Abnormal month

In the northeast corner of Fuyuki City, there is a gentle mountainous area.

Ten years ago, a church was built on this mountainous land belonging to the Holy Church, but of course, that church was burned down on the day of the catastrophe ten years ago.

But this is indeed a good piece of land, one of the four spiritual veins of Fuyuki City. Soon after the church was burned down, this place was occupied by magicians from various families sent by the Magic Association, and a branch of the association was established here.

Of course, it was occupied by force and no purchase or rental fee was paid.

The argument given by those magicians was, "Since the Tohsaka family has caused a catastrophe, giving up a spiritual vein as a punishment is considered a light punishment."

In fact, the Magic Association's punishment for the Tosaka family was far more than that, but the magicians didn't want to waste money on something that was meaningless in their eyes, such as purchasing spiritual lands.

Why buy it when you can get it for free?

At that time, Tokiomi Tosaka had just died, and Rin Tosaka was still young. No matter how good she was, she would not be able to go against the messengers of the many families that made up the Magic Association, so she could only swallow the loss of being dumb.

With a "bang", the door of the association branch was pushed open.

The pretty girl with twin tails, her face covered in frost, rushed into the branch lobby with an intimidating courage.

The dim light was obviously not bright enough, and it was even more difficult to illuminate the spacious lobby. The huge association hall only had basement-level lighting. The empty lobby had almost no decorations, and only the cold winter wind roared by the windows.

In the center of the lobby stood several magicians.

Around them, birds, bats, crows and other birds were standing on poles in the lobby. Those birds stood there motionless, with only one or two occasionally moving their eyes.

The scene is full of weirdness.

"We're finally here, the little girl from the Tohsaka family."

One of the crows spit out human words when it saw Tohsaka Rin pushing open the door.

"Time and again, your response always lags behind ours. How about you simply retreat and leave the position of mayor of Fuyuki City to us?"

"People who are about to die should live a more cheerful life. If they are always greedy for profit, they may have a myocardial infarction one day."

Tohsaka Rin covered her lips, her eyes turned into crescent moons when she smiled, and she spat out malice that was so infuriating that it wouldn't cost anyone's life.

"If you relax your control over magicians a little, my reaction will definitely be faster than yours. Do you want to give it a try?"

The angrier Tohsaka Rin gets, the brighter his smile becomes.

Her eyes crossed the birds and landed on the magicians in the center of the hall.

Those magicians were members of the escort team that escorted the miners out of the city this morning.

As soon as he returned to Fuyuki City, he immediately came to the association branch to report the situation, completely ignoring her.

She was able to come here so quickly thanks to someone who notified her via a familiar message.

As long as these magicians listen to her, she will not fall behind these immortals.

Her eyes turned for a moment and fell on a young man with white hair and red eyes.

Roy was also among those magicians.

This is natural, because he is also a member of the escort team, and he is also the first person to discover the situation.

"I agree with Mayor Tohsaka's proposal."

Roy raised his hand and said with a smile.

The other magicians lowered their heads and pretended not to hear.

"Shut up, you have no right to speak here!"

The crow scolded mercilessly.

"You are only able to stand here because of that person's light. Please clarify your identity for me and stop saying arrogant words here!"

"Okay."

Roy pushed up his glasses, looking like a good boy.

"When it comes to delegating power, they start making jokes. The nobles in the Clock Tower are really getting more and more alive."

Tohsaka Rin smiled so hard that his face was full of laughter, and his words were full of sarcasm.

"Okay, now is not the time to talk about this."

One of the bats made a sound to smooth things over.

"Arguing is really inefficient. The key to the problem now is to find out who the enemy is outside the city wall. Does any of you have any clues to improve efficiency?"

The magicians below, you looked at me and I looked at you, and finally they all shook their heads.

They run faster than anyone else, so they don't know any clues.

"Didn't you send your familiars to investigate?"

"How is it possible? Of course we let the familiars chase us, but it will take time for the familiars to pursue..."

The lobby was in chaos.

Roy yawned.

He felt disgusted that these old immortals were so idle, so he turned and walked towards the door without looking back.

"snort."

The old immortals noticed his departure, and a certain crow sneered.

Roy ignored the magicians and raised his fingers towards Tohsaka Rin.

"Sorry."

Tohsaka Rin smiled at the magicians, turned around and left.

Not even a glance at the birds.

So polite.

Roy felt embarrassed.

Unlike him, he didn't even say goodbye.

Walk out the association door.

Tohsaka Rin quickened her pace and ran to Roy's side, the two of them walking side by side.

"Do you have anything to say by calling me out, Mr. Roy?"

"I have a clue."

"Yeah?"

Tohsaka Rin looked at him in surprise.

"Then you didn't say it on the spot?"

"You know, I get annoyed with those old guys too."

Roy smiled innocently.

"In comparison, Mayor Tohsaka's style is much more to my liking."

"Thank you so much for your compliment."

Toosaka Rin smiled lightly, with a very straightforward joy on her face.

Compared with the polite smile just now, all the missing things were made up in this smile.

"Then, what did you find?"

"The one who attacked us was the blackened Servant."

Roy didn't keep it a secret and gave the answer directly.

"Really? Which one is coming?"

Toosaka Rin's expression suddenly became serious.

"You should ask which one is not coming."

"... Wait a minute, do you mean that there is more than one blackened Servant coming?"

Toosaka Rin's expression suddenly became ugly.

"According to my perception, there should be five."

Roy touched his chin and said while thinking.

"There were only six blackened servants, right? They are the remains of the last Holy Grail War, which was ten years ago."

"Well, in the last Holy Grail War, except for Archer, the other six servants all turned black. The specific reason is still unknown. No one knows how it developed to this point."

Tohsaka Rin's expression gradually became sad. Her father died at that time.

But she quickly got rid of this sadness and came up with the answer through calm thinking.

"Five of the six blackened servants gathered outside Fuyuki City. If your perception is correct, then I'm afraid the reason can be found."

"It just so happens that the fifth Holy Grail War is about to begin. Their goal is undoubtedly the Holy Grail."