The cycle of sixty years is approaching, and the Fourth Holy Grail War is about to begin.

In Fuyuki City, there are many people who are busy for this moment. After a long period of preparation, it is finally time for this crucial harvest moment.

Before the Fourth Holy Grail War officially began, the Holy Grail had already selected five Masters, and in addition to the first to summon the Heroic Spirit's Peak Qili, four Commanders began to summon their own Servant in no particular order.

Along with the fixed form of the summoning array, along with this spell of words and spirits, under the influence of the spiritual veins of Fuyuki City, the body of the magician was used as a medium, and the heroic spirits were also born.

In the middle, there is another uninvited person with a strong desire, who voluntarily petitions the Holy Grail in his own way in order to prove his worth, and without receiving the spell, he also begins to try to summon the Heroic Spirit.

On this day, the incantations that were sung in different places, in front of different objects, sounded almost simultaneously, completely beyond the contingency of chance.

Whoever casts the spell, their long-cherished wish is the same.

A miracle is about to befall only one person, and they will not hesitate to fight for it in order to obtain it. To the heroes of time and space, now, the earth at the same time resounded the aria of several people praying:

"Full, full, full, full. The cycle repeats, followed by five. However, when it is full, it is the opportunity to be abandoned. ”

"Proclaim that Thou art under me, and that thou hast entrusted my fate to thy sword, and that thou hast obeyed the name of the Holy Grail, and if thou hast obeyed this will, then respond."

"I swear that I am the one who accomplishes all the good deeds in the world, and I am the one who cleanses the world from all evil."

"Seven days of entanglement of your three great spirits, come from the wheel of restraint, O guardian of the scales!"

Each of the above six people fulfilled their own demands, allowing the power of the Holy Grail to work on their bodies, and using the power of the Holy Grail to summon their respective Heroic Spirits.

There were no mistakes in the process, and it was completed successfully and smoothly.

However, there is a seventh person who is an exception.

This outlier among the anomalies, he is not a magician at all, and he does not know the truth of the Holy Grail War, but this person is ignorant, and at the moment when he was not chosen by the Holy Grail, he also began to summon the Heroic Spirit at the same time as the previous ones.

This person is Ryunosuke Yusheng!

Here we must focus on understanding, and I have to mention the person of Yusheng Ryunosuke, what kind of person he is - this person who also has a special meaning for the deceased Li Amen.

Ryunosuke Woo doesn't like bloody and violent movies, but he can also understand the necessity of that kind of entertainment.

It's not just horror movies. There are also war films, disaster films, and even plain adventure films and series. Why do these fictional entertainment programs always take the trouble to depict "human death"?

This may be because the audience can peek at these fictional "deaths" from a safe angle, and this fear is minimized.

Human beings are proud of their "wisdom" and are full of fear of the "unknown". But no matter how terrible the object is, as long as it has been "experienced" and "understood", then it is possible to conquer terror with this rational understanding.

But. There is only such a thing as "death...... It's something you can't experience while you're alive in any way. You can't really understand it. As a result, human beings who have nothing to do can only rely on observing the death of others to try to understand the nature of death and simulate the experience.

As a civilized society, human life is respected, so death can only be experienced by relying on fictional content. However, in a war-torn place where people around them are bombed at any time during meals, no one wants to watch horror movies.

Same. Whether it's physical pain or mental stress, fictional entertainment can work for all the misfortunes in life. If it is very risky for us to experience those things ourselves, then we rely on observing others to gain understanding, to overcome fear, to dispel that anxiety. That's why movie screens and TV screens are filled with tears of sorrow, sighs, and anguish.

This is good. I can understand that. Once Ryunosuke, like these people, was full of fear of "death". Those "stale deaths" that perfectly reproduce the horrific corpses and splashes of pink blood with their realistic acting skills can conquer the fear of death mentally. Then Ryunosuke should also become a lover of horror movies.

But for Ryunosuke, he seems to have an extraordinary keen ability to distinguish between the truth and the fake of the "death" thing. For him, these fictitious horrors seemed a little ridiculous. Whether it's the plot or the picture, it's full of pediatric stuff. From these things, the so-called "essence of death" cannot be experienced even at all.

Although it is not uncommon to see statements that so-called fictional depictions of violence will have a bad impact on teenagers, for Ryunosuke Yuyu, these are just very ridiculous jokes. If the blood and screams in horror movies had been a little more realistic, he might not have become the murderer he is now.

It's just the result of that burning curiosity. Ryunosuke wants to know what the so-called "death" is like anyway. The color of the blood spurting out of an artery, and the temperature of an organ in the abdominal cavity that is touched with a hand. Pull them all out.

The pain felt by the victim before he died and the desperate wail before he died. Nothing could be truer than that.

It is believed that homicide is a crime. But we'd better think about it. There are more than 5 billion people living on this earth. What a staggering number. Ryunosuke knows this very well. When he was a child, he used to count the gravel in the sand piles in the park. He will never forget the frustration of counting to 10,000 and having an endless count. And human life is 500,000 times that of that. And it is said that life and death are still alternating in tens of thousands every day. So how heavy is the person killed by Ryunosuke's hands?

And when Ryunosuke kills a person, it completely makes that person realize the whole of death. Sometimes it can even allow a person to experience the process of "dying to death" for more than half a day. The information, stimulus, and experience that comes with the death of this person is more meaningful than prolonging a worthless life. With that in mind, it's more appropriate to say that Ryunosuke is not so much killing people as he is performing an act of creation.

With this belief, Ryunosuke traveled from place to place while continuously killing people. This tossing and turning is not because he is afraid of being punished by the law. In fact, the feeling of being handcuffed and imprisoned -- and having seen many of the like them -- had come to the point where he had "understood" them to the point where he did not feel horrified at all, whether it was the gallows or the electric chair, the manner of death had been completely "observed". Therefore, if there is a reason for him to escape the pursuit of the judicial authorities, it is only because before he gave up his life and freedom, even if he went to prison, he could not get anything, and compared with going to prison, he believed that the kind of unrestrained, happy and active healthy life is the right way to live.

He was completely intoxicated with the joy of being drained of the life force, nostalgia for life, anger, and attachment to the object of his murder. The various manifestations of those victims before their deaths can be said to be a kind of microcosm of their lives and have a deep meaning.

Those who look ordinary behave very strangely when they die, and those who feel strange on the contrary look extremely ordinary when they die - Ryunosuke, who has observed many of these human expressions, has a deeper understanding of the opposite of death, life, while exploring death and understanding death. The more people he killed, the deeper his understanding of life.

(Please be mentally prepared that the chapter introducing Ryunosuke Yubu will not be too short!) ）