Chapter 498: Masazono Akira
Kaito Shirogane's mind stirred. Electric current crackled within his body, and faint electricity spread from his skin, but dissipated before reaching a hundred meters around his body.
He looked up at his surroundings. The night sky of Fuyuki City showed no special manifestations, but his [Mantra] ability was greatly restricted.
Kaito wasn't sure if this was a constraint from the Counter Force placing him within a [Class], or if someone had set up a ritual restricting perception in this city.
Both possibilities made sense in this world.
"Mercenary Tao... is this your true name?"
"Strange, why haven't I heard of your deeds?"
Masazono Akira frowned and thought for a moment, but quickly gave up. He wasn't good at history, and this notebook only said that the summoned Heroic Spirits were all heroes who left great achievements in history and mythology. But this [History] was definitely not limited to Japanese history.
He didn't even know much about Japanese history, let alone foreign history.
The two walked all the way towards the residence of that annoying female teacher in his impression. Kaito looked at this piece of "meat" that still possessed mobility right now. Yes, after the other party summoned him, Kaito had already decided he must kill the other party.
The relationship between Master and Servant, due to the existence of Command Spells, is a quite dangerous contract.
Kaito himself, whether due to his Reincarnator identity or the extra strengthening panel of his current Class, had an extremely low Mana attribute. This Master also didn't look like an orthodox magus, completely useless to him.
"You participating in the Holy Grail War, what wish do you want to fulfill?"
Kaito acted like a good Servant having a heart-to-heart with his Master. Masazono Akira completely couldn't perceive any malice either. Or rather, he was dull enough not to even perceive the clear killing intent the other party revealed upon their first meeting.
"Wish? What is that..."
Masazono Akira turned his head, looking strangely at his strange Servant. He kept his head down, looking for more records in that black-covered notebook.
Under his bangs, his eyes were fanatical.
Kaito was momentarily stunned. At this moment, he clearly felt a piece of indifference from the heart of this Master calling himself Masazono Akira.
No wish he wanted to fulfill, no particularly strong impulse, only a lack of understanding of various common sense in the world.
For example, not understanding why his parents kept arguing and fighting from childhood to adulthood;
Not understanding why those people all looked at him with strange eyes;
Not understanding why, when such parents died, those welfare agency people asked him why he wasn't crying;
Even less understanding why that family would invite him, a stranger, into their home at night;
Not understanding why that annoying teacher would reveal an expression of concern.
"Tsk..."
Kaito clicked his tongue inwardly, then unconsciously chuckled lightly. He perceived the ingenuity of the arrangement by the Counter Force or the Infinite Dimensional Space.
Their arrangement of an event wasn't a crude direct arrangement, but by arranging a more suitable [Cause], and then following the development of rules, making him fall into that [Effect].
They didn't forcibly set that he would be summoned by this Masazono Akira, but they found a person who coincidentally indeed had similarities with him in certain traits to perform the Heroic Spirit summoning.
Therefore, he logically became the Servant the other party called upon.
[Servant] is absolutely not a good role in the Holy Grail War. Even with the extra panel of a [Class], it cannot be avoided that this is the role with the highest death rate.
The purpose of the Holy Grail War has never been some classical romantic hero play where a few families of magi call upon legendary heroes and fight to determine the winner.
The Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City, from the very beginning, was just a large-scale ritual set up by those three families to pursue the mystery of the [Root].
All the processes in this Holy Grail War are not important. The only important thing is that enough Servants die. When they return from the Lesser Grail to the Throne of Heroes as Heroic Spirits, they use the Greater Grail's magical energy accumulated over decades from Fuyuki City, this excellent "spiritual land," to pierce through time and space and fix the pathway, allowing the magi of the "Three Founding Families" to reach the [Root].
It's not a hero play, but a dark, absurd sacrifice.
Kaito smiled mockingly. Fixing himself in the [Class · Assassin] not only forced him into an undeclinable deathmatch but also restricted his strength.
And there were no flaws in the rules whatsoever.
He couldn't help but want to clap and applaud this game between the [Counter Force] and the [Infinite Dimensional Space].
Thinking about it this way, it was no wonder the death rate of those Reincarnators who pursued others into the Type-Moon world was very high. It was equivalent to joining a game where two GMs (Game Masters) stared at you and tailor-made negative effects for you.
Afterwards, Kaito asked Masazono Akira some more questions, but the other party indeed wasn't a person of the magus world, completely ignorant of the various details of the Holy Grail War.
Therefore, he couldn't determine the current timeline. But combining it with the year, he could roughly know this should be around the timeline of the Fifth Holy Grail War.
Because it was now 2004, exactly the node when the Fifth Holy Grail War occurred. Of course, it couldn't be ruled out that due to the chaotic entry of Reincarnators, or the different development of the Derivative World, the current direction had changed.
Kaito's figure floated up lightly. In the next moment, he leaped onto the roof of a shop by the street, then with a flash, stepped lightly onto a streetlight.
His movements were completely silent. Masazono Akira walking in front didn't notice at all.
Kaito turned his ear. Although the Mantra ability was restricted, the senses of his terrifying body were still retained. As a humanoid dragon with a Constitution exceeding 50 points, Kaito's eyesight and hearing completely surpassed the imagination of ordinary humans.
He heard explosions constantly occurring very far away. Probably a fierce battle was taking place.
Judging from the sound, it was over 10 kilometers away from the two of them, and the combat intensity was rather high. Every strike exuded considerable destructive power.
Looking at the fighting style of the Servants in this world, Kaito thought that if it was according to the plot of the Fifth Holy Grail War, there was a high probability it was Berserker · Heracles.
"We're here~"
Masazono Akira's voice unconsciously rose, carrying some emotion that even he couldn't figure out.
He pointed to a standard Japanese-style detached house in the distance and said:
"That woman should live here. Mercenary Tao, go kill her!"
This was probably the first person to so forcefully direct Kaito's actions. Even that Fox Outer God mostly used enticements towards Kaito.
Kaito withdrew his senses from that battle in the distance. He had always been quite curious about the combat power of these Servants in this world.
Because under the Type-Moon worldview, factors like affinity, special attacks, and other idealistic factors accounted for a higher proportion in battle.
It was vastly different from a world like Dragon Ball, where outcomes were purely based on strength.
So much so that Kaito, before exchanging blows, wasn't sure of his strength positioning among these Servants either.
He now lacked Noble Phantasms and his Magic Resistance attribute was quite weak. He figured it was impossible to withstand the power of those Servants unleashing their Noble Phantasms and blasting with full force.
But similarly, Kaito's destructive power to the world, his own mobility, and that martial arts ability that entered the realm of a Grandmaster and was born completely for fighting people, similarly surpassed the expressiveness of many Heroic Spirits in the anime in his impression.
Kaito extended a finger. He didn't even have the interest to confirm who the person he was going to kill was. The Dodon Ray had already condensed.
Hum!
But in the next moment, Kaito suddenly retracted his hand and turned to look teasingly behind him.
A long spear was already pressed against Masazono Akira's back.
"If you don't want to die, order Mercenary Tao to commit suicide."
Pfft!
The spearhead pierced less than an inch into flesh and blood. The pain finally made Masazono Akira realize the enemy had appeared.
He raised his hand, the Command Spells shining brightly.
Kaito, however, just spread his hands, smiling brightly.
"Seeing that I actually didn't choose to run away, but instead tried to kill me using this method, it seems you are a Master now?"
"Where is your Heroic Spirit? Call them over quickly..."
(End of Chapter)
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