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But Kiritsugu Emiya wasn't one of his close associates...
So, Kiritsugu Emiya... could he have been subdued by some beast?!
Roland could only speculate about this, since his ability was activated passively, and this was the first time he had seen someone bound by a parallel world, so he didn't know exactly what they would look like.
So he plans to go to Shirou Emiya's place later to investigate the matter a bit. If all else fails, he might even ask Alaya and Gaia. He's a little curious about what people who have been bound are like in other worlds, and he plans to take precautions. It's fine that it was Kiritsugu Emiya who was bound this time, but it would be difficult if someone he values but didn't have time to get close to was bound next time.
As for the possibility that it's not caused by the convergence of parallel universes...
Then he needs to know even more what happened!
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147. Emiya Kiritsugu was cut in half by justice.
After learning of Illya's choice, Roland gave Rin Tohsaka the final list of those who would travel to the parallel world before leaving.
Then Rin Tohsaka started making preparations, while Roland contacted Cú Chulainn on the God Group Communication and asked him to inform Shirou Emiya. After that, he went to Shirou Emiya's place.
The first two people Roland sent with Cú Chulainn were Shinji and Shirou.
But Shinji is no longer here. He only learned some basic things, and then went to the financial world with Vanfem to cause trouble. Now he is busy dealing with Umbrella Corporation every day and has no time for martial arts.
On the contrary, when Shirou Emiya wasn't handling some missions, he would always stay with Cú Chulainn to study and train.
Occasionally, when he needs help with a mission, he will come to Cú Chulainn. He is quite different from Red Archer now, and he seems to be steadily moving towards becoming a partner of justice.
Roland agreed with this.
After all, things are different from when Kiritsugu Emiya was. The current Shirou Emiya is much stronger than Kiritsugu Emiya. In addition, he has the support of the Umbrella Corporation, the occasional help from Cú Chulainn, and after Roland became the King of the Underworld, he had Altrud, Arcueid, and Zelnridge jointly issue a peace treaty to the whole world.
Roland needs a stable world environment, and in such an environment, when the truly powerful figures no longer interfere, it is the perfect time for a righteous ally like Emiya Shijiro to step onto the stage.
In the world of management, Shinji and Shirou, while not high-ranking members of Roland's organization, are the two most outstanding employees.
"Roland, is something big about to happen that you've come here?"
When Roland arrived at Shirou Emiya's door, Cú Chulainn was leaning against the wall. Judging from his appearance, Roland knew that he must have been waiting for a while.
Upon hearing this, Roland immediately understood what he meant, so he could only shake his head helplessly.
"Don't rush. I know you also want to go to another world or find a good battlefield to fight to your heart's content, but there aren't any good opportunities for the time being. Next, we plan to explore parallel worlds, and this mission isn't really suitable for you. But you can look forward to Chaldea."
When Roland said the first half of the sentence, Cú Chulainn simply nodded expressionlessly, but when Roland said the last sentence, his eyes clearly lit up.
"Chaldea... I remember they should have already entered the experimental error correction phase, and they're not far from having a fully developed technology."
"And they're probably planning to develop the technology to use spirit particles to travel back to a point in history... Britain, which Artoria has been looking forward to for a long time, is indeed quite interesting."
Roland knew that Cú Chulainn would be interested in Britain, but he found Cú Chulainn's interest to be a bit too intense, so he didn't quite understand it.
"Does Britain have any rivals that interest you?"
"what..."
Cú Chulainn smiled.
"While King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table are somewhat interesting, like Lancelot, who sounds formidable, they aren't the opponents who truly interest me..."
Cú Chulainn's smile grew wider, but his eyes remained incredibly serious.
"In that era, the old woman should have been there too—hehe, if it were me now, I wouldn't necessarily lose even if I fought her."
So it was Scáthach.
When Roland heard Cú Chulainn call Scáthach an old woman with such confidence, it seemed he was quite certain of his position.
But that's about right. For a warrior like Cú Chulainn, although his magic spear is more famous, his real strength lies in his physical attributes and the martial arts skills that go with it.
After joining the Gods, he obtained his current body. Not only that, he hasn't had much to do lately. Even when Roland was in the Collapsed World, he would occasionally come back to help him update his attributes.
The current promotion ladder has a bonus of Lv8, and Cú Chulainn's attributes have been enhanced to Lv7 in almost all aspects. The Lv8 upgrade will be available to them soon, but Roland remembers that when he last upgraded Cú Chulainn's attributes, his speed had also reached Lv8.
This increase is quite different from the initial minor improvements—this attribute increases significantly with higher levels.
In addition, he has been constantly honing his martial arts skills, and while teaching the genius Emiya Shirou, he has also been constantly improving himself, so much so that his martial arts, which had already reached the level of the divine realm, have been further enhanced.
If he were to actually approach Scáthach, even she would probably be taken aback.
But that should be all.
To be honest, Roland still didn't think he could beat Scáthach—after all, Scáthach had too many tricks up her sleeve, and if she used them all, Cú Chulainn would definitely suffer a great loss.
But since he said it, Roland nodded.
After all, with him around, given his current strength, even if Cú Chulainn and Scáthach really went all out in a fight, Roland was absolutely confident that nothing would go wrong.
"Then just go for it when the time comes."
"Hehe, that's what I've been waiting for~"
Roland and Cú Chulainn walked into Shirou Emiya's house, chatting and laughing. Shirou Emiya was already waiting in the hall.
He also prepared a lot of random things, which allowed Roland to try Shirou Emiya's cooking skills—it has to be said that it tasted like home cooking, and Roland enjoyed it quite a bit.
It was during this meal that Roland asked Shirou about Kiritsugu Emiya.
Now, Shirou Emiya has been a righteous ally under Roland's camp for a while, so he knows a great deal about Kiritsugu Emiya's past.
When Roland asked him about it, he was puzzled, but he still told Roland the truth.
According to Shirou Emiya's intelligence, after the Einzbern family sent Irisviel and a group of homunculus maids to Fuyuki City, they secretly hired an assassin to kill the other Masters after the Holy Grail War began—and that person was Kiritsugu Emiya.
Then the two of them had no further relationship.
Irisviel never knew until her death that Kiritsugu Emiya was an assassin hired by her own family.
And Kiritsugu Emiya also failed.
Then, after Artoria fought Gilgamesh with the smaller Holy Grail that Irisviel had transformed into, the Fourth Holy Grail War officially came to an end.
Later, Kiritsugu Emiya rescued Shirou Emiya in the burning Fuyuki City, and knowing that his days were numbered, he entrusted some of his things to Shirou Emiya.
However, he did not explicitly ask Shirou Emiya to do anything, and then died quietly.
Hearing Shirou Emiya say that, Roland felt as if Kiritsugu Emiya had gone from being one of the main characters in an ensemble drama to becoming a rather insignificant supporting character.
After leaving Shirou Emiya's side, he went to visit Kiritsugu Emiya's grave.
He has six eyes, so he could tell at a glance that Kiritsugu Emiya's urn was empty!
This further convinced him that Kiritsugu Emiya had been bound to a parallel world by some unknown entity...
Once a character is bound to a parallel world, aside from the final individual bound, all screen time will be reduced to make the character less important. Then, anything that leaves a trace, like their remains, will be removed...
It's like hollowing out the inside of a character, leaving only an outer shell to look like a character.
But this part should be the problem with Kiritsugu Emiya, and it seems that Artoria and the others have created miracles and glory that have become part of the world and the human condition, so they cannot be removed. This part will remain in the empty shell.
But apart from these, nothing else will work.
For example, any interesting anecdotes or unofficial histories from other worlds would be completely censored, as would having a wife or children—unless it's someone like Artoria who has nothing to hide and whose children were raised by Morgan with his blood, in which case she would be largely unaffected.
Otherwise, aside from the outer shell, all the important things about the brand will be taken away.
This is the domineering nature of the convergence of parallel worlds.
417 Thinking about this, Roland understood.
Furthermore, he also realized that since things had come to this conclusion, taking Artoria to the Fate/Apocrypha parallel world would likely allow him to witness Artoria confronting Mordred...
"Well, let's tell Artoria when we inform her, at least so she can be mentally prepared—consider it a rehearsal before we return to Britain and formally confront her inner thoughts."
Roland smiled unconsciously as he thought of that scene.
Then he returned to his home in Fuyuki City.
The place remains the same as before, thanks to the magic Medea has bestowed upon it... and Roland can tell that Medea will occasionally come back to tidy up or clean, and may even stay here when she has nothing else to do, so the place hasn't become cold despite being left unattended for so long.
The reason for this is probably that when Roland first met Medea, he said to her, "This is home."
Thinking of this, Roland's gaze softened considerably.
Looking at the traces of Medea's life here, Roland felt even warmer when he thought of a witch like her cleaning and trying to learn to cook.
He felt around for a while, then returned to his unchanged room, lay down on his bed for the first time in a long time, and closed his eyes.
Previously, it was always Alaya who contacted him, or Gaia who sent Arcueid to convey a message.
But this time it's different.
Now that Roland has become the Herrscher of the End, although the Type-Moon world doesn't have as much Honkai energy, the Cocoon of the End is inside him, so Roland still has all the powers of the Herrscher of the End.
With his efforts combined with the power of the Herald of Knowledge, finding Alaya and Gaia should not be a problem.
Forcibly bringing them over is impossible, but extending an invitation is not difficult.
So this time Roland took the initiative to contact the two of them.
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148. The Surprise of Alaya and Gaia
In fact, if Gaia and Alaya were to help, many things could be accomplished very easily.