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"……how is he?"

"Huchichi, you still have the mood to take care of others now, it's really very leisurely."

Facing Matou Zouken's ridicule, Kariya turned his face away.

If he had a choice, he would never bring the boy back to the Matou residence.

But the worst thing is that now he can't protect himself, and the boy has a high fever and is in a coma. He can't just send the boy to the hospital for ordinary people. What else can he do?

Matou Kariya is a "good guy" in the usual sense.

Seeing someone who needs help, I can't help but want to lend a helping hand, but at the same time I don't want to trouble others with my own troubles. I always help others more than I ask for help. I am indecisive and full of emotions-such Kariya, among the more than 20 years he has lived to this day, the only time he went out of line was when he refused to inherit the family business and left the Matou family.

However, it was just this willfulness that caused him the most painful and regretful experience so far.

Even when Ome Zenjo Aoi, whom he loved since childhood, married Tokiomi Tohsaka, he didn't suffer so much.

The blame for causing the innocent Sakura to become what he is today is partly due to Matou Zouken who committed atrocities against Sakura, and partly to Tohsaka Tokiomi who sent his daughter here with his own hands. This recognition made him feel infinitely regretful.

Compared with the harm I have suffered, what is even more unacceptable is that I have hurt the person I love with my own hands.

——This is Kariya Matou.

Even though he couldn't protect himself, even though he didn't know the boy very well, he still couldn't ignore the boy who fell into a coma due to a cold, especially when the other party was obviously waiting for him in that place.

But even so, Kariya is not such a rash person, he chose to bring the boy back to Matou's house and hand him over to Zou Yan for treatment, not only because he has insufficient spare time, but also after full consideration.

What reassures Kariya the most is that this boy has no qualifications as a magician. In this way, no matter how special the boy is, in the eyes of Zouken, who aims at the Holy Grail, he cannot participate in the Holy Grail War, nor can he become a qualified carcass The boys are worthless.

Even if it is used as a preparatory body, Zou Yan is unlikely to choose an ordinary person's body.

However, Zouken's reaction was a bit beyond his expectation...

"Although it's useless sympathy, you saved an interesting little tail."

As Matou Zouken said, he rolled up the long sleeve of the boy's right hand, revealing the tiny tentacles wrapped around his arm, his skinny fingers brushed gently over the tentacles, maybe he instinctively felt that the old man was not It's so annoying, the tentacles didn't respond except for a slight trembling.

(... careless!)

He had seen the boy driving the monster, but Kariya, who hadn't seen the tentacle monster before, thought it was gone, so he completely ignored it.

"Oh? It looks like you don't know." Zouken accurately captured the fleeting annoyance in Kariya's only remaining right eye.

When the two sides were in a stalemate and Kariya didn't know how to answer, the purple-haired girl who had been kneeling by the bed silently and wiping the boy's forehead with a wrung towel suddenly stopped and said, "Grandpa, he wakes up!" gone."

Although it was Kariya who brought him back, he was already too busy to take care of himself, and Zouken and Tsuruno certainly couldn't take care of this boy with their own hands. In the end, this kind of work naturally fell to the most careful and the only girl in the family. On Tong Ying.

Sojun Takano had to open his eyes.

In fact, he woke up when Zou Yan touched the tentacle monster before. Although the tentacle did not dare to resist Zou Yan, it twisted Zong Chun's arm tighter and tighter. It would be strange if he still didn't wake up.

The first thing that caught his eyes was the purple-haired girl who had just dismantled him for pretending to be sleeping. Zong Chun said in a strong nasal voice, "Mmm...cough cough, thank you."

Matou Sakura didn't change any expression, just nodded lightly.

Seeing Matou Ying's appearance, Zong Chun couldn't help frowning a little.

If compared to the number of people who saw people dying or dying, the people here probably have less experience than him except Matou Zouken.

He is very familiar with the state of the purple-haired girl, that is... completely closed her heart, isolated from the outside world, without sadness or joy, like a pool of stagnant water without passion, leaving only numb walking corpses.

Such "broken" material is usually quickly disposed of by Ryunosuke and Aosuke, because the guy who has closed his heart no longer feels fear, nor can he bring joy and joy to the two.

But if the walking dead were made that way by witnessing the horrors of their fellow humans and fearing the future, what about this girl?

In any case, it was too strange for such a state to appear in a child who was about the same size as himself.

Standing up in a bit of embarrassment, his brain, which was still running a low-grade fever, was still a little unclear. Zong Chun saw two people other than the girl. One was the white-haired magician he was looking for, and the other was a man with a cane. , A bald old man of very short stature.

If you guessed right, that old man was the one who just touched the tentacle monster. His face was ashen, and his body was shriveled like a mummy. He looked as if he would rot if he touched it. The eyes in the deep-set eye sockets were frighteningly bright.

If the old man is related to the white-haired magician, Zong Chun can understand, probably the genetic appearance of this family must belong to the "scary" level.

After sizing up the old man brazenly, Zong Chuncai looked around the environment he was in now. This seemed to be the interior of a building, maybe it was the home of a white-haired magician. From his point of view, there is a wall clock hanging in the middle of the wall, and the hour hand on it is already approaching the number "5". Judging from the sky coming in through the window, it should be around five o'clock in the afternoon, and he suddenly fell asleep. All day long.

After the observation, he turned his attention to the old man again. Zong Chun had already noticed that it seemed that the old man was the one who could really decide everything here.

Zou Yan didn't seem to care about Zong Chun's rudeness just now, but looked at him with interest, "Boy, this thing..." He pointed to the tentacle monster wrapped around Zong Chun's right hand, "Where did you come from?" ?”

Zong Chun touched the tentacles that had calmed down with his left hand through his sleeve, and replied very simply: "It's Caster's summoned monster."

Kariya couldn't help but gasped slightly.

He brought Zong Chun back carefully, just not wanting the boy to attract Zou Yan's attention, but the boy's words made his painstaking efforts come to naught.

Say anything to prevaricate, even if it's a clumsy lie—Kariya originally hoped that he would answer like this, but... "Caster", and the word is correct, and the pronunciation is correct.

This word is not known to just anyone, and being able to say this word shows that the boy must be related to the Holy Grail War, or at least Caster's related.

Zong Chun, who said this sentence, of course knew what kind of effect it would have. He could say many kinds of answers and fabricate the origin of the tentacle monster seamlessly, but what's the use of that?

What he needs now is not to hide his strength and bide his time, and pretend to be a non-existent air, otherwise he would not need to spend so much energy and finally rely on the white-haired magician—what Zong Chun needs is an ally, someone who knows magic well. ally.

Since he wants to form an alliance, even if his strength is not as good, he can't let his momentum drop too much. His only bargaining chip now is his understanding of the Caster group, so he can only throw out this bait.

And Zong Chun was not too worried that they would not take the bait.

The grimoires left by Yusheng’s family don’t have much to say about magic. The most detailed and complete one is the summoning circle used to summon Servants. What is more clearly introduced is the details of the Holy Grail War. It’s not so much a grimoire as it is It's the same thing as the Holy Grail War strategy.

Zong Chun boldly speculates that this is probably the manuscript record left by the magician of the Yusheng family when he was preparing to participate in the third Holy Grail War, so it is only the result of the first and second Holy Grail War. In the end, just look at Ryunosuke, who doesn't know the existence of magic at all, and whose inheritance has been broken for generations.

The types of participants can be roughly summarized from the letters. One is the Yusanjia who built the Holy Grail system; When there is a vacancy for a first-name Master, a temporary Master selected by the Holy Grail with a strong desire and enough magic power to afford the Servant to manifest.

Among them, Yusanjia is of course the most concerned, and most of the magicians who come here from all over the world have considerable confidence in their own strength, and they are usually already well-known, so it is not difficult to screen them out.

For the participants, the only thing that is more mysterious is the third type of temporary Master, because no one knows who will be selected by the Holy Grail, and many temporary Masters who are selected do not even understand the meaning of the Holy Grail——Ryunosuke is one of them.

Ryunosuke is undoubtedly a temporary Master belonging to the third category. It is a mysterious existence to other participants. If information can be obtained from Sojun, it will be very beneficial to Caster.

Without looking at Kariya's complicated eyes, maybe because he thought the fire wasn't hot enough, Zongchun added another fire, "I know all the information about Caster, if you agree to my exchange conditions, I will tell you all about it .”

Zou Yanku laughed, "Boy, what makes you think you can negotiate terms with me?"

"Killing me is of no use to you. Even torture will take time...Of course, if you can use your magic to make me speak directly, then it will be treated as if I didn't say anything."

Being cautious does not mean being timid. If taking a chestnut from the fire can achieve the goal, then Zong Chun doesn't mind trying it once in a while.

Zou Yan's gaze changed for the first time.

His ultimate goal is to get the Holy Grail and obtain eternal life. It doesn't matter to him whether Kariya gets it this time or waits another 60 years, and it doesn't matter what kind of method is used. If the boy really knows about Caster , if it can increase even a little bit the possibility of winning in the end, then it is worth it.

Moreover, the duration of the Holy Grail War is very short, usually only one to two weeks. If there is a big change, the expired information will no longer have any effect. Besides, although magic such as mind reading does exist, there is indeed no one in Matou who is good at such magic.

Just before Zouken was about to speak, an unexplained chill suddenly swept over the three people standing in the room.

Kariya, Sakura, and Zouken sensed at the same time that a wave of abnormal magic power was spreading.

Although Zong Chun didn't notice the abnormality at all, he could feel the tentacles on his right arm constantly tightening.

"That is……"

Kariya turned his head and looked towards the direction where the abnormal magic power came from, as if he could see the river at the end through the walls and the layers of buildings.

Zong Chun jumped down from the bed, had no time to take care of the throbbing temples, gritted his teeth and said loudly: "...Take me there!"