"Alas, why bother..."
Rin sighed, looking at Irisviel and Maiya Hisau lying sprawled on the fallen leaves in the forest.
"Forget it, this is fine.
When we meet again, we can treat each other as enemies."
She wiped the blood from her hand with a handkerchief, incinerated the blood-stained handkerchief with Magic, then turned and headed towards the castle, leaving the two heavily wounded and bleeding women behind.
Rin, angered by Irisviel's hostile attitude, felt her strength momentarily lose control because of the person she wanted to save.
Although she didn't kill them, they were in a near-death state.
I never thought Kirei Kotomine wouldn't come, and I ended up doing his job for him...
Kiritsugu Emiya, you truly are deeply sinful.
Beautiful women's deep affection, yet you don't even spare them a glance.
But then again, that's just the kind of person you are, so it's destined that you and I are incompatible.
Anyway, there's still some time before Rider arrives, so let's have a good chat with bullets and fists!
As for Irisviel and Maiya Hisau, when Saber arrives, Irisviel's noble phantasm, "Avalon: The Everdistant Utopia," sealed within her as a conceptual armament, will activate and automatically heal her injuries.
And once Irisviel recovers, she will naturally heal Maiya Hisau.
Kayneth probably never understood what exactly happened to his body until the very end.
The moment intense pain spread throughout his body, his heart, lungs, and nervous system were already torn to shreds.
Blood gushed out before a scream could escape his throat.
Due to the erroneous movements caused by his shattered nerves, his entire body's muscles convulsed, and his tall, slender figure in his dashing suit performed a grotesque dance.
The high-density magical energy circulating in his Magic Circuits under intense pressure suddenly began to rampage wildly, ignoring its designated paths, ultimately destroying the Magus's own body.
This was Kiritsugu Emiya's unique trump card, the effect of the origin Bullet, a single-use Magic ritual armament.
The bullet would manifest Kiritsugu Emiya's origin, "Severing and Binding," upon hitting the target.
If the Magic bullet was interfered with by Magic, the influence of the origin within the bullet would severely feedback onto the Magus's Magic Circuits.
The origin could short-circuit the Magus's Magic Circuits, causing their magical energy to rampage and completely destroy the circuits.
It could not only cause damage but also render them unable to use Magic ever again.
The extent of the lethality depended on how many Magic Circuits the target had activated at the moment of impact, because it was the target's own magical energy that destroyed their body.
The higher the level of the Magus, the greater the damage, making it an absolute trump card against Maguss.
These bullets were made by excising Kiritsugu Emiya's first and second ribs from his left and right flanks, grinding them into powder, then condensing them with soul engineering to form the core of 66 bullets.
Before the Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya had already expended 37 rounds, none of which missed.
This 38th origin Bullet also did not miss...
Just as Kiritsugu Emiya was about to deliver the final blow to the dying Kayneth, the bullet he fired was blocked by Lancer's timely appearance and his twin spears.
"Never forget, the only reason you are alive right now is because of the king of knights' noble character."
Lancer, with cold sarcasm in his voice, told Kiritsugu Emiya, then, cradling Kayneth, he crashed through a nearby window and leaped out of the castle.
Of all times...
Kiritsugu Emiya took a deep breath of the cold winter air, and couldn't help but sigh once again at the incompatibility between himself and his contracted Servant.
He had already guessed that this was another knight's agreement between Saber and Lancer.
"It must be a headache, Mr. Kiritsugu Emiya.
Fortunately, my Berserker cannot speak due to his Madness Enhancement, otherwise, if he were to constantly make knightly duel agreements with other Servants all day long, I would also have an immense headache."
A voice Kiritsugu Emiya least wanted to hear echoed from the dimly lit, shattered corridor that Kayneth had damaged.
The shadow of a young girl appeared at the end of the corridor.
Tohsaka Rin!!!
Having just dealt with a jackal, only to be met by a female dragon, Kiritsugu Emiya's mood was truly a complex mix of emotions.
If a 21st-century loser were to summarize it, it would be: This is truly f*cked!
Then, by the moonlight streaming through the window, Kiritsugu Emiya clearly saw the newcomer's appearance: a deep red coat, twin-tails tied behind her head, a tall and slender figure, beautiful and flawless, yet a nightmare-like existence.
"Because of the duel agreement between knights, Saber did not stop Lancer from coming to rescue the desperate Kayneth, firmly believing that Lancer would adhere to knightly honor and not kill her Master. I have to feel sorry for you, Mr. Magus Killer; your Servant has no awareness of being in a war at all."
These words were Tohsaka Rin's true feelings; Saber's performance in this war was truly naive. Even if she firmly believed that Lancer would adhere to knightly honor and not kill Kiritsugu Emiya, what if Kayneth hadn't fallen unconscious and used command spells to forcibly order Lancer? Not even thinking of this, what kind of war was she fighting? It really must be said that Saber in the Fourth Holy Grail War was incredibly naive.
Although he completely agreed with Tohsaka Rin's words, Kiritsugu Emiya was not in the mood to empathize with her. At this moment, he had already raised his spirits to the highest degree, paying full attention to Tohsaka Rin's every move, watching her without a change in expression.
After all, one Tohsaka Rin was equivalent to one Servant.
Tohsaka Rin slowly walked step by step towards Kiritsugu Emiya. As the distance gradually shortened, Tohsaka Rin watched the Calico submachine gun that Kiritsugu Emiya suddenly gripped tightly in his hand.
"You seem very unfriendly."
Tohsaka Rin's answer was a series of gunshots and a rain of bullets. A sky-blue magic barrier rose in front of Tohsaka Rin, and the bullets quickly slowed and stopped as if they had entered glue, suspended in mid-air. When the barrage stopped and the magic barrier dissipated, Kiritsugu Emiya's shadow was nowhere to be seen in the empty corridor.
Tohsaka Rin shrugged, helpless yet indifferent, and said:
"Do you like playing chase games so much? You just played with Kayneth and weren't satisfied, so you started again. Do you think you can counter-kill me the same way you counter-killed him?"
As she spoke, Tohsaka Rin, having located Kiritsugu Emiya's position with her sense of aura, raised her right foot and stomped heavily on the marble floor of the castle corridor! The floor of the corridor instantly shattered and collapsed into a hole. Tohsaka Rin dropped through the hole, landing directly in front of where Kiritsugu Emiya was hiding. Tohsaka Rin snapped her fingers with her right hand, and over twenty shining projected noble phantasms shot towards Kiritsugu Emiya, who had just appeared from around the corner—
Boom boom boom boom... Tohsaka Rin clearly saw that when the sudden noble phantasms were about to reach Kiritsugu Emiya, his reaction was without hesitation or panic, his movement speed unnaturally increased several times, his actions were incredibly fluid, and he flashed through Tohsaka Rin's projected noble phantasms unharmed, rolling to dodge into another corridor.
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