There is indeed a problem with my summoning spirit system

Chapter 223 221. Night talk
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The impact of the heels on the ground sounded rhythmically, Matou Kariya turned his head, and what appeared in front of him was Emiya Kiritsugu in a black suit and holding a beautifully decorated single-shot pistol in his hand.

"I don't know the second young master of the Matou family, the master of Berserker, what is the purpose of coming here today?"

Although it was a normal conversation, Emiya Kiritsugu did not put down The contender pistol in his hand.

This prototype single-shot pistol produced by the American Thompson Company is similar to the early firecrackers. The barrel is 15 inches long, which is too long for a pistol.

It is neither convenient to carry, nor does it have semi-automatic or fully automatic rapid-fire functions. The only advantage is its power.With the right caliber of bullets, this gun is as powerful as a rifle.Now the distance between him and the Berserker Master is less than ten meters. For Emiya Kiritsugu who has undergone a lot of training, he can raise his gun and shoot accurately in less than a second. Hit the opponent's head.If the opponent didn't make any moves, he could have predicted the result of the shooting. The opponent's head would be blasted away like a watermelon, and the back of the head would be blown away by the rolling bullets to create a huge hole.

It's no wonder Emiya Kiritsugu was so nervous, the white-haired decadent man in front of him was the master of the Holy Grail War and one of his six opponents just like him.

According to the rules of the Holy Grail War, they will fight to the death after all.

"Don't worry, I'm here to discuss cooperation with you. You can put away your guns. No matter how skilled Kenneth is as a magician, they can't match the fighting power of Heroic Spirits. They can split bullets."

Emiya Kiritsugu nodded, but still did not put down the gun in his hand.

"Well, let me tell you straight to the point. I hope the Einzberns can help me see a child."

"See a doctor? The financial resources of the Matou family are not enough to afford the heir's medical expenses."

"Since we're looking for the Einzbern family, it's not an ordinary illness. What I want you to help look at is the damage left by magic. And it's a very tricky kind."

Emiya Kiritsugu raised his eyebrows,

"How tricky?"

"It would be better for you to see the specific situation directly. When everything is settled, I will let the treatment target appear in front of you. I don't need you to guarantee cure, but I must do my best to treat and recover as much as possible. Her original body. For the Einzbern family, this should be a piece of cake, right?"

"If things are really like what you said, then it would be good. But if I did what you said, what good will it do to me?"

Matou Kariya smiled, knowing that the highlight was coming:
"If you agree to my conditions, it means that I have lost the reason to compete for the Holy Grail. Since the desire to entrust the Holy Grail has been lost, there is no need to continue participating in the Holy Grail War. I will bring Berserker and join you. In addition , I will bring you a piece of information about the Tohsaka family..."

Emiya Kiritsugu directly interrupted:
"If it's the alliance between Archer and Assassin, then you don't need to tell me, I already know about it."

Kariya Matou suddenly realized:

"By the way, I almost forgot. When your partner ambushed Lancer and the others at the Winterwood Hotel, they saw my Berserker and Assassin. Since Assassin is still alive, it is not difficult to guess the alliance between these two."

Although what he wanted to say was guessed by the other party, Kariya Matou didn't mean to be embarrassed at all:
"Since you already know that there are two masters united, isn't our cooperation more necessary?"

Emiya Kiritsugu continued:

"How can I trust you?"

Kariya Matou lowered his head slightly, his laughter seemed very abrupt in the dead of night in the Einzbern Castle.

Emiya Kiritsugu asked puzzledly:
"why are you laughing?"

"Are you asking me? Of course I'm laughing at you. You are obviously an old fritter who won't trust someone easily, but let me convince you in a serious way? Can I believe my words and can I accept my trading suggestions? It's useless for me to say, you have to decide for yourself. If you think I can trust you, if you don't think I can trust you, then just treat me as nonsense. How can I convince you?"

Emiya Kiritsugu was silent for a moment, although the other party's attitude seemed to be joking, but he understood the other party's meaning and accepted the other party's point of view, but he still needed some information to confirm.So he asked again:

"Then, just pretend that I haven't asked the question just now. Then Master of the Matou family, can you ask me about your original wish for the Holy Grail to come true? I think I can serve as a reference."

"Okay, I can definitely talk about this kind of problem. In fact, I didn't intend for the Holy Grail to be used by me. The reason why I wanted to obtain the Holy Grail was just to exchange it for a child. A child who should have lived a happy life. . If I insist on saying that my wish for the Holy Grail is to save people, of course it is not to save everyone, just to save the child I just mentioned. The other part is to destroy, destroy the darkness of the Matou family, Crush the magic of the Matou family."

As Matou Kariya spoke, he dragged his left leg and limped left and right repeatedly. The moonlight shone on the right half of his body that had not deteriorated, delicately dividing his body into two parts, like It is the decayed half of the martyr's body that drags his soul:

"But when I really joined this war, especially after I had a servant, I suddenly discovered that my wish could be realized with my own hands. It turned out that it was me who made everything worse, it was me. I can't turn everything around by myself."

Matou Kariya lifted up the white hair that he deliberately put down to cover the left half of his face, and rolled up the sleeve of his left hand.The shriveled skin is covered with lean flesh and bones, and there are several living creature-like wriggling protrusions appearing under the skin from time to time, like a rotting corpse eaten by maggots.

"I don't have many days left...Hey! Don't look at me with that surprised look, it's not a bad thing, although I'm already a literal rotten life, but since it's a rotten life, You don’t need to be afraid to stay alive. Didn’t you say that you are afraid of dying in a daze? I am dying right now.”

Matou Kariya smiled happily, without any fear of death:

"How about it? Saber's master, the famous magician killer Emiya Kiritsugu-san? A mad dog who bites people without risking their lives and will die soon, but is still very fierce and powerful now - isn't it very A good partner?”

Emiya Kiritsugu spoke in a low voice:
"Since the Holy Grail is a universal wish-making machine, it should be possible for you to obtain a normal lifespan..."

"How can I use magic to extend my life?! Am I crazy?"

This time, Matou Kariya interrupted Emiya Kiritsugu's words:
"Magic, magic, magic, you people from the magic family talk about magic every day. Is magic important? If it's just your own preference, it's nothing to spend your whole life studying magic. That's your own choice, just like many people don't I like worldly enjoyment, I like to be an ascetic monk, I like to study boring mathematics, and I like to live a life of asceticism. It doesn’t matter, as long as you are happy. Then why use other people’s sacrifices to fulfill your wishes? You look like you deserved to die? Look at my body, look at those children who were slaughtered by Caster and used as sacrifices for summoning magic. These are all blood debts created by magicians with magic."

Matou Kariya's roar at the beginning was full of anger, but as he continued to speak, the volume of his words became a little lower, as if he was speaking to himself:
"I feel that since we are born as human beings, we should pursue the happiness of being born as human beings. And birth, old age, illness and death are all part of life. Live like an individual and die like an individual. It is best if you can live this life with some value. , when a few people occasionally mention it, they can have some nostalgia, that's enough. So!"

Matou Kariya stared at Emiya Kiritsugu, and said word by word:

"I refuse to use magic to survive like that old monster in our family. Let me explain this... Can you accept it?"

"Pfft, hehehehe..."

Emiya Kiritsugu laughed suddenly, and put away the gun in his hand at the same time.

"Speaking of which, I seem to have had a similar situation. When was it? Well, it seems that I can't remember clearly."

At this moment, Emiya Kiritsugu somehow recalled the two most important moments in his life when he pulled the trigger.The two weapons I used, one is the TT-33 Tokarev pistol produced in the former Soviet Union, and the other is the FIM-92A Stinger needle missile, which were used to send away my two most important people.

When the trigger is pulled, the residual tactile feel of the fingers is still very clear.

Emiya Kiritsugu took out two cigarettes from his jacket, because they had been placed in the clothes for a long time, and the two cigarettes were a little crumpled just now because of fighting Kenneth.

He took out one of them, handed it to Matou Kariya, and put the other directly in his mouth,

"Do you smoke?"

"I have already handed it over, and you still ask me if I smoke?"

Emiya Kiritsugu took out a lighter and lit a cigarette, then waved the lighter in his hand towards Matou Kariya.

"Okay, okay, smoke!"

Matou Kariya took the other party's lighter and lit a cigarette.But it didn't suck, it was just held in the hand.

Emiya Kiritsugu held the cigarette between the index finger and middle finger of his right hand, took a deep breath, and exhaled a cloud of gray-white smoke.

"Matou Kariya, I think I can agree with you. But..."

Emiya Kiritsugu took the cigarette that was one-third short from his mouth, and lightly flicked the ash.Looking at Matou Kariya firmly:

"For the Holy Grail, I am bound to get it."

"Didn't I already tell you? I don't care about things like the Holy Grail. I can still help you win, but I need you to take Sakura to the Einzbern family for me, and let the Einzbern family do their best to treat her. "

"Sakura? I've been wanting to ask just now. You are obviously not married yet, so the child you mentioned is definitely not your daughter. Then she is...?"

Jiantong Yanye sneered and said:

"Sakura is Tohsaka Tokiomi's second daughter, but he adopted him into the Matou family."

"What happened? Adoption?"

"From the Matou family to my generation, there is no successor with sufficient qualifications for magic. It just so happens that the two daughters of the Tosaka family have good qualifications, but you also know that each generation of a magic family can only have one heir. I left behind Rin Tosaka, the eldest daughter with better qualifications, and the youngest daughter was adopted by the Matou family at the suggestion of the current Patriarch of the Matou family."

"After all, it's not easy to spread the engravings of the magic family, so it's normal. Then this girl should have nothing to do with you."

Emiya Kiritsugu took another puff of the cigarette in his hand, and Matou Kariya replied bluntly:
"I like Tohsaka Tokiomi's wife."

"Cough cough cough..."

Emiya Kiritsugu couldn't take a breath and coughed violently.

Matou Kariya frowned,

"It's nothing surprising. The reaction is so big. Although I have longed for it, I have never done anything out of the ordinary. It's just a secret love that can't be said without results. What can't be said?"

Matou Kariya glanced at the cigarette in his hand, lowered his head and tried to take a light puff, but he was obviously not used to the smell, and his poor body and lungs could not withstand the toss, so he only took a shallow puff. With a shallow mouthful, he coughed.

Emiya Kiritsugu frowned, and lightly patted Kariya Matou on the back:
"You are frank. So you cared about the daughter of your former crush in order to please her?"

"It's all over, it's already impossible, and I don't have any unreasonable thoughts, but after all, Sakura called me uncle, and her parents don't care about her anymore. If I, as an uncle, don't care anymore, then What is it called? Poof, poof. Although it looks very handsome, I still can’t smoke this kind of thing.”

Matou Kariya casually threw the half-full cigarette on the ground, and threw out a card with something written on it.

"Then, I'll take it as your promise. This is my phone number. If you need me anywhere, you can call me."

Berserker, who had been standing by and remained motionless, pulled Matou Kariya onto the horse's back, and drove the white horse out of Einzbern Castle.He quickly disappeared from Emiya Kiritsugu's sight.

Just at this moment, Saber's voice sounded in his mind:
"Oops, Kiritsugu. Irisviel, Maiya-san and the others..."

"What's wrong? Saber! Didn't Irisviel and Maiya evacuate in advance? What happened to them?"

"Irisviel and Maiya-san were attacked by a person named Kotomine Kirei. Fortunately, the other party retreated for some unknown reason. Irisviel was not injured. Although Maiya-san was seriously injured, she still Miss Irisviel's healing magic has basically recovered."

"Huh—that's good, that's good. You stay near them to protect them for now, and I'll go over right away."

When Emiya Kiritsugu heard the news, he finally let go of his hanging heart, and at the same time immediately chased after Irisviel's escape route.

(End of this chapter)