Gentleman's Night Canteen

At the same time, there is no unnecessary nonsense in the friendship between men and men. The two simply shook hands and then separated.

Perhaps because of a certain emotional foundation, Lan Meng also directly expressed his biggest doubt in his heart.

"Shirou, your name should be Emiya Shirou, right?"

Lan Meng's words made Emiya Shirou stunned unconsciously, and then he showed a wry smile.

"Mr. Store Manager, when did you find out?"

Although he didn't answer directly, his rhetorical question can be regarded as the answer from a certain point of view, and Lan Meng didn't hide his doubts either.

"Found it after eating the tempura you made."

This answer was undoubtedly beyond Emiya Shirou's expectations, but he soon realized that it didn't matter at all.

There was a strange silence between the two, but the three people outside the kitchen door widened their eyes because of the two people's endless words.

Merlin looked at Emiya Kiritsugu with a subtle expression.

Obviously, Emiya Kiritsugu, who looks only in his early twenties, and Emiya Shirou, who looks at least 45+, have similar surnames, which makes Merlin, who always likes to make trouble, have some subtle associations, and facing each other's subtle Emiya Kiritsugu really wanted to slap the other party directly and tell the other party 'that black-skinned and white-haired man is not my father! '

But at the same time, Emiya Kiritsugu couldn't help but have some strange guesses.

Could it be that the other party is his relative?

Thinking of the behavior of the other party reporting his name in the first bite, this consideration seems to be quite reasonable. If they are really relatives, then it is not surprising that the other party will pay attention to his news.

Just as a few people outside the kitchen were thinking wildly, Lan Meng on the other side broke the silence between himself and Shirou Emiya again.

"Shirou, I think I probably know what the question you want to ask is?"

What else could Emiya Shirou say about Aimeng's words besides a wry smile, but since Aimeng knows his identity and Kiritsugu's name, it seems not surprising to have some bold guesses. Deliberately shutting down but opening his mouth again.

"This store is very special, and the customers I receive are also special. They come from different worlds...maybe including time."

Lan Meng told the other party the answer without hesitation, but before revealing the answer, he glanced at the kitchen door and then deliberately lowered his voice.

The reason for doing this is because what he said is related to his biggest secret.

But even so, he is still willing to tell Emiya Shirou not only because his "mission" has officially ended with the handshake of the two just now, and he can receive his own rewards, which caused him to reciprocate, but also because the other party's cooking made Lanmeng conscious. The man in front of me is trustworthy.

Emiya Shirou's pupils shrank suddenly as Lan Meng's voice fell.

Although he had already had some guesses before that, the announced answer still shocked him.

Unlike ten years ago when he knew nothing about the magician's world, now he is very aware that there are existences called "magicians" in the magician's world. They manipulate the apex of magic and turn the impossible into possible Miracle 'magic'.

Among them, Rin's teacher when he was training in the clock tower is said to be the legendary owner of the second method, "Marshal of Magic".

But even the other party is said to be only the owner's ability to travel through parallel worlds, but Lan Meng's store actually has the ability to connect different worlds, and even time.

But in the end, thousands of thoughts in my heart just turned into one sentence.

"Mr. Store Manager, it's better not to say such things in the future."

Faced with Shirou Emiya's persuasion, Lan Meng smiled happily.

"I wouldn't tell other people this casually. As for you, Shirou, I think you are trustworthy."

Although the two recognized each other through cooking before, hearing Lan Meng's words at this time still made him feel his heart speed up by two points unconsciously.

This unabashed trust is really... overwhelmed.

But then he suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, Mr. Store Manager..."

"Just call my name 'Lanmeng'."

"Okay, Lan Meng, so according to your statement, can guests from different places leave together?"

Just as Lan Meng noticed Arturia and the others outside the kitchen, Emiya Shiro naturally noticed the same, so he deliberately avoided some key points when speaking, but Lan Meng, who knew everything, still understood what he meant.

'Can a guest travel through another guest's world with the help of this store'

Lan Meng shook his head at this.

Seeing this, Emiya Shirou couldn't help being a little disappointed, but Lan Meng's subsequent words rekindled his hope.

"Sorry, I haven't tried it."

Although I didn't get the answer I wanted, it also represented a possibility from a certain perspective.

Of course, this possibility also represents danger, but thinking of the sad purple in his memory, he finally made up his mind.

"Lanmeng...I want to try."

"..."

Regarding Emiya Shirou's statement, Lan Meng was silent, and finally he nodded with a serious expression when he hit you.

Emiya Shiro, who got Blue Dream's consent, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The two left the kitchen together, and it was no surprise that Emiya Kiritsugu was looking at Emiya Shirou with a complicated expression at this time, as if planning to say something.

On the other hand, Merlin looked at Emiya Kiritsugu and Emiya Shirou with bright eyes, as if expecting someone to call each other 'Daddy'.

However, one of them couldn't shout, and the other wanted to help Lan Meng hide the secret, but at the same time, he didn't plan to shout because he thought it was inappropriate, so he spoke after thinking about it.

"We do have some origins, but we are not related by blood."

What Emiya Shirou said made Emiya Kiritsugu instinctively heaved a sigh of relief.

After all, 'family' is a very special term for him.

He was eager and afraid at the same time, after all, his father's death had a direct relationship with him.

He was really afraid that the other party would say 'I am your uncle/uncle'. If he talked about his father, what should he say?

But just as he was trying to digest Emiya Shirou's words, what the other party said next surprised him secretly.

"Do you know the 'Holy Grail War'?"

How did the other party know that he was looking for clues to the 'Holy Grail War'?

Obviously, it hasn't been long since I heard the news, and I'm still in the stage of intelligence collection.

At this time, Emiya Kiritsugu no longer considered the issue of seniority between the two of them, his pupils narrowed slightly and he watched Emiya Shirou remain silent...

Chapter 32 This generation... is messed up (5/?)

Emiya Shirou confirmed Emiya Kiritsugu's identity because of Lan Meng's words, but at the same time, because the other party was too young, Emiya Shirou couldn't confirm what period the other party was in for a while.

If the other party didn't know about the Holy Grail War at all, then no matter how much he said, he was just playing the piano, but looking at Emiya Kiritsugu's reaction now, he at least confirmed one thing, that is, the other party at least knew about the 'Holy Grail War'.

It is self-evident that Emiya Kiritsugu was nervous when someone broke his mind suddenly, but he soon calmed down.

He doesn't know the secret of this store, and naturally he can't guess that Emiya Shiro is actually from the Middle East more than 20 years ago. In his opinion, since he was investigating information in Fuyuki City, the magician he met was either a local. , or an out-of-town magician who has an idea here.

Naturally, it is impossible for the magicians in Fuyuki City not to know about the 'Holy Grail War', and the reason why magicians from other places are interested in this small place is also self-evident.

Facing Emiya Kiritsugu's vigilant and aggressive gaze like a wounded animal, Emiya Shirou couldn't help but sigh for a moment.

Although he had already learned from various materials how terrifying his adoptive father was in his peak period, he only realized that the original materials did not fully describe him until he actually faced the other party.

But after sighing, he took the initiative to solve the misunderstanding.

"No need to be vigilant, I am not interested in the Holy Grail War, because not only have I participated in it, I even won the victory and witnessed the 'Holy Grail' coming."

Emiya Shirou's words made Emiya Kiritsugu frown.

He did not think of this possibility. After all, according to the information he found, the Holy Grail War seems to be held every 60 years. Now it has been 50 years since the end of the last Holy Grail War, which means that the opponent's age is at least 60. +

Originally, I thought the other party was only about 50 years old, but I didn't expect the other party to be 60 or even 70 years old.

A certain cook who was obviously under 30 years old but was mistaken for 50 years old, and now he is mistaken for 70 years old, intended to hide his identity, so even if he knew that Emiya Kiritsugu was thinking wildly, he didn't deliberately point it out, but chose If he made a mistake, he continued on.

"The Holy Grail War is not what you imagined. In the final analysis, it is just a magical aggregate that gathers a lot of magic power, not to mention that it is just the Holy Grail under normal circumstances..."

Emiya Shirou couldn't help showing a slightly mocking smile when he said this.

I just don't know whether this ridicule is mocking the founders of the three royal families who created the magic ceremony of the Holy Grail War, or the Einzbern family who cheated in order to win and caused the magic ceremony of the Holy Grail War to completely go out of control.

It is self-evident that Emiya Kiritsugu attaches great importance to the Holy Grail War, otherwise he would not have come to Fuyuki City alone to investigate.

Now I suddenly met a man who claimed to be the winner of the Holy Grail War... Master, after thinking for a moment, he couldn't help asking questions.

"What do you mean the Holy Grail War is not what I imagined?"

"It's very simple. The magic ceremony of the Holy Grail War was a scam from the very beginning. Its creators have their own ulterior motives. The Einzbern family tried to meddle in 'magic' to materialize the soul, and the Matou family tried to Taking the magical power gathered through the ceremony as their own to achieve eternal life, the Tohsaka family plans to use the chance of returning to the Hall of Valor to return to the Hall of Valor with the help of the Servant, the remains of the heroic spirit summoned by the Holy Grail War... And it has been held for three times so far, and it has never been successful. .”

After the end of the Holy Grail War, Tohsaka Rin, who was a descendant of the Fuyuki City manager, tried to destroy the "Holy Grail War", which gave birth to countless tragedies. With little help, he naturally knew about these materials, and his expression was extremely complicated when he said it at this time.

After all, it was because of this crazy magic ritual that he lost his biological parents, his adoptive parents, his sister, and the people who once loved him...

Emiya Shiro fell into silence after he finished speaking, but his silence made people trust what he said more, because the sadness emanating from the other party was too strong at this time.

It's just that Emiya Kiritsugu was keenly aware of the contradictions in Emiya Shirou's words.

"Wait? Shirou... Uncle, you said that no one has ever succeeded, but didn't you just say that you have won and seen the Holy Grail yourself?"

Perhaps because of trying to obtain more information from Emiya Shirou, Emiya Kiritsugu also called Emiya Shirou a little more intimately, but he didn't know that the expressions of Emiya Shirou and Aimong changed as soon as the words came out. very subtle.

After all, the two of them knew about the relationship between him and Emiya Shiro.

Lan Meng simply felt a little weird, but Emiya Shiro always felt that something was wrong when he was called an uncle by the young version of his adoptive father.

But fortunately, the issues he was talking about now were more serious, and he quickly put them behind him.

"It's very simple, even if I beat the other contestants and won the final victory and even saw the 'Holy Grail', it still can't be called a 'success', because after all, the 'Holy Grail War' is just three families of magicians. According to the theory devised magical rituals, and come to think of it, if the 'Holy Grail War' was really that magical, do you think the Clock Tower would be blind to it?"

Emiya Shiro sneered unconsciously when he said this.

"The seemingly magnificent clock tower is not as glamorous as it says it is."

Emiya Shirou's words were like a basin of cold water directly extinguishing Emiya Kiritsugu's fiery heart.

But Emiya Shiro didn't seem to intend to stop there.

"and also……"

and also?

Emiya Kiritsugu originally just wanted to collect some information, but now he suddenly felt that the information he had collected seemed a bit too much, but Emiya Shirou obviously would not stop there.

"I'm just talking about the 'Holy Grail' under normal circumstances. Although wishes cannot be fulfilled, it is still a huge collection of magic power, and it is still useful. However, in the third Holy Grail War, the Einzbern family wanted to win. After the failure of the original participant, the eighth servant 'Avenger' was illegally summoned. The opponent may not be strong in combat, but the malice after death has completely polluted the Holy Grail... Think about it, the magical power that has gathered a whole land for 60 years has been destroyed. What will be the impact once the pollution is released?"

Seeing Emiya Kiritsugu's increasingly ugly expression, Emiya Shirou directly revealed the answer.

"It's very simple, this land will be devastated..."

Compared with the previous words, Emiya Shirou's voice was very soft when he said this sentence, but even so it was still chilling.

Chapter 33 Regrets (6/?)

The 'Holy Grail War' is a relatively mysterious magic ceremony even in the world of magicians, and there is no detailed information even in the data of the clock tower.

Knowing its name is only because it was recorded in the notes of the previous assassination target.

The reason why he came to Fuyuki City to investigate the news is more based on the idea that whether there is a date or not, he will hit two shots.

It is best to have nature, if not there is nothing to do.

But he never dreamed that he would meet Emiya Shirou when he first came here, and the other party helped him confirm the rumors, and even told him countless secrets that even the Yusanjia didn't know.

The strong mental shock made him completely lose his voice.

It was not until a long time later that the language ability was completely and gradually restored.

"Thank you very much for your information...but I still need to determine the rest myself."

Emiya Kiritsugu's intuition told him that what Emiya Shirou said might be true, but he, who has always been independent, naturally couldn't give up just because of what the other party said, so he decided to continue to confirm the information.

Shirou Emiya was not surprised by this, because he knew what kind of person his adoptive father was.

But he suddenly remembered one thing.

"By the way, the matter of the Einzbern family summoning the eighth servant is very secretive. I am afraid that only their family has records. If you want to confirm this information, you must infiltrate the Einzbern family."

Regarding Emiya Shirou's kind reminder, Emiya Kiritsugu nodded and didn't say much.

Emiya Shiro didn't say anything after seeing this.

The reason why he deliberately mentioned the Einzbern family was because he suddenly remembered his adoptive mother and sister. He was a little worried that what he said would cause his adoptive father and adoptive mother to miss him or even cause his sister to disappear.

But at the same time, he knew that with the character of his adoptive father, if he spoke directly to the other party, he might be more cautious, so he simply made a detour.

If he remembered correctly, his adoptive father had accepted the employment of the Einzbern family before he became the current master.