The Battle of the Holy Grail is a hidden war in which seven magicians, as masters, call out ancient and modern heroic spirits as servants. After forming seven groups, they fight against each other and fight each other. The final winner will get the Holy Grail.
The Holy Grail can grant anyone's wish.
The strength of a magician depends on individual ability, but the summoned servants have seven classes: Swordsman Saber, Lancer Lancer, Archer Archer, Rider Cavalry, Caster Magician, Assassin Assassin, Berserker Berserker.
The Emiya family, who had just flown over from Germany, received a call from their adopted son. It was true that they didn't even return to the old house and drove directly to the "Tohsaka family" of his classmate.
Tohsaka...
Here he and his daughter just came out of Einzbern, one of the three royal families, and his son has already established a relationship with the Tohsaka clan, which is also one of the three royal families. Driving on the road, Emiya Kiritsugu felt that the situation was a bit complicated.
When he really found his son and saw not only a classmate named Tohsaka Rin but also a familiar girl king standing beside him, the complexity became even more complicated.
"Emiya Kiritsugu!!" The King of Knights, who hadn't seen him in ten years, saw this old master who was killing people without paying for his life. He immediately couldn't help but raised the treasure in his hand and wanted to give it to him, "Give me back the Holy Grail!" !!"
"Berserker!"
"Saber stop!"
"Wow, what are you doing, you guys! Watch out for my house! Archer, what are you doing there with your eyes wide open and you don't come to help!"
There was an oolong-like chaos, and three servants appeared together, and their master and related people finally sat down and had a good talk.
Cleaned up the small damage caused by the previous martial arts, and rearranged the tables and chairs. Except for Berserker who was rejected because of his too large size, including the master Tohsaka Rin, the Emiya family and the followers were all surrounded by a table The long table was seated, and a cup of freshly brewed black tea was placed in front of them.
"What!? The Holy Grail was polluted long ago during the third war!?" The black-haired girl in a red dress and black dress with twin ponytails was the first to slap the table and stand up. With a startled face, "That is to say, apart from wishing for "human extinction" or "world destruction", it is useless to ask the Holy Grail for other wishes? "
Not only her, but almost everyone else at the scene looked very ugly.
"How come..." Saber, who was still very excited before, also turned pale at this moment. She agreed to be a Heroic Spirit because she wanted to save her country. If this is the ending after getting the Holy Grail, then what's the point of everything
But soon, Rin Tohsaka slapped the table again, but the seventeen-year-old girl stared at Emiya Kiritsugu with a stern face: "Even if you are a survivor of the last Holy Grail War, what evidence do you have for that?" Say? How do you prove that your words are true?"
"Fire." Emiya Kiritsugu only said these two words, and Emiya Shirou, who had just figured out the existence of the Holy Grail War, trembled instinctively, "The Fuyuki fire ten years ago was when I ordered Saber to destroy the Holy Grail. It is caused by the black mud of evil karma accidentally flowing out of the "hole" in the air. "
The only one who survived the fire was Shirou Emiya, who was still a child.
The scene fell silent for a while, but Emiya Kiritsugu didn't finish his sentence.
"If you still don't believe me, you can go to the church and ask Kotomine Kirei. He should have been shot in the heart by me and died, but he survived by relying on the black mud. You can try it out, is he still alive? You will know with a heartbeat." Determined to be active again in the Holy Grail War, it is impossible for Emiya Kiritsugu not to investigate the most difficult old opponent before, "That man's character is very dangerous. From what I know about him, this time It is impossible for him not to participate in the Holy Grail War."
"Kirei?" Tohsaka Rin naturally knew this person, and was very familiar with him. Kotomine Kirei and their Tohsaka family also had a close relationship. However, because his father died in the Holy Grail War ten years ago, Rin didn't like this man who was supposed to be his father's assistant but survived. He didn't expect such an inside story.
Emiya Kiritsugu had one more thing to say. He suspected that Kotomine Kirei was the murderer of Rin's biological father Tosaka Tokiomi, but there was no direct evidence, so he kept silent.
But just the news spread out at the moment is enough to silence the Holy Grail War participants at the scene.
The treasure that was intended to be desperately fought for has become a gut-piercing drug. What should I do next
"This kind of thing can't be obtained by people with unscrupulous hearts, and we still have to fight for it. Saber, and this Archer, I believe that no matter what you think at this time, you probably don't want the world to be destroyed?" Emiya Kiri Si raised his head, looked at the silent King of Knights, and then turned his gaze to the strange heroic spirit who had been standing against the wall.
This is a heroic spirit who is very good at fighting at first glance, with dark skin and white hair, wearing a red and black tight-fitting clothing and jacket to completely set off his tall and strong figure. At this moment, after touching Emiya Kiritsugu's sight, the black pupils avoided reflexively. Although it was only for a moment, Emiya Kiritsugu still read surprise and complexity from his eyes. He only heard the heroic spirit say: "I'm just a follower, and I don't have much interest in the Holy Grail. It depends on what my master has to say about this kind of thing."
"That's needless to say? Whether it's true or not, you have to grab something to identify it, right?" Although Tohsaka Rin believed most of it in his heart, he still insisted.
"It's really not frank." Ilya, who is also a tsundere and therefore understands the psychology of the same kind, muttered in a low voice. When the black-haired girl glared at her, she immediately turned her head to look at the King of Knights, "Saber, what do you say?"
"I..." Saber, as a noble king who died fighting for the people in his lifetime, naturally wouldn't remain indifferent when he heard that the world would be destroyed, "I..."
"Lord Saber." While she was struggling, the maid who stood aside after serving tea suddenly said, "Mr. Ten years ago was indeed reckless. No matter what the reason was, it was us who were the ones who were rude. I'm sorry. But Einzbern, the maker of the Holy Grail, is not helpless about the contamination of the Holy Grail. Whether the Holy Grail can be used in the future depends on whether we can work together to take it down first."
It wasn't until this moment that Saber noticed the previously unknown maid. In contrast to the obviously aged Emiya Kiritsugu and the grown-up Illya, the blond maid whose appearance hadn't changed after ten years made her stare. Eyes widened: "Melu, are you coming too?"
The other party frowned, and smiled as gently as in memory: "Missy is one of the masters participating in this battle, there is no way I will not follow."
"Is it true that you can solve the pollution of the Holy Grail?" Tohsaka Rin is more concerned about this, but after she asked, the maid didn't answer her immediately, and the smart lady naturally understood what she meant, "Okay, okay, I You know, Archer and I will form an alliance with you! Isn't it okay for us to share information?"
Originally, she wanted to get Emiya Shirou to act together, but she didn't expect that there was such a big fish behind this kid, not only had a sister who was also the master, but also the father of the previous master. In addition to the messy things like the problem with the Holy Grail, no matter how you look at it, you choose to stick together with them before thinking about other things. To be able to raise such a good-natured character like Emiya Shirou, and his stupid father's behavior of giving up his wish and cutting off the Holy Grail in order to save all mankind, the probability of this family's behind-the-scenes tricks is still relatively low.
In this way, an alliance force that gathered three groups of participants in the early stage of the holy war was born. After cutting off a few waves of attackers who had been tempted before, the number of enemies who dared to attack suddenly decreased a lot.
After all, Fuyuki City is a densely populated city. According to the rules of the Holy Grail War to avoid people's eyes, most battles usually occur after nightfall, so the daily life of the participants is still very good.
Just like today, Illya clamored to drive to the supermarket for shopping on a whim, and asked Meilu to accompany her to buy vegetables and cook her favorite food. Rin Tohsaka, who happened to be a guest at Emiya's house, also wanted to follow immediately.
"Didn't you say that you want to study the identity and ability of the enemy?" Seeing the two young ladies and young patriarchs of the magic family arguing over what to buy, Shiro Emiya dripped sweat from the back of his head.
Only Father Kiritsugu sighed helplessly. The maids in the house are omnipotent in everything, and the food they cook is so delicious that the number of people who are looting their food is increasing from neighbors to high school classmates. What else can he do. I can only pat my son on the shoulder: "It's not too late to talk after dinner, go ahead, it's not safe for girls to go out, Shirou, you also accompany them."
"Huh?" The only male who was kicked out was still dazed until he got in the car.
Dad, are you sure it's not safe for them to go out
If only the maid went out alone, it would take about half an hour to drive the car to buy all the ingredients for dinner. However, with the addition of two young ladies in her team, the return date would naturally be extended several times.
Anyway, when they came out of the supermarket, not only did everyone have full bags, but it was also dark outside.
"Really, you can argue for so long about buying vegetables." Shirou Emiya, who was basically used as a coolie, sighed and put all the ingredients into the trunk, complaining while making up his mind not to let the two of them We went shopping together, "The most outrageous thing is that you don't even say a word about Sister Meilu."
"It's okay, young master, we can drive back faster at this time, and we can still catch up with the meal." Mei Lu said with a smile.
"I really admire your calm attitude at all times." Shirou was also convinced of the maid's terrible coordination ability, "It would be better if I could pamper my sister less."
"What did you say!" Sister Ji immediately raised her eyebrows.
And the cheap younger brother who has long been experienced has quickly got into the co-pilot and sat down, and closed the door firmly by the way.
His sloppy escape action made Tohsaka Rin almost laugh out loud, pursed his lips and sat in the back seat. Seeing this, Ilya pouted, snorted and got in too.
"Eldest Miss, Young Master, Miss Lin, please fasten your seat belts, we're leaving." The maid in the driver's seat gave a reminder, then quickly started the engine, and carried them back to the mansion. .
Driving on the road, the three young masters were not idle, chatting about other participants in the battle besides them.
Illya: "The currently known participants, apart from the three of us, are Shinji Matou who messed around in your school before. The heroic spirit he summoned is Rider."
Rin Tohsaka: "I also went to Kotomine Kirei to test it out. Uncle Kiritsugu is right, he is indeed a living dead who survived by relying on black mud. Although that guy is careful to hide, but he is The master who participated in the battle this time has not run away, but I don't know which class the summoned heroic spirit is."
Illya: "The left and right are the remaining Assassin, Lancer, and Caster. Since he is a survivor of the Holy Grail War of the previous generation, and he is backed by the church, he might be able to get good things. Lancer, one of the third ranks."
Emiya Shiro: "... You all seem to understand. We sneaked into the church in the name of asylum before, and I think that priest doesn't seem to be as scary as the old man told you."
For this stupid boy who is a good person, the two girls directly gave a cold snort of contempt.
"Human beings have always been very good at disguising creatures, okay? Kiritsugu also said that this priest had been well received and very merciful before participating in the Holy Grail last time. In the end, he told Kiritsugu that he would give the Holy Grail to him to destroy the world. Just to make myself happy."
"That guy always pretended to be so sanctimonious. I didn't like him from the time Dad was still alive. Although Uncle Kiritsugu didn't tell me, I also felt it from the Holy Grail War he described. Dad's death is absolutely Can't get away from him."
Facing the menacing two men, Shirou boy subconsciously dodged. Just when he was about to change the subject again, the car braked violently, and there was an explosion sound in his ears. Even though the three of them were all wearing seat belts, they followed suit. for a moment.
"What's going on, Merlu!?"
After screaming instinctively, the three asked the maid in charge of driving.
The maid held the steering wheel and said calmly, "It seems that she was found and attacked."
The three of them froze at the same time, and when they were about to speak or unbuckle their seat belts, the car started suddenly and threw them back into their seats, causing a burst of screams.
Accompanied by the rapidly receding scenery outside the car window, the attacks that obviously exploded on both sides from time to time made them even more nervous. The opponent's ambushes were sudden and dense. If the maid who controlled the car hadn't reacted quickly, they would have been in danger before.
"The attack came from the top of the head!" Rin Tohsaka gritted his teeth while looking out the window, clutching his seat belt. "This attack method can't be Assassin and Lancer, it should be Caster without a doubt!"
"No." As a top magician, Ilya frowned and objected, "I didn't feel the breath of the magic bullet from inside. This is not the magic of Csater, but the power of the Noble Phantasm!"
The attack came from the top of their heads, but they couldn't see the enemy's appearance while hiding in the car, and they couldn't get out of the car under the intensive offensive, so they had to rely on driving to escape, feeling very aggrieved.
"Please don't worry." The maid's peaceful voice came from the driver's seat, "This car is the lady's car. Before it was shipped from Germany, it has been strengthened and modified by alchemy in Einzbern, using a lot of precious metals. , are excellent in physical defense and magic defense, as long as it is not too dense or powerful attack, it is still affordable."
In a word, the hearts of the three of them settled down a lot.
"That is to say, there is a chance to fight back, right?" Illya narrowed her eyes, she was not passive in being beaten and would not fight back, "Then, I will summon Ber..."
"Wait a minute, the other party is a heroic spirit who attacks the Noble Phantasm from a long distance. It is not appropriate for you to show Berserker, who is good at melee combat." Just as Illya was about to call a helper, Tohsaka Rin took the lead to stop her, "The same is true for Saber. In this case, it is more appropriate to let Archer do it."
As soon as the words fell, Rin didn't have time to call Archer, and was frightened by the shaking of the external environment, and tightly grasped the seat belt.
"I'm very sorry, Ms. Rin, I don't have time for you to do other things in this situation." The voice of the maid who was forced to take off by the intensive offensive above her head was still calm, and she reported the situation to them without haste, "In order to avoid pursuit We have deviated from the original route and came to the mountain road near Liudong Temple. The road conditions may be very urgent for a while, please hold on to the handrails, we are going to escape urgently."
Eh? Already on the mountain? What does emergency escape mean
The three subconsciously looked out of the window where the scenery was receding rapidly, and found that they were driving around a mountain road, and there was a cliff next to them, and they screamed in fright.
"It's a turn, it's a turn! Merlu, slow down!"
"Don't drive so fast! It will fall!"
"Whoa! Are we going to fall?"
However, they just yelled, because the pursuers didn't give them a chance to breathe. If someone looks at it from a third perspective, they will see golden sharp blades shooting out of nowhere on a mountain in the distance, and the car under the attack of the sword rain seems to be panicked and cornered, but in fact it is Not even a scratch was left.
"Hold on."
With the maid's reminder sounded, the car did not flash past a gorgeous drift at another bend this time, but directly crashed through the railing and fell from the mountainside.
"It really fell!!"
When the three people sitting in the car screamed like this, they felt that the space inside the car was spinning. Under the control of the maid, the car was flying in a spiral shape in mid-air, making the car body that fell straight down like a boulder into a It landed in a curved manner, and just escaped from Jian Yu's shooting range.
When the height was still ten meters above the ground, the light of the magic circle suddenly lit up on the car body, and the heavy car suddenly swayed lightly like a feather in the air, and finally landed on the ground with a bang.
"The other party didn't come after them. It seems that they retreated directly knowing that they would face three servants." After getting out of the car, the maid reported to the master that she had successfully escaped the ambush.
"vomit-"
However, the other three had long been overwhelmed, and they each leaned on a tree and vomited wildly. Because they hadn't had dinner, they all vomited sour water. Compared with these, they felt that the previous escape treatment like a bellows mouse in the car was obviously more sour.
The driver's maid seemed not to be affected at all, and even fetched three bottles of mineral water from the car to rinse their mouths for the three of them to calm down.
"I can't do it anymore, let's wait a while before going home." Emiya Shirou waved his hand to her, "I'll call Dad in a while." The other two are also in the same state, at least they don't want to at all now Get in that car again.
The maid had no objection to this request. Just as she responded with a smile, she seemed to suddenly sense something and looked up not far away.
"What's wrong, Melu?" Illya was a little puzzled when she saw this.
"Miss, you and the young master stay together and don't move, I'll go and have a look." The maid, who sensed the movement ahead, didn't intend to let the master take risks, and took the initiative to assume the responsibility of reconnaissance.
When she walked to the source of the movement step by step, she saw a stranger who was covered in a black cloak and was vaguely seen as a woman from the curve of her body, lying on the ground, seemingly dying.
But it just looks like a human being, and the magic power fluctuations emanating from her body belong to the heroic spirit can't fool Mei Lu's eyes at all.
"Ala… "
The maid tilted her head, stood condescendingly on the spot and looked down, a strange look flashed in her clear pupils.
...
"So you were hunted down by an unknown heroic spirit on the way back from shopping for vegetables. After you got rid of the other party, you accidentally picked up an ownerless heroic spirit. Is the class still Caster?"
Father Kiritsugu, who was waiting for dinner, was very speechless after waiting for such a result.
Most importantly, this Caster asked Merru to be her Master immediately after waking up due to the lack of Master's magical support, and the maid agreed without blinking, the speed was so fast that he felt it was a joke.
"Sir, isn't this very good?" The maid didn't feel that there was anything wrong at all. The girl folded her hands together, and the command spell on the back of her slender and beautiful left hand, which represented the identity of the master, was so red that she almost felt pure joy with the girl. In stark contrast, "Saber, Archer, Caster, Berserker, four of the Seven Holy Grails are on our side, we have an overwhelming advantage, don't we?"