Emiya Kiritsugu looked at Tia. "The only difference here… is you, Tia!"
"Tia, based on my investigation, for the past seven years you've been recorded in Fuyuki City as an ordinary person with no abilities. But you were actually born into a mage family, and something happened at birth that caused this result. I don't know exactly what happened, but there's one thing I do know: in the Fourth Holy Grail War I'm familiar with… I caused a disaster," Emiya Kiritsugu said, frowning slightly before shaking his head.
"Oh? Emiya Kiritsugu, in that future you speak of, you weren't the winner of the Fourth Holy Grail War, were you?" Kotomine Kirei said at this point. "If you were, then when that evil Great Holy Grail appeared, with your personality, it does make sense that it would end in disaster."
"After the disaster, I saved you, who had become an orphan… and I adopted you. Back then, you told me your name was Shirou, but you didn't remember your last name. I gave you mine, and from then on your name was Emiya Shirou, not Tia. Also, when I adopted you, I checked your body—you had twenty-seven magic circuits, and they were high quality. Among normal people, that's already genius level. That's nothing like what the records here say about you being an ordinary person!" Emiya Kiritsugu ignored Kotomine Kirei and kept talking.
"What! But that's not what I heard from Tia's parents!" Waver said in surprise.
"When Tia was born, she didn't have a single magic circuit. This shocked her parents, who were magi. They couldn't accept that their family's magic crest would end with them.
To keep the magic lineage going, Tia's parents decided to transplant some of their own magic circuits into her. But something went wrong.
Either Tia's young body couldn't handle the foreign circuits, or something else happened. The circuits went out of control, which caused a backlash that destroyed the circuits in all three of them. They were completely unusable after that—only the magic crest remained.
Tia's parents barely managed to survive losing their circuits, but young Tia couldn't handle it. She cried out in pain, then went silent. They thought she died, but then she came back to life on her own.
From then on, Tia's parents never brought up magic again. They felt guilty toward Tia, so they treated her very well. Thankfully, Tia didn't turn into a spoiled troublemaker.
But at that time, not all of Tia's circuits were destroyed. There was still one left that could barely function."
Waver repeated what Tia's parents had told him.
"Tia's parents?" Emiya Kiritsugu frowned again when he heard this.
"Hmph!" Gilgamesh snorted and said nothing.
"Tia's parents… lately I've been getting this feeling that they're avoiding me," even Kotomine Kirei said.
"I've been to Tia's house several times and never noticed anything strange. But Rider did mention something odd once," Waver added. "Do they really have a problem?"
Alexander the Great nodded.
Tia didn't know what to say. She knew who her parents were, but how they got here was a mystery. And she had never paid attention to the fact Emiya Kiritsugu mentioned—that she was supposedly born with twenty-seven magic circuits. That was a big deal.
That means something must have happened when I first came to this world, and they hid it from me.
Tia felt that before figuring out who would win this Holy Grail War, she already had countless mysteries about herself to solve.
But speaking of mysteries, Emiya Kiritsugu has plenty too! Especially…
How is it that no one noticed he's a pseudo-Servant?
"The King, I'm curious about something. You're Emiya Kiritsugu's Servant. How did you never notice he's like you?" Tia asked directly.
"Honestly, I'm wondering the same thing," King Arthur replied.
"It's simple. My class is Assassin. My Presence Concealment is even stronger than Hassan of the Cursed Arm," Emiya Kiritsugu said casually. From start to finish, he never let his presence as an Assassin slip.
"I see." King Arthur wasn't surprised, and even thought Emiya Kiritsugu was indeed perfect for that class. He nodded slightly.
After King Arthur spoke, the room fell into an odd silence.
Gilgamesh was the first to break it.
"Hmph! Looks like this Holy Grail War ends here. There's no winner, and even I… No, none of you are leaving now, are you? King of Knights, King of Conquerors!"
Gilgamesh's words made King Arthur and Alexander the Great suddenly realize the problem. Since the Great Holy Grail had been replaced by the Imaginary Tree, the Fourth Holy Grail War was basically postponed for ten years. That gave them the chance to stay here.
But Waver only had one Command Seal left, Emiya Kiritsugu also had one left, and Gilgamesh, being a Grand Archer, had briefly been connected to the leyline by Tohsaka Tokiomi, but that link was now gone. From now on, only Gilgamesh would have enough mana to keep existing.
"Kirei, my son, you truly are the saint I've always hoped for," Kotomine Risei said. "Let's go. The Holy Grail War is over. The next one will be ten years from now. When that time comes, we'll come back and completely destroy this corrupted Great Holy Grail called the Imaginary Tree."
Kotomine Risei still didn't realize this world was doomed, and he was lost in his dream of a bright future.
"Father, I understand. But next time, I hope I can lead the Fifth Holy Grail War. By then, I want to have the strength to truly do good," Kotomine Kirei said. "Right now, I still don't have the power to make everyone here let go of their obsession with evil."
"Yes, my son, well said!" Kotomine Risei replied proudly.
These two chapters are the transition after the Fourth War ends.
(End of The Chapter)
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