Chapter 396

【Atrum: "Miss Aozaki, in this situation, will this area be razed to the ground?"】

【"What do you think?"】

【Aozaki Touko said dissatisfiedly: "Hey, don't be nosy."】

【Atrum: "How can I ignore this!"】

【Atrum took out another primitive battery, adjusted the magical power and electricity, and compressed it into small-scale lightning at his fingertips, ready to meet the attack.】

【"Grave, for you!"】

【"Holy Spear, draw..."】

【Just at the moment when Gray was about to launch the Holy Spear, another voice came.】

【"Ecce homo!"】

【Time stopped, coordinates lost their meaning, and all space-time continuums seemed to have been robbed of their orderly tightness.】

【Because they saw that the Golden Princess, who should have passed away, was standing in the center of the forest.】

【The magi who had been forced into battle until just now and whose souls had become incomparably sharp in the extreme life-and-death struggle were all shocked by that astonishing feeling and stood still.】

Tohsaka Tokiomi: "Smart, actually using the Golden Princess's face to stop this battle."】

Caules: "But isn't the Golden Princess dead?"】

Fiore: "Don't ask such a stupid question."】

Darnic: "Even if she's dead, there are many ways to make her face reappear."】

Gold: "Then, this is a projection created from memory."】

Avicebron: "To be able to create it so vividly—interesting."】

【"Have you been forced back too?"】

【Aozaki Touko looked at the bag in her hand and opened it helplessly.】

【"What happened just now?"】

【Not only the lightning Atrum was about to cast, but even the dark clouds that flooded the night sky of the entire area dispersed. Even the weather magecraft cast by the strength of dozens of people vanished like tearing thin paper.】

【This miracle ended in just a few seconds.】

【Everyone only then reacted that the person standing there was not the murdered Golden Princess, but the Bai Yin Princess.】

【Aozaki Touko: "I see, a projection, huh."】

【II appeared with Reines and said, "Just as you noticed, this is projecting the Golden Princess from the debut banquet onto the Bai Yin Princess's face. The person who performed it is my disciple Reines."】

【Reines: "Hmph, the spell was constructed by you, and the preparation ceremony was done by the two from the Meastria faction. I can't brag about anything."】

【Atrum: "So what? Do you think you can stop us with this kind of surprising magecraft?"】

【"Don't try to be brave."】

【Aozaki Touko shook her head and said, "This move did indeed make me lose interest, but what do you intend to do?"】

Kayneth: "Lost interest—it seems that wasn't just a projection just now."】

Tohsaka Tokiomi: "Don't forget that Galliasta's weather magecraft was also lifted. That probably wasn't something a mere projection could do."】

Tohsaka Rin: "Waver, what did you do?"】

Waver: "How would I know? The video didn't show the screen."】

【"Since you've lost interest, there should be room for negotiation, right?"】

【II said lightly, "Besides, seeing the magecraft just now, don't you understand?"】

【Aozaki Touko: "I guessed it, but is it that kind of thing? Was your performance just now also an answer to me?"】

【II: "Mostly just as you imagined. At the same time, this is my speculation, but the reward the client promised to pay you..."】

【"Hmm, if it's as you said, the reward loses its meaning."】

【Aozaki Touko shrugged and said, "Rather, I was deceived. No, in this situation, the other party didn't lie, so I just rashly concluded, right?"】

Tohsaka Rin: "What are they talking about? I'm confused."】

Illya: "Me too. I hate these riddle-like ways of speaking the most."】

【II looked at Atrum and said, "You are Atrum Galliasta, right? Can you return my disciple?"】