Fuyuki Church Chapel

It was a tiring night for Shirou Yanfeng. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Cleaning up the mess, Karen was captured, was identified as the Master, and went to war with Einzbelen, and the original plan to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight as an overseer came to naught, and then had to fall into the embarrassing situation of a frontal battlefield.

Not to mention the battle in the theater just now, there were too many deaths, and it may be even more nerve-wracking to hide this incident than what happened to Rider just now. However, neither as a magician nor as a Holy Grail War Overseer could stand idly by from the standpoint of having to conceal magic as a first priority.

"Ah, I can't help it, I can only say that it's too bad luck, Shirou."

There was a contrived sound coming from the dimly lit altar seat, but Caster didn't turn around. Shirou smelled the pungent smell of gun oil floating in the cold air of the chapel, and saw that Caster was assembling the gun parts that had just been piled up in the arsenal, and she whistled happily as if the child had received a beloved toy.

"Even if you want to assemble a firearm, you don't have to come back here now, you can still judge that this is a safe place, after all, Einzberen has already broken into this place once."

"Peace of mind, if they approach, the enchantment they have arranged will naturally react. Besides, people's space magic doesn't mean that you can go wherever you want~~~ Does Shirou know the random door of that blue fat man? You have to be in a marked place to go, and that's all you have left for magic at that time, so of course you're back here. ”

"Huh? Didn't you use this magic trick to get to the house last time you first summoned it? ”

Shirou stood up and slowly moved towards Caster, standing behind her.

"Well, because they have a little friendship with the last descendant of the insect master in Kyiv, the basement of the Jian Tong family is still someone else's design, and the light and structure have a psychological suggestion! But I'll tell you about this later! Now we have to conclude the original contract! In this way, everyone is about to disappear before this gun is assembled! ”

"Well, please reach out."

Caster slowly stretched out her thin white arm, which seemed to break at any moment, and suddenly—there was a sharp pain in the back of her hand. I saw the black key pierce the back of Caster's hand in the middle and pierce it along with the altar.

"Huh? Hey? Huh? Shirou, what's wrong with you? Are you getting something wrong? ”

Her tone was always contrived, and Shirou didn't want to bother with it.

"It's really strange that there is no trace of damage to the barrier you have placed here before or after Einzberen came here, but Einzberen actually came here not long after you and I left, and captured Karenne without a word...... I think this kind of old-fashioned plot can happen by coincidence, I think...... It's impossible, you can't have caused these coincidences on purpose, right? Someone took me for a fool. ”

"Oh, Shirou, only a man who doesn't understand the amorous will dig up a woman's past."

Caster's answer was a tacit acquiescence, and she said with a meaningful smile on her face as she looked at Shirou.

"Dear Shirou-kun, because of your slow practice, people can only find something else to do during this time to kill boredom, right? Besides, are you really angry that Karen was taken away? ”

“…… What are you talking about? ”

"Pretend you don't understand? Forget it, it's understandable that you don't understand. Because you're a man who can only see what you care about. ”

Completely ignoring Shirou's piercing gaze, Caster continued leisurely.

"Humans are always good at self-deception, and you don't have the slightest love for her, and you don't want to save her. Well, the appearance of handing over the command spell without hesitation is really touching, but what is the reason for doing so? Responsibility? Feeling guilty? Hey, hey, that's not the reason, is it? ”

Although Caster's tone was extremely light, his eyes were extremely sharp, and they were eyes that were constantly observing the subject of analysis, easily probing Shirou's inner thoughts.

"It's because of the loss of Karen that you can see more, and now you're much better than you were when we first met. You don't have the noble spirit of a dog, you're just a ghoul who pounces on you when you smell blood, and you sleep with a piece of carrion called the Holy Maiden, but you don't have any idea of redeeming her.

Yes, even wild dogs know that there are trade-offs in this area, but you don't have this self-awareness, and you simply seek the pleasure of the instinct. Because it doesn't make her feel more beautiful than the way a beautiful girl stands in a flower, but it doesn't spark your sense of beauty even more, right? ”

“……”

Shirou suddenly felt a strong sense of unease in his heart, which stemmed from his sense of agreement with Caster's words. He was confused, pulled into the predicament of having to face the ugliness of his heart.

"Do you think everything will go your way?"

Of course, there is no such thing as an egg that refuses to hatch, nor a seed that refuses to sprout, and it is not a matter of will. For human beings, fate, like gravity, is irresistible. "Caster is a people's teacher, kind to the only student," it was expected, and it was just a matter of speeding up. Shirou, you don't want to kill people, do you know what the most important thing about being a companion is? Violent? Deceit? Benefit? Neither, it's equality. ”

“…… What do you mean? ”

"You're really brainless~~ But since people think you're the best master, let's talk about it a little more."

“……？”

"In that time, when the world was still full of magic, there were all kinds of "concepts" and "foreign objects" that were used to communicate with humans. The gods are very intelligent, and some of them can even reach the level of omniscience. ”

Speaking with a gaze into the distance, Caster seemed to be looking at the dark, chaotic, expanding universe where they were born, but their madness grew on Earth.

But what if we know the end, the beginning, and the end of the universe? The gods there are so stupid, and the so-called perfection there is really a boring thing. ”

"Stupid?"

"Well, stupid, of course. The difference between intelligence and stupidity is not in the amount of knowledge or the experience gained from how long you have lived, but in how you use the knowledge you have acquired. It seems to people that children who go to hit people in the head with a stone after they understand that a stone will hurt someone, are they smarter than Yog? Compared to scholars who are full of wealth, children with imagination are more interesting, right? ”

Caster then shifted his gaze to Shirou, but it was too distorted for the expression of the human face, and a black hole sprouted from her mouth, devouring everything around her indiscriminately.

"What people expect is chaos that can change them. As they just said to Julian, he may have power and some special magic skills, but a fool like him is not qualified to be the master of others. Only those who are extremely ugly in their hearts, but who are unwavering, Shirou, you are a saint, a saint who obeys the will of chaos in the universe! You're just the best inferior master! Yes, that's why you're on an equal footing with others. ”

Staring at Caster, Shirou's heart fluctuated, blinded by this series of sonorous and fierce words. Caster's remarks sounded deviant, but they were demagoguery, like a sharp knife that plucked through the flesh and stabbed Shirou's heart and lungs.

Shirou found out that Caster had already seen him through. Before returning to Fuyuki, he had no clear purpose in life at all. Until the Battle of the Holy Grail, he gave himself a heavy responsibility and also gave himself a clear goal to strive for.

However, Caster understood his essence before he did.

"Nonsense."

The only way to save yourself is not to believe Caster's words. However, Shirou's feeble resistance was in vain in the face of Caster.

"Whether it's a monster with a human heart or a person with a monster heart, it's very rare. People are monsters in the first place, born for monsters, and proud of monsters, whether they show their true bodies to make people's SAN value decrease, or turn into innocent girls and smile, or become gentlemen and polite, or become cardinals to spread doctrine, they are monsters after all. So people can do anything without hesitation, so what about you, Shirou, what are you? ”

Even if he wanted to continue to stubbornly reject the reality in front of him as before, Shirou couldn't take his eyes off again. Perhaps it is because of the fear of knowing the truth from the bottom of his heart that he will hold on to a piece of carrion as the final standard bottom line, as Caster said.

Thinking like a monster, acting like a monster, following instincts like a monster - this really has an immediate effect for Shirou, who has been bound to ethics for a long time.

Or is this an inevitability, is this fate? No matter how much you pray, no matter how much you hope, is it just to lead everything to the abyss of betrayal?

The indescribable sense of loss prevented Shirou from making a sound, and he pulled out the black key, but his eyes became extraordinarily calm.

“――！？”

On the back of his right hand, there was a burning pain. I don't know why, but Shirou has experienced this feeling. The same painful and strange feeling that Shirou had experienced three years ago, and that was when it all began.

The pain was replaced by bursts of burning. Shirou stopped thinking because he was surprised, and just unconsciously rolled up the sleeves of his clothes, checked his wrist, and on the back of his right hand, a stigma of fate appeared.

"Looks like the Holy Grail can't wait to see the next scene in the theater. Hahaha, it seems that Shirou has completely removed the last fig leaf that covers the human strands, and everyone is going to get excited! ”

She clapped her hands excitedly and laughed like a child who had received her favorite toy.

"So—let's do it again, Shirou, are you an arrogant and stupid human who seeks the Holy Grail, pursues infinite pleasures and nightmares, and tries to turn people into slaves?"

This can be said to be a pact with a demon. Neither benevolence nor loyalty, and even difficult to judge the stakes, the tyrannical and brutal Servant.

But that's why I'm right for myself.

"That's right."

"Okay, the contract is established! His name is Nayarathotep, and as a faithful servant of Shirou Yanfeng, he swears that he will gamble his life to take the Holy Grail! ”

The channel for the supply of mana was opened the moment the contract was made, and the spell that had been used again radiated with a burst of pain.

"Ahhh Hot stuff flows from Shirou into people's bodies, and it's so refreshing! People have to do a few rounds by themselves in the evening! ”

Caster hugged his shoulders as if he were happy and happy, and at the same time as if he were showing pity for the whole world.

"Sure enough, after all, people love you humans the most, because human beings ...... It's so much fun!! ”