The appearance of the berserker was not only unnoticed by Emiya Kiritsugu, but even the self-proclaimed Holy Grail consciousness "Alice Phil" showed a surprised expression.

"Berserker, why are you here?"

Without answering Emiya Kiritsugu's question head-on, Berserker said in a mocking tone:

"It's only been such a short time, how can you make such a mess of yourself?"

Emiya Kiritsugu was silent.

Berserker sighed, and he patted Emiya Kiritsugu on the shoulder:

"It seems that you have realized that the Holy Grail is not a universal wishing machine. The Holy Grail has only infinite power, but the affairs of the world are never solved by power alone, especially when power is used in a malicious way. ”

"Berserker, what the hell do you want to say?"

"Let go of that 'thing' that looks like your wife. That is "evil" itself, and it is useless to blame it. ”

"'Evil' per se?"

"That's right, if you're willing to listen, I can tell you the ins and outs of this."

Berserker's words were convincing, and Emiya Kiritsugu looked at Alice Phil, who was crushed to the ground, hesitated for a moment, and finally let go of the hands that were holding his throat.

"Obviously a summoned Heroic Spirit, how did you know the inside story of the Holy Grail?"

"You should know that due to the connection between the servant and the master, it is often the case that you see the memories of the other party in your sleep, right?"

"You mean, you saw it through dreams, too?"

"Well, when I was immersed in the black mud, I could vaguely see something, and although it was vague, I could roughly sort out what was going on."

"First, let's explain why the inside of the Holy Grail is the way it is."

"The so-called Holy Grail pursued by the Einzberren family was not actually a universal wishing machine from the beginning, but a magic ritual prepared by the founding three families, Tosaka, Makiri, and Einzberen, in order to reach the root."

Emiya Kiritsugu's eyes widened:

"Reaching the roots? Isn't the long-cherished wish of the Einzberren family to save the world? ”

Berserker smiled, "That's what the Einzberen family told you, but that doesn't mean it's the truth. You must know that even if it is completely true, if you hide some of it and do not say it, the information you can understand from it will be very different. ”

Berserker raised his right hand and pointed to "Alice Fair":

"Saving the world is too general. If you want to save the world, what do you want the world to become? Is it peaceful, or is it competitive? Are all beings equal, or are they class-specific and orderly? ”

"If you're sure you want to make the world what it is, what are the ways and means by which you can get there?"

Berserker's question made Emiya Kiritsugu stunned, saving the world was also his dream, and he had made many choices to kill in order to save it, but he had always wondered whether his method was right or wrong.

Subconsciously, Emiya Kiritsugu thinks that his method is wrong, which can be seen from the choice he made and the sorrow after the choice

Feel it.

It is precisely because human power cannot achieve the dream of saving the world that Emiya Kiritsugu pins this sad wish on the embodiment of miracles, the universal wishing machine, the Holy Grail.

"What is the method of the Einzbellen family?"

"The Third Magic: Heavenly Cup."

"Magic?"

"Yes, magic."

In this world, the way magicians use magic, if humans can do it without magic, then magicians use magic. What you can't do without magic is called magic. This is the basic common sense of magicians, and Emiya Kiritsugu knows it very well.

"The House of Einzberen is the heir to the Third Magician. The function of the Third Magic Heavenly Cup is to materialize the soul. A person who has completed the materialization of his soul is able to achieve immortality because his soul does not dissipate. This is how the House of Einzberren saved the world, completing the redemption of humanity by giving all humans eternal life. Sounds great. ”

"The artificial people of the Einzberen family continued to try, but in the end, they still failed to complete the third method of using magic that could be widely used. The closest thing they could have to a successful result was that of the android Feather Stisa Ritzlech von Einzberen. An artificial person who can use the third method. She is known as the "Winter Saintess". ”

"However, the third method of the Winter Saintess is too cumbersome, and after all, the Winter Saintess is just a product of chance, and there is no way to repeat it. Achieving the goal of imposing the third law of immortality on all mankind could not be accomplished with the Winter Maiden, and as a result, the Einzbelen family had actually failed once again. Einzberen, who had failed after a large number of attempts, turned his attention to the roots. ”

"Emiya Kiritsugu, you must know the concept of roots. It is said that the root is the whirlpool of the origin of the world, and it contains the answer to everything. If you reach the root, you can rely on the knowledge of the root vortex to truly achieve the third magic on a large scale. Let all mankind have eternal life. ”

Berserker's hand drew two circles in the air and drew an arrow in the middle:

Since then, the goal of the Einzberen family has shifted from creating more perfect artificial humans to reaching the roots.

"In order to reach the root, the Einzberen family teamed up with two other demon families, the Tosaka family and the Makiri family, who were also interested in reaching the root, to jointly build the current Holy Grail War system."

"Summoning seven Heroic Spirits from the Valhalla Constellation located on the outer side of the world, and using the power generated by the return of the seven Heroic Spirits to the Valhalla Constellation, creates a perforation inside and outside the world, forming a passage to the 'root' of the outer world."

"The Holy Grail is the sum total of a series of magical rituals constructed to achieve the purpose I just mentioned."

"To say that the Holy Grail is an all-powerful wishing machine that can fulfill all wishes is a lie that the founding three families have released to the outside world. Of course, it's not all a lie. A magician who can reach the root knows all the magic and all the knowledge of the world, and one of the side effects of connecting the inside and outside of the world is to gain almost infinite magic from the outside of the world and from the souls of the Heroes. ”

"A magician who has infinite magic power and mastery of all magic tricks can be said to be almost omnipotent, and it is naturally a piece of cake to realize his wishes. The Holy Grail has naturally become a wishing machine that can grant all wishes. ’”

"In the First Holy Grail War, Tosaka, Makiri, and Einzberen, the three founding families of the Imperial Family, worked together to build the prototype of the Holy Grail. The then head of the House of Einzbelen, the Winter Maiden, constituted the core of the Holy Grail as a living sacrifice. Summoning seven Heroic Spirits to fill the Holy Grail will open the way to the Root. If all goes well, perhaps all human beings in this world have been covered by the third magic and become the immortal Holy Spirit. ”

"Then why didn't the First Holy Grail War succeed?"

Berserker said with a slight mockery:

"Just how ugly a creature can be at some point, I think Kiritsugu Emiya knows better than I do. Let me ask you, if there are three adventurers who are not on a very good relationship, but just happen to drop by and go out on an expedition together, and in an inaccessible cave, they find tons of gold, and because the mountains and forests are inaccessible, what happens to the outside world will not know, what do you think will happen? ”

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't understand what Berserker meant at first, but when Berserker gave him three words with his mouth, he immediately woke up:

"They...... Will you fight for the monopoly of these tons of gold? ”

"That's right, this is the 'exclusivity' of human beings."

"The First Holy Grail War was stillborn due to the sudden outbreak of fighting for the ownership of the Holy Grail and the unbinding recklessness of the summoned Servants."

"In order to make the ceremony more orderly, reduce the possibility of betrayal or recklessness of the Servants, and at the same time allow the competition for the Holy Grail to a certain extent, the Maki family, who have learned the lesson, have established the basic rules of the current Holy Grail War, such as the command and spell system of the Servants, and the hard rule that each magician can only summon one Servant, etc. On the basis of these rules, magicians were summoned from all over the world – in effect coaxed – to participate in the Holy Grail ceremony. ”

"However, the Little Chalice of the Second Holy Grail War – the device used to stabilize the passage to the root – was placed in the open air. As a result, in the process of fighting for the Holy Grail, a pair of servants and the master, knowing that they were going to lose the battle for the Holy Grail, destroyed the little Holy Grail with the idea that I would not get it to anyone else. Without the stabilizer, the passage to the root collapsed, and the Second Holy Grail War was lost once again. ”

Emiya Kiritsugu sighed:

"So the root cause of these two failures is all the inferior root ...... of human beings"

"That's right, and the Third Holy Grail War, on the basis of the previous two Holy Grail Wars, placed the Little Grail inside the artificial human body to protect it from the destruction of the Great Grail Ritual due to the damage of the Little Grail. And such an artificial man, also known as the Little Holy Grail. Your wife, Alice Phil, is one such artificial person. ”

"It's a pity that the Third Holy Grail War, which has been quite perfect, was ultimately lost. The reason for this is the whole evil of this world, Angra Mainyu, which is the 'Holy Grail consciousness' that you see now disguised as your wife. ”

"What?" Emiya Kiritsugu immediately became vigilant, "Sure enough, this guy is not the consciousness of the Holy Grail!" ”

"Wait." Berserker pressed his hands down and motioned for Emiya Kiritsugu to be calm, "There is some origin in this, in short, it is not lying to you, it is indeed the consciousness of the Holy Grail, and at the same time it is all the evil in this world. ”

Faced with Emiya Kiritsugu's puzzlement, Berserker explained:

"As I mentioned before, in order to monopolize the Holy Grail, the Holy Grail evolved from a simple magic ritual to reach the root to a war for the Holy Grail. The Cyborg family, the Einzberen, is composed entirely of pure androids, and they are first-class scholars and researchers, who have played a great role in the process of creating the Holy Grail Formation Ritual. But in the fight to the death, it seems too simple. ”

"In order to win the Holy Grail War, in the last Holy Grail War, the House of Einzbelen tried to summon a powerful demon god with a catalyst obtained from a foreign country - the main god of darkness in ancient Persian mythology, the origin of all evil and darkness - Angola Manuelle."

"However, the Holy Grail summons heroic spirits, even if they are demigods, they are human heroes. The Demon God's Angora Manuel cannot be summoned, and the Heroic Spirit who eventually responds to the call of the Holy Grail is an unnamed anti-hero who appears in the form of a young man. ”

"The Heroic Spirit who answered the summons was not the Demon God Angora Manuel, but it bore the name of the Demon God. The young man lived in a small village of ignorance, and according to the peculiar customs of the locality, he was given the name of the evil god of Manuel in Angola by the ignorant villagers, and he bore the sins of the whole world. ”

"In that village, in order to endure the hardships and poverty of life day after day, religious beliefs and rituals were necessary. The villagers believe that there must be a reason for the hardships of life, and that the hearts of the unredeemed people need an object that can vent this resentment - a sacrifice called 'evil'. ”

He was imprisoned on the top of a mountain, then his right eye gouged out, his hands and feet cut off, and he was subjected to capital punishment as an "evil" that brought disaster and poverty to the village.

"During the years of being tortured as a sacrifice, he rightly hated the people in the village, but because he didn't know who to hate, he could only accept everything and bear everything."

"After tasting all the pain that a human being can feel, the youth died. But the hatred of this absurd situation is deeply imprinted in this rock prison.

"Even after the death of the youth, even after the departure of the hateful villagers, even after the village no longer exists, his soul is always bound to the top of the mountain, looking at the life of mankind, the ugliness of mankind, the joy of mankind, the warm light, and the 'happiness of mankind' that he has not been able to obtain......

Alice Phil's Angola Manuel listened to Berserker's words, and the dark emotions slowly overflowed from his body, and the elements that made up his body gradually distorted, turning into black mud, completely merging into this dark hell.

"The Heroic Spirit appears as a special Avenger (Avenger), he is extremely weak, and he does not have the radiant strength of other Heroic Spirits, because he is not a hero in the first place, and he cannot bring strength by being tortured as a sacrifice, and his body is no different from that of ordinary people."

"On the fourth day of the Third Holy Grail War, Angola Manuel was eliminated and the soul was returned to the Holy Grail. Originally, the defeated Heroic Spirit was sucked into the Holy Grail by losing his personification to something as pure as magic, but Angola Manuel was a hero created by the wishes of his surroundings, so as soon as he entered the Holy Grail, it was equivalent to making a wish. ”

"The villagers see innocent youth as demons, which is the world's wish for youth. The Holy Grail fulfilled it, and the power of the Holy Grail was tainted ever since. It became a magical vortex of darkness and evil. ”

"The Holy Grail now will only fulfill the wishes of the wisher in the most malicious and devastating way.

If you want world peace, then you will exterminate humanity until only the relatives of the wishers are left, and there will be no more wars between relatives;

If you want all mankind to live happily, then kill a part, and if the number of resources is the same, the number of people will decrease, and the resources allocated to each person will increase;

If you want to pursue your ideal partner, then kill all competitors until no one can compete......"

"This is the truth of the so-called universal wishing machine, how do you plan to act if you know everything? Emiya Kiritsugu? ”