Elizabeth, who was bound by a black gelatinous substance, glared at Animusfia and kept twisting and trying to break free.
"useless."
Animusfia left behind some faint words.
"This is a magic that specializes in the [cage] attribute. You have been imprisoned until death during your lifetime. If you have any weakness, it is probably this."
Countess Elisabeth Bathory, who was arrested on the order of her husband's lifelong friend, Prime Minister George Turso, spent the rest of her life in Chakdis, never leaving her house again.
It is said that because people were afraid that Elizabeth would escape from the room where she was imprisoned, they sealed the doors and windows of the room with stones, leaving only a small opening for food to pass through.
And Elizabeth Bathory eventually died of obesity in her own castle, Chakdis City.
Animusfia judged that this was probably the true appearance of Assassin's Noble Phantasm.
Such a desperate scene is probably Elizabeth Bathory's mental image of this castle before she died.
"Uh-huh--"
Animusfia shook her index finger, and Elizabeth's petite body floated upwards.
"Keep walking."
"Eh?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka pointed in surprise at Elizabeth, who was lying in the air unable to move.
"Then what should she do?"
"What else can I do? I can't kill you. If you let him go, he will fight against you. I can only take him with you. I guess we will encounter all kinds of Assassin. By then, if we gather them together, we may be able to summon the dragon to leave. Here it is.”
"...."
Fujimaru Ritsuka had nothing to say.
But Animusfia really didn't lie to her this time. Although the dragon would not appear, the key to breaking away from the Noble Phantasm did lie with Assassin himself.
"well."
Fujimaru Ritsuka let out a long sigh and said as if there was nothing he could do against Animusfia:
"Then where should we go now?"
After entering the dungeon, the concentration of magic power increased significantly, and it was no longer possible to determine the direction just by relying on the magic power of the Spear of Uranus.
"Remember those monsters just now?"
The master girl nodded, looking like she didn't want to think about it.
"I remember. What did you say they were for?"
Animusfia walked in the direction where the monsters left while pointing at Elizabeth, who was floating behind her.
"They and this guy are probably acting to capture someone. Besides you and me, who else can enter the Assassin Noble Phantasm?"
"Are you talking about Matthew and Mr. Giorgios?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka thought about it and said tentatively.
"That's right."
Animusfia replied without looking back.
Fujimaru Ritsuka followed Animusfia while looking at Elizabeth who was still struggling and asked:
"Speaking of which, why does Assassin look like this? And what are the various Assassins you mentioned, Director?"
"Well...this is more complicated to say."
"Hey, is that so?"
"Yeah." Animusfiya nodded.
"You still remember the chain summons I told you before, right?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka thought back and said:
"Is it what the director said before, that once a dragon appears, a hero will appear to slay the dragon?"
"That's the one."
The girl was still puzzled.
"What does that have to do with Assassin becoming like this?"
"You remember that I told you that Assassin's spiritual power is very strange, right?"
"Don't answer questions with questions!"
Fujimaru Ritsuka had had enough.
Director of Riddles, please get out of Chaldea.
"Sorry sorry."
Animusfia smiled bitterly and touched the girl's head.
"Let me tell you directly, if Elizabeth Bathory appears as a heroic spirit, there will generally only be two situations. One is that she will appear as a noblewoman as Assassin Camilla."
"Is there another one?"
"The other one is this guy. Becoming a heroic spirit as a noble will generally summon the heyday of the heroic spirit. And Elizabeth Bathory's heyday as a noble is the state of a fourteen-year-old girl before getting married."
"Hey, are you younger than me?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Elizabeth who was wrapped in black gelcoat and said.
Animusfia looked at Elizabeth's flat chest, then at Fujimaru Ritsuka's slightly bulging chest, and then calmly moved her eyes back to the front.
"Indeed, you are older."
As if she realized something, the girl crossed her arms and covered her chest.
"Ah! Director, you were sexually harassing me just now——"
"I'm not, I didn't, don't talk nonsense. How could a gentleman like me do such a thing."
Fujimaru Ritsuka always felt that Dr. Roman seemed to have had the same reaction somewhere.
"Really?"
Suspicious eyes appeared from the girl's eyes, and even the mercury star floating on Fujimaru Ritsuka's shoulder looked over suspiciously.
Why are you joining in the fun?
"Ahem."
Animusfia coughed twice.
"Getting back to the subject, what happened to Assassin this time is probably that Elizabeth Bathory and Camilla were summoned at the same time, and then the spiritual bases of the two riding servants were fused together."
"Then this kid is another Servant?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka pointed at Elizabeth, who had lost her vitality and was no longer moving.
"It can't be said completely. She is at best a part of another riding servant. Although they are the same person, it is absolutely impossible for vampire Camilla's spiritual base to be completely integrated with Elizabeth Bathory's spiritual base."
"Why?"
"Here we have to talk about the specialness of Camilla. Remember, in the official history, Camilla does not exist. There may be vampires in this world, but as the Countess Elizabeth Bathory There’s absolutely no way it’s a vampire.”
Fujimaru Ritsuka was a little confused.
"Huh? But Camilla was obviously summoned as a vampire, right?"
Animusfia nodded and said:
"This is due to the imprint forcibly added by the legends of later generations, which changed the spiritual base of the original heroic spirit."
"Can just people's legends change heroic spirits?"
"Well, I'll tell you more about this later. In short, all we need to know for now is that part of the spiritual base of Camilla, the vampire Assassin, is the real 'human' component of the countess, while the other part is The 'inhuman' part of the legendary 'vampire'."
After thinking about it, Fujimaru Ritsuka said:
"Then as a pure person, wouldn't it be impossible for Elizabeth Bathory to merge with Camilla?"
"No." Animusfia shook her head.
"The Assassin we see has even the 'human' part gone and is purely 'inhuman'. Even if the real Elizabeth Bathory is summoned, she is still an anti-heroic spirit. She is born with the 'inhuman' part .”
"Do humans also have 'non-human' parts?"
"Of course." Animusfia said matter-of-factly.
"A murderer without empathy, an avenger swallowed by rage, a pitiful ghost addicted to instinct. The reason why human beings are called humans and are distinguished from beasts is because humans have the 'human' part. Since there is, Then you can lose it.”
"Does that mean Camilla separated the 'human' parts of herself and Elizabeth and merged the 'non-human' parts together?"
"Smart, you are very talented."
Animusfia could see that even without the guidance of others, Fujimaru Ritsuka should be able to become an excellent magician in the future.
"Then why does she have the characteristics of a dragon?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka continued to ask.
"That's unclear for now."
Animusfia pointed at Elizabeth floating aside:
"This guy doesn't think of himself as a human being, or he is a 'noble' who only thinks of himself as a human being. He is a 'non-human' who is a human being."
