Yuanzang Mountain, Liudong Temple, among the main halls.

The host master, wearing a cyan monk's robe, was busy serving tea and water to several distinguished guests.

It stands to reason that as a cultivator outside the square, he should not have been so out of shape, and he should have his own knowledgeable monks to be responsible for such mundane affairs.

However, there are always exceptions to everything, and these people in front of them are guests who cannot be waited for-

A few years ago, the master who hosted the guest for the first time still had the reserved attitude of a monk. Faced with a middle-aged man who visited late at night without making an appointment, he politely declined the other person's request until a suitcase was placed on the incense table.

"Do you want to use money to buy me? This is an insult to me! ”

Faced with the lid that was opened from it, the host master wanted to reprimand it loudly.

However, there is simply too much money......

The full Fukuzawa Yukichi made it impossible for him to refuse.

"Donor, please also use fragrant tea, this is a hundred and twenty-year-old tea plant in the mountain behind Liudong Temple."

Just as the presiding master eagerly presented a bowl of freshly made tea to Emiya Kiritsugu, who was sitting in the first place, the sound of footsteps came from far and near outside the hall. A young man with glasses and short dark blue hair ran in excitedly and shouted enthusiastically: "Wei Gong, why didn't you tell me in advance when you came to my house to worship?" ”

"Ishei! How can you be so rude at the moment? ”

Affected by this, the pottery bowl held by the host master in both hands couldn't help but shake and spill some tea.

Feeling that he had lost face, he couldn't help but scold his son: "And quickly retreat, recite the scriptures a hundred times for self-reflection." ”

"It's okay, we are here this time, in addition to worshipping the Buddha, there are other important things to do."

Emiya Kiritsugu waved his hand, indicating that he didn't care: "Just let him stay, or as a recommendation." ”

"But ......"

Seeing that the distinguished guest spoke, the host master was not good at showing face to his son again.

But he still looked embarrassed: "Donor, you don't know something. Mr. Kazuki lives in this monastery, but he is not among the monks, and he is no different from me, and even if I am the presiding officer, I have no right to interfere in his private affairs. If you want to meet with him, I can only convey it on your behalf, and only after obtaining permission can I let the dog take you to his residence. ”

"Emiya, are you here to find Soichiro-sensei?"

After listening to their conversation, Yanagito Kazunari was a little surprised: "Wait, if you have something to discuss, why don't you just look for him at school?" Contact privately, aren't you afraid of being known by idle and boring guys, gossiping? ”

"We were afraid of misunderstanding, so we came to visit in private."

Emiya Kiritsugu said, "If you can, can you take us with you to meet Katsuki-sensei?" ”

"This ......"

Faced with Emiya Kiritsugu's request, Yanagito Kazunari hesitated a little and did not agree.

For some reason, when he looked at the black-haired young girl behind the other party, he always felt a boredom in his heart.

This kind of abnormal feeling made Yanagito Yisei's thinking speed a little slower.

"Please! Ishikasui. ”

Seeing this, Emiya Shirou folded his hands and said to his friend: "We have something very important, we must find Katsuki-sensei in private, if you don't mind, can you take us over?" ”

"Okay......"

Yanagito Kazunari exhaled a breath of turbidity.

To be honest, this request is not too much, and it is the request of his good friend Emiya Shirou, so he will not refuse.

However, Yanagito Kazunari still said his thoughts: "You guys wait a minute, I'll go and make a call to Soichiro's brother first." Only if he is willing to receive you, I will be my guide and lead you there. ”

"No problem."

Emiya Shirou agreed quickly: "Don't force anything." ”

Yanagito Kazunari, who had received a promise from his good friend, looked at his father, who was sitting next to him, and when he saw him nodding in agreement, he walked out of the main hall, and after a long time, he returned again.

"Let's go."

He had a smile on his face: "Brother Soichiro told me that he would wait in the room. ”

As he spoke, Yanagito Issei walked in the front, leading the way for Emiya Kiritsugu and others.

The group followed him along the cobblestone path, skirting several meditation rooms and a quaint garden before finally arriving at their destination at the back of the monastery.

Surrounded by half-withered and half-glorious pine trees, there are several old-style longhouses.

Arriving here, Yanagito Kazunari stopped, and it was clear that there was Soichiro Katsugi's residence in front of him.

But before he could call, the paper door, which was originally closed, slowly opened with a low sound......

It's afternoon, the sun is covered by dark clouds, and looking at the wide open door, the dark room, Yanagito Kazunari couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva. He felt very wrong! However, I can't say where this feeling comes from.

"It's a little strange, you guys wait a minute, I'll go see ......"

Yanagito Issei has the consciousness of being the host, so he naturally will not let the guests go to the danger.

However, just as he was about to move forward, a hand stopped in front of him.

"No, Yisei, for your safety, you'd better step back a little."

Emiya Shirou said lightly.

"Huh?"

He opened his mouth a little dazed.

But before he could speak, he saw that everyone kept walking, and one by one they passed him and walked straight into it.

Seeing this, Yanagito Issei was stunned.

In line with the consciousness of the owner of this place, he wanted to go in together, but after thinking about Emiya Shirou's words, he finally stood in place with Emiya Kiritsugu honestly, waiting for them to come out.

Emiya Shirou, Cú Chulainn, and Rin Tosaka walked into the room together.

Unlike what you see from the outside, the longhouse is not so dark, and a table lamp illuminates the indoor space.

Rin Tosaka's mouth opened wide: "Oh-"

As a living quarter, it is quite plain and does not look luxurious. On the whitewashed walls, except for a wooden bookshelf, there is only one hanging painting. One desk, two cushions, and no more furniture.

There is not even the most rudimentary cot here, and it can be seen from the traces of dragging under the desk that its owner, whenever he goes to bed at night, has to move his belongings aside, so that there is extra space

Occasionally to lay the floor.

Cú Chulainn glanced around the room and exclaimed, "It's just the ascetics of the East."

He could see that Soichiro Katsuki's daily life was so simple, ordinary, and boring.

A spoonful of food, a scoop of drink, not a monk, but living a poorer and more self-disciplined life than most monks.

Rin Tosaka was half curious, half sighed: "Teacher Soichiro, it's been so hard......"

She raised her little head, and finally stopped her gaze on the wall, her brows furrowed slightly, as if she was puzzled: "Speaking of which, why is there such a painting in the temple?"

The painting on the wall depicts a venomous snake coiled and hideous, with its fangs exposed, and it is very agile, as if it could pounce from the painting at any moment.

"Well, I know what it means."

Emiya Shirou explained to her, "Legend has it that the Buddha also went to the Shura Hell, but he was able to practice there in peace and his mind was not shaken."

"The composition of this room is pretty much the same thing."

He sighed slightly: "A person's spiritual cultivation has reached this level, even if the sharp blade has pierced the front of his eyelids, he will not blink an eye, and it can be called ten places without moving."

"I admit you have a point......"

Cú Chulainn was beside him, and he stopped talking, and he wanted to talk.

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the bookshelf on the side: "But how do you explain these?"

It is precisely because of the 'Zen' in the longhouse that people can find something else discordant: on the wooden bookshelves against the wall, in addition to the normal stacks of textbooks and teaching materials, there are also some small colorful things.

“…… A guy with such a cold face as Ge Mu can also collect figures? ”

Rin Tosaka, who was still in the form of a young girl, laboriously stepped on her feet and looked above the bookshelf.

There are a bunch of female swordsmen who are more than ten centimeters tall, wearing skirts and armor, holding long swords, and have a heroic posture?

Just when she was about to reach out and touch these dolls, an arm blocked her way.

"Little girl, don't move, there's a powerful spell attached to it."

As Ireland's son of light, a demigod and a half-human epic hero, Cú Chulainn himself is proficient in the magic of rune, even if he is a spearman, his vision is not bad at all: "This is a magic that only exists in the gods, and it is not a shame that a guy with the title of a witch can make such a delicate cursed puppet, if you don't look closely, it is difficult to tell." ”

"It's true that I can't see the specific effect, but it's not a good thing to think about......"

Emiya Shirou also looked at things above: "After all, it's Caster's residence, Rin, you better be cautious." ”

Receiving a reminder from the two, Rin Tosaka also felt a little scared.

Since she became younger, she was limited by the young girl's body, and her reflexes have also decreased a lot, in other words, she would never touch it indiscriminately in the magic workshop of a god-generation magician, which is simply a big death. Even if the other party is not a C-rank Heroic Spirit, but just an ordinary magician, the other party's magic workshop is extremely dangerous!

"It's too troublesome to wait for her to come out, so it's better to be more direct."

I don't know when, in the hand of Emiya Shirou, there is a majestic sword with a very wide blade!

Its blood-red blade exudes an inexplicable domineering aura.

- This is a demon knife!

Just by looking at it, Cú Chulainn's heart was enlightened.

This is a treasure that is not inferior to the spear in his hand.

"Do you have courage or ignorance?"

The wide open paper door was folded together, and intricate magic runes appeared on the floor and walls of the room.

As a cold female voice sounded, the two figures turned from virtual to real, and slowly appeared in the room: "The master and the servant, it's too arrogant to walk into my magic workshop with such a big grin!" You ......"

Before she finished speaking, a red knife light flashed through the room.

The magic enchantments, formations, and traps that had just been activated and had not yet had time to be activated were all shattered at this moment!

Even the two figures that had just appeared fell diagonally and turned into a series of bubbles.

Inside, smoke billowed from the house.

However......

Right now.

Two purple rays of light suddenly appeared from the thick smoke, and with a heavy sound of wind, like an erupting poisonous snake, they rushed straight towards Emiya Shirou's neck!

Is that......

Two fists!

Obviously, the figure just now is a projection created by magic to attract the attention of the enemy!

However, in the face of this sudden attack, neither Cu Chulainn nor Rin Tosaka's faces showed any expression of 'worry'.

In the next moment-

Emiya Shirou had already turned his head, staring faintly into the eyes of the sneak attacker.

(What...... ）

In an instant, in the sight of the sneak attacker, Emiya Shirou's eyes reflected a dark and cruel scene.

It was as if he saw the demons of hell smiling at him, the ghosts wailing in the oil pot, and the disgusting gathering of countless of the ugliest things.

(This is......!!! ）

In the past, he thought that he was not shocked, and there was nothing that could touch his heart, and he was tight.

At some point, Emiya Shirou had already stretched out his right hand, his fingers were clenched like lotus flowers, and turned into a fist, and at the same time, there was a loud 'dong dong' sound in his chest!

With the sound of his heart beating like a giant hammer smashing a drum, his fist instantly swelled in a circle, covered in blood, and began to rise and shrink.

It was as if he had suddenly turned into a heart, a placenta, with a clean, pure, vibrant aura, and with the dark and cruel aura of his body, like a holy lotus flower growing out of hell.

This is from another world, taught by the Illusory Shadow, one of the highest achievements of the True Yuan One Qi Martial Arts System-

Hell Soul Cleansing Sutra, Practice God Chapter: Hell Nirvana!

The next moment, the sneak attacker's fists had already slammed into the huge palm of Emiya Shirou's hand that spread out again.

Boom!

The sneak attacker only felt his fists, as if they were hitting the incomparably hard special alloy, his whole body was shocked, his whole body was full of qi and blood, his mouth was sweet, his throat was itchy, his ears were buzzing, and his nose was hot, as if blood was about to flow out.

Emiya Shirou didn't even throw a punch, and the shock alone almost made him lose his combat effectiveness, and this was still when he was blessed with enhanced magic!

Emiya Shirou sighed, his right hand changed back to its normal size, and said, "Mr. Katsugi, stop."

As the smoke cleared, the true face of the sneak attacker was revealed.

- It's a grizzled and dirty-faced, Sunichiro Katsugi in a suit!

Joke!

As the possession of an extraterritorial god, Emiya Shirou already has the power system of many worlds.

Even if the cultivation time is still short, its strength is definitely not something that ordinary people can imagine.

Proud as Gilgamesh, he did not dare to fight him in close combat, but wanted to kite in the distance!

Even Hercules, the madness mode with an infinite supply of mana, may not be able to suppress him in hand-to-hand combat!

If it weren't for Emiya Shirou reining in Zhenyuan Yiqi in time, let alone losing his combat effectiveness, it is estimated that Soichiro Katsugi would have been shocked to the point that he would have bled to death.

"Let him go—what!?"

The next moment, a panicked female voice sounded

In the ruins of the collapsed longhouse, as soon as the female heroic spirit in a robe and hood appeared, she was restrained by the weapon in her hand that had been incarnified and lurking around her!

"You ......"

Medea looked at the young man standing in front of her in embarrassment, speechless for a long time.

Even if she had overestimated the other party as much as possible, she didn't expect that the magic workshop that she had painstakingly built for many days and built with the help of 'position building' would be destroyed in an instant, and even the spiritual power of the connected leylines would not play a role.

The original plan to catch them all is no longer working, and now, it seems that the general trend has gone.

Most of the Heroic Spirits, in the form of Servants, high or low, will have the ability called 'Magical Power', and with the loss of the Magic Workshop, it is almost impossible for Caster to fight the Negative Servants on his own, and bring their Master. This is the innate disadvantage of the magician rank, not that her strength is not good.

Not to mention, this 'Master' seems to be even more powerful than the Heroic Spirit!

"Well, there's only one way left......

Caster's right hand, hidden in his robe, secretly tightened his grip on a wooden plaque engraved with a blood-colored pattern.

Now she is no longer thinking about killing all the enemies, but is carefully planning how to escape with the master: "It's really ironic, it was just a preparation for a rainy day, but I didn't expect it to come in handy." It's enough to transfer the guy who is attached to the mountain gate, even if it only lasts for a few minutes, right? ”

However, at the moment when her right hand was about to exert force and crush the wooden card, Cú Chulainn, who had been paddling beside her, had already pressed the spear piercing death thorn in her hand against her throat.

He changed his previous laziness, his eyes were sharp, and he said lightly: "Don't move."

Caster was silent.

Looking at the few people who came up together, between the lightning and flint, several thoughts flashed through her mind.

Ultimately......

Medea fell on her bow.

She fell to the ground, completely abandoning any resistance.

With pointed ears, long silver hair, and an open hood, there is a face that is extremely beautiful.

At this moment, she clenched her hands, and there was only a trace of nervousness in her blue eyes.

"I lost."

Caster said to Emiya Shirou, "As a loser, it's your freedom to do with me. But I hope you will let my master go, he is just an ordinary person, and he doesn't know anything about what I'm doing. ”

In fact, she doesn't think she's at the end of her rope.

But Medea really couldn't think of any other way to leave safely with the Master.

"Medea!"

Soichiro Katsugi tried to step forward, but was blocked by a barrier she had cast.

"Emiya! You ......"

At this moment, Yanagito Kazunari finally rushed in!

When he saw the rather poignant Medea standing in front of Soichiro Katsugi, he couldn't help but be a little nervous, and stepped forward: "Didn't you say that you have something to find Soichiro's brother?" What do you guys look like you're on edge. ”

At this moment, he forgot that he usually called Medea 'vixen'.

"Rest assured, we have no intention of disputes."

Emiya Shirou patted Yanagito Issei on the shoulder, signaling him to rest assured.

Next, he said to Medea, "Caster, I know who you are and what you are capable of, but we are not here to fight. We need your knowledge of magic, and when everything is done, I promise you to stay in this world as a human being—to stay with Soichiro-sensei. ”

"Huh...... Do you know this..."

She smiled wryly and asked, "How can you promise that you won't break the contract?"

Faced with an opponent who she didn't understand, but knew her completely, Medea didn't ask such stupid questions as what you want me to do.

"My strength is my guarantee. ”

Emiya Shirou said calmly: "If you stay in this world, will you be able to stir up any storms?"

Medea looked into his eyes and could feel that he was not lying.

"Really...... Incredibly confident ......"

"Since you know who I am, you should also know my title."

Medea said slowly: "You are not afraid, will I betray you?" ”

"You wouldn't make such a stupid choice......"

Emiya Shirou said, "If you're just one person, maybe I'll have some concerns. However, as long as Katsuki-sensei is still here, even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, you will never be able to take the risk. Strength is the guarantee we agreed on, if you really want to do something, you can give it a try. ”

"I see......"

Medea sighed, it seems that the other party's understanding of herself is really beyond imagination.

She let go of her wand and let it fall to the ground, then walked over to Soichiro Katsugi, gently lifted him up, and the two of them stood together in front of Shirou Emiya.

"Severnt Caster, follow the command."