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, maintains a self-standing posture, as if it was sucked into the ground and 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 is 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 for Emiya Kiritsugu, who is proficient in all the demolition techniques of ancient and modern times, both inside and outside.

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.

In the shadows of a distance, Emiya Kiritsugu took out the mobile phone in his pocket while making sure that no one else was looking around. Mobile phones are very popular among the people, and they have been of considerable help to Kiritsugu. The simplest and most versatile radio communication device, and even if you hold it, you won't arouse anyone's suspicion.

"Maiya, how are you doing over there?"

The relationship between Kiritsugu Emiya and Maiya Kuyu. In the language of the magician world, it should probably be called master and apprentice.

And Emiya Kiritsugu himself has never made magic an object of his inquiry. It was only learned as a combat method, so in his mind, there was never a concept of master and apprentice. Kiritsugu simply taught the combat methods he knew to Maiya Kuyu, and this was only because Maiya Kuyu himself was an integral part of his methods. No one knew where the Holy Grail was, and people were fighting desperately to fulfill their dreams that they knew they couldn't realize.

Therefore, the relationship between Emiya Kiritsugu and Kuyu Maiya is even earlier than Alice Phil. The other side of his blood debt is not even known to his wife, but Kuyu Maiya, who once fought with him, knows it clearly.

Although Kuyu Maiya is a beauty with good facial features, she never wears makeup. Her elongated eyes often give a cold feeling. Although her silky black hair may have fascinated many men, as long as she has a sharp look, no matter what man will give up the idea of approaching her. Unknowingly, the two have been working together for more than ten years. Although she was only a little girl when they first met, once she was stripped of the immaturity of her appearance, her innate sharpness began to be revealed.

Working with such a beauty, the average person is likely to feel tired due to excessive stress, but Emiya Kiritsugu is the opposite. Kuyu Maiya was always able to make correct and unchangeable judgments based on the situation at the time, and Emiya Kiritsugu was by her side, but he was never ashamed of his meanness, nor did he hate her coldness. Perhaps, this is also a sense of peace of mind.

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

Saying this, Emiya Kiritsugu looked at the ruins of Hyatt Fuyuki, which had been reduced to ashes, with a slight sense of satisfaction, and thought of Lord Kenneth, known as Rod Elumerroy, who must now be accompanied by 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 Emiya Kiritsugu's attention away from the ruins. The child's mother walked past Emiya Kiritsugu with the child crying because she was scared. Both of them were wearing only pajamas, and their bodies were covered in white dust, and they looked miserable, and Emiya Kiritsugu looked straight at the backs of their mother and son, until his fingers were burned by the burning cigarette butts, and Emiya Kiritsugu threw the cigarette that had been more than half lit to the ground and stomped it out with his foot.

Emiya Kiritsugu felt a little confused, sentimentalism was absolutely not allowed for himself. 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 case, Emiya Kiritsugu suddenly saw Elia and Alice in the mother and son who were fleeing.

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. The number of people at the Hyatt Regency Fuyuki is probably more than 1,000, and the number of people that the Holy Grail can save is at least 5 billion. If necessary, Emiya Kiritsugu could have killed these tenants and Kenneth.

So why did you deliberately set fire to such a commotion beforehand? In the beginning, Emiya Kiritsugu himself had taken this for granted.

Kenneth deliberately set up numerous traps to prepare for the attack, and as a tactic against his sticking strategy, this trick did have a practical effect. The genius magician was proud of his iron walls, but he didn't expect that the entire castle would be destroyed and still remain in it. But is that really all there is to his true purpose, and is the sentimentality of hoping that innocent tenants can take refuge in time, but is it revealed unconsciously? This is really deadly romance, if it is on the battlefield, such sentimentality will definitely be killed by the opponent.

In order to stabilize the wavering emotions in his heart, Emiya Kiritsugu lit a cigarette again.

It's degraded, and although I don't know how much it's weakened, the current Emiya Emiya Kiritsugu is definitely more degraded than 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.

The town of Midnight, which was shaken by the change that had just happened, finally began to stir. Looking at the crowd of people who were gradually gathering on the side of the road, Emiya Kiritsugu took a deep breath of his cigarette and picked up the moving point to give Maiya--Evacuation instructions.

But it wasn't the sound of his subordinates that reached his ears, only the roar of metal clashing with metal.