In the anime, Kira Yoshikage longs for a peaceful life

It was a monster summoned from another world, carrying the flesh and blood of hostages.

They have no limbs or buttocks, and are made up of countless tentacles. At the root of the tentacles there is a ring-shaped mouth, which is like a shark's mouth, with teeth as sharp as blades, which is impossible to describe in words.

Even the boy who was killed before, his body and head exploded at the same time, and countless tentacles stretched out from the scattered wreckage!

Dozens of monsters were like an indestructible line of defense, protecting Caster while surrounding Saber.

They stretched out their black and slippery tentacles, trying to trap the limbs of the glorious knight and sink the holy girl into the quagmire.

"Don't even think about it!"

The black-armored knight rushed in with a wild laugh, and swung the greatsword in his hand with unmatched swiftness, severing the tentacles and bodies of the monsters at the root, clearing a clear path for Saber to move forward.

“Ahhh—ahhh! Such perfect coordination! Such a perfect posture! I can’t be disrespectful either, Holy Virgin, let me pave the way for you!”

Caster's eyes became more obsessed, his expression more fanatical, and he pulled out a black book from his arms.

The cover of the book was wet and gleaming with a strange light.

But before he could open the book, Saber had already swung her sword at him, forcing Caster to raise his arm and use the book in his hand to block the incoming invisible sword - even though he was only Caster, and even though he couldn't see the outline of the sword, his warrior instinct still allowed him to accurately block the fatal blow.

But just when he thought Saber would launch an even more violent attack and was about to withdraw.

He suddenly saw Saber wave her hand and throw something at him.

"then!"

Caster didn't want to take it at first, but when he heard the girl's voice, he caught the flying golden round cake.

It was a coin, an ordinary 500 yen coin.

"what is this?"

Caster was a little stunned and subconsciously wanted to ask.

However, the next second, he saw Saber pull back and distance herself from him.

At the same time, the magic of the sky's 'clairvoyance' was still 'observing' him.

Caster raised his palm, trying to examine the coin in his hand more closely.

BOOM!

An invisible explosion spread along the coin throughout his body.

Before he could react, the explosion swallowed him silently.

Including the black-covered treasure, nothing was left.

Pa~!

The coin fell from the air and sank into the muddy ground, splashing a small puddle of mud, but it was still intact.

boom!

As Caster 'disappeared', the monsters on the ground that were constantly being killed and multiplied by Mordred's attack, and their numbers were increasing, suddenly exploded without any warning.

This monster was originally summoned with flesh and blood as a sacrifice. Once it lost its supply of magic power, the waving tentacles would once again turn into a bloody corpse, a young, broken corpse of a child.

Although she had won, an indescribable compassion still flashed in Saber's eyes.

"Put away your cheap sympathy!"

Mordred stepped forward with a sword in hand, sneered and taunted, "I killed them. Do you still want to avenge them?"

She knew her father well, if not completely, but at least well enough to know him in some aspects.

Even though she had been warned, even though she had made assurances, even though she believed that these children had been transformed into monsters on the inside, as long as they still maintained their human form, as long as they had not revealed their hideous faces, she could not bring herself to swing her sword at them.

Mordred is different.

She doesn't care whether the enemy is old or young, as long as she knows they are enemies, she will kill them all without mercy!

"You are too extreme, Mordred."

Saber looked at her quietly and spoke softly.

"I'm extreme?!"

Mordred's eyes were filled with anger, but Saber's voice remained calm:

"I don't hate you because I know you were just doing the right thing. You believed in him, so you killed these children without mercy. I believed in him too, but I still feel sad about it."

"Ah."

Mordred sneered, sneering at Saber's words.

"So-called human beings, once they stand on the brink of life and death, will become extremely ugly, mean and tyrannical. Human beings are two-legged beasts that rape women, kill children and plunder the hungry. In nine out of ten cases, the blood-soaked battlefield is filled with evil spirits.

"But precisely because of this, humans must prove themselves even if they are trapped in hell! To prove that humans can survive nobly no matter what kind of adversity they are in, someone is needed to prove this personally.

"The one who can prove this is the knight, the shining star on the battlefield! The knight must be righteous and high-spirited to illuminate the entire battlefield. Let those souls who are about to fall into evil spirits regain their sense of honor and pride and become upright human beings again.

"Put aside your own anger, sadness, and pain, and focus on the overall situation. This is the responsibility you must bear as a knight!

"Mordred, you may be a qualified warrior, a powerful warrior, but you will never be a knight because you cannot understand what responsibility is. This is the difference between us."

Saber had long gone, but Mordred still stood there, in a hell paved with corpses.

"Knight?"

Mordred looked at the bright moon in the sky, Saber's words echoing in his mind.

She was just calmly stating a fact, without any attitude, neither affirmation nor denial, neither kindness nor disgust.

But even so.

For Mordred, this was still a rare exchange between father and daughter.

"You're right, I really don't understand."

Mordred murmured to herself, her sword skills only existed for survival and killing, and that was something that only those who kept fighting, fighting, and killing could learn. Etiquette, chivalry, these useless things had long been abandoned by her.

Even though she was among the Knights of the Round Table, and even though she had never been proud of it, she understood that she had always been an outlier among the knights.

Because I am an outlier, I feel lonely.

Perhaps that is why she is so eager to gain her father's approval?

But,

"I don't care about knights anymore."

Mordred sneered, hefting his sword over his shoulder and heading towards the castle.

It doesn't matter what the Knights of the Round Table are like, even if I can never be a knight again.

Because she had long understood that the glory possessed by the Knights of the Round Table was only false, and only the Inner Circle was her true home.

and……

"I am a qualified fighter."

Mordred showed a smile like a child who had been praised. Although it was childish, it was very bright.

Does this count as recognition from her father?

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"There are five riders left."

Standing in front of the window in the castle corridor, looking out at the quiet forest, Kira Yoshikage asked softly:

"Eri, what do you think this Holy Grail War will turn out like?"

"Isn't it doomed to fail?"

Irisviel's little face was filled with big question marks.

"Failure is inevitable, but that doesn't mean the Holy Grail War will be a complete failure."

Kira Yoshikage shook his head. Caster and Lancer had already left the stage, and the Holy Grail was destined to never be filled, but that was exactly the problem!

The Holy Grail War is held every sixty years, and each time seven masters are selected to summon seven servants. Among these people, only the last master and servant who survives can get the right to make their wishes come true.

But in fact, this is actually a shocking scam.

The Holy Grail War is held every sixty years because the Greater Holy Grail needs to draw magic power from the earth veins of Fuyuki City.

However, if a huge amount of magic power is taken away suddenly, the earth veins will be exhausted, so it must be done slowly over time, and the magic power required for a Holy Grail War is exactly sixty years.

When enough magic power is stored to summon seven Servants, the Holy Grail will select a magician who is suitable to be the Master, and they will summon seven Servants of different ranks. These seven groups of Servants and the Master will kill each other until only the last group is left, and the Holy Grail War will come to an end.

In other words, the magic power to summon servants is actually provided by the Holy Grail, and the Master is merely the "support" for the servants to stay in the world.

The souls of servants who are defeated or who lose their masters and cannot continue to exist will be recovered by the Holy Grail, converted into magic power and stored in it.

When there are five servants' souls, the Lesser Holy Grail already has the power of a Holy Grail. When six servants enter, it is filled with magical power and becomes a wish-granting machine that can fulfill wishes.

So the question is, what is the role of Servants in this Holy Grail War?

Every sixty years, the Greater Holy Grail can store enough magic power to hold a Holy Grail War.

These magic powers are used to summon the Seven Servants, and when these Seven Servants are defeated, these magic powers will return to the Holy Grail.

In other words, the total amount of magic power has not changed from beginning to end!

Since the total amount of magic power will not increase whether a servant comes or not, and will even be lost by summoning a servant, and making a wish only requires a huge amount of magic power, then what is the point of having servants? Why can't we simply abandon the step of summoning servants and make a wish directly to the Holy Grail, which has enough magic power, from the beginning?

The answer is simple, Servants are used to open holes.

The real purpose of the Holy Grail War is to use the Lesser Holy Grail to imprison the souls of all the Servants, and use the power of the 'Throne of Heroes' outside the world to open a hole in this world, and fix the hole with the huge magic power accumulated in the Greater Holy Grail, thus creating a door to the outside world!

Does this mean that the Greater and Lesser Holy Grails do not actually serve the same purpose?

The Holy Grail was designed to grant wishes.

The Holy Grail and the Summoning of Servants were designed to open holes in the world, to open the door for magicians to reach the source.

Therefore, at the beginning of the design, "Making a Wish" and "Reaching the Root" were probably two parallel systems.

The magic power stored in the Holy Grail is used to summon Servants, and the power of the Servants returning to the Throne of Heroes is used to open holes in the world. With the death of the Servants, the magic power will be returned to the Holy Grail, which is equivalent to a circle from the left hand to the right hand. The total amount of magic power remains unchanged, and you can continue to make wishes to the Holy Grail.

Under this "win-win-win" concept, the prototype of the Holy Grail War was built through the efforts of the three major families.

The Einzbern family is wealthy and is responsible for providing the Greater and Lesser Holy Grails and the basis for summoning Heroic Spirits.

The Matou family is responsible for providing the concept of the Servant system.

The Tousaka family is responsible for providing spiritual places, the secret techniques for opening up the world, and the system for forming servants.

However, during the First Holy Grail War, after the ceremony began, the Three Great Families discovered that only one group of people could use the Holy Grail. The originally envisioned win-win-win situation was broken, and the goals of the three could not coexist.

As a result, the three great families began to fight each other, and due to the lack of restraint from the Command Seals, the servants also disobeyed the orders of their masters, which ultimately led to the failure of the Holy Grail summoning before it even took shape as a ritual.

Lessons were learned from the Second Holy Grail War, and a new 'Command Spell System' was added to restrain and command Servants.

But in the end, the ceremony ended in failure because all participants were killed.

The Third Holy Grail War was similar, but ended in failure due to the destruction of the Lesser Holy Grail.

The Fourth Holy Grail War is currently taking place. Since the souls of Lancer and Caster have been destroyed, and in order to complete the 'opening of the hole' the souls of at least six servants must be gathered, the 'opening of the hole' ritual is doomed to fail.

of course.

The 'soul' of the Servant is killed ≠ the magic power will also dissipate.

These magical powers will still return to the Holy Grail and become the starting point for the "Wish" ceremony.

This leads to another question -

Since the Holy Grail War will not end until only the last group remains, how long can this war last?

The first three Holy Grail Wars were all ended in just two weeks because all parties fought each other in pursuit of the Holy Grail.

But if the summoned Heroic Spirits and the Masters do not desire the Holy Grail and do not intend to fight each other, does that mean that these three Holy Grail Wars will continue until the next Holy Grail War begins?

"Eh?"

Irisviel tilted her little head, as if she had never thought about this question before.

Although it sounds a bit outrageous, there actually seems to be room for maneuver.

After all, they already have two servants, Saber and Berserker, on their side. As long as they both give up their pursuit of the Holy Grail and don't kill each other, this Holy Grail War will never end.

"Berserker is fine. She said she doesn't pursue the Holy Grail. But Saber..."

Irisviel murmured to herself that if she wanted to keep this Holy Grail War going, she must first understand what Saber's wish was, and then find a way to convince Saber to give up the Holy Grail.