Chapter 129 Don't Let This King Down~
Kenshin Matou left Mr. Mackenzie's house and politely declined the other party's request to stay for lunch.

At that time, old man Mackenzie was puffing his beard and glaring, as if to say that if you disagreed, you looked down on him. However, after Kenshin Matou said, "My sister is waiting for me at home," the anger on his face disappeared instantly.

"Don't keep your family waiting."

After saying this, old man Mackenzie made no more attempts to persuade him to stay.

The purpose of Kenshin Matou's trip was achieved, and Waver and Iskandar had no reason to reject him after all.

just,

The smoother things went, the more worried Jianchen Jianchen became.

Gilgamesh, that madman, is an opponent that will make you nervous even if you are fully prepared to face him.

"hiss…"

"What a tough opponent, but arrogant? No, shouldn't I say arrogant, should I say the attitude of playing games with my life?"

"It doesn't matter. I will definitely be the winner."

With so much on his mind that he didn't even notice the beautiful scenery along the road, Jianchen Jianchen took a taxi and returned to Jianchen's home.

"Ugh…"

Sitting at the desk in the bedroom, Jianchen Matou couldn't stop sighing in his heart.

Before becoming a corporate slave, Kenshin Matou thought that the most stressful time was when he had to take an exam right after waking up from a good sleep. The tension was the most severe on the eve of the college entrance examination, so much so that he couldn't sleep all night.

After becoming a corporate slave, Kenshin Matou thought that the most stressful time was when his boss assigned him a task and he was at the rising stage of his career, but he messed up the task.

right now,

Kenshin Matou felt that both of the above situations were too weak.

If I don’t do well in the college entrance examination, will there be no happiness in the rest of my life?

If your career isn’t going well, will you really lose the courage to start over?

But now,
If your plan fails, you will really have nothing.

A big dream in the world, several times in life is cool.

Is death scary?

It’s terrible. Kenshin Matou is very scared.

But this was not what he feared most.

He looked at the obedient little Sakura who was sitting next to him and copying Chinese characters over and over again.

Happiness is right in front of you, and you can get it as long as you reach out your hand.

Losing is not scary, what is scary is losing after getting it.

If there were no beauty in front of us, the weight of fear would not be so heavy.

but.

"It's okay, you will definitely win. It's not like Gilgamesh hasn't been defeated before. No matter how strong he is, he was still made into elbows and eaten whole. You can do it."

I secretly encouraged myself in my heart.

Jianchen Matou rubbed his face hard, trying to relax his tense expression.

He said to Sakura who was working hard on her homework:

"Okay Ying, let's do our homework after we eat. We're having pork elbow for lunch today~."

"Okay brother~"

Closing the exercise book and putting the cap on the pen, Xiao Xiaoying stood up from her seat obediently and stretched out her hand.

Kenshin Matou smiled, took Sakura's hand, and walked into the restaurant.

Everyone is in place in the Matou family's restaurant.

Jian Tong Jianchen looked around at everyone present and said encouragingly:

"Let's eat, everyone."

Facing Uncle Liu, Diarmuid, Xiao Xiaoying, and the table full of delicious food,
It is facing the center of the dining table.
——Golden elbow!

……

……

Inside a tavern in Fuyuki City.

There was no light in the room, but because there was a window to the right of the bed, moonlight shone through the thin curtains.

Emiya Kiritsugu was sitting on the bed with his cell phone pressed to his ear.

Maiya’s voice rang out in the empty and quiet room:

"The Master of Caster brought Lancer to meet with the Master of Rider, Waver. They must have been discussing something. Judging from the expression on Master Caster's face when he left, he succeeded."

Maiya’s voice was cold, as if it was an inherent procedure.

Emiya Kiritsugu had long been accustomed to this.

“Send me the video.”

With that, the man with a voice even colder than Maiya’s hung up the phone.

In the quiet room, footsteps were heard. It was Emiya Kiritsugu who stood up from the bed and walked to the computer desk and sat down.

He turned on his computer, and the faint blue light from the screen illuminated his very tired face.

Be proficient in opening the software you often use.

Emiya Kiritsugu click to play.

Yes, from the very beginning when he monitored the Masters participating in this Holy Grail War, Emiya Kiritsugu had no intention of using familiars.

Take the opportunity and make reasonable use of modern technology.

This is exactly what Emiya Kiritsugu uses to deal with magi.

The room is very dark, and the only bright light is the computer screen, which unconsciously attracts people's attention.

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't need the attraction of the light because he was already staring at the screen.

In the video,
Kenshin Matou and Waver were talking outside the room, and Iskandar was listening quietly.

After a while, a scene appeared showing three people entering the room together.

What happened in the room, and what Kenshin Matou talked about with Waver, Kiritsugu Emiya didn't know.

Of course.

It is true that modern technology is very convenient, but magic is not something to be taken lightly.

Any simple warning device would make it very difficult to sneak into the room and install surveillance equipment.

What's more, there are heroic spirits in the room.

'Did I make the wrong decision?'

Emiya Kiritsugu thought with lifeless eyes.

in fact,

To say there is no chance is inaccurate.

It would not be particularly difficult to install surveillance equipment when Weber and Iskandar left the room, at some cost, or simply by using the bodies of the McKenzies as a bridge.

Can……

From the very beginning, Kiritsugu Emiya did not regard Waver as his first-choice opponent.

Compared to the person he cares about most at this moment, Jianchen Matou.

At the beginning of the Holy Grail War, the Masters that Emiya Kiritsugu cared about were only Kenneth, Tōsaka Tokiomi, and Kotomine Kirei.

among them,

The man he cared about the most and felt instinctively afraid of was Kotomine Kirei, who has now disappeared!
Whenever he thought of that man, Emiya Kiritsugu's heart would involuntarily tense up.

"Give up this Holy Grail War and flee Fuyuki City?"

As soon as this guess came to mind, Emiya Kiritsugu rejected it. Although they had not had much contact, Emiya Kiritsugu instinctively felt that Kotomine Kirei would not be the one who ran away.

'So……'

"Was he killed by another Master?"

The thought came to Emiya Kiritsugu's mind as naturally as drinking water or eating.

He shook his head and stopped thinking about Kotomine Kirei.

He scrolled the video to the beginning, zoomed in on the character's facial details on the screen, then watched the character's lip movements and started lip syncing!

Yes,

This pervert, Emiya Kiritsugu, is not only good at using modern technology, he has even mastered spoken language!

(I added this setting for him, but I think it’s normal for a professional magician killer to know this?)

Fortunately, although he has never been to the martial arts world and has not seen the wickedness of human nature, Jianchen Matou is pretentious enough.

It is precisely because of his hypocrisy,
They had to go to the McKenzie couple's room to discuss the plan over a beer, which coincidentally prevented the plan from being leaked in advance and discovered by Emiya Kiritsugu.

can only say,
Is this also fate?

·
Not to mention the perverted Emiya Kiritsugu, who was studying the video frame by frame and second by second.

At this time, in the Toosaka family residence, Toosaka Tokiomi was drinking alone.

The room was filled with soft lights. As the owner of the room, Tōsaka Tokiomi was lying on the soft sofa, drinking the wine in the glass with a bitter heart.

The situation was already bad, but now it has become even worse.

From being optimistic at the beginning to facing the reality now, Toosaka Tokiomi's heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally died.

He had been unable to contact Kotomine Kirei for a long time.

to this end,

He mobilized his own connections, lowered his posture, used ordinary people's strategies, bribed relevant personnel, and checked the surveillance of Fuyuki City again and again.

Then he discovered the unclear truth.

That night, after parting with him, his apprentice Kotomine Kirei chose to return to the church as usual.

This is all perfectly normal.

But what was abnormal was that after entering a dark alley with no surveillance, Kotomine Kirei never came out again.

"coincidentally,
Tōsaka Tokiomi checked all the surveillance cameras that had access to this alley, and finally identified the only person who had the ability to make his disciple Kotomine Kirei disappear.

——The Master of the Matou family!
Toosaka Tokiomi is very angry!
The anger could not be greater!

That was the anger from the magician, but also from the family, the anger from the three major families in Fuyuki City!
Kotomine Kirei, his disciple, had clearly lost his Servant and his assassin, but...

The master of the Matou family still chose to put him to death.

Toosaka Tokiomi could not accept this result.

He could not accept that the Matou family, one of the three major families in Fuyuki City, had fallen into the evil way, and he could not accept that he had adopted his daughter into such a family.

But that's not the most important thing.

What made Tohsaka Tokiomi most angry was that two generations of the Kotomine family died because of his decision...

He is a magician, but he is also a human being. He has a liver, a heart, and naturally emotions.

His father's friend and his supervisor, Kotomine Risei, was dead.

Kotomine Risei's child, Kotomine Kirei, also died.

This reality caused Tohsaka Tokiomi to violate the family precepts for a time and he was unable to maintain the elegance and composure of the Tohsaka family.

There was even a moment when he wanted to use the Command Seal to order Gilgamesh to destroy the swordsman Matou who had fallen into the path of evil.

But it was only for a moment.

For Tokitoki, nothing is more important than reaching the root and realizing the long-cherished wish of the Tokisaka family.

In the face of the family's long-cherished wish.

Toosaka Aoi is not important, Toosaka Rin is not important, Toosaka Sakura, no, it is Matou Sakura who is already in Toosaka Tokiomi's heart, still not important.

He loves his daughter, Rin Toosaka, very much.

But his love was mixed with the thought that if he could not reach the root and fulfill the long-cherished wish of the Tōsaka family - Rin, who would definitely become an outstanding magician, would definitely have a greater chance than himself to reach the root and fulfill the long-cherished wish of the Tōsaka family.

This is what Tousaka Tokiomi looks like.

In other words, as long as you live in the Tohsaka family, it is hard for anyone to be not like this.

This is not a problem with Tousaka Tokiomi, but an educational problem of the Tousaka family.

This is how Tousaka Tokiomi's father educated him;
This is how Tousaka Tokiomi's grandfather educated his father;
This is how Tousaka Tokiomi's great-grandfather educated his grandfather...

This is an endless loop.

What's amazing is the man who broke the Tousaka family's bad habits.

It was Kotomine Kirei who was stabbed to death by his good disciple just when Tōsaka Tokiomi was handing the graduation gift to him.

If we talk about deeds instead of thoughts,
Although Kotomine Kirei killed Miss Rin's father and drove Miss Rin's mother crazy, Miss Rin, who grew up alone, is more like a normal person than the previous Tosaka family magicians...

Of course, this kind of thing is really too perverted.

Even more perverted than this is,
Tōsaka Tokiomi, who had no idea that his good disciple had turned against him, was drinking red wine in depression, mourning for the deceased Kotomine Kirei.

What's even more abnormal is that
At this time, Tōsaka Tokiomi was thinking about how to repair the relationship with his servant Gilgamesh, who was planning to join forces with his good disciple to kill him.

This scene,
If Kotomine Kirei were alive, he would surely faint from joy.

Just like Gilgamesh, who is transforming from a spirit into a physical body and drinking red wine with a happy look on his face.

Gilgamesh looked at Tōsaka Tokiomi quietly.

The look in his eyes did not seem like he was looking at his master, but rather at a toy that was very suitable for drinking.

Gilgamesh narrowed his eyes, which were redder than the wine in his hand, and felt happy. He somewhat missed the man named Kotomine Kirei.

because,

He felt that if Kotomine Kirei was present at this moment, the expression on his face would definitely be great.

When thinking of Kotomine Kirei, Gilgamesh couldn't help but think of Kenshin Matou.

With a flash of golden light, he turned into a spirit and left the room, coming to the roof alone.

When the moon is full, the bright moonlight shines on the earth, as if covering the world with a layer of silver gauze.

Gilgamesh took out a chair from the king's treasure.

He sat on it, using the wine glass from the King's Treasure and tasting the fine wine from the King's Treasure.

Very pleasant.

He didn't even have to think about it; he just felt it based on his body's instinct.

——The fact that I was being targeted as prey.

What a ridiculous fact this is for Gilgamesh.

To the point that the corners of his eyes curved up, the corners of his mouth turned up, and he looked extremely excited.

But what no one could see on the empty rooftop was that the eyes of this oldest hero were filled with no joy at all, but murderous intent in his eyes that were not concealed at all, and would scare the cowards just by being stared at.

Gilgamesh was excited.

He hadn't been this excited in a long time.

The Holy Grail? It's just a boring toy, and there are many more of them in the King's Treasure.

Gilgamesh doesn't care about the Holy Grail at all.

He drank the wine in the cup, looked up at the bright moon in the sky, and said lightly:
"Matou Kenshin? Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang?"

"Humph~"

"Don't let me down~"

(End of this chapter)