A person is in Type-Moon, goes out, and then picks up an Outer God girl?

As the lake water cascaded down from above his head like a waterfall, Duanmu Ye almost looked down at Kotomine Kirei who was looking up at him. Without the slightest hesitation, he raised the thick tentacles beneath him and waved them lightly. The resulting wind and waves destroyed all the black keys that were clearly lit.

Such a scene naturally made Kotomine Kirei's face look a little more unbelievable, but what Duanmu Ye had to do was not just to destroy the magic circle composed of black keys, which actually had no effect on this planet with a sealing effect.

At the moment when the black keys that he had endowed with the effect of the baptismal chant were destroyed so easily, Kotomine Kirei was shocked and suddenly felt as if there was some force behind him pushing him towards the lake.

Kotomine Kirei wanted to resist, but that force was like the push from the wheels of an airplane behind him. There was almost no possibility of resistance, and he could only allow this force to push him into the lake. However, what really made Kotomine Kirei stop the baptismal chant was the huge tentacle reaching out to him.

It came without any warning, and its tentacles, which were as thick as giant chimneys, did not move at all, as if it had suddenly appeared. Even though it was very close, even though it had already swept up his motionless body and carried it into the sky, such power and such oppression were like a breeze, and there was no feeling like before.

Thus, he was carried up into the sky without any resistance and placed upon the dark face of the figure in yellow. All Kotomine Kirei could see was the depth of the night, the darkness as profound as the universe...

Kotomine Kirei, who had originally shown some signs of struggle, lost all reaction after witnessing such depth. He was like a puppet that had lost all strength and means. He just silently dropped his limbs and fell into a deathly silence.

Duanmu Ye was not sure whether Kotomine Kirei was really driven mad by "Hasta" as he imagined, but pulling him into the seal of Aldebaran was the only way Duanmu Ye could think of to seal his soul.

Unless... his soul wasn't here. What he had dragged into this place was merely a wisp of consciousness he had just before his death, a self-awareness similar to his current state, not the main body of his soul...

......

The wind was blowing coldly, and in the winter that almost everyone had forgotten, small snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

The cloud-shrouded Fuyuki City gradually regained some vitality after half a day of reorganization. However, in the ruins of the dock, which had not yet fully recovered and had suffered the most serious damage, a dark purple magic circle slowly lit up. On one side of the magic circle, there was a purple-haired girl fiddling with something.

"Oh... this is really troublesome... If you're dragged into Aldebaran's seal, even I won't be able to pull you out..."

As she spoke, the purple-haired girl's previous sadness and helplessness changed, and a wicked smile gradually emerged from the corners of her mouth. In her raised hand, a large group of twisted black tentacles suddenly appeared, as if they were living pieces of flesh, and were thrown casually into the center of the magic circle.

"But... luckily I collected some of that kid's 'clones' earlier. Using them to take you away is perfect~"

Water, Wind, Flower: Chapter 97: Saber's Second Sword...

"It's snowing, Kiritsugu... Just like in the winter city of Bavaria, the castle here is also covered in the color of snow..."

He raised his hand and gently held the snowflakes falling from the sky. The puppet's hand was very cold, so cold that the snowflakes that fell on his palm did not react for a while. It took a long time for them to melt and disappear in his palm.

The snow-white doll said this, and the hint of sadness that was faintly revealed in her voice did not go unnoticed by the tall man standing behind her. He puffed out smoke from his mouth, and his empty eyes showed an abnormal indifference.

Irisviel turned around and put her hands behind her back, like an elf in the snow, making the same movements as when she first met Emiya Kiritsugu in the Winter Castle.

"Hey, Kiritsugu... could you go to the streets with me?"

An atmosphere of silence began to spread at this moment. Neither Emiya Kiritsugu, who was facing Irisviel, who was looking at him with a pleading expression, nor Arthur, who was standing not far from Irisviel in a suit, spoke at this moment.

The silent rejection did not move Irisviel. She still showed that light smile, and like a child, she withdrew her gaze from Emiya Kiritsugu, and continued to walk and walk in the snow... She even jogged, faster and faster, until she accidentally fell in the snow.

Arthur immediately lifted Irisviel from the snow. The warmth from his magic melted the snow on Irisviel's body as she laughed heartily. In the "Winter City", which was completely different from the outside world of Fuyuki, this seemingly carefree laughter echoed above the thick snow.

Finally, Emiya Kiritsugu loosened the fist that he had clenched when Irisviel fell. The hand hidden in his trouser pocket was weathered, but unlike his usual calm expression no matter what happened, his hand was now trembling slightly, as if he was struggling inside.

"Saber, take Ellie back to the castle."

After a long time, a cold voice came from the man's mouth, but Arthur remained unmoved. He just silently exuded his magic power to warm the "elf" under him.

Emiya Kiritsugu left, as if he didn't want to see what happened outside the castle anymore. He left the snow first and returned to the castle which served as his base.

At this moment, Irisviel smiled gently at Arthur and spoke slowly in an extremely gentle voice.

"It's okay, Saber. I want to play outside for a while. Kiritsugu must have something to ask you, so he said that. I know his character. He has never been such a frank person..."

Arthur remained silent, his beautiful emerald eyes seemed darker than ever. No one knew the emotions rising in his heart, and he never expressed them to anyone.

"I'm leaving Ellie."

He put his suit jacket on Irisviel, and as he stood up to leave, he resumed the release of magic that had stopped because of his departure. Arthur's expression always maintained the image of a fairy-tale prince, and he used a smile as soft yet shining as the morning sun to dispel the chillness on Irisviel's body.

Looking at Arthur's departing back, Irisviel, wearing a suit coat that was still a little too big for her, stood up from the snow. Her expression gradually changed. While covering her chest with her hands, the throbbing in her heart made her reveal unbearable pain, and even her body could not help but tremble.

"There should still be time... Why... Why do I already have the qualifications to start the ceremony..."

In the Einzbern Castle, far away from where Irisviel existed, Emiya Kiritsugu quietly put down the cigarette in his hand, but his action of taking out another cigarette from the cigarette box was interrupted by Arthur who arrived shortly afterwards.

"I heard from Ellie that you had given up such things for Miss Illya, but ever since you came to this land, you have always been filled with this smell and the magic power emitted by the magic used to suppress the mind."

Arthur paused, and his remarks seemed to hit the nail on the head, causing Emiya Kiritsugu, who was now facing away from him, to gradually darken his expression.

"What are you...so afraid of?"

Such words made Emiya Kiritsugu's face look extremely ugly. The tragic scene of Hisau Maiya's death still appeared in his mind every time he closed his eyes. It was unavoidable and could not be eradicated. Even though a night had passed, he actually did not close his eyes once the entire night.

Even blinking instinctively became something he resisted...

"I don't understand what you're talking about, Knight King from Britain. Rather than worrying about my situation, you should think about how you, as a Saber, have lost the holy sword you can rely on most. What can you do now?"

Although Emiya Kiritsugu wanted to leave, at this moment, he had to face a choice that he might never forgive himself for the rest of his life.

Continue the Holy Grail War, treat Saber and Irisviel as pawns, and start preparing now before the final battle that may not come tomorrow.

As we all know, increasingly powerful servants like Caster require far more magic power than ordinary servants, and because of this, the Master will not leave all areas where Caster is active.

By making a straight line from the two farthest distances Caster has reached so far, we can get a rough range of activities. Although the range of activities from the suburbs to the port, which almost covers the entire Fuyuki City, makes Kiritsugu Emiya feel a little tricky, it is enough to prove that Caster's master has never left Fuyuki City from beginning to end. Even though the flood last night caused two-thirds of Fuyuki to be paralyzed, doesn't that still leave one-third of the location suspicious?

Therefore, they only needed to wait until Caster had finished dealing with Rider, allowing the entire Holy Grail War to proceed to its final decisive battle. Using Saber to confine Caster to the confines of Fuyuki City for a 1v1 decisive battle, they then hacked into the military's missile system and launched a comprehensive, all-encompassing bombing of Fuyuki City, excluding the spiritual veins and the large cavity used for the Holy Grail's descent ceremony...

Even after reaching this point, that Caster still stubbornly survived, which also eliminated all other possibilities of Master Caster hiding, and locked onto the only large hole that had not been bombed by missiles.

When that happens, facing the magician who can give Caster the power to perform great magic, the Origin Bullet he has prepared for so long will put an end to it all...

However, such a plan could only be kept strictly confidential. Hisau Maiya was already dead, and he was the only one who could accomplish these things, and the only person he could trust...

Therefore, no one will know the plan before the missile strikes, and no one will evacuate before the missile strikes. This will undoubtedly be a devastating blow to the urban area that is actively carrying out reconstruction work at this moment.

What terrible things would happen if that strange Caster obtained the Holy Grail... Kiritsugu Emiya didn't dare to think about it. If large-scale emergency evacuation had not been carried out before the tsunami came, even Kiritsugu Emiya couldn't believe how many people would have died at Caster's hands.

He didn't dare to gamble that the person who summoned such a terrifying Caster would make a wish for world peace, nor did he dare to gamble what kind of wish that Caster would make after obtaining the Holy Grail.

At this moment, in the ocean of thoughts that Emiya Kiritsugu was constantly analyzing and thinking about, there were two identical huge ships floating on the boundless sea. Although the two ships were exactly the same, the density of the people they carried on them was vastly different.

A huge ship was extremely loose, with only one deck sending out a cry for help to him. On the other side, another huge ship was crowded with people of all kinds. Almost all races and ethnic groups he knew of were constantly launching wave after wave of conflicts on the crowded ship because of issues such as skin color, beliefs, wealth, food, life expectancy, etc. Whenever the waves of thoughts swept through, the ship would be dyed bright red, but the congestion on the ship did not seem to be relieved.

It was as if the scales of some kind of order were being weighed. Should one abandon the Holy Grail, his wish to free every corner of the world from the suffering of war and the occurrence of no more wars and conflicts? Or should he abandon this remote town and fulfill the former's wish, which could only be fulfilled through the miracle of the Holy Grail, a universal wish-granting machine...

The answer had actually been chosen from the very beginning, but Kiritsugu Emiya was hiding it, hiding the answer from Irisviel, the "lover" he valued most.

But Arthur keenly sensed something was amiss about Emiya Kiritsugu's abnormality, but the person in front of him was not his master, and he had no right to ask about anything about him, especially things he didn't want to tell.

Silence spread throughout the castle at this moment, until Arthur took the first step and broke the silence that Kiritsugu Emiya had deliberately created.

"I actually carry two Noble Phantasms..."

Arthur closed his eyes, as if accepting the reality that he had lost his qualifications to be a holy swordsman, and spoke with some struggle.

"Is that so? As the medium that summoned you, I'm not surprised that you possess such a Noble Phantasm."

Emiya Kiritsugu spoke calmly, his indifferent expression seemed to have anticipated this, but Arthur soon denied Emiya Kiritsugu's answer.

"I never owned Avalon. Although I did arrive there, I was...sent out for some special reasons..."

Arthur's expression changed from gloomy to bright. Although there was no need to mention this past event, as someone who had participated in two Holy Grail Wars, he knew clearly how important and crucial it was to establish a relatively solid trust between Servant and Master in a Holy Grail War.

Although the truth is that after dealing with the two Holy Grail Wars, he gave up his obsession with restoring his country and returned to Avalon, but was told by Merlin that he still needed to defeat some evil that the world could not deal with, and was then unilaterally kicked out of Avalon by Merlin...

Although the process at that time was indeed a bit infuriating, Arthur could not deny that Merlin did send him to the other world to find those evil beings and fight against them. There was nothing wrong with saying that it was a dispatch!

"The second Noble Phantasm isn't Avalon? Then your injuries..."

"As long as it's not a fatal injury that destroys my soul core, it's nothing to me."

Arthur's answer was decisive, but Emiya Kiritsugu fell into deep thought.

Although he did not believe that Saber's second Noble Phantasm could defeat Caster, who had killed so many powerful Servants, he was still willing to incorporate Saber's second Noble Phantasm into the plan and make more backup plans.

"Tell me about your second Noble Phantasm."

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't really want to pay attention to Saber, who had almost drawn her sword against him because of the explosives he had detonated yesterday, causing Irisviel to return almost seriously injured.

Although he had to use his fists because he couldn't take out his sword at that time, I didn't owe him anything because I took the blow head-on.

As the words fell, a golden light appeared in Arthur's hand, but it was far different from the hope and warmth brought by the Sword of Promised Victory. At this moment, the sword shadows gathered in Arthur's hands gave Emiya Kiritsugu an air of luxury and nobility.

Immediately afterwards, a hilt with golden patterns and inlaid with gems appeared in Arthur's hand. As the light attached to the sword gradually disappeared, Kiritsugu Emiya saw it, the noble sword flashing with cold light under the light.

- The Sword in the Stone (Caliburn)

The sword once again returned to Arthur's hand, but it was not the sword of promised victory, but the one that should have been broken for violating the spirit of chivalry, the golden sword that chose Arthur to become the king of Britain!

Arthur remained silent, but Emiya Kiritsugu became even more resolute in his inner thoughts. With such a sword, he would surely be able to hold back Caster in the final 1v1 situation.

In order to realize the ideals that he had walked step by step to today, and to become a partner of justice, Emiya Kiritsugu decided to give up some things. Even though those things were extremely important to him, at this moment, his ideals had not wavered in the slightest.

"Saber, now there are only you, Rider, and that Caster left on the field. If we can eliminate one more, we can begin the final ritual of the Holy Grail's descent."

Emiya Kiritsugu lit the cigarette in his hand and put it into his mouth. There was no emotion on his face except indifference.

“You should know what to do, right? If you want to protect Irisviel with your body as shield and sword, as you swore earlier…”

Water, Wind, Flower: Chapter 98: The "Wish" of the Holy Grail/Is Kotomine Kirei resurrected as Kotomine Shiro?

Irisviel leaned against the wall and listened quietly to the sounds coming from the room. The cold and biting wind broke through the window, blowing her soft long hair.

Cold... cold from within...

Listening to the conversation going on in the room, Irisviel had already vaguely guessed what Emiya Kiritsugu was going to do.

No one understood Emiya Kiritsugu better than her, perhaps even he himself did not understand himself, but Irisviel, who had been with him for nine years, could hear the thoughts that were being hidden from his conversation with Saber.

Is Kiritsugu... planning to resort to the ultimate measure...?

The explosion at the dock last night still left her with lingering fears. Although she did not blame Kiritsugu for his extreme actions, she even understood the various means he would use to obtain the Holy Grail. She was willing to sacrifice even her own life to help him obtain the Holy Grail.

But...what happens after you sacrifice yourself?

Is Kiritsugu going to continue living in pain, despair, and "blindly" like when I first met him, carrying the sin and evil of killing so many people?

Irisviel didn't want to die, and she couldn't let go of Emiya Kiritsugu, but for some reason she had already taken in the souls of five Servants. At this moment, in the Great Void, the descent ceremony of the Greater Holy Grail engraved on the spiritual veins by the ancestors was on the verge of operation. Whether it was magic power or something else, it was enough. Even if the Holy Grail War did not produce the final winner, it could still be forcibly activated.

She, who holds the souls of the defeated Servant... has no time left...

The weakness of her body was far more intense than she had imagined. Just now, the souls of Assassin and Berserker, who should have died long ago, suddenly broke into her body and were contained in her "core" which was the "Lesser Holy Grail". This artificial human body was on the verge of collapse.

As we all know, the Holy Grail War was set up from the very beginning to involve only seven knights fighting and struggling, and using the Holy Grail to contain the souls of the defeated, thus connecting to the root through a ritual, and the effect of fulfilling wishes was only a by-product of the Holy Grail's arrival.

But at this moment, having somehow already housed five Servants, Irisviel, a vessel meant to hold souls, had reached its limit... But in Irisviel's mind, even with the newly recovered Assassin and Berserker, there should still be three remaining in this Holy Grail War...

Using body-strengthening magic to mask her own weakness, Irisviel's face gradually revealed an expression of pain, and the conversation in the room also underwent some drastic changes.

"Even if you don't need to remind me of this, you have no right to talk to me about protecting her after doing what you did to obtain the Holy Grail!"

Last night's argument wasn't solely between the two of them, as it was now. Irisviel, who was also involved, knew that the noble Knight King would not approve of the despicable act of using explosives to kill everyone present. As a result, a magical aura emerged from Saber's body. After returning to Einzbern Castle in the easternmost suburbs of Fuyuki, a considerable degree of tension arose...

Although Saber was eventually forbidden to attack Emiya Kiritsugu at the cost of consuming a Command Seal, it was obvious that the relationship between them was far more serious than the initial separation, and there was even the possibility of a fight between the two.

Both Saber and Emiya Kiritsugu were the most important people to her. Irisviel didn't want to see their relationship become too strained. If Kiritsugu failed in this Holy Grail War, then if the next one went smoothly, Saber would definitely become Kiritsugu's sharpest sword once again...

With this thought in mind, Irisviel decided to walk into the room where Kiritsugu and Saber were, intending to stop their quarrel. However, her legs suddenly lost strength, causing her to fall to the ground in an instant, just like she had fallen in the snow before.

There was no thick snow to cushion the pain as before, and the pain from the cold floor made Irisviel fight back the tears in her eyes. The conversation still going on in the room seemed to prove that they were unaware of the noise they had made.

"Whatever you think, I still have things to do, so I'll take my leave now."

Being accused in this way, Emiya Kiritsugu did not fall into any degree of depression. Even though Arthur was ashamed of his shameful behavior, even though Arthur was angry at his behavior of hurting his wife, he did not take any action to stop Emiya Kiritsugu because of the restraint of the Command Seal.

Emiya Kiritsugu slowly walked out of the door and seemed to pause at the door, but soon he walked to the other side as if nothing had happened and disappeared into the darkness of sight.

The empty room reminded Arthur of some past events. He recalled Lancelot rescuing Guinevere from the execution ground and then ordering them not to be harmed. Gawain lost Gareth because of this. It seemed that the once united Round Table had begun to split and decline since then...

Arthur didn't know why such memories suddenly flashed back in his memory. Those scenes seemed to happen to him again. Whether it was Britain, the Knights of the Round Table who fought side by side, or even his wife Guinevere, he seemed to be unable to protect anything...

The originally clear picture began to become blurred and distorted. Arthur, holding the Sword in the Stone, suddenly found that the surrounding scene had turned into a dilapidated ruin. Relying on his memory, he could distinguish that the broken eaves and broken walls scattered on the ground around him came from the indestructible walls of Camelot, and there were many familiar figures among the knights lying around him.

Arthur stared around with bloodshot eyes. He looked down at the sword in his hand, but the Sword in the Stone, which he should have been holding tightly, was switching between it and the Sword of Promised Victory, like a distorted mosaic, causing Arthur to close his eyes and hammer himself with his hands.

In an instant, the sounds that annoyed him disappeared without a trace, and everything around him returned to the original scene...

—An empty noble room...

The hallucination he just experienced seemed to be caused by some other reasons, and it was hard for Arthur not to think of Caster who had once disturbed his mind.

However, just as Arthur set foot on the path that Emiya Kiritsugu was leaving, he, who also stopped at the door, found Irisviel lying on the ground, gasping for breath. An abnormal redness appeared on her face, and even the hot air she exhaled produced some substantial water mist.

As her heavy eyelids struggled a little, Irisviel slowly opened her eyes and regained her sight, and saw Saber sitting by the bed, clenching her hands tightly.

"Ah... I think I showed you my bad side, Saber... I'm sorry for making you worry..."

Arthur's face was filled with incomparable solemnity, and even when Irisviel spoke these words to him intermittently, his face couldn't help but twitch.