Xyrin Empire
Chapter 472 Zuotian Tsuruya, Transform and Depart!

Chapter 472: Chapter 472 Zuotian Tsuruya, Transform and Depart!

The bizarre black-and-white short knife transformed into two deadly serpents, rapidly enlarging in Emiya Shirou’s pupils. I could clearly see that his muscles tensed in an instant as the man in red acted, obviously trying to dodge. His reflexes and agility were decent among humans, but sadly, compared to the physique of a Heroic Spirit, his dodging was far slower than the red-clothed man’s attack speed.

At this moment, Saber also completely resisted Tohsaka Rin’s barrage attack. The Invisible Sword met the swiftly approaching dual black-and-white blades, blocking the enemy’s attack just in time. However, the brief defeat had put her slightly at a disadvantage. Meanwhile, Tohsaka Rin, having deemed the two magic-less bystanders as mere ordinary people, shifted her focus on assisting her own Servant in combat. Clearly, she had no intention of killing Emiya Shirou, but she didn’t hold back against Saber as if she wanted to test the strength between her Servant and Saber.

But my Miss Tohsaka, have you forgotten that Emiya Shirou is just a half-baked practitioner? This could get someone killed!

Knowing that Saber should win, I, in anticipation of any accidents, hesitated not a bit and slapped Tsuruya before stretching my hand forward, "Assault Tsuruya, transform! Let’s go!!"

After a silent second...

Ah! That damned Tsuruya actually bit me!

She left two neat rows of tiny bite marks on her own big brother’s wrist, then grudgingly released her mouth, and seemingly casually, she hung her right hand by her side and snapped her fingers lightly.

This was her usual transformation... er, combat move which she claimed was cool. At any rate, it was much simpler than Lin Xue’s bizarre invention of raising her right hand and shouting "Grant me power! I am the Magic Cannon Girl."

A sudden burst of silvery-white brilliance erupted, and Tsuruya’s sailor uniform was replaced by the Imperial Commanders’ uniform in the next instant, followed by an adept space jump.

As soon as I cried out for the transformation, Tohsaka Rin had already noticed something unusual here, but the lack of magic fluctuations had made her complacent. Mr. Red A might have sensed the danger through his instincts, but under Saber’s overwhelming strikes, maintaining a stalemate was already difficult enough, let alone defending against an attack launched through space jumping.

Thus, by the time everyone reacted, Tohsaka Rin was already under Tsuruya’s control.

With the Commander’s Sword tightly gripped backhand, its blade pressing against Tohsaka Rin’s neck, Tsuruya stood slightly behind and to the side of the other, raising her sidearm "Thorn" and pointing it at Mr. Red A.

This girl seems to have improved a lot, and she also knows to pick an easy target. Compared to close combat, the half-hearted Xyrin Apostle Tsuruya could hardly be a match for Mr. Red-clothed White-haired Dual Swordsmanship, even with the huge advantage of space transmission and Phase Shift Blade. In contrast, Tohsaka Rin, though also quite powerful, was still within the human range. Tsuruya, a half-hearted Xyrin Apostle, would be invincible at the human level, especially against someone whose expertise is ranged attacks... How many lines did I just mix together?

Having successfully controlled the opponent’s "Grand General," a small triumphant look briefly flashed across Tsuruya’s face before she immediately straightened her face and said seriously, "Don’t move! Put your hand on your head!"

I’ve told you not to watch American police dramas all the time.

"Please wait a moment!" Having served as merely a background for the past while, Emiya Shirou finally found another chance to speak. "Um... Miss Alien! Please, don’t be rash..."

Calling her an "alien" is already enough to set Tsuruya off, you fool!

But surprisingly, even with a sharp blade against her neck, Tohsaka Rin showed no sign of panic. Instead, she tilted her head slightly with curiosity, observing the girl who, just a second ago, stood by the roadside in a school uniform like an ordinary middle school student. Her eyes glittered with intense curiosity, while the tall red-haired man, being the least threatened, showed a nervous expression, not daring to make any sudden moves yet constantly worrying if the eerie, silver-gleaming blade would slice into his master’s neck in the next second.

"Alright, alright, Tsuruya, you can come back now."

The next second, Zuotian Tsuruya, who was enthusiastically playing the role of a hostage-taking bandit on the field, changed back to her usual school uniform and returned to my side with a "biu."

"Can we talk now?"

With a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, I looked at Tohsaka Rin with a playful gaze and shrugged my shoulders, while she sighed in resignation, "It seems that all the emotions earlier were completely wasted."

"Aliens? Emiya Shirou, your experiences are just too bizarre," Tohsaka Rin’s first reaction upon hearing Emiya reveal our identities was to be utterly dumbfounded, then she burst into laughter, showing no belief whatsoever.

However, as soon as the stern Saber seriously nodded in confirmation, she couldn’t laugh any longer.

"Can such things really happen?!"

Tohsaka Rin’s mouth gaped open, her face full of disbelief, which turned into pure awe as she saw the huge crater in the backyard of Emiya Mansion and the still faintly smoking landing pod inside it.

"Emiya, it seems I need to revise my impression of you," she remarked.

Emiya: "Are you referring to this talent for attracting aliens?"

"With such a huge commotion, I’m afraid the whole Fuyuki City will soon be bustling."

After walking around the ’spaceship’ that displayed technology far superior to Earth’s, Tohsaka Rin finally seemed to realize this issue and said with a headache.

As one of the managing families of Fuyuki City’s underworld—although in decline, and though they manage affairs among mages rather than in the ordinary society visible to the public—such chaos is definitely not something Tohsaka Rin wanted to see, especially now that the Holy Grail War was starting again. Any factor of uncertainty could likely make the situation even more out of control.

"It’s okay," Before we set off, of course, we couldn’t have failed to consider this, "By the way, when you were rushing over, didn’t you notice the spaceship’s landing?"

"Not really," Tohsaka Rin isn’t stupid, she immediately realized something strange, "Right, a gigantic flying device crashing to the ground at night should have caused a huge disruption, and when Archer and I came over in this direction, there was not even a glimmer of light."

"Just a bit of a disguise system," I immediately showed a proud expression, full of wild fantasies, "You know, the number of alien photographers, tourist groups, adventure teams, pickpockets, and pirate traffickers visiting Earth for sightseeing every day is countless. If we didn’t activate the disguise, how would Earth’s civilization continue to evolve? I’d say now, ninety-nine percent of your sky is essentially crafted by aliens using holographic projections, one hundred percent of your actions are the products of some sociologists’ perverse reflex experiments, and even the reason you evolved to walk upright is merely to make Earth’s primates more pleasing to our aesthetic sense and... wow! Tsuruya! Why did you pull out the knife?"

"Just to get my stupid brother’s brain back to normal!"

The golden-haired girl held the Commander’s Sword, her face all puffed up with anger.

"Alright, I was wrong, I just made all that up to trick you."

Tohsaka Rin: "...My view of the world almost collapsed just now."

The arrival of two "Aliens," although bizarre, didn’t seem so hard to accept in a world where magic and Heroic Spirits could exist. Besides, as a Magician, she was already an existence as enigmatic and elusive as aliens in the eyes of ordinary people. Tohsaka Rin accepted us incredibly quickly, not only because of her insatiable curiosity but also because she had almost started treating us like regular humans.

"If you had tentacles, maybe I would have stayed surprised a bit longer."

The above statement is a quote from Miss Tohsaka’s anecdotes—Are all Misses around the world such sharp-tongued rascals! Where did that polite ponytailed girl go just now?

"So, can you tell me what all this is about now?"

After spending quite some time explaining our origins, Emiya Shirou finally got a chance to clear up his confused state. The inexplicable battle, the sudden threat, the beautiful girl emerging from the Magic Array, the Gunman crushed by a meteor as if he were Xiang Lin... Well, maybe not the last one.

Anyway, Emiya Shirou was eager for explanations.

"It seems you really are a half-baked amateur," Rin fumed, visibly annoyed and angry at Shirou’s ignorance, "but to think the strongest Saber was summoned by someone like you! Well, whatever, what’s done is done, and I don’t want my enemy to be ignorant to death, so listen carefully, I’ll only say this once!"

"Uh-huh, we’re all ears!"

Tsuruya and I nodded together.

Rin raised an eyebrow: "I wasn’t talking to you two!"

"Well, what’s the big deal," I shrugged, "after all, we’re absolutely outsiders. Do you think there’s still need for secrecy with us, who are not even Earthlings?"

Rin was clearly not expecting this, but after a moment, she nodded slowly, "True, you aren’t ordinary people who need to be kept in the dark. Alright, listen carefully, it’s about the Holy Grail War..."

The Holy Grail War, a conflict that has unfolded more than once in Fuyuki City around the Holy Artifact known as the Holy Grail, capable of fulfilling any wish, has now reached its fifth cycle since the last war ten years ago.

Legend had it that the Holy Grail, bestowed with the power to perform miracles after receiving Divine Blood and possessing endless Magic Power, could fulfill all the wishes of its holder. To compete for this precious wish, selected Magicians had to battle to the death, and as for the Heroic Spirits, they were the Servants summoned by the Mages, ancient heroes resurrected in the present world for their renowned deeds, at least according to the legend.

Although Tsuruya and I showed great interest in these theories, in reality, we scoffed at them.

The Holy Grail, having received Divine Blood and capable of fulfilling any wish? Really?

Not to mention, the "Gods" in the FATE world could at best be planet-level beings; how powerful could they really be? Just the idea of fulfilling any wish sounds preposterously absurd. I won’t even start on the fact that in my Personal Space, I have a few large cups used to bathe Dingdang. Think about it, the divine spring in which a World God bathes... essentially, I suppose it belongs to the same system as the Holy Grail, but if you were to wish for candy to fall from the sky with that cup, it would be impossible. In fact, it’s quite the opposite; Dingdang usually asks me for candy after a bath, dammit, a World Manager God asking me for candy, seriously!

Of course, I believe the Holy Grail has immense magical power. Regardless of True God or Fake God, those beings with a certain amount of Law Power always cause some subtle changes to the things they come in contact with. I started collecting the plastic sticks left behind after Tsuruya finished her lollipops, because I realized when launched with enough speed, they could penetrate twenty-two layers of warship armor without deforming, and I planned to get about three thousand sticks and then custom-make a Desert Eagle just for puncturing warships with those plastic sticks...

Here’s a friendly interjection: Big Sister’s mirror, the one she usually uses for makeup, seems to have undergone a small mutation. According to Lin Xue’s research, in a few days it could be used to consult the national beauty rankings. That’s probably how Snow White and the seven Ironforge guards’ shameless days began...

While my mind wandered imaginatively, Tohsaka Rin finally concluded her explanation. She noticed that although we were initially interested, we were now visibly nodding off and smiled reassuringly.

You think the Holy Grail isn’t attractive to aliens, huh?

I’m genuinely curious how Miss Tohsaka, facing the reality of aliens in the universe, can still firmly hold on to her intention to engage in the Holy Grail War. Isn’t her worldview a bit too rigid? Shouldn’t she firmly abandon feudal superstition and embrace the warm arms of the Technology God Sect, seeking support from alien technology? That’s what they say on TV.

"Anyway, that’s basically it," Tohsaka informed Emiya Shirou about the Holy Grail War, then sighed again, "You’re really a lucky outsider... Let some Fake Priest tell you more in detail when the time comes."

"Can’t believe something like this could happen..."

The most outstandingly good-hearted person of the century, even one level above me, Emiya Shirou, clearly couldn’t accept that such a peaceful everyday world could hide such a bloody, dark scene. He clenched his fists but found no way to express his frustration. Meanwhile, sitting nearby, Saber, his Servant, sat expressionlessly and properly, seeming to find the idea of the Holy Grail War too ordinary —hating it, err, it was all too normal for King of Britain who, despite adhering to the knight’s code of justice, wouldn’t decline killing an enemy in battle, a natural course of action.

"That’s it, think about it slowly, it’s getting late... Archer, let’s go back." Tohsaka Rin stood up, stretched languidly without a care, turned her head to beckon her Servant, and then suddenly burst out, "Archer! Don’t touch other people’s spaceship!"

It turned out Red A was standing next to our landing pod, chin in hand with a face full of research interest. While prying open steel plates was unlikely, such actions could still embarrass Miss Tohsaka...

I had thought Tohsaka Rin would drag Emiya Shirou to see Father Yanfeng today, but looking tired, perhaps from our continuous hassles, she briefly spoke and then left with Red A, the duo essentially still part of an opposing force.

Then came the matter of how to arrange for us, and...

How to deal with the huge pit in the backyard and the still-smoking landing pod.

The latter was easily addressed; Tsuruya directly recycled the somewhat entertaining landing pod into her Personal Space, a move that involved no Magic Fluctuation but was more miraculous than any space magic, even impressing Saber. As for the pit... we’d talk about it tomorrow morning. If necessary, we could ask Sivis to air-drop an engineer team from Avalon. After all, this amount of work wasn’t much for those idlers.

After a day filled with grand adventures, Emiya Shirou, being half an ordinary person, was already too tired. After preparing our rooms, he retired early to rest, and as I walked with Tsuruya towards our room, unsurprisingly, I encountered the Golden-haired Girl, Saber, waiting at the door.

"Do you have any questions?"

I smiled kindly at her while gently patting Tsuruya’s head. A thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl was already yawning non-stop at this late hour, especially after encountering the infamous Child Killer, Big Sister. I remember that at 9:30 PM I would instantly fall asleep before; otherwise, I wouldn’t dare sleep after Big Sister finished singing a lullaby—don’t let my sister know about this.

"Nothing much, just still curious about you all," Dai Mao... ahem, King... Knight King... oh well, Dai Mao King, spoke sincerely and directly in a way that left one speechless, "Your arrival is too coincidental, and the power displayed by this girl in that instant is noteworthy, so I hope we can confirm soon whether you are friends or foes."

Such straightforward speech, unfit for a true king; perhaps it’s related to Saber’s extreme confidence in her abilities, but I have to say, you’re really not suited to be a king.

"Well, about the question of friend or foe," I pondered for a moment, then gave a reply that satisfied her, "Since we’re eating freely here, we are at least guests of the Emiya Mansion. Fighting together or something, you may not believe if I mention it, but we are definitely not enemies; of that, there is no doubt." (To be continued. For more on what happens next, please visit www.qidian.com. More Chapters, support the author, support the original reading!)

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