"The Doll production is going smoothly, but the Holy Grail's vessel has already absorbed two Servants, which might have some impact on Illya. However, the problem shouldn't be major; I will do my best."
Touko Aozaki handed Akatsuki a cigarette, and the two of them leaned against the riverbank railing to smoke.
"By the way, I didn't expect the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City to be so astonishing. I originally thought it was just a spirit-summoning ritual held by country Magicians."
"If those guys at the Clock Tower saw a Servant, their jaws would probably drop in shock."
Akatsuki laughed. "After all, who would have thought a ritual in a place like this would have such scale and effect? Whether it's the Third Magic or using the greater grail to open a path to the Root, no one would expect it to appear in such a place."
A moment later, Touko Aozaki finished her cigarette and left. Akatsuki sighed as she looked at the undulating river surface.
"Kirei Kotomine, aren't you going to say hello now that you're back?"
Kirei Kotomine walked out of the darkness with his hands behind his back, looking at Akatsuki leaning against the riverbank railing with his usual heavy gaze. "Haven't I come to find you now?"
"How are your considerations going... I'd like to ask that, but it seems you've brought back a rather unfriendly guest."
Clang!
A Black Key instantly formed in Akatsuki's hand, which she then used to cut down another Black Key speeding toward her head. The sound of the two Black Keys colliding was quite distinct in the silent night.
"Kirei Kotomine, Tohsaka Tokiomi died at your hands because he failed to see your true nature until the very end. I am different from him; I have known your nature from the start. Since you refuse to walk the path I've arranged for you, then just die!"
A flash of light passed, and Black Keys levitated in mid-air, fiercely slashing toward Kirei Kotomine's head as if from Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon.
As a former agent, Kirei Kotomine would not be killed by Akatsuki so easily. He held his breath and focused, taking out three Black Keys in each hand and using command spells as a mana source. Facing the rain of Black Keys unleashed by Akatsuki, he did not dare to be careless.
Black Keys clashed against each other, but Akatsuki's mental focus was not entirely on Kirei Kotomine; there was another agent belonging to the Church on the scene!
In an instant, as if sensing something, Akatsuki tilted her head slightly. A strangely shaped weapon shaved off a lock of her hair. Looking at the blue figure, although she already knew who it was, Akatsuki showed no pity and kicked directly at the girl.
"What?!"
Using the girl's weapon as leverage, Akatsuki quickly distanced herself from the two. That kick just now was enough to kill a regular Servant, but the girl only rolled a few times on the ground, knocking down several utility poles before coming to a stop.
"Ciel..."
"To think she could even cause damage to the 'Seventh Holy Scripture'!"
Ciel's gaze sharpened as she looked at Akatsuki warily.
Akatsuki's lip twitched slightly. After all, something like the Seventh Holy Scripture was a powerful tool against the soul; even she would have her soul scattered if she took a direct hit. However, looking at the heavy weapon, Akatsuki estimated that the current Seventh Holy Scripture had already been modified by Ciel.
After Ciel's modification, the Seventh Holy Scripture added a block of iron capable of bludgeoning Dead Apostles through pure physical attack power, on top of its original 'denial of reincarnation' function—meaning anyone hit would have their soul scattered—which was only effective against spiritual bodies.
Akatsuki remembered its total weight was a full 60 kilograms.
"I have only one question: Is Roa dead?"
Hearing Roa's name, Ciel, holding the Seventh Holy Scripture in its greatsword form, narrowed her eyes. "You know Roa?"
"It seems he's still alive; otherwise, you probably wouldn't have come to Fuyuki City."
Roa, the serpent of akasha, was one of the original Twenty-Seven Ancestors of the Dead Apostles. Originally a priest of the Church and the founder of the prototype Burial Agency, he is an infinite reincarnator, the Serpent of the Void, an extremist among extremists.
He is a cold and thorough egoist with a terrifying obsession with eternity.
Ciel hadn't been surprised upon seeing her, so Akatsuki now had a preliminary understanding of the Arcueid and Roa of this world. It was likely that the Roa in this world had not become a Dead Apostle directly under the last True Ancestor, Arcueid.
Furthermore, Roa had not reincarnated into Shiki Tohno's body but had hidden away through some means, which resulted in Ciel not going to Misaki Town and thus not meeting Shiki Tohno.
This event is one of the divergence points between tsukihime and Fate. Since Roa had no contact with Arcueid in this world, he likely used another method to transform into a Dead Apostle and achieve the characteristic of infinite reincarnation.
Although he has the strength to enter the Twenty-Seven Ancestors, he is not recognized by the other 'Ancestors.'
"Even if you aren't Roa, as an agent, I have the duty to kill you!"
Akatsuki smiled. As Roa's reincarnated body, Ciel possessed powerful self-healing abilities, and her own magical potential was extremely high. Akatsuki remembered her magical potential was above that of an A-rank Magician, and her maximum mana capacity was even more formidable; if an ordinary Magician's was 20, hers was 5,000.
However, her magic circuits were not complex; it was simply that her output was massive. For instance, a Conceptual Weapon with very high consumption like the Seventh Holy Scripture would likely cause an ordinary person to wither and die in an instant if they weren't Ciel.
"However, if it were me when I had just arrived in this world and wasn't yet familiar with this body, I'm afraid I would have fought to a mutual draw with you and ended up forced into a deep sleep."
Akatsuki raised her hand, and her Marble Phantasm ability activated instantly. Massive city walls rose all around, and the sky was covered by a pitch-black curtain. In an instant, an enclosed space enveloped Akatsuki, Kirei Kotomine, and Ciel.
"But these past few days, I haven't just been fooling around with beautiful girls!"
"Are you trying to wipe us all out at once?"
Ciel laughed. "Fine then, let me send you to hell! Vampire!"
In an instant, a black blade appeared in Akatsuki's hand.
"!"
The moment this blade appeared, Kirei Kotomine and Ciel simultaneously threw a Black Key at Akatsuki.
"Muda muda!"
Akatsuki grinned and let out a chilling laugh.
"Has she gone mad?!"
Even a lion uses its full strength when hunting a rabbit.
Akatsuki did not intend to underestimate Ciel, just as she had never underestimated Berserker Same.
The Seventh Holy Scripture's greatsword form pierced directly through Akatsuki's heart.
"An afterimage?!"
Akatsuki gripped the black blade. The sound of a sonic boom erupted behind Kirei Kotomine. At this moment, even with his powerful physical attributes, Kirei Kotomine was too late to dodge.
Akatsuki gripped the black blade and decapitated him with a single stroke!
Fast, too fast!
To an ordinary person, they would likely only see Kirei Kotomine's head fall off inexplicably, unable to see the image of Akatsuki slashing at him with the black blade.
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