Chapter 205: Kiritsugu: “you Wouldn’t Lay A Hand On Illya, Would You?!”
Watching Kiritsugu’s small movements to suppress it, Emiya Shirou revealed a smile on his face.
Before coming to Sunset Forest, Irisviel and Illya had carefully instructed him to watch Kiritsugu and not let him smoke too much.
Although Soul Masters’ physical fitness is very strong, frequent smoking will still have some impact on the lungs.
“That lord?”
“So it’s the boss sending a message.”
“Is there something going on?”
Kiritsugu pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the glass ashtray, and the smoke rising in the tent began to gradually dissipate as it lost its source.
“That lord plans to come to Sunset Forest personally.”
“Probably wants to break through the poisonous fog into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.”
After speaking, Emiya Kiritsugu pulled out a few photographs from under the document; these were situations inside the poisonous fog that had been barely captured after expending quite a few D-level personnel.
Emiya Shirou leaned over to look, and his face also showed some seriousness.
“These are photos inside the poisonous fog?”
“It’s truly shocking.”
“Biological corpses everywhere, the entire Sunset Forest has become nutrients for this poisonous fog.”
In the photos, countless colorful bones lay scattered across the ground; from the postures of the bones, it was estimated that they had been in great pain before death, and there were even some human bones among them.
These human bones had already been investigated by Root Third Squad; they were residents who had once lived in villages around Sunset Forest.
There are some plants inside the poisonous fog that release strange fragrances, which can affect the brain and confuse life.
These fragrances have extremely strong dispersibility, affecting the entire outskirts of Sunset Forest.
Existences with soul power won’t have issues in the short term, but those without soul power will be directly affected.
Emiya Shirou looked at them with some anger; he couldn’t understand what kind of person would trample on life like this!
Every time he saw the empty villages around Sunset Forest, Emiya Shirou couldn’t help but grit his teeth in extreme anger.
If the other party dared to appear before him, he would stake his life to use Gan Jiang and Mo Ye to sever the other’s arms!
“Mm, there’s basically not much moving life left in the entire Sunset Forest.”
“It’s just like a penned slaughterhouse.”
Emiya Kiritsugu stood up, stored the map on the table into the storage soul tool, put the photos back under the document, and said to Emiya Shirou who was standing dumbfounded nearby:
“Let’s go, we’ll check out Sunset Forest together.”
“Through studying the map, the poisonous fog in the southwest direction of Sunset Forest is the weakest.”
“We’ll go take a look at the situation on site; when that lord arrives here, we can break through from the southwest direction.”
Shirou nodded and closely followed behind Kiritsugu; he had always trusted this reliable man before him.
The camp zealously stationed in Sunset Forest currently had few people, only some guards vigilantly watching the surroundings.
Level Seven defensive soul tools were deployed around the camp, and with linked devices, they could resist attacks at the Soul Douluo level.
But given Sunset Forest’s current state of desolation, it was impossible for Soul Douluo-level soul beasts or humans to appear.
The human cities around had moved away thousands of years ago; no forces chose to come to Sunset Forest to hunt souls, and there were no soul beasts here to hunt.
Currently, the most valuable things in the entire forest are those Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolute Flowers of unknown species.
The Jade Phosphorus Seven Absolute Flowers that have become soul beasts are almost the dream of all poison-type Soul Masters; they have strong vitality and carry toxins that rank in the top three.
Moreover, because of the soul core, it’s basically impossible for the Dugu family to poison themselves to death.
Most members of Root Third Squad, where Kiritsugu and Shirou were, were currently near the Destruction God King’s statue; they were using instruments to measure the statue’s strange fluctuations and energy properties.
After all, this was something related to a deity; all data was treasure, and moreover, the Destruction God King hadn’t stopped them, so the other’s divine sense should be inside the statue.
“Senior, are you going out?”
A girl with long purple hair slightly poked her head out from the camp, looking at Kiritsugu and Shirou ahead.
A smile appeared on Emiya Kiritsugu’s face as he nudged Shirou’s waist with his elbow.
Shirou turned back, waved his hand at the girl, and said:
“Sakura, Kiritsugu and I have some matters.”
“We’ll leave the camp to you.”
Sakura gently nodded and said:
“Mm, be careful on the way.”
“Right, remember to avoid the main roads of Sunset Forest; the poisonous fog seems to consciously cover these roads for some reason.”
Shirou and Kiritsugu exchanged a glance, then seriously nodded at Sakura and said:
“I understand.”
After speaking, the two entered Sunset Forest, heading toward the poisonous fog boundary in the southwest direction of Sunset Forest via an almost arc-shaped route.
In the night, the entire forest was terrifyingly quiet, with only the cold night wind rustling the leaves and the eerie howling produced by airflow through rock crevices.
Emiya Shirou couldn’t help but wrap his black-and-white jacket tighter, his brown eyes wary of the surrounding environment.
In this ghostly place, he seriously suspected a single brick could knock down ten ghosts.
“Clearly all trees, yet not a bit of vitality can be felt.”
A sharp glint flashed in Kiritsugu’s black eyes as he intently observed the surroundings’ commotions.
Holding a handgun, Kiritsugu’s martial soul was the Origin Gun, personally designed by Huo Yuhao, composed of Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear plus Emerald Swan plus Spiritual Eye plus gun.
Kiritsugu’s strength was Rank Six, with the first three rings being mutation-type soul skills that could change the Origin Gun’s form, the latter three being amplification-type soul skills; the fourth and fifth soul skills targeted the Origin Gun’s power, and the sixth ring acted on himself, enhancing reaction speed.
The Origin Gun had severing and combining properties; once it hit an enemy, if the opponent was using soul power at that moment, the Origin Bullet would immediately sever the opponent’s meridians, then crudely recombine them at random.
The soul power in the opponent’s body would rampage through blood vessels or organs due to the erroneous meridian combinations.
This meant that if the opponent was using a high soul power soul skill at the moment of being hit, the damage received would be even more severe.
Of course, even if one survived the Origin Bullet, they would basically be crippled for life, with disordered meridians rendering soul power unusable.
This was a martial soul that was insidious to the extreme, especially since Emiya Kiritsugu loved playing insidious.
Carrying several shielding soul tools on him, he could transform the Origin Gun into a sniper rifle, hide far away, set up on the enemy, and wait for the right moment to deliver a fierce shot.
Because of the Origin Bullet’s properties, damage was higher with soul power; without soul power, the Origin Bullet enhanced by two amplification soul skills had piercing power sufficient to penetrate a Soul Saint’s body.
Moreover, Root Third Squad generally acted collectively; using no soul power meant death, using soul power meant dying even more miserably.
Unless the opponent’s level crushed them overwhelmingly, relying on stats to push back.
So far, Root Third Squad had no failures, basically all first encounter kills.
“Psychological effect.”
“This forest already has little that can move.”
“Night plus wind sounds always make people’s nerves tense.”
The two walked lightly through the dense forest, staying vigilant while chatting.
“Right, Shirou, I see that child Sakura likes you, doesn’t she?”
“Why don’t you show some response?”
Emiya Shirou said somewhat embarrassedly:
“I’ve always seen Sakura as a junior.”
Kiritsugu nodded; he didn’t plan to interfere in his adopted son’s relationships, but he suddenly said alertly:
“Wait, you’re not making a move on Illya, are you?”
“She’s your sister!”
“If you dare, watch out for me breaking your legs.”
Emiya Shirou had black lines all over his head and retorted:
“Don’t make that kind of joke.”
“How could I possibly do something like that!”
Kiritsugu smiled, easing the oppressive atmosphere in the forest.
“That’s good.”
“How has that child Miyu been lately?”
“I haven’t been back for too long.”
A brilliant smile appeared on Emiya Shirou’s face as he said:
“Her grades have always been good, especially in mathematics.”
“And she’s very interested in soul tools; she might go to Shrek Academy in a while.”
“Actually, I think Sun Moon Royal Soul Master Academy is pretty good too; Enthusiasm could probably arrange for Miyu to go there?”
Emiya Kiritsugu paused, shook his head, and said:
“Sun Moon Empire is out of the question.”
“It’s not safe there.”
“Some time ago, I and other teammates wiped out an evil Soul Master den.”
“The evil Soul Masters inside kept capturing civilians and sending them to Sun Moon Empire.”
“Sun Moon Empire is the evil Soul Masters’ old nest.”
“I heard Root Second Squad has infiltrated the evil Soul Masters’ main base with internal help.”
“They’ve transmitted back quite a bit of intelligence.”
“You know, I’ve always not wanted Miyu and Illya to contact this world’s dark side.”
“Douluo Continent has never been a beautiful world; otherwise, you and I wouldn’t want to become Justice Partners.”
“Just let them live in the sunlight.”
“Xilu City is already the most beautiful place in this world.”
“You’ve just joined Root Third Squad and don’t know the situation in other Heaven Soul Empire cities yet.”
“Those cities and Xilu City are simply two worlds!”
“Slaves are prohibited by law, but you can see population trade in most cities.”
“The number of human traffickers who’ve died by my hand is nearing three digits.”
“In the future, when encountering such people, don’t hold back.”
Emiya Kiritsugu’s tone was very cold; he was also a father with children, dreaming of becoming a Justice Partner, and infinitely abhorred those abominations.
Emiya Shirou slightly lowered his eyes after hearing this and said:
“Mm, Kiritsugu.”
“That’s exactly why I so desperately long to become a Justice Partner.”
