Zongman: The Legend of the Demon Fox

Chapter 184
"Has Kirei not returned yet?"

In the big house of the Tohsaka family, an elegant middle-aged man in a red dress shook a glass of red wine and asked the Servant beside him.

"Master, Kotomine Kirei has been staying at a Chinese restaurant recently."

"I remember that restaurant seems to be called Hongzhou Banquet Hall Taishan? Assassin seems to follow suit."

She wears a crown on her head and a swimsuit under a green quilt.

A strange Servant holding a golden holy sword in one hand and a water gun in the other appeared behind Tohsaka Tokiomi.

"Kirei probably made some new discoveries, so don't bother him for the time being."

Putting down the wine glass in his hand, Tohsaka Tokiomi got up and walked to the window, looking at the night view of Fuyuki City.

"Archer, do you think this Holy Grail War is strange?"

"Master, are you referring to Assassin's matter? Indeed, I was also surprised by the summoning of another me, and Assassin seems unwilling to admit his identity."

"No, Archer, I'm worried about more than that."

Tohsaka Tokiomi turned around, with a thoughtful look in his deep eyes.

"I received information that the Servant of the Einzbern family should also be you. The specific rank is unknown. Excluding Archer, Berserker, and Assassin, what do you think it might be?"

"It's me too? In the Holy Grail War, the same Heroic Spirit will not appear repeatedly in different ranks. If that Servant is 'me' Rider, Saber, or Lancer, it is more likely. Caster is impossible. After all, my words are completely ignorant of magic. So Caster can be ruled out."

"Caster...Speaking of which, there is still no news about Caster and Caster's Master."

Tohsaka Tokiomi withdrew his gaze from the window, and turned to look at his Servant.

The legendary knight king of Britain who lives in the rank of Archer.

"Caster is hiding in the dark and may be preparing for something. So far, there is no news of friction between other Servants. Archer will take the initiative to attack tonight, and the opponent is Assassin."

"It is not yet possible for the other Masters to know that we are allied with Assassin, so let us start the first battle."

"A reasonable arrangement, the Master is bound to win this Holy Grail War."

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"Master, I'm back."

Twirling the bag containing the desserts, the girl pushed open the outer door of this ancient house and entered the house.

"Berserker came back a little late today. Come and help me see how this passage is going? Recently, the editor has been urging me again. Really, he doesn't understand the aggrieved feeling of a writer when he can't find inspiration."

A white-haired man walked out of a room full of waste paper with a thick stack of paper filled with densely written words in his hand.

His face was full of fatigue, and just looking at the dark circles under his eyes felt like he hadn't closed his eyes for more than a month.

"Master should pay attention to rest occasionally, and the Holy Grail War has already begun, Master should also be vigilant."

Berserker put the dessert on the table, opened a box of pudding and ate in small bites.

At the same time, he took the manuscript from Matou Kariya and began to read it carefully.

Looking at Berserker who was flipping through his manuscript, Matou Kariya went to the yard and lit a cigarette.

He doesn't smoke much at ordinary times, after all, he is easily choked by the smoke.

But now is an exception, he often has to come out to smoke a cigarette from time to time, to confirm whether he is living in a dream.

Kariya's qualifications as a magician are much higher than that of his eldest brother Tsuruno.Zouken originally wanted Kariya to inherit the position of governor of the family, but 11 years ago, Kariya resolutely broke free from the shackles of the family because he could not agree with the ugly insect technique and did not want to become a puppet of Zouken, and left the home that was like purgatory to him.

Although Kariya's magic circuit was better than his older brother Tsuruno's, it was not to the extent that Zouken had to spend his free will to make him the next Patriarch.

So he ran away smoothly and lived as an ordinary person in other places for a long time.

Saying goodbye to his childhood sweetheart Chancheng Aoi, although he has always liked Aoi, but this feeling has not been noticed.

Aoi, who is three years older than Kariya, always treats him gently like a real sister, putting herself in his shoes, but this feeling is not love.

Matou Kariya also felt that Aoi was not suitable for him, because Matou's house was a wormhole.

His father is an old worm who has lived for an unknown number of years, and their family's magic is so distorted that he even feels disgusted.

Fortunately, Tohsaka Tokiomi, also from a family of magicians, married Aoi, and they had two daughters.

The gem magic of the Tohsaka family is much better than the bugs of his Matou family.

But just a few years ago, maybe two or three years ago.

While traveling as a reporter in other places, he received a letter.

It was sent by that old bug.

The general meaning is to let him return to Matou's house quickly, and also threaten to keep his black history from being known to the whole world if he doesn't come back.

In the middle school, Kariya is a serious patient with the second disease of evil eyes. He also wrote the "Dark Demon Swordsman Kalia" series of novels with himself as the protagonist, but was later secretly hidden by Zouken.Kariya himself regards this period of black history as the most shameful in his youth.

Now that old bug actually threatened him with this thing!

After thinking about it, he finally boarded the tram home.

As a result, the closer he got to Dongmu, the more he felt pain in his right hand.

The pain, as if being burned by a flame, penetrated deep into the bones.

After gritting his teeth and persevering, three red lines bleed on his hand. At that time, he didn't know that it was the proof of becoming a Holy Grail War Master.

When he came to the door of his house, he spent three hours mentally preparing at the door before he summoned up the courage to open the door and meet the "father" whom he hadn't seen for many years...

However, the moment he opened the door, it wasn't the old man who exuded the stench of corruption that greeted him.

It was a little girl with purple hair who was concentrating on cleaning the room.

It's Sakura!

After Aoi married into the Tohsaka family, Kariya believed that Tokiomi could give Aoi happiness, so he chose to let go of this feeling and silently guarded their mother and daughter.

But now Tohsaka Tokiomi sent Aoi's daughter into this wormhole!Anger overwhelmed his rationality, and he wanted to go to Tohsaka Tokiomi to make a theory.

Then he was held back by Sakura, and saw Matou Zouken's memorial tablet at home.

Then I saw the will left by Matou Zouken, this house and the family's magic inheritance were left to him.

But most of the money was given to his elder brother. Now Matou Heye is doing business in other places. I heard that his nephew Matou Shinji has been clamoring to go back to see him.

Seems to adore him for unknown reasons.

After that, he started to stay at home to learn magic, but after opening the magic book, he found that it was not the disgusting bug magic he imagined.

Although bug magic still accounts for a large part, the core of what he needs to learn is the summoning system of heroic spirits, the part about command spells.

He finally found out about his family's past in the book left by Zouken Matou, and Magiri Zorgen was Zouken Matou's real name.

An official Command Spell developed by one of the creators of the Holy Grail Summoning Ceremony hundreds of years ago.

According to Matou Zouken's will, he must participate in the Holy Grail War if he wants to obtain the custody of Matou Sakura.

Even in order to become a qualified magician before the war started, Zouken Matou prepared a magic ritual to transform his body in advance.

A simple ritual that requires only a small infusion of mana to begin.

The effect is also very simple, that is, hundreds of command spells are stuffed into the body as a simulated magic circuit.

Although it would be very painful to use, he might die if he used it too much, and even just finishing this magic ritual would make his hair grow old overnight.

But for Sakura's happiness, everything is worth it.

Thinking of Sakura grabbing his corner and calling Kariya's father, he couldn't help but smile.

Although he knew very well that Matou Zouken was definitely not dead.

But now he undoubtedly got everything he wanted.

It would have been better if it hadn't been for the sudden discovery that his dark history had been announced the next day.

Although editors from several publishing houses came to him afterwards, he simply quit his job as a reporter and became a writer.

In this Holy Grail War, he no longer has any wishes that must be fulfilled...

And his Servant didn't have any wishes to fulfill.

This holy grail war is just a stroke of water.

(End of this chapter)