They've already fought their way through the Holy Grail War, and you still call them dragons?

"Stop beating around the bush. You, Westminster Abbey, are using a single piece of paper to measure and exploit the entire value of your mixed-blood staff, bringing chaos and chaos to Britain. This is an unforgivable crime in the eyes of God."

Grand Captain Camplaw and Sir Snowdon have been at odds with each other for many years, and throwing dirty water on each other has become commonplace. However, things are different now. In this territory that does not belong to them, the two men's words are somewhat restrained.

The Grand Master has made up his mind to not fall behind his arch-rival Westminster Abbey and even to achieve the largest scale of development in a short period of time.

He wanted to cooperate deeply with His Holiness the Pope, and after obtaining the magic system, allow cardinals to assist them in the management of the new organization, and even invite the Pope to become the symbolic head of the new organization (papal constitutional system!), so as to obtain the greatest support from the Christian Church in terms of resources and connections.

However, in this case, the new organization must also be named "Church".

Grand Master Kemplau decided to be the first to secure the naming rights, emphasizing the invaluable contributions of the Order of Solomon's Temple. Therefore, the term "Templar" (Temple, Temple/Knights Templar, Templar Knights) must be included in the name of the new church.

Let’s just name it Templar Church.

The two sworn enemies then engaged in a fierce exchange of glances and words in the VIP room. Unfortunately, due to the fact that they were playing away, the intensity was restrained and it did not escalate to physical contact.

But looking at it from another perspective, it did kill a lot of boring waiting time.

Until Lord Wa arrived with a group of heads of the Shenzhou families.

A new round of conspiracy against the secret party has just begun.

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Emiya's current feeling is, alas, this Nono is not suitable to be regarded as the "half-sister" as Mai Jude mentioned. At least she is not as well-behaved and quiet as Miyu Emiya.

At most, it is similar to Chloe/Xiao Hei, and it still has a "middle school and eccentric thinking mode" that makes people unable to guess their thoughts.

Until the RV arrived at Zhou's house, Nuonuo still looked sincere, holding his hand tightly and said:

"Emiya, you must be careful and vigilant against the aristocratic families! Aristocratic families are not good things!" "That family head must be plotting something in secret, don't be fooled by appearances!" "Why don't you and I join forces as soon as possible and stay away from the vortex of this area of ​​conflicting interests!"

Emiya felt that Nono seemed to be imagining something that didn't exist...

I feel like this crazy girl will be quite a gem once she fully recovers. Fortunately, she didn't wield the golden hoop, wear chain mail armor, and wear lotus silk shoes, saying that she wanted to fight her way into the palace and "seize the throne."

He heard about the girl's tragic experience from Jude Mai, and only then did he understand Nono's way of thinking a little.

Based on this, it seems that her original family environment when she was in the Chen family was too bad, and once she entered a similar environment, she would develop a PTSD-like condition.

Lord Wa was indeed planning something, but it could not be simply compared with the conspiracies of Nono's father.

Don’t advise others to be kind without experiencing their suffering…

Emiya was not one who had experienced Nono's own life, so it would be difficult for him to correct the things she was imagining at the moment.

After waiting for a while, Nuonuo might find that different aristocratic families are also very different from each other, and her ideas might become less extreme?

...But it's hard to say. An unhappy childhood may take a lifetime to heal.

After talking to Emiya for a long time and trying to "establish a united front" with him, Nono finally fell into a deep sleep. Her body still needed time to recover.

After getting off the car, a large group of medical staff rushed out of the door. Emiya repeatedly refused the invitation to be carried on a stretcher by the group... He didn't have any serious external injuries, at most only "internal injuries" on the magic circuit, and he had no problem walking on his own.

So they had to quietly move the still sleeping Nono into a separate ward.

Emiya waved goodbye to Shude Mai and Zero - the two of them would leave in the car arranged by the potato chip girl - and politely declined Shude Mai's insistence on carrying him all the way... He felt that this woman was secretly teasing him by always thinking about this.

It was already noon at this time. Emiya walked on the road where sunlight and fine shadows were a chaotic interweaving. He went to get the "tonic medicine" according to the prescription of the weird doctor, and successfully received the unanimous strange looks from the young ladies on duty at the medicine decoction area.

"Shh, I have a feeling some terrible scandal is going to come out again."

Emiya gasped as he thought back to the women he had come into contact with recently.

After checking the time, he decided to look for Old Tang nearby. Logically speaking, with Old Tang's luck, if he didn't participate in the subsequent battles, he might have only suffered minor injuries and would not have been sent to the intensive care unit or something like that.

That way, it would be easy for him to find it...

Because all you have to do is find the ward with the happiest atmosphere on the entire street.

"...Room C7."

After searching for a while, he finally found the ward with the loudest noise. Emiya glanced at the door number and saw that from inside the noisy room came Old Tang's loud and cheerful voice, drawing laughter from the others.

"...Don't disbelieve me! Back then, facing the mighty God King Odin and a group of mighty heroes, my brother Emiya and I slaughtered them without mercy!"

Old Tang had already applied medicine to the big swelling on his head, but he just lay on the bed and refused to get up, as if he had been seriously injured in his previous heroic battle.

His long eyebrows would twitch from time to time as he spoke in an exaggerated manner, which made the nurse next to him sit on the chair and almost double over with laughter.

"Odin roared angrily and thrust his spear forward at a wicked angle. But I, Old Tang, had already seen through the attack of this counterfeit God King. I closed my eyes and dodged the attack with a simple turn. Ugh! Guess what happened?"

"I took the opportunity to swivel and clap my hands, sending a basin-sized fireball crashing down on the dazed face of the eight-legged, one-eyed horse..."

To remain polite and not spoil the conversation with Old Tang, Emiya stood by the door and listened for a while. But Old Tang kept telling his story, which went on and on, his descriptions becoming increasingly outrageous...

What about the God King who gets angry and lays down millions of corpses, what about the mountains being moved and the sea being filled and the stars shifting, what about the God King's throne being taken in turns, tonight it belongs to me, God King Tang!

...Until the very end, the original storyline of "Good Brother Emiya" was completely forgotten by this guy, and the script was changed into the Legend of the Heroes of the God King Tang.

Wow, Old Tang, your small workshop is really good at using high-quality materials.

"Dong dong."

Unable to bear it any longer, Emiya knocked on the door. When he walked in with medicine, the room instantly became quiet. Old Tang was stunned when he saw the main character in the story. The air seemed to freeze for a moment.

After seeing the person coming, the nurse stopped listening to Old Tang's stand-up comedy and ran to Emiya with shining eyes.

She picked up a pen and signed. Then, with a twitch of his lips, he wrote crooked words on the nurse's white uniform as requested.

The nurse who was asking for his signature winked at him, grasped his hand firmly and shook it twice, then walked out of the room happily.

Emiya turned his gaze back and saw Old Tang lying on the bed, playing the heroic role, with a resentful face.

Good man, it turns out that the other party didn’t fall into the trap at all and was just teasing him. When the pretending hero meets the real hero, isn’t his true face exposed?

"Brother Emiya, this is such a coincidence! I was so close to getting the nurse's contact information..."

Old Tang's voice was filled with the pain and regret of missing out on a romantic encounter. So, since he had time to strike up a conversation, it seemed that he had been living quite freely in the ward before.

"You said it was a coincidence? Do you know that I was actually listening to you chattering outside the door for almost a quarter of an hour? Jokes are not nonsense, so don't make your changes too outrageous."

Emiya unobtrusively divided the medicine he had brought into two large bags and said, "Here, this is the medicine I brought for you, Old Tang. Stop focusing on finding women and take care of your health."

"what is this?"

Old Tang took the medicine in confusion. As someone who had suffered a minor injury, what kind of Chinese medicine did he need to take internally?

"Wait a minute, let me take another look at the ingredients in this decoction. I almost forgot... deer antler, wolfberry, cistanche deserticola, cinnamon bark, cordyceps, deer penis...hiss!"

The prescription written by the doctor before coming back was written in such a flamboyant handwriting that Emiya couldn't recognize what medicine it was. Now he looked at the printed prescription on the decoction bag again and caught the key word "deer whip"... Guigui, this is most likely a hodgepodge of aphrodisiacs!

Old Tang looked up and asked, "Do you understand?" He knew little about Chinese medicine and was very confused.

Emiya simply patted the other man's shoulder and said, "The medicine is fine, shouldn't it be?... At worst, the next time you hook up with a beautiful woman, Old Tang, you can just use this! It's bound to work, those who understand will understand, it works every time... No, it works the first time!"

"Okay, I believe you!"

Old Tang said subconsciously, and then realized, something is not right, what is the mysterious effect?

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After saying goodbye to Old Tang, Emiya wondered who else he could give the medicine in the bag to.

I shook the plastic bag and found that there was still quite a lot of medicine inside... Why did that crooked doctor prescribe so many doses at once?

Emiya reviewed the list of his acquaintances in his mind, then walked out of the large pharmacy run by the Zhou family to look for the honest man Zhou Yuxuan.

He had already walked around inside and didn't see anyone. Since he was not in the town, he was probably doing business in a temple.

After leaving this place filled with the smell of disinfectant and Chinese medicine, he walked about a few hundred meters. Golden sunlight passed through the long corridor and slid onto the stone floor. Many quiet breaths swayed gently between the doors and curtains, occasionally interspersed with busy conversations.

Emiya soon saw the familiar central hall. This was the most important and formal affairs center of the Zhou family. There were dense patrol and guard personnel gathered in front of the hall and even around it. The sturdy mixed-blood men were wary of all visitors and approachers with suspicious identities.

But no one would stop Emiya's actions.

At this moment, Zhou Yuxuan happened to come out of the palace gate in a hurry. Seeing this, Wei Gong walked aside and greeted him: "Is he busy in there?"

Although this was a formal occasion, Emiya rarely saw such tight security around it. This usually happened when some important matters were being discussed or some important foreign guests were visiting.

Zhou Yuxuan nodded and spoke directly without avoiding Emiya:

"...In a meeting, Lord Wa was discussing important matters with other family heads and guests. I wasn't present, so I wasn't fully aware of the details. I just went in and overheard a conversation, and they were discussing the Clock Tower and the Holy Church..."

As he was talking, Zhou Yuxuan noticed that Emiya was carrying a bag of Chinese medicine... Hmm? What were the ingredients of that medicine...

"The Clock Tower and the Holy Church? Did they get the news, or did they send people here?" Emiya wondered if the two organizations were moving so quickly because of what happened with Odin.

Zhou Yuxuan nodded and was about to explain in detail, but two Westerners happened to walk out of the hall gate.

Emiya looked closely and saw that one of them was wearing a British-style outfit from the last century, like an old British aristocrat, but he looked energetic, walked briskly, and had few wrinkles on his face.

The other person was a middle-aged man wearing heavy knight armor. He had blond hair, blue eyes, and a tall build, a typical Germanic race. He seemed to be walking with the former, but in fact, there was a distance between them. It was obvious that there was a big gap in their relationship.

It was Sir Snowdon and Grand Master Camplaw.

When the two saw Wei Gong and Zhou Yuxuan here, their eyes lit up and they walked straight towards them.

Zhou Yuxuan didn't have time to explain in detail, so he could only whisper, "It's them." He introduced Emiya to the two Westerners, then quietly retreated behind the crowd.

Emiya nodded. He could tell that the old man was a typical Clock Tower magician, and maybe even a member of the "noble faction".

(The Clock Tower is divided into three factions: Aristocracy, Democracy, and Neutrality)

As for the other one who looks like a religious knight, should he be the Templar Church?

The Cathedral Church and the Clock Tower have long had a significant conflict, their relationship acrimonious, even reaching a point of war. I heard they're currently at a truce thanks to a contract.

but……

"Not an agent, but a knight order?"

(The Templar Church is often seen as a powerful agent or burial agency, but there are actually a large number of church knight orders. For example, the Inquisition Knights appear in the Tsukihime world line. Their leader is Lizbefe Stolindobari, nicknamed "Saint of the Fortress" and "Knight of the Holy Shield")

"...Agent? Does that mean acting as God's agent, carrying out God's will?"

Captain Kamplau, who was walking over, thought that he was being talked about. He raised his brows and strode over, thinking to himself, hahaha, it seems that he has entered the sight of the legendary "God Killer" and "Genius Magician" one step ahead of that annoying old Deng next to him.

However, Sir Snowdon was unwilling to fall behind. He moved quickly with a kind smile, and suddenly burst out with an amazing speed that did not match his age. He took the lead in stepping forward and shaking hands.

"Good day, just call me Snowden... So this young man is the 'God-killer' Shirou Emiya? He truly is a talented young magus with great potential!"

'Shameless old man!'

Captain Kamplau, watching the interaction, had a slight change of expression. This old man was so shameless, trying to trick and attack. If this old Snowden was the first to establish a relationship with Emiya, it would be disastrous if he was pulled to the other side!

It would be impolite to cut in line at this time, but it doesn’t matter. Kamplau quickly thought of a solution: throw money!

Apart from anything else, the Knights Templar had a lot of money. They had made their fortune in banking since the Middle Ages.

Kemplau took advantage of the moment when Snowdon Oldman had just released Emiya's hand and handed him a black card. "I am Captain Kemplau, and this is a small gift from the Knights. It's just a small gift, not a token of respect."

"this is……"

Emiya's attention turned to the black card the captain had given him. It was described as a small gift, but it was actually a top-tier Visa Infinite card.

In fact, the Solomon's Temple is financially strong, and therefore holds various customized credit cards. The credit limit of this black card is as high as hundreds of thousands of US dollars. Only the knight class within the Temple is eligible to hold it.

Based on the knights' contributions, the Temple will also provide regular repayments of different amounts for credit card spending.

But Emiya was almost stunned by the black card... So the Templar Church was so rich that they were willing to give such a gift? Or was this Knight Order particularly wealthy?

Besides, the other party gave me a welcome gift, but I don’t seem to have anything to give…

Kamplau, however, didn't care. He just laughed and said, "It's just a token of my personal friendship with you, the captain... I understand that you didn't prepare a return gift in advance, but you can just give me something casual."

After saying that, he looked at the bag in Emiya's hand curiously.

No, are you sure you want this?

With a slightly strange expression on his face, Emiya took out two packets of aphrodisiac from a large bag in his hand and handed them to Camplau. "Just a reminder, Captain, these are 'tonifying pills' prepared for men."

It was unclear whether Kamplau understood the implication in Emiya's words or not. He thanked her calmly and took the medicine without even looking at her.

In fact, with his level of Chinese, he had no idea what the prescription was. He even secretly suspected that as a "magic wizard", the medicines Emiya carried with him might have some special features. In short, it would be a good idea to establish a friendship and prevent Emiya from being dragged into the boat by his old enemy...

After Emiya handed over the medicine, he noticed another hand stretched out from the side—

Old man Snowdon actually handed over a Mint Club membership card with a luxurious and exquisite card face and took away the remaining two packets of aphrodisiacs.

This interaction is exactly the same as the one with the group leader.

"..." Emiya was shocked to see Snowdon smiling as he put away the aphrodisiac, as if it were some precious ancient treasure. He didn't expect that this old man was still so extravagant at such an old age.

Only Zhou Yuxuan, who was retreating behind, took a quick glance and understood the efficacy of the medicine that Emiya handed over.

But he kept his expression tense and said nothing...

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