Collapse, surrender to me!

"Stay one night, and I'll go to your house with you tomorrow."

……

Yan Tiaoba originally wanted to go to the girl's place, but thought it was inconvenient.

But it turned out that he thought too much.

The Fujino family's house is really big.

Courtyards, gardens and houses are all available.

This is why the Grey Order agreed, it is no different than having multiple guests.

Although Fujino was not very happy about it, she still arranged a room for him since he would only stay there for one night.

"By the way, where is Grace's room?"

Yan Tiaoba was very curious.

The result was that Fujino looked at him like trash.

But he still responded.

"Grace has no room because she never sleeps."

"..."

Yan Tiaoba probably couldn't imagine what would happen if he didn't sleep.

When he got up at night, he saw Gretchen sitting in the courtyard.

Kyubey beside him also squatted obediently, bathing in the moonlight.

Tomoe came over and sat on the wooden steps.

Just like Fujino said, Grayshu did not sleep.

"..."

Ba wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.

He was a little upset that Grayshu had never believed in him.

"Are you having a nightmare?" Grace suddenly asked.

"Um……"

Ba was stunned for a moment and nodded.

He didn't know why, but he dreamed of the same scene every night.

Someone opened the paper door connecting to the next room, and the light cut into rectangles poured into the dark room where the lights were turned off.

That person is the mother.

Every time he would think at this moment, how nice it would be if he hadn't seen that scene.

Because of the backlight, you could only see that she was standing.

Compared to her figure, Ba could only stare at the miserable situation in the next room behind the paper door.

The father was lying on the cheap kotatsu. The brown kotatsu was dyed red, and blood was constantly flowing from the body of the father who was lying on the tatami... It was like a broken water dragon.

"Ba, go to hell."

The mother took a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the chest again and again, and finally put the knife to her own throat and committed suicide.

If it was a nightmare, it was indeed a nightmare.

“My night always ends like this.”

It can be seen that Yan Tiaoba's mental state has become a little abnormal as he is awakened by nightmares every day.

In the Type-Moon world, every life has an origin, and Rouge's origin is - worthlessness.

Grayshu is now a small root.

When she saw Tomoe, she could tell where he came from.

People with this origin.

It’s not that no social value can be created.

Rather, it means that for such people, even if they awaken to the origin, it is the same as if they have not awakened.

If Kiritsugu had this kind of origin, Kiritsugu would still be Kiritsugu, but even if his ribs were ground into powder, even if they were burned into relics, they would not have the effect of the Origin Bomb.

"In that case, there's no need to wait until tomorrow, let's go now."

……

Yan Tiaoba lives in Ogawa Apartment.

The walls inside the apartment are uniformly painted creamy, extremely clean.

At night, the air outside was so cold, but the air in the apartment seemed very hot.

It feels like human breathing.

The heat was like the air surrounding my skin, and for some reason - it felt like I was inside the body of a living being.

“What a twisted place.”

Grace walked in with Rouge.

The owner of this apartment building might not be considered strong to her, but Grace herself could not do such a thing.

"Which floor do you live on?"

"4th floor." Yan Tiaoba responded.

I haven't seen anyone since I came to this apartment.

No, it's not that simple—there's not even a hint of human presence.

Grayshut arrived at the door of the 4th floor.

He took the key from Yan Tiaoba and unlocked the door.

The door opened and the sound of the TV came from inside.

someone.

The sound of emotionless conversation between family members came over.

That was the voice of my father complaining, complaining that the current life was caused by my mother and this society. And the voice of my mother who just listened and nodded silently.

This is undoubtedly Yan Tiaoba's daily routine.

Graysh walked in silently, and Tomoe followed her.

He left the hallway and opened the door to the living room.

The cheap dining table and small TV didn't match the luxurious room.

A filthy room full of garbage that had never been cleaned properly.

This is, what is going on.

Ba was dumbfounded.

Both his parents were here. His father, who was timid but always thought he was great, and his mother, who only responded to him. The two people who should have been killed appeared here intact.

"Because these are just puppets."

As Grayshu said this, she tore Rouge's parents into pieces.

Looking at the "corpse parts" on the ground that were obviously not human, Ba was silent for a moment.

"...Then I."

"You are also a puppet. The real you is dead."

His dream was real. His mother finally couldn't stand such a life anymore, so she killed his father, killed Ba, and then committed suicide.

However, the brains of the three people were extracted by Araya Soren and made into dolls, and then the last day was repeated.

The puppet Yan Tiaoba has nightmares every day. In his dreams, the scenes in which his mother swings a knife at him are real, but the puppet will be resurrected every time it dies.

Until one day, the puppet Yan Tiaoba couldn't bear it anymore, and killed the puppet mother who was holding a knife when she opened his door.

He then fled from Ogawa Apartment.

Of course, now that he had just escaped, he was brought back by Grayshure.

After all, Yan Tiaoba is already dead, and he won't survive long outside the barrier of Xiaochuan Apartment.

"Magicians seek the root, so can doing this get to the root?"

Grayshu asked into the air.

"It has no general meaning. It is entirely my personal will."

Suddenly, a human figure appeared on the wall, and Araya Soren walked out of the wall.

His own origin is "stillness". After awakening, he can move and be protected in the barrier with the concept of still objects, and becomes almost immortal.

In other words, he now owns the entire Ogawa Apartment.

It's the walls, the floor, and everything in this apartment.

"This is just a simple experiment. I want to test whether humans can really face different ways of death. People will definitely die. But that is just the death that everyone is destined to die."

There is only one final death for a person.

People who died in a fire were simply killed by fire no matter how they died, and people who were killed by their family were simply killed by their family no matter how they died.

The first time he escaped from the dilemma of death, but that was just a destined way to welcome the second and third deaths.

"We call this limited way of dying a lifespan. Even though the way a person dies is predetermined, I guess after thousands of deaths, this spiral will have some errors. Even if the error is a very minor accident, it doesn't matter. It's also good to be run over by a car on the way home from get off work - but so far, the result is the same."

"I have tried so hard for a long time, but it only made me realize that one's destiny cannot be changed."

"I mean, is it possible that you're working in the wrong direction?"

Grayshu felt that Araya Soren was a little crazy.

"Just like the reason why Ba was killed by his family, that was a problem of this family. If you just found a better job for his family, this family would not have come to this end."

Gray felt that if it only took a little effort to change the tragedy, there was nothing wrong with helping.

She has always done this.

But Araya Soren is not like that.

He repeated a tragedy thousands of times without interfering himself, just to see if the plot of the tragedy would change on its own in this cycle.

In Grayshu's eyes, this pure thing must be seriously ill.

It's understandable not to save her.

But this is too hellish.

"It's normal that you can't understand me."

Araya Soren also thought that Grayshu was too childish.

"You changed Asagami Fujino's fate by interfering, but it was meaningless. If you can save one, can you save everyone?"

Araya was not born into a family of magicians, but into a family that believed in the Tendai sect during the Japanese war. He was familiar with the various Tendai sect scriptures when he was young, and was known as a child prodigy. At the same time, he had already shown his talent in "barriers".

After becoming a monk, he went to study at the main temple of the Tiantai sect, during which time he began to hold a strong ideal of "saving the people".

So he began to travel around to help people, and traveled all over the country to save lives.

However, after witnessing the carnage and destruction brought about by war, he realized that it would never be possible to save everyone, and began to question whether humans were worth saving because of the various evil deeds he saw.

After feeling my own insignificance and powerlessness, I began to doubt the firm beliefs I had previously held.

After having the desperate thought, "No one can save me," he thought that if he couldn't save people, he should at least clearly record their deaths.

So he has been dedicated to collecting deaths, interpreting the origin of mankind and pursuing the root vortex, hoping to find out the value of mankind or put an end to the ugly and suffering mankind.

At least death is equal to everyone.

Araya's ideal is to save the world.

The old worm's ideal is to eradicate the evil in this world.