After taking care of some chores, Reiner went straight back to his room. He didn't bother to wash up and fell asleep. When he woke up, it was already evening.
The strong sunlight had dimmed a lot, and after dyeing the thin clouds a layer of golden color, it passed through the curtains and shone on Reiner's bed.
He opened his eyes and felt a little breathless, as if his chest was pressed by something heavy. When he looked down, he realized that the tabby kitten was curled up into a ball, sleeping soundly on his body.
Reiner didn't know when the cat slipped into his room. He raised his hand and gently scratched the other person's head.
This move woke up the sleeping kitten. It opened its eyes, glanced at Reiner, and then fell back to sleep as if nothing happened.
"... Is this really a cat?"
Reiner twitched the corner of his mouth and stood up directly. The kitten, unable to maintain its balance, jumped up and fell to the ground.
It first opened its mouth and yawned, then pressed its two front paws on the ground and bent its whole body backward, as if it was stretching.
After doing all this, the kitten glanced at Reiner, but did not complain that he had disturbed his dream. He walked around the room, and then jumped away from the window sill.
"There aren't many people during the summer vacation. I wonder if it has anything to eat?"
Reiner got off the bed and thought as he changed his clothes.
The campus was dyed golden in the evening, and the entire square could be seen through the window of the room. Reiner found a girl walking in a corner of the square holding several bags. After taking a closer look, she recognized it was Dana.
Dana is not a graduating student, but she also chose to stay in school during the summer vacation to continue practicing her magic. Now she probably bought some fresh fruits from Old Street.
After thinking about it, Reiner felt that he might really need the help of these students. He walked to the office with the information and happened to meet Claire.
"I still want to go to the office to see you..."
Claire was wearing one of the regular clothes that Reiner bought for her, a small skirt with cute patterns. There was a large package floating next to her. Reiner knew at a glance that this was the item he needed.
"Mr. Osborne sent it to you by express mail, but I still don't know what the connection is between peas and pure-blood pie."
Claire followed Reiner into the office and put down the large bag of packages. After opening it, she could see that inside the package were several small bags of pea seeds.
"That's easy to understand, Claire."
Reiner thought that since he had to ask the students for help, it would be okay to explain it to Claire, so he picked up a bag of pea seeds marked with "tall stems" and said.
"There are different varieties of peas, such as tall stems and short stems, the flowers are white or red, and the pea grains are smooth or wrinkled. Just like humans, they are tall, short, fat, thin, handsome and ugly."
Nodding in understanding, Claire looked at the seeds again.
"According to the research on life in the necromancy system, our body is composed of a kind of living tissue called 'cells'. These tissues can be clearly seen with a microscope."
The microscope in this world is an optical microscope, which is composed of lenses. It was invented during the ancient magic empire. Although it can observe at the cellular level, it cannot glimpse the world inside the cell.
"This kind of cells exists in humans, as well as in animals and plants. Since the blood mage can fuse the blood of animals and plants and pass it on from generation to generation, it can be speculated that there are also cells that can be passed between separate plants and animals. The ability of one’s own bloodline exists.”
In fact, although there is no theoretical summary of this phenomenon, it has long been used in agricultural production. The seeds with "tall stems" written in Reiner's hand are actually peas with short stems that have been removed after multiple generations of screening. product obtained.
"I guess that in blood, there is a blood factor that can affect the specific appearance of living things, just like elemental particles making up matter. The so-called blood transformation is actually fusing the blood factors of other species into one's own blood factors. Behavior."
Books about bloodline fusion are very rare, and most pure-blood mages keep them as their family's secret collections. However, bloodline mages have a long history, and there are always some families that perished along the way. After their collections belong to the Magic Association, they are basically The blood fusion method gradually became clear.
According to Reiner, bloodline fusion is actually a process of screening out the genetic factors that carry some specific traits of magical creatures and replacing the parts that correspond to humans themselves. Since the bloodline mages have no corresponding theory, this replacement The process will last for a long time, and a large number of test subjects will be sacrificed at the same time. It is primitive and cruel.
"So, I want to study the characteristics of plants like peas to find out how blood factors affect the external performance of organisms. I don't think Alymiya's mother had an affair with other men. The reason why she had an affair with other families The difference between her and other people is that her blood factor is very special, and I just want to prove that this specialness exists."
"Speciality..."
Claire has never thought about what Reiner said. In her opinion, it is natural for children to resemble their parents. Claire has not thought about whether there is any pattern in this, because according to the research on the necromantic system, children almost do not inherit anything from their parents. No one knows why the obtained cells and this brand new life can inherit the bloodline.
"You mean, even a biological child may look completely different from his parents?"
"Although that is an extreme situation, what I want to prove is that at least some characteristics that are present in parents may not be present in children. On the contrary, some characteristics that are not present in parents may be present in children."
Reiner's words were a bit roundabout, causing circles to appear in Claire's eyes.
"In short, I just want to untie Emiya's heart. If her guilt for the family no longer exists, she may be able to stand up and resist the family's ridiculous tradition."
"But, why do you think that as long as you can prove that Emilia is her biological child, she can resist the Albiore family? The pure-blood faction's ideas are very stubborn, and it can't be changed by just one thing, right? ?”
Faced with Claire's question, Reiner just took out a piece of paper.
Claire quickly recognized it. It was a note about future goals that Reiner had asked all students to write before. It was obvious that this was written by Alimiya.
"She already has such a will. What she lacks is just the opportunity to break the shackles."
On the piece of paper that had obviously been crumpled into a ball, there was some scrawling written on it.
—Find a home that truly belongs to you.