Chapter 593: This is a necessary sacrifice to revive the glory of the Tohsaka family's magecraft… Rin Tohsaka, having finished her wish, looked at Cheng Tian with an expression filled with anticipation. Cheng Tian first received her wish power, then his expression quickly turned strange.
He had a look of "Huh? You're not trying to cause trouble, are you?", which made Tohsaka-san incredibly nervous… Could it be that Aoko has been deeply corrupted by the black mud, and I, under her guidance, made a wish that would lead to the worst possible outcome!?
As Rin Tohsaka considered this possibility, beads of sweat began to seep from her back, and an emotion called "regret" started to take over.
Then she saw Cheng Tian raise his hand and tap the air three times.
Rin Tohsaka, Shirou Emiya, and Sakura Matou all involuntarily shivered, feeling vaguely as if something had been injected into their bodies.
"Alright, your wish is complete," Cheng Tian said, having finished the operation according to the wish power's instructions.
"Complete? How is it complete? What did you do!?" Rin Tohsaka bristled, immediately pressing for answers.
Already anticipating negative consequences, she was now convinced she had been tricked, but her rationality also told her how difficult Cheng Tian was to provoke.
"As I told you, the Holy Grail, now with a chaotic evil alignment, will provide a relatively more unorthodox path to fulfilling wishes. Your wish was to revive the glory of the Tohsaka family's magecraft, so the Holy Grail started from the perspective of your descendants."
"Descendants?" "Us?" Sakura Matou and Shirou Emiya each caught different key points in Cheng Tian's words.
"Indeed, the descendants of a magecraft family are mostly a random blind box, so to speak. Not everyone perfectly inherits the previous generation's magecraft aptitude, and there's even a possibility of magecraft aptitude and magic circuits deteriorating. However—"
Cheng Tian lightly tapped his finger, and faint glows emanated from Rin Tohsaka and Sakura Matou's lower abdomens, as well as Shirou Emiya's crotch. They also subtly showed a mutually resonant attraction.
"Under the interference of the Holy Grail's wish power, any offspring born from the union of you sisters and Shirou Emiya will inherit a baseline stacked number of magic circuits from both parents, with a small probability of explosive growth.
If it's your descendant, a boy will inherit the sword attribute, while a girl will inherit the five great elements, making her more suitable for inheriting Jewel Magecraft.
If it's Sakura's descendant, a boy will still inherit the sword attribute, while a girl will lean towards a no-attribute or 'container' attribute, perhaps more suitable for research related to spiritualism.
At the same time, there's a small probability that descendants from both of you will exhibit a dual-attribute overlay."
As Cheng Tian dissected the wish, Rin Tohsaka's face, originally filled with astonishment and fear, was rapidly replaced by a blush of embarrassment and blood-red color, thinking, "What the hell are you talking about?"
Sakura, having been passively blackened once, had much less shyness. She cupped her face and cautiously looked to her side, only to see a dumbfounded Shirou Emiya… Why am I involved in this!?
Shirou Emiya, instinctively believing Cheng Tian was talking nonsense, his brain temporarily crashed.
"…Was this your doing!?" Rin Tohsaka, practically a deflating pressure cooker, squeezed out a few words through gritted teeth, glaring fiercely at Cheng Tian.
"No, it's merely your own problem. Your wish to restore glory was too broad, with too much room for interpretation. If you had directly wished for a girl's underwear, perhaps the Holy Grail could at most only play with the style."
At this point, Cheng Tian paused, swiping his finger across the prompt box in front of him twice.
"Actually, in my opinion, this is already the most reliable and least side-effect-laden path to revival offered by the Black Holy Grail."
"Let me read you the other options, okay~"
"Magecraft Bloodline Berserk: Your and all your bloodline descendants' magic circuits will self-multiply over time, theoretically with no upper limit, but at the cost of your flesh gradually crystallizing."
"Absolute Bloodline Purification: The Tohsaka family's bloodline inheritance method will regress to parthenogenesis. You will not need males but will reproduce through self-division, meaning every descendant will be a perfect clone of yourself, with perfect inheritance of appearance, physique, magic crest, and magic circuits, but it also means the Tohsaka family will forever lose variability."
"Twin Sacrifice Ritual: Your descendants will inevitably be born as talented twins, but both will have some defect. Only through mutual duels or even slaughter after adulthood, and the consumption of one by the other, will the remaining one become complete and even more outstanding."
"Magecraft Glory Materialization: Literally, when you and your bloodline descendants use any magecraft, your bodies will glow like jewels under light, with no actual effect, purely for aesthetic appeal."
As Cheng Tian rattled off the options, Rin Tohsaka's pressure-valve-like sputtering visibly receded, and her flushed face grew paler with each option Cheng Tian read.
As the saying goes, green leaves set off red flowers. With these later possibilities that sounded dangerous and unreliable, the situation of uniting with Emiya to produce excellent descendants… perhaps it wasn't so bad?
Tohsaka-san was already actively convincing herself.
"Do you want to pick a different one from these?"
"Please, no more."
The thoroughly defeated black twin-tailed girl immediately wilted, then tilted her head, glaring fiercely at Shirou Emiya and her younger sister.
Following the line of thought provided by Cheng Tian, Rin Tohsaka indeed saw the possibility of her family's magecraft glory being revived, even if it might involve considerable hardships to overcome, especially with the Clock Tower likely to be quite troublesome.
However, it was worth noting that the Holy Grail had included Sakura. Could it be that Sakura, having changed bodies and completely lost her bloodline connection, was still considered a member of the Tohsaka family by the Holy Grail?
The thought of herself and Sakura potentially becoming 'sisters-in-law' filled Rin Tohsaka with irritation.
She was still a super invincible beautiful girl, how could she muddle-headedly start thinking about having children!?
Was this the price of reviving the family's magecraft glory?
The three individuals at the core of this Holy Grail wish clearly had varied feelings.
"See? The reproductive function of this doll has come in handy, hasn't it?" Aoko nonchalantly blew smoke rings, clearly enjoying a post-show cigarette.
"How am I supposed to write this damned investigation report…?" Lord El-Melloi II, the second chain-smoker, already showing signs of overwork, wore a troubled expression.
Just then, a very distinct cracking sound reached everyone's ears.
A massive, visible crack (crack) had already appeared on the main structure of the Demonic Castle—
Fuyuki City's polluted leyline was completely exhausted, and the Demonic Castle was, once again, about to collapse!