【言切】nervous

In room 704, Emiya Kiritsugu took out the things he brought back and put them on the table, thinking about it.

Kotomine Kirei saw Emiya Kiritsugu put aside irrelevant things, leaving only the toy clothes and a piece of cloth the size of a little finger knuckle brought from the cabin in the forest.The toy's dress was a small, badly faded black skirt with a piece of the skirt torn at the corner, where the little piece of fabric fit just right over the torn part of the skirt.

He remembered that Emiya Kiritsugu got the small piece of cloth out of the tree hole, he was really a man with insight and care.

"Is it the doll that controls the doll?" Emiya Kiritsugu held the little skirt and said to himself, "Is it just a coincidence."

"We should go and see that little boy." Kotomine Kirei said.

"Yes."

"You go, I won't go out today." Kotomine Kirei said, "People from the investigation team will come later."

"Mn." Emiya Kiritsugu responded, tidied up the table tactfully, and left without saying a word.

Watching him close the door, Kotomine Kirei turned his gaze back to the table.He reached out and groped around the back of one of the table corners, and found a small bug, which Emiya Kiritsugu glued onto it just now.Kotomine Kirei smiled and crushed the little bean.

A short time later, a man in civilian clothes and carrying a briefcase opened the door.

"How is it?" Kotomine Kirei asked.

"It must be a holy relic of the heretics." The man said seriously, "The puppet of the heretics is said to be made by grafting a woman's soul onto a puppet in a cruel and evil way. It can be made without limit The puppet is used as a substitute, but the main body never really appears. Mr. Yanfeng, please be careful."

"I know."

"This is a research report from the records of golems." The man took out a stack of documents from his briefcase and walked up to Kotomine Kirei, "The golems mainly use puppet dolls as a means of feeding, and dolls can transform into illusions. The appearance of any person that the puppet has seen, once it touches a creature, the latter will be immediately caught in an invisible net and unable to move."

"The puppet can create an unlimited number of dolls, and can also control an unlimited number of dolls at the same time, but there is a fatal weakness, that is, when manipulating a doll, it must be controlled on the spot." He continued, "We still don't know how big that range is, and it shouldn't be too far away."

"Is there any more?" Kotomine Kirei took the information, "Is there no more information about the puppet's body?"

"Sorry, the documentation is incomplete."

"It's okay, thank you, I'm sorry." Kotomine Kirei put away the materials, "I have one extra thing, I would like to ask you to help me."

"Please say."

"Please help me investigate a man named Emiya Kiritsugu."

"Eimiya Kiritsugu?" The man in casual clothes was startled, a little surprised, "This guy is very famous in the Magic Association, doesn't Mr. Kotomine know about him?"

"Oh, Emiya Kiritsugu used to be a magician-killer, a guy who loves war. It can be described by the phrase 'where there is war, there is him'."

"once?"

"Yes, I didn't carry out the magician hunting work for some reason. It's a long story. I have to sort it out." The man in casual clothes lifted the briefcase on the chair, "I will send the information as soon as possible." Leave it to you."

"Thanks, bye."

Emiya Kiritsugu walked on the road, took off his earphones, his eyes were deep.

A rustling sound in the earphones indicates that the monitor is broken.That man named Kotomine Kirei was very sharp and a very tricky guy.He couldn't see the man's mind, couldn't understand what the man might do next, so he had to cooperate temporarily and wait for the change.

Tsk, the cohabitant has turned into a temporary partner with unknown dangers.

Emiya Kiritsugu came to the relative's house where the boy lived, it was a small villa where the owner seemed to be quite wealthy.From the outside, the inside of the villa is pitch black, with no lights, and it is now the end of dusk when the night is about to completely hang down.

He knocked on the door, but no one opened the door for a long time.

Entering the villa in an abnormal way, Emiya Kiritsugu tried to keep his footsteps as light as possible.It was very quiet in the house, and there was no one there.When passing a room, Emiya Kiritsugu smelled a stench that could not be ignored, he stopped, listened intently, but there was no sound.

He opens the door.

Four dolls of poor workmanship were lying on the bed, Emiya Kiritsugu frowned and walked in.Following the more obvious smell, he walked to a large wardrobe close to the wall and opened the door of the wardrobe.Inside were four corpses, just like the dolls on the bed, a man, a woman, and two little girls, all with severely sunken abdomens.

Emiya Kiritsugu closed the wardrobe expressionlessly, and left the villa.

The black sky had been completely pulled down, and the hem of Emiya Kiritsugu's windbreaker swayed with the cool wind of late autumn.He shrank his body, took out a cigarette, intending to drive away the chill from his body.

He suddenly saw a little boy walking quietly alone in the crowd, that was the target he wanted to visit this time.The little boy was holding a basket of simple-made dolls, and his short figure looked helpless. Sometimes the little boy would stop a person and ask timidly if he wanted to buy a homemade doll, but every time A person is willing to pay for those little dolls that are not good-looking.

Emiya Kiritsugu hid himself in the crowd, avoided the road that might collide with the little boy, calmly watched the little boy walk back to the villa in disappointment.

The little boy selling dolls?There are still four corpses hidden in the house?

It can be understood that when the little boy returns home, the four dolls in the family will become just like the four people to create a false impression that nothing happened to the little boy, but why does the manipulator behind the scenes have such a little boy?

Or is this little boy actually the manipulator?

No, the manipulator is not human, and this little boy has been just a normal little boy for eight years.

It can also be considered that the little boy is dead and the guy selling the dolls is a puppet.But what reason does the controller have to create the illusion that the family of four and the boy are still alive and in harmony?

Are you trying to hide something?

—Hide yourself?

A little boy, coming out so late alone to sell dolls?Little boy selling puppets?Or a homemade Muppet?

If his calculations were correct, he should be able to see the news of the new viscera missing victim on the local TV station tomorrow.Emiya Kiritsugu turned around and walked back.Next, he has to face the unknown Kotomine Kirei. However, that guy should not express any negative attitude towards his installation of the bug for the time being. They currently have a common enemy that needs to be dealt with urgently.