Comics: Starting from Killer Queen

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This barrier is inside Araya Soren's body, and everything is under his control. But now, at the moment when he just left the operating console due to the influence of the origin bomb, some invisible ritual, based on his barrier, happened!

"how is this possible?"

Araya Souren finally could no longer maintain his calm and let out a roar filled with anger.

"Nothing is impossible. You underestimate me. Even ordinary people, with the help of spiritual veins and by chance, can unconsciously create a magical barrier with random materials. After all, mysterious rituals, no matter how thin they are, are still part of the mystery."

There was no trace of fear in Kotomine Kirei's eyes; instead, he showed a crazy smile.

"I don't have to do anything. I just need to arrange some phenomena to awaken this ritual. Araya Soren, it is your obsession to support me in completing this!"

"It is a world separated from the living world. The corpse with its brain still alive symbolizes Yin, and the puppets that keep repeating are Yang. There is no more suitable environment than this spiral of sixty-four souls."

"I don't know."

Araya Soren looked at Kotomine Kirei with full concentration, with a puzzlement that could not be concealed. "Even so, since it is a secondary ritual based on my barrier, it is absolutely impossible to do it without a deep understanding of my barrier itself."

Although Araya Soren had left the Clock Tower a long time ago and had not been promoted to a higher level, he still needed to have a research level of at least the color level in order to be able to do this based on the barrier.

Although Kotomine Kirei had also studied the path of magic, he was a complete illiterate compared to the top students like him who were designated to be sealed.

"Because I got help from kind people," Kotomine Kirei smiled happily, revealing his twisted and rotten nature without any concealment.

He flicked his forehead slightly, and his head seemed to turn into a jelly-like texture, and two CDs slowly popped out from his forehead.

"Whether it is the memory or the ability that reflects the soul, they will be dissolved and taken away by me. This is the ability of my stand, the White Snake!"

"This ability is the best living sacrifice offered by fate to celebrate the birth of the Kingdom of Heaven!"

Behind Kotomine Kirei, a white figure wearing a black crown-shaped mask appeared, as if made of wax. It kept melting and solidifying, and was covered with horizontal stripes, like bandages or layered structures, engraved with letters that looked like genetic combinations. A strange human figure about two meters tall slowly appeared, staring at Araya Soren with lifeless eyes.

Chapter 181 Eyes of Heaven

Kotomine Kirei casually removed the disc from his forehead, revealing the distorted face of the blond man on it.

"Although he is a worthless guy, his intelligence as a magician is enough for me to understand all of this. And his memory, which also participated in the construction of the barrier, contains many inside stories that I have never known."

“Just by combining the two, it would be a piece of cake to accomplish this.”

Araya Soren stared at the sad face of his old friend on the CD and sighed.

"That idiot Aruba... I told you not to get close to you. Dissolving your mind and memories and extracting them is a terrifying ability."

"Speaking of which, I have to thank you. Although I was a little confused when Araya received the omen, I understood everything the moment the origin awakened."

Kotomine Kirei opened his arms and shouted somewhat fanatically.

"If you hadn't awakened my origin and thus awakened this ember, I don't know when the road to heaven would have made any progress!"

"Now, you lunatics who disobeyed Roland will receive the punishment from Heaven!"

Araya Souren did not answer. The road to the root was right in front of him. It would only take a few steps to achieve it. No matter who came to hinder him, he would regard them as the embodiment of restraining force.

The air around them became increasingly tense, and when Araya Souren's murderous intent began to transform into a distorted, dangerous sense of oppression, he finally asked Kotomine Kirei as someone who understood him.

"Kotomine Kirei, what do you want?"

“True happiness.”

"Where to pursue?"

"Only heaven, only... Roland."

Kotomine Kirei expressed his admiration for that existence without hesitation, and walked step by step towards the top of the broken stairs in the apartment.

“Those who meet him will eventually be guided by him and move towards the paradise he points out!”

With every step he took, faint golden points of light flew out from the heads around him and sank into Kotomine Kirei's body.

"The attraction between people is like {gravity}. Meeting for the sake of meeting is an inescapable fate."

"That's the true meaning of {reality}!"

“Those who gain the truth are always happy!”

Araya Souren stared at Kotomine Kirei's movements, and the nonsense of the fanatic echoed in his ears.

There is no doubt that Kotomine Kirei is indeed the one who understands himself, and he believes from the bottom of his heart that the enlightened are always happy. However, just as mystery will succumb to a higher mystery, the laws that Kotomine Kirei believes in have also been replaced by something purer and crazier.

Compared to his previous empty appearance, he now seemed like an empty shell that finally gained a soul. He no longer needed to maintain the mask of an ascetic, nor did he need to keep the words of salvation and mercy in his ears. He only needed to vent his inner fanaticism without restraint.

"This is what I am after. Entrust everything to Roland, unload the burden, for my friend Roland, for the realization of heaven, I will dedicate

—The Eye of Heaven!”

Araya Soren raised one hand from under his black coat, slowly raised his left hand to shoulder height, and opened his palm weakly, as if calling for something.

Then, the black-robed monk suddenly closed his open palms, and the movement seemed to be crushing something. Kotomine Kirei's body, which had reached the end of the stairs, suddenly began to shake.

His robes, which had been strengthened to the point where they could even block bullets, suddenly exploded, and attacks that could not be detected evenly hit Kotomine Kirei's entire body from all directions.

"You lose. The bullets made from the origin are indeed effective, but for me who is in the barrier, my recovery speed is far beyond your imagination."

Kotomine Kirei realized what the impact just now was. Araya Souren had completely shattered the space he was in, making him in the real world feel as if his whole body had been crushed.

"Your chance of survival has been cut off."

A voice came from behind Kotomine Kirei, a mixture of melancholy, sighs, and hatred. Although the battle-hardened agent could no longer feel control over his body, he still subconsciously looked at his chest.

There stretched out a male wrist, holding a heart in his hand.

Araya Soren said who suddenly appeared from behind him.

"No matter what kind of ceremony it is, as long as you, the host, die, it won't have any effect. No matter what you plan, once you choose to use the barrier I set up, you can't turn back."

Araya Souren crushed Kotomine Kirei's heart and threw away the residue in his hand as if he was throwing away a plastic bag filled with water.

"That guardian spirit called White Snake is indeed very powerful, but this ability can only be effective when close to me. But in this infinite loop, in the space inside my body, it won't take even a second to kill you."

Although he was almost forced into a desperate situation by Ryougi Shiki many times in the original work, that was because the opponent was Ryougi Shiki. Araya Souren's own strength was far beyond the scope of humans. All the magicians that Kotomine Kirei had encountered before would not have had a better ending than him when facing Araya Souren.

"Kotomine, you said before that I couldn't kill you before the ritual was completed. Now it seems that's not entirely true. The ritual has ended, and you are the one who failed."

Araya Souren stared at the death of Kotomine Kirei with an expression that was unclear whether it was distress or sadness.

"Kotomine Kirei, in the end, you are just a human being."

Kotomine Kirei spat out the blood from his mouth and fell to his knees. His strong vitality prevented him from losing consciousness immediately, but as death was already a foregone conclusion, it was an indisputable fact that his fanatical eyes were slowly extinguishing.

But even so, the corners of his mouth still raised a meaningful arc.

"The ceremony has ended... That's true, but what makes you say that I failed?"

Kotomine Kirei suddenly said something that sent chills down one's spine.

"Although I was killed by you, I feel inexplicably relieved because now I am quite sure that my friend will succeed. All the developments so far are within expectations. Didn't I say, Araya, that this ceremony is a living sacrifice offered by fate for the birth of the Kingdom of Heaven?"

"You don't think that the sacrifice is you, do you?"

Hearing these words, even Araya Soren felt a chill and revealed a hint of surprise.

It was not until then that he understood a fact.

He had been wrong all along, he thought Kotomine Kirei's motive was to seize the fruits of the ritual or to sabotage his path, but that was not the case.

The priest standing before him was undoubtedly a seeker.

No, he should be described as a madman.

"You're crazy."

The monk who wanted to destroy the world looked at the priest and said so.

"If you hear the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening. This is enlightenment, but you can't even see the path itself. You entrust it to others. After doing this behavior that seems to give up, you still believe in this path itself. You are no longer a seeker of truth who walks with me, but just a simple madman."

"Am I crazy, or are you?"

Kotomine Kirei looked at Araya Soren with sympathetic eyes, "Araya, shouldn't what you're pursuing be a realm that can answer everything? When did this goal become a realm that you must enter yourself into?"

During these few days, Kotomine Kirei has already seen through the true nature of Araya Souren. He has lived for too long, and even his original intentions have long been worn out, but because he has not forgotten his obsession, he has distorted his own goals.

A spiral of contradictions, the structure of this apartment is the best way to describe it.

"If you don't believe that you are special, if you don't believe that only you can save this aging world, you can't continue to exist, because you can't admit that you are ugly and worthless, so you are so stubborn in pursuing the root, but the irony is that your pursuit may only serve as a stepping stone for fate."

"Araya Soren, you are nothing more than a slave to fate."

Kotomine Kirei's heart was filled with surging emotions. For him, this pilgrimage in search of heaven was also a part of his growth.

Araya Souren thought that Kotomine Kirei had led him astray, but on the other hand, in Kotomine Kirei's eyes, wasn't the other party the same?

With Kotomine Kirei's questioning echoing in his ears, Araya Souren let out a breath of air as if in disdain and mockery.

"That kind of thing is not something a dying person can judge."

Kotomine Kirei did not have any negative emotions towards Araya Souren's ridicule. Instead, he refuted it very firmly.

"——Of course I can, Araya Soren, because we are all just slaves of fate."

He raised his head and his gaze became warm again. After those golden spots of light merged into his body, his emptiness and nothingness seemed to disappear.

"You will only devote yourself to meaningless pursuits, repeating the collection of death, and I am the same. I repeat every test I can think of, but I can't get any conclusion until I meet my friend."

"As slaves, we cannot resist fate itself, so we should have awareness. Isn't this your ideal human being?"

Kotomine Kirei shouted passionately, looking at his eyes which were not dodging at all but full of eagerness. Araya Souren, who was in an absolute advantage, took a step back.

"——The so-called enlightenment is not about sacrifice, but about opening up a bright path that can move forward in the dark wilderness!"

Among the thirty-six souls, only the first and the last are the most valuable.

The first soul symbolizes the beginning. It is the starting point for Roland to carve his own truth into his destiny, write down an irreversible fate, and break free from the shackles.

The first soul who possesses the key to these shackles and should be sacrificed is Kotomine Kirei himself.

After understanding this, Kotomine Kirei became enlightened.

This is one of the necessary conditions and the true meaning of a trustworthy friend.

He dragged his exhausted body to stand up again. The will in his eyes, which was like stars and shining like gold, replaced the blood and allowed Kotomine Kirei to regain the ability to move.

If this is the world Roland hopes for, then no matter what it takes, he will give everything for this nobleness.

"On this earth, the amount of soul is conserved. The weight and mass that a creature can possess may continue to increase, but it is only one part after all."

"However, if there is a way to allow a person to possess the essence of several souls at the same time, what do you think that person will see? What will happen to that person?"

Leaving behind such a terrible question, Kotomine Kirei looked out of the barrier with great piety, as if responding to someone's gaze watching him.

Perhaps because of the last burst of light, some long-lost memories resurfaced in Kotomine Kirei's mind.

That was a long time ago.

In order to change his abnormality and feel the happiness that ordinary people have, he made many attempts, and his last attempt was marriage.

He chose to marry a woman named Claudia Ordesia who was terminally ill and had no future.

They spent two years together. Claudia understood Kotomine Kirei's distortion and fell in love with him, and Kotomine Kirei also tried hard to love Claudia.

However, no matter how hard he tried, he could only feel happy when Claudia was in pain. The more his wife wanted to heal herself, the more he wanted to see her sigh.

So, when this emotion intensified, Kotomine Kirei got the answer.

In the clean white ward, he said these words to her.

"I don't actually love you."

But the woman, who was so sick that she had difficulty even getting up, just smiled.

"No, you love me."

Then, the smiling woman swung the knife at herself.

The bloodstained woman looked up at the man with a passing glance and smiled brightly.

"Hey, you're crying."

Naturally, Kotomine Kirei could not cry, it was just that woman's view.

You are capable of loving others and are worth living, and the woman proves it by dying.

But Yanfeng Kirei left the room without saying a word, bidding farewell to the Lord's teachings.

He was indeed sad.