"Assassin, go assassinate Tokiomi tonight!"
Kirei Kotomine gave Jizi the order expressionlessly.
"Hehe, what an unimaginative plan."
Knowing the truth, Jizi naturally would not be like that unlucky Zayd, who had gotten excited upon hearing those words, immediately performed a flashy Leap of Faith into the Tohsaka Residence, and then got turned into a sieve after an acrobatic performance.
"Do you think Magi, who are known for their cunning, will be fooled by such a petty trick for long? Especially Kiritsugu Emiya?"
"That is why you must gather information on our opponents as quickly as possible, then Archer will deal with them."
"If it is merely intelligence work, I can handle it without doing this..."
"To achieve true Presence Concealment, this is necessary. For my teacher's victory, not even the slightest error can be allowed."
It was truly ironic for that to come from a member of the Tohsaka Family, who always dropped the ball at critical moments...
"For Tokiomi's victory? Hehe, but the Holy Grail chose you as well, Kirei. Do you truly have no thoughts of your own?"
Though she knew it would not work, Jizi still tried. As expected, she could not escape her predetermined fate, but she could still give things a little push and alter the course of destiny afterward.
Leaving Kirei, who had once again fallen into thought, on the hillside, Jizi slipped into the forest and began her Assassin-style Metal Gear Jizi: Author, are you sure you didn't use the wrong term here?
------------Compared to Metal Gear and Assassin's Creed, Tianzhu (4) is the true "stealth assassination" game.-----------
Snap!
The sound of some crystal shattering echoed through the vast courtyard of the Tohsaka Residence. It was the sound of a magical node in the Tohsaka Residence's defensive barrier being destroyed by an arrow fired from the darkness.
Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap! ...(Several snapping sounds omitted here to avoid accusations of padding the word count and leading certain readers' minds astray.)
After the outermost gemstones were destroyed, the hidden attacker proceeded from the inside outward, consecutively destroying the other nodes arranged throughout the courtyard. Very quickly, the originally meticulous and exquisite defensive barrier was left with only its innermost layer still functioning.
Yet at this point, for some unknown reason, the attack on the center of the entire formation had still not come.
"Because touching that would trigger some ridiculous flag and summon a hell-difficulty boss!"
Invisible atop a tree branch, Jizi did not continue constructing bows of destruction and ruin. Instead, she took out a set square and a protractor, gesturing toward the Tohsaka Residence as though taking aim at something.
"Hmm, let me calculate. The height of this triangular ruler is xx centimeters, its perpendicular sides are xx and xx centimeters, the tree is xx meters tall, the angle measured at the base is xx degrees, while the angle up in the tree is xxx degrees. Using sin, cos, tan, and all that other messy nonsense, I can determine that the distance from here to the Tohsaka Residence is exactly the limit at which I can operate away from the mask. Then this spot it is."
By now, everyone should understand Jizi's trick for playing dead. She hid her main body—the mask—nearby, transferred all her senses into the puppet body—her humanoid form—and then boldly went out to court death. Once she truly died, she would return to the fountain and wait for the respawn timer... I mean, she could use Mapo's Mana to reconstruct her puppet body.
Although the process took a great deal of time and Mana, Jizi, as someone with a Master—C-route Jizi: "Damn rich bastard, having so much Mana, huh?" A-route Jizi: "Fuck, that's Mapo! Mapo! I'd rather go beat up delinquents every day than hang around with him, okay?" Both Jizis: "Every family has its own troubles. The more you talk about it, the more tears you shed..." —felt no pressure at all. Mapo's magical skill was high enough that this bit of expenditure would only leave him with kidney deficiency for a day or so.
After placing the mask in the tree hollow she had just carved out, Jizi pulled down Uncle E's hood. Once she made sure her face was properly concealed, she took a great Leap of Faith into the low bushes in the courtyard.
Jizi: Wait, doesn't this make me just like that unlucky bastard from the original story?
----------Jumping from high places is a common affliction among the people of District 11, isn't it? Whether they are fighting or not, it is an incredibly suicidal thing to do. Just think of Illidan before the Frozen Throne back then!-------------
A cardboard box abruptly appeared in the courtyard—something that was already strange enough on its own.
What was more, the cardboard box was moving! Though it moved slowly, stopping and starting, even using plants for cover.
But no matter how cautious it was, on the marble paths of this classically designed courtyard, that cardboard box stood out as much as Harry Potter's forehead scar! If the person doing this intended to "infiltrate," then it was having the complete opposite effect, okay? Whether it was Kirei Kotomine in the distance, Tokiomi Tohsaka inside the house, or the other Magi monitoring the place through familiars, all of them were forcefully suppressing the raging urge to comment within their hearts.
As for the culprit...
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"Foolish humans, the great infiltrator Snake taught us that cardboard boxes are the romance of infiltration, okay!"
Thus spoke Jizi.
But clearly, anyone who had never played "Metal Gear" could not possibly understand that kind of romance.
Whoosh! ← The sound of a longsword slicing through the air.
Perhaps he had grown bored of the farce before him, or perhaps he felt he was being made a fool of. Gilgamesh, who should only have made his dazzling entrance when Jizi attacked the central node, appeared on the rooftop ahead of time. Ripples spread through the space behind him as countless gleaming swords and blades aimed at the cardboard box below, which had suddenly accelerated and dodged the first strike.
"I have seen enough of this mongrel's clown show!"
A rain of swords fell from the sky, and the cardboard box was quickly riddled full of holes. Surely the person hiding inside could not have survived...
Unfortunately, nothing in the Holy Grail War could be judged by common sense—
"Hurricane Sonic Tornado!"
From that cardboard box, which had been shredded into pieces in an incomparably flashy fashion, something spun out like a skyrocketing firework... It was a miniature four-wheel-drive car! And judging by the name of the move, it was Hurricane Sonic Tornado, the protagonist machine from "The Let's & Go!!" series! (Author: Speaking of miniature four-wheel-drive cars, I suddenly remembered the "Kosovo Chariot" and "Primitive War God" that I had modified so ruthlessly, as well as the days when I ran together with the other bratty kids in the courtyard beneath the setting sun... Am I really getting old?)
The rapidly spinning miniature car charged at Gilgamesh on the roof with spiral gusts of air swirling around it, carrying the momentum of, "Watch me run you over! Do you know who my dad is? My dad is Li Gang! It's not illegal for me to drive over someone!" Gilgamesh, stunned by this unexpected development, failed to notice the glint of a blade that had appeared behind him at some point, and so he was First Blooded just like that... Of course, that was impossible.
In reality, Gilgamesh had not invested the slightest emotion in that symbol carrying the youth, passion, and dreams of countless boys. With a casual wave of his hand, a sword pinned it to the ground, never to rise again. Meanwhile, Jizi, who had secretly sneaked up behind Gilgamesh, was caught in a bondage play by a chain that appeared from thin air.
"A mongrel's trick."
"You know this is only a performance. Why take it so seriously?"
"That Tokiomi only knows how to play such cheap little games."
Jizi did not show any panic whatsoever. She had come here intending to die anyway. It was a pity that she had thought she could at least give Gilgamesh a shock, but she had not expected even a miniature four-wheel-drive car to stir his passion. Did she need to use a basketball next time?
Still, when she saw the countless blades aimed directly at her, Jizi felt somewhat uneasy. She would not die, but it would definitely hurt like hell. After all, the five senses of this body had been amplified twofold...
"Your Majesty, please be a little gentler..."
"Humph!"
--------------First Blood-----------------
Two or three hours later, in the woods behind the house.
"Holy crap! That hurt like hell! And I didn't expect constructing a new puppet body to take so much time. Also, why the hell did I hide the mask inside a tree in the first place?!"
-----Does anyone remember that Xiling Apostle from the Pandora Legion who got stuck inside a tree when they teleported to Earth?----
Author's note: I suddenly feel that running two storylines at the same time was an utterly idiotic decision. The original plan was for the A-route to follow a serious style and the C-route to follow a cheerful style. After writing the C-route, I couldn't switch styles back to write the A-route properly—so this chapter feels so strange—and when I went back to the C-route, that became awkward too. So I'll handle one route at a time from now on... At present, I've decided to finish the C-route first, then return to deal with the A-route. So for a long time afterward, everyone will not see any A-route updates—though nobody was looking forward to them anyway, right? What? There are people who are? If so, leave a comment and tell me which route you want to see first.
1. Homework—not finished, because I really don't know how to write it anymore, so I plan to copy it during evening self-study.
2. I want to see whether Dian Niang will eat the formatting again.
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