Although she dealt some damage to the enemy in front of her, the not-so-invincible Herrscher of Thunder still fell just like that.
Ah, when did blood start spurting again... speaking of which, my physical constitution is so much better than before, why does it still end up like this every time I finish using [Ittou Shura]?
Truly baffling.
[Spirit Command: Guts—Activate.]
Use [Guts] to repair the injuries first, otherwise it would be awkward if I got decomposed by the decomposition effect at the final step.
At the same time, sensing the power on Raiden Mei fading away, Aaron tentatively confirmed that the Herrscher of Thunder was likely out for the count.
Of course, he still had to guard against this woman suddenly pulling a sneak attack.
Although she wasn't this kind of personality in the original work, this crazy woman had been beaten by Aaron twice now; god knows if there would be any changes in her personality.
It's the final step; safety first, safety first.
Failing at the last step would be too laughable.
Then, as per routine...
System, you there?
After waiting for three seconds, Aaron's face suddenly went cold.
No reaction from the System meant there were still fearless bastards nearby wanting to drag him into combat.
It had only been a minute since he engaged the Herrscher of Thunder. With the Counter Force's efficiency, dispatching Heroic Spirits to clean up the scene within a few minutes... shouldn't be possible.
And why suspect the Counter Force anyway? Among the seven Servants in this Holy Grail War, besides Raiden Mei, this unqualified Caster, there was still one Servant who hadn't kicked the bucket.
"Tokiomi Tohsaka, you're spying on me, aren't you."
Using magnetic force to diffuse his voice over a small area around him, Aaron spoke with utter indifference.
"Since it's come to this, you should know very well that those inferior Servants in your hand can't beat me. Now, obediently have them roll over here and let me kill them. Otherwise, taking revenge on you would be quite easy—don't forget, I'm not a Servant. I have plenty of time."
Squatting in a corner, Tokiomi Tohsaka froze on the spot after hearing these words through his familiar.
Perhaps because Aaron's pressure had been too strong from the start of the Holy Grail War until now, even though Tokiomi knew the opponent's identity was Caster's Master, not Caster herself, he still harbored an illusion.
This guy is so strong he must be a Servant.
It wasn't until just now that he dazedly realized this subconscious thought had never dissipated.
If this guy were a Servant, Tokiomi could hide for a bit to avoid the pursuit, and with Hassan's clone tactics, he'd feel he had a tiny chance.
But considering this guy was a Master, and a Master who could slaughter Servants at will, then now...
For a Holy Grail War with almost zero chance left, was it really worth offending such a terrifying magus?
In this moment, Tokiomi thought a lot.
The family's long-cherished wish, his wife, his daughter, and the disciple and old friend who trusted him...
Although Tokiomi wasn't that kind of ordinary magus, as a magus, he knew very well just how low the moral baseline of the "magus" group could be.
If he continued to anger the opponent, and the opponent was that kind of ordinary magus with no bottom line, then he and his family might live in nightmares and fear caused by him for the rest of their lives... And that would be a good scenario.
The reality was more likely—this terrifying guy would hunt down Tokiomi's family directly, putting his disciple, friend, daughter, and wife all in danger.
In this moment, Tokiomi Tohsaka, hiding in the dark, made a decisive decision.
"By the name of the Command Spell, I order you: Remaining Assassins, go before Caster's Master and commit suicide."
"By the name of the Command Spell, I order you: Go there immediately now. You are forbidden from attacking me during this period."
Tokiomi had already used one Command Spell earlier when ordering those assassins to feed themselves to the enemy.
And now, Tokiomi, who should have kept one Command Spell, finally decided to use another.
Although Hundred Personas Hassan didn't have Magic Resistance, they inevitably harbored dissatisfaction from before. If he didn't apply a Command Spell now, while they probably still couldn't resist the order, they might delay for time because they didn't want to fade away.
And if they delayed, Caster's Master might misunderstand. If Tokiomi chose to bow his head but still got chased down over a thousand miles for such a reason, he felt it would be too unjust.
Sensing the killing intent from those Servants, Tokiomi, who had already smashed the pot because it was cracked (given up), manipulated the familiar to type out the sentence [Please Wait, Sir.] in front of Aaron, feeling as if all strength had been drained from his body.
According to Tokiomi's previous plan, he had obtained the strongest Servant, the supervisor was his man, and his disciple had secured a spot. In the end, it meant he had two Servants and an intelligence advantage.
Normally, as long as he played steadily, securing the Holy Grail would definitely be no problem.
But in the end, he just had to run into this mess.
And what was even more stifling—he looked back at what happened in the Holy Grail War and found no major issues with his operations.
When he didn't know Caster's Master was so capable of fighting, if he had used Command Spells recklessly, Gilgamesh would have inevitably killed him, the disrespectful subject.
Even with two Command Spells in hand, facing that incomparably arrogant Golden King, unless he used a Command Spell to make him commit suicide, Tokiomi couldn't handle him.
Under those circumstances, letting the Golden King go fight wasn't a problem, and Gilgamesh shouldn't have been slain so easily.
But who knew he would be careless in that situation!
That bastard waved himself to death (died from cockiness); what could Tokiomi do? He was desperate too, okay!
After the Servant died, Tokiomi, unable to transfer Servant control rights in time, ended up with only three new Command Spells.
Later, Rider and Saber's Masters joined forces with him under Risei Kotomine's 'introduction,' which indeed gave him a glimmer of hope for victory again.
But in the decisive battle, problems arose again.
He wanted to steal the base of that not-so-strong Caster, then feign exit, letting the remaining three Servants kill each other.
The result? The Assassins he sent out died, Rider and Saber vanished one after another, and in the end, Caster and her Master even turned on each other...
Everything was originally heading in a good direction, but in the end, he found that being on the right track was useless.
Caster's Master possessed sufficiently powerful strength and tactical thinking. Once this man appeared on the Holy Grail War battlefield, unless the remaining six Servants joined forces right at the start, only then might they stably kill this man.
But in a Holy Grail War full of deception, this was obviously impossible.
His existence determined that the victory of the Holy Grail War would only be seized by him. And now... Tokiomi could only pray the opponent kept his promise and didn't come to hunt down him, a pitiful loser, after taking the Holy Grail.
Seeing Tokiomi's familiar type out that sentence, Aaron first saw several Assassins 'whoosh' out around him and commit suicide in front of him.
"Um, wait, that's not right—didn't I tell you to send them over to be beaten to death by me? What are you doing making them commit suicide???"
Oh wait, Mei already solved more than half of the Assassins; the kill points should have been secured.
Never mind then.
Hearing Aaron's words, Tokiomi instantly shivered.
No, wasn't I saving you trouble by making Assassins commit suicide?
He actually wanted to do it himself? This guy... indeed worthy of being a powerful magus.
He won't use this as a reason to continue hunting me down, right???
As the Assassins committed suicide in front of Aaron one after another, Aaron, watching this scene, felt the image was incredibly bizarre.
After fighting so many opponents to the death, Aaron naturally wouldn't be scared by such a scene.
But the key was, this scene of Servants rushing to commit suicide in front of him... was very weird.
It was almost as weird as the scene where Makima activates her ability in Chainsaw Man.
But whatever, as long as the mission is complete, he couldn't be bothered to care about that.
After the Assassins all died before Aaron's eyes, Tokiomi's familiar exploded on the spot in front of Aaron, implying he had fulfilled the agreement.
Simultaneously, Aaron unsurprisingly heard the long-awaited notification sound.
[Main Mission 1—Victor of the Moon, Completed]
[Hidden Mission—Servant Killer, Current Progress: (3+3+3+3+3+3+1/???).]
[Ding! Detected Tester 233 completed the third stage of the Hidden Mission. Rewards will be issued after the mission progress update concludes and return to the original world.]
[Commencing teleportation. Both of you will be transported to the original world within three seconds.]
[Commencing repair of injuries on both parties.]
Glancing at the girl sleeping soundly in his arms, Aaron didn't know what to say.
Now that the Herrscher of Thunder was out for the count again, she should be quiet for a while.
But for Raiden Mei, who already knew there was another existence in her body, her mental state during this period...
Sigh, truly troublesome.
The injuries on her body would be repaired by the System after returning.
But the trauma deep in her heart wasn't so easy to clean up.
Because they were fighting the Holy Grail War, Raiden Mei didn't have time to think about so many things.
But she wasn't a fool. As long as she had time to calm down and think a little, she would discover how much harm was caused after her body was seized.
If Raiden Mei were a bitch... oh, if she were a bitch, Aaron wouldn't have bothered holding back and would have beaten her to death directly, saving the subsequent trouble.
A bitch would push the responsibility and sin onto others, but a kind-hearted girl would pile those sins that didn't belong to her onto her own head.
The Herrscher of Thunder would awaken sooner or later, but due to Cocolia's operations, the Herrscher of Thunder instantly took millions of lives in Nagazora City, a densely populated location.
If Raiden Mei discovered this... plus the fact that at the end of this Holy Grail War, she handed her body to the Herrscher of Thunder to defeat Rider, causing trouble for him in the end—the situation wouldn't be good.
Two happy things overlapping yield a dream-like happiness.
But when these two clearly unhappy things overlap, what it brings is a doubled internal burden.
Considering Kiana's side in the future, this phenomenon would be even more severe.
Sigh, should I start studying psychology?
[Detected Tester 233 and Raiden Mei completed the dungeon, returning smoothly to the original world...]
[Mental connection, disconnecting here.]
Hearing the subsequent notification, Aaron suddenly sensed something through his operating magnetic force.
Raiden Mei had regained her consciousness.
However, in the next instant, he felt himself transported back to the world of Honkai.
[Ding! Detected Tester 233 returned normally to the world prior to entering the dungeon. Calculating rewards.]
Wait, I have a question.
That final +1 in the Hidden Mission... what exactly do you mean?
[What do I mean? This System simply calculated that kill point according to the rules. Just regrettably, according to the rules this time, even after you and Miss Mei killed six Servants, you couldn't reach the final stage of the Hidden Mission even with one extra point.]
Hidden Mission... there's a final stage to this?
[Tester 233, you already understand in your heart, why feign ignorance?]
[Whether it was killing Teigu users before, or the Servant Killer this time, in a sense, you missed some points that could be obtained but which this System does not recommend you obtain.]
...What do you mean by that?
[Very simple. Kiana Kaslana (K423) is undoubtedly a Teigu user, and Raiden Mei is a Servant in this System's judgment.]
[Having said this much, there's no need for this System to continue, right?]
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