Chapter 1042: Agent Nine of Quasi Cipher Pol

Fate Bubble,

Tohsaka Mansion

On a large king-sized bed, early in the morning, four girls squirmed under a common bed sheet.

Rin was drooling as she lay on one side, her arm and leg wrapped around Illya’s soft, pale white body. Sakura breathed softly on the opposite edge of the bed, her cheeks carrying a rosy blush.

And pressed between Illya and Sakura was a small girl who looked no older than 12, her arms and legs sprawled all over the bed.

With a magical blur, Rider and Medea appeared in the bedroom.

"If he were to know that this girl spends all her time sleeping like a log..." Medea shook her head, holding her face. "Touko Aozaki would leave in a few days, and she’s here... instead of using every last second to learn more."

Rider looked at Sakura and smiled softly before her gaze landed on the girl Berserker’s Master, Black, had sent here—Tina.

She looked small.

She looked incredibly innocent.

However, even as a proper Servant, Rider felt... trepidation toward this girl’s existence. There was something about the girl that went beyond mere puppetry and skills of creating faux magical circuits. Something that would shadow her mindscape—the Mystic Eyes of Enchantment. Something... more than a mere human-android physiology. Something... demonic.

Rider just couldn’t put her finger on it. She was sure that Medea knew what made this girl so... capable of inducing dread in a Servant’s heart, but she would never tell her that.

Caster was already half lost in love, Rider knew.

The fact was, she couldn’t blame Caster when her own Master was in the same state.

Rin and Sakura still attended their classes, along with Shirou. Meanwhile, Medea took care of Tina’s magical studies, making sure the girl didn’t waste her time around the Puppeteer.

Touko Aozaki had arrived in the town only days after Berserker’s Master had left.

For a few weeks, the Magus hadn’t even approached them, knowing well that she and Medea had caught onto her presence.

Only later, after taking a full measure of Fuyuki’s ruined Leyline and Medea’s attempt to accelerate its recovery, did Touko come to the Tohsaka Mansion. To their surprise, she had readily agreed to help Illya get a proper body to house her soul... at a price, of course.

It was then that they had also learned that the Einzbern Head in Europe was already working on creating another Holy Grail War Ritual.

But that had nothing to do with them.

Not yet, at least.

"Let’s wake them up..." Rider suggested, giving up. "It’s school time."

...

At the same time, somewhere in Fuyuki, a figure appeared, seemingly melting out of space.

The moment it appeared, all the people stepped away from it, their faces scrunching up in surprise and disgust.

The figure belonged to a muscular, tall man.

That was the reason for surprise, because the muscles on this man went beyond what one could obtain naturally; every fold of skin on his stomach, biceps, and back seemed to be chiseled with a heavy hand. And... it was all out in the open.

The man was wearing only a white underwear, and nothing else, not even shoes.

He also had a white face mask, which strangely resembled pale skin, wrapped completely around his head. It had two big eyeholes for the man’s overly large eyes. There were lips on the mask itself as well—big, protruding, and exaggerated to the extreme. And, on the top of the head, the mask had a slit through which a tuft of black hair was protruding.

Overall, despite having an insane physique, the mask made the man look goofy, naive, and almost cartoonish.

The reason for disgust was neither the lack of clothes nor the goofy mask, though.

It was the detail on his white underwear that kept attracting eyes from everyone, away from his muscles.

The number 9 was flashing there in a multitude of colors, pulsating rhythmically.

He was Agent Nine of Quasi Cipher Pol — Code Name: Kid!

A woman passed by him, her lips twisting at the number 9 on his underwear.

"I am longer than that," Kid clarified, making the woman inch away and call him a pervert.

As other people began openly discussing him, mentioning calling the police, Kid scratched his head and walked away.

After many hours, when it was almost evening, Kid reached the outskirts of Fuyuki City, feeling hungry.

In front of him towered a magnificent castle, spanning across the top of an entire hill.

"Ah, hello..." Kid said aloud, stopping a few hundred feet away from the Einzbern Castle. "Can you hand over someone named Old Sage?"

For a while, nothing but silence lingered around the castle.

Then, the Castle’s main gate opened, and a red-haired woman, wearing a white shirt and black pants, walked out, stopping just outside the gate.

"My-my..." Touko Aozaki gasped aloud, grinning ear to ear. "I was about to leave and miss the fun part, it seems, huh?"

Touko’s eyes moved up and down, measuring Kid’s appearance.

Her gaze finally rested on the white underwear, with the number 9 flashing on it.

"I am longer than that," Kid pointed out.

Touko grinned. "Are you now?" she chirped, taking out a cigarette. She lit it up, sucked on it, and blew out plumes of smoke. "I... don’t believe it. Take it off. Let me see the real thing."

"..." Kid scratched his head. "Alright..."

To Touko’s amazement, the masked man really took off his underwear before pulling it back up after letting her see it.

"... Haha!" Touko laughed, holding her stomach. "Hahaha... That was... surely something."

"Can you hand over Old Sage to me now?" Kid asked innocently.

Touko sucked deeply, finishing the cigarette in one breath before dropping the butt and squashing it under her feet. "Well..." She shook her head, turning around to go back. "If you can get past all the Bounded Fields, then you are welcome to try..."

"Alright."

Touko paused, a strange, unnerving feeling welling up in her heart for the first time.

When she looked over her shoulder, she found the masked man’s figure surrounded by an energy, as if he was burning with unseen flames, his short hair coming out of the mask flailing without wind.

Then, Kid pulled back his arm, the muscles on his entire body squirming.

Ultimate Muscle —

A strange mark appeared on Kid’s masked forehead.

Touko’s eyes widened to the extreme. "Medea!" she screamed, taking out a strange box to unleash the demon it held within. "Ru..."

She never got to finish the word.

— Fist of Champions!

Kid punched and, with a RUMBLE, all the Bounded Fields, the Castle, the Hill, and the forest behind it...

... disappeared.

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