Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 441: The Heroic Spirit Appears (Original)

"Hey, hey, hey, Lin Shengjie, are you going out to play today? We are going to..."

"No, I want to watch anime at home."

Lin Shengjie hung up the phone directly, then opened Station C on his phone.

He ignored the messages from his classmates and even felt annoyed, so he blocked the accounts of several classmates.

However, these classmates are all his good friends, although they have been bothering him recently because they have accepted a lot of benefits from the rich woman Shen Xiaoxiao.

The fact that Shen Xiaoxiao had a crush on him was known not only to everyone in the class but also to the entire second year of high school, but he felt that Shen Xiaoxiao was too strong.

Besides...in this cold weather, he really prefers watching anime at home.

To be precise, Lin Shengjie is a otaku.

Unlike Shen Xiaoxiao who thinks he is a cool and aloof male god, he is actually a two-dimensional being.

Lin Shengjie has actually never hidden anything. His profile pictures are all Q version pictures of Li Huowang, the male protagonist of "Tao Wei Yi Xian".

There is also a "group photo" on the homepage of David from Edgewalker, Agni from Flame Fist, Denji from Chainsaw Man, Allan Shinichi from Parasyte and Li Huowang from The Taoist Priestess.

However, he is not just a die-hard fan of cartoonist Aoyama. He also reads other comics and animations, such as "True Dragon Selection", "God Clan", and "Jujutsu Kaisen".

It's just because Lin Qingshan is currently the most famous and well-known cartoonist, so he follows the trend and likes Lin Qingshan's works a little more.

The promotion of the Internet and smart phones has allowed ACG subculture to spread more widely.

The new generation of the Republic like Lin Shengjie can be said to have been formally exposed to ACG subculture such as animation dramas from elementary school to junior high school, and became a member of the two-dimensional group.

After all, there are always people who are young.

"This month's new anime... "Fate Zero"? Is it a new original anime produced by C Station?"

Lin Shengjie saw the flash screen push of the C station animation at this time, and he thought of it and said, "Doesn't that mean the final season of the first part of "Chainsaw Man" is also out?"

Apparently, he would rather watch the final season of "Chainsaw Man" than the yet-unknown "Fate Zero".

However, when he searched for "Chainsaw Man" on the site, the final third season of "Chainsaw Man" was out, but... it was not updated until Sunday night.

It's only Saturday now.

"Well, let's watch the new anime "Fate Zero" first."

Lin Shengjie immediately clicked on "Fate Zero" in the list of pushed animations below and started playing it directly.

Combined with the now sparse comments, it does feel quite lively.

"Congratulations! My wife gave birth!"

The scene started with a maid rushing into an auditorium and speaking to a man sitting on the steps of the auditorium.

However, the man did not have any expression of joy. He raised his head with a numb expression on his face. In the dark environment with little light, he seemed inexplicably sad.

Then he appeared at the bedside of a lady with long white hair who had just given birth and was holding a baby.

His wife kept saying--

"How cute!"

"So petite and fragile..."

"Look, Kiritsugu, these eyes are exactly the same as yours..."

"I am very fortunate to have this child."

After hearing his wife's words, the man called Kiritsugu remained silent for a long time, and finally spoke.

"Ellie."

Airi looked at him, and Kiritsugu continued, "I... will send you to death in the future."

This sentence instantly stunned Lin Shengjie...

This is the protagonist, right? The protagonist said at the beginning that he would send his wife who had just given birth to death in the future?

Is this reasonable?

At this time, the number of comments on the screen increased, because everyone started to post the same words -

"Opening Lightning Strike!"

"As expected of you, old thief Qingshan!"

"This show was going to tell everyone from the beginning that it was going to be a slasher."

"This Holy Grail War is just like the Dragon Knight War. In both cases, only the last camp can survive and win the final victory and realize their wish."

"If it was someone else, I might be surprised, but it's about the old thief Qingshan... then it's okay."

"You are worthy of being a mental patient. Were you ready to use the knife from the beginning?"

"This is produced by Qingshan Laozei, it is absolutely a masterpiece!"

……

In animation.

But in response to Kiritsugu's words, Airi was just stunned for a moment, and then she laughed.

"I know."

Behind Kiritsugu, Eri's voice came from the voiceover, "This is the long-cherished wish of the Einzbern family. I was born for this."

"Because I know your wish, I have the same wish in my heart, which is why I am who I am now."

"It was you who guided me and took me on a different path from that of a puppet."

"You don't need to be sad about my death, because I am already a part of you, so..."

However, at this moment, Kiritsugu suddenly interrupted Airi's words with some emotion and said, "I... I am not qualified to hug this child."

At this moment, the scene suddenly fell on the back of his right hand, and he saw a bloody "tattoo" like a cross on the back of his hand, which seemed to indicate something.

"Kiritsugu, don't forget."

At this time, Airi continued, "To create a world where no one needs to cry like you are now. This is you, and this is the ideal that you Kiritsugu longs for, right... Persevere for another eight years, and your battle will be over, and your ideal will come true. The Holy Grail... will definitely redeem you."

After saying that, she held out the child that belonged to both of them from her arms to Kiritsugu.

"So, come and hug this child, come and hug Ilyasviel."

"You can just hug her like a normal father."

Finally, the man named Kiritsugu turned around and looked at the child in his wife's arms.

Then...he hugged the child who was his.

But the next moment, the picture quickly shrank from the window that Kiritsugu had been facing.

Where they were was a huge castle, but outside the castle... it was covered with snow.

After the scene changed, a more magnificent villa appeared.

An elegant middle-aged man in a red formal suit, with an aristocratic air in his every move, was facing two men, one old and one young, dressed in priest robes.

The noble man was facing the young pastor in front of him, pouring red wine and saying with a smile:

"The pattern that appears on your right hand is proof that you have been chosen by the Holy Grail."

"These are the stigmata bestowed upon you so that you can command your Servants... Kotomine Kirei."

And on the back of his own hand there was also that unusual blood-colored pattern.

The young priest whom he called Kotomine Kirei looked at the bloody pattern on the back of his hand with numbness on his face.

This blood-colored pattern looks like it was really tattooed with blood. It is dark red but has a bloody smell.

Finally, the confusing Holy Grail War setting of "Fate Zero" appeared in the conversation between Kotomine Kirei and the noble man——

"The Holy Grail War, the battle for the Miracle Wishing Machine... and I was chosen?"

Kotomine Kirei said in disbelief.

"Originally, the seven Masters chosen by the Holy Grail to command the Servants should all be magicians."

The noble man responded, "For someone like you who has no affinity with magic to be valued by the Holy Grail so early on, this should be considered an extremely special case."

"Servant..."

He continued, "It is indeed unbelievable to have summoned heroic spirits fight each other as familiars..."

"I know it's hard for you to believe what I'm saying. Heroes from all ages and countries have awakened in the modern era to fight for supremacy... This is the Holy Grail War."

"Heroes from every era and every country awaken in the modern age?"

Lin Shengjie was full of interest when he heard this setting, and said, "Is this a heroic spirit? Wouldn't it be possible to see these heroes fighting each other, like Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong?"

Cricket fighting is an everlasting hobby of human beings. Even today's electronic games are actually cyber cricket fighting.

And if it is a cyber battle between historical crickets, it would be even more exciting.

The key is that this also adds the element of national confrontation, "from all eras to all countries"... Doesn't this mean that there must be foreign players participating?
Then we'll see the ancient heroes of the Republic beat up these foreign heroes and let them see what the martial virtues of an ancient civilization are like!
Just as Lin Shengjie was fantasizing, in the animation, the old priest behind Kotomine Kirei came out and said, "Of course, the duel must be carried out in secret. This is the default rule."

"In order to implement this, our Holy Church will send supervisors every time..."

However, in their subsequent conversation, it was revealed that... Kotomine Kirei's father, Kotomine Ritsuji, was secretly colluding with Tokiomi, the current head of the Toki family, one of the so-called three major local magician families in Fuyuki, for the sake of false justice, and planned to determine the outcome of the Holy Grail War.

At that time, with the help of the Holy Grail, he will help Tokiomi fulfill the magician's ultimate wish - to reach the root.

In the midst of the "duo act" that Tokiomi and Kotomine Kirei suddenly started for no apparent reason, Kotomine Kirei understood their intentions and accepted them.

But at the very end, Tokiomi was very curious.

Because the Masters chosen by the Holy Grail War generally have very strong desires that they want to achieve.

So...what was Kotomine Kirei's wish for to be chosen by the Holy Grail?
But Kotomine Kirei himself was also very confused. He didn't know why he, who had no wishes, was chosen by the Holy Grail.

Tokiomi was still somewhat worried about Kotomine Kirei's expressionless face, but when he heard Kotomine Rizheng say that Kotomine Kirei's wife had passed away not long ago, he thought that this was probably a kind of aimless self-salvation for him.

Immerse yourself in the busyness of carrying out your mission and forget the grief of your wife's passing.

And then, the screen switched again.

As a descendant of the Tong family, one of the three major magician families in Fuyuki City along with the Toki family, Tong Yanye, he, Tokiomi and Tokiomi's wife Toki Aoi were childhood sweethearts, and he also once admired Tokiomi's wife Toki Aoi.

But in the end, Toki Aoi chose to marry Toki Omi and gave birth to two daughters, Toki Rin and Toki Sakura, because Kariya evaded his responsibilities as a descendant of a family of magicians.

But he still maintains a good relationship with Toki Aoi, and even treats Toki Aoi's two daughters, Rin and Sakura, as his juniors.

however……

"Where's Sakura?"

After noticing that Tokikui's little daughter was not here, Kariya asked Rin in surprise.

However, Rin looked sad.

Then he learned from Shi Kui...

Sakura was adopted by Tokiomi to the Tong family, a family of magicians where Kariya was from.

This is because, eleven years ago, Kariya resolutely broke free from his family's shackles and left his home, which was like purgatory to him, because he could not accept his family's ugly insect art and did not want to be Zouken's puppet.

So the Tong family has no heir.

But it just so happens that Tokiomi's two daughters, Rin and Sakura, both have very outstanding magic circuits and magic aptitude.

However, since the magic seal of a magician family can usually only be passed down to one heir, the older Rin became the heir of the Toki family.

As for the remaining Sakura, Tokiomi could not bear to see her magical talent wasted, and in order to fulfill the alliance between the two great magician families, he adopted her to Tsuruno, the elder brother of Kariya from the Tong family.

But Yan Ye knew very well how dark and terrifying the Tong family and his father Zang Yan were.

So he returned to the Tong family and asked Zōken to release Sakura. In return, he accepted Zōken's transformation as a seal worm, and then participated in the Holy Grail War to help him win the final victory, and let him wish for immortality.

However, Zang Yan said that he came a little too late.

"It seems a little late now."

The old man Zang Yan, who looked quite evil, laughed evilly and said.

"Stinky old man... could it be you?!"

Kariya said in disbelief.

However, Zang Yan brought him to the secret underground chamber of the Tong family, and under that dark chamber, a terrifying scene appeared.

In the pool below, I saw countless entangled, disgusting bugs covered in slime crawling on a cute little girl with black hair and a small bow.

The black-haired girl's eyes are now lifeless, but she is exactly the one Kariya wants to find... Sakura, Tokiaki's little daughter!
Lin Shengjie finally understood why Yan Ye wanted to leave this home.

If he were in this family of bug-playing magicians and in such a disgusting environment, he would have run away long ago.

Zang Yan just looked down at this disgusting scene, even with a smug look on his face, and said as if to show off -

"I cried so hard during the first three days..."

"Since the fourth day, there has been no sound at all. I put her in this insect bin at dawn today to see how long she can last. She has not died even after being ravaged by insects for a long time. This material from the Shi family is really valuable."

Hearing such hateful words from Zang Yan, the crowd on the barrage was outraged.

"Wow! Kill this disgusting old man!"

"How disgusting! This old man is such a beast!"

"I really want to strangle this old man to death!"

"Kanyaya is right to run. If it were me, I would run too."

"I wonder if this kid's mother will regret it if she sees this. This place is simply a devil's den."

……

Lin Shengjie also felt that this stinky old man was definitely... from the evil camp!

I really want to kill this disgusting old man who plays with bugs!

However, Kariya went down immediately and rescued Sakura first. After seeing Sakura's miserable condition, he also agreed to Zōken's request.

Use the Marking Bugs to transform his body before the Holy Grail War begins, until he becomes a suitable Master, and then summon the Heroic Spirits to participate in the Holy Grail War and obtain the Holy Grail for Zou Yan.

After this, Zouken will release Sakura.

Then, the rest of the Masters appeared one after another.

The first-level lecturer of the Spiritual Department of the Clock Tower and the ninth-generation head of the Archibald family - Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald.

In order to increase his fame, he chose to participate in the Holy Grail War, and he also has a fiancée, Sora Nazaire Sofiali.

But before that, he had a conflict with his student, Waver Velvet, who was also one of the masters of this Holy Grail War.

Weber was dissatisfied with the behavior of his mentor Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald, so he stole his mentor's heroic relics and participated in the Fourth Holy Grail War, hoping to show his strength and gain recognition from everyone.

Then a year passed in the blink of an eye, and soon the Holy Grail War would begin.

At this time, Kariya, who had undergone a one-year transformation by the Zōken Engraving Bug, appeared in front of Sakura again.

Now he has become gray-haired and looks extremely old, obviously suffering from great pain and torture.

But Sakura had actually undergone a year of transformation. Her originally black hair had turned purple, and there was no expression in her eyes.

But Kariya promised her that he would let her return to her mother Tokikui and her sister Xiaolin, so that they could live happily together from now on.

And next... is the ceremony of summoning heroic spirits.

The six Masters who have appeared in the Holy Grail War so far, Mamoru Kiritsugu, Tokiomi, Kotomine Kirei, Do Kariya, Kenneth El-Melloi Archibald, and Webber Velvet, are now in front of the large formations they have drawn, some of which are simple and some are magnificent.

Place the holy relics related to the Heroic Spirits into the formation, and then...

They raised their hands with the stigmata of the Command Seals together, and said in unison in the animation—

"I am the one who accomplishes all good deeds in the world... I am the one who eliminates all evil in the world..."

"But you should blind yourself with chaos and serve me. You are imprisoned in the cage of madness..."

"You are the Seventh Heaven who is entangled with the Three Great Word Spirits. The Theory of Self-restraint appears, the Guardian of the Scales!"

"Declare! You are under my command! My life is with your sword. If you are willing to obey the call of the Holy Grail..."

……

As the ceremony was completed, a dazzling white light bloomed in front of the masters.

then……

In front of their eyes, in the center of the originally empty formation, a number of powerful beings with different postures appeared...

They... are the Heroic Spirits!
Heroic spirits from every era and every country's history...

I saw a knight wearing heavy black armor, but the eyes of his helmet emitted a bloodthirsty red light.

A king dressed in golden armor and with flamboyant short golden hair, exuding an extremely powerful aura.

One was a tall, muscular, and extremely strong red-haired man.

He wore brown-red wrist guards on his arms, brown armor inside and a battle skirt below, and leather sandals on his feet.

One was a handsome knight dressed in white and silver armor, holding a silver-white dragon-patterned spear. His long black hair was tied up casually, but his handsome face was upright and resolute.

However, Lin Shengjie was very excited, because compared with the previous heroes with obvious exotic styles, the hero in front of him was obviously from the Republic!
At this time, there is still one last heroic spirit...

A girl with shoulder-length golden hair, emerald eyes, a petite figure, wearing blue and white knight armor, and holding a knight's sword...?
"This is……"

Kiritsugu and Airi looked at her in surprise.

After she opened her eyes, she asked solemnly, "Let me ask you..."

"Are you my master?"

then……

The first episode is over.

"Ah? Is this the end?"

Lin Shengjie widened his eyes and said, "It's only... Oh my god, I've already finished watching this 40-minute episode?"

But he really hasn't seen enough.

"Who are these heroes? How will they fight next? And... do they have any special abilities?"

The setting of this anime involves magic and the ability to summon heroic spirits, so it is definitely not the kind of battle you would see in real life.

These heroes must have some extraordinary powers.

With such curiosity, Lin Shengjie first found the forum in the animation comment area, and then found the animation setting collection released on the official website of Station C.

At this time, Station C has already revealed the identities of these heroes that appeared.

"This is Lancelot? What? Why haven't I heard of him? One of the Knights of the Round Table of Ancient Great Britain?"

"This is Gilgamesh, the king of the ancient kingdom of Uruk in the Mesopotamian civilization, the oldest hero king? Isn't he... the fifth king? How can he be the oldest?"

"This is...Iskander the Conqueror, oh, Alexander the Great. This one is pretty impressive."

"Then this person is actually... Zhao Yun?!"

There was no republic that was not excited to see Zhao Yun appear, and the same was true for Lin Shengjie.

If we were to say which historical figure he admires most in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it would of course be the resourceful and dedicated Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.

But if you want to be an idol of someone like him, then you must be the peerless Zhao Zilong of Changshan, riding a white horse with a silver saddle!

This is the dream of many boys when they were little.

When they were young, they all held a long stick to a certain extent and played the role of Zhao Yun, who fought his way in and out of Changbanpo and remained almost unscathed. This must have been their childhood dream.

This is enough to prove how popular Zhao Yun is among boys.

"Zhao Yun is definitely the best. These ancient British Knights of the Round Table, the Hero Kings, even Alexander the Great cannot compare to Zhao Yun!"

Lin Shengjie immediately came to a conclusion and said, "Besides, this is a TV series produced by the Republic itself, so Zhao Yun is bound to win, right?"

He was very confident, and then looked at the last heroic spirit who revealed his identity.

"Altria Pendragon... the Holy King, the Knight King, the King Arthur in the legend of ancient Great Britain?"

Lin Shengjie had no impression of the history of Great Britain. He was very puzzled and asked, "Was ancient Great Britain so advanced? There was actually a female king?"

(End of this chapter)