Hellish Affairs

"Hehehe..." Matou Zouken, who was ridiculed by Gilgamesh, was not annoyed, but just smiled sullenly: "The old man just came to see, lest my granddaughter be disobedient and be abducted by the boy of the Emiya family." Ran."

"Hmph, it sounds like there is still some humanity left." Gilgamesh snorted coldly, with undisguised disdain in his scarlet pupils.

Even the original ideal has been forgotten, leaving only the rotting soul and decayed body, turning himself into a worm in pursuit of immortality, lingering in the world.

It's ridiculous.

"Grandpa." Matou Sakura calmly looked at Matou Zouyan who suddenly appeared.

"Oh..." Hearing the girl's voice, Matou Zouken turned around, his eyes were greedy as if looking at some rare treasure.

"Sakura, very good, you did a good job." He nodded, and then pointed at the berserker who was about to escape from the petrification: "Quickly let Berserker exit, and then snatch the little girl from Einzbern." Got it."

"Zouken!" Emiya Shirou stared at the old man next to Matou Sakura, "Do you think I will let you succeed?"

"Boy of the Emiya family, do you think you have the ability to resist?" Matou Zouken laughed at Emiya Shirou's innocence: "Even my servant is already in the hands of others."

Emiya Shirou was powerless to refute for a while, after all, he did something wrong by not following Joyas' arrangement.

But that's why!It is necessary to remedy as much as possible!

Zouken must not let Illya be taken away!

Emiya Shirou's eyes were firm, and if Tohsaka Rin was present, he would definitely complain about his stupidity again.

Joyas, who had never spoken, had to sigh aside:

This dirty inkstone is old Voldemort.

He actually waited until dawn to appear... Was he afraid that someone would attack him?

As we all know, in the general Holy Grail War, no one fights during the day.

Because the master and the servants are generally afraid of involving ordinary people, the battles between the servants are almost always at night.

After all, the ordinary people who witnessed it basically ended up the same as Shirou Emiya before he became the master.

"But do you think I'll give you a chance! Zou Yan!"

Having disappeared in place in an instant, Joyas, who appeared behind Matou Zouken, slashed at him fiercely with the magic-encrusted blade in his hand!

"Nani?!" Hearing the sound of splitting the air behind him, the shocked Matou Zouken was already split in two before he wanted to turn his head.

There was no blood splashed from the corpse, but countless bugs fell to the ground like they had lost their vitality.

It was like a balloon filled with water was suddenly punctured, and the water inside spilled all over the ground.

Matou Zouken, who was not completely dead, shouted in a distorted and vague voice: "Sakura, why... what...?"

Not only Matou Zouken, but even Matou Sakura and Ilya didn't see Joyas' movements clearly.

"Because she doesn't know either! Idiot!" Before Jiantong Zouyan could react, Joyas took out the key of Wang Lv that had already been transformed during Jiantong Zouyan's speech: "The King's Treasure!"

Only golden ripples appeared, and a golden long sword shot out like a bullet, piercing Matou Sakura's heart in an instant, and then nailed to the wall behind the girl.

"What..." Caught off guard, Matou Sakura stared blankly at the blood blooming on her chest.

Emiya Shirou, who opened his eyes wide, immediately ran towards the girl and shouted hoarsely: "Sakura!!!"

Seeing Matou Sakura slumped down, Emiya Shirou who stepped forward to hold the girl in his arms felt like a knife was piercing his heart.

Illya looked at Emiya Shirou who was in great grief, and looked at Joyas with questioning eyes.

It seemed that he was regarded as the real black hand behind Matou Sakura's side.

Although this scene made people cry, and even the hard-hearted Gilgamesh could feel the grief of Emiya Shirou, Joyas couldn't help breaking this uncomfortable scene: "You Why are you shouting so loudly? People are fine."

"... Huh?" Shirou Emiya, who was intoxicated in grief, raised his head blankly and looked at Joyas with a helpless face.

"Matou Sakura is alive and well, do you think you can die so easily after being possessed by a black shadow?"

Joyas withdrew the Aluru in his hand, and at the same time made a military salute to Medusa who appeared behind him, indicating that he had no intention of continuing to attack.

In the previous games, Matou Sakura took out the Matou Zouyan from her heart.

At this time, Emiya Shirou heard the unwilling voice of Matou Zouken, and the resentment that seemed to be solidified was creepy.

"How is it possible—how is it possible! Sakura, why did you betray me?"

Being impaled by a long sword, the cerebrate constantly writhed and tried to struggle, but it only made his life flow faster.

"Betrayal?" Joyas said leisurely, "Of course this is not Matou Sakura's order, it's just what I want to do, Matou Zouken."

"Nonsense! How could a servant who has been corrupted by the shadows act on his own!" Matou Zouken couldn't believe it, but it is a fact that he has become like this now.

Gilgamesh sneered, staring at Joyas with scarlet pupils: "Do you think the Holy Sword of the Stars would be so easily corrupted by something like that? What a stupid idea! That's the one chosen by the holy sword. people!"

"The one who can pull out the sword, the one who is bound to shine, the one who takes saving the world as his mission, the one who doesn't go against humanity, the one who pursues the truth, the one who upholds justice, the one who doesn't bully the weak, the one who is brave and wise People, people who are not enemies of the elves, righteous people who fight against evil, people who survive...how can their brilliance be eroded by the filthy evil of this world!"

"!!!"

Matou Zouyan was in a daze and did not speak. The opportunity that had been waiting for 500 years and the foreshadowing of the past ten years were all destroyed.

You don't need to explain it like that... I'm sorry.

Feeling that he was being praised by Gilgamesh, Joyas turned his head uncomfortably, and said to Matou Zouken: "I said, you have lived for more than 200 years, and you are almost enough, right?"

Chapter 183 The Death of Matou Zouken

Joyas actually didn't dislike Matou Zouken.

——It’s just that Zouken must die.

He still admires Maqili Zorgen's period, in order to "abolish all evil" - the great wish of destroying the "karma" of human beings, he tried to achieve it through the Holy Grail War.

Together with Tohsaka Nagato and the "Holy Maiden of Winter" Justisa Lizleich von Einzbern, he constructed a ceremony called "The Cup of Heaven" in Fuyuki City.Later, Einzbern, Tohsaka, and Matou were called "the three founding royal families".

It's a pity that on the eve of the completion of the ceremony, the three Yu families killed each other for their own purposes and wanted to monopolize the results.Coupled with various objective reasons, the final ceremony failed, and it was later called the "First Holy Grail War".

After the failure, Maqili Zorgen, who wanted to continue fulfilling his wish, gradually deviated from the original goal, went further and further down the wrong path, and even changed his body Adult insects come to seek to prolong their lives.

It is a magic trick to make yourself become something that is not human, but mimic human beings.The body is a collection of worms, and human functions are also operated by worms.

The original body has already died, and after the current body is exhausted, the body of others is used to supplement it, just like making a doll again.

As long as the soul does not die, it is theoretically possible to use this method to survive forever.

However, after the long years eroded the soul of Maqili Zorgen, this method of extending life began to show its shortcomings 200 years ago. replace.

The body, which can be used for more than 50 years after being replaced once, gradually needs to be replaced every few months, so Maqili Zorgen's body often exudes a smell of corruption.

The pain and fear of the erosion of his body gradually drove him crazy, the original goal in his mind gradually became blurred, and finally only the obsession of "not wanting to die" remained.

It can be said that Maqili Zorgen has become a collection of obsessions.

Today, the old man who has changed his name to Matou Zouyan has already done everything he can to seek immortality.

In order to pursue the Holy Grail for complete immortality, Matou Sakura was transformed into the Black Holy Grail, planning to reincarnate herself on "All the Evils of This World (Angola Mainyu)" through Black Sakura, so as to achieve true immortality.

The dirty, despicable and despicable preparations made by Matou Zouken were enough to tear him into pieces.

Joaspendragon's expression was calm, and his amber pupils stared at the ugly worms wriggling on the wall: "What is your real wish, do you remember? Matou Zouken, no...it should be Madge Lee Zorgen."

"Old man's wish? Of course it is immortality!" Matou Zouken was clearly just a worm, but everyone present felt that it was roaring angrily.

"No." Joyas shook his head in denial, and walked towards Zouken Matou step by step with the black-red holy sword in one hand: "This was not your original wish."

Matou Zouken was startled and frightened by the ever-disappearing vitality and the approaching black knight, he shouted regardless of his image: "Sakura! Sakura! Are you still alive?! I feel like I can control this Damn Saber!"

Insects began to crawl out of the wet and dark sewer, trying hard to gather into human form.

But like a statue made of dry sand, it collapsed at a faster speed. The bugs that lost their vitality died one after another, and a new batch of bugs flooded in.

Like the soul of a sinner who is being tortured in hell, the struggling Matou Zouken wailed in an extremely ugly manner: "Sakura! Ooooh——"

I can't speak clearly anymore, and I have exhausted all my strength just to maintain my posture.

Joyas looked at such an ugly and alien figure, and said in a low voice: "Maqili Zorgen, your original wish was to be arrogant, but it can be said to be a noble and lofty ideal - to destroy all human beings. Carrying the 'karma'."

Matou Zouken's struggling movements paused for a moment, but he continued to try to gather his body in an ugly posture, making a twisted and dry moan.

From the day he was driven out of his hometown to this extreme eastern land, he already knew that this demon family had begun to decline.

It's not because the climate is unacceptable, but the 300-year boundary of the magician's family has reached its limit starting from Maqili Zorgen.

The fate of decline has already become inevitable. Let alone the talents of the descendants surpass themselves, even the descendants of the same talent can no longer appear.

The bodies of the descendants have gradually lost their magic circuits, and are now in a state of complete decline.

It would have been such a future, and Maqili Zorgen would choose to continue his life as the last banner of the Maqili family—or the last fig leaf.

The pain had already begun since then, and the Maqili family's footsteps have stagnated since then.

Desperately covering up and resisting is the whole life of Matou Zouken.

Joaspendragon raised the holy sword wrapped in black and red magic power in his hand, without a trace of condemnation or sympathy.

He just swung his sharp sword down as if he was doing business, and said softly, "Goodbye, Matou Zouken."

The magic power was released like a torrent, submerging Matou Zouken bit by bit like an ocean surrounded by bug corpses.

Bathed in the black-red magic power, the moment when that old figure was about to dissolve.

Joyas seemed to see a relieved smile on Matou Zouken's wrinkled face, with gratitude in his sunken eye sockets, and then turned into ashes in the light.

Because of Matou Zouken's obsession that seemed to turn into reality, Emiya Shirou, who had suffered a lot in his heart, could not forget it for a long time.

"...Senior?" Matou Sakura, who was in Emiya Shirou's arms, slowly opened her eyes, and said blankly, "Why would I—"

Hearing the girl's voice, Emiya Shirou quickly lowered his head and showed a grateful expression: "Sakura! Great, you finally woke up, Joas suddenly attacked you, I thought I would never see you again."

"Senior... Can you let me go before this?" Seeing the boy's concerned eyes and realizing that Emiya Shirou was so close to her, Matou Sakura blushed, but her expression remained calm intending to push him away.

"Ah? Well, I'm sorry." Emiya Shirou could feel that the girl was not resisting, but just a little shy and uneasy.

In this awkward atmosphere, the two stood up separately.

Chapter 184 Breaking the Connection

It was early in the morning, and although there was a state of panic all night yesterday due to power outages and explosions, fortunately there were not many casualties.