Chapter 722

Tohsaka Rin: "Isn't that just the story of Urashima Taro!"

Feng Xi: "Pretty much; it should be said that there are similar legends all over the world."

Waver: "Appearing from one point in time to another—that is a changeling."

【"Hmm, of course I remember."】

【Grot is silent for a long while, then says: "If it's you, it's fine to say it."】

【"At that time, I was a young man full of ideals, and my late father often scolded me for it. However, when I accepted the patient sent to me because of this personality, my father insisted that the person should be quickly transferred to a hospital with more hands, stubbornly refusing to back down. But in the end, I arranged for him to be hospitalized."】

【"When I found him, he was covered in wounds, so severe that it was a miracle he was still alive. Moreover, although the wounds healed unexpectedly quickly, there was one big problem."】

【Waver: "What problem? For example, having no heart?"】

【Grot: "Where did you hear that?"】

【Waver: "I'll omit the details, but he said so himself."】

【Grot: "... That's right. I couldn't send him to another hospital. He had a pulse, and blood was flowing. But no matter what machine I used to test him, I couldn't find a heart. It felt like I was dreaming."】

【"Not only that, even though his heart was gone, he seemed to still feel pain; from time to time, he would clutch his chest and roll around in agony, as if he had just been stabbed in the heart."】

【"He goes by the name Heartless... that's a bit of an over-the-top joke."】

Waver: "No heart... so it was true."

He had always thought it was just a legend or a vague exaggeration, but he didn't expect it to be literal.