Abnormal Moon

Gilgamesh chuckled, tilting his head and grinning with a mad expression.

"That magician is no different from an ant, but depending on the situation, he can still be of use, burning himself out to emit his last bit of light and heat, nothing more."

"Use? Him?"

Roy glanced sideways at Jiemon with disdain.

Jiemon glared at him angrily.

"Yes."

Gilgamesh ignored Jiemon, and paid no attention to the wary Demon King Souji and Jeanne d'Arc. Instead, he focused his attention on Roy, as if all his attention was on him.

"Then let me ask you, Homunculus Roy, what is your wish to participate in this Holy Grail War?"

Chapter 101 What is the wish?

"Roy the android, what is your wish?"

Gilgamesh looked down at Roy.

His snake-like eyes held an indescribable and enigmatic meaning.

"It shouldn't be such a boring wish as saving the world, right? If it were, I would kill you right now. But it shouldn't be about destroying the world either, otherwise with your demonic eyes, you wouldn't have had to wait until now... To be honest, I'm very interested in your wish!"

"If you tell me now that you have pleased me, then the magician over there will be no use for even emitting light and heat at the end."

He was very concerned about Roy's answer.

But he didn't intend to comment on Roy's answer, not to evaluate or advise him, but to treat it as his own pleasure, as a kind of fun, to please himself.

"The mighty King of Heroes, how does he know me so well?"

Roy remained noncommittal about Gilgamesh's enthusiastic attitude; instead, his eyes suddenly became wary.

In his limited memory, he had never met Gilgamesh, and he had only met Kirei Kotomine for the first time a few days ago at the city hall.

Why does Gilgamesh speak as if he knows him very well, and even knows about the power of his Mystic Eyes?

Most importantly, why would this ambitious hero-king care so much about a little Karami?

"Hahahaha! I know far, far, far more than you imagine!"

Gilgamesh let out a defiant laugh.

Roy became increasingly wary.

This Gilgamesh is indeed Gilgamesh himself.

But it was somewhat different from the Gilgamesh he knew.

Given Gilgamesh's personality, if Roy hadn't given an answer but instead asked a question the moment after asking the question, he should have already opened the Royal Treasury, used a Noble Phantasm to pierce through Gilgamesh's limbs, pinned him to the ground, and then revealed a cruel sneer before continuing to ask for the answer.

But he hasn't done that yet; instead, he proudly proclaims that he has a wide range of knowledge and is surprisingly patient.

Roy couldn't quite figure him out.

Unfortunately, in this messed-up world, even Gilgamesh has changed.

So, is this Gilgamesh a Gilgamesh who's taking things a little more seriously, or is it Gilgamesh who already knew something?

Either way, it's much more troublesome than I imagined...!

"Alright, answer my question!"

Gilgamesh finished laughing, and his blood-red serpentine eyes narrowed again.

What is your true wish?

Roy was silent for a moment.

He understood Gilgamesh's intention: keeping Jiemon around was only to find out his true wish. Once he told Jiemon his wish, he would no longer need Jiemon and would let him do as he pleased.

Roy never intended to hide his wishes, nor was it that he couldn't speak them.

That's right.

As Gilgamesh said, Roy's wish was neither to save the world nor to destroy it.

No, to be honest, he did have the idea of ​​destroying the world deep down—the world he was referring to was, of course, humanity; he didn't hate the world itself—but he suppressed this thought.

Needless to say, saving the world is out of the question. He'd rather destroy the world than save it.

He would respect the ideals of someone like Rin Tohsaka, but would remain detached. If asked to join that group, he would only scoff and then laugh and ask, "What does the world have to do with me?"

Ultimately, what he respected was not the desire to save the world, but Rin Tohsaka's personality, Rin Tohsaka herself.

So, what exactly is his wish?

Roy remained silent for a while, and Gilgamesh waited patiently for a while as well.

Joan of Arc and Demon King Souji also silently pricked up their ears.

In short, let's reset it.

Roy closed his magic eye, rubbed his temples, and the fatigue that had appeared on his face after keeping his magic eye open for so long finally gave his answer.

"Hoohoo, reset?"

Gilgamesh became interested and nodded repeatedly.

"Do you want to reset the world, or reset humanity itself? To tear everything down and start over, to destroy the existing human race and create a race that surpasses humanity?"

That's really interesting!

Ah, it's not that this wish is correct, but rather that it brings him a lot of joy!

No.

wrong.

If that's the case, then something's not right.

If his wish is to reset humanity, then at least in the path of destroying existing humanity, he and Angolan Manuel share a common direction and are not entirely incompatible.

However, he decisively rejected Angolan Manuel without the slightest hesitation. In other words, their goals were like two parallel lines that would never intersect, and there was no possibility of them cooperating.

Joan of Arc was startled.

Resetting humanity?

Is Roy's wish really that dangerous?

She quickly looked at Roy, wanting to ask for an answer.

"No, why would I want to reset humanity?"

Roy shook his head, looking as if he were talking to himself, it was unclear whether he was answering Gilgamesh's question or having a conversation with his own mind.

"Humans are indeed detestable and incomplete beings, but who can guarantee that the beings created after resetting everything won't be even more inferior than humans? Even if the created beings are indeed superior to humans, superiority doesn't guarantee survival. You should know that, Hero King, sometimes being too superior can lead to a dead end and make you an object to be discarded. And if the new humans are only slightly better than the old humans, but still not quite at the same level, then it's meaningless."

"You, a magician, seem to know quite a lot about the facts!"

Gilgamesh nodded in agreement.

At this point, Gilgamesh had already begun to admire Roy somewhat.

Roy's attitude toward humans is very similar to his.

Those who are disillusioned with humanity may abandon the old humanity and choose to embark on the path of creating a new humanity, or they may become weary of the world and escape to a remote place to live a life of peace and tranquility. Or some may try every means to change humanity and give it new changes to combat the inherent flaws in human nature.

But like Gilgamesh, Roy neither intended to create new humans nor to leave the old ones.

We will not abandon imperfect humanity, nor do we intend to change humanity.

Instead, they denigrate human depravity while coldly observing everything from the sidelines.

Joan of Arc breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, Roy didn't turn out completely bad!

"So what do you mean by 'reset'?"

Gilgamesh pressed on with his questions.

He seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes narrowed dangerously, radiating a chilling aura like a snake.

"It can't be something as boring as resetting time and saving your past self from suffering, right?"

That's much less interesting than saving the world!

But Roy said a single word.

He immediately turned Roy into a hedgehog.

"Huh? Is that another explanation?"

Roy himself was taken aback.

Judging from his tone, it doesn't seem to mean changing his painful past.

Gilgamesh noticed this and felt slightly happier.

"presumptuous!"