"Is this Reality Marble?" Tohsaka Rin frowned, watching the successfully escaped Kiritsugu Emiya, and muttered to herself.
Reality Marble is a specialized Magus possessed by Kiritsugu Emiya. It is the result of generations of the Emiya family's exploration into time manipulation magic, separating the inside of a specific space from the external flow of time and freely manipulating time. It is a type of Reality Marble. However, this magic consumes a huge amount of magical energy, and the preparatory work and rituals are very complex; it is a spell designed with the premise of casting grand magic.
To effectively apply it in combat, Kiritsugu Emiya reduced the scale of the bounded field to within his body, interfering with time for only a few seconds. By doing so, he minimized the world's adjustment to the interference of the Reality Marble, making it a practical magic on the battlefield.
Kiritsugu Emiya can accelerate the flow of blood, the burning of hemoglobin, and the time required from the start to the end of muscle movement, displaying physical techniques impossible for ordinary people; or he can slow down functions like breathing and heartbeat, stopping metabolism and rapidly lowering body temperature to a level similar to the outside world to avoid detection. The drawback is that after the bounded field is dispelled, the world corrects the time difference between inside and outside the bounded field, thereby placing a tremendous burden on the body.
Although it is classified as grand magic, it definitely does not belong to the category of irreproducible magic. Compared to the Fifth Magic, which reverses cause and effect and changes the past, this is merely a time adjustment magic that stops past time and accelerates future time, so it is not an extremely difficult or impossible technique to achieve. The only considerations are the scale of the bounded field and the range of time to be adjusted.
To be honest, this magic is truly remarkable. The generational Maguss of the Emiya family are among the very few who can use magic that interferes with time, other than the Fifth Magic.
Boom!
In the castle, pursuing was undoubtedly more advantageous for Tohsaka Rin because she didn't need to follow the stairs and corridors to chase. After locking onto Kiritsugu Emiya's position, she simply broke through walls and doors. No matter how complex a route Kiritsugu Emiya took, the result was always—
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom... Boom!
Tohsaka Rin once again broke through a wall. Kiritsugu Emiya vigilantly dodged the punch that shattered the wall, but this time Tohsaka Rin didn't intend to play with him anymore. She took a step forward and charged fiercely towards Kiritsugu Emiya!
Kiritsugu Emiya only felt a blur before his eyes; Tohsaka Rin had disappeared from in front of him. Then, the next moment, he felt as if his stomach was churning, a huge force exploding within him, as if his internal organs were about to be vomited out, and his entire body flew backward.
However, Kiritsugu Emiya's reaction as he flew backward was beyond Tohsaka Rin's expectation. Still in mid-air and not yet landed, Kiritsugu Emiya pulled out a pistol from his In my arms!
The modified gun Kiritsugu Emiya used as a Mystic Code. Originally developed as a single-shot pistol for competitive hunting, it could use various calibers of bullets by changing the barrel. It had a capacity of only one round, and the casing could not be automatically ejected. Kiritsugu Emiya dared to choose this gun, unsuitable for actual combat, as his Mystic Code precisely because he wanted to carry and use it as a pistol with the maximum physical destructive power.
Oh dear, it seems I was tricked. If he pulled out this gun, then what's inside is... an origin Bullet? c.
"Bang!"
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Kiritsugu Emiya's design for his Mystic Code was extremely vicious. To prevent the effect of the origin Bullet, one had to block the bullet entirely by physical means, without relying on magic. The origin Bullet itself was chosen to be made into a 6mm caliber sniper rifle bullet. In this era, theoretically, as long as one wasn't in an armored vehicle, it would be absolutely impossible to avoid injury.
At a distance of less than ten meters, even Tohsaka Rin couldn't dodge it. It must be said that Kiritsugu Emiya's ability as an assassin was truly flawless; he probably had been waiting for Tohsaka Rin's punch all along.
However, even the best tactics are based on the comparison of strength between the two sides. If the disparity is completely disproportionate... "Clang!"
A shower of sparks flew from the outer corner of Tohsaka Rin's left eye. A finger-length sniper bullet head tumbled a few times in front of Tohsaka Rin before landing in her hand.
The next moment, Tohsaka Rin appeared behind Kiritsugu Emiya and kicked the body still in mid-air.
Thud!
Taking another heavy blow, Kiritsugu Emiya violently spat out a mouthful of blood and fell heavily to the ground.
Under the starry magical energy light filling the air, countless projected noble phantasms surrounded Kiritsugu Emiya, forming a sword prison. The swaying Kiritsugu Emiya barely stood up. He knew there was no retreat now. He had personally witnessed Tohsaka Rin using these magic-replicated noble phantasms to fight Gilgamesh, and the power of the noble phantasms' explosion was something he could not dodge now.
"Now we can have a good talk, can't we?" Tohsaka Rin tossed the origin Bullet bullet head in her hand and said to Kiritsugu Emiya inside the sword prison:
"I heard you're saving the world. Is this the weapon you use to save the world? Its power is really not bad."
As she spoke, Tohsaka Rin raised her hand and touched a few fine cracks on the invisible scales near her eye.
"How do you know these things..."
Kiritsugu Emiya asked Tohsaka Rin, enduring the churning pain in his body. This was his greatest secret. Only Irisviel and Maiya Hisau should know these things, and those two would absolutely never betray him.
"Heh heh, magic is a very mysterious thing."
That's right, any unreasonable phenomenon can just be attributed to magic, because mystery itself is unknown and unexplainable; anything unscientific can simply be called magic.
"I'm very curious about your method of saving the world. I remember your father, Kiritsugu Emiya, was a Magus given a sealing designation by the Mages Association twenty years ago because his research on Dead Apostles led to a failed experiment that caused the destruction of a small island in Southeast Asia. Just as he was about to leave with you, you, at the age of seven, shot him in the back and killed him."
The slender metal bullet flipped a few times in the air, then fell back into Tohsaka Rin's hand. As ancient memories were unveiled, Kiritsugu Emiya seemed to return to that small island consumed by flames.
"If Father had escaped, how many more people would have died because of his experiments..." Kiritsugu Emiya responded with heavy, labored breaths. "At that time, I had already made one mistake, and I didn't want to see the resulting tragedy a second time."
Tohsaka Rin nodded slightly.
"Because of Shirley."
Kiritsugu Emiya instantly froze, the cold, expressionless facade finally cracking.
"How much do you know?"
"Basically everything, so there's no point in playing it cool with me. Afterwards, you lived with Natalia, the magic bounty hunter responsible for eradicating that island at the time. Under her tutelage, you learned the assassination skills you possess today. She was essentially both your adoptive mother and your teacher. However, while hunting down the dangerous Magus Odd Borzak, known as the 'Magic Bee User,' who researched the zombie virus, you eventually sent her plane into the Atlantic Ocean with a surface-to-air missile."
"Because Natalia succeeded, but the magic bees leaked out. All three hundred people on the passenger plane, except Natalia, turned into Ghouls. If that plane had landed..."
"...the disaster would have spread throughout New York, and this would undoubtedly be a leak of a mysterious event. The Mages Association would very likely eradicate all ordinary people in New York to cover up the exposure of the mystery, then use other excuses to conceal the truth."
Tohsaka Rin nodded in understanding, interjecting.
"Later, during your freelance assassination period before being adopted as a son-in-law by the Einzbern Family, you brilliantly completed countless missions. The intervals between missions were extremely short. Considering the preparation phase and the time taken to accept missions, I believe you could only have been working on multiple plans simultaneously. Moreover, these plans were almost all parallel, appearing on battlefields across the world, and you always used incredibly unconventional methods to end a war as quickly as possible. It seemed as if you were deliberately seeking death at that time, as if you had some kind of compulsion. Combining this with all your previous actions, my final conclusion is that you, this Magus killer, were actually saving the world!"
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