Silence—!
The abandoned factory was utterly silent. The only answer Wu Biao received to his question was a momentary hitch in someone's breathing. Hidden in the shadows, Maiya Hisau used the faint moonlight filtering in from outside the warehouse to look at Kiritsugu, whose face was tense at the entrance.
"Maiya, come out."
Kiritsugu Emiya spoke softly. Although he would have preferred to eliminate both the Master and Servant at once, even if that proved impossible, he had hoped to prioritize eliminating the Master.
However, Wu Biao's arrival had made it abundantly clear that his plan to eliminate the Lancer first had completely failed.
No!
It was more than just that...
Kiritsugu turned his head, glancing at the Lancer and Saber facing off outside the abandoned factory. He then looked at the magus watching from beyond the battlefield before finally turning his gaze back to Wu Biao.
The other side had three Servant-level combatants. If they attacked him, he would be the one forced to withdraw here.
From a corner of the abandoned factory, Maiya Hisau, machine gun in hand, slowly emerged and came to stand beside Kiritsugu Emiya.
The sight made Kayneth's pupils contract.
As the head of House Archibald, a renowned family of magi, he naturally was no fool. When the woman holding a machine gun walked out of the warehouse, the "life-saving contract" in his hand became nothing more than a sheet of parchment...
He had already suspected that someone so ruthless and calculating, someone who accounted for every possibility, might not spare him.
But with the truth laid bare before him, a chill rose in Kayneth's heart, quickly followed by fear!!
Fear of this Magus Killer...
If not for the appearance of this mysterious youth, both he and Sola would probably have been riddled with bullets