[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system":3,"chapter-walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-chapter-204":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Walking Among Heroic Spirits with a Q&A System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1931056,2634,"Chapter 204","walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-chapter-204",204,"\u003Cp>Rin Tohsaka: \"I see. Because it can only be activated during a full moon, the timing doesn't match up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver: \"Is the one who died truly the Golden Princess?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reines: \"???\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver: \"To Matsuwanko Matsuwanko Take it a step further, is one of the Golden Princess or the Silver Princess a doll? That is what I want to ask.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reines: \"A doll... but the Golden Princess we saw was definitely...\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver: \"Exactly, she only resembled a human.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Normally, this question should have been beyond dispute, but one must not forget that the Izelma family currently has *that* person among them.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Touko Aozaki. She achieved many results during her time at the Clock Tower, but two of them are particularly noteworthy.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"The first is that she reconstructed the declining Rune magecraft foundation, and the other is that she became an exceptional doll maker.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Dolls, I recall that being a type of magecraft that imitates the human body, right?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Correct. Although it differs somewhat from Rune magecraft, the magecraft concept of imitating the human body has also declined.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver said slowly: \"In other words, she successfully reconstructed these two types of magecraft in the modern era.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[It must be said, Touko Aozaki's rank of Grand truly makes one admire her from the heart.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caules: \"To actually reconstruct these two declining types of magecraft... I never expected that woman to be so formidable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diarmuid: \"The legendary Rune runes of Odin—can she really reconstruct something like that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gordes: \"More importantly, her age. Her age.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gordes: \"That woman achieved this feat at around twenty years old.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fiore: \"This is the talent of a Grand-ranked magus.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darnic: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sola-Ui: \"Touko Aozaki... this woman's talent is truly too enviable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kayneth: \"Hmph, though I don't want to admit it, I have no choice but to acknowledge it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Gray: \"Then, is that automaton that attacked us also...\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Generally speaking, yes, but...\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reines hesitated; she truly could not understand the reason why Touko Aozaki would do such a thing.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[After a long while, Reines changed the subject: \"Are you trying to say with your previous deduction that the dead Golden Princess is a doll made by Touko Aozaki, and the real Golden Princess might still be alive?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Yes, that is correct.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver frowned: \"Actually, I considered whether this matter was a carefully calculated scheme by the Izelmas, but the return versus the risk is too unbalanced. Byron shouldn't be doing something so thankless.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also the point that everyone in the group chat cannot figure out right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All clues have indicated that the culprit of this case is definitely that old fellow Byron, but the reason—what exactly is his purpose in doing this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Waver said in the video, this is completely a thankless task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tokiomi Tohsaka: \"Could it be that he has some grudge against El-Melloi?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kayneth: \"Impossible. El-Melloi and Izelma have absolutely no intersection.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kayneth: \"However, I don't know about the situation in the video; after all, I have been dead for nearly ten years in that timeline.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waver: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"That's true.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reines then remembered the powder she had quietly hidden away earlier and took it out to hand to Waver.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Brother, could you Matsuwanko Matsuwanko Take a look at this powder?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Hm? Wait a moment.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver took a magnifying glass out of his small leather bag and began to examine it carefully.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Is it the ash of something?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver stared at the powder for a good while, then suddenly reached out to pick up some and put it directly into his mouth.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reines was startled: \"Hey! Have you lost your mind?!\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rin Tohsaka: \"Hey, hey! You're just putting whatever that is into your mouth!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tokiomi Tohsaka: \"Quiet, Rin. Since Waver is doing this, he must be certain that the thing is not poisonous.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Illya: \"But it still looks so disgusting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Ptoo!\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver did not swallow the powder, but instead tasted it and spat it out, whispering softly: \"Now I have a lead.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reines: \"Hey, Onii-chan?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver: \"Don't bother me, let me think for a while.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rin Tohsaka: \"Good thing he didn't swallow it, or I would have vomited.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caules: \"But he knew what it was just by tasting it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kiritsugu Emiya: \"Is it some kind of medicinal herb? It's really hard to judge just by looking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Illya: \"I hate it when people keep others in suspense. Can't he just say it directly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xi: \"Isn't that how mystery stories always go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[On the other Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side, inside the workshop on the top floor of the Moon Tower.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Byron held his Meerschaum pipe and smoked in silence.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Waver's remarks from earlier, which had pointed directly to the core of his family's magecraft the moment they met, still left him feeling lingering fear.]\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>[\"Damn it...\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Byron gritted his teeth; he was afraid, afraid that his family's hundreds of years of accumulation would be trampled upon.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Why was he so proud before? Because looking at history alone, the Izelma family was clearly older than the original El-Melloi main family, the Archibalds, yet because their magecraft had long been stagnant, they could only be reduced to an affiliated family.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[However, in his generation, their family's efforts finally saw a glimmer of hope. The family's glory, the Golden Princess and the Silver, were finally approaching that ideal.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[But they were still just a little short.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Even so, this was a great opportunity for his Izelma family to turn things around.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[This was why he dared to provoke a Lord so much, even if it was a fallen Lord.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[But that brat who appeared from nowhere and luckily became a Lord had made him lose all face in public.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[He had struggled bitterly until now, using every means he could think of, even bowing his head to that yellow-haired girl who appeared from the Far East and usurped the Grand rank, trying to finish the remaining few steps.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Clearly, even Lord Barthomeloi had praised this debut banquet, and even that yellow-haired girl could not ignore him now, but...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kayneth: \"Heh, so that's how it is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Byron Balleyroy Izelma, just you wait. He will teach this guy properly how El-Melloi's current status was achieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sola-Ui: \"Really, how should I put it—an inexplicable sense of confidence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia: \"Exactly. I was wondering where this guy got his confidence from; turns out it was all hollow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rin Tohsaka: \"Saying one thing to your face and another behind your back—disgusting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tokiomi Tohsaka: \"Hmph, truly senseless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One can see from the other party's words that this guy looks down on Eastern magi to the extreme; even a Grand like Touko Aozaki is a usurper in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I really don't know where his arrogance comes from. Besides that long history, what else does the Izelma family have that is worth showing off?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Darnic: \"I am actually quite curious about what the goal is that Izelma wants to achieve, to be able to make him possess this inexplicable confidence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Great Duke: \"Hmph, 'confidence' is an understatement; he is simply wild beyond measure.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Lord Byron.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[At this moment, a voice awakened Byron, who was harboring anger and resentment.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[It was the maid Regina, who brought Mio and Islo into the workshop.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"Oh, you've come.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Byron immediately put on a hypocritical mask and said slowly: \"As long as the Silver Princess is here, losing the Golden Princess is not an absolute failure.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Although the case caused a huge shock, it was still salvageable.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The Golden Princess and Silver Princess created with Izelma blood also have the significance of being backups for each other; even if one Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side is lost, it does not mean decline.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Byron: \"However, what about your dress?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Islo: \"My dress is perfect.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Byron: \"Then what about your medicine?\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[\"I—it hurts!!!\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mio, for some reason, panicked and bit her tongue.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1304,"2026-06-14T05:03:35.949Z","2026-06-14T08:03:12.667Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","2d4da0e53b1fc6edeb11bc8634c103880148d956ea3e3a7308818a9e4dbddcc1","walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-chapter-205","walking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-chapter-203",626,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwalking-among-heroic-spirits-with-a-q-a-system-cover.jpg"]