Tribute to the Demon King

Kiritsugu asked suspiciously, and subconsciously cast his gaze to the side.

The moment his eyes focused, the originally calm sea suddenly turned into tumbling black mud, and countless dry corpses slowly sank into the sea.The dark blue night sky turned into a blood-soaked crimson at some point, with black mud rain dripping down, and the pitch-black sun rested steadily on the bright red sky.

In an instant, the world became a hell made of red and black.

"You said... this is the Holy Grail?"

Kiritsugu asked in disbelief.

Looking at his expression, the young man grinned happily, and let out a low and happy smile ho ho ho ho.

Bathed in the black mud, Kiritsugu's eyes fluctuated violently, and finally fell silent after a long time.

Accompanied by a crisp click, Kiritsugu lifted the Contender and opened the safety, pointing straight at the young man in red who was sitting on the ground.

"You are not Archer. Who are you?"

Without hesitation, Kiritsugu looked down at the young man coldly, and said in a low voice: "Although that guy is stupid...but he doesn't take pleasure in other people's suffering. This is the biggest difference between him and you."

"Hey... oh, is that so?"

The young man raised his head without fear, looked at the black muzzle of the gun with a smile, and showed an exaggerated smile: "So that's how you look at that guy Emiya."

"……Who?"

Emiya Kiritsugu's pupils instantly constricted.

Before the young man in red could answer, his heart suddenly jumped twice, and there was a hallucination-like continuous metal buzzing sound in his ears, and his eyes blurred slightly like a TV screen.

Kiritsugu suddenly lost all his strength, his whole body seemed to be paralyzed, unable to move at all.

The body of the young man in red in front of him gradually blurred, and the world in front of him suddenly fell into darkness.

The next moment, he found himself sitting in a movie theater like ten years ago, with no one around him.

Someone's figure was reflected on the yellowed and rolled screen in front of him.

Is that... Archer?

The figure wearing a black vest and holding a longbow, although the dress is slightly different from today's, can be recognized at first sight.

Just now Kiritsugu was about to struggle to stand up, but found that his wrists were bound to the armrests, and his waist was also locked on the chair.

"I advise you not to move, Emiya Kiritsugu."

The young man's voice came from behind the creaking and turning projector, with a strong electric tone: "You have a red button on your left and a green button on your right. Red means yes, green means no— —”

"You bastard, what the hell are you trying to do!"

Kiritsugu looked incomprehensible: "What happened to the Holy Grail? Who is Archer? You can't speak properly!"

"To help you see your future, that's all."

The young man's mocking voice became calm at some point: "How will the Holy Grail fulfill your wish—you must be curious about this, right?"

"……Correct."

"What a coincidence, I don't know either."

"—You bastard!"

Kiritsugu couldn't help cursing angrily.

"However, you should understand better than anyone else. Because your very existence is already infinitely close to the Holy Grail."

The malicious voice moved from far to near, and gradually fell into Emiya Kiritsugu's ears.

The still picture scroll on the movie screen in front of him started to move again with the countdown of [-].

That was, Kiritsugu's dream that had come to an end.

As a partner of justice, the story of a man who saved many people and finally even saved the world.

As long as you pay, you can get rewards, as long as you work hard, you can achieve miracles-his life is as absurd and beautiful as a fairy tale.

In the end, after saving the world, he was betrayed by the people he saved and sent to the execution ground.

But until then, men still think the work they do is worth it.

Even if it was just for a moment... I did become a partner of justice and saved everyone as expected.

"Is this what you want me to see...is this the Holy Grail?"

Kiritsugu couldn't help asking.

There was an increasingly obvious sense of urgency and tension in his heart.

But he didn't get any response - after Archer lost his life, the screen went dark for a while, then came back on again.

……what is this?

Wearing a black tights, holding a bow and arrow, a man who had already lost his life appeared somewhere near the subway.In the distance is the rumble of an oncoming train.

Then, the picture freezes instantly.

"Please listen to the question, Emiya Kiritsugu."

The voice asked: "Now there are [-] people including children on the train, and there are nearly [-] people in the small town they stop at the next stop. At this time, there is a magician on the train carrying With a deadly poisonous plant, his purpose is to use the residents of the small town below as cheap experimental subjects to cultivate some kind of biological weapon, and he is only a hair away from success. Through some channels, it can be known that this cheap and Once a powerful biological weapon is successfully cultivated, it will be sold at a high price and used in large quantities on the battlefield, causing huge casualties."