At this moment, Matou Sakura suddenly moved away from Tohsaka Rin. Then her whole manner changed. Clearly, BB-chan was back.
"Really, it's always like this. Isn't this like shooting myself in the foot?" BB-chan grumbled. "Back when I had Sakura call her whole family to Clock Tower, I knew that you would awaken Tohsaka Rin's origin. After all, you told me that something similar would happen every time, and there was no way to stop it. Really~ I should have stopped it. Now every time I come out, I just want to go back quickly~~"
"Huh? You're out again?" Tohsaka Rin looked at Matou Sakura suddenly moving away from her and immediately understood it was BB-chan. After hearing BB-chan's words, she looked puzzled. "'He'?"
Everyone else noticed this "he" as well, so they all looked over.
"Aren't you all looking for him too? Especially you, but I don't know where he is," BB-chan said.
"So, who exactly is he?" Tia asked, taking the chance.
BB-chan also shook her head. "He's too mysterious. Even I can't figure out his identity. He just told me to do it. As for the reason… he came to me, defeated me, and said he would definitely help Master finally save humanity, so I made a contract with him."
"Sounds like you were forced into a contract," Tohsaka Rin interrupted.
"None of your business!" BB-chan shouted at Tohsaka Rin, sounding a bit annoyed. Then she continued, "Speaking of which, I have some guesses about his identity. After all, I've experienced something like this myself, but I'm a little afraid to say it."
At this point, some people present already had some guesses in their minds. For example, Waver, since this Waver was Lord El-Melloi II from Chaldea. There was also Alexander the Great. Although Alexander the Great hadn't regained his Chaldea memories, Waver had basically told him most of what happened in Chaldea.
So, BB-chan and Waver looked at Tia at the same time.
And Tia now had some things to think about. She exchanged a look with Lancelot.
If this was true, then many things could be explained.
But where exactly would he be? Could he be watching them from the shadows? If he didn't want to be found, they would never find him?
If that was the case, what was the point of searching for him?
Just then, King Arthur suddenly looked at Lancelot and Tia and asked, "By the way, how is Mash?"
Lancelot asked, confused, "King, do you know something happened to Mash?"
"Huh? Something happened to Mash? What's wrong with her?" King Arthur asked, also confused, with concern in his voice.
"This… King, don't you know?" Lancelot was even more confused.
"The King, Mash's body has a problem. Lancelot says it seems to be related to you. Did you do something?" Tia simply asked directly when she saw this.
King Arthur frowned. "I see, as I thought. Ever since Director Marisbilly established Chaldea in this world, Mash was born along with it. Although I haven't regained the memories of the original Chaldea, I understand the sadness of an artificial life. In this world where malice has disappeared, an artificial life can still enjoy relatively good living conditions, but… so I tried my best and brought back the Round Table with Master. Although the Round Table was shattered, using it to summon Galahad wasn't a problem."
King Arthur paused, sighed, and continued.
"Although Galahad was successfully summoned, I didn't expect it would be Galahad that was summoned before in Chaldea. As soon as he was summoned, he was drawn to Mash here. So Galahad and the young Mash merged together, or rather, Galahad was dormant inside Mash's body. Originally, this wasn't a problem, but not long ago, I learned of this place from King of Conquerors' Master. To explore the truth of this place and completely end this absurd ritual, I brought Galahad's shield. I'm not trying to defeat anyone, but to save them, so I need Galahad's treasure. Otherwise, my scabbard Avalon can only protect one person."
"But I didn't expect that without the shield, young Mash would really have a problem."
"In that case, things make sense. Mash's body problem happened at the same time as Tia's return. That is to say, when Tia came back, that Mash must have been by her side. At the moment of returning, it happened to connect with this world, causing confusion in this world's Mash. You have to know, BB took away the person's soul, not the body itself," Waver explained.
"So, that means the Mash over there must also have a problem? What should we do? We have to quickly send the Mash soul that was brought here back!" Lancelot said.
"Actually, it's very simple. Have BB-chan personally go and check on Mash's condition, then send the soul back. That solves it," Waver said.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go quickly," King Arthur urged immediately.
"That's right! Master, quickly take Sakura back," Lancelot also urged Tia.
Tia nodded.
But King Arthur had just taken a step when he turned his head and saw the Skull King, and immediately stopped.
"What are you looking at me for? I'm just your stand-in. I'm already used to being alone here," the Skull King said, glancing at King Arthur.
"Sorry, I'll come back as soon as I return Galahad's shield. In any case, since you've been born into this world, I definitely won't leave you alone," King Arthur promised before preparing to leave.
"So does this mean things here are over? The thing I was entrusted with was just someone else's farce?" Dr. Hartless said.
"Dr. Hartless, what are you going to do?" Waver said.
"Heh, looks like you're a little unwilling to accept it," Alexander the Great said, looking at Dr. Hartless.
"Of course!" Dr. Hartless said, as a matter of course, "Faker!"
In the next instant, the shadow of Alexander the Great, or rather, the Shadow Mage, Hephaestion, appeared.
"Rin, you guys go back first. We can't just leave things here," Tia said to Tohsaka Rin.
"No, Tia, you go back too. Rider and I can handle things here," Waver said.
"Brother, what about me and Gray?" Reines asked Waver.
"Just watch from the side," Waver said.
"Okay, okay," Reines shrugged, then pulled Gray over.
"By the way, I have to return this to you, King Arthur," Gray said, taking out Add and handing it to King Arthur. Of course, Gray wasn't returning Add to King Arthur, but returning the door that had just opened on Add.
Actually, the door that had just opened on Add was Galahad's shield. Including the shield that had appeared in front of King Arthur earlier, it wasn't King Arthur who had opened it, but when Gray appeared, that door was deployed to save the villagers , and the shield side of the door was shown to King Arthur.
As for the shield itself, it contained a space, but the capacity of this space was expanded, which held many people. The door was the entrance and exit to its space.
King Arthur didn't say much, after all, the Galahad shield had to be returned. King Arthur took Add and began to activate her. After a while, a ball of light appeared on Add, and quickly entered the body of King Arthur, then King Arthur handed Add back to Gray.
"King, I didn't expect we would meet again in this situation," Faker said to Alexander the Great.
"Looks like you and your Master intend to be enemies with us again?" Alexander the Great said to Faker.
"Heh, now that things have come to this, I can only continue fighting, even though I know I don't stand a chance," Faker said.
"Dr. Hartless, do you really intend to continue fighting? How long are you going to continue this meaningless fight? Even if you can escape again, you will never achieve your purpose," Waver said to Dr. Hartless, "I know everything about you, but you don't know anything about my origins, hehehe," Waver said, laughing without realizing it, because this scene was exactly the opposite of when Waver, as Lord El-Melloi II, first faced Dr. Hartless in that world.
Although Tia listened to Waver, she didn't intend to just go back that easily. Tia wanted to see what Dr. Hartless could do.
As for Mash, it was enough for Matou Sakura to go back.
So Tia and Lancelot watched the show from the side.
"Tia, let's go. It's their battle," King Arthur said as he walked over, pulling Tia and Lancelot to leave.
At the same time, the Skull King left on his own.
"Let's go, Master. We don't need to be involved in what follows. Waver will tell us the final result," Lancelot said to Tia, "After we solve the Mash problem, aren't we still planning to go to the Einzbern castle to ask the clan chief about the events of 60 years ago?"
Tia looked at Lancelot, then sighed helplessly.
"Alright. But if they fight here, aren't they afraid of collapsing the underground?" Tia asked.
"Don't worry, I don't plan to fight here," Waver said, and left first with Alexander the Great, but Waver didn't go back the way they came, but went to another place, as if Waver already knew there was another exit.
"Let's go, we have to keep up," Reines said, pulling Gray and chasing after him.
As for Tia, although she wanted to see it, King Arthur and Lancelot wanted to go back as soon as possible, so she could only follow them back.
In the Marisbilly home, the young Mash was much quieter now, but occasionally there were still some abnormal things happening.
But soon Mash would be fine, because Marisbilly had received the news of Tia's return.
Marisbilly immediately came out after hearing the report from his subordinates, and saw the group returning with King Arthur.
Marisbilly naturally thought that as long as King Arthur returned, Mash could recover, so he didn't ask much.
"Come with me," Marisbilly said to the group, and immediately led them inside, without saying another word.
King Arthur first saw the grown-up translucent Mash and immediately ran over, took out the ball of light from Add, which was the shield itself turned into a ball of light, and handed it to the grown-up translucent Mash.
And the translucent Mash had no reaction, and just passively accepted the ball of light and merged it into herself. Then, the translucent Mash suddenly turned her head to look at King Arthur.
"Great, you're finally back, King," Mash said to King Arthur.
At the same moment, the translucent Mash also turned into the translucent Galahad.
That's right, this translucent Mash wasn't the complete Mash soul, because Galahad's soul went with the shield to King Arthur's place, so the young Mash here actually had no one to protect her.
Originally, this wasn't a problem, since no war had broken out here. But because of Tia's return, the Mash of that world and here were connected in an instant, so the empty Galahad's soul was connected to the Mash's soul of that world. But since you are crossing dimensions and the connection was weak, so it was merely a shadow on this end, and did not influence the other Mash that much.
As Galahad has now returned, it is naturally complete.
"So that's what happened," BB-chan immediately understood what was going on, and then took action to completely send Mash's soul back.
At this moment, Mash in that world was a little dizzy, but after that she returned to normal. The strange visions that had suddenly started happening from time to time after Tia went back also disappeared. Then she told Gudako over there about the short experience.
With Mash over here returning to normal, Tia and Lancelot also prepared to leave.
The two were naturally preparing to go to the Einzbern castle in Germany to find Ahad. But King Arthur was also preparing to go with them, because the Einzbern castle has a barrier, and ordinary people can't see it and outsiders aren't allowed in. If Tia and the others went~~ unless they forced their way in, they definitely wouldn't be allowed in either. Therefore, it was necessary for King Arthur, as Emiya Kiritsugu's servant, to go with them.
As for the Emiya Kiritsugu family, they were naturally living in that warehouse mansion in Fuyuki City, because the Imaginary Tree in the Greater Grail was about to come out, so they had been guarding there.
(End of this chapter)