Chapter 322

Darnic: "As expected, the close-up of that pendant earlier was not in vain."

Kirei Kotomine: "This case still has puzzles, such as how the killer summoned Hephaestion, and if the killer isn't Calab, then who is it, and how did they strike?"

【To buy time to raise funds, Melvin, following Waver's instructions, specifically went to complain to Leandra, successfully delaying the auction until midnight.】

【Waver took Gray to find the young Director; only she could help now.】

【Upon learning that the killer might be Waver's enemy, the furious young Director slapped Waver directly.】

【She felt deeply aggrieved, her heart filled with unwillingness and resentment.】

【She had been half-forced to follow Hishiri Kayano's group to expose the killer.】

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

【After finding Trishula's head, the young Director's emotions were on the verge of collapse.】

【Trishula could see the old Director's abandonment of the young Director; how could she, the person involved, not know?】

【Trishula, the only one who cared for 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 Waver, the young Director finally pulled herself together.】

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

Kayneth: "Why does Marisbury care so much about the Holy Grail War? He changed so much after learning the Grail was polluted."

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

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

【On the other side, Shishigou found Flat and Svin and dumped the data on what had happened recently to them.】

【After reading it, both expressed dissatisfaction with Waver.】

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

【The bond has faded, the relationship has faded.】

【The three chatted idly, preparing to carry out a mission, and Flat and Svin both volunteered to handle it.】

【Back on the train, the young Director had already told Waver the information about the Holy Grail that her father had investigated.】

【Waver was also surprised to learn that the Holy Grail had been polluted.】

【At the end of the Fourth Holy Grail War, although Waver witnessed the destruction caused by the black mud, he did not know the cause and effect.】

【At that time, he only thought Emiya Kiritsugu or Kirei Kotomine had used some magecraft.】

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

【"It's simply a phantom."】

【Knowing that Trishula had gone to investigate for his sake and was silenced by the killer after discovering something, the young Director was heartbroken.】

【"Everything is like scenery left behind; the master has long gone to a distant place, leaving only the shadow behind."】

【"Knowing it's just a shadow, why does everyone still try so desperately to hold on?"】

【"It's just like an afterimage..."】

【"That's it!"】

【Hearing the young Director's lament, Waver suddenly had an epiphany.】

Conqueror: "Ah, understood what?"

Extra 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."

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

Conqueror: "Well said."

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

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

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

Caules: "Don't understand."

【Subsequently, Waver called Luvia to ask for her help in finding 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 Waver 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 well."

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

【Waver 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?"】

【Waver, having figured everything out, laughed directly: "This doesn't count as a puzzle 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."】

【Waver looked at the young Director and said: "At that time, there was not only Trishula's head hidden in the imaginary space, but also something else, right?"】

【"Are you talking about this?"】

【The young Director took the pendant 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?"】

【Waver: "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?"】

【Waver: "Of course, now we can overturn the reasoning of the Department of Law."】

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

Lady: "Ahem, Illya, don't look."

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

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

Extra Feng Xi: "The male figure on the Buddha statue represents Dharma, and the female figure represents wisdom. The male and female bodies embrace each other, indicating the dual achievement of Dharma and wisdom, combined 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 few and far between."

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

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

【At nightfall, the auction, which had been awaited for three days, finally began.】

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

【The Mystic Eye Collection Train 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 bought several Mystic Eyes.】

【Soon came the last lot, which was Calab's Bubble Mystic Eye.】

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

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 extremely fierce, mainly because that woman Hishiri Kayano was stirring up trouble there.】

【She kept bidding, and finally reached 230 million, stunning the whole room.】

【Waver, on the side, steeled his heart and added ten million, but Leandra did not strike the hammer.】

【This was a challenge, believing that Waver could not come up with so much capital at all.】

【Melvin saw this and hurriedly called for a stop, saying they needed more time to raise money, and Leandra agreed.】

【Back in the room, Melvin urged Waver to give up, because they couldn't compete with Hishiri Kayano.】 ===== CHAPTER 324 =====