[Matou Zouken]: Hahaha! Haha! Ridiculous! Foolish! @Tohsaka Nagato, @Justeaze, did you see that? How stupid I was back then, and even more foolish you who have been dead for two hundred years!
[Tohsaka Nagato]: …
[Justeaze]: …
[Tohsaka Aoi]: How is this possible? Makiri Zolgen is currently the head of the Matou family?!
[Tohsaka Tokiomi]: You are still alive in this world? @Matou Zouken
[Heroic Spirit Emiya]: @Matou Zouken, do you still remember your ideals from when the Holy Grail War was established?
[Irisviel]: A Servant named Emiya? /surprise
The Tohsaka family.
Watching the red-armored knight who had spoken, Tokiomi Tohsaka furrowed his brow.
This Servant, called Heroic Spirit Emiya, could he be related to Emiya Kiritsugu in this Holy Grail War?
Although the Holy Grail War had not officially begun yet, Tokiomi Tohsaka felt that the plan might start sooner than expected.
He immediately called Aoi Tohsaka and instructed her to pack and leave that same day with Rin Tohsaka.
No matter what appeared in the video, or the purpose of the person behind it, Fuyuki City was no longer a safe place.
Meanwhile, in Germany:
"Kiritsugu, do you know this Servant named Emiya?" asked Irisviel, her curiosity piqued.
Even Emiya Kiritsugu felt uncertain.
Being the sole heir of the Emiya family, he had inherited only part of the family's magical seal. As for whether his ancestors had any Heroic Spirit connections in history, Kiritsugu was certain there were none.
"I don't know… maybe it's just a coincidence." Kiritsugu shook his head.
"Eri, let's not dwell on this. We cannot wait any longer. I will go to Fuyuki first, and you and Saber will follow closely."
"Understood!"
In the video, after the failure of the First Holy Grail War ritual, Makiri Zolgen's life gradually approached its end.
He was over three hundred years old, and normal magical methods were no longer sufficient to prolong his life.
At the same time, Makiri Zolgen, who had started establishing himself in the Far East, changed his family name to Matou. However, the next generation of the Matou family did not inherit the Matou family's water-based magecraft at all.
The ideals Matou Zouken often spoke of gradually diminished and were replaced by:
"No! No! I want to live! I must see the day my ideals come true!"
On this day, Matou Zouken—like a candle flickering in the wind—searched through magic books and finally discovered a secret method that could prolong his life.
"If I can abandon this body inhabited by the Three Corpse Insects, use the Three Corpse Insects as my true body, and then use the magical properties inherited by the Matou family to absorb the lives of others…"
In the dark basement of the Matou house, Matou Zouken laughed wildly like a malevolent ghost from hell.
As a creaking sound echoed through the darkness, the once-beautiful man transformed into a hybrid of human and ghost.
The first thing he did after abandoning his old body was fix his gaze on a young woman in the dark night.
She did not notice the terrifying eyes staring at her until a sudden gust of wind hit.
The woman paused and turned around but saw nothing.
The next second…
A horrifying creature—neither fully human nor ghost—stood before her.
With a single scream, the woman involuntarily flew into a deserted alley. Blood splattered everywhere; insects scurried, accompanied by countless horrifying gnawing sounds.
Soon, an old, short man emerged—bald, with thin, mummified limbs, emitting a foul, rotten stench.
It was Matou Zouken.
[Justeaze]: !!!
[Tohsaka Nagato]: !!!
[Lenise]: Disgusting!!!
[Kotomine Kirei]: Is this what they call five hundred years of persistence?
[Kotomine Rimasa]: So it seems! You were responsible for many of the missing women cases in Fuyuki City throughout history! @Matou Zouken
[Kotomine Rimasa]: @Tokiomi Tohsaka, as the administrator of Fuyuki's ley lines, I hope the head of the Matou family can be tracked immediately, and that the Holy Church cooperates with your actions.
[Kenneth]: Such a heretical existence!
[Gilgamesh]: Heterogeneous cultivator!! How dare you display such a disgusting act before me!
[Tosaka Tokiomi]: I will communicate with the Mage Association and launch an investigation into this matter.
[Emiya Kiritsugu]: It's still under investigation?
[Tosaka Tokiomi]: Can you prove that the content of the video must be true?
Everyone in front of the screen immediately fell silent.
Yes.
Who could prove that the content on the screen was real?
Moreover, the Tohsaka and Matou families are two of the three contemporary mage families, both deeply rooted in Fuyuki City. Though they held grudges regarding the Holy Grail War, the world of magi was different from the ordinary world—they had always been in close contact.
Especially Kotomine Rimasa, who knew very well that Tokiomi Tohsaka had recently left behind another daughter with extraordinary magical talent—all adopted by the Matou family.
[Kotomine Rimasa]: Well, first we must investigate.
[Tohsaka Aoi]: @Tokiomi Tohsaka
[Tokiomi Tohsaka]: @Tohsaka Aoi, do not worry. Aoi, I will handle everything myself.
On the train, Shirou furrowed his brow while watching this discussion.
Shouldn't they first take control of the old insect body and reclaim Matou Sakura? This way, the first change in time line could be obtained, and he could learn how to reproduce these videos based.
Frowning, Shirou decided to accelerate the pace immediately.