Chapter 734: Chapter 9: Stop, You Guys—No More Fighting!
"Chaldea? What Chaldea?"
The girl in red long-sleeved clothes with twin tails was so angry her chest hurt. There were still two months until the Holy Grail War, for which she had prepared for years. She was already entering a tense state of readiness.
At school, she maintained elegance at all times to preserve her perfect image as a top student. At home, she never relaxed, her nerves were taut as never before. She hoped to do her best, be fully prepared, and go all out for victory.
In two months, she aimed to win immediately and fulfill the family’s wish in one stroke!
However...
Tonight, she hadn’t prepared anything. She irresponsibly went to check the summoning magic circle out of habit, and then... the summoning began automatically.
She didn’t even understand what was happening, and the Command Spell bestowed by the Great Holy Grail had already formed on her hand. In the overwhelming brilliance, a phantom from beyond time and space quietly appeared... At that time, Tohsaka Rin’s emotions were not of surprise, but of confusion and deep shock.
What’s going on?!
There should still be two months, right? There should be two months left!
She struggled to recall from her memory, her mind still in chaos because she believed it was maybe her own nerves had been too tight lately, so after returning home today, she had dozed off for a while. And after an instinctive jolt, it was already evening...
She was still a bit drowsy then, wanting nothing more than to turn over and sleep till tomorrow. Yet she forced herself to get up. After having something to eat, she exercised as usual, then checked the summoning preparations she had been working on.
Or was it some kind of simulation training?
After all, she was just familiarizing herself with the steps, hoping not to mess up at the critical moment. The real battle would decide the outcome... But now the practice of setting up the magic circle suddenly completed the summoning—what kind of a joke was that?! After the shock, she was almost on the verge of collapse.
The timing isn’t right!
Did I really sleep for two whole months?!
And I was planning to summon the strongest class, Saber. Instead, in the surprising summoning, I’ve summoned the weakest Caster—this is enough to make me collapse. Then, using her Master’s privilege to check this unknown Caster’s stats...
"Using these cards to participate in the Holy Grail War, you might as well just kill me..."
With such a lament, Tohsaka Rin sat back on the sofa, her eyes glazed over.
Muscle Strength E, Agility E, Endurance E, Magic Power E, Luck A...
What good is this?! It’s quite possible that even I could fight better than this weak Servant. Just how unlucky am I, to draw this crappy card... Tohsaka Rin felt like a passenger who had lost her dreams, staring blankly at the girl in front of her, who looked about her age.
The red-haired, orange-eyed girl didn’t know how much her Master disliked her, but her temperament was always good, so she patiently began to explain:
"Chaldea is where I’m from..."
......
...
Elsewhere, on a secluded street at night.
Boom—!!
Waves of visible air pressure burst out like a shockwave, tearing everything apart in its path, sweeping the dust in the air clean away.
As an Assassin class, Emiya Kiritsugu’s stats were naturally low.
Just missing a moment, and a fist imprinted on his cheek, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his entire body flying back tens of meters, crashing heavily into a building, with dust swirling around, looking rather dramatic.
However...
Behind, Ilya was almost grinding her little white teeth to pieces, angrily shouting: "Berserker, you... you’re going too far! Kill him, kill Emiya Kiritsugu for me!"
The silver-haired loli was genuinely furious, her Servant was too despicable, even now acting against her as his Master!
Gu Mo raised an eyebrow, glancing at the trembling with anger Ilya, unable to help but snort internally, it seemed appearances did not represent intelligence, not as easy to fool. Then again, even though she looked like a loli, she was actually eighteen this year...
It’s simply too deceptive, but that’s inevitable.
—Just like Irisviel seems illegal, yet looks the very image of legality.
—And the silver-haired loli before me, unquestionably legal, but nobody looking at her would think so.
A soft cough, and Gu Mo spoke seriously: "I’m already beating him up, haven’t you seen? He flew dozens of meters, seriously hurt with one hit..."
"Kill him! I want you to kill him!" Ilya fully displayed her hatred towards Emiya Kiritsugu, jumping in anger, urging in a hurry, she couldn’t believe the enemy could withstand a blow from her Berserker, it was definitely to anger her deliberately.
"I’m working on it, don’t rush me..."
Gu Mo responded verbally, but in reality, he was unwilling to exert even thirty percent of his strength, not to mention his full power.
Originally, he wanted to swiftly and overwhelmingly eliminate Emiya Kiritsugu, but then he recalled something. The Holy Grail War had clearly restarted in another form, and the quicker other Servants exited, the sooner the Grail would descend.
Even if we don’t mention anything else, there’s one thing to note: when the device that fixes the "hole" takes shape, the black mud on the other side will begin to flow into this world.
That is "All the Evils of the World"—
This is a situation Gu Mo didn’t particularly want to see. If it were confined inside the Great Holy Grail, he would have research interest, but releasing it certainly wasn’t a good choice...
If left uncontrolled, this thing also possesses a huge threat as humanity’s evil.
"Damn it! Berserker, by the name of the Command Spell, now! Kill Emiya Kiritsugu at once!" Ilya bit her teeth in hatred, decisively raising her hand. The Command Spell on the back of her hand flickered, and a stroke disappeared once again, indicating she used the power of absolute command one more time.
Although commands with excessively long execution times or wide-ranging effects can lead to a noticeable decrease in strength, allowing the Servant an opportunity to resist, a momentary command has the highest coercive power, and the opponent should be unable to resist it!
Ilya still had this confidence because her aptitudes were more excellent than any human magician. As long as she stood on the land of Fuyuki City, she was a top-class magician. Based on this foundation, wasn’t using the Command Spell for an instant command supposed to have some effect?!
——It seems logical.
——However, in reality, she misjudged the difference between humans and gods. That is a mystery of entirely different dimensions, and mystery will only be nullified in the face of a higher-level mystery...
Even summoning Hercules, a demigod great hero, even being covered head to toe with magic circuits and Command Spells, wanting to keep this extraordinary Servant with her power was almost impossible. Any action feedback from the former created such a high burden on her circuits that her body would break, causing her to scream in great pain.
And now, not to mention keeping him, merely summoning him nearly cost her her life...
If she didn’t need to provide magic, if actions were based on his magic power, thus not causing any extra burden to her magic circuits, Ilya might understand how vast the disparity was between them. Even just as a Servant’s projection clone, it was a height of despair.
"What a radical kid..."
Gu Mo sighed, but he also understood that he couldn’t blame this little girl. The recent divine twist had even shocked him, so of course, the person involved faced a rational collapse.
His eyes narrowed, and he pretended to stamp a foot hard, a stunning aura rising. The stones, concrete debris, leaves, and other objects on the ground floated under an invisible force, looking quite impressive, as if he was about to unleash a big move!
Ilya gritted her teeth viciously, "That’s it! That’s it!"
Finally, Kiritsugu was going to be killed, giving her a great sense of vengeance, which made her heart elated!
The next moment, all the commotion abruptly stopped.
The street fell silent, and due to the barrier’s cover, nearby people were not disturbed... It was as if it were a residential street gradually falling asleep as the night deepened.
"..."
"..."
The young man halted his pretend attack and strode forward: "He seems to have run away... It seems the other side has the ability to manipulate time. I’m going after him, Master."
"What?"
Ilya was taken aback. She looked carefully across but found that the person was indeed gone.
Through sensing the Command Spell’s magic power, she could even feel that Emiya Shirou was no longer in sensing range.
Emiya Kiritsugu never intended to fight head-on. After failing the first assassination attempt, his purpose for confrontation was just to buy time for his Master to escape. Otherwise, he, being an Assassin, wouldn’t bother confronting other classes head-on if he wasn’t entirely bored.
With Gu Mo intentionally letting them go, the father and son naturally completed their retreat smoothly.
An ideal situation, but Ilya didn’t think so. She was so angry that she jumped up and down: "Chase after him, chase after him! Kill Kiritsugu, you must kill Kiritsugu, blow his brain out!"
Such commendable filial piety...
But what’s the point? That wasn’t really your father earlier, and even if he died, it wouldn’t matter...
Hearing such repeated urging, Gu Mo couldn’t help but sigh, thinking that since the father summoned Altria, Ilya should have summoned Mordred, given how similar their lives were. That twist just now was so sudden and abrupt; it almost broke his back...
"Alright, I’m going now." He still verbally responded and was about to step out to pursue.
"Stop, stop, don’t fight anymore—!!"
A flustered voice came from the street behind, as if someone had breached the range of his Scattering of Loiterers technique.
