The Matou Residence was finished.
It turned to ashes in the great fire.
Although fire trucks rushed to the scene immediately, for such an old wooden building, once the fire started, it wouldn’t take long to burn everything down.
Therefore, when the flames were finally extinguished, the Matou Residence had already turned into a pile of ruins.
However, as survivors of the Matou Family, neither Matou Tsuruno nor Matou Shinji felt any sadness; instead, both harbored a feeling of salvation and finally being free.
Among them, Matou Tsuruno, as the nominal head of the Matou Family, tried hard to appear very sad and lost.
It took him great effort to keep himself from smiling as he told the police that this was an accident, not an attack by anyone.
He claimed his father, Matou Zouken, accidentally started the fire, which ultimately led to the house burning down, and his father, Matou Zouken, also unfortunately perished in the blaze.
This was a sad event.
Anyway, that’s what Matou Tsuruno said.
Furthermore, with Matou Zouken gone, Matou Tsuruno became the true master of the Matou Family, and he displayed the demeanor expected of the head of an ancient family that had been passed down for hundreds of years on this land, handling the aftermath in an orderly fashion.
Hmm, Matou Tsuruno’s mood right now was completely like Light Yagami’s ‘can’t smile yet’ meme.
Although the entire Matou Residence was burned down, leaving nothing valuable, Matou Tsuruno actually had some private savings.
Moreover, the Matou Family’s land was still there, and they had quite a few other properties that were preserved.
Even if property deeds and such were burned, with the Matou Family’s connections and influence, it would be easy to get them reissued.
As long as he sold these things, Matou Tsuruno could immediately get a huge sum of money.
With initial capital, Matou Tsuruno was confident he could quickly earn enough money—in business, his talent was quite high.
Before his wife was murdered, he was a successful businessman; it was all because of his scoundrel father, Matou Zouken, that he chose to fall into depravity.
Now, the greatest evil of the Matou Family, Matou Zouken, had been destroyed, and he could naturally take his son, Matou Shinji, and start their new life unburdened.
Moreover, his son, Shinji, was not affected by tonight’s attack; instead, he looked very excited, with a light in his eyes, which was clearly how a boy would look after seeing a superhero truly descend and save him.
This was something Matou Tsuruno had imagined as a child but had never seen happen.
But it didn’t matter, because the superhero finally arrived, delivered a fatal blow to that old geezer Matou Zouken, and saved them, father and son, and that was enough.
Hmm, he could also try to contact his younger brother, Kariya Matou, who had been away from home for a long time.
At least he had to tell Kariya this good news of a kind father and filial son, and also reunite with his brother after many years.
The more he thought about it, the more Matou Tsuruno felt he couldn’t suppress the corners of his mouth, and his art style was gradually changing, almost turning into a suppressed smile meme from a Hong Kong comic.
Meanwhile, Kirei Kotomine had also returned to the Church.
Although he had been burned, he was only slightly dirty.
After Lynch left the Matou Family, he also rushed out of the fire immediately.
Afterward, Kirei Kotomine first inquired about the Matou father and son’s situation.
After receiving deliberately concealed information from the two, he didn’t say much and returned directly to the Church, primarily acting as someone with low emotional intelligence and unfamiliar with the Matou Family.
After Kirei Kotomine informed his father, Risei Kotomine, of what he knew, Risei Kotomine frowned and fell into thought.
It was clear that he took it very seriously and cared a lot, after all, a man of steel with a full sense of science fiction was too futuristic for this era, and Risei Kotomine was still blind, making it even harder for him to imagine such a scene.
Ultimately, Risei Kotomine felt this was too overpowered and beyond his comprehension, so he simultaneously reported the information to his superiors at the Church and asked Kirei Kotomine to convey it to his teacher, Tohsaka Tokiomi.
Because Tohsaka Tokiomi was currently in Northern Europe, by the time he learned of it, it was already three hours later.
Immediately, Tohsaka Tokiomi was first bewildered, then fell into deep thought.
Yes, although he hadn’t seen the scene and didn’t know what it looked like, Tohsaka Tokiomi immediately thought of who had attacked the Matou Residence.
“Only the Matou elder, no, Matou Zouken, was killed, but Matou Tsuruno and Matou Shinji are fine, and the entire Matou Residence turned to ashes in the flames, and all of this was done by a red Iron Man.”
“So that’s it, it’s you.
But why would you do this?
Although Matou Zouken tried to harm Sakura, nothing ultimately happened; we didn’t let his plan succeed.”
“If that’s the case, why attack the Matou Family?
Wouldn’t it be better to directly demand compensation from the Matou Family to the Tohsaka Family?”
Tohsaka Tokiomi muttered, his brows furrowing.
He thought of ‘Iron Man Tokiomi’ and understood the other party had a reason to act, but he strongly disagreed with such extreme methods.
After all, Tohsaka Tokiomi was always a Magus, and a Magus whose life trajectory was quite good, with his own set of principles for doing things.
When encountering various matters, as long as they didn’t involve fundamental issues, he wouldn’t go to extremes, but would prioritize benefits and losses.
Of course, also because of his ‘upholding elegance’ minor noble mentality, Tohsaka Tokiomi had never considered that there was a type of behavior called ‘confuse you, kill you, everything is mine’.
After this, Tohsaka Tokiomi temporarily put the matter aside, planning to directly ask ‘Iron Man Tokiomi’ about the situation when he reappeared.
For now, discussing the adoption of his daughter into the Edelfelt Family was more important, and progress was already quite good.
The current head of the Edelfelt Family was very interested in adopting a daughter from the Tohsaka Family into his own.
In fact, after some contact with Tohsaka Tokiomi, the head of the Edelfelt Family had already decided to personally travel to Fuyuki City to see for himself if Tohsaka Tokiomi’s second daughter truly possessed extremely excellent magical aptitude, as he claimed.
If there wasn’t much exaggeration, the head of the Edelfelt Family would directly conclude a partnership with Tohsaka Tokiomi there, and then, upon returning, bring Tohsaka Sakura back to the Edelfelt Family and raise her as a family heir.
Undoubtedly, such a result made Tohsaka Tokiomi very happy.
While relieved, he became even more convinced of what that arrogant ‘himself’ who had also gone down the path of technological evil had said.
On the other side, Lynch, whom Tohsaka Tokiomi believed in, had returned to his original state after time rewound to shortly after the Matou Residence was attacked, and Lynch returned to Miyako City, teleporting back to his hotel room via ‘Iron Man Tokiomi’s’ teleportation spell.
Then, just as Lynch was about to tally the gains from this round of robbing the Matou Family and incidentally exterminating pests, he suddenly felt a burning, stinging sensation on the back of his right hand, which then disappeared.
This made Lynch confused.
He looked down and found that a shield-shaped red mark had appeared on the back of his hand.
It was precisely the symbol of a Holy Grail War participant—command spells!
“Huh?
I became a master?”
Lynch looked bewildered.
Clearly, this development was completely unexpected for him.