I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Bang---!

The White Knight pulled the trigger, causing the Mauser in his hand to pluck a flower.

This shot also began to shatter the Valyrian soul and personality that had been comforted.

"what......"

A muffled, broken sound escaped his throat, yet remained suppressed; Valyria's eyes were filled with a twisted, destructive emotion.

He could not resist, could not disobey the beast's commands.

If we don't want all the children to die, we must make a choice.

He raised his trembling hand and pointed at them, at the children.

The children's bewildered and pleading expressions, unable to grasp the situation, are etched into Valyria's retina and will never be forgotten.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang...

Whenever Valyria moved her trembling finger to point at a child, the White Knight Schreiber's pistol emitted an inorganic sound, and the chosen flower withered away.

Transformed into petals soaked in crimson blood, emanating from the lament of its soul, it pierced Valyria's chest.

However, for some reason, Valyria cannot stop her fingers on her own.

Then, without trembling or confusion, she chose the flowers she loved most in order.

What I curse most is the despicable nature I have planned in my heart.

Even in this situation, he still constructed a self-justification in his mind to protect himself.

If we don't select ten people, we won't be able to protect the other children either.

Is this a simple arithmetic problem, or a question of which side to save between more and less? (Emiya Kiritsugu's hand trembled slightly as he smoked.)

This is simply choosing the solution that causes the least damage, and because of this, one's own despicable mind feels that no mistake has been made.

Ultimately, can the flowers that were picked agree with this principle?

No, absolutely not.

Valyria loved them; he loved them.

They tried their best to save them, but they withered away by their own hands.

It is itself that causes it to wither.

What exactly is missing? Where did we go wrong?

The answer is self-evident—this incredibly distorted worldview.

Eyes that cannot share the same color as others, eardrums that cannot resonate with the pain of a mournful cry, brain that governs the organs above, and the physical container that contains everything.

Simply put, having no way to deal with these shortcomings is just a source of fear.

No, I don't want this kind of thing anymore.

Valyria longed to shed her fragile and riddled-with-holes vessel and become a truly complete person.

The children are crying.

Valyria kept loving, loving, loving, loving—destroying them in the name of love.

He cried out in his heart in despair, "God, where are you?!"

I hope God can grant salvation, even if it means sending me to hell, please save these children.

However, this humble and precious wish went unanswered.

When the last flower withered, Valyria, now completely broken, understood and realized.

I know deeply that there is no God in this world.

"That's why I hate you."

I feel anxious because of God, I feel desperate because of God, so I want to become God.

"As far as I know, the one who is truly complete and untouched by misfortune is you..."

Reinhardt is inviolable; he is the strongest being on his own.

The tragedy I created was entirely due to my own powerlessness; my hands were too small to hold onto beautiful and precious things, and I was unable to protect the people who were important to me.

Therefore, Valyria wants...

"Respect you, become you, pollute you."

He stopped fantasizing about his own salvation and realized that the blessing he believed came from his love had never existed.

“Yes, this is my sin, and therefore I must suffer forever.” Valyria, his face covered in the blood of children, chuckled blankly. “I need no redemption, no blessing. I can walk alone, by myself, alone, to the ends of the earth, to Nayuta forever…”

Only then will Valyria embark on a path of eternal damnation, atoning for its sins to the ends of the earth, forever and ever...

As a sinner forever, I am forced to embark on a distorted and heretical path.

"I want to become you (God) Lord Heydrich."

Valyria swore a deep oath and, as he wished, obtained Reinhard Heydrich's body, becoming someone else, becoming the agent of gold, another gold.

It was precisely because of his own desires, his own characteristics, that he was chosen as the [Holy Communion Grail].

Using Reinhardt's divine body, he can perfectly resist all kinds of attacks.

However, he also has weaknesses. When he unleashes his "Creation Briah", he transforms into a conduit for summoning the holy lance Longinus.

That will be his strongest and weakest moment, and even his seemingly indestructible armor will show signs of weakness.

This would expose Valyria's own soul to a vulnerable state.

Because of the tragedy caused by his past weakness, he yearns for ultimate power.

Reinhard Heydrich, the Golden Beast, yearns to become the strongest being he knows.

Ironically, becoming the agent of the Golden Beast also means transforming into someone who destroys everything indiscriminately, friend or foe.

While protecting the body of its master Reinhard, it can only destroy everything and cannot control its own destiny.

His desires stem from a fundamental conflict between "protection" and "destruction," creating a fatal contradiction.

Reiji and Mercury have discerned Valyria's destiny, which is similar to that of Wilhelm, a vampire with an ominous destiny, as he is always destined for loss.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be Valyria's mocking words, "Those who are close to him begin to die," within the Black Round Table.

He has a desire to protect, but his inability to protect what he cherishes drives him to madness.

In order to overturn the tragedy caused by his past inability to do anything about it, Valyria needs the "necessary power" from the outside world, as well as his own desire to "transform".

His creation of Briah stemmed from this contradictory idea.

But the result only brought him more and more madness, and his own situation did not improve in the slightest.

He repeats the same mistake, loving Theresa and hoping she will love him in return. To change the tragedy of the past, he will not, and cannot, let the flowers wither again.

P.S.: Those who only watched the anime *Day of Wrath* probably wouldn't fully grasp the priest's tragic and pitiful character. The author recalls the anime showing his terrible past, with Reinhard giving him the choice to kill the ten children. The author didn't pad the story; readers who have only seen the anime but not *Day of Wrath* should now understand the priest's origins...

Chapter Thirty: The Divine World - Soaring Across, the Golden White Bird Knight Transformed!

Faced with the priest's madness and fanaticism, Hotaru Sakurai, who knew nothing about Valyria's past and did not want to know it, simply could not understand what he was saying.

No, I think I can understand it, but I don't know who is emphasizing that we can't understand Valyria.

Sakurai Hotaru always felt that while this man's words were full of flaws, they were also filled with an otherworldly distortion, so she couldn't help but ask:

"What... exactly do you want to save?"

"Foolish question."

Valyria chuckled, replying matter-of-factly, "Of course, all, everything!!!"

call out---!

Upon receiving this answer, Sakurai Hotaru gritted her teeth and unleashed a fierce killing intent once more, slashing towards the priest's neck with a menacing sword light.

She knew and understood, and didn't want to discuss it anymore. A woman's intuition told her that it was best to shut this guy up forever!

Clang clang clang clang clang clang—!

The battle broke out in reality without the parallel phase of the other dimension being activated. Fortunately, the priest's power enveloped both himself and Ayase Kasumi, so she was not affected.

Sakurai Hotaru unleashed a torrent of furious slashes, all of them striking the Holy Communion Grail, sparking a fiery inferno that shot into the sky.

However, Valyria of the Holy Communion Cup remained smiling, her body motionless and undefended. Even with her eyes open, allowing Sakurai Hotaru to stab her, she could not damage this divine body in the slightest.

"Lionheart Sword, you understand me, don't you? And I understand your heart too."

Valyria looked at the relentlessly attacking brat with a mixture of pity and mockery in his eyes, and said with a light laugh:

"I want to win back the gentle person, I want to be embraced by that hand, to embrace him, ah... this is what humanity is all about, giving up something in order to gain something."

boom--

Whether it's a strike aimed at the body's weak points, why, why is it deflected?

Sakurai Hotaru didn't understand. The Holy Communion Cup was just standing there, and there was unarmed and defenseless determination right in front of her.

"You and I are just as foolish, pathetic, and pitiful. Lionheart Sword, yearning for love, yet both of us are hopelessly heading towards the end of the Asura path, unaware that we are falling into hell."

The Holy Communion Cup looked down at the helplessly struggling Sakurai Hotaru before it, lamenting its own fate, so similar to that of others.

The Sakurai Hotaru before me is not the same as my former self, but in the end, we will both fall into the path of hell. We both yearn for love, but we destroy in the name of love. It is truly a sinful act.

By the way, what Valyria wants is a dream towards the sunlight, a happiness of smiling at each other there, forever.

Even if you want to sink someone's hopes into the darkness of blood, you still want your own happiness.

Valyria will not apologize, nor will it reflect on its actions.

Because this is a battle, because everyone is fighting desperately for what they want, and if necessary, they will push anyone who gets in their way to hell.

The Holy Grail tramples on some innocent person in order to win... If you get emotionally involved with them, you will lose.

Clang!

The fierce attack was deafening, with the clang of metal clashing against metal filling the air.

Similarly, just as the Holy Grail says, Sakurai Hotaru is the same as him.