The sound came from the direction of the Corrupted Holy Grail.
Accompanied by a burst of sinister energy, an arm appeared in the air and grasped the Corrupted Holy Grail in its palm.
Only then did his appearance fully materialize.
He wore a red suit and was barefoot.
His face, like that of a crying woman, had only one enormous eye and a mouth without lips, while the area from his armpit to his forearm was covered in open, pupil-less eyes.
And those eyes were all fixed on Kisaragi Rin and the others.
"Look at this beautiful Holy Grail. The wickedness and despair of an entire world line are breeding within it."
"That guy Emiya made me wait for so long. I thought the plan had failed."
He stroked the Corrupted Holy Grail and said admiringly.
"Are you the Player who instigated Archer?"
Kisaragi Rin asked calmly.
Archer once said that he appeared in the Fourth Holy Grail War under the Saber Class to try and realize his wish because of a Player's instigation.
Eight months in the Main World is equivalent to about ten years in the Fate World.
For Archer to become like that, this Player must have put in considerable effort.
And a Player capable of doing such a thing surely wouldn't do something thankless and strenuous.
Although they had considered this possibility, they hadn't expected him to actually arrive at this moment.
"Instigation? Is that what he told you?"
He shook his head and said, "Clearly, that guy was crying and begging me to tell him how to save the world."
"Happiness? Salvation? It's amazing he would ask a Player such a question."
He reached his hand into the Corrupted Holy Grail, pulled out the last Dragon Ball from within, and threw it onto the ground.
It was this final move that allowed him to descend upon this world the moment the Corrupted Holy Grail completed the wish.
"As you can see, the final fruits of victory have been seized by me. Please, curse me to your heart's content."
"And I, I'm going home to show off my achievement."
His face was beaming with a smile, but he found that everyone was watching him with indifference.
Kisaragi Rin rolled up his sleeve, revealing the last two strokes of the Command Seal on the back of his hand and arm, and asked him, "Are you trying to lure us into attacking you?"
"I believe so," Shinomiya Kaguya explained. "Just like Yuusuke was punished by the Paradise for forcing his way into this world to hunt us, a reckless guy like this—even though he came here using his personal Ability—will incur a high penalty from the Paradise if he directly attacks us. That's why he is waiting for us to attack him first."
Yukinoshita Yukino: "Intentional harm versus mutual combat?"
Shinomiya Kaguya: "Something similar. These things must be judged based on the specific circumstances."
"So I was discovered."
Listening to Shinomiya Kaguya's explanation, a hint of melancholy appeared on his face.
"Kids these days are truly troublesome. I remember Players from my generation—if they saw an enemy, they'd just go up and chop them first."
He placed the Corrupted Holy Grail he was holding onto the ground, then raised his arm vertically in a gesture of encouragement to himself. After doing this, his face gained a hint of mockery.
"Children, I apologize."
"It was already rude of me to take your reward, but now I must ruthlessly suppress and kill you in this place."
"The reason why is something you don't need to know."
"After all... the strong killing the weak doesn't require a reason, does it?"
Even if you don't make the first move, I will bear the penalty and kill you here.
Hearing the opponent's meaning, Shinomiya Kaguya and Yukinoshita Yukino both knew they had gotten themselves into trouble.
Shinomiya Kaguya was just about to step forward and announce her family name when Kisaragi Rin grabbed her hand.
"It's useless." Kisaragi shook his head.
If he didn't want word of this incident to spread, a prominent background would only intensify his murderous intent.
Furthermore... murderous intent?
Kisaragi Rin happened to have some, too.
Today was his third day in the Fate World.
Compared to the previous two worlds, Kisaragi Rin was already feeling a trace of exhaustion.
Whether it was the Corrupted Holy Grail created by Archer, or the Starving Ghost and Evil God released by Yuusuke, event after event piled up like a bus overloaded with people. Now that it was finally about to end, you suddenly pop out from some corner and declare, "I am the winner, and now I'm going to kill you while I'm at it"?
You guys who just can't settle down.
You truly provoke murderous intent.
"What you said is very true. I happen to have the same idea," Kisaragi Rin whispered.
"Pfft."
Looking at the serious expression on Kisaragi Rin's face, the man's mouth curved into an exaggerated arc.
"Seriously, what kind of strength do you have?"
Glancing over the women behind Kisaragi Rin, he curled his lips into another smile: "I suddenly want to play a game. You are the only man here, so why don't you decide the order in which I torture and kill them?"
Kisaragi Rin ignored him with a cold gaze, merely reaching into the Workshop and pulling out the talking book.
"It's you again! Go die!"
"Shut up. If you can't do it, you can go back to the Workshop and eat kitchen scraps for the rest of your life."
This book with the special prefix had already yielded some research results in the Workshop.
There was only one effect: Summoning!
Compared to the Noble Phantasm effect that previously could only summon Marine Demons from the Fate World, the specialty of this guy was that it was no longer limited to a single world.
The R'lyeh Text shut up. Under the mocking gaze of the Red Suit, Kisaragi pulled out two more items.
A partially missing Deer Antler.
And a Deer Cracker.
The two items were so ordinary that Yukinoshita Yukino, who had thought Kisaragi Rin had a plan, began to worry again.
And Kisaragi Rin had already begun chanting.
"Using the Deer Antler as a beacon, and the Deer Cracker as an offering!"
"I summon you."
"Strange creature wandering the streets of Chiba."
"The uncrowned king of the zoo."
"The deity existing between full sugar and half sugar."
Kisaragi Rin raised the Deer Cracker high and violently stuffed the Deer Antler into the large mouth of the R'lyeh Text.
"What the hell is that?"
He was initially startled by the three-part Honored Name Kisaragi Rin chanted. Only true deities could respond to such an Honored Name across worlds, but after hearing the content of the name, he felt something was wrong.
Forget existing between full sugar and half sugar—even full sugar shouldn't use this kind of Honored Name, right?
But at this moment, the R'lyeh Text began to tremble, spitting out everything it had consumed in the Workshop as if suffering morning sickness!
Bricks, seafood, dirt... Then, he suddenly realized that an extra life signature had appeared at the scene.
"Awoo."
A Deer-Antlered Girl wearing a blue and white sailor school uniform bit into the Deer Cracker in Kisaragi Rin's hand!
Seeing her truly appear, Kisaragi Rin finally relaxed and spoke the last sentence:
"Summoning, Shikanoko!"