I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Karen was somewhat puzzled by the question; she did indeed have a desire to destroy other people's happiness and expose their inner traumas.

But how will she react if I do this?

Seeing others experience the same emotional breakdown as her, she felt it was normal and acceptable, and even felt a sense of satisfaction.

A sense of satisfaction that I finally have kindred spirits around me.

Those who lack emotional connection, in a world where most people are normal, yearn to find a sense of belonging that is similar to their own.

Since she doesn't have it, she wants to create it herself. This is probably the humble desire of a wicked person like her.

Beside this man, she learned the origins of her hated father.

Ah, so it's true, I really am that man's daughter. Apart from my appearance, I don't resemble my mother at all.

"Karen, I need your help. Could you be my saint?"

"Aha!?"

She believed in God and admired the man who took such good care of her. Karen couldn't quite understand the words he spoke with a kind and gentle smile.

She understands I'll help, and she'll do so, but what does it mean to be a saint? Is it like playing a role in a school play?

Fortunately, the man explained things to her carefully and without hiding anything, and Karen finally understood the outrageous ambitions of the man who had raised her.

Do you want to become...a true god? Let me, as the Holy Mother, give birth to God... To be honest, Kallen was truly astonished.

But after regaining her composure, she looked at the man with a serious yet enigmatic expression and asked:

"Is that why you adopted me?"

Are you merely using me as a tool in your plans? Is all your tenderness and care for me just because of this?

...Ha, that's true. Someone like me doesn't deserve any happiness. I should be content as a tool.

However, just as she was thinking this, the man seemed to read her mind and placed his slender, white fingers on her forehead.

In that instant, Karen saw countless parallel futures of herself, and also personally experienced and saw her through Razer's eyes.

Countless future outcomes are similar, except that the unchangeable process is her unfortunate past from childhood.

When he was nine years old, his special physique was exposed, and he was treated as a spare by the Holy Church ever since.

Approaching a demon will automatically cause a spiritual barrier to reappear, which is also known as being possessed by a tormented spirit medium, or a chronic demonic possession.

Because of her constitution, she has to endure everything as if she were injured.

The church used her body as a tool to seduce the devil and allow her to be violated.

Nominally, it was about exorcising demons, but the person who violated her was not human, but a demon.

But she couldn't deny the fact that what she did was similar to what a chang woman did.

This is the individual in this world named Karen.

The man who never appeared in her future was actually from another world, and he did approach and adopt her with a purpose.

But his feelings for her were also a heartfelt desire to redeem and change her tragic fate.

The man didn't give her any orders or demands; he was just asking for help. If she didn't want to, he wouldn't force her.

She would simply put in more effort to find someone willing to help him; she was never the only option, which left Karen feeling rather speechless.

Her feelings toward Razer were quite peculiar; she found his charity disgusting, yet she was also incredulous at his actions, but she didn't dislike him.

She disliked rude men, and Reiji did not fall into that category in her mind.

[But what an idiot! Why is he being so honest with me?]

You are so powerful that you can treat me like a tool, nurture me, and directly control and dominate my life.

Why are you so polite and gentle to me, a person of lowly status? Where is the unreasonable and willful behavior that a powerful person should exhibit?

[Why bother asking me, a mere mortal with a tragic fate, when you've deliberately approached and adopted me? Clearly...clearly, if you were just a little more ruthless, you could have...]

Karen looked at Razer, who was looking at her with calm and gentle eyes, and thought he was indecisive, and as a strong person, he was also... easygoing?

When the other person came into this world, in addition to changing her fate, they also happened to save some people whose fates were originally just as tragic as hers.

There was no purpose or reason; I just wanted to save them.

Sakura Tohsaka, who was originally going to fall into the insect pit, was casually saved by the other party.

Ilya, who would have lost her parents and been left alone, was resurrected by that man out of pity after the Holy Grail War, and he brought her out of the lonely castle.

Let her live happily with her parents somewhere in Japan, as an ordinary girl.

Later, Wu Jing Amber and Asagami Fujino were both saved simply because the other party did so casually.

If countless parallel worlds contain countless instances of women suffering such tragic fates, why bother doing something so pointless?

"Knowing but not being able to do it, and knowing that you can do it but not doing it are two different things. I will help if I want to, just following my heart."

The man answered her question by looking at Karen's golden eyes, shrugging indifferently, and then continued to ask her:

"Little Karen, I won't force you to do something you don't want to do. I'm not that kind of scum. If you don't want to, I can just go find someone else."

"...If I refuse, will you abandon me?" Karen asked, pursing her lips.

"No, but I will leave one day. I don't want to lead you down the path of evil, so I will send you back to your mother."

"But my mother..."

"Resurrection is not difficult for me. Besides, your mother's soul has always been by your father's side. They are probably living a rather strange life together now."

When the man mentioned his parents, a look of mixed emotions, both amused and exasperated, appeared on his face, indicating that he was well aware of their situation.

"What an outrageous man."

The silver-haired, emotionless girl didn't show much change in expression. She was quite dissatisfied with the other party's preparedness and said sarcastically, "You abandoned your adopted daughter when she was no longer useful and left on your own. You still say you're not scum?"

I'm dissatisfied. I'm very dissatisfied with how men consider everything. You should feel disappointed and angry that I rejected you.

Karen, whose personality is somewhat flawed and abnormal, is very dissatisfied with Razer's smooth and diplomatic behavior.

Doesn't this tendency to consider everything make me seem utterly useless and of no importance to you?

Your gentleness towards me is genuine, but it feels more like pity for the miserable!

As for Karen's troublesome personality, Reiji usually indulged her, coaxing her like a child, saying, "Yes, yes, my dear Karen, just consider me a scumbag. Now this scumbag is going to harm others, I..."

"I promise you, I'll be your 'Saint Mother.' Please stop giving away your misplaced compassion everywhere. You're acting like a hesitant fool!"

With a calm tone, she used sarcastic and venomous words to directly interrupt the other person's words of comfort to a child. Karen knew that was just how the other person was.

With your inability to be ruthless, your half-baked nature—neither good enough nor evil enough—when will you ever complete your plan?

With me as your best tool, you actually gave me up out of respect...

I, Karen, am devoid of personality and emotions, but you, Reiji, are definitely not normal either!

You're not a hypocrite, you're just a half-baked person, and sooner or later you'll suffer because of your personality.

Let me, Karen, correct your imperfections, as a way of repaying you for redeeming me.

P.S.: Some people say Aika is more suitable, but although she is the Root Princess, she's from Type-Moon...

Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Imminent Alchemy Ceremony

"So, this is another world?"

When Karen woke up from her past memories in her dream, she saw the face of her hateful father. Her mother was also watching her with concern, and she breathed a sigh of relief after Karen woke up.

However, she is no longer in her original world; she has arrived in a completely new world while she was in a coma.

Looking at the dazzlingly luxurious room around her, Karen felt no discomfort. On the contrary, she felt that she should be here, and there was a strange sense of peace in the room.

"This is Valhalla, the Demon City. Now that you've arrived, information should be flooding your mind, right, Karen?"

With a kind and gentle smile, Kirei Kotomine stood beside his wife, patiently answering his daughter's questions.

However, Karen completely ignored his gestures, offering no response and not even glancing at the man who was her father. Instead, she focused on processing the new information that had appeared in her mind.

Golden Demon City... My Lord... The Fifth Universe...

Paradise, the Land of Gold, the Ideal World, and Valhalla...

The information came together in Karen's mind, making her fully understand everything that was happening now.

Karen looked down at her brand-new clothes, which were completely transformed since she woke up. Her petite figure was draped in the robes of a clergyman, and her whole body was enveloped in a crystal-clear white glow.

The soft light and the golden palace complemented each other, and if Karen concentrated, she could feel eight enormous golden nodes, as vast as galaxies, resonating with her in her consciousness.

Even as she focused her mind, Karen's delicate brows furrowed slightly. She could feel waves of pain washing over her, but ninety percent of that pain was redirected by a strange force.

Following that strange power, Karen focused her gaze on her fair wrist, where a crimson thread was wrapped around it, with one end extending into the void, its destination unknown.

The pain wasn't erased; most of it was simply transferred away.

Where was it transferred to, or rather, to whom? Karen sensed a familiar presence on the other end of the line, her heart filled with complex emotions, and she silently cursed the other person as an idiot.

She understood her duty here; she would offer herself as a sacrifice so that the man could be born in the strongest form.

She would die once first, and Karen knew that the man would resurrect her; that level of life and death could not stop the Lord of the Tomb of Death who ravaged life and death.

As a transit point, or rather an accelerator or amplifier, in the transmutation array, she is there to improve the success rate and efficiency of the transmutation array.

Therefore, Karen, who was merely physically superior to humans but had not yet surpassed them, would experience immense pain due to the operation of such a massive transmutation array.

Lei Zhe knew about the immense pain she endured when she awakened her Stigmata as a child. She had always disliked pain, but due to her passive personality, she would keep it to herself.

Unable to bear seeing the girl suffer because of his plan, Lei Zhe directly took on 99% of the pain she was experiencing from the operation of the alchemy array.

For Lei Zhe himself, this was also a test of his spirit and will.

Because Kirei Kotomine became Reiji's Holy Grail, he was transformed by the power that Reiji had prepared in advance, which was embedded in Kirei's body, even when Kallen was still in her mother's womb.

At that time, Rai Zhe had collected a huge number of Stigmata physiques in the Type-Moon world, in addition to a large number of Stigmata obtained from the Zero Girls world.

Kallen's entire genetic makeup is a fusion of Reiji's programming. Apart from the genetic factors of Kirei Kotomine and Claudia, which remained unchanged, her body is entirely a creation of the Stigmata.

Aside from resembling a normal human in appearance, Kallen's life essence and level far surpass those of others, even surpassing the Type-Moon's Mystic Species in terms of life level.

Karen herself was unaware of her own soul. Before she was born, when she had a soul but no consciousness, she was nurtured by millions of pure soul sources.

Her soul density and quality are equivalent to the sum of thousands of captains in the Bleach universe, making her no weaker than any Heroic Spirit.