It is about 30 kilometers west from the busy streets of Fuyuki City.

An east-west national highway runs through the mountains far from the village, and is flanked by a dense forest that seems to have been forgotten by the surging land development boom.

The land may be state-owned, but it appears from the land register to be privately owned by a foreign-owned company, and it is uncertain whether the foreign-owned enterprise actually exists. If you have to investigate this land, the first thing that makes people puzzled is this magical urban legend.

Actually, there is nothing strange about it, but it is just an enchantment, the position of the Einzberen family in Fuyuki City, this strange family seems to have the quirk of having a castle everywhere, and in the castle, the dull air makes Alice Phil sigh several times.

"Are you tired? Alice. Kiritsugu asked.

Alice hid her melancholy expression and shook her head with a smile.

"It's nothing, I'm not tired, you can go on."

Alice urges Kiritsugu, who goes on to tell all sorts of information about Fuyuki City, unfolding a map depicting the entire city of Fuyuki on the table in front of him.

"There are two places that are the center of the entire region, one is the mansion of Second Master Tosaka, and the other is Mt. Enzang, where all the spiritual veins in the surrounding area converge on Mt. Enzo, as Patriarch Ahad recounted."

The servants came to the castle before Alice Fell and the others, prepared everything for the venue, and then left, so that the meeting place was impeccable, from the table legs to the teacups, and the vase was full of vibrant flowers, so that one could not imagine that it had not been inhabited for sixty years.

It would be a lie to say that she wasn't tired, but Alice Fell still rested in bed for a while, while Kiritsugu didn't rest for a moment.

When Kiritsugu and his assistant Kuyu Maiya arrived at the castle, it was almost noon, but as soon as they arrived at the castle, they received a summons from the Fuyuki Church to operate the demons, confirm the overseer's notice, etc., and Kiritsugu was busy with various chores non-stop.

Last night, after the Battle of Warehouse Street, Kiritsugu and the others attacked Lancer's Master Kenes, and even encountered Yan Feng Qili, and had another fierce battle, but Kiritsugu did not show a trace of emaciation, so Alice Phil had no reason to complain about being tired.

"A powerful barrier is set up at the Ryudong Temple on the top of Mt. Enzo, so that all natural beings except the Servant can only enter the barrier through the mountain path. Saber should be aware of this when he acts. ”

If you want to remind Saber to pay attention, you can just say it to Saber, but Kiritsugu still doesn't look at the girl in men's clothes standing behind Alice Phil.

There are two reasons for the air to become heavy, one is that Saber has shown a resolute rejection of Kiritsugu, which is not new to Saber, but has only become more pronounced since arriving at Einzberen Castle.

"In addition to these two places, there are two other important places in the new capital where the leylines are concentrated, one is the Fuyuki Church on the South Hill, and the other is the new residential area to the east of the metropolitan area, in short, there are four Lingge important places in Fuyuki City that are capable of performing the Holy Grail Descent."

"In that case, wouldn't it be better to knock out Lancer first in order to be more foolproof against Caster?"

But in the face of Alice's repeated questions, Kiritsugu shook his head.

"After Caster appears, we don't need to meet him head-on, you just need to make the most of the geographical advantage, run away with Saber and disrupt the enemy's line of sight."

Alice Fell was taken aback, and Saber was already stunned when she heard Kiritsugu's words.

"Aren't you at war with Caster?"

"All the other Masters have already targeted Caster, we don't need to make a move, we have someone else to solve Caster, we don't need to do more, for those Masters who are chasing Caster and their eyes are full of blood, Caster is a big piece of fat, Caster locks his eyes on Saber, as long as Caster moves, Then one or two of the Masters chasing Caster will definitely step into the forest, and we will attack those Masters from the side, and the Masters who are preoccupied with chasing Caster will never think that they will change from the role of hunter to the role of prey. ”

Emiya Kiritsugu's plan was indeed excellent, but it greatly conflicted Saber's philosophy, and Saber, who couldn't bear it repeatedly, angrily rebuked, "Master, how despicable are you? ”

However, ignoring Saber's rebuke, Emiya Kiritsugu silently planned, and finally, he left the others behind and walked out of the room.

Alice Phil soon spotted Kiritsugu, standing on a balcony overlooking the castle's foreyard, leaning against the guardrail, looking out at the forest at night.

"Kiritsugu." Alice Phil slowly walked up behind Kiritsugu and shouted, not expecting her voice to become harsh.

Kiritsugu must have been aware of his presence, too, because Kiritsugu didn't show the slightest look of surprise, but slowly turned around.

Alice Phil was already mentally prepared, when Kiritsugu confronted Saber in the conference room just now, she showed that kind of cold eyes, Alice Phil was ready to look directly at Kiritsugu's cold eyes, but when she saw Kiritsugu's expression, she couldn't help but feel a little helpless, and stood in place.

Kiritsugu's expression was like that of a wounded and helpless child, holding back tears, as if he had been forced to a dead end, and now standing in front of Alice Phil, Kiritsugu was far from the image of the powerful magician killer, just a powerless and cowardly man.

"Kiritsugu, you ......"

Without saying a word, Kiritsugu hugged the bewildered Alice Phil, his chest was trembling, in Alice Phil's eyes, her husband's arms were always strong and powerful for people to rely on, but now her husband was as helpless as a child snuggled in his mother's arms.

"If I ......"

Alice Phil felt her husband's hug tighter, and even made her feel pain, and then her husband's faint questioning voice came to her ears, "If I decide to leave everything behind and escape here at this moment, Alice, will you leave with me?" ”

A man like Emiya Kiritsugu asked such a question, which Alice probably could not have imagined in any way, and she was so shocked that she was speechless for a while, and after a long time she asked rhetorically, "Elia...... What if the child is still in the castle? ”

"Let's go back to the castle and bring her out, and kill all those who stand in our way."

It was a short, sharp but desperate voice, and there was no doubt that Kiritsugu was not joking, he meant it.

"From now on, I will give everything for our family and use my life to protect you and Elia."

Now Alice Fell finally understands the desperate mood of the man in front of her, as her life partner, Kiritsugu, facing the biggest battle of her life, has been forced to a situation where there is no way out.

He's no longer the Kiritsugu he was nine years ago, no longer the cold, ruthless hound, no longer the killing machine that endlessly hones itself.

Kiritsugu has changed, he has become very fragile, and in order to realize that very cruel ideal, he has forced himself into such a situation, and the key to making Kiritsugu change is nothing else, which is Alice Phil.

Wives and daughters, who shouldn't have been involved in Emiya Kiritsugu's life.

Originally, Emiya Kiritsugu had nothing to lose, and he didn't even feel pain, and it was precisely because Emiya Kiritsugu was such a man that he was able to become extremely strong, to pursue the lofty ideal of saving the world, and to sacrifice everything for this without hesitation, becoming an extremely cruel warrior.

The present Kiritsugu wants to go back to the past and be his past self, but while looking back on the past years, there is now an irreconcilable contradiction in the depths of Kiritsugu's soul, and the time of these nine years has completely changed Kiritsugu, and Kiritsugu has endured quite a lot of pressure and pain just to maintain the cold and heartless image of the past.

Kiritsugu's ignorance of Saber exposes Kiritsugu's weakness in the final analysis, and now Kiritsugu is exhausted in order to save himself, and he no longer has the energy to accept Saber, or even have the extra energy to communicate with the Knight King.

Alice Phil was in great pain, the man she loved was suffering, but she couldn't help herself, because she was the one who made Kiritsugu miserable.

All Alice Phil can do now is be powerless to ask her own questions.

"Can you escape? We ......"

"I can escape, I still have a chance." Kiritsugu replied immediately.

But this sentence is not credible, and Kiritsugu only said it so that he could still have that illusory hope in his heart.

"You're lying."

So Alice Phil pointed it out, gently, cruelly.

"That's impossible, Emiya Kiritsugu, it's impossible for you to escape, give up the Holy Grail, give up the ideal of saving the world, you will never forgive yourself like that, you yourself will definitely be the final judge, and you will sentence yourself to death."

Kiritsugu finally burst into tears, he knew it himself, he had long ago had no choice.

"I'm scared ......"

Kiritsugu cried and confided in his heart like a child.

"That guy, Yamamine Kiri took aim at me, Maiya told me, that guy used Kenes as bait to lure me in, and he had already guessed all my intentions...... I might lose the battle, I sacrificed you and left Elia aside, but still...... The most dangerous guy has taken aim at me, and that guy is the last opponent I want to meet! ”

Emiya Kiritsugu, neither a hero nor a samurai, but a killer, he does not have the courage and arrogance to compete with others with his life, he is a coward, so his goal is to be careful and ensure the right to victory and survival with the least risk, and for hunters, the greatest nightmare is to become the prey of others.

But despite this, if it was Kiritsugu nine years ago, he would definitely not even frown, calm down and concentrate on the best countermeasures, this is the power of Kiritsugu when there is no lover to lose.

But now that Kiritsugu, who is afraid of losing his lover, is facing the battle again, the fear of losing his beloved has become his fatal weakness.

"I'm not going to let you fight alone." Alice Phil said softly as she stroked her husband's trembling back.

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"The myth of Icarus is the same, and so is the Tower of Babylon, and anyone who thinks about places beyond their reach will stumble and fall!"

At the top of the castle of Einzberen, Naraku stood there in such a bright light, but neither Alice Field's enchantment perception nor the defense line set up by Emiya Kiritsugu reacted to him.

"Who am I talking to about that?" Scratching his head, Naraku, who had completely destroyed his previous unfathomable temperament, muttered.

It seems that I remember somewhere to say this to someone, but I can't remember the details.

Since it's something you can't think of, it's not very important, most of it.

In this way, Naraku left this matter behind, and the three who received the bento, and even the soul was tragically forgotten by Naraku's brain, which was burned to ashes.

"I don't even understand the nature of human beings, and now I'm still playing this game of self-satisfied righteous heroes, it's just stupid." Regarding Emiya Kiritsugu's desire to save everyone, although Naraku can't be said to be scoffing, he is not optimistic either.

"The hero of justice, I can't even recognize reality, I don't have any power, but I want to stretch out my hand to the desire far beyond my own limit, do you think that the moon world is the world of the saint seiya, and you are the bronze five small powerhouses protected by Athena, in this world you can't do anything with your will alone, and you will only get nothing if you want to stay on the ethereal foreign object, and in the end you will only get nothing, this is not a dragon ball, no, even if it is a divine dragon in the dragon ball, it is impossible to do it for the power beyond its own range, Do you think that a single broken cup can achieve that impossible wish? ”

With a slight jump, Naraku's body instantly rushed into the sky.

"Changing the nature of human beings, even gods can't do it, otherwise there will be no humans who rebel against the gods, and Alayya, who is connected to humans, won't allow this kind of thing, tsk, it's my business, go back, I don't want to see tentacle monsters."