"Dear teacher, like my father, you didn't understand what kind of person I was until the last moment."
Kotomine Kirei looked at Tosaka Tokiomi's lifeless body and finally spoke out the thoughts he had been hiding in his heart.
Because he is a person born with personality defects, a person who can only gain happiness and satisfaction from things that are defined as evil, cold, and cruel from a moral level.
This also means that those things that seem noble, great, and of extraordinary value in the eyes of others are completely meaningless in his eyes. Everything he does is just to live up to the authority including his father, teachers, superiors, etc.
expect.
And this kind of life was never what Kotomine Kirei expected or wanted.
Therefore, his life is like that of an ascetic, without any joy at all, like a puppet manipulated by others, leaving only numbness.
But now, with the temptation of Gilgamesh, he finally released the demon that had been suppressed in his heart.
Especially when the sharp blade pierced the teacher's body and saw the mixed look of shock and disbelief on the other person's face, Kotomine Kirei immediately felt an indescribable feeling of joy, pleasure, and satisfaction, as if his brain nerves were blocked.
Infused with some kind of stimulant.
There is no doubt that from this moment on, he has completely opened Pandora's box like those addicts, and there is no way to go back.
"How about it? Have you released a little bit of the regret and regret of not being able to kill your father with your own hands?"
Gilgamesh appeared instantly, with a joking and playful smile on his face.
After all, what happened before him was the result that he had deliberately guided and had long expected.
As an extremely arrogant and conceited tyrant, how could he possibly endure Tokiomi Tohsaka's attitude of treating his followers as high-level familiars, and his plan to use the Command Seal to force himself to commit suicide the moment he won the Holy Grail War?
In fact, from the moment the Master first used the Command Spell to force the followers to obey him, the conflict between the two had become irreconcilable.
It's a pity that Tokiomi Tosaka didn't realize this, and thought he could appease the Hero King through his respectful performance, so that he could continue to help him win the Holy Grail.
As everyone knows, in the eyes of Gilgamesh, who can see through human nature and desires, his poor acting skills are as ridiculous as a clown.
But Kotomine Kirei did not directly answer Jin Shining's question. He just smiled and asked: "Are you sure you want to do this, Hero King Gilgamesh?"
"Well, as long as you don't bore me."
Gilgamesh answered in the affirmative without thinking.
As these words blurted out, the smile on Kotomine Kirei's face became even brighter. He slowly rolled up his sleeves and raised the arm full of command spells to begin to conclude a contract with him.
After a while, the Master who lost his Servant and the Servant who lost their Master reestablished a close relationship.
This is also the most interesting part of the Holy Grail War.
Regardless of whether you are a servant or a master, as long as you are alive, you will have a chance to make a comeback.
Feeling that his body was being supplied with magic power again, Gilgamesh raised his head and asked with interest: "Have you thought about how to deal with the coming storm?"
Kotomine Kirei nodded without thinking: "Of course. There is still some time before dark. I think we can use the last few hours to build the most gorgeous stage for the final chapter of this Holy Grail War.
A successful conclusion. But the premise is that you must be able to defeat all opponents as promised."
"Hmph! Why, are you still doubting that I can't deal with Saber and Caster?" Gilgamesh raised his chin proudly.
"No, I'm just used to not being suspicious of things I haven't witnessed with my own eyes.
You must know that the result of your last fight with the opponent was not very good.
What's more, please don't forget that our cooperation is essentially just about pursuing pleasure.
You can regard me as a clown for fun, and I also have the right to choose to leave after you fail.
We are not the Masters and Servants of the traditional Holy Grail War, nor do we have so-called responsibilities and obligations."
Kotomine Kirei expressed his position very clearly.
Different from being manipulated by Gilgamesh in the past, although now he has opened Pandora's box, he does not think that the King of Heroes can win 100%.
Whether it is the blackened Artoria or the little Annie who is regarded as the God King Zeus, they have shown a power that is not inferior to or even surpasses that of Jin Shining.
Therefore, the relationship between the two is just cooperation, and there cannot be a relationship of one depending on the other.
"It doesn't matter, I will be the final winner anyway."
Gilgamesh curled his lips nonchalantly.
In this way, the Joy duo began to prepare for the upcoming final battle.
Because everyone knows that the owner of the Holy Grail will be decided tonight.
However, no one knew that at this critical moment, Grea, as the new master of the blackened Artoria, had already quietly left the current world and returned to her father to report on her progress.
"So you convinced Emiya Kiritsugu and Irisviel to believe that the Holy Grail was contaminated and could no longer fulfill any wishes, and voluntarily withdrew from the Holy Grail War?"
Zuo Si put down the reality gem in his hand that he had almost studied, and raised his head to look at his son in front of him with interest.
The Prince of Darkness nodded slightly: "Yes.
Didn't you tell me to try not to make too much noise?
So I did not choose to use violence, but adopted the method of persuasion and transaction.
Now the family has gone to a small island to live an ordinary life incognito.
To be honest, I don’t quite understand how someone like Emiya Kiritsugu, who has seen the dark side of human nature, can act like an innocent child and think that war can be eliminated and the world can be peaceful through some unknown supernatural power.
This is really neither common sense nor logical."
Upon hearing these words, Zuo Si couldn't help bursting out laughing.
"Ha ha ha ha!
What is so difficult to understand?
Haven't you heard that a man remains a boy until he dies?
It is precisely because I have seen the darkness of human nature and society that I am even more eager to change everything.
What's more, human cognition has limitations and huge biases.
Let’s take the simplest example.
Which era do you think modern British people miss the most?"
"I think it should be the Victorian era. Because at that time, Britain had just completed the first industrial revolution and was a well-deserved world hegemon, a global colonial empire on which the sun never set. No country could challenge its status."
The Dark Prince Graya lowered his head and thought for a moment and quickly came to his conclusion.
Because this is not a difficult question to answer.
In fact, not only the British, but also many comprador groups in many independent colonial countries miss that era and believe that life in that era was full of gentlemanly demeanor and ladylike elegance.
"You are right, what the British miss most is the Victorian era.
Because at that time, Britain had unparalleled power and rapidly expanding wealth, which was enough to crush the industrial production capacity and countless inventions of any other country.
But do you know what the price of all this is?
Or what is the dark side hidden under these glamorous appearances?”
Zuo Si looked into his son's eyes and asked.
Grea hesitated for two or three seconds and immediately answered in an uncertain tone: "Is it the plundering of colonial resources and wealth?"
Zuo Si nodded first, then shook his head: "Yes, and no.
Colonial plunder was certainly an indispensable part of supporting the British Empire to its peak.
Even the man-made Chalissa Famine, the Skeleton Famine, the Agra Famine, the Irish Famine, the Doab Famine, the Orissa Famine, two Bengal Famines, three Indian Famines, etc.
It resulted in the death of more than 80 million or even hundreds of millions of people, which is comparable to the total number of deaths in World War I and World War II combined.
But in the eyes of the British at that time, the colonial aborigines were not considered human beings, at least not their own people.
So their deaths cannot be counted as part of the price at all.
The real cost was that more than half of the native British workers at that time were children under the age of thirteen and teenagers under the age of eighteen.
And the working hours range from twelve to fifteen hours.
In addition, there are night labor, no fixed time for meals, and long-term exposure to polluted and toxic environments.
What's more important is that almost all of these child laborers do not survive to adulthood and die from fatigue, hunger and accidents.
In the most frenzied period, the average life expectancy of native British workers was even lower than that of primitive tribalism and slavery.
Someone once joked that the reason France was not able to complete the Industrial Revolution faster than Britain was because their child laborers could live two to four years longer than British child laborers.
The bloodshed and cruelty at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the stage of capital accumulation are almost unimaginable to modern people.
Therefore, widespread communist and socialist trends of thought were simultaneously born in that era.
How about it, doesn't it sound interesting, full of sarcasm and dark humor?
In the eyes of those who really know the inside story, the so-called wonderful Victorian era is actually an out-and-out dark age.
To be continued...