My name is Elijah,

I'm listening to wishes.

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After the dinner, Caster remodeled a reception room, the sheer magic and the faint hint of roots made the magicians present more confident that she would be able to grant her wishes, but the only question now was, as a "Holy Grail" incarnated by the Heroic Spirit, would she be favoritistic?

Kiritsugu Emiya and Alice Phil, as well as Hayashi Hao, both received more attention, intentionally or unintentionally, when Illya created the "Wishing Room".

"Let's come in together~" After the magic fluctuations subsided, the voice of the girl Yingling came from the house: "This is so that when there is a conflict between each other's wishes, you can coordinate in time, and you don't have to worry about crowding, you will be diverted to different mirror images." ”

I didn't understand what she was talking about, but it was probably understandable, and the magician and the servant looked at each other, separated slightly, and walked in together.

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Endless darkness, this was Emiya Kiritsugu's first impression after entering the room, Tosaka Tokitomi who was walking in front and Alice Phil, who was walking side by side with him, even disappeared through the door to enter, and all that could be seen was the small round table that slightly dispelled the darkness and placed the Holy Grail that emitted a faint golden light, and Illya, who was sitting opposite the round table and wearing a black celestial dress.

"Magician killer, partner of justice." Illya didn't sneer at him like she did before, and even conjured a high-backed chair across the table out of thin air: "Sit down." ”

“…… My wishes, you should be very clear. "I was just pointed out by my wife that I actually care about this "daughter" very much, but I don't know how to react for a while, so Emiya Kiritsugu sat down and said with the same cold attitude as he has always been.

"I've wanted to say that for a long time, but my previous identity wasn't suitable," Illya stared at Kiritsugu with her bright red eyes, "Why do you think a [wishing machine] would think for itself?" ”

“…… What do you mean? Kiritsugu didn't react for a moment.

"The Holy Grail is not a magic lamp elf, a sealed devil, or anything like that - that thing was killed by our fire before," Illya tapped on the small chalice on the table, "Grandpa Patriarch should have told you its essence, gather powerful magic to communicate the roots, realize the cup of the third law, and use those magic powers to create 'miracles' that ordinary magic can't do."

Kiritsugu, who didn't feel anything wrong, nodded in agreement.

"So you're going to say 'I want to save the world, you can figure it out' to that magic prop that only works according to the set steps?" Illya picked up the chalice on the table and shook it: "Let a cup think?" It would take a miracle to make that happen. ”

"This ......" Kiritsugu finally discovered the blind spot of his own thinking, and the "miracle" in his heart and the "miracle" in the mouth of the magician are not the same thing at all, and the latter mostly refers to the wish of the remaining one of the three families to "achieve eternal life".

"I didn't know exactly why you were destroying the Holy Grail when it was at your fingertips, until I became the Holy Grail myself," Illya put the Holy Grail back on the table, and the rim of the cup glowed, forming a translucent curtain of light above it.

Destroying the Holy Grail? How could it be—Kiritsugu didn't have time to think about what Illya's revelation of "history as she knew" when she was drawn to the light screen.

[This is the only remaining 500 people in the world, on two large ships of 300 and 200 people, but due to the reef, the two ships leaked at the same time, and there was only time to repair one ship, and only you mastered the repair technology, so the ship of 200 people was detained and required to repair ......]

"......" Emiya Kiritsugu watched as the "self" on the screen "killed the few and saved the many" again and again, and finally killed all five hundred people, leaving only Alice Phil and Illya to stop.

"Look, if you don't have a real way to save the world, and if you're under the influence of that evil god, you'll end up like this." Illya turned off the screen: "I have to say that I don't hesitate to kill all the people in the world for the sake of my wife and daughter, this kind of behavior is a bit handsome." ”

"That's not right, only two of the four hundred and ninety-eight people sacrificed survived, it should, it should be ......" Kiritsu couldn't organize the logic of thinking for a while.

"Mom and me should be sacrificed?" Illya answered.

"Absolutely not!" Before Kiritsugu could think about it, he blurted out a rebuttal.

"—the answer is correct," Illya pushed the crown that had almost fallen off in shock, "If you don't want to save the world, but to put an end to all the war and bloodshed, I have a reference here." ”

Once again, the Holy Grail cast a curtain of light, still the same two ships, but this time, they landed on a rudimentary dock.

[We are sea refuge ship No. 105. 【Welcome to Land Shelter No. 111】

After the appearance of the two lines of subtitles, the "shot" also zoomed out.

The wasteland of nuclear warfare, the land of steel, the human race is no longer the master of the earth, the hundreds of species, mutant monsters, and alien subhumans are constantly fighting for living space, and the human beings in the cracks have to unite completely, in order to survive in a world full of crises, there is no spare energy to carry out internal strife - that kind of thing means the destruction of a refuge settlement.

"This ......" Kiritsugu muttered, although it is true that there is no more war and bloodshed between human beings, but at the same time, it has lost its dominance of the earth, and has to fight for survival every day, is this considered to save the world?

"When I led them as the 'King of the End', there were already some signs of infighting, but I was suppressed by the bullet," Illya snapped off when a girl in a celestial dress was summoned on the screen, "If there is not enough pressure, humans will always fight each other for various reasons, so which of the two options are you going to choose?" However, you will definitely not agree to provoke a nuclear war now, so it is better to attract aliens. ”

"Neither of either," Kiritsugu shook his head, "I want to continue to save the world in my own way, so, my wish is to have the most powerful combat power in the world." ”

"Did you find out? In the first method, just stop the two ships from inexplicably hitting the reef and leaking in succession," Illya smiled slightly: "Then, as you wish." ”

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"I think you should know that the long-cherished wish of the Tosaka family is to reach the roots, and that has never changed."

Tosaka sat across the round table and slowly tasted a glass of red wine.

"Now that the Holy Grail has appeared, it is naturally not a problem to communicate with the Root, but after reaching the Root, it will be completely cut off from the present world," Illya looked at him, "You don't plan to arrange a good wife, daughter, and apprentices?" ”

"Completely cut off?" Tosaka Tokitomi hooked the corners of his mouth, put the red wine in his hand back on the table, and looked straight at Illya until she turned her eyes away uncomfortably.

"I've studied the records of many people who are suspected of reaching the root cause," Shi Chen put his hands folded on the table, and said slowly, "Most of them are accidents with no bones left, but it can still be judged that some people actually reached the root cause in those accidents, do you know what I judge based on?" ”

Illya pursed her lips and shook her head.

"If you want to get to know a person, you can look at his friends, and if you want to really get to know a person, you have to look at his enemies." Tosaka Tokitomi began to make amends for his stupidity as a jewel knight by saying something philosophical: "After those people disappeared, relatives and friends benefited with incredible speed and frequency, while enemies suffered misfortune with the same incredible speed, and even more incredibly, everyone had no doubt about it, and then, at some point, luck and misfortune came to an abrupt end at the same time." ”

Illya looked up at the sky.

"From this, it can be concluded that mortals will quickly lose themselves and be assimilated after reaching the Root, but there is still time before assimilation to use the power of the Root to influence the things they want to affect in ways that are imperceptibly wrong - such as the many events in this Holy Grail War that inexplicably favor your intention to 'keep all the Lords alive.'" Tosaka finished confidently and began to wait for Illya's response.

"Okay, okay," Illya rolled her eyes at Shichen, "It's Alayya's intention to keep all of you alive, I really just want to save Mom and Dad and Maiya Kuyu." ”

This, better than expected, proves that she is not useless for the root, and, after she incarnated as a "jewel knight", she subconsciously relaxed her vigilance against herself is also one of the reasons, although it is a juvenile heart, but memories and insights are shared.

"I've already judged it through the 'review' just now," Shi Chen maintained a confident attitude: "Therefore, the original Saber should be the real King Arthur, with a noble royal bearing and strong personal charm, but because of this, it did not match the style of Emiya Kiritsugu, and finally caused the defeat of that battle." ”

Illya was dumbfounded, and her eyes even opened for a moment, as if she was discussing something with someone.

"So, don't throw me into the root of nothing, and show me the way back," Shi Chen continued, following his own preconceived words: "Please introduce me to 'Alayya', I wish to talk to Him." ”

"In that case, you really won't be able to come back, are you sure?" Illya stared at Shi Chen with ruby eyes.

"The long-cherished wish of the Tosaka family is to reach the root," Shi Chen hooked the corners of his mouth: "But what to do after arriving is up to me." ”

"Well, as you wish......" Illya seemed to be very dissatisfied, holding the chalice "I hope you won't regret it." ”

The Holy Grail emitted a dazzling golden light, completely dispelling the darkness around her, and Illya and the table in front of her disappeared at the same time, and in the next moment, Shi Chen found himself floating extremely high above the winter wood, with a transparent staircase in front of him.

Shi Chen raised his foot and stepped on the staircase, and looked up, the rotating staircase looked endless, and the position it finally led to was a large, crystalline translucent ring that appeared in the blue sky.

Faintly, Illya's small complaints can be heard-

"What about dropping the chain at the critical time?" "It deserves to be the cauldron of this world." "It's all Shi Chen's fault."