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Time rewound to when Kisaragi Rin entered the Hospital room…
Having sensed for a long time outside the Hospital without detecting any traces of magic, Medea had already lowered her expectations.
"This is so annoying. Hurry up and appear. After I'm done, I still want to go back and cuddle with my Master…" Medea thought, quite displeased.
Fortunately, after meeting this Emiya Shirou, things would quickly become clear.
After Kisaragi Rin borrowed a hair tie from Yukinoshita Yukino to bind the gathered fresh flowers into a bouquet, they followed the crowd into the Hospital.
Locating Emiya Shirou's Hospital room, as the door lock distorted and the door opened, Medea's gaze settled on the protagonist her Master had spoken of.
First glance: a normal person.
Second glance: Is this even a person?
Medea hesitated, uncertain, and continued to observe the red-haired youth on the Hospital bed, thought for a moment, and then communicated with Medusa, who also had some attainments in magic. Finally, Medea accepted the conclusion she had reached in her mind with some astonishment.
"Master, I think I understand why the mystery in Fuyuki City has receded."
Through magic, Medea's voice appeared in Kisaragi Rin's ear.
"This Emiya Shirou, he is absolutely not a normal human. If I had to describe him, the word 'container' would be more appropriate."
"His existence is like an overflowing black holy grail."
"The mystery of Fuyuki City… No, the amount of this mystery definitely doesn't only come from one Fuyuki City… And all of this is sealed beneath his body…"
mystery, of course, referred to the supernatural.
Kisaragi Rin listened to Medea's explanation, helplessly glancing at the protagonist, sat on the edge of the Hospital bed, picked up an apple nearby, and continued to peel it.
Emiya Shirou is a container?
All the mystery, far exceeding that of a single Fuyuki City, is now contained within Emiya Shirou's body?
It sounded like some powerful fantasy being had crammed an entire world into their body.
"Kiritsugu Emiya didn't summon Saber during the Fourth Holy Grail War, so he didn't destroy the black holy grail, and instead stuffed that thing into Emiya Shirou's body?" Kisaragi Rin inwardly complained.
"Could it be that someone wished for this world to lose its supernatural elements and return to normalcy, and then the black holy grail absorbed all the mystery?"
"But does the black holy grail in Fuyuki City have the ability to sweep across the world?"
"Even if it did, the few mages in the Fate World shouldn't just ignore it, not to mention the various hidden figures in the Fate Worldview."
"Moreover, since it's a black holy grail, no matter what wish is made, it will ultimately lead to the destruction of the world. If someone wished for the world to return to normalcy, even if the black holy grail activated, it shouldn't result in a Fuyuki City where those girls are so happy!"
"There must be other changes involved."
Pondering in her mind, through the magical connection, Kisaragi Rin asked Medea: "Can we act directly?"
"No, this Emiya Shirou is not someone who can be easily killed right now."
Medea continued to explain: "His life is completely sustained by the almost solidified mystery within his body."
"Hmm… To give a simple example, the principle of osmotic pressure. If we consider mystery as concentration, the mystery concentration within Emiya Shirou's body has almost become solid, belonging to the hypertonic side, while attacks with insufficient external mystery concentration are the hypotonic side. Thus, external mystery simply cannot affect his body."
"I even suspect that Esdeath's time stop would be unable to halt this Emiya Shirou's time."
"It's also due to this situation that the magic I initially used for detection received no feedback, leading me to believe he was just an ordinary person."
"This concentration of mystery is entirely sealed by his body, preventing it from flowing into the external Fuyuki City, which is why I said he is a container."
Kisaragi Rin pondered: "So, if we want to kill this Emiya Shirou, we at least need to first reduce the mystery within his body."
There were actually three options.
The first was to use pure physical attacks that contained no mystery, but Black Flash, which drew upon energy, was naturally not pure physical damage, and it was obvious that ordinary physical attacks could not harm this Emiya Shirou.
The second was for the external attack's mystery concentration to exceed the mystery concentration within Emiya Shirou's body.
The first two were difficult to achieve, so Kisaragi Rin only proposed the most probable option: reducing the mystery concentration within Emiya Shirou's body.
"Roughly so, Master, do you intend to act?" Medea asked.
"No!"
"We cannot act here."
Kisaragi Rin knew without thinking that Emiya Shirou was not someone who could be taken down in a short time.
If they acted here, other players would definitely be attracted!
And what would happen if other players came over?
Kisaragi Rin's substituted identity was Matou Shinji, and Yukinoshita Yukino's substituted identity was Fujimura Taiga.
These two identities: one was Emiya Shirou's friend, and the other was Emiya Shirou's relative.
Kisaragi Rin couldn't speak for other players, but she believed Emiya Shirou would definitely prioritize killing her.
It was also because of this that Kisaragi Rin completely connected the pieces of information provided by the Paradise.
[Information 1: The Holy Grail War has a referee, and this referee is not fair.]
[Information 2: As everyone knows, a seven-person Holy Grail War will always have an eighth Servant.]
[Identity insertion… Disguise your identity well…]
The referee was Emiya Shirou, but Emiya Shirou didn't know he had become the referee in the Paradise's words.
The Paradise, which initiated the Holy Grail War in this Fuyuki City, had no intention of informing this Emiya Shirou.
It was also because this ordinary Fuyuki City had such an overwhelmingly powerful local resident that the Paradise enhanced the identity insertion for this game, setting up a rule that ordinary people could not discover the supernatural, the purpose being to prevent players from being too reckless and being directly discovered by Emiya Shirou.
And identity insertion?
The identities inserted by the Paradise were a bit problematic!
Kisaragi Rin's Matou Shinji, Yukinoshita Yukino's Fujimura Taiga, Ito Makoto's Ryudou Issei, Steve Rogers' Master Soichiro Kuzuki…
These substituted people all had a certain degree of intimacy with Emiya Shirou, more or less. What would happen if this Emiya Shirou discovered that his friends had their identities replaced by extraterrestrial demons from the Paradise?
The red-haired youth would naturally become the "unfair referee" in the Paradise's words!
That's why the Paradise reminded players to Disguise their identities well.
A referee who wants to be unfair must also have the strength to blow a biased whistle. Judging from Emiya Shirou's current situation, it is likely that the Servants from the Fourth Holy Grail War are already in his hands.
Handing the peeled apple to Emiya Shirou, Kisaragi Rin didn't expect that her appearance before him could successfully mimic Matou Shinji's demeanor.
After all, Esdeath and Ito Makoto had already been attacked by Iskandar, which meant that this referee already knew about the ongoing Holy Grail War. With even a slight anomaly, Emiya Shirou would naturally discover that Kisaragi Rin and Ito Makoto were the same type of people.
A type of player from the Paradise!
"Since you want to make this ordinary Fuyuki City so beautiful, then Emiya Shirou, you wouldn't want to fight in this place, would you?" Kisaragi Rin looked at him, implying so.
Emiya Shirou lowered his eyelids, an awareness already awakening within his body. He took a bite of the apple, hearing Kisaragi Rin invite him to play soccer.
Naturally, the red-haired youth lying on the Hospital bed would not refuse such a proposal.
He smiled gently, extended his hand, and accepted Kisaragi Rin's invitation.
"Alright, but it looks like I can only be the goalkeeper now."
"Naturally."
"We'll be back later."
"Hmm… Perhaps?"
The elevator doors gradually closed, and the people inside the elevator gradually became enveloped in the scent of gunpowder.
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