Chapter 3: The murder of a king.
Three days later (first night of the Holy Grail War):
Kirei is on top of a hill that shows the entire city of Fuyuki. The lights of the city shine in the night while the full moon illuminates the sky.
Only a few moments ago, Kirei was informed by his father that the seventh and last servant, Caster was invoked.
Even though the summoner had not referred to the Church. This means that the seventh Master is a regular civilian or a weak Magus who has been dragged into war. The plan still had to proceed as originally planned.
Tokiomi summoned the legendary king of Uruk Gilgamesh under the Archer class, and after eliminating Mask, Kirei would seek protection from the Church.
So while the other Masters are focused on each other, it is free to eliminate the Masters behind the scenes.
It was a good plan, all things considered.
With Mask gone, no one would explain that a former Master attacked them from the shadows.
But the only flaw is that if Kirei were to be discovered, the political situation between the Church and the Wizard's Association would be catastrophic.
It was still a pity that he would have been more or less out of the war and would only move when Tokiomi had ordered him to do so.
Although he did not have a personal desire for the Grail, he wanted to confront Kiritsugu in a real fight rather than murder him when he least expected it.
Perhaps he could have asked for the answer he was looking for from Kiritsugu before he died?
It does not matter, he had to proceed with the plan.
"This place to a beautiful view, perfect for monitoring or a sniper" commented the masked servant materialized behind his master.
"Fuyuki looks like a city so quiet, it's hard to believe there's a secret magic war, ready to start and unleash." Mystic said as he took a look at Kirei.
"Not for long." Kirei admitted without turning his head, his eyes looked at the city below with dark solemnity.
"I received news from my father: Caster was called not too long ago."
"Then the Holy Grail War has officially begun, things will get interesting," Mask said as he stepped forward to stand next to his Master on the ledge.
"Kirei now the prologue is finished, start our story, it will end in only two ways: a glorious victory or a death worthy of a legend" said Mask making several dramatic gestures.
"Indeed." Kirei murmured, suppressing the little smile that was trying to beautify her features.
He will miss Mask is a very interesting heroic spirit. In addition eccentric behavior is better than a work.
"You must go immediately to the Tohsaka family." He ordered Kirei, his eyes never left the city even when Mask turned to him.
"The delimited fields of the house should not hinder you." Kirei said, of course there will be no problems for the Servant of the mask.
"A story that begins with a treachery, so dramatic, I like it" said Mask, playing the ignorant.
"I do not want to be too sticky, but why now?" I could not kill him when I had the blade next to his throat? " He commented on Mask, wanting to know the reason for Kirei's betrayal.
"Now it does not matter, the important thing is to kill Tokiomi." Kirei counterattacked, tone level and composed. His features did not betray a bit of emotion.
"Even if you end up having to fight with Archer, there's no need to fear." He lied Kirei, not believing that Mask will return.
"I will have confidence in your judgment, Kirei." He said Mask before shooting at the base of the Red Magus. Disappearing from the sight of Kirei in a moment.
Before long, Mask arrived in the district of Thosaka, the first thing he did was to get on a light pole, to get a better view of the area.
"Gilgamesh and Tokiomi Thosaka, let's see if you can survive in front of the accursed archive of Akasha." She said Mask, picking up her little book.
Which of my toys will I use against the golden king? 'I think Mask, looking at his library, full of incaths, images of artifacts, Mystic Code, Noble Phantasm, advanced weapons etc.
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A few minutes later, at the Thosaka residence.
Things look good for Tokiomi Thosaka.
He managed to invoke the strongest Heroic Spirit, Gilgamesh, the king of heroes.
A Servant who could win the war in one night, but was invoked as Servant Archer, no Saber.
So you need caution and use your pride and status as a king against him when you want to talk to him.
Using the pretext of showing off you bastards who call themselves heroes, a small part of the greatness of Gilgamesh, to know how pathetic they are in comparison to the true king.
Tokiomi managed to convince Gilgamesh to participate in Tokiomi's plan.
The Red Magus is waiting to see the Irregular Servant, Mask, a small sacrifice for his victory.
At the moment Tokiomi finds himself sitting in his workshop drinking a glass of wine.
This proud man can be as definitive as a traditional Magus.
So it's weak against a lot of things:
- Science and modern weapons are considered minor threats, underestimates them, a serious mistake.
- Being a good Magus does not mean expert warrior, but a researcher who seeks knowledge.
- A true tactic must have an open and well-trained mind, with a lot of experience and a masterly intuition. All these qualities are not found in Tokiomi Thosaka. Therefore his pride and pride makes him underestimate the enemy and overestimate his abilities.
Mask knows all this is much more, his only obstacle is the strength of Gilgamesh, no, the Gate of Babylon is the danger along with Endiku the endless chain. But these two weapons can become useful for Mystic himself.
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A shadow within the court of the House Thosaka, the shadow enslave facilitates the security system of Thosaka, thanks to three factors: Agility, experience as a thief and an in-depth study of the security system.
Doing a trick to dodge a magic parody of a motion sensor, I cast three Black Keys to the security system's power source, three gems placed in front of everyone's sight, why Tokiomi does not secretly feed his security? , stupidity or arrogance?, you decide.
The figure dressed in black stood still for a second admiring his work, before he could turn around and sneak into Thosaka's residence, a shower of swords, spears, halberds, etc.
They hit the shadow in full, which was reduced to a simple humanoid svaicer.
Her killer was a mighty figure dressed in a golden breastplate, which is on the roof. With their arms crossed and a bored expression, behind them are a handful of golden doors, like a puddle disturbed by drops of water.
Dozens of legendary weapons have come out of the portals. Ready for a second wave of fire, but they were not necessary, the enemy is already dead at the first blow.
"Too easy" said the king of heroes looking at the dirty stain that should be the Kirei Servant while he closed the golden portals.
"I agree with you," said a mysterious voice coming from behind the king of heroes.
"What!" Gilgamesh shouted in surprise as the blade of a sword came out of his chest. Before realizing a kind of force I throw it from the roof and fall to the ground.
Looking up, Gilgamesh saw Mask, looking up from below. As if he were the real king while Archer is the fool who dares to disturb him.
"I'll kill you bastard!" Gilgamesh shouted. Creating a dozen portals. A moment later, a torrent of demonic and angelic weapons flew to Mask.
He reacted by throwing a dozen silver daggers, no one succeeded in striking Gilgamesh, being diverted from his torrent of arms.
When the weapons were piercing his flesh, he disappeared in a crimson flash, leaving Tokiomi's house to take the shot in place.
"Now nobody looks at us, the structure of the Qosa of Thosaka is compromised, perfect, everything is following my scenario" said Mask appearing a hundred meters to the right of Gilgamesh.
Looking at how the families of the enemy Masters were killed by Mask's silver daggers. Once deviated from Gilgamesh's weapons, they changed their trajectory towards their true goal.
"As you dare to take me to your level and hit me with a dagger, I ..." Gilgamesh was whole from Mystic who said: "Correction king fool, not a dagger, but a is hard to believe that an ignorant who plays in the mud is a king. " Mask touch the right buttons to anger the king of heroes. All for one simple reason: an enemy in the grip of rage comete errors and easy to defeat.
"Bastard !, you and your children will pray for a painful death!" Gilgamesh shouted hitting the tenth level of anger, this time a hundred portals have opened, in front of a genre scenario Mask does not panic like a normal living being instead he remained calm and calm.
Looking at how Gilgamesh is boiling in his rage, he did not say anything, just smiled diabolically. Glad to see that everything is following his scenario.
"So many weapons, you certainly have to make up for something," Mystic joked, insulting the male pride of Gilgamesh.
The king of heroes had never been so insulted and angry in his life.
"Die!" Gilgamesh shouted seeing everything red, firing an avalanche of weapons of all kinds as they flew like ballistic missiles to Mask.
"Once again, too easy, ignoring the power of the Gate of Babylon you're nothing special," mumbled Mask, stretching his hands toward the avalanche of weapons.
Instead of creating a barrier to hold the rain of Noble Phantasm of Gilgamesh, something that seems impossible for any normal Heroic Spirit.
Mask creates an irregularity in the space-time continuum in front of himself, a crimson-colored vortex, a kind of Gate appeared.
The role of this Gate is not to protect the user or to create an escape route, but to take Gilgamesh's weapons away from him, out of his reach.
The wild torrent of weapons was swallowed up by the Gate of Mask, sealing the numerous Noble Phantasm in another pocket size that was not the Gate of Babylon.
"Bastard dare interrupt the king of kings, but stealing from the king and running away from your sentence is a crime that will not be punished." He shouted Gilgamesh creating a giant dome of arms around him and Mask. Showing every kind of weapon imaginable some legends known other simple swords without name.
"Your last words bastard" grunted Gilgamesh with a look that encloses a flame of anger and hatred that can overcome hell itself.
"You are the first hero of this universe, it is an obvious fact that you are very strong, there are only three individuals who can hope to stand against you and the Gate of Babylon." He said raising his left arm showing three fingers raised. For some reason unknown to everyone, Gilgamesh I leave Mask to continue his speech.
"The first is your only friend, the one you consider a peer, second is a Faker who sold the soul to Alaya, the Contrer Guardian third is before you, Gilgamesh," said the masked Servant making a short theatrical bow to Gilgamesh.
"The Servant Mask of Fuyuki's Holy Grail Fourth War, Mystic aka Alex Brunestud the Ten Dead Apostle Ancestors, known as the accursed archive of Akasha, your future assassin, majesty" has finished saying Mystic, while all the weapons of Gilgamesh have fallen against him.
The Gate of Babylon fires an incalculable number of Noble Phantasm, Mask is completely surrounded, with no hope of escape.
"You can not escape bastard anymore," Gilgamesh said, waiting to see Mask's mutilated corpse.
"Who said I want to run away?" He said Mask with a mischievous grin under his mask.
At the last moment when Mask is about to become a mass of unrecognizable flesh and blood. Mask said three words that reversed the situation: "Aripa Alba, Svegliati!"
Mask's feathered cape came to life, in a moment he wrapped his owner as if it were a cocoon, then ... Boom!
An explosion, no, an incalculable heat eruption, comparable to the sun blows the battlefield.
A small sun appeared in front of Gilgamesh, taking away his sight as he was thrown towards Thosaka's home.
The Noble Phantasm melted, the earth burned, the air became unbreathable.
The fire consumes everything, turning everything into ashes, then the ash became dust.
A lifeless barren desert is now in Tokiomi's courtyard.
At the center of this desert is Mask, wrapped in flames, instead of burning like any other mortal, the fire protects it.
The white fire that surrounds him slowly extinguished, returning to be his feathered mantle.
"I used 1/2 of my reserves of magical energy for that move, but I can say that he deserved, see a king reduced to lie in the dust ... I have no words for such a humorous show" Mask derives the current state of Gilgamesh without the eyes to see the enemy. The Gate of Babylon has lost much of its power.
"You kill bastard!" He threatened Gilgamesh, standing up with a little effort, behind him the Gate of Babylon is ready to shoot. For some reason the number of portals are very few compared to before.
"You're just a copy, no, a low-quality imitation created through the Magecraft of this ritual, a pathetic fake like you, can not defeat me," said Mask with a bored tone.
"Die!" Gilgamesh shouted, a dozen Noble Phantasm are flying towards Mask, but their speed is greatly reduced.
Mask with his experience in firearms and an applied reinforcement you have eyes, clearly seen the trajectory of Noble Phantasm, making simple movements shy of the blow.
"What is the sense of an incredibly strong Noble Phantasm, if he can not hit the enemy." Mask continued to mock Gilgamesh, who began to look pale.
"A bastard like you ... haaaaa!" Gilgamesh could not finish his threat, because an incredible pain made him scream in pain.
The cause was obvious in his chest there is a huge hole, caused by a special bullet, fired from a heavily modified anti-matter rifle.
"How is it possible! ... I am the king of heroes, the strongest, how can I lose against someone like you!" Angry Gilgamesh shouted, he underestimated the enemy is now dying.
"Because you are too strong, in my story you have no place, with your arrogance and volatile personality, you can do serious damage to my work, for this reason you must be eliminated" said Mask approaching Gilgamesh, who drowns in his own blood.
"Because you are the strongest, I could not fight like Magus or as a warrior If I had fought loyally with the sword or the magic, I would be defeated or unable to fight the remaining Servants.
I had only one way to fight as a master of the shadows willing to do anything to win, to use every possible trick.
I pretended to be a pawn in front of Tokiomi, to be able to study his habits, find out which hero he would invoke and what plan he had for the Holy Grall War.
Once I gathered the information, I made my preparations.
Create a puppet with my appearance to act as bait, so I could hit you with a poisoned blade.
Because you believe you've been so easy to defeat, my first shot at already decided the outbreak of the conflict.
The poison operates quickly, obfuscates the senses, increases aggression, so you could not reason or understand what happens to your body. The more you use your magic circuits to activate the Gate of Babylon, they degrade faster, limiting the use of your Noble Phantasm.
Then the poison begins to slice the rest of the body. "Mask finished telling his plan, he could not defeat Gilgamesh, but killing him is easier and more feasible, even a child can kill a champion with a lucky shot.
"You're a smart bastard," murmured Gilgamesh, sprouting blood.
"Thanks for the compliment, if you try to waste time, so that Tokiomi saves you with a Commando seal, it will not happen." For security I have prepared several assurances for my victory.
For example a doll with a good aim, weapon of a hybrid Rifle-Mystic Code.
I use drugs taken from local criminals to create a neurotoxin and put it in Tokiomi wine, the guy is a man who drinks a glass of wine every night, today was his last glass.
Of course he is alive physically, but mentally he is absent. However it goes its commando seals will be very useful.
Speaking of you, hold on a little longer, I need a helping hand. "With these words, the fingers of Mask's left hand have lengthened, becoming thin and clear, like the claws of a demon. , Mask cut off the dominant arm of Gilgamesh.
"Great for the donation, in exchange for your sacrifice, hundreds of lives will live," said Mask entering the Thosaka house.
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In the Tokiomi Workshop, Mask watched Archer's Master seated in his chair with his eyes lost.
"You made a big mistake, Tokiomi, you have underestimated me, even greater error, you believe that magic makes you invincible, just a little science, imagination to defeat a traditional Magus." Mask approaches the Thosaka family head.
"A neurotoxin in wine, at least you will have a painless and fast death.I'm sorry for Rin, but if I do not kill you, Kirei or Kiritsugu will do it ... Sad, no matter the Tokiomi Thosaka path dies in this War." Mask stands behind at Tokiomi's seat, he put his left hand and his claws around Tokiomi's throat.
"As we met, so it ends, a sharp object near the main artery of the neck bye bye." A simple movement is the life of Thosaka Tokiomi ends, when he dreamed of his victory. With a further movement Tokiomi lost his command seals and Mask earned him.
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At the end of this night, the Thosaka house was swallowed by the fire, burning everything, leaving no clue or witness. Kirei was about to receive a nice surprise when she sees Mask ...