"Master, let's just go back and wait. I think she will come and find us sooner or later," Lancelot said in Tia's mind.
Okay. Tia could only nod.
"The Root, Ryougi Shiki herself doesn't seem to know about it," Aozaki Touko said next to Tia, "You seem to have a big connection to the Root. Who exactly are you?"
"I... am a blacksmith. Because my family's magic crest is Origin Awakening, and the Origin I awakened just happens to be blacksmithing," Tia said.
"Origin Awakening? Blacksmithing? No wonder you can create weapons out of thin air," Aozaki Touko said, "Amazing. Just as a Caster, the weapons you forge have reached a high level of mystery, which is like a Noble Phantasm. Speaking of Noble Phantasms, that's a unique concept that only Servants have. I've always been wondering who the people around you are. Now I finally understand. She's a Servant, right? Katsushika Hokusai, Lancelot, the sudden disappearance is spirit form, right? And that powerful cloak must be a Noble Phantasm. Chaldea, the Humanity Continuation Security Organization, Human Order Incineration, Human Order Freezing, Foreigner class, Outer Gods. Mash was once a Pseudo-Servant, fused with Galahad, one of the Knights of the Round Table."
Tia looked at Aozaki Touko with a slight surprise.
She didn't think she had told Aozaki Touko anything about Servants. How did she know? Could it be that client of hers?
"Hahaha, are you wondering how I know? Remember when my body cracked before? That octopus god took over my body, but unfortunately, I'm a puppeteer. The octopus god was tricked by me, and his memories were read through my broken puppet and sent back to me," Aozaki Touko pointed to her brain.
Ryougi Shiki's house, time came to night.
Tia and Lancelot were in the room when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Neither Tia nor Lancelot spoke, because the locked door had already opened by itself. Standing outside the door was Root Shiki.
"It seems you were waiting for me," Root Shiki said.
"Miss Ryougi Shiki, please come in. Master and I have been waiting for a long time," Lancelot stood up and invited Ryougi Shiki in.
Ryougi Shiki nodded, came in, closed the door, and just found a place to sit down.
"Shiki has awakened the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. She awakened them after that Servant Shiki left," Root Shiki said, "You really did it."
Tia nodded and didn't say much, waiting for Root Shiki to continue speaking.
"'You should pay more attention to the people around you and stop letting them leave with regrets, or it will only continue to become a chain on you and increase your karma again.' You should still remember that sentence," Root Shiki suddenly said what Mifune's Mother had said back then.
Tia was waiting for Root Shiki to tell her how to save this world, but suddenly heard this sentence. Tia didn't understand, but still nodded.
"This sentence is also what I want to say to you. The past is not just the past. The future is not just the future. The key to saving this Lostbelt world is whether you can properly come out of it yourself," Root Shiki also spoke Mifune's Mother's riddle-like words.
Tia couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth.
Great, she finally waited for this moment, but all she got were riddles that she already knew.
"In short, you can go follow the trail of that second person," Root Shiki was still speaking in riddles.
Tia rolled her eyes.
Where am I supposed to find the trail of that second person? Although I understand that the second person she's talking about is the second Reincarnated Person she can't see through, the one who forged the Nanaya dagger into that shape.
"You already have the trail of the second person, haven't you? He has been appearing around you frequently," Root Shiki just wouldn't say it clearly.
Tia was stunned by Root Shiki's words.
"Lancelot, who is she talking about?"
"Master... shouldn't it be the person behind Miss Aozaki Touko?"
Tia was reminded by Lancelot, and immediately remembered that Aozaki Touko had said that she was sent here by someone. And that Cthulhu Octopus had also said that he believed that person's nonsense, and there was also a person here. Araya Souren did what he did because someone told him to.
Tia immediately thought of these three people who had recently appeared. Could it be that according to Root Shiki's meaning, these three people are all the same person?
That person in the Cthulhu Octopus's nonsense, judging from the timeline, must have been during Chaldea.
Speaking of Chaldea, Katsushika Hokusai had said, "This problem was brought up a long time ago, and the solution that was ultimately given was to catch the octopus back and use New Chaldea's technology to extract the octopus's divine power to fix the Servant named Katsushika Hokusai in place."
When Katsushika Hokusai recovered the octopus before, she didn't use any advanced technology. At least Tia herself didn't see any advanced technology at all, but now that she thinks about it, maybe Katsushika Hokusai was wearing that kind of technology.
At the same time, "This problem was brought up a long time ago," could the person who "brought it up a long time ago" also be this person?
Tia felt like she was going crazy at this time. Anyone she could think of who had newly appeared, Tia would think was the second person Root Shiki was talking about.
If that's the case, should she go find Katsushika Hokusai? No, she should directly ask Gudako and Mash what the current situation of Chaldea is like.
"It seems you already have an idea," Root Shiki said, looking at Tia.
Tia nodded.
"In that case, I'll leave."
Tia didn't say much. Now that she knew what to do next, she should get moving.
Uh... wait, I didn't ask her the purpose of my coming in the first place...
The next day.
Tia directly knocked on the door of the room where Gudako and Mash were staying.
"Dad!" Gudako immediately called out affectionately, but Tia could clearly see the corners of Gudako's mouth turning up, with a happy look Tia was very familiar with.
"Dad..." Mash saw Lancelot, and called out with Gudako, but Mash was still the same, a little embarrassed to call out the name.
Tia turned her head to the side and tugged at the corner of her mouth, trying not to take the Dad nickname too seriously.
But...
"Dad, you actually came to find me!" Gudako looked very happy.
But Tia wasn't happy at all. Tia always suspected that the Gudako in front of her was the legendary Chaotic Evil. Could this appearance be fake?
But Gudako didn't care about that. She pulled Gudako into the house.
(End of this chapter)
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