Chapter 153 The Masters Are Taking Action
In the Cathedral Church, four familiars gathered together.
"——As a supervisor, I acknowledge the evidence submitted by the Saber team and confirmed the disappearance of Caster on the aura disk. Therefore, on behalf of the Cathedral Church, I acknowledge that the Saber team is eligible to obtain the Command Seals."
Although he had a headache because he had to assign the Command Seals to masters other than Tokiomi, Kotomine Rizheng suppressed his extra emotions and continued to announce to the familiars:
"According to the request of Master Saber, the transfer of the Command Seals was completed last night. The Caster team that disrupted the order has left the stage. Please continue to fight a dignified battle as masters."
After saying that, Kotomine Rizheng turned around and disappeared in the quiet and deep atmosphere of the Cathedral Church.
Unlike the call for the arrest of Shuoyue, this time, the familiars did not retreat immediately. Even though the notice had been received, they were still immersed in the shock of their respective masters and did not take any further action.
"The other familiars are silent." Hisayu Maiya controlled the familiar bat and reported calmly.
"Is it because no one believes this information?" Emiya Kiritsugu sat next to Hisau Maiya, and the Command Seal on the back of his hand had returned to three strokes.
"It's normal not to believe it." Saber stood aside and shook her head, "After all, how could someone who defeated Berserker and Rider and injured Archer in one night be easily eliminated?"
"Not to mention that we didn't agree to make the evidence public." Irisviel leaned back in her chair and smiled helplessly, "After all, the light in that crystal is Saber's trump card, the Sword of Promised Victory..."
As soon as these words came out, the three people plus a Servant fell silent.
Other team members might be half-believing and half-doubting, but they knew one thing very clearly - it was definitely not Saber who released the 'Sword of Promised Victory'.
Then the matter of Sakutsuki's death was naturally false.
"Increase the intensity of investigation, especially to set up surveillance near the church." Kiritsugu frowned slightly and gave an order, "Although I don't know why the aura disk lost Caster's trace, Sakutsuki must not be dead. He is definitely hiding in the dark, spying on our every move."
"Yes." Hisayu Maiya just responded, and suddenly his expression changed slightly.
"A familiar sent us a communication request."
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"Do you believe that Sakutsuki is dead, Rider?" In the home of old man Mackenzie, Waver temporarily lifted the empathy and turned around to ask his servant.
Rider's injury had long been healed, and he was lying on the tatami watching TV. Hearing this, he waved his hand impatiently, as if to say don't bother him about such things:
"Do I need to say this? That's the person who left a wound on me."
How could someone who could win the victory in the hands of the king be killed easily?
"Yeah, I thought so too, but 'howdunit'? What about the so-called evidence and aura disk..." Weber muttered softly, and suddenly said, "Rider, do you mind finding an ally?"
"Oh?" Iskandar turned over and faced Weber head-on. After staring at each other for a long time, he grinned and showed a generous smile:
"You decide on such a small matter.
"Then it's settled." Taking a deep breath, Weber reconnected with the familiar and released a short magic pulse with the help of the familiar.
The information contained in the pulse is very simple, and anyone with basic magic knowledge can understand it——
[Please meet in the garden outside the church]
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Outside the church, garden
A bat, a mouse, a bird made of gems, and a cat condensed by water, four beasts gathered together, their eyes flashing with strange light.
After confirming the magic frequency with each other, Weber took the lead in starting the conversation.
"I am Rider's master. I took this opportunity to call you all for only one reason-you all don't believe the news of Shuoyue's death, right? ”
“Archer’s Master, Tōsaka Tokiomi.” A steady male voice sounded from inside the Jewelbird, “Regarding this, I would also like to ask Saber’s Master, have you confirmed that you killed Caster’s Master, Sakutsuki? Why don’t you choose to make the evidence public?”
“The reason for destroying Caster’s Master is that Saber released the Noble Phantasm—this is information that must be concealed.” Emiya Kiritsugu explained, while Hisau Maiya repeated it through the communication device installed under the bat.
Because of the Command Seals, they had to help Sakutsuki conceal the information.
“A flawless answer.” Jewelbird nodded slightly, “But can we assume that you formed an alliance with the Caster group and obtained the Command Seals of the Church through acting?”
“Are you too impatient, Tokiomi?” Without waiting for Kiritsugu to answer, Kariya was the first to speak sarcastically, “Are you angry because this Command Seal was supposed to belong to you, but it was taken away by the Saber group? "
After these words came out, the already somewhat stagnant atmosphere became even more tense. Obviously, with the instigation of Sakutsuki, the fact that the Tosaka family and the Holy Church were colluding had been deeply rooted in people's minds.
Weber silently watched the attacks between the participants, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.
Although he knew that the atmosphere between the participants would not be too harmonious, it was really too intense to quarrel after just a few words.
Is the too fragile trust between each other the work of someone else?
Thinking like this, Weber simply coughed loudly, interrupting the meaningless testing and quarrel:
"I know very well that our positions are hostile to each other, but even so, at least we have the same goal in targeting the special existence of Shuo Yue."
As soon as these words came out, the other familiars gradually became quiet. It was obvious that in the eyes of everyone, the grievances and resentments between them were on the sidelines compared to Shuo Yue who had cheated his death.
The master who killed Lancer, planned to send Lancer away, executed Assassin, seriously injured Kotomine Kirei, disintegrated the king's army, and fought three servants in a row without defeat...Unknowingly, everyone had already killed this master. Youth is regarded as the biggest opponent in this Holy Grail War.
And Weber lived up to expectations and got to the point directly:
"I hope that everyone present can increase the intensity of the investigation and search for Shuo Yue's traces, because if there is even the slightest possibility of him feigning death, it means that we are in a passive situation where the enemy is in the dark and we are clear... This is important to everyone. We are all the same, but we can form a short-term alliance on the matter of Shuo Yue."
"I also ask for your forgiveness from the head of the Tohsaka family. Although we will not monitor the inside of the Holy Church, we still have to set up spies outside it, because in addition to the doubtful evidence, there are also..."
"There is still a spiritual energy disk, right? There is no trace of Caster in the spiritual energy disk." Tokiomi Tosaka said in a deep voice, rubbing his temples with a headache.
Now that things have come to a point, he has no choice but to announce this information in order to remove himself from Shuo Yue's fake death incident.
"Regarding this, the aura disk mysteriously disappeared yesterday afternoon and returned to its original position early this morning - if Kirei hadn't been extra thoughtful and secretly installed a camera in the room, we wouldn't even know Sakutsu's interest in auras. Moved his hands and feet."
After hearing this information, Weber was stunned and suddenly felt creepy.
In other words, had Sakuyue planned everything after the battle with the three servants a few hours ago?
So... does his unusual behavior during the day have some deep meaning?
Without speaking out his thoughts, after Weber negotiated the areas to be monitored, he ended the communication and took back the familiar.
"Rider, help me dig out yesterday afternoon's records. I want to see where Shuoyue went!"