Ms. Aozaki Touko, the famous magician, top puppeteer, family doctor of the Toono family and personal advisor to Toono Akiha, is in a bad mood.
No matter who did the experiment in the middle of the night, it is impossible for him to be in a good mood after being woken up less than half an hour after lying down. Seeing that the first person he saw when he opened his eyes was a little bastard who had been missing for many days and had no news, his bad mood was alleviated a lot. However, because he was not wearing glasses, he didn't look happy and his voice was cold.
"Oh, I'm back."
"Ah, I'm back."
"Where's the gift?"
"Well, there wasn't much to take with me, so I just—"
"So you went out and not only didn't bring any gifts, but you came to argue with me the first thing after you came back. We have a grudge, right?"
"Sister, I'm wrong, okay?"
Hearing the resentment in Orange's words, Shinji quickly apologized with a sincere attitude.
"I'll make up for the gift later. Tell me what you want and I'll find a way to get it for you."
"That's more like it."
Seeing Shinji's good attitude in admitting his guilt, the remaining resentment in Touko's heart also disappeared. She reached out and took out her glasses from the glasses case, returning to the image of an intelligent and capable mature woman.
By this time, Toono Akiha also knew the boy's identity.
Orange was still sitting on the bed, wearing only a thin nightgown, not minding the boy seeing her exposed body parts. The boy also lost his previous edge, letting Orange slap and complain, not angry at all.
This shows that the relationship between the two is not just familiarity, but closeness. Orange only reveals this closeness when he mentions a few people, and only one of them is a man.
"Tell me, why are you in such a hurry to find me? Is it because of this lady?"
Orange snorted. It's only been a short while, and another one has come back.
Shinji smiled shamelessly: "She is half of it, and the other half is that I want to see you soon."
"You should go back and tell Sakura and Fujino about this."
Orange pushed Shinji's face away with a slap, his eyes swept across Elquet, and his thin eyebrows raised slightly - this woman didn't seem to be human.
The pure white princess was sitting on the windowsill basking in the moonlight, her legs swinging back and forth, still muttering, "It's not healed yet, be patient, it's not healed yet, be patient."
"Just tell me the reason. There's nothing else to do and I need to sleep."
"Where is Roya?"
"have no idea."
"Sister, now is not the time to joke." Shinji became anxious because of Arquette's eagerness to make a move.
"Who is kidding you? I really don't know."
Seeing that Orange was serious, Shinji frowned and his eyes moved twice to Tono Akiha beside him.
"It's been so long, with your ability, it's impossible that you can't find the target. Could it be the Tohno family..."
Such a small action naturally did not escape Orange's eyes. She shrugged her shoulders and ripples appeared in her chest.
"No matter how powerful I am, I cannot bring the dead back to life."
"Dead? What do you mean?"
"Don't you understand? The person you asked me to find was dead before I got here."
"That's impossible. Roya is definitely not dead." Shinji turned his head and looked at Elquet, who was listening attentively. Although the form was special, Roya was indeed the dead apostle she converted. If she said Roya was not dead, then he must not be dead.
"I don't know whether Luo Ya is dead or not. The person you asked me to find, Tono Shiki, is indeed dead. The information you gave me was wrong. No, it can't be considered wrong. It's just outdated."
"Tono Shiki... dead?"
Shinji almost suspected that he had heard it wrongly.
Toono Shiki is dead.
Why did he die
How could he die
How could he die when he was parasitized by Luoya and had the ability to take away the vitality of others
What will happen to Roya if he dies
Questions popped up one after another, making my head a mess, and it took a while to calm down.
"Are you sure?"
"Sure."
"I see."
Shinji exhaled slowly and turned around awkwardly.
"Um, Elquet, I think I made a mistake. Roya's eighteenth reincarnation is dead... I'm really sorry."
Surprisingly, Elquet was not too surprised. He just said "Oh" and asked, "Where did he die? Where is the body?"
"Let me answer this question." The eldest daughter of the Tono family, Tono Akiha, said, "As a condition, I need to know the whole story, including what happened to you tonight and his relationship with you."
If possible, Akiba did not want to reveal the family's secrets to outsiders. However, the other side already knew about the existence of Tono Shiki and was extremely powerful, so Akiba had no choice but to give up the method of resolving the issue by force and instead negotiate.
"Okay, I promise you." Shinji nodded. They were wrong to break in tonight, so it was difficult for them to refuse such a reasonable request.
In 1992, Elquet killed Roya XVII in France, and Roya was reincarnated into Tono Shiki, becoming Roya XVIII. Later, Tono Shiki had a "reversal impulse" and was killed by Tono Makihisa who came to the rescue. The dying Shiki launched a "combination" to plunder Shiki's vitality to survive, and was eventually imprisoned in a dungeon by Makihisa. Up to this point, this was all the plot Shinji knew.
According to the description of "Tsukihime", Shiki will be imprisoned until Makihisa dies, Roya awakens, and a series of events are triggered. However, an unexpected change occurs. Not long after being imprisoned in the dungeon, Tono Shiki has an "inversion impulse" for some reason. Makihisa has no choice but to kill Shiki again and kill him with his own hands, completely cutting off his life.
After Shiki died, Makihisa buried him in the cemetery behind the Tono family, claiming it was the grave of his adopted son who had died unexpectedly.
When Shinji saw the empty, dusty dungeon, he believed what Akiba said, and the information that Elquet read from the dungeon and the tomb also proved that Akiba was not lying.
Here we can also see the limitations of Elquet's ability to read the world's memory. She needs a certain medium to read the information she wants. The closer the connection between the medium and the information, the better the effect.
She was looking for Roya through the part of the power that was taken away by Roya. If Roya didn't awaken, this power would remain dormant and she wouldn't be able to find Roya.
Through the Toono family, she read traces of Roya's existence, but because she had no specific target, she did not know further information until she used Toono Shiki's grave and death site as a medium.
"It's going to be a long wait again."
This was Elquet's final reaction, cold and indifferent, which reminded Shinji of her when they first met.
"You... don't seem to care much. Isn't he your... enemy?"
"Yeah, but I've killed him so many times and he's escaped so many times that I don't mind waiting a few more times."
"Is that so?" He didn't understand the hundreds of years of entanglement and the long wait, but this didn't stop him from making a decision. "Next time he wakes up, I'll go with you."
"OK."
Before dawn, the pure white vampire lost her indifference and smiled as beautiful as a flower. She had changed.
That day, they met.
On that occasion, there was a collision between the touch of nature and human thoughts.
At that moment, the incarnation of nature, which should have been ruthless, was tainted with emotion.
Magic? Miracle
No, none of that matters. What matters is that she likes this feeling.