There is a villa on a secluded hill in the suburbs of Tokyo.
No, this can no longer be described as a villa. If you ignore the architectural style and only look at the area it covers, it is almost comparable to the palaces of ancient dignitaries.
The black iron fence, which is not rusty but looks quite old, encloses the entire hill. The area is more than enough to run a primary school with a football field.
Inside the fence is a "forest" garden - yes, it is indeed a forest, there is no more appropriate word - in the forest, dozens of houses of different sizes are scattered around, together guarding the tall Western-style building in the center, and also filling the entire mansion with a shocking pressure.
Of course, this kind of pressure was not taken seriously by the two visitors who spied in late at night.
"Is this the place? Shinji?"
The woman with swaying blonde hair bathed in the bright moonlight exudes a unique beauty.
However, the young man traveling with her was not in the mood to appreciate this beauty, because this beauty contained a chilling murderous intent.
"It's right here, but... do you really have to go in now? It's only two hours before dawn. Let me find out what's going on first. What if I'm wrong?"
"No, you are not mistaken." Elquet shook his head firmly. "Although it is very faint, I can feel that there are traces of Roya here. Thank you for bringing me here. I know you are right, but I really don't want to wait any longer, not even a minute."
"I shouldn't have told you this news in advance."
Shinji scratched his hair and sighed. He had overestimated Elquet's patience, or underestimated her hatred for Roya.
Elquet is very curious and clingy, and she won't listen to words like "You'll know when you get there." During the flight, she kept asking, asking Shinji in various ways where he was going to take her. Shinji couldn't stand the endless questioning, so he told her that the Tono family might have Roya's contemporary reincarnation.
From the moment he heard Roya's name, Elquet changed. He became extremely cold, and his undisguised murderous aura made the air icy.
She urged Tenma to speed up, speed up, and speed up again, and she took the initiative to get off Tenma's back to reduce the weight on him. Later, when Shinji's magic power was insufficient, she directly carried Shinji and flew to the top of the Tono family's mansion, two hours ahead of schedule.
"Forget it, if you don't want to wait, then don't wait. But before you go in, I want you to promise me three things."
"What's up?"
"First, only cause trouble for Luoya, and try not to affect others."
"Second, if we do alarm other people, I will handle it while you focus on dealing with Roya."
"Third, and most importantly, you must hold back. No matter what Luo Ya says, you can't kill him. I've already told you the reason - don't give him a chance to reincarnate again."
Since he had revealed Roya's information, Shinji simply told him about his plan to use the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception" to end reincarnation. This was also the reason why Elquet stood here and talked to him, otherwise Elquet would have rushed down and made a big fuss, just like when she killed Roya the Seventeenth. That time, she destroyed a French town with her own hands.
Feeling the worry and concern in Shinji's eyes, Elquet finally nodded:
"Okay, I promise."
"Come with me, first find my friend and see what she has discovered."
Shinji said as he materialized Hades' cloak and landed silently on the branch of a tree.
After recalling Orange's description and using the moonlight to determine the direction, a man and a woman moved towards a small house on the side of the western-style building.
Compared to the tall western-style building not far away, the small house is very inconspicuous and does not look like anyone lives in it. But Shinji knows that this is exactly the environment that Aozaki Touko likes the most.
"That's right. However, the fact that this rune is activated means that she is resting."
The rune on the back of a stone outside the house also provided strong evidence for Shinji's judgment - this was a defensive magic set up by Orange, and only Shinji and Sakura, who were both rune users, could understand its meaning.
"Well... it's not easy to wake her up. I have to be a little rough."
Shinji gestured to Elquet to wait where she was and walked over to the stone.
The moment he stepped over the rune, the spell hidden under the earth and relying on the earth veins was activated, and magic bullets containing cursed power shot out from the lawn and attacked him head-on.
Shinji did not dodge or evade, relying on the magic power brought by the golden apple to ignore the influence of magic bullets, and continued to move forward.
The second wave of attacks followed, and this one was not so easy to deal with.
The first wave was just a warning. The curse in the magic bullets was not fatal, but only caused dizziness. But if you continued to move forward, you would be regarded as an enemy and be killed with all your strength.
The thunder rune lit up, lightning flashed, and a purple and gold electric grid was interwoven.
Shinji used both hands to draw two lightning runes, which offset each other to create a gap in the power grid. But before he could pass through the gap, several shadows suddenly appeared around him.
The power grid is just a cover, a sleight of hand, this is the real killer.
Shinji frowned slightly, but his movements were not slow. He held the "God's Spear and Bow Sword" which had not been used for a long time in his hand, walked around, and the Shadow Apostles were torn into pieces in an instant.
"I see. Using lightning to cast shadows and summoning shadow apostles from the shadows... As expected of Orange, he can even think of such a spell. It seems that Elquit's impulsiveness is not without benefits. I am increasingly looking forward to what the next wave will be."
As soon as he finished speaking, the third wave arrived as expected.
Shadows, countless shadows were shaking. The shaking shadows gathered into "Shadow Apostles", which brought a large area of shadows and summoned more companions. In just a blink of an eye, the lawn outside the house was filled with shadows, and it was hard to tell whether it was real or not.
"It's a big scene, but - that alone can't stop me."
The strengthening magic unfolded, the sword flashed, and Shinji was like a tiger among sheep, killing them wantonly. He was used to fighting against servants and vampires, and he no longer took these summons seriously. He didn't even need to use the Noble Phantasm, and could kill them all with just a magic blade.
But as he was killing, he sensed something was wrong.
The structure of the technique is indeed excellent, and the defensive effect is also first-rate, but Orange is not someone who is satisfied with just being first-rate, especially on the two subjects of "familiars" and "puppets".
If it were her, she would definitely not be satisfied with simply killing the enemy with numbers. She must have some other tricks up her sleeve.
What is it exactly
Just as Shinji was thinking, a figure different from the shadow appeared behind him and slashed at the back of his neck with a knife.