My mother's love song

“Maiya, it’s northeast of Lancer and the others. Saber’s Master is hiding on top of the warehouse there. Can you see him?”

""

There was no response from the communicator.

"?"

Emiya Kiritsugu frowned in confusion.

Hisau Maiya is an excellent fighter, and it is impossible for her to do something like being dazed on the battlefield.

Taking out a telescope from the side, Emiya Kiritsugu looked in the direction of Maiya.

Unfortunately, this side is a complete blind spot.

The two coordinates were originally set in order to expand the search range as much as possible, so it is impossible for them to observe each other.

“…Maiya, what happened over there? Reply immediately if received.”

Kiritsugu Emiya raised his voice to the limit of a sniper, and at the same time, he felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.

"..."

After a long time, there was still no reply from Hisau Maiya's communicator.

Chapter 040: Focus on attacking the heart, no humanity

Although teammates had lost contact in previous battles, this time Kiritsugu Emiya was particularly panicked.

After losing contact with Hisau Maiya, Kiritsugu's killer instinct made him feel extremely uneasy.

He glanced at the center of the battlefield in the distance.

His servant Lancer and the enemy's Saber are in a confrontation, and neither can suppress the other in the short term.

...As expected, I should go and see what happened to Maiya.

Kiritsugu removed his right eye from the scope and was about to leave when a voice suddenly came from the silent communicator.

“…Sorry, Kiritsugu, it’s me. There seems to be something wrong with the communicator and the scope.”

The communicator and the scope had problems at the same time?

Impossible, this was Kiritsugu's first reaction.

The biggest difference between military products and civilian products is not performance, but stability.

The probability of both the communicator and the scope breaking down on the battlefield is about the same as the probability of being killed by a meteorite while walking on the streets of Fuyuki.

Kiritsugu asked anxiously, "Are you okay?"

"…It's okay. But it seems I can't provide you with assistance tonight."

"……I see."

Kiritsugu said no more.

Although he had many doubts in his heart, Hisau Maiya was someone he trusted unconditionally.

She is always calm and composed, like a machine.

Hisau Maiya was always able to make correct and unchangeable judgments based on the circumstances at the time. Kiritsugu was by her side, but he never felt ashamed of his own meanness, nor did he ever hate her cruelty.

Kiritsugu always felt at peace when working with her.

Just like now, my panicked heart calmed down because of the appearance of Hisau Maiya's voice.

"In that case, you should retreat first and leave it to me tonight."

If possible, Kiritsugu wanted to attack Saber's Master together with Maiya. But it would be no problem if he was alone, as the distance was less than 300 meters. With Kiritsugu's ability, he could kill him with just one bullet.

"……Understood."

After leaving a brief message, Hisau Maiya's voice disappeared from the communicator.

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"He didn't give me away. It was a wise decision."

At the other end of the port, Rhodes was sitting leisurely on a container with his legs crossed.

Less than 10 meters below him, Kyoushinko stepped on Hisau Maiya's back, making her lie prone on the ground unable to move.

Three minutes ago, they found Hisau Maiya's location and took control of her.

Rhode's target was not Emiya Kiritsugu or Kenneth, but the woman who was Kiritsugu's assistant.

Rhodes, who was full of pride, suddenly remembered what he had heard before.

In the parallel world of the Moon, a subspecies Holy Grail War once occurred in large numbers.

And in these wars, the class with the highest winning rate is Assassin.

Until just now, Rhode had been dismissive of this statement. How could Hassans who could only steal Masters win the Holy Grail War where light cannons were rampant?

Now Rhodes would never question this statement again. He wanted to hold Fan Xinzi in his arms and stroke her head.

"Okay, let's continue with the topic we were talking about. Big sis, where were we talking about just now? Oh, right..."

Stroking his chin, the devil smiled cunningly in the darkness.

"We were just talking about the son you abandoned for so many years and who is now suffering somewhere on Earth."

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Hisau Maiya was born in a very poor country.

There is no hope, no future, only hatred between people and the plundering of food for survival.

The war will never end. Even though there is no money left to maintain the army, the killing continues without stopping.

As the war continued, people discovered that it was faster to send children to the front lines with guns rather than conscripting soldiers for training.

When she was old enough to understand, Hisau Maiya had already been taught how to survive as a child soldier. She had learned to shoot before she could even do addition and subtraction.

In this way, in order to prolong his life, he can only keep killing.

Sniper the enemy and hold the trigger tightly.

This is the only function left in the entire person, and all others have been discarded... The children who could not do this were killed by the children who could do it.

In this way, Hisau Maiya became a weapon of war.

However, Maiya's life was not all about killing people, she also gave birth to a human being.

Although it was a painful memory

More than ten years ago, before she met Emiya Kiritsugu, she was raped by several male soldiers in the military camp.

By the time I came to my senses, I was already pregnant.

Hisau Maiya once had a son.

"…Do you know him?"

Hisau Maiya, who was being stepped on by Kyoushinko, asked expressionlessly.

No one except Emiya Kiritsugu knew about his experience.

If anyone knew about this, it must be someone who knew the child.

After all, as a magician killer, Kiritsugu Emiya is well-known in the industry, so it is not surprising that the other party knows this.

Rhodes nodded: "Well...your son is working for my friend now."

"A job for a young soldier?"

"Yes, his experience is similar to yours. He has been handling guns since he was five years old. Oh... by the way, his body has also been transformed by magic."

After hearing the term "magic transformation", Hisau Maiya frowned.

"You must have heard of the special operations forces that can use magic, right? It seems that he was transformed as a member of the magic force."

Rhodes continued.

“Well, but he has now left the battlefield and become a private soldier.

His current employer, my friend, is a scum among scums who is ten thousand times worse than warlords and bandits.

Because he is a guy with similar interests to me, I know him very well.

That person has absolutely no humanity at all, he can be described as a demon."

Although she is the human form of the devil Beelzebub.

There was a hint of pity in Rhodes' eyes.

"Ah... maybe continuing to live on the battlefield would be a happier thing."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Hisau Maiya's face darkened.

Why are you telling me this, she asked through gritted teeth.

"Tell me these things, what is your purpose?"

Chapter 041 The way of heaven brings reincarnation

Rhodes stood up from the container, turned his back to Hisahi Maiya, and scanned the entire port area.

Kiritsugu Emiya put away WA2000, and he seemed to have given up his plan to snipe Kenneth.

Was it because he had discovered Kotomine Kirei's Servant, who was thought to be dead, in the dark of the battlefield?

If the other servants remain unchanged, Rider Iskandar and Archer Gilgamesh should appear next.

What would have happened tonight's battle without the mad dog Lancelot to disrupt the situation?

Considering that Gilgamesh's master is the extremely cautious Tōsaka Tokiomi, it seems that no matter how the war escalates tonight, he will probably ask Archer to retreat.

"Tsk... boring."

Having said that, Rhodes himself did not intend to expose himself too early tonight.

He turned around with some boredom and looked at the woman who was stepped on by Fanatic again.

"Ms. Jiuyu, let's make a deal."

"……trade?"

A gleam of suspicion flashed in Hisau Maiya's eyes.

"Yes, if you can agree to my terms. After the Fourth Holy Grail War is over, I will give your son freedom and let him live a normal life."

"I have no interest in your proposal. I will never betray Emiya Kiritsugu."

The woman with short black hair said calmly.

"kill me."

The reason why Hisau Maiya kept the situation a secret from Kiritsugu and did not report it to him was, on the one hand, because the topic of his son that Rod mentioned really aroused her interest.

On the other hand, he planned to take advantage of the situation and delay time here.

The other party has a terrifying ability to search for enemies in the middle of the night, and even if you resist here, you will be easily killed.

If this happens, they will definitely go and kill Kiritsugu again, so it is better to buy time here until Kiritsugu retreats.

While secretly opening the recorder in his pocket, he tried to buy as much time as possible.

Letting the other party kill himself is the last step of this plan to delay time.

Use your own death to exchange for Kiritsugu's life.

"What an amazing loyalty. That's true. Of course, a man who accompanies you day and night is more important than a son you haven't seen for more than ten years."