[Fate] Falling Sun

"Mio, cancel the alliance agreement." Ritsu said to his sister over the phone in a certain hotel room where he was temporarily staying.

"Why?" There was naturally a surprised voice on the other end.

"After the last battle, I think it's too dangerous. I decided not to involve you anymore." The boy looked at the sunset outside the window, his blue eyes were dyed a layer of sunset red.

"Ri, it's too late to say this now... We were already in the same boat, weren't we?"

"I'm sorry, Mio... I really don't have the confidence to let you withdraw from the battle intact on the battlefield." The tone of the black-haired boy sounded quite frustrated. "This time, I will end everything. You just wait in a safe place."

"Ri, ending everything means..." The girl cut off the phone before she could finish her questioning.

The beeping sound from the microphone echoed in the empty room, giving people a bad feeling.

Mio stared at the phone screen, secretly counting the Servants who are currently out of the game──Caster, Rider, Berserker, etc. What does Ritsu mean by ending everything?

"Lancer, can I trouble you with something tonight?" The girl's face was very solemn, probably due to the relationship between the twin sisters, she had an intuition that Ritsu would take action tonight.

Karna, who is rare without a spiritual body, leaned against the wall silently listening to the conversation just now for a long time.He has easily deciphered the Master's next actions.

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The crescent moon tonight is like a starry sky that evokes a smile.

Irisviel was driving a white car on the Fuyuki Bridge.

"Ai... Irisviel, it seems... driving in the opposite direction now?" The blond girl in a suit reminded with shame.

"Oh, it seems to be~" The white-haired beauty seemed to be a different person when driving, but she just switched back to the forward lane quickly.

Then, as if stepping on a mine, as soon as I sailed to the middle of the bridge, I suddenly heard an explosion.

──Boom!

The section of road where the car was located was suddenly engulfed in flames and collapsed like an earthquake.

Fuyuki Ohashi began to collapse from the central part.

Since it was close to early morning, there were no other vehicles on the driveway, except for the car that had just passed Saber's master and slave and fell under the bridge due to a sudden accident.

However, before the car fell into the river, the petite King of Knights had already picked up Irisviel and jumped onto the bridge.

"──Surprise attack?" Saber looked around, but couldn't see any trace of a follower.

Among the seven servants, there is only one class with natural skills that cannot be discovered by other servants, and that is──

Just as the King of Knights thought of the answer the next moment, the bullets from the machine gun had already attacked them mercilessly. Saber dodged the gunfire like a light swallow, put Irisviel down, and stood in front of her.

"It really is Assassin." The King of Knights summoned the sword wrapped in the enchantment of the King of Wind.

However, the man in the red hood on the opposite side did not intend to talk to him, but continued to shoot with machine guns.The girl king chopped off all the bullets, but this could not last for too long. Judging from the current terrain, there was a broken road behind them, and they might be forced to retreat by the opponent's offensive.

──Then as long as we take a strong offensive to force the opponent back, we can get out of the current dangerous situation.

The King of Knights used his magic power to let out a breath and rushed to the opponent with a vigorous strike, and the man in the red hood also retreated a long distance to dodge the attack.In terms of martial arts, Assassin would indeed not be Saber's opponent, but the man had already set up many traps in the surrounding environment. In addition to dealing with the Knight King's melee combat, he also used automatic shooting, small landmines, and flying from the sky from time to time. Use auxiliary attacks such as knives to suppress Saber's menacing sword energy.

However, just when Irisviel couldn't keep up with Saber's footsteps, and within a visible distance of about one kilometer, Ritsu appeared.

After only a few seconds of chanting, Ritsu fired several light bullets from around her, but the Winter Maiden quickly noticed the new magical reaction and quickly avoided it.

"Are you── Lancer's Master?" Irisviel's confused reaction prevented her from responding in time.

"What do you think?" Erli deliberately threw this sentence to confuse the other party's judgment, and continued to fire light bullets without giving the other party a chance to breathe.

But the Holy Maiden of Winter didn't intend to continue to be polite, she pulled out the wire of light from her hand, and built a silver eagle to fight back.

In the battle between the two magicians, after a long time, it was obvious that Ritsu was at a disadvantage.

The current Holy Maiden of Winter is the highest masterpiece of the Einzbern family.In addition to being the Lesser Holy Grail, in terms of the strength of the only remaining Master, he is actually the strongest magician.Ritsu also understood this, but still challenged it alone.

This is not an unplanned action, but one of the necessary plans.

"Woo...!" Ritsu was still struggling to cope with Irisviel's magic attack, but she couldn't retreat at this juncture.

On the other side, facing Saber's sharp sword approaching, Assassin dodged cleverly, and triggered many traps arranged earlier along the way to restrain the Knight King's movements.

Strictly speaking, Assassin is not a Servant suitable for hand-to-hand combat. If it weren't for these auxiliary skills, he would undoubtedly be repelled by Saber within half a moment.And when he calculated that Saber had already been separated from the Master by nearly two kilometers, he threw all the tear gas on hand to create a large amount of smoke.

"Ri, it's now──"

Just as the King of Knights was bewitched by the smoke for three seconds, Ritsu cast the Command Spell without hesitation.

"Assassin, come to me!"

Assassin instantly moved to Ritsu's side through the Command Spell, activated his own unique skill - "Inherent Time Control", and attacked the Winter Maiden in front of him at four times the speed.

Emiya──Emiya Kiritsugu, does not exist in the Seat of Heroes. As a substitute, the mission entrusted to him by the restraining force is to destroy the Holy Grail of this Holy Grail War.He was known as the "Magician Killer" during his lifetime, and his family's magic is related to "time".My father was also listed as a magician designated by the Magic Association for the seal. After negotiation with his teacher Natalia, I can inherit [-]% of the magic seal.

──Chronos Rose──

In an almost static time, for Irisviel, who was not a follower, Assassin easily sent the special dagger into her heart, piercing the Holy Grail container quickly and accurately.

Irisviel is the little Holy Grail of this Holy Grail War. If it contains the souls of more than six defeated servants, it will become the container of the Holy Grail, and its heart is the most important functional part.And what Emiya is aiming at is the important container that has not yet become a complete holy grail.

In this Holy Grail War, the Einzbern family is undoubtedly the one with the greatest chance of victory.With the strongest android masters and the strongest class servants, Saber, if they win this Holy Grail War... a world-destroying ending will happen.For this reason, the restraining force had to send a follower to prevent such a trend.

When the time returned to normal, the Holy Maiden of Winter collapsed.

"Irisviel──!!!" It was too late when Saber found out. The whole process only took 1.6732 seconds. The greatest use value of Assassin is the instant sniping and ending. Protracted battles and hand-to-hand battles will make yourself at a disadvantage.Not to mention the real one-on-one follower battle, which was not an equal strength division from the beginning.As long as such an opportunity is missed, Assassin's defeat is an easy end.

But Saber didn't disappear, but was swallowed by the black shadow that suddenly appeared on the ground.

"What...!?" Ritsu was surprised by the next development. With the death of the master, the disappearance of the servants is inevitable, but now it is beyond the scope of his understanding.

"...Ri, stand back." Assassin said in a deep voice.Even at this level, is there no way to stop the Holy Grail?

They looked at Irisviel, who was also surrounded by black shadows, and slowly stood up shaking her body.

"Hee hee, are you in such a hurry to destroy the wishing ritual filled with "I"?" Although the voice was from the Holy Maiden of Winter, the tone seemed to be completely different.She opened her eyes, and her bright red pupils turned into terrifying golden pupils. The expression on her face was not the usual elegance, but a creepy smile.

Assassin instantly understood what he had opened.

──That is Pandora's box, but is there really "hope" there?

The current Maiden of Winter, only the appearance is still Irisviel, and the content has long been replaced.As the real Irisviel was killed by Assassin a few seconds ago, something "something" flowed out of the long-tainted Great Grail to replace it.

To use a name familiar to humans, it would be "all the evils of this world".

This is why the restraining force wants Emiya to come. If Saber's master and slave win, the polluted Holy Grail will activate "All Evil in This World", and this world will disappear.

"Saber, come here──" The black shadow that had wrapped around the King of Knights receded, and the tainted Saber appeared.The original shining silver armor was dyed jet black, bright red lines crawled on her skin, and the emerald green pupils also turned into golden pupils like reptiles.

"The ritual of the Holy Grail is not over yet... In order to complete the Great Holy Grail and allow me to come down to the world to fulfill all the curses──Please go to death." The Winter Saintess commanded the blackened Saber to attack with ease, full of coercion His slash is of a different level of destructive power than the previous King of Knights.

Assassin barely escaped this wave of offensive with Lil, and the result now brought them an unexpected shock. The man knew very well that his own strength could not completely kill the Black Holy Grail, just as he was fleeing and thinking hard about counterattack methods At that moment, a figure lay across in front of them like a shooting star, forcibly blocking Black Saber's destructive continuous slashes to neutralize its power.

"Run, Mio wants me to send you a message──" Sun God Son who descended in the dark night stood upright and majestic in front of Assassin and Ritsu. "'Don't do everything yourself.' Also, in this battle, my command is temporarily transferred to you──that's what Mio said."

At the moment after listening, Ritsu showed a moved expression that was about to cry. "This idiot sister...!"

And on the embankment by the river bank, the black-haired girl was watching the battle of the servants from a distance.As early as when Ritsu was in action, Lancer's clairvoyance also noticed the duel between Assassin and Saber, but Mio thought at that time to hold back and wait until she confirmed that Ritsu was really facing a crisis, so she asked Lancer to rescue him.

Now, both Ritsu and Mio understand that among the servants present, the only one who can destroy the Black Holy Grail──is Lancer's strongest Noble Phantasm.

"Oh? Such a grand banquet, why didn't you invite me? You really don't understand etiquette, bastards."

However, as the opponent in this battle, Lancer is not the only new follower.Just when everyone thought that Archer, who had lost his master, was no longer there, the arrogant golden king reappeared on the street lamp.

Then, it must be a contract with the new Master.

Sun God Son tilted his head to look sideways at the King of Heroes, even if the other party didn't need to explain why he came, he could still feel the strong hostility.You don't even need to ask, the King of Gold must have come here to compete with the God Son of the Sun.

The current situation has become two to two.

"Why at such a time..." Ritsu seemed to be caught in the anxiety of tactical considerations.

"Run, this is not in conflict." The white-haired young man glanced at the black Saber and the golden Archer. "give me some more time."

However, Lancer's words woke up Ritsu.He nodded, and gave the order for Assassin to entangle Black Saber. "Lancer, I leave it to you to destroy the Holy Grail."

"Ah, I got it." Shi Yu's hero clenched the lightning gun in his hand, and looked at the oldest king who had blocked his way.

"Hmph, although that kind of dirty cup doesn't matter. But I don't want to just disappear in such a boring way." The King of Heroes raised his jaw, and his bright red eyes fixed on Sun Shenzi like a snake.

And the Black Holy Grail, which has turned into the evil of this world, continuously leaked a large amount of black mud from under its feet, and began to pollute from the center of the river.If left alone, Fuyuki City will be swallowed up by the black mud and become the center of the world's calamity.

Li frowned deeply, has it become a time-distance war now?