Corpse.
Bodies strewn all over the ship.
Emiya Kiritsugu is currently on a ship.
There were corpses everywhere on the boat.
There are corpses on the deck, corpses in the cabin, corpses on the roof of the ship, and corpses in the cab.
"The answer is to kill all the two hundred people who are in the way."
"......well?"
On the bed behind me, the weapons I was accustomed to used appeared at some point.
"The answer is correct, Emiya Kiritsugu."
The voice was obviously emotionless, but Emiya Kiritsugu felt a hint of teasing in it.
The TV is turned off and the image disappears.
Jingle Bell--
The phone that appeared in Emiya Kiritsugu's hand at some point began to ring.
Out of muscle memory, Emiya Kiritsugu answered the phone.
The voice that had just sounded on the TV started ringing on the phone.
"Those three hundred people were rescued, congratulations."
"Now they abandoned the damaged ship and took two new ships to continue sailing."
"Two hundred people on a boat, a hundred people on a boat."
"Hello!"
Emiya Kiritsugu realized what the voice wanted to say, and immediately shouted, trying to interrupt the voice.
He turned around and took quick steps.
To find out——
What is this place!
But the sound won't stop.
"Both ships have large holes in their bottoms that cannot be ignored. You were kidnapped by the ship with a hundred people, and they forced you to repair their ship first."
"Then, what should you do? Emiya Kiritsugu."
"Wait! This-"
Before Emiya Kiritsugu finished speaking, the scene changed again.
The thing in his hand is not a mobile phone at all.
But——
drop.
--boom!!!
Turning around, Emiya Kiritsugu saw the ship that sank in the explosion.
"Ah...ah..."
His pupils trembled.
"You made the right choice."
The voice sounded.
"Absurd! This...how can this be correct!"
Emiya Kiritsugu roared out angrily.
"Only 200 people survived, but 300 people died - the pointer of the scale has turned upside down. How on earth is this kind of thing right!?"
"No."
The voice retorted.
"It's not wrong."
"Because that's what you've been doing."
"Every time you choose to sacrifice the few to save the many."
"Isn't it? Emiya Kiritsugu."
"this--"
Emiya Kiritsugu paused for a moment.
"You pursue the so-called balance of the scales, always abandoning the few and ignoring them."
"You think that even if it will cause a bloody accumulation, more people will be saved in the end."
"The life of a saved person is precious."
"—Is this what you want me to see?"
Emiya Kiritsugu returned to the beach.
The waves became rougher and the rain became heavier.
Emiya Kiritsugu's voice came from gritted teeth.
"This is your truth, your desire, your innermost thoughts."
"So this is what the Holy Grail of wishing machines should accomplish."
"No--"
Emiya Kiritsugu let out a roar.
"That's not what I want!"
"It is precisely because I want to find other ways than to do the same thing that I do - that I seek miracles!"
His voice changed from anger to fear to expectation.
but--
"It's something you don't even know how to do."
"Not included in your wishes."
"If you want the world to be saved..."
"Then it can only be achieved through the methods you know."
"——Are you kidding!!!"
Emiya Kiritsugu clenched his fists and roared uncontrollably again.
"If that's the case——what kind of miracle is it!?"
"This is a miracle."
"There is no doubt about it..."
"It's a miracle."
...
--boom!!!
Zheng——
Gilgamesh wrapped the Lock of Heaven around the Key of Heaven, resisting Anno's crazy attack.
But Annuo's speed was simply not something Gilgamesh could keep up with at this moment.
A sword.
Two swords.
To be continued...