Not scum not happy

Matou Zouyan obviously didn't really need Zong Chun's answer, he stepped directly into the wormhole and walked towards Kariya who was hanging on the wall.

The worms in the worm pit also seemed to know the horror of the old man, and they rushed to escape from his side. This is like the scene of Moses dividing the sea in the Bible, but it reappeared in this dark magician's underground worm warehouse. Kind of ironic.

Kariya had already looked away from the boy, all his attention was focused on the old man in front of him that he hated so much, the only remaining intact right eye was filled with hatred and murderous intent, like a hook that could pull out the dirty inkstone. A large piece of flesh was dug out of his body.

"Kariya, it's really miserable for you to look like this."

The skinny old man was not affected by him at all, he seemed to be in a surprisingly good mood, he lifted the chin of the nominal "son" with his cane, forcing Kariya to raise his head.

"Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to blame you. You were lucky to not die immediately after suffering such a serious injury—but shouldn't you be grateful to me for your survival?"

Matou Kariya no longer had the strength to reply, if he still had the strength, he thought he would spit on the other person's face without hesitation, but in the end he could only snort with his nose, expressing his respect for the old man contempt.

The old man was not angry at his attitude at all, and showed a smile that could only be described as evil.

"Hehe... The three Servants have been resolved, and there are only four left. To be honest, I didn't expect you to be able to survive until now. It seems——this gamble may have a chance for me to win."

(...Have the three Servants returned to the Holy Grail?)

Zong Chun frowned, thinking carefully.

He had seen almost all the Servants during the Battle of Weiyuanchuan.

Needless to say, Caster's blue beard and Saber's "Jane of Arc", Berserker is Kariya's servant, Lancer and Rider each use a Noble Phantasm that fits their roles, so they are all easy to recognize. It is worth mentioning that listening to Rider's voice, he seemed to be the one who broke into the Bluebeard's underground workshop, and the guy with the golden light that sank Berserker in the end couldn't be Assassin, so it was Archer.

Except for Assassin, he has seen all the other Servants. Of course, there is no doubt that Qingbeard is one of them who has returned to the Holy Grail. As for the other two, he does not know. He still has too many shortcomings in terms of intelligence. Fortunately, The old man seemed to know a lot.

On the other side, Zou Yan's movements once again attracted Zong Chun's attention.

"Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to lock you up again. Kariya, now I'm going to grant you the 'trump card' I've kept secret just for today, come—"

The old man's crutch was pressed against Kariya's throat, and the white-haired magician who felt nauseous because of this sudden movement opened his mouth unconsciously, taking this opportunity, Zouken sent something into his mouth middle.

(That is……)

You read it right, it was what Sakura spit out just now.

"Ah, woo...!?"

Kariya, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't help but speak out for the first time.

The wrists trapped in the shackles struggled vigorously, the chains collided with the wall, and there was a constant sound of metal impacts. The right face, which still maintained its basic functions, was twisted due to pain, and the left face, which was completely disabled, was like a zombie. His face looked more menacing than usual.

Zou Yan watched his painful posture very happily, and laughed: "Hohohohoho, it's really immediate. Do you know? The magic block you swallowed just now came from a kinky insect. It was the one that absorbed Sakura in the first place. The chaste one. How's it going, Kariya? The girl's spirit that I've been absorbing over the past year—is it the best magic power?"

"Go to fight, Kariya. Burn the life that was taken from Sakura. Don't spare your flesh and blood to bring back the Holy Grail! If someone like you can do it."

Satisfied with his sadism, Zouken finally incited Kariya and left contentedly.

Maybe it was because he didn't want to show weakness in front of Zouken, until the old man's breath finally disappeared, the white-haired magician began to choke in a low voice, he probably forgot that there were other people here.

The bugs that had just been scattered because of fear of the old man regrouped, covering Kariya's whole body just like they did at the beginning.

- slap.

This weird voice made Kariya raise his head again.

The boy who had been standing by the door a few inches above the wormhole from the very beginning stepped into the wormhole.

Even though he is short in stature, for humans, the boy is a giant compared to worms. The weight of his body acts on his feet, and he tramples the worms on the ground of the worm pit effortlessly to pieces, green The juice splashed with his movements.

The boy did not have Matou's deterrent effect on the bugs, and the surrounding bugs sensed the fresh bait, frantically flocking towards the boy's feet that stepped into the bug pit.

Even though there were still countless bugs attached to his body, Kariya still opened his eyes wide - he wanted to yell for the boy to back out, but he didn't even have the strength to make a sound.

The boy took the second foot without hesitation.

- slap.

When he stepped out, his whole body was already in the wormhole.

Bugs had already started crawling up his insteps.

Kariya was suddenly filled with despair, is the boy going to be swallowed by the swarm of insects here because of his lack of prudence?But he didn't notice that the bugs rushing towards the boy froze for an instant.

When Takano Zongchun took the third step, he simply raised the foot that was climbed by the bug and flicked it. The bug on the instep was thrown out, and then he stomped heavily on his foot.

The fourth step, the fifth step, the sixth step, the seventh step, the eighth step...

——Papa, papa, papa, papa, papa.

When he took the ninth step and stopped, there was no sound under his feet.

The ground of the wormhole was originally mud, and the sound was made before because he crushed the worms, but now there is no sound because the swarm of worms in front of him has receded before he knew it.

Without stepping on the bug's body, it will naturally not make a sound.

Matou Kariya looked at this scene in disbelief, he had just seen the worms scatter in fear of dirty inkstones, other than that, he had never seen another person who could walk into the worm bin safely like this.

If Zouyan relies on his deterrent power of keeping these bugs, then what is this boy relying on?

He didn't use magic, he didn't do anything, he just walked forward very firmly, but amazingly, following his footsteps, the swarm of insects retreated quickly as if he had encountered something terrible.

Everything happens only between these nine steps.

"Is it incredible?"

The boy standing in front of him raised his head slightly and laughed, because of approaching, and because Kariya was much taller than the boy, he had to lower his head to see the boy.

"The instinct of creatures is to bully the weak and fear the strong, and these bugs are no exception. I just let them know that I am much stronger than any of them, and everything that approaches me will be trampled into pieces, and they will become afraid to approach .Maybe they are a hundred times, a thousand times stronger than me, and they still dare not approach me—and you, being eaten by them like this, is not because you are injured, or because you are hanging here, unable to resist , but because you showed weakness to them."

"...You show weakness to them, they think you are weak, they will rush up and gnaw you into pieces." Zong Chun stated calmly, while stretching out his hand, grabbing a stick attached to Kariya's body A worm, and then squeeze it hard.

- slap.

This worm was also doomed, the disgusting worm juice splashed into the palm of the boy, and when he stretched out his hand to Kariya for the second time, the worms that were approached by him scrambled to escape to other places around .

Because of Zongchun's actions, there were a lot fewer bugs covering Kariya's body, which gave him a moment of respite.

The white-haired magician's eyes were a bit complicated. He was still worried about the boy just now, but the other party didn't need his worries at all. Now it was his turn to be lectured by the boy. The voice said: "Ahem... I, I can't do it... My body has completely become a nest for these bugs."

Zong Chun raised his eyebrows, "In that case, you will have more reasons to charge rent from them. If it is a disobedient tenant, then suppress it until it is obedient, and the tools should look like tools."

Kariya didn't answer his words directly, "Is that how you tame those tentacles?"

"Yeah." Although dissatisfied with Kariya's behavior of deliberately avoiding Huatou, Zong Chun replied with a frown, "... a very obedient tool?"

Kariya smiled bitterly, although that face looked very distorted.

Kariya's body now has countless engraving worms simulating magic engravings.

The engraving worm originally existed because he wanted to use the insect technique, but it turned against the guest in his body, constantly greedily devouring the life of Kariya as the host, and even Kariya is still alive now, it has to be said that a large part of the reason is The imprinted worm still needed him as a host to exist, so it didn't completely gnaw him into a skeleton.

However, in the final analysis, this is actually the result of Kariya not deliberately suppressing it.

After all, bugs are just bugs. The Matou family's magic is originally a technique for manipulating bugs. How could there be no way to suppress bugs?

But Kariya, who rejected the Matou family and magic, had no intention of learning these from the beginning.

Back at Matou's house, it has been a year since the engraved worm was implanted. During this period, Kariya never tried to learn magic, so until now, in addition to providing Berserker with magic power through the magic circuit and releasing the insects to attack directly, He can't do anything.

Kariya's biggest attack method is Berserker, and providing magic power to Servant only needs magic circuit instead of magic engraving. Just as the magic circuit provided magic power to Caster, Kariya could also provide magic power to Berserker even without the engraving worm, but at best it was less efficient.

The function of the engraving worm is to simulate the magic engraving. In other words, it is to assist Matou Kariya to use magic. However, apart from releasing bugs occasionally, Kariya has deliberately never learned any magic at all, let alone using magic— —This is tantamount to completely vacating the role of the engraving worms, raising many worms that ate his life in vain, but in fact they are useless at all.

In Zong Chun's eyes, it is completely incomprehensible for Zong Chun to not use the ability to use magic even though he has already paid a price in exchange for the ability to use magic.

Kariya showed a wry smile, it was normal for the boy to not understand, when he voluntarily implanted the engraving worm, it was not so much a preparation for the Holy Grail War, it was more like a self-punishment under a sense of guilt.

Because of him, and because he escaped the fate of inheriting the Matou family, Sakura suffered such a tragic thing. He couldn't do more, and he could only alleviate the pain of being bitten by insects like Sakura. own guilt.

However, Zongchun noticed this keenly, "...is it because of Sakura?"