Chapter 49: Emiya Kiritsugu's Decision (2)
- Emiya Kiritsugu orders Saber with a spell -
The muffled words shook her body from the depths of Saber's soul, and the voice, too familiar to be more familiar, declared clearly and resolutely.
- Use the Noble Phantasm and destroy the Holy Grail -
How to interpret the meaning of this sentence, how to understand it, Saber's mind went blank for a moment.
“…… Miscellaneous......? ”
The whirlwind dispersed the flames around it, and from the center of the lifted Wind King's barrier, the figure of the golden sword appeared.
Even though Saber's brain refused to understand, her Servant body faithfully accepted the commands of the Command, and the sword began to weave beams, completely ignoring the wielder's will.
"Why, what's going on—what are you going to do!?"
Even Archer was dumbfounded at the moment, he had thought that because he had his back to the Holy Grail, Saber would never be able to fight back against him.
“…… No...... No! ”
Saber roared, a scream she had given with all her might, and the golden sword raised high suddenly stopped in mid-air.
As the legendary Knight King, and also a servant in the best rank, Saber has a special anti-magic power that can even resist the bondage of the spell, she uses the strength of her whole body to stop her sword swing, power and inhibition, the two opposing forces collide fiercely in Saber's body, and her slender body seems to be torn apart at any time.
This excruciating pain and unimaginable pain reminded Saber of Dilumudo Audi's deathbed, the bitterness and humiliation that the tragic heroic soul tasted, and she also experienced it firsthand.
While confronting the powerful magic, Saber stared at Kiritsugu Emiya standing in the box and shouted.
"Why!? Kiritsugu-Why you!? ”
It can't be, he can't give such an order.
Emiya Kiritsugu was so eager to get the Holy Grail, so why did he refuse the Holy Grail at this moment? Does he want to let the ritual that his beloved wife has fulfilled with her life completely go to waste?
After understanding that Saber's unusual behavior was the effect of the spell, Archer finally sensed the presence of Emiya Kiritsugu.
"Are you trying to ruin my wedding, mongrel!"
The group of Noble Phantasms that had been aiming at Saber suddenly turned around and aimed at the location of the box where Kiritsugu was.
But before the Noble Phantasm could begin to attack, Kiritsugu raised his right hand again and gestured to Saber below, the back of his hand—there was still one last spell left on it.
- Command again with the third spell -
"Stop!!"
Seeing that his pride and hope were about to disappear in an instant, Saber screamed with tears in her eyes.
— Saber, Destroying the Holy Grail —
This is an absolute power that is completely irresistible.
The immense coercion of the Double Command ravages and crushes Saber's body, drawing out the remaining magic from her and weaving it into the light of destruction.
The beam that was released cut through the auditorium and hit the Holy Grail floating on the stage, and Archer was quick to dodge the attack, but the close-range beam was too dazzling for him to attack Kiritsugu.
The Golden Grail, once part of Alice Phil's body, silently lost form in the scorching heat of the flash, and then vanished.
Saber closed her eyes, not daring to face the scene - now, the last hope was shattered, and her battle was over.
In that case, how could I witness this tragic scene with my eyes open?
In fact, she was never able to open her eyes again, and the Noble Phantasm, which violated her intentions to force her powers, had exhausted all of Saber's remaining magical power, and she could not even maintain the physical form of the Servant, and Saber lost the strength and will to remain in this world.
Of course, this is also due to the fact that the Master, who is the contractor, does not intend to keep her.
Maintaining a sword-swinging stance, Saber began to detach from the present world, and soon, her entity vanished.
At the moment when he gradually loses his intersection with the real world, the last emotion that flashes through Saber's mind is the mystery of the character of Emiya Kiritsugu.
A lovely father who dotes on his daughter, a warrior who wants to save the world, and a murderer who despairs of justice, he shows all kinds of contradictory fragments of human nature, but in the end betrays everything and denies everything.
Until the end, for such a man, Saber can only be sure of the coldness and ruthlessness in his heart.
It wasn't until the end that he and she failed to get to know each other and build a relationship of trust—nay, perhaps at the last minute, when she realized that she hadn't really understood what he was thinking.
But, there is nothing wrong with this -
Fade into consciousness, Saber laughed to himself.
How can a man who has nothing to do with anything other than give three orders to himself, how can he understand himself? Such a self once failed to even read the letters of the people around him.
All of this may be a long and euphemistic punishment for the "king who doesn't understand other people's feelings".
Although Saber left the world scarred and unable to fulfill her ambitions, not having to witness the tragedy that followed may be a kind of compensation for her.
The beam of the "Sword of Victory of the Oath" that destroyed the Holy Grail mixed the ceiling of the stage, splitting the entire civic hall in two, and the already burned building could not withstand such a blow, and the superstructure was destroyed, and the roof that had lost its support fell into the auditorium like an avalanche.
Then, through the pillar-like debris of rubble, Kiritsugu saw "it" in the night sky that was exposed again.
The Black Sun - What you have seen when you come into contact with the black mud, a symbol of the end of this world.
That's what Kiritsugu couldn't see clearly, its entity is actually a real "hole", it is hidden in the altar of the advent ceremony, and the space tunnel connected to the "Great Holy Grail" magic array under the Enzo Mountain on the east side of Fukayama Town, and has absorbed the energy of the leylines for sixty years, and now it has obtained the inside of the Great Body Holy Grail of the six heroic souls and has been filled, turning into a huge magic vortex.
This is the body of the black "hole".
The "device" taken from the android of Einzbelen is only the key to open the hole, and it is also the control device that keeps the hole in a stable state, and Kiritsugu, who is unaware of this secret, has made a famous mistake by not ordering Saber to destroy the Holy Grail, but to let her burn the hole in the sky with the "Sword of Victory of the Oath".
Due to the loss of control of the "device", the black sun began to dissolve and the hole gradually decreased, but it was already completely impossible to stop the black mud from flowing out of the inside of the hole until it was completely closed.
Originally, it was a non-attribute power that was only used to create a breakthrough to the "outside world", but due to the mistakes of Kiritsugu before, it was dyed with a dark curse.
The black mud, which is filled with the curse of one of the "evils in the world", has the power to destroy all life, and at this moment, it is like a waterfall falling in large numbers from the top of the civic hall.
Archer, standing in the audience on the first floor, could not find a way out of this baptism.
"This ...... This is......!? ”
The raging black waves swept away the golden servant that could not be done.
No, it wasn't just swept away, he disappeared the moment he touched the black mud, and Archer's body was broken down and absorbed by the black mud in the blink of an eye, becoming one with the raging mudstream.
The tsunami of black mud engulfed the first-floor auditorium, and Kiritsugu, who stood in the box and had managed to escape, commented on it all in a daze, and the cursed waterfall that fell from the sky did not stop, and the black mud turned into a river gushing out of the building through the entrance of the hall and spreading out to the surrounding neighborhood.
And so, the killing began.
People were asleep, smelling the death mud of the breath of human life, turning into a burning curse that came down to their pillows.
Burn down houses, burn down courtyards.
Both those who fell asleep and those who woke up trying to escape were burned to the ground—it had waited inside the Great Holy Grail for sixty years, as if celebrating its brief release, mercilessly stripping it of all life it had come into contact with.
It was later revealed that more than 500 people were killed and 134 buildings were burned down, leaving an indelible mark on the hearts of the citizens of Fuyuki City.
After a while, the holes in the sky disappeared, and the black mud no longer gushed out, but the earth brought a massive fire, and the people who could not drag it turned into charred corpses one by one.
The night sky is rendered by the grand red lotus fire, and the ground is endlessly staged with the feast of death.
Escaping from the crumbling civic hall, Emiya Kiritsugu witnessed the whole process with his own eyes.
The life that tends to be ruined is so similar to the situation that tormented him in a nightmare, but there is no doubt about reality in front of it.