gaze of war

The author has something to say: Well, I started playing with Kirei... Everything I did before was turned back to its original form by Assassin's arbitrary decisions, Kirei, how will you control the battle situation in the future?Thinking of your troubled face makes me happy~

The war against the murderous caster has sounded the horn.

After a very short investigation and confirmation, all the masters and followers locked their targets on the water workshop of the caster group.While being wary of the actions of other participants, he couldn't wait to rush towards this direction.

——All you have to do is to kill the caster and his lord with all your might.Then, take the Holy Grail.

That was their whole plan—with a hidden, unspoken premise, of course.

The purpose of this matter must be hidden from all the servants—even if it is a heroic spirit who has concluded a master-slave contract, no one will take the Command Seal for the master to forcibly control themselves without any grievances.

For Kotomine Kirei, grasping more detailed information in advance than anyone else, deploying the lurking heroic spirits in advance with one's own advantage, and making all preparations to win from the final blow - no matter what, it is better than those magic tricks Teachers have a more complete plan.

The winner of this battle seems to be doomed.

But Kotomine Kirei made a mistake.

He sees "assassin" as a prop with no self-awareness.

Even though most lords define their servants in this way in their hearts, Kotomine Kirei's situation is particularly complicated. Assassins are not "infinitely proliferating" heroic spirits. Each of them shares the name of Assassin, but they all have completely different personalities and wills.

It is said that an assassin is a special heroic spirit that can appear 80 people at the same time.Therefore, when Kotomine Kirei uses them, he will not pay too much attention to such things as "destroying a few assassins".

But for assassins, when their companions lost their lives because of Kotomine Kirei's order, but Kotomine Kirei showed an expected and even quite satisfied attitude, these heroic spirits who were assassins or There was a deep grudge against him in my heart.

The degree of execution of orders is being quietly reduced.

It also acts in private without being noticed while performing tasks.

This kind of situation had happened several times, but Kotomine Kirei was hardly aware of it.

As a result, assassins acted more and more without authorization.

This time, the few assassins who were ordered to station outside the caster's workshop were the ones who were particularly rebellious.

There was still no problem with Kirei's loyalty, but they had more ideas about orders.After a short thought exchange, one of them continued to stay outside to observe the situation in case the enemy attacked, and the remaining four gathered and entered Caster's magic workshop.

The Assassin, who was stationed outside, ran into a predicament almost a few minutes later - a burly Heroic Spirit drove a huge chariot and rushed over, almost slamming into the Caster's workshop almost arbitrarily.

Assassin outside the workshop immediately notified the news of someone breaking in, and after a short hesitation, he and the four inside decided to launch a surprise attack on the sudden appearance of the heroic spirit.

With their assassination abilities, even if they couldn't kill this mighty heroic spirit, they would definitely be able to kill that petite young man beside him—that must be the lord of this heroic spirit.

[Compared to being crushed by this heroic spirit with a chariot, it is better to strike first] [The situation in the workshop has some peculiarities, let them come in] [Let's do it the moment they see the situation shaken here] [Understand 】【receive】

In just a short moment, the five assassins had already discussed the plan.The assassin who was stationed outside cautiously followed the unknown heroic chariot spirit into the magic workshop.

The chariot stopped in the workshop after crushing all the monsters blocking the way.

Standing beside the strong man, the young man jumped off the chariot, and while walking to the depths, activated the technique of dark vision.The moment his vision lit up, the blood color faded from the boy's face. He took a long breath, covered his mouth, and bent down as if he was about to vomit.

The whole workshop is full of strange decorations... The human body is made into the shape of a musical instrument and placed in the arms of a corpse. The human eyeballs are treated as gems, and they are decorated on a piece of furniture whose original color is no longer visible. The neckline of the clothes—no, that’s not clothes, but a whole piece of human skin, carefully cut, sewn, and then carefully propped up, hanging on the skeleton-like clothes hanger—

This is... what a bloody art workshop—

Assassin made a move at this moment.In their thinking, this young man who was defenseless due to the impact would definitely die in their hands immediately, but the attack of the strong heroic spirit immediately shattered their delusion.

With a speed that no one can see clearly, he drove the chariot with his left hand and rushed to the boy's side to protect him. With his right hand, he pulled out the long sword at his side and quickly slashed several times. All assassins were wiped out without exception.

The young man stared at one of the assassins who almost smashed the dagger into his throat just now, his face was pale.Only a few centimeters, he almost died in this dirty sewer.

From this moment on, he suddenly realized what kind of bloody and brutal battle the Holy Grail War, which he had originally regarded as his chance to prove himself, was.

Two were lying under the wheels, half of their bodies were crushed into meat paste, mixed into the blood pool on the ground, and three were forcefully chopped apart and fell to the ground in all directions.

Every assassin's face has a white mask——

"This is!"

The boy—— Webber Wilwitt, the clock tower student who stole Kenneth's holy relic, immediately widened his eyes.From this very characteristic mask, he immediately realized that the five murdered sneak attackers were the assassin heroic spirits named assassins who had been seen by the familiar and were killed by Archer in the Tohsaka mansion.

There was more than one Assassin, and the real number was unknown—this fact made Weber immediately aware of some truths hidden by Tosaka Tokiomi and Kotomine Kirei.

In other words, the so-called withdrawal from the battle is totally false... The Holy Grail War has been going on until now, and all seven groups are still complete, and no one has withdrawn from the battle!

"Don't be dazed, brat." The big man said in a rough voice, "This place is not conducive to fighting. I don't know how many such heroes are outside. Let's go."

Climbing onto the Heroic Spirit's chariot in a daze, Weber numbly watched as his Heroic Spirit, who was a rider, instigated a battlefield with the power of lightning, burning the caster's workshop to the ground.

"...rider..."

Weber asked in a very low voice.

"Am I...too naive?"

"What are you talking about, you idiot brat." Rider let out a bold laugh, "A man's dream is always naive at first. All you have to do is to move towards your dream all the way!"

Even if the rider said this, it still couldn't dispel the shadow in Waver's heart.What he saw today, the hell created by the magus, and the crisis in the dark that he had never considered because of Assassin's surprise attack made Waver feel extremely heavy.

Weber participated in this Holy Grail War only because he was despised by those pure-blooded magicians, and was regarded as an "incompetent person" who became a half-way monk.It's just a wish to let them see that even a commoner like him can become a great magician.

But Weber has been forgetting a fact——

The so-called war is always accompanied by death.

The young apprentice magician shivered and closed his eyes.

Must... think about it.What kind of attitude should we take to participate in this war...

The moment the five assassins disappeared, Kotomine Kirei immediately realized that all the personnel he deployed on the caster had died.Unprepared and furious, he immediately ordered the assassin who was around to check the situation just in case.

"The caster's workshop has been burnt down. The situation cannot be confirmed."

After receiving such a reply, a gloomy storm was carved on Kotomine Kirei's face.

It's just a momentary negligence, and this result has been obtained?Since Caster's workshop has been burned down, they must be responsible for the disappearance of the five assassins.

Thinking of the crappy drama that he conspired with Tosaka Tokiomi to deceive everyone's eyes, Kotomine Kirei understood that his previous efforts were completely in vain with the unauthorized actions of these five assassins.

He grimly looked down at the Heroic Spirit who materialized kneeling in front of him.

"I thought... my order was, no matter what happens, give me an order to wait for the next step?"

"...Yes, I'm sorry, master. Our brother may have been found by the invaders, so he had to take action."

"……yes."

Kotomine Kirei did not dwell on this issue any longer.

What he had to face now was how many people would guess what he was doing in private after the news that he was still participating in the Holy Grail War was exposed, and after Assassin was discovered by the enemy who invaded the workshop.

——Perhaps even the monitoring effect of assassins lurking in various workshops and around the Commander will be greatly reduced.

Just the unauthorized decision of the five heroic spirits destroyed all the advantages Kotomine Kirei had so far.

Kotomine Kirei was dragged out of the shadows and exposed to everyone's eyes.

——Next, what should we do?