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"What do you want to say?"

"They were taken away, by another you."

Kirei Kotomine directly revealed the whereabouts of Alice and Maiya.

Not long ago, the Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu suddenly appeared, stopped Hisamu Maiya from killing Kirei Kotomine, and then took Irisviel and Hisamu Maiya away.

Although Kirei Kotomine believed that even if Kiritsugu didn't appear, Hisau Maiya wouldn't be able to kill him, because there were always several assassins lurking around him, their presence concealed. If Hisau Maiya really wanted to fire a shot, he would definitely be killed by the assassins before he could even fire.

"Why tell me?"

Kiritsugu Emiya paused slightly, then coldly questioned Kirei Kotomine.

Why did you participate in the Holy Grail War?

Kirei Kotomine did not answer, but instead asked Kiritsugu Emiya a question.

You don't need to know.

Kiritsugu Emiya didn't answer Kirei Kotomine's question; he simply turned and left, as the question wasn't worth answering.

Kirei Kotomine was clearly not satisfied with Kiritsugu Emiya's answer.

"What if I told you where the other you took those two women?"

Kiritsugu Emiya stopped, raised his hand, and aimed his gun at Kirei Kotomine.

"Tell me where they were taken."

217. Kiritsugu: I'm sorry, I've come at the wrong time.

Irisviel had a dream.

In her dream, she saw the life of a man named Emiya Kiritsugu.

His father was hunted by the Magic Association, and he had to follow his father around from a young age, constantly on the run, until they arrived at a small island in Southeast Asia, where they lived a peaceful life in a place with little communication with the outside world.

However, due to an accident, his father's experiment led to a disaster, turning all the residents of the island into ghouls. In order to prevent his father from conducting experiments again and causing more tragedies, he chose to kill his father.

After killing his father, he was adopted by his teacher and trained to be an assassin. During a chase of an illegal magician, the ghoul disaster struck again. To prevent the ghoul disaster from spreading, he had no choice but to use a rocket launcher to destroy the plane carrying his teacher, killing his teacher with his own hands.

Overwhelmed with grief after killing his loved ones, Kiritsugu Emiya conceived a strange idea: he would save this sick world!

So he married into the Einzbern family and became the Einzbern family's representative in the Fourth Holy Grail War.

He summoned King Arthur, Saber, and then had Saber and Irisviel act as the master and servant on the surface, while secretly leading Hisayu Maiya to assassinate the enemy's master.

But the result was completely different from what he had imagined.

On the first day, Saber injured her left hand due to underestimating her opponent. Unable to wield her sword with both hands, Saber's combat power was greatly reduced, and she was even unable to use her Noble Phantasm. After that, she encountered the attacks of Caster and Berserker. The original Berserker turned out to be Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table under King Arthur.

After Kiritsugu Emiya finally managed to get Lancer out of the game, Saber was finally able to use her Noble Phantasm to kill Berserker. However, due to Saber's carelessness, Irisviel was kidnapped, and Maiya Hisau died at the hands of Kirei Kotomine. Only Saber was left by Kiritsugu Emiya's side, but Saber disagreed with Kiritsugu Emiya and refused to obey his orders.

As a result, in the final battle, Saber was no match for the powerful Archer, and Kiritsugu Emiya lost this Holy Grail War.

Having lost the Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya was naturally unable to fulfill his wish. He returned to the Einzbern family, wanting to take Illya away, but was refused by the Einzbern family because Illya, like Irisviel, was also a vessel for the Holy Grail, and like Irisviel, she was a Lesser Grail that connected to the Greater Grail.

Just when Kiritsugu Emiya thought he had no hope of rescuing Illya in this lifetime, the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki started again ten years later.

The Holy Grail War, which should only take place once every sixty years, can be held again after only ten years.

Filled with both doubt and hope, Kiritsugu Emiya was chosen by the Holy Grail to participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War, and this time he once again summoned Saber.

Kiritsugu Emiya loathed the resurrected Saber, but in order to fulfill his wish and rescue Illya, he had no choice but to continue cooperating with her, since Illya was also representing the Einzbern family in this Holy Grail War.

Kiritsugu Emiya had devised a series of plans, even one that would allow him to win without Saber, but the outcome of the Holy Grail War once again surprised him.

Gilgamesh, the Archer of the Fourth Holy Grail War, did not return to the Throne of Heroes. Instead, he has existed in this world for the past ten years. He obtained a new body using the power of the Holy Grail and can exist independently without the need for his Master to provide magic power!

Archer's power once again shattered the balance of the Holy Grail War. In front of Kiritsugu Emiya, he seized Illya, who was the Lesser Grail, killed the Berserker summoned by Illya, and even pulled out Illya's heart in front of Kiritsugu Emiya, summoning the Holy Grail. Kiritsugu Emiya was completely powerless to stop him.

This was the first time Kiritsugu Emiya had seen the Holy Grail. However, the Holy Grail was completely different from what he had imagined. The Holy Grail, which was said to be able to grant wishes, had been corrupted by the malice carried by the Avenger Angra Mainyu, who was accidentally summoned by the Einzbern family during the Third Holy Grail War. Such a Holy Grail would not save the world, but would only destroy it!

His long-held wish and expectation, after sacrificing Irisviel, Illya, and Hisau Maiya, only resulted in a malicious outcome!

At that moment, Kiritsugu Emiya collapsed. He realized how foolish it was to place his hopes on the so-called Holy Grail.

His dream changed at that moment. It was no longer about changing the world, but about saving those who had sacrificed themselves because of his foolish wishes. He wanted to save Irisviel, Illya, and Hisayuu Maiya, to change the fate of these innocent people who had been sacrificed, and to kill himself for causing those around him to sacrifice themselves because of his ignorant naivety!

The malice within the Holy Grail seemed to sense his desire to kill him, and it frantically pounced on him. In that instant, he absorbed the malice from the Holy Grail, and driven by his powerful inner obsession, he devoured the Avenger within the Holy Grail, becoming the new Avenger in human form! That is, his current white-haired appearance.

Subsequently, Kiritsugu Emiya, who became a Servant, made a wish to the Holy Grail: to return to the Fourth Holy Grail War ten years prior, to personally kill his foolish self, and then save everything around him!

"Kiritsugu...."

Irisviel woke up from her dream and couldn't help but call out Kiritsugu's name.

"Madam, you've woken up."

Hisayu Maiya's face came into Irisviel's view.

"Maimi".

Irisviel sat up and looked around.

"Maimi, where am I?"

"This is Ryudo-ji Temple on Mount Enzo."

"Ryuudou Temple?"

Irisviel recalls Kiritsugu's memories that Ryudouji Temple was the Caster's base in the next Holy Grail War.

"Kiritsugu brought us here, saying that this is where the Greater Grail is located."

Maiya answered Irisviel's question.

"The Greater Grail? That's right, the Greater Grail! Kiritsugu wants it..."

"I know!"

"You know it too?"

Mai nodded affirmatively.

"Yes, I've seen Kiritsugu's life too."

"I never imagined that the truth about the Holy Grail would be like this, and that Kiritsugu had such a tragic past."

Irisviel clasped her hands together, feeling sorry for Kiritsugu.

"Madam, is the Holy Grail really as Kiritsugu remembers it?"

"The history of the Third Holy Grail War..."

Irisviel remained silent.

"It seems true."

"In other words, the Holy Grail has been corrupted, and that thing is completely incapable of fulfilling Kiritsugu's wishes."

Hisayu Maiya clenched her fists. After doing so much, she never expected it would all be a lie.

"It's alright, there's still time. We were brought here by Kiritsugu, right? Since he brought us here, he must have a way to solve the Holy Grail problem, right?"

Irisviel comforted Hisayu Maiya.

"Where is Kiritsugu?"

"He was at the entrance of the temple."

Irisviel got out of bed and followed Maiya out of the room into the courtyard of Ryudou Temple.

This magical temple, whose floor tiles can withstand EX-level Noble Phantasms, is now very quiet. The monks are all sleeping peacefully in their rooms, completely unaware of the activity taking place in the courtyard.

Following the courtyard, they arrived at the entrance of Ryudou Temple, the ancient temple's main gate. Irisviel looked at the gate, remembering that in Kiritsugu's memory, ten years later, a man named Sasaki Kojiro would guard it.

Now, the one in charge of guarding it is not Sasaki Kojiro, but Emiya Kiritsugu.

The Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu, with his head full of pale white hair, sat alone on the steps in front of the Ryudouji Temple gate, his back to Irisviel.

Watching the departing figure of the Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu, Irisviel recalled the contents of her dream and felt the sorrow that Kiritsugu Emiya had felt as he faced the continuous departure of those around him. Irisviel couldn't help but feel sad as well.

She walked behind Kiritsugu, put her arms around his shoulders from behind, and leaned against his back.

"Ellie."

[Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu] felt Irisviel's embrace.

"Kiritsugu, you've worked hard."

[Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu] sat on the steps in front of the mountain gate, with Irisviel embracing him from behind, while Hisayu Maiya stood behind them, watching them with satisfaction.

This scene looks wonderful.

only.....

"..."

Seeing Irisviel gently holding [Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu], Emiya Kiritsugu, who had just climbed up the mountain from the bottom, fell silent.

218. You are not Emiya Kiritsugu at all!

At the entrance to Ryudouji Temple, Kiritsugu Emiya stood on the steps below, watching Irisviel embracing the Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu at the entrance, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

After learning from Kirei Kotomine that the Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu had captured Irisviel and Maiya Hisau, he didn't think the Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu would harm them, but he still wanted to find them.

After exchanging a few perfunctory words with Kirei Kotomine, that mentally unstable man, Kirei Kotomine told Kiritsugu Emiya the direction Irisviel had been taken away from—or rather, it was Kirei Kotomine who deliberately made Kirei Kotomine tell him that.

But the current situation made him feel that he had come somewhat superfluously.

But since he was already there, he couldn't help but speak up.

"Ellie."

When Irisviel heard someone call her name, she looked up and saw Kiritsugu Emiya staring at her.

"Kiritsugu!"

Alice paused for a moment, then quickly released her grip on [Heroic Spirit Kiritsugu].

"I...."

To be honest, Irisviel felt quite embarrassed for a moment.

Even though she was holding Kiritsugu, Irisviel felt a pang of guilt when Kiritsugu saw her. Why was that? How strange, even though it was Kiritsugu.

Kiritsugu Emiya didn't say anything to Irisviel. After she released her grip on Kiritsugu, he turned his gaze to him. He noticed that when he looked at Kiritsugu, the corners of Kiritsugu's mouth turned up slightly, but he quickly looked away.