Ring ring ring~~~ Ring ring ring~~~
The phone suddenly rang, cutting off everyone's conversation.
Emiya Kiritsugu stood up and answered the phone: "This is the Emiya residence, who are you looking for?"
"Kiritsugu, it's me," a very kind voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Head of the family?" Emiya Kiritsugu's voice sounded very surprised at this moment.
Tia frowned when she heard Emiya Kiritsugu say the words "head of the family".
Putting aside everything else, how is it possible that everyone has international long distance calls so easily in 1994?
Tia was very puzzled.
Speaking of which, doesn't this head of the family refer to the current head of Einzbern, the culprit who summoned Angra Mainyu and polluted the Holy Grail 60 years ago during the Third Holy Grail War, Jubstacheit von Einzbern.
Why would he call?
"Kiritsugu, how is Illya doing?" Jubstacheit von Einzbern on the other end of the phone sounded like a kind grandpa who really cared about his granddaughter, saying reassuring words.
"Well, everything is fine, Illya is doing well here too," Emiya Kiritsugu replied, but Emiya Kiritsugu's voice didn't sound any different than usual, still without much inflection.
"Is that so, that's good. The Fourth Holy Grail War has been invaded by external forces again and was forced to stop. It must be continued for ten years before it can continue. The Servants were also forced to stay because of this. I'm afraid that even if the external forces are cleared after ten years, the Greater Grail will be destroyed along with it, and our wishes will probably be completely shattered. In that case, it is meaningless for Illya to stay here. I will send Illya over. Afterwards, we will no longer contact you, and the Einzbern main castle will also be closed. In the future, what you want to do has nothing to do with us," Jubstacheit von Einzbern on the other end of the phone was still speaking in that kind tone.
"Is that so, then thank you," Emiya Kiritsugu also replied in a calm tone.
Tia used magic to focus on her ears, listening clearly to the words inside the phone.
I didn't expect that the head of the Einzbern family would also be affected and make the decision to close the Einzbern castle. But... I always feel like something is wrong... Can their homunculi also be affected?
Tia remembered that this head of the family is actually the eighth-generation humanoid terminal created by the real Jubstacheit, fully named Magic Puppet Jubstacheit, and also the father of all the homunculi created by Einzbern.
His personality no longer exists. At best, he is "the existence that runs the castle" and "the existence that recreates the Third Magic", implanting the necessary "humanity" into each generation of humanoid terminals, so that they can imitate human words and deeds.
Jubstacheit's essence is an automatic puppet that "can continue operating forever at the cost of being unable to improve". Its existence is just like an old clock that records the time every moment, and disappears from people's memories before it collapses.
If that's the case, such a thing doesn't even count as a living being, so why would it be affected by the disappearance of evil thoughts? Could it be really as he said, he feels that the Greater Grail has been invaded by external forces and will eventually be completely destroyed, so they completely lost the opportunity to realize their wishes and chose to go into eternal sleep?
Why doesn't Tia believe it?
Would such a group of puppets really make such a decision? Shouldn't puppets always operate according to the wishes left by their masters, no matter what? Did they not even think about recreating the Greater Grail?
Also, Tia still has something she wants to ask him.
Originally, she was thinking about using Emiya Kiritsugu and his family to break into the main castle in Germany, rescue Illya, and then ask him if there was anything strange about Angra Mainyu when he was summoned 60 years ago. But now, he not only took the initiative to send the person over, but also took the initiative to close himself off. How can Tia ask him then?
Thinking about it, Tia's eyebrows gradually furrowed, and her palms were a little itchy, wanting to snatch the phone receiver right away.
"Is that Grandpa's call?" Illya had a smile on her face at this time, looking like she liked him very much.
At this moment, Tia suddenly thought of a way.
"The human evil Angra Mainyu who appeared in the underground Great Hollow at that time, he is the only person who has a connection. It's best to take this opportunity to ask him clearly whether he knows that the Angra Mainyu he summoned 60 years ago would gradually evolve into a human evil inside the Greater Grail," Tia said what she was thinking in a simple way.
Irisviel nodded at Tia's question, feeling it made sense.
"Kiritsugu, you should take this opportunity to ask," Irisviel said to Emiya Kiritsugu.
Emiya Kiritsugu nodded, and then continued to ask in the phone: "Ahad, do you have any impression about Angra Mainyu? When you were still the Master of the Third Holy Grail War, and also when you just summoned him."
"Hmm? Why are you suddenly asking about this? Those are things that have already happened in the past, they are no longer important," Ahad, who was using the simplified title by Emiya Kiritsugu, said carelessly.
"No, it's very important," Emiya Kiritsugu said, "Didn't you say that external forces invaded the Greater Grail, and the Greater Grail will also be destroyed along with the external forces in 10 years? Then if I say that Angra Mainyu is also related to that external force, maybe we can find clues from Angra Mainyu's body on how to safely remove that external force?"
"What! There is such a thing!" Ahad's voice sounded very excited when he heard Emiya Kiritsugu's words, "Why didn't you explain it in the previous report!"
"Because I didn't know that you would plan to close down completely because of this. Originally, I was prepared to wait ten years to remove that external force, and the Greater Grail could still be obtained by me," Emiya Kiritsugu was not affected by Ahad's excited voice at all.
"Is that so..." Ahad's voice returned to calm at this time, and then he began to tell what happened 60 years ago.
"60 years ago, I felt very strange when Angra Mainyu was summoned. He was clearly an evil god, but all of his behaviors were aimed at good, and he had no evil thoughts in his mind at all. Although I later learned that what I summoned was just an ordinary person who was forcibly given all the evils of this world by ignorant ancient people, he should have been summoned as an avenger because he had experienced countless unfair treatment in his life. However... what I summoned was a Servant who claimed to be an evil god named Angra Mainyu, but whose class was a ruler, performing good deeds..."
(End of The Chapter)
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