Chapter 677

【The boy was silent for a moment and asked: "Since that's the case, why don't you catch me here? Using interrogation or other means to investigate how I left the labyrinth—that's the style of a mage, right?"】

【Heartless sighed: "Noridge's bad habit seems to have infected me too. Yes, in short, it's the habit of wanting to see the other person's future development as soon as I find it interesting. Although it has been passed down from generation to generation in the family, I originally thought that my mentor's habit was ridiculous."】

【"I said this is a pre-investment, right? That check has a condition. That's right, if you return here, be my disciple."】

【The boy trembled slightly, thought for a moment, and whispered: "May I ask your name, teacher?"】

【"I am Dr. Heartless. Call me Doctor or Heartless, as you please."】

Waver: "Is this Heartless's disciple?"

Kayneth: "Hmm—never heard of it..."

Rin Tohsaka: "Could it be that some accident happened and they died, which led Heartless to become like this?"】

Tokiomi Tohsaka: "Your guess... is indeed very possible."】

Waver: "Yeah, after all, just the identity of a child born in the labyrinth, once discovered by the Mage's Association, it's impossible to be let go."】

【The scene changes, and a woman opens her eyes.】

【The scene just now was actually a dream she had.】

【This woman is Hephaestion.】

【The first thing she did when she woke up was to pour herself a glass of red wine and drink it.】

【This is her hobby and habit; she is a believer of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus.】

【The place she is in is a basement; from the surrounding style, it can be seen that this was originally a wine cellar.】

Rin Tohsaka: "This is actually a dream?"】

Rin Tohsaka: "But how could Hephaestion dream of Heartless's memories?"】

Shishigou: "Is this rare?"】

Isn't this kind of thing very common? He has also dreamed of Mo's memories.

Rin Tohsaka: "Uh, that's you guys."】

She has never dreamed of Ishtar's past.

【"... Ah, if only I could remain in a state of death."】

【In fact, she is extremely repulsed by her manifestation as a Servant.】

【The reason for this is that she learned what her former comrades did after the King's death, and felt ashamed of her and her brother's incompetence in failing to assist the Great Emperor to the end.】

Iskandar: "Hahaha, this guy, is she actually more stubborn than me?"】

Waver: "This also shows her loyalty to you."】

Iskandar: "... Yeah, both sisters are like this."】

【"Hmm?"】

【Noticing that Heartless was working on the other side, she raised the wine bottle directly: "Master, won't you have a drink?"】

【Heartless: "I said before, I don't drink."】

【"Oh, it's not that your constitution doesn't allow you to drink, but you don't drink? I recommended such a good wine, this statement is really strange."】

【Hephaestion continued to raise her glass and drank it in one gulp, muttering: "Servants don't dream, right?"】

【Heartless: "... Seems so."】

【Hephaestion: "Because dreams are the privilege of the living. No matter where we go, we are just the residue of former heroes, just a temporary record being played."】

【"However, I just had a strange hallucination. That's your memory, right?"】

【"..."】

【The room suddenly fell into silence; after a while, Heartless whispered: "Which side is the living?"】

【Heartless continued his work; he was drawing a map on the wall, and a map of London was pasted next to it.】

【This map looks like a giant dragon that is constantly diving, as if it wants to swallow the planet.】

Kayneth: "This is a map of Albion!"】

Kayneth: "This guy Heartless, does he want to do something to Albion?"】

Shishigou: "Actually hand-drawn, and completely from memory; it seems he is very familiar with Albion."】

Waver: "He seems to be comparing Albion with the map of London; what exactly does he want to do?"】