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

Chapter 8: As a Caster, you actually engage in assassination?

"Cough, cough, cough, ah…."

'This is the heroic spirit.'

'This is a hero.'

'This is an existence that cannot be compared to humans.'

Tohsaka Tokiomi breathed in the air deeply, his originally elegant posture no longer able to be maintained. He had been cautious enough, even though he had confirmed that Miss Illyasviel was harmless not long ago, he still had defensive magecraft on him as a backup, even in front of ordinary people who had no magical reactions. It could be said that he had really done his best in every aspect.

But he never expected that even if he was prepared, it would still be of no avail. Although there was no magical reaction at all, the opponent easily broke through his defensive spell and crushed several gems used to supply magic power like flour.

He was seriously injured, with nearly one-fifth of his neck cut by the spider web. This was already the best result. If Miss Illyasviel's weapons were not those magecraft props, he would have been beheaded by now.

Or maybe it's a good thing that the Holy Grail War is fair, as some job attributes are high while others will have defects.

Such a terrifying disguise method can also imitate the Einzbern family's magic familiars to deceive.

If there is still a weapon that can kill with one hit, others don't need to continue playing.

"Caster? It turns out that Heroic Spirits cannot be judged by common sense. Ancient magi were able to hide even their own magical powers."

Thinking of the huge amount of magecraft power that flashed when Miss Illyasviel took action.

Tohsaka Tokiomi gasped while holding his bleeding neck and quickly ran towards the garden where the ritual was still being performed.

There was no doubt that the enemy that attacked him this time was a summoned Heroic Spirit Servant. Both the appearance of an elementary school student and the state of having no magecraft power were disguises. Based on the existing information, it was speculated that the other party could not be a Servant of the Three Knights class, because if it was a Servant of the Three Knights class with superb attributes, he would not have been able to survive this far at that distance.

Raider and berserker were also out of the question because he didn't find any mounts for Miss Illyasviel, nor did he think that she was irrational, so the other party could only be an assassin or a caster, and their various abilities could correspond to each other.

"She can't be the Assassin. The assassin has already been successfully summoned by Kirei. Kirei can't have deliberately deceived me."

"Add to that her magecraft power, which is far greater than that of a classic magi, and her ability to camouflage herself as a familiar of the Einzbern family, and she still couldn't kill me with one strike at such a close distance. Her true identity must be Caster."

It's not Tohsaka Tokiomi's fault for making a wrong judgment, it's really that Miss Illyasviel's attributes are really poor.

If her strength was a little bit higher, he would not have been successfully blocked by the fatal blow made of a few magic gems.

Tohsaka Tokiomi's brain began to work rapidly with a surge of adrenaline. Now his only way to survive was to escape. No matter how bad Miss Illyasviel's panel was, she was still a Heroic Servant. After being approached and losing the advantage of the Magic Atelier, even the weakest Heroic Servant in the world could defeat him, a magi.

The reason he's still alive now is simply by burning money, burning the precious magic gems that the Tohsaka family has collected over the years, and relying on krypton gold to prolong his life.

But this was only temporary. After blocking the fatal blow, most of the gems on his body had been used up. In addition, in the beginning, he tried to show his elegance in front of Miss Illyasviel and foolishly threw two gems to drive away the Einzbern family magi who didn't exist at all. Now, the only strength left in his body was the ruby on the crutch in his hand.

He felt a little regretful.

'Why did I pretend to be stupid in the beginning? If the two gems at the beginning were still there...'

His chances of survival would undoubtedly increase greatly now...

"Uncle Tokiomi, you must keep your promise when you make an appointment~"

After taking some effort to dismantle the lost magecraft inside the villa, Miss Illyasviel looked down at the elegant middle-aged man who was escaping and moved the silk thread slowly but quickly with her hands.

She also didn't expect that the other party actually dodged her fatal attack. He was clearly deceived by her appearance and condition, and he still maintained a good defensive magecraft.

Her stats are so ridiculous that she almost misses a magi at close range.

But...it doesn't matter, it's all the same, from the moment she stepped into the gate of this manor, her hair spread silently all over the land.

Even if the numerical value is not good, the terrifying mana power content is enough for her to easily set up a magecraft formation.

"I hate breaking promises. I really hate it. Now that you promised me, you have to protect me."

"Then you must protect me. This is credibility."

This is not a lie.

Before she traveled to this world, her father and mother promised to come home when she was young. She waited for a long time, but still did not wait for them.

They cruelly abandoned her and left her to grow up alone in a cold home.

From then on, she secretly vowed that she would live. She must not die like a homeless poor thing before taking revenge on her parents who ruthlessly abandoned her. She would live very proudly to prove that it was not them who abandoned her, but that she did not need to deceive her family like that.

It's funny to say that she heard from her elders at that time that her father was not too far away from home, but had a new child outside and found her a younger brother whom she didn't even know. In order to raise that younger brother, he didn't want to see his child again.

She was an unwanted child, a child hated by everyone, a child with a dark and twisted heart.

Boom!

Boom!

The spider web that was invisible to the naked eye was lifted up from the ground by the assassin girl's ten fingers!

The earth and the running magecraft workshop are like being crossed by locusts. The slender and sharp magecraft threads cut thousands of things. The threads running at high speed in all directions rub out high-temperature sparks. The attribute of magecraft A allows the assassin girl to strengthen it without hesitation. The strength of each white thread is at the level of a very high magecraft costume!

No, it should be said that this is a magecraft costume, just like the silk imperial weapon used by Lubbock in a certain Akame ga kill anime, but Illyasviel, who is the source of magecraft power, uses it more skillfully. She spits out silk threads like a harmless spider!

Only after the prey falls into the spider web will it reveal its cold fangs!

"It's over...."

Tohsaka Tokiomi's heart sank as the rapidly approaching silk thread blocked all possible corners for escape.

He was wrong. Putting a Caster into the magecraft workshop was the biggest mistake he had ever made.

The assassin girl pulled the silk thread with her ten fingers, and in less than two seconds, the invisible spider webs from all directions came to Tohsaka Tokiomi. He would be cut into dozens of pieces, and he seemed to foresee his own tragic death in the future. He became the first to be eliminated in this Holy Grail War.

———Of course, this is impossible.

"As an entertainment, it is not worthy of being performed in a high-class place, but your embarrassing performance is good and can make this king feel a little happy~"

(TL: F*ck!!)

"?!"

Just when the thread was about to cut Tohsaka Tokiomi into pieces, the assassin girl thought she had won.

The moment when Kotomine Kirei was about to use the Command Seal to order his Assassin to stop.

Several sharp golden spears fell, instantly creating a huge explosion that melted thousands of threads, accompanied by a burst of comments that seemed to be quite interesting, smoke and dust were raised, and Tohsaka Tokiomi, who should have been dead, knelt on one knee safely, with no trace of panic or fear on his elegant face.

Although he felt somewhat dissatisfied as to why his own Heroic Spirit had to wait until now to take action.

He was chased for such a long time and almost died.

But he did not show any dissatisfaction on the surface and acted as a subject with utmost respect.

"My dear king, thank you for your mercy and for granting me the grace of life from this thief who sneaked into your palace."

Miss Illyasviel, feeling something was wrong, quickly looked in the direction of the sound, and saw that above the street lamp in the garden, a blond man with blood-red eyes and wearing golden armor was standing with his arms folded, seemingly watching the drama with great interest!

'Um?'

'When does someone stand on the street lamp?'

'No, I should ask why there is a street light in the garden? Where did this street light come from?'

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