Chapter 40: All the Evils of This World
In Higashiki City, there are a total of four spirit veins that can be used as locations to summon the Holy Grail.
The first is Mt. Enzang, with its natural caves, where the Great Holy Grail of the Winter Maiden was exchanged for her sacrifice. As the starting place for Tosaka, Makiri, and Einzberen to work together to summon miracles, it has always been the best altar.
As the owner of the land, the Tosaka family could have occupied this best spiritual vein, but the magic in Enzo Mountain was too strong and detrimental to the growth of the next generation. Therefore, they set their residence in the second spiritual vein, which is now the Tosaka Mansion. Although it is a little worse than Enzang Mountain, the spiritual power of this place is also enough to support the advent of the Holy Grail.
Although the spiritual vein of the third place was given to the immigrated Jian Tong family, the spiritual power there did not match the attributes of the Jian Tong family, so the Jian Tong Mansion was built in another place. The original veins were bought by the Templar Church that later intervened, and became their stronghold. Although it is separated from Enzang Mountain by a long distance, the Lingge of this place is no worse than the Tosaka Mansion.
The fourth spiritual vein did not originally exist in this land, it was a spiritual land formed by the accumulation of magic flowing from the three major spiritual veins. Later investigations confirmed that there was a spirit sufficient to perform rituals, and that it had been marked as a candidate since the Third Holy Grail War. However, the site is located right in the middle of a new residential area where the recently built Civic Hall is located.
Fuyuki Civic Hall.
This 8 billion yen facility is a building that is known as a symbol of the development of Fuyuki Shinto, along with the station center building. It covers an area of 6,600 square meters, with a construction area of 4,700 square meters, and is a hybrid structure with four floors above ground and one floor underground. The guild hall designed by a famous architect is as majestic as an ancient shrine, showing the government's ambition to develop a new capital.
However, now it is only one silhouette, and the interior decoration has just begun. Apart from the minimum safety facilities, even the power supply system was not completed. When the staff gets off work, the building becomes a quiet place where no one is around.
The main body of the hall is a large recital hall covering the first to third floors. Before the final battle with Rider, Reilly placed Alice Fair's body on the stage that had been renovated.
Her soul had long since left the man-made exorcism and was being reincarnated in the kingdom of the gods of Reilly. In seven days, the girl will be able to return to her husband and daughter as a human being, a happiness that was unimaginable in the past.
The "Guardian of the Apparatus" has lost signs of life, and the internal organs of that body have long since reverted to the form of the Grail Vessel, waiting to retrieve the soul of the Servant.
After Rayleigh defeated the Rider, the Grail Vessel finally absorbed the soul of the fourth Servant.
The sealing spell is gone, and the powerful magic turns into flames, engulfing everything around it. The golden cup is suspended in the air as if it were held by a pair of invisible hands.
The Holy Grail Advent Ceremony, which the "Founding Imperial Three Families" had dreamed of, quietly began when there were no priests.
Then, the "door", which was still closed, appeared as thin as a hair's hair. Through the small gap, something on the other side of the door crept into the chalice.
It looked very similar to "mud". Black, just black, clay-like "objects".
The object flowing into the chalice suddenly dripped out and turned into a thin black line, like a crack in the, and the black waves soon overflowed the container and flowed onto the floor of the stage.
The stage floor was simply not strong enough to hold that pitch-black thing. The sludge seeped into the new building materials, eroding, and flowing deeper like melting snow seeping into the earth.
Reilly, who was driven back with teleportation magic, happened to see this scene.
"Angola Manuel ......"
Reilly looked at the dark thing with a solemn expression.
The Servant of the Eighth Rank Avenger, whose real name is Angora Manuel, was originally an ordinary human born in a small village that practiced Zoroastrianism.
One day, in order to prove the goodness of mankind, the boy was forced by the ignorant villagers to bear the name of Angola Manuel, and bear all the evils of this world.
In that impoverished village, people needed a spiritual sustenance to endure the hard life day after day.
"Our lives have never improved, and there must be a culprit. ”
People who cannot be redeemed need an object to vent their grievances.
The boy was imprisoned on the top of the mountain, and the villagers gouged out his right eye, cut off his hands and feet, and cursed him as a source of evil.
The boy died in endless agony, and was elevated to the rank of a heroic spirit with the "prayers" of the people.
There is no sin except "I", and there is no flaw except "I".
In this way, the world was saved and they were given peace.
Therefore -
The boy is bound to the top of the mountain as an anti-hero who carries all the evils of this world, and is spurned, cursed, and despised by the people. At some point, even his name was taken away, and only the title of "mode of existence" remained, and finally became a concept that was passed down from generation to generation.
During the Third Holy Grail War, the magicians of Einzberen used Western classics as a medium to summon the mythical god of darkness, Angora Manuel.
However, the power of the Holy Grail was not enough to summon the demon god, and the human, known as Angora Manuel, became the Servant of Einzberen.
This Heroic Spirit is an ordinary person who is expected to bear all the sins of the world, the embodiment of human desire.
He is a heroic spirit who specializes in killing humans, but is nothing else, has no role in the Holy Grail War, and is truly the weakest Servant.
After Avenger's defeat, his soul was absorbed by the Holy Grail. However, Angora Manuel himself is the embodiment of human aspirations, and as soon as he enters the Holy Grail, he makes a wish.
Since then, the Holy Grail has been a breeding ground for "all the evils of this world."
"Is this the resentment of five billion human beings?"
Reilly reached out and picked up the black mud that fell like a waterfall, before it was completely swallowed.
Gluttony, lust, greed, rage, laziness, jealousy, arrogance, all the sins of mankind are in this vortex.
Theft, robbery, murder, defamation, bribery, arson, kidnapping......
All crimes should be punished with the death penalty and all hatred should be resolved with killing.
Kill Kill Kill Kill never agrees.
Kill, kill, kill, kill, that's it.
Kill, kill, kill, kill them all.
However, this is wrong.
“――!?”
Something came up that wasn't supposed to exist. In the midst of the same curse, a different voice suddenly appeared: "Killing is a means, not an end." If there is another way to solve the problem, then why kill?"
No way. There is nothing but hatred and curse in this maelstrom, and thoughts other than killing cannot appear here.
Yet, again, the voice rang out: "If killing and hatred can only bring pain, why not put love in this vessel?"
“――!?”
The cursed voice asked, "Love?"
After asking the question, Black Mud realized that it contradicted itself.
In a place where the "individual" is absolutely not allowed, it acknowledges a different voice.
It is the will that is above all beings, the controller of order.
"Love is the only light in people's hearts!"
Black mud containing billions of resentments splattered in all directions, and a young man in a magic robe and a skull crown walked out.