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After Rider Medusa's temporary Master, Shinji Matou, was killed, she had automatically returned to the side of her true Master, Sakura Matou.
As for the Masters of Caster and Assassin, he had already learned their identities from Kirei Kotomine's memories.
So now, he was just heading over to directly take care of these remaining Masters, merge their Command Spells into his own, and solve all the problems in one go.
The first place he needed to go was the location of Caster's and Assassin's Masters. These two Masters were currently in a very interesting situation.
This was because they could, in a way, be considered one Master. Yet, it wasn't a situation like Kirei Kotomine's, where one person possessed two sets of Command Spells and had contracted two Servants.
According to the intelligence inside Kirei Kotomine's mind, the Master of Caster in this Holy Grail War was originally a magus from the Middle East, Atrum.
But Caster killed her own Master and then contracted a new one: a teacher at Homurahara Academy, who was also Rin Tohsaka's homeroom teacher, Souichirou Kuzuki.
At the same time, she used her own powerful magical abilities, in her capacity as a Servant, to forcibly summon a Heroic Spirit of the Assassin class, thereby becoming Assassin's Master.
Therefore, Assassin's Master was Caster, and Caster's Master was Souichirou Kuzuki.
In truth, in the past, the Holy Grail War was not taken very seriously by either the Church or the Mage's Association.
When the Three Founding Families created the Holy Grail War, they never claimed it could lead to the Root. They only said it could gather a large amount of colorless magical energy to fulfill some wishes.
The Mage's Association sent people to investigate and confirmed that it did indeed gather a vast amount of colorless magical energy, so they approved it. But they still didn't pay it much mind.
This was because, for the members of the Mage's Association, gathering colorless magical energy was not a particularly difficult task.
Moreover, that colorless magical energy could only fulfill ordinary wishes; it wasn't capable of granting every wish.
For example, a direct wish to enter the Swirl of the Root.
The Church felt the same way. However, to prevent the Holy Grail War from affecting ordinary people, they dispatched a supervisor for each iteration of the war.
This continued until the Fourth Holy Grail War, when Kayneth, one of the twelve Lords from the Mage's Association headquarters, the Clock Tower, participated out of personal interest.
As one of the twelve Lords of the Mage's Association, Kayneth naturally possessed extremely powerful magical abilities. The members of the Association naturally assumed that he would certainly be the final victor.
However, the outcome was something no one expected.
The powerful Lord Kayneth not only failed, but he was also killed by other participants during the Holy Grail War.
Consequently, the people of the Mage's Association finally began to take a real interest in the Holy Grail War.
They hadn't known before they researched it, but once they did, they discovered that the Holy Grail War could actually summon heroes from history to fight as familiars. This was an incredible revelation!
The magi were all in an uproar.
It wasn't that they were excited about using these heroes for combat, and they also had little interest in the Holy Grail's wish-granting function.
To make an analogy, their feeling was just like that of a group of historians, who study history day in and day out, suddenly discovering that they could summon Qin Shi Huang, Liu Bang, Xiang Yu, and Zhuge Liang from the pages of history.
Thus, for the Fifth Holy Grail War, the Mage's Association requested two slots. And these two slots were fiercely contested by a crowd of magi.
One of the final winners was Bazett, from an ancient magus family and a descendant of the order of knights to which the hero Cú Chulainn belonged in life.
Her purpose for participating in the Holy Grail War was simply to meet Cú Chulainn, the idol she had worshipped since childhood.
Unfortunately, she was killed in a sneak attack by Kirei Kotomine.
The other was the son of an "oil king" from an emerging magus family in the Middle East, Atrum, who had spent a huge sum of money to buy the slot.
His purpose was, after summoning Medea, to use her magical abilities to summon a dragon.
After learning that Medea could not summon a dragon in the modern era, his attitude toward her changed drastically. He treated her like a slave, subjecting her to cold mockery and sarcasm.
Later, when he discovered Medea's powerful magical abilities, he became inwardly jealous and worried that she would retaliate against him. So, he contacted Kirei Kotomine, wanting to get rid of Medea.
After Medea found out, she used her Noble Phantasm to break the Command Spell restriction, preemptively eliminated her Master Atrum, and met Souichirou Kuzuki just as she was about to disappear.
"Ryuudou Temple!"
After disappearing from the church, George arrived directly at the entrance of Ryuudou Temple, a famous temple in Fuyuki City.
This was because Souichirou Kuzuki and the two Servants were both living in this temple.
"Who's there?"
George had just lifted his foot and hadn't yet entered the gate when a swordsman in a purple kimono, chewing on a tree branch, appeared in front of him.
"Sasaki Kojirou?"
George looked at the swordsman blocking his path, knowing that he was precisely the Assassin-class Heroic Spirit that the Caster, Medea, had summoned using the Ryuudou Temple gate as a catalyst.
It's just that this Heroic Spirit seemed to have a drawback: he could not leave a certain distance from the temple, otherwise he would be forcibly pulled back.
"A Master, or a Servant?"
Hearing George call out his name, Sasaki Kojirou's face showed no surprise.
Someone who could appear out of thin air in front of the temple gate was definitely not an ordinary person.
And to be able to name him instantly, the person was either a Master or a summoned Servant.
"Whatever, it's not important. I'll take you down first!"
Spitting out the branch in his mouth, Sasaki Kojirou drew the longsword from his waist and unleashed his secret technique.
"Tsubame Gaeshi!"
Three flashes of the sword attacked George's vital points at almost the exact same time.
"To be able to train swordsmanship to this level is indeed rare."
Facing this sword strike from Sasaki Kojirou, George's entire body was covered in golden light.
Don't be fooled by Sasaki Kojirou just being a swordsman. A swordsman who could be summoned as a Heroic Spirit was naturally no ordinary swordsman.
This three-flash sword strike was not just fast; it had already touched upon a certain principle, reaching a realm where skill approaches the level of the Way.
It consisted of a single flash from the real world, and then, ignoring the concepts of time and space, two more overlapping flashes occurring completely simultaneously, resulting in a slash that came from three directions.
That was a "Multi-Dimensional Refraction Phenomenon" that transcended factors like speed, finesse, and feints.
Theoretically, it was a sure-hit strike, not inferior to Lancer's causality-based attack.
However, it was very unfortunate that his strike was aimed at George. Even if all three sword slashes hit, they couldn't break his defense at all.
"Capture!"
George ignored the attack, reached out, and quickly slapped Sasaki Kojirou's forehead. A sealing formula quickly spread over his body, sealing him completely. He was then casually tossed into the small world.
Entering Ryuudou Temple, he headed straight for the room where Souichirou Kuzuki lived.
Deep in the middle of the night. A man and a woman, sharing a room.
Although they had a Master-Servant relationship, they were both adults. It was unavoidable that things would happen. Very normal.
Not to mention, the two had fallen in love at first sight.
At this moment, Medea and Souichirou Kuzuki were currently conducting specialized research on the "Number 69 oral technique" when they suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice right by their ears:
"Still eating? I'm here to collect you!"
With almost no effort, George took care of this Master and Servant pair and collected them into his small world.
Souichirou Kuzuki was just an ordinary person to begin with. And Medea, because her Master was an ordinary person, couldn't display her full power and even needed to absorb the souls of ordinary people to replenish her magical energy.
As he was leaving, George also moved the entire Ryuudou Temple away as well.
(End of Chapter)