Chapter 397

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

【"What do you think?"】

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

【Atrum: "How can I ignore this!"】

【Atrum took out a primitive battery again, blended magical power and electricity, and compressed it into small-scale lightning at his fingertips, preparing to meet the attack.】

【"Grave, for you!"】

【"Holy Spear, draw..."】

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

【"Ecce homo!"】

【Time stopped, coordinates lost their meaning, and all space-time continuums looked like they had 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 amazing feeling without exception, standing still.】

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Smart, to actually use 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 is dead, there are many ways to make her face reappear."】

Gordes: "Then, this is a projection created through memory."】

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

【"Were you also forced to retreat?"】

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

【"What was that just now?"】

【Not just the lightning Atrum was preparing to cast, even the dark clouds that flooded the night sky of the entire area dispersed. Even the weather magecraft cast by the power of dozens of people was easily dissipated like tearing thin paper.】

【This miracle ended in just a few seconds.】

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

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

【Waver appeared with Reines at this time and said: "Just as you perceived, this is projecting the Golden Princess from the debut banquet onto the Silver 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 Melastie faction. I can't boast about anything."】

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

【"Don't try to be brave."】

【Touko Aozaki shook her head and said: "This move indeed made me lose my energy, but what do you intend to do?"】

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

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

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

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

【"Since you lost your energy, there should be room for negotiation, right?"】

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

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

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

【"Hm, if it's as you want to say, the reward loses its meaning."】

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

Rin Tohsaka: "What are they talking about? I'm listening in a fog."】

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

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