Full-time Heroic Spirit starting from Douluo

Seeing that Toko didn't reply, the man named Emiya Kiritsugu was stunned for a moment, and then stared at Toko with his eyes that seemed to be indifferent to life.

"I see, did I admit the wrong person?"

The man smiled, but his tone was not warm at all: "I'm sorry, Master, your appearance and temperament are very much like my son."

That's true, but what's the matter with that look in your eyes that says, "My family has just grown up?"... Shi Chen showed an awkward rather than elegant smile:

"It's okay, maybe my arm belongs to Shirou."

From a certain perspective, Toki's statement is correct. Although Shirou is not Red A, Red A is Shirou.

"son?"

The woman behind the man made a surprised sound.

Her silver hair shines like snow, and her delicate and beautiful face is inlaid with a pair of ruby-like eyes. The eyes she looks at Kiritsugu are full of warmth and love:

"It turns out that Kiritsugu has a child besides Illya."

His tone was extremely gentle and his smile was very kind.

"...That's my adopted son."

Irisviel von Einzbern, wife of Emiya Kiritsugu;

Illyasviel von Einzbern is their child, a cute little girl.

People live just for Illya... Shichen thought secretly.

Wait, that's not right.

Kiritsugu Emiya of Assassin is an assassin who appears as the agent of suppressive power.

Originally, he would not become a heroic spirit.

As an assassin, he killed many people, but his existence is not imprinted on the Heroic Soul Seat. He is a "fake heroic spirit" called a guardian, and he is also a figure that does not exist in the correct history of mankind.

In this world of Emiya Kiritsugu, because the Einzberns did not adopt this strategy from the outside world, he was unable to see the wife he was supposed to meet.

Could it be that the parallel timelines overlap?

"I think I know why I was called here."

Emiya Kiritsugu looked at the moment in front of him, his face was pale, his whole body was shaking slightly, and the shaking amplitude of his right hand was even more obvious:

"Master, this is your first time killing someone."

Strictly speaking, the second time came less than 10 minutes after the first time... Shi Chen nodded:

"You're right... I thought I was mentally prepared, but I didn't expect that at this moment, I still have some lingering fears."

"You can also stay rational and calm, and be able to think clearly and fundamentally."

Emiya Kiritsugu's voice was still calm, making it difficult to tell whether it was praise or ridicule: "Master, it seems that you are very talented in this area."

talent?Do you mean destroying flowers with ruthless hands... Shi Chang complained in his heart.

"As an unqualified follower, I don't know your situation at all, and I don't want to hear it; however, I will fulfill my duties as a follower, so that's all."

Um?what are you up to?

Shi Chen's heart suddenly tightened, but at the same time he was somewhat looking forward to what was going to happen next.

"I've never been very good at talking,"

Emiya Kiritsugu stared at the clock calmly, with a hint of thought in his tone:

"Using words to teach you the experience is ultimately not as profound as experiencing it yourself. Perhaps in this way, Master, you can find a reason worthy of your action, and you will not have basic self-doubt in future battles."

The voice fell.

Emiya Kiritsugu's shadow swayed slightly, and then quickly transpired like water mist, filling the surroundings of the Seat of Heroic Spirits.

so?That's it... Before he could wait for a moment to question it, he saw that the transparent water mist seemed to be pulled by some kind of force, gathering into a ball, turning into a slender vortex, and slowly blending into the center of his eyebrows.

During the process, Shi Chen felt as if the air around him had stopped flowing, and the scene in his eyes was frozen at that moment.

Then,

The sky was dark and the earth was dark, and I noticed that everything was shaking slightly, trembling, and blurred... until everything in front of me became pitch black, as if I was covered with a particularly effective black eye mask.

The body seemed to have lost weight, like a light, weightless feather, falling continuously into the abyss.

That feeling of weightlessness is attached to the whole body, it is so real!

Irisviel had been staring at Shi Chen's face from the beginning. To be precise, she was looking at someone through Shi Shi's closed eyes.

Those beautiful, clear eyes like rubies are full of tenderness, love, pride, and... distress...

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"Xia Lei!"

When Shi Chen heard such a name, his voice was extremely clear, and his tone was mixed with urgency and worry, as if the words were shouted from his mouth.

Xia Lei?How does this name sound familiar?This seems to be a girl's name.

"Kay, Kairi?"

The girl's voice reached my ears, containing trembling and fear.

Carey?

This must be the pseudonym used by Emiya Kiritsugu when he was a child, hiding on the island with his father Noriken Emiya... Toko immediately thought of it.

Suddenly.

The vision became clear, and what he could see made Shi Chen's brain tremble.

At dusk, the setting sun is like blood.

This place seemed to be a small village in the countryside. The ground was full of chicken carcasses that had been chewed to pieces.

It's a chicken coop outside the village.

Deep in the chicken coop, beside a square iron cage, was a girl curled up, trembling and sobbing.

The girl was wearing a simple white dress with blood stains on it.

"Xia Lei!"

Shi Chen heard himself shouting the name again in an anxious tone.

Uncontrollably, he took a step forward, wanting to get closer to the girl.

"what……"

The girl's reaction became even more intense. She rolled and crawled into the iron cage, her voice full of fear and panic.

She even covered her face with her arms, as if she didn't want "Chen" to see her current appearance.

"I...I just...just want to prove the teacher's research."

The girl's voice was full of tremors, as if she was in pain, and as if she was trying her best to suppress something: "It's just that it seems...failed...ah!!!"

Before she finished speaking, the girl seemed unable to suppress the urge in her body to drink hair and blood, but she also didn't want to harm the "moment" in front of her.

"Boom!"

The girl banged her head against the iron cage again and again, like a wild beast out of control.

The skin was deathly white, with blue-black veins emerging like cracks covering the entire face, and the expression of pain and twitching was like that of a person on the verge of death.

She is Xia Lei, the girl Emiya Kiritsugu liked when he was a boy... I am now looking back at his memories with Emiya Kiritsugu as the first point of view... I feel the instinctive emotions of worry and tension in my mind. , the hour is immediately understood.

He looked at Xia Lei in front of him with a solemn expression.

This girl who once had a beautiful smile, bright eyes and white teeth, now had a scarlet glow in her pupils, revealing a row of uneven and sharp teeth.

A feeling of sadness suddenly surged in his heart, and he didn't know whether it was Kiritsugu's or his own.

Of course Shichen knew why Xia Lei became like this.

The teacher she spoke of was none other than Emiya Kiritsugu's father, Emiya Noriken, a designated magician who was hunted down and sealed by the Magic Association.

The so-called research is an experiment to "transform" the human body into a Death Apostle. Of course, this is just the first step for Emiya Noriken.

Emiya Noriken wants to find a way to extend his lifespan, get rid of his body that is bound by the fate of death, and reach the [source].

[Source], described as the "Principle of the Universe", can formulate all rules of the universe and modify all rules.The range of influence can extend to the multiverse.

Pursuing the roots and reaching the roots is the lifelong goal of every orthodox magician.

but,

The so-called Death Apostle transformation, as the name suggests, is a "dead disciple" who transforms his body into something similar to a combination of a vampire and a zombie.

It can have a long life, and its body is immortal under normal circumstances, but it can also turn into a monster that eats hair and drinks blood.

What Emiya Noriken wants to develop is a potion that can ensure the body's immortality, while at the same time abandoning bloodthirsty impulses and maintaining sanity.

However, his experiment was not complete.

The potion he developed will turn people into zombie-like ghouls and cannot completely suppress the urge to suck blood, which is essentially a failure.

"In a sense, magicians are all paranoid lunatics... It's no wonder that Emiya Kiritsugu will eventually become a magician killer."

Xia Lei became what she is now because of it... Shi Chen knew it in his heart.

"clang!"

A silver dagger was gently thrown to Emiya Kiritsugu's feet. In the young man's eyes, the dagger shone ominously under the sunset.

It was a short sword that the girl cherished very much. It was given by Father Simon in the village.

"kill me……"

The girl buried her head in her knees, sobbing, almost begging in pain.

"Use that...please...kill me."

"It must be... it's still too late..."

The young man shook his head and took a step back.

How could he do it? During these days on the island, Xia Lei had been taking care of and helping their father and son.

He also slowly fell in love with her.

"Please... I'm almost... dying."

The girl clasped the iron net behind her with both hands and dug her fingers deep into it. The strange strength not belonging to a girl of her age grabbed the iron wire and twisted it.

Begging like crazy:

"While I can still control myself...quickly!"

Suddenly,

Kiritsugu's pupils suddenly shrank.

Xia Lei scratched the wire and bit her palm with her bare teeth in order not to hurt Kiritsugu.

"Zi..."

The sound of biting flesh and sipping blood amplified in his ears, constantly stimulating Kiritsugu's eardrums...

After all, he didn't become cruel.

The girl's painful, pleading voice kept tormenting him, causing him to rush out of the henhouse in a hurry.

What frightened him was not the completely changed Xia Lei, but the shining light reflected from the short knife she threw at his feet.

He didn't know what was going on, and he didn't want to know.

Anyway, I have to find someone for help.

He didn't go to his father.

Instead, he went to find Father Simon in the village, but when he came back, night had come, the sky was dark, and Xia Lei's figure had disappeared...

This was also the last time he saw Xia Lei!

The scene in front of me floats like a glimpse of light...

In the distance is a fishing village caught in a sea of ​​fire.

This village, which has always been isolated from the rest of the world and was sleeping under the moonlight a few hours ago, has now been swallowed up by the fire of karma.

The view across the bay from the cliff on the opposite side is a bit unbelievable, it feels like a bad nightmare.

In the village where the fire is spreading, the figure of that inhuman thing can still be vaguely seen. Even if the whole body is burning with flames, it can still walk, but it has no thoughts and cannot think, just like a walking corpse.

This is the "virus" spread by Xia Lei.

Anyone bitten by her will become a Death Apostle like her.

The source of the virus is his father, Noriken Emiya;

However, he could have prevented all of this. As long as he killed Xia Lei at that time, the scene in front of him would not have happened.

It was because he failed to cut off the way the virus spread in time... This is what Emiya Kiritsugu thought when he was a boy.

This thought was also introduced into Shi Chen’s brain:

"The decision to not kill Xia Lei immediately was the beginning of a sad life for Emiya Kiritsugu."

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"Although I spent a lot of time doing experiments, the results are not satisfactory. It seems that I need to revise the theory from the most basic point."

Noriken Emiya was flipping through his notes, and planned to continue this experiment of "Dead Apostle Transformation".

He will not be discouraged by this level of sacrifice.

As if all this is natural and worthwhile.

No matter how many times he repeats it or how many places he changes, he will continue to try until he obtains a result that satisfies him.

"Kiritsugu, let's talk about this next time. Now we have to run away."

"...Can I still run away now?"

When Shi Chen heard himself asking this, his voice was so calm and terrifying that he almost didn't want to be a child who had just survived a disaster.

"I have considered this possibility before, so I have hidden a motorboat on the southern coast... Sorry, Kiritsugu, I don't have time to sort out your things now, hurry up... uh!"

"Chong!"

The sound of a dagger being unsheathed!

Maybe because he is a son, he is unprepared.

"Shichen" watched as the other party put his hand on his shoulder, and when the other party was unprepared, he quickly drew out the short sword on his waist and stabbed his father straight in the abdomen.

That's Xia Lei's dagger.

"Ah, ah..."

Emiya Noriken seemed not to have expected that his son would do such a thing. He covered his bleeding abdomen and gasped for breath, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"clang!"

The blood-stained dagger was still on the ground, and his mind recalled the inhuman appearance that Xia Lei finally transformed into and the fishing village under the sky full of fire.

Emiya Kiritsugu raised his gun, eyes wide open, and aimed at his father who was lying on the ground struggling to breathe...

The father who caused all the tragedies on the island!

"boom!"

The index finger quickly bent and pulled the trigger.

Blood slowly flowed on the wooden floor.

Kiritsugu did not stop and walked a few steps forward. His face remained unchanged and he fired several shots at the corpse on the ground with a calm expression.

"Bang! Bang!"

Under the silent night, the sound of gunshots seemed unusually crisp and loud

Kiritsugu felt a little scary.

It was obviously the first time he used a gun, but his arm didn't tremble at all.

After a long time, he seemed to have recovered.

His arm began to shake violently, maybe he wanted to throw away the gun, but he couldn't get rid of it, as if the gun was stuck to his palm.

This is Emiya Kiritsugu's first murder!

The deceased was his father.

"I'll take you away from this island. You can think about what happens next... Do you have anything to bring?"

asked Natalia, the free mercenary who saved him from the fire.

Shi Chen heard himself reply in an extremely calm, lifeless voice:

"Nothing."

When he was a boy, Emiya Kiritsugu did such a thing for what was in his heart. He persisted for some unknown reason and did not regret it at all... he could feel it all the time.

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The scene in front of me changed again, like a revolving lantern.

Shi Chen felt that this was probably the connection between the master and the servant, but why didn't such a memory appear before.

Suddenly stopped,

This time, Shi found himself standing inside a yacht.

As far as the eye can see is the sparkling sea, the sky is full of countless flying seagulls, and he is carrying a cannon barrel that he doesn't know about on his shoulders.

At dawn, between the sky and the water, the sight seems to capture the silhouette of an airplane from the distant sky...

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ps: Emiya Kiritsugu is probably the most controversial character in Fate Zero in my opinion.