Chapter 133: Hammer Holy Grail War, it's smooth, it's smooth

Matou Kariya was numb.

It is estimated that Zouken Matou, who created this secret room, would also feel a little embarrassed when he learned about Maiya's actions.

Of course, Zouken Matou designed this secret room not for playing hide-and-seek.

A magician has many means at his disposal, with countless ways of searching, so it would be foolish to create a secret room without setting up a barrier and then hiding there.

The reason why Zouken Matou created this secret room was for storage.

So, it was natural that Matou Kirei and Sakura, who were hiding in the small secret room, felt very uncomfortable at this time.

The ventilation in the secret room is already very poor, not to mention the choking smoke bombs.

Looking at Sakura who covered her mouth and tried hard to hold back a cough, feeling the pain in her lungs and the itchiness in her throat, Matou Kariya felt helpless and confused.

Now it’s a matter of life and death.

The man named Matou Kariya actually thought about whether it was the right decision to give up magic.

"Ding-ling, ding-ling~"

The phone's default ringtone sounded.

Maiya answered the phone:

"Retreat Maiya, the caster's master should be arriving soon."

Emiya Kiritsugu's voice was calm.

The reason he issued this order was not so much because he was worried about Maiya's safety, but rather because he came up with the best solution after careful judgment.

For the victory of the Holy Grail War, Emiya Kiritsugu is willing to give up even himself.

How could he give up the best opportunity and act against Kenshin Matou just because of his romantic feelings?

Can,
The best time limit he predicted for completing the mission safely has passed. Even if Maiya really found something at this moment, she probably would not walk out of the Matou family alive.

Therefore, Emiya Kiritsugu issued the order to retreat.

Maiya held the phone in her hand and remained silent for a long time.

This time, she did not obey Emiya Kiritsugu's orders as usual.

This was the only and last time she disobeyed Emiya Kiritsugu's order.

She hung up the phone.

She had a hunch that the thing Emiya Kiritsugu wanted to find, the thing that Master Caster was worried about to the point of losing his mind, was in this room!
"cough…"

Seven-year-old Sakura held back her cough in the small, poorly ventilated room of the secret chamber.

Matou Kariya, who was already in his middle age, coughed like a loser.

"who!"

In the secret room where one could hear a pin drop, even the smallest sound seemed extremely clear, not to mention that the sound of Matou Kariya's cough was not small.

Holding the submachine gun in her hand, Maiya walked to the wall in the southeast corner of the lowest level of the basement.

This is where the sound came from.

"Come out, or I'll shoot."

She tried to threaten.

But there was no response from the people inside.

Maiya frowned.

Time is of the essence, and if you waste a second, your chances of successfully completing the task will be smaller.

So, with no time to waste, Maiya did not try to persuade anyone, nor did she think about studying the mechanism on the wall.

She raised her hand and was about to shoot at the wall with her submachine gun.

Even if she couldn't get what was inside, even if the mission failed, Maiya clearly understood one thing, that is, even if she couldn't get the enemy's things, she could still destroy them!
In the secret room.

Matou Kariya curled up, and the only thing that could demonstrate his courage was that he always kept little Sakura behind him.

But that was all he could do.

"Click" the sound of the trigger being pulled slightly.

"Diarmuid!"

At the critical moment, the protagonist appeared as expected.

The scarlet tip of the gun pierced through the body of the beautiful woman in men's clothing without any surprise.

"boom!"

At the end of Maiya's life, the last bullet she fired hit the ceiling of the basement.

"elder brother!"

Little Sakura in the secret room shouted excitedly and worriedly, accompanied by the sound of Matou Kariya standing up.

"Yakura~" Matou Kenshin responded softly.

"Brother, are you okay?"

Little Sakura banged on the wall, trying to get out, but couldn't push the door open.

Jianchen Matou leaned against the wall of the secret room and said:

"The bad guys ran away when they saw me, but I have some things to deal with. Can Sakura stay with me in the secret room?"

While comforting little Sakura, Kenshin Matou signaled to Diarmuid with his eyes.

Diarmuid understood his lord's intention and nodded, dragging Maiya's body out of the room.

period,

Kenshin Matou has been chatting with little Sakura.

He could sense Sakura's worry and her growing irritation at not being able to leave the secret room.

However, the environment in the basement was too bloody, and Kenshin Matou would never allow Sakura to see the scene.

So, he did his best to comfort her.

Only after Diarmuid cleaned the blood on the ground and covered up the smell with a fresh spray did Kenshin Matou open the door of the secret room.

"elder brother!"

As soon as she went out, little Sakura threw herself into the arms of Kenshin Matou.

Matou Kenshin patted little Sakura's back and ignored Matou Kariya who looked distraught.

"Okay Ying, it's all over. The bad guys were beaten away by brother. Don't worry."

Matou Kenshin spoke gently, but little Sakura didn't believe it.

She left her brother's arms, turned around, and stroked her brother's body with her palms. After checking for a long time and finding no wounds, she fell on Kenshin Matou as if she had lost her bones.

I held my sister in my arms and watched her faint from exhaustion.

After wiping away little Sakura's tears, Kenshin Matou carried little Sakura back to the room without saying a word.

Sitting on Sakura's bed and covering her with a quilt, Kenshin Matou looked at the two people in the room.

Diarmuid had a grim look on his face, ready to appease his lord's anger at any time.

Matou Kariya still had a distraught expression, lifeless.

Jianchen Matou sat on the bed, gritting his teeth, his rage for revenge colliding violently with his reason.

"Uncle Liu, does Gilgamesh have a chance in the short term?"

He asked, using his special connection with his Servant.

"No, he's not crazy enough yet. Go do what you want to do."

Uncle Liu gave a reply quickly.

After listening to this, Jianchen Matou looked at Diarmuid without saying a word, and then looked at Matou Kariya.

After a long time, he said:

"Diarmuid, stay in the room and don't leave for a moment."

"Matou Kariya, please go back to your room first and be ready to cook. Oh, and clean up the house. Don't invite anyone outside. I'm worried."

After arranging things, he watched Matou Kariya leave the room.

Jianchen Matou sighed:

“Diarmuid, if someone breaks in by force, don’t worry about Matou Kariya. You just need to protect me and my sister. Do you understand?”

"I understand, my lord."

Diarmuid replied, his tone more firm than ever before.

After getting the answer, Jianchen Matou nodded, supported his body with difficulty, walked step by step to his bed, and collapsed on it.

Suppress the fatigue in your heart.

He called Weber.

"Tell Iskandar that I need to rest. You don't have to keep an eye on Saber anymore. And, thank you very much, Waver."

Without waiting for Iskandar's reply, Jianchen Matou hung up the phone.

……

……

By the time Jianchen Matou woke up, it was already afternoon.

The first person he saw when he woke up was not Diarmuid, who had been guarding him diligently while he was sleeping, but his sister Sakura, who still had a look of panic on her face.

"Are you still scared, Sakura?"

Kenshin Matou half leaned against the head of the bed and reached out to touch little Sakura's hair.

"Yeah." Xiao Xiaoying did not hide it: "I'm scared, very scared. I'm so scared that I will never see my brother again, and I'm also afraid that my brother will get hurt."

Grabbing her brother's hand, little Sakura said in an almost begging voice:

"Brother, can I take you to find dad? Then I can beg him to protect us, beg him..."

"cherry."

Kenshin Matou interrupted her by stroking Sakura's still chubby face.

"Sakura, you don't need to ask anyone for help. Brother will help you with anything you want to do."

"Don't worry Sakura, neither my brother nor you will be hurt."

Seeing Sakura's disbelieving expression, in order to liven up the atmosphere and make little Sakura happy, Kenshin Matou bent his arms, showing off his biceps without any signs of training.

"Besides, your brother is stronger than your father."

Moving his arms, Jianchen Matou said seriously.

For this,

Little Sakura didn't believe it. After all, no matter how powerful Kenshin Matou was in her heart, it couldn't change the fact that he was still an eight-year-old child, only one year older than her sister.

Although Xiaoying didn't believe it, she no longer had the idea of ​​forcing her brother.

She just said:
"Brother promised Ying that he would never lie to her, so, brother, you must not get hurt."

"Okay, brother promised Ying."

Matou Kenshin responded.

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restaurant.

Matou Kariya, who had not yet recovered his breath, ran back and forth between the kitchen and the dining room again and again, bringing out the same meal after meal, like a dead body standing up and moving.

Sakura was a little worried and wanted to comfort her, but was stopped by Kenshin Matou.

He glanced at Matou Kariya coldly and did not do anything unnecessary.

After Sakura finished lunch, Kenshin Matou took her to the secret room.

What he discussed with Diarmuid was naturally not suitable for little Sakura to hear, but Kenshin Matou, who was worried about his sister's safety, really couldn't let Sakura stay in the room alone.

As a result, he could only communicate with Diarmuid through words.

Tearing open a notebook, Jianchen Matou handed half of the paper to Dilumuto and kept half for himself.

He pondered for a while and wrote on the paper:
"We must get rid of Gilgamesh first, otherwise we will not be able to win this war."

After handing the written paper to Diarmuid.

Jianchen Jianchen wrote on a new piece of paper:
"I am unqualified as a Master. I have no chance of defeating Emiya Kiritsugu in a fight. So if you are restrained by Saber, we are almost certain to lose."

"Iskander can help us keep an eye on Saber because of his personality, but that's only if we don't fight with Saber in a group."

"So the most urgent task right now is to get rid of Gilgamesh."

"But because I love my sister very much, I am not willing to take her to see her father, who is not suitable for her to meet now. Therefore, it is difficult to deal with Gilgamesh."

"Also, the chance to destroy Gilgamesh only lasts for a moment, and only once. If we miss it, it means the end of our Holy Grail War."

"Do you have any good ideas, Diarmuid?"

Quickly writing down the difficulties he encountered on paper, Jianchen Matou hoped that the hero in Irish mythology could provide some help even if he could not give him the answers.

Diarmuid's eyes quickly swept across the paper.

However, after watching it, he didn't react at all.

Just when Jianchen Matou was disappointed, Diarmuid picked up the pen and wrote very short words.

"Master, why don't you ask your sister what she thinks?"

Jianchen Matou was silent.

Need to ask?
He didn't think it was necessary, not from the beginning.

Xiao Xiaoying had already given him the answer, and what he was hesitant about was whether or not to write the answer on the answer sheet.

He looked at his sister who was sitting nearby and glanced at him from time to time with worry in her eyes.

he asked:
"Sakura, do you want to go home?"

……

……

Tōsaka Tokiomi is in a bad mood right now.

Today, the master of the Matou family came unannounced and called me. After he finished talking to himself, he hung up.

Afterwards, his servant, as if he had made an agreement with the other party, went downstairs alone to meet the enemy without any intention of discussing it with him.

If that were all, then that would be fine.

Although Gilgamesh is undisciplined, Tōsaka Tokiomi is still very confident in the strength of his servant.

After all, he is the Hero King, the Hero King who controls the King's Treasure and theoretically possesses all the Noble Phantasms.

Therefore, even if Kenshin Matou has two servants, Tōsaka Tokiomi does not think he will lose.

therefore,

He looked downstairs through the windowsill glass without much worry.

Tōsaka Tokiomi wanted to see the panicked expression of the Master of the Matou family, who was about the same age as his daughter.

He was looking forward to it.

The facts were just as he had imagined.

After talking with Emperor Gaozu of Han of that ancient country, Gilgamesh started fighting with him.

Although he was outnumbered one against two, just like his Servant Gilgamesh showed no fear at all, Tōsaka Tokiomi seemed to foresee victory in the near future.

Can,
The reality was not as good as he had imagined.

As he watched with his own eyes but still failed to react, Gilgamesh and his opponent, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, disappeared from sight.

In an instant, with the qualities of a professional magician, Tōsaka Tokiomi knew that he was in trouble.

Without any hesitation, when he saw Swordsman Matou bringing Diarmuid into the land of the Tohsaka family, he chose the safest and best solution - escape, escape at all costs!
As long as he can delay until Gilgamesh gets rid of Caster, Tōsaka Tokiomi will still have a chance to win the Holy Grail War, and still have a chance to realize the long-cherished wish of the successive heads of the Tōsaka family to reach the root.

But before he could take action.

Toosaka Tokiomi saw Matou Kenshin frowning in thought on the ground.

Toosaka Tokiomi's emotions seemed to be on a roller coaster. He had already decided to lose his grace and flee. He watched his opponent's expression change from joy at the beginning to frowning, and finally he seemed to be cursing something.

Matou Kenshin left, under the watchful eyes of Tousaka Tokiomi.

but,

Tōsaka Tokiomi was not happy about this.

Because he had a clear understanding, he knew that he might lose his Servant for a short time or a long time.

This means that
Although as a Master, Tōsaka Tokiomi has confidence that he is no less confident than any other Master participating in this battle.

However, he has now become the weakest one participating in this Holy Grail War.

Tousaka Tokiomi is very familiar with picking on the weak and expelling the weakest Master first, because if it were him, he would definitely do so.

But now, I have become the weakest one.

For Tōsaka Tokiomi, he might become the target of other masters who want to expel him, which is really terrible.

He slumped in his chair, drinking the expensive wine that he could no longer taste.

ally?

Father Kotomine Risei and his son, who had served as an agent of the church, both died in this Holy Grail War because of his involvement.

enemy?

All the masters who have not been eliminated yet are enemies of Tōsaka Tokiomi.

Toosaka Tokiomi was a little confused.

His confusion was not because he was in the situation he was in now. If a group of masters came with heroic spirits, he would not be able to resist and would die.

Instead,

He will not be able to fulfill the long-cherished wish of the Tohsaka family, and the pressure from the family he is so proud of will most likely have to be borne by his own daughter.

The emotions involved are very complicated.

There is both helplessness about this war and confusion as to why it has come to this.

He felt sad that such a heavy responsibility would be borne by his daughter who had not yet grown up, but he also felt sorry that he could not win and fulfill the long-cherished wish that all the previous heads of the Tosaka family had failed to accomplish.

Slumped on the sofa, the strong scapegoat has never had the idea of ​​giving up. Apart from being a magician and having traditional magician concepts, which can be criticized, it is really amazing that Toosaka Tokiomi has come this far with the qualifications of an ordinary magician.

He thought about the current situation.

"The news of Gilgamesh and Caster's disappearance should not have spread yet."

"Emiya Kiritsugu, if that man knew about this, he would definitely kill me without hesitation!"

Having seen Emiya Kiritsugu's experience and knowing his identity as a magician killer, Tōsaka Tokiomi is certain that Emiya Kiritsugu will not miss the opportunity to eliminate him.

"The master of Caster, the child of the Matou family, must have encountered some troubles. Don't worry about it for now."

Thinking this in his mind, Tōsaka Tokiomi felt helpless.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to consider it, but he really doesn’t have the ability to consider it.

"I wonder if the caster's master will reveal the news that he has lost his servant in a short period of time..."

"I don't have much time to prepare."

Not ready to put his fate in the hands of others, Tōsaka Tokiomi stood up. Without anything to carry with him, he planned to leave.

(End of this chapter)