kotomine risei

Kirei Kotomine's father, Risei, is an 80-year-old priest in the Church and served as the regulator for the third and fourth Holy Grail Wars. A friend of Tokiomi Tōsaka, Risei actively supports and conspires to ensure that Tokiomi will secure the Holy Grail in the war, despite his role in the Church which should enforce that only someone worthy should obtain such a powerful artifact. While he takes pride in his son, who has proven to be a perfect heir, Risei fails to understand Kirei on any level. He believes that his son, who recently lost his wife of two years, might find a new purpose in life by assisting Tokiomi during the Holy Grail War. Both Risei and Tokiomi, upon discovering that Kirei's command spells had appeared three years before the start of the war, concluded that Kirei was destined to provide Tokiomi with an additional Servant and associated command spells for the upcoming war. Without informing Kirei of the true nature of the mark, they transfer him from the Church to the Mages Association as Tokiomi's pupil. Neither reveals to Kirei that he can also obtain the Holy Grail, instead telling him that he is performing a mission for the Church. According to Kirei Kotomine in Fate, his father died trying to protect him. As revealed in Fate/Zero, after Caster's defeat, Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi approached Risei to obtain additional command spells. After Risei reluctantly provides what Lord El-Melloi came for, the Master shoots Risei and leaves him to die. As he dies, Risei leaves behind a message containing a secret password that will provide his son with all the remaining command spells Risei could give out. Kirei arrives to find his father dead and his father's final parting gift, and concludes that Risei died trying to protect him. Though Kirei sheds tears realizing his father cared about him until the end, he finds himself feeling the same feelings he felt when his wife died - the desire to have seen them die.