How Is This Possible?! / I Take It All Back!

"Go back? I see. You have high expectations. I can't help you with that." Aozaki Touko lit a cigarette and put it in her mouth. She tapped her fingers on the table and said calmly, "If it were anything else, I might be able to help you. After all, having a connection with someone like you would be very beneficial to me. But as for this matter of time travel, I'm afraid I can't help you."

"You're overthinking it, that's what I meant."

Mikaela naturally didn't think that Aozaki Touko could help her return to her original home, not even the Jeweled Gentleman!

Mikaela placed her hand over her eyes and said calmly, "After I obtained this body, my five senses were greatly weakened. At first, a lady helped me and said that my physical strength was not as strong as my soul strength, which is why this happened."

"But I've been training for three years and my physical strength has almost reached its peak, but my eyes still show no signs of recovery, so I decided to come and ask you for help."

"You seem to know me very well." Aozaki Touko took a drag of her cigarette, held it in her mouth, and then slowly exhaled.

"My friend knows you very well, so he asked me to come and ask you for help." Mikaela said calmly, "He said that if even the famous Order of Puppeteer can't solve your problem, then I'm afraid we can only go to the 'True Magic'."

"Ha! Your friend knows me quite well!"

Upon hearing the word 'True Magic,' Aozaki Touko nearly crushed the cigarette in her mouth. Although there were five True Magic in this world, the seemingly active True Magic...

Only her foolish Aozaki Aoko!

"What's wrong?" Mikaela tilted her head, seemingly not understanding why Aozaki Touko was so angry.

"What's your friend's name? I'd like to visit him," Aozaki Touko said with a sneer.

"..." Mikaela remained silent, not intending to speak, because what could he say? Make up a friend out of thin air?

The friend he was referring to was himself.

"It seems you're not planning to tell me. Fine, I won't press you for your friend's name. First, let me see just how bad your situation really is."

Seeing Mikaela remain silent, Aozaki Touko didn't intend to force her to reveal her friend's name. She reached out and placed her hand on Mikaela's forehead, her magic slowly seeping into Mikaela's 'eyes'.

"... It appears to be intact, but you can't see anything?"

After observing for a moment, Aozaki Touko showed a rather interested expression. She pulled open Mikaela's eyelids, looked into the other's lifeless 'eyes,' and said calmly, "This doesn't seem like a curse."

"If it's a curse, I can deal with it myself." Mikaela said with a sigh, "Ordinary Magecraft methods shouldn't be able to detect the condition of my body. Let's go to your Magic Workshop first."

"Your situation is more complicated than I imagined, but I'll accept this commission. What's the matter with the young girl beside you?"

After a quick examination, Aozaki Touko knew she couldn't determine the other person's condition in a short time. She turned her gaze to Asagami Fujino and chuckled, "Is she your lover?"

P. S.: "No updates today, barring any unforeseen circumstances. The author is going on a long trip."

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Chapter 135 How is this possible?!

"I must say, as expected of Servant, his physical strength is almost three times that of an ordinary person."

After bringing Mikaela and Asagami Fujino back to her Magic Workshop, Garan no Dou, and after checking the data, Aozaki Touko put her glasses back on and exclaimed in amazement, "With this kind of physical strength, you can easily punch through a person. Even if the dolls I make are not made of particularly hard materials, they would probably be easily dismantled by you."

"And your girlfriend seems to be quite something too..." Aozaki Touko continued teasingly, "The Mystic Eyes of Distortion, which have been suppressed for so long, to be honest~ her talent is probably no less than that of my employees now."

A week has passed, and under Aozaki Touko's careful examination, she has almost figured out Mikaela's current physical condition. In her spare time, she also helped Asagami Fujino cure her 'illness'.

"I've already said, she's not my girlfriend, we're just friends."

After his daily physical examination, Mikaela put his clothes back on. He was speechless at Aozaki Touko's perverse sense of humor. He had already said that he and Asagami Fujino were just "acquainted" people, and whether they could even be considered friends was another question.

"A friend who slept naked with me~ Hmm~ Your era was really interesting." Aozaki Touko smiled, then took off her glasses again.

As if a seal had been broken, she put away her smile and looked at Mikaela calmly, saying, "Good news or bad news, which do you want to hear?"

"Good news," Mikaela said calmly.

"Tsk, I should say, no wonder he's a hero of the past or future? He actually heard the good news first. Most people should hear the bad news first, right?"

Seeing Mikaela's slightly furrowed brows, Aozaki Touko knew she couldn't waste any more time on the conversation. She calmly said, "First of all, the good news is that you have a serious problem with your eyes, but it's not insurmountable."

The bad news is... a solution is basically impossible.

"..." Mikaela was silent. He had an urge to kill Aozaki Touko. She made him stay in her workshop for a week, spitting out saliva and cooperating with the investigation by being completely naked. Later, he was also asked to help her deal with some 'small fish' sent by the Clock Tower.

A week later, Asagami Fujino, who had accompanied Mikaela to "watch the show," regained her sense of pain, her illness was cured, and she even joined the ranks of Aozaki Touko's employees.

Mikaela herself received a rather strange answer.

"There's nothing we can do about it," Aozaki Touko said slowly, lighting a cigarette. "After all, there's no way I can get that kind of thing; you have to do it yourself."

"Is it ultimately a matter of Spirit Origin?"

Mikaela understood. He frowned, sighed deeply, and didn't know what to say.

"That's right. Even without me saying it, you should know very well that your body is not damaged at all. This is largely due to your Spirit Origin. Logically speaking... for a hero like you, even if you obtain a physical body, your Spirit Origin should not disappear. After all, although that thing restricts some of your power, it is also the thing that allows you to exist in this world."

Aozaki Touko was very puzzled. Logically speaking, the Spirit Origin is a vessel given to Heroic Spirit by the Holy Grail. Even if the Spirit Origin is contaminated, it will only result in a 'reversal' state and will not cause the Mikaela symptoms.

At this moment, Mikaela showed no signs of 'Spirit Origin', as if he had been liberated.

Yes! That's pretty much it. Spirit Origin is a means of limiting the power of Heroic Spirit. The stronger the Spirit Origin, the more the Heroic Spirit can unleash their power from their lifetime.

However, Mikaela is different. Although he has traces of a 'Spirit Origin' in his body, they are merely traces. It seems that his Spirit Origin was stripped away by someone the moment he gained a physical body, which is why his physical body is weak, his five senses are weakened, and he is now blind and unable to recover, among other symptoms.

"So, if you really want your eyes to return to normal, you have to participate in the Holy Grail War and obtain a new Spirit Origin as Servant." Aozaki Touko sighed, somewhat helplessly. "Of course, if you're too lazy to participate in the Holy Grail War, I can help you contact a large family that is very interested in Heroic Spirit and have them create a Nameless Spirit Core for you."

Aozaki Touko's meaning is quite clear: this is not about the physical body or the soul, but rather that Mikaela needs a Spirit Origin to replenish her body.

"... Can't I change my body?" Mikaela asked, expressing his doubts. Since it was a problem with his Spirit Origin rather than his soul, he could probably see the light again if he changed his body.

For Aozaki Touko, creating a body, or rather a 'Order of Puppeteer,' was an easy task.

"No." Aozaki Touko shook her head and said calmly, "No matter how many bodies you change, you can't solve the problem at its root. This is an 'inevitable' situation."

"Just like when people are hungry, they eat; when they are thirsty, they drink."

"Your soul and body both yearn for 'Spirit Origin return'."

To be precise, there is no solution! This is a conclusion reached after a week of careful investigation and extensive research by Aozaki Touko.

"It's not scientific, but it's True Magic," Mikaela muttered under his breath, unsure of what else to say.

"So what do you plan to do? Even if you commission that family to create a 'Nameless Spirit Core,' it will probably take a long time. It would be better to participate in the Holy Grail War for now," Aozaki Touko said with a smile.

"... The Holy Grail War no longer exists." Mikaela regretted it now. He shouldn't have so decisively taken the 'core' of the Greater Holy Grail from Fuyuki City and placed it inside the Lesser Holy Grail, greatly increasing the Lesser Holy Grail's magic storage capacity.

"Really? You're talking about your side, right? There are a lot of 'Holy Grail War' going on all over the world right now." Aozaki Touko waved her hand and sighed, "So, information about ancient heroes is still a bit outdated."

"What?!"

Mikaela was shocked. How could this be?! He had taken both the Greater Holy Grail's 'core' and the Lesser Holy Grail. The Holy Grail War should have been impossible to continue.

"You look surprised, but that's normal. After all, after that 'genius Lord's died, a strange guy called himself Matou Zouken went to the Clock Tower with a Holy Grail fragment and leaked information about the Holy Grail War. Some old fogies, knowing that the Holy Grail War could lead to the Root, started frantically making 'Holy Grail' even though they were old."

Aozaki Touko's words were quite surprising, leaving Mikaela quite shocked!

Chapter 136 It's so delicious!

Mikaela really wanted to say "impossible!" After all, Matou Zouken was already dead, and where would he get Holy Grail fragment?

Etc!!

Suddenly, Mikaela seemed to realize something, and his expression turned very ugly. He had gone to the location of the Greater Holy Grail in the underground of Mount Enzou a week after the Holy Grail War ended, which was shortly after he moved into the Fujimaru family.

They forcibly removed the core of the Greater Holy Grail, the thing that gathers magical energy.

Although a 'Servant' tried to stop Mikaela, his small frame was no match for Mikaela, so it was only natural that Mikaela destroyed the core of the Greater Holy Grail.

However, although the core was taken by Mikaela, the Greater Holy Grail remained untouched, because Tohno Shiro would definitely notice the unusual situation at Mount Enzou.

The aftermath will definitely be a matter between him and Emiya Kiritsugu or the Holy Church.

Mikaela never expected that Matou Zouken was still alive!! And he even possessed a fragment of the Holy Grail?! Using the Holy Grail War as leverage to access the Root, he even went to the Clock Tower?! Is he up to something?!

Although Mikaela had a premonition that the Old Worm wouldn't die so quickly, she really didn't expect it to be able to survive so long!

Tohno Shiro's hatred for Matou Zouken had reached the point of "crushing him to ashes," as evidenced by his punishment of Matou Tsuruno, the burning of the insect burrow, and the forced occupation of the Matou family.

"It seems I need to go back." After getting dressed, Mikaela prepared to return to Fuyuki City to see his 'old friend'.

"It seems you've made your choice."

Seeing Mikaela's actions, Aozaki Touko knew that she had chosen the latter option and intended to participate in the Holy Grail War.

"No, I want them all." Although Mikaela was preparing to return to Fuyuki City, he also wanted Aozaki Touko to help him contact a family that specializes in making 'Nameless Spirit Core' so that they could make one.

Double insurance is the most important.

If he were to go to Fuyuki City and learn from Tohno Shiro that the Subspecies Holy Grail War had indeed broken out in other districts, he would definitely want to find a way to enter the Clock Tower to see what that Old Worm was up to and participate in that event.

If the water at the Clock Tower is indeed particularly murky, then Mikaela can choose not to intervene in the Holy Grail War they are hosting, and instead stay by Aozaki Touko's side, waiting for that mysterious family to complete the 'Nameless Spirit Core'.

However, there are two sides to every story. If the other party is unable to create a 'Nameless Spirit Core', or creates a 'Nameless Spirit Core' that is incompatible with Mikaela, then...

So the Subspecies Holy Grail War being held at the Clock Tower right now is also an opportunity for Mikaela, an excellent opportunity to heal her irreversible injuries!

"I'll tell you the price later, but given their family's situation, they'll probably rip you off." Aozaki Touko smiled, unsure whether Mikaela could afford the 'money,' but she didn't say anything more.

After all, the 'living Heroic Spirit themselves' alone possess unimaginable value.

The saliva, hair, and other materials she's collected these past few days are enough for Aozaki Touko to study for quite some time. It's a pity she can't obtain a certain liquid.

Even if she has a feminine side, this unknown Servant still possesses a certain sense of shame.

"I understand. Contact me when the time comes." Mikaela walked out of the room. There were three women and one man in the office at the moment.

"Oh, you're out? You must be tired."

Seeing Mikaela come out, Kiritou Katsuya didn't seem particularly surprised. He picked up the bottled water and towel next to him and went over.

"..." Asagami Fujino sat there quietly, looking at Mikaela who still had her eyes closed, and sighed softly. Her 'illness' had been cured.

However, the person who saved her life never recovered, which made Asagami Fujino feel a subtle sense of guilt.

The other two women also turned their gazes toward Mikaela and Aozaki Touko, who were walking out of the room.

"Hmph!" Kiritou Kohana still had no good feelings towards Mikaela. She snorted coldly and turned her head away, seemingly still holding a grudge against what the other party had said to her.

He wanted to tie up his dearest brother and then give him to another woman.

The last person didn't speak; she just sat quietly on the sofa, not particularly concerned about Mikaela.

"Thank you." Mikaela took the bottled water from Kiritou Katsuya and nodded slightly to him. She felt nothing but admiration for this man who would one day enter the Root.

"Then, I'll take my leave now."

Knowing what she needed to do, Mikaela didn't plan to stay with Touko any longer and decided to immediately head to Fuyuki City to find Tohno Shiro, who was still alive.

"Huh?!"

Upon hearing this, all four people present were surprised, and even Ryougi Shiki, who had been sitting on the sofa, turned her gaze to Mikaela.

Although Asagami Fujino was surprised, she seemed to have guessed something and looked at Mikaela, asking, "Have you found a way to cure your eyes?"

"Yes." Mikaela nodded and said calmly, "I've enjoyed spending time with you all these days, but I have to leave now. If fate allows, we will meet again."

Unlike her separation from the Fujimaru family, Mikaela didn't have much affection for the group. Even with Aozaki Touko, with whom she had the closest relationship, they were merely business partners and could only be considered friends to a certain extent.

"Well then, goodbye."

Mikaela didn't say much. After finishing his mineral water, he casually threw the empty bottle into the trash can and walked out of the Garan no Dou.

"He... he just left like that?!"

Seeing Mikaela leave so 'generously', Kiritou Kohana said in disbelief, "So, teacher, you're going to eat junk food again tonight."

"What junk food? He's gone, I can go out and buy food." Aozaki Touko lit a cigarette and mocked her foolish apprentice, "Your teacher is Grand Magus, I'm not going to starve."

"But compared to takeout, his cooking is obviously much tastier."

Although Kiritou Kohana dislikes Mikaela, she admires his cooking skills!

As the saying goes, no matter how much you hate someone, you still have to eat!