Chapter 131
Kirei Kotomine arrived at the forest outside the Einzbern territory and sensed the battle taking place inside.
"Lord Kirei."
Assassin appeared beside Kirei Kotomine.
"Castle has already engaged in battle with Lancer and Saber, and Lancer's Master has also invaded Einzbern's castle."
"Really? The timing is perfect. Where are they fighting in the right direction?"
"Southeast of the castle."
"In other words, if they were to retreat, they would go in the northwest direction?"
Kirei Kotomine quickly made a judgment and then moved forward rapidly in the direction he had determined.
According to the information he obtained, Kiritsugu Emiya is a person who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, and he always prepares an escape route when he does things. In other words, if Kiritsugu Emiya is no match for Lancer's Master in this encounter, he will find a safe direction to retreat as soon as possible, and the northwest, which is far away from the battlefield, is the best choice. Therefore, Kirei Kotomine only needs to go and block Kiritsugu Emiya.
However, when Kirei Kotomine entered the forest from the northwest, he encountered not Kiritsugu Emiya, but Irisviel and Maiya Hisau.
To prevent Kirei Kotomine from interfering with Kiritsugu Emiya and Kaineth's battle, Irisviel and Maiya Hisau, who were supposed to escape, launched a sneak attack on Kirei Kotomine. However, Maiya Hisau was no match for Kirei Kotomine.
Baji Quan, women!
Fortunately, Irisviel knew a little magic. She used magic to tie Kirei Kotomine's hands to a big tree, preventing Kirei Kotomine from moving away from the tree for the time being, thus temporarily suppressing Kirei Kotomine.
Although his hands were bound, Kirei Kotomine remained completely calm. Since he was tied to a tree and unable to break free of the Magic Power threads binding him, he would break free from the tree!
Unable to use his hands, Kirei Kotomine chose to smash the tree down with his own body!
Because he was tied up facing the tree, he chose to use the strength of his hips to forcefully break the tree!
Thud—
Kirei Kotomine pulled his hips back and then thrust forcefully against the tree trunk, the loud noise stunning both Irisviel and Maiya Hisau.
"What are you doing?"
Irisviel looked in surprise at Kirei Kotomine, who was once again pulling his hips back and sticking out his buttocks, but Kirei Kotomine ignored her and continued to forcefully slam his hips against the tree trunk.
The violent shaking caused many leaves to fall.
"It's fake, right..."
Irisviel clearly saw that a crack had appeared in the tree trunk because of Kirei Kotomine's defiance. Was this man really going to break the tree with his crotch?
Thud—Thud—Thud—
Kirei Kotomine kept thrusting his hips in and out, relentlessly impacting the tree trunk. However, to his bewilderment, although the cracks on the tree continued to spread, the trunk could not be broken no matter what he did.
What's going on?
After a series of retorts, Kirei Kotomine stopped, puzzled.
He looked at the tree in front of him. The trunk was not large, not even large enough for him to wrap his arms around it. Such a tree should not have lasted this long after he used the Church reinforcement magecraft. So why?
Could it be that I didn't use enough force?
After pondering for a while, Kirei Kotomine, puzzled, began to thrust his hips forward again in front of Irisviel and Maiya Hisau.
Thud—Thud—Thud—
The sound of the tree trunk hitting the tree rang out again. Irisviel and Maiya Hisau were initially tense, watched Kirei Kotomine repeatedly crash into the tree. Their initial tension and shock gradually turned into confusion.
"Is he... alright?"
"Probably... it should be fine."
While maintaining her Magic Power output to prevent the threads binding Kirei Kotomine from snapping, Irisviel asked Maiya Hisau, who was standing next to her.
"Maimi, are you still able to move?"
"It wasn't working before, but after resting for a while, it's working now."
"Then I'll leave it to you."
Irisviel continued to maintain the output of Magic Power, allowing Maiya Hisau to deliver the final blow to Kirei Kotomine.
Maiya Hisau slowly got up from the ground, picked up the submachine gun, aimed at the back of Kirei Kotomine as he crashed into the tree, and then pulled the trigger.
Thud—
The bullet was fired, but it hit the ground next to Kirei Kotomine.
Kirei Kotomine stopped crashing into the tree, glanced at the crater on the ground, then tilted his head back at a 45-degree angle, adopting Akiyuki Shinbo's classic pose, and looked sideways at the [Emiya Kiritsugu] who had pushed Maiya Hisau's pistol away.
"Kiritsugu Emiya, you've finally appeared."
216. Magecraft is still on the tree! (Bonus chapter 3/3 in March)
"Ah!!!!"
A scream came from Kaineth's throat.
The noble magician, who had come from the Clock Tower to the countryside of Fuyuki, was screaming madly before collapsing to the ground, blood gushing from the wound in his chest, staining the mercury on the ground a bright red.
"Hmph~"
Kiritsugu Emiya looked at the fallen Kaineth and couldn't help but let out a cold laugh. A noble mage from the Clock Tower, huh? So what? Before his Mystic Code [Origin Bullet], even the most powerful noble mage is useless.
Mystic Code are very important to mages and are the most frequently used items in battle. However, the production of Mystic Code is very expensive, and Kiritsugu Emiya did not have that much money, so he took another approach.
Everyone has their own origin. Kiritsugu Emiya's origin is cutting and combining. He took out his own ribs, crushed them into powder, and then made them into bullets, which became the Origin Bullet.
These bullets, like the severing and reassembling of his origin, bring about irreversible qualitative changes to the target, directly destroying the opponent's Magic Circuit, making them fragmented, and then reconnecting them irregularly, thus causing the Magic Power to go berserk.
A powerful magician can go berserk due to the disruption and disordered recombination of his own Magic Circuit, turning him into a magical waste. Even the most powerful nobleman can be transformed from a magical genius into a magical failure because of this one bullet.
This is why Kiritsugu Emiya is known as the Mage Killer.
Aside from his deceased father and mentor, no one knew his bullets possessed such power; 37 magicians had already died at his hands because they were unaware of the bullets' strength.
In Kiritsugu Emiya's view, Kaineth will be the thirty-eighth!
Seeing Kaineth lying motionless on the ground due to the surge of Magic Power, Kiritsugu Emiya switched to his Automatic Submachine Gun and slowly approached.
But his intuition told him to stop and fire immediately after taking two steps closer.
The bullet was deflected, and the one that deflected the bullet was a yellow pistol.
"Lancer..."
Kaineth's servant arrived just in time to save him.
"Saber's master, you should understand that at this distance, it would be an easy thing for my spear to pierce your body!"
Lancer pointed his pistol at Kiritsugu Emiya. Kiritsugu Emiya understood Lancer's meaning, took two steps back, but kept his pistol raised.
"I will not let anyone kill my master, but I will not kill you either, Saber's master, because you are the master of the King of Knights."
"So that's how it is... Saber's identity has been exposed?"
Kiritsugu Emiya gave a cold response.
"That's right. I will settle things with Saber in a knightly manner, not by killing each other's Master. Therefore, I will spare your life here."
As Lancer answered, he hoisted Kaineth onto his shoulder.
"Remember this, Saber's master."
After saying that, Lancer carried Kaineth through the window and left right in front of Kiritsugu Emiya.
Kiritsugu Emiya watched Lancer leave, but instead of giving chase, he turned and left the castle as well, heading northwest.
At the start of the battle, Kiritsugu Emiya predicted that Kirei Kotomine would also invade the area, so he sent Irisviel away from the northwest. He wondered if Irisviel had encountered Kirei.
"I hope you never meet Kirei Kotomine, Irisviel."
With such anticipation, Kiritsugu Emiya ran towards the northwest.
Then, not long after entering the forest, he heard a series of thumping sounds, which sounded very muffled.
Puzzled, Kiritsugu Emiya drew his submachine gun and cautiously moved toward the direction from which the sound came.
Then, after walking a few steps, he saw the source of the sound.
Kirei Kotomine, has his hands tied high to a tree. He is constantly thrusting his hips in and out, using his hips to ram against the tree trunk.
Beside Kirei Kotomine, two assassins were using daggers to cut tree trunks and threads binding his hands, Kirei Kotomine. However, neither the tree trunk nor the threads changed under the daggers' cuts; their efforts were futile.
Besides these two assassins, there were two more assassins quietly cheering them on.
"Kirei-sama, keep going! The cracks are getting bigger, you'll be able to break free soon!"
"Lord Kirei, it's almost over, the silk thread is about to break."
With the encouragement and assistance of two assassins cutting through the tree trunk, Kirei Kotomine continued to ram against it.
"Lord Kirei, someone's here!"
One of the assassins sensed Kiritsugu Emiya and immediately alerted Kirei Kotomine. Kirei Kotomine tilted his head back again, looking at Kiritsugu Emiya's location at a 45-degree angle, and the two of them made eye contact.
"..."
Kiritsugu Emiya.
"..."
Kirei Kotomine.
The thumping sounds stopped, as did Assassin's cheers. The two fell into a silent stare, and the entire forest was quiet.
After a silent stare-down for ten seconds, Kiritsugu Emiya turned and walked in another direction.
"Lord Kirei, shall we kill him?"
Assassin asked Kirei Kotomine if there were four of them who could easily kill Kiritsugu Emiya while Saber was away.
However, Kirei Kotomine did not give the order to kill Kiritsugu Emiya, because he knew that as Saber's master, Kiritsugu Emiya could use Command Spells to immediately summon Saber to protect him.
"Kiritsugu Emiya".
Kirei Kotomine called out to Kiritsugu Emiya.
"Are you looking for the Einzbern family dolls?"
Kirei Kotomine, with his hands bound, hugging a large tree and leaning back at a 45-degree angle, Kiritsugu Emiya.
Kiritsugu Emiya stopped and turned to look at Kirei Kotomine.
What are you trying to say?
"They were taken away, by another you."
Kirei Kotomine directly revealed the whereabouts of Irisviel and Maiya.
Not long ago, the Emiya Kiritsugu suddenly appeared, stopped Maiya Hisau from killing Kirei Kotomine, and then took Irisviel and Maiya Hisau away.
Although Kirei Kotomine believed that even if Emiya Kiritsugu didn't appear, Maiya Hisau wouldn't be able to kill him, because there were always several assassins lurking around him, their presence concealed. Maiya Hisau really wanted to fire a shot, he would definitely be killed by the assassins before he could even fire.
Why are you telling me this?
Kiritsugu Emiya paused slightly, then coldly questioned Kirei Kotomine.
Why did you participate in the Holy Grail War?
Kirei Kotomine did not answer, but instead asked Kiritsugu Emiya a question.
You don't need to know.
Kiritsugu Emiya didn't answer Kirei Kotomine's question; he simply turned and left, as the question wasn't worth answering.
Kirei Kotomine was clearly not satisfied with Kiritsugu Emiya's answer.
"What if I told you where the other you took those two women?"
Kiritsugu Emiya stopped, raised his hand, and aimed his gun at Kirei Kotomine.
"Tell me where they were taken."
217. Kiritsugu: I'm sorry, I've come at the wrong time.
Irisviel had a dream.
In her dream, she saw the life of a man named Kiritsugu Emiya.
His father was hunted by the Mage's Association, and he had to follow his father around from a young age, constantly on the run, until they arrived at a small island in Southeast Asia, where they lived a peaceful life in a place with little communication with the outside world.
However, due to an accident, his father's experiment led to a disaster, turning all the residents of the island into Ghoul. In order to prevent his father from conducting experiments again and causing more tragedies, he chose to kill his father.