Tia quickly put on her cloak, and Lancelot's voice came right after.
"I really don't feel Master's presence, but I can feel in my heart that Master is indeed standing here."
"Yes, it seems I really succeeded," Tia said, "Let's go."
Lancelot also nodded, and then directly turned into spirit form and returned to Tia's Holy Sword. The Holy Sword was naturally always one with Tia's body.
Seeing this, Katsushika Hokusai simply put on his cloak again and followed them in.
The black fog was indeed a construction site, just as Katsushika Hokusai had said. The workers inside were building houses, and the houses were being built along the Ryougi Shiki's big house.
Tia walked around inside wearing her cloak, but she didn't find anything strange, not even when Ryougi Shiki came in to supervise the work. She was just standing somewhere watching the workers doing their jobs, giving instructions on how to place and build the houses.
And Ryougi Shiki didn't seem to see Tia and Katsushika Hokusai at all.
"This Ryougi Shiki seems to have really been affected by the evil from this Lostbelt. She's completely different from the Ryougi Shiki in Chaldea," Katsushika Hokusai said with a sigh. "Speaking of which, since coming to this Lostbelt, I haven't had a chance to look around this world. I just came to Ryougi Shiki's house and felt that the big octopus was in here. I haven't had a chance to come in and see it, and then I ran into you guys. To increase my fighting power, so I can successfully take him back, I deliberately drew you over here."
"Then how did he escape? And why does he have to be taken back?" Tia asked, seizing the opportunity.
"Ah~~ that has to do with the current New Chaldea. Emiya Shirou, you're a resident of this Lostbelt, so you don't know the problems that New Chaldea is facing. Currently, the whole of New Chaldea wants to go to Antarctica, but they're blocked by a wall, and that's related to us Descendants. Because of the wall, we Descendants in New Chaldea who are related to outer gods have all undergone changes to varying degrees. Most of the others have taken an active or equal position, so they left simply. Only the big octopus in my body was turned down cold by my dad, so he can't leave. This time, because of the wall, the Descendant Servant named Katsushika Hokusai was shaken, and the big octopus took the chance to escape."
Tia listened to Katsushika Hokusai's explanation, and doubts arose in her heart again.
So that's how it is?
"But after that big octopus escaped, my dad became like this, completely unable to communicate. To make my dad go back to being able to talk to me normally, I have to catch that big octopus back."
Tia nodded.
"If that's the case, then why do you have to catch him back? Can't you think of another way?" Tia asked immediately.
"That question has been asked before, and the final solution given was to catch the big octopus back and use New Chaldea's technology to take out the big octopus' god power to fix the Servant named Katsushika Hokusai again."
Tia was stunned when she heard Katsushika Hokusai's words.
Damn! Does New Chaldea have such awesome technology? To treat a mighty Cthulhu as a juice machine? Then why did King Arthur's Holy Sword react when the Cthulhu god itself came down before! King Arthur's Holy Sword was clearly to deal with that white giant. Now that it can react to Cthulhu, that means Cthulhu and the white giant are at least of similar level, and are considered by the Holy Sword to be threats to the planet, but...
This is too much!
This Lostbelt is strange enough, so why is that Chaldea even stranger than Tia knows!
No wonder that big octopus wanted to escape, it was afraid of New Chaldea.
"By the way, you've seen the future before, you've seen a Chaldea born in the future of this Lostbelt too. What was the Chaldea you saw like?" Katsushika Hokusai asked curiously.
Tia's lips twitched.
She still doesn't understand.
"I didn't really see much," Tia didn't know how to answer her.
"Okay. What was that ability you used just now to make your own Noble Phantasm?" Katsushika Hokusai asked again.
"My origin," Tia said, "My family's magic crests have been researching how to awaken human origins for generations. This generation it has been passed on to me. After my origin awakened, I have the ability to make Noble Phantasms," Tia said.
"Huh? Is that so!" Katsushika Hokusai said, and then muttered to herself, "When I get back, I'll ask Servant Emiya if that's how it is."
"Actually, after I awakened my origin, I found out that I have the blood of a blacksmith flowing in my veins. I am a descendant of Senji Muramasa, so the origin I awakened is also blacksmithing," Tia continued.
"Yes, really amazing," Katsushika Hokusai said, "No wonder Grandpa Muramasa would come down on you, and even make a Holy Sword for you to use. Even the Knight of the Lake wants to be your Holy Sword spirit. But since your magic crest can awaken origins, can't you help Ryougi Shiki awaken her origin? You just said that Ryougi Shiki's body is connected to the Root, so her origin must be related to the Root."
Tia turned her gaze to Ryougi Shiki.
Just then, Ryougi Shiki seemed to have finished explaining something and started to walk back.
No, that's not right, Ryougi Shiki turned to another place.
"Let's follow her and see," Tia said, not directly answering Katsushika Hokusai's question.
Katsushika Hokusai nodded and didn't continue to ask.
The two continued to follow Ryougi Shiki deeper, but Ryougi Shiki's movements seemed to be irregular again, until Ryougi Shiki had walked around the entire construction site, and the two of them hadn't found anything abnormal at all.
But this complete lack of abnormality is the biggest abnormality! How could this place be so harmonious!
Tia thought to herself.
Does Tia have to take the initiative to awaken Ryougi Shiki's origin?
If Tia wanted to do that, she would have already done it. She was just worried about how Ryougi Shiki's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception would be able to awaken if she did that.
Just then, a huge noise suddenly came from the entire construction site. The workers on the scene all looked in one direction, and Ryougi Shiki also rushed over immediately.
Tia and Katsushika Hokusai also realized that this noise was what they had felt outside earlier, and they rushed over immediately.
(End of this chapter)
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