The room fell into silence. A man who often worked overtime looked older, and a man who looked older but looked younger. They seemed to be about the same age, but they were somewhat deadlocked by this direct question and this direct rhetorical question. .
Both of them had thoughts in their hearts, but neither wanted to speak first and express what was in their hearts.
"This question is a bit difficult to answer. Why don't you just sit down and have a drink with me."
Emiya Kiritsugu broke the deadlock and moved a dining stool and table to the center of the room. The moonlight coming from the window just hit the table. He turned around and walked to the wooden cabinet next to the bedroom. I found an earthenware pot and two wine glasses for drinking sake.
"The year before last, my neighbor Mr. Fujimura drank some good wine for his 70th birthday. I accepted the gift but did not attend the banquet. Mr. Fujimura is a very particular person, so he sent a few cans of sake that night, plus some A good dish to go with wine.
I ate the food that goes with the wine, but there is still a can of wine left. The alcohol content is not high, and I don’t know if it suits your taste. If you don’t mind, you can have a taste. "
After speaking, Emiya Kiritsugu also poured two glasses of sake.
One cup was given to himself and he drank it directly, while the other cup was passed to Weber's side and placed on the table.
"Are you telling the truth while drunk? I've heard of this."
Weber sat down and drank the sake from the glass without refusing.
The two men didn't talk much, just one glass for you and one for me, so that the sake, which weighed about three kilograms in the earthenware jar, gradually bottomed out.
When his ears were full of wine, Emiya Kiritsugu loosened his collar. He had relieved himself from the heat, but he asked directly: "Mr. Weber, do you want the Holy Grail?"
Weber was also loosening his tie. Hearing this, he raised a finger and shook it. There was a touch of contempt in his eyes that showed a bit of drunkenness, and he replied: "Whoever wants the contaminated Holy Grail, Mr. Emiya?" ,Do you want it?"
"Bang!"
The clay pot was placed on the table with some force, but it made a sound.
Emiya Kiritsugu waved his hand and gave a reply.
"No serious person would want that thing. At least, I don't want it."
"Since you don't want it, why bother coming to this muddy water to participate in this fifth Holy Grail ceremony?"
Weber asked.
Emiya Kiritsugu talked for a long time.
"My wife, Irisviel von Einzbern, was taken away by the Holy Grail."
"Um?"
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m talking about personality.
Her personality was taken away, but the life of her external body did not stop. This makes me firmly believe that her personality is still alive.
And, it's inside the Holy Grail. "
"So, you are the one fighting for love?"
Weber was a little shocked.
"Um."
Emiya Kiritsugu was not embarrassed and nodded.
"This is the reason why I participated in the fifth Holy Grail. Of course, there is one more reason now, which is to protect my daughter, Illya."
Weber: "..."
"So, what about you, Mr. Weber? You have traveled thousands of miles to set foot on this land in the far east again, but you claim that you don't want the Holy Grail. Why did you join the war?"
Weber was silent and did not answer directly. He sighed and brought up the past: "Mr. Emiya, do you still remember the boy who made you give up your dream ten years ago?"
As if to help Emiya Kiritsugu recall, Weber also perfectly imitated the crying expression of Emiya Kiritsugu who was kneeling in the [Or2] posture at that time: "At that time, you still did this. Appearance【｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡】......"
Emiya Kiritsugu: "..."
Wu Yan was silent for a while before replying: "Of course I remember, but what does this have to do with you coming to participate in the Holy Grail War again?"
"Of course it does matter!"
Weber did not tell the story of his young daughter, his junior sister Ying, who was a young man. Instead, he explained with a sincere face and as if it were true: "I was greatly shocked by what happened and the people back then, and I never forgot it until I When I heard about the re-opening of the Fifth Holy Grail Ceremony, it was like there was a strange force pushing me (student loans, friendship from the same family), making me feel that I had to do something about it, so here I am!"
"So, you are here..."
"Just like what you did before, Mr. Emiya..."
In the room, the sound suddenly disappeared.
After a while, the two men inside said in unison: "Smash the Holy Grail!"
"It seems that we have no conflict in terms of goals."
"Not only is there no conflict, I think we still have room for cooperation."
The sound of pouring wine sounded.
With a ding sound, the two clinked their wine glasses and each drank a glass of sake.
"I'll help you regain your wife's personality in the Holy Grail."
Weber said.
"I will also help you smash the Holy Grail this time."
Emiya Kiritsugu also said.
"No, it shouldn't be called smashing, but should be called the unfolding of the disintegration ceremony."
"It seems you are well prepared."
"Of course, after all, I just want to be an unknown hero for once, but I don't want to seek death. I am like that young man back then, who used his body to block the hole in the Great Holy Grail and was overwhelmed by the evil in this world. I don't have this I don’t have the ability to wake up, so I can only be prepared!”
"Are you ready for the disintegration ceremony?"
"Don't worry about this. Lancer's master back then, who was also my teacher, Lord Kenneth El-Melloi, also didn't want the evil in this world in the Holy Grail to come to this world. Before I came here, They gave me sufficient material support.”
"Is the magic lord of El-Melloi here too?"
"Although the teacher intended to come, he did not come in person because he had many affairs and the factional battles within the Magic Association were complicated. Therefore, the strength on my side is still insufficient."
Weber explained.
"So, we cooperate?"
Emiya Kiritsugu asked.
"cooperate."
Weber nodded affirmatively.
"Have another drink."
Emiya Kiritsugu wanted to pour two more glasses of sake, but only half a glass of sake came out of the clay pot.
"Sorry, there's no more wine. How about I give you this glass?"
"It's okay, this doesn't prevent us from joining forces..."
Weber smiled and refused.
Use the empty wine glass and the half-filled wine glass in the other person's hand to drink again.
Then, the empty wine glass shattered.
Emiya Kiritsugu: "..."
That wine glass is still an old item passed down from ancestors, a celadon from two hundred years ago, but it is now very expensive...
. . . .
The perspective is taken back from Fuyuki City and back to Kanfuko City.
"Mr. SB, I'm back."
Back at the rented house, Asakami Fujino shouted this and took off her shoes at the entrance. A hot and slightly sour athlete's foot emanated from the socks on her feet. It smelled a bit unpleasant, but maybe someone Will like to smell it.
"What's wrong, Fujino, why do you look confused?"
Wu Ke, wearing a pink bear bib, came out with a spoon in his hand. After seeing the expression on Asakami Fujino's face, he couldn't help but ask.
"Mr. SB, the thing is like this. Today, while I was practicing my daily life as a justice partner, I accidentally met a girl who committed suicide by jumping off a building..."
Before Asakami Fujino finished speaking, the door behind was opened again.
Liang Li quickly took off his shoes and barged in directly.
"Hey, Messenger of Justice, have you prepared tonight's meal? I didn't eat in the afternoon and I'm super hungry now."
With a pair of dead fish eyes, she stretched out her hand in front of Wu Ke, as if she was not a freeloader.
Wu Ke glanced at Liang Li and felt helpless towards this guy with a sloppy lifestyle. He directly handed the spoon in his hand to him: "The soup has just been cooked and I haven't tasted it yet. Try it. It's salty." Add water, if it’s too light, add salt.”
The two of them looked at the radish pieces in the spoon, and their eyes lit up: "Are we going to eat oden tonight?"
Ever since Wu Ke cooked a meal himself, for some reason, he was entrusted with the important task of cooking by the girls. It was also from that time that the two ceremonies would go home at the end of the day, and then come over to have a meal. Habit.
“So hot~”
The two of them held the radish in their mouths and blew on it. After stewing the large pieces of radish, although it was cold outside, it was still warm inside.
"It's not the oden you have here. This is beef stick bone stewed with radish soup. It's my mother's recipe. How is it? How does it taste? How is it salty?"
"It tastes great, and the saltiness is just right. You guy obviously claims to be a messenger of justice who beats bad guys, but your cooking skills are too good."
I don't know whether Liang Li was praising him or hurting him, so he directly moved the dining table and placed it on the tatami, and sat down cross-legged next to it.
"Messenger, go bring me a bowl of rice. It needs to be in a big bowl. Wait, I'll add soup to eat with it."
Liang Li said it as a matter of course, as if he were the head of the family.
"Let me do it."
Asakami Fujino is ready to help with the work.
"You'd better go wash your feet."
However, Wu Ke rejected her ruthlessly, causing her to blush shyly and run directly into the bathroom.
The sound of rushing water sounded. It was obvious that he was going to wash his feet.
I don’t know if it’s because before, Asakami Fujino’s body was unconscious and her feet were sweating and didn’t come out much.
Now, as long as she puts on warmer shoes and walks for a while, the smell of her feet will become quite sour.
Of course, for ordinary people, the taste is not that obvious and is within the acceptable range.
Even for some people who are weird about the XP system, it may still be what they expect. After all, those are the feet of a beautiful girl.
However, for Wu Ke, he still didn't want his keen olfactory system to suffer if it wasn't necessary.
While the girl was washing her feet, Wu Ke gave them a bowl of rice, and at the other's urging, he filled the pot with the hot pot for ordinary people with the rice soup that the other wanted.
Wu Ke sighed as he looked at the two men who were eating hot food immediately.
Obviously he recruited a righteous partner as his helper, but why did the two rituals make him feel like a female version of an old man?
Liang Li didn't care what Wu Ke was thinking next to him, and just ate the soup and rice in front of him.
After she discovered that Wu Ke was a person who had no temper as long as the bottom line issues were not touched, the attitude of keeping a distance due to the unfathomable strength became now bossy and almost blaming Wu Ke. The situation of peeing and pooping...
The reason is very simple. Since she woke up in the two rituals, she has been incompatible with the whole world, living like a stray cat. Wu Keze suddenly popped up and was a bad guy. After meeting her, a stray cat, because of Excellent factors such as eye superpower, background and financial resources, forcibly lured her as a stray cat into the organization he created, and also forcibly put a ring on her, and after wearing the ring, she made good food , attracted her attention...
The current state of the two rituals is in the process of transforming from a stray cat to a domestic cat, but it has the meaning of a dove occupying a magpie's nest and a tool man turning over to sing. Wu Ke has been regarded as a tool man feeding himself...
Her mentality is almost the same as that of a cat. In her vigilance, she discovered that Wu Ke would not hurt her. Subconsciously, she regarded herself as the leader and the real owner of the relationship between them, and her stance was completely correct. A swap.
"one more bowl."
The two rituals cooked the rice at an exaggerated speed, and they quickly handed over the empty bowls.
"Oh, I just know how to eat. When will you be useful?"
Taking the bowl, Wu Ke sighed.
"What do you mean, do you mean that I only know how to eat and am useless?"
The two raised their eyebrows.
"Then did you find the so-called cannibal murderer in the city today?"
Wu Ke asked back.
Two rituals: "..."
Silence is the best answer.
"No, right? And you didn't do anything else. I heard it all. When you met gangsters extorting innocent people on the street today, you didn't take any action to teach those gangsters how to behave in a good manner. …”
"You followed me again?"
"I said it, I heard it."
Wu Ke tapped his ear.
The corners of Liang Li's mouth twitched, somewhat disbelieving.
"Fujino was behind me. I didn't do anything, just because I'm not good at breaking hands and feet and robbing gangsters' belongings."
she explained.
"Look, you call this a lack of consciousness of justice."
Wu Ke sighed again.
"I am the person you chose. If you are not satisfied with me, just take back the ring you gave me."
Liang Li slapped the table with an expression of dissatisfaction and resentment. She was not the kind of person with a strong sense of justice. What's more, in her eyes, Wu Ke's remarks were not considered a completely righteous person. words spoken.
After all, plundering other people's property, even from the bad guys, cannot be justified in any way.
"What's wrong, Sister Shi, did you quarrel with Mr. SB again?"
At this time, Asagami Fujino just finished washing his feet and walked out, but he looked at the two of them and asked.
"Because I didn't fight the blackmail gangsters and went to plunder those gangsters' belongings, he made trouble for me again."
Liang Li shrugged and said helplessly.
"Beating is a lesson, and plundering their illegal gains is to make them feel the pain of those they extort. This is a kind of empathy. You really don't understand."
Wu Ke sighed.
"I understand you. Gangsters who blackmail others are bad guys, and if you blackmail those gangsters and beat those gangsters, they will become righteous and good people who teach them to change their ways. What kind of logic is this? Isn't the act of extortion and robbery? Are they all the same?"
During the two rituals, she burst into anger, and she became more and more like an ordinary woman, but her bad temper was revealed.
"Forehead……"
Asagami Fujino touched the money he paid today in his pocket, but he was a little unsure whether he should take it out at this time.
