Generally, the masters thought after what happened that night, the war would resume the next day.
They could rest and let their servants replenish their mana in preparation for the next fight.
No one thought that someone would use that opportunity to kill one of them.
Except Eiji, he knew in the original work the protagonist Kiritsugu had another dirty tactic in one night.
Inside the Fuyuki Hatt Hotel, a hotel whose entire building was rented by Kayneth and could be called his base of operations.
"Don't move, Lady Sola."
"Who are you? How did you get in here?!"
Sola was both angry and scared.
How could she not be?
Instead of thinking about her fiancé who was at war and might be killed by his enemies, she was thinking about Eiji and playing with herself again until her plump body was sweaty— but after taking a night bath for the second time and getting dressed, a woman suddenly appeared behind her.
She pressed a gun into her head.
Basically threatening her!
Sola was also confused because this was a hotel that Kayneth had laid many traps in for their security.
It should be difficult for others to infiltrate without triggering the traps on each floor and getting killed.
But this woman...
"You don't need to know my name, you just need to know that I am a subordinate of your fiance's enemy. My boss told me to take you hostage."
Maiya Hisau replied coldly.
As Kiritsugu's assistant, this was not the first time she had done dirty work for him.
Sola's expression became ugly, "Your boss is so despicable and cunning, he dares to attack people who are not even participants in the Holy Grail War. Is he not afraid of becoming an enemy of the Church and the magus in the Clock Tower? My family, Sophia-Ri has great influence in the Mage's Association!"
Maiya sneered, her boss was the Magus Killer. Before this he was already the enemy of all magus in the Magecraft World.
"So?"
"...You shouldn't do this just to defeat Kayneth."
Sola hoped that the woman was intimidated by her background.
If only she wasn't Kayneth's fiancée, she wouldn't be stuck in this situation.
It made her even more disgusted with the engagement between them.
"Unfortunately, my boss doesn't care about the consequences. After all, he is a famous Magus Killer."
There was a sense of pride when Maiya mentioned her boss's nickname.
Sola was surprised, she had heard of the famous Magus Killer who had killed many Magus.
And unlike most Magus who relied on magic and formal rules, the Magus Killer used modern technology and unorthodox tactics in battle. He uses firearms, explosives, and dirty strategies to defeat his enemies.
This approach was very effective because many Magus were not prepared for such tactics and considered them dishonorable.
That was exactly what he was doing now.
"Magus Killer is targeting Kayneth?! Why, is your boss even a Master in the Holy Grail War?"
"You're worried about your fiancé even though you were previously busy calling out another man's name while playing with yourself?"
"Wh-What? You, did you hear that?! Wait, since when are you in my bedroom? This is an insult!"
Sola's face was flushed with embarrassment and anger, and don't get me wrong, she wasn't worried about Kayneth.
She was just curious as to why the Magus Killer would dare to go this far.
To think that another woman had seen her playing with herself while calling Eiji's name in bed...
She also felt humiliated.
Maiya seemed unconcerned with what Sola said, her face cold and expressionless like Kiritsugu's.
However, she was a little curious as to who the man named Eiji was? He made the daughter of the Sophia-Ri family crazy about him.
Kayneth was a pitiful man.
"Enough. Now, come out of the room and walk in the hallway."
"You...!"
Sola squeezed her nightgown, reluctance on her face.
She wondered if she would die tonight?
Although she was sure Kayneth would try to save her, she doubted the Magus Killer and the woman behind him would let her live.
It was strange, but she couldn't help but think of Eiji's handsome face.
She would probably never have the chance to kiss him.
Thinking of that, she was even more depressed.
"Nggh! Don't..."
But before she was about to open the door and exit the room, the woman behind her suddenly sounded in pain.
Sola looked back and froze. That's because in front of her, a dark figure with a 2-meter tall purple glow had his back to her.
He was one of Eiji's shadow soldiers, he came out of the shadows in the room, dropped the gun in Maiya's hand and strangled her neck.
Maiya tried to resist, but when her gaze met the pair of purple eyes shining in front of her.
Her resistance stopped.
The shadow soldier who was momentarily controlled by Eiji also finally let go of her neck. Then, he sank into the darkness again.
"?" Sola didn't understand and didn't know who it was. But wasn't she going to be saved? Why did that person leave without taking her?!
"Cough! Cough!" Maiya coughed, she held her slender neck with an expression of pain.
However, there was also fear in her heart because what was that creature?
The Servant summoned by Kayneth? But the Lancer she saw earlier didn't look like that.
For a moment, she really thought her neck would be broken. It's the boss's fault... Kiritsugu.
He always told her to perform dangerous tasks without worrying about her safety.
That man was so cold and cruel!
He knew she liked him all along, but he was always indifferent just because she was practically his apprentice.
"Huh? Why would I think that?!" Maiya was shocked by what she had just thought.
She was so loyal to her boss, why would she now feel resentment towards him? Whatever it was, she immediately took back her gun and stood up.
"Don't move! I don't know who it is. But Lady Sola, we will still continue what we were going to do."
"....."
Sola sighed, why didn't they end this?
On the other side.
"Kiritsugu Emiya, you bastard! Let Sola go right now."
Kayneth had arrived at the hotel a few minutes ago, he and Lancer had rushed to get here as quickly as possible after receiving the message that his fiancée was being held hostage.
The culprit in the man in front of him, he was standing in the middle of the fifth floor hallway. Not far behind him, there was Sola and a woman who was pointing a gun at her head.
Kayneth's face was grim, he recognized Kiritsugu's identity as the Magus Killer but did not expect him to target him in this situation.
"You know who I am? Good, that'll shorten our time. Kayneth, use your Command Spell to make your servant commit suicide right now. Otherwise... Your fiancée will die."
Kiritsugu exhaled his cigarette smoke. In one of his hands, there was a gun loaded with special bullets that could destroy a Magus' magic circuits.
Kayneth did not know this, anger overflowing in his eyes.
"Kiritsugu, you are shameless! You are a Magus. If you dare, fight with me honorably! Do not involve Sola in this!"
He looked at his fiancée guiltily as if to say don't worry, Sola. I will save you.
"....." Sola felt complicated, Kayneth was so crazy about her but after seeing Eiji, it was hard for her to like an old man like him.
Diarmuid also felt complicated, he did not expect the enemy to create a situation where he had to kill himself.
It reminded him of the past where he died because he was betrayed by his master.
What about his current master? Would Kayneth also betray him?
[I must say that Kiritsugu is more of a villain than a protagonist.]
Eiji's inner voice was heard by the heroines.
The women who were watching the livestream agreed, they didn't know where it was right now.
But right now, they could see what was happening to Sola.
"Alright, but use your Command Spell to make your Servant silent and will not move to help you out of this situation."
Kiritsugu was very cunning.
Even so, Kayneth was very arrogant and did not think he would lose to a Magus like him.
"Your Majesty..."
"Lancer, shut up! I order you not to remain motionless and not to interfere in this matter."
Hearing this, Diarmuid was completely silent and his expression looked ugly.
The Command Spell in Kayneth's hand now only had two left.
"Now—"
Before he finished his words.
*Bang!*
A gunshot sounded, the tip of the gun in Kiritsugu's hand emitted smoke.
Except for Eiji, many of them were shocked.
Kayneth was shot in the shoulder, he screamed not only because of the wound, but one of his magic circuits was destroyed.
He knelt down and looked at the man in front of him with hatred in his eyes.
"Kiritsugu, this is not what you said..."
"What? This is what you wanted. Let's start fighting."
"You, you don't fight honorably!"
Kiritsugu sneered and said, "Fight honorably? Why should I?"
*Bang! Bang! Bang!*
Those few shots made Kayneth almost faint and all his magic circuits were destroyed. He would not be able to use magic anymore from now on. His screams of pain echoed in the hallway and his face paled due to the massive blood loss inside his body.
Sola shuddered, she was terrified because the man nicknamed Magus Killer was so cruel. Not only Kayneth, he would also absolutely kill her.
"Now it's your fiancée's turn." Kiritsugu glanced at his assistant, Maiya.
Kayneth who was lying on the floor gasped, he raised his head and shouted, "No! Kiritsugu, please! You can do anything to me, but don't hurt Sola!"
The scene was quite dramatic.
Kiritsugu looked interested and said, "Really? Then, use your Command Spell again to grant my previous wish."
Veins bulged in Diarmuid's body, he really wanted to move but the Command Spell made him helpless.
He could not refuse the orders of his master.
"Your Majesty, don't do that. Do you think that man will not retract his words again like before?"
He persuaded Kayneth but the response he received disappointed him and filled his heart with hatred.
"Lancer, I'm sorry. For Sola's sake... I order you to kill yourself."
"!!!"
Under the gaze of the spectators, Diarmuid pierced his own heart with his spear.
He died and his figure turned into particles of light.
And sure enough, just as Lancer had said before dying. Kiritsugu had no intention of keeping his empty words.
He shot Kayneth in the head before ordering his assistant.
"Maiya, kill her."
*Bang!*
Sola closed her eyes, but the pain she imagined did not appear. Instead, she heard Kiritsugu's voice which was now filled with confusion.
"Maiya, why? You betrayed me?"
Many of the women who were watching covered their mouths with their hands.
The woman named Maiya did not shoot Sola, she shot Kiritsugu instead.
The protagonist of Fate/Zero was clutching his own chest with an expression of pain, he really did not understand why his most loyal subordinate betrayed him!
Fortunately, his instincts as a Magus detected the impending danger and shifted his body so that the shot did not pierce his heart.
Still, he was still badly wounded and needed to be treated immediately.
"Kiritsugu, I'm not sure but... I suddenly realized that you're a very bad man and I hate you."
Maiya replied dazedly.
"What do you mean? Maiya, we've worked together for years! How can you hate me?!"
Kiritsugu felt something was wrong, he even hesitated to shoot the woman he was referring to with the gun in his hand.
At this moment—
"Let me answer, it's not impossible."
Eiji's voice rang out, he deactivated Dion's ability and suddenly appeared not far from the two women.
He walked over.
Sola was of course the most surprised person, "Eiji?! Why are you..."
"Sola, I of course came to save you even though I originally planned to fight with Lancer. Sorry about your fiancée, if only I had come earlier, he wouldn't have died."
He said that as if he had really arrived late.
Although he had been there since Maiya put her gun to Sola's head and forced him to take spontaneous action.
He used his Exchange skills to switch positions with his shadow soldiers.
Artoria didn't even come with him, she was eating a snack secretly in her bedroom and didn't know her master was secretly away from home.
With his god-level acting skills, except for those who heard his inner voice before and the protagonist Kiritsugu.
They believed what he said, especially Sola. She was so crazy about him that she was biased. Instead of being angry, she was moved and looked at him with an obsessive gaze.
As for Maiya? She had a good impression on Eiji just because of her extremely handsome appearance.
The
That was why she hated him to the point of shooting him.
It wasn't like someone brainwashed her into instantly falling in love with him. No, he did not do that.
[Our king, why don't you do it?]
Leme was puzzled although she was still entertained by how her contractor borrowed another man's knife to get a woman's heart.
It was a metaphor.
'I am the Harem King, I am confident in my charm and skills in wooing any woman.'
[As expected of our King!]
Leme praised him.
Eiji was pleased of course.
As for Miss System? She was too lazy to comment.
"Your name is Eiji? Are you one of the servants? You must be a Caster! You've used your magic to do something to Maiya!"
Sola wanted to throw herself at Eiji and kiss him, but Kiritsugu interrupted and made her unhappy.
Eiji sighed.
He was misunderstood again as a Servant.
This time it was a Caster.
[I'm sure it's because you said you wanted to fight with Lancer, host.]
Ah, you're right, Miss System.
[....]
For now, he took a step forward as if to protect the two women behind him. That made Sola and Maiya feel safe, they looked at his back in a daze.
Yare-yare.
"Caster was killed by my servant not long ago. By the way, I am the master of Saber and the one who represents the Einzbern family in the Fourth Holy Grail War."
"I'm Eiji Seiya, nice to meet you, Kiritsugu Emiya."
"!?" Kiritsugu.
So the man in front of him was the one who had stolen his chance to participate in the Fourth Holy Grail War?!
That information made his bleeding worse, his face paled and he thought hard about what he should do next.
Retreat or attack while he can?
Wait, Eiji probably brought his servant so attacking him would be the same as shooting himself.
He can't die here!
"Eiji, I want to make a deal with you."
"Oh? What kind of deal is that?"
Eiji was a little interested in listening to how this cunning protagonist wanted to deceive him.
"I can help you to—"
"Wait, I suddenly remembered something." Eiji took out his cell phone from his pants pocket and showed a picture of a beautiful silver-haired woman.
With McDonald's and some cherry blossom trees in the background, she was hugging him while kissing his cheek.
Artoria was the one who took their picture.
"Is this woman very beautiful?"
"....." Not only Kiritsugu, but Sola and everyone else who was watching were confused by Eiji's actions.
Still, Kiritsugu was dazed for a moment because even he did not recognize who the woman in the picture was.
Seeing her kissing Eiji, he felt his heart ache as if the previous shot had hit his heart.
In everyone's eyes, Kiritsugu's face looked green.
Were they hallucinating?
"She's very beautiful. Is she your girlfriend, Eiji? You're lucky."
"No, she is my wife, her name is Irisviel von Einzbern, daughter of the head of the Einzbern family. And you're right, I'm very lucky to be able to make her my wife."
Eiji grinned and put his cell phone back in his pants pocket.
He just wanted to show off and see how Kiritsugu's protagonist would react when he saw that his wife in the original work was now the wife of another man.
The result was satisfactory.
The heroines who were watching the livestream fell silent. Irisviel blushed and complained by saying Eiji, what are you doing? Oh my~
"....." Kiritsugu was silent. In his heart, he wondered why Eiji was showing off his wife to him.
Even so, the dull ache in his heart grew stronger and then, he understood. In order to become the Einzbern family's representative in the Holy Grail War, Eiji must have been offered to marry the daughter of the Einzbern family head.
If he didn't steal his chance...
Wasn't the man who became Irisviel's husband him?
"Pufft!"
Kiritsugu spat out a mouthful of blood. Great reluctance filled his heart and he was strangely jealous.
His current expression made Maiya want to laugh because how could it not?
Kiritsugu usually had a blank expression on his face, but now he looked ridiculous.
"So what's the deal?" Eiji asked as if he didn't care if the protagonist vomited blood or not.
In fact, he was very entertained.
The way he dealt with his boredom was different from Gilgamesh.
"I... I will help you to win the Holy Grail by killing the other Masters. In return, please do not kill me and let me go."
Kiritsugu slowly said while pressing down on the wound on his chest. Of course, he was lying and wanted to deceive Eiji.
He was ready to convince him but he did not expect him to answer right away.
"Okay, you can go."
"....?" Everyone.
Eiji, do you really believe what a guy like Kiritsugu says?
"What? Do you want to change your mind?"
Eiji smiled amusedly.
"No, no, I'll go now and keep my promise in the near future."
Kiritsugu did not want Eiji to change his mind, he hurriedly left the hotel.
What he and the others did not know, Eiji could kill him at any time and only let him live so that he would suffer more.
...
Author Note
Webnovel finally responded positively to my appeal. Because of this, I have also revised many chapters about god names and even a certain Mythology. I apologize for disappearing for a few days and thank you to all of you who have given me support in order to restore this book to its normal state.
I would also like to apologize for those of you who have read this chapter before in the reposted book. For the sake of the readers who have not read and adjusted some of my daily chapter settings, I can only post this chapter again and continue updating as usual after that.