Xia Lei and Natalia face a veritable dead end.

Xia Lei's island was surrounded and suppressed by both the executor and the agent. The executors are not bad, their target is only to defend the palace, and they will not specifically target the Dead Apostles. The Surrogate Practitioners are the Church's specialists in fighting heresy, and vampires are the ones who must be eliminated.

Each agent was able to detect and capture the existence of vampires through their breath, and it was impossible for Xia Lei to escape the pursuit of the agents in her current state.

The same is true for Natalia, the closed nature of the cockpit of the airliner and the altitude of the aircraft make it impossible for Natalia to escape from the plane. Even if the missile didn't hit the cockpit, the kinetic energy from the high degree of conversion was enough to kill her, no matter how much magic was used to strengthen her body, even if she was stung by the "Dead Apostle Bees" and turned into a ghoul.

Because of this, when the two of them appear in front of Kiritsugu, Kiritsugu will think that it is a dream or an illusion.

In this regard, Xia Lei and Natalia each gave their own explanations.

Being able to ask Kiritsugu to kill herself proves that Xia Lei still retains her sense of self, she knows that she looks bad, and she knows that she can't continue to exist like this, and life is better than death.

Although she didn't dare to stab herself to death because of her survival instinct, she still made an effort in her own way. After Kiritsugu leaves, she finds a cave far from the village, locks herself in it, and then uses all means to seal the entrance to the cave and wait for death inside.

Because of her previous blood-sucking behavior, the ghouls on the island have a tendency to spread. The agents burned the whole island indiscriminately, but also because the ghouls spread and were difficult to eradicate, so they had to take such extreme measures.

After purifying the entire island with flames, the agent took it for granted that all the ghouls were dead, and how could he have thought that there were still ghouls who would come out to attack people and animals again in order to prevent them from being uncontrollable and attacking people and animals.

The enclosed environment and raging flames also became the best cover for the smell, and Xia Lei escaped by accident.

Of course, this does not mean that Xia Lei can continue to exist. Ghouls are called ghouls rather than Dead Apostles because they are in desperate need of fresh flesh and blood, and this unquenchable thirst makes them indistinguishable from livestock. Without the replenishment of flesh and blood, the ghoul's body will gradually collapse and disappear into the world completely, leaving no trace.

Even if instinct triumphs over reason again and breaks through the blockade and leaves the cave, because the surrogate has burned all the creatures on the island, and the surrounding ocean is inexhaustible in flesh and blood, but the vampire's inability to survive the flow of water dooms her to be unable to replenish from the sea.

It didn't take long for Xia Lei, who had lost her source of flesh and blood, to become weak, and she was about to disappear completely. It was at this time that someone set foot on this small island forgotten by the world.

No, not humans, to be exact, vampires, and not half-ghouls, but genuine Dead Apostles.

This man saved Xia Lei before she disappeared and took her off the island and to a special shelter for half-hung vampires.

Just as churches adopt orphans to be raised, vampires have similar organizations. Some Dead Apostles will travel the world in search of vampires who have wandered outside the circle of Dead Apostles, bringing them back to give them formal instruction.

In a way, Dead Apostles do these things more carefully than humans, as on average only one in a hundred humans is likely to be born as a ghoul, and less than one in 10,000 is a true Dead Apostle. The low birth rate, combined with the incessant crusade of the Templar Church and the Magic Society, led many of the Dead Apostles to seek the development of the race, and such an organization was born.

In the shelter, Xia Lei learns that she is no longer a human but a monster called a ghoul, and that this state is temporary, and if she can successfully get through this stage and become a real Dead Apostle, then she can control her blood-sucking impulse and regain her sanity - by then, except for the need to change her sleep time and eating habits, she will still be her.

This made Xia Lei, who was bent on death, kindled a glimmer of hope, she didn't want to die, she also wanted to see the boy who was regarded as her younger brother again. Before leaving the island, she had gone to the house deep in the forest, the only place that had not been burned, and there were no bodies of the two men she knew well, and she believed that they were still alive—magicians with magical powers, and they would be able to escape.

So, Xia Lei settles down in the world of vampires, learning knowledge while trying to control her new body.

Finally, nearly thirty years later, she successfully completed all her transformations, from a ghoul to a Dead Apostle, and was able to leave the world of the Dead Apostles, and it was Natalia who served as her guide for the new Dead Apostle.

Compared with Xia Lei, who stumbled all the way and was ignorant, Natalia's experience was much simpler.

Pozak was not the only dead apostle on that plane, there was another big man with a much higher status than Pozak. For that big man, Pozak was an insignificant ant, so he just watched from the sidelines, even if Pozak died, he still didn't make a move, but restrained his breath, hid, and let the "Death Bee" rage, and the entire cabin turned into hell.

It wasn't until then that Kiritsugu, who was still very Navie, hit, cough cough, and bombarded the plane with missiles, that he had to take action to protect himself from falling into the sea. Although she didn't intend to save people, this behavior still gave Natalia a glimmer of life, and her terrifyingly high desire to survive and survival came into play again, and she managed to survive.

But there's only one breath left. At this time, Natalie was saved by the "Dead Bees" who she regarded as her biggest enemies and wanted to kill countless times - vampires have a much higher survivability than humans, and in order to survive, she took the initiative to be stung by the "Dead Bees" to continue her existence.

This move impressed the big man who was watching from the sidelines, and he took Natalia, who was gradually losing her body temperature due to her vampire transformation.

The next development is similar to Xia Lei, receive training, learn the knowledge of the world of Dead Apostles, pass the two stages of "ghoul" and "living corpse" as soon as possible, and truly become a dead apostle.

Mystery and mystery will attract each other, and magicians are much more adaptable than ordinary people in transforming into vampires, not to mention that Natalia also has the bloodline of fantasy succubi, and her affinity is higher than that of ordinary magicians. Therefore, it is clear that Natalia's vampire transformation time is much later than Xia Lei's, but the time to become a Dead Apostle is much earlier. And the experience of a bounty hunter also allows her to quickly take charge on her own, and she doesn't need to teach from scratch like Xia Lei.

And because she is also a new life and death, Natalia is easier to mingle with other rookies.

So, the two most important women in the first half of Emiya Kiritsugu's life met.

PS: The executioners of the church that are currently appearing, Hierre, Mapo, and Hanseatic in the FSF have not done such an extreme thing as massacre, and the church that guards humanity to drive out non-human beings will not do anything to kill a ghoul and directly destroy the whole island - unless the whole island is not saved.

PS2: That's right, it takes such a long time for a normal person to transform into a Dead Apostle - not everyone is a hanging force like Bow Tsuka May, who jumped from an ordinary person to a twenty-seven ancestral level monster overnight, and not everyone is lucky enough to be directly sucked by the ancestral level Dead Apostle.

PS3: Although the vampires in "Tsukihime" are raging and it looks like a cow, if you take a closer look at the list of the twenty-seven ancestors, half of them are either hung up or sealed, and in the final analysis, humans are still strong.