"Damn it, I never expected Archer to be here too."
Matou Kariya, who had concealed his red hair, and Manlio Ferdino Springer, who had concealed his Servant aura, looked like two perfectly ordinary convention-goers as they watched the events unfolding at the convention.
The reunion of the three Servants—Assassin Sakumura Anno, Rider Alexander, and Archer Gilgamesh—at this convention naturally did not escape their notice.
"Assassin and Rider are one thing, but why is Archer here too?"
Matou Kariya bared his teeth in a grimace.
The Tohsaka Family and the Matou Family had been close friends for generations. That had been established ever since the original Zolgen Family relocated in its entirety from London, Britain, to Fuyuki City.
The Tohsaka Family were the local landowners and managed Fuyuki's Leylines, while the Matou Family were rich—extremely rich. So from any perspective, the relationship between the two families was excellent.
But a good relationship between families did not mean the individual members of those families got along.
Matou Kariya, for one, did not particularly like the Tohsaka Family's head, Tohsaka Tokiomi.
The two had known each other since they were young. Back then, Tohsaka Tokiomi had already been raised as the future head of the Tohsaka Family. From an early age, he understood how to read the situation. Though he prided himself on possessing the refinement of a magus and an aristocrat, he was also very selective about whom he associated with. Young Matou Kariya had always been ignored by Tohsaka Tokiomi, because the person Tohsaka Tokiomi wanted to befriend was Kariya's elder brother—the head of this generation of the Matou Family, Matou Byakuya—not Matou Kariya himself.
A Matou Family member destined to become a mere branch-family relative was not worth paying attention to.
That was why Matou Kariya truly hated Tohsaka Tokiomi.