Next, Shen Er, what's your business?

Chapter 125 Impulsive
After completing the work, Kirei felt the breath of death as soon as he stepped into the chapel.

A little smell of blood and a little bit of residual gunpowder smoke, there must be someone who committed unforgivable evil in the Temple of God.

Although he didn't feel that anyone was ambushing, Kirei still moved his steps cautiously and passed through the believer's seat—just before he came to the altar, he found the figure lying beside him.

"Father--"

The shout that blurted out was feeble, and at the same time that Kirei saw Priest Risei, the substitute's sharpened eyesight had already seen the bullet holes that pierced through the priest's back and the blood on the ground.

Kirei felt as if his mind was completely paralyzed, so he carefully examined his father's corpse with this feeling.

Rolling up the right sleeve of the monk's uniform, he checked the number of the command spells engraved on his wrist.

"No, how is this possible?"

Kirei exclaimed again.

He knew that his father's Trustee Command Seal was protected by powerful holy words, and without his permission, it was almost impossible to be stripped by magic.But now, these Command Seals have all disappeared, how could Kirei not be surprised.

After being surprised, Kirei forced himself to calm down, and continued to check.

The right hand was intact, with no traces of magic, and no other abnormalities, proving that the Command Seal was removed in a normal way—so it was Rizheng who gave it on his own initiative?
Tosaka Tokiomi was the only person his father was willing to take the initiative to bestow Command Seals on, but if it was a teacher, he would never kill his father, that person's pride would not allow him to do so.Moreover, even if he really wanted to kill his father, he would not use a gun, but magic - after three years of study, Kirei knew Tokiomi very well, and he would not make mistakes.

That is how the matter?Besides the father himself, does anyone else know that "Holy Word"?

With such doubts, Kirei continued to examine his father's body.

Kirei raised his father's right hand, and found that there were blood stains different from bleeding on the right fingertips, which were traces of friction.Before he died, Father Risei dipped his own blood on his fingers and smeared it somewhere.

Now that he is aware of this, he can easily find the blood-stained text with a little searching.

On the floor was the scarlet last words "jn424" written in mottled strokes—if you have no connection with religious beliefs, you might think that this is a code with unknown meaning.But Kirei inherited Risei's devout heart of faith, and to him, the meaning of this last words couldn't be more clear.

Chapter 4No.20 of the Gospel of John, this is probably the "Holy Word", and it is also the inheritance and trust that the father wants to entrust to his son when he is dying, hoping that the son can inherit his identity and responsibility as a supervisor.

But—this code was deciphered by others.

Kirei thoughtfully picked up the "Bible" in his father's hand. With this, even people who have nothing to do with the church may be able to decipher this code. After all, the popularity of "Gospel of John" is not low.

Did father careless?The "Bible" that has always been carried around has become a tool for the murderer to crack the "Holy Word".

No, not necessarily the murderer.

If the murderer hadn't left, the father might not have left a secret sign, and even if he wanted to stay, he might not have left such an obvious one.

Perhaps after the murderer left, someone came to the church to visit his father, only to find that his father was dead, and the "holy word" was deciphered through the code to transfer the command spell.

Yes, this makes sense, Caster is dead, and the masters of Saber, Lancer, Rider, and Assassin may all come to visit their father and obtain the promised additional Command Seals.

The murderer who killed his father may be one of them, or it may be the master of Berserker who did not participate in the battle.

The brain that came to the conclusion relaxed, and tears unknowingly rolled down from Kirei's eyes, which made him extremely astonished.

Seeing his father's dead body, feeling his father's will and crying... For a person, this is a natural reaction.But at this moment, Kirei seemed to have stepped into the void next to the abyss, and fell into a chaotic mood that was almost fearful.

Absolutely don't look directly - the inner voice warned myself solemnly.

Kotomine Kirei, you absolutely can't understand, and you can't agree with the feelings that are welling up in your heart right now.that is because--

Tears, when was the last time he shed tears.

That's right, it was that unforgettable three years ago, when the deceased wife held up the falling tears with her hands and said, "You love me."

Just when Kirei was trying his best to resist the memories that kept flooding into his mind, an inexplicable impulse that was completely different from the emotions in the memories flooded into his heart.

hunger!

thirsty!

impulse!

Accompanied by the eye-catching red color, it silently invaded Kirei's sanity.

It seems like someone who has been hungry for many days and hasn't eaten.

It's like someone who has been thirsty for days without drinking water.

It seems to be someone who has been abstinent for many days.

The red blood was exuding a strange, irresistible temptation, like a wave, beating against Kirei's defense line of heart and common sense.

Here it is again, same as in Caster Workshop!
why?
why?
why?
Why does blood attract me?
Why do I feel thirsty for blood?
How can human beings treat the blood of the same kind?
Could this be what Gilgamesh said about my anomaly?
So why hadn't there been such an urge before?

The thoughts in his head did not affect the movement of his hands, which trembled—the hands that had taken many lives without trembling now trembled—stretched toward the blood that had not yet dried up on the ground.

No!

No!

No!

Reason keeps reminding.

However, there was another voice roaring in his heart.

want to!

want to!

want to!

Kirei felt that his body was divided into two parts, the desire of the flesh and the rational soul.

The two kept fighting, their hands moving up and down beside the bloodstains, like a patient suffering from madness.

Perhaps this is what a saint meant when he spoke of battling the demons within.

Maybe, after I defeat this demon, I will become a normal person?
Or maybe, I will be completely assimilated by the devil and degenerate into a devil?
struggling.

struggled.

Kirei did not give up.

He is resisting, he is working hard, believers in God cannot lose to the temptation of the devil.

I don't know how long it took, the desire and impulse for blood gradually faded away, replaced by an indescribable emptiness.

Kirei silently stared at his father's icy cold body, his heart was filled with dead silence, like a wasteland completely burned by wildfire.

"...our heavenly Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven..."

Kirei suddenly sang the Lord's Prayer that he was used to praying every day, as if he was praying for his father, but also as if he was repenting.

"Forgive us our sins, as we forgive others, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil...Amen."

With the sign of the cross falling on the forehead, chest, left shoulder, and right shoulder, the deep meaning behind the tears and the inexplicable impulse were all sealed.

In the far west, in an ancient city that has been silent for hundreds of years.

A pair of bright red pupils opened suddenly, and an incomparable golden light shone from them, and then fell silent in the next second, and those bright red pupils also closed afterward.

The ancient city was once again shrouded in darkness, as if nothing had happened.

(End of this chapter)