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his wife.

Maybe this is the same kind of talent as Natalia said that he was a born killer.

he thought to himself mockingly.

-2

The Holy Grail War did not go smoothly.

Saber who doesn't get along with him, Rider who can't predict his actions, and Caster who comes to trouble him can't be said to be beneficial.

But he still takes advantage of many things that magicians don't care about, electronics, guns, and emotions that they don't bother to use.

They fail in their arrogance, in their contempt for meanness.

The only thing that surprised him was that the man named Kotomine Kirei kept pestering him endlessly.He was terrified of this man who had no desires and could find no weakness.

Fortunately, in the final battle, he won.

In the moment of victory, he touched the Holy Grail.

——the only Holy Grail that can fulfill his wish, the only Holy Grail that can save everyone.

-3

"Which side do you choose?"

The question of the Holy Grail made him shudder.

He has always made this choice, choosing to save more people, and the side with fewer people will inevitably sacrifice.

Even if the difference is only one life.

More is more.

However, he never expected the scene in the Holy Grail to look like this——

-4

is the last scene.

The "wife" was on the bed, the "daughter" jumped off the bed, and here he was.

It looks so sweet--

The body temperature of the "daughter" is icy cold, but the sky outside the castle is pitch black.

Trembling, he raised his hand and was about to put it on the child's neck——

A young, unfamiliar hand pressed on his wrist, and snatched the gun away when he paused for a moment.He looked up and saw the girl in a short skirt who appeared out of nowhere.

The appearance of 15 years old.

The strange girl looked at him for a while, then shifted her gaze to the gun in her hand, stroked it as if attached, then knelt down, and gently kissed him on the forehead.

"—"

Emiya Kiritsugu was stunned.

At the moment when he was motionless, a gunshot rang out.

"boom."

The "daughter" fell in front of him, bleeding all over the floor. The "wife" screamed and jumped off the bed, grabbed the girl's dress, grabbed her body, her nails left traces of wounds on her body, but she still looked at him steadfastly.

Then she stood up and smiled at him.

The girl smiled at him, just like when she was at the seaside when she was a child, just like when they parted at that time.

The black mud flooded over, only then Emiya Kiritsugu vaguely unearthed some broken and insignificant things from the corner of memory.

"Let's get married!"

"I'll wait for you."

"Hi, are you eighteen now?"

"You—" he shouted hoarsely, but he couldn't control his voice no matter what.

All the words seemed to be stuck in his throat, and it was clear that there were countless things he wanted to say at that moment, but all of them stopped at the smile of the girl in a short skirt.

"Emiya Kiritsugu." She said, "I like you."

"—"

"I have always liked you the most." She continued, even though the black mud around her kept pouring in and climbing onto her body, even though Irisviel hurt her, she still smiled, "So, Kiritsugu Must, must be happy."

"—"

The dream ended at that moment.

He returned to the place where Saber was still fighting, finally calmed down, and then issued two command spells—

"Saber, destroy the Holy Grail."

-5

It was a disaster.

The fire consumed Fuyuki.

He is like a walking dead looking for survivors in the ruins.

In the end, the surviving child was adopted and named "Emiya Shiro".

He seemed to be tired, took off his cold mask, and lived with Emiya Shirou like a big child.He has long forgotten the daily routine, and he is extremely clumsy in this kind of warm life, and he can't even wash and cook.

Then Kotomine Kirei found him.

The man's hair grew a little longer, and his expression changed subtly from that of the Fourth Holy Grail War.Seeing the copper-haired kid chasing butterflies in the yard, he was silent for a while before speaking.

"Emiya Kiritsugu." He said something unrelated to the Holy Grail War, "Do you know Shirakawa Kaine?"

"—"

It can be said to be an unfamiliar name.

But at that moment, he felt like his brain had exploded——

"Hi, are you eighteen now?"

-6

Kotomine Kirei, who he originally thought was a bad visitor, explained the reason for coming this time.

On the one hand, he was asked if he would hand over Shirou Emiya to the church, but he naturally refused.

On the other hand, it was for Bai Chuan Haiyin.

"I didn't want to come to see you originally, but now you..." Kotomine Kirei stopped talking halfway, as if he didn't want to continue the topic about himself, "Emiya Kiritsugu, you still have some blood in your body. The magic power of Shirakawa Kaiyin."

"—?"

"Why? Are you surprised? I'm the same." He smiled strangely, "My half-sister has already been in contact with someone I'm interested in."

"Your...sister?"

"Yes, but only once."

Emiya Kiritsugu's weak appearance and dry voice pleased Kotomine Kirei.

He spoke with eloquence, without the sense of oppression that made Emiya Kiritsugu seem to see a scourge during the Fourth Holy Grail War.

Although still a little uncomfortable, Emiya Kiritsugu felt that he could continue listening.

Until he talks about curses.

"...you mean—"

"Are you surprised?" Kotomine Kirei kissed the cross hanging on his chest, "Clean up the magic power left by Shirakawa Kaine in your body, and even the curse brought to you by the Holy Grail can be broken."

"—"

"Although I don't have any feelings for her, I have to admire her ability to predict and calculate. It's really amazing."

Faced with Emiya Kiritsugu's expression of "Are you kidding me?" but unable to speak for a long time, Kotomine Kirei smiled again, but the pained Emiya Kiritsugu didn't see it.

"What a sad yet delightful contradiction...Emiya Kiritsugu."

He didn't stop too much.

As he himself said, he didn't want to come to see him right now.

-7

After the curse is lifted, physical enfeeblement ceases.

Although he is still a little weak, he will be able to return to a better state after a period of recuperation.

Emiya Kiritsugu has returned to Einzbern's castle many times...but he is still weak and still unable to enter.

But even so, the starting point of the enchantment can be found.

Although it is difficult to communicate with the Einzbern family, in the future he will definitely be able to enter the barrier after recovery, and then bring back Illya who was left there.

During those few years, he not only went to Einzbern's castle many times, but also visited Shirakawa's house.

Although he had doubts about Kotomine Kirei's words, he really cared very much.

Originally, he thought that the Shirakawa family would not welcome him like Einzbern, but was welcomed in by a man with white hair.

-8

The man's attitude is not very good, and it seems that his surname is not Bai Chuan.It is said that many years ago, the last child of the Shirakawa family, "Shirakawa Kaine", sank into the sea together with the magic seal.

Losing the magic engraving is equivalent to the decline of the entire magic family.

"I--"

"Ask about Haiyin?"

Before he could speak, the man interrupted him.

He could only smile awkwardly.

In order to make himself look more serious, he even changed into the windbreaker he hadn't worn for a few years, but he seemed to have lost weight, and the black windbreaker didn't fit him well.

The man sighed, but the irritability between his brows did not dissipate.

He walked to the study in silence, and Emiya Kiritsugu had no choice but to follow behind him.

"There is a big gap between you and ten years ago... Emiya Kiritsugu." He said, "Until I saw you again, I still couldn't understand what Hai Yin said, "That was a gentle A child who suffers from happiness"—"

"—"

"This is her diary." He pulled out from the bookcase a thick, brown-covered notebook with which Natalia had been in touch before her death. "

"With...Natalia?"

"... Emiya Kiritsugu." The man was silent for a moment, then said word by word, "She cares about you very much."

Emiya Kiritsugu didn't understand.

"Even...before going out with you, I changed my mobile phone number, saying what if she loses her mobile phone in case you remember to reply to her one day."

Emiya Kiritsugu quickly caught the cell phone that the man threw towards his face.

He looked through the call records in a daze, and only saw [Natalia] the most.After checking it himself, he was sure that it was indeed Natalia's previous number.

And in the text message, there was another one that almost made him lose his voice——

[Hi, are you eighteen? ]

The ridiculous thing is that the mobile phone was not very good at that time, and she threw all the messages that she wanted to send to him but didn't send to him in the draft box and did not delete them.

Time continued until his year.

"...why?" he asked.

The traces of Bai Chuan Haiyin left in his memory are very shallow.

He felt that he should be the same to the other party.There is no reason to like it, and there is no emotion that can last for such a long time.

"You showed your ruthless side to everyone before the Fourth Holy Grail War...I only realized now that she was aware of the personality behind your mask at the very beginning." The man lowered his eyes, "Wei Miya Kiritsugu, you remember your year, you used Shirakawa Haiyin as bait