Jalter didn't know what kind of expression she should use to face Rin's words at this moment, whether she should take it seriously or if Rin was just teasing her again. This kind of serious nonsense had always been Rin's special skill.
"Master, I said, stop joking."
"Of course, I know that."
Rin silently put down her teacup, her serious gaze meeting Jalter's.
"I'm serious. My body just felt an extreme sense of crisis. My alertness is faster than my thoughts, but just now I clearly felt extreme danger, yet I couldn't pinpoint the direction. My body didn't react, and just now…"
Rin's gaze randomly darted to the distant southeast.
"Precognition magic informed me that a life form's obsession has locked onto me, and this power poses an extremely great threat to me. Unexpected changes have already begun. It seems I need to be very careful in the Holy Grail War over the next few days."
Realizing the true seriousness of the situation, Jalter's brows furrowed, her eyes filled with worry.
"Then I'll stay by your side. With you, me, and Berserker's power, we can easily crush any opponent."
Rin gently shook her head, rejecting Jalter's suggestion.
"My strength combined with Berserker's has already made us the biggest enemy in everyone's eyes. If Archer hadn't shown strength capable of rivaling us, we would have been ganged up on by all other groups long ago. An existence that disrupts the balance will certainly be collectively eliminated. Our power has reached the limit of what everyone can tolerate. If you join us, the situation will only get worse."
At that time, there will surely be someone who successfully instigates everyone to unite against us. After all, those pushing everything from behind… are them, Rin thought to herself.
Just this morning, Rin felt a chilling sense of crisis spread from a mysterious void. This dangerous alertness, almost stemming from the origin of her soul, made Rin feel as if the entire world was against her, and she had nowhere to hide.
To use an ancient Chinese saying, it was as if Heaven wanted her dead.
Rin looked at the distant sky, a silent, self-deprecating smile on her face.
"Then, Master, what do you plan to do?"
Jalter asked Rin seriously about her plans.
"Everything as usual, no change to the plan."
"Huh? Hey, hey! Master, since you already know there's danger, why… Huh?"
Jalter anxiously rushed to Rin's side, wanting to advise her, but found Rin, who was looking at the sky through the window, with a faint, scornful smile on her lips.
"Master, you are…"
"Jalter, do you know why certain people are going to such great lengths to target me?"
"Master…"
Rin turned her head, her smile unchanged as she looked at Jalter.
"Because someone is afraid. They are afraid of my future, afraid that I will control their destiny in the future. Therefore, they want to eliminate me while I am still weak. While their method is not wrong, it cannot hide their cowardice."
Confidence, arrogance, pride, and a domineering aura suddenly erupted from Rin!
"Since they are the ones who chickened out, why should we also chicken out? Since we know this conspiracy was unavoidable from the start, there's no need to hide anymore. Jalter, just prepare a funeral for tonight's Caster that is to your liking."
Unconsciously, Jalter seemed to be influenced by Rin, and her tightly furrowed brows relaxed.
"This isn't a wise decision."
"Of course."
Rin nodded, admitting it without hesitation.
"I'm no sage. My only way to deal with a conspiracy is to crush it with force."
"Though it's like a fool, I like it, Master. We really get along well."
"Of course…"
After a long time, Rin once again rode the heavy motorcycle she had used to travel from Misaki City to Fuyuki City. After unofficial modifications, the vehicle body could no longer be expected to be driven normally; once started, it roared with lightning speed. Even though it was daytime and Rin did not use magic to enhance the motorcycle's power, its normal driving speed still exceeded two hundred kilometers per hour.
At this moment, Rin was speeding towards the eastern suburbs of Fuyuki City. She remembered that after the battle in Einzbern Castle last night, Kayneth was severely wounded by Kiritsugu Emiya, and after his Magic Circuits were burned out and rendered useless, he should have been hiding here. Originally, he was supposed to be dealt with by Kiritsugu Emiya tonight, but this morning, the obsession that locked onto her came from this direction.
This made Rin feel very abnormal, and Kayneth, with his Magic Circuits destroyed and his mind violently fluctuating out of control, was indeed very prone to becoming a point of anomaly.
"Screech—!"
A sharp, ear-piercing screech of brakes. The wheels of the high-speed braking vehicle left two charred marks on the ground. A pungent smell of burnt rubber permeated from the rising white smoke, but even so, it couldn't mask the smell of blood emanating from the abandoned factory fifty meters ahead.
Sure enough, something was wrong here!
Rin frowned as she looked at the dilapidated abandoned factory in front of her. Such an overly strong smell of blood should never have been present here. Rin dismounted from the driver's seat and walked step by step into the factory. After scanning her eyes, she quickly made a discovery.
"Hmm? This is…"
An ominous magical residue lingered inside the factory. Following the traces, she found that a former industrial pool had now become a pool of blood. Half-filled, the pool floated with broken limbs, shattered corpses, and scattered organs, completely filling the entire blood pool.
Rin's brows furrowed as she looked at the gruesome scene. Such a style of action and evil magical aura made the perpetrator self-evident.
"Caster, I didn't expect him to get involved with Kayneth."
Rin soon found an empty hospital bed, undoubtedly unoccupied. It was stained with oxidized, blackened blood, indicating that something must have happened here last night.
Rin reached out and touched a sticky black bloodstain, then closed her eyes and activated her identification magic. Immediately, the image of a cold-faced, fiery red-haired girl appeared in Rin's consciousness.
It was Sola's blood.
Rin opened her eyes with a frown. The entire factory was deserted, but there were no signs of battle damage, indicating that Caster had not come to attack Kayneth's group. This meant Sola had been sacrificed by Caster without Kayneth ordering Lancer to fight.
"Hmm?"
Rin suddenly felt an extremely faint breath...
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