Chapter Ninety-Four: An Unexpected Betrayal
As it turned out, the floor of the Liudong Temple did not have eX-class defenses.
After countless baptisms, this temple has begun to decay, and most of the places that come into view are covered with a thick layer of dust, and occasionally there will be a "squeak" sound when stepping on the floor tiles, probably because the floor tiles have been broken.
Crossing the torii, a heavy pressure pressed on Xie Xie, making him almost unable to breathe, and he had to walk carefully. If you're not careful, you might trip over the broken bricks on the ground while walking.
Looking beyond the wide vestibule, I saw a figure in a black suit standing in front of the temple, looking up at a wooden sign that read "Liudong Temple", one hand in his trouser pocket, and a wisp of smoke floating above his head.
As if he was startled by the sound of Xie Xiena stepping on the broken bricks, he slowly turned his head to reveal his decadent face. Emiya Kiritsugu glanced at the two of them coldly, and then looked back at the temple's door number.
Xie Xie was not annoyed, pulled Artoria to speed up his pace slightly, and walked to the front of the temple to stand side by side with Emiya Kiritsugu.
"I thought the ones that could stop you from being a little older, it seems that I lost the bet, and it will take a while for the Holy Grail to fully activate, but I can't wait." Emiya Kiritsugu took a deep breath of the cigarette in his hand and said it without saltiness, but he couldn't hear much pity in his tone.
The door of the temple was closed, and there were no presiding monks or the like around, Xie Xie tried to push the door, only to find that the door was locked. It can be opened when opened, but the place where the lock is unlocked is a little far away from Xie Xie.
Even though all of his abilities were banned, he could still feel the familiar fluctuations behind the doorโa mixture of the Great Grail and the aura of plane evil. Something seemed to want to run out from behind the door, and a strong malice flowed out of the crack in the door, and something was still pregnant in this malice.
The dumb hairs on Artoria's head trembled, and she frowned and said softly, "Xie Xie, I hate this smell." โ
"What a coincidence, I don't like it either." Emiya Kiritsugu raised his eyebrows, threw the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground and stepped on it a few times, frowning between his eyebrows, "Caster, is this the Holy Grail?" โ
"Who knows." Xie Xie shrugged his shoulders indifferently.
Emiya Kiritsugu fell silent, looked up at the door sign that said "Yanagito Temple" again, didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't leave.
The three of them stood side by side, like office workers waiting for the subway.
Suddenly, Artoria's eyes flickered and asked, "Xie Xie, can the Holy Grail really grant any wishes?" โ
Emiya Kiritsugu also lowered his head and looked at Xie Xie with interest.
"Yes and no." Xie Xie replied vaguely.
Just as Artoria was about to ask something, the wooden door suddenly shook. There was no wind, but it shook violently. In a few moments, the lock that had been stuck in the door was falling off because of the shakingโa lock that could have been opened with a single pull.
The door suddenly stopped shaking, and slowly opened back as if it was being pushed by someone, and the sunlight outside the door shone into the temple, only to dissipate the darkness a little, and more dense and substantial darkness surrounded the room greedily devouring the light. There was nothing in the darkness, except for a high platform in the center on which a glittering golden cup rested.
Darkness surrounded the cup, only the golden light on the cup, the red liquid slowly flowing out of it, and the light reflected on the golden cup made the cup look extremely strange.
Xie Xie stood outside the door, in a trance, as if he saw a white figure slowly rising from the cup, like a ghost, and like a rice ball, it seemed that there was only a blurry white thing constantly rolling and churning on the cup.
Not fully mature?
Just as he was thinking this, the white thing suddenly "smiled" at him very humanely, and the white thing like smoke suddenly cracked a black hole and grinned in an arc. As if laughing, as if crying, the black liquid slowly flowed from the black mouth, slowly dyeing the white black. When it was completely black, the black smoke opened another hole and disappeared into the mouth of the Holy Grail.
Xie Xie shook his hand gently, and suddenly found that his strength had returned to his body. In order to verify that this was not an illusion, he chose to summon Panel-kun.
"Is it over?" Panel-kun is always so fast.
"Not yet, rather, not yet. This time it seems to be ...... What's the difference. Xie Xie hesitated and said his inner guess, "I'm afraid that the evil of this plane is even more terrifying than that of the previous plane." โ
Oh, yes...... I haven't grown up to learn to mock myself, and it would be so terrifying if I grew up.
"And what are you going to do?"
"But what can I do if I keep the original plan?"
Xie Xie smiled self-deprecatingly, turned his head to look around, only to find that Emiya Kiritsugu didn't know when he was no longer by his side, and rushed towards the Holy Grail at a speed like an open hanging.
Emiya Kiritsugu's magic: Inherent Time Imperial System, referred to as acceleration hanging.
Although just adding a little gravity Xie Xie can make him stop, he doesn't plan to do it. Because it doesn't make any difference to him who gets the Holy Grail, rather, after the birth of the Plane Evil in that Holy Grail, it is impossible for anyone to get the Holy Grail. It's just that......
"I command you as the Lord of the Heroic Spirits, don't say anything."
"I command you, as the Lord of the Heroic Spirits, not to move."
"I command you as the Lord of the Immortals, Belaw."
Artoria raised her hand and gave three orders in succession, and the spell in her hand vanished completely. Her face was very calm, as calm as if she had done nothing, she looked at Xie Xie with a hint of sadness on her face, her slightly pale lips hummed slightly, she said "I'm sorry" and ran along Emiya Kiritsugu's path towards the Holy Grail.
"Changing the Sequence: Self-Will."
"Yes."
For a moment, the effect of the confinement was applied to him, but the next second it was completely removed by him. For him, the command of the incantation was just a word, and it had no effect. But after the order was lifted, he still stood stiff, silently watching Artoria's back.
He suddenly understood why the evil of the plane was "laughing" at him. That's a real mockery...... It is inherently evil, and it is better able to read the negativity of human hearts than itself.
"Just watch her go looking for the evil of the plane?" Panel-kun never knows how to read the atmosphere.
"Yes." Xie Xie replied a little nonchalantly, "I was originally going to do this. โ
Panel Jun was silent for a while before asking, "Are you disappointed?" โ
"Nope." Xie Xie replied quickly, hesitated for a moment before sighing, "Maybe there is." โ
Panel-kun didn't say anything about it, but suddenly said, "I'm going to bump into it." โ
Xie Xie came back to his senses, only to see that Emiya Kiritsugu, who had opened the hanging, had still reached the Holy Grail first, with his hand on the Holy Grail, while Artoria had belatedly put his hand on the Holy Grail a second later.
The Holy Grail suddenly glowed with golden light, illuminating the entire temple, spewing out a red liquid, and both of them were covered in it without discrimination. By the time the red liquid had completely fallen to the ground, the figures of the two had completely disappeared.
Xie Xie was stunned for a moment before slowly stepping over the threshold and walking into the temple. The floor was clean, there was no trace of any soaking, and there was no trace of the red liquid, as if it didn't exist in the first place. But the chalice was still bubbling outward, and I never tired of it.
"The evil of the plane is inside, do you want to go in?" Panel Jun asked.
Xie Xie shook his head lightly and looked down at the red pool under the Holy Grail. The waterhole enclosed the chalice like the stars and the moon, and at a certain distance it no longer spread outward. The red liquid was like wine, and like blood, and it clearly reflected his young and pale face.
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