Among the Yggdmillennia, only Fiore was out of step with the others.
Caules usually looked like that, but he also had a calm side befitting a magus.
Only she still retained too much humanity.
Shirou's Limit Mage's Eye saw through Fiore's heart.
It was not quite the same as innocence, or perhaps kindness...
Because she was too determined to walk the path of a magus, she merely ignored the cries of her heart, even when it screamed.
Simply because she believed that was not how a magus should act.
It was precisely because Fiore was an excellent magus that she could suppress those emotions and act like one.
However, that was merely the logic of being a magus driving her to act that way—the judgment of a program written into her mind.
Even though she had grown up in a family of magi, Fiore still possessed a moral sense far beyond that of ordinary people.
Hurting and killing others were unacceptable acts. Deceiving and inciting others were likewise unforgivable.
Of course, magi only killed when they had no other choice.
In other words, however, when they encountered a situation in which they had no other choice, magi would naturally consider killing.
No matter how incompetent a magus was, they should already have been prepared to cast law and morality aside the moment they encountered such a situation.
Shirou believed that Fiore was not suited to become the head of the Thousandth Tree Clan... To put it more harshly, she was not suited to being a magus.
She was fine for now because she had not experienced much yet, but if things continued like this... her heart would collapse one day, wouldn't it?
If Chiron were still here, what would he do...? Shirou wondered.
Fiore was not his Master, so he