Fate in Bleach: Unlimited Blade Works!-Chapter 456: Ailin’s Objective

It was because of this that on this world-line, Kayneth's magic circuits remained undamaged.

Furthermore, Kayneth's fiancée, Sola-Ui, hadn't died. As for whether she had been cursed by Diarmuid's "love spot," Ailin didn't know.

But even if Sola had been cursed and fallen in love with Diarmuid, Kayneth would never have given up on Sola.

And Sola's father would never have given up the opportunity to ally with Kayneth, allowing Sola to break off the engagement.

Thus, Kayneth and Sola were inevitably bound together.

With children of his own, even if Kayneth still valued Waver, it was unlikely he would pass his Magic Crest to Waver.

In the world of magi, the inheritance of the family was paramount.

While being a "first-generation" magus might sound impressive, in the magus world, it was synonymous with "pauper" and "weakling."

The powerful magi, each one relied on the generations of accumulation of their family's predecessors, passing down and enhancing the family's magic through the generations, to achieve their current power.

The Magic Crest of Waver's family had only been passed down for three generations, and he was looked down upon and mocked by the other magi with long-standing lineages within the Clock Tower.

With Kayneth's Magic Crest, Waver could become the Clock Tower's "Lord El-Melloi II." Without Kayneth's Magic Crest, Waver's ultimate achievement would at most be equivalent to a fourth-generation magus.

Don't underestimate being fourth-generation; this meant that Waver, with his own strength, could match the accumulation of nearly two generations of other magus families.

If Waver's descendants produced a few more geniuses like him, perhaps the Clock Tower would one day have a "Velvet the Xth."

Ultimately, what made Ailin spare Waver was Waver's own wish.

He wanted to continue serving Iskandar in the real world, spreading the legend of the King of Conquerors to enhance his strength.

Someone like that, letting him live posed no threat to Sakura.

Glancing at Waver, Ailin ignored him and, with a flicker, flew towards Kariya Matou and Sakura's location.

Now, in this Fourth Holy Grail War, only three Servants remained.

Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

Artoria, the King of Knights. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

And Ailin himself.

Both of them had broken their appointments tonight, presumably, like Iskandar, the King of Conquerors, seeking him out, the two of them had already clashed, hadn't they?

He just didn't know what the outcome of their battle was.

In terms of Servant strength, Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, was undoubtedly superior to Artoria.

Especially since Kiritsugu Emiya hadn't returned Avalon to Artoria, she was no match for Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

But, in terms of Masters, Kiritsugu Emiya's strength was superior to Kirei Kotomine's.

Therefore, even Ailin couldn't predict which of these two teams would ultimately emerge victorious.

After all, in other world-lines, in the Fourth Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya had indeed killed Kirei Kotomine, obtaining the Grail.

Only, after learning the truth about the Grail, Kiritsugu Emiya had used a Command Spell to order Artoria to destroy the soon-to-descend Grail.

As for Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes…

Although Gilgamesh possessed A-rank Independent Action, allowing him to exist for several days even after his Master's death, without a Master and a means of recovering magical energy, Gilgamesh might not have been able to kill Artoria.

In a certain parallel world's Fifth Holy Grail War, Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, with a Master, had used Ea against Artoria twice, only managing to severely injure her, and ultimately being defeated by Shirou Emiya and Artoria, who had projected Avalon…

But regardless of their victory or defeat, it made no difference to Ailin.

Whether his opponent was Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, or Artoria, the King of Knights, Ailin was confident of victory.

Silently landing on the roof, sensing the peaceful breaths of Kariya Matou and Sakura, who had already fallen asleep inside, Ailin didn't disturb them.

Looking up at the sky, Ailin was very satisfied with his performance in this Holy Grail War.

Counting carefully, in this Holy Grail War, Ailin still had two objectives left unfulfilled.

First, Ailin hadn't copied many of the sword-type Noble Phantasms within Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon.

If given the opportunity, Ailin hoped his final opponent tomorrow would be Gilgamesh,.

That way, Ailin could record and copy more Noble Phantasms.

If he could complete the copying of Ea, that would be perfect.

The second objective was to complete the copying and analysis of the Type-Moon world's Avalon.

Although, in the world of Bleach, Ailin had created a Shinigami version of "Avalon" using the spatial power of the Royal Seal and the Hollow's "Negación" technique, if he could enhance the power of his "Avalon," Ailin would be very pleased.

Just as he had done with the Sword of Promised Victory and Diarmuid's two spears that he had created in the Soul Society, after analyzing the genuine articles, Ailin had made minor adjustments to these two Zanpakutō, significantly enhancing their power.

If Ailin could successfully analyze Avalon, to say nothing else, he would be much safer leaving the world of Bleach on his own.

At that point, if worlds like the Type-Moon world wanted to capture Ailin's main body to become a Heroic Spirit, Ailin could ignore them and safely leave through the gaps in the world.

Unlike his clone, which had just left the world of Bleach and been captured by the Type-Moon world's Counter Force, unable to escape.

"Tomorrow, my second objective should be achievable."

Looking at the moonlight in the sky, Ailin reached out his hand, as if to grasp the moon in his palm.

Ailin remembered that Irisviel was the vessel for the Lesser Grail in the Fourth Holy Grail War. All the Servants participating in the Holy Grail War, after their deaths, would have their souls temporarily stored by Irisviel.

However, with each additional Servant soul within her, Irisviel herself would transform further into the Lesser Grail, gradually losing the functions of a "human."

Currently, four Servants had already died.

If Ailin's prediction was correct, the current Irisviel had already lost the ability to move, similar to those patients who were completely paralyzed.

And to alleviate Irisviel's pain, Kiritsugu Emiya would transplant Artoria's Noble Phantasm, Avalon, into Irisviel's body.

To be honest, when watching Fate/Zero, Ailin had always been puzzled.

The Einzbern family had found the scabbard of the King of Knights, Avalon, and used Avalon as a catalyst to summon Artoria, the King of Knights.

From Kiritsugu Emiya transplanting Avalon into Irisviel's body, which could alleviate Irisviel's pain, and after the Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya transplanting Avalon into Shirou Emiya's body, allowing Shirou Emiya to survive, it could be seen that Avalon was still usable, and still possessed the strange ability to heal injuries.

In that case, why didn't Kiritsugu Emiya give Avalon to Artoria, allowing her to participate in the battles of the Holy Grail War in her peak condition?

With Artoria's strength after obtaining Avalon, to say nothing of how easy it would be, but to lead Kiritsugu Emiya to the end, defeating the Servants of the other six Masters and obtaining final victory wouldn't be too difficult.

In the end, Ailin could only attribute this to Kiritsugu Emiya's poor judgment and his distrust of Artoria's strength.

He would rather implant Avalon into Irisviel's body than believe that Artoria, with Avalon, could defeat the other Servants.

He only believed in himself.

However, Ailin now rather liked Kiritsugu Emiya's self-confidence.

He hoped that tomorrow night, Kiritsugu Emiya would have already transplanted Avalon into Irisviel's body.

This would save Ailin a lot of trouble.

If Kiritsugu Emiya had given Avalon to Artoria…

To be honest, Ailin would rather face Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, using Ea, than face Artoria with Avalon.

Artoria, having unleashed Avalon, was, in a sense, invincible.

The independently existing utopia!

This was a powerful bounded field that could place the user in another world.

No matter how powerful the attack, it couldn't reach Artoria, who was in another world.

In addition to this "invincible" defense, Avalon could also absorb the enemy's attacks and reflect them back.

In a certain parallel world's Fifth Holy Grail War, Gilgamesh's "Enuma Elish" was absorbed and reflected by Avalon, killing Gilgamesh himself.

If he encountered Artoria in that state, Ailin wouldn't know how to defeat her.

Fortunately, in the Fourth Holy Grail War, Artoria didn't have the opportunity to become her strongest self.

…

"Berserker, good morning."

Early in the morning, Kariya Matou, holding Sakura, greeted Ailin on the rooftop.

"Eh? Kariya, Sakura, what are you doing?"

Ailin looked down and saw that Kariya Matou was carrying a package, and Sakura's other hand was also carrying some luggage.

It looked as if the two of them were about to move.

"Haha, Berserker, isn't the Holy Grail War about to end? You know, I have no talent as a magus. My ability to use magic comes from that old man's Crest Worms."

"So, I can't teach Sakura anything about magic. But after this time, I also understand the dangers of the magical world. If Sakura doesn't have some ability to protect herself, her future life might be in danger."

"So I thought, while you're still here, I'd go back to the Matou residence, tidy it up, and then ask for your help to set up some defensive magic arrays in the Matou residence, to protect Sakura as she grows up."

"After Sakura comes of age, I'll send her to the Clock Tower to study."

"The Clock Tower?"

Ailin was stunned, and looked at Kariya Matou in surprise.

"Kariya, where did you hear the name Clock Tower?"

The Clock Tower was a magus organization in the Type-Moon world.

Unlike the Mage's Association, the Clock Tower was more focused on researching and exploring magical academics, and was generally neutral.

The Mage's Association, upon discovering someone deliberately spreading magic, causing magic to lose its mystery, or someone using magic to commit heinous acts that had a significant impact on reality, would pursue and kill these individuals, protecting "mystery."

"It was a rather serious-looking person who told me. By the way, he also gave me this, saying to give it to Sakura when she comes of age, and to let her take this invitation to the Clock Tower to study."

From Kariya Matou's description, Ailin understood.

The night before, Ailin had knocked Kayneth unconscious in the suburban villa, but hadn't killed him.

After Sola-Ui was sent out of Fuyuki City's range by Diarmuid, she returned, but unfortunately, Diarmuid had already been killed by Ailin. She had no choice but to go to the villa and rescue the unconscious Kayneth.

With the Command Spells on his hand, and Sola-Ui's severed magical connection, Kayneth knew that he had become a loser in this Holy Grail War.

Yesterday during the day, Kayneth and Sola-Ui, preparing to leave Fuyuki City, unexpectedly encountered Kariya Matou and Sakura. Through the Command Spells on Sakura's hand, Kayneth also guessed that Sakura was Berserker's Master.

To thank Sakura for not killing him and Sola-Ui, Kayneth gave Sakura an invitation to the Clock Tower.

Although Kayneth had lost to Sakura in this Holy Grail War, in terms of magical expertise and status within the Clock Tower, Kayneth far surpassed Sakura.

Even Tokiomi Tohsaka, the actual overseer of Fuyuki City, was inferior to Kayneth.

Having secured a connection with the Clock Tower, it was no wonder Kariya Matou was so happy.

"Since that's the case, let's go tidy up the Matou residence today."

Knowing that Sakura's future safety was assured, Ailin was also very happy.

This way, he wouldn't have to worry about how to change Sakura's inherent Imaginary Number magic attribute to be compatible with Zouken Matou's water-based magic.

Imaginary Number magic also existed in the Clock Tower.

Moreover, in Ailin's view, the potential of Imaginary Number magic was far greater than that of water-based magic.

The daytime in Fuyuki City was still very peaceful.

Arriving at the Matou residence, it didn't seem like much from the outside, but upon opening the iron gates and entering the courtyard, one could feel a chilling aura.

Here, five nights ago, Ailin had used Sode no Shirayuki's negative fifty-degree temperature to freeze it.

Unlike Hyōrinmaru, which controlled moisture, Sode no Shirayuki controlled "temperature."

If Ailin had used Hyōrinmaru at that time, after dispelling Hyōrinmaru's ability, like the Mion River, the ice would quickly melt, having little impact on the external temperature.

But Sode no Shirayuki was different.

The low temperature caused by the chill here was mostly due to the changes in the external temperature caused by Sode no Shirayuki's ability.

Therefore, even after four or five days, the temperature within the Matou residence was likely still below zero.

The Matou residence was already desolate due to the lack of inhabitants. Now, with the biting cold wind and the mist in the courtyard, the Matou residence had gone from desolate to eerie.

It was fortunate that Ailin and the others were not ordinary people. If they were, they might have been scared away.