Longevity Story

The princess in the castle, Irisviel said that she had never seen such a novel little thing.

"The symbol of life, the remote electrocardiogram monitoring equipment, is mostly used for tracking heart disease patients after discharge, but due to the limitation of battery and monitoring distance, it is a defective product that has long been discontinued."

Emiya Kiritsugu looked at the beating line segment on the pocket watch and the steady value in the corner, and explained:

"But, only at this time, it's still useful."

In addition to the weak magic resistance to lightning properties, this technology product is a dead end for magicians who do not understand high-tech, especially the magic of the illusion department.

Accurate to the weak fluctuations and standardized values ​​that humans cannot understand, and the concealment after the development of microelectronics technology—that is why Emiya Kiritsugu is extremely concerned about this kind of extremely low-cost little thing.

"As long as this green line is still beating, it means that Maiya is still alive, and the fact that the green line has stabilized means that Maiya has not even encountered danger..."

Emiya Kiritsugu believed more in numbers that would not lie than it was just an unclear shadow.

However, Irisviel didn't care about these things, she just wanted to confirm the safety of Hisa Maiya herself, and confirmed:

"Is Maiya-san still alive?!"

"Yeah, still..."

【drop----】

But at this moment, before the words Emiya Kiritsugu was going to answer, the instrument in his hand suddenly made a long, thin sound, and the green silk thread stopped jumping at this moment.

"..."

Emiya Kiritsugu and Irisviel were a little stunned at first, but Emiya Kiritsugu and Irisviel sneered at the corners of their mouths, and threw the rather expensive precision instruments of this era to the ground without looking at them again.

"Maiya is fine. It's just that the owner of this barrier is monitoring us and discovered his flaws."

Emiya Kiritsugu looked at the gradually growing dark shadows around him, deliberately did not hide his voice, and said calmly:

"Even if the speed of death is fast, it is impossible for Maiya to not have the change in her heartbeat in the moment before her death, whether it becomes stronger or weaker..."

As long as it is human, regardless of their own will, the heartbeat will definitely change to the end just before death.

"So, the heartbeat that disappeared in an instant like that just now is not so much a symbol of Maiya's death, but that someone did something similar to cutting off the signal from the device."

After Emiya Kiritsugu finished speaking, after confirming that he really couldn't tell the direction from the fog, he pulled up Irisviel and ran in a certain direction:

"Let's go, Ellie, break through this way—"

However, Irisviel still couldn't let it go in her heart, approaching this was the first time Irisviel saw the danger of a person who could be called a partner walking towards the unknown in front of her.

"But, Maiya-san is alone..."

Wouldn't there be any danger? ——Irisviel had not finished her sentence when she saw Emiya Kiritsugu suddenly stop, turned her head and asked:

"Eli, in your eyes, in which direction did Maiya go just now?"

Emiya Kiritsugu first wanted to confirm this matter, considering that the shadows around him were about to reach a height of more than three meters and put him under enormous pressure.

"Hey? Over there? This way?" Irisviel said, pointing in the direction to her left.

"So it is." Emiya Kiritsugu was also stunned.

"In my eyes, Maiya is heading this way." Emiya Kiritsugu also pointed in one direction, but that direction was the front he was heading.

"how so……"

Irisviel didn't know what to say for a while, her face full of incredible expressions.

"Not only can you not see things one meter ahead, you can't tell the direction, and even your sense of direction has been deceived?"

However, as soon as Emiya Kiritsugu's voice fell, even he himself shook his head amusingly:

"No, even the sense of distance is strange here. The shadows of these monsters seem to be moving forward because they keep getting bigger..."

This is obviously common sense.

"But when we just attacked, we felt that the distance between these monsters was not that far, so far that their size had changed so much. This kind of environment that goes against common sense... It's all about wanting to kill us without killing us. trap us here."

Emiya Kiritsugu did not continue to run, his words were full of meaningful taste, which was a certain meaning that Irisviel could not understand.

"Aren't you going to defeat us? Why?" Irisviel asked suspiciously:

"Is Miss Maiya really not in danger alone?"

Seeing the shadows of these monsters getting closer and closer, Irisviel's heart filled with fear, and only Emiya Kiritsugu's voice could give her a little support.

"Yeah, Maiya should be fine."

While taking out some communication equipment, Emiya Kiritsugu said while checking the response of these technological machines:

"Because, there is no trace of an explosion around here at all."

"Explosion? Why..." The more Irisviel had a bad premonition.

Emiya Kiritsugu did not hide her intentions, and said directly: "I made all kinds of preparations this morning. Maiya has a mechanism that explodes at the moment of her death, and it is very troublesome to remove. of."

"What, Kiritsugu, you... Maiya-san isn't your assistant? You are like this..." Irisviel felt a little depressed.

"Where, this is what I do."

This is the real me.Ellie.You didn't know it before, but I didn't show it in front of you.Emiya Kiritsugu smiled indifferently, and then returned to his original poker face:

"To fight against these self-righteous geniuses who are favored by power, I should bet everything I have for a fool like me.

Didn't you sacrifice yourself for the coming of the Holy Grail, Ellie? "

"But, for things like this, it's enough for me alone..."

Irisviel always felt that there was something wrong with today's Emiya Kiritsugu. He usually wouldn't say these complicated things to himself, nor would he show his own side in front of him.

but now……

"Yeah, ideally, Ellie, your sacrifice alone can save the world."

After confirming that the instruments in his hand seemed to be unresponsive, Emiya decisively threw all the scraps of copper and iron on the ground, and continued:

"However, ideals return to ideals, and human beings' own inferiority prevents their own redemption. There will be six other masters competing for the only miracle, and there will be dark shadows who do not agree with redemption in the dark... Therefore, it will be like Now, we need more sacrifices to redeem the world."

As soon as he finished speaking, Emiya Kiritsugu raised the Command Spell in his hand and declared:

"In the name of the Command Spell, saber, come to my side."

Emiya Kiritsugu knew that if Xingke had not defeated the obviously mad Servant at this time, Fuyuki City would definitely cause losses and casualties due to Xingke's sudden disappearance, but he was still in this situation. It was time to summon Star Carved to his side.

He has made a choice.

With a flash of golden light, Xingke's figure appeared in front of Emiya Kiritsugu in a posture of raising his sword and slashing, and before he could react, Emiya Kiritsugu's order arrived——

"Saber! Break this illusion barrier!"

However, Xingke just turned his head to look at Emiya Kiritsugu, and said to him with some doubts:

"Master, what are you talking about? Illusion? Formation?

There is nothing here? "

"what……"

Before Emiya Kiritsugu could finish speaking, in the blink of an eye he realized something, the scene around him and Irisviel instantly changed.

The gray fog, the water surface, the shadowy monsters, and the faint whispers from the fog all disappeared.

Everything is still the same as at the foot of Yuanzang Mountain, which was destroyed by Xingke...

Then, in the distant sky, the scene of countless Noble Phantasms turning into a shower of meteors and falling into the city of Dongmu was also shown in front of Emiya Kiritsugu——

"sa---ber..."

Emiya Kiritsugu tensed in his heart and wanted to order Xingke to go back, but it was too late.

【Dong rumbling rumbling ———】

Hundreds of devastating attacks, the ones that were supposed to be carried out by Xingqi, now all fall within the urban area where ordinary people live at night.

"how so--"

Irisviel covered her mouth and looked at the urban area in surprise.

"Let me tell you, Mr. Master, are you too impatient? Even if you want me to quickly get rid of that tarnished Jin Yingying, then at least give me 30 seconds..." Xing Ke said a little speechlessly.

After he fell from the sky, he was really ready to fight as quickly as possible, but he didn't expect Gilgamesh, who had received a sufficient supply of magic power, to prepare three or four hundred scattered shots with her full-power light cannon. The incoming Noble Phantasm meteor shower counterattacks...

The whole process only took twenty seconds, and before she could react, she was called by Emiya Kiritsugu.It seems that these Noble Phantasms are also forgiving her powerless.

"Saber, you said... how long has it been since you left my side?!" Emiya Kiritsugu looked away from Fuyuki City, which was full of fires, and asked Xingke with a strange expression.

"I promise, it will definitely be less than 30 seconds."

"But, at least 5 minutes have passed for us—" Irisviel exclaimed immediately, but this strange phenomenon also prevented her from expressing her puzzlement well.

"...the perception of time."

Emiya Kiritsugu said, looking around him——

In the visible field of vision at night, there is no Kuu Maiya figure, but the traces of Kuu Maiya's firearms and grenade attacks, and the traces of Irisviel's magic cannon attacks are very clearly visible, and Emiya Kiri is on the ground. The electronic equipment that he had discarded also fell on the ground very normally.

"We've been completely fooled..."

The five senses such as sight and hearing, plus the sense of direction and time are all under the complete control of the other party, and even the precise electronic equipment is completely destroyed by the other party after one use...

What is this person trying to do?Find fault? ! ——The corners of Emiya Kiritsugu’s eyes collapsed in an instant.

"Kiritsugu!—" Irisviel's voice interrupted Emiya Kiritsugu's thoughts.

I saw Irisviel pointed to the distant sky, where the Noble Phantasm that shone with a strange gray light began to fill up again, and the number was increasing little by little, and the direction was still the city of Dongmu, where the star carvings disappeared... …

"Saber, take us to Liudong Temple."

Turning his head and not looking down the mountain, Emiya Kiritsugu said.

"Kiritsugu!?—" Irisviel was in disbelief.

"The approach over there is just to contain Saber. As long as we don't care about him, he will not continue meaningless attacks."

Emiya Kiritsugu started looking for a way to climb the mountain among the ruins on his own, and said:

"That archer seems to have changed, lost his will, everything is the conspiracy of the black-robed magician."

"but……"

Irisviel vaguely heard the sound of a siren resounding through the night sky, with the night sky dyed red by fire, it seemed like the scene of doomsday...

"It's nothing, as long as the Holy Grail comes, even that archer will definitely not care about the destruction, so come over immediately, we have to hurry up...saber!"