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Thinking of this, Shizi Jieli hurriedly shook his head, "No, no, no, I'm sorry, I don't want to know anymore."

Looking at his newcomer, Kiritsugu Emiya kindly advised, "As a senior, I have two pieces of advice for you. First, don't be overly curious. In our line of work, the more you know, the faster you die. Second, don't readily accept information from others, because you don't know if it's misleading. The best way is to investigate yourself; only then can you ensure the credibility of the information."

Shishikage Kairi glanced at Emiya Kiritsugu unexpectedly. He hadn't expected that this person known as the "Magician Killer" was not the kind of cold-blooded person who was ruthless. On the contrary, he seemed to be a kind-hearted person.

Kiritsugu threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out. He took out his cigarette case to smoke another one, but Maiya, who had been silent all along, reached out and took the cigarette case from him.

“You can only smoke three cigarettes a day. You can’t smoke any more today.” Maiya looked at Kiritsugu with a reproachful look. Although she considered herself a part of Kiritsugu, it didn’t mean that she would obey him blindly.

She was always extremely responsible and uncompromising when it came to managing Kiritsugu's health.

"Maiya, investigate who that new girl is. It seems she's a key figure in our upcoming mission." Kiritsugu didn't argue but instead gave Maiya the new order.

"I understand. Shall we begin now?" Wu Mi asked, putting away her cigarette case.

"No, wait a little longer. I have a feeling that the place we're going to next is our most important work location," Kiritsugu Emiya said in an unusually heavy tone, watching the three women walk towards the luxury RV.

Chapter 257 Relatives and Friends

No matter how close a relationship is, it needs to be nurtured. The younger the age, the purer the relationship. So even though Yuju is cold-hearted, among her close friends and relatives, Lydia's feelings for her are deeper than those of the Aozaki sisters.

However, the longer the separation, the richer the memories become, but it also means that the other person has grown in ways they were unaware of during that time.

In addition, Yuzhu was a taciturn person to begin with, so after the initial excitement, she didn't know what to say to Lidel.

Now everyone has gotten back into the car, with Orange, Yuzhu, and Lidel sitting together in the back seat of the luxury RV.

Yuzhu and Lidel sat on one side, while Orange sat facing them on the other side, and everyone present fell into a strange silence.

Lydia felt a little strange about Ayumi's earlier hug, and now she stared at Ayumi's face, trying to see something in it.

Yuzhu, who was being stared at, did not offer any explanation for what had just happened. She simply sat quietly in the carriage, her expression returning to its usual calm demeanor.

Orange smiled without saying a word, and it was unclear what she was planning.

The car drove smoothly on the highway. After about ten minutes, Lydia became a little restless, her legs, clad in black stockings, rubbing together.

Yuzhu, who was sitting next to her, turned her head and looked over. Lydel immediately stopped all her fidgeting and sat up straight, but cold sweat began to appear on her forehead, as if she was enduring something.

Seeing Lydia's state, Yuzhu, who had always bullied her since childhood, suddenly had a flash of inspiration and gently poked Lydia's waist with her index finger.

"Eek!" Lydia let out a strange cry of surprise, then squeezed her legs together even tighter. "Alice, what are you doing!"

"Did it leak?" Yuzhu asked, tilting her head to the side with a blank expression.

"W-w-what did you miss! I-I-I have no idea what you're talking about!" Lydia stammered as if she had been startled. She subtly moved away from Yuzhu, feeling quite annoyed.

I was woken up by Orange on the plane and forgot to go to a very important place first. Of course, I wasn't fully awake yet, and the feeling wasn't very strong. But after getting on the bus, I drank a glass of water, and my physiological cycle started to fully activate. Because of this, some impulses came over me.

Now, being in the car, I'm too embarrassed to speak up, so I can only force myself to hold it in and deal with it when we get back to the hotel.

“Lydel has slipped up.” Yuzhu leaned on the sofa, tilting her upper body closer to Lydel. Her expressionless face was filled with an oppressive force that she never usually showed.

"No! I didn't leak any urine!" Lydia blushed and reached out to press down on Yuzhu's face, which was getting closer and closer.

“It leaked.” Yuzhu said in a flat tone.

“No!” Lydia retorted angrily.

“You leaked, so from now on I’ll call you Leaky Lydia.” Yuzhu looked at her with the eyes of someone looking at a naughty child.

"No! Not yet! Don't call me by such a strange name!!" Lydia stood up angrily and shouted with all her might.

However, because she was too excited, she trembled all over and immediately froze, sensing that something was wrong.

“Oh, I see, Lydia isn’t leaking urine.” Yuzhu nodded to indicate that she understood, then looked at Lydia, who seemed frozen in place, and extended her index finger again, gently pressing it on her navel.

Lydia's expression changed drastically, but she was focused entirely on endurance, so she could only look at Yuzhu with pleading eyes.

"Lydel, your dress looks really nice." Yuzhu's fingertips moved up and down, but she didn't press down.

“If you—like it—I’ll have someone prepare one for you.” Lydia said with a mournful face.

"Yes. Thank you so much, Lydia." Yuzhu withdrew her finger.

Lydia breathed a sigh of relief. She had suppressed the most intense feeling and now, as long as she got to the hotel without being stimulated, she would be considered to have made it safely.

"By the way, Yuzhu, are you going to the hospital?" Orange asked with a smile as she watched her long-lost friends reunite.

"A boring question." Although her expression didn't change, Yuzhu's voice sounded full of displeasure, clearly indicating that Yuzhu had a problem with Touko.

After all, although it had been half a year since they last met, she had discovered during this time that the other party might have been hiding something very important from her. Even though she was as aloof as Zhu, she still felt a little resentful about Chengzi's underhanded behavior.

"Hospital? What hospital? Alice, are you feeling unwell?" Although she was holding back, seeing that the atmosphere had been disrupted and the quiet, awkward silence was gone, Lydia didn't want to be excluded from the group, so she asked casually.

"..." Yuzhu did not answer Lydel's question because she did not want Lydel to be dragged into that dangerous vortex.

"Oh dear, Lydia, have you forgotten? Didn't I mention this on the plane before?" Orange didn't have the same concerns as Pearl; rather, she wanted to get more people involved.

Because her opponent is not just the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostles, but possibly another parallel world, and because Youzhu hasn't had time to tell Chengzi the latest information, Chengzi doesn't know that she is facing not just one, but several parallel worlds.

"Aozaki Touko!" Arisu called out Touko's full name coldly, the threat clear: "Don't drag Lydia into this."

Lydia looked at Yuzhu, who had suddenly become angry, with confusion. If she had been absent-minded before, she was now paying attention.

"Ah~ I remember now, Aozaki, you mentioned something about a general hospital before, and you said you might be at odds with the Twenty-Seven Ancestors. Alice, are you going there?" Lydia's eyes became more and more serious as she spoke.

"What's going on, Alice! Don't tell me you're going to go crazy with Aozaki Touko too!" Lydel's expression turned strange, her eyes fixed on Yuuko. "It's fine if she goes crazy! But are you going to go crazy with her too?!"

Yuzhu's eyes flickered. Although she had bullied Lydia since childhood, it did not mean that she could always be in a superior position in their relationship.

Lydia is indeed a tsundere, but that doesn't mean she's stupid. On the contrary, Lydia is actually exceptionally intelligent. She knows her strengths and weaknesses and maximizes her strengths while concealing her weaknesses.

In her daily life, she is adept at finding out everyone's hobbies and getting along with them in a way that suits them. For example, back then, she even humbled herself and begged for his help to please her new father.

Although the outcome that time was not pleasant, because I was in the wrong, Lydia forcefully took away all my naming rights for the fairy tale monsters.

"Aozaki Touko! I'm warning you! You're not allowed to let Alice be in any danger!" Lydel crossed her arms and froze for a moment. Then, the braids on both sides of her head moved without wind, and she exuded an unusually dangerous aura.

"Oh dear, as an outsider, do you really have the right to make decisions for Ayumi?" Orange looked at Lydel with a provocative gaze and spoke bluntly, "To be honest, you're the only one who has nothing to do with this. Whether it's me, my sister, or even Ayumi, we've been the main parties involved from the very beginning."

"Heh, it seems you want to die again." Lydia's eyes were filled with rage, and her aura intensified.

This was the first time Orange had felt this pressure from Lydel. Although she understood that even as a Grand Master, she would not have an advantage against a powerful and established magic family, facing their hidden trump cards.

But now it seems that even without using their trump cards, the existence of the twelve monarchical classes means that if it really comes down to a fight, they will probably lose.

Orange narrowed her eyes, mentally raising the danger level of the Twelve Monarchs to the same level as the Twenty-Seven Ancestors.

As for Arisu, the last witch, she had long placed herself at this level. After all, even her counterpart from another world, despite her mastery of magic, acknowledged that she was no match for Arisu.

Without a specific strategy, it would be impossible to fight against Ayumi's few special fairy tale monsters alone, not to mention that Ayumi's greatest reliance is not those fairy tale monsters, but the mansion left to her by her mother.

Several of the things sealed inside that mansion are beyond the capabilities of magicians of this era.

"It's going to leak, Lydia." Just as the two were on the verge of a fight, Yuzhu whispered.

The tense atmosphere dissipated with Yuzhu's words. Lydia turned her head, looked at Yuzhu with resentment, and said weakly, "It won't leak."

Yuzhu looked at Lydia and nodded thoughtfully: "I see. Since it has already leaked, it won't leak again."

Like the armchair detective Yuju, she had already seen through everything.

Yes, in fact, when Lydia activated the magic circuit in a moment of desperation, the thing that she had been trying to stop with her tense mind still happened.

Because magic circuits are also human organs, the pain she was used to every day turned into a stimulation the moment she activated them, causing her to leak a tiny bit—yes, just a tiny bit!

Because of this, after her needs were somewhat satisfied, the neural feedback to her brain made the urge to urinate less intense, and she thought that no one else present could possibly know except herself.

but!

Lydia never expected that Alice, her childhood friend and nemesis, would see through it! And she exposed her without any mercy!

Despite her efforts to protect her, she was betrayed in the most unacceptable way. Lydia's face was so red that it looked like it was about to bleed from shame, anger, and an unspeakable pleasure mixed in with it.

Tears welled up in her eyes, and she shouted, "Alice! I hate you the most! I hate you the most!!"

After she finished speaking, she picked up the wall phone and, after the driver answered, shouted at the top of her lungs, "Stop the car!!"

The driver, who was driving just fine, was startled by the sound, but his driving experience allowed him to firmly grip the steering wheel and find a place to stop.

Then, in the carriage, Lydia turned her face away, refusing to look at Orange and Pearl. After the carriage came to a complete stop, she said coldly, "Get off the train."

Orange gave Yuzhu a reproachful look, but Yuzhu didn't say anything and opened the car door and got out.

Seeing this, Orange had no choice but to get off the bus as well, since she couldn't stay there any longer after all the commotion.

Lydia trembled slightly when she heard the door open, but she didn't turn around.

Only after the car door was closed again did she raise her head, and the tears that had been welling up in her eyes finally flowed out.

"Damn Alice! Damn Alice! Damn Alice!" she cried out, her fists clenched so tightly they turned white, yet she pounded the sofa with all her might as if she had no feeling.

Just then, her car window suddenly rolled down, and Arisu's face appeared behind the window. In an instant, she also saw Aozaki Touko's smug expression, which was not quite a smile.

Lydia stared blankly at Yuzhu, unable to react for a moment.

"She was crying, just as I suspected." Yuzhu's beautiful, pearl-like eyes sparkled.

Upon hearing this, Lydia quickly wiped her eyes with her sleeve, then stared stubbornly at Yuzhu with red eyes, saying in a trembling voice, "Who's crying! Which eye of yours saw me cry! Get out of here right now! I don't want to see you again!"

Yuzhu didn't argue. She simply reached out and wiped away the remaining tear stains on her face, saying softly, "I'm sorry, Lydia. I can't involve you in this. Don't worry, I'll take care of myself."

Lydia's expression changed. After Yuzhu said those words, she knew that Yuzhu had done it on purpose, just like herself, not wanting the other person to be in danger.

Before she could say anything, Yuzhu pressed her index finger to her lips and gave a rare smile, "Even if Lydia says she hates me the most, I still like Lydia the most."

After saying this, Yuzhu stood up again, turned around and left.

Lydia's face froze at Yuzhu's words, and she stared blankly as Yuzhu and Touko's group left.

I thought my impulsive words would cause a rift with Alice, but I never expected to be so pleasantly surprised.

Her despair seemed to rise to heaven, but she quickly came to her senses, opened the car door, and chased after him.

But Yuzhu and the others had already disappeared. She frowned and stood outside the car, sorting out her thoughts. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Shishi Jie Li standing awkwardly to the side.

So she waved her hand, signaling Lion Jie Li to come over.

“Lion's Robbery, Realm Departure,” Lydia called his name coldly.

"Yes, sir!" Lion Jieli unconsciously stood at attention.

"Judging from your name, Japan is your hometown, isn't it?" Lydia didn't look at him, but instead gazed at the sky, which was beginning to darken.

In August, Japan experiences its rainy season in both the south and the north, and today's rare sunny weather looks like it's about to disappear.

“Yes!” Although he saw that Lydia seemed distracted, Shiki-kai did not let his guard down.

"That's good. Help me find out about that hospital that Aozaki Touko mentioned. I need to know everything about it tonight." Lydel gritted her teeth, thinking about Azuma's last smile and Aozaki Touko's smug expression of complete control.

"How could I possibly abandon you, Alice, you idiot!"

Chapter 258 The Targeted Magician Assassin

After getting off the bus, Yuzu and Touko walked ahead, followed by Kiritsugu Emiya and Maiya Hisau. After boarding the bus, they headed towards Kanbuko City General Hospital.

Between Yuzu and Orange, who were sitting in the same row, there was only a suppressed silence.

"You know perfectly well that Lydia can't possibly abandon you, so why do you still shut her out?" Orange took off her glasses, switching to her cold personality, breaking the silence.

"We have so few cards in our hand, if—"

"There are no 'ifs,' and there can be no 'ifs.'" Yuzhu stopped and turned around, saying resolutely, "Orange, I won't allow that 'if.'"

This was the first time Orange had seen Yuzhu express her will so forcefully.

Orange, without her glasses, thinks with unusual rationality. For her, emotions are not as important as interests, and she doesn't see anything wrong with dragging Lydia into this mess.

Now that Lydia has entered Japan and overheard so much on the plane, it's impossible for her not to investigate what happened to Yuju, her most important friend and relative, and why she ended up facing the Twenty-Seven Dead Apostles.

Once the investigation results are out, and Lydia knows that Yuzhu is in danger, she can't just stand by and watch her die. In other words, Lydia will get involved sooner or later. So why not tell Lydia about this sooner?

"Touko, I know there are some things you haven't told me and Aoko, but I don't want to pursue it anymore." Aozaki Touko's image was reflected in Yuzhu's dark eyes.

“I don’t know what happened to you. Although you seem very strange and unfamiliar to me right now, since you’ve come this far, and with Aoko and me on board, we are fully capable of handling things regarding [him].

As a witch, Arisu possesses intelligence beyond human comprehension. Ever since Aozaki Touko decided to leave Japan for the Clock Tower, she felt that Touko had changed.

Then, even though she didn't care much about the outside world, she learned about Touko's situation in London through the church and the Aozaki family. When she saw Touko today, whom she hadn't seen for half a year, that strange feeling was even stronger.

Yuzhu was born with a high-level Mystic Eye, so she could see the "foreign object" lurking in the orange's shadow. Just by looking at it, she felt a stinging pain in her eyes, which meant that the level of threat was no different from that of her strongest fairy tale monsters.

But her strongest fairy tale monster is something passed down from ancient times by her lineage of witches, and it is something that can no longer be reproduced in this era, both in terms of its production methods and materials.