I had to admit, going around this super spooky mansion with a very beautiful girl clinging to me made me understand why those idiot high school kids in horror movies always go to abandoned buildings. Though I was far superior to them as the girl on my arm was far more beautiful and the fact that the big bad monster in the mansion was about to be destroyed by me. And the fact that I wasn't in a group with a fat and bespectacled guy who would definitely die first.
Getting off point.
After I had... roughed up Shinji a little bit and had discreetly stamped Sakura on the back of her neck, I had decided it was about time I dealt with Zouken. I had left some cursed spirits, a bunch of weaklings of third grade spirits, around Shinji's unconscious body and had intended to do the same with Sakura but the former daughter of Tohsaka family decided that she didn't want to leave my side and had been trying to convince me to leave instead of confronting her grandfather.
"You don't understand... he, he is too powerful and..."
"Hahaha, no need to worry, Sakura-chan." I said with a smile as I ruffled her hair.
"I know exactly what Zouken is, and I know exactly how to deal with him." I lied with a smile. I actually didn't know whether my method of dealing with him would actually work but I was pretty sure it would.
If it didn't I would just pull out the Split Soul Katana and kill the old worm with it. Weapons capable of cutting souls should work especially well against a guy living through putting his soul in his familiars.
"So don't worry Sakura-chan." Honestly, I was more concerned about what to do with that bastard Shinji.
As far as I was concerned, the guy was worthless and him surviving was one of the things that made Unlimited Blade Works inferior to Fate route and Heaven's Feel. Those routes were far better with Shinji getting killed by Heracles and Sakura. But I also didn't want him to just die, I wanted him to suffer for the things he did to my cute lil Sakura-chan.
I could just stamp him and sell him I guess, but that option was kinda lackluster since I would just get one credit for capturing him and none for selling him. Even the company realized that Shinji was worthless! Sure, I could do some company bullshit to raise his tier so that his selling would get me credits but the thought of helping Shinji get strong made me feel nauseous!
Oh well, I would think of something later on. I would probably just keep him locked for a while and then let Sakura decide what to do with him after she was fully captured. She was already so useful.
'As amusing as your decision process was, shouldn't we deal with the worm?' Nobu's voice came to me through our master servant bond. Kind of rude her to interrupt my inner monologue but she was right. It was about time I had ended this.
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Matou Zouken was... not furious as he had lost the capability to feel such an emotion around two or three hundred years ago, what he was feeling at the moment was the closest thing to it that he was capable of feeling.
Five hundred years. That's how long it had taken him to do all the necessary preparations, for all the right pieces to be in right places for him to finally claim the grail. For the moment for him to become immortal so that he...
So that he...
Yet right before he could finally begin and have that girl he had gotten from that fool Tokiomi to summon a servant, his house was invaded by some snot nosed shit. He didn't actually know how old the invader was but at his age pretty much anyone could be considered snot nosed.
"Man, you really are something aren't you?" And he was right about the invader being some snot nosed shit. Though admittedly he hadn't expected him to come at him with Sakura gripping his arm.
"How funny, to think there would be actually be a prey who would go towards their predator instead of away." Zouken chuckled, there was no reason to be afraid after all. Even if this boy could try to fight and somehow get lucky enough to hurt him, he still wouldn't die. Not as long as his crest worms still lived.
"Sakura, please come here. I wouldn't want to accidentally hit you." Zouken said with a smile that showed his teeth as several crest worms around him split open and flying insects with bladed wings and pincers came out of them.
"Oh you don't have to worry at all." The boy said with a smile as he got his arm out of the girl's grip but then instead of moving away, he threw his arm around her shoulder.
"None of your attacks will hit either of us anyway." That grin on his face, Zouken was somewhat surprised...
"Brat."
...he didn't know he could get irritated like this anymore.
Commanded with anger, the flying insects with him and the ones that were hiding behind the boy came to life with buzzing and flew at him at speeds that humans could not properly perceive. They would skewer through him and then they would eat him from inside out!
"Heh."
Except that didn't happen. Instead the insects, that were just about to reach him, suddenly changed their trajectory and slammed down to the floor with a wet splat, leaving purplish red blood marks on where they had met their end.
"Man, that was just disappointing." The boy said with a shake of his head.
"But at least I got to confirm what I had been suspecting." He said with a shrug and the pointed his palm towards him.
"By my standards, you are probably a semi first grade; but only because you have abilities like those you have. Your actual grade would be a second at best." Zouken didn't know what the boy was talking about but he knew that he didn't like it. But before he could do anything, he felt his body start to... shift.
It was like nothing he had experienced. It was somewhat similar to worms that made his body moving but it was less like that and more like becoming something between liquid and gaseous state. He didn't like it.
"Check mate, old worm." The boy said, but he was different. He was enormous! He looked like some sort of giant as he looked down at Zouken and then opened his mouth.
And Zouken knew no more.