When the Sand Sculpture Trial Comes to Yokohama

On the tall buildings in Fuyuki City that can overlook a large block, the night wind whistled past his ears, blowing Emiya Kiritsugu's black hair and dragging his windbreaker out of a high arc.

Hisau Maiya stood beside him with a gun, protecting his back while he observed the movement below.

While observing the situation in the police station, Emiya Kiritsugu was calculating in his heart.When the Holy Church's mission was announced, there were four familiars in the church, which meant that there were at least three groups of competitors competing with him in the mission.

Thinking of this, Emiya Kiritsugu felt a little unhappy.

The night before, he and Maiya Hisau had already prepared enough explosives to bomb the hotel building.Logically speaking, after that night passed, Lancer and his Master should have completely withdrawn from the stage of the Holy Grail War, and Saber's left hand injury should have healed.

If it wasn't for the sudden appearance of Minan Rinka, he wouldn't be so restrained by Saber's injury now...

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While thinking about these things, Emiya Kiritsugu scanned the police station slowly through the sight equipped on the sniper rifle.However, in the next second, the scene seen in the sight suddenly disappeared, and the eyes went completely dark.

Emiya Kiritsugu was startled, but Hisu Maiya's exclamation suddenly came from next to his ear: "Kiritsugu!"

He raised his head subconsciously, and saw that the other end of the sight on the gun was blocked by a strange, white hand.

Emiya Kiritsugu raised his head subconsciously, and saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl with black hair and blue eyes blocking his binoculars, smiling kindly at him: "What are you looking at? Exploding a building again, so boring?"

Emiya Kiritsugu: "..."

Hisau Maiya: "..."

The girl had blue eyes bent like jewels, and she smiled purely and harmlessly.However, Emiya Kiritsugu recognized that familiar smile clearly and clearly - isn't this frankly the Minan Rinka who destroyed his plan to blow up buildings!

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"I'm sorry, Kiritsugu..." Hisu Maiya pointed the gun at Minan Rinka, her voice was a little hoarse, "Her speed is too fast, I didn't stop just now..."

Emiya Kiritsugu stared at Minan Rinka.

He knew how fast she was. When he watched her pick up Lancer's yellow rose in the logistics center, Emiya Kiritsugu knew that her speed was faster than when he drove at three times the speed...

"I know, Maiya." He said in a low voice, hesitating whether he should use a command spell, and first called Saber to resist.

"Don't be too nervous, I don't intend to fight with you." Seeing this, Minan Rin waved his hand, "I just found out that you are going to blow up the building again, so come and have a look."

Even if she said that, Emiya Kiritsugu's tense posture did not relax at all.But Minan Rinka didn't care about this either.She thought for a while and asked, "You should know that if you bombed the hotel the day before, even if all the guests in the hotel have arrived at the nearby square, there must still be people killed or injured by the falling building debris, right?"

"And today, if you really caused chaos in the police station, there will definitely be some temporarily detained prisoners who will attack the police in order to escape." She continued, "I know that you all want to get the Holy Grail and realize your wishes , but are you really willing to let so many people die in order to realize your wish?"

There was no expression on Emiya Kiritsugu's face, as if it was a delicate mask.

"Even if I tell you, you probably wouldn't understand." Emiya Kiritsugu didn't speak, but Hisau Maiya spoke, the gun in her hand was still pointed at Minan Rinka, "We must fight in the Holy Grail War." The reason for winning is, for world peace."

World Peace?

Minan Linhua was stunned: "For the sake of peace, why are you leaving here to harm people?"

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"This kind of sacrifice is necessary." Emiya Kiritsugu took a step back, completely hiding his figure in the pitch-black shadows, "Sometimes, it is necessary to make a cold decision, sacrificing the interests of a few people. And these ...all for the greater good.”

Emiya Kiritsugu will never forget the day when he was a child, he failed to kill his childhood sweetheart who had mutated due to his father's magic, and it was precisely because of this that after losing her sanity, the girl infected the entire island by herself, killing all of them. The islanders were all transformed into ghouls, and finally caused the destruction of the village he regarded as his home.

So many people died in the fire, at the hands of the agents responsible for solving the accident.It was all because of his initial indecision.

On that day, under the cover of the raging fire outside the window, he killed his own father who caused all the tragedies, and vowed that he would not let everyone fall into misfortune because of his kindness when facing individuals.

After leaving the island, Emiya Kiritsugu was adopted by a bounty hunter named Natalia.In the next few years, Natalia was not his biological mother, but her kindness in nurturing him was better than that of his biological parents.But then once, she accidentally let the bee-shaped familiar of the mission target leak during the mission on the plane, turning the passengers in the entire passenger plane cabin into ghouls.

In order to prevent the passenger plane from landing, the bee-shaped familiar from escaping from the cabin, and further expansion of the disaster, Emiya Kiritsugu also made up his mind this time, and bombarded the entire plane with rockets before the plane landed, together with the adoptive mother who was still alive inside.

The small island that was destroyed in the raging fire was his nightmare, and Emiya Kiritsugu found that he could no longer stop.This behavior pattern has become his instinct, and he will probably be pushed forward by his tragic childhood all his life, reluctantly flying forward, until the moment he falls from the cliff at the end.

In his past life, he waited for the fall that could come at any time, and also feared the fall.This fear drove him to accept the proposal of the Einzbern family after he learned of the existence of the Holy Grail War, and became Irisviel's husband and a contestant of the Einzbern family to participate in the Holy Grail War.

If one day he is going to fall, if he is destined to make the same choice repeatedly throughout his life, then he thinks that he is the only one who has to choose.Before he falls, he will take the Holy Grail, so that the tragedy he has witnessed will never happen again.

……

"Your innocence is just like me back then." Emiya Kiritsugu said hoarsely, the gun still pointed at Minan Rinka vigilantly, "I don't want to sacrifice anyone, but in the end it will lead to even greater disasters .I see you like I saw my teenage self."

"It's time to wake up." He stared at his hand holding the gun. "You are stronger and better than when I was my age. If you make a mistake, the consequences will be more terrible. I don't want to see you go Go the same way as me."

After listening to Emiya Kiritsugu's life experience, Minan Rin didn't know what to say for a while.

Emiya Kiritsugu was obviously not someone who would tell these things to everyone, she could tell from the speed of his speaking and the pauses in thinking when he narrated.Right now, he is willing to say this, whether it is really to seek her understanding, or because he realizes that he is in a weak position and is buying time for himself, Minan Rinka is not clear.

But she didn't quite agree with Emiya Kiritsugu's opinion.

"Then let me ask you a question." Minan Rinka suddenly asked, "There are three people in front of you. These three people are divided into two groups, one group has one person, and the other group has two people. One group must die, you Which group will you choose?"

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't understand why Minan Rinka suddenly asked him this question.But he replied blankly: "I will kill one and save two."

"Oh." Minan Rinka nodded, and said, "What if I tell you that the one-person group is Nightingale, and the two-person group is Hitler and Mussolini?"

One side is the angel carrying the lamp who directly or indirectly rescued and affected thousands of people, and the other side is a notorious war criminal. Emiya Kiritsugu said without hesitation: "Then I will kill the two groups."

"Hehe, it's late." Minan Linhua sneered, "With a click, the big blade has swung over... With a splash, bright red blood splashed all over the ground..."

What the hell?Do you want to be so vivid?

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"What do you mean?" Emiya Kiritsugu frowned, a complex feeling of anger mixed with shock suddenly surged in his chest.

"I mean, this is your biggest problem. Measure human life by quantity." Minan Rinka said, "People are different. People are not like potatoes in the vegetable market that can be weighed on the scale."

An impetuous shadow gradually appeared on Emiya Kiritsugu's silent face.

"It's because of this that I put my hope in the Holy Grail!" He tightened his grip on the railing of the roof, and there were obvious blood vessel marks on the back of his hand, "The Holy Grail is a universal wish-making machine. What I can't do, I can By winning the Holy Grail War, let the Holy Grail do it. This Holy Grail War will be the last time—the last time you must sacrifice the interests of a small number of people to obtain the happiness of everyone! Let the world truly achieve peace!"

Minan Rinka said casually: "So here comes the problem..."

Emiya Kiritsugu gasped for breath and couldn't get out.You still have a lot of questions?

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"Can you imagine what a completely peaceful world would look like?" Minan Rinka asked, "Without any disputes? Do you think that's possible? As long as there are two or more people, there will be times when there are disagreements. "

"Without changing the characteristics of human beings, there are only two ways to completely and absolutely achieve peace." She said solemnly, "The first way is to exterminate or kill human beings until only the last one remains; the second way , the minds of all human beings have been rewritten, castrated to the point of not being self-aware, or all human beings share one brain.”

"Is this what you want?" Xiaohua asked, "or can you imagine other scenarios of a peaceful world?"

Emiya Kiritsugu was silent.

He didn't want that, and he really couldn't imagine anything else.

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"Didn't I just say that? It is because of my limited ability that I put my hope in the Holy Grail..." Emiya Kiritsugu spoke, repeating the firm belief he had repeated countless times in his heart.It's just that these words seem a little pale now.

Minan Rinka was silent for a moment: "Let's not talk about whether the Holy Grail is really omnipotent, even you yourself don't know what you want, how can the Holy Grail help you achieve it? Do you feel that you are like The kind of strongman who wants 'colorful black' is difficult for Party A..."

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***

On the other side, Gilles de Ray's hunt continued.

He led the children behind him through the streets and alleys, forming a long row of shadows under the dim lights of the city, like the piper who seduced children in the Grimm's fairy tales.

Gilles de Rai didn't know that he was now surrounded by daggers...

On the way of his "hunting", from time to time, a short knife like Maeda Toshiro was not discovered by him.At this time, the little short knife who was already following behind beckoned to his friends in various ways, telling them to follow along...

Gilles de Ray had been wandering around for the better part of an hour.He felt that he had gained a lot today, did he meet a child within a few steps, and met a child within a few steps, and they were all beautiful little boys...

While walking, he complacently counted the slender shadows drawn by the street lamps.One, two, three...

Eleven, twelve, thirteen...

fifteen, sixteen...

Gilles de Ray suddenly felt wrong: did he find so many children?

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"The number doesn't seem right..." He muttered, and simply turned around and counted one by one, "One, two, three..."

Just as he was counting back, Taiko Zhong Zhenzong poked his head out from the corner of the street and saw that his friends were all there, so he used the high maneuverability of a short sword at night to sneak into the team.

"...Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen... eh? Why is there one more?"

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Gilles de Rai rubbed his big eyeballs, and began to recall carefully: "I found this one in the alley, that one was in front of the dessert shop, and that one was at...ah, I can't remember..."

It happened to be Toshiro Maeda who was pointed out by Gilles de Ray.At that time, Maeda Fujishiro was still a little nervous. Unexpectedly, Gilles de Rai's next sentence would be: "It must be that the range of my magic spread has increased, and some other children within the range can't help but follow. Great, this one Come on, if you sacrifice more than 30 people at once, the possibility of Joan of Arc's resurrection will be even greater..."

Gilles de Rai saw that the number of children abducted in the two nights was quite a lot, so he turned and walked towards his magic workshop.It was a secret base located in the underground flood control system of Fuyuki City, where he hid the dozen or so children he captured the night before.

However, just as Gilles de Rai was walking towards the entrance of the flood control system with the little knives, the little knives who were good at night combat suddenly noticed a powerful presence approaching here quickly.

Under the moonlight, a vigorous and nimble black shadow suddenly jumped up from the roof, and came straight to Gilles de Ray from the sky.

An invisible but quite oppressive wind pressure rushed towards Caster, pointing at his waist, vowing to cut him in half.

However, at this moment, Gilles de Rai waved his long robe sleeves, and a strange figure waving dark purple tentacles suddenly shot out from the sleeves.

The thing hissed, stretched its tentacles, and suddenly entangled an invisible thing in the air.With a flick of his wrist, the visitor chopped off the monster, but he also missed the chance to hit Gilles de Ray.

At this missed moment, Gilles de Ray jumped out of the way and distanced himself from the person coming.

Hearing the armor boots hitting the concrete floor heavily, the heroic spirit wearing a long skirt and armor showed his figure under the moonlight.That was Arturia Pendragon holding the sword hidden by the wind god barrier.

"Jeanne!" Gilles de Ray subconsciously called out when she saw Saber's face.But soon, he recalled the scene on the winding mountain road, and realized that what appeared in front of him was not Joan of Arc, but Saber from the Holy Grail War.

Saber held the sword tightly in both hands, her face was full of anger: "How many children do you plan to kill before you give up? Caster, today is your death day!"

——Artoria Pendragon did not come to the city to hunt down Caster because of the Master's order.She appeared here entirely because of her own will.

Emiya Kiritsugu's plan is actually to let Saber stand still first, not to disturb Caster, if other heroic spirits confront Caster, then she will come out at the last moment to grab the head.And he himself tried to kill Caster's master directly with a sniper rifle, solving Caster's problem from the root.

It's just that when Saber was ambushing in the city, he didn't see any heroic spirits confronting Caster. Instead, he found that Caster had abducted a group of children and was about to transport them back to his magic workshop.

She didn't know that these children were actually small knives, and she was afraid that if they entered the magic workshop, the children would be more dangerous, so she made a decisive move and stopped Gilles de Ray.

For a moment, compared with Gilles de Ray, the little dagger following behind was even more confused.

Seeing that he was about to get into the magic workshop smoothly, why did he come out to disrupt the situation?

The little knives were in a circle when they heard Gilles de Ray laughing in a strange way: "When will I die? Hehe..."

"Saber, although you have the same face as my Joan of Arc, you still can't kill me." Gilles de Ray opened his arms and showed Saber the child behind him, "Unless...you can Let them all die cruelly."

"These children have fallen under my spell, and now their every move is completely controlled by me." He smiled sullenly, his eyes rolled flexibly, "If you dare to move, I will order a child to commit suicide."

"How dare you!" Saber yelled angrily, and the armor covering her arm made a slight impact sound.

"Heh... why don't I demonstrate it to you now." Gilles de Ray waved at Yaken Toshiro who was closest to him, "Come here."

Yaken Toshiro: "..."

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Under the watchful eyes of the daggers, Yaken Toshiro bravely pretended to be manipulated, and walked to Gilles de Ray's side.

"Good boy..." Gilles de Ray said with a smile that made Yaken Toshiro's skin crawl.

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"Now, just give me..."

"Caster, stop!" Artoria Pendragon roared, the hand holding the sword trembling slightly.She wanted to raise the sword in her hand, but she didn't dare to do it because she was afraid that Gilles de Rega would harm the child.

Seeing this, a sinister smile appeared on Gilles de Ray's face.

In the next second, he opened his lips and spat out devilish words: "...wreck your own neck."

"Don't!" Artoria Pendragon instinctively clenched the sword in her hand, her teeth hurt from being bitten.

Gilles de Ray smiled even wider.He raised his head slightly, closed his eyes, and waited for the crisp "click" sound when the neck fracture broke.

He waited and waited and waited and waited.Time passed like this, one second, two seconds...

Gilles de Ray's neck was a little sore, and Arturia Pendragon's hand holding the hilt of the sword relaxed a little.

"..." Gilles de Rai looked down at Yaken Toshiro, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, "You twist, why don't you twist?"

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Yaken Toshiro didn't know what to say, so he raised his head and stared at Gilles de Ray silently.

Gilles de Ray didn't believe in evil anymore. Holding his treasure book in his hand, he subconsciously ordered again through magic, ordering Yaken Toshiro to twist his own neck.

Yaken Toshiro still stood there motionless, looking up at him quietly.

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"Twist! Twist! Why don't you twist?" Gilles de Ray couldn't help crying out, and the whole person suddenly became manic, and even the tone of his voice broke.

While roaring, he stretched out his hand, his withered palm was about to grab Yaken Toshiro's head, and twisted his neck with his own hands: "Twist! Twist! Twist..."

Arturia Pendragon gritted her teeth, and charged forward with her sword in hand.However, Gilles de Ray was only an arm's length away from Yaken Toshiro, and no matter how hard she rushed, it was still impossible for her to be one step ahead of him.

At the moment when Saber felt hopeless, a cold light flashed suddenly, and Gilles de Rai's outstretched hands flew out with blood on his wrists, and fell to the ground with a "click".

"... Huh?" His protruding eyes widened.

Arturia Pendragon paused, looking at the scene in front of her in astonishment.

I saw that the black-haired boy who was standing beside Gilles de Ray like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered just now was holding a sharp short knife in his hand, with a rather ugly expression on his face.

As soon as he opened his mouth, what he uttered was a deep and magnetic male voice: "Twisting and twisting all day long, it's very noisy."

For a time, the world was silent.

"You... aren't you a child?" Gilles de Ray exclaimed in astonishment, holding up his bleeding wrists, "You lied to me?"

"When did I tell you that I was a child?" Yaken Toshiro's face darkened further.

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Arturia Pendragon was stunned while holding the sword, not knowing whether she should intervene at this time.And Gilles de Rai gritted his teeth, and took a few steps back suddenly, blood fell to the ground, splashing a bloody flower.

Unexpectedly, he has always brought such a dangerous guy by his side...

But it's too late to escape now.Gilles de Ray backed away and thought to himself, the child can still be abducted again, and the source of his magic power is the magic guide book, as long as there is a supply of magic power, then as long as time passes, his severed hands can also be healed , re-grow...

Wait a minute, his Noble Phantasm Magic Book!

Gilles de Rai suddenly remembered that his magic book seemed to be held in his hand just now...

in hand?But isn't his hand gone?

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In the next second, Gilles de Rai saw Yaken Toshiro bend down to pick up the magic book in his broken hand, and flipped through it a few times.

"You have been holding this book just now." Yaken Toshiro observed Gilles de Ray's face thoughtfully, "Is this something important?"

Suddenly, Yaken Toshiro showed a subtle smile on his face: "Now it is my book quality."

He pointed at the book in his hand with the body knife: "Take us to your magic workshop. Otherwise, I will kill it. The kind that even the handle of the knife penetrates inside."

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Gilles de Ray took a step back subconsciously, and another thought came to his mind.

Caster is not a class suitable for melee combat at all.Now he was facing Saber and that guy who didn't know where he came from at the same time, the most urgent thing was to leave immediately.Otherwise, if it is one step too late, the two of them complete the front and back attack, and the road behind is also cut off...

Even if the treasure falls into the hands of the enemy, as long as his master is still there, he can try to get the treasure back...

Thinking of this, Gilles de Ray wanted to escape from the back road, but he caught a glimpse of something behind him out of the corner of his eye.

Looking back, he found that the "children" he abducted that night had formed a circle behind him at some point, blocking all his escape routes...

The short knives drew out their own knives one after another.In the moonlight, the reflection of the blade was reflected in Gilles de Ray's large eyeballs.I saw Ranto Shiro holding the knife and smiling: "I didn't expect that...you have been surrounded by us a long time ago!"

Who would have thought of this!At that time, Gilles de Rai was not well, and even wanted to call the police...

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***

In the hotel in Fuyuki City, Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald, with dark circles under his eyes, was trying to decipher the messed up magic circle day and night.

In the afternoon of the day, after the familiar received the task of annihilating Caster from the Church of the Holy Church, he who was already urgently cracking the magic circle became even more anxious.

After all, this is a task that can get the Command Spell as a prize. When he and Lancer were trapped in the hotel by this damn messy magic circle, the other masters and servants did not know how many things they did outside.

But after all, Caster is a class that can build formations and use all kinds of magic.Kenneth thought to himself, this Caster should not be killed by other masters on the first night when the mission was released by the church.

It would be best for Caster to hold on until he and Lancer leave the hotel.He worked harder himself, trying to get rid of these messy magic circles as soon as possible, so that he could go out and grab Caster's head.

Kenneth had a pretty good idea.Driven by this purpose, he cracked the magic circle faster. He was so busy that he didn't even eat dinner. He vowed to get out of prison as soon as possible and become the most beautiful boy in the Holy Grail War.

However, after a busy day and night, before dawn, the familiar suddenly sent the latest report from the Holy Church.

"Caster has been arrested." Through the eyes of the familiar, Kenneth could see the new overseer announce in the church, "Again, Caster has been arrested."

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What is it about him not eating dinner?

Kenneth got up with a dark face at that time, and he didn't care about the half-deciphered magic circle. He walked into the room and slammed the door with a "boom"...