Now, this tobacco smell like the smoke of the battlefield has once again appeared on Emiya Kiritsugu, which shows that the current Emiya Kiritsugu has undoubtedly changed back to the unscrupulous Emiya Kiritsugu a few years ago.

At that time, in order to win the Holy Grail War, the old patriarch of the Einzberen family took in Emiya Kiritsugu, making Emiya Kiritsugu the spouse of Alice Phil.

At that time, Emiya Kiritsugu was like a ruthless hound, and his whole body was filled with the smell of gunsmoke.

So at that time, Alice Phil, who was just an artificial person and didn't have much emotion, was very familiar with the smell of Emiya Kiritsugu.

While reminiscing about Emiya Kiritsugu's past, Alice Phil seems to be looking back on her own past.

I guess I've lived with Emiya Kiritsugu for at least nine years in the Einzberen family, but how much affection does Emiya Kiritsugu have for him? Does he see himself as a tool or does he see himself as a lover? Does he really love himself?

Thinking about these questions, Alice Fair's heart began to become restless, because she thought about it for a long time, but she could not come up with the answers to these questions.

Moreover, the closest person to the man of Emiya Kiritsugu now is not himself as a wife, but the woman named Maiya Kuyu......

Alice Fell looked at the silent female assistant with complicated eyes, but she was not stupid enough to share her thoughts and thoughts.

Calming her somewhat turbulent heart, Alice Phil asked Emiya Kiritsugu a question that had nothing to do with the moment.

“...... Didn't the Overseer of the Church say that before he gets rid of the eighth Immortal and restarts the Holy Grail War, he wants us to enter a truce with all enemy Immortals and masters except for the Eighth Immortal, shouldn't we follow this principle? ”

"Well, ignore the new rule, the church's overseer only offered compensation for enforcing the new rule, but didn't set down the penalties for violating the new rule."

Emiya Kiritsugu spat out a puff of white smoke rings from his mouth, and said after lifting his spirits for a while.

"So it's okay to break it once, and if the church overseers really want to trouble us because of this, we just pretend not to know about this rule, and there is no specific punishment anyway."

In a very different way of dealing with Saber, Emiya Kiritsugu answered Alice Phil's questions one by one.

"And I personally feel that the overseers of this war have always found unconvincing."

Emiya Kiritsugu picked up a piece of information that was placed on the table and handed it to Alice Phil to read.

"According to the information I gathered, it was the overseer of this church who pretended to know nothing and hid the assassin and the master of the assassin, so he can't be considered a neutral party, and he is also an accomplice of one of the seven contestants."

"It's very likely that he is in the same group as the Tosaka family, so let's not trust him for the time being until we find out the details of him, and be suspicious of him."

“......”

Looking at Saber, who was trembling with anger, Alice Phil had a lot of thoughts in her heart, and said something to Kiritsugu Emiya, but in the end she didn't let the words come out.

For a moment, everyone in this room fell into an eerie silence, only Emiya Kiritsugu flipped through the materials on the table from time to time, and there was still a little voice.

After a while, Emiya Kiritsugu felt that he had almost thought about it, and only then did he take this strange silence as a signal to end the battle meeting this time, and said.

"In that case, let's hold the battle meeting here first, and then Alice Phil and I will stay in the castle to prepare for the next operation, and Maiya will return to the city to continue gathering useful information. Tell me if anything changes. ”

"I see."

After listening to Emiya Kiritsugu's order, Maiya nodded without hesitation, got up from her chair, and walked quickly out of the conference room.

And Emiya Kiritsugu, who got up later, collected the maps and materials on the table, nodded at Alice Phil, and then left the conference room as well.

Until the end of this combat meeting, in the end, Emiya Kiritsugu did not look at Saber.

Saber, who was completely ignored by Emiya Kiritsugu, naturally felt uncomfortable in her heart, she bit her lip with some anger, and her holy green eyes stared at the carpet under her feet, not knowing what to think again.

At this time, only Alice Phil and Saber remained in the conference room, but at this moment, Alice Phil didn't know what words to use to comfort Saber, whose anger value had reached the full value.

However, Alice Fell knew that the dignified knight king Saber would not expect others to comfort her with innocuous words.

Now for Saber, it's not so much about giving

She had some comforting words, it was better to leave some personal space for Saber to let Saber think about it.

Thinking of this, Alice Phil put her hand on Saber's shoulder, patted her as a sign of gratitude, and immediately followed in the footsteps of Emiya Kiritsugu and left the conference room.

Saber was left alone in the conference room, caught in deep self-questioning, the golden bangs obscuring Saber's somewhat dull green eyes.

In fact, Emiya Kiritsugu ignored Saber's too deliberate disregard...... It's not just because the words of two people don't speculate, there are other reasons.

That is, Emiya Kiritsugu has extremely disgusted or resentful feelings for Saber.

What is embodied in the current Saber is what Emiya Kiritsugu firmly believed in when he was a teenager, and it is the naïve concept that the current Emiya Kiritsugu has abandoned.

Every time Emiya Kiritsugu looks at Saber's heroic figure, he remembers his naïve and stupid self, so he makes such a disregard for Saber in order to keep his eyes dry and his heart dirty.

However, Alice Phil felt that Emiya Kiritsugu had gone too far with Saber this time.

No matter how different the combat policies of these two men are, they are comrades fighting for the same goal, and although they don't necessarily have to respect each other, they can't insult each other.

Alice Phil quickly appeared after running out of the conference room.

Emiya Kiritsugu was standing on a balcony overlooking the front yard of the castle, leaning against the guardrail, looking out at the beautiful and dense forest.

To Alice Phil's relief, Emiya Kiritsugu did not have a figure of Kuyu Maiya by his side, otherwise Alice Phil would not know how to face him.

“...... Kiritsugu, you ......"

Alice Phil slowly walked behind Kiritsugu and shouted.

Alice Phil didn't expect her voice to become stern and unfamiliar after her voice came out, and Emiya Kiritsugu was aware of Alice Phil's existence because of this.

Emiya Kiritsugu seemed to have expected Alice Fell to chase after him, so he didn't show the slightest surprise and turned around slowly.

Alice Phil, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, thought that what she would face would be the cold look in her eyes when she confronted Emiya Kiritsugu and Saber in the conference room just now.

But when Alice Fell saw the expression on the face of Emiya Kiritsugu turning around, she couldn't help but feel a little at a loss and stood in place.

I saw that the expression on his face, which was still ruthless just now, suddenly became cowardly, like a wounded and helpless child, holding back tears.

At this time, Emiya Kiritsugu seemed to be forced into a dead end.

This Emiya Kiritsugu, who stands in front of Alice Phil, is far from the image of the powerful magician killer, just a powerless and cowardly man, but this is the husband Alice Phil is familiar with.

"Kiritsugu."

Although she still doesn't know what exactly happened, Alice Phil understands what Emiya Kiritsugu needs right now.

So Alice Phil stretched out her hands and embraced her husband, who was as helpless as a child.

Feeling Alice Phil's warm embrace, Emiya Kiritsugu's chest trembled, and he hugged Alice Phil hard, as if he wanted to show his inner emotions.

Because Emiya Kiritsugu's strength was too strong, it even made Alice Phil feel pain, but Alice Phil still empathetically endured Emiya Kiritsugu's rude treatment.

At this moment, Alice Field's ears suddenly heard her husband's faint questioning voice: "If I decide to leave everything behind and escape here at this moment...... Alice, will you leave with me? ”

Probably Alice Phil could never have imagined that a man like Kiritsugu Emiya would raise such a question of escape.

Therefore, Alice Fell was shocked, and was speechless for a while, and only after a while did she react, and asked in a low voice.

"Elia...... Our children are still in that castle, and what will we do if we run away? ”

"Then we will return to the castle and take her out. Anyone who stands in our way will be killed! ”

Emiya Kiritsugu replied in a short, crisp, yet desperate voice.

"From now on, I will give everything for our family and use my life to protect you and Elia, so the Holy Grail War or something...... Just give up. ”

From this tone, Alice Fell knew that Emiya Kiritsugu should not be joking, he was serious.

But can this idea really be realized?

Alice Fell looked at the side of Emiya Kiritsugu's face and was silent for a long time.

(To be continued)