Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

The next second, Miyu, wearing a purple-themed magical girl outfit and holding a blue staff, appeared at the entrance of the alley.

"Class Card - 'Lancer' - Limited Expansion!"

The 'lancer' class card suddenly turned into a ray of light, merged with the entire cane, and gradually lengthened.

Miyu held the elongated light and waved her hand. A scarlet spear appeared in her hand.

That is a treasure that belongs exclusively to the Heroic Spirit!

Chapter 951: This mournful cry is the sound of nature!

No stars, no moon, no clouds——

The night sky tonight is filled with nothing but darkness.

In the dark night, a red light flashed by, as if it was a scar that cut through the sky, dragging a long tail of light. It flashed from one side of the sky and disappeared from the other side. The whole process lasted only less than a second and was extremely difficult to capture.

In the flowing light, Shirou Emiya, wearing red armor, tightly grasped the bow in his hand, staring at the city below. From time to time, a few sword arrows streaked through the air like meteors, and then fell heavily to the ground.

"Sakura! The next location——!"

"Hogunhara Academy High School!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Emiya Shirou spread his wings behind him and flapped them violently, bursting out at an extremely terrifying speed and rushing towards Hogunhara Academy.

"call out--!"

A sword arrow turned into a bullet and pierced through the air like a dark lightning.

The sharp sound of breaking wind was heard only after the sword arrow passed through.

"Crack-!"

A piece of glass somewhere in the corridor of Hogunhara Academy shattered.

“Puff——!”

Along with the sound of a sword piercing flesh, the sea monster that was pouncing on the guard patrolling the corridor let out a wail and fell down.

The sword arrow also disappeared after piercing through the sea monster.

The only one left was the security guard who collapsed on the ground due to fear.

"Have you been able to determine the other party's location?"

Shirou Emiya frowned tightly. This was the nth time he had asked white-haired Sakura this question.

This situation where the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light is what Shirou Emiya least wants to see, because he is not good at intrigues with the enemy and is better at head-on combat.

"These sea monsters basically appear near the sewers every time, and based on the time when each sea monster appears, the magic workshop should be located here now!"

As he spoke, a blue barrier appeared in front of Shirou Emiya. It was a floor plan of Fuyuki City. There was a place marked with a red dot. That was the position of the opponent determined by White-haired Sakura through calculation.

The moment he saw that location, Shirou Emiya rushed towards the location of the Mion River. Of course, the red mark was not on the ground, but inside the sewer underground.

"It's really tricky! It's like he's a born killer!"

This hide-and-seek-like chase lasted for quite a long time, from morning to late at night, more than 13 hours have passed.

However, Shirou Emiya didn't even see the shadow of the opponent, and even destroyed several workshops on the ground during the period.

However, it was obvious that the opponent’s speed could not be faster than mine in armor, so how did he leave so quickly? Did he have some magic props for teleportation?

It was not until the third workshop was destroyed that White-haired Sakura realized that they had fallen into a misunderstanding, a huge misunderstanding.

Class cards can be released.

I'm afraid that when he left the Shinto Forest in Fuyuki City, he cancelled his class card and blended into the crowd as an ordinary person.

It is even possible that he was watching nearby when Shirou Emiya destroyed the magic workshop.

Neither White-haired Sakura nor Emiya Shirou had thought of this, because subconsciously, they believed that the other party would continue to deploy the Class Cards to take action.

But even if we knew, there was nothing we could do.

Find a magician among ordinary people?

He had lived with Sakura for so long, but only recently did he find out that Sakura was also a magician, and that the entire Matou family was a family of magicians.

Even if it was Shirou Emiya himself, who had lived in Fuyuki City for so long, if it weren't for the erosion of the power of existence that time, Toosaka Rin and Sakura would not have known that Shirou Emiya was also a magician.

To find a hidden magician among ordinary people, other magicians may have this method, but for Shirou Emiya it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Discover the other party's identity information through the remnants of his magic workshop?

If Shirou Emiya studied detective major in Tokyo Butei High School, he would definitely admire the other party's methods of hiding evidence and disrupting the investigation.

I'm afraid that this can only be found by asking a certain elementary school student who is the "Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era" and the "savior of the Japanese police".

But the major he studied was martial arts detection, first martial arts and then detection. Shirou Emiya did learn the judgment of information through investigation, but on the other hand, the focus of martial arts detection is on military strength.

On the other hand, he had not taken many cultural courses at Tokyo Butei High School, so his ability in searching for evidence through clues and intelligence was not very strong.

It is also because of this that Emiya Shirou and White-haired Sakura are in an extremely passive situation.

BB also showed dissatisfaction with Fuyuki City at this time. If the entire Fuyuki City was covered with surveillance cameras like the moon, then finding the murderer would be a piece of cake.

It's a pity that there is basically no surveillance in Fuyuki City except in very important places, such as the police station's armory, power supply station, etc.

Passive, very passive. If the other party's purpose was to kill him, then everything would be fine. But it was obvious that the other party's purpose was not him.

"Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick!"

This is the sound of water dripping onto the ground, echoing in this empty sewer.

The sewer was extremely dark, and the ground was very damp, sticky, and slippery. The cold air coming from the road ahead rushed straight over my body, and a foul smell filled the entire space.

The environment here is so suitable for the place where those disgusting creatures live.

"roar--!!!!!!!!!!!"

It didn't even take too long before group after group of sea monsters emerged from the front. It should be said that the sea monsters with more twisted shapes bit towards Emiya Shirou.

"Boom--!"

The next moment, the sound of the ground being crushed was heard.

With the two swords, one black and one white, in his hands, Emiya Shirou once again turned into a meat grinder and plunged into the group of monsters.

"Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!"

Those monsters didn't even have time to scream before they turned into liquid and splashed on the ground.

Here, it seems that there is no alienation like in the forest before. The number of sea monsters is decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few minutes, Shirou Emiya arrived at the most extensive area of ​​the entire sewer.

“Mm-! Mm-! Mm-! Mm-!”

Here, there were several children who were tied up tightly, unable to move. Some of them even had their tears dried up. The moment they saw Shirou Emiya, their eyes were filled with the desire to live.

The next second—

"Pfft——!"

A sea monster appeared from behind a child and pierced through his body. Blood kept dripping onto the ground.

"Horror has a certain degree of freshness. When humans are constantly in fear, their emotions will gradually die."

"The real horror is not the static state without change, but the dynamic state of change - the change from hope to despair, the horror of that moment. This fresh horror and taste of death."

An orange-haired figure slowly emerged from the darkness. Its face became distorted, and its skin became as pale as those marine creatures. Its eyes underwent a huge mutation, and became like a "thing" living in the deep sea, pouring out.

"This mournful cry is the sound of nature!"

Chapter 952 Found it! The Holy Grail!

"You said you encountered a monster in the alley that looked like it had crawled out of the deep sea?"

In the mansion across from Illya's house, Sapphire and Miyu told Luvia and Toosaka Rin everything they had seen and heard today.

Naturally, in matters like this, Luvia and Toosaka Rin, who are magi with more experience and knowledge, are more capable of making effective judgments.

"I was wondering why I could always sense a disgusting wave of magical energy. It seems that the water stains I encountered in other alleys were left by those monsters!"

Toosaka Rin nodded thoughtfully. She had noticed something unusual in Fuyuki City early in the morning and went to investigate.

It’s just that, at several locations that were explored, there was only a disgusting water stain left on the ground.

"I didn't expect to meet you, Miyu, you didn't get hurt!"

Luvia on the side also nodded, seeming to agree with Toosaka Rin's statement. It seems that she also noticed the abnormality in Fuyuki City today, but like Toosaka, she didn't find out the reason.

"No, but those monsters definitely didn't appear out of thin air. There must be someone behind the scenes manipulating them."

Miyu shook her head, indicating that she was fine, and did not tell anyone that she had seen the monster eat a person with her own eyes. She still had to prepare to collect the class cards tonight, and she did not want to delay the collection of class cards because of her own affairs.

"The other party should not be coming for the Class Cards, otherwise there would be no need to go to such great lengths to cause riots in the city. But if that's the case, what is his purpose? Isn't he afraid of attracting the responsibility of the Magic Association?"

Toosaka Rin pinched her chin and thought. According to Miyu, the other party didn't seem to care about exposing magic to the eyes of ordinary people. Toosaka Rin could even guess that those monsters would definitely make the headlines in tomorrow's Fuyuki City news.

They don't just appear in one place, and judging from the traces found by Toosaka Rin and Luvia, these monsters appear very frequently. Even if these are just the traces that have been discovered, it is already very frequent, and there are so many traces that have not been discovered.

"Besides that, there is another question: who killed these monsters? It's obvious that those water stains are the bodies of the dead monsters."

There are too many doubts about this matter. It is difficult for them to restore the original situation with limited information. They can only make rough guesses.

"Is it possible that a hunted magus has fled to Fuyuki City?"

Sapphire put forward his guess in a deep voice at this time.

According to Luvia and Toosaka Rin, it felt like these monsters were being chased by someone, but the one they encountered at that time happened to be the one that the other party had missed, otherwise Toosaka Rin and Luvia would not have explored so many places without encountering a single monster.

"But given the current situation, we can only define this matter in this way for the time being. We just hope that it will not affect our acquisition of the Class Card."

Toosaka Rin covered her head. She didn't want to deal with magicians who didn't treat ordinary people as human beings, especially such evil ones.

"But there's no problem with making preparations in advance. Toosaka, go get Illya, and we'll go to the back hill to collect the only two remaining class cards!"

"Ha! Do you think of me as your maid? You order me around like this!"

"Is not it?"

"you!"

Toosaka Rin pointed at Luvia angrily and wanted to curse her, but when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that she was indeed a maid in Luvia's family.

"Just wait until I have money!"

Having said that, Toosaka Rin left the villa angrily and looked towards Illya's house across the street.

At this moment, Luvia straightened her back to show him her victory.

"Is it going to start again? We were discussing the unexpected situation seriously before-"

Sapphire is also helpless about this. Why are there always such inexplicable confrontations between Luvia and Toosaka Rin?

At this moment, Illya was sneakily pushing open the window in the guise of a magical girl. When she saw Toosaka Rin below, she immediately floated down.

"Are you ready?"

Toosaka Rin looked at Illya with full vigilance.

"Ready!"

Illya clenched the ruby ​​that had turned into a magic wand in both hands and nodded solemnly.

At night, or rather at midnight, on a hill behind Fuyuki City—

"Om-"

The rainbow-like light took the ground where the four people were standing as the center, wavered, rotated and spread, and formed a precise magic circle geometric pattern, encircling the four people.

In their vision, the space around them began to distort. The sense of up, down, left, right, east, west, south, north, and other directions suddenly became blurred, and even the night view of the mountain and the brightly lit Fuyuki City in the distance became blurred.

Then, the world spun, waves of light flickered, and when the surrounding scene returned to its original state and the senses returned, the scenery was still the same, but this scenery was full of disharmony.

The sky seemed to be covered by a layer of moving arc mirror, swaying at a very slight angle like the rippling surface of a lake. In the woods, a faint blue mist was spreading, making the entire space blurred.

"Don't let your guard down, Miyu, Illya!"

Toosaka Rin held several gems in her hands, her eyes fixed on the surrounding woods. Although there was no one in the woods at the moment, an ominous aura shrouded the place.

"There are only two class cards left - Berserker and Assassin."