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Chapitre 327: Chapter 327: Fate of Death

There was a woman.

A woman who embodied the best of both Eastern and Western femininity.

She had the fair skin of Western women and the delicate features of Eastern women; the voluptuousness of Western women and the slenderness of Eastern women; the wildness of Western women and the refinement of Eastern women—all these could be found in her.

Her sweet voice alone could make men's hearts flutter.

Just a hint of melancholy on her face could make men fall for her.

Undoubtedly, she was a very charming woman.

There was a man.

A man who also embodied the best of both Eastern and Western masculinity.

He had the height of Western men and the elegance of Eastern men; the sturdiness of Western men and the handsomeness of Eastern men; the unruliness of Western men and the grace of Eastern men—all these were present in him.

A casual glance could easily captivate a young girl's heart.

The decadence he exuded with every gesture could make mature women's hearts skip a beat.

There was no doubt that he was a very charming man.

Such a pair of man and woman, coupled with a dimly lit room, with the woman, undressed and the man having blonde hair—what might one think of?

Any normal adult might think of certain things not suitable for children.

Indeed, something unsuitable for children did happen between the man and the woman, but not in the way one might think. What transpired in the secluded villa had nothing to do with erotica but was instead bloody and grotesque, a different form of content forbidden for minors.

The woman's body was cut open, fresh blood gushing onto the floor, sketching out an ancient magic circle.

The man stood at the edge of the magic circle, watching everything unfold with unwavering attention. His handsome face was filled with excitement and anticipation, and he muttered incomprehensible words from time to time.

Because his voice was too low, and the woman was in a weakened state from excessive blood loss, she couldn't make out what he was saying, only catching a few words vaguely.

"Almost."

"Holy Grail War."

"Jack the Ripper."

"Assassin."

"Victory, Yggdmillennia, wish."

As her consciousness began to fade and her mind started to blur, the woman heard the man's final words.

"Feel honored, Reika Rikudou. You will become the sacrifice for me and the Yggdmillennia family to reach the pinnacle. The moment you die will be the moment my Servant descends."

"Close, close, close, close, close."

"However, the moment of overflow must break."

"——Proclaim."

"You who are under me, entrust your fate to my sword."

"By the Holy Grail's summons, if you comply with this will and reason, answer me at once."

The woman known as Reika Rikudou saw a light, a light filled with mystery, unrelated to technology.

Along with the light came a warm current rising from the ground. This warmth seeped through her delicate skin, warming her body which was growing colder as her blood flowed out.

Is this what death feels like? It doesn't seem that scary.

But she didn't want to die.

Even though she had little attachment to this world and didn't really like her muddled life, being kept and living aimlessly.

She still didn't want to die; she wanted to live.

Even knowing she had lost the ability to resist and could only silently await death.

She still did not give up her desire for life.

I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!

Someone save me, someone, someone save me!

I want to live!

I want to live!

Her blood was draining away, and the warmth from the floor was increasing, becoming scorching hot.

Reika Rikudou knew that death was drawing nearer.

In her final moments, amidst the man's poetic chanting, she heard a vague voice.

"Do you want to live?"

Barely conscious and driven by a will to survive, Reika Rikudouo moved her lips, struggling to say, "I... I want to live."

"No matter the cost?"

"No matter the cost!" She couldn't make any sound, but her will was stronger than ever. "Save me."

"Very well, then your remaining life is mine!"

The vague voice suddenly became clear, causing even the chanting man to pause.

A dazzling light erupted from the magic circle.

Wind and lightning forced everyone in the room to squint.

In the pressure of the wind, at the heart of the blinding sea of light, a gray silhouette emerged.

"Servant Assassin, the assassin from the other side, answer me. You are—oh, no need to answer, you aren't my master!"

In the wake of the lightning and wind, a crescent of silver light flashed, severing the man's left arm at the elbow, the one marked with dark red patterns, and extended towards the magic circle.

Simultaneously, a gentle white light descended from the sky, enveloping Reika Rikudou in a pool of blood.

Only at this moment did the blond man realize what had happened, letting out a scream of agony.

"Impossible, I... I was attacked by my Servant?"

"Why did you attack me? I am your Master! If I die, you will disappear too!"

Clutching his severed arm, the man looked at the cloaked Assassin that had appeared in the magic circle, half in fear and half in confusion.

In the Assassin's left hand was a long-handled scythe dripping with fresh blood—the very weapon that had cut off the man's arm.

In the right hand, the Assassin held a peculiar staff, from which ancient mystic energy not of the modern era flowed into Reika Rikudou's body, infusing new vitality into her flickering life.

After confirming that Reika Rikudou's condition had improved, the Assassin finally turned to face the blond man.

Though the Assassin's face was hidden by the cloak, the man could still feel the mocking gaze.

"You lost an arm, not your eyes. Can't you see that I am not your Servant but have merely intervened in your summoning using special means? Or is your intelligence insufficient to comprehend the current situation?"

The man was neither blind nor lacking intelligence. He couldn't see through it because he had not yet summoned a Servant to become an official Master. He couldn't understand it because he had never heard of a summoning being disrupted.

Through the confusion on the man's face, the Assassin understood that he couldn't grasp the situation. The Assassin had no intention of explaining either. Raising the long-handled scythe again, the Assassin said:

"Ask the god of death in hell—oh right, this is Japan, so it should be Yomi and Izanami."

Before the man could react, the scythe swung down, severing the man's head and taking his final consciousness with it—"What on earth happened?"

Blood spurted upward under pressure and then dripped down.

He who kills will be killed, and he who sacrifices others will eventually become a sacrifice himself.

"Farewell, last Master of the Yggdmillennia clan, Sagara Hyouma. With or without my intervention, you could not escape your fate of death."


Chapitre 328: Chapter 328: Mother

Sagara Hyouma, the last of the seven prospective Masters of the Yggdmillennia clan to manifest "Stigmata," was the heir of the Sagara family, known for their proficiency in traditional Japanese sorcery.

Unlike magus like Roche and Celenike, who, despite joining the Yggdmillennia clan, continued to delve into their family's magecraft using the clan's resources, Sagara Hyouma integrated Western sorcery from the Icecolle family, to which Celenike belonged, into his traditional Japanese sorcery. In this sense, he was the magus who most embodied the founding principles of the Yggdmillennia clan.

Clan leader Darnic also had high expectations for him, evidenced by his approval for Ryouma to travel to Japan and summon a Servant on his own.

Sorcery, by definition, is a magecraft that achieves effects through sacrifices. Sagara Hyouma's sorcery involved ensuring the safety of buildings or protecting people at the cost of human lives.

He applied this type of sorcery to the summoning ritual, using Reika's life as a sacrifice; and her disembowelment as the catalyst to summon the desired Servant.

The summoning ritual proceeded smoothly from preparation to execution. Sagara Hyouma even felt the presence of the incoming Heroic Spirit. However, just before he could recite the final incantation, an unexpected event occurred.

An Assassin, whose origin was unknown, intervened in the summoning ritual, emerged from the magic circle he had set up, and took his life without much dialogue.

Sagara Hyouma, who died without understanding what had happened, would never know that two souls from another world had set their sights on the Holy Grail and had been secretly manipulating events.

He would also never know that a certain time traveler, with the advantage of foreknowledge, had targeted his identity as a Master and prioritized his elimination due to the nature of his magecraft, which constantly claimed the lives of ordinary people.

Casually sketching two flame runes, the Assassin incinerated Sagara Hyouma's body along with his stigmata-marked left hand. The Assassin then discarded the cloak, checked their body, and confirmed their status panel.

"Hmm, no issues with spiritual particle reconstruction, body condition is good, teleportation successful."

Though teleportation across vast distances falls under the domain of the Second Magic, Justeaze's Holy Grail system, constructed using the Third Magic, could also achieve similar miracles.

The difference lies in the Second Magic directly interfering with space, overlapping two spatial nodes to achieve teleportation. Justeaze's method involved reverting the Servant's body to spiritual particles unaffected by physical laws, using the connection between the summoning ritual and the Holy Grail for long-distance transfer. This method is akin to a Master using a Command Spell to forcefully summon a Servant to their side.

Although Shinji had preliminarily mastered the method of spiritual particle transformation during his time hiding within the Holy Grail system, both he and Justeaze lacked experience in this area, making them somewhat anxious.

Upon hearing Shinji's declaration of "teleportation successful," Justeaze, far away in Romania, could finally relax and proceed with the next step.

"Shinji, summon Lancer as soon as possible while the connection between the summoning ritual and the Holy Grail is still active."

"Understood!"

Summoning a Servant was the true purpose behind Justeaze sending Shinji to Japan. Eliminating Sagara Hyouma and destroying his stigmata was to clear out a prospective Master who had already established a connection with the Holy Grail, freeing up the slot for a rapid takeover.

Normally, a Servant cannot become a Master. However, this restriction does not stem from the rules of the Holy Grail War but from the unique nature of Servants. Servants exist in the present world by forming a bond with a Master and thus cannot be the bond themselves. Therefore, solving the issue of this bond would make it possible for a Servant to summon another Servant.

This concept was confirmed in the record of the Fifth Holy Grail War, "Fate/stay night," where Caster, whose true name was Medea, used the gate of Ryuudou Temple as a bond and successfully summoned the pseudo-Assassin Sasaki Kojirou.

At this moment, Shinji was also going to use this method to summon his Servant. The chosen vessel for his Servant was none other than the fallen Reika Rikudou.

This, of course, was premeditated. Reika Rikudou was an ordinary person with no resistance to magic; she became a sacrifice for the summoning ritual due to the influence of suggestion magecraft. Not to mention, she was currently unconscious, putting her entirely at Shinji's mercy.

Shinji moved Reika Rikudou away from the blood pool that served as the altar and placed her in the spot where Sagara Hyouma's ashes had previously stood. Following Justeaze's design, Shinji made minor adjustments to the magic circle, separating the supply of magical energy from the vessel.

After completing these preparations, Shinji continued reciting the summoning incantation from where Sagara Hyouma had left off.

"——I hereby swear. I am the one who will become all the good in the world, I am the one who will defeat all the evil in the world."

"Entangle thee with the three great words of power, from the wheel of suppression, O Guardian of the Scales!"

In Shinji's expectations, the following scene would unfold as it had in the three summonings he had witnessed: howling winds, thunder, and lightning. Only such a grand spectacle could befit those with extraordinary power, elevated to the realm of spirits.

However, to his surprise, after finishing the incantation, nothing happened within the magic circle.

No surge of magical energy, no thunder and lightning, and certainly no anticipated Servant.

"What the hell is going on?"

Perplexed, Shinji once again poured magical energy into the magic circle and repeated the incantation that he had long since memorized—this time, from start to finish, in its entirety.

Yet, again, nothing happened.

"What is going on?"

At this moment, Shinji finally understood how Sagara Hyouma felt before his death.

Fortunately, he wasn't alone; he had a partner connected through both the Grail system and the spiritual descent contract.

"Don't panic; the connection between the ritual and the Grail still exists. Check the magic circle to see if there's an issue."

"Alright."

Shinji took a deep breath, cleared his mind of chaotic thoughts, and bent down to carefully inspect the structure of the magic circle.

Just as he finished checking the outer circle and stepped into the inner circle, the long-anticipated surge of magical energy erupted. Although it did not create wind pressure or lightning as before, the otherworldly aura unmistakably signaled the activation of the summoning ritual.

Instinctively, Shinji tried to step out of the magic circle, but he was stunned to find that a mysterious force seemed to be holding his Servant's body in place. He could neither advance nor retreat and could only stand there, dumbfounded.

Fortunately, Shinji's presence did not interfere with the summoning ritual, nor did the surge of magical energy harm his body.

A few seconds later, a small figure appeared at the center of the magic circle and, with a naive and innocent voice, called out to Shinji:

"Mother."


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