Type-Moon, isn't this really the other world?

"The Matou family."

"The Matou family?"

"Of course, since we're participating in the Holy Grail War, why can't our goal be to eliminate rival Masters and Servants?"

"You fought that old bug and the Matou family's Servants?"

Lin Jiu'an turned around and looked at Mei Li suspiciously.

This isn't right.

The sun has risen in the west, and this woman actually went and started a fight?

"Of course not, she's just a weak, pitiful, and helpless little succubus with no fixed fighting ability."

"Aren't you going to send Natalia to her death?"

Even disregarding the Matou family's Servants who have yet to appear, just considering Natalia versus Matou Zouken, even if all the information about Matou Zouken had been gathered beforehand, Lin Jiu'an didn't think Natalia would be a match for that old insect who had lived for hundreds of years.

"I still have you, my little cutie."

Lin Jiu'an said coldly, word by word, "First of all, don't call me 'little cutie'."

"Secondly, right now you're even more deserving of a beating than that old bug in my eyes. I'll beat you up first if I get the chance."

"Honestly, Jiu'an, you're so annoying."

Mei Li smiled and leaned down to whisper in Lin Jiu'an's ear.

He breathed hot air into his ear in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"You don't want Aika to know that you're being fought over by those bad women here, do you?"

Lin Jiu'an's pupils contracted slightly, then he sneered, "What does she have to do with me?"

"What do you think?"

Mary straightened up.

Her beautiful eyes curved into crescents as if she had thought of something interesting.

"If she finds that what she originally saw has changed, will she become interested in you?"

"Could she see you, this variable, as her true love?"

Lin Jiu'an's forehead was already sweating.

After escaping from the Tokyo Grand Grail, he tried his best not to think about it.

But after Mei Li brought it up, Lin Jiu'an realized that he was not really safe. After all, no one knew whether Sajo Aika would suddenly turn her attention to him and search the world for him after she couldn't find him, the "little baby she raised with her own hands".

"I'm not trying to scare you, but it's because I helped you conceal your presence that Aika hasn't realized you left yet."

At this moment, Meili leaned down again and hugged him tightly, pressing her softness against Lin Jiu'an's arm.

With a pitiful look, she pleaded, "So, can you help me out? I know you're the best!"

"On the other hand..."

After a long silence, Lin Jiu'an turned his head back and spoke softly to Mei Li.

"I've actually disliked that old bug for a long time."

Chapter Thirty-Seven: There is no first birth, only a newer one.

Tonight, dark clouds are gathering, giving the impression that a storm is brewing.

The car slowly came to a stop in front of the Matou Old House.

The car door opens.

"Is this the Matou family?"

Lin Jiu'an, after getting off the car, was gazing up at the Matou family mansion, which looked particularly gloomy under the dark clouds, lost in thought.

"Jiu'an, hurry up!"

Lin Jiu'an turned around and glanced at Mei Li with a dark expression.

"Shut up!"

Meili pouted, about to cry.

'Squeak'.

The door of the house directly opposite the gate of the Matou family's old house was suddenly opened.

There was not a single ray of light inside.

The open door was like the gaping maw of an abyss, swallowing anything that dared to peer inside.

An old man with a cane slowly walked out. His gait was very unsteady, like a candle in the wind that would fall over if blown by a gust of wind. The old man's appearance was even more terrifying. His skin seemed to have completely lost its moisture, his face was covered with wrinkles, and his eyes bulged out.

When Sora saw Zouken Matou come out, even he was startled and instinctively took a step back.

Meili crouched down and completely hid her body behind Lin Jiu'an.

"Ugh, how ugly! Jiu'an, hurry and deal with this ugly monster!"

Shut up, you old woman pretending to be young!

Zouken Matou's gaze swept over the four of them, finally settling on Natalia.

"What brings you four to my Matou residence so late at night?"

Just as Natalia was about to speak, Melly suddenly interrupted her.

"Little Natalia, hurry back! You can't beat this old bug. Let Jiu'an go!"

Natalia fell silent. Her humanity, which transcended her succubus bloodline, made her hesitant to do such a naive thing. However, considering her trust in her master and the conversation in the car earlier, Natalia knew that facing this seemingly fragile old man was probably just sending him to his death.

"Little Natalia, be good, quickly hide behind Jiu'an with your master!"

Natalia gave Lin Jiu'an an apologetic look, then obediently came to Melly's side, but instead of squatting down like Melly, she remained standing.

"Jiu'an?" Sora glanced fearfully at Matou Zouken, then looked at Lin Jiu'an.

Lin Jiu'an took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to betray his allies and join forces with Matou Zouken to kill the giant newborn behind him.

"Don't worry, just stay back and catch the newborn."

"Sigh, newborn? There's no such thing as a newborn..."

While Mary was still pretending to be clueless, Sora had already silently grabbed the hem of her clothes.

"Are you the orphan adopted by the Tohsaka family?" Zouken Matou squinted at Lin Jiu'an.

It was because of this strange brat that he didn't adopt Matou Sakura, which forced him to personally participate in this Holy Grail War.

"Aren't you going to send your servant out yet?"

"I remember that the Matou family has no enmity with you, so why..."

Before Zouken Matou could finish speaking, his cloudy and dry pupils suddenly contracted sharply.

He immediately raised his cane to block in front of him.

The boy, who was a dozen meters away, seemed to have instantly traversed that distance. No, it was as if the mud, blending seamlessly with the darkness, had somehow spread to his feet, and the boy was already standing right in front of him the next second.

'boom!'.

Zouken Matou's entire arm exploded instantly, and countless insects were annihilated before they could even flap their wings.

"You talk too much nonsense."

Lin Jiu'an's bright red human eyes transformed into golden dragon eyes.

He raised his slender, boyish hand and loosely grasped it towards Zouken Matou.

In an instant.

An extreme sense of death surged through Zouken Matou's mind, and countless life-saving methods he had used over the centuries came rushing out, with thousands of insects buzzing as they swarmed towards Lin Jiu'an.

But in the next second.

The insects seemed to sense something that terrified them.

They exploded one by one.

Even if it survived, it fell to the ground trembling, letting out a desperate cry before its death.

Zouken Matou's body seemed to be gripped by some terrifying, otherworldly force, and then exploded.

"This is impossible?!"

Zouken Matou's body exploded, revealing his true form: a filthy, ugly, slimy insect.

Its insect-like eyes stared in terror at the boy before it, whose golden dragon eyes radiated an aura of superiority, nobility, and mystery. The instinctive fear inherent in animals told it just what this other person was.

"You're not human, you're a dragon?!"

The old insect let out a terrified, shrill cry, as if it had encountered the most frightening thing it had encountered in hundreds of years.

He confirmed it at that moment.

The boy in front of her was not one of those mysterious, non-human, non-dragon creatures created by magicians by replacing a human heart with a dragon's heart.

It was a real dragon!

In this era where mystery has completely faded, the true dragon should have long since disappeared!

Even a juvenile dragon.

That's a dragon too!

Whether it's an insect or a butterfly, there's only one fate when faced with such an existence that stands at the pinnacle of all things.

Fear made him kneel, and then he committed suicide!

When exactly did I provoke such a being?!

The fear that came from an insect's instinct in the face of Lin Jiu'an's dragon might made Matou Zouken want to die immediately, but the tragic wish that had sustained him for hundreds of years made Matou Zouken let out a piercing scream at the last moment when Lin Jiu'an's foot landed.

"Berserker!!!"

The figure, enveloped in a thick golden mist, burst through the house wall and appeared before Lin Jiu'an.

The long sword slashed straight at his chest.

Lin Jiu'an raised his arms in front of him, and golden dragon scales appeared.

The sound of metal clashing, accompanied by a blinding flash of fire in the darkness, sent Lin Jiu'an flying backward, crashing through the courtyard wall and trees and into the woods beside the Matou family's house, raising a cloud of dust.

"Jiu'an?!"

Sora immediately wanted to rush over.

In her haste, Natalia was about to draw her gun and fire at the female servant shrouded in black mist.

But the two only remained at the level of instinct; just as they tried to move, they found that their bodies could not move.

"Don't worry, don't worry, Jiu'an will be fine. Just keep an eye on him."

"teacher?!"

"Don't worry, little Natalia, when have I ever lied to you? Really, the old saying is true, once a man is around, one forgets their teacher... Sigh?"

Mary didn't finish her sentence.

Then she saw the Berserker, who had lost his original target, suddenly turn around and look at her.

The relaxed and confident smile on Mary's face froze.

"Um, little Natalia, I suddenly remembered I left the rice cooker on, I'll be going now!"

Thirty-eighth Palm: Welcome to my world, Machiri Zorgen

No.

Didn't your house just get raided by Irisviel and Aoi Tohsaka?

Sora stared in astonishment at Mary, who had vanished in a flash as petals scattered across the sky, her mind still reeling.

He subconsciously looked at Natalia.