Gattuso Enters the Game

"What's wrong with me personally calling for you, young man?!"

Charlotte in the chat room fired off a soul-searching question.

Emiya, who was staring at the screen and about to type, hesitated and stopped his fingers. He always felt out of place in this chat room.

Ever since Chip Girl accidentally revealed her identity during the Wa Lord dating incident – that she was a seasoned homebody who also happened to be the Black Gold Swan, a formidable figure on Wall Street – Emiya was astonished to find that he was the only working-class person in the entire group.

But Miss Charlotte felt pretty good about herself.

She discovered that in this group, she had the highest level of Alchemy among these wealthy individuals with prominent family backgrounds, and at the same time, she was the one with the most distinguished family background among the Alchemists.

Turns out I'm not worse than anyone else! Comparing herself to others, Charlotte, who successfully applied the spiritual victory method, instantly felt better.

So, in a great mood, she used a series of fatal calls on Emiya in the group, saying:

Hey, hey, you stinky little brother who dumped me to go be someone else's butler, my Alchemy level has made new breakthroughs! Hurry up and show yourself to admire my great invention!

Perhaps feeling that the atmosphere in the group was too quiet with Charlotte performing alone, and that not responding would make her seem utterly pathetic, Emiya typed away at the keyboard:

What kind of crooked idea does the young lady have this time?

Emiya could tell that this Charlotte was still in the stage of a child battling wits with tiger parents. If he hadn't had no intention of bullying her, Emiya might have said, "Charlotte, look behind you, I am your grandfather!"...

What do you mean crooked idea! This is absolutely a great invention! This time, Charlotte was in high spirits, excitedly rambling about her "great Alchemy invention":

Using a total of 140 kilograms of mercury solution as the main body, engrave an Alchemy array with AND, OR, and NOT logic judgments, and then ask Grandpa to get a massive amount of test questions from the school and input them. With its fluid properties, it can autonomously display the answers to the questions through extensive training. The more it trains, the more accurate the answers become. Hmph hmph, I've already raised the accuracy to over 95%...

Emiya thought to himself, As expected of a child who has been psychologically scarred by her grandfather's devilish cramming training for years. Look, she's been forced to become a mercury AI trainer.

However, he suddenly remembered that a certain true genius prodigy, Kenneth, also had a mercury Mystic Code, the Moon Cell Remnant...

"Did you add automatic attack, automatic targeting, and automatic defense functions to your Alchemy array?"

"Huh? Why would I add those?" Charlotte was completely taken aback, not expecting the topic to suddenly take an unexpected turn before she even received Emiya's praise and flattery.

"To prevent your grandfather from finding out you're cheating on answers, and even if he does, to protect yourself from being beaten up."

Charlotte was almost rendered speechless. Surprisingly, this angle happened to hit a nerve with Charlotte, who was under the shadow of tiger parents. This made her temporarily change her opinion of "traitor Emiya." Emiya, who suggested this, was unilaterally categorized by the young lady into the righteous camp fighting against evil parents with her.

So, after two minutes, she said very haughtily, "I didn't expect... you, this hateful traitor butler, would still stand on my side and support me..."

Emiya's fingers on the keyboard trembled slightly. Did you misunderstand something?

Just then, the Governor of Gaul happened to come online: "Oh, what a familiar and wonderful youthful atmosphere this is."

To prevent himself from starting another strange new route, Emiya quickly changed the subject and said to the Governor of Gaul, "Speaking of which, Governor of Gaul, you seem to have a lot of experience with romance?"

"Unfortunately, I do not. To this day, I have not met the girl worth stopping for," the Governor of Gaul said coolly, as always.

"However, knowing how to please girls is another matter. Just like that Madeleine I went sailing with the other day, she said she wanted me to fulfill my promise from that night and elope with her... But I never actually said such a thing."

The Governor of Gaul's words contained a sophisticated and invisible form of showing off: that a man as excellent as him would always inadvertently make women fall head over heels for him.

Emiya was at a loss for words for a moment. He felt that the Governor of Gaul lived in a sunny, splendid Roman city, dressed in noble robes every day, surrounded by a large entourage of fawning supporters, basking in the beautiful soap bubble of women's perfume and strong wine and cigars.

One poke and it would burst.

So Emiya delivered a critical hit: "You family scions, you'll eventually be arranged by your families for political marriages, right?"

Family arrangements? The elegant composure on the Governor of Gaul's face seemed to disappear. His words became disdainful and rebellious:

Who cares about that? Let them arrange the women they fancy. A true man will only run unrestrained towards the boundless sea of free love!

A manor on the outskirts of Rome, Italy.

This is the manor of the Gattuso Family, one of the most important directors of the Secret Society's Cassell College. This place is called "Pantheon" within the family. It is the resting place for the family elders. Its function is similar to the Zhou Family's underground palace.

At this time, the elders were wearing white robes, their aged faces composed and dignified, their eyes sharp and focused, seriously examining the documents before them.

48 hours ago, they were still lying in aluminum alloy low-temperature boxes, their bodies as dry and shriveled as ancient tree fossils, their wrinkled skin clinging to their aging bones.

The elders' hibernation and awakening process was clearly much more complex and troublesome than that of the Nuwa Clan of the Zhou Family—

After the awakening procedure was initiated, the elders' body temperature would be raised, blood and tissue fluid injected, and the boxes opened in an oxygen-rich environment. After two days and nights of recuperation, minimal eating, bathing, and changing clothes, they would enter the Ancient Ultramarine Hall within the manor to listen to the current family head report on affairs.

At this time, Frost Gattuso, the acting head of the Gattuso Family, respectfully recounted the purpose of awakening the elders – the final fate of Chen Motong of the Chen Family, the prospective fiancée of the next generation family head who had already caught the family's eye, still needed the elders' approval.

"Has the investigation team been dispatched?"

Most of the elders just quietly read the documents. Only one person asked a question. He was the leader among the elders, code-named "Alpha," rumored to have lived for over 300 years. The elders' status was detached from the world; they decided major family matters, including the marriage of the family head's heir.

In front of them, the family head and acting family head were merely executors of daily affairs.

Frost naturally dared not be disrespectful. "They have already arrived in advance. These are the preliminary investigation results."

The elder known as Alpha exchanged glances with the other elders – in reality, their thoughts were interconnected and did not require language as a medium of communication – and finally, Elder Alpha finished reading the information and asked:

"I heard that Chen Motong is not allowed to leave the Chen Family manor?"

Frost awkwardly said, "The head of the Chen Family said that due to being involved in the internal family struggles in Shenzhou, their family's current situation is not very safe, and Chen Motong... needs more secure, close protection."

"Then what are the conditions he proposed?"

Under the collective gaze of the elders, Frost's lips trembled slightly, so nervous that he was almost sweating cold.

"He hopes we can send more people... The Chen Family wants to draw us into the situation."

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