Chapter 169

At this moment, Gray suddenly remembered the Theresa pendant she had seen before getting on the train. Under the Second's persistent questioning, she had no choice but to reveal that it was a Buddha statue holding a naked woman.

Although mages have a habit of carrying pendants set with defensive spells, Theresa was not a Buddhist, so why would she wear such a pendant?

That pendant must have some other use; the Second felt this might be the breakthrough.

At the same time, the Second still held doubts regarding the appearance of Hephaestion.

Because during the Fourth Holy Grail War, he had never seen her in the King's Army of the Conqueror.

Judging by the other party's attitude, she was clearly a loyal follower of the Conqueror, so why did she not respond to the Conqueror's summoning?

Conqueror: "Sigh, Hephaestion and the others are very loyal, just too stubborn."

Waver: "Aren't you the same? It seems they all learned it from you."

Conqueror: "Hahaha, well said."

Darnic: "As expected, giving that pendant a close-up earlier wasn't a waste of effort."

Kirei Kotomine (Emiya Emiya Shirou): "This case still has mysteries, such as how the killer summoned Hephaestion, and if the killer isn't Calab, then who is it, and how did they commit the act?"

In order to buy time to raise funds, Melvin followed the Second's instructions and specifically went to complain to Leandra, successfully delaying the auction until midnight.

Meanwhile, the Second took Gray to find the Young Director; only she could help now.

Upon learning that the killer might be the Second's enemy, the furious Young Director slapped the Second directly.

She felt very aggrieved now, her heart filled with resentment and unwillingness.

Previously, following Hishiri Kayano to expose the killer, she had been completely coerced.

Hishiri Kayano's actions had dealt a heavy blow to her dignity as the daughter of a Lord.

After finding Theresa's head, the Young Director's emotions were on the verge of collapse.

Theresa could see that the Old Director had given up on the Young Director, so how could she, the person involved, not know?

Theresa, the only one who cared about her, was dead. Thinking that she would be all alone from now on, the Young Director was devastated.

However, after a dose of "chicken soup for the soul" from the Second, the Young Director finally pulled herself together.

What she wanted to do most now was to slap that woman Hishiri Kayano hard in the face.

Kayneth: "Why is that guy Marisbury so concerned about the Holy Grail War? He changed so much after knowing the Grail was polluted."

Feng Xi: "I'm afraid his wish was shattered, and his last hope is gone."

Kayneth: "That is indeed possible, but what on earth does that guy want to do with the Holy Grail?"

On the other Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side, Shishigou found Flat and Svin and threw the information about what had happened during this time to them.

After reading it, both expressed their dissatisfaction with the Second.

Such an exciting thing happened, and the teacher didn't call them.

The bond has faded, the relationship has faded.

The three talked casually, preparing to carry out a certain mission, and Flat and Svin both indicated they would handle it.

Returning to the train, the Young Director had already told the Second the information about the Holy Grail that her father had investigated.

Upon learning that the Holy Grail had actually been polluted, the Second was also surprised.

At the end of the Fourth War, although the Second witnessed the destruction caused by the black mud, he did not know the cause and effect.

At that time, he only thought it was some magecraft used by Emiya Kiritsugu or Kirei Kotomine.

Because of the Conqueror's death, he had no heart to think about anything else at that time.

"It's simply a phantom."

Upon learning that Theresa had gone to investigate for her own sake and might have been silenced by the killer after discovering something, the Young Director was very sad.

"Everything is like a landscape left behind; the master has gone far away, and only the shadow remains in the present."

"Knowing it's just a shadow, why does everyone still cling to it so desperately?"

"It's like an afterimage..."

"That's it!"

Hearing the Young Director's lament, the Second was suddenly enlightened.

Conqueror: "Ah, understood what?"

Feng Xi: "He guessed it, Hephaestion's identity."

Conqueror: "Shadow, oh, I get it too."

Conqueror: "But this kid is really something, to be able to guess it like this."

Feng Xi: "If his brain weren't good, how could he have been favored by Zhuge Zhuge Liang?"

Conqueror: "That's right."

Darnic: "Hephaestion's identity? What do you mean? Isn't that Servant Hephaestion?"

Rin Tohsaka: "She is Hephaestion, just keep watching, the video will reveal it in a moment."

Gordes: "Hephaestion's identity, shadow, what on earth does that mean?"

Caules: "Don't understand."

Subsequently, the Second called Luvia, asking her to help find out who incited the Old Director to investigate the Holy Grail War.

Luvia, who already had the answer, told him the name Heartless directly.

Afterward, to help the Second investigate, the Young Director specifically took out a virtual globe.

This was a virtual environment simulation specially made by the Animsphere family, which could simulate various environmental developments and trends.

Kayneth: "I didn't expect the Animsphere family to have such a thing, they hid it deep."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "This is the foundation of the Clock Tower."

The Second simulated the flow of ley lines on it and successfully found a ley line connecting London and Japan.

This also successfully verified his conjecture.

"Really, why didn't I notice it before?"

Having figured everything out, the Second smiled directly: "This doesn't count as a mystery at all. Hephaestion is not the problem; the problem is why she calls herself Hephaestion."

"This is not a case, but an afterimage of a past case."

"No, it's an even more hopeless wreck."

"Now only the last piece of the puzzle is missing, hidden by that woman Hishiri Kayano."

The Second looked at the Young Director and said: "At that time, it wasn't just Theresa's head hidden in the imaginary space, there was something else, right?"

"Are you talking about this?"

The Young Director took the pendant out from under the sofa cushion.

Gray: "That's it!"

Young Director: "I checked, this is just an ordinary pendant, what does it have to do with this case?"

Second: "Hishiri thought the same, because this thing would cause her puzzle not to fit, so she deliberately excluded it."

Young Director: "So, is this thing really the key to catching the killer?"

Second: "Of course, now we can overturn the Law Department's deduction."

This time the video gave the pendant a big close-up, making all the women in the group blush.

Irisviel: "Cough cough, Illya, don't look."

Rin Tohsaka: "Is such a lewd thing really Buddhist?"

Feng Xi: "This is the 'Yab-Yum Buddha', the principal deity of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, which is the 'God of Desire' and 'God of Love' in Buddhism."

Feng Xi: "The male body on the Buddha statue represents method, and the female body represents wisdom. The male and female bodies embrace each other, indicating that method and wisdom are combined, merging into one, symbolizing the infinite wisdom of the Dharma realm."

Everyone: "!!!"

Caules: "Is there really such a Buddha? I thought it was just a prank pendant."

Fiore: "Does Buddhism actually have such a belief?"

Kayneth: "It's normal that you don't know. After all, here in Europe, even Buddhist believers are very few."

Rin Tohsaka: "I don't know, and I don't want to know."

Feng Xi: "Haha, because the Yab-Yum Buddha is a Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism, it is very famous in China, so it's normal for people elsewhere not to know."

At night, the auction that had been awaited for three days finally began.

The auction was held in the Eye Repository on the train, and the shelves on both sides were filled with all kinds of Mystic Eyes.

The Mystic Eye Collection Train, it lives up to its name.

Although there were fewer than ten participants in this auction, the competition was exceptionally fierce, with prices increasing by ten million at a time.

Yvette also joined in and bid for several Mystic Eyes.

Soon it came to the last item, which was Calab's Bubble Mystic Eye.

Darnic: "No Rainbow-grade Mystic Eye, is it a decoy, or is it..."

Kayneth: "This is normal. I said, how could a Rainbow-grade Mystic Eye appear."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "What a pity, I thought I could see the legendary Rainbow-grade Mystic Eye."

The competition for the Bubble Mystic Eye was exceptionally fierce, mainly because that woman Hishiri Kayano was stirring up trouble.

She kept bidding, and finally reached 230 million, stunning the entire venue.

The Second on the Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side gritted his teeth and added ten million, but Leandra did not strike the gavel.

This was a challenge, believing that the Second could not come up with so much capital at all.

Seeing this, Melvin hurriedly called a halt, saying to give them some more time to raise money, and Leandra agreed.

Returning to the room, Melvin urged the Second to give up, because they couldn't compete with Hishiri Kayano.