Church, and Mount Enzou.
The reason Naoki wanted to go to these two places wasn't because there was any particular important reason.
Going to the church was to find out who exactly the church sent to monitor him. When collecting the Class Cards earlier, Naoki vaguely felt that someone was following him. It was estimated that the same person was also sent to monitor him now. Although there were some guesses, it was better to confirm first.
He didn't want to live under someone's surveillance twenty-four hours a day.
As for the reason for going to Mount Enzou, it was also very simple—just to prepare some surprises for the Ainsworth Family.
Since he already knew the Ainsworth Family would appear in the large underground cave, there was no reason not to prepare some traps in advance. For example, setting up Trigger Magecraft on the cave walls, so that as long as someone was detected appearing inside the cave, it would immediately explode and cause a landslide—and the like.
[Hehehe, you're really wicked, Young Master]
Hiding under Gray's hood, Ruby couldn't help but let out a creepy laugh after hearing Naoki's idea.
[It's better to strike first, a rather simple but effective tactic, but if you ask me, Brat is still too young, you should add some disgusting stuff]
"I don't have many materials. Besides, the Ainsworth Family has Displacement Magecraft, ordinary methods won't have much effect. In the end, I'll be the one who has to step in."
[So it's just to disgust them, why not just disgust them completely? Since it won't have any effect anyway, don't focus on the effect, just focus on being disgusting]
"There's some truth to that. How about digging a lot of holes and filling them with animal feces?"
[Good good!]
Following beside, watching Naoki and Add in her hand start discussing, Gray unconsciously sighed: "Big Brother, Add, we're still on the street, please talk about things like this at home."
"It's okay, I've lowered my voice." Naoki waved his hand, "But what Gray said is also true, we're almost at the church now. Add, Ruby, you guys don't talk for a while, hide yourselves well."
[I don't think it's necessary, but since you said so...]
[Then I'll go even deeper into Gray-tan's clothes, hehehehe]
"Ruby!"
Gray's face quickly flushed red and she reached behind her, grabbing Ruby who was getting into her clothes, opened the birdcage where Add was locked up, and threw it in.
These two equally smelly Mystic Codes should just be locked up together.
And as the group moved forward, a familiar building quickly caught Naoki's eye.
"Fuyuki Church..."
During the Holy Grail War, Naoki had come here once. From its appearance, even in a different world, this church hadn't changed much, only he didn't know if the person in charge of the church here was still someone he knew.
Pushing the iron gate open, passing through the small path until he reached the church door and opened it.
The church, half-lit and half-dark, immediately caught the eyes of the two.
Due to the lighting, only half of the church area was illuminated, and coincidentally that was the area in front of where the statue of the deity was located, while the side near the door was shrouded in darkness.
And in front of the statue of the deity, a priest in black robes was holding a holy scripture, seemingly praying.
Having probably heard the sound of the door opening behind him, the priest closed the book in his hand, turned around to face Naoki and Gray: "Welcome to Fuyuki Church, how may I help you? Two guests."
"Kotomine Kirei...?"
Naoki was surprised to see Kirei in front of him.
Why was the person in charge of Fuyuki Church... no, why was it him?
Although in the Magical Girl Illya worldline, the Fourth Holy Grail War ended before it began, so it wasn't strange for Kirei to appear here, but if he remembered correctly, the church official in Fuyuki City should have been...
"Ah, I know you, Natsukawa Naoki-sama."
Just as Naoki felt confused, Kirei was already in front of him: "The Magus who caused the Moon Fall in the early hours of yesterday, the culprit who made me have to wake up and work overtime in the middle of the night. It's truly surprising that you came here. Did you come to confess your sins to me... no... to God?"
"I don't think I have any reason to confess."
"Your moonfall caused panic throughout the city, causing great losses. In this regard, you have already become a sinner. Fortunately, there were no casualties, otherwise the sin on your body would be even deeper. At this moment, praying and confessing your sins to God to seek forgiveness is the true righteousness."
Clearly, according to common sense, he had never participated in the Holy Grail War, but the smile on Kirei's face was clearly full of pleasure, as if he was looking forward to the scene of Naoki confessing his sins to God.
Naoki frowned: "Maybe, but unfortunately, I am a Magus, not interested in your gods. Even if I have to confess, I will go to the graves of the victims to clean them, seeking one-sided spiritual comfort here is meaningless. But you also said, there were no casualties."
"So that's how it is. Rather than verbal repentance, you value practical actions more, quite a pragmatic way of thinking. I was a bit impolite, please forgive me. Because I was woken up and worked in the middle of the night, I hold a bit of a grudge against you." Kirei bowed slightly, "Then, what exactly is the purpose of your two's arrival here?"
"Are you in charge here?"
"That's right. Even so, currently the only ones in charge of this church are me and my daughter Karen. Calling myself the person in charge is a bit of an overstatement."
Karen was here too?
Naoki was surprised again.
It wasn't Karen's presence that surprised him, but the fact that the father and daughter could be together that surprised him. After all, as far as he knew, it seemed that in all the storylines he knew so far, this father and daughter never seemed to be together. Kirei always entrusted Karen to others to raise after his wife died.
"Your expression seems a bit surprised?"
"Yeah, you don't look like someone who has a daughter, and... maybe it's a bit impolite to say, but I don't think you're the type of person who would live with his daughter."
"Is that so?" Kirei turned to face the statue of the deity, "Perhaps, my relationship with Karen isn't very close, maybe because I didn't accompany her through her childhood. After all, after my wife died, I kept drowning myself in church work, not paying much attention to her. It was only after being scolded by my deceased father that I brought her back here. Counting, it's been eight years—a bit off-topic, you still haven't said why you came here?"
"The Clock Tower and the Church seem to consider me a dangerous person. For the peace of mind of both sides, they plan to place a monitor on my side." Naoki explained, "Although it was unintentional, it was indeed my fault first. I won't refuse the matter of placing a monitor, but I don't want to be secretly monitored. I don't like sneaky, rat-like behavior."
"The monitor from the Clock Tower's side is Tohsaka Rin, the head of the Tohsaka family, you should know her. But I haven't seen the monitor from the Church's side yet."
"Since you are in charge of Fuyuki Church, you should know, right? Who is the person the Church sent to monitor me."