Loreleija truly lives up to her title of "the lonely queen". She always keeps her word and takes action very quickly.
In the early morning after the fight with Shinji, she instructed the follow-up personnel of the Law and Politics Department to strictly keep the news secret, and immediately went to the Law and Politics Department headquarters to urgently meet with the current head of Barthelmero.
At the subsequent lords' meeting, Barthelmero changed his previous attitude of providing "icing on the cake" assistance to El-Melloi and directly and openly supported Kenneth in all aspects. His clear attitude caught Trumberio and Baruyereta, who were also among the three major nobles, off guard.
With the support of Barthelmero, Kenneth was in high spirits and won many victories along the way. Not only did he successfully stabilize El-Melloi's position, but he also managed to force some hostile forces to give up some of their embezzled assets, and he also disclosed several new technologies to further enhance his prestige.
After the Lords' Meeting, Lorelaya, who had been waiting for a long time, came to Kenneth. Kenneth had received a report from Shinji in advance and had anticipated Lorelaya's visit, so the two great men who were also known as "geniuses" and were the focus of the Clock Tower began to bargain over a killer who inherited an ancient mystery.
Shinji gave Kenneth three bottom lines:
First, I belong to El-Melloi and am your trump card. I can only be hired and cannot be sold.
Second, I will not negotiate terms with Lorelaya. I will come to you for what I want. I don’t care what you can earn from Lorelaya. Even if you make ten or a hundred times the profit, it’s yours.
Third, do not leak any information related to the Holy Grail War.
Other matters, such as whether to reveal his true identity and in what form of cooperation, are up to Kenneth to decide. In a nutshell, he will take as much benefit as he can, as there are not many opportunities to extort money from the first family of the Clock Tower.
After several days of intermittent negotiations, Kenneth "rented" Shinji for a good price, and Lorelaia successfully obtained Shinji's information.
A limited verification was carried out through Barthelmero's intelligence network - the Clock Tower is weak in the Far East where Japan is located, and even Barthelmero finds it difficult to extend his tentacles there, so it is a limited verification - although Lorelaia was a little surprised by Shinji's real age, she still decided to visit him in person to show her sincerity, and by the way, she could also see the young teacher who caused the new trend, which was killing two birds with one stone.
But she never expected that what was waiting for her was a series of surprises and even shocks.
Putting aside the shabby rental house, in her opinion, this is what the daily life of these two people whom she spoke highly of should be like.
Either they read books and wander in the ocean of knowledge; or they do experiments and pursue the truth of magic; or they practice hard and improve their own strength; even when they are relaxing, they should drink black tea and discuss some strange stories.
But what happened was that before she even entered the room, she heard two people shouting and yelling in meaningless Japanese. Although Loreleija was knowledgeable and proficient in all mainstream languages in the world, she could only speak and write, so it was really difficult for her to understand the special language of the two-dimensional world.
"This is too inappropriate." Loreleija muttered softly. If she hadn't been accompanied by the young lady of the Achizoltii family and hadn't seen the mercury maid at the entrance, she would have almost thought she had come to the wrong place.
When she entered the room, she saw two men wearing cheap T-shirts and shorts, sitting in front of the game console and concentrating on playing games. Before she could recover from the contrast, the target suddenly cheered and jumped up, and even made a silly pose.
Fortunately, as the heir of Barthelmero, Lorelaia has seen all kinds of magicians, and it is nothing to just love playing games. At least it is much better than those weirdos with disgusting hobbies.
Lorelaia felt better after thinking this, and continued Shinji's words to assert her presence.
Lorelaia was quite satisfied with the subsequent developments.
Webber Velvet left a good impression on her and his evaluation of students was very accurate. It would be even better if he could dress more decently.
Although Shinji only said one sentence, he dispelled Lorelaia's doubts. This boy was indeed the one she was looking for.
Just when Lorelaia felt relieved and was about to introduce herself as usual and get down to business, the biggest surprise happened.
She extended her hand to introduce herself, the internationally accepted handshake, but she didn't expect this bastard to give her a standard kiss on the hand.
Environment: Indoor.
Corresponding etiquette level: upper-class people of noble status.
Kissing location: middle of fingers, lips not actually touched.
The etiquette itself is impeccable, but Shinji got the most crucial point wrong. The hand-kissing etiquette is only applicable to married women. Unmarried women, especially young girls, are absolutely not allowed to use this etiquette.
If used—
Whether he mistook her for a married woman or was simply ignorant, it was a huge faux pas, even more serious than mocking Barthemelo in front of Loreleija a few days ago.
Therefore, Loreleiya exploded on the spot. Fortunately, she still had some rationality and only used low-level magic such as "Storm Shooter", which did not cause damage to the building structure.
Of course, Weber's house was inevitably affected. Half of the sofa, some newspapers and books, half of the curtains were destroyed, and the walls and sofas were also left with messy marks. It looked quite miserable.
In comparison, Shinji, who was hit directly by the magic, was in much better condition. The random brand sportswear he bought in England was cut into strips of beggar's clothes, but his body was intact.
The so-called "Storm Shooter" is a magic that condenses the rotating airflow into magic bullets and launches them in a chain. It has the characteristics of high precision, little damage to the environment, and can be retracted and released freely. The power of the magic is determined by the attributes and level of the magician. It is one of the magics most commonly used by Lorelei.
With Lorelaia's current level, "Storm Shooter" is equivalent to a miniature typhoon in her hands. It won't kill her directly, but it is normal to break a few bones after being hit directly.
Shinji is able to stay healthy thanks to his extraordinary anti-magic power. Tsuruya can resist one or two sections of magic by eating the golden apple. His physical fitness is much better than Tsuruya's, and Shinji will only be better if he exercises every day.
At this stage, Shinji's magic resistance should be classified as C-level according to the Servant Panel Rating, which means that magic with less than two verses can be invalidated, and large-scale magic such as large magic and ritual spells cannot be defended. However, this C-level is not as absolute as the Servant's job skills. There are differences in compatibility. Water-attribute magic with good compatibility can rise to C+, while magic with bad compatibility will drop to C-.
Loreley's "Storm Shooter" is a two-bar chanting magic with average compatibility, which happens to be within Shinji's invalid range, so Shinji just endures it and lets Loreley vent her dissatisfaction.
In Lorelaia's eyes, this action was a manifestation of responsibility and accountability, and her anger came and went quickly.
After the last whip sent Shinji flying, Lorelaia walked to the damaged sofa and began to use magic to restore the damaged items. That damn bastard was so responsible, so naturally I, the great Lorelai, have the same.
The girl, who was concentrating on the aftermath repair work, did not see the eye contact between Shinji and Waver hanging on the wall, otherwise she would have destroyed the entire room.
Eye contact translates to -
"Good job, both the console and the cartridge were saved."
"Of course, these are all my treasures that I brought back from Japan with great difficulty. It would be a pity to destroy them."
Shinji smiled.
Weber gave a thumbs up.
The friendship among otakus is unbreakable, and everything is self-explanatory.
PS: Rin once used magic to repair the glass in Shirou's house. Lorelei's level can only be high, not low.