Dry King!sparkle

Airi opened her eyes in the darkness, and she heard a voice.

"you're awake."

"who is it?"

The other party hasn't answered yet, but she already knows the answer.

Watching the black shadow dissipate little by little, revealing a familiar face, Airi felt like she was looking in a mirror.

"Which world are you from?"

"Nobody."

Airi was taken aback.

"I was created by the Holy Grail," she said. "Gilgamesh made a wish to the Holy Grail to resurrect Tachibana Airi, and the Holy Grail created me."

Airi looked at the girl in front of her who was exactly the same as herself. In fact, she had a premonition. When she was seven years old, the black shadow appeared for the first time, and the black shadow told herself that she would protect her forever. At that time, she faintly sensed something.

It's just that she never dared to admit it.

In the final analysis, the root of the evil is her, but why her?

The girl in front of her seemed to be able to hear what she was thinking, and suddenly laughed, "Are you thinking about why it is you?"

She paused, "He, like you, has had this question before."

Airi was puzzled: "He? Who is he?"

"The Holy Grail," said the girl, "or, Angola Mainu, if you can understand it."

Thinking of something, Airi muttered, "Assassin... no, that Heroic Spirit without a class."

"He's Avenger."

"the Avengers?"

"That's right, a heroic spirit that exists as the eighth class, a young man who bears all the evil in this world."

Airi was still at a loss: "What's going on?"

Suddenly, the girl raised her hand to cover her eyes. When the girl's hand was removed again, an ancient village appeared in front of her eyes.

A young man was pushed to the ground by the crowd.

One of them stabbed his right eye with a branch, and the young man groaned in pain.Moaning, several other people fixed his hands and feet, and cut off the tendons of his hands and feet with a wood saw.

The young man struggled and asked for help from other surrounding villagers in the village, but no one paid attention to him, even his relatives looked at him indifferently.

The young man wailed terribly until his tongue was also cut off.

Airi covered her mouth to hold back her screams.

The villagers are discussing.

"Leave the left eye and fix his eyelid so that he can't close it."

"Just sever the tendons and keep the hands and feet so he can still feel the pain."

"A devil! It's really a devil!"

……

Airi took two steps back, trembling with fright at the scene in front of her, as if she could feel the youth's pain.

The girl covered her eyes again.

"You must be thinking, why did those people catch him? What heinous crime did he commit?"

"Actually——he didn't commit any crimes. He's not a devil either, he's just a mediocre young man in that village who didn't commit any crimes or make any achievements." The girl said slowly, "It's the same as usual. , he went hunting in the forest, and when he came back to the village and greeted the villagers, it suddenly became like this."

"If we have to trace it back, it is probably that a certain religious law in the village decided not to hold a living sacrifice. He was chosen as a sacrifice because he was too ordinary."

"You still have cause and effect at least, but he doesn't even have a reason."

Airi finally couldn't control herself and wept softly.

so pathetic...

Angora Mainyu, bearing the grievances of all people, became a sacrifice called 'evil', and he redeemed those people by tasting pain.

After the death of Angora Mainyu, he became a nameless undead and was bound on the top of the mountain. He has been looking at the world with hatred.Until he was accidentally summoned and became a Heroic Spirit of the eighth class. After defeat, he was absorbed into the Holy Grail.

That's why the Holy Grail became like that, devouring Heroic Spirits continuously.

"But..." Airi thought of a question, "Shouldn't the holy grail in this world where only Angola Mainyu appeared be polluted? Why didn't Angola Mainyu appear in my world, and the Holy Grail became "evil"? "

"The world is constantly merging." The girl replied, "These worlds are all worlds created by immature second magic, and they will affect each other, so you saw me, we share the same soul in essence."

Airi thought hard: "You mean, people from the two worlds will gradually merge?"

The girl said, "That's right."

Airi's eyebrows drooped slightly, her eyelashes trembling, "I will also become... an existence that wants to destroy everything?"

"It should have been."

Airi was slightly taken aback.

The word she used was "originally". Could it be that there is still a turning point?

The girl shook her head, as if sighing: "I, who was created by the polluted Holy Grail, and Angola Mainyu, who represents all the evils in this world, should have the same long-cherished wish, but his possessed personality has affected him. "

Airi was startled, "Personality?"

"Just like I have to rely on you in the form of a black shadow, so does he. None of us can exist alone in this world, but the personality he possesses is a bit special, and it seems that he has memories of other world lines."

Hearing what she said, Airi already had an answer in her heart.

Before Cu Chulainn was swallowed by the Holy Grail, he once said "you should be dead", the dead person in his heart...

Not the priest, and not Atlam.

It was Akashi Seijuro.

Cu Chulainn's gun pierced Akashi's heart that night, and he should have died without a doubt.

For ordinary people, Cu Chulainn has no chance of missing.

The only explanation is that Akashi is not an ordinary person.

The girl nodded, confirming Airi's conjecture.

"Akashi-kun..." Airi couldn't understand, "How could it be him?"

In Airi's impression, Akashi is an ordinary person outside the world of magic. He has nothing to do with the Holy Grail War. He has no magic circuit, and his family has never had any intersection with magic.

Airi couldn't believe that such Akashi would be the personality possessed by Angola Mainyu, and would be the body of the Holy Grail.

The girl looked at her and didn't answer her question, but asked, "You must have thought about it too. If you hadn't been exposed to magic from the beginning, when your father asked you if you wanted to learn magic, you chose to refuse. Fate Would be different, right?"

Airi couldn't deny it.

Indeed she thought so.Because all the tragedies seem to be rooted in her becoming the Lesser Grail, if she never learns magic from the beginning, if she is an ordinary person, will she get ordinary happiness?

The girl said: "Akashi-kun comes from such a world."

She raised her hand again to cover Airi's eyes, and when her hand moved away, Airi saw herself as a child.

Still red-haired, without the imprinted self.

A basketball rolled to the little girl's feet. The girl picked up the basketball, looked up, and saw a little boy.

"Is it your basketball?"

"Yes."

"I'm Tachibana Airi, little brother, what's your name?"

"Akashi Seijuro."

Time flies.

Airi watched the two children grow up slowly. In this world, she did not learn magic. She was like all ordinary children, living an extraordinary life.

Studying is the center of her life, worrying about exams and grades, making a few good friends, and occasionally participating in some club activities.

The whistle blew, the basketball hit the ground, and Diguang led by a big score.

"Akashi-kun, that's amazing!"

She ran from the audience and happily handed him a bottle of sports drink. Seeing him win, she seemed even more excited than him.

"Airi, the high school entrance examination is coming soon, have you decided which high school to take the entrance examination for?"

"Well, which high school did Akashi-kun go to?"

"In my case, it should be Luoshan High School."

"In Kyoto, it seems very far away."

"Is it... we can't see each other as often as before."

"Idiot, of course you can!" The girl said triumphantly, "Because I also decided to apply for Luoshan!"

There was a trace of surprise in the boy's eyes, but he said calmly: "With your grades, you may not be admitted to Luoshan."

The girl seemed to have been poured with cold water, and complained: "Of course I know, so, Akashi-kun must come to help me with tutoring every day."

The boy didn't agree to her immediately, but there was a smile in his eyes.

From confession, to falling in love, to getting married, everything is so natural.

She seems to really have happiness.

But on the day of the wedding, Airi's family did not attend.

"It's not that I'm dissatisfied with you, it's just that my family members have weird personalities."

Airi explained this to Akashi, but Akashi didn't pay much attention.

Except that sister Hongzi secretly gave Airi a ruby ​​necklace as a wedding gift, Koizumi and his wife didn't even say a word of wedding blessing to Airi.

Their staying away is a form of protection.

Wishful thinking protection.

But paper can't contain fire after all. A person who has a magic circuit but has not inherited a magic engraving, and even does not know how to do magic, is self-evident in the world of magicians.

In the second year of their marriage, Airi was discovered by the clock tower, who took her away for research in the name of protection.

In this way, it has been soaked in formalin for a long time.

She never saw Akashi again.

She didn't know if Akashi had looked for her, if he got married again, had a child, and lived an ordinary and happy life.Little did she know, she was trapped in that little laboratory for the rest of her life.

In fact, Akashi has been looking for her and never gave up until the last moment of his life.

It's just that it is almost impossible for ordinary people to find the trace of the magician.

Akashi Seijuro spent his whole life, but he couldn't find Airi.

In despair, he heard the voice of the Heroic Spirit named "Evil".

Akashi made a deal with Angola Mainyu. In exchange for finding Ari, he must dedicate himself in parallel time and space, together with his soul and body, to Angola Mainyu.

……

Ai Li's consciousness was withdrawn from this world, and he could not return to his senses for a long time.

"Look, no matter how many worlds you go through, tragedies always seem to happen." The girl spread her hands, "It's reasonable for me to want to destroy such a world."

Airi fell silent.

The girl let out a sigh of relief, "The premise of rebirth is destruction. If you want to be reborn, first of all, you in this world need to be destroyed, and you and I are one."

Having said that, she chuckled softly, as if she had some confidence, "There are not many people who can kill me completely."

Airi quickly thought of someone.

The girl saw through her thoughts and couldn't help frowning: "Saiki Kusuo."

"Yes, Qi Mu-kun."

It is her in this world, the one who has always been hidden in my heart.

The girl hesitated a bit, "If I don't kill you, I will destroy this world, but even if I kill you to get a new life, the newly grown branches will not be the same tree as before."

Qi Mu-kun, if it were you, how would you choose?

Me and the world.

Airi suddenly smiled.

She closed her eyes in relief, as if she already knew the answer.

The author has something to say:

No one guessed it, in fact, the black mud is Akashi-kun~

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