The rapid rain of bullets was mixed with an Origin Bullet, which collided with two long swords, one black and one white.
Clang, Clang, Clang————!!!!
The dazzling sword light flashed one after another, and the bullets from the machine gun and the Origin Bullet were easily cut down.
"How can this be————!?"
Emiya Kiritsugu's hand holding the gun trembled slightly.
"It's a pity that you've lost your chance to escape."
At this time, in the face of Emiya Kiritsugu who was in despair, Shirou manipulated the mercury to turn into a whip shape, and then, in the direction of Emiya Kiritsugu, launched an attack.
"Scalp."
With Shirou's calm voice, the Volumen Hydrargyrum delivered a killing blow.
In the face of the silver whip whistling at this moment, Emiya Kiritsugu no longer had any way to deal with it, and he didn't even have the magic power to activate Time Alter again.
His body was cut in two by the silver whip!
Black and red blood suddenly splashed out, and Shirou squinted slightly at the corpse in front of him and exhaled lightly. When Emiya Kiritsugu began to investigate Shirou's parents, he was already murderous. Therefore, at this moment, Shirou's heart had no other fluctuations except for a slight disgust for the corpse.
[Acquired the soul of Emiya Kiritsugu, did you extract it?]
Shirou's brown eyes flickered slightly, and he wiped out the mercury and the swords in his hands, then turned and walked towards the forest outside the castle. The red sweatshirt he was wearing fluttered slightly in the night breeze.
In the silence of the forest, the whispers of the young man echoed in the next moment.
"... Extract."
...
Tohsaka Tokiomi is in a very bad state at the moment. If he hadn't escaped by alternate means, he would have undoubtedly died there.
"Damn, I didn't expect it to be in the hands of that Magus Killer."
Tokiomi gritted his teeth and held on to the trunk of a tree, dragging his seriously injured body forward slowly.
"You have to inform Kirei quickly..."
If Emiya Kiritsugu enters the fray, the plan may fail, and Archer's character is likely to expose his Noble Phantasm. With Tokiomi's cautious character, he naturally didn't plan to leave here alone, so he decided to let Kirei retreat with him first.
And if Archer didn't want to, he had to use a Command Spell to make the King retreat. If it was an ordinary Tohsaka Tokiomi, he would never have made such a decision. But now that he has almost brushed shoulders with death, Tokiomi's mentality has changed slightly. If Archer is left alone, he will definitely lose the Holy Grail War in the end. In that case, it would not be possible to fulfill Tohsaka Tokiomi's wish to reach the Root.
Tokiomi raised his hand and looked at the scarlet pattern on the back of his hand, intending to use the power of the spell directly.
At this time————
A large buzzing sound began to come from behind, and if you listened closely, you could easily detect that it was the noise of a large number of insects flapping their wings.
"Who!?"
Tokiomi looked back, but couldn't help but widen his pupils.
It was a man in a dark blue sweatshirt and hood, half of his face rotten, covered in scars and blood. The man clutched his left hand tightly, as if his left side was about to break, and he walked crookedly. The man's body was shaky, as if he would fall down in the next second, but his eyes full of hatred kept staring at Tokiomi.
"Tohsaka Tokiomi...!"
When he saw that person, Tokiomi recognized him immediately and showed anger.
"You guy, do you want to catch up after you get to this point!"
"I'm going to kill you... Tohsaka Tokiomi!"
Kariya roared hoarsely in the night, manipulating a large number of Crest Worms to attack Tokiomi.
"Hmph, even if I'm not in a good condition now, you can't defeat me!"
Tokiomi's Elemental Affinity is Fire, and he has a natural advantage against Kariya, who manipulates insects. Even if he can't use complex magecraft now, Tokiomi has enough gems this time. The next moment, Tokiomi threw a red gem at those attacking blade-winged insects.
Boom————!
The moment the gem was surrounded by the insects, it triggered a violent explosion, and the terrifying heat directly burned them!
"Uh-poof!"
The defeated Matou Kariya completely fell to his knees and spat out a mouthful of blood. At this time, Tokiomi took out two more gems and prepared to throw them at Kariya...
"Damn..."
Naturally, he didn't plan to be killed like this, and used up his last magic power to summon more insects. Even if his internal organs had been eaten away by the insects, he still didn't care about it.
"Die!"
Lying on the ground, Kariya let out a final roar.
"Why are you so obsessed with me!?"
Matou Kariya actually had such a deep hatred for himself; Tokiomi asked angrily in an incomprehensible voice. There was no answer, and at this moment, Kariya was already dying. But those insects still flew towards Tohsaka Tokiomi!
...
Irisviel, who is evacuating the castle, feels "uneasy" for the first time since she set foot on the land of Fuyuki. Once again, she realized the importance of Saber who was always by her side. The quiet confidence and tolerance that emanates from that petite body gives Irisviel great peace of mind.
Hisau Maiya, who is now following her instead of Saber, is not untrustworthy as a guard, and Kiritsugu also has a high opinion of Maiya's abilities, not to doubt her. So what's going on with this strange sense of unease?
Leaving the castle in order to retreat, there is no dialogue between the two walking in the forest. It's true that Maiya doesn't seem to be the type to gossip, but that utter silence is too heavy for Irisviel. If she speaks first, will she respond?
The two were now in a safe zone cut off from the fighting, not in a critical situation where they needed to be quiet. In that case, she was about to pluck up the courage to speak—but she didn't know what to say.
There are so many things she wants to ask. Maiya's character in the eyes of Kiritsugu... Regardless of the question, she cares, but Irisviel hesitates to ask. What she doesn't know about Emiya Kiritsugu, Hisau Maiya knows. If Maiya answered... If the impact is big enough to ruin the image of her husband in Irisviel's heart—
There can't be anything like that. There is absolutely no basis for such a denial. Because for Irisviel, the nine years from the time they met was everything regarding Kiritsugu.