【言切】nervous

Emiya Kiritsugu hadn't returned the key card for the door of room 704, so he knocked on the door three times in a symbolic and reminding way, and then opened the door with the key card.Kotomine Kirei was flipping through a stack of documents on a chair, and when he saw him coming, he frowned.

"There's more than one monster." Emiya Kiritsugu said straight to the point, he didn't think there was any need to exchange pleasantries or explain why he shut people out yesterday.

"I was thinking that too." Kotomine Kirei said.

The information in his hand is the anatomy research report of the monster's corpse yesterday, the inspection team is really efficient.The report stated that no matter how it was dissected and examined, the corpse was just an ordinary soft plastic doll, without any characteristics that humans should have, just an ordinary dead thing.

But such a dead thing has a trace of residual magic power, which is different from the magic power of all the magic families in the known magic association, and belongs to the unknown.

Kotomine Kirei guessed that the dolls were just puppets, and that someone hidden in the dark was manipulating the dolls.It's very troublesome. Before the doll is destroyed, it is completely indistinguishable from a real human being, and has dangerous abilities, which are extremely difficult to guard against.And it is not sure whether there is an upper limit on the number of puppets, and the manipulator behind the scenes is not known.

It's really not an ordinary trouble.

His job here was to stop the death from happening and destroy the thing behind the scenes. Kotomine Kirei didn't think the danger of this job was unbearable, on the contrary, he thought it was the right time.

— Emiya Kiritsugu.

Kotomine Kirei once thought that this man, like himself, was confused about certain things and couldn't find the answers he was looking for, because when that man was renting a villa, he always looked lifeless, or his mind was empty. His face is expressionless, occasionally a little dazed, but he always covers it up quickly.

But now, Emiya Kiritsugu seemed to come alive when he was working, as if he had a purpose and a precise goal when doing these things.

If the assumption is correct, when these things are done, Emiya Kiritsugu will return to the same dull state as he has seen before.

He's a man who can't help but want to explore.

Kotomine Kirei intends to start with this job and slowly search for this man.

"It seems that you have gained something extra here." Emiya Kiritsugu said.

"Yes." Kotomine Kirei said the inspection team's report indifferently, "Until the controller is found, destroying dolls is of little use, unless there is an upper limit on the number of dolls that is very beneficial to us. "

"It's not that you can't think about it." Emiya Kiritsugu said, "There are traces of magic power on the doll, which means that without a doll, 'he' has lost a portion of power."

"'He' has to replenish his strength." Kotomine Kirei said next, "You should have noticed the time between the five dead."

"Yes, eating faster and faster."

"How useful are the internal organs of ordinary people." Kotomine Kirei turned his eyes around Emiya Kiritsugu's body, "'He' should look for a magician like you, not an ordinary person."

"Yes, that's right." Emiya Kiritsugu agreed, "'he' will know who is better to fill his stomach."

He didn't care a bit about the danger he was in.

"But he set his sights on me first." Kotomine Kirei looked at the report in his hand again meaningfully, "However, it does not rule out that we are all within the hunting range. Dolls have the ability to change form, so we should cooperate. "

"If you can't tell the difference between the two sides, cooperation is just a hassle."

Kotomine Kirei thought for a moment, and said, "I am a priest of the church. This is the weapon I use against demons. That guy will never be able to imitate it." Three black keys appeared on his left hand, and they lit up. Then retracted, Emiya Kiritsugu's eyes flashed.

"My weapon is a gun." Emiya Kiritsugu said.

Guns were no way of identification, they were easy to replicate, but he had nothing else to say.

"If you do it again, I believe I can tell the truth from the fake." Kotomine Kirei showed a very slight smile, "Aren't you going to tell me your identity? Reciprocity."

"Part-time job." Emiya Kiritsugu said.

"Oh?" Kotomine Kirei was dubious, but did not continue to ask.

"Are you going to stay in the room?"

"No, I plan to go to the places where the victims were killed before." After new considerations, there may be new discoveries.

"Me too."

The bar was closed during the day, and the two walked around the back door of the bar a few times.The place where the two bodies had been found had been swept clean, and there was no trace of anything that might have been left there.They then entered the bar in an informal way and patrolled around, but nothing came of it.

Considering that the operator is likely to hide in a certain place for the convenience of manipulating the doll or other reasons when eating, Emiya Kiritsugu ran up and down in the surrounding houses, on the balcony of each floor Visually measure the distance and angle of view from the corner of the back door of the bar.

Kotomine Kirei was next to him, doing similar things to him, and sometimes looked at him inexplicably.

No results were found at the back door of the bar, no visits by the victim's family, and they ended up in the woods.There were two people whose internal organs were eaten in the woods. This area is almost considered to be Jingfeng Area B. It is the area closer to the interior of this large forest. The trees are tall and dense, and it is easy to get lost.This is not a route open to tourists, even for tourists who want to have a picnic in the wild, the tour guide will not let them enter such a deep place.

The bodies are said to have been found lying under a tree, both in the same place.

Emiya Kiritsugu turned around a few times, climbed up and down, and finally determined that it was just an ordinary big tree, and there was nothing unusual or weird about it.There was a hole in the tree, and he dug it out, and got out a lot of animal feces, and some messy scattered things that the animals probably collected from everywhere.They expanded the scope, and all they saw were scenes that would appear in ordinary woods.

Kotomine Kirei sent an inquiry to the investigation team responsible for the same matter, and the reply he received the next day was that the personnel of the investigation team had investigated the place where the two deceased died and the forest, and there was nothing strange in the forest.There was a cabin in the woods a long way from where the body was found, but they investigated and there was nothing suspicious.

... a cabin in the woods?

The cabin used to be occupied by a man and his eight-year-old son—not always there, the father had a house in Scenic Area A, and he often went to the cabin with his son after school holidays.Then the father died.The man was the first victim to be found bizarrely eviscerated - dead for almost a month - with his son still alive.That little boy is now being raised by relatives.

"No more?" Emiya Kiritsugu asked.

"No more." Kotomine Kirei said, "We can go and have a look."

The hut was actually very close to the edge of the forest, and indeed, as the investigators said, far away from where the body was found.Like a big fat earthworm, the scenery area A, the hut is close to one end of the earthworm, and the place where the corpse was found is almost parallel to the other end of the earthworm.

It was a hut built among the branches of dwarf trees, very simple, with wooden boards, some dry branches, and sackcloth covering the top as the roof.It was much better inside, with clothes and quilts piled together on a sofa, a pot and two bowls on the floor, a large raincoat and a small raincoat, and a small sundry rack hanging on the wall.There are several books on the shelf, full of children's views on the woods.

Looks like a cabin that dad and kids built together.

It's very quiet here, let alone animals, not even a bird cry.There shouldn't be such a dead silence in the woods.

Emiya Kiritsugu picked up the pile of clothes and put on an extremely small one, the size of a palm, it was worn by dolls and other toys.He held it in front of his eyes, looked at it twice, and then put it in his pocket.

Kotomine Kirei watched his actions, but didn't speak.

Then they left.