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Chapter 17 Emiya Sakura Route? (Newbies please read!!!)
17. Dragon Demon Incident

Perhaps this is a legendary story of saving the world.

But as a magician, Zouken Matou just thought it was a ridiculous farce.

Although the Third Holy Grail War became a farce, the Tousaka family did have a turn for the better. Tousaka Tokiomi, who inherited the blood of Tousaka and Edelfeldt, changed the trend of the Tousaka descendants' increasingly poor qualifications and really revitalized the Tousaka family.

Although Matou Zouken was unable to witness it with his own eyes, he secretly suspected that perhaps the Lesser Holy Grail of the Third Holy Grail War was obtained by the young Tousaka boy, but the wish he made was to "revitalize the Tousaka family", and then the Tousaka family seemed to have been "revitalized" in this form.

although
From now on, it seems that the price is "almost the whole family is wiped out".

But after the Toosaka boy, Toosaka Tokiomi's talent was indeed good enough to be called an 'ordinary genius'.

And the qualifications of Tousaka Tokiomi's two daughters.
If Zouken Matou were to comment, he would only say, "In terms of pure talent as a magician, he is no less talented than Hohenheim (a famous alchemist during the Renaissance, the founder of modern alchemy) and Leonardo (the legendary all-round genius 'Da Vinci' during the Renaissance)."

With two such talented daughters, Matou Zouken never expected that he would take advantage of one of them.

Toosaka Sakura, Toosaka Rin's younger sister - now she should be called Matou Sakura.

Toosaka Tokiomi has two daughters, both of whom have extraordinary talent in magic. However, due to some damn rules of the Magician's Association, Toosaka Tokiomi can only choose one of them as the successor, and the other one may have to be "handed over" to the Magician's Association in the form of "taxation".

To put it bluntly, they are rare research materials for the Magicians Association.

Essentially, the Tōsaka family is not strong enough in terms of both fists and wealth. They cannot defeat the Magician Association, and they are also suspected of being "involved in the church". The Edelfeldt family is in the same situation, and the Magician Association dares not even say a word.

Tohsaka Tokiomi finally chose to keep Tohsaka Rin by his side.

The reason is simple. Although the Tohsaka sisters both have extraordinary talents, Tohsaka Sakura's attribute is 'imaginary number'. This attribute is too rare and few people know how to teach it - anyway, Tohsaka Tokiomi doesn't know how to teach it.

Of course, Toosaka Tokiomi did not intend to send his second daughter to the association as a living research material. As for how to deal with Sakura, Toosaka Tokiomi had two choices.

Or she could give it to her relatives, the Edelfeldt family, who were hostile to her but powerful enough to easily protect and teach Sakura.

Or it could be given to the Matou family, which is also an ancient and famous family, but in recent years the talents of its descendants have been deteriorating and it has fallen into the predicament of being unable to pass on magic.

If it were an ordinary magician, he might give it to the former for political reasons to ease the conflict between the Tosaka family and the Edelfeldt family.

But Toosaka Tokiomi is not an ordinary magician. Although he calls himself a magician, his idealistic aristocratic thinking makes him more humane. To be precise, he cares more about his daughter Toosaka Sakura's own ideas rather than the interests of his family.

Rin and Sakura have a very good relationship as sisters.

Rather than going to faraway Finland to seek asylum at the home of relatives with whom I have bad relations and may be abused and bullied, is it better to stay here?

If he stayed in the local area, Tōsaka Tokiomi himself could help take care of things, and most importantly, he wouldn't have to be separated from Rin, and the two sisters could still live and grow together in the same city.

——That’s probably the idea.

Matou Zouken could guess it.

Matou Zouken thought: This kid from the Toosaka family is really lucky.

Although Zouken Matou was unhappy with the Tohsaka family, he had to admit that the Matou family was indeed in a dilemma of lack of heirs. After accepting the hot potato of Matou Sakura, Zouken Matou really intended to pass on his mantle to her.

Perhaps from a normal person's perspective, this is the direct cause of Sakura Matou's misfortune.

But from the perspective of the inhuman monster Matou Zouken, he did treat Matou Sakura "sincerely" and "kindly". He did not use Matou Sakura as a living research material just because of her extremely rare "imaginary number attribute", nor did he raise her simply as a breeding mother, using her qualifications to give birth to better children for the Matou family.

There is also a boy of similar age in the Matou family.

Toosaka Tokiomi had seen that boy before. Although he was a bit arrogant and stubborn, he was a decent person. When Toosaka Tokiomi sent Sakura over, he probably thought that this was a marriage of some kind.

After Tōsaka Tokiomi wins the Holy Grail War and the Tōsaka family rises completely, it will be possible to discuss whether this non-existent engagement should be carried out or not.

But no matter how much Toosaka Tokiomi planned, he did not expect that Matou Zouken had already been completely disappointed with the Matou family and planned to abandon the family and go it alone.

So Matou Zouken really intended to make Matou Sakura his successor and become the first head of the new Matou family. The boy named Matou Shinji? He was an incompetent person, and Matou Zouken had long ignored him.

Therefore, in order to allow Sakura Matou to inherit his mantle, Zouken Matou began to transform Sakura Matou.

If everything goes well, Matou Sakura will eventually become a literal "blood relative" of the Matou family - Matou Zouken.

Flesh and blood transformation itself is also a part of the inheritance of the Matou family's magic. To be precise, this kind of inheritance is actually the most common one in the magic world.

When Matou Sakura learns this, she will be able to change her body's appearance as she pleases.
Insect magic sounds like it's easy to make people think of bad things, and Zouken Matou's ugly appearance is indeed creepy, but that is the result of Zouken Matou's complete pursuit of "vitality". The magic insects that symbolize reproduction may not be strong, but their vitality is particularly tenacious.

If Zouken Matou wants, he can transform himself into a handsome or beautiful appearance at any time.

According to Matou Zouken's idea.
There are still sixty years until the Fifth Holy Grail War.

Sixty years is enough time for a genius like Matou Sakura to inherit the Matou family's magic.

In fact, by the time the Fifth Holy Grail War began, Sakura Matou, who was nearly seventy years old, could not only rely on the self-transformation of insect magic to keep her youthful and beautiful appearance forever, but she didn't even have to participate in the dangerous Holy Grail War.

She could have her children or grandchildren attend.

Sixty years is still a long time.

If nothing unexpected happens, Sakura Matou will have a smooth road ahead after going through the initial pain of physical transformation (the basis of insect magic) because of her overwhelming talent.

She will obtain a body that is almost immortal and eternally youthful, and learning magic will be easy given her talent. Although the rest of her time will be spent under the supervision of Zouken Matou, she will have plenty of free time.

After all, sixty years is really too long from the perspective of ordinary humans.

If nothing unexpected happens, Zouken Matou's biggest interference in Matou Sakura's life might be to urge her to get married.

Because Zouken Matou was planning the fifth Holy Grail War, and by the time of the fifth Holy Grail War, Sakura, who was already an old grandmother, could no longer become the 'protagonist' in Zouken Matou's plan.

Her child is the real target of Matou Zouken.

Of course, Matou Zouken would definitely interfere with Matou Sakura's choice of husband, such as forcing her to marry and have children with a man who suddenly appeared in Fuyuki City and was not a descendant of a magician family, but was an ordinary person who accidentally mutated and awakened excellent magic circuits - specifically, 'Shirou'.

But something unexpected happened.

An accident that changed the fate of countless people occurred at the last moment of the Fourth Holy Grail War.

Kiritsugu Emiya, who is only one step away from winning the Fourth Holy Grail War, discovers the truth that the Holy Grail in Fuyuki City has been contaminated. In order to save more people and prevent the monster embryo (evil god) in the Holy Grail from being born into the world, Kiritsugu Emiya decides to destroy the Holy Grail.

Objectively speaking, this action did save more people.

But the disaster was only reduced in scope and was not stopped. The black mud continued to fall, bringing hell to the people around it.

Shirou is not the only one whose fate was changed.

And there is Matou Sakura.

This is not about black Emiya Kiritsugu or whitewashing Matou Zouken or something like that.

It's just pure impermanence and bad luck. Or maybe we can only blame the 'author' for weaving the web of fate in this way. Or maybe we should just blame the smoke and mirror.

Emiya Kiritsugu's act of destroying the Holy Grail did not eliminate the monster "All Evil in This World" that was parasitic in the Holy Grail, but only delayed its birth.

The reason why the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City is conducted in a cycle of "sixty years" is actually because the earth veins of Fuyuki City need to accumulate energy for sixty years. However, due to Kiritsugu Emiya's actions in the Fourth Holy Grail War, these energies were not completely consumed.

In other words, the next Holy Grail War would not have to wait for sixty years, but would come sooner - in ten years.

Will it come in ten years?
Matou Zouken knew that he had to change his plan, there was no time to delay.

For some reasons, he postponed the transformation of Sakura Matou during the Fourth Holy Grail War, but now it seems that he must speed up the process, as time waits for no one.

There is no time for Matou Zouken to come up with any sixty-year plan.

Sakura's transformation must be completed as soon as possible, changing her physique from 'imaginary number' to the 'water' of the Matou family. Then there will be no time to teach her slowly. Matou Zouken plans to use all the worst means to destroy her mind and make her his puppet!
in this way
Just when everything was moving towards the "Fate/stay night" story that many people are familiar with.

The dragon demon who was about to give Shirou a 'trial' quietly swung his dragon tail and fiddled with the power he possessed - the power of 'Thousand Magic'.

At this moment, the fragments of the contaminated Holy Grail that were destroyed by Emiya Kiritsugu and were running wild in the spiritual veins of Fuyuki City - it was supposed to be picked up by Matou Zouken, but it changed.

The Dragon Demon injected some of his own power into it, and "transformed" it from its fragmented state into a "Small Holy Grail of Azdahaka" that was slightly different from the original Contaminated Holy Grail.

This evil thing, under the guidance of the Dragon Demon, happened to pass through the spiritual vein below the Matou family residence.

Then, of course, Matou Zouken, who noticed something was wrong, picked it up!

Because this is what he should have picked up in the 'story', except that he should have picked up the 'contaminated Holy Grail fragment' instead of the current 'Small Holy Grail of Azdahaka'.

The Dragon Demon knew that this creature named Matou Zouken would make good use of this 'Little Holy Grail of Azidahaka' to create events that would become the 'trial' that Shirou would face next!
And what can the Dragon Demon's Holy Grail be used for?
A magus of Zouken Matou's caliber could naturally see it at a glance - see the 'effect that the Dragon Demon had bestowed on this thing'.

"Summon the embryo of 'Angora Mainyu (All the Evil in the World)' that is currently sleeping deep within the Fuyuki Holy Grail?"

Matou Zouken muttered to himself:

"The black mud is the manifestation of Angra Mainyu's malice in the human world, which is equivalent to Azidahaka, the priest under this evil god in the legend. Azidahaka himself is a powerful magician. It is not surprising that the black mud that is its incarnation and the fragments of black mud destroyed by Emiya Kiritsugu turned into this thing by coincidence.
The dragon demon Azidahaka is also calling for the coming of Angra Mainyu!"

In other words - as if driven by some force, a bold idea took shape in Matou Zouken's mind:

"Container! I also need a container that can accommodate Angra Mainyu! The 'Anggra Mainyu' in the Greater Holy Grail is, after all, just a man-made counterfeit, and does not have the strength of the real thing - but his stats are just not enough, and his nature is similar to Angra Mainyu, the evil god who is half of the Zoroastrian worldview!
As long as I summon it to a suitable container and prepare it in advance, I can - take over the body of that container! Obtain the identity of 'Angora Mainyu'!"

In other words, the ambition pursued by Matou Zouken's corrupt soul - 'true immortality' can be achieved!
At least that's what he thinks.

And what a coincidence is that Matou Zouken just happened to have such a suitable container next to him at this moment!

Zouken Matou immediately canceled all plans for Matou Sakura's physical transformation.

'Imaginary attribute' is a kind of 'fictional attribute', a rare attribute that is closely related to human 'imagination'. Its nature is naturally adaptable to 'myths and legends' - after all, the stories of myths and legends are woven by people through 'imagination', and myths and legends do not match the real history of the mythological era most of the time.

Zouken Matou can now summon the embryo of the incarnation of the evil god sleeping underground in Fuyuki at any time, but that is not Zouken Matou's purpose. His purpose is to take over the body of the evil god to obtain true immortality.

He also needs time to prepare. The longer the better, he needs to hold a ceremony.

For example, using the power of the Dragon Demon's Holy Grail, we could hold another Holy Grail War!
However, the bodies of all the Servants participating in this Holy Grail War will be constructed from the black mud of all the evil in this world. All the Servants are polluted and crazy from the beginning.

Their killing ritual will become a sacrifice for Angora Mainyu to come - and allow Matou Zouken to possess his body!

Matou Zouken already had an idea:

Zouken Matou buried the Dragon Demon's Holy Grail into Matou Sakura's body, making her one of the masters of the "Holy Grail War of Evil", and then let her summon Angora Mainyu into her body, becoming the master of Angora Mainyu - and at the same time becoming "Angora Mainyu" itself.

Sakura Matou's 'imaginary attribute' makes her body naturally suitable to become the best vessel for gods - even the incarnation of gods!
Then, Matou Zouken took the opportunity to take over Matou Sakura's body, replaced Matou Sakura as the master of Angora Mainyu in her body, and then used the power of the "Command Seal" to suppress Angora Mainyu's consciousness, and finally assimilated with it.
In this way! The true immortality is within reach!

Thinking of this, Matou Zouken's mental state, which was as rotten as a piece of wood, seemed to become more active and excited!

(Don’t be impatient, don’t rush into anything. The difficulty of this method lies in how I can fight against Angra Mainyu’s will. I need to continue to transform the ritual and strengthen the power of the Command Spell! Make sure there is no room for error!)

That's right, there's no need to rush.

Matou Zouken enshrined Matou Sakura, who had lost consciousness and whose self-awareness was lost in the nightmare maze and had become the humanoid Dragon Demon Holy Grail.

He deliberately expelled all kinds of insects he raised to avoid any mistakes - such as a certain insect being tempted by the Dragon Demon's Holy Grail and uncontrollably wanting to eat Matou Sakura's flesh and blood or something.

After ensuring that Matou Sakura was absolutely safe and that no creature would come to touch her, Matou Zouken suppressed his ecstasy and began to plan his own "Holy Grail War of Evil" ritual on a yearly basis, as well as how to strengthen the power of the Command Spell.
For Matou Zouken, it seems that at this moment, he is only one step away from shedding his insect shell and ascending to become a god!

(Hehehe! I have to thank you, Emiya Kiritsugu!)
Twisted, turbid, and full of malicious joy, spreading in the unknown darkness.
No.

Under the watchful eyes of the Demon Lord of Absolute Evil Azidahaka and the King of Heroes Gilgamesh, in their "gamble" -

The 4.5th and th Holy Grail War slowly began.

Seven-year-old Shirou, seven-year-old Toosaka Rin, and Miss Miyamoto Musashi who accidentally passed by this world are about to be involved in a bigger crisis.

The young hero king seemed to be expecting something: "Only when you walk the path of life and death can you see the true hero. Today, he will teach future generations!"

The dragon demon sneered, enjoying himself happily: "Oh! Hero who has not been seen for a thousand years! Use all your strength! Use all your wisdom! Use all your bravery, try to transform into a shining sword that pierces my chest, and on my corpse it will be the victory of justice - destroying the devil is the proof of being a hero!"

come on.

Little brave men, go and seek the title of hero!
The Fuyuki Kaisen: Ryuma Incident Arc begins!
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