My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

Where the spot of light passed, hundreds of missiles seemed to burst like bubbles at the slightest touch.

The light from countless missile explosions was dazzling in the night sky, and they could even hear the roar coming from the distant heavens...

All interceptions failed!

At this moment, the radar already showed that the point of light was about to descend upon Osaka.

At that moment, the air in the command room froze, and everyone was as silent as if they were dead.

……

At this time, Osaka was peaceful and harmonious. As Japan's second largest city and a famous historical and cultural city, many historical and cultural sites had been destroyed in the wars and economic development. In their place, there were all kinds of shops and entertainment centers. Handicrafts, Kabuki, and food are the characteristics of this city. Leisure and enjoyment are the melody of this city.

Osaka is bustling with activity late at night, especially in the city center, where advertising signs and neon lights illuminate the streets in a dazzling display of colors. Entertainment venues abound, including izakayas, geisha houses, and nightclubs, creating a vibrant and lively atmosphere. The ancient red-light district has reappeared in a new form.

There were scantily clad, alluring women standing on the street, and office workers reeking of alcohol sleeping on the ground. More often, young men and women strolled by, laughing and joking…

At this moment, a couple walked hand in hand on a brightly lit street.

Suddenly, the girl tugged at her boyfriend's hand and exclaimed, "Look, a shooting star!"

"How could there be a shooting star at this time?" The man didn't believe it, because shooting stars are usually predicted. However, he still looked in the direction his girlfriend was pointing. "Hmm? It really is a shooting star, and it's dark red. But why does it seem to be getting brighter and brighter?"

However, at this very moment...

Gurgle... Gurgle...!

The air raid sirens suddenly sounded over the city, urgent, piercing, and unpleasant to hear.

It directly startled the people on the ground who were enjoying life.

A look of confusion crossed their faces.

Air raid sirens? What era are those?

For those born after the war, this was the first time they had ever heard of this thing in real life.

At that moment, an ominous, dark red light shone in the pitch-black night sky above Osaka.

People looked up and saw a dark red beam of light descending from the sky, piercing straight into the city center.

"What is that?" someone asked.

The boy in the couple was terrified when he heard the air raid siren: "Oh no, run!"

He quickly grabbed the girl's hand and ran, but before he could run a few steps, he was enveloped in a dark red light...

flutter--!

It was like a lit match falling into a puddle of gasoline, instantly igniting the entire city of Osaka. There was no explosion, no shockwave, and no radiation; there was only burning, pure burning!

The [Orlando Spear], under the devastating blow, ignited the flames of the rules!

Whether it's reinforced concrete, bricks and tiles, rivers and lakes... whether it's combustible or not, everything within a 50-kilometer radius of the [Gun of Orlando] is burning!

The couple was closest to where the [Shot of Orlando] landed, so they were the first to be ignited. Their clothes, skin, muscles, blood, bones... all burst into flames simultaneously, inside and out. Their consciousness had long since vanished, for their brains were already charred beyond recognition. In just a few breaths, they were reduced to black ashes, carried into the sky by the rising heat...

The entire city of Osaka was engulfed in flames, everything was ablaze, and the air raid sirens that had been lingering over the city for so long finally fell silent.

A tall building finally snapped with a creak, its upper half of the staircase crashing down into the inferno. This was not an isolated incident; skyscrapers throughout Osaka resembled towering torches, burning themselves to illuminate the dark night sky, with countless rubble collapsing...

The previous bright lights and bustling activity on the streets have long since disappeared, replaced by a bonfire feast. Many cars continue to move forward by inertia while burning, and the drivers are nowhere to be seen inside.

On the riverbank, in the first few breaths, they struggled desperately, enduring the excruciating pain that seared their nerves, turning into fireballs and leaping into the river to escape. But that was just changing where they were going to die, because the entire river was also burning, burning in a way that was beyond the ordinary.

The soil on the ground turned to ash layer by layer, and soon the underground natural gas pipelines were affected, making a "boom boom..." sound.

The once bustling and vibrant city instantly transformed into a death zone.

Life becomes meaningless under this rule-based "annihilation strike." There are no moving stories, no tenacious struggles for survival in the face of death, and... not even a single survivor.

Because life dies in the first few breaths, without exception.

This is a more terrifying attack than a nuclear bomb; it leaves no survivors!

Chapter 379 Questioning the Guilty

At an altitude of 10,000 meters, airborne reconnaissance satellite systems and high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft immediately reported the devastation in Osaka to the Japanese leadership.

Meanwhile, several powerful media outlets dispatched helicopters to broadcast live from the burning Osaka, which was so engulfed in flames that it could be seen from Kyoto, which was dozens of kilometers away.

These helicopters dared not approach the airspace above Osaka, because they clearly saw that the firefighting helicopters, even without touching the flames, spontaneously combusted and crashed whenever they were over Osaka.

They filmed only within a 50-kilometer radius of Osaka, broadcasting the devastating, apocalyptic scenes of Osaka to the entire nation.

The fire in the footage is filled with eerie phenomena:

What's most captivating is that the range of the flames is exactly fifty kilometers, not a fraction more or less, as if an invisible wall separates the two, making them distinctly separate.

The same leaf can turn to ash instantly within a 50-kilometer radius, while remaining intact beyond that radius.

This amazing scene naturally attracted the attention of the crowd.

At the same time, the entire city was burning. Concrete, stone sculptures, metal, plants, plastic, and even the river were all burning. The flames seemed to be burning everything until it turned to ashes!

Ultimately, there were no survivors in this disaster; of the more than 2.7 million people in Osaka, not a single one survived.

……

Warehouse street at the port of Miwonchuan.

Whether they were Heroic Spirits or Masters, they all fell silent as they gazed at the distant sky that soared into the heavens, illuminating the dark night sky with crimson light.

They didn't know exactly what had happened, but they already had a bad feeling.

Iskandar looked at Hui with a serious expression and asked, "Hey, Caster, what did you do?"

"Caster? Are you calling me?" Hui's voice was naturally very pleasant to listen to, and it was usually a pleasure to hear.

But at this moment, the people could no longer appreciate the idea.

"I was asking you at the time."

"I don't know either. Who knows which unlucky place was affected?" Hui said indifferently.

At that moment, Weber suddenly remembered something, took out his cell phone from his pocket, and realized that in this era, Japan already had brick-sized phones that could access the internet.

Sure enough, when he opened his browser, the same trending news article had already dominated the screen.

Especially the horrifying headline: "Osaka attacked by unidentified missile, nearly 2.7 million citizens perished."

“This is…” Weber couldn’t believe his eyes. He clicked on the first video with trembling hands.

Iskandar also leaned over to look at the video on his phone.

The video was not a live helicopter broadcast from the scene, but rather something that was accidentally captured by someone taking pictures of the stars in the mountains around Osaka.

In this era, wireless network speeds were relatively slow, and the video officially started after buffering for about ten seconds.

From the video's perspective, you can see the entire night view of Osaka. At first glance, the most eye-catching feature is undoubtedly the neon-lit city center, which is as bright as day. Next is the main urban road that radiates outward from the city center, filled with lighting facilities and traffic.

These crisscrossing, brightly lit roads resemble veins, while the scattered buildings form the skeleton of Osaka. Together, they evoke the vibrant nighttime scene of Osaka. Of course, further away, many residential areas remain dark in the video due to insufficient lighting.

Even so, one can still feel the city's vitality even through the screen.

Then, the blow came!

In the video, the previously pitch-black sky suddenly turned dark red. In an instant, a dark red beam of light descended from the sky, like a sharp sword piercing the entire city center of Osaka. The entire city of Osaka was like a piece of brocade being set ablaze, instantly turning into a sea of ​​crimson flames. The once bustling city was quickly engulfed by raging flames, and the entire city of Osaka was completely transformed into a living hell...

The video contained no cries of the victims, nor even any visible bodies. Yet, in Weber's eyes, the raging flames seemed to echo with the wails of countless souls who perished...

Inspired by Weber, Artoria also saw this scene on Irisviel's phone.

Kiritsugu Emiya and Maiya, who were monitoring from a distance, also saw the devastation in Osaka on their phones. After watching the video, Kiritsugu immediately crushed his phone, his expression returning to its previous cold and ruthless state. However, the way he looked at Kei again became inexplicable.

At the Tohsaka family mansion, Gilgamesh, who had been forcibly summoned back by a Command Spell, watched the tragic scene in Osaka on television. He felt neither joy nor sorrow; the deaths of 2.7 million people did not stir any emotion in him. However, Tohsaka Tokiomi, who was beside him, was horrified.

Before he could think any further, Kirei Kotomine's voice rang in his ears: "Sensei, could that Noble Phantasm be..."

Kirei Kotomine's voice remained calm, and upon closer listening, it even seemed to reveal a hint of excitement.

"Ah, that power, there's no mistake, it's... an anti-star Noble Phantasm!" Tokiomi Tohsaka said with difficulty.

Although he wasn't very skilled in magic, as the head of the Tohsaka family, one of the three major families, he still had a lot of knowledge.

Only a Noble Phantasm that targets stars can break through the power limit set by the Greater Grail for Servants and produce this level of destructive power.

Because the Star-Piercing Noble Phantasm is, to some extent, even more precious than the Greater Grail.

He couldn't understand why a Heroic Spirit with a Star-level Noble Phantasm would respond to the Holy Grail's call.

What is the attraction of the Holy Grail to this existence?

Does this being truly believe in the obvious lie that the Holy Grail is an "omnipotent wishing cup"?

Tokiomi Tohsaka said he didn't understand.

He had done everything he could to prepare for this Holy Grail War. He thought that he had the victory in his grasp after finally finding Gilgamesh's relics and successfully summoning the King of Heroes. But... he never expected that a Noble Phantasm of the Star level would appear in this Holy Grail War.

……

Warehouse street at the port of Miwonchuan.

Everyone learned of the tragedy in Osaka through various channels. For a moment, all was silent, the world eerily quiet. The fact that more than 2.7 million people in a metropolis had been slaughtered in an instant was hard for them to accept.

Weber, in particular, felt difficulty breathing and even suffocation, realizing for the first time the cruelty of the Holy Grail War.

No, this goes beyond the word "cruel".

Artoria was the first to strike. Upholding the spirit of chivalry, she was full of justice. Let alone 2.7 million people, she couldn't accept even one person dying in front of her.

She raised her sword, pointing it at Hui, a surge of suppressed rage rising in her chest and spreading rapidly through her blood. Chin raised, her eyes blazing with fury, she roared, "Caster, what have you done!"

Hui looked at Artoria with surprise. Having devoured Lancelot, she had recognized Artoria's identity as the British Knight King from the very beginning. Although it was a bit unexpected that the legendary Knight King was a woman, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. You can't judge another world by the history of your own world.

Hui also obtained the memories of the woman in front of her, the Knight King, who had roamed Britain, from Lancenot. In those memories, she knew that this woman had killed quite a few people.

While it may not be as many as 2.7 million, it could still be tens of thousands.

how?

You killed tens of thousands of people and now you're accusing me of accidentally wiping out millions?

Just because you killed fewer people than me?

"Is the reason you're so angry because I've killed more people than you?" Hui asked directly, revealing her true feelings.