My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

On satellite cloud images, a low-temperature cyclone centered on Fuyuki City and covering the entire country of Japan can be clearly seen. Especially at the center of the cyclone, a low-temperature depression with temperatures below -100 degrees Celsius can be clearly seen.

The entire neon-lit city, and even the entire west coast of the Pacific, began to cool down.

Winter came exceptionally early this year.

Fuyuki City.

Snowflakes, like goose feathers, danced in the air.

Then, like torn cotton balls, they fell down in large clumps, and when blown by the bone-chilling wind, they turned into sand and powder, and the entire universe became a white chaos.

The entire city of Fuyuki was quickly covered in snow, as if it were shrouded in a shroud. The sky was dark, as if the bright sunshine before had been an illusion.

No one could believe that just a dozen minutes ago, the weather here was pleasant, and even strong people could go out wearing only a T-shirt without any problem.

However, now the temperature outside the city has dropped to tens of degrees below zero Celsius, and even if you go out wrapped in a quilt, you will freeze.

cold!

All was silent!

The Miwa River, which runs through the middle of Fuyuki City, is completely frozen. The surface of the river glistens with a bluish-white icy light. The river is rushing so fast that some birds pecking at reeds on the riverbank don't have time to fly away. Their claws are frozen to the ice, as if they are wearing shackles, making it difficult for them to spread their wings and fly. They keep trying to peck off the icy shackles with their beaks, but they try their best, but it's all in vain. Gradually, they stop moving...

At the foot of the mountain range where the Fuyuki Church is located.

The place was a pristine white expanse, silent and desolate, like a fairytale ice city, with cars, houses, trees, flowers, and pedestrians all made of ice...

Inside a building that was not yet completed.

Maiya stood at the edge of the building, using the telescope to observe the situation at the Fuyuki Church on the mountain.

She came here to gather information. The temperature on the mountain is too low; any familiar that gets close will be frozen. Only people here can see what is happening at the church using binoculars.

Hui's attack caught all the Masters off guard.

They shared the same idea as Kotomine Risei, believing that Kei's Master wouldn't dare to take action against the Church.

After all, any normal magician would never dare to offend those lunatics in the church.

However, they were all wrong. They never expected that Kei's Master would be so tough and directly attack the Holy Church in Fuyuki City.

This rude and foolish approach is not something a magician would do.

As a magician, although her magic skills weren't particularly strong, they were still enough to allow her to move around in temperatures below -120 degrees Celsius.

However, with each breath she took, she felt a sharp pain in her lungs; the air here was too cold.

At this point, the Sword of Glad had burned out.

The entire area within a kilometer radius where the church was located seemed to have been erased by an eraser, leaving a blank space with nothing in it.

After the Sword of Glad burned out, time began to flow again, and the broken space inside began to repair itself. Once the space was repaired, only a blank space remained.

After seeing the specific situation of the church.

Maimi was about to leave.

But at that moment...

call out!

A whooshing sound came from the upper left, and alarm bells rang in her head. She immediately dropped the binoculars in her hand, and with the speed of a cheetah, she leaped behind an icicle. A pistol was now in her hand, and she was breathing heavily with a serious expression.

laugh!

Almost at the same moment she dodged, a black key pierced through the telescope and stuck in the spot where she had been standing.

The black key looks like a sword with a long blade, but it is actually a weapon used for throwing.

Its blade is a semi-spiritual structure woven with magic, extremely sharp, and easily penetrates the steel plate covered with ice.

"Your reaction speed and skills are quite impressive. It seems you've undergone rigorous training." Kirei Kotomine jumped down from the upper floor to this floor.

He had deliberately left the church to avoid his fate of death.

When he returned and saw the vanished church and his father, he felt no sadness at all.

This is an innate personality flaw of his; he cannot feel beauty in what people call beautiful things, but finds it hard to forget what many people call ugly things.

He could only perceive the ugliness of humanity.

At this moment, facing his father's death, for some reason, he suddenly felt something he had never felt before.

It's like... experiencing beauty for the first time.

Having once served as an agent, he keenly noticed Maiya spying on him, especially when he saw the binoculars in Maiya's hand. He suddenly became interested, which led to the scene just now.

“Kotomine… Kirei.” Maimi’s voice was solemn.

"Oh~~" Kirei Kotomine was a little surprised that the other party knew him. "Shouldn't this be our first meeting, or do you have a reason to get to know me?"

"As a magician, yet using modern technology, this style already tells me who you are." Kirei Kotomine said as he walked towards Maiya without any attempt to hide it.

"Woman, where is Kiritsugu Emiya?"

Kirei Kotomine has been very interested in Kiritsugu Emiya ever since he saw his information.

He himself has a personality disorder, so when he sees the information about Kiritsugu Emiya repeatedly squeezing into the most dangerous situations, with the gains being completely disproportionate to the efforts, it's as if he has an obsessive-compulsive disorder of rushing to his death.

This seemingly suicidal principle of action made Kirei Kotomine feel that this man was like him, suffering from the same personality flaws.

However, what puzzled him was that the records showed that after Kiritsugu Emiya married into the Einzbern family nine years ago, he went into seclusion and never did anything similar to what he had done before.

He wanted to know how Kiritsugu Emiya had "cured" his personality flaws.

Maiya naturally couldn't answer; she only remembered Kiritsugu saying that Kirei Kotomine was a very dangerous person.

Hearing the approaching footsteps, she no longer waited to die, and suddenly turned to the side and fired wildly in the direction of Kirei Kotomine.

Bang, bang!

Kirei Kotomine raised his hand to protect his head; the bullets couldn't penetrate his robes at all.

This robe is the ceremonial attire of the evangelists, made entirely of thick Kevlar fiber, and meticulously covered with protective charms specially made by the church's evangelists, capable of protecting against bullets and curses.

As Wu Mi fired her gun, he reflexively pulled two key handles from his pocket with his other hand, infused them with magic, and threw them at Wu Mi with a "whoosh!" The whole action was as smooth as flowing water, completed in one go.

With a crisp "ding!", the half-spirit blade sliced ​​through the pistol in Wu Mi's hand as easily as cutting bone. Fortunately, she managed to dodge in time and her hand was not severed.

Even so, her hands were covered in blood and she had suffered minor injuries.

"hu~hu~"

Maimi hid behind another ice wall, clutching her hands and panting heavily. Her lungs ached from inhaling too much cold air during the intense exercise.

How many more times can you dodge?

Kirei Kotomine took three black key handles from his robes with both hands, and after infusing them with magic, the handles instantly transformed into semi-transparent, semi-spirited blades.

He walked towards Wu Mi step by step, looking confident of victory.

Unexpectedly, a smoke bomb was thrown from somewhere, bounced a few times on the ground, and then released thick yellow-green smoke with a "poof poof!" sound.

Upon seeing this, Maiya immediately turned and left under the cover of smoke.

When Kirei Kotomine emerged from the smoke, he had already vanished without a trace.

Kirei Kotomine didn't know where Maiya had escaped from, so he gave up the idea of ​​pursuing her.

after awhile.

"Lord Kirei." The void behind him trembled, and a female Assassin appeared. The Assassin had returned.

"how is the situation?"

"The area where the church was located was completely wiped out, and there was no trace of life on the entire mountain." Assassin shuddered as she recalled the scene she saw on the mountain. She was still shocked by the destructive power that could not be described as exaggerated.

Is that so?

What should we do now?

Kirei Kotomine pondered for a moment, then said, "Go to the teacher."

……

Chapter 386 Pleasure

The Tohsaka family.

Tokiomi Tohsaka had already sent Aoi Tohsaka and Rin Tohsaka to live in a house in the nearby Zen Castle.

Originally intended as a precaution, Tokiomi Tohsaka never expected it to be such a wise move.

Although he had anticipated that Fuyuki City would no longer be safe after the Holy Grail War began.

Even with his limited brain, he couldn't have imagined that this "insecurity" was actually... He stared at the heavy snow outside the window for a long time before muttering to himself, "This power... a Star-level Noble Phantasm..."

Heroic spirits are the beings who, after their deaths, have become legends and objects of worship, representing the great achievements of heroes.

There is a distinction between strong and weak in nature.

However, he never imagined that heroic spirits could be this powerful.

He had only ever seen anti-star Noble Phantasms in books, and when he first saw the descriptions of them in the books, he even thought they were exaggerations.

After all, so-called anti-city Noble Phantasms are only capable of destroying city gates, and anti-world Noble Phantasms are not capable of destroying the world, but rather of destroying things like Reality Barriers... By the same token, anti-star Noble Phantasms are probably only capable of destroying a small mountain... That's what he thought before.

As for the casualties caused by the Star Treasures and the extent to which the Mysterious Side was exposed, he had neither the time nor the energy to care.

Right now, he's only focused on how to win the Holy Grail War.

At that moment, he stopped his random thoughts; Kirei Kotomine had arrived.

Since the Assassin clone guarding this place hadn't disappeared, he knew that Kirei Kotomine hadn't died.

However, he also had no idea what had happened at the church; the familiar died before it could send anything back.

The familiars sent out afterward have also disappeared without a trace.

Kirei Kotomine, looking travel-worn, entered the house and patted the snow off his clothes.

Tokiomi Tohsaka asked warmly, "Are you alright?"

"Thank you for your concern, teacher. I'm fine."

What happened at the church?