Or, why don’t you find another savior?

"By the way, after the 'Garden of Disappointment' is deployed, people other than the target will be dragged in if they approach rashly," Morgan said.

"Why are you suddenly saying this?" Xi Jian didn't quite understand.

"I'm afraid my husband will get impatient and want to suddenly kill Altria and her group. At that time, I will have to hastily undo the magic for your sake."

"Am I that cruel?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xijian looked up suddenly. He felt the presence of other people appearing in the forest.

"There's more than one person, there are a lot of them." Morgan closed his eyes and let his consciousness connect with the forest's barrier.

After analyzing the barrier here, she did not choose to destroy it, but instead mixed in her own magic, thereby intervening in the barrier's surveillance system and gaining control of the entire picture of the Einzbern Forest.

Anyone who wants to enter or leave will still be discovered even if they do not trigger the forest's defense spells.

"A lot?" Xi Jian raised his eyebrows slightly.

"One of them is a human, and is heading towards the castle. It will arrive in two minutes at most." Morgan continued to give details. "As for the others, they are all Servants, but the aura of each one is extremely weak."

"The presence of a large number of servants... is it Assassin?" Shiomi crossed his arms, "That means Assassin has a similar ability to clones. Although it will weaken his own strength, it is perfect as a Servant for assassination and intelligence gathering."

Morgan opened his eyes. "The aura of the servants is still increasing. It seems that they are planning to put all the servants on the line to stop us here."

"But it's not in the castle..."

"Cleverness leads to mistakes."

Morgan couldn't help but feel that it was such a coincidence.

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I was brought back to consciousness by the loud roar of a car engine.

Emiya Kiritsugu noticed that he was sitting in a dilapidated pickup truck, and the girl next to him was leisurely holding the vibrating steering wheel.

The car left the village and headed deep into the jungle.

"here it is……"

"Are you awake, Kelly?" the girl asked.

Hearing this name that seemed like it came from another world, Emiya Kiritsugu looked at the girl in surprise, his eyes wide open in astonishment.

That is the horizon of bleached memory.

The other side was blurred by blood and gun smoke.

To Emiya Kiritsugu's soul, which was filled with smoke.

It is a memory of an origin that is no longer accessible.

He looked tentatively at the rearview mirror of the pickup truck. Through the old mirror, Kiritsugu saw a face that he could no longer remember clearly, but it was definitely his own face when he was young.

Chapter 3: The Courtyard of Disappointment ()

In the stone room, on the white hospital bed, the woman afflicted with a terminal illness looked at him with a loving smile. That body, which could not even stand up and was so thin that only skin and bones remained, was impossible for Kirei to forget, and there was absolutely no reason to forget it.

Claudia Aldessia.

His wife died four years ago.

Then, Kotomine Kirei quickly understood the current situation.

He was originally heading to the Einzbern Castle, to find Emiya Kiritsugu before Shiomi Tenkei made his move, to confront the man again, and to look for the answers Kirei might have gotten.

But after entering the castle, the scene in front of him suddenly changed and became what it is now.

In the room filled with sunlight, Kirei stood in front of the hospital bed, looking at his wife lying there.

It was that day.

Although he didn't know the principle, Kirei roughly deduced that this was probably an illusion created by some barrier, allowing him to see his deceased wife.

But this scene was too real, and even if he wanted to crack it, he couldn't find a way. More importantly, he remembered what day it was.

Born with defects.

Kirei was fully aware of this fact. Although he was unable to appreciate morality, he possessed common sense, and he spent his entire youth trying to overcome this.

His ascetic practices did not cure his troubles and all ended in vain.

And the final attempt was on the woman in front of him.

This is a simple thing for a person. There is no one who has not fantasized about loving someone, building a family, and quietly breathing out his last breath at the end of his life.

Kirei hoped so.

Even though he couldn't feel the charm of these peaceful and happy times, he wished it could be this way.

Love someone and give birth to a child.

But why did Kirei choose a woman with almost no future?

Anyone could see that the woman who was being eroded by the disease didn't have much time left. Kirei couldn't remember why he chose her.

During these two years, Kirei loved his wife, and his wife loved him like a child.

There was no improvement in the situation. For him, he would only feel happy when he saw his wife suffering from the disease.

The more you love your wife like this, the more unhappiness you will bring to her.

Claudia is like a saint, loving Kirei unconditionally and deeply understanding the distress and anger in Kirei's heart.

But it was just like this, which made Kirei even more troubled.

Such holy people who can understand themselves will soon disappear. After that, who will be able to understand themselves?

I realized that I was born with defects, and I understood that there were no answers and no treatments, and this was the only way to end it.

Kirei decided in his heart that he would end his own life.

As a husband, once you have decided to die, you have the obligation to tell your wife about it.

Claudia Aldessia loves Kotomine Kirei.

Kirei also thought that he should be the same.

Therefore, Kirei knew what he should say to his wife.

Just like every time they met, despite being seriously ill, Claudia was still looking forward to his arrival on this day. After seeing Kirei enter the room with a distressed look on his face, a loving smile like that of the Madonna appeared on her face.

"I failed to love you."

That day, Kirei said this to his wife.

"No, you love me."

As she said this, the wife took out the dagger she had prepared in advance and stabbed herself in the neck as if she had known this day would come.

Kirei also remembered the last words his wife said when he was holding her in a pool of blood.

"…Because you're crying."

It was on that day, on that day, Kirei's wife passed away in a way that was inconsistent with doctrine and faith.

So he never dreamed that he would actually experience this day again.

Claudia looked at him with a smile, waiting for his next words.

Kirei’s throat moved, and he spoke out his words in a gentle and calm voice.

He could have said something different, but he chose to repeat the same thing.

As if following the established procedure, the wife smiled and took out a sharp knife from under the white sheet and pointed it at her throat.

"No, you love me."

But this time, the dagger was taken away before it could pierce his throat.

To stop a terminally ill woman is just a piece of cake for a seasoned agent.

He grabbed his wife and snatched the dagger with his other hand.

As if somewhat surprised by this result, Claudia smiled a smile Kirei had never seen before.

Full of redemptive happiness.

Was it her or Kirei who was redeemed? He didn't know.

Not important either.

"See, you are in love with—"

As if declaring victory, his wife gently denied Kirei, but her voice involuntarily stopped.

The dagger pierced Claudia's heart.

However, this woman who was as tolerant and understanding as a saint did not lose that look in her eyes even at the last moment. She simply gently grasped Kirei's arm that held the dagger.

Her lips moved, making a hoarse sound, as if she wanted to tell Kirei something, but couldn't say it.

Kirei did not wait or ask. He quickly exerted force with his hand and twisted the dagger violently around Claudia's heart. Then he heard something in the woman's body shatter, like delicate amber that fell and shattered irretrievably.

Blood oozed from the corner of the woman's mouth. Her body had used up the last bit of strength and her hands fell weakly on the bed.

Kirei watched the light in her eyes gradually dim, and finally disappear completely, and he knew that she was dead.

Claudia Ordesia was killed by his own hands.

Perhaps because the established rules were violated, the stone room that was filled with sunlight suddenly darkened and was swallowed by the endless darkness.

The dagger, his wife, and everything else had lost all feeling.

The only thing that remained was the moment of killing his wife, which filled the empty feeling of exhilaration in Kotomine Kirei's heart.

After more than twenty years of incomplete life, the gap in my heart was filled for the first time.

He didn't know what the person who set up this illusion wanted him to see. Kirei was very grateful to the other party. If there was no such thing, he might never have the chance to make a new choice and face his true thoughts in his life.

Indeed, he cried when his wife committed suicide in front of him four years ago.

They were tears of sadness, but not as the woman said, that they were not because of love for her.

Now, Kotomine Kirei could finally recall it clearly.

He was not saddened by the woman's death.

That's what he thought at that time.

"How can this be? Since we are going to die anyway, I want to kill him with my own hands."

He was sad only because he couldn't enjoy the woman's death, that's all.

Since he can "start over", he also wants to "make a new choice".

However, that woman, perhaps until her death, fully understood the true nature of Kotomine Kirei.

So he felt it was a bit of a pity, but that was all.

Chapter 65: Anomaly

Swah——

He swung his sword and cut off the head, and the dark body fell backwards.

the seventh.

In just a few minutes, Xijian Tianxi had killed seven Assassins... or rather, seven bodies.

Men, women, old people, young people.

The strong, the thin, the fat.

One who is as light as a swallow has immense strength.

No matter how you classify it, it cannot be fully summarized.

But they are all Assassins, and indeed, all of them are weaker than expected.

Although each of them is superior to ordinary humans, as a servant, their ability values ​​are too low to be compared with other servants.

He was defeated after only a few rounds of fighting with Shiomi.

If they were all the same, Shiomi would probably be faster.