"Now, this final major task of my tenure as Jing Yuan is to see this matter through."
"Cleansing the turbid and exalting the pure—!"
"Xueyi, Judge of the Ten Lords Bureau's Underworld Department."
"Hania, Judge of the Ten Lords Bureau's Inquisition Department."
"We are ordered to discuss the matter of 'Hulei' escaping prison with Your Excellency."
The two young lady judges hailing from the Underworld Department stood before Shirou Emiya. Though they looked like two living, breathing beauties of high standing, the vitality emanating from them was negligible—especially the smaller one, who possessed no flesh-and-blood human body at all, but rather an automaton form.
Mm,
an automaton,
a doll...
Understood, Nodoka!
The image of a clockwork maiden who could feel pai... who wouldn't get hurt surfaced in the depths of his mind.
The Heart of Eve from that work could be called peerless black technology. Not only could it impart self-functioning capabilities to mechanical objects, but if cultivated according to the method of forbidden automatons, it could even nurture true flesh-and-blood automatons, a genuine new race of humanity known as divine automatons.
It could transform the loaded mage circuits into a flesh-and-blood talent, and even... inherit it downwards.
It's a pity I don't have any on hand. If I had this gadget, stuffing one into Herta's little doll... changing her into a kimono would make her Nodoka herself.
So...
he still needed more points!
More and more!
"We have already heard from the General regarding the state of the Xianzhou, and we are already aware that Buli Ren spies, the Illusionary Transformation Foxians, and Sky-Fers have sneaked into Luofu. This massive invasion of the Luofu must have as its objective the Buli Ren War Master Hulei held within the Shackling Prison."
"According to regulations, we of the Underworld Department