"Don't you want to participate in the Holy Grail War anymore?"
"I don't. Just like you said, it's too dangerous. Though I don't want to admit it, I don't think I'm a match for that second-rate Magus, Lord El-Melloi II. And I've figured it out—I don't need to prove my abilities. I don't need to prove that I can achieve more than my father. I just need to be myself."
Olga Marie smiled faintly. "I am who I am. I am Olga Marie. I'm sure Theresa would want me to live for myself too!"
"Uchiha Kanade, do you know what I saw in your illusion magecraft?"
"Go ahead." Higashino Kanade did not mind acting as a mentor for the heart once. If Olga Marie could live a little more happily from this day onward, that would count as a good deed.
"I saw my father bring home a boy. That boy had silver hair like mine, and his talent was incredible. He was a genius I could never compare to. My father thought highly of him and taught him everything he knew. Then I lost my right to inherit Animusphere. To preserve the family's reputation and keep its secrets from spreading, my father killed me..."
"Although I already realized it might have been an illusion at the time, I was still so frightened that I cried. I kept begging Father to spare me, but he still killed me without mercy and soaked my head in formalin."
"Ever since then, I've been afraid. Afraid that the illusion would become real one day. That was why I wanted to participate in the Holy Grail War and prove my worth to my father."
"...But thinking back on it now, I really was worrying over nothing. Father might have been strict, but he would