Chapter 288: ·The Truth of the Skeleton King's Death

The Skeleton King is dead.

Behind the skeleton soldiers, the masked girl who fell had blood on her neck and was motionless.

Gray: "W-Why..."

Just at this moment, a figure appeared at the bridge; it was Bersac.

"What is going on?"

He looked at the Skeleton King's corpse and said seriously: "On the way here, Priest Fernand also died. There are traces of him having a conflict with someone unknown... I'll say it first, I didn't do it."

Irumia raised her eyebrows and said: "Ah? Meaning you killed the priest!"

Bersac: "I said, I didn't do it."

Gray: "How could..."

It's actually a serial murder case; did such a case happen in the first round too?

Video paused.

【Question: Who is the murderer who killed the Skeleton King?】

Rin Tohsaka: "Reached the case-solving segment again."

Waver: "First Priest Fernand, then the Skeleton King, will the murderer be the same person?"

Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia: "With the Skeleton King's strength, who could kill her so easily."

Kayneth: "Judging from the wound, it was a fatal blow at close range; I'm afraid it's someone she knows."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Someone who could make her let down her guard, I'm afraid it's someone from the village."

Emiya Emiya Shirou Kotomine: "It's Gray's mother, Magdalena."

【Ding! Congratulations to Emiya Emiya Shirou Kotomine for answering this question correctly, obtaining 3 Saint Quartz.】

Rin Tohsaka: "Ah! Sniped!"

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "This question is actually very simple; many scenes have already been given before."

Rin Tohsaka: "Next time I will definitely be faster!"

【Answering time ended, video continues.】

"Crackle... crackle..."

The continuous headache made Gray raise her hand to hold her temple, and then she heard a strange sound.

Just when Gray was attracted by that strange sound, Lord El-Melloi II spoke: "Did things really develop like this?"

Kay: "Did you know this situation would happen?"

Lord El-Melloi II: "Bersac of the first round said that Gray's corpse appeared beside the Black-Faced Madonna, so no one would chase us. At that time, I thought the church was the scene of the corpse, but it was actually very simple; it was just that there was another Black-Faced Madonna. Of course, at that time, Bersac didn't have time to explain. Then, since this is not the past, I think it must be to patch the contradictions at this time to be logical."

Kay: "Not the past?"

Lord El-Melloi II: "I have been thinking, what is this place? If it's just a simulation, there's no need to transmit us to a specific time. What's important is why it's reproduced and what meaning it possesses."

Speaking of this, the teacher finally turned his gaze to Gray's mother.

"Magdalena, this is your name, right? Gray told me before. The meaning of this result, I'm afraid only you know."

"What do you mean?"

Magdalena's expression only lasted for a few seconds, and then she seemed to think of something and became twisted.

"How could... could it be, you are!"

Magdalena then ran over staggeringly, running toward the skeleton soldiers without any defense.

Rin Tohsaka: "What's wrong, what's wrong? How did it suddenly become like this?"

Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia: "She seems to have discovered something."

Lord El-Melloi II: "Trimmau!"

The mercury maid's arms immediately turned into sharp blades, stepping forward to split the skeleton soldiers and clear a path to Magdalena.

"Tch! Really a lot of trouble!"

Kay clicked his tongue lightly and also drew his sword in response.

However, because it happened suddenly, the villagers on the Reverse Reverse Reverse Reverse Side couldn't make any reaction.

Just when the skeleton soldiers were about to swing their swords at the villagers, Bersac smashed the skeleton soldier's skull with his giant axe.

"I am prepared to be an enemy of everyone, but I really cannot sit idly by and watch the former compatriots die under the swords of these monsters."

After saying this, Bersac raised his arm high, summoning a large number of spiritual ravens to peck at the skeleton soldiers.

And in the chaotic battle, Lord El-Melloi II walked to Magdalena, who had fallen to the ground, and reached out to pull her up: "Madam, are you okay?"

Gray still didn't understand what happened until now.

Magdalena: "I..."

Lord El-Melloi II nodded slightly to her and turned back: "Gray, Trimmau, can you still hold on?"

Gray: "N-No problem!"

"Then, I will continue the lecture."

Lord El-Melloi II asked the villagers loudly: "Have you ever seen the true face of the Skeleton King?"

Hearing this question, the old woman was silent for a while and shook her head: "There is no such need."

Lord El-Melloi II: "Exactly, because faith is like this. God is God because of belief; even if exploring God's true face is not a taboo, there will be psychological resistance. No, this should not be blamed, because I also determined it that way. As long as there is a distance and armor is worn, one cannot distinguish the subtle differences in body shape."

Old woman: "What do you want to say?"

Lord El-Melloi II: "Just doing a confirmation."

"This is a fact you have no way of knowing; in the first round, when escaping from the village, Gray was in a state of delirium. The information about the great chaos in the village was just what I told her after seeing signs of unrest. In the final analysis, if most of the villagers hadn't gone out, I wouldn't have been able to escape the village in the early morning. Ah, so in the first round, no one checked her true face and determined that Gray was dead."

"Indeed, but what exactly does the teacher want to say?"

Gray blocked the skeleton soldiers while hearing the strange 'crackle crackle crackle...' sound in her ears again.

That slowly accelerating sound seemed to surround the entire temple.

No, not just the sound, cracks appeared everywhere in the swamp surrounding the temple. It was clearly not a natural phenomenon, just like noise passing through the world.

Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia: "Hey hey! What is this?"

Rin Tohsaka: "Is this world about to collapse!"

Kayneth: "What exactly is this..."

Gray reminded urgently: "Teacher, the swamp is cracking!"

Lord El-Melloi II: "Mm, however, except for us and Sir Kay, no one else seems to have noticed."

This is clearly not right; abnormal scenes occur frequently, but the villagers, Irumia, and Bersac have no reaction at all.

"Our commonality is coming from outside this world, right? In other words, this means that people inside the world cannot perceive the correction of the world, right?"

Gray: "Correction?"

Lord El-Melloi II: "Time has the power of correction, which is a common saying in science fiction novels. In fact, in magic theory, time also has a certain directionality at work. Even if this is not the real past, it should have introduced similar concepts."

"The screening time of the drama is set. No matter how grand and exquisite the drama is, no matter how many times it is reproduced, the moment of ending will come, or it should be said that it is precisely because of this that it will come. The forced, unreasonable, unchangeable ending Deus ex machina will come."

Shakespeare: "Ah, no matter how the plot develops, the ending is unchanged; it is a sad fact."

Rin Tohsaka: "Time correction, there really is such a thing."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Is it the result of Zepia and the others' interference?"

Waver: "In other words, is this really the time and space of the past?"

Gray: "Then, why is the teacher in such a hurry to rush over..."

"That's right, this drama only plays until this moment and will end here. So, no matter what, we must catch up. Because it is likely that only those who have welcomed that moment will be fixed on this stage."

Lord El-Melloi II raised his gaze, looked at the Skeleton King's corpse, and said quietly: "Gray, help me clear the path to the Skeleton King."

Gray: "Yes!"

She immediately waved her large scythe and opened the path for Lord El-Melloi II together with Trimmau.

Lord El-Melloi II brought Magdalena to the Skeleton King's corpse and reached out suddenly.

Magdalena: "What are you doing, Lord El-Melloi II?"

Lord El-Melloi II: "As you can see. This is her true face!"

Saying this, he took off the girl's mask.

Seeing the face under the mask, Gray was speechless.

Because, that face was actually not the face of King Arthur they thought, but...

Gray: "Mother!"

That's right, although the face under the mask looked younger, it was very obvious that it was Magdalena's face.

Rin Tohsaka: "Hey hey, what is going on?"

Waver: "This, King Arthur's spirit body, the face is actually not the same."

Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia: "Could it be that Gray's mother is King Arthur's flesh."