Chapter 145 Irisviel

Qin Chuan has absolutely no connection to God. If you had to pinpoint a connection, his only link to God is that he impersonated the God of Destruction's agent in front of King Kai.

Even if we take that into account, he's impersonating a god from the Dragon Ball world. What does the divinity of your Type-Moon world have to do with him?

Even without any enhancement to divinity, the Chains of Heaven are an extremely powerful restraint for ordinary heroic spirits—but for Qin Chuan, they have virtually no effect.

"Don't move, Gilgamesh, it will be over soon."

Ignoring the golden chains binding him, Qin Chuan narrowed his eyes, and "Blackbird" suddenly reached out and grabbed Gilgamesh's ID body tightly.

"Damn it! What is that?!"

Unable to see his Stand, Gilgamesh felt as if his body was being held tightly by an invisible force, preventing him from breaking free.

He raised his right hand, attempting to summon his most powerful weapon—Ea—from his Gate of Babylon, but soon found himself powerless.

He looked down and saw that his lower body seemed to have been forcibly eaten away by something and was gradually disappearing.

Moreover, the power that was consuming his body was spreading upwards little by little—soon, Gilgamesh's abdomen and chest also began to disappear.

Qin Chuan, who was standing to the side, could see it clearly: the "black bird" was feeding, and Gilgamesh's body was being slowly devoured by the black bird's shadow, starting from below.

"You...you bastard, how could I possibly be with someone like you, a guy of unknown origin..."

Even with his body severely damaged, Gilgamesh still managed to hurl a curse at Qin Chuan.

Finally, "Blackbird" took a step forward, burying Gilgamesh's head in its own shadow, completely obliterating Gilgamesh in the basement.

With Gilgamesh's death, the Chains of Heaven binding Qin Chuan shattered.

But the Chains of Heaven belonging to Gilgamesh shattered, while the Chains of Heaven belonging to Qin Chuan were reborn—as Gilgamesh was devoured, Qin Chuan also sensed new abilities.

Now, Qin Chuan can also release Gilgamesh's "Gate of Babylon," which contains many useful Noble Phantasm prototypes.

"Wow... Berserker is amazing..."

Sitting on Qin Chuan's arm, Rin Tohsaka naturally witnessed the massacre up close. Kirei Kotomine and Gilgamesh were killed with almost no power to resist.

As a result, Rin Tohsaka never even saw Gilgamesh truly make a move; she probably still doesn't realize that Gilgamesh is already among the top-tier Heroic Spirits.

Although Rin Tohsaka felt slightly uncomfortable that Kirei Kotomine had been stabbed to death in front of her, she quickly adjusted her mindset.

After all, compared to Kenneth's corpse, Kirei Kotomine at least had a complete body, so Rin Tohsaka's acceptance level naturally improved.

"It's just a little effort."

Qin Chuan smiled slightly, stepped over the lifeless Kirei Kotomine, and walked to the table in the basement—on the table were the documents that had just been written by the magic device next to it.

This magical device resembles a printer; it was used by Tokiomi Tohsaka to receive information about the Holy Grail War from others during his lifetime.

Now, Kirei Kotomine has taken possession of the device, and information about the Holy Grail War continues to pour in.

The documents laid out on the table contain the latest intelligence, which Kirei Kotomine probably hasn't even looked at yet. Unexpectedly, they've come to Qin Chuan's aid.

"This is intelligence about the Holy Grail War... The news of Lancer and Master's suspected deaths is also written on it."

Rin Tohsaka, who was sitting on Qin Chuan's left arm, naturally saw the detailed information in the document along with Qin Chuan, and she leaned forward and said.

"Apart from Caster's Master, who is still unknown, all the other Masters are now identified?"

"After all, the Tohsaka family is the local bigwigs in Fuyuki City. If they can't even find out this kind of information, then the people your father raised are really useless."

Qin Chuan grinned – he found quite a few useful things in the report.

For example... the Einzbern family's homunculus and Saber arrived in Fuyuki City by plane this afternoon and have been shopping until late at night.

After that, they went to the Einzbern family's stronghold in Fuyuki City—the Einzbern Forest.

In addition, information about Kiritsugu Emiya was also recorded on it. However, the intelligence personnel speculated that the homunculus Irisviel was the Master, and Kiritsugu Emiya was merely an accomplice assassin.

This was one of Kiritsugu Emiya's plans—to have his Servant Saber act together with Irisviel, creating the illusion that Irisviel was the Master.

These intelligence agents were indeed deceived.

However, what Qin Chuan was more concerned about was that the information contained some information about Irisviel, including that Irisviel's daughter, Illyasviel, was also a pure homunculus.

"I remember Ilya wasn't born from Irisviel? Has something changed?"

Qin Chuan stroked his chin. In his memory, Ilya was born from Irisviel herself, not a pure android.

The beginning of Fate/Zero should start with Irisviel giving birth to Illya... What? Has Kiritsugu Emiya become a male god?

Although I don't know what happened, Kiritsugu Emiya wouldn't deliberately fabricate information that is originally unrelated to the Holy Grail War. It's likely that Illya really wasn't born from Irisviel's mother's womb.

Considering the Einzbern family's concept of using homunculus as the Lesser Grail... it's likely that the Einzbern family also intended to use Illya as the Lesser Grail.

To prevent any problems with artificial humans born from the womb, they were changed to artificial humans created purely through alchemy, thus exempting Irisviel from the need to have 3 or 4 children.

Although this was a minor matter and not worth worrying about too much, Qin Chuan chose to look at Irisviel's information mainly to see if there had been any changes in her body.

After all, Qin Chuan had already killed two Servants before they arrived, and according to the setting, the deaths of these two Servants would increase the burden on the "Lesser Grail".

And this "little Holy Grail" is Irisviel.

After enough Servants die, their magical energy will return to her.

Finally, Irisviel died, and her body transformed into the Holy Grail, completing the final step of the Holy Grail War ritual.

"Berserker, you wouldn't be thinking of..."

After reviewing the intelligence documents with Qin Chuan, Rin Tohsaka looked at him, seemingly sensing what he was about to do.

Chapter 146 What Tohsaka Family Son-in-Law?

The Tohsaka family's intelligence personnel were quite responsible, not only gathering information on the other contestants but also writing down the exact locations of their bases.

Because Kiritsugu Emiya went into hiding as soon as he entered Fuyuki City, the intelligence personnel have not yet been able to find his hiding place.

However, the Einzbern Forest was not an unknown place, and the Tohsaka family's intelligence agents, being the local power, quickly determined its exact location.

In other words, Qin Chu could simply go and confront them directly—after all, according to Kiritsugu Emiya's plan, Saber would definitely be with Irisviel.

According to the plot, Lancer was supposed to unleash his magic at the Fuyuki City docks tonight to provoke others, attracting many Servants to gather together.

Unfortunately, most of the gathered heroic spirits had already been killed by him, and Lancer, as the vanguard, was dead beyond any doubt, so this part of the story was naturally cut short.

……

"This is what has been happening in Fuyuki City recently."

In an unremarkable hotel room, Kiritsugu Emiya frowned as he looked at the documents in his hand.

He arrived in Fuyuki City earlier than Irisviel and Saber in order to gather intelligence.

However, the intelligence he gathered became increasingly bizarre, rendering much of his previous preparations futile.

For example, Kenneth, who was staying in a suite on the top floor of the Hyatt Hotel, went missing, and there were two huge pools of blood on the suite floor.

Kariya Matou, a contestant suspected to be from the Matou family, suddenly visited Tokiomi Tohsaka late last night and attempted to assassinate him, killing him. He was then killed by Tokiomi Tohsaka's disciple, Kirei Kotomine.

Goodness, in just one day, three participants in the Holy Grail War have been eliminated?

Moreover, those eliminated were all heavyweights—the twelve monarchs of the Clock Tower and two of the three starter families in the Holy Grail War.

So, is the Einzbern family, which he represents in the competition, now the only remaining member of the three founding families in this Holy Grail War?

Not knowing whether to be happy or speechless about this, Kiritsugu Emiya lit a cigarette, his face full of worry.

"Are you sure these people were all killed after they summoned their Heroic Spirits?"

Kiritsugu Emiya looked at Maiya Hisayu standing in front of him; this was the information she had painstakingly gathered.

Kiritsugu Emiya is now solely focused on winning the Holy Grail, so all his attention is concentrated on this intelligence.

"It's almost certain."

Hisayu Maiya nodded; the source of this information was reliable—although it might not be good news.

Upon hearing this, Kiritsugu Emiya's expression darkened further, for this meant that the souls of three Heroic Spirits had likely already returned to Irisviel's body.

As a "container" that binds the souls of Heroic Spirits, Irisviel's body deteriorates the more souls she binds.

No wonder Saber said Irisviel suddenly felt unwell... Before, Kiritsugu Emiya couldn't figure out the reason, but now it seems that's why.

It's understandable that he didn't think of it earlier; after all, who could have predicted that three people would be eliminated from the Holy Grail War so quickly?

Who killed Kenneth?

Although the report stated that Kenneth and Lancer were missing, Kiritsugu Emiya was almost certain that they were dead beyond any doubt.

What he cared more about was who killed Kenneth—only two pools of blood were left at the scene, indicating that the perpetrator acted very quickly, and Kenneth didn't even have a chance to resist.

“I don’t know. I suspect it might be Matou Kariya… but that doesn’t explain why he would choose to assassinate Tohsaka Tokiomi alone.”

Hisayuu Maiya was also puzzled, as no one knew about Rin Tohsaka's illegal summoning of Qin Chuan until now.

Although Kenneth and Kirei Kotomine both saw Qin Chuan with Rin Tohsaka, they were quickly killed by Qin Chuan, so they naturally had no chance to pass on the information.

So who killed Kenneth remains a mystery to many.

However, before Kiritsugu Emiya could speculate further, his expression changed—he received a message from Saber.

There is a certain connection between Master and Servant; they can communicate remotely through magic, and just now Saber's voice came through.

The details are simple—the Einzbern Forest has been attacked!

……

"This is the Einzbern family's base in Fuyuki City... They bought the entire forest?"

With Rin Tohsaka in his arms, Qin Chuan swaggered into the Einzbern Forest in Fuyuki City.

As one of the three founding families in the Holy Grail War, the Einzbern family is also quite wealthy.

Come to think of it, how could a family that uses alchemy to create androids be short of money? They must have to spend money to buy the materials for the androids.

"Although the reasons may be different, Kiritsugu Emiya is quite fortunate to have married into the Einzbern family."

Qin Chuan stroked his chin and said with a smile.

Kiritsugu Emiya joined the Einzbern family with the aim of seizing the Holy Grail to fulfill his wish.

But Qin Chuan thought that it was quite good that the guy could enjoy so much wealth after joining the Einzbern family.

"Berserker, you don't have any strange ideas, do you?"

Rin Tohsaka, who was sitting in Qin Chuan's lap, became restless upon hearing this and gripped Qin Chuan's sleeve warily.

"Our Tohsaka family is very wealthy, what is the Einzbern family compared to us!?"

It seems that Rin Tohsaka is worried that Qin Chuan might defect to the enemy because of the assets of the Einzbern family.

Although in theory, a Heroic Spirit would not betray their Master for these reasons, Rin Tohsaka also realized that Qin Chuan was clearly different from ordinary Heroic Spirits.

Therefore, she was naturally very afraid that Qin Chuan, the only person she could rely on now, would run to another camp.

"You're making it sound like you're suggesting I marry into the Tohsaka family."

Qin Chuan looked at Rin Tohsaka with a mix of amusement and exasperation. Did this guy realize how inappropriate his words were just now?

And considering that Rin Tohsaka in the original work was short of money more than ten years later in order to use Jewel Magic... this statement seems even stranger.

However, Qin Chuan soon sensed an ominous aura emanating from the Einzbern Forest.

As the Einzbern family's stronghold, this place was naturally equipped with some magical fortifications. Qin Chuan's undisguised entrance would naturally attract the attention of those inside.

Soon, as Qin Chuan strolled leisurely toward the center of the forest, two figures arrived in front of him.

It was Saber Artoria and her fake Master, the "Minor Grail" of this Holy Grail War—Irisviel.

……

P.S.: I haven't been feeling well lately, something happened at home, so I haven't been updating as much... I'll get back to normal as soon as possible, sorry.

Chapter 147 Accelerating the Holy Grail War

The Saber in this Holy Grail War, Artoria, is actually the legendary King Arthur, the leader of the Knights of the Round Table.

In the Type-Moon universe, the Arthurian legend has always been a top priority, mainly because Artoria is very popular and the official team has been working on her story.

This was also the first time Qin Chuan had seen the live-action version of Artoria. He had to admit that her heroic appearance did give her a different feeling from others.

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