Cornelius Alba, the man known as the "Red Magician", is an old friend of Aozaki Touko and Araya Soren at the London Magic Association, and is also the next abbot of the Schubertheim Monastery.
He harbored resentment towards Aozaki Touko, who was younger than him but stronger than him, and he hated her extremely.
In order to achieve his goal, he spared no effort to help Araya Souren, and even vowed to kill Aozaki Touko.
He was once the leader of the Magic Association that hunted down Emiya Norinaka, and was one of the culprits that led to Kiritsugu Emiya's collapse.
Although he had some accomplishments in rune magic and puppetry, he was inferior to Aozaki Touko in all aspects, which always bothered him.
At this moment, three men with evil intentions sat around a round table, plotting their next plan.
"The experiment at Ogawa Apartment has been a complete failure." Araya Soren looked unhappy with a frown on his face.
"This is the fourth time today that there has been an error."
"Today's error was particularly serious. The puppet actually developed a will of its own."
"This is something I never expected... The dolls I made myself didn't give them much artificial intelligence. This must be the work of the restraining force Ayarai."
"Haru, how is the situation over there?"
Haru took out the bottle of wine he carried with him, took a sip, and then replied calmly: "As you said, if I find that these two experiments cannot touch the root cause, I will immediately guide them to trigger Ryougi Shiki's murderous impulse."
"But Ryougi Shiki didn't kill them. I don't know why."
Haru responded perfunctorily and did not tell Araya Soren the truth.
But he is just playing tricks.
Anyway, Araya Soren didn't come to observe, so he couldn't know the truth.
Anyway, I have already got Asagami Fujino, Azaka, Kirie Fujou, and Ryougi Shiki. Even if you don't like what I said and turn against me, I don't care!
"I understand!" Araya Soren said suddenly.
Hmm? What do you understand?
"It must be that Kirie Fujou has been restraining Ryougi Shiki and preventing her from killing anyone, so Ryougi Shiki held back. I knew about this situation three years ago," explained Araya Soren.
Oh... you can even come up with this in your mind.
Haru smiled slightly and said nothing.
"In that case, let's focus on the present moment." Araya Soren continued.
"My plan is to lure Ryougi Shiki to Ogawa Apartment, and then I will use the inherent barrier I set up in Ogawa Apartment to forcibly awaken her roots."
"What do you think?"
"It doesn't matter! I have only one goal, and that is to kill Aozaki Touko! As long as I can use this incident to attract Aozaki Touko to obstruct us, I don't care what purpose you want to achieve!" Alba smiled like a flamboyant little girl.
Haru smiled and said, "Okay, okay, but have you prepared any way out in case of failure?"
Araya Soren shook his head and said, "I am very confident that I will not fail this time. The origin of the Ryougi Shiki is connected to the root. I don't believe that I can't awaken it!"
"And don't we have you? If I still fail in the end, I can only use your method. By the way, is your method ready?"
"Okay, as long as you allow me to do it, I can try my method anytime!" Haru said with a smile after taking a sip of wine.
"Well, that's it!" Araya Soren nodded.
"The puppet escaped tonight. I didn't stop him. I also input the idea into his subconscious to let him go find Ryougi Shiki. Soon he will lead Ryougi Shiki to Ogawa Apartment."
That puppet?
oh...
It refers to Yan Tiaoba who lived with Ryougi Shiki for a month in the original novel...
Hehe, I still want to live with my woman.
No matter whether you are a puppet or a scumbag, you have already been doomed to die!
Haru smiled without saying anything, he was already planning to kill Yan Tiaoba when he returned.
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After leaving Ogawa Apartment, Haru rushed back to the hotel where he was staying with Azaka.
As soon as he got back to the hotel, he couldn't wait to continue smelling the fragrance of the Azaka.
It turned out that the bed in the hotel was empty.
Only scattered quilts and clothes were left.
Huh?
Where did the Azaka go?
It's not good to run away early.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a white figure appear at the door.
Haru ran over quickly like an arrow, but found that the white figure had already run to the end of the corridor.
Oh no!
Still want to play hide and seek with me!
So Haru chased after it and ran all the way following the white figure.
As they ran, the two started a thrilling chase on the streets late at night.
"Azaka, don't run outside anymore, or others will see us!" Haru shouted anxiously.
But the white figure in the distance did not respond at all.
Although he felt very strange, he had a strong desire in his heart to know whether the figure in front of him was a flower.
So he continued chasing without thinking.
Immediately afterwards, the white figure ran into an old building like a cunning rabbit.
Hey...isn't this the building where the Galan Hall is located?
Immediately afterwards, Haru followed the white figure step by step and walked into the Jialan Hall.
But after entering, the white figure disappeared without a trace.
What is going on?
Wasn't that Azaka just now?
In an instant, a large number of barriers rose up around like a tide.
Haru was trapped inside and couldn't escape even if he had wings.
He even tried to call Circe but the barrier blocked the information.
"Who? Come out!" Haru roared at the people around him at the top of his lungs.
At this moment, Aozaki Touko walked out gracefully with a cigarette in her mouth.
Aozaki Touko held the cigarette between her slender fingers and laughed coldly: "Boss, why are you so careless? Could it be that your brain was damaged by a woman?" Aozaki Touko chuckled.
"Uh...what do you want to do?" Haru quickly took out the rune gloves, put them on, and prepared for battle.
"Nothing... I just don't like your behavior! Who told you to bully my nominal disciple?
However, I had no intention of interfering with the bad taste between you and the flowers, but who asked you, boss, to cooperate with Araya Soren and Aruba?
Araya Soren is pursuing the root, boss, you are pursuing the pleasure of love, but Aruba's goal is to kill me!
I can't just sit there and wait for death!"
Then she took off her glasses and revealed a ferocious expression.
This is her artificial dual personality, she becomes cold and ruthless when she takes off her glasses.
"You discovered me..." Haru stopped pretending and revealed a sinister smile.
"To be honest, as you are my employee, I have no reason to violate you. Chasing you is too troublesome. Now, I'm torturing a traitor. You won't blame me, right?"
"Hahaha! I didn't expect that someone like you, the boss, would still be interested in me with my looks... But, maybe in the next life!" Aozaki Touko waved her hand while holding a cigarette.
The surrounding barriers launched magic bullets at Haru like a swarm of carp crossing the river.
And combined with Aozaki Touko's rune, these magic bullets are fast attacks that require no chanting and no pre-swing.
In an instant, Haru was engulfed by thousands of magic bullets.
Bang--