This is an extremely empty place.
The cold winter night air was filled with dust, and there were only cold mechanical devices and no human figures around.
This is a factory located on the outskirts of Fuyuki City, near the national highway.
The factory went bankrupt a year ago due to poor management. Because it was located in a remote area, there were no children or rebellious teenagers who used it as a secret base. Over time, it became a place forgotten by the entire Fuyuki City.
This is where Kenneth's hiding place is.
Compared to the collapsed Hyatt Hotel, this abandoned factory had no advantages except for being hidden. Kenneth felt humiliated and angry that he had been hiding in this factory. But he had no ideas now. People who lost consciousness and fell into a deep coma would not think, let alone have emotional fluctuations.
The factory where Kenneth was sleeping was empty. No one was with him. Lancer was not there, and neither was his fiancée Sora.
The only things that kept him company were the cold, hard hospital bed, an IV, a stand for hanging it, and a bedside table for sundries. Compared to the crowds of people following him in the clock tower, the latter was like heaven and the former was like hell.
A short figure appeared in front of the bed. The cold winter night wind blew into the factory through the broken window, lifting the figure's cloak, revealing a strand of dark blue curly hair and a childish face.
In the cold wind, pure white and jet-black spirits flashed alternately, outlining two graceful and curved figures beside the boy.
The boy named Shinji Matou glanced at Kenneth lying on the hospital bed. His originally refreshing face was convulsed and twisted in pain, and his slender and muscular body shook unconsciously every few minutes.
"Master, how is his injury?"
"The magic circuits throughout the body are necrotic, the internal organs are almost all ruptured, and even the muscles and nerves have varying degrees of damage, but compared to last night, it is much better. It should be that he received timely treatment, and the emergency treatment I did was not wasted."
Scathach only took a glance and knew Kenneth's current condition.
"Although his life was saved, his magic circuits were irreversibly damaged. The magic seals that were closely connected to the magic circuits were also destroyed by more than 70%. I'm afraid he won't be able to use magic in the future. The damage to his nervous system caused by the magic circuits will also make it difficult for him to move. If he recovers well, he may be able to walk, but if he doesn't, he will have to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair."
"Tsk tsk, how pitiful! It's hard to believe that he is a color-level magician, the genius of the Clock Tower, El-Melloi. Emiya Kiritsugu's 'Origin Bullet' is too lethal to magicians."
Shinji sighed sarcastically and turned his head to the other side.
"It's already like this, can you cure it, Yustisa?"
Yustisa did not answer. She walked to the bedside and pressed Kenneth's forehead with one hand. The golden magic power was released from her palm in a way different from magic and injected into Kenneth's scarred body.
This is the purpose of the three people coming to the abandoned factory.
While eating breakfast, Shinji and Scathach told Kariya about the battle in the Einzbern Forest last night.
When talking about Emiya Kiritsugu's trump card "Origin Bullet", Shinji explained in detail the working principle of this ritual, hoping that Kariya would pay attention to it. If you are against Emiya Kiritsugu, don't use your own magic power, just use the rune stone made by the master. If it is not your own magic power, it will not damage your magic circuit. Although the rune stone made by the master is precious, it is insignificant compared to your own life.
Unexpectedly, after Shinji finished speaking, Yustisa directly said that the damage to the magic circuit is not completely untreatable. The Einzbern family has a secret technology for making artificial magic circuits. Although this technology cannot be applied to humans, as long as Yustisa's third magic "Soul Materialization", a miracle beyond magic, is combined, it is theoretically possible to reshape the damaged magic circuit.
Yustisa's words aroused Scathach's interest. If there was anything in this world that could attract her, the immortal queen who had graduated from the world, it would only be powerful warriors and unknown mysteries, and magic belonged to the latter.
Scathach was genuinely surprised that Yustisa could use magic to do things that even she, the highest-ranking magician born in the Age of Gods, could not do.
Seeing that his master was in such high spirits, Shinji didn't want to pour cold water on her, so he followed her wishes and asked to "visit" Kenneth.
When Scathach was giving Kenneth emergency treatment, she secretly left a magic rune on him. Following the vibrations emitted by the rune, the three of them easily found Kenneth's hiding place.
When they arrived at the factory gate, Sora was taking Lancer out to prepare medicine for Kenneth, which greatly facilitated the three of them to infiltrate.
Yusitisa's examination soon produced results.
"Although the magic circuit is severely damaged, the base is still there, and the magic seal connected to it still contains information about the flow of magic. Give me enough time, and I am confident that his magic circuit and magic seal will be restored to their original state."
"Oh?" Scathach and Shinji raised their eyebrows at the same time, with the last line of their voice rising. The dream had greatly improved their tacit understanding. Everyone in the Matou family could see the changes between them.
In last night's dream, not only did Shinji see Scathach's memories, but Scathach also saw Shinji's memories, including Shinji's ordinary yet happy past life.
Compared with Scathach's eventful life, Shinji's past and present life are so insignificant, but this insignificance is exactly what Scathach has not experienced.
Scathach has experienced glory and desolation, strength and weakness in her life. She has been admired and feared by others, but she has never been ordinary.
I have been watching the world with a cold eye for more than two thousand years. I have seen countless people and countless things, but watching is not the same as experiencing.
Although Shinji's life seems insignificant compared to those great heroes, the sincere emotions contained in the ordinary and the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness that mortals have make Scathach feel that she is in a different world.
It turns out that ordinary can also be wonderful.
Eternal life has a touch of brightness because of this insignificant ordinariness. Perhaps this brightness will fade away with the passage of time, but the emotion in her heart will become a part of her memory.
She had never been so grateful to Zelrich as she was now. Because of him, she was able to come to the human world and meet her little Master who was also her disciple.
That’s really great.
So she took off her veil and also took off the invisible barrier she had set for herself.
There is less indifference and more humanity.
The raised eyebrows and the upturned ending tone are the best proof.