"Really? So you're saying I almost messed things up just now?" Katsushika Hokusai said.
At this moment, suddenly some kind of feeling came from outside, followed by a flash of light.
Tia turned her head and saw a mosaic castle.
Holy crap! Mash's Noble Phantasm!
The mosaic castle was too familiar to Tia, so familiar that she could recognize it at a glance as the mosaic castle created by Mash's Noble Phantasm.
At this moment, Lancelot immediately popped out of Tia's body.
"Mash's here?" Lancelot looked excited, "And that Noble Phantasm... uh~~ something's strange..."
At this time, Ryougi Shiki, who was troubled, saw the mosaic castle and the suddenly appearing Lancelot, and her eyes lit up.
"Perfect timing!"
"The current Mash should no longer have Galahad's power. The current Mash is using a spirit origin exoskeleton armor made by Chaldea that imitates Galahad's power," Tia explained to Lancelot.
"Is that so? Mash has grown up and no longer needs Dad's protection," Lancelot said with emotion.
What the heck with Dad's protection! When did you ever protect Mash! That's your son Galahad's power, not your power! Tia said to Lancelot in her heart.
"No, no, Master, you don't understand. Mash is always my daughter, no matter what," Lancelot said with some excitement.
Tia rolled her eyes.
Tch~~~ Bullying me for not having a daughter, huh?
At this moment, Ryougi Shiki walked over.
"Although I don't know when you moved in, since you can come in so silently, you should be able to stop this machine, right?" Ryougi Shiki said to Lancelot, but still didn't seem to notice Tia and Katsushika Hokusai, who were wearing capes.
"Huh? Me? This..." Lancelot hesitated, because Tia had just told him about the stakes here.
It's okay, go ahead. If you don't do this, you won't be able to lure out the giant octopus and Araya Souren, who is hiding behind the scenes.
Anyway, now that things have reached this point, Tia's confused mind couldn't think of any good way, so she could only destroy their plan first.
Lancelot nodded.
"Okay then, I'll help you stop this machine."
At this moment, Mash and Gudako also came in.
"Miss Ryougi Shiki, and Mr. Lancelot, hello," Gudako greeted as soon as she came in very naturally, as if they were good friends.
"Miss Ryougi Shiki, and Mr. Lancelot," Mash said also very naturally.
"Mash, it's Dad..." Lancelot smiled at Mash.
"Ah hahaha~~" Mash smiled awkwardly, "Mr. Galahad has already left..."
"That's okay, Mash will always be my daughter!"
Tia rolled her eyes again.
"Uh~~ this..." Mash was a little embarrassed and couldn't bring herself to say it.
"You guys are also amazing. You used that power in that black fog to drive away the black fog. Come and help too, stop this machine," Ryougi Shiki also said to Gudako and Mash, who ran over, "But when did you guys move in? I haven't seen you before."
"Uh~~ that's right, this isn't the Ryougi Shiki we know," Gudako scratched her head, "Oh, that's right. We just got here. My name is Fujimaru Ritsuka, and her name is Mash. Is there anything strange about that machine? Huh? It seems to be constantly spitting out black mist. Ah! I get it! The black mist all around is spit out by this machine, right! I see! Miss Ryougi Shiki wants all this black mist to be driven away, right? Watch us! Mash! Let's help!"
Tia looked at this unusually talkative Gudako and became suspicious.
Is Gudako a talkative person?
At this time, the black fog that had just been dispersed by Mash's Noble Phantasm mosaic castle quickly gathered again. When the people outside just approached here, they saw the inside through the dispersed black fog, but they quickly couldn't see it again.
"Mr. Lancelot, don't make things difficult for Mash! After Mash lost Galahad's power, she became shy again," Gudako said to Lancelot.
"Is that so? Okay."
With that, the group prepared to follow Ryougi Shiki to end the machine's operation.
But at this time, Mash looked at Tia and Katsushika Hokusai, who were wearing capes, and asked curiously.
"Who are those two people wearing capes? They're so strange, just staying here and not saying anything," Mash asked directly.
"Huh? Aren't they in charge of supervising the work?" Gudako also said.
"Cape people?" Ryougi Shiki frowned and looked in the direction Mash and Gudako were pointing.
"Huh? When did you two come in? How come I haven't seen you?" At this time, Ryougi Shiki was directly told and then saw Tia and Katsushika Hokusai.
That's right, this is presence concealment. If you don't brush past you, it's basically impossible to be discovered. Even if you can see it with your eyes, its existence will be subconsciously ignored. Only when someone directly and deliberately points it out can you see it.
"That... these two seem to have been here before. We saw them when we came in," Mash said.
"They were here before? How come I didn't notice?" Ryougi Shiki was very curious at this time.
"Oh dear, it seems we can't hide it anymore," Katsushika Hokusai said, and opened the cloak, and then the cloak disappeared directly into Katsushika Hokusai's hand.
"Katsushika Hokusai... no, it's Miss Oei," Mash immediately exclaimed in surprise.
"Huh? Oei-chan? When did you come?" Gudako also exclaimed in surprise.
"I came a little earlier than you," Katsushika Hokusai said very naturally.
"Katsushika Hokusai? Isn't that a very famous ukiyo-e painter from the past?" Ryougi Shiki said in surprise, "When did you move in? I have no memory of it. It's really strange, the guys who have moved in recently are getting weirder and weirder. I haven't seen many of them and I don't know when they moved in."
Tia also opened her cloak.
"Oh? So Tia came too," Ryougi Shiki saw Tia, "Finally, I see someone I know. But Tia, you can actually come in here silently. Do you have the ability to stop this machine?"
"Yeah, maybe," Tia nodded.
"That's good, come with me."
With that, a group of people followed Ryougi Shiki away.
(End of this chapter)
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