Fate/Magus Path

65 Fujino Asagami

The next day.

After confirming that Shiki had come to school normally, Roy left her school.

Although he didn't know the exact time when Kara no Kyoukai began, he could infer that it was very close just by looking at Shiki's age.

He had arranged for Touko Aozaki to keep an eye on Shiki's safety, but since he was here, he wouldn't just stand around.

"First, let's explore this city."

Now atop a high building, Roy looked down at the scenery below, then gathered his strength and leaped boldly to another rooftop.

It was a simple method like that of superheroes in movies, using magecraft to enhance oneself and then utilizing that enhanced physical ability for high-speed movement.

However, maintaining such a state for a long time consumed a lot of magical energy. It was unlikely that any proper magus would use their precious magecraft for travel, except for monsters, of course.

The Magician of the Second Magic could directly open a rift to teleport, while the Magician of the Fifth Magic Aoko Aozaki had a special fondness for this travel method.

Not only was it fast, but it was also cool.

For someone like Roy, who was an unconventional magical perpetual motion machine, magical energy was merely something that could be extracted in a breath.

He could summon as much as he needed.

Detection Magecraft: Butterfly Familiar.

While personally searching, he also didn't forget to conjure many magical familiars in mid-air, sending them to look for anyone in the city resembling Araya Souren, whom he would visit personally afterward.

As for why he didn't limit the search to just finding Araya Souren, the reason was simple, he had only seen part of the Kara no Kyoukai series through certain channels and only knew that the enemy was Araya Souren; he was unaware of any other specific information.

The intel he had on the other party was roughly, male, appearing around 45 years old, with long black hair, fond of wearing a black robe, and carrying prayer beads. He seemed to have some connection with Touko, so he could ask her for confirmation later.

In any case, he would explore based on this information; after all, the city's intelligence network had to be established eventually.

After a long time.

Standing atop a building, Roy continually observed the corners of the city through his familiars. He saw a lot and gradually deepened his understanding of the city, but he still hadn't found the information he was looking for.

It seemed that he really wasn't here. Was the other party hiding too well? Or had they not arrived yet?

Just as Roy was about to withdraw his familiars and leave, a sudden clamor erupted from the alley below.

Reinforcement Magecraft: Hearing.

"Miss, where's today's pocket money?"

"You've refused us for so many days. How about playing with us today?"

"Come on, we will take you to see a banana, kekekeke..."

The noisy voices reached Roy's ears; several boys sounded like they were talking to someone.

The tone of their words seemed a bit off.

At first, he thought it was just some unruly youth messing around in a box, but the next moment, he heard a girl's sobs and the filthy words coming from these little ruffians.