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The clouds in the sky formed the shape of a bow and arrow, drifting in all directions.
Today's sunshine and breeze were quite pleasant.
At this moment, Kisaragi Rin was lying at the foot of Ryudoji Temple's mountain gate, biting on a blade of grass and admiring the scenery of Fuyuki City.
The reason he was here wasn't because Medea suddenly turned dark and sealed him at Ryudoji Temple's mountain gate, but because Kisaragi Rin couldn't stand the chaotic scene inside anymore and came out alone to enjoy a moment of peace.
After Esdeath stated that her Master was Ito Makoto, Kisaragi Rin fell silent for a moment, not knowing who to confide in about the ridiculousness he felt, as only Kisaragi Rin himself could truly grasp the strangeness of it all.
Kongou Masurao, male, an exorcist from a certain adult manga, who, despite his weak abilities, obtained the [extraterrestrial girl helper handbook] which was comparable to a cheat!
Aki Tomoya, male, the male protagonist from "How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend", whose reputation was so bad it made people question his protagonist status, and who, on the verge of losing control, obtained the [item - galgame planning book] that could reverse his fate!
Ito Makoto, male, the male protagonist from "School Days", who, despite being cut down by a cleaver, was revered by countless people online as Brother Makoto, and this guy, participating in the Holy Grail War, just happened to draw Esdeath, who possessed time-stopping power!
One rule, one fate, one time.
Looking at his own two points of luck, which were basically useless, Kisaragi Rin's complaints were simply unbearable.
"Do you male protagonists have some kind of special luck?"
"Maybe I should just focus on hunting down male protagonists from now on; it feels like they'll drop gold at any moment!"
According to Esdeath, this Ito Makoto was quite cowardly. After being captured by Soichiro Kuzuki, he didn't even think of resisting, only wanting to kill his Servant and quickly settle the game to return to paradise.
"Esdeath is given to you, and you're still useless!"
Kisaragi Rin wasn't surprised by such an Ito Makoto; after all, in the original plot, he was a "man" so cowardly that he could even overlook his girlfriend being raped by a friend. He remained the same even as a player.
If any normal person had Esdeath for this Holy Grail War, they would become a very troublesome existence, but Ito Makoto just gave up!
In Esdeath's narration, he didn't even ask about the effect of Esdeath's Noble Phantasm!
Under the Hydra Captain's command, this Ito Makoto directly used three Command Spells to throw Esdeath into the battlefield, followed by the time stop...
After that, Kisaragi Rin seized ownership of Esdeath, and no one even noticed Ito Makoto's existence.
"Having used all three Command Spells, and with Esdeath's ownership now in my hands, he should have voluntarily withdrawn, right?" Kisaragi speculated.
If, as Esdeath said, Ito Makoto only wanted to withdraw early, then now that he had neither Command Spells nor a Servant, he must have left when Kisaragi Rin took Esdeath.
"However, he was previously under Soichiro Kuzuki's control. Perhaps the other party used him for some contingency, so I still need to be careful..."
Although he thought it was foolish for Soichiro Kuzuki to leave Esdeath's power to Ito Makoto, the other party was a high-level player after all, and Kisaragi always remained vigilant.
"Before the battle this morning, Soichiro Kuzuki didn't know my strength, did he?"
"Perhaps he just thought that the Hydra Captain and one time stop would be enough to take me down?"
Despite the reasonable explanation, Kisaragi Rin did not like the idea of his victory relying on his opponent's incompetence.
Kisaragi Rin informed all the Servants of this, and Medea extracted Ito Makoto's portrait through magic, warning everyone to remain vigilant if they encountered this person.
With Sugo Nobuyuki dead and Ito Makoto essentially out of the picture, this Holy Grail War, apart from Kisaragi Rin, Yukinoshita Yukino, and Soichiro Kuzuki, only had the Assassin, Lancer, and Archer classes yet to appear.
When he heard Esdeath say that Soichiro Kuzuki lived at Ryudoji Temple, Kisaragi Rin immediately decided to directly storm the place to give the Servants something to do, delivering a terrifying farewell attack to the opponent.
However, upon arriving at Ryudoji Temple, let alone Soichiro Kuzuki, there wasn't even a single person there!
Kisaragi Rin lay on the sun-warmed ground, looking at the sky and letting his thoughts drift for a moment.
With Ryudoji Temple empty, Kisaragi Rin decided to occupy it and have Medea build a magic workshop there.
In the original plot, Medea constructed a magic workshop here, or rather, it was a more powerful temple formed under Medea's A-rank [Territory Creation].
Ryudoji Temple became a single entity, with only the mountain gate allowing entry, and from the mountain gate, in the original work, Medea kept a Sasaki Kojiro at Ryudoji Temple's mountain gate.
However, the construction of the temple was based on the spiritual pulse beneath Ryudoji Temple. In this Fuyuki City without the supernatural, Medea searched carefully but found no trace of a spiritual Pulse beneath Ryudoji Temple.
"Perhaps 'magic suppression' is a more suitable term to describe this world than 'supernatural dissipation,'" Medea said with some distress.
Without a spiritual pulse, there was no magical energy to steal, and a temple was no longer very likely.
Medea's own magical energy combined with Kisaragi's could at most supply a magic workshop, and Kisaragi Rin couldn't afford to expend magical energy in such a place.
To address this, the final solution they came up with was Kisaragi Rin's unsealed equipment—the Banner of Demons. Medea was attempting to construct a mobile temple through it.
After all, the Banner of Demons, in itself, looked very much like a formation flag, didn't it?
In terms of effect, the sect-protecting formations in the East and the magic workshops in the West were not too different, and the Banner of Demons itself had certain spatial properties; otherwise, how could it store souls?
High inherent strength, independent space, portable, the equipment itself could instantly cast spells from the shadow, corruption, and soul domains, and it also supported dual-channel power supply from magical energy and souls.
Medea was very interested in this, feeling that it could be transformed into a special spatial Noble Phantasm.
In Demon Slayer, the swordsmiths of the Swordsmith Village could manually modify the equipment—Woven Grudge. Medea in the Fate World naturally could as well.
A-rank [Item Construction], A-rank [Territory Creation], A-rank [High-Speed Divine Words]—these three inherent Skills, plus Medea's own magical knowledge, made it hard to say to what extent it could be modified in the end.
Medea and Lily went to modify the equipment, Yukinoshita Yukino and Medusa went to cook, and Esdeath wanted to fight Saber. Taking this opportunity, Kisaragi Rin lay here alone.
"Hey, Black Sun, where did you go?"
Noticing a black dot appearing in the sky, Kisaragi Rin waved at it.
It was unclear what kind of crow a Kasugai Crow was, but Black Sun descended, circling in the sky, having reverted to its form before accepting its bloodline.
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