Chapter 18

"Do you think I would believe your words?"

Artoria held the Invisible Air pointed at Gilles de Rais from afar, not believing a single word from that bastard opposite her.

"Wait, Saber, if Caster isn't here to cause us trouble, then don't confront him."

Kiritsugu Emiya stood at a high vantage point, able to see the full scope of the Sea Demon army; they densely packed an entire main street, numbering no less than seventy or eighty even if not a hundred.

With Saber's left hand injured, confronting him would be unwise, so upon hearing the opposing Caster's statement, this man prepared to avoid battle.

Through the Magic Power connection, he conveyed his intentions to the Servant below.

"Master, do you actually believe that guy's words?"

Artoria immediately frowned and questioned.

"I don't believe his words, but if he's willing to let us withdraw, there's no need to fight him."

The Command Spell bounty on Caster is good, but the opponent is no ordinary person either; the difficulty of dealing with the Familiars he manipulates was something they had already experienced yesterday.

If not for Lancer's chaotic intrusion, supporting Saber with the spirit of Chivalry to strike down this heretic who harms children, Artoria, whose left-hand fingers were struck by the Cursed Lance, might very well have knelt last night.

"But, Caster clearly looks like he's going to go harm others."

"Only a Servant can oppose a Servant; likewise, the one who can kill the Master behind the scenes is definitely also a Master. A berserk Servant wants to find the guy who killed their Master for Revenge; we have no necessity to block the knife for an unknown Master."

While Kiritsugu Emiya and the Servant disagreed and argued, Gilles de Rais's Revenge Magecraft, that drop of Heart Blood, had already brushed past Saber's side, and under Artoria's vigilant gaze, slipped into the outside of the Fujimura Residence behind them.

"Found it, the enemy who killed my Master, is right there!"

Gilles de Rais saw it too; Magic Power surged from his body, undisguisedly revealing his Killing Intent toward the person inside that residence.

"Master, do you think there is another Master beside the base you chose?"

Kiritsugu Emiya did not speak; where in this world are there so many coincidences, that Caster's Revenge target is right next to their new base.

Watching the Sea Demon Corps surge over, he placed his finger on the Trigger, and with his own Sniper Rifle, fired the Horn of battle.

The Bullet naturally had no damaging effect on the Heroic Spirit; before it could enter Gilles de Rais's head, it was eroded and corrupted by the Black Mana surging on his body.

"Since you insist on blocking my path of Revenge, then I, Gilles de Rais, shall also trample over you right here.

Bloom your radiance to the fullest; at the moment your life withers like a flower, I, Gilles de Rais, will embrace your Corpse, and bind your Soul under my Curse.

When that time comes, not even God can snatch you away from my side."

"Wind King Hammer!"

Facing Caster's Opera Aria-like declaration, Artoria directly slashed out a fierce hurricane path; she intended, just like last night, to charge straight through the Sea Demon army, capture the thief by capturing the king first, and take the general's head directly.

"The same move will not work on me, Gilles de Rais."

Caster chanted a spell, his figure retreating into the Sea Demon army; the two nearest Sea Demons wrapped around his body, but melted in the incantation into a set of black spiked protective Armor; the unreleased Invisible Air slashed onto it and was directly repelled, the spikes counterattacking the attacker like Long Spears.

Artoria raised her arm in time, using her gauntlet to Block the spikes stabbing straight at her face, but the next moment, she was kicked in the abdomen by Gilles de Rais, her whole person sent flying backward.

"Are you really Caster?"

With Armor protecting her body, Artoria wasn't injured, but the force of the direct kick was great, making her somewhat doubt the opponent's manifested Class.

"Holy Maiden, didn't expect you to even forget this, but it doesn't matter, I can tell you again; I, Gilles de Rais, as your Deputy Officer, am also a qualified Noble Swordsman."

"Heretic, I said you got the wrong person; among my Deputy Officers, there is no heretic bastard like you!"

The Invisible Air slashed, the surging Sea Demons bisected, but with Gilles de Rais's continuous Magic Power output, the divided Sea Demon bodies quickly re-fused, restored to their original state.

"Damn it!"

With the Sea Demons surging in large amounts, Artoria fell into a bitter struggle.

"What sound?"

"Mon-monsters?!"

The night Gunshots startled awake quite a few people; the Fujimura Group had people getting up.

After hearing the noisy commotion outside, they opened the door and went out to check the situation.

The result: not looking, they wouldn't know; one look, and damn it, seafood octopuses have invaded the land World.

"Hey, don't just stand there watching, come help too!"

Standing on the Roof, having switched to a Submachine Gun to provide fire support for his own Servant, Kiritsugu Emiya, upon seeing more and more people run out of the Fujimura Residence, couldn't help but shout at this group of Ordinary People.

"Emiya-san, what exactly is this?"

Fujimura Raiga came out wearing a robe, asking Kiritsugu Emiya on the neighboring roof.

"Just as your people said, they are monsters, monsters from Another World; if you don't want to die, pick up Weapons and fight them with me."

Fujimura Raiga only thought for a moment; seeing the Sea Demons break into the homes of people on the side street, human screams coming from inside, he quickly made a decision.

"Everyone grab weapons, don't let those monsters come over here; hmm, Emiya-san, we don't have enough Hot Weapons, can you provide a wave of support?"

"Those weapons are all in the Warehouse, go get them yourselves."

Kiritsugu Emiya emptied a Magazine, and while swapping in a new Magazine, replied without even turning his head.

Before long, a group of weapon-wielding Yakuza members climbed onto the roof.

Occupying the high ground, under their boss Fujimura Raiga's agreement to Kiritsugu Emiya's command, they provided more powerful fire support for Saber who was fighting bitterly over there.

Although Sea Demons are hard to kill with Bullets, their advancing steps were momentarily Blocked by the high-intensity bullet rain.

Repairing injuries on Familiars requires Magic Power; if Caster's Master has really said bye-bye to This World, then Caster's own Magic Power must be tight.

He might struggle just to maintain his own Existence; right now he's only maintaining the Familiar army by gaining some Magic Power through harming lives.

This is Kiritsugu Emiya's Judgment, and some Sea Demons having their bodies shot to pieces and not recovering further Verified the correctness of his Judgment.

"Damn it, you bunch of buzzing flies obstructing my Revenge!"

Originally the main focus was Saber, but being shot at like this by the bullet rain, Gilles de Rais shifted his attention to the group of humans further back.

"Go around, kill them!"

He commanded a portion of the Sea Demons to go around from the side houses; Artoria wanted to stop them but was entangled by the Sea Demons beside her.

"Monsters are coming over, Bullets are almost Run Out, what do we do?"

Someone panicked.

"Damn it."

Kiritsugu Emiya gritted his teeth, hating only that he hadn't bought a few heavy machine guns to deploy.

"Maiya, prepare to take Irisviel von Einzbern and retreat."

Kiritsugu Emiya spoke and jumped off the roof; the current situation was already beyond what he could handle.

For now, the only plan was to retreat and leave first, then use a Command Spell to shift Saber out of the battlefield. "Emiya-san, where are you all preparing to go?"

"Each escape on your own; the monsters rushing over are already not something we can deal with."

Kiritsugu Emiya did not conceal it; although he was unscrupulous, in his view the Fujimura family was involved because of him, and now making the situation clear so these ordinary people could escape one by one — as for lying to keep these people as a rear guard, he had not yet sunk to that level of despicableness.

"Grandpa, what on earth is that?"

Fujimura Taiga was also awakened by the crackling gunshots; at this moment she came out and saw a scene of a swarm of sea demons surging forth, and was also scared, asking her own grandpa.

"There are many things in this world that general people don't know; because I mix in the underworld I can vaguely learn some unknown information, and those creatures should be monsters from the world's unknown side; even you, Emiya-san, are a person from that world, right."

"Mm."

Kiritsugu Emiya nodded.

"This matter may have arisen because of you; our Fujimura family was involved only because I agreed to a deal with you; this risk I admit, but my granddaughter is only here lodging; I don't want her to have an accident; can you take her away, send her to a safe place?"

"Following me will only be more dangerous."

"In the current situation, I also have no other choice, right? If you agree, I will bring men to delay that group of monsters for you."

"Good."

Fujimura Raiga and Kiritsugu Emiya quickly reached a deal, and prepared to push their own granddaughter onto the Emiya family's Humvee.

"Ah?"

Fujimura Taiga still hadn't figured out the situation, but she knew there was still a child in the house.

"Grandpa, Broly is still in the room."

She shouted.

At the critical moment, her own granddaughter cared about a child; this made Fujimura Raiga somewhat unable to hold his composure, but in the end an adult should not contend with a child.

"Then go wake him up, bring him along."

Fujimura Raiga waved his hand.

"Not much time, must hurry."

Kiritsugu Emiya said a word, then used his remaining scarce ammunition to continue striking the sea demons circling around toward this side.

Fujimura Taiga ran into the mansion, heading straight for the guest room; Broly's sleep quality had been very good these two days, the crackling gunshots outside actually did not wake him, even when the girl burst in and shoved his body he could still snore away.

"Don't sleep anymore, there's meat to eat!"

"Meat to eat?"

Only when Fujimura Taiga said there was meat to eat did Broly suddenly open his eyes and wake up.

"Fujimura-neesan, where's the meat?"

Blinking foggy sleepy eyes, Broly tried to search for meat in the room.

"No meat, I just wanted to wake you up; something happened outside, monsters attacking, we have to flee."

Broly: "???"

Fujimura Taiga took his hand, not even having time to put on shoes, and brought the boy running out.

"Grandpa, we're leaving; then what about you all?"

After stuffing the boy into the car, Fujimura Taiga only then remembered her own grandpa and the other Fujimura Group people.

"No need to worry about us; this is the Fujimura Group, our home; we will defeat all invading enemies."

Gunshots had already gradually stopped; the Fujimura Group people each took out cold weapons, the women and children living in the mansion also boarded the family vehicles, and would leave together with the Emiya family's vehicles later.

"Grandpa, let me stay too."

"What nonsense are you saying!"

"Big Sister, this is our and the old master's Fujimura Group's business; if you don't intend to inherit the Fujimura Group, the current matter is unrelated to you; go evacuate with the others, I guarantee I will protect the old master well."

The scar-faced man guaranteed, the scene presenting a tragic situation.

"What exactly happened?"

Broly still hadn't figured out the situation, lying on the car window looking out, when a hand reached from behind to touch him.

"It's okay, child; you'll be okay."

Irisviel spoke softly; she felt very sorry that the Holy Grail War had dragged innocent ordinary people into it, but the only thing she could do now was comfort the victim family's children.

Broly turned his head; the Crystal Palace in his mind gave information: 【Discovered capture target, Irisviel von Einzbern, current happiness value 0.】

【Reminder, Fujimura Taiga happiness value is decreasing!】

Broly: "Huh?!"

The reminder of happiness value decreasing made Broly's originally somewhat foggy sleepy little head instantly wake up.

At this moment, a sea demon happened to leap over the front of the Fujimura mansion's roof, land before the crowd, let out a sharp roar from its mouth, swing its tentacles and blow away some Fujimura Group people.

Fujimura Taiga's happiness value also suddenly plummeted, letting Broly directly find the culprit causing Fujimura Taiga's happiness value to drop.

"Block the monster!"

Fujimura Raiga shouted.

"Bang—"

A car door flew from the rear through the middle of the crowd, smashing into the sea demon that was still preparing to continue swinging its tentacles to attack.

The car door carrying terrifying force, after smashing into the sea demon, flew the sea demon out.

With a snap, the sea demon was embedded in the side utility pole, in just an instant turning into a lump of minced meat.

"Hiss~"

Everyone gasped in unison and turned their heads to look, only to see the little boy who had jumped out from the shattered car door behind them, his small face currently written with an angry expression.

Under everyone's dumbstruck gazes, he walked forward and kicked each Sea Demon that jumped down from the roof, turning them into minced meat slag with a single kick.

The appearance was so relaxed, as if what he was kicking were not Sea Demons with tough bodies, but creatures made of blocks of soft tofu.

The Sea Demons suffered terrifying injuries; their regeneration capability made them demand a large amount of magic power from the one who summoned them, and this demand also drew Gilles de Rais's renewed attention.

Caster found it strange; logically speaking, to deal with some ordinary people, the Sea Demons dispatched over, even if injured, should not demand this much magic power from him, it was almost catching up to the magic power needed to re-summon a group of Sea Demons.

But when Gilles de Rais raised his head and looked toward the distance, he discovered there was a child over there, currently trampling the Sea Demons he had summoned with his feet.

His Sea Demons, in front of that child, were just like building block toys, haphazardly trampled and kicked into fragments by the other party, without a shred of resistance capability.

(Chapter End)