Multiverse: Starting With Killer Queen

"Too, too dangerous..."

Kiritsugu Emiya leaned against the wall on the other side of the street, unable to control himself any longer, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

After casually wiping the blood from his mouth, Emiya Kiritsugu tried to stand up, but in the end he slid down the wall weakly.

"Is the four-times-speed inherent time control still too much for me?"

Just at that moment, when the dangerous car exploded, Emiya Kiritsugu activated the magic that belonged to this name.

Innate time control, this is the method passed down from generation to generation in the Emiya family in the magic seal, used to reach the root.

To put it simply, this is magic that manipulates time. If it is reproduced in the form of an inherent barrier, it can control the interior of the barrier and speed up or stop the flow of time.

But this is only an intangible theory after all. Otherwise, the inherent barrier would not be called the magic closest to magic. After all, that kind of thing is theoretically eroding the world with one's own mental images.

It was not until the generation of Kiritsugu's father that he skillfully completed the operation of placing a small barrier inside his own body, demonstrating the ability of this magic. Although he did not care about the inheritance of the Emiya family, Kiritsugu Emiya still liked the magic of the seal.

It was by accelerating himself that Emiya Kiritsugu was able to escape to the edge of the explosion in time, but as a price, after the magic ended, the capillaries in his body, whose time flow rate was adjusted to be consistent, began to break in large numbers.

At this point, Kiritsugu Emiya's lifeless face couldn't help but begin to twist. After several rounds of gasping for breath with no improvement, he pressed his ribs, where he felt a faint sense of pain.

Kiritsugu Emiya immediately came to the conclusion that his internal organs were damaged in the explosion.

Just the impact of the edge had such an effect. One can imagine the power of the explosion. If he had activated the magic a step later, he would probably have become a mutilated corpse.

The magic seals on Kiritsugu's body also lit up spontaneously, and began to extract magic power, performing healing magic, but this was only a temporary solution and not a permanent cure.

"But it's enough. Fortunately, I brought the scabbard with me."

After summoning Saber, there was some residual magic power in Avalon, which could barely provide a healing effect.

Relying on these, Emiya Kiritsugu placed his palms against the wall and stood up with difficulty as if he had kidney deficiency. He could not care about any sequelae now. After solving this trap, he had to rush to Hisau Maiya while he still had the strength to fight.

But the next moment, his face, which had gradually turned cold in pain, was distorted again.

In the smoke and dust dissipated from the center of the explosion, the blue car slowly drove out, and the skull on the top locked onto his direction again.

"Impossible! I saw him explode with my own eyes!"

This kind of costume that has the functions of automatically locking onto the enemy, being invisible, and being able to create a strong explosion can be sold at a sky-high price among magicians. Kiritsugu Emiya has also heard of similar things.

However, the fact that a monster could recover unscathed after a self-destructive explosion was beyond his understanding.

However, the Sheer Heart Attack did not stop at all. Following the orders of its master, it faithfully drove towards the direction of Emiya Kiritsugu and made a declaration in a cold voice.

"The explosion just now didn't hit a human—look here!"

Just like the soul-seeking scythe of the Grim Reaper, Kiritsugu Emiya was now helpless.

Is it the only Command Spell I can use?

I didn't expect to waste one before I even saw the enemy. The noise caused by the appearance of the Heroic Spirit and this thing will also make the enemy flee. It's really a big mistake.

Emiya Kiritsugu raised his hand and began to call upon the Command Seals with his mind while doing useless work. He fired all the bullets from the fully automatic submachine gun in his hand and then threw it aside casually.

"In the name of the Command Spell…"

But something unexpected happened. The car did not continue to chase him, but moved towards the discarded pistol.

This discovery made Kiritsugu Emiya quickly realize the key to the matter. He gave up using the Command Seal and hurriedly took out a few bullets. He threw them into the distance one by one like bait for a puppy and activated them with Fiery Magic.

"Bang, bang..."

As the bullets were fired one by one, the car really followed the traces left by the bullets and slowly moved to another place.

"Is it really the temperature?"

Emiya Kiritsugu breathed a sigh of relief. Among the common ways to lock onto an enemy, heartbeat and breathing were the most common, so when faced with something that tracked temperature, he was unable to react immediately.

After watching the car go away with a solemn expression, Emiya Kiritsugu was ready to run. This invincible thing was roughly at the level of a fast remote-controlled car in terms of chasing speed. With this distance, he should be able to escape pursuit.

However, the opposite happened.

As the car was about to leave the street, he suddenly stopped moving, no longer paying attention to the bait in front of him, then turned his head and looked at Emiya Kiritsugu again.

"How could that be? My body temperature is clearly..."

Seeing this unusual situation, Emiya Kiritsugu was shocked and an idea flashed in his mind.

He remembered.

"Is it actually magic?"

During Kiritsugu Emiya's career as a magus killer, the reason he was able to find and kill his targets was due to an unintentional little trick.

When he became a magus, Emiya Kiritsugu discovered that when he used magic, his body temperature would rise, perhaps because the magic circuit was activated.

With this and constant research, Emiya Kiritsugu was able to distinguish between ordinary people and magi.

And just now, although getting angry is just a basic magic, after repeated high-frequency use, the temperature judgment in his body has surpassed the bait that only has a momentary temperature.

"How ironic." Having made a mistake in the area he was best at, Kiritsugu Emiya could only smile bitterly as he watched the approaching car bringing the news of death.

——

"That's enough,"

Roland looked at Hisau Maiya in front of him leisurely. The dagger in her hand had been knocked to the ground. The Killer Queen who was blocking her kicked Hisau Maiya in the abdomen mercilessly. This powerful blow made Hisau Maiya fly away as if she was hit by a car, and her body broke one of the closed doors of the exit.

The exit was clearly only one step away from her, but she didn't even have the strength to climb out. What was even more ironic was that because she wanted to kill Roland and dispose of the body later, she specifically chose this secluded abandoned building, but she didn't expect it would become her burial place.

"I told you, don't put up any unnecessary resistance. It will only anger me and bring me more pain. I am the victim today."

Roland said in a cold voice, "It would be better to just die. Are you still expecting Emiya Kiritsugu to save you?"

Hisau Maiya said nothing, but slowly raised herself up by supporting herself on the ground.

She just looked towards the exit quietly, scenes from the past flashing through her mind, waiting for death to come.

As if in response to her little hope, the deep voice sounded across the street.

"Maiya!"

Emiya Kiritsugu dragged his body, looked at the dying Maiya, and subconsciously stretched out his hand and called out.

But for Hisau Maiya, this was just another kind of despair.

"Emiya Kiritsugu, he actually escaped? I thought I would have to retrieve it from his body, but forget it, I came just in time."

Kiritsugu must be protected.

Hisau Maiya looked back blankly and saw Roland leaning against the wall in a rather seductive posture, with one hand clenched into a fist and the thumb slightly bent, as if he was about to pull the trigger.

With strength that she didn't know where it came from, she maintained her will, and Hisau Maiya shouted at Kiritsugu who was running towards her at the loudest voice of her life.

"Kiritsugu! This is the seventh Master. The secret of his power lies in explosion. He can make anything he touches..."

But before she could finish, the indifferent voice had already determined her fate.

"Killer Queen has already touched you."

Roland pressed down gently with his thumb.

"Maiya——!!!"

Amid Emiya Kiritsugu's desperate shouts, Hisau Maiya's body shattered into pieces and turned into flying smoke and dissipated.