Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

It was an altar made of pure white stone.

Just like these columns, they are extremely conspicuous in this dark and empty space.

Under the altar, there was a girl kneeling here. She closed her eyes tightly and seemed to be praying for something. Her whole body seemed to be still, and even the breeze could not blow her collar.

Reflected by the surrounding pure white pillars and altar, the whole scene was filled with an aura of sanctity and solemnity.

This girl is wearing an extremely loose cloak and a hat as fluffy as a pillow.

She is extremely petite, with short light blue hair, and her clothes are mainly pure white, which seems to reflect the entire environment.

Although the overall clothing is mainly white, compared to Joan of Arc, who also mainly wears white, her loose clothing is more like a priest.

And she knelt under the altar with great piety, and the stardust around her shone for her.

"Tap! Tread! Tread! Tread!"

But such a solemn and sacred place was broken by the sudden sound of footsteps.

"General, why are you suddenly willing to come back?"

A very mature female voice with a hint of coquettishness came from this silent space.

Following the direction of the sound, in the shadows, a tall figure slowly walked out with crisp footsteps like high heels falling on the ground.

It was a mature woman with a tall figure, wearing a dark dress, large chain-shaped accessories around her body, and her waist-length red hair hanging naturally behind her.

In terms of temperament, both she and Semiramis had an aura and enchantment that kept strangers away from them, as well as that

Among them, Semiramis felt more of a cold feeling from the spine like being stared at by a poisonous snake.

But this woman carries unspeakable evil and weirdness in this enchantment.

Whatever the reason, this woman wears a scarlet eyepatch on her right eye, and there is a completely independent third eye on her forehead.

"Advisor, it's not that you don't know. Accepting the commission is my rare hobby."

Opposite this woman was Shudenan who had taken away the Noble Phantasm from Emiya Shirou.

He raised his eyebrows slightly and answered her casually.

"If you say you can change your smoking habit, I will believe it."

"I'm afraid that won't work. Cigarettes are also a rare hobby of mine."

With a smile on his face, Xiu Denan slightly put away the smoke that was emitting turbid purple flames around his mouth, and walked forward.

"Oh, it's rare that I come back. My lovely Heikati is still as cold as before."

Xiu Denan took off the sunglasses from his face and looked at the girl kneeling on the altar with nostalgia and doting eyes.

Naturally, he put out the cigarette in his mouth with this girl in mind.

But the girl did not open her eyes, as if she had not heard Xiu Denan's words, she still knelt on the spot, with no expression on her face, and was extremely cold.

Xudenan, who received no response, shrugged his shoulders and sighed with sadness written on his face.

"General, you should know that Hecate has always been like this, right?"

"Hey, I will feel very happy to hear Hecate say welcome back to me."

"General——"

The woman didn't know what to say. She closed her eyes, lowered her head, and stretched out a hand to cover her face.

"If nothing else, General, you didn't come back to Xingli Palace just to take a look at Hecate."

"Why not?"

Xiu Denan grinned and answered the tall woman in a teasing tone.

"How dare you say that, General."

The woman's tone was slightly angry.

"You've been wandering around outside without doing your job. Heikati, you know it well. You've always been like this, only praying."

"I have been supporting the operation of "Masquerade" for almost all these years. I really hope you can understand me. "

"But don't you enjoy it too? What's more, we really don't know anything about management."

"But it's not like I didn't do anything."

Xiu Denan actually heard the implication of her words.

The three people here are the three pillar ministers in the "Masquerade" whose status is only lower than that of the alliance leader.

His position is General, and he is responsible for leading the troops of "Thousand Changes" Xiu Denan.

The "Unreasonable Judge" Bell Peolo is a staff officer and is in charge of management.

And Hecate, the "Top Seat", holds the title of Grand Wizard and is responsible for taking orders from the leader of the alliance.

These three red demon kings are now located in the "Masquerade" and have been leading the existence of the "Masquerade" for thousands of years since the leader of the "Masquerade" disappeared.

But now, for the purpose of their leader, only Bellpeolu is working hard for it, and her heart is more or less unbalanced.

"So, General, what did you gain from wandering around?"

Bellpeolu did not continue to pursue the blame. After being together for so many thousand years, she was also very familiar with the characters of Xiudenan and Hecate.

A faint blue light lit up from Xiudenan's hand.

The light aura emanating from it changed the atmosphere of the scene.

"The lost child of zero hour."

Belpeol smiled sweetly, but her laughter could not hide her joy, and she murmured.

"Finally found it."

And on the altar, the girl who had been praying also opened her eyes.

It was a pair of crystal clear eyes like gemstones.

Her face was full of indifference, and she slowly turned around under the altar.

The lost child of zero hour in Xiudenan's hand quickly floated up and flew in front of Hecate.

A magic-like magic circle also unfolded in front of her.

The lost child of zero hour also turned under this magic circle.

Just after a while, Hecate, who had no expression on her face, frowned.

"What's wrong?"

Belpeol also felt something was wrong.

"There is no tyrant responsible for collecting emotions in the Zero Hour Lost. Even the tyrant used to carry the leader is not among them."

Chapter 268 Misaki City

"What!"

Belpeolu looked at the Zero Hour Lost in disbelief. You know, in order to complete the task of the leader, she also spent a lot of time to find an excellent way.

Regarding the tyrant, it was basically planned by her and made by the [Exploration] Dantario Research Institute.

You know, this was completed under various coincidences, but now she is told that everything she arranged has returned to nothingness. How can she accept this?

"No, it seems that the one I got is not the real Zero Hour Lost."

"The real Zero Hour Lost?"

Belpeolu adjusted her expression and asked Xiu Denan.

And Xiu Denan told her everything he encountered when he went to Misaki City.

"In other words, only that human knows the location of the real lost child of Zero Hour?"

Belpeol lowered her head, her expression full of disbelief, but since such words came from Shudenan, she could only believe that such a human existed in the world.

"But he has been killed by me, and Fariagni, who transferred him here, was also conquered by Shirou Emiya."

The clue was cut off again.

"No, it is very likely that Fariagni does not know the free method of space transfer. You should know that in this world, there are only a handful of Red World Apostles who can master the free method of space transfer."

"What do you mean————"

"There is probably only that one person who can easily use the free method of space transfer in Japan."

"Corpse Collector!"

Following Bellpeol's thoughts, Shudenan quickly understood what she wanted to say.

"And, it is very likely that the human is not actually dead."

"Impossible, I saw it with my own eyes——————"

Before Shudenan finished speaking, Bellpeol immediately interrupted him.

"The freedom you felt should also be the back-up plan left by the corpse scavenger on that human."

"Why do you have such a judgment? You should know that Shirou Emiya is just a human. Even if it is a corpse scavenger who only consumes flames and is about to extinguish the torch, he will not take care of a human like this."

"No, General, your thinking is in error. You don't know that the human is carrying the Zero Time Lost because he has been wearing armor. As soon as he took off his armor, you saw the existence of the Zero Time Lost at a glance. You should know what this means."

Belpeol guided Xiudenan to think step by step. She seemed to like answering questions for others.

"It proves that Shirou Emiya has not hidden the traces of the Zero Time Lost, and he can't have been wearing armor in his life. That is to say————"

Although Xiudenan is not good at thinking, it does not mean that he is just a warrior who can only fight. As a general, Xiudenan's thinking is naturally very fast.

"The Corpse Collector already knew that Shirou Emiya was carrying the Lost Child of Zero Hour."

"But that was not enough for him to save him————"

Shudenan suddenly thought of something. The Corpse Collector knew the layout of [Masquerade] for the Lost Child of Zero Hour, and he also had the ability to explore the inside of the Lost Child of Zero Hour.

"I'm afraid he also wanted to know what the Lost Child of Zero Hour was like."

"But I didn't expect that under such circumstances, that human didn't trigger the Freedom Law."

Belpeol said lightly.

Belupeol naturally knew why the Corpse Collector was set up as a triggered Freedom Law. If the Corpse Collector needed to use the power of existence to trigger it, it would be easy for Fariagni to see the clues.

But this kind of simple triggered Freedom Law has a very short casting time. Even Shudenan could only slightly feel that Shirou Emiya was casting the Freedom Law at that moment.

Not to mention Fariagni, whose strength was lower than Shudenan.

There is still a big gap between the Red World Demon King and the Red World Demon King.

The longer the Red World Demon King lives, the more powerful his trump cards will be.

The perception of many things will become more sensitive.

If Shirou Emiya is really just an ordinary human, Fariagni may really be concealed by the corpse scavenger.

This is all the inferences she made from Xiu Denan's description. Although the reasons of the corpse scavenger are different from the actual ones, she has guessed most of them.

Rami did not choose to save Shirou Emiya in order to find out why the missing Zero Hour in Shirou Emiya's hand did not have the existence of [Silver].

Because from the beginning, Rami knew that the missing Zero Hour in Shirou Emiya's hand was a fake.

As an existence that has been consuming the torches that are about to disappear and collecting the power of existence, Rami will find out the information of the torches in the city as soon as he arrives in Misaki City.

He cannot rely on luck to collect these torches whose power of existence is about to dissipate, and when he was investigating, he found Mistis named Yuji Sakai early.

He also secretly paid attention to this special torch that can move in the seal.

The corpse picker even knew about Shirou Emiya's existence before Fariagni.

He has also been paying attention to Shirou Emiya, and naturally saw the scene where Shirou Emiya projected the missing Zero Hour in the infirmary.

It can be said to be amazing.

Shirou Emiya never found the corpse picker. As a Crimson World Apostle who had been able to avoid Magione for many years, he had a very high ability to hide his own aura.

Although Shirou Emiya's perception was also very sensitive, Lamy was not like the Bad Blade. He had never shown any hostility to Shirou Emiya, so Shirou Emiya naturally had no way to catch such a sight.

Shirou Emiya had not yet reached the point where he would stare back at the bird in the sky.