Chapter Seventy-Three: Madness and Darkness
"So. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info Rin will let Sakura Maki live, or die? If you're interested in her options, stay here. I'm here, though, though it looks pretty rudimentary. But for some reason, this is the only place where you can hear the conversations in the chapel clearly. β
- Because Shirou said this, Sakura waited quietly in the room. Before Rin arrived, she had a glimmer of hope.
At that time, she had nothing but her sister - but that was only for her.
There was no such thing, and for Rin, she was not needed until the end.
In fact, I should have known a long time ago that the soul of Sakura Maki had been lost a long time ago. However, even if a bird loses its life, there will still be a time when the sky will fall to the ground. That's all Sakura is now, just using the remaining vitality for meaningless things.
Sakura doesn't even know what she's lost, how much precious she has lost, and all that's left is fear and loneliness. It was as if the heart had been torn open with a big hole in the void...... It's deep, it's dark, it's scary.
ββ¦β¦ It's a dream. It must have just been a dream...... Everything, everything, was just a nightmare......"
"If you think you can find some comfort in thinking like this, then think it's a dream. It's going to be a long, long nightmare, though. β
Shirou's voice was colder than the cold wind coming out of the wilderness at this time.
Hearing Shirou's call, Sakura slowly turned her head to look at Shirou like a malfunctioning machine. She looked like she was possessed by a ghost, her eyes were very hollow, and those eyes reflected nothing, like a bottomless abyss - making people confirm once again that Sakura was just a piece of talking flesh.
Facing the girl who had lost her soul, Shirou seemed to see something strange and observed her with emotion.
It should have been noticed a long time ago, and she was a rare rough stone. Her life was full of sorrow and malice, so she went through more trials than I did...... I'm like an ascetic who deliberately suffers for the sake of enlightenment, but Sakura is always thereβor she's more qualified to go to heaven, and she's going to follow.
ββ¦β¦ So, why? β
"Sakura, are you still dreaming? Can you feel the warmth of the past and hear the laughter of your loved ones? β
In the priest's pupils, Sakura glimpsed a bright red charcoal fire like ashes, full of dim and passionate colors.
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"If that's the case, you're a happy person. However, the so-called dream will one day wake up. β
He and Sakura get along very well, but they and Rin have been repelling each other since they first met.
I think it's because I'm the same as Sakura, we're both empty people. In order to shake off this shackle, he keeps implementing a stupid way of life.
-- Although I don't know if this method is useful, I believe that this is the right salvation and continue to seek salvation that is not given.
Shirou held out his fingers and lifted Sakura's chin, scrutinizing her.
"These eyes have shed all tears, even the light of hope has been uprooted, and they can only stare into nothingness and despair. You have cried and pleaded until your voice is completely hoarse and dry, and the bitterness and terror have changed your existence. This torrent of negative feelings washes you away, and all the filth called dignity, faith, and so on has been wiped out. β
He spoke softly, with a hint of demagogy in his words.
"The finest diamonds are nothing more than gray rough until polished, and the pains of the past have polished you so beautifully. To put it simply, I think you are more beautiful like this, so please understand this as a prank by a person who loves beauty. β
"How could it be...... Like me...... This ......"
Sakura, who couldn't look directly at the boy, couldn't believe that what Shirou praised was actually the dirtiest thing about her. Sakura has met a lot of men, and no matter what they say when they meet, they just plan to themselves.
Because of this, Sakura could tell that Shirou's eyes were devoid of lust. Perhaps his eyes were not looking at himself, but at a place farther away.
"Your parents had a choice at the time, why you? If they had chosen to let you stay in the Tosaka family, or even just let you go to another family, your fate would have been very different. β
"Because...... Because it's like my sister said. I'm a coward, a cryworm, a vile villain, and I can't even finish myself. I hate pain, I hate fear, I value myself more than others, and I don't even have the courage to die...... So ......"
"No, it's not you who is at fault."
Faced with the hesitant Sakura, Shirou did not hesitate to interrupt her succinctly. He pressed Sakura with a fierce gaze and said in a powerful voice.
"Both of you have rare qualifications that are equivalent to miracles, and my sister has inherited the pride of the Ensaka family and walked in the light; My sister can only be under the stinky ditch. They just abandoned you, and for the family, love is gratuitous, and disgust is gratuitous. Love is a relative and limited thing, and since they have decided to give all their blessings and happiness to your sister, they will not allow you to be happier than your sister no matter what, and it can even be said that they squeeze your happiness to provide for your sister's happiness, which they have decided to set without realizing it. It is nothing more than that, for them it is simply a matter of abandoning, abandoning their daughter whom they do not love, who is not, or even disgusted. β
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"Isn't it? Obviously, as long as you put it in an ordinary family, you can live a happy life, you will have parents who will pour affection into you, you can usually carry out Koizumi with pop songs and the like, and you can indulge in love like ordinary girls. β
"Though it may not be my right to do so, I want you to understand that I am so happy that you have fallen, but you have not given in, nor have you run away, but have chosen to continue fighting. Even if you walk at the bottom of hell and still have an unyielding attitude, Rin defines you as an evil that must be removed, but for me, you are undoubtedly worth saving. β
What is it for a priest to learn? Definitely not a method of fighting, but an opening, teaching, revelation.
The Old Testament is a peddling of fear and sin, while the New Testament is a moral code of goodness. This is the case with Christianity, which uses fear to control others and then instills doctrine in a kind way.
Compare human psychological states, personality tendencies, hobbies, career adaptability, and so on. All the spiritual qualities are stripped naked, and human beings act according to certain rules, and they are just pawns on a chessboard. It's hard to think about how to manipulate them, but in other words, you can manipulate them as much as you want with the right methods.
A good priest must be good at manipulating human beings. Methods that lead people to good, when used in reverse, can also make people evil.
"The basic principle of magic is equal exchange, it is impossible to lend things to people who have no money, and it is impossible to lend a hand to people who have no value. But I'm not really a magician, I'm not like them, I want to save everyone in the world, so I don't abandon anyone easily. So I want you to understand, what is the real thing to fight for? This battlefield is your chance to argue with the Divine about the injustice of fate. If you follow the path of struggle and can't get the right result, then it must be God who is at fault. β
Shirou's remarks undoubtedly sound aberious, but they are very effective for Sakura, demagoguery, like a knife that directly picks at the flesh and pierces the heart and lungs.
"First, you don't need to do anything, Rider, Rin, the Holy Grail War, you don't need to care about anything, as long as you're in the church, I'll protect you and wait for the Holy Grail War to end. The people you kill or hurt will be dealt with by the Church, and you don't need any risk or effort to get the benefits.
"Second, you fight as a Master and solve all problems with your own hands, I will help you, and I will also give you the Holy Grail when the time comes, and you can change everything through the Holy Grail."
The corners of his mouth turned up, and he smiled fearlessly. His smile was demonic, a demonic smile that delighted pools of blood and saw the heat of purgatory as cool.
"Whatever you want, if you choose the first one, I'll ask the other masters for help, but ...... If you still have a glimmer of hope in your heart, then give your hope. It's going to be a reversal for you to put your whole life into...... It must be quite dramatic, which is incomparable to no kind of fiction or documentary. β
This is something Sakura never thought about. To obtain the Holy Grail for personal purposes...... That is, to be the enemy of my sister.
Furthermore, what she wants to "get" is something that can only be considered as a "person", does she still have the consciousness of being a human being?
Since there is such a hell and such despair, how can we believe it, and how can we seek the saying that people have happiness in life?
Just the last words of her loved ones shattered everything about her, shattering false happiness, false love, and fleeting hope. She had nothing left but a shell of nothingness.
Sakura thinks she's no different from the walking dead, and she's long since lost hope - but now there's someone waiting to hear her in front of her carrion.
For a girl who has been betrayed and lost everything she believes in, the attitude of this strange elf is more sincere than any kind of love.
This time she could turn it into words, because someone wanted to listen.
- Ha, ha............!
Sakura suddenly clutched her chest.
The worms inside her, as if in response to her dark feelings, crept up the nerves.
β¦β¦ In this moment.
It's strange that I don't hate being enemies with my sister right now.
For the first time in my life, just once, just imagining my sister's injured body, the bugs invaded her body.
Sigh, sigh.
The sound of stupid movements in the body stimulates the eardrums, dissolving in the blood and circulating the cold throughout the body.
The body is already so ugly, and the evil thoughts that are excited about this kind of thing have become evil in the heart, and the worms dissolved in the blood have turned into a flattering medicine, which makes her body warm.
A wave that grows in the body and swallows even consciousness. In her passionate consciousness, she always thought so.
The more the denial continues, the more the bugs eat away at the nerves, the consciousness dissolves limply, and then, as if, even the worms themselves.
The Holy Grail can't change that, and it doesn't matter. If you can personally smash your sister's idea inherited from the Tosaka family, then even if it is a worthless holy grail for yourself, it will have meaning to take it.
The excitement made Sakura's hands tremble. The high-spirited battle spirit burned in his chest, as if he was about to turn into a heroic spirit and cut through everything in front of him.
Sakura finally laughed too, and she laughed out loud in the darkness as if she hadn't laughed for a long time. The beating of the soul is as high as it has never been since birth.
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