Heroic Spirit: I, Shinji, have tried my best.

At night, Kotomine Kirei was packing his luggage by himself...but he wasn't really alone.

Gilgamesh still stayed in his room, but that had nothing to do with him, as he would leave Fuyuki City early tomorrow morning... The answer was already clear in his mind, but he had to leave at this time.

Gilgamesh was wearing his leopard-print leather pants, looking at Kirei with a happy face, and even laughed out loud like a psychopath from time to time...

"My leaving makes you so happy, Hero King?"

There was no anger, just some confusion. Kotomine Kirei didn't understand why the other party was so happy.

"I say, Kirei, are you really going to leave?"

"...Since the teacher has already said so, I have no choice but to leave...But I'm afraid I'll never have the chance to find something that I can find right away."

Huo Luojin flashed to his side and bewitched him:

"Isn't this reluctance? Aren't you looking forward to finding your inner self?"

Kotomine Kirei looked at the photo of Emiya Kiritsugu on the table and stopped what he was doing... Gilgamesh saw that the other party was already moved, and continued to persuade him.

He could feel that this guy was much more suitable for him than that boring guy Tokiomi...

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!"

“…I see. I understand.”

"Hello... Did you find anything that interests you?"

"We found the base of that Einzbern guy..."

“…What’s that? Kirei, you never intended to leave from the beginning!”

"I just hesitated for a moment..."

"That means you betrayed Tokiomi, but I am his Servant now. How dare you stay in the same room with me?"

The two looked at each other, like two foxes hooking up together...

Wee hours

Tokiomi called Kirei over, intending to say goodbye to his apprentice...

"Kirei, to be honest, I feel honored to have you as my disciple. You can do an exceptionally good job no matter what the task is!"

“…This is what I should do…”

"However, there are still many variables in this Holy Grail War. Even my life has been threatened by an unknown person..."

As he said this, Tokiomi handed an envelope to Kotomine Kirei.

"This is?"

"This is the suicide note I wrote. It has the seal of the head of the Tosaka family. I wrote that I want Rin to inherit my position in the future, and you... I hope you can be Rin's guardian and help me watch her grow up..."

“…Why do you want to write something like this?”

"Kirei... You are the only person I can trust now. If I really encounter an accident this time, you can help me take care of Rin's freedom..."

Then he handed over another box.

"Let this be my last farewell gift to you..."

He opened the box, and inside was a transparent dagger [Mercury Sword]. Kotomine Kirei took it in his hand and examined it...

"…Well, you should leave soon, or you will miss your flight."

If Shinji was here at this moment, he would probably laugh out loud... The suicide note has been written, the murder weapon has been given, and even the back is exposed... If he doesn't take action, he would be unworthy of his preparations.

"Pfft!"

"!"

"Don't worry, teacher... I won't be late because I didn't book a flight..."

Tokiomi's eyes widened as he stared in disbelief at the sword that had pierced his body. Blood spilled onto the carpet, and he finally fell to the ground helplessly...

Jin Shanshan appeared from the side:

"I'm afraid Tokiomi will never believe that you would betray him until his death. You are such an unfilial son..."

“This is really frightening…”

The corners of Kotomine Kirei's mouth rose wildly involuntarily. At this moment, it was most appropriate to describe the two of them as being in cahoots with each other.

The next day

Weber went to the supermarket early in the morning and bought a lot of food, a sleeping bag and some daily necessities. Finally, he went back with a lot of things.

Not long after, Weber was sitting alone in the woods eating a meal, a rare occasion when he was not with the Emperor.

"Hey, kid, is that white rice delicious?"

"Of course it's not delicious. It's awful! The food here is totally not to my taste."

"Huh? You just walked past that okonomiyaki shop and didn't even look at it! The fried noodles and okonomiyaki there are absolutely delicious!"

"Stop talking nonsense! If you want to eat, recover to the point where you can materialize quickly..."

Weber was talking to the air alone, his hands moving quickly as he kept stuffing rice into his mouth. Whenever he choked, he would drink a drink.

Because of the huge consumption in the last battle, the King of Conquerors cannot even materialize until now.

"You know where this is, right? I summoned you here. I think your magic power will recover faster here..."

"I will stay here today, so you should take this time to recover... and you can use my magic power as much as you want, as long as you don't beat me to death!"

“Ahahaha! I didn’t expect to be discovered…”

"Any normal person would notice that! It's such a powerful Noble Phantasm, but I didn't feel much consumption... It's obvious that you, a self-willed bastard, secretly saved your own magic power to share my pressure..."

"…Wouldn't it make me look even more useless?"

"Hahaha... I thought I could hold out a little longer, but it seems the consumption is a little beyond my expectations."

"Then tell me, otherwise I will be in danger if you disappear!"

"…It's not as simple as you think. If I were to extract the magic power from your body recklessly, you would probably be dead now…"

"...I was ready to sacrifice myself. I just wanted to prove...that even a small person like me could pursue such a lofty ideal, but in the end, I was the one who held back..."

Weber curled himself up in his sleeping bag, curled up on the ground like a caterpillar.

"That's not what I said. I thought so at the time, but I was completely shocked when I saw the world map... If I had conquered it in the opposite direction, I would have been blocked by the ideal endless sea..."

“It is because our ideals are so great and we are so small that we have the meaning to pursue them!”

"But at that time, I told my soldiers that I would take them to see the Endless Sea. Those idiots always held the same ideal as me to conquer the land... But in the end, I still failed to keep my promise..."

"…It seems that you are also an idiot…just like me…"

"Hahaha, that's right! All right, go to sleep, kid. I'm going to make a big scene tonight. I can already sense the war is coming!"

"..."

Waver did not reply. He had not had a good rest for almost two days and had fallen asleep. Seeing this, the emperor stopped talking and the air became quiet again...

Saber rode her new toy outside to look for Rider's scent, while Irisviel and Maiya stayed in the magic workshop.

She already felt that her body was on the verge of collapse, so she returned the scabbard inside her body to Kiritsugu, and now she was hanging on by the magic power gathered here.

Kiritsugu found the Tosaka residence. He planned to kill Tokiomi secretly, but he didn't expect that Tokiomi had been backstabbed by his beloved apprentice before that. As for the real master, he was nowhere to be found...