Chapter 364

【"Aozaki, Touko!"】

【Reines's expression changes drastically, and she says with a trembling tone: "You are the one under Sealing Designation..."】

【Gray tilts her head: "Sealing Designation?"】

【Sealing Designation is a title given to mages with special talents, and it is also an edict issued by the Association.】

【Magic that cannot be cultivated through simple learning and research, because it is cherished and can only be realized by its bloodline and constitution, and is limited to the holder of one generation of magic, the Association issues an order, deciding to preserve them personally and permanently.】

【Of course, the above are all official and nice-sounding statements.】

【In layman's terms, it means you are too genius, your strength is too strong, and you have already threatened the rule of the Mage's Association, so you cannot be allowed to continue growing; otherwise, what if you escape our control?】

【In the name of 'protection', mages who possess rare talents or have committed taboos are detained and captured, and imprisoned for life.】

【From a certain perspective, it's no different from a specimen soaked in formalin.】

【Precisely because of this, Sealing Designation is the greatest honor for a mage, and also a fatal brand.】

【After all, once preserved, you cannot continue your research.】

【Mages who are outstanding enough to be subject to Sealing Designation will not spare their lives; on the contrary, it is impossible for them to give up research.】

【Therefore, mages subject to Sealing Designation mostly retire, hide their whereabouts quietly, or hide in their own territories.】

Sakura Matou: "This is, Sealing Designation."

She has always heard her father say that if she didn't pass herself to someone else, she would be subject to Sealing Designation, but she didn't know what Sealing Designation was at all.

Now she finally knows.

Rin Tohsaka: "What is this? Is it possible that having talent has become a crime?"

Darnic: "For the Mage's Association, as long as it's not a talented person from their own family, it's a crime."

Zhang Jiao: "Sealing Designation, it's ridiculous. It's just a means for those in power to maintain their rule."

Kayneth: "If the Mage's Association didn't maintain order, this world would have been in chaos long ago."

Zhang Jiao: "Oh, you don't want to say that my ZG is like this, do you?"

Extra Feng Xi: "Not really, because ZG has the Shanling Court sitting at the very top, and the Spiral Tower also has a security team with enough strength."

Rin Tohsaka: "What is the Shanling Court?"

Extra Feng Xi: "It's an alliance formed by a group of true big shots. Simply put, it's a gang formed by a group of monsters above the Grand level. Even the Spiral Tower has to look at their faces."

Rin Tohsaka: "Your ZG has such an organization, doesn't the Mage's Association have one?"

Extra Feng Xi: "They do, the Mage's Association also has the Atlas Academy and the Wandering Sea, but it's only in name. These two organizations don't listen to the Mage's Association's orders at all."

Kayneth: "You kid, how do you even know these things?"

Extra Feng Xi: "Sorry, I like collecting all kinds of interesting information the most. People call me the 'Know-it-all'."

【"The Sealing Designation was lifted a few years ago."】

【Aozaki Touko says in a flat tone.】

【Originally, once a Sealing Designation order was issued, it was absolutely impossible to lift it. But just a few years ago, the Zhong Ta's oldest classroom responsible for issuing Sealing Designation orders - the 'Carillon' Observatory of the Department of Mystical Interpretation - had a major event worthy of the end of the century, which also had a violent impact on the Zhong Ta as a whole.】

【It's not just Aozaki Touko; it is said that the Sealing Designation of several other people was also lifted at that time.】

"A major event happened at the Observatory a few years ago!"

Hearing this news, Kayneth is shocked.

What kind of major event is this, that even the Sealing Designation, which had never been lifted, was lifted for several people?

【"Nice to meet you, my name is Reines El-Melloi Archisorte."】

【Reines introduces respectfully: "Gray, this is the Grand Mage I mentioned."】

【Gray: "!!!"】

【Aozaki Touko: "I know you. I have some friendship with your El-Melloi faction because the previous generation El-Melloi asked me to do a little work for him."】

【Reines: "Are you talking about Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald?"】

【"That's right."】

【Aozaki Touko touches her lips with her finger and starts to sell the suspense.】

【Subsequently, her gaze falls on Gray.】

【"Oh my, you have an interesting face."】

"I looked for Aozaki Touko? When?"

Kayneth is confused. Does he actually have something to do with this?

He doesn't remember having any contact with this woman, and the video is what happened after the Fourth Holy Grail War. He had already died during the Fourth Holy Grail War.

So, he contacted this woman during the Fourth Holy Grail War period.

But he had already finished reading the complete story of 'Fate/Zero', and there was no information about Aozaki Touko.

"Director Kayneth's brain must be burning now."

Extra Feng Xi secretly laughs to himself.

During the Fourth Holy Grail War, Kayneth was crippled by Emiya Kiritsugu, and he had his family go to Aozaki Touko to exchange for a pair of prosthetic limbs at a high price, thereby allowing his hands to recover their movement. This process was completely skipped in 'Fate/Zero', and Aozaki Touko's name didn't even appear.

So Kayneth probably can't think of when he had any intersection with Aozaki Touko even if he breaks his head.

【Just as Aozaki Touko reaches out to touch Gray's cheek, the hall suddenly cheers.】

【It is the appearance of Izelma's Golden Princess.】

【Seeing this, Aozaki Touko also withdraws her hand.】

【On the spiral staircase leading to the second floor, the part extending to the terrace, a pair of maid twins with upright features, looking like twins, are standing.】

【The two maids pinch their skirts and curtsy, calling out to the back in unison.】

【"Lady Diadra..." / "Lady Estella..."】

【"Please come in."】

【As those two figures slowly appear, the senses of everyone present seem to have been lost at this instant.】

【That is a perfect existence. Every adjective used on her becomes very ridiculous, as if belittling.】

【No vocabulary can describe the beauty of the visitor.】

【This is the famous Golden Princess 'Diadra Balaleta Izelma', and the Silver Princess 'Estella Balaleta Izelma' wearing a veil.】

【The mages present took several minutes to recover their sanity, and several mages dropped their wine glasses to the ground.】

【Even Reines, a girl, was the same. After coming back to her senses, she didn't even notice that her own consciousness had been cut off.】

And the people in the group were also silent when they saw the Golden Princess in the video.

Although Extra Feng Xi was prepared in his heart, he couldn't help but be shocked.

As expected of the Golden Princess who cannot be described in words, this is truly indescribably beautiful.

Gordes: "Actually, there really is such a beautiful woman. She is simply Venus, the goddess of beauty, descending to the world."

Ishtar: "???"

Ishtar: "You fat guy have no taste at all. How can this fake face compare to this goddess's appearance?"

Rin Tohsaka: "Mm-hmm."

Extra Feng Xi: "What are you nodding for? Isn't her face your face?"

Rin Tohsaka: "So what? Are you saying I'm not as beautiful as this Golden Princess?"

Extra Feng Xi: "... Don't you know the word 'self-knowledge'?"

Rin Tohsaka: "You are saying I don't have self-knowledge!"

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Cough, cough, stop making trouble, Rin."

Rin Tohsaka: "Father, were you stunned just now? Be careful, I'll tell Mom."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "!!!"

Extra Feng Xi: "Haha, it's really filial piety."

First Emperor: "Indeed very beautiful, beautiful to the point of being indescribable. It's a pity, it's too fake."

Everything in the world pays attention to a scale, and beauty is no exception.

When a woman grasps the scale of beauty well, she is a peerless beauty who can bring disaster to the country and the people, but once this scale is exceeded, it will make people feel fake.

Too beautiful, not looking like the real thing, but an illusory existence.

The Golden Princess, carefully crafted by Izelma and pursuing the ultimate beauty, has clearly exceeded the scale significantly.

【"So that's it, that's the Golden Princess?"】

【Aozaki Touko takes off her glasses, lowers her eyes, and says: "Although I've heard rumors, I didn't expect it to reach such a realm. Even I have to praise Izelma's history."】

【The two women, Reines and Gray, are a bit strange because Aozaki Touko's tone at this time is completely different from before.】

【"Mm, I was also a bit shocked, so I switched."】