Magic world

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."

Amidst the three whistles, three streams of light were mixed in the rain of Noble Phantasms, shooting straight at the Black Knight.

The black knight, who didn't notice the abnormality, still waved his hands continuously, knocking away the weapons that flew in front of him.

However, at the next moment, there was only a crisp sound of "kill", and the two weapons in the black knight's hands suddenly broke under the bombardment of the flowing light. He could no longer stop the flowing light from entering, and watched helplessly as the flowing light shot in. own body.

"Hello~"

"puff."

Fortunately, the Black Knight's combat intuition was extremely superb, and he forced open the fatal vital point at the moment when the light came to his body, and did not lose his life in this unexpected turn of events.

"Roar." The traumatized Black Knight roared like a beast.

But just when Gilgamesh wanted to see what the Black Knight would do, the Black Knight's steps that wanted to move forward suddenly stopped, and the roar full of unwillingness turned into a wisp of black smoke, from before Gilgamesh's eyes. Disappear.

"Did you run away? He is indeed a bastard." Gilgamesh snorted. Then his figure disappeared, turning into a spirit body and disappearing.

…

Inside the church in Fuyuki Town.

Because of Tosaka Tokiomi's decision, Kotomine Kirei, who lost his assistant assassin, sat in silence for a while, then suddenly stood up, left the room and left the church, walking towards the distance under the cover of the thick night.

Then about a minute later, with a fluttering sound, a dark night bird suddenly spread its wings and flew into the sky, flying in the direction where Kotomine Kirei left.

at the same time. Inside a new hotel.

The reason why it is new does not mean that it is a newly built or newly opened hotel, but because this hotel is not the hotel where he and Tohsaka Sakura lived before, but another one in Fuyuki. .

In order to clear the traces and avoid the pursuit of Emiya Kiritsugu and his assistant Kuu Maiya, who are very capable of gathering intelligence, only this kind of irregular and frequent change of purpose is possible.

"Lancer, take care of Sakura." Ito Cheng stood up and said.

"Yes." Lancer's voice echoed in the void.

Ito Cheng nodded slightly, turned around and walked out of the hotel. He moved towards Fuyuki Town, which was shrouded in darkness.

About twenty minutes later. Ito Cheng appeared in a suburban forest.

Not far in front of him, a house that looked like an abandoned cabin stood quietly in the forest.

Ito Cheng stepped up and walked towards the hut.

But just as he was about to approach the house, there was a strange "crunching" sound. Kotomine Kirei, dressed in black robes, walked out of the open door of the hut. at the same time. Irisviel, who was in a coma, also caught Ito Cheng's eyes.

I saw Ito Cheng outside the door. Kotomine Kirei stopped all his movements.

"Good evening, Father Kotomine." Ito Cheng, who also stopped, said with a smile.

Kotomine Kirei said nothing and looked at Ito Cheng with a silent expression.

"It seems that Father, you are not interested in chatting with me here. Okay then. Let me tell you straight, can you hand over the woman in your hand to me? After all, she is my prize." Ito Cheng Pointing at Irisviel, who was held by Kotomine Kirei's waist, he said softly.

Kotomine Kirei still didn't speak, looking at Ito Nari with an expressionless expression until about half a minute passed... Kotomine Kirei suddenly moved and threw Irisviel in his hand in front of Ito Nari.

"thump."

"It just so happens that she is of no use to me anymore, so I'll give it to you." Kotomine Kirei said softly.

"Oh, Father, you really don't care about women. How can you treat a lady like this? It's so ungentlemanly." Ito Cheng shook his head and said.

Kotomine Kirei ignored him and left the hut and walked outside the suburban forest.

"By the way, Father Kotomine." Just as Kotomine Kirei spared Irisviel's body and descended, Ito Cheng's voice sounded again and said, "If you feel empty, you can go find Archer, maybe he It can help you find the meaning of life.”

Hearing this, Kotomine Kirei paused and then started walking again. But a piece of words floated in the air and came to Ito Cheng's ears: "I will consider it."

Not long after, Kotomine Kirei disappeared into the suburban forest.

Ito Cheng smiled slightly, leaned down to lift Irisviel's body, and followed him out of the woods. Ito Cheng, who just got Irisviel back in his hands, did not immediately return to the hotel where he lived, but moved to another place in the town.

More than ten minutes later, Ito Cheng came to a hill.

The hill is not high, only about 50 to 60 meters in height. It is covered with coniferous green trees. A staircase paved with stone slabs leads directly to the top of the mountain.

Ito Cheng stepped on the steps and walked up the mountain step by step.

In just five or six minutes, Ito Cheng arrived at the end of the stone steps, and then a wooden mountain gate came into view.

The gate is completely made of two wooden boards with no decoration. It looks a bit shabby because it has not been painted. They are tightly closed together to block outsiders who want to enter the courtyard wall.

Above the mountain gate, under the blocking tiles, an ancient rectangular plaque hangs on it, with three large Chinese characters written in black ink - Liudong Temple.

Looking at the words on the plaque on the mountain gate, Ito Cheng smiled softly, stretched out his hand and pressed it on the wooden door in front of him. With a sigh of relief, he heard a muffled "click" and the wooden door opened slightly inwards.

Then, Ito Cheng used his arms to push open the wooden door in front of him. Immediately, a courtyard that seemed to be the size of a basketball court appeared. Next to the courtyard, there were several temple houses built in an upside-down L shape. This was probably due to the sound of broken wooden pegs. , a light happened to light up in a room.

Then the figure shook, and a man wearing gray monk robes came out of the temple room. But before the monk noticed what happened, he immediately fell into the hands of Ito Cheng who stepped in front of him and was controlled by the hypnosis released by Ito Cheng.

"Is there a tunnel in the temple?" Ito Cheng asked in a low voice.

"No." The monk said dully.

"Go back to the house and sleep." Ito Cheng frowned and ordered in a low voice.

The monk nodded mechanically, turned around and returned to the house.

"It seems like it's better to find it yourself." Ito Cheng muttered in a low voice.

Then he took action, like a thief entering at night, and launched a detailed search of Liutong Temple.

The hard work paid off. Under Ito Cheng's careful exploration and mental scanning, he soon found a secret tunnel entrance.

Ito Cheng opened the entrance, stepped on the stairs, and walked cautiously toward the depths of the secret passage.

What first caught the eye was a long dark corridor, but after walking two or three meters, the scenery changed in vain, and then it was the size of two classrooms, with a huge magic circle carved on the ground, and a magic circle bloomed in it. The mysterious and unusual underground space appeared in Ito Cheng's eyes in the coming light.

"The Great Holy Grail..." Looking at the remains of the magic circle in the space, Ito Cheng murmured as he stopped to watch.

"Yeah~" But at this moment, Irisviel, who had been in a coma, woke up from the coma, either due to the influence of the magic here or the inexplicable resonance between the Greater Holy Grail and the Lesser Holy Grail.

With a low groan, he slowly opened his eyes.

"This is..." Irisviel asked subconsciously as she took the magic circle into her eyes.

"The core of the Holy Grail system transformed by the Winter Saint." Ito Cheng said quietly.

"Is it you!?" Irisviel said in shock when she heard the voice and realized who was around her.

"It's me. How is it? Do you feel happy?" Ito Cheng, who put Irisviel on the stairs, looked at her with a smile and said.

"Where is Kotomine Kirei?" Irisviel asked, ignoring Ito Cheng's teasing.

"Miss him? How about I take you back later?" Ito Cheng asked with interest.

Irisviel snorted lightly and said no more.

Seeing this, Ito Cheng smiled softly, stopped teasing, and continued walking along the stairs towards the underground space. When Irisviel saw this, she didn't hesitate and followed him.

Just a minute later, the two came to the underground hall.

"Release your magic power." At this time, Ito Cheng suddenly said.

"What?" Irisviel asked strangely.

"Release your magic power and use the small Holy Grail to resonate with the magic circle here." Ito Cheng said softly.

"You want to summon the Holy Grail?" Irisviel asked in surprise. Then without waiting for Ito Cheng's answer, he shook his head and said in denial, "It's impossible. Summoning the Holy Grail requires a huge amount of magic power - that is, the power after the death of the heroic spirit. Otherwise, even if I actively stimulate the Little Holy Grail, it will be impossible to activate the entire system."

"There is no need to activate the system, you just need to let the Little Holy Grail resonate with this place as I told you." Ito Cheng said without looking at Irisviel.

"What do you want to do?" Irisviel frowned slightly and looked at Ito Cheng and asked.

"Meet the Saint of Winter." Ito Cheng said directly without hiding anything.

But what seemed to him to be ordinary words frightened Irisviel beside him like thunder.

"What did you say!?" Irisviel said in shock.

"Although the Saint of Winter - Justeza Ritzlehi was martyred back then, her personality has been preserved in the system as the core until now. In other words, she is sleeping here." Ito Cheng explained quietly.

"And as an artificial human of the Einzbern family, whether it is the soul core, the biological code, or the special magic power, you are all made from the Winter Saint as a sample and made from her fragments. Product. So here, in this place where the Saint of Winter sleeps, it is entirely possible for your magic power to awaken the Saint of Winter through resonance and make her appear." (To be continued.)