Lost Narrative Poetry

"Speaking of which, should I thank Mr. Emiya for his reward? I just accepted Saber and Irisviel, and now I have another sum of points and crystallization. It's really a bit embarrassing..."

Xia Ran took a careful look at the prompts about the space, and based on the fragments of information revealed in it, he roughly made this judgment, and couldn't help but show a sad expression on his face.

"Well, although it is mainly because of me that Kenneth was murdered by Emiya Kiritsugu in advance, from an objective perspective, it can be regarded as changing the fate of this group?"

Of course he didn't feel sad for Kenneth's misfortune. The result was actually pretty good.

After all, in the original plot, the fate of this magician who suffered a mid-life crisis, including problems with his hairline and hat color, was even more tragic.

Not only was he directly hit by Emiya Kiritsugu's origin bomb, which shattered all the meridians in his body, he was thus wasted. After practicing hard for twenty or thirty years, he also received the superb skills only possessed by nine generations of ancestors. A top-notch master in the world has become a paraplegic who is worse than a useless house.

Now that he is paralyzed, it is naturally impossible to continue participating in the Holy Grail War. However, his fiancée Sola had a conflict with him because of this, and finally threatened him by breaking his fingers, which made him paralyzed and unable to move, and thus took away Lancer's Command Seal.

If it were on a continent where vindictiveness had reached its peak, perhaps Kenneth would angrily start the protagonist's route because of his fiancée's betrayal, go against the will of heaven and slay gods, and go towards the grand goal of unifying the universe...

After all, his character template really fits inexplicably——

He used to be a genius in his family, but now he has suffered a tragic fall due to a conspiracy, and has become a useless person who is looked down upon by others. Then he was mercilessly slapped in the face by his fiancée. Although he did not break off the engagement in public, he was obviously ready to stay and fly with his servant...

It's a pity that this world doesn't have fighting spirit that has reached its peak, only fancy and colorful magic. And Professor Kenneth has reached the age where he needs to worry about his hairline, and he is no longer young.

The routine of "don't bully young people into poverty" doesn't suit him anymore.

Facts have indeed proved that he was not able to take the branch route of "Don't bully the poor in middle age" or "Don't bully the poor in the elderly", but directly hit the target in one step and embarked on the BE route - "Death is a big deal".

After finally getting into a wheelchair, spending a lot of money to obtain magic prosthetics, and regaining a certain degree of mobility, Emiya Kiritsugu, who turned him into a cripple, targeted him again and designed to force him to use the Command Seal to order Lancer to commit suicide. , saying that if he does this, he will not hurt him.

After Kenneth complied, Emiya Kiritsugu did not harm him, but asked Kuu Maiya to kill Kenneth and his wife...

Compared to such a fate, this is actually better now, right? Emiya Kiritsugu no longer aims to eliminate dissidents, and naturally he will not think of directly letting Lancer commit suicide and help pave the way for Xia Ran.

Emiya Kiritsugu must re-qualify to participate in the Holy Grail War and achieve final victory. Lancer is his only choice at the moment... and in order to control the spearman, he cannot kill Kenneth and Sora.

Just like Saber endured the humiliation and accepted Xia Ran as the new Master because of Irisviel. This premise is that Irisviel will not be harmed.

After checking his current Karma Crystal, Xia Ran easily synthesized it into a B-level Karma Crystal. In this way, one-third of the predetermined mission indicators have been completed.

It can be said that he has mastered one-third of "Yan Hui". Considering that this magic sword skill is a "skill" that reaches the height of magic, it is equivalent to being exposed to one-third of the magic field. Rounding up, A magic trick worked.

If you think about it this way, it's really exciting...

He sighed without interest and began to wonder how to get the next two B-grade crystals.

In fact, if he really wanted to obtain it quickly, there was no way out. For example, he could directly kill Kotomine Kirei. This perverted priest had always been on his hunting list.

Because the main plot affected by this perverted priest is related to Tosaka Tokiomi, Gilgamesh, Emiya Kiritsugu, Tosaka Rin, Tosaka Aoi, Matou Kariya...etc., a series of characters.

For example, after killing Kotomine Kirei, Tokiomi Tosaka might not have been stabbed in the back. Gilgamesh couldn't change his master, so he wouldn't be able to rely on the church's orphanage to eat children until ten years later. Rin Tosaka Nor will a guardian be appointed...

Aoi Tosaka would not misunderstand him as Matou Kariya's killer because of Tokiomi's death, so she spoke harshly to him and cursed him viciously, saving the life of Tokiomi and Sakura's mother. The man who sacrificed everything for the woman stimulated her to the point of going insane, and finally accidentally pinched her into a vegetative state...

If you think about it this way, Kirei Kotomine is really a very crucial plot character, just like the thread of a messy ball of thread. As long as the priest is solved, it seems that many problems can be solved.

For such a person, it is estimated that Xia Ran will be able to directly obtain at least one A-level causal crystal the moment he is killed, and then... he will be sent back in an instant, separated from the mission world, and will no longer have the conditions to learn sword skills from Sasaki Kojiro.

And even if you really want to attack that priest, you have to think long term. At least you can't just go into the church and kill Kotomine Kirei directly. After all, the power of the church is not something to be trifled with.

The Holy Church is a huge organization, one of the two major forces on the mysterious side of the world, and its influence spreads all over the world, centered on the Western European Circle.

It's just that it's different from ordinary churches. It's a large armed organization established for the purpose of "hunting heretics." They don't recognize any heresies except demons, and they absolutely don't agree with the existence of anything that goes against the doctrine.

Although at the end of the bloody struggle, in modern times, the Holy Church finally established a harmonious relationship with the Magic Association, the unknown private fights never stopped.

If the Magic Association is a mixed family of colleagues who only regard "reaching the source" as their absolute goal, often harboring hidden agendas, scheming against each other, and distrusting each other... then the Holy Church is a group of compatriots who share the same ideology and "believe in" "They are extremely united by this unique bond.

——This is their “strength as an organization.”

If there was a justifiable reason to fight in an upright manner and kill Kotomine Kirei, then that would be fine. For example, as before, Kotomine Kirei participated in the Holy Grail War as a Master.

Then this is actively involved in the battle between magicians. No one can expect the magicians to take care of a church's contestants while they are fighting each other. Even if Kotomine Kirei is killed, the church can't say anything. What.

But it's different now. Kotomine Kirei's multifaceted Hassan has died in the Battle of Seaside Park due to Xia Ran's map cannon, and the priest has clearly withdrawn from the Holy Grail War.

If you take the initiative to rush into the Holy Church at this time and kill him...

It's not that Xia Ran can't do it, it's not difficult at all, but since he has planned the future, he puts his hope of harvesting the third magic in his future plan to return to this world.

Naturally, it is impossible to cause any trouble for the future self and attract pressure from the church. If there are some institutions such as agents, heresy interrogation knights, burial institutions, etc., it will really be a headache...

After all, Fuyuki City is already chaotic enough. It can be said that there are all kinds of messes, the Holy Grail of wish fulfillment, the ritual of piercing the world, all the evil in this world... The natural gas facilities in this city really can't withstand the torment. .

"Perhaps we need to find a suitable opportunity to take action. For example, just like Kenneth killed Kotomine Rimasa, this cannot be publicized and cannot be grabbed by the tail... Well, it probably won't work. The old priest was The killing was probably suppressed by his good son..."

Xia Ran considered it carefully. It would be nice to directly slap the Holy Church in the face, but the consequences would be serious. He didn't want to ask for trouble.

And if you think about it carefully, maybe the death of Father Kotomine Rimasa in the original plot did not cause any problems simply because Kotomine Kirei was dealing with the Holy Church, so it did not attract too much attention from the Holy Church. reason.

After all, the latter is a truly twisted pervert. He can only feel "pleasure" when his loved ones are in pain and misfortune - just like he had with his wife in his marriage a few years ago. Two years of marriage.

In this marriage, Kotomine Kirei loved his wife, and her wife loved him hard and was willing to help heal him. But in the end, he still couldn't obtain the happiness of a normal person through his wife.

Because for Kotomine Kirei, his happiness is seeing his wife's pain. The more her wife wants to heal him, the more he wants to see her sigh. In order to prove that her husband could love others and was a person worth living, his wife finally committed suicide in front of him.

Kotomine Kirei was very sad about this, because he felt that "since we are all going to die, it is better to let myself do the killing"...

To this day, when he occasionally thinks of that woman, the pervert priest still feels sad. He is probably sad that he could not enjoy the pleasure of killing his wife with his own hands. However, he did not realize his own nature and refused to do so. Admit it.

It wasn't until he was awakened by Gilgamesh, who was also a scumbag, that he finally accepted his own nature and began to pursue that kind of pleasure.

He teamed up with Gilgamesh to betray Tokiomi Tosaka. When Tokiomi trusted him the most, he stabbed and killed Tokiomi in the back, enjoying the pleasure of killing those who were close to him and trusted him...

Since he accepted his bad nature so calmly, he must have also enjoyed seeing his old father die in pain in front of his eyes, and he had no desire to avenge his father from the beginning.

In addition, there are many secrets in Fuyuki City, and Kotomine Kirei does not want to cause trouble with the church, so it should be a very simple matter to slightly embellish the old priest's death.

——If the church pays all its attention, how can it keep the secret of Gilgamesh’s incarnation? How can the noble King of Heroes use the name of the church to open an orphanage so that he can comfortably support himself by eating children until the next Holy Grail War?