

Afterwards he transferred several times until he got to the assembly of the Eighth Sacrament, a department that his father worked in. He would have reached the position of cardinal that way but he was transferred to the Holy Church instead. Ignacio by skipping two years and as student council president. He accompanied his father Risei Kotomine to the holy grounds since his youth, and in 1981 he graduated from the Theological College of Manresa

He is a Master during the fourth war and acts as a supposedly impartial meditator during the fifth war. In the Fifth Holy Grail War he injures Bazett Fraga McRemitz to take control of her servant, Lancer.

Kirei poses as Assassin's master during the Fourth Holy Grail War and later forms a contract with Gilgamesh. He is only briefly mentioned in Fate/hollow atraxia but makes a number of appearances during Carnival Phantasm as a commentator of the Holy Grail War, constantly complaining about the Holy Church not having enough funds to repair the damage caused by the war's participants. Kirei Kotomine is the main antagonist of Fate/Zero and the overarching antagonist of Fate/stay night, serving as the main antagonist of the Fate route, one of the two secondary antagonists in Unlimited Blade Works (alongside Archer) and one of the two main antagonists of Heaven's Feel (Alongside Zouken Matou). Humans have evil, but can live as good, so they are superior to angels, who know only good. It's different from angels, who know only of good since birth. Why? Because there are people who know of evil, but do not become evil. A certain scripture mentions that humans are superior to angels.
