Chapter 1651: Are You Sure?

Ryudo Temple is one of the famous attractions near Fuyuki City, usually managed by the Ryudo family, except during the Holy Grail War. Ryudo Ichin and Rin Tohsaka attend the same school, and their relationship is extremely bad. The former often calls Rin Tohsaka ‘female fox’.

Walking up the stone steps toward Ryudo Temple, Rin Tohsaka was in a good mood because she finally had the chance to take action. As for Illya, she kept staring at Su Xia, looking as though she might rush forward and bite him at any moment, but she didn’t have the habit of courting death.

Bu Wang’s steps were very brisk, jumping five or six stone steps at a time, but its expression quickly dropped as it remembered its past companions, Resentment Creature Flat Head Brother, but unfortunately, Flat Head Brother was no longer in this world.

Soon, Su Xiao saw Ryudo Temple built on the mountain top, where it was pitch black inside, vaguely sensing the fluctuation of magic power.

Su Xiao just arrived at the temple gates of Ryudo Temple when a figure gradually manifested into solid form. This person had blue ponytails and carried a sword without a hand guard nearly one and a half meters long in his arms. If the figure wasn’t tall enough, they wouldn’t be able to wield such a weapon.

The revealed Heroic Spirit was named Kojiro Sasaki, and the sword in his arms was named Monogatari.

“Is this our next opponent?”

Rin Tohsaka saw Kojiro Sasaki appear, and she took a few steps back.

“Your next enemy is the enemy’s Heroic Spirit, named Medea, in the caster class. You can hold her off.”

“No way, you want me to take on the enemy’s Heroic Spirit? I’m a Master, I should be dealing with the enemy’s Master.”

Rin Tohsaka was obviously reluctant to deal with Meilodi, even if her strength had improved, she felt a bit unsure against Heroic Spirits.

“Are you sure?”

Su Xiao wore a gentle smile on his face.

“I…um~, I’m sure!”

“Alright, you’re responsible for Kuzuki Souichirou, A Mu will take care of Medea.”

“Leave it to me.”

Rin Tohsaka did not know that she actually chose the strongest; that Master’s close combat ability could confront the Saber class directly and managed to bewilder them, and as a People’s Teacher and Assassin, Kuzuki Souichirou became extremely fierce with the addition of magical power.

Kuzuki Souichirou’s faction was somewhat unique; the caster magician class Medea originally didn’t have Kuzuki Souichirou as her Master but another person.

Due to Medea’s character, her original Master died at her hands. Later, by chance, she met Kuzuki Souichirou, and because of Kuzuki Souichirou’s indifferent attitude towards life and death, they cooperated, and now Medea is utterly loyal to Kuzuki Souichirou, using her abilities to summon a false Assassin, Kojiro Sasaki.

This explains why Kuzuki Souichirou had two Heroic Spirits assisting; in fact, Medea as a Heroic Spirit was the true Master of the team, providing magical power to Kuzuki Souichirou and Kojiro Sasaki, both warrior types responsible for frontal combat.

A Mu and Rin Tohsaka walked past Kojiro Sasaki, who held a long sword but did not move. The swordsman’s intuition told him if he dared to be distracted now, the next moment he would be decapitated.

Clang.

Su Xiao drew the long knife from his waist and walked slowly upward along the stone steps. As the night wind blew, a few dry leaves flew up, and one dry leaf shattered in front of him.

Seeing this, Kojiro Sasaki walked down the stone steps, finally stopping on a two-meter-wide platform between the steps.

Kojiro Sasaki also drew the long sword Monogatari, casually tossing the scabbard aside.

“Although I am called nameless, my whole life is dedicated to the blade. This sword…is named Monogatari.”

Kojiro Sasaki spread his legs, lowering his center of gravity, and the nearly one and a half meter-long blade hovered beside his face.

Kojiro Sasaki’s expression was grim because he felt the oppression coming from Su Xiao, a feeling akin to an evil beast crouching, looking down at him from above, and he was not even as tall as the beast’s leg; their strength was not on the same level.

Yet, the corners of Kojiro Sasaki’s mouth turned up; summoned here without a mission, placed before Ryudo Temple’s gate as a ‘guard dog’.

Encountering a strong enemy like Su Xiao, Kojiro Sasaki not only lacked fear but even wanted to try and slice away something from the ‘evil beast’.

Su Xiao said nothing, as the ground beneath him cracked inch by inch, Blue Steel Shadow energy surged crazily upon the Dragon Slash.

“Secret Sword, Swallow Reversal.”

Kojiro Sasaki leaned forward, horizontally slashing with the long blade in his hand.

Buzz～

Su Xiao seemed to fall into darkness, a purple slash of light appeared, almost instantly dividing into three, gathering at a center point and coming at Su Xiao.

Su Xiao’s pupils quickly contracted; this was three blades slashed at the same time, a feat not achieved by speed alone but by realizing the ‘multiple-dimensional curvature phenomenon’, slashing three blades simultaneously; Su Xiao indeed could not achieve this.

The blade light from Swallow Reversal approached Su Xiao, but he had already slashed a sideways cut, neither ornate nor with a grand name, but the chilling sound of breaking wind was horrifying.

Clang.

A pale blue blade light streaked through the purple blade light of Swallow Reversal, penetrated Kojiro Sasaki’s body, sliced into the dense forest behind him, several trees fell, disappearing from sight.

Ding, the front half of Monogatari’s blade fell to the ground; Kojiro Sasaki scrutinized Su Xiao for slashing marks, finding none, he felt somewhat disappointed.

“How did you slash the Swallow Reversal?”

Kojiro Sasaki exhaled deeply as blood sprayed from his chest and abdomen, and with a broken knife in hand, he simply sat on the ground.

“The multiple-dimensional curvature phenomenon, in the end, is just a penetrative slash through dimensions or space; rather than slashing three blades simultaneously, you actually should understand it as having slashed one blade in different dimensions, finally folding them together in the same dimension. Although not difficult to understand, achieving it is as hard as reaching the sky; moreover, I only shattered two Swallow Reversal blades; indeed, the third cut injured me.”

Su Xiao raised his arm, showing the crystal layer shattered beneath, revealing blood stains.

“As expected, slashing you is harder than cutting down Fei Yan.”

Kojiro Sasaki’s words were just out as a large patch of blood soaked through his clothes, dripping from the corners of his mouth.

“That female fox is very unlucky.”

Kojiro Sasaki gradually dissipated, leaving a legendary treasure box on the ground. Kojiro Sasaki’s Heroic Spirit Attribute was not strong, among the lowest tier, but his technique was superior to 90% of Heroic Spirits, hence his treasure box is legendary level, the power of technique, achieving enlightenment with thought alone.

Su Xiao picked up the treasure box from the ground and walked into Ryudo Temple, which was now buzzing with activity.

Inside the courtyard of Ryudo Temple.

Bam!

Rin Tohsaka crashed into the wall, collapsing onto the ground to spit out blood, her face pained. Not far in front of her stood a man in a suit, dressed like a People’s Teacher, the man expressionless, fists tightly clenched with magical power flowing. He was Kuzuki Souichirou.

Rin Tohsaka gasped for breath, looked up at her opponent, the self-esteem of a fellow Master hurt as she was being thoroughly trounced, beaten into questioning her very existence.