Chapter 545: ·The mystery is solved, no

【Gray: "It cannot be covered up, death..."】

【In the first loop, Fernand, the Skeleton King, or rather the mother who gave her a physical body, died.】

【Does this mean that this fact alone cannot be covered up even if it is reenacted?】

【That is why Fernand's corpse appeared so abruptly, and why the Skeleton King died after obtaining Magdalena's body. Perhaps at the moment of death, everyone has witnessed their own doppelganger.】

【Waver: "Then, let us reach a conclusion."】

【"As I mentioned earlier, a spirit alone cannot maintain its original form in the real world for so long. Sir Kay was able to maintain his form because Add, who served as the host, was present, and even then, under normal circumstances, he could not have lasted a full day. However, the Skeleton King claimed she woke up ten years ago, the same time Gray began to transform into the body of King Arthur."】

【Waver, as if he had anticipated this, looked toward where the Skeleton King's corpse lay and asked: "Then, how did you maintain your existence?"】

【Kay: "Hey, hey, what is going on here?"】

【Before they knew it, the Skeleton King's corpse had actually stood up.】

Rin Tohsaka: "Whoa! A corpse came back to life!"

Shishigou Kairi: "Could it be that the fusion was successful?"

Kayneth: "No, death is irreversible. She has indeed returned to the state of the first loop; she is dead."

【Waver: "Skeleton King—no, that name no longer suits you. You, who have been rebooted, are neither Magdalena nor the spirit of King Arthur, but a host that absorbs vast amounts of Mana from underground to perform calculations."】

【"You are the Logos React!"】

Kayneth: "What! Logos React!"

Waver: "Teacher, what is that?"

Kayneth: "... Logos React, one of the seven great weapons of the Atlas Academy. It is said to be able to generate a limited observation space based on input conditions and conduct hypothetical experiments."

Kayneth: "I see. I should have realized it sooner. This is not the past at all, but a scene space generated by the Logos React!"

Rin Tohsaka: "So that means everyone else, including Trimmau, is fake!"

Kayneth: "... That is correct."

Although he was unwilling to admit it, it was the truth.

Their El-Melloi family's supreme Mystic Code could be faked by someone else with ease.

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "This is the power of the Atlas Academy."

【Kay: "Huh? That weapon from the Atlas Academy you mentioned, it's actually a person?"】

【Waver glared at the Logos React and said: "There are some differences. To be precise, she is the Avatar of the Logos React itself within this world."】

【"The seven great weapons of the Atlas Academy have the ability to replicate the spirit of King Arthur. After all, they were created to save humanity from extinction, but they ended up being things that would cause the world's destruction."】

【"..."】

【The Skeleton King—no, it should be the Logos React—did not speak.】

【Before they knew it, her face had become as hazy as Kay's.】

【Waver: "Yes, this is not the past, nor is it a loop. Precisely because of this, the reenactment can only continue until the moment the Skeleton King's death is determined."】

【"What kind of world treats death as both the starting point and the end point, repeating itself like the past? The answer is obvious."】

【"This is a grave, the smallest afterlife calculated by the Logos React!"】

【In an instant, as if the secret had been revealed, the static began to intensify, and the noise became almost deafening.】

【Waver shouted: "You are listening, aren't you! Atlas Academy! I have solved the mystery, and now the summer has ended! Come out, Zepia Eltnam Atlasia!"】

【This sentence split the world apart, and everything vanished without a trace in an instant.】

【The swamp, the temple, the old woman, the villagers, Bersac, Trimmau, and Ilumia all disappeared. Only Zepia remained, standing there naturally.】

Rin Tohsaka: "They escaped!"

Kayneth: "Hmph, although the mystery of the Skeleton King's death has been solved, this matter is not over yet."

Kiritsugu Emiya: "That's right. Zepia, what is his purpose? Did he spend half a year here just to let Waver figure out the truth of the past?"

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "And where did the other people in the village go?"

Waver: "Indeed, there are still a bunch of doubts left unsolved."

【Waver and the others were in a strange space. The space was hazy and dim, with many crystal balls floating in mid-air, and the ground had an incredible texture that was neither soil, metal, nor resin.】

【Zepia: "Congratulations, you found the answer, Lord El-Melloi II."】

【Kay: "Sigh, even I was dragged here? Since the host is Add, it's only natural, but you've worked me too hard, haven't you? In the past, this amount of work would have earned me a fief. Ah, no, if I got something like that, I'd just have no time to chase after women."】

【Seeing that Kay was still there, Gray couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and subconsciously gripped her great scythe.】

【Waver stared at the other party and said in a deep voice: "Zepia, does this mean my answer just now is the correct solution to the puzzle you posed?"】

【Zepia: "Thinking of it that way is fine. In modern terms, could you say you've cleared the game?"】

【"You contacted the Logos React, solved the mystery it created, and took the initiative to have that world expel you. It was a brilliant performance."】

【"Ah, putting aside the Skeleton King, who is the host of the Logos React, if an external human who has already solved the world's structure is included in the reenactment, a paradox will occur."】

【Waver: "So, you are not in that world either."】

【Zepia: "In principle, that is exactly right."】

【Gray: "Teacher, what about Miss Trimmau?"】

【Waver: "That Trimmau was just a product of the Logos React recalculating the Trimmau that Reines left behind in the first loop. The real Trimmau should be taking care of Reines and brewing black tea right now."】

【Waver's answer made Gray breathe a sigh of relief, but at the same time, she had new doubts.】

【What about Bersac and Ilumia? What about the others in the village? And Fernand and the mother whom Waver mentioned had 'already died in the first loop'...】

【"Teacher!"】

【Just then, footsteps came from behind. It was Flat and Svin.】

【Flat: "I knew the teacher could do it!"】

【Svin: "Flat, you're so noisy! It's impossible for the teacher to make a mistake! Worrying about such things is disrespectful in itself! Even without your meddling, the teacher would definitely have broken through this small problem perfectly!"】

【Flat: "Ah! But you were the one who suggested we must help the professor, doggy! You even had an expression like a puppy abandoned on a rainy day!"】

【Svin: "T-the teacher taught us that a magus must always be prepared with a second plan. I was just following that! And this has nothing to do with my expression!"】

Shishigou Kairi: "Whenever these two appear, they always manage to lighten the mood."

Waver: "They really are a pair of clowns."

【Looking at the noisy pair, Zepia smiled faintly: "It seems you have two good students. I'm envious."】

【Waver: "Yes, I feel the same way."】

【Zepia: "Then, as the right of the person who found the answer, what do you want me to provide, Lord El-Melloi II? For example, the whereabouts of Heartless? Or do you want me to reveal the knowledge the Atlas Academy has about the Holy Grail War?"】

【Waver: "No, I haven't found anything yet. The mystery I should have found is further ahead."】

【As soon as these words were spoken, the air seemed to change in an instant.】

【Zepia: "... Oh, you say the puzzle is further ahead?"】

【Waver: "Exactly. I am not playing with words. What is the point of just saying that the second loop was not the past but a grave? The essence is still further ahead. Yes, since that is a grave, then the question of whose grave it is is what matters, right?"】

【For a moment, Zepia subconsciously froze.】

【Waver: "And why did you mention our rights in such a hurry?"】

【Zepia: "... Is that so strange?"】

【Waver: "Yes, because you would not do unnecessary things. Although you talk about topics we cannot understand, that is purely because our current capacity is insufficient to accept that information. Why would you, such a person, stay in this village?"】

【Zepia: "Is it strange?"】

【Waver: "I have felt it was strange from the beginning. Just as you said before, with the technology of the Atlas Academy, you can issue instructions from anywhere in the world. And, putting aside other members, there is no need for you, as the director, to follow the rules of the Atlas Academy and stay behind closed doors. However, that is not the reason you deliberately came to this village."】

Kayneth: "Indeed, being able to do something doesn't mean there is a reason to do it. Even if one of the seven great weapons is really hidden in this village, it is not a reason for a director to personally take action at such a time, and stay for half a year at that."

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Unless there is another purpose."

Shishigou Kairi: "Or maybe we are overthinking it, and he is just simply bored."

【Waver: "This case is too roundabout. Was it really you who sent us into the second loop? No, that was not your own action. You just knew that things would develop that way. However, if I only use this to summarize the conclusion, you probably won't admit it. So, please allow me to organize the first loop first."】

【"Sir Kay."】

【Kay: "Oh, you're calling me at a time like this?"】

【"I didn't expect to be called during a boring conversation between magi. It's not too late even now, if possible, I'd like to leave quickly, but what exactly do you want?"】

【Waver: "Although it should be correct, I want to confirm it for the sake of caution. You inherited Add's memories, right?"】

【Kay: "Hmm, I suppose so. Because of this, I am a bit different from the me when I was alive."】

【Waver: "Then, on the third day of the first loop, do you remember what Priest Fernand was doing after I met Gray?"】 ===== CHAPTER 547 =====