Chapter 518

【"So that's it..."】

【Waver said in a deep voice: "Sir Kay, that's how it is, right?"】

【Kay: "Sigh, clichés."】

【Waver looked at Berserker and said seriously: "Berserker Blackmoore, who is behind you? No, what is it?"】

Shishigou Kairi: "Oh, looks like there's more gossip to consume."

Rin Tohsaka: "Does this old man have someone behind him too?"

Kayneth: "Thinking about it, it's true. Although he says he belongs to the village, he is completely different from those villagers."

Waver: "However, he doesn't belong to the Clock Tower, nor is he a member of the Holy Church. Then which faction's force could he be?"

【The scene zooms out, returning to the windmill cottage.】

【"Wait a minute, wait a minute, what's going on!"】

【At this moment, the crystal balls are becoming more and more numerous, already surrounding Flat and Svin.】

【Flat stared at the situation inside the crystal ball and asked: "What's going on! Mr. Berserker is Little Gray's companion, right! No, no, no, what is King Arthur's mind anyway!"】

【"Ah! Seriously, I think there's something wrong with this crystal ball's image! Would it recover if I hit it at a thirty-degree angle with a reinforced hand-blade!"】

【Svin looked at Zepia with a serious expression and asked: "What is going on?"】

【Compared to the unreliable Flat, Svin is very angry now, with lightning flickering all over his body.】

【"Hmm, your ability to come here is eye-opening. I think I should try to reward the actors' efforts, so I increased the number of crystals. Do you two not like it?"】

【Zepia laughed: "I mentioned just now that you cannot interfere with the reproduction. Although it's a pity, you don't have the qualifications; after all, you weren't in the village at the time."】

【"Your acting during the audition was wonderful, but since you don't meet the conditions, the best compromise I can find is to invite you to watch from backstage."】

【"..."】

【Watching Waver and the others in the crystal ball fall into difficulty, Svin wanted to help them, but didn't know where to start.】

【"First of all, what is this place?"】

【Svin, having calmed down, quietly observed his surroundings.】

【He could feel that the distance of a few meters around him was now equivalent to infinity.】

【Damn it, one embarrassing defeat is enough; he must try to understand this strange device.】

【"However, you should have been in the village at that time."】

【Svin continued to ask: "In that case, couldn't you go to that world just like the teacher and Miss Gray?"】

【Zepia: "Hmm, the point you raised is reasonable, but one must be cautious when dealing with paradoxes. Furthermore, if I, who am continuously calculating the world, were to enter the interior, the manager would have to include the world I am calculating in the recalculation, and I would almost automatically execute calculations on the results of the recalculation. This is a major contradiction."】

【"Although some people prefer scripts with a large amount of information, no one's capacity can accommodate such a nested structure."】

【"Ah, I am looking forward to the hard work of Lord El-Melloi II and that Gravekeeper girl."】

【Svin didn't even understand half of what he meant.】

【But in short, this means that Zepia himself, who should be closely related to this situation, cannot freely manipulate what happens in that world, right?】

Rin Tohsaka: "I don't understand either."

Waver: "It should mean that there was no place for him in the second round. Once he joined in, the established script would deviate, and even he would need to predict the development again."

Emiya Kiritsugu: "To put it bluntly, he just doesn't want the future to escape his control."

Waver: "It feels like my future actions are all planned by him; it's really annoying."

【Svin: "Can you bring the teacher and Miss Gray back here?"】

【Zepia: "Unfortunately, I can't; that violates the contract."】

【Svin: "Contract?"】

【"The contract signed between the Atlas Academy and the predecessor of this village long ago."】

【Zepia shrugged: "Although it wasn't signed by me personally, the effect is absolute. Including the appearance of unconventional existences like you, these are all things I must accept."】

Kayneth: "So it was this village that signed a contract with the Atlas Academy."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "In other words, he is now assisting the village in completing the resurrection of King Arthur."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Because the masked girl, the mental copy of King Arthur, is dead, he chose to complete the task through the second round."

Waver: "It seems that Gray and my future self returning to the village were also within his calculations."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Wait a minute! This means that the village where Waver and the others are is the real past, not some illusion!"

Kayneth: "Impossible! Except for magic, it's impossible to do such a thing!"

That Magician who masters the Fifth Magic has no intersection with the Atlas Academy.

【"..."】

【Svin thought to himself: "He calls Flat, me, and that Sir Kay unconventional existences."】

【He checked carefully, avoiding over-interpreting himself.】

【"In short, our presence here, and what will happen to the teacher and Miss Gray, is not entirely within this person's calculations."】

【"What if, for Zepia, the current situation is also unconventional?"】

【While thinking, his hand twisted gently behind his back, and his magical energy turned into a wavelength of text that only Flat could recognize and transmitted it over.】

【This is a method they use when working as partners.】

【'Analyze this magic, don't attract his attention'—this was Svin's message.】

【If it were Flat, he would likely have the ability to handle the alchemy of the Atlas Academy. They were able to cross the barrier of that forest to reach this place, which also proves this point.】

【As long as there is enough time, he would design a means to get back at Zepia.】

【The problem is the timing. At what timing could they catch this alchemist of the Atlas Academy off guard?】

【'OK', Flat also replied quickly.】

【Flat's messaging method is to rub his fingers at certain intervals, because Svin can clearly feel the scent of the oil on his fingers after rubbing.】

【They used magical energy and scent as methods for sending and receiving messages; even their teacher had never discovered this method.】

【There was no sign that even Zepia, who was right in front of them, had noticed this unique method.】

Kayneth: "These two kids are really something."

Shishigou Kairi: "They actually utilized each other's characteristics to create a secret code exclusive to them. Heh, their future is promising."

【Of course, this was just their wishful thinking.】

【Zepia had already seen through their intentions. Leaving them alone like this was not out of arrogance or laziness, but a solution he derived based on a pure evaluation that Flat and Svin could not pose an obstacle.】

【In Zepia's brain, they must have been defeated tens of thousands of times.】

【What is needed now is not their own efforts, but different factors.】

Waver: "As expected, did he foresee this situation too?"

Shishigou Kairi: "After all, he is the Director of the Atlas Academy. Even if they don't know the future, they probably aren't the other party's match."