I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Having revealed the true name of the relic, and witnessing the grotesque and terrifying mask materialize, Valyria, with her usual smile, calmly stated:

"What's the point of taking it out? You don't think you can kill me, do you?"

"Shut up!!"

A sharp, furious roar transformed into wind blades, turning the entire hospital corridor into a death trap. Lisa had already given her order to kill and made her decision.

The Holy Communion Cup seems to have violated one of the most terrifying things in the world: using a mother's beloved child to threaten that mother.

Even the weakest person has a Achilles' heel that they cannot allow others to touch.

Lisa Brenner sacrificed one of her twins so that the other could live on as an ordinary person.

Perhaps she didn't fulfill any of her responsibilities as a mother, but it cannot be denied that she didn't love her child.

Hearing that the Holy Grail of Valyria requires John's bloodline, namely Ayase Kasumi, to die in place of Theresa, isn't this just returning to the origin of the curse?!

In the devastated world, Otto watched the video of the two people at the Black Round Table who had begun to turn against each other, and he almost wanted to applaud their incredibly fascinating story.

"The Holy Grail, which occupies a sacred body, gave birth to the twins of destiny, Izak (Isaac) and John, the Babylonian witch, Mary Magdalene? Tsk tsk... a myth reappears."

Otto, with his vast knowledge and experience, revealed information in his words that were almost too close to mythology, from the moment the two began their conversation to the point of turning against each other.

Otto also realized that the demonic names among the members of the Black Round Table represented their glory and tragedy.

For example, the Babylonian witch was known as the holy prostitute, the great harlot, and Mary Magdalene.

Babylon the Great, a woman of great lewdness, is a character mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible.

It is also known as Great Babylon, the dwelling place of demons, and the lair of unclean spirits.

The other party appeared in the form of a woman, riding on a crimson seven-headed ten-horned beast, dressed in dazzling purple and crimson clothes, holding a golden cup filled with lewd filth.

Another Mary Magdalene, in the Bible, has long appeared in Christian legends as a prostitute saved by Jesus.

She washed Jesus' feet with tears of repentance and dried them with her thick, black hair.

She wept and prayed during the days and nights Jesus was crucified and offered him water. After Jesus died, she entered the tomb where his body lay to cleanse him with oil, only to discover that Jesus had risen from the dead...

But if we combine the demonic name Lisa Brenner with Valyria's statement that she is unsure if her feelings belong to her and questions the other party about the father of her child.

And that being known as the Sun Prince, after being linked to mythology and legends...

"The Son of God has appeared here..."

Otto thought of that powerful, suffocating golden-haired beast, unconsciously muttering the words of power the beast had used to manifest the Holy Lance.

Once these pieces of information are put together, it becomes obvious who the child's father is.

Even someone as devoted as Otto couldn't help but sigh at how chaotic the entertainment industry was.

"But would that suffocatingly powerful man even experience love?"

Otto stroked his chin thoughtfully, because Reinhardt's eyes didn't seem to indicate any romantic feelings.

The other person claimed to love everything, but if Otto translated that, it would mean that the other person had no interest in anything.

The other party is an alternate version of Heydrich from German history, the kind who has fallen into the demonic path.

The connection between Mary Magdalene and Jesus is obvious to those who know.

The video revealed a vast amount of information about the world, as well as an existence so powerful that it transcends the universe, which truly broadened Otto's horizons.

For example, the giant mercury serpent in the Kamukura Singularity, and the mysterious father of Yatogami Tohka, who casually created an incredibly dreamlike multiverse labyrinth...

A supreme being who inspires fear and awe, whose power is so terrifying that one's meager imagination cannot even begin to grasp a fraction of their might.

Saving from tragedy and rewriting reality was nothing to Tohka Yatogami's father, but the other party's power beyond comprehension inspired awe and fear.

The other party seemed to be a species from a different dimension than anyone else, like a higher-dimensional being looking at a lower-dimensional being, like the difference between a real human and a two-dimensional paper doll.

Furthermore, regarding the sense of déjà vu that the powerful figures in the video kept mentioning, Otto had a feeling that the truth behind that sense of déjà vu was probably something that could also cause people to feel terrified and desperate.

The truth will likely be revealed once all eight transmutation altars are opened and Heydrich returns for the final divine war.

Back in the video, Lisa, with a huge figure appearing behind her, stares at the Holy Grail in Valyria with a resolute and murderous look on her face.

The current situation is that the huge differences in their goals have led to them becoming opposing enemies.

As the mother of twins, Lisa Brenner wanted to see things through to the end, even though she cared about Himuro Reia, her blood relative who was destined to be sacrificed, but she couldn't bear to regret her initial decision.

She managed to keep John, one of the twins, away from the unorthodox realm of magic and allow him to live as a normal person.

Therefore, it is naturally undesirable that John's descendants would take a roundabout route and return to the original fate of being sacrificed.

How could Lisa possibly tolerate this happening?

If Valyria successfully uses John's descendant, Ayase Kasumi, to replace Himuro Reia in death, wouldn't everything Lisa Brenner has done so far be nothing more than a laughable farce?

Your attempt to save another child, which you believe will ultimately prove futile, will be in vain.

No one could accept something like this with a clear conscience.

Even though Lisa also cares about her other blood relative, Reia, Lisa, having made her choice, decides to let Reia continue to fulfill her destiny.

Whether it's regret, despair, or hatred, she will accept it all.

On the other hand, the Holy Communion Cup, Valyria, is meant to prove that he loves Himuro Reia, that his love for her comes from the bottom of his heart and soul, and that it is not because of her golden body.

Valyria, who cares for and loves Himuro Reia, naturally does not want or allow Himuro Reia to die as a sacrifice.

However, he knew that he alone could not stop the gold from being refined, so he needed to use a roundabout method.

By having another Sun Princess, Ayase Kasumi, serve as a scapegoat to take over the role of the sacrifice for Himuro Reia, the leader of the Black Round Table, the Golden Beast, cannot return in its full glory.

This way, the opponent will inevitably die in either Skadi or Matilda, whichever of these two monsters exists.

That's why he cooperated with Skadi. His purpose, besides proving himself, was simply to ensure Himuro Rei's survival.

Why can John have a simple, happy life, but Ling'ai can't?!

Both twins are your children, Lisa. Does the other child have to be sacrificed and killed?!

Based on this firm belief, the two sides have become enemies who are absolutely incompatible with each other at this moment.

"Absolutely, absolutely not! I've decided to let that child live!"

Yes, if the decision made back then were to involve John's bloodline as a substitute, wouldn't that mean everything Lisa did was a joke?

She lost Yzak, the man she feared, forever, and then went to great lengths to bring John, another man she could love, to life, only to have his blood still consumed by fate!

How could this be? How could such a thing be allowed to happen?!

"So, you mean you want Theresa to die?"

The fake smile vanished completely. Looking at Lisa Brenner, who was starting to go crazy protecting her child, he opened his eyes and stared at her coldly and indifferently.

"yes!!"

Lisa Brenner screamed hysterically.

Saying these words caused Lisa a sharp pain in her chest.

It's about to tear apart. How could Ling love that child and not love him?

But she couldn't save everyone, so she had to make a choice.

Now that we've decided it's John from back then, we must protect him to the very end, otherwise we won't be able to protect either of them.

This was a complete and utter decision, and now there's no way to change it.

If Lisa hesitates, then her sixty-odd years to date have been meaningless.

"I won't let someone like you, who doesn't even understand their own feelings, deny me!"

Lisa looked at the priest—no, at the body in which the Holy Communion Cup no longer belonged—with a gaze overflowing with a complex mix of hatred, rejection, fear, and nausea, and said:

"For someone like you, who accepted the monstrous body of Gold to become stronger just so you could become stronger yourself...!"

"Then you're the same, aren't you?"

Father Valyria looked at the hysterical Lisa with an indifferent expression in the face of the other party's mockery.

Their lives are both tragedies, so who can laugh at whom?

Even if we become monsters, aren't we all the same?

Thinking this with a mixture of sarcasm and self-mockery, Valyria laughed and said:

"So, we're back to the original question. It seems I was right. The golden Ytzhak is too much like the father, so you don't love him. The silver John is a flawed, imperfect product, which is why you love him."

At this point, Valyria shook her head helplessly, looking at Lisa in front of her as she unfolded the relic and gritted her teeth, and said bluntly and sarcastically:

"What a fine expression. Because you are [Babylon], you are indeed unsuitable to be Theresia's mother. No, you are not even worthy of being called a mother, because neither of the twins has done a good job of raising her."

"If it's just about giving birth and then abandoning the dog, even an ordinary female dog could do that!"

"Cain!"

Lisa's voice was loud enough to drown out the Holy Communion Cup's mocking insults, meaning that the other party was serious about summoning the undead soldiers.

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The enormous being that appeared beside Lisa, resembling a combination of a zombie and a Frankenstein's monster, wielded a massive, sword-like replica of the Black Round Table Lance, and appeared in the hospital corridor.

Wearing a mask controlled by Lisa, the other party, carrying a terrible stench of corpses and an aura of destruction and death, let out a series of ferocious growls towards the Holy Communion.

"That's useless, you know that."

Father Valyria's voice was filled with helplessness and disappointment at Lisa's resistance, as if he were trying to drive away something in his way, and he could not hide his frustration.

Now, the enormous monster standing before him... even the Holy Grail, which is over 190cm tall, could only look up at with its imposing presence, reminiscent of a demon statue carved off a fortress.

The steel-like muscles and the stagnant, grayish-brown skin were terrifying, and coupled with the giant sword in his hand, anyone could see that this giant was even more intimidating than his appearance...

Earth Eight Cain, the Devourer of Death, his relic can be described as a degraded version of the Golden Holy Lance, and his power is also a collection of degraded Golden Beast legions.

If gold is the entity that ravages and dominates countless souls, then the other is the entity that controls corpses and stitches them all together.

The opponent will devour the corpses of the defeated and killed powerful individuals, continuously strengthening their own bodies.

It can be said that in terms of sturdiness and physical strength, it ranks second among all members of the Black Round Table.

As for the first...

"Even he can't destroy the Holy Grail."

With a calm smile on his face and a figure as thin as a withered branch, the priest remained motionless before the massive sword of the enormous Tuba Cain.