In the dark sewer, the sound of dripping water was constant.
Sunny Boy was reading a book while carving something into the ground, and he had already reached the final step.
The pigment he used was the blood of the people he had previously murdered.
According to the book, summoning a demon required a magic circle composed of magical energy.
But he possessed no magical energy.
The book also stated that life force was equivalent to magical energy.
Children possessed extremely abundant life force.
That was why he kidnapped and murdered so many children, using their life force to carve the magic circle.
Furthermore, he intended to use the children as sacrifices for the summoned demon to feast upon.
After completing the final missing corner of the magic circle, Sunny Boy smiled and placed the bound Tohsaka Rin and several other children into the center of the circle.
He then walked to the edge of the magic circle and began to read aloud from what was written in the book.
Tohsaka Rin looked around and shouted, “Kotone! Wake up!”
Inside the magic circle, her little deskmate had already fallen unconscious, and she tried hard to wake her up.
Sunny Boy’s smile widened.
“Scream, scream louder. Let me see the look of fear on your faces once the demon appears.”
He continued to chant the incantation methodically.
However, he did not notice that Tohsaka Rin suddenly felt a pain in her arm.
Glancing over, she was shocked to discover several red stripes appearing on her hand.
The pattern looked similar to something she had seen on her father’s hand.
Was that something related to the Holy Grail War?
Tohsaka Rin remembered the day her father was going to send her and her mother to live in their house in Zenjou, when she had said she wanted to help him win the Holy Grail War.
At that time, her father just said that he couldn’t let her get into trouble, and it would be better for her to stay somewhere outside of Fuyuki City.
Now that this thing had appeared on her hand, did it mean she could really help her father?
Tohsaka Rin was happy for a moment, but then her face fell.
But she was currently in the hands of a perverted serial killer, and this thing couldn’t help her save the other children and escape successfully.
Sunny Boy was still chanting the incantation, and the magic circle had gradually begun to emit light.
Seeing this, his conviction to summon the demon grew stronger, and he chanted even more vigorously.
Finally, the light reached its peak and burst forth.
A blonde man, his upper body almost entirely bare, appeared at the edge of the magic circle.
“Huh?”
Sunny Boy felt extremely disappointed.
Is this what a demon looks like?
Is there any difference from a human?
“Caster (Mage), Gilgamesh. I ask you, are you the Mage who attempts to tarnish my brilliance…”
Before he could finish his question, Gilgamesh suddenly noticed Tohsaka Rin blinking her large eyes at him from the center of the magic circle.
“Why is it you, you useless goddess!” he exclaimed in disbelief.
“?” Tohsaka Rin looked confused.
“Nani?” Sunny Boy was also dumbfounded.
The next moment, Tohsaka Rin felt a trance, and her consciousness plunged into darkness.
Then, Tohsaka Rin discovered that she had lost control of her body.
Although she was still inside her own body, she could only observe the outside world from the perspective of a bystander.
Tohsaka Rin was confused again: “?”
The next moment, she heard a voice coming from her own mouth:
“What are you spouting, you useless King!”
“Kneel and apologize to me, and offer up three hundred… oh no, three thousand, thirty thousand gems! Then shout that you are forever submissive to me.”
“If you do that, I might reluctantly consider becoming your Master.”
“Otherwise…”
‘Ishtar Rin’ eyed Gilgamesh maliciously, then glanced at the three command spells on her hand.
“I will immediately use these three command spells to order you to do a handstand in the bathroom, strip off all your clothes and run wild in a crowd, and… I haven’t thought of the third one yet.”
“Oh well, never mind. Anyway, if you don’t give me gems… Hmph, hmph, hmph (.- ` ω ´ – ).”
Upon hearing this, Gilgamesh immediately burst into laughter, pointing his right hand at her, his body shaking uncontrollably.
“Do you really think I would willingly accept your threats and let you manipulate me?”
“At worst, I will just commit suicide; it’s merely a single Holy Grail War.”
Gilgamesh acted completely indifferent.
Sunny Boy: “…” Do you even see me here!
Furiously, he pulled out a dagger and lunged at Gilgamesh.
“Get lost. Why are you acting up? Is this a conversation a mongrel like you can interfere with?”
Gilgamesh casually pulled an axe from the Gate of Babylon and with a single swing, severed Sunny Boy’s dagger along with the boy himself.
The split-in-two Sunny Boy slowly lowered his head, looking at his body that was gradually dividing in half.
“So beautiful… So this is what I look like when I die…”
Sunny Boy’s two halves fell to the ground.
“Ew—it stinks to high heaven in here.”
“Forget it, I won’t hold it against you for now. Hurry up and send these human cubs away.”
“It is clearly I who am not holding it against you for now. As for sending these children away, that is something I should be saying.”
Gilgamesh then picked up several of the children and walked outside.
Tohsaka Rin breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Kotone had also been taken away.
‘Ishtar Rin’ felt that she had regained control of the body.
She was surprised that this weak human girl actually had the ability to resist her.
She could use her own will to influence her, making her possession unstable.
That’s right, at this moment, Tohsaka Rin was no longer the real Tohsaka Rin.
She had been possessed by the Venus Goddess, Ishtar.
However, she couldn’t be considered purely Ishtar, nor was she Tohsaka Rin.
Tohsaka Rin could rely on her own will to influence her, interfering with her behavior and thoughts.
The current Tohsaka Rin was in a superposition of the two.
Perhaps she could be called Ishtar Rin.
It was roughly 30% Tohsaka Rin and 70% Ishtar.
Gilgamesh was actually somewhat grateful that Ishtar had chosen Tohsaka Rin as her vessel; their compatibility was extremely high.
However, her personality was vastly different from the other’s, and due to her uniqueness, she was able to exert a certain influence on her.
If she had possessed someone else, she wouldn’t be a useless goddess, but a bastard goddess with an extremely vile personality, and she would be countless times harder to get along with than Ishtar Rin.
Although the useless goddess wasn’t much better, compared to the bastard goddess, she was definitely a significant improvement.
The bastard goddess would truly use a command spell to make him dance naked in the street…
In that case, he would really have to commit suicide the moment he arrived.
Otherwise, the dignity he had finally regained in his later years, after dying from overwork so many times, would be gone again.
However, if he committed suicide and let the bastard goddess fight the Holy Grail War herself, it wasn’t impossible for her to win, but it was highly likely she would make a complete mess of the Holy Grail War…
As for why he knew all this, it was, of course, because he kept Sha Naqba Imuru active at all times.
The Gilgamesh at this moment was the Wise King Gilgamesh from his later years.
Having successfully regained his dignity, even he looked down on his former self.
He knew that if this Holy Grail War had summoned his former self, it would likely have been the Archer class, which would be stronger than he was now.
But then again, while it was possible for Archer Gilgamesh to be stronger than Caster Gilgamesh, it was also possible that he wasn’t.
Moreover, this time, Sunny Boy had accidentally used Ishtar Rin as a catalyst.
It was impossible to summon Archer Gilgamesh.
Because in all likelihood, the moment he arrived, Archer Gilgamesh would go all out and start fighting with Ishtar, and they wouldn’t stop until one of them was dead.
Furthermore, the Archer class slot was already taken.
Of course, Gwyn was not the Archer.
So, who was it?