Walking to a dark spot some distance from the hotel, Kiritsugu took out the mobile phone in his pocket while making sure that no one else was in sight around him. Mobile phones are very popular among the people (however, when the flower grower was in the ninety-fourth year, even PHS was not yet on the market), and it once gave Kiritsu considerable help. The simplest and most versatile radio communication device, and even if you hold it, you won't arouse anyone's suspicion.

First of all, you need to contact Maiya, who is in a surveillance position.

"Are you ready over there?"

"Nothing out of the ordinary. Always on call. ”

Maiya's location is diagonally opposite the Hyatt Regency Fuyuki (well, I finally got the name of the hotel, although it was going to blow up) diagonally opposite the high-rise building under construction. There, Kenneth and the room they were in could be clearly observed, and this was the place designated by Kiritsugu, who sighed briefly, one Yu pulled out a cigarette case from his pocket, and the other hand pressed a set of numbers on the mobile phone continuously.

Kiritsugu dialed a blank number. But there was no reaction from the phone.

The modified communication channel was not connected to a telephone signal, but to the detonator of the C4 bomb.

The explosion of the bomb was only on a very small scale, and the sound of the explosion did not even reach the outside of the hotel.

However, instead of echoing in the night sky, there was the terrifying sound of reinforced concrete beginning to fall apart.

Detonating a building is as simple as destroying a few load-bearing columns, and the tall building will collapse due to its own weight.

The evacuees, who noticed the anomaly around them, shouted in horror at the sudden change in the towering buildings.

"The hotel, the hotel has collapsed!"

The high-rise hotel, which is more than 150 meters high, maintained an upright posture, as if it was sucked in by the ground, collapsed, because all the exterior walls collapsed inward, not a single piece of debris entered the outside, only because the dust generated by the collapse annihilated the surrounding streets.

Directional blasting – an advanced blasting technique used primarily to destroy large high-rise buildings, by destroying load-bearing walls and critical pillars to make the building fall inward due to its own weight. The use of a minimum amount of explosives to achieve the goal of complete destruction is a very unique experience in the art of destruction for Emiya Kiritsugu, who is proficient in all demolition techniques inside and outside the ancient and modern times (so, you should be called Emiya Dara?).

All the buildings in this city that are magicians' bases are listed on Emiya Kiritsugu's destruction list, and the Hyatt Regency Fuyuki is one of them. Kiritsugu obtained the design plan of the building in advance, and found the point where the bomb was set up in it. As long as you are fully prepared, the actual operation will not take even an hour.

Although the evacuees had tried to stay as far away as possible from the possible impact of the collapse, they were still blown away by the dust from the collapse and fell into a panic. As he watched the commotion, Kiritsugu spotted a gap in the wind and lit the cigarette in his hand.

"Maiya, how are you doing over there?"

"There was no movement until the last thirty-two floors. The target did not escape from the building. ”

So to speak—Kiritsugu thought with a slight sense of satisfaction as he looked at the ruins of Fuyuki Hyatt that had been reduced to ashes—and that Lord Kenneth, known as "Ermelo Aqipolud," must now be in the company of rubble.

On the 32nd floor where Kenneth is located, due to the chain reaction caused by directional blasting, it lost its support, and it was eventually equivalent to falling from a height of 150 meters into free fall to the ground. No matter how strong the magic barrier is, it can't protect the people in the cloth room in the face of such a strong man's destructive power.

Suddenly, a child's cry was heard, drawing Kiritsugu's attention away from the ruins. The child's mother walked past Kiritsugu, holding the child who was crying because she was scared. Both of them were wearing only pajamas, and their bodies were covered with white dust, and they looked miserable.

Kiritsugu kept looking at the backs of their mother and son...... It wasn't until his fingers were burned by the burning cigarette butt that he came to his senses, and Kiritsugu threw the cigarette that had been more than half lit to the ground and stomped it out with his foot.

He suddenly felt a little confused, sentimentalism was absolutely not allowed for him. This kind of weak feeling will directly threaten the safety of one's life. However, it is as if he cannot take a calm attitude towards his own failures in any case. Even if you don't want to admit it, that's the way it is—Kiritsugu suddenly sees Elia and Alice in the mother and son who are fleeing.

He was confused, yes confused, the word should not have appeared on the "justice machine" called Emiya Kiritsugu, but at this time this feeling actually appeared.

Emiya Kiritsugu used to think that sacrifice made no difference. All lives are equal, so just choose a path with fewer sacrifices. Under this judgment, the lives of women and children are not treated specially.

Using the Holy Grail can save the world, and Kenneth is the one he has to eliminate in order to claim the Holy Grail. There are about 1,000 people at the Hyatt Regency Fuyuki, and the number of people that the Holy Grail can save is at least 5 billion. If necessary, Kiritsugu could have killed these tenants along with Kenneth.

So why did you deliberately set fire to such a commotion beforehand?

Because he has compassion that he shouldn't have?

What was once a strategy that was taken for granted is now an emotional outpouring of its own ...... This is really a deadly romance, if it is on the battlefield, such a sad will definitely be taken by the opponent......

After careful reflection, Emiya Kiritsugu finally determined that he had degenerated, although he didn't know how much he had weakened, but the current Emiya Kiritsugu was definitely degraded compared to a few years ago. If this continues, I am afraid that we will not be able to win the Holy Grail War. In any case, it is not possible to regain the coldness and judgment that I had before, and the sooner the better.

Emiya Kiritsugu lit a cigarette, and as the light smoke slowly rose, his somewhat chaotic thoughts slowly merged.

"Maiya, how's the situation over there?"

The voice of Kiritsugu asking on the ground came from Kusayu Maiya's headphones, and Maiya, who was holding a rifle gun in both hands, switched her mobile phone to headphone mode, freeing her hands.

"There was no movement until the last thirty-second floor. Target did not escape from the hotel. ”

Maiya whispered into the microphone on her lips to report what she had observed to Kiritsugu. Although she had just witnessed a devastating devastation, there was not a hint of excitement in her voice.

This woman named Maiya, under the cultivation of Emiya Kiritsugu, has become a machine, a machine that exists specifically to assist the "justice machine" named Emiya Kiritsugu.