My family runs an adventurer's guild.

Mom's hands gently rock you.

Rocking you gently~~ Sleep soundly~~

The night is quiet... and it's so warm under the covers...

The singing voice was as sweet as honey and as soft as cotton, with a touch of childlike innocence and naivety.

In an instant, it penetrated the concrete floors of dozens of floors, pouring directly into the souls of everyone in the buffet restaurant from above.

It made them feel as if they were basking in the comfortable warmth of the autumn sun, leaving them completely drained of energy.

Ah—I'm so sleepy!

I'm so sleepy I can barely keep my eyes open, I should just lie down and go to sleep!

Like a flash of lightning, with this thought, one by one, the people in the restaurant collapsed and fell into the deepest sleep.

Only Quark, the kobold warlock who was a Caster, managed to hold on for a while at first thanks to his strong will.

However, after recognizing the familiar divine energy fluctuations, the kobold warlock Quark gave up resisting.

In any case, he was a follower of the goddess of sleep, Mengmeng; otherwise, he would not have been qualified to participate in this interdimensional adventure.

Why would someone resist the will or blessing of their own deity, which would not cause them any real harm?

"...I never expected the first one to make a move would be the God of Sleep! Well then, let him sleep! Heh..."

In his final moments, the kobold warlock Quark muttered this only before collapsing limply onto the sofa. Even the bone wand he had been clutching tightly rolled to the floor with a "thud," along with the half-eaten roast chicken…

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Meanwhile, outside the Hyatt Hotel, on the cordon set up by the Japanese police, Kirei Kotomine, the agent of the Holy Church, was wearing a police uniform he had somehow acquired, mingling among the groups of police officers who had been urgently dispatched, constantly using magic to confuse and obscure their memories.

Specifically, it means making them forget the strange appearance of the kobold warlocks, forget those incredible and terrifying spells, and only remember that they fought a fierce battle on the streets of Fuyuki City against a group of well-equipped, heavily armed, and ruthless terrorists, and paid an extremely heavy price.

But now they have finally surrounded the Hyatt Hotel and are waiting for the "elite special forces" to arrive so they can launch a final assault on the hotel.

As for who these "terrorists" are, they are not the only ones.

Well, although Uncle Ra, who later commanded his henchmen to crash planes into the Twin Towers in New York, has already begun to make a name for himself, probably no one would believe that Afghan jihadists would come to Japan, a place that has absolutely no connection to them, to cause trouble.

Therefore, it seems that only the once-famous but now long-outdated Japanese Red Army can take the blame.

—I believe that most of these red idealists who are about to be forgotten by the times would not mind taking the opportunity to boost their fame.

The "elite special forces" that were about to arrive were naturally agents urgently dispatched by the Holy Church to put out the fire.

Honestly, the fact that the Church of Sanctuary was able to quickly come up with such a plan to fool the public in such a short time, and that at first glance it seems to be passable, truly shows that they are responsible, adaptable, and good at dealing with all kinds of emergencies.

However, the number of police officers gathered outside the Hyatt Hotel has now increased to more than two hundred.

In addition, reporters from all over the country rushed in like sharks smelling blood, eager to grab the news, so Kirei Kotomine's task of modifying memories was truly enormous.

Not to mention that after finishing with the Hyatt Hotel, he also had to go door-to-door to find people and modify the memories of the survivors of the street shootout one by one.

However, Kirei Kotomine's magic skills were only average, and the frequent use of magic was taking a toll on him.

Even if one is spiritually detached and like a sage, physical fatigue is still inevitable.

Just as Kirei Kotomine was waving his arms, which were almost too sore to lift, and barely squeezing out the last bit of magic power from his magic circuits to modify the memories of a team of new reporters, feeling like he was about to die from overwork, a song suddenly rang in his ears:

"...Sleep well~~Sleep well~~My dearest baby~~"

My mother's arms will always protect you.

Everything in the world, please go to sleep soon.

All the warmth belongs to you…

This is... a lullaby to put a baby to sleep?

Ugh, why do I feel so sleepy!

I can't take it anymore, I need to get some sleep... *snoring*

Accompanied by this drowsy, almost hypnotic lullaby, the police, reporters, and busybodies gathered outside the Hyatt Hotel all collapsed to the ground, falling into a deep, sweet sleep, unable to even react.

Then, as a magician and the Master of the Holy Grail War, Kirei Kotomine could have barely held out for a while. Unfortunately, the excessive use of magic earlier had severely depleted his energy, magical power, and physical strength, and had made him less focused and slower to react.

So, after struggling for a few seconds, he too collapsed onto the road with a thud, and immediately started snoring...

Chapter 46, Sleepy God's Lullaby (Part Two) - Bonus Chapter, Please Vote and Add to Favorites

Hyatt Hotel, underground parking

A kitten named Phil is enthusiastically trying to cause trouble.

In short, they sabotaged the basic load-bearing structure of the Hyatt Hotel in an attempt to cause the entire 32-story building to collapse.

Just like in the original Fate/Zero manga, where Kiritsugu Emiya carried out a targeted explosion on the Hyatt Hotel where Kenneth's Magic Workshop was located.

Of course, this little cat Firi is not Kiritsugu Emiya, the seasoned "magician killer". She has neither explosives nor the blueprints of the Hyatt Hotel, nor does she have the professional engineering knowledge of demolition. It seems that she has no way of carrying out such a clean and efficient demolition.

However, he had something even more useful than explosives: magic…

"...[Fossils turned into mud]! [Fossils turned into mud]! [Fossils turned into mud]! Whew, meow, I'm so tired!"

After pressing the cat's paw against a load-bearing wall in the underground parking lot and successfully turning parts of it into mud with magic, and watching it slowly deform under the weight of the 32-story building, Phil licked his paw with satisfaction and let out a slightly tired sigh.

To be honest, he didn't know the architectural structure of the Hyatt Hotel and didn't know where the weakest point was, so he could only use a clumsy method: as long as he destroyed every load-bearing wall and column of the building from the foundation, the Hyatt Hotel would definitely collapse in an instant!

Despite being an almost blatant act of sabotage, Phil's entire sabotage operation was carried out without anyone noticing and without interference from any outsiders.

—These days, surveillance cameras are far less common than they were in the 21st century, even in developed countries like Japan. Therefore, Phil did not find any surveillance cameras in the underground parking lot.

Especially after the kidnapping incident upstairs, most of the people in the hotel had already fled, and no one paid any attention to the kitten in the underground parking lot.

However, just as Phil was preparing to press on and destroy the remaining load-bearing walls, so that Kenneth and Ryunosuke Usui upstairs could experience the thrill of falling from a great height, a song full of drowsy divine power suddenly rang in his ears without warning!

"...Sleep well~~Sleep well~~My dearest baby~~~"

Mommy loves you~~ Mommy likes you~~

A bouquet of lilies~~A bouquet of roses~~

When you wake up~~~ Mom will give you everything~~~

"...Meow, it's the god of sleep hypnotizing me! Run... Oh no... I think... I can't hold on any longer..."

So, after struggling to run a few steps, Phili followed in Kirei Kotomine's footsteps and fell into a deep sleep in the underground parking lot.

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Kenneth's Luxury Suite on the Top Floor of the Hyatt Hotel

In this Holy Grail War, Lancer, the Dormouse Girl who holds the power of sleep in another world, stands in the center of a soft and luxurious bed, holding her "quilt-rolled spear" high in the hand, and singing "The Lullaby of the God of Sleep" with her eyes closed.

"...Sleep well~~Sleep well~~My dearest baby~~~"

Mommy loves you~~ Mommy likes you~~

A bouquet of lilies~~A bouquet of roses~~

When you wake up~~~ Mom will give you everything~~~

The immense and vast hypnotic power spread like a volcanic eruption, making it impossible for people to keep their minds running.

Beside the large bed, Lancer's Master Kenneth and his fiancée Sora were already snoring loudly on the carpet.

—Although he had set up a protective array in advance, Kenneth still seriously underestimated the power of the indiscriminate attack of [Hypnotic's Lullaby].

Moreover, the place he was in just happened to be so close to Dormouse Girl Mengmeng... so he didn't have time to react and fell asleep again.

In short, Kenneth has messed up again this time.

Even more tragically, although Kenneth and his fiancée Sora were fast asleep, the Dormouse girl Momo, singing "The Lullaby of the God of Sleep," was still drawing enormous magical power from them through their magic circuits.

This heavy burden made Kenneth and Sora feel very uncomfortable, and they often showed expressions of pain and suffering on their faces. They were probably having nightmares right now.

In short, under the lullaby of the god of sleep, the entire Hyatt Hotel, inside and out, top to bottom, was swept away into a dream.

Kenneth's previous tactics and the big news that the kitten Phil wanted to create all came to nothing.

But that's not the worst of it. Compared to the guys mentioned above, the most unfortunate one is the arbitrator of this Holy Grail War, Kotomine Risei.

—As the lullaby of the god of sleep began to play, he was leading a team of church agents, attempting to land a helicopter on the hotel rooftop…

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In the violently turbulent helicopter, Father Risei Kotomine, the head of the Fuyuki City Church and the supervisor and arbitrator of this Holy Grail War, looked worriedly at the Hyatt Hotel surrounded by police and reporters ahead, while occasionally glancing back at the pile of high-powered weapons in the cabin, as well as the few Church agents temporarily transferred from Hong Kong—the Church's special force responsible for exterminating magicians and monsters.

According to the emergency plan devised by the Church, the team of agents will land on the top floor of the Hyatt Hotel, take the building's internal passageway to the fourth-floor cafeteria, and eliminate the Caster group that violated the rules.

Then erase all traces and return the way you came to ensure maximum confidentiality.

—Although Tokiomi Tohsaka initially advocated sitting back and watching the two sides fight, letting Lancer's Master Kenneth fight the rule-breaking Caster group first, in order to weaken the strength of both groups of enemies.

The problem was that after waiting for more than an hour, and seeing that there was still no movement from the Hyatt Hotel, it seemed that neither the Caster group nor the Lancer group were interfering with each other. Father Kotomine Risei couldn't help but get anxious.

The Caster group caused such a huge disturbance on the streets before that the Holy Church had to go to great lengths to barely plug the loopholes.

If this continues unchecked, well, as the saying goes, the longer you wait, the more things can go wrong. If the Caster group manages to slip out of the Hyatt Hotel again and cause another big scandal, even if the Holy Church can still manage to cover it up, the fate of Kotomine Risei, the person directly responsible, will definitely be very bad.

So, disregarding Tokiomi Tohsaka's objections, Risei Kotomine took the church agents who had already arrived in Fuyuki City and set off by helicopter.

Logically speaking, since Kenneth, the representative sent by the Clock Tower Magic Association, had already set up his magic workshop at the Hyatt Hotel...

Therefore, the church's punitive forces should obtain his consent and understanding before landing on the roof and passing through his magic workshop.

The problem was that no matter how many times Kotomine Risei called Kenneth's suite, no one answered (Kenneth and Sora were still asleep at the time).

However, Kotomine Risei dared not delay any longer.

Although he didn't get Kenneth's consent, he still brought the entire team onto the helicopter, preparing to make a forced landing on the roof of the Hyatt Hotel. Of course, before landing, he still tried to communicate with Kenneth.

Otherwise, forcibly breaking into a genius magician's workshop by force would be neither a fun nor an easy thing to do.

"...Hmm, sending this signal beforehand will let Kenneth know our identities. Besides, the Holy Church's insignia is sprayed on the helicopter; as long as he has any sense, he won't attack recklessly... Let's hope nothing else goes wrong..."

As the Hyatt Hotel drew ever closer to the helicopter, Kotomine Ryougi couldn't help but mutter to himself.

However, at that very moment, a naive yet tender singing voice suddenly rang in his ears:

"...Sleep well~~Sleep well~~My dearest baby~~~"

Mommy loves you~~ Mommy likes you~~

A bouquet of lilies~~A bouquet of roses~~

When you wake up~~~ Mom will give you everything~~~

An overwhelming sense of heaviness instantly pressed down on everyone's body and soul, making it impossible for them to even open their eyes.

What... what's wrong with me? Why do I suddenly feel so tired, so very tired...?

I can't take it anymore...

Moments later, the helicopter pilot fell into a deep sleep, and then Kotomine Risei, whose magic power was low, also fainted.

The agents of the Holy Church did not resist for long, and one by one they fell asleep in the cabin.

Only the captain, with the strongest magic and stamina, managed to hold on for a little longer, and staggered into the cockpit, attempting to take over from the pilot and maneuver the helicopter to find a safe place to land as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, his self-taught helicopter piloting skills were clearly inadequate, and the "Lullaby of the Sleeping God" continued to interfere with his mind, ultimately leading to an emergency landing that turned into a devastating disaster.

In short, the helicopter carrying the Church's agents drew a strange arc in the air, flew diagonally across the Miwa River that runs through Fuyuki City, and finally crashed between traditional Japanese houses in Fukayama Town, turning into a burning fireball with a loud "boom".

—On the afternoon of the first day of the Fourth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City, Father Risei Kotomine, the arbitrator and overseer of the Holy Church, died.

Also killed in the plane crash was a small team of agents dispatched by the Holy Church.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese-style houses with paper and wood structures near the crash site began to burn fiercely, and the fire spread with the wind.

—The houses in Fukayama Town are mostly traditional Japanese residences, which are not only compact and dense, but also make extensive use of flammable materials such as bamboo, wood, and paper. As a nation that is perpetually plagued by earthquakes, the Japanese have chosen such practical and economical building materials.

While such houses perform well in the face of earthquakes (lightweight and flexible, easily deformable, and even if they collapse, they are unlikely to crush people like brick or stone houses), once a fire breaks out, they can only be described as dry wood plus raging fire.

However, although the town of Fukayama was soon engulfed in thick smoke and flames, there were no fleeing crowds or bustling noises.

On the contrary, even amidst the raging flames, Fukayama Town remained eerily silent, like a deserted city.

—A chilling silence.

Meanwhile, the "Lullaby of the Sleeping God" continued to resound over Fuyuki City, stirring up chaotic magical currents and distorting the world.

"...Sleep well~~Sleep well~~My dearest baby~~~"

Mommy loves you~~ Mommy likes you~~