Chapter 377: ·Tracking, Ambushed

【"Is that so?"】

【Mick's hand suddenly reached out to the side, his fingertips forming a certain seal that covered the entire room.】

【That was not a symbol commonly used by European magi, but a mantra of Eastern Esoteric Buddhism.】

【Reines: "What do you intend to do?"】

【"At least I have to set up a barrier first, because it wouldn't be strange if someone was eavesdropping."】

【Mick bowed exaggeratedly and said: "As you can see, my magic is a self-contained school of Esoteric Buddhism, and because my family background is not good, various things have been mixed in."】

【"Since I have revealed my origin, can you trust me a little?"】

【Reines: "... In other words, you want to talk about a topic that others cannot hear?"】

【Mick: "Haha, that's it."】

【This smile was really too fake.】

【Afterward, Mick softly informed them of his intentions.】

【He was a spy, entrusted by a big shot of a certain faction to infiltrate this social gathering for investigation.】

【Now that he had exposed his identity to find Reines, it was to seek cooperation.】

【The goal of the cooperation was actually to dismantle Izelma.】

Tohsaka Rin: "Spy? Has this profession appeared too?"

Iskandar: "It's clearly a small matter, yet it's made so complicated."

Kayneth: "That's why I said the struggle between magus families is very intense."

Caules: "Harboring malice toward Izelma, could he be the killer!"

Darnic: "It's not that simple; even the question for this problem hasn't appeared yet."

【Reines: "Are you confessing that you are the killer?"】

【"No, this is a coincidence, a coincidence. I never thought the Golden Princess would die like that."】

【Mick pretended to be frustrated and said: "However, once a coincidence happens, it will be included in the inevitable. The Golden Princess's death is already a fact, and we can only proceed with this premise."】

【Reines: "What is your purpose?"】

【Mick: "Purpose? Didn't I mention it just now?"】

【Reines: "Your Jigmariye faction should always remain neutral. Whether the democratic Balereta is neutralized or not is irrelevant to you."】

【"Hahaha, as expected, I can't fool you."】

【Mick cleared his throat and said: "Actually, I want to get a cursed object. That item is mixed with the blood of a certain Phantasm species..."】

【Cursed objects, also known as cursed bodies, although there are several names, generally refer to the collective term for items with magical catalysts.】

【Powerful cursed objects are used as the core of magical crafts and formulas, determining their form. It's just that in the modern era where all mystery continues to decline, the quality of cursed objects obtained by magi has been declining all the way.】

【If it is a high-quality cursed object, trading at astronomical prices is not uncommon, and the reserve quantity is even equated with the authority of the faction.】

【The reason Trimmau can be established is also relying on the central cursed object of Volumen Hydrargyrum.】

Caules: "What he is talking about, wouldn't it be Siegfried's Bodhi leaf?"

Darnic: "It should be correct."

Shishigou Kairi: "Siegfried's Bodhi leaf, when Siegfried killed the evil dragon Fafnir and bathed in its dragon blood, it inadvertently stuck to his back, causing a flaw to remain in one spot on his back."

Waver: "I see, the Bodhi leaf with Fafnir's blood is indeed not just a holy relic, but also a rare high-quality cursed object."

Tohsaka Tokiomi: "Another Bodhi leaf; it seems this case has a great connection with the Bodhi leaf."

【"I refuse."】

【Reines interrupted the other party directly.】

【Mick: "Hey, hey, it would be better to listen to a few more sentences before refusing."】

【Reines: "Because if you say 'you know too much', I can't take it."】

Kayneth: "It seems Reines has finally learned to be smart."

Sola: "Learning from mistakes, after all, she just stumbled."

【"Haha, very cautious."】

【Mick smiled bitterly: "Well, I won't force you, nor do I think you will go and publicize my true identity."】

【Reines: "Hmph, because doing so is equivalent to confessing that we are indeed the killers."】

【They are now suspects in a murder case; going to tell people 'a spy suddenly came to confess his identity to me', such a thing probably wouldn't be believed if said out loud.】

【"See you again."】

【The dark-skinned man turned and left, but his attitude seemed to say that he would get a different answer next time they met.】

【After this uninvited guest left, Reines let Trimmau guard the door and fell asleep exhaustedly.】

【So many things happened, it really made her heart tired.】

【Sure enough, these things should be thrown to her brother to worry about.】

Illya: "This guy's attitude is really annoying."

Tohsaka Rin: "That look, it's like he's sure of the other party."

Emiya Kiritsugu: "Dealing with people who are spies like this requires extra caution; if you're not careful, you might be sold by the other party."

Darnic: "Indeed."

【I don't know how long it took, but Reines stretched and woke up.】

【Sleeping has its benefits, making her brain, which had become a paste, suddenly much clearer.】

【Reines immediately thought that a certain place might have clues and took Gray to the back door of the Moon Tower, the place where they entered in the morning.】

【The two girls carefully observed the surrounding ground, parted the grass to look for evidence, and had to pay attention to their feet from time to time to avoid accidentally trampling the clues.】

【"Bingo."】

【Reines soon found what she was looking for, some footprints that didn't belong to them.】

【Almost no one walks here specifically, and they only came here according to the Golden Princess's instructions, so these footprints might be the killer's.】

【Trimmau checked it, and determined that there were more than ten types of footprints here, including the Golden Princess's footprints.】

【Afterward, Reines let her start tracking.】

【This kind of pattern recognition and statistics is Trimmau's specialty, but because the method of tracking footprints is too classical, Reines had completely forgotten it.】

【But conversely, the killer might be the same as her.】

Waver: "Indeed, the attention is all on hiding one's own magic, but it's easy to ignore these basic problems."

Illya: "But this mercury maid is really omnipotent; it seems there is nothing she can't do."

Sola: "Hmm, Waver really has a hand; he can modify Volumen Hydrargyrum to this extent."

Kayneth: "..."

He decided that starting tomorrow, he would upgrade and modify Volumen Hydrargyrum, and he must modify it to be more powerful than Trimmau in the video.

As a teacher, how can he lose to his disciple?

【Trimmau transformed into a liquid state and swam toward the depths of the forest, and Reines and Gray hurriedly followed.】

【But as they chased, Reines found that the surroundings were filled with thick fog at some point.】

【Although it is normal for fog to rise in the lakeside area, Reines felt something was wrong.】

【When she wanted to call Trimmau to stop, she found that she had disappeared, and her magical connection with Trimmau had also been cut off.】

【Not only that, Gray behind her had also lost her trace.】

【Reines: "A barrier?"】

Illya: "Another common plot in movies."

Kayneth: "Sigh, I just praised her, how did she get caught again so quickly."

Waver: "Too reckless; she should have discovered the problem earlier."

Shishigou Kairi: "Being able to cut off the connection between the craft and oneself, it seems this barrier is not as simple as an ordinary illusion array."

Tohsaka Tokiomi: "But who would set up such a large barrier in the forest? The Izelma family?"

【Just as Reines was thinking about how to escape, a sound of breaking through the air sounded behind her, and a strong wind swept over her head.】 ===== CHAPTER 379 =====