"Saber, there is nothing wrong with the royal path you have chosen, it does have the power to calm troubled times. Reilly gave Saber a deep look and said, "However, you don't have the power to carry the royal way. Wake up from this painful dream, Artoria. Only by living like an ordinary girl can you find your own happiness. ”

"Ever since I pulled out the sword in the stone, I can't live like an ordinary girl. ”

"Yes......" Reilly smiled noncommittally and left the city of Einzberen with Riven.

(The man who can save Artoria is really only Emiya Shirou)

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At dawn, Caster and his master, Ryunosuke Yuyu, returned to the workshop. However, what awaits them is a ruined ruin.

"Oh my God, this is too much!" Ryunosuke knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, "It's a work of art that we've worked so hard to create...... How could a human being do such a cruel thing? Is this a curse?"

Caster pressed Ryunosuke's shoulder hard and made him turn to himself.

"I'll just say it once, Ryunosuke...... God will never punish human beings, He is just playing with us. ”

There seemed to be a raging fire in his eyes, but there was no expression on his face.

"Ao, Aosuke-sama?" Seeing him like this, Ryunosuke was a little overwhelmed.

"Compared to what I've done, your evil deeds are nothing compared to what I've done.

Yet, no matter what evil I committed, God did not punish me. By the time I came to my senses, I had been on this evil path for eight years. The sorrows and wails of thousands of young children have all disappeared into the darkness of nothingness!

In the end, it was not God who destroyed me, but human beings who had the same infinite desires as I did. The church and the king convicted me and arrested me and put me to death, but that was only to take my wealth and land. ”

At this point, Ryunosuke finally realized that he had just inadvertently encountered this demon's reverse scale. However, it was not fear that welled up in his heart, but boundless loneliness and pain.

Looking at Caster's expression, as if he had lost everything, Ryunosuke could feel the sadness deep in his heart.

"But, Aosu-sama...... Even so, God exists, right?"

Hearing Ryunosuke's words, Caster couldn't help but hold his breath and carefully observe the simple boy.

“...... Why? Why do you, who don't have any faith, think this way?"

"Well...... I used to think the world was very boring, so I started exploring and found a lot of interesting things. ”

Ryunosuke said as he opened his hands as if to embrace the whole world.

"For us tiny human beings, this world of joy is too much of a luxury. As long as you think about it from a different angle, you can find that there are countless foreshadowings in this world.

I think someone must be writing the script of this world, constantly refining this novel with five billion characters. That person must be the so-called god. ”

Caster thought for a moment, then looked at his Master again and asked, "So, Ryunosuke." Do you think God loves mankind?"

"Of course, it's love from the heart. Ryunosuke said without hesitation: "If you can write the script of this world for tens of thousands of years, God must love human beings very much." I think that when God savors the joy of creation, he is also moved by the love and courage in his own works, and he also weeps when he writes about sorrow, and he is terrified when he describes terror and despair. ”

Ryunosuke paused, then continued, "While God loves courage and hope, he also loves the horror and despair of flesh and blood. Otherwise, the hymn of life would not have such bright colors.

So, Aobeard-sama. This world must be full of God's love!"

Reilly admired the images and sounds of the Void Bee, and an indescribable emotion welled up in his heart.

He had always been unimpressed by the Shinto of the faith system, but he did not expect that there were also believers among mortals who understood God in this way.

(If it were him, perhaps Asha's teachings would be ...... ）

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That night, a strange thick fog appeared in the sky over the Weiyuan River.

Caster stood in the middle of the river, the magic book in his hand unleashing a frenzied vortex of magic that distorted the space around him.

Reilly came to the river alone and accosted Ryunosuke Yusheng, who was standing there.

"Ryunosuke Yusui, do you have a dream?"

"Huh, me?"

After confirming that Reilly was asking himself, Ryunosuke answered without hesitation.

"I want to know what death is all about. ”

"So you keep killing?"

"Yes, yes!" Ryunosuke said happily, "Feeling their pain before they died, listening to their desperate wails, this is the truth!"

"However, it is illegal to kill. Reilly shrugged.

"It is true that this society defines homicide as a crime. But there are five billion people on this earth!" Ryunosuke said as he opened his hands and gestured, "What a staggering number, can you understand?"

Reilly smiled and shook his head.

"Hey, hey. Ryunosuke said proudly, "When I was a child, I counted the sand in the park and counted ten thousand. ”

"And then?" asked Reilly, curious.

"I've counted to 10,000, but there's still so much sand to count!" Ryunosuke said with emotion, "And the number of humans is 500,000 times that number, and it is said that life and death are still alternating at a frequency of tens of thousands of people every day." Do the people I killed really matter?"

"Those people really don't matter to the world. Reilly shook his head and said, "But for themselves, that's all there is to life." For their families, that's an important part of their lives. ”

"Uh...... Is that so?"

Ryunosuke scratched his head, completely unable to understand what Reilly was saying.

"However, every time I kill someone, I can make him realize death completely, and sometimes it can even last for more than half a day. Isn't this thrill and experience of death more meaningful than prolonging a worthless life? Aren't the manifestations of those people dying a microcosm of their lives?"

"I see. Reilly nodded and said, "You know life through killing, right?"

"You understand me? It's so touching. Ryunosuke smiled childishly. Just looking at this face, no one can connect him with the murderer of a serial abduction murder case.

"Of course. Reilly still smiled, but a black box was added to his hand.