My Mom Sandy Love Song

To cut off the time in a specific space from the "time flow" of the outside world, in a sense, [time manipulation] can be regarded as a kind of great magic of inherent enchantment.

And Emiya Kiritsugu's magic is a time magic that maximizes single-handed combat——

Restricts time manipulation to one's own subspecies' inherent enchantment.

If time manipulation is used to escape, even Assassin, who has excellent footwork, can't catch up with him.

However, Emiya Kiritsugu's ears clearly heard footsteps coming from behind.

Someone is chasing after him.

Getting closer, getting closer.

This is not terrible, if it is the Greek immortal or the Celtic bulldog famous for his speed, even Emiya Kiritsugu can't win.

What really scared Kiritsugu was that the pursuers approaching from behind had the same cadence as him.

how can that be!

Is the other party also a time magician with triple speed?

Hey, you got it right.

[Inherent time control] is undoubtedly a terrible omnipotent magic, but there are exceptions to everything.

There are certain "life" in this world that are not affected by time manipulation.

The resident of the garden, the linker of the root, the beast of original sin...etc.

Those who possess the skill of [Separate Appearance], their existence is fixed, and as long as the conditions are met, they can freely descend into any era of human history.

It transcends life and death and time, so it has a very high resistance to instant death and time manipulation.

When they meet someone who is good at manipulating time, they can synchronize their time with each other.

Of course, these few monsters are usually rare in a thousand years——

It should be so.

Kiritsugu, who was running, felt astonished that a hand was firmly grasping his shoulder.

The hand stretched out from behind had an unstoppable force, and pressed Kiritsugu, who was running wildly, to the spot.

Then, that hand straightened Kiritsugu's shoulder, forcing him to turn around.

"—!"

Although he had guessed the result, Emiya Kiritsugu took a deep breath.

The person who caught up with Emiya Kiritsugu who had turned on triple speed from behind was none other than the Master of Caster who had killed him half a minute ago.

The young man smiled sullenly.

"Yo, uncle. That hair hurt just now."

Standing in the Forest of Moonlight, he has a decent appearance and a slender body.

However, in the distorted vision of Emiya Kiritsugu, who opened the control of the inherent time, the black-haired and black-eyed beautiful boy looked like a ghost.

"..."

Grinning his teeth, Kiritsugu whispered the incantation again.

"Timealter - Squareaccel!"

Inherent time control - quadruple speed, this is the limit of his time manipulation magic.

The explosion-like pain boiled over his consciousness, and Kiritsugu leaped back, escaping Rhodes' palm, and took out his favorite Thompson single-shot shotgun from his arms.

The shotgun roared furiously, and the tongue of flame spit out instantly engulfed the short boy in front of him.

The success of the zero distance did not make Emiya Kiritsugu complacent. He dared not neglect to maintain a quadruple acceleration and leap to the rear, instantly opening a distance of more than ten meters.

In an instant, three questions arose in Kiritsugu's mind.

First, why is Rhode still alive and kicking.

Second, how did he instantly move to the ambush point where he was, and what was the dark shadow that appeared together.

Thirdly, why the time control didn't work for him, and how did he catch up with him.

Faced with so many unanswerable questions, Emiya Kiritsugu's mind came up with an answer——

I was caught phishing.

"...Tsk, did he deliberately induce me to snipe?"

Although he has brushed past death countless times, Emiya Kiritsugu has never felt such a huge setback and panic.

Continue to step back while starting the reloading of the single shotgun.

Pull down the switch, open the gun body, and insert the magic bullet——

At this moment, a hand came out of the darkness and pressed down on Kiritsugu's left hand, which was taking the bullet.

This time, Rhode came to Kiritsugu from ten meters away in an instant.

The speed is so fast that it gives the illusion of teleportation.

Rhode, who grabbed Kiritsugu again, still did not fight back.

With a mocking expression, he placed his clenched right fist in front of Kiritsugu, then slowly released it.

"——!!!"

In Kiritsugu's shaky gaze, a squashed cartridge case fell from Rhodes' palm.

Brass, shining in the dark night, tells the miracle of catching bullets with bare hands.

The battle-hardened killer made a desperate low voice: "...Impossible."

Indeed, impossible.

Whether it is equivalent to the speed of space transfer, or the operation of picking up bullets at zero distance, it is already a magical skill that surpasses Heroic Spirit.

It is indeed not what Rhodes' current body can do.

But he still did it all.

Emiya Kiritsugu's credit for being able to do these things—

After he turned on [Inherent Time Control - Quadruple Speed], the flow of time around Rhodes also became a quarter!

Emiya Kiritsugu, who was unable to understand all of this and was unable to fight back, was filled with a deep sense of frustration.

Looking at the justice messenger who gradually lost his will to fight, the beast's eyes flashed with a sly lustre.

"A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye.

So, please have a taste of what it's like to be hit in the chest by an anti-equipment rifle. "

Rhode threw a lightning-like punch, hitting Kiritsugu's chest.

boom--!

With a loud explosion, Emiya Kiritsugu let out a painful growl, and his body was punched more than ten meters away.

Don't say it's been 20 years since this punch, it doesn't even have the skill of 20 days.

Not including any martial arts training, Rhode just simply returned the power of the rifle bullet he had just received to the opponent with his fists.

After a while, the forest in the middle of the night returned to quiet.

As far as he could see, there were broken tree trunks and flying dust, and Emiya Kiritsugu lay motionless in the dirt pit with a diameter of more than two meters.

"—cough cough."

He coughed in pain and vomited blood.

Rhodes put his hands in his trouser pockets and jumped to Kiritsugu's side, humming an anime song.

If you shoot a human with an anti-material rifle that can penetrate an armored vehicle, you can easily smash the upper body of the human body.

But what if the same kinetic energy was concentrated in the fist?

Not only were all the ribs broken, but even his internal organs were shattered by the punch of the electric light flint——

Even so, he couldn't die, because magicians are such tenacious animals.

Has anyone ever said that.

Women and children can make mistakes, but not men.

Emiya Kiritsugu now personally understood the meaning of those words.

The first mistake of the magician killer became the last.

It was counted from beginning to end, and the whole process was in the midst of each other's teasing.

Emiya Kiritsugu's Holy Grail War ended in such a neat and drab way.

Rhode walked slowly to Kiritsugu's side, bent down, lifted his coat and groped.

"Let me find... ah, I found it."

The boy's eyes lit up, and he took out a small box from the magician killer's arms—

It was a cigarette made in Taiwan, which was carried by Emiya Kiritsugu.

"Do you want one too?"

Rhodes asked with a cigarette between his fingers.

Emiya Kiritsugu's face was tense and he said nothing.

Oh, sorry I forgot, you still have three ribs stuck in your lungs.

"...Actually, this is the first time I've smoked. In the past, people used to loose cigarettes when I was playing in nightclubs, but I took them away every time."

Rhodes smiled and lit the cigarette with the lighter that was confiscated with him.

The moment he took a deep breath, he put on the mask of pain.

"Cough, cough, cough... I'm super! What the hell is this?"

An indescribable sour feeling occupied Rhode's mouth, and it took him a while to get used to the smell.

Then, the mind became a little fluttering.