<Dl> <Dd> Voiced by: Jouji Nakata (Japanese); Taylor Henry (Deen), Crispin Freeman (Ufotable) (English) </Dd> <Dd> Through an agreement between the Mages' Association and the Church, the Holy Grail Wars are moderated by a priest . Kirei served under the Fourth Holy Grail War's priest moderator, his father Risei Kotomine, before taking over the position despite being an acting magus . Although Kirei understood the distinction between good and evil, he could only revel in committing sins and accepted that side of himself after attempting to redeem himself . Originally the master of the Assassin of the Fourth Holy Grail War, Kirei secretly murdered Tokiomi to obtain Gilgamesh while becoming an indirect caretaker for Rin . It is also revealed in the prequel Fate / Zero that he is responsible for the fire that killed Shirō's biological parents, having indirectly wished for it with his dying breath after being shot through the heart by Kiritsugu Emiya . Ranked far lower in the Church hierarchy than Ciel (from Tsukihime), Kirei employs many of the same techniques and weapons she does, as well as a powerful martial art called "Super Bajiquan" that allows him to not only match, but also defeat low ranking servants, something the aforementioned Ciel cannot do . He can also perform the Baptismal Rite, an immensely powerful holy sacrament used to exorcise demons . Kirei is also skilled at spiritual surgery thanks to his "Open Wound" Origin . He is surprisingly powerful as a Magus, having trained under Rin's father . Sometime before the start of the Fifth War, Kirei became Lancer's master with Gilgamesh acting on his own accord . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Voiced by: Jouji Nakata (Japanese); Taylor Henry (Deen), Crispin Freeman (Ufotable) (English) </Dd> <Dd> Through an agreement between the Mages' Association and the Church, the Holy Grail Wars are moderated by a priest . Kirei served under the Fourth Holy Grail War's priest moderator, his father Risei Kotomine, before taking over the position despite being an acting magus . Although Kirei understood the distinction between good and evil, he could only revel in committing sins and accepted that side of himself after attempting to redeem himself . Originally the master of the Assassin of the Fourth Holy Grail War, Kirei secretly murdered Tokiomi to obtain Gilgamesh while becoming an indirect caretaker for Rin . It is also revealed in the prequel Fate / Zero that he is responsible for the fire that killed Shirō's biological parents, having indirectly wished for it with his dying breath after being shot through the heart by Kiritsugu Emiya . Ranked far lower in the Church hierarchy than Ciel (from Tsukihime), Kirei employs many of the same techniques and weapons she does, as well as a powerful martial art called "Super Bajiquan" that allows him to not only match, but also defeat low ranking servants, something the aforementioned Ciel cannot do . He can also perform the Baptismal Rite, an immensely powerful holy sacrament used to exorcise demons . Kirei is also skilled at spiritual surgery thanks to his "Open Wound" Origin . He is surprisingly powerful as a Magus, having trained under Rin's father . Sometime before the start of the Fifth War, Kirei became Lancer's master with Gilgamesh acting on his own accord . </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> He is an antagonist in all three routes . In Fate, where he is the primary antagonist, he is defeated by Shirō Emiya, who fatally stabs him with the Azoth Sword, a gift he gave to Rin Tōsaka years ago, and disperses the built up mana inside it, blowing Kotomine's fake heart to pieces, he then falls into the grail's mud and is consumed by it . In Unlimited Blade Works, he is killed by Lancer, who stabs him from behind after having supposedly killed himself and his body is consumed by Lancer's mystic fire . In Heaven's Feel, his backstory is greatly expanded, and he initially acts as an ally to Shirō, before revealing he had been manipulating events so as to bring about the birth of Angra Mainyu, believing that by observing its birth he could finally understand why he was born . He dies just before dealing a fatal blow to the badly wounded Shirō, his artificial heart having been destroyed earlier by Dark Sakura . He dies standing after declaring Shiro the winner of the Fifth Holy Grail War, Shirō noting a faint smile as he does . </Dd> </Dl>

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