Chapter 2 The Hero King, the Imposter, and the Time Traveler

  A department store, interior

  Endless corridors, confusing intersections, and doors that appear blurry under the setting sun.

  Blonde hair, golden armor... the golden figure walked here, as if gathering all the brilliance of this place.

  Amid the crisp sound of armor rubbing against each other, the woman in strange attire and blood-red patterns on her body walked through the fire door of the emergency passage without stopping.

  What came into view was not the staircase leading to the escape route, but a small dressing room... and a deadly sword blade that flew out in an instant!

  Facing the sudden attack, the woman named "Angelica" snorted coldly, and golden ripples appeared around her body. Immediately, a sharper sword blade flew out from the ripples, shattered the murder weapon, and then turned into spirit particles and dissipated.

  She roughly opened the curtain of the dressing room and stepped out. In the TV mall, different models of TVs were placed silently, as if they were spectators, sneering at her embarrassing behavior.

  "That's enough!"

  The last bit of patience was exhausted. Amidst the roars, the woman's rage turned into a sweeping steel storm. Countless weapons were projected out from the golden ripples, wantonly destroying everything around them.

  The LCD screen was shattered into pieces, reflecting her gloomy face.

  Angelica knew that this building had turned into Bounded Field. Under the influence of magecraft, the so-called space had become as incomprehensible as a tangled ball of thread. Even if she mastered the same magecraft, she would not be able to untie a knot - unless she was willing to waste a whole night to straighten it out bit by bit and restore it to its original state.

  But in this case, the man's goal would be achieved.

  Therefore, we must extricate ourselves from this quagmire more quickly and decisively—there is only one way to do this!

  The woman who holds the ancient mystery raised her right hand high, and countless golden ripples spread out, revealing behind her:

  "Gate of Babylon, fully open!"

  Under her command, the door to the treasure house of the "Golden City" was completely opened, and countless treasures and miracles were projected from the golden ripples, granting this space the most violent and most painful death!

  The chaotic space was torn apart and returned to order.

  The hidden magecraft is dispelled and the mystery is eliminated.

  The displacement magecraft that was entangled in this space turned into nothingness along with the department store.

  Under the blood-red setting sun, only a golden figure stood in the ruins of the building, and the empty and ruthless blue eyes stared at the white-haired figure facing her.

  "We've caught you... Emiya Shirou, don't even think about resisting. Return the job card made by Darius-sama, return to Ainsworth Castle, and continue to be imprisoned. That way, you, a lowly imposter, can live for a while longer."

  Under her murderous gaze, the young man raised his lips slightly, revealing a smile that was completely different from before, and stretched out two fingers:

  "First of all, I am not the Shirou Emiya you imagined. You can call me 'Sakatsuki'. Secondly, Angelica Ainsworth is a doll that gained the power of the ancient hero king through the replacement card..."

  The sharp weapon pierced the young man's body, but he was still laughing, his laughter full of joking:

  "You think you're worthy enough to catch me?"

  More weapons flew out, piercing the young man's face and tearing his playful smile apart. But when the phantom dissipated, what appeared in front of Angelica Ainsworth was a lifeless prop doll.

  "Displacement Magecraft... Tsk, Emiya Shirou, no, Sakatsuki." Angelica crushed the doll with one foot. She had lost most of her emotions, but she was still very angry because of this jumping mouse.

  "How on earth did this guy get Ainsworth's magecraft?"

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  In the church several kilometers away from the department store, the young man with white hair and golden eyes opened his eyes and scratched his hair in distress:

  "Well, the last doll I brought from Ainsworth City has run out... It's really troublesome, shining girl."

  Whenever he thought of the golden figure, he couldn't help but feel a headache.

  Although on the surface he got away with it after a wave of ridicule, no one knew better than him how tricky that woman was.

  With a thought, dark blue words appeared in his vision and combined into a small panel.  

  [New information has been unlocked in the Destiny Atlas]

  [001: Angelica Ainsworth]

  [Character Information]: Doll of the Ainsworth family, part-time maid. Able to flexibly use the Ainsworth family's displacement magecraft, can replace space to create a portal, and can also use virtual consciousness to replace a person's soul to create a doll with only virtual consciousness.

  [Hidden Information]: Not open

  [Recording conditions (2/3)]

  1. Escape from Ainsworth City (completed)

  2. Successfully escaped from her pursuit for seven days (uncompleted)

  3*. Hidden conditions

  Seeing this, the identity of the young man is self-evident——

  That's right, he was a time traveler who had come through time and space, and had been reborn with the help of Shirou Emiya's body, and had mastered the golden finger called "Destiny Atlas"!

  After waking up, through analyzing the remaining memories of this body, the young man who called himself "Sakatsuki" quickly determined the situation:

  he had come to a vast world created in his previous life and led by a certain fungus.

  A brilliant world with infinite splendor, infinite branches and world lines.

  Although he almost did a JOJO stand when he learned the truth, he had to give up because his hands were tied. The memory from his original body, from Shirou Emiya, was so unforgettable that he realized a fact:

  this is the "Fate/kaleid liner", that is, the world line of Magical Girl Illya.

  At this point in time, the movie "Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow" has just ended. Emiya Shirou was defeated in the fight against the Planet of the Opening of the Earth and was hit by EA in the face. He was defeated and captured and imprisoned at the bottom of Ainsworth Castle.

  But in this world, Emiya Shirou did not hold on until Miyu returned, but died after summoning souls from another world.

  ——Even if the will of its predecessor has dissipated, "Sakatsuki", who has inherited this power and this will, will continue to be the enemy of Ainsworth.

  So he restrained his breath.

  So he broke free from the shackles.

  So while Angelica was out, he broke out of the dungeon and entered the hinterland.

  Although Darius, the head of the Ainsworth family, escaped in the chaos, Emiya Shirou, no, Sakatsuki still snatched the five class cards he had made, as well as a blank card that was given power but had no class set, and left with a triumphant song.

  The scattered consciousness returned, and the white-haired young man sighed slightly:

  "Come to think of it...it's already the seventh day, right?"

  The dark blue panel in the field of vision faded, and five cards with different job titles bloomed and closed like flowers in the young man's palm. Then Sakatsuki stood up and stretched lazily in the moonlight flowing like water.

  "Why hasn't Kotomine Kirei, the fake priest, come back yet... Is he hiding from me?" The young man sighed helplessly, took a step forward, and appeared directly outside the church. "Forget it, let's spare his life. It's better to leave quickly before my shining girl comes."

  A diamond-shaped pattern seemed to emerge under his feet. As the magecraft was activated, the space seemed to be displaced, losing its original distance, and quickly disappeared near the church carrying Sakatsuki.

  Displacement Magecraft——

  As one of the entry-level magecrafts, it is a low-level basic magecraft based on the principle of degradation and exchange. Not many people use it. But in the hands of the Ainsworth family who specialize in this field, the scale, precision and scope of application of displacement magecraft are beyond common sense, and even touch upon vague concepts such as space and spirit.

  That's right, it was the only magecraft mastered by Ainsworth, the enemy of Sakutsuki. It was extremely powerful in actual combat and hard to defend against. It was with this magecraft that Angelica avoided the fatal blow of Emiya Shirou.

  For the Ainsworth family, displacement magecraft is the source of their strength. However, when this strength falls into the hands of a young man who is their enemy - that would be a complete nightmare.

  As for why Sakatsuki mastered displacement magecraft.