Don't Call Me Master, Call Me Director

Soon, all preparations for the Film Crew were complete. After confirming everything on one side, Shinji immediately announced the start of Filming.

"Tokiomi Tohsaka!"

Kariya roared in anger in Front of the Camera, his hoarse voice like a demon from hell.

"His Acting Skills are amazing, is this the power of a professional Actor?"

Artoria, standing beside Shinji, sighed softly, a hint of admiration in her voice.

Master Shinji scoffed dismissively, "What Acting Skills? This guy is just venting all the resentment he's accumulated over the years."

"Is that so?"

Artoria, unaware of Kariya's situation, sounded confused.

"Uncle is unhappy with Uncle Tohsaka for a long time, and finally found an opportunity," Shinji narrowed his eyes. He watched Kariya, who had entered a state of rage on the monitor, wondering what he was thinking.

On the other side, Kariya's performance had entered its prime. His resentment and anger activated his Magic, and countless flying insects appeared from the shadows, circling him.

"Tokiomi Tohsaka! I will never forgive you! I will kill you!"

Following Kariya's angry roar, the Winged Blade Insects adjusted their combat stances and flew towards Tokiomi Tohsaka as a legion.

Tohsaka, standing opposite Kariya, calmly raised his ruby-encrusted cane, preparing to cast a Fire Spell at the insects rushing towards him--

"Heh heh!"

Kariya revealed a smug smile. Taking advantage of the insects obscuring his vision, he pulled two Handguns from his pocket and pulled the triggers directly at Tokiomi Tohsaka.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Continuous gunshots echoed in the Studio.

Kariya laughed maniacally as he fired, "Hahaha, Tohsaka! This thing is much more useful than your magic staff!!"

However, all of Kariya's bullets missed.

Tokiomi Tohsaka dodged Kariya's shots with an incredible sidestep, causing all the bullets to miss.

Then, before Kariya could react, Tohsaka rushed in front of him and punched him in the stomach.

"Pfft--"

Kariya was sent flying, landing on a soft mat not far away.

"Impossible... Tohsaka... why..."

Kariya, lying on the mat, stared blankly at his old rival, seemingly unable to believe that his sneak attack had failed.

"Hmph."

"Tohsaka" snorted and reverted to Yan Qing's appearance.

"I knew Uncle would play dirty. It was the right decision to use Yan Qing as a body double."

Shinji walked over and triumphantly tapped Kariya's head twice with the megaphone.

"Didn't expect this, did you? I predicted your prediction."

"Shinji... I'm your uncle," Kariya said, clutching his stomach. "You're too harsh."

"This is your own fault, Kariya."

At this moment, the real Tokiomi Tohsaka walked out. He looked at Kariya and the two Handguns discarded on the ground with a gaze that was arrogant yet tinged with disdain.

Fortunately, Shinji was one step ahead; otherwise, he might have truly embarrassed himself.

For Tohsaka, who had elegance ingrained in his DNA, this was worse than death.

As the saying goes, one can lose their head and bleed, but their hairstyle must not be ruined. This was undoubtedly Tohsaka's true reflection.

"You were the one who pulled out the Handgun first! How many times have I told you, stop messing around!" Shinji said with disappointment. "What if you had injured Uncle Tohsaka?"

"Mhm mhm."

Tohsaka nodded repeatedly at Shinji's words.

[I didn't expect Shinji-kun to have a steady side too.]

"If someone got hurt, I wouldn't just have to pay medical expenses, but the Filming Progress would also be delayed for a long time! Every extra day this Film Crew operates costs money!"

[I take back what I just thought! Shinji-kun really hasn't changed at all!]

Tohsaka felt that after finishing the movie, he should take a long vacation to adjust his state. These people from the Matou Family were all terrible.

Meanwhile, Shinji picked up the Handguns Kariya had dropped. "Uncle, where did you get these things?"

Kariya rolled his eyes. "I got them from Kiritsugu Emiya. They're loaded with Rubber Bullets, they can't hurt anyone. I just wanted to scare Tohsaka and give him a surprise."

Shinji's mouth twitched. He suppressed the urge to point the muzzle of the Handgun at Kariya's forehead and said fiercely, "Translate this for me, what does 'surprise' mean?! You said my Japanese was bad, but I think your Japanese was taught by a gym teacher?!"

Saying that, Shinji tucked the gun into his waistband.

"In any case, I'm confiscating this. Uncle, you need to act properly and stop trying to be clever."

Kariya pouted, "Fine if you don't want it, I have plenty of other ways."

"Hm?"

"I mean, I guarantee I'll act well."

"..."

Shinji's eyelids twitched twice. Kariya's smile, identical to Teacher Chen Peisi's, gave him a very bad premonition.

Soon, the second take began.

"Fate Zero, Scene 271, Take 6... Action!"

The moment the clapperboard was struck, Kariya's expression turned frantic once more.

"Tokiomi Tohsaka! Die for me!"

Kariya stretched his hand forward, and swarms of Winged Blade Insects flew towards Tokiomi Tohsaka.

"Hmm... Uncle's acting skills are truly beyond reproach."

After all, he was a professional actor. Kariya's performance was very natural, and Shinji really couldn't find any fault with it.

But the next moment, Shinji had to stand up from the director's chair once again.

Because the moment Tokiomi Tohsaka swung his cane and used fire Magecraft, these Winged Blade Insects began to throw small balls at him.

Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!

The moment these small balls touched the flames, they exploded, and the white powder from the balls scattered into the air with the blast, enveloping Tohsaka.

"Cough, cough! What is this... My Magecraft... Why can't I use it?"

With his face full of white powder, Tohsaka coughed and vigorously waved his sleeves to drive away the powder.

"Hahahaha!"

Kariya burst into laughter again.

"Tohsaka, these are automatic fire extinguishing balls! You guy who always looks down on technology from on high! Bow down before the wisdom of mortals! Hahaha!!"

"You go meet your ancestors first!!"

Shinji jumped up and grabbed Kariya's head with a flying armbar.

"Ouch! Shinji, do you want to kill me?"

"You unreliable uncle, just die already!"

Faced with the uncle and nephew causing a ruckus, the entire Film Crew tacitly chose to ignore them.

Only Rin still cared about her father and took a towel from the lounge to hand to Tohsaka.

"Father, please wipe yourself."

Tohsaka, however, seemed not to hear his daughter. He squatted in a corner, drawing circles on the ground with his cane.

"Lost... I, the head of the Tohsaka family, actually lost to mere fire extinguishing balls... mere fire extinguishing balls..."

"..."

Young Lady Rin felt like her smile was about to break.

"Honestly, why are all the Mages in Fuyuki City like this? Is it the Feng Shui? Hmm? What are you doing?"

Waver noticed Kiritsugu beside him, recording something in a notebook.

Kiritsugu didn't answer Waver, only biting his pen and muttering to himself.

"So this is how you deal with a Mage who excels at fire Magecraft..."

[These people are really not normal!]

Waver quickly came to this conclusion in his heart.

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Fortunately, despite Kariya's antics, he knew not to push his luck.

Before Shinji's patience reached its limit, Kariya wisely hit the brakes.

Although Kariya liked to tease Tohsaka with fire extinguishing balls whenever he had the chance during subsequent Filming, he never caused trouble during takes again.

Regarding his neurotic uncle, Shinji could only say, "Men are boys until they die," and the kind who were into chuunibyou.

The rest of the Filming went smoothly. It took another two days for Shinji to complete the combat scenes between Tohsaka and Kariya, and he began Filming the battle between Kiritsugu and Kirei Kotomine.

Since being "trained" by Shinji in drama scenes, Kiritsugu found it much easier to perform these action scenes.

He found a good way to express his contempt: holding a cigarette in his mouth. This made his squinting look cool and aloof without affecting his high-cold image.

However, according to what Shirou told Shinji, the real reason was that Irisviel had recently been limiting Kiritsugu's smoking, so his father could only smoke a couple more under the guise of Filming.

Besides Filming, Shinji also had to take care of other tasks, such as supervising the construction of the Einsbern family's film set.

In Shinji's vision, the film set would be Japan's "Hengdian World Studios," but with a more modern set design.

To create as many set locations as possible, Shinji considered not only the FZ movie locations, but the FZ scenes simply had a higher construction priority.

Chapter 57: The Mindset of 500 Yen

Due to the thorough preliminary preparations and the good condition of the Actors, the FZ Filming proceeded exceptionally smoothly, with the Progress even faster than Shinji had originally estimated.

Kariya's antics weren't without their benefits; his presence provided the Film Crew with plenty of laughs, making the atmosphere incredibly light despite Filming a sad story.

After messing with Tokiomi, Kariya also pranked everyone he acted with.

However, most of them were just harmless little jokes to liven things up, so Shinji didn't stop him.

The only exception was Zouken.

It could only be said that Kariya was truly a member of the Matou Family; when it came to holding grudges, he was no less than Shinji.

To get revenge on his own father for dragging him into a pit of fire, Kariya somehow got his hands on a can of insecticide.

When Zouken got close to him, Kariya sprayed the old man right in the face.

The final result could be called a mutual destruction: Kariya successfully killed the two Magic Insects his father carried with him, at the cost of his own father nearly beating him senseless.

"From the current situation, as long as everyone can maintain their condition."

In the temporary restaurant on set, Shinji was eating his pork cutlet bowl for lunch while chatting with Udagawa Nao across from him about work.

"I can finish Filming by October and complete the first cut before the end of the year," Shinji told the Bandai representative sitting opposite him, discussing the movie's Progress.

Udagawa Nao nodded happily, calculating, "This way, we can start promoting the movie from the New Year. We have plenty of time."

With FSN being a shining example, Bandai was giving FZ's production their full support, being the largest investor in the movie in Japan.

Therefore, Bandai paid close attention to FZ's Filming Progress and would send people to Fuyuki City from time to time to confirm the movie's Filming Progress.

In reality, such a small matter didn't require a mid-level manager like Udagawa Nao; any junior employee would suffice.

After all, according to the agreement between Shin Bandai and Shinji, Bandai could not interfere with Filming, and anyone could confirm the Filming Progress.

In Udagawa Nao's own words, she was doing this to express her proper attitude.

But in reality...

"Udagawa, you're here again?"