"Is this your idea of honoring a contract, Hartless?" Higashino Kanade looked as though he had been threatened, his expression turning grim.
"This is merely a magus's method. Whether one can make reasonable use of loopholes in a contract is also a test of a magus's skill. And you, Uchiha Kanade, are clearly not a qualified magus."
"Caules" patted Higashino Kanade on the shoulder with a disappointed look. "Of course, what happens next was not part of my original plan. If you want to stop Hephaestion, it won't violate the contract. You can go ahead and try."
"And then get killed by your Servant?" Higashino Kanade rudely slapped "Caules's" hand away.
"You can also choose to ignore Lord El-Melloi II and spend these three days as a spectator."
"Caules" shrugged innocently, dusted off his clothes, and walked out of the carriage.
Hephaestion also vanished in spirit form, leaving Higashino Kanade alone in the spacious carriage.
"Do you really think you've won, Hartless?"
Watching "Caules's" retreating back, Higashino Kanade said with a smile that did not reach his eyes, "You think you're on the second floor, but I'm in the stratosphere. Those who play with contracts should be prepared to be played by them in return."
Higashino Kanade put away his Kunai and prepared to find Waver first to ask him a few questions.
"Ahhhhhhh—"
A piercing scream rang through the entire train. Higashino Kanade froze for a moment, then hurried toward the carriage where it had come from.
The moment he pushed open the door, Higashino Kanade saw Olga Marie kneeling in a pool of blood, tears streaming down her face. Before her lay a Headless Corpse.
Higashino Kanade recognized the corpse. The clothes made it obvious—the dead woman was Olga Marie's secretary, Theresa.
In less than fifteen minutes,