Chapter 52: The Counterfeit of the Fake

This was a trivial matter about seven years ago. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

From the time Shirou was younger, he lived in the church and lived every day repeating his life of studying and exercising - in other words, he belonged to the category of people who had few friends. On that day, after school, he went straight home.

The Yanfeng family, located behind the Dongmu Church, was completely untouched at this time. In the living room, Shirou and Kiri father and son are watching TV and eating on the sofa.

At this time, the widescreen color TV in front of me happened to start playing the news. This is a news story about the police arresting a group of criminal gangs that secretly make art fakes, and the reporter is broadcasting it live.

――This news made Shirou feel very strange, how could it be considered a "crime" to make a product with all his painstaking efforts? Isn't that unreasonable?

Why is it that merely imitating others is considered "evil" and punished? Aren't human beings grown up by imitating the actions of others?

It's better to ask your father than to indulge in confusion...... I have no impression of my family who died when I was five years old. For Shirou, the so-called family is only his father, and he is the person he trusts the most, so Shirou asks them this question.

"First of all, you have to understand the value of the real thing and the fake. The so-called genuine product is something that has an indelible beauty, no matter how many degrees of time and space it crosses, it can always shine and even be of higher value. This is irreplaceable by fakes, no matter how exquisite they are, they cannot be compared with the real thing. In this case, imitate the real thing...... Is it evil? You asked an interesting question, Shirou. ”

The tall father laughed happily for some reason. His adoptive father wore a standard priest's attire in the heat and cold, but Shirou had never seen him sweat or shiver from the cold. One can't help but wonder if there is blood flowing in his body, and if he has the same body temperature as a human.

"So, Shirou, how do you think God defines the False?"

Although he was only an elementary school student, it was not a problem for Shirou, who had inherited the devout faith of Kirei.

"Look at the wicked who are labored for their wickedness, and they harbor poison and produce falsehood."

This is a sentence from Psalm 7:14, where God considers those who have a poisonous heart and create a false product as wicked. Hearing this, Yan Fengqili, who whispered softly to his "son" as if he was caressing a cat, seemed to be in a particularly good mood.

The answer is right, the wicked are those who forget God, turn away from Him, and plot against the righteous. To create falsehood is to be a wicked man...... However, all people grow up imitating the behavior of others, using chopsticks, learning from other people's mistakes, and learning from other people's techniques, in fact, all of them can be classified as imitation - but it is another thing to make a fake and make a profit, in which case the real thing will suffer and the fake will profit. That is to say......"

Qili smiled meaningfully, and then continued.

"Essentially, a fake is something that takes value away from the real thing. It is also correct to call it evil. ”

I see, this is the answer, but Shirou suddenly has a question - wait, what if the object of imitation is not the real thing, but a fake?

"The real thing suffers, and the fake makes a profit...... In that case, what if it's a fake? ”

"You mean, imitate the fake, and then imitate it? Hehe...... The imitation of imitation, the counterfeit of the fake, the counterfeit of the fake...... Is it something that makes senseless things to imitate again? ”

After a pause at this, Qili secretly glanced at Shirou's expression and spoke in an unusually pleasant tone.

"It's going to be something unbelievable."

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His body was faster than he could think, and he slammed on the ground, and Shirou turned into a gust of wind and sped past.

It's just -- what can be done by rushing over? Shirou was able to barely dodge Berserker's attacks, but he didn't block them once, and he didn't succeed in dealing damage to Berserker. I have to admit that Shirou's actions are very unplanned, and it is helpless to be accused of acting rashly.

The body acted directly, thinking only that Illya could not be killed because of this. The survival instinct told himself that rushing over like this would only be smashed into meat sauce with Illya. But there is no hesitation at all, as long as you can get the answer you seek, it is a miserable death, and you are willing to accept it.

In just one second, it was as if it was infinitely divided, and Shirou's mind quickly thought about countermeasures.

Once on the battlefield, his heart becomes a sword. Become a sharp, shiny sword, and all wisdom, strength, and experience will be turned into weapons, grasping the essentials of things, turning them into what you are good at.

To block a Berserker's attack, you need to have a weapon, and the black keys are not enough, you need stronger, stronger weapons, weapons that can kill the opponent - for example, those that will go down in history.

Shirou has been watching since the beginning of the Holy Grail War. Saber's sword, Archer's bow, Lancer's spear, and even Berserker's greatsword...... It's just that these are not enough, what you need is a weapon that you can use freely and can kill the opponent.

I want to use magic tricks that I have never succeeded in before.

The soul burns like an internal combustion engine, the blood flows like gasoline, causing the body to generate powerful horsepower, igniting the flames of battle, the magic power is squeezed from the magic circuit that is completely activated and painful, and the boiling emotions invade every brain cell like a drug.

Identify the creative concept, imagine the basic skeleton, copy the composition material, imitate the production technology, empathize with the growth experience, and reproduce the accumulated years...... In the end, many projects were overridden and completed.

What came to mind was the twin swords that Archer had used to fight Lancer like a work of art. If it were those two swords, he would be able to use them freely, and Shirou's instinct was how he sent the message.

At the speed of sound that is above the speed of God, the real weight is already held in the hands...... From the quality to the feel, it is the same as the weapon I imagined......

(It worked, didn't-)

Projection magic, which Shirou has never succeeded in practicing magic before. I can't imagine that at this moment, this situation is ...... It was completely successful.

It's just that this is far from enough, Berserker's body is a treasure that can only be broken by A-level attacks.

-- Imitation is not enough.

Shirou's chaotic mind, which had been in turmoil since he participated in the Holy Grail War, became unexpectedly calm at this moment.

A stroke of the Preparatory Command Spell flashed brightly, and Shirou activated one of the Preparatory Commands. The weapon that had just been projected was strengthened by the powerful magic infused - the thin and short blade of the sword was transformed drastically.

The twin swords drew a spiral and collided with the big sword, and suddenly the atmosphere roared and detonated, and the murder weapon rolled up a whirlwind.

"Shirou, you ...... this"

The deafening roar of the steel that collided violently resounded through the forest, and the dust raised by the previous impact filled the surroundings Rin and Illyadon felt a chill in their backs, and they didn't know what words to use to describe it - it was an unimaginable scene, and Shirou stood in front of Berserker with his winged black and white sword held aloft.

- Berserker's all-out blow, an attack that even Saber couldn't completely block, was blocked by Shirou.

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PS: If Emiya Shirou is just a fake, then Yanfeng Shirou is a fake of a fake. In Chinese parlance, it's piracy of piracy...... And when it comes to piracy, it also makes a strengthened version......