You call this a projection?

The Holy Grail (Miyu Edelfelt) that they had found with such difficulty had run away. And the Ainsworth family, who had never given up on searching for Miyu, were doing nothing this time.

They were just waiting in their own world.

Waiting for the Gilgamesh Class Card—which had accidentally followed those seven Class Cards and traveled to the parallel world along with Miyu—to connect with the Grail War magic circuits that the Einzbern family had laid out and integrated into the land of Fuyuki City. Once connected, it would trigger a situation even the Ainsworth family hadn’t anticipated: the Class Card, which had only swapped its power, would turn into a full Servant summoning identical to those of the Einzbern family.

They were waiting for this Gilgamesh, manifested in the form of a Servant, to repeatedly use his anti-world Noble Phantasm, [Enuma Elish], to pierce the barrier between the worlds. Naturally, they would then follow him to the world where Miyu Edelfelt was located.

Is such a thing possible?

This isn’t The New Three Kingdoms, where a group of guys who have read the script beforehand can just do nothing, and fate will personally feed the ending into their mouths.

So, the traversal of the Gilgamesh Class Card and the fact that [Enuma Elish] would pierce the barrier between the two worlds might really just be a coincidence.

But the Ainsworths didn’t do nothing before this barrier was broken.

Just as in the animated version of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, the arrival of Angelica and the others was different from the manga version; they didn’t appear from within a barrier pierced by [Enuma Elish], but waited until after the Gilgamesh Class Card had been defeated and recovered by Illya and the others, and after several days of daily life had passed, before slowly arriving in the world of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya to take Miyu Edelfelt away.

If this wasn’t an error in the plot arrangement by the animation production team—but rather, just like the Zelretch in the Tsukihime world line versus the Zelretch outside the Tsukihime world line (where one failed to completely defeat Crimson Moon and was even turned into a Dead Apostle, while the other cleared Crimson Moon perfectly without being forced into becoming a Dead Apostle)—could the manga and animation versions of Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya be two different choices made by the Ainsworths in different parallel worlds?

One where they hadn’t managed to do anything yet before the Gilgamesh Class Card provided an assist; and another where that final [Enuma Elish] from the Gilgamesh Class Card missed, failing to pierce the barrier between these two worlds, necessitating that the Ainsworths perform the world-swap themselves?

”Rin, I’m not sure if the Ainsworth family in Miyu’s world has mastered the Second Magic.

But there is one thing I am certain of: the displacement magic of the Ainsworth family has long been capable of displacing space.

Or rather, when they were able to use displacement magic to swap the power of Heroic Spirits from the Throne of Heroes located on the outer side of the world and turn them into Class Cards...

The distance between worlds was no longer an insurmountable chasm for them.”

Shirou spoke in a serious tone. He didn’t mention the difference between the manga and animation versions—words that were thoughts for him but might sound like gibberish to others. He simply used this simplest example to explain why the Ainsworths were capable of it.

”...Yeah, if your [Future Vision], Shirou, is certain that the opponent is using displacement magic, and they really can displace the power of Heroic Spirits...” Rin paused, then said somewhat despondently, ”Then this distance really doesn’t mean much to them...”

’Isn’t the Second Magic a very rare thing?

Why, ever since I participated in the Holy Grail War, have abilities similar to the Second Magic been popping up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain?’

Assassin, Miyu Edelfelt, the Ainsworth family...

”Are we really just going to stare at these distorted ley line locations and wait for the Ainsworth family to begin the displacement of worlds before we do something?”

When she said this, Tohsaka Rin was clearly very unwilling. After all, being on the receiving end of a beating had never been her style.

”That’s not the case,” Emiya Shirou said.

”...Eh?!” Tohsaka Rin stared blankly at Emiya Shirou.

”In fact, while it wouldn’t be the full version of the Second Magic, I have briefly thought of three ways to traverse to this multi-dimensional space, the Mirror World, using effects similar to the Second Magic.”

As he said this, Emiya Shirou held up three fingers toward Rin and the others.

’No way, is there really a master here!?’

Hearing that Emiya Shirou really had a way, Tohsaka Rin didn’t know whether to feel happy that they wouldn’t have to be on the receiving end of a beating anymore, or feel sad that the Second Magic seemed to be becoming increasingly cheap.

However, Rin, who had just felt this complex emotion, was soon captivated by the words Emiya Shirou spoke next.

”The first method is to use the Magical Ruby (Kaleidoscope staff) that you locked in Zelretch’s treasure chest, Rin.”

Emiya Shirou used the fingers of his other hand to point to one of the three fingers he had held up earlier: ”Because the Kaleidoscope staff itself is a Mystic Code created by Zelretch using the Second Magic.

Since its own ability allows the contractor to gain the skills of their parallel-world self, we can naturally try to open a passage to the Mirror World—the other space—by adjusting its parameters.

The second method is actually quite similar; it’s to ask Illya to commune with Fuyuki City’s ley lines and reproduce the images of Zelretch using the Gem Sword that were once recorded on this land.

As long as I can record and project the Gem Sword, then you, Rin, should be able to interfere with the Mirror World through it, right?”

As Emiya Shirou said this, his other hand slowly moved to the second of the three fingers. Then, he pointed toward the third finger—the final one—and said: ”As for the third method, it is slightly more dangerous. It requires me to use a record of a ritual left by Kiritsugu called ’Spirit Mediumship’ (Jurei-jutsu).

Just as the Ainsworth family can displace the power of Heroic Spirits into humans, I can also try to use the Spirit Mediumship ritual to channel Gilgamesh.

I can obtain that sword Noble Phantasm of Gilgamesh that can cut through the world.”

Shirou, who had disguised the Spirit Mediumship ritual he obtained from the world of Jujutsu Kaisen as an inheritance left by Emiya Kiritsugu, said: ”The only problem is that, unlike the first two methods where there is just a possibility...

For this fragile barrier between worlds that is temporarily linked together, the power of that anti-world Noble Phantasm could definitely open it.

But the power of Gilgamesh is also notoriously difficult to control. In the future that can be seen by my [Future Vision], there is only one person who can master the power of Gilgamesh.

Others who try to displace the power of Gilgamesh are invariably influenced or even occupied by Gilgamesh’s consciousness instead...”

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