Pendragon's Infinity Gauntlet

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But she's right here. If she wants to satisfy her curiosity, she can just ask directly. There's no need to guess like this.

"Assassin?"

Rin Tohsaka spoke tentatively, her beautiful blue-green eyes fixed on the spot where Pendragon had just stood, and she poked it with her finger.

So soft—

"Why are you poking my chest when I'm right here!"

"You have breasts?...Ah ha."

He glanced away, his eyes filled with deep pity, and unconsciously puffed out his rather full chest.

"Right! Is this your ability? Invisibility? Can it avoid the senses of other Servants?"

Suddenly realizing the crux of the problem, Rin Tohsaka continued poking at the air in front of her with her finger.

"Hiss! It hurts!"

The skin on the slender fingers was slightly sunken, forming neat teeth marks; it was obvious where the poke had been.

"This is not invisibility."

Pendragon bit the finger that was poking around, then spat it out and explained, "It's just a cognitive impairment."

Rin Tohsaka saw a silver ahoge suddenly emerge from the air in front of her, and then Pendragon's entire body reappeared in her sight from head to toe.

"I've always been here, but I've blocked your brains from recognizing me, filtering out my existence as useless information. It's similar to being invisible, just more sophisticated."

Pendragon's tone seemed to carry a hint of disdain, even though they were clearly just third-rate infiltration methods.

"Oh, so you mean they were already studying the human brain back then?"

Miss Rin's focus was on the wording Pendragon used in his explanation, and she suddenly became suspicious.

"When I signed the contract, I was given the basic common sense of this era."

Pendragon began to deceive.

"Really? But you don't even know about Dragon Ball..."

"Your tutor's time is almost up, so you'd better hurry if you don't want to be late."

"Hmph, I'll let you off the hook for now, you suspicious fellow."

Rin Tohsaka and her friends were surrounded by students heading towards the classroom, and everyone seemed to be walking in a hurry.

"Oh right, you can hide and follow me."

Rin Tohsaka glanced at Assassin, who was following beside her, and couldn't help but remind him.

"It's alright, only you can see me now."

This is where cognitive impairment is superior to invisibility; Pendragon uses the Mind Stone's power, making it incredibly easy for him to achieve this level of skill.

As they passed through the school's main gate, Pendragon and Rin were talking. Amidst the crowd hurrying towards their classrooms, Rin suddenly stopped.

"It's not just about the heaviness of the air. This is already protected by a barrier, isn't it?"

This slap in the face came too quickly. Just a few minutes ago at home, Miss Rin had clearly and confidently assured everyone that she would never encounter any other magicians at school.

Reality, however, delivered a harsh blow to her, slapping her in the face swiftly.

"Assassin..."

"Don't look at me, it's clearly because you planted too many flags and ruined yourself."

The open barrier made Rin, a magician, feel uncomfortable, but for Pendragon, it was just a gentle breeze.

P.S.: I've been waking up around 5 a.m. every morning since I moved here. I'm so tired. I need to start going to bed earlier. Goodnight.

Chapter 45 is very similar

Chapter 45

"It's just an unfinished barrier; is it about to be activated?"

"Completely an amateur. A barrier that makes others feel something is off is only third-rate. If you're going to do it, you have to hide it before it's finished to be first-rate."

Pendragon noncommittally shook the tuft of hair on his head, took out his book, glanced expressionlessly at the pig girl on the title page, and focused his attention on the novel itself.

"Whether it's first-rate or third-rate, it's none of my business. How dare they do such vulgar things on my turf? Needless to say, we have no choice but to take them down."

Miss Rin snorted and walked through the schoolyard.

Since she was a magician, she wasn't going to say anything nice. But Rin Tohsaka wouldn't be satisfied if she didn't give this guy with the barrier a proper welcome.

"The second to last row is by the window."

Pendragon noticed Rin's location and his ahoge (cowlick) twitched slightly as a sign of respect.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Rin Tohsaka stared at the blackboard, pretending to listen attentively to the lesson, but in reality, she was communicating with her mind through the connection between master and servant.

"nothing."

Pendragon sat by the window where Miss Rin was sitting, reading in the sun and quietly waiting for lunchtime.

Rin Tohsaka couldn't help but purse her lips at her Servant's indifferent attitude. Knowing what Pendragon was waiting for, she could already vaguely sense that her wallet had been emptied.

Well...

Considering the battles that might follow, this is not a place to be stingy. Only by feeding her can she unleash her full fighting power.

Consider this a necessary investment for the victory of this war. As a magician who can throw jewels to unleash magic, Lady Rin's most powerful move has always been something like "All or Nothing".

We've been preparing for this war for ten years; if we really go all out, we can overwhelm this guy!

With this in mind, Pendragon went up to the rooftop with her during lunchtime and received a large supply of sweets and telecommunications, which changed Pendragon's opinion of Rin's stinginess.

Little did they know, Miss Rin was also prepared to make her suffer the consequences, so how could she not care?

The day's classes have come to an end.

The students' shadows dwindled from the classrooms, and the school buildings gradually grew darker.

The sun is about to set.

As the red sun sets and night falls, even students who participated in club activities should leave campus.

"Let's begin, Assassin. First, we need to investigate the barrier. After we find out what kind of barrier it is, we'll decide whether to destroy it or leave it."

Rin Tohsaka looked at Pendragon, who, after finishing his dinner, was munching on cookies and other snacks, looking remarkably like a squirrel.

"……Oh."

Pendragon gave a mumbled reply, completely ignoring the look of someone who had been training him for a long time.

"By the way, Assassin."

"Ok?"

Rin Tohsaka, who had already started walking, suddenly stopped and turned to look at the expressionless Pendragon.

"I'm more interested in your face than in probing the barrier."

"What's wrong with you today? Why are you suddenly saying this?"

"Can I take my eyes off them?"

Rin Tohsaka's eyes held a hint of uncertainty.

"sure."

Pendragon closed her eyes indifferently; even if she lost her sight, she wouldn't eat the biscuit up her nose.

"Eh?"

Miss Rin was stunned for a moment. So she did it herself?

Pendragon felt a lightness on the bridge of her nose as Rin removed the glasses that gave her a scholarly air.

"Indeed, you two are very similar."

"Huh? Who do I look like?"

Pendragon crunched on a biscuit, then asked with his eyes closed.

"Is such a pretty face really yours?"

"Of course it's mine!"

Pendragon slapped away Rin Tohsaka's hand that was pinching his face and made her put his glasses on for him.

"By the way, who did you just say I look a lot like?"

Pendragon is quite concerned about this. Could it be that Rin Tohsaka has seen Saber's face elsewhere?

"It's nothing, just an ordinary person who has nothing to do with us, don't worry about him."

Rin Tohsaka said this as she walked ahead through the quiet school building.

"The so-called barrier refers to the guardian of the spellcaster. It should be described as a terrain magic that uses a net woven with magic to spread across the land and manipulates the terrain within it."

"The effects within a barrier vary greatly, ranging from obscuring barriers that prevent others from seeing the area within the barrier, to things that restrict magic within the barrier, there are all sorts of them."

"Some of these are offensive barriers that suppress life activities within them; the barriers erected in the school are of that type."

"Although it's not finished yet, once it is, everyone in the school will faint. Only Servants and magicians like me with magical energy flowing through their bodies will be unaffected."

As expected of Rin, without being spoiled, she deduced the general effect of the barrier simply by observing the unusual flow of magic in the air.

"So, this barrier has another purpose. Although we don't know who set up the barrier at the school, it's hard to believe that the guy's goal wasn't to defeat the master. It's hard to believe that the guy targeted everyone in the school."

While clearing the inscription nodes that set up the barrier, Rin Tohsaka was talking to Pendragon.

"It's unbelievable..."

Pendragon looked at Rin, who was removing the crest, with a strange gaze and said, "Using any means necessary to achieve one's goals is the proper style of a magician, isn't it?"

"In my opinion, using such methods is perfectly justifiable. But you, on the other hand, seem unprepared. Good people can't win wars, you know."

Rin Tohsaka frowned and glanced at Pendragon, whose expression remained indifferent.

Knowing that her servant was right, Rin felt uneasy for some reason, perhaps because her views were so different from her appearance.

However, she was still working hard to remove the barrier, ignoring this unpleasantness, and did not refute Pendragon's words.

After investigating one by one on campus, we finally arrived at the rooftop.

It was completely dark outside, and the clock struck eight after the six o'clock threshold.

At this point, only Pendragon and Rin Tohsaka remained at the school.

"—Is this the seventh one? This seems to be the starting point."

Mysterious markings were openly drawn on the roof of a school building. They were red and purple characters that only magicians could see, a form that Rin had never seen before, and the material used to carve them was something she had never heard of.

"This is a headache. This thing is beyond my control. Assassin, you've also realized the true nature of the barrier, haven't you?"

P.S.: Good night.

Chapter Forty-Six: Dorayaki

Chapter 46

"Once this barrier is activated, it will dissolve all the humans inside. This is a Blood Fortress that devours souls, dissolving the bodies of those within the barrier and forcibly collecting the overflowing souls."

Rin Tohsaka said this in a emotionless voice, her expression turning stern.

"And when it comes to who would be so thirsty for a soul... well, that's the Servant."

"Assassins, is this what you are?"

Rin couldn't help but ask in a cold voice.

"I'm not Lucifer, what do I need a soul for? Sweets are enough for me."

Pendragon rolled his eyes expressionlessly and continued, "The other Servants, just as you guessed, can gain magical reserves by consuming the spirits and souls of ordinary humans."

"Isn't the magic provided by the master enough?"

"It's not that it's not enough, but who would complain about having too much good stuff? Isn't it basic practice for a master to steal magic from the humans around them?"