Kiritsugu Emiya is a legend in the dark world, the mercenary world, and the assassin world. He debuted as a teenager under the guidance of his teacher and mother Natalie, and disappeared in 1985, nine years before the opening of the Fourth Holy Grail War. He completed countless difficult missions without fail.
As a killer, Kiritsugu Emiya's creed is to use any means necessary to eliminate his targets, and he will never engage in a head-on battle if he can avoid it. You can imagine how strong his infiltration ability is.
However, today, on the final night of the Holy Grail War, he found that his stealth skills were completely useless.
It’s not that the enemy’s defense is so tight that there is no gap, but that the enemy has no defense at all.
Yes, undefended.
Before entering Mount Enzo, Kiritsugu made full preparations. Not only did he bring high-tech equipment for night battles, he also pre-set up magic corresponding to traps and barriers to deal with various emergencies that might arise.
In his expectation, even if Saber attacked from the front to attract the enemy's attention, his success rate of infiltration was not high. Because he didn't know who his enemy was or what arrangements they had made, this unknown brought him great pressure.
He thought of all kinds of possibilities, even the worst possible outcome of himself, Irisviel, and Hisau Maiya dying at the same time, but he never expected that he would be able to enter Ryudo Temple smoothly, without meeting anyone or anything happening along the way.
Emiya Kiritsugu's current thoughts can be summed up with a popular Internet term: "I may have sneaked into a fake Ryudo Temple."
However, Kiritsugu was certain that he had infiltrated the real Ryudo Temple.
The magic that is flowing through the earth and almost overflowing is real.
The monks found unconscious in the wing were real.
The feeling of living together with Irisviel for nine years, and the tacit understanding formed after countless battles with Hisau Maiya, all told Kiritsugu that he was not in the wrong place, nor was he under an illusion.
Now that things have come to this, we can only take one step at a time and see what happens.
Emiya Kiritsugu said this to himself while adjusting the state of his whole body.
Relax your muscles moderately, without any excess tension in any part of your body.
His mind was like frozen lake water, turning into a mirror that reflected the entire surrounding area. He turned himself into a probe that was more sensitive than hearing, clearer than vision, and had no blind spots. He could detect any movement immediately. He walked slowly in the darkness, heading towards the only light source in the entire Ryudo Temple, the square in front of the main hall.
The road from the wing rooms to the square in front of the temple was still smooth, with no traps or barriers, just like an ordinary temple.
The next corner is the main hall.
Kiritsugu thought so and gently grasped the handle of Thompson der's gun with his fingers. The familiar walnut texture gave him a sense of security.
With silent footsteps and slow breathing, Kiritsugu turned the corner and arrived at the brightly lit square in front of the palace.
The first thing Kiritsugu saw was his wife.
This body, carefully crafted with the culmination of Einzbern's alchemy and with almost no flaws, can be said to be the pinnacle of artificial beauty.
However, this breathtakingly beautiful woman had lost her former spirituality. She was like an exquisite doll with empty eyes, lying lifelessly in the center of a makeshift altar.
Inside the doll's body, immeasurable magical power is being generated from her heart, flowing through her blood vessels throughout her body, and finally overflowing from every pore.
The huge magical aggregate created a scorching temperature in the surrounding area just by its aftermath.
The remains of the beautiful artificial life form instantly burned up and turned into ashes, revealing a golden cup-shaped container.
Dead, his wife, Irisviel, was dead.
Kiritsugu confirmed this fact instantly.
Every time Irisviel's body absorbs a Servant's soul, it loses some of its human functions.
A soul with weak hands.
Two souls, unable to move forward.
The three souls can only lie dormant in the alchemical formula.
The four souls, having lost all their vital signs and restored to their original form as the Golden Cup, which was the Lesser Holy Grail, appeared before Kiritsugu's eyes.
I arrived too late and missed the chance to see her for the last time.
Kiritsugu wanted to cry, but he couldn't.
Just then, he suddenly heard someone calling his name.
"Kiritsugu."
A gentle, joyful call filled with all the emotions that could melt even his frozen heart.
That was a call from my wife.
"Kiritsugu."
Another call, clear and real, not an illusion.
Kiritsugu mechanically turned his head and saw a pure white figure standing in a corner of the square.
Long silver hair, red pupils, and a pure smile without a trace of gloom.
"Eri—" Kiritsugu subconsciously called out his wife's nickname, staring blankly at her running towards him, only to be stopped by another voice.
"Ma'am, you cannot leave the magic circle."
Kiritsugu was also very familiar with this voice, even more familiar than Irisviel's voice. That woman had been with him for a longer time and had become a part of his life.
"Maiya."
Hisau Maiya sat on the steps about five meters away from Irisviel. It seemed that some kind of magic was cast around her and she couldn't move.
This scene once again caught Kiritsugu by surprise, and he had no idea what was going on.
"Maiya... what on earth is going on... and Airi, you're not—"
Before Kiritsugu could finish his words, new changes occurred in the altar.
The golden Holy Grail seemed to be held up by an invisible hand and floating in the air.
A tiny crack as small as a hair appeared at the bottom of the Holy Grail, and through the tiny gap, something quietly seeped into the Holy Grail.
That "thing" looked very similar to "mud", and its color was black, a deep and boundless black.
After it seeped in, a drop flowed out, and after that a stream of black mud followed, and then it was like a dam breaking. In the blink of an eye, the rushing black mud overflowed from the container and poured onto the altar.
"Is this what you call pollution?"
"Yes."
The shadows and pure white spirits converged to form the forms of the Queen of Shadows and the Holy Maiden of Winter respectively.
Scathach glanced at Kiritsugu calmly, walked into the altar, and took the initiative to reach out and touch the overflowing black mud.
As if a certain mechanism was triggered, the black mud suddenly began to boil, and tentacle-like mud pillars grew out one after another, wrapping around Scathach's arms and body.
Seeing that a large amount of black mud was about to swallow Scathach, Scathach suddenly snorted heavily, and an invisible force burst out from her body, and the black mud instantly turned into ashes.
"It turned out to be a degraded replica of the 'Original Sea'. Unfortunately, no matter how many of these things there are, they can't kill me."
Scathach shook her hands as if to get rid of something dirty, then quickly stepped out of the altar and walked towards the mountain gate.
"I'll leave the rest to you. I'm going to have the final showdown with Saber."
At the same time, Yustisa also stepped forward to face the out-of-control black mud.
"I wish you good luck in your military career."
"I wish you all the best, too."
The Queen of Demon Realm and the Saint of Gold passed each other and each rushed to their own battlefield.
PS: After reading this chapter, I want to correct two cognitive errors: First, the premise for Shining to be spit out is that his body is intact. Shining whose spirit core has been destroyed will definitely die. For details, please refer to "Fatestaynight". Second, how could Goudan be the strongest single-target maniac? The first in the overall ranking is Black Dog, and the second in the overall ranking is also the most capable of single combat and standing on the field, the fully bound Snow City Haishu. What's more tragic is that Goudan's proud output has been surpassed by the new nuclear bomb Hijikata. At present, Goudan's biggest advantage is only 50np charging and ignoring defense to fight against the blood armor Feige with full strength fighting skills.