Which was Hassan-i-Sabbah.
"I've already said, I have absolutely no intention of competing for that Holy Grail thing... and I don't want to kill people either."
And sitting in the room was the Master, an utterly ordinary high school student—Ryuudou Issei.
As the youngest son of the Ryuudou Temple, fundamentally a male high school student who would become a monk in the future, Ryuudou Issei had inadvertently triggered a strange magic circle left at Ryuudou Temple when he went there to help a few days ago.
Ryuudou Issei didn't know that the bottom of Ryuudou Temple was a ley line. Inadvertently, through that magic circle, he summoned the Heroic Spirit named Hassan-i-Sabbah.
Hassan-i-Sabbah told Ryuudou Issei about his origins and common knowledge about the Holy Grail War, but unfortunately, Ryuudou Issei seemed to have no intention of fighting at all.
This guy, who appeared in the original work as Emiya Shirou's friend, only wanted to study hard. Summoning Hassan-i-Sabbah was completely beyond his expectations.
After all, he was the student council president at school. How could he possibly do this kind of brutal fighting?
"...This is really troublesome."
Hassan-i-Sabbah also had a headache, probably never expecting that the one who summoned him would be such an ordinary high school student with no fighting spirit.
Ryuudou Issei clearly had some magical aptitude, otherwise, he couldn't have possibly summoned a Heroic Spirit—but the fact was that Ryuudou Issei seemed to know absolutely nothing about magecraft.
"Master, although you don't seem to want to fight, battles will come looking for you."
"Why?"
Ryuudou Issei looked at Hassan-i-Sabbah with a somewhat puzzled gaze.
"Didn't you say that as Assassin, you have an ability called 'Presence Concealment' and won't be noticed by others at all? As long as you don't attack, who could actively discover us?"
Although clearly completely uninterested in the Holy Grail War, he had remembered his abilities crystal clear... Hassan-i-Sabbah was momentarily speechless.
However, he still seriously explained the reason:
"Although if I don't actively attack, people indeed won't come looking for me... but unfortunately, when I went to scout for intelligence two days ago, I was discovered by a white-haired Heroic Spirit wielding twin swords."
He didn't know that the one who discovered him was precisely Heroic Spirit EMIYA. As a Heroic Spirit not skilled in frontal combat, Hassan-i-Sabbah had fled after discovering Heroic Spirit EMIYA.
But he knew very clearly that the other party should be able to find this place soon, and at that time, a battle would be unavoidable—he had to let his Master understand the danger of the situation in advance.
"What!? This happened?"
Ryuudou Issei immediately panicked. He couldn't even read the textbook in his hands anymore and quickly stood up from the desk.
"Then... then what should we do!?"
Unlike other Masters, Ryuudou Issei had absolutely no independent ideas about this kind of thing, since he had never planned to participate in the Holy Grail War in the first place.
This was quite similar to Emiya Shirou in the original work—however, the original Emiya Shirou had Tohsaka Rin as a guide, while Ryuudou Issei didn't.
Although he and Tohsaka Rin were from the same school, his relationship with Tohsaka Rin wasn't very good, and he hadn't had a chance encounter with other Masters like the original Emiya Shirou had.
The diminutive Hassan-i-Sabbah's eyes flashed with brilliance, opening his mouth to speak his plan.
But before his words could come out, they were directly interrupted by another voice from behind:
"If you don't want to participate, just hand this guy over to me, and then we can act like nothing happened."
This voice sounded somewhat lazy, as if one could hear the speaker's exasperated mood.
Ryuudou Issei was stunned, then looked behind Hassan-i-Sabbah, and Hassan-i-Sabbah also turned to look.
Only then did the two discover that Zuke had somehow already appeared in the room, and by the looks of it, had been standing there for quite a while... but neither of them had noticed at all!
Presence Concealment!
The diminutive Hassan-i-Sabbah's pupils constricted, instantly thinking of what skill this situation came from.
But he couldn't understand—"Presence Concealment" should be Assassin's class skill. Why would this guy behind him also have it?
And how did he find himself? He should have only been exposed to that white-haired Heroic Spirit wielding twin swords...
No time to think further, the diminutive Hassan-i-Sabbah flashed, attempting to retreat while suddenly extending his hand toward Zuke's shoulder.
Every person who could be given the name Hassan-i-Sabbah possessed their own unique assassination technique—he was no exception.
This diminutive Hassan-i-Sabbah's Noble Phantasm was "Delusional Heartbeat."
The Noble Phantasm's effect was very simple: by touching the enemy's body with his left hand, he could turn the enemy's head into gunpowder, blowing away their upper body along with it.
As an assassination Noble Phantasm, this ability's main strength was catching people off guard—ordinary people would probably find it hard to imagine that just from being touched once, their life would be forfeit here.
The diminutive Hassan-i-Sabbah was very confident in his Noble Phantasm's ability, and he also saw that when his left hand reached toward Zuke's shoulder, Zuke didn't seem to have any intention of blocking.
Just as he thought his Noble Phantasm was about to activate successfully, Zuke suddenly simply raised his hand and, in an unbelievable manner, caught his left wrist before his attack could land.
"I was wondering which Assassin would be summoned this time, but I didn't expect it to be you."
After casually catching the diminutive Hassan-i-Sabbah's left hand, Zuke also smiled.
This guy was quite an obscure Heroic Spirit in the Type-Moon world—Zuke remembered he appeared in the "Grail War of the Night."
Originally, Zuke hadn't thought of it, but seeing this guy reach out with his left hand to grab him, he suddenly recalled.
"Turning the enemy's brain into gunpowder through touch? Quite an interesting ability."
Zuke grinned, but his smile made the diminutive Hassan-i-Sabbah suddenly feel a chill down his spine.
"What a coincidence, I also have an ability very similar to yours—Killer Queen!"
The next moment, the diminutive Hassan-i-Sabbah's left hand exploded with a boom—like a detonated explosive pack, it instantly shattered into fragments of flesh and blood, gradually dissipating into the air.
Turning touched objects into bombs and detonating them—Zuke's "Black Bird Requiem: Killer Queen" could also do this.
And it did it much more precisely than this guy's "Delusional Heartbeat"—Killer Queen didn't just blow up heads; it could blow up any part it touched.
To be continued...