Magical User Aozaki Aoko Case Files
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So far, he has not seen any chance to confirm a fatal blow. Kenneth and Tohsaka Tokiomi who are currently fighting are both very steady and cautious magicians. Neither the Hydra’s poison warhead nor his trump card bullet has found the right moment to attack.
If one of the two showed a flaw, regardless of whether he had an advantage or a disadvantage, Emiya Kiritsugu would attack without hesitation. This had nothing to do with whether he and Tōsaka Tokiomi had signed a self-enforcement agreement.
Kiritsugu Emiya has a unique secret method that allows him to rely on his own origin ability to temporarily remove the contract constraints of his self-enforced certificate and transfer it to other people.
The person who is currently bearing the self-compulsory document for him is his wife, Irisviel. As a result, as long as Irisviel does not die, the contract will not become invalid, which arouses Tōsaka Tokiomi’s vigilance.
-Dividing line one by one-
“Master, will you allow me to use my second treasure?” After fighting with Gilgamesh with a light cannon again, Karna landed near Kenneth and asked him, “With my current output, I’m afraid I can’t defeat the king.”
Kayneth hesitated. He certainly knew how powerful his servant Lancer Karna was, especially Karna’s second Noble Phantasm, which was undoubtedly an extremely powerful Noble Phantasm, and its characteristics were completely targeted at the powerful divinity of Gilgamesh.
However, this treasure also has a weakness. As the price of using it, Karna must give up his invulnerable golden armor before he can fully release the Spear of God Slayer.
The loss of the golden armor is undoubtedly a major weakening of Karna, even if he defeated Gilgamesh.
But what about Caster and Saber? How should they deal with them?
However, the situation was so serious that he could no longer hesitate. His opponent, Tōsaka Tokiomi, had just received a bottle of recovery elixir from the treasury by the Hero King!
After Tousaka Tokiomi drank it, his fatigue and magic power were undoubtedly restored, which was something Kenneth had not expected before.
“Is it impossible to win this battle by attrition?” Kayneth groaned, then his eyes regained their firmness and he made a decision, “Lancer, I allow you to use that Noble Phantasm! In the name of the Command Seal, win for me!”
As soon as Kenneth finished speaking, a stroke of the Command Seal on the back of his hand disappeared, and Karna’s aura rose rapidly, overwhelming the Hero King Gilgamesh.
“!” Gilgamesh’s eyes widened, and a crazy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, “Tokiomi!”
“As you command, my king!” Tōsaka Tokiomi also understood that Kayneth was determined to fight to the death. After receiving Gilgamesh’s order, he immediately raised his right hand and used the Command Seal as well. “In the name of the Command Seal! My king Gilgamesh will surely win!”
“Take the mercy of the king of gods, extinction is this stab… Indra, look at it with new eyes. Burn everything…:”
Karna’s body flew into the air, and the golden armor peeled off his body bit by bit, leaving scars all over. But Karna’s momentum did not decrease but increased, and he was as dazzling and scorching as a human sun.
From behind Karna, one can see a strange sun totem made of flames slowly rising, ready to take off.
Then, the sun totem turned into a huge fireball, as hot and dazzling as a real sun. The energy of this sun was poured into Karna’s God-killing Spear in a very short time.
“O Sun Disk, submit to death!”
Chapter 144: Unexpected Backstab
“Surrounding the mortar of the stars, the hell in the sky is the end of the eve of creation!” Gilgamesh faced Karna’s treasure and raised the sword of separation. “Let me settle everything with your death…”
“Heaven and earth are separated, the star of creation!”
As they were mentally prepared for the power of both sides’ Noble Phantasms, Kenneth and Karna were actually ready for this moment.
Kenneth immediately used the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid to protect himself, and then quickly rushed into the underground passage hidden nearby. This was the underground passage that Weber had dug and reinforced using Zhuge Kongming’s secret earth escape technique, and it came in handy at this moment.
On the other side, Tōsaka Tokiomi immediately took out a shield given to him by Gilgamesh. It is said that this shield is the prototype of the “small world surrounding the sky”, that is, Achilles Universe, and has unparalleled protective capabilities.
The reason why he lent it to Tōsaka Tokiomi was because the King of Heroes considered that his Master might become his weakness, or be killed by the aftermath of the fight.
In other words, even if it was a war of attrition, Kayneth would have no chance of winning if Tohsaka Tokiomi took out this shield in advance.
The previous battle was just Tōsaka Tokiomi’s pride in his identity as an orthodox magus.
Endless light, infinite heat, and seemingly endless shock waves enveloped Emiya Kiritsugu’s vision.
He completely underestimated the upper limit of the damage these two servants could cause. Even though he was more than two kilometers away from them, he had to activate his own magic “Inherent Time Control – Three Times Speed”.
He held his weapon in his hand and ran desperately towards a safer shelter, but the shock wave undoubtedly exceeded his imagination and transfer speed.
Kiritsugu Emiya was blown away like a page of a book in a strong wind. He turned more than ten times in the air, and after flying dozens of meters, he grabbed a big tree whose surface had been burned and carbonized, and stopped his body with great difficulty.
This was something he could only do as a magus who was proficient in special magic such as strengthening magic and inherent time control. And even so, Emiya Kiritsugu had several burns on his body, and there was even a piece of wood stuck in his left arm.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it…! (onorei onorei onorei!)”
Gilgamesh tried his best, but found that his sword of rebellion could not defeat Karna’s treasure!
The contact points of the light cannons released by the Noble Phantasms of both sides began to move towards Gilgamesh under the continuous conflict, which undoubtedly proved that the output power of Gilgamesh’s Noble Phantasm was not as good as Karna’s.
In other words, Karna completed some kind of sacrificial ritual by abandoning the golden armor, a self-destructive act, and greatly increased the attack power of the God-killing Spear to a point where even Gilgamesh could not resist it.
No matter how many Command Spells Tōsaka Tokiomi used at this moment, it would be of no avail. Besides, he was hiding behind the small world surrounding the sky and was unable to take care of himself, so he could not confirm Gilgamesh’s condition at all.
Finally, the tremendous destructive power of the Noble Phantasm [Sun, Submit to Death] and the special attack effect against divine targets completely defeated Gilgamesh’s divine Noble Phantasm, the Sword of Separation, and the torrent of blazing flames drowned the King of Heroes.
Karna’s treasure swept across the area that was originally a park, crossed the Mino River, and directly hit Fuyuki Station on the east side of the Mino River!
It can be said that with just this one Noble Phantasm, it destroyed the city buildings within a straight line of more than ten kilometers, and completely destroyed Fuyuki Station, creating a large pit at the original location of the station.
If the Third New Tokyo City follows its approach, Fuyuki City may have two more artificial lakes in the future.
Toosaka Tokiomi was stunned at the tragic scene in front of him. He never expected that such a powerful and arrogant hero king would actually fail!
He could no longer sense Gilgamesh on the other end of the Servant Contract between the two, which meant that Gilgamesh was killed by Lancer’s Noble Phantasm.
The long-cherished wish of the Toosaka family was once again shattered, which made Toosaka Tokiomi feel a little dazed.
The Noble Phantasm in his hand did not disappear, and since the opponent’s Servant did not continue to attack Tōsaka Tokiomi, he unconsciously put down his shield.
At this moment, although he was injured, Kiritsugu Emiya, who was still lying in ambush and observing from a distance, seized this momentary flaw of Tōsaka Tokiomi and shot the special bullet without hesitation.
This bullet is a special ceremonial bullet made from Kiritsugu Emiya’s origin characteristics and his rib bone powder, and is called the Origin Bullet.
All magic circuits of a magus who is hit by it will be disconnected in an instant, and then reconnected randomly.
In other words, it is impossible for a person who is hit by this kind of bullet to generate and operate magic power in a normal way.
Toosaka Tokiomi suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, and then an indescribable feeling enveloped his whole body.
He subconsciously used his magic power to resist the attack and heal his body, but he found that every time he used his magic power, the magic circuits in his body became more painful.
Tōsaka Tokiomi fell down, veins popping out on his forehead. He could hardly even move a finger. In this Holy Grail War, there was only one person who had the means to attack like this, and that person was his “ally”.
“Emiya Kiritsugu…” Tōsaka Tokiomi said with difficulty, “You, you actually betrayed me…”
Before Kita could finish what he wanted to say, Emiya Kiritsugu fired his second bullet. This time the bullet was coated with Hydra venom to ensure that it would kill him.
But just when Toosaka Tokiomi was about to be hit by the second bullet, a shield made of mercury blocked the bullet, making a crisp sound of metal collision.
He jumped out of the tunnel, using the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid to defend against possible incoming bullets while protecting his opponent as much as possible.
“Karna! Find the despicable bastard who attacked us!” Kenneth shouted and quickly came to the side of Tōsaka Tokiomi.
“As ordered!”
Although Karna was in a very bad condition now, he was undoubtedly more than capable of dealing with a sneak attack from a thief. After receiving the order, he immediately flew towards the direction where Tohsaka Tokiomi was shot, trying to find the attacker.
Kenneth squatted down, frowned as he looked at Toosaka Tokiomi’s injuries, and immediately realized that this was not an ordinary gunshot wound.
The reason why he decided to save Tokiomi’s life was because Kenneth believed that Tokiomi was an orthodox and powerful magician who still adhered to the ideals of the mage nobility, which was rare in this era.
Furthermore, during the fight between the two of them, Tōsaka Tokiomi undoubtedly did not use any despicable means, and it was a completely head-on confrontation.
“Your magic circuits were destroyed by that rat,” Kayneth said with a frown. “Do you have anything else to say? I swear in the name of El-Melloi that I will give your seal to your heir for safekeeping.”
“Mouth…mouth…pocket…” Toosaka Tokiomi said intermittently.
“Huh?” Kenneth was a little confused. “What did you say?”
“I…my…pocket…inside of my shirt…there is…there is…”
Chapter 145 Gift
Because of the blood pouring into his lungs, Tohsaka Tokiomi’s speech was now intermittent and very unclear. Kenneth had to frown and listen for a long time before he understood that an important word Tohsaka Tokiomi said was “pocket”. This was also thanks to Tohsaka Tokiomi’s accent not being as strange as other Japanese.
He searched all the pockets of Tohsaka Tokiomi, and finally found a small bottle emitting blue light in the inner pocket of Tohsaka Tokiomi’s shirt.
Kenneth stared at the small bottle for a while, and his hand holding the bottle trembled slightly, because he found that the value of the things in the small bottle might be enough to buy the three magic furnaces he rented, and some left over.
However, after some ideological struggle, Kenneth’s pride overcame his greed.
He used the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid to turn Toosaka Tokiomi over, then held him at a suitable height, unscrewed the priceless vial, and poured the contents of the bottle into Toosaka Tokiomi’s mouth.
He didn’t care whether Tōsaka Tokiomi would choke to death, because if he was not mistaken, as long as he was poured with the liquid, there was no way he would choke to death.
But the next scene made Kenneth clearly know how much money he had spent to uphold his “noble pride”, because Tōsaka Tokiomi, who was seriously injured and on the verge of death, with all his magic circuits scrapped, began to recover before his eyes…:
This is not as simple as a remedy that can bring the dead back to life, or the most advanced regeneration magic, but it is closer to the magic of time reversal!
Every drop of blood and every bit of flesh that flowed out of Toosaka Tokiomi’s body returned to his body in a trembling state. Even the bullet of the “Origin Bullet” that had injured Toosaka Tokiomi in such a tragic state was squeezed out by Toosaka Tokiomi’s rapidly recovering flesh and blood, and fell to the ground with a plop.
It took only a few tens of seconds for Tōsaka Tokiomi’s body to recover as before, but just as he was about to support himself with his hands and stand up to thank this respectable opponent from the Clock Tower, an accident happened.
The time-reversal process of his body has not ended! Although Tohsaka Tokiomi’s consciousness did not reverse with the reversal of his physical state, his physical state was rapidly changing to that of his youth!
The fine wrinkles at the corners of my eyes gradually disappeared, and my body, which had become a little heavier with age, became lighter again.
Even the carefully trimmed beard is disappearing bit by bit.
Not only was Kenneth dumbfounded, but even Tohsaka Tokiomi, the person who took the medicine, was also in a panic, because he found that the speed at which his body was going backwards was getting faster and faster! Wouldn’t this medicine eventually turn him back to the state of a fertilized egg? ?
However, it turned out that Toosaka Tokiomi was indeed worrying too much, because the secret drug that could turn back time ultimately reversed Toosaka Tokiomi’s physical age back to his early teens… about the same age as his daughter Toosaka Sakura.
Just when Toosaka Tokiomi and Kenneth were looking at each other in silence, Karna, who had gone to search for the attacker, came back. He first shook his head at his master, indicating that the attacker was not found, and then looked at Toosaka Tokiomi, who was wearing an adult-sized burgundy suit, in confusion.
“Master, who is this child?” Karna asked.
“…My opponent, Tōsaka Tokiomi.” Kenneth replied with a complicated expression, “I didn’t expect it to turn out like this.”
After some discussion, Kenneth finally decided to accept the invitation of Tohsaka Tokiomi (the child) and went to the Tohsaka family to discuss the next strategy and the thank you gift for saving Tohsaka Tokiomi.
Because the King of Heroes’ Vimana Ark had been destroyed by Karna, Tōsaka Tokiomi and Kenneth were both wrapped in the Moon Spirit Marrow Fluid and were being carried away by Karna.
However, when Tōsaka Tokiomi returned to his home, he was greeted with another piece of bad news that surprised him greatly.
His student Kotomine Kirei sent a report saying that the administrator of the Fuyuki Church, Kotomine Kirei’s father, Kotomine Risei, had been killed, and that the arm that contained a large number of Command Seals left over from previous Masters had also disappeared.
“This is a big problem, Mr. Toosaka,” Kenneth said, rubbing his forehead as he sat on the sofa in the living room of the Toosaka residence. “How could someone be so bold as to do this…”
“I’m afraid that it’s because the total number of Command Seals on my arm was exposed when Brother Li Zheng issued the bounty last time,” said Shota Tokito in a clear young voice, “While we were fighting, that person sneaked into the church, killed the administrator, and took away the Command Seals.”
“Any idea of the thief’s identity?” Kenneth asked.
“First of all, it’s impossible for you and me sitting here,” said Tohsaka Tokiomi, crossing his arms (he was too young now, so this posture looked a little funny), “Miss Blue can’t do it either. If she wanted to do it, she would have done it right in front of me when she went to collect the bounty that day. No one could stop her, and a magician wouldn’t bother doing such a thing.”