"Starting today, you are the elite of the elite in this X training camp! Assassination is not only a competition of skills, luck, connections, lies, fraud, everything, all of them, are the elements of assassination. The two of you, the last surviving assassins, are technically impeccable, so all that's left is how to plot the conspiracy. ”

The instructor's words made X look excited, he has not completely gotten rid of the sickness of fever, as the saying goes, illness is like a thread, it is a [slow process].

was originally confused, but when he was yelled at by the instructor's loud voice, he was also in spirit.

The life of the training camp can be roughly divided into three periods.

At first, it was a training of basic physical fitness, and there were no weapons courses.

The second stage added the dagger skill, and the third stage added the pistol.

According to X's understanding, the fourth stage should be based on how to operate a variety of firearms, a variety of vehicles, and other [application] courses......

Unexpectedly, although these things are there, they are not [mainly].

In the fourth stage, he actually returned to the field of [liberal arts].

The instructor sent the two of them a thick collection of materials.

On the first page, there is a man with a sense of vicissitudes, with rather messy black hair, blank eyes, and no desire to see, maybe because he is young, he has no beard, but the vicissitudes of life between his eyebrows, no matter how you look at it, it does not match the cheeks of this young man.

"Emiya...... Kiritsu?"

This Oriental name is quite awkward to pronounce, but X has never heard a few names in total, and if you think about it carefully, the names he knows, except for Emiya Kiritsugu, are only Ayaki Makiri, and there is nothing strange about it.

After all, everyone usually uses numbers, or code names, or just pronouns such as hey. Three-character names like Ayaya Makiri, which are rare.

X quickly flipped through it, this collection of information is basically some records and analysis of the actions of Emiya Kiritsugu.

At a cursory glance, such as blowing up the enemy and the plane, or destroying the magic workshop while the enemy was sleeping, crushing the people inside, or even poisoning in advance or predicting the enemy's actions and ambushes, etc., the assassination methods of this person are recorded in detail.

This book can be said to be [Emiya Kiritsugu's Complete Murder Techniques].

Terrible.

X was shocked. He always thought that he was a very good assassin, and looked down on those guys who hid their strength, but as a result, he didn't expect that he was just a frog at the bottom of a well?

Turn any page and read the actions of this deep-eyed, godless man like a black hole, a cunning assassin who will take advantage of everything, perfectly, to defeat his enemies, perfectly, to torture his opponents.

This is the information about Emiya Kiritsugu compiled by the Magic Association.

Indeed, Emiya Kiritsugu is a [magician killer] and is notorious. But he is also a [qualified machine], he does not care about good or evil, he does not have a so-called ethics, and firmly believes that human life is the only unit of life. So he doesn't care about that, he just uses it as a scale to measure his work.

He hunts magicians just because those magicians are cancers, and he also hunts ordinary people, often going to the battlefield. He is a sophisticated killing machine, carefully calculating the number of human lives.

Such a machine is very good to use. The Magic Society has used him to cut off dissidents.

In the same way, although they collected information about Emiya Kiritsugu, they did not release it so that other magicians could guard against it. In the eyes of the Magic Association, Emiya Kiritsugu is a sharp double-edged sword, as long as it is used well, it can skillfully kill the enemy before cutting himself, and he doesn't have to worry about blood splashing on his body, and it is this blade called Emiya Kiritsugu who bears everything. The Chinese philosophers once put forward a very interesting philosophical discourse: "If you stab someone and kill him, you say: If it is not me, the soldier is also." ”

It means that someone kills someone with a weapon, but says to someone else, "I didn't kill him, but he killed him with a weapon." This was originally a joke, but as a result, the appearance of Emiya Kiritsugu actually made this absurd example come true.

It's the weapon of the Magic Association, and all the dirty things can be pushed on him. As long as this thing does protect more humans.

As an assassin, he was an overly perfect machine.

From pre-preparation to post-processing, all reveal his surplus as an elite assassin.

He is witty and far-sighted, able to prepare enough arms and weapons for himself in advance, and then analyze the battle gap between the enemy and us, skillfully use the terrain and the enemy's actions, and use the simplest method and the most effective way to kill the enemy.

He is powerful and fearless, and in a brief reading of this information, it is mentioned more than once that Emiya Kiritsugu's miraculous inherent time control technology, and that he used those weapons to skillfully assassinate his enemies. Whether it was a head-on confrontation, an ambush in advance, and even a few times, he was spied by the enemy and sneak attacked, and he was still the victor when the ambush was counter-attacked.

Total assassination.

The mouth suddenly opened. This is X's first feeling.

It turns out that there is still such a method of assassination?!

The more I watched, the more I admired Emiya Kiritsugu's simple and crisp rhythm of killing.

The more I looked, the more I couldn't help but appreciate the way his Emiya Kiritsugu was not like a human, but as stable as a machine.

It is precisely because he is also an assassin that he can feel the power and beauty of Emiya Kiritsugu so truly! He is not a human being, but a machine, and he has an unimaginable charm.

It's really, amazing!

X thinks so.

This person named Emiya Kiritsugu is too powerful.

I see......

That's what it means.

He finally understood.

Not at all four stages.

It's two phases.

The first stage trains two assassins with excellent foundations, and then, in the second stage, they are taught how to kill the enemy efficiently, using Emiya Kiritsugu as an example to analyze how to kill the enemy quickly.

As for the use of other weapons, vehicles or magic, they were all compressed into the afternoon, and it was named the [Comprehensive Assassination Training] course.

In this way, the course of the two was decided.

In the morning, with the help of instructors, he understood and learned the path of Emiya Kiritsugu's assassination, and in the afternoon, he trained freely, and was provided with a considerable number of weapons to choose from.

"Oh, I really didn't expect that the two of us stayed until the end!"

At night, it's time to rest.

On the bonfire, Aya Maki casually pulled a crate and sat down, shaking her legs around, looking happy.

It seems that she often shows such an expression.

Unlike X, this gloomy man always has a strained face, while Aya Maki is always smiling.

“…… You're always smiling. ”

One didn't pay attention and asked.

Aya was stunned for a moment, and then smiled again: "Of course, because a woman who loves to laugh won't be too lucky, right?"

"Is that so?"

X silently looked around, and the originally dense tent area was finally left with only sixteen lone tents, and only two of these sixteen would still be inhabited.

In a few days, the instructor will tear down the extra fourteen tops......

Suddenly, it was a little deserted.

Although I don't think so, I really separated from them at this moment, and I was a little uncomfortable.

X thought silently: Those guys will die, is it because they can't laugh? If you extend the words of Ayaya Makiri, the guys who can't laugh will have bad luck, probably, right?

"Now, will you, kill me?"

Aya Maki asked suddenly. The firelight sprinkled on her face, adding some sharp angular brilliance to her countenance.

"Yes. ”

Firmly.

X's response was very positive.

"Hey...... Although I thought that you would say this, but it was really sad to hear it, we are not comrades-in-arms!"

"There is only one person who can survive. ”

"That is, do you want to live?"

"It doesn't matter, I don't really want to do anything other than live. ”

"Isn't it the same to die, if you don't have anything to do while you're alive, isn't it the same to die?"

“……”

was asked by a sentence that suddenly appeared from Aya, and X vaguely felt that what this woman said made some sense.

If you continue to live, you will inevitably continue to be bored, and in order to relieve the emptiness, you will continue to do those boring things.

That...... If you die, you don't have to worry about anything, right?

"Actually, you just want to live, don't you? Even if it's boring, you want to keep living, right?"

Aya's words rang out again, and X groaned, nodded, and said, "I want to live." So, you have to die. ”

"Well...... Let's not mention this topic for now, anyway, there is still enough time until the next screening!"

The firelight flickered, and the shadows of the two were dragged and swayed by the dim time, turning into longer shadows, merging into the distant night.