonlight, and flew into the shadowed side of the courtyard.

Under the cover of night, these light blue butterflies gathered into a human figure, and then a familiar figure walked out of the darkness.

"I think the situation is clear now."

Xia Yuan, who was formed by butterflies, walked out from the shadows. He stretched out his fingertips and used the results of the exploration of these butterflies to roughly understand the distribution map of the Tono mansion.

Just now, he also witnessed through the butterfly in the dark the scene of Tono Akiha's reversal of impulse and the girl from the Wujing clan.

The Wujing clan, the blood of demons...

He probably already had some guesses about the secrets hidden by this family, and now he just had to follow the clues and explore.

As the result of hundreds of years of operation by the Human Outer Clan, the scale of development of the Tono family is indeed astonishingly large. If we don't count the Aozaki family, the Kuonji family, and the fairy tale witch who really control the city, they can be said to be omnipotent in Misaki City.

The human race not only has to hide their identities, but also seek development. It is amazing that they can achieve this.

In the entire mansion, apart from the servants' living rooms, the reception room, the chess and card room and the like, only the study and the secret room next to it made him suspicious.

Regarding the information about the Human Outer Clan, the records of the Aozaki family only covered a broad range of information. If one wanted to know the details, one had to start from the Toono family. Of course, he also had to look for clues about Roya here.

He had already investigated the mansion during the time when Toono Shiki was talking to his sister Toono Akiha. When he followed Hisui in, he released a few familiars to scout the area, preparing to make a surprise attack when the Toono family's defenses were light and investigate their hidden secrets.

Xia Yuan moved very lightly and quickly. He leaped to a balcony on the second floor of Toono's house, then pushed open the window and walked in.

He began to draw the floor plan of the Toono family in his mind according to the information collected by the butterfly familiar, and then began to search some of the more suspicious rooms in the mansion.

During the period, we also found that some alarm bars were installed on the doors or corners. As long as someone touched them, the owner of the mansion would be notified immediately.

However, such a complicated magic restriction was nothing to him. With the ice-blue magic eye opened, he could see all the restrictions in the mansion at a glance. It was very clear where he needed to avoid and where he needed to lift.

Walking through the corridor of the Tono family, he also saw some Tono family servants who stayed behind to guard. These simple things were easy for Xia Yuan to deal with.

However, he did not hurt anyone. He simply used suggestive magic mixed with illusion to block their cognition and prevent them from stopping him. With a smooth journey, Xia Yuan soon arrived at the room he was looking for, which was the room of the two maids.

Amber and emerald.

Although it was not clear, he remembered that these two maids should also be important characters in Tsukihime. Although he was not clear about their plots and life experiences, they might also be involved with Roya.

It has just been discovered that Amber is from the Wujing clan, and has the power of purification in her blood. And Tono Akiha also said that they grew up in the Tono family, so how much do they know about the secrets hidden in this mansion?

It's worth exploring for yourself.

In this way, Xia Yuan, relying on the illusion technique he learned from the British Sword Master, opened a layer of phantom barrier within one meter around himself, and then explored the Tono family's mansion at will as if he was in an empty place.

After walking past many patrolling servants and through a long corridor, he soon arrived at the door of a room at the corner of the second floor.

According to the information provided by Butterfly, this should be the room of one of the two maid sisters.

At this time, except for the patrolling servants, all the other servants were resting. The two maids were also resting in the room, and the door was locked from the inside.

And there was no magical restriction, the door was simply locked.

If you knock on the door or break it violently, it will inevitably alert the people inside and even make them shout.

That would make things very troublesome.

Fortunately, this situation is not a difficult problem for me to solve.

Xia Yuan stretched out his hand to control the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid to drill into the keyhole of the door, and then began to change its shape according to the shape inside the keyhole, and finally gradually condensed into a mercury key that fit the structure inside.

Then there was a "click" sound of unlocking.

The door was opened with a key.

"Who are you……?!"

Hearing the faint sound of the door being opened by a key from outside, the maid who was resting in the room immediately stood up from the bed with a look of surprise on her face.

After calling out twice and seeing no one responding, I couldn't help feeling a little scared, so I wanted to shout loudly.

"Shh..."

But before she could make a sound to call out to others in the mansion, a silver light flashed past her eyes from the keyhole.

This rope formed by the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid was like a flexible silver snake. It easily wrapped around her body, and then transformed into a rope that sealed her mouth, preventing her from making any sound.

"woo woo woo woo……"

The bound Jade looked at the figure walking in and couldn't help but widen her eyes, but because her mouth was sealed and her body was tied up, she couldn't notify anyone and could only watch the person approach.

Then Xia Yuan walked in, closed the door, and locked it from the inside as before.

"So you are the younger sister of the twin maids? I remember your name was Jadeite..."

Looking at Feicui who was tied up and struggling in front of him, Xia Yuan shook his head and then approached her, but did not do anything strange to her. He just stood there and looked at her quietly.

Looking at Feicui who was struggling desperately, Xia Yuan shook his head, then stretched out a finger in front of her eyes and whispered: "Relax, I won't do anything strange to you. I just want to ask you something, and you will forget everything when you wake up."

"Woooooooo..."

Jade struggled violently.

"You won't cooperate? This is also expected. I have my own solution."

Xia Yuan raised his finger and pointed it in front of Feicui's eyes, then...

--clatter!

Accompanied by a crisp snap of fingers, Jade soon stopped struggling, her pupils began to shrink slightly and become empty, and finally a still butterfly pattern appeared in her eyes.

"Treat me as the person you trust the most. From now on, I will ask questions and you will answer them. Do you understand?"

Just now, I have used illusion to temporarily change the cognition in Jade's mind and replaced myself with the person she trusts most, so that she will tell the truth.

"Understood, sister."

Jade nodded stiffly, having already recognized Xia Yuan as Wu Jing Amber.

Seeing this, Xia Yuan released the restraints of the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid and began to ask Feicui: "First question, how much do you know about Tohno Shiki's past?"

"I know that Master Shiki, like my sister and I, came to the Tohno family later, and he died once when he was a child, but the previous head of the family did not allow anyone to tell it." Hisui answered truthfully.

Have you ever died once?

Xia Yuan was not surprised at this news. After all, Toono Shiki was also a person who possessed the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. He came back to life from the dead and understood death in order to open those eyes.

only……

"Then how did he come back to life?"

Hisui replied, "I don't know much about this, but I heard from my sister that it was Miss Akiba who gave half of her life to Master Shiki to bring Master Shiki back to life."

Shared life?

This reason surprised him a little. No wonder he felt that there was some connection between Toono Shiki and Toono Akiha. However, after examination, he found that the two were not real siblings, but he couldn't explain the feeling.

Now Feicui's words made him find the reason.

It turns out that they share the same life.

So Xia Yuan continued to ask: "Do you know more information? For example, his original surname, and how he died?"

"I remember……"

Under Xia Yuan's questioning, Feicui recalled what happened that day, but in the process of recalling, her body began to tremble uncontrollably, and then she answered with fear on her face.

"It was Master Shiki!! I remember that day Master Shiki suddenly went crazy and wanted to kill Miss Akiba. Master Shiki was killed by Master Shiki in order to save Miss Akiba."

Master Shiki? Tono Shiki?

Is there such a person hiding in the Tono family?

He seemed to have heard this name somewhere.

Xia Yuan felt that he had grasped the thread of the matter.

The name sounds very unusual, and the fact that he can come into contact with Tono Akiha shows that he is also a member of the main family.

He remembered that Roya had a relationship with the Toono family. Excluding Toono Akiha and Toono Shiki, Roya looked down on ordinary people of low status and no talent, so based on his speculation.

Roya is most likely this guy.

So he began to question further: "Who is that Four Seasons Master?"

"He is Miss Akiba's biological brother and the eldest son of the head of the Tono family."

It turns out that he is the eldest son of the Toono family. It is not difficult to infer the situation at that time.

He suddenly went crazy and wanted to kill Toono Akiha. This was probably because the reverse impulse brought about by the demon's blood caused him to turn into a beast and completely lose control.

However, there were still some doubts, so Xia Yuan continued to ask: "Do you know his whereabouts?"

"He's dead. Master Shiki was executed by the previous head of the Tono family a long time ago."

died?

This surprised Xia Yuan a little.

"You saw him die?"

"Yes, I saw with my own eyes that the master of the family rushed over and killed the crazy Master Si Ji."

Xia Yuan was a little surprised to hear Feicui's answer. Although he felt something was wrong, he didn't say anything.

Just keep asking for useful intelligence.

"Really? How much do you know about the secrets of the Tohno family?"

"A secret... I don't know. I have always been an ordinary maid in the Tono family. I have no right to get close to the master and the young master. It has always been my sister who has been responsible for taking care of the master and the young master..."

Amber? Is that the other red-haired maid I just saw?