Chapter IX; End and Return (Part 2)
Everyone was shocked when they heard this voice, of course, except me, because I knew that Kiritsugu Emiya saw something very shocked in the Holy Grail, and I also understood how Kiritsugu Emiya felt. If it were the case, I would have done this, but Saber didn't understand. Yanzaki Mong Rei didn't understand either.
How should we explain the meaning of this sentence and how should we understand it? Artoria's mind suddenly became blank.
"What?"
The rolled whirlwind dispelled the flames around. From the center of the lifted Wind King barrier, the figure of the Golden Sword appeared.
Even though Artoria's brain refused to understand, she, as a servant, still faithfully accepted the command of the spell. The sword began to weave a beam of light, completely ignoring the will of the sword holder.
"What, what's going on, what are you going to do!"
I was watching these next to me, because I knew that it was necessary to destroy the Holy Grail at this time,
“…No…No!”
Artoria roared, it was the scream she made with all her strength. The golden sword raised high suddenly stopped moving in the air.
As the legendary Knight King and also a Servant in the best rank, the saber vocational introduction has the super magic resistance power that can even resist the constraints of the spell. She used all her strength to stop her from swinging the sword. Power and suppression, two opposite forces collided violently in Artoria's body, and her slender body seemed to be torn apart at any time.
While fighting against the powerful magic, Artoria stared at Kiritsugu Emiya who was standing in the box and shouted.
"Why!? Kiritsugu Emiya, why is it you!?"
It is impossible. He cannot issue such a command.
Kiritsugu Emiya was so eager to get the Holy Grail, so why did he refuse the Holy Grail at this moment? Could it be that he wanted to let the ceremony that his beloved wife achieved with her life be wasted?
The group of treasures that had originally aimed at Artoria suddenly turned and aimed at the private room where Kiritsugu was.
But before the treasure began to attack, Kiritsugu raised his right hand again to signal the back of Artoria below. There was still the last spell on it.
"Use the third order spell to command again"
"stop!!"
Seeing that his pride and hope were about to be wiped out in an instant, Artoria screamed with tears in her eyes.
"saber, destroy the Holy Grail"
This is an absolute power that cannot resist.
The huge force of the double curse ravaged and squeezed Artoria's body, and at the same time led out the remaining magic power in her body and incorporated it into the light of destruction.
The released beam of light crossed the entire auditorium and hit the Holy Grail floating on the stage.
The Golden Holy Grail, which once belonged to Alice Phil's body, quietly lost its form in the scorching heat of light, and then disappeared. Artoria closed her eyes and did not dare to face this scene! Now, the final hope was shattered. Her battle was over.
Since that's the case, how could I witness this tragic scene with my eyes open?
At this time, I said, "Is this all worth it in Emiya Kiritsugu? Losing my wife is to see the rights of my daughter, or even my life. Do you really think it is worth it?" I looked at him with questioning eyes.
But what came back to me was a cold and firm look "worth it." My eyes shrank, I looked at his eyes, and he also stared at me with that look. I understood that this was what he was thinking, and I sighed and said, "I understand."
Saber still doesn't understand what we are saying, and he has disappeared with questions.
At the moment when he gradually lost his intersection with the real world, the last feeling that flashed through Artoria's mind was the mystery of the character Kiritsugu Emiya.
At this moment, I was thinking in my heart, "The lovely father who loves his daughter, the warrior who hopes to save the world, the murderer who despairs of justice, he shows all kinds of contradictory human fragments, but in the end he betrayed everything and denied everything."
At this time, the unattributed power that was originally used was just to create a breakthrough to the outside world. Due to Kiritsugu's previous mistakes, it was stained with a dark curse without missing a single trace.
The black mud filled with the curse of evil in this world. It has the power of destruction that burns all life. At this moment, half of the waterfall fell from above the Citizen Hall.
Archer, standing in the audience on the first floor, could not find a way out to escape this baptism.
"This...is this...!?"
The surging black waves swept away the helpless golden servant. No, it was not just swept away, he disappeared when he touched the black mud. Archer's body was decomposed and absorbed by the black mud in the blink of an eye, and integrated with the surging mud flow.
The tsunami-like black mud swallowed the audience on the first floor. Kiritsugu, who stood in the private room and proudly escaped the disaster, commented on all this. The curse waterfall falling from the sky did not stop, and the black mud turned into a river through the entrance of the guild hall and poured out of the buildings, spreading to the surrounding blocks.
So the killing began.
People were sleeping soundly, smelling the mud of death that smelled the breath of human life, turning into a scorching curse and attacking their pillows.
Burned the houses and the courtyards. Whether those who were asleep or those who woke up and tried to escape, they were burned to pieces without exception. After waiting for sixty years on the inside of the Great Grail, it mercilessly deprived all the lives it came into contact with.
I took out a pot from my treasure house. This was what I refined before coming to this world. In order to refine the water of the Holy Grail polluted by the evil of this world, I put the mouth of the pot to the ground and said "Cross" a lot of black mud was sucked into the pot. When the pot was filled, the evil of this world disappeared.
After the completion, I saw Kiriji Emiya looking at me and I said, "Let's go! Kiriji Emiya accompany me to find out if there are any survivors in this tragedy!"
The two walked silently among the rubble burned by the fire, silently recalling their own thoughts while trying hard to find survivors.
Finally, when I saw a survivor, Kiritsugu Emiya cried. The man who had tears in his eyes and felt happy from the bottom of his heart because he found the survivor. He looked so happy, as if it was not me who saved him, but himself. Then, what moved me, who almost died, was that the man seemed to be grateful to a young man beside him.
Emiya Kiritsugu also adopted Emiya Shirou. I looked at Emiya Kiritsugu who was holding Shirou, and I said, "Your child will be the successor of your last wish." After that, I turned into light and disappeared, while Emiya Kiritsugu was still thinking about what I meant.
At this time, I heard the voice of the main god, "Complete the main task one: defeat the archer and get the reward point of the side plot a of 5,000 points, complete the main task two: help the Knight King destroy the Holy Grail, reward the branch a of 8,000 points, will you return?"
"Return," I replied,
After a gust of light disappeared, I returned to my main god space. Let's take a break first and then practice.
Chapter completed!