The infinite sword system has been mastered, and you say this is the dragon clan?

Chapter 146: We meet again, right? (Two in one)

After a brief surprise, Emiya decided to dispel the inexplicable strange feeling in his heart, because when he thought of this word, Astolfo, Dion, Nemo... many strange associations popped up in his mind.

"It seems that you have heard of my name a long time ago. You are not from the surface world."

Emiya calmed down and made a judgment. After he finished speaking, he glanced at the distance inconspicuously. Eri was still playing with her wig and makeup brushes, amusing herself. For her, it seemed that as long as she was not at home, she could have a kind of complete freedom and happiness by playing outside.

Alas, children’s happiness is really simple.

"Yeah, that's right." Fengjian Liuli took off the girl's long wig and restored her hairstyle to normal men's short hair.

Even so, a closer look at this face still makes it hard to tell whether it is male or female. The power of a man is so terrifying...

"Which side are you on? Are you trying to win me over again..."

"Emiya, you are a person who has done great deeds that are world-famous. Who wouldn't want to get in touch with and win over such a person? Rather than directly explaining my identity, as a kabuki lover, I would like to use a small historical story as a starting point -"

"Let me think, you must have heard the story of the Four Heavenly Kings of Genji slaying the demon of Mount Oe, right?"

Emiya guessed a possibility. "Of course I know. The legend of Genji is known to almost everyone in this island country... You want to talk about the famous descendants of Genji in this city, right?"

"Well, it seems that they have communicated with you first. That's right, but unfortunately, the forces on my side are not the heroes who slay demons worthy of praise, but the 'fierce demons' they want to kill."

"Are you a ghost?!"

"No, strictly speaking, we, the fierce ghosts, cannot be equated with ghosts. We are not completely corrupted, but we are dangerous because of our high blood concentration. We are regarded as ghosts who may kill people at any time."

Fengjian Liuli gave a brief introduction.

"No wonder Yuan Zhisheng calls himself a demon slayer. It turns out that the person he is going to kill is you guys."

Emiya heard that demons are a nearly extinct species, and pure-blooded fantasy creatures are almost never seen in modern times, but psychics or magicians with mixed demon blood still exist, such as the one with thick demon blood in "Utazuki Juyo", and the Luxendra family who study demon bloodlines in "Fate/Strange Fake".

"Yeah, does Emiya think we should be killed? Just because we are dangerous? Have people ever thought that many 'ghosts' who are judged to be dangerous also crave a peaceful life? If they can live in peace, who would be willing to live in fear of death and run out to cause chaos and kill people?"

Fengjian Liuli's statement seemed to be a sigh for some of the fierce ghosts.

The group of fierce ghosts has been demonized within the Eight Clans of Sheqi. They have been portrayed as a group of hopelessly crazy people who are fanatically pursuing the path of evolution, and have even been labeled as "no different from real ghosts."

But this only conforms to the thoughts of some people among the ghosts.

Most people joined in just because they were forced to.

Since birth, they were judged by the Eight Snake Families as having "dangerous bloodline that may degenerate into demons" due to their unstable bloodline. Then they were treated unfairly, ruthlessly abandoned by their families, and faced strict supervision similar to that of a detention center.

Therefore, they cannot go to school like normal people, cannot find a job like normal people, cannot have a normal family, and live like a prisoner. Then, every once in a while, they will be interrogated by the family's "law enforcers", and those with stable bloodlines and good performance will continue to be prisoners...

Once the bloodline situation deteriorates, the family will lock up the person in a "dark prison" where they will never see the light of day or simply execute him, and the rubbish game of life will end hastily.

In order to escape these terrible endings in life, they had to defect and throw themselves into the arms of the fierce ghosts, because in this country ruled by the dark side by the Eight Snake Families, if you don't choose the fierce ghosts, then there is almost nowhere to hide.

Either give up everything and continue to flee abroad - even this process is unlikely to be smooth sailing, as normal international flights and smuggling channels operated by gangs are likely to be monitored by the family; or, you can only choose a nearby target that the Eight Snake Families have been unable to eliminate for countless years, the fierce ghosts.

However, these "ghosts" who just want to live a barely stable life can only realize the madness hidden in this organization after joining the fierce ghost group - that is, the crazy pursuit of evolving into gods.

This is not what they want at all, because...

"Many of us don't want to be ghosts. If we have the chance, we would like to be people who can live in the sun."

"If this is the case, there may be a solution..."

Emiya was powerless and unable to reconcile the grudges and conflicts between the two different organizations that had lasted for more than a thousand years.

In fact, what he was thinking about in his mind was "Zhajian Hongmo", a guy who was born with pure ghost blood. Logically, he would be as manic and bloodthirsty as a ghost, but he was not. He hid in the mountains and calmed himself through cultivation... So cultivation is a solution to curb the impulse of ghost blood.

But after thinking about it, I decided to give up. The way of immortals is not something that everyone can cultivate. It sounds very difficult. I doubt how many people can even get a glimpse of the path. And even if they do get in, unless they are extremely talented, they can only complete the path of immortals...

(In Type-Moon, immortals are equivalent to gods.)
"No, thank you Emiya for considering us, the demon slayers, but the conflict between us and those demon slayers is irreconcilable after all, especially before we completely eliminate those guys who want to pursue 'God' from within our ranks."

When Kazama Ruri said this, a demon-like figure wearing a Noh mask with a smiling face of a noble flashed in her mind. Hatred and fear quickly appeared in Kazama Ruri's clear eyes, and then quickly faded away.

He thought of the number one mysterious figure of the ghost group, "Wang Jiang".

It was precisely because of Wang Jiang, the devil-like figure who always wore a mask and never showed his true face, who suddenly appeared more than ten years ago and took out an evolutionary medicine that was said to be able to improve bloodline, that the proportion of members among the ghost group who fanatically pursued the path to becoming a god increased significantly.

Later, General Wang personally led Fengjian Liuli into the Ghost Clan and called him the second-in-command of the Ghost Clan, "Dragon King". In fact, he wanted to use Fengjian Liuli's powerful demon-like strength to better rule and manipulate the Ghost Clan.

Fengjian Liuli was certainly unwilling to become a puppet of Wang Jiang's power. Within this organization that was becoming increasingly obsessed and radical in its pursuit of godhood, he began to carefully select and cultivate his own faction.

However, despite the best efforts of Fengjian Liuli, he has only managed to win over a small number of people among the remaining members of the Menggui group who dared to oppose the radicals to join his faction.

In order to change the situation, he had tried to assassinate Wang Jiang many times, but he had never succeeded. Instead, he was repeatedly frustrated. He wanted to break Wang Jiang's neck, destroy his internal organs, or cut him into pieces...

All measures were ineffective.

The next day, the king will still appear in front of Fengjian Liuli intact, which makes him shudder...

The figure of the evil ghost wearing a Noh mask seemed to be beyond the reach of even hell, and he would always be resurrected and reborn. That smiling face of the nobleman almost became an indelible nightmare in Fengjian Liuli's heart.

From then on, a sense of suspicion and fear of "not being able to kill" General Wang was deeply rooted in Fengjian Liuli's mind and could not be eliminated.

"What? Someone in your organization is actually pursuing God?"

When Emiya had talked with Minamoto no Chisei before, he had warned him that there were people in Japan who coveted God, but in fact, it was just an excuse for him to drag the Minamoto family into the water in order to investigate the people behind the Holy Grail War.

I didn't expect that the information about this group of people would be delivered directly to my door. Good guy, it's really like searching for something without any effort, but it's finally found.

"Kazama Ruri, let me guess, did the leader of the group you mentioned always wear a mask?"

"Hmm? Right..."

Feng Jianli subconsciously confirmed it, and then an incredible expression appeared on her face. What happened? Why did Emiya know that the king general was wearing a mask? Could it be that Emiya and the king general had contact beforehand? No, that's not right. If the king general knew about Emiya's killing of "Odin", he would definitely classify Emiya as a "dragon slayer" similar to the secret party if he had normal intelligence. He who pursues the goal of becoming a god would not contact Emiya without authorization, who might hinder his plan.

Or he could try to assassinate Emiya, but Emiya was well-known for his strong strength, comparable to the powerful Dragon King. If the king was really sure of killing the Dragon King, why would he be so greedy and cautious in pursuing "God"? Therefore, assassination was like hitting a rock with an egg, which was laughable...

"Let me guess again. You failed to eliminate the radical faction that pursued God in your group of ghosts because you couldn't kill that masked man?"

"!?"

Feng Jian Liuli jumped up instantly, changing his posture from the rotating chair in front of the dressing table. As a senior Kabuki actor, he originally had excellent expression control ability, but at this moment, he felt like he was in a state of panic, and his heart was like a calm sea that suddenly set off a storm.

This scene is so similar to the conversation between Emiya and Minamoto Chisei...

"Emiya, how do you know all this? Judging from your performance just now, this should be the first time our organization has come into contact with you."

Ruri Kazama suppressed her surprise and asked - when he stood up, he was not as tall as Emiya. In front of the latter, from a distance, he looked like a handsome younger brother. No wonder he was good at playing the role of a girl.

But Kazama Ruri stared at the details of Emiya's face, his pupils trembling uneasily. He didn't believe that Wang Jiang would make any mistakes and leak the information to Emiya. Otherwise, if it was really that easy to deal with him, Wang Jiang should have been killed long ago.

"So Fengjian Liuli, you just admitted that I was right, right?"

"Yes, as expected of Emiya who has killed a god, both his combat power and intelligence network are amazing. Even I lost my composure a little. My apology."

Fengjian Liuli lowered her eyes calmly again and gathered the emotions that were escaping into her heart.

In fact, Emiya had never expected that the statement he had forced upon her was actually true.

Since Fengjian Liuli admitted it, there is indeed such a masked man among the ghosts who aims to become a god, and the technology possessed by the masked man is similar to that of "Odin" who appeared in the Chen family at that time.

This means that the "Greater Holy Grail" project may really be carried out somewhere in this city, and the material that serves as the core of the Greater Holy Grail is "God"!
"Listen to me, Fengjian Liuli, the masked man is not as simple as you think, but you don't have to think of him too scary."

"What does it mean?"

The boy wondered whether the king was easy to deal with or difficult to deal with.

"Let me put it this way. I've been hostile to similar masked men in Shenzhou before. From your description, this group of people has exactly the same techniques. I can tell you clearly that you didn't kill him. It's only because he hid his true form that he was able to resurrect over and over again."

This thing is actually very easy to understand. Just like the old bug Matou Zouken, if you don't kill the main body of the seal bug, the body can be revived. The magician's combat level may be strong or poor, but most of them are very good at surviving.

“…It’s actually like this!”

Fengjian Liuli suddenly realized.

Before this, he had thought about the possibility of the difference between the clone and the original.

But when he discovered that the general Wang he killed the day before and the general Wang who reappeared the next day had exactly the same personalities, words and deeds.

Even after careful testing and comparison, when there was no difference in the details of the memories between the two, I subconsciously ruled out the possibility of cloning.

But Emiya actually said that a similar situation had occurred in Shenzhou. His position was completely opposite to that of the King General, and there was obviously no need to deliberately deceive, so Fengjian Liuli couldn't help but think about the possibility of cloning again.

In other words, someone has developed cloning technology to such a perfect level and promoted it, forming cloning technology that can be used like "cloning technique", rather than an accidental "evil ghost" phenomenon.

This is good news. The king general is not invincible, because he is not immortal at all. He is just a coward who hides his true identity. He is not worth Fengjian Liuli's fear at all.

However, it seems that Emiya also revealed a bad news -

"Emiya-kun, the same technology appearing in two different countries, Shenzhou and Dongying, can't be a coincidence, right? Is there a more hidden force making plans in different countries? And the king will only be a pawn in this country?"

Facing Emiya, who had resolved the confusion in his heart during the conversation, Kazama Ruri's tone began to become intimate, and she inadvertently called him "Jun".

Moreover, since I got rid of the fear of Wang Jiang in my mind, my mind has become more open. It turns out that Wang Jiang is just a clown who was pushed to the stage. Behind the clown is a greater darkness...

"Yes, let me tell you this. I have fought against that group of people more than once when I was in Shenzhou. This time in Japan should be the third time. I have now found out their purpose. The only thing missing is two things."

One is the mystery of Aoi-ya, which has already been arranged by Gen Chisei, and the other one...

"What is it?"

Fengjian Liuli asked immediately. He originally just happened to meet Emiya today, but he didn't expect to gain so much. Not only did he know the truth about the king's "strange immortality", but he also learned that his origins hid a bigger dark mystery.

Since Emiya has given so much to her, Kazama Ruri is willing to return the favor. Helping Emiya is helping herself, which can allow her to break away from the king's control as soon as possible and truly kill the other party.

At the same time, he realized his long-cherished wish, which was to fight against his brother... Gen Chisei again!

Because Kazama Ruri is the younger brother of Genjisei, Genjijo. But unlike the weak younger brother Genjijo, he has a more aggressive second personality like a demon!

Under Fengjian Liuli's seemingly calm face, he kept replaying the scene of that day when Yuan Zhisheng, wearing the black clothes of the Execution Bureau, stabbed his chest with a knife and rotated it, completely destroying his heart. This scene made the hatred in his heart continue to accumulate.

Facing the killing of Minamoto Chisei that day, Kazama Ruri had the opportunity to resist and even kill Minamoto Chisei on the spot, but her personality was suppressed by Minamoto Chisei's female personality at the critical moment.

When Yuan Zhinv saw her brother Yuan Zhisheng appear in front of her, she didn't even resist and couldn't wait to shout, "Brother, you're back!"
The result was that he allowed the long knife to pierce his heart, and then was pushed into the well behind him by his brother, the demon slayer.

However, the bloodline of the evil spirits was so strong that even if their hearts were destroyed, they could be repaired and reborn. As a result, Kazama Ruri was revived again and crawled back from hell.

From the day he was resurrected, Fengjian Liuli swore that he would make his brother taste the hatred and anger of being killed with his own hands!
"Under this situation, the only two things we are lacking are: first, the results are almost out, and second, confirming the truth and identity of 'God'. This is where I need your help right now."

Emiya said this in a serious tone, which made Fengjian Liuli's heart tremble. Could it be that he wanted to use him as bait and lead his troops to attack the eight families of Sheqi, so as to search out all the ancient records hidden in the family?
But he gave a completely wrong answer: "——I need you to teach me some makeup skills!"

Although the topic deviated greatly when looking for Kazama Ruri, Emiya still did not forget the purpose of his coming here in the first place. Nono is still staying in that family. In order to ensure a safer situation, he has to find a way to make Nono become exactly the same as Eri.

Emiya has seen the superb makeup skills of Ruri Kazama, and he thinks it's possible!

"what?"

When Feng Jianli heard this, it was like a warrior in full armor hearing a formal summons. He was originally prepared to offer his loyalty and fight to the death for his lord in times of crisis, but in the end, he heard the lord lying on the upper seat issuing not an order to charge into battle, but a rather unconventional "Keep playing the music! Keep dancing!"

No, that's it?
(End of this chapter)