gaze of war

The author has something to say: 3.1 has been revised into the text

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Finish this article before the end of March, there will be an intense plot before the end, don't miss it =3=

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"Father."

Hearing the long-lost title, Father Yanfeng raised his eyes slightly.

His eyes were fixed on the door of the church.

The man in black who walked towards him calmly and expressionlessly was none other than his useless son Kotomine Kirei.

Father Yanfeng's eyes sharpened.

The faint smile that always hung on his face also disappeared.

Originally, the old priest had high hopes for his son.

He was naturally quieter than the other kids and didn't talk to them every day, let alone play with them.

He wasn't even interested in paying attention to other kids.

While the children were playing and crying, and coquettishly begging the adults to please them, Kotomine Kirei was worried by all his family members.

He was acting so much like a child.

It was as if he was immersed in his own world forever, and neither time nor this world existed for him.

Quiet and silent.

Every day, every day, he either completely immerses himself in the book, or he can sit in a quiet corner and look up at the sky, watching the whole day, from early morning to dusk and sunset, before being searched for His family found it and took it home.

When he was 12 years old, he showed an astonishingly perfect gift for understanding theological doctrines, and even his father was often questioned by him.He could easily recite each scripture after reading it, as if God had engraved the Bible on his soul.

But he remained silent.

Because of his outstanding talent, the senior officials of the church noticed this gifted child and recruited him as the representative of the Holy Church.They trained him, taught him, and he took it all.

In a short period of time, with his inhuman talent, Kotomine Kirei easily completed all the training, and was immediately sent out for "hunting" work.

As an "inquisitor of heresy", Kotomine Kirei showed a ruthless attitude towards all phenomena and heresies that violated the doctrine. This iron-blooded demeanor made him quickly become a first-class executioner in the Holy Church.

Whether it is vampires or heretics, whether it is monsters or magicians who use the power called magic to sully the grace of God, all enemies are killed.

Not only a first-class executioner of the Holy Church Church, but also a priest of the Eighth Secret Society, Kotomine Kirei is a loyal servant of God, and the old priest never doubted this.

However, as a father, he was worried about his son's increasingly skewed personality.

Every time Kotomine Kirei returns from a mission, the darkness in his eyes will deepen.

The old priest once thought that he would be an inhuman killing blade for the rest of his life, until he was killed by a vampire or something else one day.

Until Kotomine Kirei stepped into the palace of marriage like everyone else, and married a gentle and graceful woman.

At that time, Kotomine Kirei looked like a human figure made of ice suddenly met the warm winter sun, and his breath became softer.

He lived a very ordinary and happy life during his marriage, and his wife gave birth to a lovely daughter for him——

Then, she died.

The cruel illness devoured her vitality, even a brilliant doctor—even Kotomine Kirei, who specially learned healing magic for her, could not pull her back from the path of death to the human world.

She swallowed her last breath right in front of Kotomine Kirei.

The death of his wife was a huge blow to Kotomine Kirei.During those gloomy days, the old priest watched his son turn into a soulless body, almost able to see the miserable soul in it through that body.

Until he was chosen by the Holy Grail.

When he saw the red engraving on the back of Kotomine Kirei's hand, the old priest felt a tinge of comforting warmth moisten his constricted heart.Not completely "dead", his only son.

Since he will be chosen by the Holy Grail, it must be because he has a strong "wish".

Not some soulless walking dead.

But... When he followed the mysterious woman back to the church, the old priest found that another kind of fear and anger seized his heart-his son was no longer the faithful God he trusted. servant.

The fanatical eyes when he stared at the woman and the respect and obedience to her, almost made the old priest mistakenly think that he fell in love again—until he found that his son's eyes were definitely not influenced by love.He was fanatical, pious, and followed that woman wholeheartedly...and the old priest had never seen such an expression.

Afterwards, Kirei's address to that woman shocked the old priest.

Before he could react, his son had followed the woman's footsteps and left without looking back, missing the opportunity to dissuade him.

Now...he came back here again, without that person by his side.

"Before you speak, Kirei, can you tell me," Father Kotomine said wearily, "the woman who came back with you last time, the person for whom you told me to be careful... who is it?"

"That is my lord, the goddess of war and death." Kotomine Kirei replied calmly.

He stood in front of Father Yanfeng like that, in the church of Jesus, just under the cross of Jesus' crucifixion, frankly admitting that his belief had drifted, his eyes were dark but firm, and his expression naturally showed no tension.

——His son brought the pagan evil god into this holy church, and let her speak blasphemy against the Lord Jesus.

Father Yanfeng's cheeks twitched uncontrollably.

He stared at Kotomine Kirei with cold eyes.

Kotomine Kirei looked back at him, neither dodging nor dodging, and even twitched the corners of his mouth slightly, as if smiling.

"……When did this happen."

The old priest's voice trembled slightly with extreme anger.

"Two days ago."

Kotomine Kirei replied calmly.

"...So in the past two days, you have abandoned your belief in the gods and have been serving a pagan evil god—Kotomine Kirei!" The old priest was so angry that his fingers trembled, "How dare you...!"

Kotomine Kirei lowered his gaze.

Regarding his father's anger, he just avoided the old priest's angry gaze, sighed slightly, and then spoke softly.

"...In the ancient times without civilization, those uncivilized savages saw the flame burning and would be burned if they touched it, so they feared it, thinking that it was the divine power descended from the sky, worshiped it, worshiped it, and regarded the flame as a god. The water meanders forward, moistens their thirsty throats, but swallows those unfortunate among them who fall into the water, capricious like the play of the gods, so they desire water and fear water, and regard water as a god."

Kotomine Kirei spoke slowly and sounded like he didn't have much to say, but there seemed to be a kind of magnetism in his deep voice, which attracted the old priest's attention.

"The sun and the moon rotate, and day and night alternate. They cannot understand the so-called scientific knowledge, so they worship the sun and the moon as gods, hang high on the zenith, and look down on these ignorant mortals. Babies are born, old people die, and beasts eat people. , Humans eat animals. Life and death are irresistible, but they exist so justly and cruelly. Birth is the beginning, and death is the end. As long as they are living things, they have the instinct to survive, so they are afraid of death and regard death as a god. "

"The Lord created man in seven days. Satan tempted man to eat the fruit of wisdom, so man was banished to the earth and suffered from birth, old age, sickness and death. He lived hard all his life, but he also died hard all his life."

"Are we believing in those higher creatures that live on the throne of God, or these incarnations of nature?"

"What we believe in is the 'god who should be believed in', or ourselves?"

"I don't think I was wrong. I just chose the god I should believe in with my own will, that's all. I got spiritual sublimation from such piety, and even my soul was completely changed. "

Kotomine Kirei quietly described his feelings.He looked directly at Father Yanfeng, and asked softly again.

"...Father. Can it be said that compared to the group of blasphemers who have no faith and use their power to defile the power of God, am I more guilty than them?"

Father Yanfeng was deeply shocked by his words.

He looked at his son in astonishment, as if he had never known him.

But soon, he frowned slightly, showing a look as if he was remembering something, and then his expression became responsible.

... There is a feeling of nostalgia.

It started when Kotomine Kirei was very young, didn't he?

Many of his questions would have silenced his father, who was supposed to be more knowledgeable and wiser than he was.

... the child was born wise.He always thought more than anyone else, but almost never said it.He just watched, and thought, and let things go on in the river of time.

Perhaps on the surface, he is "innocent".

He is still a devout believer.

Compared to those who have no belief at all, and who even sneer at the existence of God itself, those heretics who are only self-serving and arrogant and called "magicians", Kotomine Kirei just changed the gods they believe in. That's all.

But for Father Yanfeng, he is now the same thing as those unbelieving magicians - "heresy".

They are even more likely to be punished by the Church's execution agency than they are.

Because for the Church of the Holy Church, especially for the members of the church's secret organization, all heresies must be wiped out.Among them, what they hate the most are traitors—the rebels who have betrayed God's guidance and fallen for their own selfishness.

"...Kirei. You know what kind of situation you will encounter if the Church of the Holy Church finds you..."

"I know, father," Kotomine Kirei showed a slight smile, "but believers who devote their lives to their faith can obtain eternal life in the realm of gods. I don't think this is a sad thing What I believe in is one of the incarnations of 'the world itself', not a 'god among men' fabricated by humans—that's enough."

"What I believe in is the 'truth of the world', Father."