Emiya Shirou doesn't want to work overtime

Screams of fear, contempt, and rebuke echoed one after another from the surrounding corridors.

The weak are filled with fear, while the powerful are filled with disgust.

No one would want to approach someone who devours the corpses of others.

No one is willing to find out if this is a true story.

This is something that has nothing to do with them. They don't care whether it's true or false; they only want to believe what they believe.

"monster!"

"monster!"

"monster!"

The sound continued to surround Lanlu Jun, who was dressed as a clown, but she swayed as if she hadn't heard anything.

Like a true clown, he always wore the same unchanging smile, constantly searching for something in the corridors, on the playground, in the church, and even in the arena.

But can't she really hear these sounds?

Can her followers truly be considered nothing?

"Monster! Yes, Lanlu-kun, monster!"

With a bright smile on his face, Lan Lujun spoke in broken, weak voices, as if stating some fact.

"You monster, you ate everything you loved!"

Only Vlad III, as a follower of Lanlu, could hear the unspeakable sorrow hidden beneath that smiling mask.

"Yes, we are monsters!"

A self-deprecating voice came from Vlad III, who had been following Lanlu Jun closely.

monster!?

Yes, we are monsters, monsters that are not accepted by everyone, monsters that will never be understood until death.

Vlad's eyes were filled with rage, and he even wished he could snap the necks of those who uttered the word "monster" the next second.

He was disappointed in humanity once again. How could someone as noble as himself, someone who possessed genuine love, have to endure the ugliness of others?

Vlad looked at Lanlu Jun beside him, who still wore a clownish smile despite being filled with sadness, and his heart was filled with anger, sorrow and regret.

Human beings are filthy and ugly. In the end, normal conscience is easily abandoned by humans and becomes the most superfluous thing.

"Crack——!"

At that very moment, the door next to Lan Lujun was pushed open forcefully.

A white-haired boy in a school uniform walked out, looking tired and yawning.

Each person's room is an independent space, and it only connects to the school building when they leave.

Under normal circumstances, all the students' dormitories are located in the same place within the academy, only the rooms are different spaces.

However, if two people open the door at the same time, one of their doors will be assigned by Mooncell to another available wall in the school building.

However, with so few participants, the chances of two people being able to open the door at the same time are extremely slim.

"Hehe—! Found it—!"

The moment Shirou Emiya pushed open the door, Lanlu, with his unchanging smile, looked excitedly to his side.

Its viscous eyes made no attempt to conceal its hunger, as if it were about to tear at Shirou Emiya at any moment.

"!!!!!!"

Emiya Shirou was startled by the sudden appearance of Lanlu-kun staring intently at him, and involuntarily took a step back.

Because the room and the school are not in the same space, Shirou Emiya has no way of knowing what the situation is like at his door in advance, and he can only perceive the surrounding situation the moment he steps out.

Moreover, Shirou Emiya had been forging all night for several days in a row, and after only a short rest, he was extremely hungry. In addition, the academy was very safe.

Shirou Emiya wasn't paying much attention until Ranlu greeted him, at which point Shirou didn't notice his presence.

It was a bit of a shock, but I quickly recovered.

"What do you want from me?"

Seeing Lanlu staring intently at him, Shirou Emiya didn't even show any hostility. Instead, he asked a question.

"Seeing you makes me hungry."

And Lanlu replied to Emiya Shirou in a very serious manner.

"What kind of seasoning should I choose? Sure enough, bright red tomato sauce is better than yellow mustard!"

As if he had gone mad, Lanlu uttered chilling words, as if he really wanted to devour Emiya Shirou.

However, Shirou Emiya suppressed his discomfort and looked at Vlad III, who stood to the side, eyeing him menacingly. It seemed that Vlad III would completely disregard the rules set by Mooncell at the academy and attack him at Lanlu's command. With a puzzled expression, he asked Lanlu.

"Can you tell me why you want to eat me?"

Emiya Shirou's gaze was extremely calm, showing no disgust towards Lanlu-kun who was talking at length about how to eat people. He treated him as if he were a normal person.

This does not mean that Shirou Emiya accepts Ranlu's cannibalism, nor does it mean that if Ranlu really did eat people, Shirou Emiya could forgive him.

Simply because Shirou Emiya believed that someone who constantly restrained and suppressed himself would actually eat humans, just as the rumors suggested.

That kind of look is not something someone who truly sees humans as food could possess.

Shirou Emiya initially harbored malice towards this woman. He would not forgive someone who treated people as food and who could devour them at will, nor did he have the right to forgive her on behalf of those who lost their lives.

However, Shirou Emiya sensed other emotions in Ranpu's eyes, which regarded him as food and seemed to want to devour him at any moment. He didn't understand what kind of emotions these were.

Even now, after observing him at such close range, less than a meter away, Shirou Emiya understands what kind of emotion and will it is.

Emiya Shirou could sense that she was resisting, that she was suppressing herself.

Even with himself so close to her, and even with her constantly expressing her desire to eat him, the woman dressed as a clown in front of him remained completely still.

Despite being incredibly hungry, and with food within easy reach, they miraculously suppressed this primal biological urge.

Emiya Shirou couldn't believe that someone like him, someone with such a strong will, would actually eat humans.

Moreover, he also believed that, as the King of Romania, he was a believer with an extremely high level of faith.

As a king who would rather lose all glory, even die a humiliating death, than become a vampire, yet would unhesitatingly become the very being he despises for the sake of his people, would he accept a Master who feeds on the lives of others?

He gave everything for his people, both glory and his life.

Chapter 577 Originally Enemies

Looking at the white-haired boy in front of him, who was asking his master a question with an extremely serious expression.

Vlad III could not muster any anger.

He even said he didn't know how to show his anger to Shirou Emiya.

He doesn't understand, he doesn't understand.

Both he and his Master were fighting with the intention of killing him.

Whether it was the murderous intent he displayed or the hunger that Lanlu-kun revealed to Emiya Shirou.

They all harbored absolute malice towards Emiya Shirou.

Moreover, this is a war in which only one of the two can survive.

Even if it's not for obtaining the Holy Grail, even if it's just for survival.

Shirou Emiya is the one who should be treating himself and Master as monsters, and as enemies.

But he did not do that. Instead, he treated them with an extremely equal attitude, even like a normal person.

This was something Vlad III couldn't understand at all; in all his life, he had never seen such a strange person.

"Why?"

Lanlu tilted his head, seemingly putting all his energy into thinking about the question raised by Emiya Shirou.

Drooling was uncontrollably dripping from the corners of his mouth.

"Because, Lanlu-kun likes food."

She seemed to be suppressing something; her head was twitching, and she spoke weakly and intermittently.

"However, gourmet food is not common."

"I can only eat what I love."

The intense tearing sensation was enough for Shirou Emiya to barely understand what Ranro was trying to express.

"So, Lanlu-kun, right now, I'm extremely happy!"

"Finally, after three years, I can eat delicious food again."

"Three years?"

Looking at the thin body of Ranro in front of him, Shirou Emiya couldn't help but swallow, his heart filled with surprise.

Three years —

Shirou Emiya wasn't sure if this woman had actually eaten a human three years ago, but he did know that it would take an incredible amount of willpower to suppress such a desire for three years.

Standing next to Lanlu, Shirou Emiya could finally feel just how intense this hunger was.

This is a desire that no ordinary person can resist; even just a few minutes is enough to cause a mental breakdown.

But what kind of willpower allowed him to persevere for three years?

That emaciated body said it all.

Emiya Shirou also gained a slight understanding of the suffering that the woman in front of him had experienced.

But he only had a slight understanding, because Shirou Emiya had never experienced such pain as she did, and he didn't know what this woman had been facing all these years.

However, Shirou Emiya is trying to understand, trying to understand her pain.

Vlad III, standing to the side, also witnessed how Shirou Emiya, despite being their enemy, understood them as monsters.

At this moment, Vlad III, who had previously longed for someone to understand the nobility of his Master and his own nobility, was now filled with confusion.