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Chapter 624 The theme of this comic is [Distortion]!

The magician cooperated with the heroic spirit to fight for the existence called the [Holy Grail]. Because of the ability of the magician and the heroic spirit to transcend common sense, the scene and scale of the battle between the seven masters and the heroic spirit rose to become War... Judging from this setting alone, the content of the first three chapters of the comic "Fate" has already defined the entire comic as the tone of "an epic and vast war"!

But why is it said that Yoshida was misled by the first three chapters of the manga "Fate"?

Because the plot world constructed by the first three chapters of the comic cannot express the essence of this comic...or this series of comics!

In fact, the works in the "Fate" series... no, even all the works that revolve around the world of Xingyue are not "royal" works in the traditional sense. On the contrary, this series of works is more suitable to be classified as dark. In the midst of depression!

Whether it is the several works surrounding the [Holy Grail War] or the "Sky Realm" series derived from the same world, what they tell is not a heart-warming and healing story, but a series of coincidences and accidents that happened in Something that shouldn't happen to the character... To analyze it in a slightly simpler way, the entire series of works involved in the Type Moon series can be described as "distorted"!

Although magicians hide in the world of human life, they ignore secular laws and morals. Things that are not acceptable to normal society, such as murder and human experimentation, are common sense to magicians. Existence... From this point of view, the existence of magicians is a group of existences with extraordinary power but completely distorted human nature!

As an important participant in the [Holy Grail War] - the heroic spirits, the same is true!

According to the descriptions of heroes in human legends and history, combined with today's real society, a little imagination will tell that the so-called heroic spirits are actually difficult to integrate into today's society...

Let’s not talk about the way heroic spirits exist. As heroic spirits themselves are beings praised and praised by mankind, their heroic deeds will naturally be passed down as mankind continues... However, in today’s society, the glorious deeds once completed by heroes , even the existence of the hero itself is like a vicious tumor, which is difficult to be accepted by today's human beings!

Just like the incompatibility between Emiya Kiritsugu and the heroic spirit King Arthur...

Assassination, blowing up the hotel, using the word games in the contract to plot against Director Ken... All the methods and means Emiya Kiritsugu used throughout the Holy Grail War seemed to be quite unlimited and quite despicable, but I have to admit that What's more, the way to win a war is to eliminate all participants in the war! Now that it is clear that this is an endless war, isn't it natural to use any means to achieve victory?

In today's society, even if they know that they will be stigmatized and criticized in the future, in order to obtain more benefits, human beings will still choose to carry out actions such as deceiving their loved ones and killing their colleagues and friends. …

Although in terms of results, the behaviors carried out by humans in real society do not seem to be as exaggerated as those of Emiya Kiritsugu, it cannot be denied that... the nature of the two is exactly the same!

King Arthur, Emiya Kiritsugu's servant, let alone the effeminate setting in the comics... Whether it is recorded in historical documents or recorded in human legends, King Arthur is worthy of his title of "King of Knights". He is a noble knight and a great king!

Just like the knights of the ancient rivers and lakes, although they are often criticized with words such as "Xia uses martial arts to violate the forbidden", most people in the Jianghu still spontaneously abide by the "Jianghu rules" to act... and they were born in a time when wars were frequent. In the chaotic era, King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and it can even be said that most humans with the title of "Knight", also voluntarily used principles such as "Eight Virtues of Knights" to restrain their behavior!

To put it simply, whether it is a knight-errant or a heroic spirit, looking at the existences that can be praised and praised by humans, each one has his own rules and bottom line... Of course, some abnormal heroic spirits also exist!

But in today's era, those beings who have rules of conduct and bottom lines are often treated as naive and heartless [world-class good teammates] by the humans around them, and they are tricked, killed, and sold in various ways...

Therefore, don’t accuse Emiya Kiritsugu of being too extreme or despicable because he is influenced by King Arthur’s noble chivalry, because Emiya Kiritsugu’s “use whatever means necessary to achieve the goal” way of doing things is exactly what is common in modern society. Most of the methods commonly used by human beings... at best, the results are different!

However, in the manga "Fate", the noble knight king is paired with the unscrupulous Emiya Kiritsugu... This kind of teaming up of two people can almost be regarded as [naturally incompatible and mutually hostile], and the result is naturally... Just imagine!

By the way... this is probably a typical example of the so-called "Don't force integration in different circles", right?

No matter how much King Arthur hated Emiya Kiritsugu for acting too cruelly, and no matter how much Emiya Kiritsugu despised King Arthur for acting too naively, both the Heroic Spirit and the Master had tried to interfere with each other's behavior and tried to change the other's principles of behavior... only from From this point of view, it is a [distortion]!

For example, Uncle Kariya, who wrote the novel series "The Dark Swordsman Kalia" with himself as the protagonist, and said the famous sentence "Everything is this guy's (Tokiomi) fault" which has been passed down for many years... is also a being who was toyed with by the "twist" of fate!

Originally, Uncle Kariya was the only normal person in the entire comic. He had already escaped from the bondage of the Matou family and could live as a normal person. However, because of his good intentions, he wanted to participate in the [Holy Grail War] and do what he could for the woman he once loved and her daughter, so he suffered the mockery and playing of fate...

In order to save Sakura who was trapped in the worm cave and tortured, Uncle Kariya took the responsibility for his escape in the most courageous way, and offered his entire life in the desire to make Loli Sakura happy...

Uncle Kariya, who never claimed to be a [savior] or a hero, was able to perform heroic self-sacrificing behavior...From this point alone, it can be inferred that Uncle Kariya's body, which was eaten by insects, must have a noble soul!

However, a man like Uncle Kariya, who has a noble soul, was born into a twisted family and participated in the twisted war of [Holy Grail]. The result is self-evident... So no matter what happened to Uncle Kariya later or his initial kindness, it was naturally [distorted] under the drive and manipulation of fate!

In short, this comic "Fate" centered around the Holy Grail War, after the foreshadowing of the first three episodes, is a tragic collection of [distorted] stories. The style of the whole comic is... No, it should be said to be dark and depressing!

But in the three episodes that Makoto Takahashi gave to Yoshida, there was no plot related to this aspect at all... In the three episodes of the comic manuscript, there were only the personality of the magician, the existence of the Heroic Spirit, the common sense of the Holy Grail War, and the gorgeous and shocking Heroic Spirit summoning scene!

Therefore, it is natural for the editor Yoshida, who only read the first three chapters and couldn't wait to submit the comic to the serialization meeting, to be misled...

As for why Uncle Tintin complained that Takahashi Makoto's style was [ghostly]...

I remember when the comic "Madoka" was serialized, the plot of the senior sister's head being bitten off seemed to appear in the plot of the fourth chapter...Although the comic "Madoka" was serialized by Makoto Takahashi and Eiji Nizuma as [Makoto Shinkai], don't forget that the plot of the entire comic was provided by a certain chuunibyou cartoonist!

Being ridiculed and despised by those who don't know, and being played with as [pleasure] by those who know, oh, it hurts Uncle Kariya to say~