I wanted to be a bad actor in the anime, but I failed.

【who? 】

In the void, Hephaestus roared.

In this situation, a fellow tribesman suddenly came to give him orders, which only proved that everything he did until now was under surveillance.

But he was completely unaware.

This is extremely shameful!

In his arrogant world, he could only calm his anger by killing the god who was watching him.

[How can you new gods know the names of the old gods? ]

The fear mixed in with the sticky whispers made Hephaestus's face change drastically.

[You, the new god, rashly approached an existence that the old gods feared, disrupting my plan. I didn't grant you death, but you are not grateful?! ]

Hephaestus trembled all over, a trace of cold sweat flowed out, and he bowed his head to the void and said: [I am extremely grateful! ]

[Our shadows will not die so easily. ]

[I have made a long plan for his death. There is my poison in his lungs. He will only truly die when the poison explodes. If you kill him now, my meticulous plan will fail!]

【Therefore, I will not allow you to kill him! 】

【......All known.】

Hephaestus said respectfully.

I thought he was the first one to discover the existence of the legend, and I wanted to kill him to prove my strength, but I didn't expect that the old gods had already discovered it.

The strength of the new gods is an insurmountable gap compared to the old gods.

In this situation, if he wanted to survive, he could only swallow his anger and let the old gods take away the credit.

[That's fine, but as compensation for you...]

This old god is obviously not one of those disgusting beings, and at least he will give compensation.

[You can participate in the Holy Grail War controlled by another old god for your own entertainment. I will tell him soon.]

Sadly, humans still don't know this.

The truth about the Holy Grail War is actually a game controlled by gods.

It is to allow the dead heroic spirits to distort their own beliefs and persistence in the contradictions and conflicts between people, and to indiscriminately kill the younger generations of the human race.

To realize a false dream and plunder the worthless Holy Grail.

Purity is wantonly tainted and kindness is wantonly toyed with.

Justice is wantonly distorted and human lives are wantonly killed.

This is God’s evil taste, and also God’s revenge!

Hearing this, Hephaestus smiled twistedly and said, [...You are playing with human spirits for our entertainment. I was just about to join in. I am extremely grateful to you, Old God!]

[In that case, then don't kill him. ]

The vague oracle floated like a song and then disappeared into the darkness.

After pondering for a long time, Hephaestus finally came back to reality and looked down at the forest beneath his feet.

"kill me."

He said with a dead heart.

"Hahaha, thank the old gods."

"Now is not the time for you to die."

"When you die, that will be the time when I will play with this world."

As he said this, Hephaestus had obviously forgotten the promise he made to Mulin, promising not to cause any harm to the world.

He has to interfere in the Holy Grail War to satisfy his entertainment needs while also causing the world to fall into a huge disaster.

God is so capricious that he regards contracts as waste paper.

These words made Mu Lin, who was seeking death, raise his eyes, which were like a dying candle but still firm, and look at Hephaestus.

"If you wish to stop me, then you must participate in the upcoming Holy Grail War, if you are destined to do so!"

Hephaestus put away his flaming blade and walked away into the void.

But after taking a few steps, the dying boy somehow found the strength to stand up.

He disregarded all the pain in his body with absolute courage, looked at the back of the god with absolute arrogance, and warned slowly with absolute coldness.

It was like the god of death warning the ants who were seeking death in his presence.

"If you don't kill me now, you will be the ones to die in the future!"

"Whether it's the new god or the old god, they will all face my crazy revenge!"

"I will pick up everything that belongs to me, and fight with you with another meaning of life until one side is annihilated!"

The cold tone seemed so humble in the land of ashes.

Of course, this is laughable in front of the God of absolute superiority.

"Humans really are a bunch of arrogant trash."

"Having momentum but no strength is like a turtle hiding its head with its teeth bared!"

Having said that, Hephaestus stopped.

He gave a light push, and the standing wood fell down as if it had withered.

He looked down at the dying rabbit that was so full of vigor just now but now was barely alive.

"Even if the old gods don't allow me to kill you, that doesn't mean I can't do anything to you."

"Since you have dared to offend me so many times, I will turn you into a human pig as punishment!"

"I wonder how you can destroy us with such a broken body?"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!"

Laughing loudly, Hephaestus swung the flaming blade and cut off Mu Lin's right hand, right leg, and left leg.

At the same time, he stabbed his already broken left hand again!

After all, the crippling caused by natural fire is extremely difficult to heal.

The scorching flames extinguished the splattering blood, and the wound was instantly burned black.

Amid the roar of the trees, Hephaestus left with a big laugh.

A dark, scorched land.

A heartbreaking boy lay peacefully on the ruins.

Even if I'm seriously injured, even if my lungs are aching, even if my limbs are broken.

His sharp black eyes are still so bright.

Use hatred as a halo and pain as motivation.

The sky fell into complete darkness.

He turned his head with difficulty and looked at the night sky where Tokyo was.

At this moment, it was like an abyss there.

Have you missed the final and grandest fireworks?

He thought so aimlessly.

Imagine how those girls would laugh in such a beautiful cherry blossom festival.

Imagine how stupid your brother would be.

in this way.

"Hahaha......"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!"

Suddenly, Mu Lin laughed out loud. He didn't know why he was laughing, but he just laughed.

Maybe he was laughing at himself for being so useless, maybe it was the same reason as the last time he laughed when he broke up with Kato Megumi, or maybe it was for a reason that was hard to explain in words.

But he just smiled.

In the darkness, his smile seemed as if he was wrapped in a thick black fog.

He seemed to be lost in the abyss at this moment.

Smile and smile.

The corners of his eyes became moist.

His black eyes lost their former luster, and were replaced by incomparable darkness.

The smile stopped abruptly.

His expression became extremely cold.

Slowly, he closed his eyes, as if he wanted to sleep here forever.

Just when the wind carrying the scent of cherry blossoms slowly blows over.

His cold face, stained with blood and dust, felt the soft caress.

It feels like being touched by a loved one.

The touch is so gentle.

The touch is so sudden.

It was like they raised their hands.

The boy who fell into the abyss was trapped in endless darkness. Suddenly he looked up at the light at the entrance of the cave.

Just before falling into coma, Mu Lin opened his eyes and saw several pink petals floating in the air.

This is......

Cherry blossoms?

Followed by.

"boom--!"

The loud bang can be heard even from dozens of kilometers away.

And because of this explosion, the surrounding darkness was torn apart.

The night sky above Tokyo has fallen silent in the distance.

The biggest fireworks display at the Sakura Festival suddenly explodes!

The world becomes colorful at this moment!

The darkness of the abyss was driven out by the brilliance at this moment.

The cherry blossom becomes extremely brilliant at this moment!

It turns out I didn't miss it.

Let's treat this as the last time to watch these beautiful fireworks with them.

From now on, if I don’t die, I will walk with the abyss forever.

Everything stops.

The boy fell into a coma.

After the fireworks, there is a long period of peace.

The full moon is in the sky.

Crows were calling in the treetops, their green eyes fixed on the dead-looking figure on the ground.

When they were about to fly there impatiently, they were suddenly frightened by several human figures and flapped their wings and fled.

These people are very strange.

They are dressed in classic and conservative maid outfits and look almost identical to twin sisters.

It looks like a human, but gives people the feeling of an emotionless robot.

They came to Mu Lin, checked on him, and after confirming that he was not dead, they took him away and went to an unknown place.

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This is an ancient castle that has been sealed in ice and snow for thousands of years.

Of the three original families, the Einzbern family was the one that spent the longest time on the Holy Grail.

The entire family severed all contact with the outside world about a thousand years ago, and devoted themselves to the pursuit of the miracle of the Holy Grail.

The journey of exploration is a continuous stream of frustration, humiliation and pain.

Two hundred years ago, the Einzbern finally gave up their solo exploration and began working with external families such as the Tōsaka and Makiri.

This was the first time that the Einzberns changed their family's beliefs and suffered humiliation.

However, in the subsequent Holy Grail Wars, Einzbern never won because the Master's combat power was slightly inferior.

As a result, they were now forced to decide to recruit brave and skilled magicians from outside.

This is the second time that Einzbern has changed his family's beliefs and suffered humiliation!

An old man with deep facial features and long silver hair stood in the chapel of the castle.

In the darkness, even the eyes deep in their sockets glowed with a strange halo.

He stroked his icy-white waterfall beard and waited.

Finally, the door of the chapel was opened, and a group of artificial maids came in carrying a seriously injured and unconscious outsider on a stretcher.

"Master, we are back."

"How is he?"

As an artificial human, Ahad has been transformed several times in order to prolong his life. After living for two centuries, he has long been unable to bear the repeated setbacks in the Holy Grail War and is extremely anxious.

He walked forward eagerly, looking at the miserable human pig standing frozen in place.

"How did he... become like this?"

"A very incredible battle took place, a scene comparable to that between heroic spirits."

A maid still couldn't forget the fierce battle in the sea of ​​fire a few days ago. At the instruction of the master of the house, she described what happened in detail.

In particular, the battle between Mu Lin and Kotomine Kirei is extremely detailed.

Afterwards, because he was obscured by the flames, he knew nothing about the battle between Mu Lin and the God of Fire.

After hearing about this thrilling battle, Ahad narrowed his eyes.

"Since he has such a talent, even if he becomes a human pig, he will still be of some use. Save his life!"

"Yes!"

After the maids left, a male family member named Atya suddenly came to question them.

“Master, do you want this human pig to participate in the Holy Grail War? We may be weak, but we are not so weak that we have to send a human pig to the battlefield!!”

"Do you have any objection to my decision?" Ahad's eyes narrowed.

"No, I have no objection, I just think that this man is already so badly injured that it will be useless to us!"

"You just have a problem with me!"

Ahad's cold voice made Atya shudder.

"I know you want to participate in this Holy Grail War, but the Tohsaka and Machiri families are too powerful, and you are far from being able to defeat them, so if you want to obtain the Holy Grail, you must get external help!"

"...If I could go out and gain experience, I wouldn't be so weak." Atya murmured unwillingly.

"Do you have any objection to our family's training again?"

"......No."

"Stop talking nonsense and go to the database to look for prosthetic splicing technology."

"......Yes."

Atya gritted his teeth and nodded, then walked through the deep corridor and came to the huge database.

But in an empty corner, he punched the wall fiercely.

He has been living in this closed castle since he was born. The depressing atmosphere and the monotonous life like a puppet have made his character extremely sharp and mean.

He was dissatisfied with everything, even Ahad, the man he called his father.

When he learned about the magical event of the Holy Grail War earlier, he made up his mind to participate, but every time he had this intention, he would be ruthlessly blocked by his father.

"They said I was too weak to defeat them..."

"How could I not beat them?"

"Even if I can't win, it's my fault for staying here and being trained by those rubbish training maids!"

"My Atya's talent is unparalleled in the world! Father! Why haven't you seen it yet!!!"

"A jerk without arms or legs, who was severely injured by some kind of rubbish, actually wants to snatch the Holy Grail from me! Humph! I'll let you assemble the prosthetic limbs, and then I can defeat you in front of my father and prove myself!"

With this plan in mind, Atya had a sinister look on his face. He pushed open the door of the database and was about to step in when he was interrupted by a gentle voice.

The voice is like an elf buried in the forest, uncontaminated by the world.

"Brother, is there a stranger in our house?"

The lively, innocent and curious tone is as beautiful as a song.

The person who spoke was a woman with silver waist-length hair, wearing a pure white plush winter coat, and had a beautiful face.

All her beauty seemed even more noble because of her scarlet eyes.

This is a pure and innocent aristocratic princess.

Full name: Irisviel von Einzbern.

Unlike Atya, perhaps it is her nature, having lived in such a heavy iceberg castle since childhood, Irisviel is still so innocent.

As cute and pitiful as a child who never grows up.

The Iceberg Castle is very large, equivalent to a small city, so the brother and sister have not actually met each other very often while living here.

Atya's attitude towards her was very cold and jealous!

Because of the Holy Grail War, this useless sister has the opportunity to go to the outside world to gain experience, but he can only stay here until he dies!

"Yes."

After the cold reply, Atya didn't want to pay any more attention to her, but he didn't expect the other party to become more and more demanding.

"Eh? Where is he? Where is he?!"

Irisviel, who yearns for everything in the outside world, is extremely curious and can't wait to meet that person right now.

"He is someone my father values ​​very much. I advise you not to get close to him!"

"Ah? Why is this happening?!"

"Why are you pretending to be curious? It's just a cup, right? You'd better hide in your boudoir and wait for your fate. I will get you in the end!"

Saying this cruelly, Artea ignored Irisviel, whose face darkened, and walked into the database.

The dark corridor echoed with the rhythmic footsteps of a distant maid.

This sound struck Irisviel's heart again and again, making her look depressed.

She could never have imagined that her brother, as a relative, would be so ruthless in poking at her pain.

Her existence is the darkness of this family.

All living people are androids, and Irisviel is the most terrifying android.

A container created for the Holy Grail, a container used to hold the dead heroic spirits and transform them into the Holy Grail!

A pathetic being who would die after experiencing a Holy Grail War.

What's even sadder is...

"This is my mission. The Holy Grail is an extremely sacred entity. I can become it to fulfill anyone's wish!"

She said this as if hypnotizing herself, and then forced a smile as if she was proud of it.

"You can still go out to the outside world before you become the Holy Grail. You really can't wait! Well! Anyway, I will go out in two years, so it's no big deal to meet people from the outside world in advance, right?"

As she spoke in a quirky way, Irisviel put aside the unpleasantness of her conversation with her brother, regained her usual cheerfulness, and crept around in the castle.

It was like playing a stealth game, avoiding the maids passing by, hiding here and there cutely, and finally found the outsider.