Bee woo! Bee woo!
Watching the departing ambulance, Archer silently turned and left, heading towards the Emiya residence.
Just now, she had sensed the residual presence of Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou here.
Based on her speculation, it was likely that a Servant had suddenly attacked the Matou household.
As a result, Zouken Matou, the head of the family, had died in the sudden assault, while Sakura Matou had survived for some unknown reason.
Now, he had to go to the Emiya residence to confirm whether Sakura Matou was injured, and then prepare for what was to come.
From beginning to end, Archer had not forgotten the wish that had caused him to be summoned and return to this era.
Night, Emiya residence.
Inside the kitchen, Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou were cheerfully preparing dinner, while Artoria sat at the dining table, watching the two in front of her.
Whenever she wanted to ask if they needed her help, Sakura Matou would turn her head and look at her, her purple eyes filled with a strange light.
Seeing this, Artoria could only helplessly give up the idea and sit at the table, waiting for dinner to be served.
"Hmm?"
The next second, Artoria suddenly raised her head and looked towards the top of a tall building outside the window, her eyes instantly becoming sharp, like a lion king surveying his territory.
"Was it just my imagination?"
A few seconds later, Artoria looked at the empty rooftop, her tone tinged with uncertainty.
Just now, she had suddenly felt a gaze staring at this side from that direction, but when she looked over, she found nothing.
"Saber, what's wrong?"
Shirou Emiya, who had just placed a dish in front of Artoria, followed her gaze out the window.
In the dark night, only the distant neon lights were still flickering, and he couldn't see anything unusual at all.
"It's nothing, maybe I'm just too nervous."
Artoria shook her head, a delicate smile appearing on her face, thinking that she was just a little on edge because her magic power had not yet recovered from the previous consumption.
But in reality, on the back of the high-rise that Artoria had just looked at, Archer expressionlessly looked at the flickering neon lights in front of him, but the streets of Fuyuki City were unusually deserted.
It was he who had been secretly observing the situation at the Emiya residence earlier.
Now he had confirmed Sakura Matou's safety.
With Shirou Emiya and Artoria's protection, she should be able to survive this Holy Grail War safely.
Then, the next step was to fully prepare to kill Shirou Emiya.
According to his memory, in this Holy Grail War, Caster Medea's Noble Phantasm, Rule Breaker, possessed the ability to break the contract between Servants and Masters.
And as Archer, even after leaving his Master, he had enough magic power to last for three days.
This period of time was the best opportunity for him to kill Shirou Emiya.
But the problem was that the current Caster was not Medea from his memory, but Lu Minghao, an anomaly who had never appeared in his memory, and had even become Rin Tohsaka's Servant.
Although Archer knew that the hope was slim, he still had to pay a visit to Souichirou Kuzuki, Medea's second Master in his memory, to see if Medea had truly become a Master in this Holy Grail War as in his memory.
If so, Archer would find a way to have her use her Noble Phantasm to break his contract.
However, if he couldn't find Medea, then Archer would have to readjust his plan, after all, this time his Master, Shinji Matou, was a restless fellow, and Archer wasn't confident that he could kill Shirou Emiya with that guy as his Master.
Just in time, while Shinji Matou was being treated as mentally ill and injected with sedatives in the hospital, Archer had to find a way to solve his own problem first.
Ensuring that Sakura Matou would still be safe after the Holy Grail War was about to end and without Shirou Emiya and Artoria's protection, Archer would not hesitate to kill Shirou Emiya and fulfill his dream...
To prevent himself from becoming a ridiculous hero of justice.
For his dream, Archer had already prepared to kill Shinji Matou if he failed to find Medea.
As for the idea that a hero of justice should not take other people's lives at will, Archer would only find it ridiculous.
This so-called hero of justice of his was already covered in blood, the kind that could never be washed away.
"I'll go to Ryuudou Temple first."
Archer stood up and looked towards the edge of Fuyuki City, which was one of the places where the ley lines of Fuyuki City converged, and where Souichirou Kuzuki, whom he was looking for, lived.
More than ten minutes later, Archer's figure appeared outside the dark gates of Ryuudou Temple.
Looking at the closed gate in front of him, Archer subconsciously became vigilant.
In his memory, Medea, as Caster, had used the huge ley lines of Ryuudou Temple to summon a Servant beyond the norm.
Although it was a fictional Servant, his swordsmanship had reached a level that transcended space.
"It's not here?"
A few seconds later, Archer, who had not found any signs of the enemy, frowned.
This was bad news for him, but with the idea that since he was already here, he had to take a look, Archer directly crossed the gate and entered Ryuudou Temple.
Three minutes later, a room that had been cleaned spotlessly, with only a few essential pieces of furniture, appeared in front of Archer, and in the center of the room, on a futon, lay one of his targets, Souichirou Kuzuki.
Moreover, Archer did not find any traces of Medea on him.
As for the well-honed body and the faint murderous aura surrounding him, these were just Souichirou Kuzuki's self-abilities as a top-level retired assassin.
By the way, after retiring as an assassin, Souichirou Kuzuki had chosen to become a teacher.
It must be said that this school was really full of outstanding people.
Four of the seven Masters in the Holy Grail War were students and teachers in the same school.
"Looks like I have to change my plan."
Finally, Archer glanced at Souichirou Kuzuki, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and chose to leave.
Since the other party was no longer a Master, then he had no reason to harm him.
As for the identity of the assassin, this so-called hero of justice of his had killed many more people than the other party.
"...An unknown powerful existence?"
After Archer left, Souichirou Kuzuki, who was lying on the bed, slowly opened his eyes and muttered to himself, looking at the place where Archer had been before.
As a top-level assassin, he had sensed the other party not long after Archer entered the room.
However, his assassin's instinct told him that the guy in front of him was a completely irresistible monster, and he himself had no hostility towards him, so Souichirou Kuzuki chose to continue to pretend to sleep.
In his opinion, no matter who this monster who suddenly came to him was, since he had no hostility, then he would not investigate further.
Now he just wanted to live the rest of his life peacefully as a teacher.
.........
"With this, the preparations are almost complete."
Late at night, after leaving Ryuudou Temple, Archer found a suitable place to set up various backup plans.
If nothing unexpected happened, his Master, Shinji Matou, would die without pain.
"Next, that guy should wake up soon and will definitely use the Command Seal to forcibly summon me back."
Boom!
Just as Archer was waiting for Shinji Matou, who was waking up, to use a Command Spell to forcibly summon him, a sudden, loud roar erupted. Instinctively, Archer dashed to the top of a tall building and looked in the direction of the explosion.
"Rin and that anomaly...they're fighting Lancer."
From atop the high building, Archer, with his powerful eyesight, clearly saw the two sides engaged in battle. The explosion just now was the large fireball that Lu Minghao launched at Cú Chulainn, and there were at least hundreds more such fireballs swirling in the sky.
"What a reckless guy!"
Looking at the numerous fireballs swirling in the sky, just one had already collapsed a tall building. If those fireballs in the sky were to fly out again, Archer could already imagine the scene. Although it wouldn't destroy the entire Fuyuki City,
at least a third of Fuyuki City would be reduced to ruins, and tens of thousands of humans would die in the aftermath.
Out of instinct, Archer projected his longbow, intending to stop Lu Minghao and Cú Chulainn's battle, but the next second, Archer noticed that the scenery before him began to change rapidly. In the blink of an eye, he had appeared from the nighttime rooftop into a pure white hospital room.
And before him, Shinji Matou was completely bound, his mouth stuffed with something, writhing on the bed like a maggot.
When he saw Archer appear, Shinji Matou immediately became agitated, his body twisting forcefully on the bed, his eyes fixed on Archer, even causing the bed beneath him to creak.
"Doctor, that patient in room 103 is starting again."
"Ah, he's really pitiful. It seems the shock of suddenly losing his family was too much for the young man. I'll give him another sedative."
Hearing the voices in the hallway outside the door, Shinji Matou struggled even more violently. He had just woken up and found himself lying in the hospital, surrounded by several nurses and doctors comforting him.
At that time, Shinji Matou began struggling to escape, but as an ordinary person without the bloodline of a magus, he was quickly pinned down on the bed by several burly nurses.
Then, finally remembering that he had a Servant, Shinji Matou unhesitatingly chose to use a Command Spell to summon Archer, then raised his head, the corners of his mouth turned up forty-five degrees, looking like a 'Dragon King' with a crooked smile, and began ordering the nurses and doctors in front of him to release him, or they would be sorry.
However, the doctor judged that Shinji Matou's appearance was due to the overwhelming shock, and he had begun to hallucinate and escape from reality.
He directly had the nurse stuff something in his mouth, both to prevent him from shouting and to prevent Shinji Matou from impulsively biting off his tongue and committing suicide. Of course, the doctor wasn't worried about Shinji Matou dying in the hospital.
It was because one of his patients had once believed the nonsense about biting off his tongue to commit suicide, and as a result, he had ruthlessly bitten off his tongue, not only successfully turning himself into a mute, but also experiencing extreme pain, without successfully dying.
Finally, the doctor stood in front of that patient's bed and explained to him from a medical perspective that biting off one's tongue was not enough to cause fatal injury, especially when the patient was in a hospital and could receive treatment at any time.
Clang!
The next second, as the nurse pushed open the door, the cold wind coming out awakened the doctor from his memories, but after seeing the situation in front of him clearly, the sedative in the doctor's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and the nurse's piercing scream rang out at the same time.
"Patient 103 jumped out of the window and committed suicide!"
"Huh!"
Looking at the nurse running out, the doctor bent down to pick up the sedative on the ground, and looked at the broken bandage on the bed in front of him and the window that was mostly smashed, helplessly sighed and walked to the window to look down.
"Huh?"
Looking at the empty ground below, and the nurses surrounding it without any corpse, the doctor raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, the situation below was still the same as before... What was going on?
"Could it be that I encountered a monster?"
.......
.......
On the other side, Shirou Emiya, who had rescued Shinji Matou, didn't know that his actions had already made the doctor suspect that he had saved a monster today. He simply threw Shinji Matou into an abandoned unfinished building after finding one.
"Cough cough, Archer, couldn't you have been a little gentler? It hurts!"
After rolling around on the ground a few times, Shinji Matou, covered in dust and abrasions, got up and glared at Archer, shouting angrily. Didn't this guy know that he was the master? How dare he treat him like this?
"Master, rather than such things, you should be more worried about being killed by other Masters and Servants. Haven't you forgotten what happened today?"
"What happened today... Archer, do you mean that the thing that blew up my house today was done by a Servant? He wants to kill me?"
Hearing Archer's words, Shinji Matou's face immediately panicked. He didn't know that his house was blown up entirely because Lu Minghao ran to kill Old Man Matou. Shinji Matou also didn't know that his grandfather was actually one of the Masters.
In the end, he concluded that the Servant who blew up his house today was actually there to kill him.
"Yes."
Facing Shinji Matou's misunderstanding, Archer nodded expressionlessly. He said this deliberately to lead Shinji Matou to think of this as a Servant attacking him, to make him believe that he was in danger. Only in this way could the next plan go more smoothly.
"A... Archer... What should I do? I don't want to die!"
After receiving Archer's confirmation, Shinji Matou no longer cared about the fact that the other party had just thrown him away, and ran to his side in a panic, begging for help.
"Don't worry, I've already made preparations. This place has been set up with various defenses. Next, as long as you stay here obediently, you'll be safe."
"But... Archer, you alone..."
"Bringing victory to the Master is the reason for my existence. Next, you just need to wait patiently."
"Then I'll leave it to you, Archer."
Hearing Archer say that he could do it alone and that he could safely stay here and wait to receive the Holy Grail, an undisguised smile immediately appeared on Shinji Matou's face. He patted Archer on the shoulder, looking like he was entrusting everything to him.
Then, he swaggered around, looking around. A gust of cold wind blew through the dark unfinished building, and the wailing sound frightened Shinji Matou, causing him to shiver unconsciously.
"Master, there is food and water prepared for you over there, and there is also a room to stay in."
"That's great!"
As soon as he heard that he didn't have to stay here, Shinji Matou immediately ran towards the place Archer pointed. After opening the door, a room with only a bed and a TV, and a corner piled with instant noodles and water, appeared.
Looking at everything in front of him, Shinji Matou unconsciously showed a disgusted expression, intending to have Archer change it for him.
But when he walked out of the room, he found that Archer had disappeared. Facing the dark unfinished building, Shinji Matou finally chose to return to the room, at least there was a TV and a bed here.
