After tidying up a little, the two lay down on the bed together.
Perhaps because they had become slightly more familiar with each other, the sense of strangeness gradually faded, and Tohsaka Rin felt much more at ease.
However, she was unable to fall asleep. She had experienced too much today; suddenly, the world was completely different from what she had imagined, and anyone would be in a state of turmoil.
The first time she met Jean, this strange Servant, the first time she protected her younger sister, the first time she witnessed a battle between Servants, the first time she saw Jean heavily injured...
"Ah, my head is filled with the image of Jean's heart being pierced. That guy has no idea how worried I was at the time."
She quietly glanced at Jean, who was reading a book nearby. Confirming that this Servant, who was suspected of having mind-reading abilities, was not paying attention to her at the moment, Rin felt slightly relieved.
She then pulled the quilt up to the bridge of her nose, exposing only her eyes, and stared blankly at the ceiling, thinking about what she should say when she saw Sakura tomorrow.
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Meanwhile, beside her, Jean was engrossed in reading the Tohsaka Family's ancestral grimoire.
Having felt the magical energy from Tohsaka Rin all day, combined with the grimoire dug up from the basement, Jean was gradually coming to understand the nature of magical energy.
Magical energy is essentially a specific structural mixture of spiritual power and life force. Spiritual power is naturally one's own, but life force is not necessarily so. Magical energy synthesized using the life force widely present in the world is Greater Source magical energy, while using one's own life force is Lesser Source magical energy.
Magic circuits are the channels for synthesizing magical energy, or one could say, the factories.
However, Jean did not possess such things as magic circuits. Fortunately, the operation of mixing spiritual power and life force was not complex for Jean.
After all, having experienced treating Frostnova, the manipulation of life force could now be described as meticulous.
As for spiritual power, having learned quite a few pure spiritual power techniques through that book, "The Actor's Self-Cultivation," it could be considered as easy as moving one's own arm.
As long as the two energies were fused based on feeling, snap, magical energy appeared.
Unfortunately, the magical attributes in the Nasuverse do not refer to actual properties, but rather to qualities similar to elements; to put it bluntly, it is a metaphorical technique.
For example, the fire attribute represents destruction and cutting, so wind blades released by a person with the fire attribute would have increased cutting power.
And an ability like Kokutou Azaka's, which involves directly spewing fire, is a superpower called 'Ignition Phenomenon'.
According to the identification method in the book, Jean had only one unique attribute: wind.
"Ah, this..."
Jean was speechless, but upon seeing that the wind attribute was about perception and flow, it was no surprise. After all, from the very beginning, Jean's wind element was self-taught in terms of perception and flow, and using the wind element to explore was like an instinct.
Furthermore, the wind attribute could be said to be the most noble among the five major attributes, described using the word "Noble." For instance, the Fifth Magic family, the Aozaki family, possessed the wind attribute, and there was even a saying that both sisters were women like the wind.
In addition, the Clock Tower's top dog, Barthomeloi, also had the wind attribute, and there were many other talents who were also wind-attributed, such as Lord El-Melloi... well, never mind that.
Jean then glanced at the young girl lying nearby, who was struggling with herself. Possessing all five major attributes—earth, water, fire, wind, and sky—as an "Average One," perhaps this was what a female protagonist was like.
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The grimoire was a record of a Magician's life; rather than a textbook documenting magic, it was more like a collection of research notes.
However, as an emerging family with a history of just over 200 years, the Tohsaka Family's research progress was not very fast. After all, their ultimate goal was the Second Magic, and the shortcut Tohsaka Nagato found was the Third Magic.
The Third Magic goes without saying; there had been no results to date, and if they could have succeeded, it wouldn't have dragged on to the fifth iteration.
Moreover, using the counter force's henchmen to open the path to the Root—who knows whose rotten idea that was? The counter force just needed to intervene from behind, and it would fail.
In fact, in the various Holy Grail Wars in Jean's memory, only the old director, accompanied by Solomon, succeeded in the end. But even Solomon did not complete the Third Magic; instead, he chose to descend to the human realm and provided the old director with a sum of money.
As for whether this was a transaction with the counter force or Solomon's own choice, it was unknown. One had to realize that the thought patterns of Solomon before becoming Roman and those of Roman were vastly different.
The problem with the Second Magic was even greater. As Tohsaka Nagato, who was guided into the world of magic by Zelretch, he had not actually received thorough training from Zelretch.
However, due to the characteristics of his personality, he obtained the design blueprints for the Jeweled Sword with the bizarre reasoning that "this lineage might not be able to achieve great things, but it is the only one that will not make mistakes," while the other parts of the Second Magic were not taught at all.
This resulted in the Tohsaka Family's slow progress in the Second Magic and complete stagnation in the Third Magic; only by relying on the family's inherited conversion characteristics could their gem magic be considered to have achieved some success.
However, the Tohsaka Family had other merits, namely the dual cultivation of magic and martial arts. In the eyes of the original head, Tohsaka Nagato, magic and martial arts were equally important, but it fell apart by the generation of Tohsaka Tokiomi.
I don't know if it was because he was always thinking about elegance and was not good at exercise, but there were no records of Tohsaka Tokiomi integrating magic into martial arts, and no research was conducted on physical strengthening.
Conversely, under the tutelage of Kirei Kotomine, Tohsaka Rin mastered a decent Bajiquan, which could be considered a way to make up for it.
As for the parts outside of magic research, they were discussions about the Holy Grail War, but the content basically lacked highlights and even went down the wrong path in many places. However, in Jean's view, how a master and Servant combined to win still depended on luck.
On the contrary, the story about the Third War, where two women fought over a man, was quite interesting. They actually summoned two aspects of Saber simultaneously, and even caused the sisters of the Tohsaka Family head at the time to kill each other, making it like a melodramatic romance drama.
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However, Jean still found many things to learn within it. Just like that, in the process of constant experimentation and exploration, the night passed.
The next morning, when Tohsaka Rin opened her eyes, she saw the room filled with light green butterflies, which was both spectacular and frightening.
"Good morning, Rin. How is it? The familiar I researched—the Anemo Crystalfly."
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