The Winter Castle, located deep in the forest, is firmly blocked from people's sight by magic. Only the objects invited by the owner can enter it. These rejected visitors even include the birds in the sky.

The huge castle where even birds are extinct is only lonely.

The lonely white marble corridor seeps with a hint of coolness.

The clear corners of the glass window are covered with light frost.

The white snow girl leaned against the window and looked into the distance, her snow-colored hair draped along her small shoulders. Several candles on the wall swayed and swayed in the cold air.

The footsteps of the maid came from the stone floor. One of the two servants serving Iriya in the castle, wearing a maid's costume wrapped in blue and white, and a serious girl wearing a white turban walked to the girl and saluted respectfully.

"Miss, it's very cold, please take care of yourself."

The girl leaning against the window turned around. In her bright red pupils, mysterious and complex symbols flashed and disappeared, and only after a few breaths were spent.

Yiliya's innocent little face showed a mature smile that was not in line with her appearance. She was gorgeous and charming, which made her maid stunned.

"Serra, I'm fine. Now I'm watching the battle between the intruders. The guy Kimura Masahide defeated the witch with tricks. Now his killer fights the archer. I just instructed berserker to go to the battlefield. I, a cheap brother, don't die before I run out of my value."

"Miss, do you really want to let the young master die?"

Sera asked in a daze, confirmingly.

"If he still considers himself a member of the Einzberen family, I will naturally treat him as my brother-"

A contemptuous smile appeared on Ilia's face.

"But do you know his current state?"

"State-?"

Looking at the girl named Maid, who is actually more like Ilia's relatives, with a cute and puzzled look on her face. Ilia couldn't help but smile and explained to her patiently.

"Our Einzberen family is divided into two branches, one of the inheritance of the magicians and the other is the inheritance of the soul system. Magicians of all generations have transferred their soul materialization to the soul system, supplemented by artificial human technology, in order to reproduce the third method of immortality in human bodies and materialize the soul - the Cup of Heaven."

"And my existence is the embodiment of the Einzberen soul system and the greatest achievement of the Einzberen family."

Speaking of this, Ilia proudly raised her head in front of her maid. Then she began to tell the story of another person reluctantly.

"Masahide Kimura is different. He does not recognize from the bottom of his heart that his soul will definitely become a part of Einzberen. Since he appeared in Einzberen ten years ago, he has been pursuing a way to get rid of this fate. We understand his ideas and give him the magic wisdom of reading Einzberen's millennium heritage, hoping that he can take a different path."

Iriya looked into the dark night in the distance, recalling many years ago, a man who turned out to be just an ordinary child suddenly became another person, and became a stranger who didn't say a word to his dearest person, but only knew that he was crazy about crazily thirsty for the magician's path.

After the stranger finally had the opportunity to get into magic, he frantically absorbed magic knowledge, as if he wanted to burn his life through learning.

"For five years, he never walked out of the library's doors and learned the most essential magical knowledge of Einzberen, and then we sent our first request to make a figure."

"He finished it, not only made the first doll in three months, but also gave it to the doll's soul. Faced with a boy who had achieved such success at the age of fourteen, the family gave him the greatest support and agreed to his request to travel the world."

"Even if we gave so much, he had no sense of belonging to Einzberen. The technical and financial support we provided were just props available for him. - We didn't notice this until a year ago, when he personally killed the first doll he had created for many years."

"Then, he formally gave up his name and Einzberen's bloodline and forcibly participated in this Holy Grail War that did not belong to him. Similarly, the family no longer recognized him as a member of Einzberen. His life and death have nothing to do with us. All this is the result of his choice."

"But, the young master grew up in our family and lived with us since he was a child. He would never treat him like this no matter how he said. - Moreover, the young master is also very nice to us now and lives happily together every day."

Sierra slid her hands and was silent for a while before she said a little crampedly.

"Serra, don't sympathize with that person. In his eyes, you, me, everyone is nothing more than a prop for use, a character that has nothing to do with him.-If one day he will kill us all without tears."

Ilia's face became so serious that she solemnly warned her servant.

"I can clearly recognize his soul. That guy is no longer a human being, but a false object wearing a layer of human shell. Twisting his soul to embark on the magician's path will eventually lose his human nature because of its distortion."

"Is that true?"

Sera asked back a little disbelief, then realized her rudeness and quickly lowered her head.

"Serra, listen to me-"

Seeing the girl who had been with her for many years and was like a relative, Ilia stretched out her slender right hand and grabbed the maid's hand and pulled it in front of her.

"I hope you, and Ligelite, everyone stays away from that person, the farther away from him, the better. Only then can I believe that the guy will not suddenly cut off our heads with a smile on one day."

The scene described by the white girl was too bloody. Sera couldn't help but have a cold war. She twitched her cold hands and was tightly held by her little master.

"Then, then, what should the lady do?"

"Yeah, of course I don't care about him."

Ilia pulled her maid closer, turned sideways and leaned gently in Sera's arms, and continued to look at the battlefield in the darkness, with runes appearing in her bloody pupils.

The snow-like girl said slowly while shifting her consciousness to the distant battlefield.

"Let him exhaust his strength until the outcome is about to be decided, and my berserker will kill everyone who broke into the forest. Fortunately, Shirou did not follow his saber to join the war, which saved me a lot of trouble."

Sera raised one hand and combed the girl's long hair lovingly.

"Ilia, Shirou Emiya took away Mr. Kiritsushi. Haven't you always hated him? Why are you so kind to him again?"

"I don't know much about this - at first I was just curious about what kind of person took my father and then wanted to take everything from him."

Ilia said, relaxing her body in confusion.

"He inherited his father's surname, and I only have my mother's surname. Is this why my father likes him? Over the years, I have been thinking about why my father gave up his mission and why he left me. I thought about it a lot, and the more I thought about it, the more curious I became about him. So I wanted to see him more and more and more and more, and to meet this younger brother whom I called my brother."

A sad smile appeared on the girl's face. Even if I didn't see Elia's expression, Sera hugged the girl intuitively, trying to use her body temperature to warm the girl's cold heart.

"After seeing him, I saw that he was always stupid. He was so good to everyone and was so cruel to anyone. He was so gentle that he reminded me of my father. At that time, I actually thought that maybe it was good to have such an older brother. - What's wrong with me? Is it because my life is about to end, so sentimental? "

"Don't say that, it's all because the lady misses Mr. Kiritsushi too much."

As long as the members of the Einzberen family, Iriya, the daughter of Kiritsugu Emiya, although she flows with Kiritsugu Emiya's blood, she is actually an artificial human being - homunculus.

In alchemy, it is cultivated by combining human sexual intercourse and some elements, and life is born without sexual intercourse.

Although human appearance has the same life as humans, it is different from humans. She is just a finished product that uses magic circuits to form a human posture.

As a natural magician, Ilia has several times the magic loop that overwhelms the usual magicians.

It also has the usual disadvantages of artificial humans.

Because it is not born in accordance with normal reproductive channels, generally speaking, the body has certain defects.

Short, short life. Lack of some rationality and no reproductive function.

Although the result is a life that is higher than humans, it is more fragile than humans.

Ilia, this girl who has not yet grown up, has only one year left.

The people around her feel sad for her, and every day she spends with her, she will have less time.

But the girl herself had long been used to forgetting her sadness.

"Maybe, every time I wake up and look at the sky outside, I can feel that my father seems to be still by my side, holding me out to play together. My mother looks at us from the window like now, smiling gently."

Ilia remembers the beautiful memories of the past, and her expression is gentle and sad.

"In my heart, I can still feel my mother's love for her father, gentle and heavy, and I can tolerate everything about the other person with myself. Only when my father is in front of her can he relax and say everything in his heart."

It seemed as if she felt the love in her mother's heart. Ilia's young face showed a motherly smile, which was connected with her appearance that looked like her mother, as if her mother, Alice Fil, appeared here again, looking through the window at her long-dead lover and her beloved child.

Sierra couldn't help but say sincerely.

"Miss looks like a lady."

As before, whenever someone praised her for being similar to her mother, Ilia smiled with satisfaction and held her little hand in her heart.
Chapter completed!