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Atrum Galliasta's identity was merely that of a wealthy man; he hadn't reached the point where the newly bought gangsters would kowtow to him or directly risk their lives for him.
Kisaragi Rin and Yukinoshita Yukino, controlling their excellent five-dimensional attributes, held firearms and demonstrated the level of a modern soldier king.
The gunfight scared away most people, and for the remaining gangsters, Kisaragi Rin gave them a demolition show, which was the explosion Sugo Nobuyuki heard.
Minutes later, they displayed their traditional art: Gekokujo (overthrowing the superior) and Dogeza (kneeling on the ground).
After all, a gunfight was one thing, but acting as a mercenary on the Russia-Ukraine battlefield was a different price.
Then, Kisaragi Rin hooked up with the front desk lady to call the other player.
Watching Kisaragi Rin hang up the phone, Yukinoshita Yukino asked unhappily, "Will this kind of deception really succeed?"
"If he's a normal person with some intelligence but not enough, then it will succeed."
Kisaragi Rin didn't speak with absolute certainty, adding a condition to the success, because what if he went crazy and jumped off the building to commit suicide?
The main reason for trying to trick him into coming down instead of directly attacking him was that Kisaragi Rin was afraid of accidentally killing this player.
After all, this deception wasn't entirely a lie to this player; Kisaragi did want to form an alliance with him, but in a different way.
...
Sugo Nobuyuki sat by the bed, and he did somewhat believe in the alliance Kisaragi Rin mentioned.
Just as Kisaragi Rin said, "Not directly blowing up the hotel and killing you is my sincerity."
Blowing up the Hyatt Hotel directly, striking hard before he could react—Sugo Nobuyuki was sure that if he encountered such a situation, he wouldn't have much power to resist, let alone be killed outright.
Listening to the man's calm voice, Sugo Nobuyuki's heart pounded violently; he didn't think he was a good person incapable of doing such a thing.
Regarding the alliance he spoke of, Sugo Nobuyuki opened his paradise bracelet and scrolled through the information.
[The current world has entered a high-level pursuer]
He had naturally received the notification that a high-level player had entered this world to hunt down a certain player, which gave him some basis for trusting Kisaragi Rin's words about an alliance.
Besides, why would the other party lie to him?
Two players, plus the already summoned Heroic Spirit—how could he, a normal player with only two Command Spells left, possibly fight them? When the other party used explosives to force back his human shield of ordinary people, Sugo Nobuyuki was already prepared to run away.
After all, the rules clearly stated that one could only withdraw voluntarily after summoning a Heroic Spirit and that Heroic Spirit dying. Since Sugo Nobuyuki hadn't summoned a Heroic Spirit yet, the only way to withdraw was death. Otherwise, he would have gambled on whether kneeling and begging for mercy could spare his life.
"To fight against a high-level player, an alliance with me seems truly possible. After all, the key to this game lies in Heroic Spirits; he needs me alive to provide the combat power of a Heroic Spirit."
"Maybe this isn't bad after all. Since he wants my power, he'll have to help me find a summoning artifact, which I can't find myself."
"As for that woman with a mortal grudge, she doesn't seem to be in charge, and it's not like she's really going to kill me. What does it matter in the face of great profit?"
Believing he had figured everything out, Sugo Nobuyuki, with his bodyguards feigning composure, went downstairs, intending to meet the player who wanted to ally with him.
Coming down from the elevator, the ordinary people in the hotel lobby had already been cleared out, and police sirens wailed outside.
Sugo Nobuyuki scanned the two and fixed his gaze on Kisaragi Rin, who was still playing on a swivel chair.
"So you're the guy being hunted? You don't look like much."
In Sugo Nobuyuki's judgment, he felt he was the one in demand, so his tone towards Kisaragi was quite impolite.
This made both Kisaragi Rin and Yukinoshita Yukino fall silent and make small gestures.
Kisaragi Rin: See? Someone with some intelligence but not enough looks exactly like this.
Yukinoshita Yukino: Can you just kill him quickly? The thought of almost being killed by someone like this is truly unbearable.
"Hey, I'm talking to you!" Sugo Nobuyuki said loudly.
Kisaragi Rin rose from the chair, his aura making Sugo Nobuyuki immediately take a step back.
"You all go out."
Looking at Sugo Nobuyuki, who still had two Command Spells, Kisaragi Rin ordered the ordinary people behind him, then shot and dealt with the cameras near the hotel.
To meet the needs of the Holy Grail War, this Fuyuki City of 2004 had few surveillance cameras, and the hotel lobby only had two.
These ordinary people, who had long wanted to run but were afraid to move because of Kisaragi Rin, immediately fled out the door. Sugo Nobuyuki tried to call them back, but no one paid him any mind.
Sensing the subtle atmosphere in the air, Sugo Nobuyuki finally realized something was wrong, but what he realized was that Kisaragi Rin's personality was not easy to control, not that Kisaragi had no intention of allying with him at all.
"Big Brother, as long as you don't kill me, the Heroic Spirit I summon is yours. Take him and fight the pursuer with all your might, just don't kill me..."
Sugo Nobuyuki flexibly lowered his bottom line; as long as he could live, being treated as a mere Heroic Spirit carrier was fine.
"Of course, this is if I summon a weak Heroic Spirit. If I summon a powerful Heroic Spirit, today's humiliation and burden will all be for tomorrow's backstab..."
His fantasy wasn't finished yet when Saber, in Spirit Form, appeared behind Sugo Nobuyuki. Relying on her agility, which far surpassed his, she delivered a hand chop to the back of his neck before Sugo Nobuyuki could react.
As a Heroic Spirit, Saber could transform into a Spirit Form invisible to ordinary people.
From the start of the operation, Saber was in her invisible Spirit Form. Kisaragi Rin's assigned task for her was to manifest and stop any other Heroic Spirits if they appeared.
If not, then let this player, Atrum Galliasta, sleep for a while.
"My control of the force was good; he shouldn't die in a short period," Saber said earnestly, looking at the fallen Sugo Nobuyuki.
"It doesn't matter. Once he's in my hands, I can make him die whenever I want."
Kisaragi Rin picked up Sugo Nobuyuki and found the required Holy Relic on him, like a treasure-delivering child, indeed proving the effect of 5 points of luck.
Kisaragi Rin sent him into the Workshop. Spider Mother was in full condition inside the Workshop, so Sugo Nobuyuki's life or death could be completely controlled.
"Chef Master, that sounds like something a bad guy would say."
"Saber, he's not a good person to begin with."
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