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"Because Xiaoyu said before, it is now the fourth round of the Holy Grail War, and the opening cycle of the Holy Grail War is every 60 years, so the first Holy Grail War should be 240 years ago." After dinner, Edogawa Ranpo Nibbling on the freshly baked chicken buns, "When I heard this, I couldn't understand one thing, and that was why such a typical magic ceremony was performed in Japan instead of London or Rome. It is held in a magical place. And it has been held here four times in a row.”

Fukuzawa Yukichi on the side also nodded. Indeed, when he listened to Tamamo explain what the Holy Grail War is and what the special words involved in the Holy Grail War mean, he also had such doubts.

"Uh..." Yuzao had never thought about this question before, because it was a native heroic spirit, or a heroic spirit with a huge bonus.

Edogawa Ranpo didn't look into their eyes, and continued: "So I judged that it's not that the Holy Grail War doesn't want to be held in another place, but that there is no way to change the venue."

"The reason why there is no way to change the venue can only be related to the city of Fuyuki City. As early as 200 years ago, when the first Holy Grail War started, it was engraved on Fuyuki City by the person who first started the Holy Grail War. In this city, so that people in the future can't transfer the Holy Grail War out of this city." Edogawa Ranpo said something that many people had never thought about.

"I went to look through the local chronicles of Fuyuki, and saw several interesting things from it. One of them is that in the Edo period more than 200 years ago, the Tosaka family, which was originally a local Chinese in Fuyuki, suddenly began to switch to the embrace of Western learning, and It aroused the difficulties of the Fuyuki castle lord at that time, and the ending of the story is naturally that the then head of the Tohsaka family reversed this dangerous situation through wisdom.” Edogawa Ranpo talked about the records in the local local chronicles that he had seen in the civic center earlier The anecdote, the anecdote is only less than half a page, but he still accurately grasped the important information contained in it, "The most interesting thing is that the name of Matou appeared in this anecdote for the first time, but it was not written in Chinese characters "Matou" is not "まとう" in hiragana, but "マキリ" in katakana. "

Because the word Tong can be pronounced as tou or kiri in Japanese, Edogawa Ranpo is very sure that this マキリ is the current Matou.

The big cat Yuji was very nervous about eating melons. It saw Edogawa Luanbu gnawing off the chicken bun in his hand, so he quickly poured him a cup of tea and asked him to drink it so that he could continue talking.

This past rumor happened in the Wenzheng period nearly 1994 years ago (200).

It was also after this rumor that the surname Matou gradually appeared in the local chronicles of Fuyuki City, and finally became a famous family in Fuyuki City in the early Meiji years. A big family with great weight in this city.

The time distribution during this period is also very interesting. The rise of Matou seems to be very close to the time of the Holy Grail War. It is the first rise in about 60 years. It is almost like the previous 60 years of accumulation and development. , Waiting until the eve of the Holy Grail War to start to fully develop this development in one breath, just to prepare for the Holy Grail War.

"But the current Matou family doesn't even have an heir?" Tamazamae raised her hand like a student asking a question in class. During this time, Tamazamae hadn't really been with Yukichi the big cat during the day. Playing with felt, there are also those who are seriously investigating Fuyuki City. After all, there used to be a big monster with great reputation in this area of ​​Japan, although now it is summoned in the form of heroic spirits instead of evil spirits, resulting in a lot of decline in strength. , but she is also a powerful servant after all, she can achieve the effect of monitoring and monitoring by driving Guanhu to stick her spells in inconspicuous places.In the recent period of time, what she found out included that the current Patriarch of the Matou family, Matou Heye, had no inheritance rights, but after the second son, Matou Yanye, ran away from home, he reluctantly inherited the Matou family.

If you look at this news from the perspective of a magician, it means that Matou Tsuruno may not have the talent to become a magician, and Matou Kariya refuses to become the heir of the Matou family even though he has the talent for magic.

Edogawa Ranpo clapped his hands, "But the youngest son of the Matou family is back, he is the master of Berserker."

Tamamomae couldn't help showing a surprised expression, she didn't find out the news, what happened to Edogawa Ranpo, oh, he knew it didn't seem strange at all.Xiaoyu's face instantly became calm.

Edogawa Ranpo continued to talk about his discovery. The land transaction of the Einzbern castle outside the city happened more than 100 years ago, but definitely not 200 years ago, which means that the land was actually after the Second Holy Grail War. It was bought by the people of Einzbern.

This shows that the first and second Holy Grail Wars failed one after another, and it should have exposed the immature technology of the Holy Grail War at that time. It was precisely because of the failure of the first two Holy Grail Wars that Einzbe, who was originally a foreigner, Lun simply chose to buy land in Fuyuki City to build his own castle.

And more than 60 years ago, the local chronicles at that time described that because of the financial panic in the early Showa period, the whole people of Japan fell into a strange state of frenzy at that time, so people at that time had a very inexplicable frenzy towards foreigners. , so the records of foreigners who actually came to Japan at that time were particularly detailed.

Probably during the third Holy Grail War, not only the Einzbern family came, but also magicians from Finland, England and Germany, because the two magicians who came from Finland were a pair. Having children and sisters, so it is particularly clear in the records of local chronicles.

Although the local chronicles regard these people as tourists who came to travel, and they are proud that Fuyuki City has such a reputation at such an early age, but in the eyes of Edogawa Ranpo, these so-called tourists are all here A magician who participated in the Holy Grail War.

Even the third Holy Grail War ended without a problem. Although Edogawa Ranpo was curious about what happened at that time, in the records of ordinary people who could not even record the Holy Grail War, of course It is also unlikely that there will be records of the Third Holy Grail War.

Based on this information, what can be confirmed is that the three families of Tohsaka, Matou, and Einzbern were the designers and creators of the original Holy Grail War, and the real reason why the Holy Grail cannot be moved is that The fear lies in Yuanzang Mountain.

Yuanzang Mountain originally had rumors of a dragon in the belly of the mountain, plus there are obviously spiritual veins nearby, which shows that this should also be where the spiritual veins are located, and at least it should be a place with plenty of magic power. There is nothing abnormal about Liudong Temple.

No anomaly is the biggest anomaly here.

And ever since Tamamo explained that the end condition of the Holy Grail War is that only one group of seven groups of members is left, it made Edogawa Ranpo feel very suspicious. At that time, how will the Holy Grail appear?Appear directly in front of the final winner?

If it is through layers of fighting, then it is fine to appear in front of the final winner, but what if someone is really lucky and wins the whole process?

Did the Holy Grail appear in front of that group of people so unexpectedly?

Now combined with the actual situation of Fuyuki, Edogawa Ranpo judged that the final winner of the seven groups of masters and servants may only need to go to Mount Enzo to receive this reward.

However, as of now, almost all the news that Edogawa Ranpo can obtain comes from the world of ordinary people, and the only few information comes from the chaos in front of Tamamo and the chaos he saw yesterday, so he is not sure about his own There must be no mistakes in the judgment, but generally there should be no problem.

Tamamomae was a little stunned by what he heard. Edogawa Ranpo found out so many things by relying on his own ability. He is not even a magician!

"So if we want to directly capture the Holy Grail as quickly as possible, I think we can go directly to Mount Enzang later." Edogawa Ranpo said with certainty, "Although I don't know exactly how to do it. , but if it's a caster, you should know how to operate it, right?"

Yuzao nodded quickly. Although she is not a very authentic magician, she is still a servant who has mastered ex-level spells. If it is really related to the Holy Grail, she can do it with her strength.

It's just that the battle situation of being summoned this time is too different from what I guessed at the beginning.

Yu Zaoqian thought it was incredible that he would encounter a situation where he could win by lying down, and was led by ordinary people to win by lying down.But I have to say that she has any dissatisfaction or unhappiness, but she really doesn't have it. After all, Tamazamae himself is not a guy with the so-called "magician dignity", and her wish is still to become a good wife.Although this wish cannot be fulfilled because the object of summoning this time is a very cute big cat, she is very happy to exchange housekeeping experience with the cat, and even learn how to take care of children from the big cat.

So after hearing Edogawa Ranpo's arrangement, instead of being angry, Tamamomae felt a very exciting and exciting feeling.

Can it not be exciting?When the others were still huddling together, they had already gone to steal the house. This kind of experience is impossible for other heroic spirits to experience, okay?

"So let's go to bed now, and leave after twelve o'clock in the evening." When he said this, Edogawa Ranpo's face showed obvious displeasure. For him, such a cold The weather can't even sleep peacefully, but in order to go back as soon as possible, even if there is no way to sleep well, I can only admit it.

Fukuzawa Yukichi gently reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "I will watch you by the side, so rest assured, I will wake you up when the time comes."

After hearing this, Big Cat Yuji nodded, and quickly ran to make beds for them, and soon one person and one cat hugged each other and fell asleep.

"Caster, don't you take a break?" Fukuzawa Yukichi leaned against the wall and sat next to Edogawa Ranpo's futon. The corner of his clothes was pressed by a person and a cat over there, but he didn't intend to take it out. .

"No, after all, if Mr. Ranpo's speculation is correct, the Holy Grail War may end tonight, so I have to prepare well." Tamazamo said very seriously.

"Your wish, I'm very sorry." Fukuzawa Yukichi said seriously to the lady in front of him. They seemed unable to help her fulfill her wish.

"It's okay, I didn't want to achieve my wish through the Holy Grail." Tamazamo said without hesitation at all, and she was sorting out the spells at hand while talking, trying to sort out the functions that might be used later The sex spell came, "And from another perspective, I have already felt it."

Aster and servant can see each other’s memories in dreams through the flow of magic power. Tamazamae has experienced the daily life of a good wife in the memory of Yukichi big cat. Although the cat is crowned as a good wife The name is a bit strange, but in terms of the virtuousness of this cat, it can be regarded as a good wife.

This cat raised such a big family with one cat!

Although there is no "Ananda" in memory who can love each other, but even so, at least half of her dream has been fulfilled.

An ordinary but extremely warm life, a noisy but very sensible family, this is a more enviable life than when I was in the flower planter or in Emperor Toba's palace.

Warm and soft, it is the life I have always yearned for.

So Yuzao didn't have any dissatisfaction, and even felt that it was a good deal this time, super cost-effective, not only experienced such a beautiful life, but also experienced the feeling of being led to win, such a cool thing is simply enough She went back and played to Qing Ji and Xingbu Ji for many years.

After twelve o'clock, Fukuzawa Yukichi directly woke up one person and one cat who were sleeping soundly. The big cat Yukichi woke up quickly, but Edogawa Ranpo looked like a big cat that hadn't woken up. , Dazed and unable to react, it was Yuji the big cat who twisted a cold towel over, and then completely awakened Edogawa Ranpo, and after awakening, Edogawa Ranpo looked like a cucumber was put behind his back Big cats are just as nervous.

It's not too far from the Fujimura house where they are now to Liudong Temple. The two of them and the cat chose to go on foot - no way, they didn't have transportation.

Before arriving at the stone steps of Liudong Temple, they did not choose to go up this time, but let Tamamomae summon the local "spirit" to lead them to the mountainside of Enzang Mountain.

At the foot of Enzang Mountain, there are indeed many "spirits" similar to the earth-bound spirits. After being summoned by Tamazamae using a spell, these existences with little power can still show them the way.

Following the path pointed out by these existences, they found a huge hole hidden in the mountains. When they walked in, Tamamoqian immediately found that the hole was full of enchantments.

This discovery undoubtedly affirmed Edogawa Ranpo's speculation. Tamamomae strode over there with the two people and a cat behind him excitedly, and arrived at the depths of the mountain not long after.

"This, this is... the Holy Grail?" Looking at the things wrapped in the huge black and red magic formation in front of them, the group of people were a little dazed.

It is the crystallization of pure power, something that is difficult for human eyes to look directly at, just like it is impossible for human beings to look directly at the sun with their eyes.

The state of this thing reminded both Fukuzawa Yukichi and Edogawa Ranpo that they had seen before, the Sword of Damocles of the King of Gold and the King of Blue.

You know what's there, you know what's there, but you just can't see it directly.

However, compared to the sword of Damocles, the energy group here is still very stable, but the red and black light around it seems to indicate that this thing is not the omnipotent wishing machine that people imagined.

"Are you kidding me!" Yuzao couldn't help but let out an angry roar, "Isn't this thing, this Great Holy Grail, already polluted?"

"Pollution?" The two people on the side looked at her.

"It's full of evil." Tamamo said with certainty, "This thing is simply impossible to be used!"

"Caster, please calm down." Fukuzawa Yukichi put his hand on the fox-eared maiden's shoulder, "Please explain in a way we can understand."

"Hmm..." Yuzao rubbed his forehead vigorously, "how should I say it, let me take a look at it now, I can only take a rough look, I'm afraid I have to disassemble it to understand the specific operating principle, in short, this If things are not unexpected, they should be the core of the Holy Grail, and the way the Holy Grail realizes people's wishes is probably to use huge magic power to achieve it. To give an example, it is probably equivalent to giving you a huge sum of money. , it looks like there is too much money. But that should be the original mode of operation of the Holy Grail. Now that it has been polluted with malicious intent, no matter what kind of wish you put into it, it will come true in the worst way. Still use my In the example just mentioned, although the Holy Grail will still give you money, after the Holy Grail gives you the money, it will tell you that the money was snatched from various banks, and it is registered in the bank. Once you use it, it will be immediately blocked. This is almost the same feeling when the bank, the police and other agencies catch it."

"Your example is wrong!" Edogawa Ranpo who was on the side couldn't help but refute.

"It really doesn't seem right." Tamazamae on the side also felt that there seemed to be something wrong with what he said, "In short, the Holy Grail will use the worst way to fulfill your wishes, for example, if you wish to become the richest person in the world people……"

"The Holy Grail will kill everyone in the world who is richer than you." Although she didn't know why Tamazamae couldn't get along with "money", Edogawa Ranpo quickly caught her thoughts, "Is that what it means? "

Although he didn't think there was anything wrong with them wishing to "go home", since Tamamo had said so before, he had to be wary of what would happen if the Holy Grail opened a passage for them to go to another world.If it is a parallel world of his own world, at least he can contact the ghost lamp and let him find a way to send them back, but what if it is another world?

These few times they were lucky enough to appear in a world that already had various abilities, but what if the world they were sent to this time was a place without special abilities?Are they going to be trapped there to die?

Edogawa Ranpo couldn't help but shook his head, "I knew that this kind of omnipotent wishing machine is a lie."

He sighed for a long time, "Forget it, since it's all like this, then we can only find a way to dismantle this thing? Xiaoyu, let's go back."

"Huh? Are you going back now?" Yuzao couldn't help but look at him.

"I can't keep you here all the time, can I? I'll go to the radio tomorrow to find those guys." Edogawa waved his hands in disorder, "Aren't you all saying that magic has to exist in secret? I'll go shout With that voice, if they don’t want me to expose their magic tricks, they will definitely come to me.”

As he spoke, he suddenly looked back at Fukuzawa Yukichi beside him, "President, will you protect me?"

"Ah..." Fukuzawa Yukichi said incomparably.

Here, Edogawa Ranpo and the others went to copy the old background of the Holy Grail. Although they couldn't disassemble the Great Holy Grail to understand the Great Holy Grail, Tamazamae was not sure how the Great Holy Grail worked. But she is clear about one thing, that is where the magic power needed for the operation of the Holy Grail comes from, and they are probably servants like them.

So it's no wonder that the Holy Grail War can only have one group of winners in the end.

Yuzao's eyes drooped slightly, but he didn't say anything about it. After all, the Holy Grail can't be used anymore, so it doesn't make any sense to say these things.

So when the next morning, two uninvited guests came to the radio station, Edogawa Ranbu's voice was quickly transmitted through the radio waves, "Do you want to know the truth about the Holy Grail War? If you want to know, come to me Bar!"

Although it was just one sentence, he bought several time slots to ensure that it could be heard by people who listened to the radio broadcast in the whole city every hour.

Is it okay to play this one?For ordinary people, this sentence is nothing more than a novelist's promotional words or an advertisement for a new game. Some people even called the radio station to inquire about this matter. It's not that simple. It can even be said that when this unknown guy uttered these words, he was already the enemy of all other participants.

Even Emiya Kiritsugu, who had just finished a battle at night, and even Ken whose magic circuits were in chaos due to a battle with Emiya Kiritsugu, and whose Command Seal was taken away by his fiancée Nice to know about this broadcast.

"That guy, is the master of the caster crazy?!"

In the Holy Church, Kotomine Rizheng immediately issued an order to suspend the Holy Grail War and find the master of the caster.