[Gun Bow] Fuyuki Four Battles, the second week!

There is another self in this world──from the very beginning, Emiya Kiritsugu was not surprised by this news at all, because he was the outsider who crossed the world line.

And this world is ten years after the world line that is somewhat similar to his own. At this point in time, the Great Holy Grail made up for the magic power that was not exhausted in the Fourth War, prompting the Fifth Holy Grail War to be held in advance.

ah?Why do you understand so clearly and quickly?

Frankly speaking, Emiya Kiritsugu didn't want that either.He would rather spend more time exploring the situation by himself than be approached by a priest with a deep and serious expression and a distorted smile, eager to give away news for free-free things are often the most expensive.He is not stupid!

It's just that I care too much about... the real meaning of "no change".

Sounds bad as hell.

Emiya Kiritsugu had no intention of personally contacting and communicating with his ten-year older self.Rather than listening to others, he prefers to see with his own eyes.

If it is a wrong decision, try to put an end to it!

Therefore, on the day when he encountered Kotomine Kirei, Mr. Kiritsugu, who was ten years younger and still a middle-aged man, simply prepared the tools as quickly as possible, and immediately launched the "technology" that did not use magic aids but relied entirely on binoculars and monitors. "Side observation method" and began to collect intelligence at irregular points.

On this day, based on the original information, Mr. Kiritsugu’s main achievement was the statistics of the permanent residents of the Emiya residence──“I, Eri, Ilya, adopted sons adopted after the Fourth World War, two Einzbern maids, originally There are three Servants, and two newly summoned Servants. Maiya was not found."

And special related households: Fujimura's daughter, Tohsaka's daughter.

...The atmosphere is so harmonious that it doesn't look like a Holy Grail War is going on.

"It's outrageous."

Mr. Kiritsugu did not remember that he was a loose person.

If even the Servant tried every means to keep the three cavalry, according to his logical judgment, it must be "myself" who won the fourth battle but failed to achieve his goal, so he had ideas about the fifth battle.If this is the case, the relaxed atmosphere of the Emiya family is too contradictory... Thinking about this, Emiya Kiritsugu suddenly remembered that he himself would be equally contradictory ten years later!

See what that man was doing during his observation period?

Sitting in the corridor for a nap, sitting in the room drinking tea, reading newspapers and news, watching the interaction between Irisviel and Illya's mother and daughter, and occasionally participating in it... and eating lollipops!What is this to enjoy the family happiness of smoking cessation and retirement life?

"──No, I made up my mind to give it up? These..."

Mr. Kiritsugu pursed his lips, making the corners of his lips droop slightly.Now he is still a magician killer, but he is no longer the hard-hearted self of Einzbern when he first joined Einzbern; A forbidden area where justice cannot be carried out.

However, what he saw with his eyes for half a day, the "self" living in the emiya mansion, forced Mr. Kiritsugu to face the selfishness that kept whining despite his efforts to ignore it.

It is better to enjoy family happiness than to create world peace, but he also desires the former.That's why one night in the original world line, he tentatively asked Irisviel if he wanted to abandon the Holy Grail War and try to quietly pick up Illya and fly away.

"..."

The expressionless middle-aged man moved his binoculars away to let his eyes rest for a while.He reasonably suspects that the self in this world tends to go the way of flying high.

The bad thing is...he couldn't take it for granted that this was a betrayal of ideals!On the contrary, I have a little uncontrollable...envy for the life of "myself" today...

Abandon happiness and practice ideas.This is Mr. Kiritsugu's original intention to marry Einzbern and participate in the Holy Grail War.

But Kotomine Kirei said nothing would change.

But "Emiya Kiritsugu" doesn't seem to need any changes.

But... Waiting for him to finish the Holy Grail War here, Irisviel, who went back and forth everywhere, has been overloaded as a "device" for defeating Servants in costumes, and has begun to lose human functions and transform into a small Holy Grail form... At this point, Mr. Kiritsugu has no way to turn back.

original.

He recorded the scene where Irisviel and Ilya's mother and daughter were having fun.He played this part for Saber when he returned to the stronghold.

One Holy Grail can't do both, what about the two Holy Grails?

Here, he has to ease the relationship with Servant.

the next day.Mr. Kiritsugu studied the surveillance clips that were previously deployed against the Emiya family.

Then he discovered another big secret!

Regardless of whether those two were summoned by himself, or they were probably from Kenneth just like that Diarmuid.I got it from Archipelod, the red and blue Servants seem to be a pair.And their relationship with "my" family is quite special, not just the contractual relationship between Master and Servant.

"father in law."

"elder brother."

Arturia read her lips, moved away from the wall, stretched out her finger and tapped the screen a few times.Cu Chulainn corresponds to Kiritsugu, and Illya corresponds to Emiya.

At the end, she pulled another line, with Emiya and Shirou at both ends, and said, "Brother. Doubt."

After doing this, he paused for a few seconds. The King of Knights, who had just watched the video yesterday and thought about it all night, finally said positively: "I don't approve of your heretical approach. However, Irisviel is a princess worthy of the knight's heartfelt protection. If Doing so will help her escape her fate, and this time I will help you."

"Hmm...you're suspicious?"

"intuition."

The Knight King's green eyes moved down to look at the Master's side face.

Focused, tense, serious.

Arturia even felt as if she could see through the flesh and blood of the Master, seeing him brainstorming crazily and making keyword combinations.In the end, Mr. Kiritsugu came to the conclusion: the red Servant is the adopted son of a heroic spirit, and the blue Servant is a dog who has adopted a son!

──This is an exaggerated answer.Even the most deviant magician might find it hard to imagine that those around him would have the ability to become heroes in the modern age where mysteries are fading away.

Besides, Mr. Kiritsugu doesn't like the bloody term "hero" very much.

Even leaving aside this part for now, Kiritsugu-san still feels a headache.Why is this "most unlikely possibility" screened by exclusion?Could it be that in the future...if he still has a future, he has to remind himself that once he thinks about adopting, it's best to adopt a girl?

Thinking of this, let's take a look at the "self" on the screen—has a wife, a daughter, and a house, and even has two sons, plus a... son-in-law.

Tsk tsk, it can be seen that the winner mode of life is not so good... No wonder there are behaviors of wiping guns with lollipops in their mouths.Mr. Kiritsugu silently lit a cigarette, thinking to himself.

Arturia couldn't help frowning, and turned to open the window without saying a word.

As soon as the window opened, she immediately noticed a person waving at the bottom. The person had white hair and brown skin, a modest expression, calm eyes, and was wearing a standard black priest's attire.

"Master. Ruler is here, downstairs."

"Go and have a look." Mr. Kiritsugu instructed as he walked to the window and lifted the curtain on the side that was not opened.Even if it is Ruler, it is absolutely impossible for him to give him complete trust.

Fortunately, Ruler didn't come here to find trouble, he just used his class ability to detect the location of the Servants participating in the battle, and then came to deliver a secret invitation letter.

"──The content of the meeting is related to whether the Holy Grail can make a wish normally. Please follow the precautions and be there on time." Shiro Amakusa told Artoria, and Artoria also repeated it verbatim in a flat voice.

Amakusa Shiro has already left.

And after checking to make sure that there was no problem with the confidential letter, it took a long time to open it and read it.Mr. Kiritsugu said indifferently: "You go to the meeting tomorrow. I will stay in front of the screen."

On the third day.Still in that private house, in that room, Mr. Kiritsugu operated the laptop according to the instructions in the secret letter, and sent the Servant into the virtual conference hall.

Then, he decided to make a phone call to "himself"—some things were too far from his cognition, and he needed to find out what changed and what didn't change—yes, definitely not to ask the tricks of being a winner in life; It is not to prevent the accident that one son accidentally raises two "sons".

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't tell anyone about this phone call.Whether it's this one here or that one over there.

[Talk after the fourth volume]