() "If we were going to die...if all of us were going to die, I believe it would definitely not be today! Because we are all fighting desperately, we will never die here!"
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"Don't worry, we will definitely be able to survive... We must survive. We have been burdened with too many things, and there are too many things that have not yet been resolved. Even if we fight desperately, even if we are so hungry that we eat shit to survive, we will still be able to survive."
You must live!"
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"Soldiers, get ready to fight! Let the bugs know that we humans are not a vegetarian race. Let these damn bugs remember... On this mountain, we fought bravely!"
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"Let's go! Zheng Zha! Let's go quickly!"
"No - Wang Xia! If you run first, you will die in close combat with the bugs. Believe me...this is an order!"
At night, Shirou returned to his home after bandaging, and then Rin and Felicia sat in the living room.
"Rher, what's going on at Liudong Temple?"
"It's very strange. The gate guard that was supposed to be there is missing. There are traces of the presence of the ster in the temple, but the ster is not there. Even the temple has been removed. It seems that the position has been moved."
"Move the position? How is this possible? There is one of the best positions there, and the ster has the ability to form positions, how is it possible?"
"So it's weird...and I also discovered a bunch of bugs and a black shadow that appeared there. I killed the bugs and the black shadow disappeared all of a sudden. I even suspected it was my imagination."
"Insects... It seems that the only ones who use insects as familiars are the Matou family, but their generation of magicians have no magic circuits at all? How can you describe that black shadow with such a simple description?"
"I just saw him once, and he ran away quickly..."
"Forget it, ster escaped anyway, I don't know if the one today is ssssn or rer... I have a headache!"
"Rin, are you still going out tonight?"
"Tonight? Forget it, I used up a lot of magic power today. I have to go to class tomorrow, so I won't go out."
"Okay, remember to take a good rest, Rin."
"Good night."
"Good night."
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Late at night, Ryudong Temple——
After Felicia arrived in the afternoon, the place became inhabited.
The people at the hospital took away the people who were unconscious due to unknown illnesses, so the temple became empty.
"───Tsk, it smells so strong. It even hurts my nose."
There was a sound in that man's temple.
Under the moonlight, there is a tall and thin green figure.
A muscular body without a trace of fat, carrying a bright red spear.
It’s lner——
lner patrolled the temple with ease, holding the vermilion spear tightly in his hand.
He is a servnt who mainly does spying and surveillance.
Although I don't want to do it, if Master orders it like this, there is nothing I can do.
His policy is to obey the instructions of the order, do what is required and come to the conclusion. Bster has a contract, so he cannot fight according to his own wishes.
This time's order is no exception, it is to reconnoiter Ryudong Temple.
"Chi chi chi chi, it's really noisy. Although as far as I know, the ster is a maid, but after all, she is still a woman full of moisture. Spiders, leeches, there are so many like this───"
Walking around the temple.
His steps were not guarded at all, not what a servnt should look like.
"There are only tiny bugs here. Building nests in the Lord's abandoned house and eating them is a common tactic you use."
lner's evil deeds have not stopped at all.
"But there's even this one. I don't know where it came from. Ha, even if it looks like a big spider, it's not just a dirty sandworm. Ah, it's really annoying. Why do I have to come?
In a place like this, spying on such a slutty guy,───ugh!”
────A flash of silver light.
In the darkness──the three weapons released from the chaos were swung away by lner with one sweep.
He was shot with a long gun and the murder weapon stuck to the ground was a short sword.
It was not used to cut people, but was made into a throwing dagger mainly used for sniping.
He pointed exactly at Lner's eyes and throat as the target, and threw it out at high speed.
"────Good skill. However, there won't be a second time, Sandworm, taking people's lives without even saying hello. This alone is enough to kill you with a thousand knives."
The tall, green figure faced the darkness.
In the dark hall, you can faintly see a skull as pale as the moon smiling.
───The fight started without even saying a word about fighting.
The pale skull made a strange sound and attacked lner.
lner didn't even frown and faced the enemy's surprise attack.
At this extremely close distance, the dagger released by the skull was extremely powerful.
The number that flew out of the darkness was actually thirty.
But all those things were turned back by lner as if it were true.
“Ji────?”
The skull stopped.
Because it's really weird.
No matter how good a spearman lner is, he can't defend himself against the Skull's Dagger, which uses acupoint acupuncture.
Moreover, the opponent still wields a long weapon.
Did he release his dagger from the gap created when the spear was swung, and sniped at the opponent's blind spot, but all of it was deflected away?
"Hey, I wonder if that's all you have?"
lner's momentum changed.
He stopped and his hostility, which was originally just for observing the skull, turned into murderous intent.
"Although I don't know who you are──Hey, you'll know if you take off that mask."
────The dagger flew out of the darkness.
Intertwined with lner who rushed towards the skull, and then returned to pursue the high-speed sweep───!
That was also blocked.
The tip of the spear shook slightly, and Lner turned the impossible flying sword into effect with just one glance.
"grumble!"
The skull's mask trembled.
lner blocked the flying sword's spear, then took advantage of the situation and turned it from his hand, whirring, drawing a beautiful arc and piercing the lower jaw of the attacking skull.
Defense and counterattack.
The action is done in one go, completely at the same time.
The skull that pounced on him was completely unable to defend itself.
────The white mask fell to the ground.
lner did not continue the pursuit.
The order he received was only to observe the enemy.
Even though this was an excellent opportunity to kill, he didn't have the authority to take action.
"───Idiot. Didn't I tell you before that throwing props is useless to me. If you don't listen to the advice, you are asking for it."
The spear head was retracted, and lner observed the enemy who was hiding his true appearance.
Black body.
The right wrist wrapped in a bandage.
The face hidden by the pale skull mask is hidden in the darkness and cannot be clearly seen.
No, that face should be said to have no features, no concave and convex curves at all.
"Ji───lner, you saw my face."
"You're right, servnt, feel free to report that you are the hero there."
"───Ka. I see, you have unnecessary restraints. No wonder you didn't kill me."
The servnt, shrouded in shadow, stepped back.
Holding the throwing dagger in his hand, he turned to lner without murderous intent.
"Stop it, I am born with the ability to activate flying weapons fired by opponents that I can see.
Plus, it's not a Noble Phantasm, so throwing it from that distance is useless to me."
"!──Liar, Liu Ya's protection, huh? Damn it, he is indeed a famous heroic spirit."
The shadow wavered.
The black seservnt lay on the ground like a spider, releasing its dagger and jumping into the air.
A servnt who hides his face and runs away can only run as fast as lner.
Of course lner also used instant explosive power to follow him without letting go.
He has forced the enemy into a desperate situation, and it is impossible to waste time.
"──Although it did stab him in the throat, he is still very stubborn. He has no intention of treating him. Oops, he must have used the medicine all at once───"
The enemy is gliding across the water like a water spider, and lner is following behind.
Although the splashing water creates a sharp contrast with the enemy, its speed is not as fast as the water spider-like ssssn.
"Tsk, even the pain can't make him stop, so it would be better to cut him off from the root. Because he is not as versatile as other opponents, the next thing will take a while───"
The opponent of the heroic spirit cannot be expected to die from excessive bleeding.
For them, who do not use blood but magic power as their main power, cutting off the main arteries has very little effect and is considered a second-rate method.
"That's ridiculous. Even if you rely on medicine, heroic spirits still don't have the ability to heal. You have to finish off the next wave of attacks────"
Running like a gust of wind, sprays of water flying in all directions.
There are still two seconds until the next wave of attacks.
He stopped and flashed towards the left thigh of the fleeing water spider───
"────!"
In an instant, lner jumped away from the water.
──The water surface jumped.
No, it's something lurking in the water that sticks out its fangs.
Something dark and thin chased lner who jumped into the air.
This kind of thing can happen on the water surface too.
That appearance reminds people of ancient sea beasts that live in the deep sea.
"───────This, is it?"
lner has retreated.
He quickly poked the spear into the water, carved all the rune* characters on the bottom of the lake, and opened the barrier, but it was easily eaten away.
He was surrounded by black tentacles, and the space he could stand on was constantly shrinking.
Even the full protection of Rune, which can withstand a blow from a high-level Noble Phantasm, cannot stop its tentacles.
That's───
"How about it, lner. If you don't move, you will be swallowed."
The spidersssssn floating on the water laughed.
"What a pity. It's me who wants to defeat you. I don't have enough experience. As long as I defeat you, I can make up for my lack of intelligence." The water spider's dagger flashed.
The weapon was released towards the moving lner, but unfortunately it just became a throw.
That makes sense.
Even if he is surrounded by strange demonic hands, throwing weapons is still ineffective against lner.
"──You're a guy who doesn't learn his lesson. Hey, but I know you've become tougher."
lner observed the demonic hands around him.
Although I was lured quite far inside, I was only thirty meters away from the other side.
At this distance──you can jump across it with an easy jump!
"You lose if you can't move there. I've observed enough, so I'll end the retreat."
lner's body sank and his spear bent greatly.
Using the spear as support, lner jumped up in one breath.
"What──?"
He looked at his chest in surprise.
The heart was taken out——
From an impossible moment, away from the water, ssssn directly dug out the spearman's chest.
The purest magic, the most simplified spell.
Strengthened only for cursing people, the cursed hand of Middle Eastern magic.
────ssssn’s Noble Phantasm, Delusion Heart Sound.
───The spearman's body lost its power and fell on the black water.
The water surface is churning.
Impatiently, ferociously, roughly.
───Things with black hands and feet were the only ones that could be counted, digesting humanoid heroic spirits.
Floating on the black lake, a faceless servnt,
While looking at the scene in front of him happily, he swallowed the heart dug out from the prey with satisfaction.