I, Kenneth, am going to get to the root of the problem today.

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I, Kenneth, am going to the source today. (Author: Quietly typing L)

Tokiomi Tohsaka: This Holy Grail War is mine to win! I will reach the Root, and the Tohsaka family's century-long dream will be realized in my hands!

Weber: I will prove myself in the Holy Grail War! Fortune changes every thirty years, never underestimate a young man's potential!

Kenneth, who just transmigrated here: Surviving for two years would be a victory...

Having transmigrated, and being the very same Kenneth destined to die by the God of Fungi, Kenneth was numb upon regaining consciousness. Looking at the gleaming Command Seals on the back of his hand, Kenneth felt a throbbing pain in all his magical circuits... No, I must live! Aozaki Touko's dolls, give them to me! Rita Rogen's collection, give them to me! Lydia's fortune, give them to me! The incomplete Third Law that constructs the Holy Grail, give them all to me!!

So, in Fuyuki City in 1994, standing beneath the shattered Holy Grail and looking at the void above leading to the outside world, Kenneth simply raised his middle finger to the sky.

"Mere restraint? I, Kenneth, will strike at the source today!!!"

Chapter 1 Kenneth: Surviving Two Years is a Victory

On August 17th, Sora smiled at me today. She really does love me...

August 22nd, tomorrow's my date! Kenneth, how could you be so lazy? She looked terrible on our last date. You must not have been a gentleman enough. This time...

......

August 23rd. Yesterday's date was a disaster. Sora just left. It must be because I didn't do a good enough job. Love letter, yes, love letter.

Sora, my beloved, you are my heart, you are my liver, you are three-quarters of my life...

You are the orange glow of the setting sun, you are the bright star in the sky...

Sora, my brain, my heart, every organ in my body is saying I love you...

......

Looking at the unfinished love letter in front of him, Kenneth's lips twitched uncontrollably.

"Who writes a diary? This guy is such a sycophant!! Wait, Kenneth and Sola!"

"Coincidence, it must be a coincidence, I must be dreaming... This must all be fake!!!"

With trembling hands, Kenneth raised his hand, and the sight of the genuine leather gloves made his heart clench. He grabbed the mirror on the table, and the slicked-back hair reflected in it made Kenneth's heart sink to the bottom.

Clinging to a last glimmer of hope, Kenneth slapped himself across the face. The crisp sound of the slap followed, and along with Kenneth's face, the soul from another world within this body also contorted.

"I just took a nap, how did I turn into Kenneth?!"

"What a terrible thing!! What a terrible thing!!"

......

At this moment, the soul from the 21st century realized that it had transmigrated, and transmigrated into the body of the 9th head of the Archipelago family, the most affectionate person in the Clock Tower, and the heavyweight Director Ken, who was appointed by the Fungus God to promote the development of the world by sacrificing himself.

'Knock knock knock...'

"Lord, the next necromancy class is yours. Is there anything I need to prepare?"

A knock sounded at the door. Kenneth, devastated by the harsh reality, had no heart to lecture the students of the Clock Tower. He suppressed his surging heart, cleared his throat, and imitated the tone he remembered.

"Please inform Lord Euryph that my magic has made a breakthrough and needs time to prove itself. The necromancy course will be postponed."

“I understand, Lord.”

The magician outside the door was stunned. Although he didn't understand why Kenneth didn't go to see his mentor and father-in-law in person today, the magician who was responsible for delivering the message didn't dare to say anything and quickly left the Department of Minerals.

"Calm down, calm down, I need to figure out how much time I have!!!"

Kenneth's gaze shifted to the calendar on the wall, and the year 1992 made him subconsciously breathe a sigh of relief. He took off his right glove, and the gleaming Command Seal shattered his last shred of hope.

"Why don't we transplant the Command Seals to someone else now?"

The idea was nipped in the bud by Kenneth. As a transmigrator, Kenneth knew very well that Director Ken's death was inevitable. Putting aside the saying from his previous life that if Director Ken didn't die, he would reach the source, Director Ken's inevitable death and the abnormality of being a transmigrator, Kenneth could be said to have stacked up all the buffs.

"Damn it!! Why is it that everyone else who transmigrates can just go on a killing spree, but when it comes to me, surviving for two years is considered a victory??"

"I'll die if I participate, and I'll die if I don't participate, what should I do?!"

At this moment, Kenneth's brain began to work at lightning speed. Under this mental overdrive, smoke rose directly from Kenneth's lemon head.

"The Holy Grail War, the Root, the Magician, the Counter Force..."

"Leaving the Holy Grail War aside for now, and with Director Ken already dead, the issue of the Boundary Record Belt can be put on hold. What I should be considering is whether the Counter Force harbors any ill will towards me, an outsider..."

"The malice of the restraining force? Guardian, Root, magic, magician!!"

Magicians are enemies of the world. Every time a magician uses magic, it causes irreparable damage to the world. This is why the Counter Force has always prevented magicians from exploring the root cause.

It's abnormal. Director Ken's existence is abnormal, and Kenneth's existence is also abnormal. In order to eliminate the uncontrollable in the world, the Counter Force will inevitably exclude people like him who have planted his flag everywhere. However, even with the obstruction of the Counter Force, there are still people who can overcome all obstacles to reach the source and transcend the human realm.

"The first one changed everything, the second one revealed countless things, the third one showed the future, the fourth one concealed its form, and the fifth one has lost its meaning."

Muttering to himself, Kenneth began frantically devising a way to break the deadlock.

"The first one has already denied itself, then the second one is in the hands of the Jewel Elder, the third one that follows reveals its incompleteness, the fourth one that follows hides itself together with the person who possesses it, and the fifth one that concludes is Aozaki Aoko. So, the Dharma that can be achieved now is the third one that follows?"

"Traces of the Third Law, the Holy Grail, Director Ken's death—this is truly a doomed situation!!"

Based on the current analysis, mastering magic is Kenneth's only way to survive. However, faced with this inevitable death, even Kenneth, a transmigrator who is one of the three major professions in online novels, couldn't help but feel alarmed. He frantically rubbed his slicked-back hair and tried his best to extract the memories from his mind.

"How can I avoid death? Root, magic, restraint..."

"Avoiding death, the source, magic, the restraint...Avoiding death!! The source!! 214!! Mother of Guanbu City!!"

In that instant of sudden enlightenment... Kenneth grasped the future. With his hair a messy slicked-back style, Kenneth picked up the phone on the table.

"Hey! Arrange a plane for me to go to Guanbuzi City. What? Cancel the seminar with the Spirit Summoning Department! Now!!"

After hanging up the phone, Kenneth violently pushed open the office door. A magician from the Spellcasting Department happened to be blocking Kenneth's way at that moment. Noticing Kenneth's messy slicked-back hair, the magician immediately lowered his head.

“Lord, Miss Solau asked me to tell you that she is currently unavailable. Please visit Euryphus’s house instead.”

In a life-or-death situation, upon hearing the name of Director Ken's fiancée, Kenneth's blood pressure skyrocketed.

"climb!!!"

Under that simple barrage of foul language, the magician belonging to the Spellcasting Department collapsed to the ground.

"Please don't be angry, Lord. Miss Solau is just in a bad mood, she is still..."

"roll!!"

With his simple foul language and ultimate enjoyment, Kenneth had no time to care about that damned Solau. Stepping over the fallen magician, Kenneth left the Minerals Department corridor without looking back.

Kenneth's angry shouts immediately attracted the attention of passing magicians. Once Kenneth had completely disappeared, the group of magicians immediately began to whisper among themselves.

"Lord El-Melloi, what's going on? That person looks like the magician from the Euryphus family, could it be that Miss Sorau...?"

"Shut up, do you have a death wish? You dare to discuss matters between monarchs? Do you want to go and work in the Department of Political Science and Law?"

Upon hearing his companion's words, the young magician immediately shrank back, clutching the book in his arms, and quickly fled the scene.

Chapter Two: Absolute Future Vision in the Alley

Completely ignoring the clock tower that had become chaotic due to his abnormality, Kenneth, with his slicked-back hair, boarded a plane bound for Guanbuzi City after taking a vial of mercury with him. Normally, a magician would have to report to the veil holder before entering the territory of another family, but who was Kenneth? The dignified head of the El-Melloi family, he didn't need to report to those few fallen exorcist families.

"214, the mother of Kanbuko City. Ryougi Shiki is still a junior high school student. Her opinion on me is still unknown. In that case, let's find the mother of Kanbuko City first."

With his suitcase in hand, the blond-haired, blue-eyed Kenneth stood out at the airport in Guanbuzi City. As he sat in the Hyatt Hotel's private car, Kenneth pondered how to confront the Yin and Yang that connected to the source.

“Mr. Archibald, we have arrived. Your suite is on the thirty-second floor. We will bring your luggage up to you shortly. In the meantime, is there anything you need?”

The waiter's words interrupted Kenneth's thoughts. For some reason, seeing this hotel made Kenneth instinctively feel a pain in his magic circuits.

"Prepare my dinner and bring it up with my luggage later."

After this period of time, Kenneth has become accustomed to the arrogance of Director Ken, which comes from the four flags on the clock tower. Under the manipulation of the memory etched into his muscles, as long as he doesn't speak, Kenneth really does have the air of an old-fashioned magic family.

Kenneth tossed a Yukichi to the waiter and stepped directly into the elevator to the top floor. As dusk settled, he gazed at the city below the floor-to-ceiling windows, subconsciously stroking his slicked-back hair, before walking out of the Hyatt Hotel.

"Is the Mother of Guanbu City, the Absolute Future Vision hidden in the alley, a divine eye that transcends 'prediction' and 'determination'?"

In the alleyway filled with air conditioner units and water pipes, Kenneth stopped, his head bowed in thought, stepping into a puddle.

"Hey, hey, hey, judging by your appearance, you're a foreigner, right? If you don't want any parts missing, you'd better hand over the money!"

After surveying the thugs who had followed him, Kenneth's magic mark under his glove lit up, activating the "Idlers Dispersal" ability. The pedestrians lingering outside the alley immediately rubbed their heads and hurried away from the scene of the crime.

"Hey, hey, hey, what's wrong with you? Didn't you hear me talking to you?"

"Brother, do you think he doesn't understand Japanese? Should we try English?"

The gang leader slapped the thug who had spoken on the head, and immediately cursed:

"If I could speak English, I'd be a yakuza. You better translate what you just said!!"

Faced with his boss's angry rebuke, Da Congming, who had just opened his mouth, took a step forward and began to translate his boss's words in his third-grade elementary school-level spoken language.

"Hey, hey, hey, look here, you're a foreigner. If you're interested, please give me Mane!!"

Kenneth's authentic neon accent was so irresistible that he couldn't resist pulling up his shirt. Under the expectant gaze of the group of thugs, Kenneth slowly pulled out a tube of mercury.

"Boiling, my blood."

“Fervor, mei sanguis.”

As mercury dripped from the test tube, Kenneth's brows furrowed instinctively as he watched the Moon Spirit Essence Fluid swell into a ball.

"Gil is really ugly. It's such a waste for Director Ken to have such a versatile dress."

"Monster! Monster!! This guy is a monster!!"

Unlike Kenneth, who looked disgusted, the thugs struggled and scattered towards the alley exit the moment they saw the Moon Spirit Essence Liquid. With a flick of his finger, liquid mercury splashed out, and the thugs pinned to the wall immediately let out hysterical screams as they felt the mercury flowing on their skin.

"Where is the mother of Guanbuzi City?"

"Monster, monster! Don't come any closer! I've already called the police! You..."

*Pfft!*

Liquid mercury pierced the skull, and Kenneth turned his gaze to the scoundrel on the other side.

"Where is the mother of Guanbuzi City?"

"I don't know, isn't that just an urban legend? Don't come any closer, please spare me! Japan has laws protecting minors, this is a crime!!"

Kenneth paused, then walked into the depths of the alley under the undisguised gleeful gaze of the group of thugs. Just as Kenneth disappeared into the darkness, the mercury covering the thugs' bodies contracted, and then the Moon Spirit Essence Liquid, which had reformed into a ball, slowly returned to Kenneth's test tube.

"What a nuisance. I knew I couldn't rely on these useless people. They have absolutely no future vision. Looks like you don't want to see me."

Having figured out the key point, Kenneth, who had been wandering around the alley for several hours, stopped and took out the familiar that could contact the El-Melloi family from his pocket.

"If that's the case, then there's no need for this city to exist."

The Mother of Guanbuzi City: Danger!!

"Hey buddy, wanna come over and take a look?"

Just as Kenneth's hand was about to press on the communication familiar, a female voice rang out from the alley beside him. Looking in the direction of the voice, he saw that a table had been set up in the previously empty alley.

As Kenneth watched the woman who had concealed her figure in the shadows, a smile curved his lips. Seeing Kenneth put his familiar back into his pocket, the tense body of the Mother of the City of Cloth immediately relaxed.

To be honest, the Mother of Kanbuko City really didn't want to see the man in front of her. In the countless futures she had seen, this man had died in every one of them due to the malice of the world, and his remaining life was shrouded in a fog. If it weren't for the fact that the man in front of her could really bring indelible pain to this city, the Mother of Kanbuko City would definitely have chosen to open Run directly.

"With your keen eyesight, you should know exactly why I'm here."

Kenneth plopped down in the executive chair formed from the Moon Spirit Essence Liquid, and through the black veil, stared intently into the mother of Guanbuzi City's translucent blue eyes.

"The process still needs to be followed. There's no hope. You're doomed, or rather, you're already dead, and you'll die again."

Taking a deep breath, Kenneth put his hands back in his pockets. Noticing Kenneth's action, the eyes of the Mother of Guanbu City began to tremble violently.

"You understand, there are some things I cannot say. Even inevitable death leaves a glimmer of hope, and your hope lies in winter..."

'Boom!!'

A thunderclap suddenly erupted in the cloudless night sky, and the body of the Mother of Guanbuzi City trembled violently. The crisis of being locked by an unknown power instantly enveloped the alley, and Kenneth's hair stood on end.

"I understand. Thank you for your explanation. If you encounter any difficulties in the future, you can call this number anytime."

"No need for that, I don't want to leave here."

There was no answer. Kenneth stood up and walked towards the alley's exit. His bloodshot eyes saw the business card on the table. The Mother of Buzi City looked up and shouted at Kenneth's retreating figure:

"You can go see her; she's very interested in you."

Kenneth paused, then walked out of the flooded alley.

Chapter 3: Root Form and Aozaki Touko