Ethan, still acting like an idler, deliberately went to the place where the magical fluctuation appeared to watch the excitement.

Seeing that residence, he knew the one performing the summoning was Rin Tohsaka, one of the heroines. After all, no one else's entrance was so grand, like falling into the house from high altitude.

Standing at an appropriate distance, he did not care if the other party discovered him. Ethan stood there excitedly watching the show.

Rin Tohsaka and her Servant's first meeting was quite lively, and Rin completing the summoning meant that the plot of this Holy Grail War had officially begun.

Now, only the protagonist, Shirou Emiya, had yet to complete his summoning, and that was about to happen.

"Should I go and see Artoria's appearance in person?"

While he was lost in thought, he did not notice the man and woman in the house slowly adjusting their positions. The newly arrived red-clad Servant, essentially a future version of Shirou Emiya, the Servant Archer, blocked Rin with his body.

"Oh? You noticed."

Ethan stood there, watching Red Archer turn his head slightly and cast a glance his way. Ethan smiled and waved at him, then left the area with a teleportation spell.

The plot had already begun. His next task was to quietly wait for the appearance of the Transmigrator. According to Madeleine, this Transmigrator was polluting this world, which meant he would affect the plot, so he would definitely participate in this Holy Grail War.

So he just had to wait and find some fun to pass the time.

For Ethan, the most troublesome thing was not the enemy's strength. The most troublesome thing was if the guy was too clear-headed. If he discovered Ethan's abnormal existence, he might hide elsewhere early to avoid this plot, and then it would be difficult for Ethan to find an ordinary person in a world.

"I hope it's a Transmigrator with a dream, who wants to achieve great things."

Ethan left, and in the distance, the future Shirou Emiya, Red Archer, was still staring intently in the direction Ethan had left.

"What's wrong?"

"Someone was watching us just now."

"Someone?"

Rin froze for a moment, then realized the key point.

"Is it a Servant?"

"Yes."

Judging by the way that person left, it could not have been done by an ordinary human. However, he could not figure out what that ability was, disappearing directly without leaving any trace.

"Perhaps it's an Assassin?"

Assassins can hide their presence and are good at concealing their form, so it is not strange for them to disappear without a sound.

"Most likely. It seems this Holy Grail War will be very intense."

"Hmph, that's for the best."

Rin was not worried about powerful enemies at all. She had absolute confidence in her own strength. She just was not sure about the strength of the Servant in front of her.

Next came another argument over who was in charge, and Rin finally gained the upper hand at the cost of one Command Seal.

Although Ethan had seen these things countless times before, seeing them with his own eyes this time still made him want to complain. Not about Rin, the little girl, misusing her Command Seals, but about Red Archer's terrible acting. Couldn't he act a little more fake? He was overdoing it. He could only fool a young girl.

Illya, standing next to Ethan, suddenly felt that her Servant was a lunatic. Perhaps the reason such a powerful magus had left no legends was not because his enemies erased his deeds, but because he was considered too unreliable and his actions too embarrassing to record.

However, his strength was indeed formidable. He could actually monitor the situation of distant opponents using Magecraft from such a far location.

Ethan, back in the castle, did not stop his peeking. When he left, he had placed some magical imprints in Rin's house, which allowed him to monitor the Tohsaka household from a distance, so he watched the entire clash between Rin and Red Archer.

Incidentally, Illya saw it too.

"Is he this time's Archer?"

"That's right."

"It's hard to determine his true identity from his appearance and clothing."

Moreover, this Servant had not revealed his Noble Phantasm, so there was no way to judge through that.

"Actually, you should have probed him a little."

"No need. Even if you probed him, you would not know his identity."

Red Archer's true identity is Shirou Emiya, a possible future version of Shirou, a special existence who became a Counter Guardian.

In a way, Red Archer's appearance in this Holy Grail War is somewhat similar to his own situation, solving some special problems.

"Are you saying... he's also an unknown hero?"

"Something like that."

"Do you know him?"

Ethan glanced at Illya without directly answering, and Illya did not mind. She had already made her own judgment.

"This Holy Grail War seems a bit strange."

From Ethan's appearance, or more precisely, from the moment the Einzbern family's carefully prepared summoning ritual went wrong, this Holy Grail War had headed in an unknown direction.

Ethan saw that Rin in the image was preparing to sleep, so he moved to deactivate the spell. Just as he was about to do so, he noticed that Red Archer seemed to glance his way, intentionally or not.

"Oh? What keen intuition."

Perhaps because Emiya is also a magus, he is more sensitive to magical fluctuations. Or maybe his senses were enhanced after becoming a Heroic Spirit. Can he perceive things that were originally invisible?

In any case, the fact that he was monitoring them had been noticed. Given the abilities of those two, finding and destroying the magical imprints he left behind should not be difficult.

And that was the case. After discovering that Ethan had used Magecraft to monitor them, Red Archer (to distinguish him from Shirou Emiya, the Heroic Spirit Emiya is mainly referred to as Red Archer) immediately began searching for the imprints Ethan had left behind, then spent half the night successfully destroying them.

"A magus?"

He was now a bit confused, unsure if this was the same person as before, or if another Servant had also set their sights on this place.

If it was the former, it proved that the person might not be an Assassin, but a magus. Or perhaps a powerful Heroic Spirit capable of adapting to multiple Classes, who could use powerful Magecraft even as an Assassin, or vice versa.

If it was the latter...

"It shouldn't immediately become a target for everyone, right?"

No matter which it was, the situation was not optimistic. Thinking of that young lady, Red Archer could not help sighing again.

"It seems this time will be very troublesome..."

However, he did not expect that the first real battle would not be with the Heroic Spirit who was unclear whether they were a magus or an Assassin, but with the Lancer Heroic Spirit.

Cú Chulainn. He quickly saw through the other party's identity, and Cú Chulainn, after being seen through, did not think it was a big deal. He decisively prepared to unleash his Noble Phantasm to kill Red Archer.

It was at this moment that the plot finally began.

Shirou Emiya, who stumbled into the battlefield, saw a scene that ordinary people absolutely should not see, and so he was stabbed to death by Cú Chulainn, then revived by Rin using a life-saving gem.

Rin thought that would be the end of it, but Cú Chulainn, realizing that the person who should have died was still alive, continued his pursuit, directly leading to Shirou summoning the last Servant of this Holy Grail War in a moment of crisis: the King of Knights, Artoria Pendragon, who answered the call as Saber.

"To actually... summon Saber..."

Illya looked at the holographic image in front of her. Saber in the picture, clad in armor, stood in front of Shirou, who was lying on the ground: "I ask of you, are you my Master?"

Looking at this scene, Illya suddenly made a decision.

"Berserker, let's go!"

"Where?"

Ethan watched as Illya, aided by Sella, put on thick clothes and her hat, then pointed at the screen with a cold face.

"To say hello to our opponents."

The image Ethan provided did not just show a small corner of the courtyard. It also marked Rin and Red Archer approaching from outside, and even more presences secretly lurking around the area.

One could say that the Emiya residence was now the center of the Holy Grail War.

And Illya, who had arrived in Fuyuki many days in advance, was no longer willing to wait. She decided to take action, to eliminate all the Masters and Servants participating in this Holy Grail War.

"Alright."

No matter what, Ethan was going to be involved in this plot anyway. Appearing early or late made no difference.

"No need for a car, we will go directly."

Ethan waved his hand lightly, and a blue light door appeared out of thin air. Illya looked at this suddenly appearing circle of light and understood how Ethan could run around as he pleased. Ethan was actually a magus who could perform spatial jumps at will. She had only seen fragmented descriptions of this ability in some books and had never heard of anyone truly mastering such power.

She now suspected that Ethan was either a magus from the Age of Gods or a true god, and even the name Ethan might just be a casually chosen alias.

However, she did not press the matter. Instead, she calmly stepped into the circle of light, and the next second she was already standing in the Emiya family's courtyard.

Ethan followed Illya through the portal, then stood there with her, observing Artoria and Cú Chulainn in their standoff, as well as a bewildered Shirou.

Just as the two had stabilized and were looking around, a sudden flash of bright sword light sliced toward the back of Ethan's head.

(To be continued.)