Please stop persecuting your students!

"Then he——"

"He ate it all. A lot of information that the Blades had spent countless years to accumulate was eaten by him in these five hundred years! It was your indulgence that allowed him to grow to what he is now, Zhen."

There is nothing wrong with this statement.

Zhen became a cannibal five hundred years ago when Arcadia attacked the refugees of the ancient kingdom of Ira and gained the powerful ability to control elementary particles. From a certain perspective, he had already reached the maximum level at that time. In terms of ability alone, except for the endurance time, he is no different from five hundred years ago.

What about McPenny? At that time, he was still busy capturing Ira's refugees for human experiments. Kasumi had not yet been tuned, and the Sword Eater transformation technology had not yet been fully completed. He was just an ordinary Master Blade Master abandoned by the Holy Grail of Heaven.

If he had not been so decadent and confused at that time, but had killed the man right away, there wouldn't have been so many troubles later. It can be said that there was nothing wrong with him letting him go.

He watched helplessly and allowed his mortal enemy to grow to this point, but he did nothing!

McPenny also thought of this, and his arm hammer swung in the air, but he successfully forced Lex back, and grinned:

"Indeed, I have you to thank for this, the cannibal of Ira!"

Before Zhen could say anything, the knuckles of his hands gripping the hilt of the knife turned white and trembled slightly. Melev, who was patrolling the periphery, could not help but curse:

"You! Is this the purpose of controlling the output of the core crystal?! How many blades have you eaten?!"

"What a stupid question, Prince Flame of Spebia! Do you remember how many slices of bread you have eaten?"

"You bastard!!!"

Benkei, one of the IRA members who was also raiding the battlefield in the distance, jumped high, with blood surrounding him.

"You take the bond and memories between the Blade and the Blade Master as something else!!!!!!"

Except for the special case of Nia, most cannibals choose to break the endless cycle and become cannibals because they don't want to lose their precious emotions and memories. She, Yoshitsune, and Shin are all like this.

She has no good feelings towards humans, so even now she can kill ordinary people and ordinary Blade Masters, but at the same time she also cherishes the precious memories of living together with former Blade Masters that have been engraved in her core for a hundred years, and she does not want them to become "memory residue" called information that exists in the core and cannot even be remembered.

However...

This man, this guy named McPenny, actually desecrated even the few remaining remnants that symbolized the traces of those precious emotions!

Unforgivable!!!!

"Wait! Come back! Benkei!!!"

"Unforgivable! You bastard are absolutely unforgivable!!!!"

The end of the two-meter-long stick in his hand ignited a glow like blood flames. He raised it above his head and danced it into a flame wheel, swooping down towards McPenny's open back. McPenny grinned, and a tentacle that had just been cut off by Saki quickly condensed and regenerated behind him. He didn't even look back, but just casually swung it, and the blood-red speech was pierced by the suddenly stretched tentacle! The long stick was shattered on the spot, and the aggressive Benkei was caught by the tentacle in just a glance and was captured alive! Two figures appeared on the left and right of the tentacle in the next moment, and the katana and the emerald green Holy Grail Sword swung alternately from both sides to cut it off. The small red shadow took Benkei out of the tentacle, and the three of them fell to the side together. Shin looked down and his face suddenly changed.

Benkei is in a coma!

The core is gone!!!

The core is the soul, heart, and brain of the Blade, and it is also its vital point. McPenny has been aiming here from the beginning!

Seeing that the woman who had been with him since the days of the Different Blades and whom he regarded as his sister from the bottom of his heart turned into a soulless body, and even her body gradually turned into light and dissipated, a pair of lifeless eyes slowly moved towards McPenny. At the moment when her expression changed from dull to hideous, Saki flew over and kicked her directly into the area covered by Jeanne's treasure, and she fainted on the spot.

After losing a head that he could have easily gotten and absorbing Benkei's core, McPenny was so high that he was shaking his tentacles with an arrogant look on his face.

"Bonds? Feelings? Memories? They are meaningless! Human existence itself is sinful, and I am the executor who represents God to eliminate humanity, that is, the incarnation of God. Blade and Arus are both apostles of God, so isn't it natural for them to sacrifice everything for me!"

"Stop joking! What qualifications do you have to decide everything for us?"

"And father...there is no way God would choose someone like you!"

"No, I was chosen!"

McPenny, who had been unmoved just now, suddenly turned his head and looked at the [Soul], with his thick unicorn arm clenched in front of him.

"My success in obtaining the Holy Grail of Heaven is the best evidence. The essence of human beings is sinful and ugly. From the moment of birth, they have been constantly destroying others and will eventually destroy themselves!"

"The old humans who once lived on the land of Morse were like this. That was the end of humanity. God was disappointed with such humans, so he decided to let me, who was also disappointed with humans, take it upon myself!"

"Destroy humanity!"

Volume 668: Return to the Netherworld, the Day to Save the World: Chapter 4 Chapter : Final Battle of the Netherworld - God's Agent McPenny (K)

He was once a salvage worker, and later he became a priest. With these two identities, he witnessed the various forms of human beings from all walks of life.

The high-ranking officials of the Vatican are in high positions but have no sense of responsibility as those in power. They are corrupt and decadent, scheming against each other for petty gains and completely disregarding the life and death of the country.

After defeating the enemy army, the bandit soldiers rushed into the city, burning, killing and looting.

A farmer who killed an entire family of another for a little food.

And...the villain who was saved from the brink of death by his own hands not long ago, and then turned around and killed an innocent family of villagers with the hands that he saved.

McPenny still remembers the man who stepped on a pool of blood of a couple, amid the crying of a baby, holding a blood-stained butcher knife and jewelry in his hands, and gave her a familiar smile.

That was... the same smile as when he rescued her from the brink of death, a smile of gratitude and kindness from the bottom of her heart.

The hands he saved wielded the butcher knife against innocent people for a little money. The life he saved deprived more lives. The smile that once made him feel that there was still some kindness in human nature was now filled with the fragments of others stuck in his teeth.

Sad! Deplorable! Hateful!

This is humankind, humankind that has no value in being saved. They are the wrong beings created by God, the stains that should not exist on the Garden of Eden given by God!

For this reason, he climbed up the World Tree, hoping to meet the gods. Are the current human beings and the current underworld what you wish for?

He did not see God.

But when he saw two strange core crystals, and after tuning one of them and witnessing the power of the Holy Grail of Heaven, he had the answer in his heart.

This is God’s answer.

God hopes that he can bring an end to this corrupt world and bring salvation to mankind who have gone astray!

And this "salvation" cannot be brought by the Holy Grail of Heaven. Only human beings themselves (he) can bring salvation to mankind!

"What a load of bullshit!"

"Father wouldn't want something like this... I understand!"

[Soul] frowned, staring at the monster that was not moved at all, and suddenly he realized something.

"I've always wondered why Mie was so obsessed with destroying the Netherworld. It turns out you influenced him! McPenny!"

Mai Penny smiled without saying anything, accepting this statement. He listened to the conversation of this group of people throughout the whole process. A saint holding a holy flag in her hand suddenly spoke:

"I cannot agree with that. Humans do sometimes engage in seemingly stupid and meaningless fights. Good and evil are two sides of human beings. But since you have seen this, shouldn't you, who is in a high position and has great power, step forward to guide the good side of human beings and guide them to change?"

"I can't guide you, and there's no need to guide you! The ugliness of mankind cannot be changed, and there's no need to change it! If it were to change, 'humanity' would disappear, and I would disappear!"

"you----"

Joan of Arc was furious.

She said that she felt something was wrong, and sure enough, what the man just said was all -

After bringing up this topic, Saki didn't interrupt the rest of the conversation. He turned his head and looked at the man beside him who had stood up at some point and was trembling with his head lowered.

He was angry. Angry at the devil's outrageous words, angry at his companions being killed by him, angry at... himself for having such close thoughts with his enemy.

They witnessed the dark side of the human race from different perspectives, but the difference is that McPenny's idea is similar to that human nature is evil, while Shin recognizes the complexity of human nature, and that it will give birth to "good people" like Laura, Adel, and now Lex and Saki.

But not enough.

Good people don't live long, but evil deeds last for thousands of years. The birth of a "great villain" like McPenny is enough to ruin the efforts of dozens of generations. When one person has evil thoughts, countless "good people" will follow one after another and sacrifice their lives to fill the void.

The relay that spanned five hundred years is, yes, great and touching, but if you count them carefully, how many people waited for the savior only to die miserably during these five hundred years?

What's more, the Netherworld has no future. The chain of Arus' birth has almost been interrupted because of McPenny, and the few remaining super-large Arus are gradually entering the end of their lives. There is no chance anymore...

"So that's why the little brat wants to find paradise."

Saki spoke slowly, and Shin glanced at him, remaining indifferent.

"What if we find it? Are we waiting for someone like McPenny to appear and destroy Paradise after destroying the Netherworld?"

"I cannot deny the bad nature of human beings, and I also do not deny that humans will eventually fall into their own hands... But I also believe that every time such a time comes, there will always be someone who can stand up and change everything."

"Like you guys?"

Shin dodged the oncoming tentacles by leaning sideways and looked at Saki who was talking eloquently, his eyes calm.

"Even if you have the ability to change the underworld in a short period of time, what will happen after you die?"

"Wait for the next destined person to jump out~"

"What if there isn't one?"

"Aren't you guys still here~"

Saki used the same trick again, knocking off a few tentacles with one blow, then turned around and said with a smile:

"The thinking of the Blade Master will affect the Blade, and the Blade can also influence and guide the growth of the Blade Master, right? Just like you saved Laura when she was at her weakest and led her to grow. Without your guidance, there would not be a woman in her twenties who was so poor that she couldn't even afford a weapon, but was still optimistic."

"Let us...guide?"

Zhen's expression fluctuated slightly, and the look he gave Saki was a little complicated.

Who on earth is this person? How could he know such a thing?

His encounter with Laura should be something only the two of them knew about. Why...

Saki noticed that Zhen was confused, smiled and said nothing.

Of course he knew, after all, he had endured the discomfort to complete the Golden Country arc. It was not a β world line or an open world game, but a prequel story originally designed as a memory of light with a known ending. The warmer the story, the harder the group of figures moving with the joystick worked, and the more sad it made people feel.

Every move that advances the plot pushes these lovely and amiable people one step closer to their inevitable tragic ending.

He really didn't understand this, but Saki's words really touched his heart. Before he could say anything, his face suddenly turned pale as the battle time limit had been reached. The figure next to him seemed to have anticipated this scene and immediately swung his sword across. The majestic water flow turned into thousands of water blades that were pulled out of thin air by his horizontal slash. The sharp water blades collided with the oncoming tentacles one after another.

Looking at the back of the man who stood up to him without hesitation, Zhen did not even wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth and continued to ask:

"So, Blade... do you have an answer to this as well?"

"Want to hear it? A very realistic answer for adults."

“… can be used as a reference.”

"In my opinion, you Blades are not only guides... but also supervisors."

"supervisor?"

Shin was stunned. McPenny, who was being entangled by Lex, also pricked up his ears quietly. Saki didn't care and spoke his understanding slowly at his own pace:

"Blades establish bonds with humans, gain information, and grow into Arus step by step, bringing new land and precious resources to this world, allowing species including humans to continue. But if one day, humans have deteriorated to the point where they can no longer establish bonds with Blades even if Blades are willing to lead them, Arus will not be born, and humans will perish in the dilemma of dwindling resources."

It is indeed a very realistic idea, but perhaps this is also the original intention of this system. It is true that the Blades are making selfless contributions to mankind, but if one day mankind disappoints the Blades terribly, the result will most likely be what Saki said.

But that's nothing, the Blades also have their tendencies. There are Blades like Shin who mostly like to tune into children with pure and innocent minds. There are also Blades that are chaotic neutral and don't care whether the blade wielder is evil, such as Kamui, and those Blades who are the core crystal hunters on the wanted list.

Under this premise, if humans disappoint the Blades, resulting in no more Arus being born, then everything humans do will be their own fault and there will be no need for any sympathy.

But that is only a possibility in the future, not like now, simply because of someone's arbitrary decision, arbitrarily denying the kindness of human beings and asserting that human beings are only evil...

No, he deliberately wanted to see only the evil in human beings.

Only when the essence of human beings is evil, there is a meaning in redeeming human beings. This man who claims to be God's agent and redeems human beings through destruction has his own meaning of existence - at least he thinks so, and this is why he said "human beings should not change."

"So when I think about it carefully..."

Seeing that McPenny looked over after slapping Sieg away, Saki tilted his head and raised the corner of his mouth.

"Are you really not beating around the bush and using your tragic childhood experiences as a pretext to vent your anger on the entire Netherworld?"

The corners of his mouth that had been rising continuously fixed, and an extremely rare sneer solidified on the face of this young man who had always been gentle to others, at least most of the time. He raised his hand casually, and the crystal long sword was across his body. A heavy fist that was larger than the whole person and looked like a pile of limestone had already fallen in front of him!

It's not a tentacle! It's the body of McPenny, which is four meters tall and four meters wide, like a heavily armored tank, covered with gray armor! Half of the sixteen tentacles on the back are empty, and the limbs that generate the tentacles are spraying high-density ether flow, pushing this huge body to move like a rocket. If the previous tentacles were empty semi-trailer trucks running at high speed, then what is coming head-on now is a fully loaded train running at high speed! As if the secret hidden deep in his heart was poked, or he was really angry at Saki's ridicule, but he rushed to Saki in a way that was like self-mutilation! The face, which was already very different from that of a human, was hideous, enough to penetrate the defense of any alien blade with one blow, and punched it into a pulp in an instant!

Not only does he obstruct and disgust him time and again, but he also dares to insult the meaning of his life and the value of his existence. Such a person must not be allowed to stay!

For this reason, he would not hesitate even if he was attacked from behind!

Die for me nanodesu!!!

Facing the gray-white train coming head-on, Saki stood with a knife in his hand, the corner of his mouth raised, without dodging or evading, as if he was ready to attack the Shinkansen with the knife in hand. With the advantage of speed and reaction, he took a half step back, followed by a simple vertical chop!

It was really just a plain vertical chop.

At least from Zhen's point of view, the man standing in front of him didn't even use the ether.

however--

Sizzle~!

Hideous cracks appeared in front of him, as if the space was torn apart by this plain knife. Deep purple cracks quickly blocked Saki's view, with a faint halo inside, and things such as shelves, beds, clothes, dry food, drinking water and medicines could be vaguely seen.

This is naturally a different space.