FATE: As Illya, I was summoned by Kotomine Kirei?!

Chapter 6: How to become a master with a gun instead of a knife

'Partners of justice?'

'Ha, what an innocent and lovely child.'

Hearing Miss Illyasviel's comment that he was like a righteous partner, Tohsaka Tokiomi felt a little amused. He was willing to take action partly because he wanted to use the other party to make trouble, and another part of the reason was because of his status as a down-and-out noble. He would not allow Miss Illyasviel to die at the door of his house.

This is his pride as a noble. If Miss Illyasviel died where he couldn't see her, he wouldn't care, but if you died at the doorstep of his house, he would find it unbearable.

Some people always have a kind of pride that ordinary people cannot understand, and so does Tohsaka Tokiomi. In his opinion, an ordinary person dying at his doorstep is like a mouse drowning in a bottle of simple and expensive red wine, which is an insult to the value of that expensive bottle of red wine.

People can tolerate seeing a rat die in an invisible corner, but few can tolerate seeing a rat die on your bed in the bedroom. That is a psychological disgust.

'Detective magecraft, various familiars, and jewel finders, the Tohsaka family is really rich and powerful...'

Enter the interior of the manor house.

Miss Illyasviel followed the elegant middle-aged man timidly, observing him secretly.

The magecraft workshop built by Tohsaka Tokiomi is very complete. Various magecraft tricks are combined to turn the entire villa into a fortress. If an unfamiliar magi who doesn't know the inside story comes to attack, he will most likely be bombed into ashes by various gem magecraft.

However, Miss Illyasviel suddenly had an idea to break into this magecraft workshop.

'It doesn't take up a lot of area, and a few rocket launchers or explosives can cover it completely.'

'If we use hot weapons, it seems that we can take this place down, right?'

Of course, this thought only flashed through her mind, as arms are strictly controlled.

Even if a magi can get munitions, it would be difficult to obtain heavy weapons.

Besides, the Holy Grail War is a showdown between magi on the mystical side. What's the point of you using hot weapons? Where's your pride as a magi? The magic circuits in your body will cry!

Therefore, Miss Illyasviel could only think about it. Using thermal weapons was such a shameless thing that even she, an assassin who was shameless and pretending to be pitiful, felt that it was a bit... wrong. She had to go back and ask the Master where the nearest arsenal in Fuyuki City was.

Why bother with traditional assassination when there are hot weapons to snipe the magi? No matter how strong your reaction is, can it be stronger than 7.62 peanuts?

Miss Illyasviel felt a little annoyed. She was too narrow-minded. Why did she run out to assassinate the Master on the first night of the Holy Grail War? The right thing to do was to transform into a spirit and rob the armory. Who knows, she could even pick up a few RPGs. Then she could just bomb whoever she disliked. Isn't firepower suppression better than one-on-one assassination? After all, the famous swordsmanship master Ashina Isshin once said so.

(TL: Ashina Isshin is a prominent character from the game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, developed by FromSoftware. He is the leader of the Ashina Clan, a powerful military faction in the game's world. Isshin is an older, battle-hardened warrior known for his exceptional swordsmanship and leadership skills.)

How can one become a master if he has a gun but doesn't use a knife?

"Child, sit anywhere, don't be nervous, and tell me what you've been through."

The living room in the villa.

Tohsaka Tokiomi sat on the sofa about six or seven meters away from Miss Illyasviel and asked gently, while secretly strengthening the security of the magecraft workshop in the manor.

He was not a foolish and arrogant guy. He would not think that the magi who was chasing Miss Illyasviel was afraid of his reputation and left quietly just because he did not see him.

What if the enemy pretended to leave and hid nearby, intending to strike back when he let his guard down? At that time, it would be unclear whether he could save Miss Illyasviel as a witness. Especially after he promised to protect Miss Illyasviel's safety, his self-esteem would not allow him to break his promise.

"Okay, okay, Uncle Tokiomi..." Wiping the corners of her eyes that had turned red from crying, Miss Illyasviel's body trembled, as if she was trying to calm herself down.

"My name is Akizuki Airi. I'm a sixth-grade student at Fuyuki Elementary School. My parents are businessmen who came from abroad to do business in the Far East. I grew up in my uncle's house. Two years ago, my parents divorced, and my father gave up custody and returned abroad. My mother formed a family with a new uncle and settled in Fuyuki City. Although my family is not very wealthy, we are happy. During the summer vacation, my mother often takes me to travel to various countries."

"....Akizuki Airi? It's a nice name. No wonder your face is so cute. It turns out you are mixed-race."

Tohsaka Tokiomi nodded slightly. Of course, this was just a polite remark.

It just explains why Miss Illyasviel's face looks more like that of a European rather than an Asian. After all, her silver hair and red eyes are too suggestive. If Miss Illyasviel said that she was a native of Fuyuki City, he would suspect that she had a connection with the Einzbern family.

Although this is basically impossible, because he can see that Miss Illyasviel is not a mage puppet of the Einzbern family, and there is no trace of mana flowing on her body.

"What happened afterwards? How were you and your family attacked by bad guys? The bad guy who attacked you called himself a Heroic Spirit. Did you see clearly what kind of weapon the Heroic Spirit used?"

"I, I didn't see it clearly. Tonight, after dinner, my parents took me out to take a walk in Fuyuki City. Then when we walked to the foot of the mountain, suddenly a blue light flashed in the jungle at the foot of Ryuudou Temple. I saw it, I saw it......"

"What did you see? What happened at the location of Ryuudou Temple?"

"I saw a figure suddenly appear from the incomprehensible picture, as if a person was transformed into a terrifying and tall villain!"

"......."

'OK, got it.'

'She happened to see someone summoning a Heroic Spirit.'

'Then that stupid Einzbern family magi wanted to silence her.'

'Are the people of the Einzbern family so stupid that they actually summoned Heroic Spirits in a place like that and didn't even know how to set up a hint magecraft to "disperse idlers."'

'No, the Einzbern family must have a deep meaning for doing that. Behind the Ryuudou Temple is the spiritual vein of Fuyuki City. Could it be that the Einzbern family wants to use the spiritual vein to do something this time, such as finding a loophole in the Holy Grail War, or the Heroic Spirits they want to summon can connect to the spiritual vein and absorb mana from it...'

'No matter what, this is a sure win, unexpected information~' Tohsaka Tokiomi guessed in his heart, and at the same time, he looked at Miss Illyasviel with more and more pleasing eyes. It was really the source that blessed his Tohsaka family.

It turned out that such an ordinary person who knew such information was accidentally picked up by him.

Restraining his inner excitement, Tohsaka Tokiomi relaxed his guard and moved a little closer to Miss Illyasviel.

From a psychological point of view, doing so can make it easier to gain the other person's trust.

"What else? What is the bad guy's appearance? I can help you talk to the police later."

"Wow, thank you Uncle Tokiomi. I seem to hear another big bad guy standing around the picture calling that bad guy a Servant. It seems to be called......"

"What's the name? Don't worry, think about it carefully."

'What class title, or real name.'

Tohsaka Tokiomi couldn't help but feel a hint of anticipation in his heart. Although the probability of this happening was very low, if the magi from the Einzbern family really called out the real name of the Heroic Spirit, then for him it would be more important information than directly reporting it.

In the living room, the distance between Miss Illyasviel and Tohsaka Tokiomi was less than two meters.

Perhaps even Tohsaka Tokiomi himself did not notice that he had been bewitched by Miss Illyasviel's appearance, or perhaps her inherent skills, to the extent that it affected some of his rationality.

For example, he subconsciously overlooked a problem, that is, if Miss Illyasviel really saw some of the secrets of the Einzbern magi she mentioned.

How could the other party possibly torture and kill her instead of directly silencing her with thunderous means?

"It says…."

"What did it say? Don't be slow, kid."

"It says…."

Seeing that Tohsaka Tokiomi seemed a little anxious, Miss Illyasviel seemed to be very insecure and subconsciously moved closer to him again.

She carefully leaned close to Tohsaka Tokiomi's ear, and the hot breath was almost audible in the quiet villa.

Tohsaka Tokiomi didn't care about this, he just thought that Miss Illyasviel was afraid.

Plus, he really wanted to obtain information about other participants in the Holy Grail War.

He didn't notice the other party's abnormality at the first time.

"It said, Mr. Tohsaka Tokiomi, be careful in your next life and don't be a righteous partner anymore~"

Next moment!

With a hissing sound, blood splattered everywhere!

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