The Collection of The End

My name is Elijah,

I dropped a vest.

172:38:15

In Einzbern Castle, far away from Fuyuki City, Irisviel was taking care of Lin Hao who was unconscious.

A few hours ago, there was a violent fluctuation of magic power in the direction of Fuyuki City. It should be a battle between Servants, and Kiritsugu must be at the scene.

Since the two Sabers are the same person, they can communicate remotely through [Reading Words], but they seem to dislike each other, so although Irisviel is worried, she can't force Lily to be with Alter all the time. Keep in touch.

But when she sensed that Saber Alter entered the fighting state shortly after the battle, she still couldn't help but feel worried, and her mood fluctuated even Xiao Hao, who was helping her perfect the magic barrier, noticed it.

Although she was willing to believe in Kiritsugu's skill and ability to assess the situation, the battle was not something that would go ahead as planned. She asked Saber Lily to sense the state of Saber Alter at any time, and if there was any sign of failure, she would use the Command Seal to kill him. She moved over, even if it revealed that she had two Sabers, she couldn't care less.

After the girl knight told her that Black Saber had encountered a follower and repelled her, Irisviel breathed a sigh of relief, but unexpectedly, Lin Hao, who had been staying with her all the time, suddenly used a command spell and passed out on the spot .

"In the name of the Command Seal, Caster, immediately appear beside Emiya Kiritsugu to protect him!" That's what she said.

After a moment of astonishment, Saber Alter sent news that when she was chasing and killing a servant who was supposed to be a berserker, Kiritsugu was ambushed at the scheduled evacuation point, but it seemed that he was rescued by Caster at the scene.

Although Saber Alter, who has no ability to act alone, is still alive and proves that Kiritsugu is fine, Alice Viel is still terrified. Although she doesn't know how Lin Hao learned about Kiritsugu's condition, she would still dislike it for the sake of it before. Unstoppable people use command spells without hesitation...

What a good boy, Irisviel thought for the first time while touching Lin Hao's sleeping face.

She doesn't seem to think about who the other party is at all, as long as she sees and can do it, she will immediately save someone regardless of any losses she will suffer, just like what she did at Fuyuki General Hospital, she obviously came to participate in the Holy Grail War, but She is using Caster's magic to treat patients who have nothing to do with her.

Irisviel was curious about what kind of person her Servant would be, so she waited in Lin Hao's resting room, accompanied by Saber Lily.

171:54:24

In the middle of the night, the snow-white Einzbern Castle seemed extraordinarily quiet amidst the faint chirping of insects. Although Irisviel was a product of alchemy, she could not give up sleep like a heroic spirit. She has been in this position for a while, and her long eyelashes are slowly drooping, making Saber Lily wonder if she will fall asleep lying on the bed in the next moment.

"Irisviel, there are Servants approaching." The pure white girl knight suddenly turned to the direction of the forest outside the window.

Unless he possesses concealment magic or breath-blocking skills, Servent may be discovered by others even when he moves as a spirit body, not to mention that the other party seems to have no intention of hiding it at all.

Saber sensed that the heroic spirit that was moving fast towards Einzbern Castle had some kind of connection with the unconscious girl from country C. Perhaps it was the Caster she had been unwilling to summon?

"Well, the warning barrier didn't respond at all. If it wasn't for the special breath, it probably wouldn't be discovered at all. As expected of Caster," Irisviel closed her eyes slightly for a moment,

Then he frowned: "However, why does she..."

"The other party is coming towards us." Sensing the position of the visitor, Saber clasped her hands and prepared to draw her sword: "The aura of magic power is...huge, shall we prepare?"

"No, there's no need." Irisviel's eyes became a little strange, as if she couldn't figure out something.

call--

A whirlwind blew up in the room without warning, and countless silver-white light spots gradually gathered and condensed along with the whirlwind, and finally formed a girl's figure in front of Irisviel and Saber.

Arturia compared Irisviel with the Heroic Spirit that appeared with a little curiosity, they were too much alike.

With long silver hair, agate-like eyes, a gorgeous purple fur dress and pure white flat boots, if she didn't look obviously younger than the Master around her, Saber felt that she might accidentally admit the wrong person, relying only on Judging by appearance.

But Irisviel didn't show anything special, she just looked at each other up and down as if wanting to confirm something.

"Hello, I'm—" said the heroic girl who appeared.

"Illya, what are you doing here?" Then Irisviel interrupted directly.

"...Illya?" Caster, who looked like a girl, paused: "Oh, it's your daughter, although she looks alike, but I'm not her, I'm—"

"Oh? Really?" Saber noticed that Irisviel showed a dangerous expression that she had never seen before. What she insisted on saying was similar to the expression that her adopted brother Kai showed after Merlin made trouble: "Then Who do you want to say you are?"

"Then who do you want to say" instead of "then who are you", with only a slight change in the two sentences, the meaning is completely different.

"..." Caster was also a little tongue-tied by such a question, and then continued after a pause: "My name is Lizleich Justisa von Ein..."

"Is that how you lied to Kiritsugu?" Irisviel interrupted again without waiting for her to finish speaking: "Pretending to be the Holy Maiden of Winter?"

"What are you pretending..." Caster's eyes started to turn around, but he didn't look at Irisviel.

"I taught you not to tell lies, Illya?" Irisviel's tone became severe.

Caster was completely silent, she turned her head to stare at the unconscious Lin Hao, without saying a word.

"Huh? Could it be that the name she reported was fake?" Although she was a little confused at first, Saber Lily seemed to see some clues now.

"Illya got into something wrong, she has this expression when she wants to lie and cover up - she looks around and doesn't meet the eyes of others, or stares directly at a certain point." Irisviel said in a tone as if she had confirmed something. With confidence.

"Although I haven't seen it before, shouldn't Ling Qianjin have already returned to Germany?" Saber observed Caster's girlish posture, and then compared it with the youngest daughter of Kiritsugu and Irisviel in the photo she had seen occasionally. : "And the shape doesn't match."

"Yeah, Illya has been waiting for you to come back in the castle deep in the mountains. How could she appear here as a heroic spirit?" Caster spoke again as if he had received support.

Wanting to cover up... Arturia suddenly wanted to laugh. Although she was still practicing, her knowledge had grown a lot under Merlin's poisonous tongue. In her opinion, this Caster's response to Irisviel's question was basically equal to her own. Bear identity.

I have been waiting for you to come back. This kind of description with strong personal feelings and direction is completely impossible to be spoken by outsiders, and the information revealed in it is also slightly ominous.

"So Kiritsugu and I failed and never went back, right?" Irisviel's voice dropped, and Saber even saw a faint glint in her eyes.

"No... Ah, no, that's just my guess, I mean—" Caster became incoherent, not at all as confident as she was at the beginning.

"Sorry, I didn't grow up with you." Irisviel ignored Caster's answer and continued, "You must hate us, right?"

"Of course not...I'm not! I didn't!" It was almost certain that the future version of Illya was still struggling.

"Miss Ilya, please don't be willful." Although the scene was a bit chaotic, Saber Lily quickly clarified the facts with the help of [Intuition] and stopped her: "Madam is already very sad."

"Ha——" Caster, no, Ilyasviel von Einsbern sighed helplessly, walked up to Irisviel and sat down: "Okay, how did you recognize me?" Yes, generally speaking, the Holy Grail will not summon heroic spirits from the future, unless they want to come back, you should not know this."

Irisviel didn't answer, but just raised her hand to rub the girl's head.

Ilya was still waiting for her to speak, but found that Irisviel was rubbing endlessly, shaking her head and trying to break free, but the next moment she was hugged into her arms directly.

"Hehe, how can there be a mother who can't recognize her daughter?" Alice Viel rubbed Ilya's face: "That's great, I'm still worried that you won't grow up."

"Let go of me—" "Don't~"

Saber wasn't quite sure before, but after they sat together, they stopped doubting immediately. Even if the appearance can be adjusted by magic, it's all a family's aura and small movements that know how to deal with each other, which can't be disguised no matter what.

"Tell me...Mom." Ilya, who finally failed to escape from the claws, asked with flushed cheeks.

"Of course I recognize you because," Irisviel nodded her forehead, "Everyone is here, including the Holy Maiden of Winter, and only Illya is outside."

"Misaka Network... I'm the last one? No, it should be a side story." The girl with silver hair and red eyes was shocked and muttered words of unknown meaning that might come from the future: "I thought the identity I wanted It's seamless."

"Being able to become a heroic spirit proves that Illya has also created a legend, doesn't it?" Irisviel continued to rub the head of her future daughter: "There is no need to pretend to be someone else."

"Hmph, wouldn't Kiritsugu be very proud?"

"Sure enough, you still have opinions on us?"

"Only for himself!"

"...Illya," Saber tried to interrupt, "What is your wish?"

Since the mother and daughter are happy to reunite, I will not ask how she became a heroic spirit, but the current situation still needs to be confirmed.

"Call me Caster, Kiritsugu will probably be angry if he knows I'm lying to him." Caster smiled at Arturia: "Well, if I wish, it is to help Kiritsugu win this Holy Grail War without any The master is dead."

"Huh?" This seemingly normal sentence, but Saber Lily keenly discovered the key point: "You mean, do you want to preserve the magician's power as much as possible?"

"Yes, a terrible disaster happened in the future, an invincible enemy appeared, and the whole world was destroyed in the end. With the help of Alaya, I went back to all the places in history where magicians sacrificed meaninglessly and merged Try to save those people, this is my first stop." Caster explained.

"Illya, although we haven't dabbled in space-time magic, is it really okay for you to say so?" Irisviel asked with some concern: "It won't cause anything... well, 'butterfly effect' or 'paradox' Argument'?"

"Descent as a heroic spirit is actually taking advantage of loopholes. If my actions in this war are useless, I have to go back to the more distant past. If it doesn't work, I can only count on the one in the German castle to do it again in another way. Hell." After being recognized by his real name, Caster seemed to be a lot more lively: "As long as you don't meet her face to face, it's basically not a big problem."

In this way, the wish of the father and daughter is also "to save the world", so there is a basis for cooperation—no, it should be said that the cooperation has already been achieved.

"I will assist you as much as possible." Artoria said seriously.