Chapter 473: Like Heaven
While the other routes complement the character's character in various ways, the HF line is a filling of a qiē background that explains the origins of the Holy Grail War, where the Heroic Spirit is even reduced to a foil, revealing a cruel world that belongs to the magicians.
Heavens-feel - The cup of heaven, also known as "like heaven", looks like heaven, which means that this is definitely not heaven.
When these intricate, cruel and cold backgrounds are explained, the truly depressing plot of "Like Heaven" has just begun.
The terrifying black shadow devoured a qiē, and the whole city was filled with the panic of the murderer, Caster appeared in the bento, and was made into a puppet by the insect master's corpse, and the insect master's servent real assassin assisted countless times, so that the terrifying black shadow devoured Saber, Lancer, and Caster.
Ignorant of what Sakura was hiding, Emiya and Sakura finally confirmed their relationship, but Sakura still had to endure the constant corrosion in her body caused by the imprint worm implanted in the inkstone and the torment of Shinji Makiri's anger against her due to his jealousy and hostility towards Emiya and Rin.
On the other hand, Rin Tosaka, who has never disclosed her blood relationship and has an unusually demanding attitude, is always showing all aspects that she is too good to reach herself, and even Rin Tosaka's attitude towards Emiya has gradually become a little **.
At school, Scum Kiji kidnaps Sakura and uses Sakura's life to order Emiya and Rider to fight until Emiya dies. Under the release and cover of the rider, the place where the emiya and the rider fought was little by little close to the scum two, taking advantage of his unpreparedness. Emiya took away the knife from the second scumbag. Rescued Sakura.
Then Rin and Archer arrived. Defeated the rider. The second slag scolded the rider again, and as a result, the book of the puppet minister was burned again. Unexpectedly, not only did the rider not disappear, but the spot was full of blood and demons resurrected! The strength has also risen several notches compared to the original, so the truth is revealed, Sakura is the real master!
Because of the stimulation, the engraved insect in Sakura's body moved stupidly, and the enchantment was activated, and Archer protected Rin. There is another battle with Rider, and at the last moment, Emiya is injured again in order to protect Rin. Seeing that Emiya was injured, Sakura desperately controlled herself to withdraw the enchantment, and then also fell unconscious.
The group sent the unconscious Sakura and Emiya to the church, where Emiya learned the truth about Ichiē, including the engraved worm in Sakura's body. Qili told everyone that the engraved worm in Sakura's body was controlled by the dirty inkstone, and Sakura's body already belonged to the dirty inkstone, and she had only one fate, which was to go crazy again in the end. Forced to fight.
Rin loves her sister deeply, but she doesn't show it. According to the magician's principle. She says that she wants to fulfill the Tosaka family's obligation to get rid of Sakura, but Emiya makes the decision to save Sakura instead of becoming a friend of justice, and thus stands on the opposite side of Rin.
When Sakura accidentally overhears Rin and Emiya's conversation about herself, Sakura, who hears everyone's words, thinks that everyone has abandoned her, so she breaks the window glass and escapes from the church.
It was raining heavily outside, and Emiya hurriedly chased after her, eventually finding Sakura, who was homeless near the park.
Sakura wept and shook her head, her long silky hair shook off the raindrops, and said, "I can't go back, where else can I go back now?"
“…… Because you already know everything, right? What kind of person I am, what kind of body I have, do you already know everything?"
It was Emiya who brought Sakura light, and Sakura didn't want Emiya to know her face. Her crying, self-blaming, and inferiority complex echoed in the rainy night, and she felt that she was no longer worthy of the palace.
"Tosaka-senpai is right, I'm a coward, a cryworm, and a despicable villain. Even though I knew it well, I couldn't disobey my grandfather, and I couldn't even understand myself. I hate pain and fear, I value myself more than others, and I don't even have the courage to die......"
"So it's all my fault. I'm a puppet manipulated by my grandfather, and I don't know when I'll go crazy like before, and one day I'll do something irreparable. Where else can I go back to like this......"
Sakura, who has always been gentle and demure in other routes, finally explodes in her heart after her true face is naked in front of her loved ones!
She was originally sisters with Rin and had a happy family, the Tosaka family.
But the Tosaka family abandoned her, as if they were abandoning an insignificant toy, and threw her to the Makiri family, causing her to suffer so much pain and suffering.
And the Jian Tong family just regards her as a tool, and there is still no sense of home in the cold and decaying old mansion.
The only thing that could make her feel a little warmth and happiness was the brief moment in Emiya's house, but when she was exposed, she didn't have the face to face the only thing she cherished.
Even though there are tens of millions of mansions, there is no place for her.
Looking at Sakura's trembling shoulders, the audience was full of compassion and pity. Looking at fate, I'm afraid the most tragic fate is Sakura...... She didn't even have the opportunity to choose her own destiny, it was all imposed on her by others.
On this rainy night with sadness, Emiya hugged Sakura hard in his arms.
"So, it's up to me to protect you! No matter what happens, even if Sakura herself wants to kill herself, I'll protect you!"
Emiya made a promise to Sakura!
Why did the UBW line Valhalla once say that the "justice" of the Eigu was a "borrowed ideal"?
Emiya admires Kiritsugu, and under Kiritsugu's influence, he wants to be the one who saves others like Kiritsugu and is friends with justice...... These thoughts all carry a heavy shadow of Kiritsugu, and he has always lived under the influence of Kiritsugu's shadow.
But here, he finally got rid of the influence of Kiritsugu!
He has the people he wants to protect!
Not just to become a friend of justice, but to be a person who wants to protect his life with his own one from the heart!
But even in the face of Sakura, who could go crazy at any time and endanger others, Emiya still chose to stand on Sakura's side. He finally stopped living in the shadow of Kiritsugu and finally had the meaning of his life. Finally, it is no longer about living for other people's ideals. Redemption at last!
All routes. Only here people's eyes no longer stay on those heroic spirits, and the guard palace burst out with unprecedented brilliance, showing the most gentlemanly side!
The war is getting more and more tragic, Emiya orders Rider and Sakura to stay at home and take care of themselves, he goes to find Illya to prepare to join forces, but meets Rin in the forest, and Rin may also come with the idea of joining forces with Illya.
Outside Illya's Castle, Emiya and Rin hear the sound of battle. In a hurry, he encountered the worst enemy: the blackened saber, a heroic spirit born from the source of the magic of the Void Grail.
Even if the powerful Uncle B can break free from the shackles of the black shadow, he can't 1v3 after all, not to mention that he can still say that the strongest servent in the Holy Grail War - blackened saber!
During the battle with the Berserker, the Shadow devours the Berserker. Emiya rescues Illya. When the black saber was about to hack the palace to death, Sakura hurriedly called back the black saber. Then there was a chaotic battle, and the assist king and assassin also joined the battle, and in the huge impact from the shadows, Red A protected everyone. Blocked the fatal blow in the face of Emiya.
As a result of this battle, Emiya lost a full arm, and Red A died. Leaving only one arm, his soul was absorbed by Illya, the white challice, before he died.
In order to temporarily continue the life of Wei Gong, everyone ran to the church again, and Yan Feng Qili transplanted his arm to Wei Gong. His body was forced to connect with Archer's arm in a loop, avoiding Emiya, who died of blood loss, but he had to be on guard against human fragility at all times.
When they go home at night, Rin and Illya both move into Emiya's house, and Sakura feels a lot of pressure. The relationship between Rin Tosaka and Sakura is very delicate, and in the end, thanks to Emiya's efforts, Sakura was the first to call out her sister since she was given to the Maki family. The two sisters finally talked and laughed.
However, happiness and fulfillment are always short-lived, and as Sakura's body was transformed into the Black Grail, Sakura's functions as a human being gradually degraded and disappeared as the Holy Grail was about to be completed, and she couldn't even hold chopsticks.
Although Sakura's health is getting worse and worse, such a day is so happy for Sakura to get this qiē, but for Emiya, Rin, or for the audience, it is depressing sadness to watch.
Emiya and Rin knew it, but they didn't say anything, allowing Sakura to enjoy this rare but short-lived happiness.
The killers become more and more unscrupulous, and the patrolling Emiya and Rin find that the entire street has been "eaten" by the black shadows.
Sakura is in a good mood, and the dark shadow is also very active, and then meets the hero king Gilgamesh, and Sakura is severely injured.
Jin Shishile didn't check for a while, was swallowed by the black shadow, and Gilgamesh, who was the boss in all other routes, received a bento in front of Sakura.
And Sakura finally realized for the first time that the black shadow was herself, and it turned out that it was not a nightmare that had been eating people all along, but she did it herself.
Under the arrangement of the dirty inkstone, Sakura overhears the conversation between Shirou and Rin, and finds that the little secret that she has always thought that only Shirou and the two of herself know has to be shared with her sister, and her jealousy swells up again. At this moment, Illya walks in and informs Sakura of the inevitable fate of being the Holy Grail - death.
This qiē development is in the plan of the Dirty Yan of the Masaki, from beginning to end, the Dirty Yan has been playing with Sakura, because his body is parasitic in Sakura's body, and he understands Sakura's every move and a little psychological change, so he uses Sakura's weakness of jealousy of his sister to constantly stimulate her and slowly break down his psychological defense.
“…… It's the last curse, get rid of you, rider. No matter what happens in the future, you will have to protect the emiya until the end. ”
Sakura was about to lose control of herself, and she hoped that Emiya, her favorite, could only grant her death, but Emiya couldn't do anything at all.
She decided to make a break with the insect master.
Until then, Sakura used one last spell, ordering riders to protect Shirou.
This spell saved Shirou and Sakura, and it can be said that half of Sakura's salvation comes from Shirou and the other half from the kind herself. (To be continued......)