Tia opened her eyes and saw Tohsaka Rin looking at her nervously. She immediately sat up, but accidentally bumped heads hard with Tohsaka Rin.
"Ah!" Tohsaka Rin cried out in pain, "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much..."
Tia's expression twisted slightly from the pain, but the feeling quickly passed.
At this moment, Lancelot's voice came.
"Master, you're finally awake. How are things on your end?" Lancelot asked in her mind.
"I'm fine. I'm with Tohsaka Rin right now," Tia replied in her mind, while looking around.
This was an ordinary but clean room. It didn't seem like anything was strange.
"In a very normal room," Tia said to Lancelot in her mind.
"Be more specific. What's outside the room?" Lancelot continued to ask.
"Let me take a look first," Tia said to Lancelot in her mind.
Tia stood up from the ground and looked around. Then she went to the window and looked outside.
At this time, Tohsaka Rin had recovered and said to Tia, "I looked before you woke up. Outside the window, it looks like a normal village. There are many people passing by in the village. I even heard people talking outside the door of the room. But I've never heard this language before, yet I can immediately understand what they're saying."
Tia frowned when she heard Tohsaka Rin's words and also looked outside.
"Hey! [ ]! Someone just said that a black-haired foreign woman was sticking her head out of the window of your room!" At this time, the voice of a rough, strong man came from outside the door. The sound grew louder, as if he was talking to Tia and the other. But for some reason, the rough, strong man didn't seem to be calling out a name. Or, to be more exact, the name was actually called out, but the sound of the name suddenly disappeared, and a [ ] symbol formed in Tia's mind.
"Emiya, you heard it too, right?" Tohsaka Rin frowned at this time. "It's strange. Does this [ ] thing refer to a person's name? Why can't I hear it?"
Tia also frowned and nodded, her strange expression almost jumping out.
At this time, the door was pushed open, and a rough, strong man who matched the voice appeared in front of Tia and Tohsaka Rin.
"[ ]! There's actually a foreign woman in your room!" the rough, strong man shouted loudly. Just like before, even though his lips were moving and he called out a name, Tia and Tohsaka Rin couldn't hear it. Instead, the [ ] symbol would enter Tia and Tohsaka Rin's minds every time the rough, strong man called out the name.
"Middle East!?" Tohsaka Rin suddenly shouted.
Tia immediately realized it too. Looking at the rough, strong man, he did look like someone from the Middle East. At the same time, although Tia could know what he meant, she theoretically couldn't understand what he was saying. That strange language did sound like a Middle Eastern language.
"I seem to be... in the Middle East..." Tia replied to Lancelot in her mind.
"The Middle East? Angra Mainyu?" When Lancelot heard the word "Middle East," the first thing he thought of was Angra Mainyu.
When the rough, strong man saw Tohsaka Rin, he immediately ran out, shouting all the way, "[ ] has a foreign woman in his room!"
Tia and Tohsaka Rin took this opportunity to take a good look around, including outside the window.
"It does look like the clothing of people from the Middle East. The buildings outside also match my image of Middle Eastern architecture. But... it's too backward outside. Not to mention electric lights, there isn't even a decent brick house," Tohsaka Rin said. "This place looks just like an isolated mountain village that's cut off from the times."
When Tia heard Tohsaka Rin's words, she immediately realized something.
Cut off from the times!
I remember that Angra Mainyu's encyclopedia entry mentioned that Angra Mainyu's character prototype came from Zoroastrianism in the ancient Persian region, also known as Fire Worship. In the ancient Persia of the 6th century BC, in Zoroastrianism, Angra Mainyu was considered the leader of evil gods. They believed that all the evil deeds in the human world were the work of Angra Mainyu.
"6th century BC, Fire Worship in the ancient Persian region," Tia said seriously, looking out the window.
Tohsaka Rin was stunned.
"That's right, we were attracted here by that spatial rift, and that spatial rift keeps spouting out that black shadow of Angra Mainyu, doesn't that mean that this place is exactly the ancient Persia of the 6th century BC!?" Tohsaka Rin immediately realized.
At this time, the rough, strong man who had run out earlier returned, bringing back an older woman and several young men and women.
"[ ], who is she? When did you bring back a foreign woman?" a young man asked.
"[ ], is she your woman? You're amazing, you can actually bring back a foreign woman," a young man asked.
When Tohsaka Rin heard their words, her expression immediately changed.
"Who is his woman!" Tohsaka Rin shouted, her face red, but they couldn't understand Tohsaka Rin's words at all.
Tia's expression was also a little embarrassed.
"That's great, hurry up and have a child for our family, otherwise our family will be kicked out for having no descendants," the older woman said at this time, forcibly pulling Tohsaka Rin next to Tia. With another loud smack, she pushed Tia onto Tohsaka Rin.
Under the older woman's forced pulling, Tia and Tohsaka Rin were squeezed together, causing Tohsaka Rin's entire face to immediately turn red with shyness, even forgetting to resist.
As for Tia, a fire of anger rose in her heart, and she wanted to struggle helplessly, because Tia didn't want to be a scumbag. But when she thought about her future, she felt that she might as well just go with the flow...
And so, Tia's hands started to get restless.
"Ah!" Tohsaka Rin was startled by Tia's restless hands.
What made Tohsaka Rin even more desperate was that this family had no intention of leaving at all, as if they wanted to watch the event live.
And so, Tohsaka Rin completely lost it.
"Get out of here!!" Tohsaka Rin shouted, then threw out a large handful of gems, making loud banging noises that startled the family. They immediately turned around and ran out.
"Ah! She's a witch! A witch!"
"Witchcraft! Terrible witchcraft! I don't want to be killed by witchcraft!"
The family shouted as they ran.
"Hoo~~~" Tohsaka Rin finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the family had run out.
But Tia noticed the family's shouts.
"Witch..." Tia muttered.
"Tch~~~ A bunch of country bumpkins," Tohsaka Rin clicked her tongue in disdain. "They actually compare me to those Western occupations, hmph!"
Tohsaka Rin was very unhappy at this time.
Tia was equally speechless.
Then Tohsaka Rin looked at Tia, and Tia also looked at Tohsaka Rin.
Both of them showed an embarrassed expression.
"Um... I can't do that, because you're already with Sakura," Tohsaka Rin suddenly mentioned the whole thing at this time.
Tia also smiled bitterly, feeling concerned about this matter in her heart.
Just as the two were trapped in an awkward situation, the rough, strong man returned with his family, along with a group of people. This group of people wore strange clothes, but Tia could see that they were similar to shamans or witches, holding strange staffs in their hands.
"Witches?" Tohsaka Rin frowned when she saw the real witches who came. The embarrassment from before was immediately thrown to the back of her mind. "Hmph!"
Seeing this situation, Tohsaka Rin immediately snorted confidently, but in the next moment, Tohsaka Rin's expression suddenly changed, it became very... ugly.
"I just... seem to have thrown away a lot of gems..." Tohsaka Rin said to Tia, her face about to cry.
"Attack! She's already scared by us!" At this time, the witches suddenly shouted, then began to release witchcraft.
When Tohsaka Rin heard this, she immediately got angry.
"Get lost!" Tohsaka Rin threw out another gem in anger. The gem similarly made an explosion sound, scaring the witches so that they all fell to the ground.
"God of witches! God of witches! You are the God of witches!" In the next moment, the witches got up from the ground again and began to kowtow to Tohsaka Rin non-stop.
Tohsaka Rin had been feeling pain because of the gems, but now that she saw so many people bowing to her, she immediately became proud.
"God of witches or something, hmph! It's nothing great, you don't have to call me that," Tohsaka Rin said while waving her hand casually.
But Tia reminded her.
"They can't understand what we're saying."
"Ah? Oh! Right," Tohsaka Rin came back to her senses, looking at them, she didn't know what to say.
Just at this moment, Tohsaka Rin seemed to have thought of something. She suddenly took out another gem, then said to these witches.
"This, gem, do you have?"
Tohsaka Rin said as she pointed to the gem.
The witches looked at each other, then nodded.
"Yes, yes, yes!"
"That's great! Quickly take me there!" Tohsaka Rin said, pointing to her gem, then pointing to the witches, and finally pointing to behind the witches.
The witches seemed to really understood Tohsaka Rin's meaning, and immediately turned around to lead Tohsaka Rin.
Tohsaka Rin naturally followed immediately, and Tia also left with them.
The original family was completely stunned in place, not daring to follow.
Tia and Tohsaka Rin followed these witches all the way.
In this small village, there lived at least a thousand people. These people looked at Tohsaka Rin with strange eyes, but they didn't dare to come forward, because the village's highest-ranking witches were extremely respectful to Tohsaka Rin, leading the way for her.
Soon, Tia and Tohsaka Rin came to a huge cave. The cave was blocked by something. Tohsaka Rin looked at it, then said to Tia, "A very simple barrier, I can break it immediately."
Tia naturally knew that too.
However, when the barrier was opened, Tohsaka Rin's expression immediately changed, becoming... extremely exaggerated.
Her eyes widened, and her small hands covered her mouth that was wide open in shock.
Tia was also amazed by the scene in front of her.
In this cave, there was an extremely large number of gems, so many that Tia's eyes were dazzled.
"Gems...gems ah~~~So many gems, so many, many gems ah~~~~~~~" Tohsaka Rin looked as if she was about to go crazy at this time.
Tia also glanced at Tohsaka Rin, rolling her eyes in her heart.
This woman is probably crazy.
Tohsaka Rin came directly to the gem pile at this time, then scooped up a pile of gems, then let the gems flow out of her fingertips.
"Emiya, quickly think of a way for me to bring these gems back," Tohsaka Rin said, but her hands weren't idle at all, grabbing handfuls of gems into her arms.
Tia was even more speechless at this time, so Tia then summoned her Divine Chariot Wheel.
Luckily this cave was big enough, otherwise the Divine Chariot Wheel wouldn't be able to get in.
When the witches saw that Tia also had such terrible abilities, they immediately kowtowed to Tia.
"Guard of the God of Witches! Guard of the God of Witches! Chosen one! You are the chosen one!" the witches said to Tia. "You must be the best person chosen by the good god Ahura Mazda, you must be the greatest good person!"
When Tia heard these people's words, a strange idea couldn't help but arise in her heart.
A good person? Me? Ahura Mazda?
Tohsaka Rin heard these witches' words and came back to her senses from her excitement.
"Emiya, Ahura Mazda, the original source of good in Persian mythology, the god of the good realm, the creator of the mortal world. Angra Mainyu is the dark god of ancient Persian mythology, the source of all evil and darkness. The enemy of the good god Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism. Your identity here seems to be completely reversed," Tohsaka Rin said.
Tia also noticed this point.
Tia herself naturally knew that she was very likely to replace Angra Mainyu in this world, so she had always been thinking in her heart about when she would be crowned with the name of the evil god, locked on the top of the mountain, then have her right eye dug out, her hands and feet cut off, and be continuously tortured as absolute evil.
But what she didn't expect was that Tia was now actually crowned with the name of good. Not only was she not Angra Mainyu, but she had also become Angra Mainyu's mortal enemy, Ahura Mazda.
At this time, the witches turned around and ran out, shouting as they ran.
"[ ] is Ahura Mazda's good god envoy!"
(End of chapter)