Crown Dead

Xian Yu's ankle was hit hard by the crutches, and the unavoidable pain rushed straight into his brain.

It seems to be different from an attack in the physical sense. Inside the Holy Grail, everything about oneself is endowed with an "entity" that can be observed, and Zouken Matou attacks such an entity, even the "Death Family" obtained , the paralyzing effect on pain sensation has completely lost its effect.

"Thank you so much for your selfless dedication and those stupid servants. I can finally get a perfect body and be resurrected with an immortal body. After that, I will use the best way to torture Matou Kariya to death. But before that, you have to kill Sakura in front of that man, Jie Jie—”

"Wait for me...!"

Xianyu finally understood that the "third observer" mentioned by Angola Mainyu was Matou Zouken.

"Die with boundless regret and torture."

Matou Zouken kicked Xianyu hard, and then prepared to step up the stairs.

—do something, do something quickly!Bite your tongue and kill yourself to revive yourself?Or forcibly unmount the entire step...

"Ah, enough venting."

"……what?"

Xian Yu was stunned for a moment, Jiantong Zouyan didn't really step up the steps, but sat on it and looked at himself.

"You guy, even if you are placed in the 500-year life of the old man, you are still the number one fool."

Matou Zouken laughed, but this time there was no such creepy sense of terror.

"In order to save everything that can be saved, I will not hesitate to let myself experience death again and again. Although in terms of the result, you have indeed obtained a precious fetter, but in the process, you have never actively asked for any extravagance. Return."

"Idiot, really an idiot! It's simply indescribably stupid!"

"But it's also this stupidity—"

Matou Zouken stood up leaning on his crutches, starting from his legs, his body suddenly turned into countless butterflies.

After the butterfly flew away, a young man with short purple hair who appeared to be less than 30 years old appeared in the place where Zouken Matou had been.

"Getting out of your corrupted body made the old man truly understand his own stupidity. While watching you in the Holy Grail War, the old man finally recalled his original idea before he fell into a wrong path—to save you. world."

"Of course, this old man understands the absurdity and arrogance of this idea. The world doesn't need to be saved, nor is it rotten beyond cure—after all, there is such a stupid guy like you."

The Holy Grail War observed through Amber reawakened Zouken Matou's dream of a butterfly a hundred years ago.

Maqili Zorgen summoned countless butterflies to lift up the strings, while he turned around and walked towards the stairs.

"The disintegration of the Holy Grail requires a soul as a wedge. Although the sins of the past 500 years cannot be repaid, at least let me help a little in the end."

"Wait a moment--"

Xian Yu wanted to break free from the butterfly, but his body couldn't move.

——When did it start to rot?Was it the moment when Yusatis became the Holy Grail?Is it the moment when you feel the threat of death?Or was my soul itself so worthless in the first place?

"It doesn't matter anymore, although this is the end that has been delayed for hundreds of years - I have come to you, 'Winter Maiden'."

The body that Maqili had just regained collapsed again, and gradually, only a blue butterfly was left, slowly flying to the end of the stairs, on the fingertips of the Holy Maiden of Winter.

"Welcome back."

The Holy Maiden of Winter smiled at Butterfly, and walked slowly in front of Xianyu.

"Foreigner, thank you for everything you have done. The Holy Grail is about to be dismantled, but before that, I can at least use the remaining, uncontaminated magic power to grant you a wish."

"desire……"

The eyelids couldn't be lifted, the spells imposed on the heart by Eri, and the pseudo-command spells bestowed by Kariya Matou on the back of his hands all disappeared, and all that could be felt was endless fatigue.

"Let it all be restored."

"—Is this your wish? But human life is not something that can be restored casually."

"Ah, I know that the soul cannot be easily affected by magic. I know, and Eilee knows it too. So the souls of the dead are all kept intact, and even this can't save everything. Recovery?"

"No, of course you can."

When the Lord of the Underworld exhausted all his energy and magic power to keep the souls of every dead person in Fuyuki, it became possible to resurrect them with the Holy Grail.

The Holy Maiden of Winter hugged Xian Yu gently, a warm current flowed through Xian Yu's heart, this warm feeling had never been experienced before.

It was as if... the void in my soul had been filled.

"The boy who has saved countless souls, who can save your own broken soul?"

"It's okay, I have a lot of life..."

Xian Yu wanted to say something else, but in the end he still lost consciousness.

"Have a good rest, and—thank you."

The Winter Maiden gently sent the string out from the root, and followed the butterfly back to the center of the Holy Grail.

The white light began to collapse, replaced by huge cracks.

"May the pure soul always guide you, the pioneer of destiny."

The Maiden of Winter gently closed her eyes.

Obtain the blessing [Cup of Heaven]

The end of the third volume of Dolls and Black Dreams. A short ordinary restaurant conversation (end of this volume)