CHAPTER 403: CHAPTER 403: CAN BE CONSIDERED

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"The First True Magic User died of old age. How ridiculous."

A True Magic User was an existence that could, with their own power, manipulate the profound rules in the Root. They were transcendents who had glimpsed a corner of the world’s truth.

For such an existence to die of old age, wasn’t that ridiculous?

But not long after creating the Fifth Magic, Blue, the True Magic User realized that on a certain day in the future, he would meet the end of his life.

It seemed that there was a certain profound mechanism in operation.

Anyone who reached the Root through a naturally-born passage within the world would die at the hands of ruthless time.

The First True Magic User, who had reached the Root through a passage, had died at the hands of this ridiculous mechanism. And now, it was his turn.

On the other hand, the other True Magic Users had all created magic through their own research. As pioneers, they had been given the opportunity to reach the Root once. So, they could live forever.

A True Magic User, who could kill a god with their bare hands, would eventually die of old age? And live a shorter life than some normal people with life-preserving skills?

This was a huge joke.

There was no harm without comparison. Why should he die, while the other three True Magic Users could wreak havoc for a thousand years??

Under the pressure of life and death, the True Magic User began his research into prolonging his life.

Dead Apostle transformation, soul possession, parasitic organisms, reincarnation—all sorts of experiments, the Fifth True Magic User had studied them all.

In the end, he chose to give up.

—To give up magic.

Aoko Aozaki didn’t know that her father was the old True Magic User’s seventieth child, and she didn’t know that the timid middle-aged man had grown up on an experimental table.

To give birth to a qualified successor who was worthy of inheriting the Fifth Magic, Blue, the old True Magic User had madly used his wife and children as experimental subjects.

The reason was just a theory.

"If obtaining the Fifth Magic by accident leads to my death, then I’ll just abandon the Fifth Magic." The already-aged True Magic User decided.

To outsiders, for the Aozaki family, whose bloodline had been in decline and had long since lost its magus aptitude, to be able to give birth to a prodigy, Touko Aozaki, was a great blessing.

However, she was the successor that the old True Magic User had produced after the tragic death of sixty-nine sons.

But after raising Touko for ten years, the old True Magic User had accidentally discovered that Aoko Aozaki, who had been born naturally, and not by his own manipulation, was actually more suitable for the Fifth Magic.

The old True Magic User, who had two choices, in order to increase the possibility of the successor inheriting the magic, had started a strategy of brutal competition, and had orchestrated a great drama of sisters fighting each other.

Of course, as a True Magic User with a certain style, how could he interfere in everything, to promote the sisters’ conflict? He had long since grown tired of that kind of thing.

"There’s no need to do anything. Just give them different educations is enough." This was the old True Magic User’s strategy.

Touko, raised with a magus’s education, Aoko, raised with a normal education, and a magic that only one of them could inherit.

A sisterly conflict was that simple.

But a person who has long been in a high position cannot give up the power in their hands. What’s more, how could a mad magus like the old True Magic User completely give up magic?

So, after the winner achieved the Fifth Magic, and the old True Magic User was freed from the shackles of his lifespan caused by the Fifth Magic, he would use his years of research into magic and the passage to the Root to directly reach the Root and walk the path of a normal True Magic User.

So, the passage to the Root was an important tool for the old True Magic User to ensure his future strength and status. And to face Haru, who wanted to take this tool.

But the activation of the Fifth Magic required a certain amount of time. So, to temporarily stall Haru became the old True Magic User’s choice.

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"Last chance, young colleague..."

The old True Magic User glanced at Aoko and Alice beside him, and thinking of Haru’s earlier gaze on the two—he narrowed his eyes slightly.

’The sweet smell of young love. That’s right. Judging by the aura of time on his body, this colleague is not yet thirty. It’s normal for him to have this kind of romantic attachment.’

"I can give you both Aoko and Touko—who is hiding in the city, as long as you give up peeking at that passage," the old True Magic User said with a grin.

The sound of a magic circuit operating, which only the old True Magic User could hear, quietly hummed.

"What? You’re trying to trade me? Don’t even think about it!!!"

Aoko looked at the old True Magic User with a bewildered expression. Seeing his young, yet smiling, sleazy face, a nameless fire welled up in her heart.

"In the end, I’m the head of the Aozaki family, right? What right do you, you old bastard, have to trade me away?"

"And even if you’re trading me to this guy, why include Touko too?"

Alice, her expression dark, said in a low whisper, "You mean, you don’t mind being traded to Haru-kun?"

Aoko’s face instantly stiffened. Alice’s intense gaze, fixed on her face, made her feel as if she were being pricked by needles, and goosebumps rose on her skin.

"If you want to get married, marry yourself!!!!" Aoko roared at her grandfather.

Suddenly hearing Aoko’s last words, Haru looked at the old True Magic User, who was wearing Soujuurou Shizuki’s face, and his face turned a sickly green.

Haru had single-handedly orchestrated the forbidden love between Tokiomi Tohsaka and Kiritsugu Emiya. This sentence, in the ears of such a twisted person as him, why did it sound so wrong?

"Marry myself? That can be considered," the old True Magic User said with a nonchalant tone. Not to mention, some of his sons were actually born after he had possessed some famous female mages.

What was the purpose? A little forgotten. It seemed to be to experience childbirth? Probably.

"..."

A deathly silence.

Aoko and Alice looked at the old True Magic User with a look of horror.

Boom—!!!!!!!!!

The mimetic planet in his soul suddenly glowed brightly. With the Third Magic as its core, an endless amount of magical power poured out.

The almost-infinite golden magical power filled Haru’s entire body in an instant, and even overflowed, inscribing itself on the sky and the earth.

The snow-covered ground instantly turned a golden yellow, as if a golden sun had appeared on the ground.

In the center of the sun, a figure, his right hand clenched, let out a furious roar.

"Listen, primate of all things—"

The old True Magic User, who had been prepared, chanted the holy words.

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