Crown Dead

"Magical girl……?"

Illya tilted her head in doubt, while Xianyu immediately disappeared from the room and ran towards her original destination.

"Papa's friend...?"

Emiya Kiritsugu returned from the patriarch, and frowned after hearing what Illya told him.

I was already very busy with the plans Einzbern made for me and the holy relics I worked so hard to get, but I didn't expect that Einzbern Castle would sneak in at this time strange guy.

"Ah, that seems to be the case. Then, can Illya tell Papa where my friend has gone?"

"Hmm... I should go to the organ spare room on the third floor, right? Although I don't know exactly what big brother is going to do."

Illya replied after thinking for a while, while Emiya Kiritsugu exchanged glances with Eri beside her.

Obviously, an intruder has come here.Although his motivation and purpose are not clear, but this person was able to avoid the barrier outside Einzbern in some way, so it can be seen that he is definitely not an ordinary unknown person.

"Illya stay in the room well, don't go anywhere, okay? Mom and Dad will be back soon~"

"Uh-huh!"

Irisviel hugged Illya affectionately, rubbed her hard, and then placed her on the bed. After carefully checking the surrounding area again, she closed the door and windows tightly.

"Is it Einzbern's enemy?"

After the two left the room, Emiya Kiritsugu immediately switched his expression to combat mode, he frowned and kept thinking while checking the pistol bullets he carried with him.

"I don't know—theoretically speaking, Einzbern has never established a clear enemy."

Allie summoned a silver bird with a wire to surround her.This is the string operation magic that she is proficient in, which is somewhat biased towards alchemy.

"Ai Li, you should summon Saber as soon as possible. The intruder probably came to disrupt the summoning ceremony."

"Isn't it already agreed that Kiritsugu is the master of the Knight King. And now, in order to protect Illya, we must find the intruder as soon as possible."

"what……"

Emiya Kiritsugu smiled wryly, although Eri usually acted like an extremely dignified Yamato Nadeko, in fact she was actually a surprisingly stubborn girl.This can be seen from the fact that she often drives expensive antique cars on the main road.

The two came to the room on the third floor that Illya mentioned one after the other, and there was like a mockery, the door that should have been closed was now ajar.

——It would be great if Hisau Maiya was here.

His combat partner, who left aside magic, was not by his side at this time, which was somewhat uncomfortable for Emiya Kiritsugu.Although Ali's magic can be regarded as a self-disciplined pistol that can attack automatically, her identity as a magician cannot provide help for her actions.

But now is not the time to hesitate.

Boom!

Emiya Kiritsugu knocked open the door from the side, raised his pistol and looked around.

"—!"

Boom! !

Inside the room, a masked man in a black outer and green trench coat was surprised by Emiya Kiritsugu's sudden attack, but the masked man immediately stuffed the things in his hand into a white box in the next second.He squatted down and used the cabinet to block Emiya Kiritsugu's two pistols, and then slammed them out of the window without hesitation.

"Inherent time control - twice the speed!"

Emiya Kiritsugu activated part of the engravings in his body derived from his father's research results. Although his body received twice the load in an instant, the corresponding speed he could achieve in this instant It's also twice the normal amount.

Emiya Kiritsugu ran to the edge of the window, the snowdrift below showed no sign of landing, the only possibility was that the masked man broke through the window on the second floor before landing.

"Eri! Use your familiar to inspect the second floor!"

Emiya Kiritsugu put half of his body by the window, and used his double-speed physique to sneak in through the broken window on the second floor.Immediately after rolling over, the natural time control was canceled, and at the same time, he raised his pistol and checked his surroundings.

——Bloodstains, the masked man didn't completely dodge the bullets in it.

Emiya Kiritsugu gasped for breath, sweat fell like raindrops, although his reaction and sensory abilities were doubled, jumping from the third floor to the second floor on the same side was still a bit desperate.

Emiya Kiritsugu roughly observed the blood trail, the masked man probably hadn't left the house yet.

call

Forced to catch his breath, Emiya Kiritsugu took out a large-caliber single-shot competitor pistol from the windbreaker on his chest.

The bullets stuffed into this gun were ground from one of Emiya Kiritsugu's own ribs, [cut and combined] bullets.

The other party is not an ordinary human being, and this can be known the moment he sees the strange movements of the masked man.That trench coat may be his "Magic Dress".

That being the case, this "origin bomb" that can disable all magicians is the best weapon against the intruder.

"Inherent time control - 0.5 times speed"

Frequent use of this skill will cause serious damage to one's body, but this kind of guy who can enter and exit the Einzbern barrier at will is not the kind of existence that can be killed leisurely.

Emiya Kiritsugu reduced all his physiological functions to half of the original to avoid the opponent's perception, and at the same time Ari's thread familiar also arrived in this room, and began to search indiscriminately.

"found it--!"

The pupils of the demon bird that was supposed to be blue turned red the moment it passed a corner, and Ari's voice came over.

"Tsk!"

The masked man appeared from the shadows, and with just one blow from the knife in his hand, he defeated the familiar made by Allie.

But this "one blow" time was enough for Emiya Kiritsugu.