Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't seem to be enveloped by the abnormality.
The sunshine is indeed quite good today.
but......
Standing on the ridge, several people looked down together, but they didn't see anything.
There is only a black lake that seems to last forever.
Xue Nai's face looked a little sad for some reason. She looked slightly to the side, pursed her mouth, and bit hard.
"Don't be afraid, mom is here."
Mother Bear gently took Schnee into her arms and patted her on the back.
But the way she looked at the black lake was also a little complicated.
The lake is black, always black.
They were already black before they were killed and sank into the lake, but at that time, the blackness that they are now was just a normal phenomenon.
When Yukina really becomes a youkai, the blackness at that time... will be a different situation.
Xue Nai felt that the other self in her heart was about to stir, as if there were signs of waking up.
"My sister, my half body, please be patient..."
She was startled and quickly patted her chest to calm herself down.
No matter what, there is something wrong with letting her come out here.
"Go down and have a look."
"I don't seem to have seen Lord Nobunaga."
Hijikata Tobizo said to the people around him, and then slid down the angled slope.
Zuo Cun nodded, followed, and jumped down.
"...Let's go down too."
After a moment of silence, Xuena said to Fujimaru Ritsuka.
"I want to get closer and see the lake."
"I'm going to see... if there is anything abnormal in the lake."
No one knows Kurokawa Mountain and Kurokawa Lake better than the great youkai of Kurokawa Mountain, Yukina Hoshikumaki, the ghost of Amagakure.
But she is in this lake...
"Don't think too much, go down."
Mother Bear smiled softly and rubbed Xuena's head.
...
All five people went down the huge slope and arrived at the edge of Kurokawa Lake.
It can be recognized from the appearance that Kurokawa Mountain should be a volcano, and the location of Kurokawa Lake is the location of the crater. However, this volcano is undoubtedly an extinct volcano that has stopped its activity and has no further eruptions.
Possibly, but the spiritual veins from the past still remain in this place, forming a huge spiritual vein node.
It is precisely because of the huge resentment and this spiritual node that Xuena can grow from a human pillar to the last big monster.
"...I never thought I would come back here."
When on the ridge, Xue Nai didn't feel anything special, only some worries and fears.
But when she actually walked down the slope and arrived at the lake, that huge, indescribable feeling like a tide came over again.
She took a step back involuntarily, as if she wanted to leave the lake instinctively.
"Xuna...!"
Mother Bear stood behind Schnee and provided support for Schnee.
Xuena looked at the black lake and opened his mouth.
This is where she is buried.
It was here that she resisted because she was about to be raped, which angered Hideo Kurokawa, the village chief of Kurokawa Village. She had her limbs cut off cruelly, sealed in a mud pillar, and sank into the lake.
It wasn't until she became a great monster that she was able to leave briefly.
She seemed to have seen it.
I saw my ink-black head sticking out of the lake, that swollen, bruised head filled with resentment.
Ahhh...
"I'm fine, Mom."
After closing her eyes briefly and opening them again, Schnee smiled at the mother bear.
After all, she is no longer that big monster.
She is Hoshikuma Yukina who chose her own death, she is Hoshikuma Yukina whose body was properly buried by Samura, and she is Hoshikuma Yukina who became a Servant Avenger.
She bent down and put one of her hands into the lake water.
After a while, she stood up again.
"There's nothing unusual in the lake, but...it's daytime in Kurokawa Mountain."
Xuena expressed her worries.
Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded to show that he understood, and took out his communicator.
"Matthew, Miss Lawrence, you...hey?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka was stunned halfway through speaking.
Chaldea's communication...is broken.
"when......?"
"Miss Lawrence? Matthew? Can you hear me?"
She tried to say hello to the other end of the communicator, but she got no response at all, and she couldn't even hear the noise.
Fujimaru Ritsuka's eyes became serious.
Kurokawa Mountain...something is wrong.
There's something wrong with this singularity.
She subconsciously raised her head and looked towards the sky.
Nothing unusual.
The protection of the mountain god, the shrine that is not attacked by wild beasts, the invisible statues, and...
Communication cannot be reached from the shrine onwards...
Looking down, Fujimaru Ritsuka continued to look at the lake, but found something strange.
"Miss Schnee, what... is that?"
Hoshikuma Yukina looked in the direction of Fujimaru Ritsuka's finger.
On the other side of the ridge, it seemed like... there was something there.
It happened that at this time, Zuocun and Hijikata also came back.
"Miss Xingxiong, did you gain anything?"
Zuocun's brows were furrowed, and he didn't seem to notice anything.
"There is nothing abnormal in the lake...it's just that the magic power in the spiritual vein nodes has shown a state of deficiency."
Xuena replied subconsciously.
"Spiritual Vein Node?"
Hijikata tilted his head.
What is that?
"Ah, nothing..."
After shaking her head, Xuena remembered that in this village, no one seemed to know about things like magic.
Although most members of this village are servants.
Fujimaru Ritsuka has been thinking about this.
Has the perception of everyone in the village been modified, or is it due to other reasons?
All in all, 80% of it is because of the Holy Grail.
But the Holy Grail is not omnipotent. Someone must use the Holy Grail to make a wish in order to create such a world.
The question comes - whose wish will create this world?
Everyone in this world has happy laughter on their faces. If it is the joy of having their wishes come true, it seems possible for everyone.
Or is this happiness instilled?
Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at Samura.
Thinking about it carefully...it seems that this is not possible.
If the family of Mr. Samura, Miss Souji, and Miss Soina were real, they would indeed be full of laughter and enthusiasm.
This is difficult...
"Let's go and see that place."
"I always feel that that place shouldn't exist here."
"There is a...subtle sense of dissonance."
Fujimaru Ritsuka pointed in the previous direction.