infinite death song

Kirei subconsciously turned his body and disappeared from the spot. After the bullet was fired, it made the sound of hitting the reinforced concrete floor.

When the smoke screen disappeared, Kirei rushed to behind the pillar where Maiya was hiding before, there was no one there, his face was still cold and unchanged.

"The person who released the smoke bomb just now was Emiya Kiritsugu..."

Even if he didn't see that man appear with his own eyes, Kirei still firmly believed that the person who came to rescue Maiya was the man named Emiya Kiritsugu.

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In the prohibited area formed by black ripples.

There are a total of nine people sitting here, wearing black hoods and cloaks all over their bodies, gathering here.

"How is it? Emiya Kiritsugu still hasn't replied?"

Among them, the captain asked the person in charge of liaison.

"No."

"Sure enough, he is a calm guy. Forget it, wait for him for a while. Anyway, no matter how he tries to prove it, it is true that his daughter is in our hands now."

"What should we do next, Captain? According to the latest news, there are a total of eight participants in this Holy Grail War. The extra one must be the same as us."

"The specific information needs to be obtained from Emiya Kiritsugu. He is an unscrupulous man in order to obtain the Holy Grail. He will definitely ask us for help. After understanding the strength of the enemy."

"However... the other two teams were eliminated without sending any information back. The opponent's strength is undoubtedly the third level."

Those with the third level of strength, in the current main god space, are already a small number of elites among the top.

In addition to the strength of the fourth level, the strength of the third level is enough to separate one side in the space of the main god.

Even if there are third-tier players in their team, there is still a gap even in the third-tier domain.

And this gap is not small.

In the hands of their captain, a trialer who has just entered the third-order domain can be defeated with just a few fingers.

Among the trialists in the third-order field, they are considered to be a relatively strong group.

In addition, in order to compete for the Holy Grail this time, a lot of points were consumed, and various targeted props were prepared, just in case.

"So this is the trouble, but our side is not without cards."

A dark creature emerged from the captain's cuff.

It is a black snake.

The black snake wrapped around the captain's arm, exuding an incomparably evil aura.

"I will personally monitor the upcoming Holy Grail War. It would be great if that 'colleague' could negotiate with us on an equal footing..."

The captain's voice echoed in the dark rippled space.

In his view, the two sides may not have the possibility of easing relations.

The dead are not worthy of nostalgia, and this team has not been together for a long time, and they are only united because of pure interests.

Those who die die, and no one will avenge them.

If the other party understands current affairs and joins in, then the previous suspicions can be settled, and they can survive together in this extremely cruel space of the Lord God.

If the other party chooses to refuse, then you have to say sorry.

The captain believes that as long as the interests are sufficient, there are no enemies, only friends.

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Go straight westward for thirty kilometers from the old capital of Fuyuki City, across a mountain that is inaccessible, and there is a forest there.

This piece of land may be state-owned land, but from the land registration book, it is private land belonging to a foreign-funded enterprise.

The depths of the forest were covered by a large amount of thick fog, and a castle made of rocks looked very magnificent and beautiful.

There are few people in the castle, but the facilities inside are very complete, and all aspects are taken care of in an orderly manner.

This is the land of the Einzbern family.

A castle of sorcery built for the Holy Grail War.

Shrouded by layers of illusion and magic enchantment, if the owner of the castle does not want it to be revealed, people outside will never find out that there is such a fantasy castle in the forest.

In the middle of the night, the moon hangs high in the starry night sky, and the cold air that is about to enter the winter makes the huge castle feel more lonely and cold.

In one of the rooms in the castle, the lights were not on.

By the window, the man stood there silently, and the dull atmosphere seemed extremely uncomfortable and suffocating to others.

The man enjoys this painful suffocation.

Emiya Kiritsugu.

The name of a man who is willing to sacrifice no matter how many lives are sacrificed for the ideal of saving the world.

He looked out at the beautiful starry sky full of illusions, and was attracted by this pure beauty for a moment.

"—You are very tired, Kiritsugu."

Gentle words sounded from behind, and the hug from his wife Irisviel made Kiritsugu feel the warmth of being a human being.

The warmth made him feel the fact that he was alive.

I am still a human being.

Rather than a cold killing machine.

It was two hours ago that I came back with Maiya.

After returning, he didn't say a word to the summoned heroic spirit Saber, and Saber didn't seem to have anything to say about Kiritsugu, the Master.

As the link between them - Irisviel is the most important person.

Kiritsugu would not understand Saber's flawless chivalry.

Saber also wouldn't agree with Kiritsugu's ridiculous and cruel idea, and didn't even know about it.

Irisviel felt that after Kiritsugu came back, she didn't have much to say as usual, but she could feel that this man was very tired and haggard at the moment.

Kiritsugu was indeed very tired and haggard.

It's not because of the fact that Maiya was attacked by Kotomine Kirei, but because of the fact that Illya was kidnapped, which is absolutely true.

Under the circumstances of secretly concealing Irisviel, he called back to Einzbern Castle to confirm, but it turned out that he was unable to answer.

Then I realized that the kidnapping in those photos was real.

Illya is under the control of an unknown person.

Kiritsugu was in a mess, because of the Holy Grail War, because of Ilya's arrest, he didn't know how to explain it to his wife.

He didn't want to see his wife flustered and helpless, but Irisviel had the right to know about it.

But Kiritsugu chose to conceal it in the end.

But the facts tell him that he is not an omnipotent hero.

He used to think he was omnipotent, but now he found himself weak.

Eight or nine years ago, he would not have exposed his actions in advance because of a group of innocent people. The previous bombing of the Hyatt Hotel was an example.

He made a very stupid move, cryptically telling Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald that Emiya Kiritsugu was coming.

He wouldn't have committed such stupidity in the past.

Now he has made the most basic mistake.

Now she has a major connection with herself, and her daughter, whose blood flowed through her blood, was captured by an unknown enemy.

My heart is in a mess, and my mind is empty.

What would you do if it was the past?

What should I do now?

He didn't want Irisviel to be sad, nor did he want to hurt his own child.

When Illya was born, he considered that if Illya became an obstacle in his path, even if it was his own daughter, he would ruthlessly get rid of it.

That's what he thought at the time.

But recalling the little things he had spent with Ilya over the years, it was the first time he found that his heart was so fragile that he needed someone to comfort him.

He is not a cold piece of steel.

He is a person.

In the past, because there was nothing that could impress him, he could mercilessly think that he was not afraid of everything, and that he could let go of everything in order to complete his ideal mission.

Now he can't let it go.

Can't let go of my daughter.

Kiritsugu clearly felt that his heart was shaken.

And it was terribly shaken.

It's so scary that I almost don't know myself.

Irisviel thought that Kiritsugu's exhaustion was caused by the Holy Grail War.

She still doesn't know the fact that she and Kiritsugu's daughter were kidnapped.

Kiritsugu could only fold his hands on the back of Irisviel's arms around his waist, and draw a trace of family warmth from there.

"Irisviel..."

"what?"

"I will protect you and Illya. For sure."

His voice resounded in the room flatly, with a certain force, no one could know what he was thinking in his heart.

His eyes now changed from hesitation to coldness.

"Well, I believe in you, Kiritsugu."

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The eastern sky turned pale, and the night passed peacefully.

Regarding the progress of the Holy Grail War, there have also been new changes.

The magic communication machine from the Fuyuki Church communicated with Tosaka Tokiomi, the owner of the old capital Tohsaka mansion.

"It has been determined that the murderer is the Caster group."

These are the original words of Kotomine Risei, the supervisor of this Holy Grail War.

It was said to Tokiomi.

During this period of time, shocking serial murder cases continued to occur in Fuyuki City. The murderer carried out artistic killings with extremely cruel means, which seriously disrupted the public order of Fuyuki City and the potential order of the Holy Grail War.

And the role of Assassin was manifested at this time, they played the role that assassin class heroic spirits should have.

Using their A+ level breath-blocking ability, they sneaked into the workshop set up by Caster without a sound, looking for evidence of serial murders by that combination.

From the very beginning, Tokiomi and Father Risei were very suspicious that the murderer of the serial murder case that shocked Fuyuki City was a magician.

The survey results also proved this point.

"What is the specific situation?"

Tokiomi got up half an hour ago, and he is in a good state of mind now.

The Caster combination seriously violated the "secret" rules of the Holy Grail War, and burned the unprovoked flames of magicians on ordinary people.

This is a very scary phenomenon for magicians.

Magicians who behave like this must be cleared and exterminated.

"Caster went out last night, from the villages and towns next to Fuyuki City until dawn, and captured more than a dozen sleeping children back to his stronghold. The parents of three children found out, and as a result, Caster took all the three children's family massacred."

"Tsk... Really troublesome. Using magic to kill so recklessly is no longer a question of whether to warn or not."

Tokiomi looked solemn.

"That's right. According to the conversation between Caster and his master that Assassin overheard, the master of Caster was already doing this kind of thing before he summoned Caster, and after Caster appeared, the two of them hit it off, the modus operandi And the number of killings is increasing every day."

"What the hell are those two idiots thinking?"