"You've already lost."
The silver-haired girl spoke softly, announcing the outcome.
And this was far from an empty statement; she was merely stating a reality that had already become a foregone conclusion.
It was similar to the Mystic Eyes of Precognition owned by Ophelia Phamrsolone, which could fix an observed future. The Illya of this moment could do something similar, but with a twist.
He wasn't fixing an observed future, but rather, turning his desired future into the present.
To be precise, it was perhaps more akin to the Mystic Eyes of Direct Death, but as it stood, what [Illya] did was far more willful than the former.
Erasing an unwanted past, rewinding and reshaping the present, then cutting and pasting it anew to mold it into his desired form—like playing with a piece of modeling clay, shaping it into whatever he wanted... except this piece of clay was called "the world."
"My prince..."
Manaka was reluctant to accept this, but looking at the current Illya, she was utterly infatuated, her cheeks flushed with intoxication. "...Yes, I lost to you."
Mmm, this doesn't seem too shameful.
After all, this is my prince.
Losing to my prince, isn't that only natural?
Of course, while she could accept this reality, and even felt a little happy about it... she found the result of this reality a little hard to swallow...
"My prince... I..."
"Although you lost, I have felt your feelings."
"Don't argue with them anymore. I'd rather you all get along more harmoniously."
"Is that your wish, my prince? No problem! I will endure."
"Not endure, but as friends."
"...I will do my best!"
Easily, Miss Manaka Sajyou was won over.
"That simple!?"
Miss Illya was greatly shocked.
This terrifying woman, was she really this easy to deal with?
To this, [Illya] shrugged.
In truth, for most people, Manaka Sajyou was an absolute pain.
She was good at causing trouble and had a strong will. However, what could be more effective against an ultimate yandere like Miss Manaka than her singularity?
To be blunt, if he had been willing to sell his looks, the 'Sun' Manaka would not have entered a hostile state from the beginning.
However, Mr. Jiang Qiao was unwilling to be so rash. Although he liked beautiful girls and had been infected with a bit of Elysia's bad habit of being a pretty-face chaser, he would not deliberately target beautiful girls for his own amusement.
At least in Manaka Sajyou's case... how should he put it, this heavy-hitter had come knocking on his door herself, practically on the verge of forcibly kidnapping him.
To deal with the trouble, and also out of his own expectations for her, he gave her a goal worth striving for.
But it turned out like this...
Leaving Manaka aside, the gravity of the Root Princess was beyond doubt... he had only been kind enough to help the Fairy Queen when he discovered her problem, and it directly turned into a classic drama of a benevolent master and a filial servant.
One failed backstab led to her dragging her main body into the fray.
The other directly transformed into a Beast, and the two heavy-hitters fought to the point of world destruction over a man...
The Holy Grail War had directly turned into a battlefield for two heavyweight contestants.
Regardless of the safety of this world, or for these two individuals, he could no longer stand by and not intervene.
"I'm not as easy to deal with as she is."
Looking at the disappointing Manaka Sajyou, Morgan still had a cold expression, humming lightly and staring at [Illya] with a provocative gaze.
Unlike that fawning dog of a woman, she did indeed have feelings for him due to their brief contact.
But unfortunately, emotions like love could not sway her actions.
Just as she still wanted to be her own King of the Isle, her feelings for him were merely a desire to make him her prince consort.
"Well, I know that."
The girl, who was well aware of this, sighed.
This heavy-hitter great fairy was in some ways even more difficult to handle than Manaka Sajyou. After all, that's just how fae are.
They will use any means necessary to obtain what they want, even if it means pestering relentlessly.
And even after merging with Vivian, the Fairy Queen Morgan was still that domineering queen with a desire to control everything.
She really, simply, wanted to possess him.
And that made it very difficult for Mr. Illya-Jiang Qiao.
Although he had had contact with domineering girls before, like Mobius who would find opportunities to gank him for various reasons, Morgan was the first to be so direct and absolute.
Enemy or friend—no matter what choice he made, it would not change Morgan's attitude towards him.
"You definitely won't give in easily, will you."
"But..."
"Great fairy, you might have some fundamental misunderstandings about me because of my gentle attitude."
"Hehe, such talk is useless."
Morgan thought that Illya was probably trying to lower her desire for him through self-deprecation or similar means. Believing she saw through it clearly, she chuckled lightly—what she wants, she will get.
"No, that's not it~"
"What I'm trying to say is—"
"Now, you are mine." The silver-haired girl took light steps towards Morgan, her youthful voice sounding in Morgan's ear.
She could feel the warmth... although she was interested, she thought this was meaningless, even wanting to laugh and turn the tables.
However...
"!!!"
Morgan's eyes widened in disbelief.
"I'm not always so soft, you know... If you make me angry, I'll do something outrageous like this too~"
Fair fingers caressed Morgan's face. A blush appeared on her cheeks, and a hint of... tenderness flashed in her incredibly resolute eyes.
She could clearly feel what was happening to her at this moment—logically, this should be absolutely impossible for Morgan.
After all, she was a rebel who could return from the brink of death through sheer will and fight against human history.
Yet this absolute, resolute self...
...had submitted.
Without a doubt, at this moment, she, the Fairy Queen Morgan, had been conquered in a way that was absolutely impossible.
Her emotions were thawing, this love and hate that had been frozen for the sake of Britain...
"...What happened to her?"
"Nothing, she was just captured by me."
Facing Illya's confusion, [Illya] said lightly.
"Will submits to a stronger will."
"Although a great fairy's will is incredibly firm, it's still a bit inferior to mine~"
To be completely crushed on a mental level to achieve complete conquest. Although Jiang Qiao never really liked using this method, as for him, it was not the right way to interact with beautiful girls.
But unfortunately, the Fairy Queen Morgan was the type who required such forceful measures.
"...You win. I am now your queen consort."
Morgan bit her lip, still with that cold expression, but her words had softened a lot.
After realizing her will had been conquered, she knew she couldn't hold on any longer.
After all, she was now the one being dominated.
Although Morgan didn't really hate this feeling of being roughly conquered, she still felt a little awkward and unwilling.
"...You could have dominated me more thoroughly, couldn't you? Why didn't you?"
"I told you, I don't really like using such methods."
"After all, if I did that, the beautiful girl I'm interacting with would become like a beautiful but static vase."
"Although that's also beautiful, it loses the possibility that I like the most."
"I see... you will regret this. Although I am dominated by you now, I will definitely find a chance to reverse our positions."
"That doesn't sound too bad either."
"If you can do it."
...
"Did you do all this?"
Walking down the street, looking at the completely intact Fuyuki City, as if no battle had ever broken out, Illya felt as if it were all a dream. Had the Holy Grail War not happened from the beginning?
The memories left behind were not false; they told her that everything was the doing of the seemingly ordinary person beside her.
"You've already understood, haven't you?"
"...I don't know at all." Illya bit her lip.
She knew that her Master, the big brother who had borrowed her other self's body, was very powerful. At least, in the previous Holy Grail War, he had almost always been the one guiding her and lending her his power.
Even a small part of it was enough to rival the powerhouses of the Holy Grail War.
However, Illya didn't have a concrete idea of just how powerful he was.
Until now.
Under the moonlight, Illya looked at the face similar to her own, yet exuding an indescribable feeling from the silver-haired girl.
"What is this..."
"Well, it seems you're quite interested in me right now."
The latter noticed her curious gaze and chuckled, taking a few steps forward and twirling around.
"For you, this should be something quite direct. After all, this is the end point of Illyasviel von Einzbern."
"My end point..."
As Illya was lost in confusion, the next moment, with the drip of a water droplet, the world seemed to turn upside down, and the surrounding scenery changed.
She could see a vast, dark field.
"Magecraft is the world at the limit of human intellect. Magic is a solitary existence outside the heavens, not covered by any of them."
"The first one changed everything. The subsequent second one acknowledged more."
"The succeeding third one showed the future. The maintaining fourth one hid itself."
"Thus, the concluding fifth had already lost its meaning."
"At this moment, its name is Three—this is the end point of the Third Magic, Heaven's Feel."
[Illya] explained the source of this great power to Illya.
Yes, the so-called God-Emperor Illya who traversed all ages was, in essence, the crystallization of the Third Magic.
Unlike the First Magic, which created everything, and the Second Magic, which observed and established infinite possibilities... the Third Magic, Heaven's Feel, its true meaning was transcendence.
Shallow magi did not actually understand the true meaning of the Third Magic.
They simply thought that the Third Magic could save the world, but they completely failed to understand what this miracle truly meant.
To converge the infinite futures into a single self.
And then, to become a transcendent being that surpasses everything.
In countless world lines, the Einzbern family had worked their fingers to the bone without success. Infinite coincidences converged into a single necessity, and the result was the Illyasviel von Einzbern of this moment.
This world's one and only God-Emperor Illya.
Originally, only Miss Illya had the potential to unlock this form.
Because the conditions for the birth of God-Emperor Illya were like Elysia being the one-in-a-million Herrscher of Human—only after Kiritsugu Emiya made the right choice could Illya avoid being led to an early death by the Einzbern's destiny.
And only by breaking free from the Einzbern's destiny could she fulfill the Einzbern's destiny and complete the Third Magic that the Einzbern family had longed for.
But, for Jiang Qiao, it was not so.
The moment he obtained this body, he had already understood its correct opening and usage.
Without needing to complete the prerequisites of the Third Magic, with Mr. Jiang Qiao's own qualities, he had already molded this body into his own shape.
The Third Magic cast by [Illya]—this form was even stronger than the original God-Emperor Illya.
"The Third Magic..."
After unlocking the memories of the Holy Grail War, it was impossible for Illya not to know what this was.
After all, it was the ultimate pursuit of the Einzbern family.
But at this moment, it was presented before her in her own form.
How should she put it?
Miss Illya's mood became a little complicated.
Although she didn't have much affection for the Einzbern family, as she had been kept in the dark for so many years, after regaining those memories, it was inevitable that she would awaken the Einzbern's long-cherished wish from her bloodline.
In this aspect alone, she almost wanted to worship it, overjoyed.
However, this was accomplished by someone else in the body of her other self... how should she put it?
There was a feeling... that she had lost completely, both as an Einzbern and as Illya...
Miss Illya, full of a sense of defeat, suddenly remembered something, and her gaze slowly shifted to [Illya].
"Hey, Master~ I want to learn this. Can you teach me?"
"Eh?"
"Well, this Holy Grail War was originally meant to teach you the Third Magic, but a lot of things went wrong... It doesn't matter if you want to learn it, after all, it belongs to you. But the Third Magic is quite troublesome..."
As the girl was talking to herself, Miss Illya slowly approached, a slight curve on her lips:
"No need~ I have a faster way to learn."